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"It wasn't until 1977 that Castro first spoke to U.S. media, sitting down with American journalist Barbara Walters. Here's a short clip of that exchange." That's just not true he spoke on Face the Nation shortly after the 1959 victory also.
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@loganprasch7115 A fetus is not a person!
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@hybridepsilon2099 "The Capitalist will sell the rope with which to hang them." Lenin.
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The both wanted the other Europeans colonies. Japan took what was French, Dutch and British. Had Germany defeated Britain they n doubt would have tried to take British and French colonies. In the end the colonial powers were weaken such that they would face revolutions though out the colonial world. The US cried about losing China. .
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@gabrielferrer3205 Cuba was the first to build sugar harvesting machinery to replace the back breaking harvesting by hand welded machete.
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"Its almost as if capitalism doesn't work." A discovery that Karl Marx predicted long ago. Not only does capitalism create a crisis of its own making it also crates its own grave diggers.
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@agthaog1986 Nothing complicated Che gave his life in service of humanity. Without Che their would not be 10,000 foreign students studying Medicine in Cuba today. All at no direct cost to the student. Without Cuba doctors defeating ebola in Africa the world would have been plagued with an out of control virus. If Cuba troops had not defeated the Apartheid South African Army in Angola. Nelson Mandela would have been in prison cage longer. One of the antivirals being tested in China for use against the corona virus was invented in Cuban Medical laboratories.
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This shows how immigration snafus happen. He's lucky they didn't order him deported to Ellis Island.
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@raketny_hvost Mexico refused to break diplomatic relations with Cuba. When Kennedy ask Mexico to declare Cuba a threat to Mexican security the Mexican Ambassador replied 20 million Mexican's would die laughing.
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@orign4l No your problem is Socialism.
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@colinyoung3685 What's moral about forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term?
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@WarmongerYT A fetus, embryo or fertilized egg is NOT a child. A person has a well established right to refuse to give up blood for someone who would otherwise die so why should a women be expected to give up her body to 9 months of pregnancy that she does not want? You could be dying of blood loss at the scene of an accident and I would be well within my rights not to volunteer to give you a drop of mine.
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@troythedeconstructionist1382 Ignorance disguised in the clothing of the French Petit bourgeois intellectual.
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@troythedeconstructionist1382 Like Postmodernism Deconstructionism is another case of the Poverty of modern capitalist Philosophy. Since you've already decided you better and special beyond the level of everyone else you need not make any kind of argument. You are King of Troy because you say so.
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@Anarchyttg The only solution to low wages are union contracts and a union movement that includes all workers. Its the bosses who want two tier wage scales.
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@raramouni Rotten to the core.
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@MrSgtau Fidel always told the truth no matter how good or bad the situation was and Fidel put his confidence in the workers and poor peasants to struggle. Fidel was a revolutionary not just of Cuba but the world. The next revolutions will not be made with old propaganda posters but by the those who learn from the revolutionaries and revolutions of the past. Fidel lead the first big defeat for the American Imperialist in the America's and the first defeat of the Racist South African army in Angola. His courage and that of the Cuban people in the face of threats of nuclear destruction will never be forgotten by history.
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@jeffpotipco736 I recall a politician who was a lawyer complaining about the same thing concerning electrician only to be charged for twice the time at half the rate afterwords.
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@asherdog9248 Ya dog we all pay taxes except you and Jeff Bezo's.
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It's not a bad apple problem but a whole orchard problem. Cops ,DA'a and politicians protecting cops. This is the reality of American Imperialism at home.
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@ar6985 It''s the natural workings of capitalism that pushes the middle class out of business and replaces skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines.
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@noobsito All that great Milton Freedmen free market nonsense lead directly to the crisis of 2008.
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@novalee8979 Murder is the unlawful killing of another person. If however the court were to rule a fetus to be a person it would immediately lose its right to survive at the expense of another person's body. So be careful what you wish for.
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@gabrielferrer3205 Its up to Venezuela to seek assistance from Iran if they desire such oil refining assistance from Iran not Cuba. I don't think the problems in Venezuela revolve around oil refining assistance anyway.
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Revolution is not a rugby game.
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@TijuanaK Pregnancy is always a risk to the mothers health even more so for the very young and older women. The already born real living person is the one with the right to make her health decisions not the Priest, the Politician or the lawyer.
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The workers need to use unon power to fight back against capitalist misery.
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@loganprasch7115 A fetus that can't survive outside of a women's body without any medical care is not a baby. The reason being is that medical treatment is optional and people can not be forced to have it. Plenty of people go against medical advice for many reasons. Some don't want the bill. Some don't want to take the risk. Some have religious beliefs as the reason. Having a legal and safe abortion for whatever reason is a perfectly valid decision. I don't see how the two party politicians have the moral standing to decided who can have and can not have an abortion. They have no problem voting for endless war in the middle east but some how they have the moral authority to tell a women she must give birth or die.
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@accelement3499 If someone "killed your baby." then call the police and report the crime instead of posting online.
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@Bubby4myTummy US Imperialism cares for profits only.
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Egg T No this video is an example of TED Ed Propaganda. TED Ed Half truths not worth spreading.
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If you live in the US you are already a slave to the political elite!!!
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@lad7436 We had abortion prohibition before and it didn't work I see even less reason for it to work today since back then the abortion pill wasn't available. Young women held meetings and organized protests for abortion rights.
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@accelement3499 Do try to get me involved in some kind of crime. If someone killed a baby that's a crime. Call the cops and make a report.
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mak 10 Because the only reason for allowing management to fire people is to get more out of the rest of us. They fire someone for no reason what so ever if they think it will scare the rest of us. The bosses always rely on having the unemployed at the door to hold down wages and keep up their rate of profit. Do we get to decided if we want the CEO fired for mismanagement? If it wasn't for the unions and the class struggle we'd still be treated like slaves as disposable people in the interests of profit.
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@NVArt001 It's an act of war carried out on a third parties soil without their permission. He couldn't have arrived at the Baghdad airport and be admitted without Iraq's permission. So a story will have to explain how all of that happened.
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@domenickpomponio2438 Make abortion only for rape and you will get just more cases of rape requiring an abortions. They real goal is to shame women for having sex and being 'bad'. States like Texas and Alabama could careless about access to medical care which is why they refuse to accept the medicaid expansion add on funds from the affordable care act.
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@RandomPerson-lk6cb Like is terrific in South Korea which is why the population is in decline as well as the US if it were not for immigration.
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@chrismarple Atrocities? What the hell are you talking about? You want to see atrocities you need to look at what the US Imperialists did in Korea and Vietnam. Carpet bombing, murder at will of civilians, orders to shoot civilian refugees, biological warfare, the use of Napalm, and threats to use nuclear weapons on Chinese cities. That's the real US "human rights" legacy not Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter building a few homes for the homeless. Carter and the UK backed Pol Pot in the UN with aid filtered through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. Just because the Imperialist felt that Vietnam had not been punished enough.
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Ya you'd like to shut everyone would you fascist.
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Let the billionaires pay for it then.
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No its just that unlike the neo liberals like Friedman, Sowell and Reagan capitalism does not bring democracy as a result of capitalist development but requires it only as a precondition for its ruling class. Just as Athens was a democracy of slave owners liberal democracy is a democracy for the owners of capital. Absolutism died with absolute monarchy.
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@accelement3499 Call and tell them you need help keep you hand's on your head and they wont hurt you please get yourself some help don't do something you'll regret later on.
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Annie Springer Most US negotiations start with demands like what is in the Cuban Democracy Act. That is a non starter. They basically say you must dissolve your government before we end the blockade and no third party government may trade with Cuba until we give the say so. Did you see a single policeman in the video? The also failed to mention that most people own their homes, get guaranteed food rations, free education and healthcare. They find a single over weight guy saying he is hungry.
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@helljumper912 Experts on what? How to spell the Ukrainian language? Is it anything like spelling harbour harbor at the US Canadian border?
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@amacnaughton85 China is no more socialist than Norway. Communism is a movement not a country. The only thing proven by the Stalinists is that they aren't communists and socialism can't be built using capitalist methods of incentives to a bureaucratic and technocratic crust. Capitalism with its profit drive can not escape recession, depression and war. The creation of a huge new working class out of poor Chinese Peasants only tip the scales to our direction. They have already shown their ability to fight and struggle going on strike and calling their bosses capitalist running dogs and driving up the price of labor in the People's Republic.
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Capitalism works until you become to big to fail, need a bailout and quantitative easing lets you trade junk bonds for cash at the Federal Reserve.
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@marcvanderwee Ameican's ride elevators the British use lifts. American's go on vacation. Canadians go on holiday. Color Colour Labor Labour. fence fence defense defence center centre Canada's pronounce their question marks as Eh! Amecan's signify a question mark with a rise in volume at the end of the sentence.
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@noobsito Hitler was put in power by the conservative capitalist politicians. His party had lost seats and was on verge of bankruptcy without the financing of big business. The Communist Deputies were denied their seats along with some of the Social Democrats and the enabling act giving him dictatorial power passed with both NAZI party and Capitalist conservative capitalist politicians and zero Social Democrats votes. Just because the capitalist class became disappointed with what they created and lost the war doesn't absolve them from the responsibility. Businessmen and owners remained essential to production in NAZI Germany. I don't think Trump likes what the rest of his class is doing to him either using the FBI to continually harass him and investigate him. Hitler was going to create a 1000 year German Reich and got a lot of his ideas from America. Including ideas of racial superiority. Hitler admired Henry Ford and gave him a medal just before war broke out. He reprinted Ford's "International Jew" and Joe Kennedy reported back to FDR 'Hitler was someone you could do business with." Nationalization by a capitalist government is not the same as workers taking control of industry. The federal Reserve is now bailing out individual companies with it quantitative easing policies this has as a result the further centralization of capital and guarantee of profit. That's the natural direction the private profit system with its maximization of profit above all else must take. Your too greedy to settle world market competition with anything but war. The system is based in exploitation. Lets say you could settle disputes without war well than once all the markets become saturated and retrun on investments goes to zero everything stop running. Because profit comes from labor and prices tend toward the cost of production over time and replacing labor with machines is the way to drive profits your way until ypu become a monopoly and then the roi goes down. Then of course you do things like replace rail with trucking and now your taliking about replacing truck driver and trins with remote cobtrol or oil and gas with lithium batteries and covering the earht with wind milll sa and solar. The innovation that most represents capitalist thinking. Cryptocurrency. The worship of the ledger book, trade, the special number and the machine all in one. A new society of "Pythagoreans" is born. .
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The United States invaded every Latin American country in the 20th Century at least once. The Spanish Empire was defeated in the Spanish American war after which the United States became a new Imperialist power not a liberator.
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@gumbihilt1333 We make no effort to record pregnancies but instead live births. The reason being is that you aren't a living breathing independent being before birth. Women come first in this situation not men, politicians, priests or a fetus. You want to give a right to life than abolish selective service and the death penalty first. Why give one of the most important responsibilities in life to someone who clearly doesn't want it?
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I have no idea why the right wants to make a big deal over transgender people. Why can't you stay out of other people's personal business? Also I could care less about Donald Trumps personal business unlike that ass Mueller.
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@ghostface2156 We've seen the video of the cops escorting the so called disruptors around the capitol that day. What were the cops doing when the alarm was pulled did the receive instructions to look the other way?
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@domenickpomponio2438 When a tooth or gallbladder is removed that is the end of scientifically understood life of the tooth or gallbladder. Does the tooth or gallbladder have a "Right to Life"? Neither can live outside of the human body? Are you Pro Life for teeth and gallbladders?
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@loganprasch7115 I'm not interested in you so called scientific arguments. Life doesn't begin until you take a breath. That is just as much a moral argument as any you make. No one gets an abortion at 8 months and 29 days. The state and police have no business in personal and medical matters. Doctors are the ones who control what is within their code of ethics. You can't sue a doctor for malpractice without the state medical board first giving the go ahead. Why should it be any different for abortion or contraceptive care?
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@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521 All nuclear powers should unilaterally disarm. No to Imperialist wars.
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@albeit1 The US can end its blockade of the country and then we can see what a free socialust people can do.
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@FOGGYlama123 Make them legal immigrants like Reagan did instead.
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@southduck The price of labor is NOT determined by what it labor produces but what it costs. The cost of labor is the social cost of the worker to reproduce his labor power in a pay period. The capitalist plans to sell the product in a market at a price which will yield a rate of profit above or equal to all other rates of profits. Whatever surplus value the workers labor power produces goes into the capitalist pocket. This is why he wants us working the longest hours at the lowest wages and the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. Now as the capitalist invests in new machines he seeks to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor and labor in general with better technique and machines to make profits move in his direction. However since the profits come from our living labor and not the already accumulated and paid labor in the machine the rate of profits by which the capitalist judge success must fall. In the past to counter the falling rate of profits the capitalist issued wage cuts. To get around this strike provacating issue they began deflating the value of the currency with a central bank. This makes property values rise while wages are blamed for inflation.
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@oldslowjim Social Security needs to be expanded to include public employees and benefit need to be raised. Then you have a national system that covers everyone. To counter inflation we need a cost of living escalator every 3 months. Their is no reason why everyone shouldn't have a job at union scale ans a secure retirement. We need to rebuild union power and workers control of industry.
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So you want to base abortion on what you think is an unnecessary abortion and draw a line. So should we go back to the abortion humiliation board where lawyers and judges decide when and who is worthy? Who do you figure is a good choice for a NO? Say no and drive a desperate women to a back alley or a self induced abortion. You want to be Pro Life than prove it by paying for all the necessary medical care for mother and children.
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@jsav4269 "We voted for the greatest fucking president the world has ever seen." You voted for the promises of a businessman who can not reverse the essential problems of the US Empire in decline. 1 Reply
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A leader who cares about the bosses and himself.
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@i2hellfire Even in the United States itself different sections of the country call a sandwich on a long cylindrical roll different names. Blimps, Hoagies, Heroes, Submarines, Subs, Torpedoes or Grinders. The word 'you' refers to someone else in singular or plural form while in the south 'you' is singular and 'you all' or 'you'll' (pronounced yall) is plural. English is a language without any central control of spelling, pronunciation or word usage.
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@tomcat8662 The problems in Appalachia stem from the greed of the coal bosses. They didn't build any factories their because they wanted to have a labor force as controllable as possible for the mines. The West Virginia coal miners fought the bosses ro a standstill in the coal wars of the 1920's. The Coal miners union the only industrial union in the AFL helped built the CIO Industrial unions. FDR had spies in the Union which is why John L Lewis refused to support FDR's last election campaign. The Democrats are the party of Capitalist privilege. The real problem for the bourgeois professor writng about Appalachia is the miners have no respect for a stuffed shirt that doesn't know how to butter bread.
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@christopherorick8652 Capitalism can't work without taxes. There is no other way to transfer value to the areas of the economy that can't produce a profit as direct return on investment in three month intervals. Profits flow to those areas where the cost of labor can continually be cut in the service or commodity produced. Now think of a public transportation system. Mass transit is necessary as the most cost effective way to get people to work in a city. You can cut the cost of everything made that goes into the system and the repair costs. What is an almost impossible cost to cut in the last 70 years without cutting the bus or train drivers wage is the daily labor operating cost. This among other reasons is why almost every town and city in the US that has public transportation requires a tax subsidy. Most of those systems were founded as private systems that became unprofitable for that reason. They were declared bankrupt and placed into the hands of the government as a quasi public/private partnership.
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Cool.Hand That's because the logical outcome of capitalism is to enter into decline, depression and war.
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The unions need to organize more of us because strength comes with size and unity.
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@noobsito Fascism saves the owners of private property and exacts a cost of doing the business of murder upon them. Markets are regulated and managed for them much like Democratic Imperialism does only using somewhat different methods. During the war yars the capitalist government took upon itself the building of war factories and plants managed by capitalist contractors. After the war the plants were sold off for a song and a dance just like Conrail was to CSX and Norfolk Southern. . Franco saw to it the capitalist bosses were put back in charge and that is still true. toady. Fascist dictators and military men always show up murder the leaders of workers and farmers revolution while posing as "protectors of the nation." from communism.
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@iche9373 The US Killed millions in Vietnam and Korea , Pol Pot was supported by Jimmy "Human Rights" Cater along with the UK both with arms and at the UN. Then don't forget all the US Latin American dictators and the Shah or Iran. Over a million where killed in a US/UK sponsored military coup in Indonesia. All in the name of US spredaing Democracy and Human rights. Kennedy nearly set off nuclear war when the US colony of Cuba's dictator Batista was overthrown in a revolution.
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Did Lincoln personally execute anyone? Of course if you never execute anyone personally you never have to look them in the eye do you? Lincoln had the luxury of being in the White House and not really having to execute anyone since he had prisons at his disposal. As did the US in the Rosenberg case. In fact the government knew that Ethel Rosenberg was innocent. Her life was taken because they hoped to use her as a way to get a confession from Julius. When they got no confession the could not back down without revealing their frame up methods. Che volunteered to shoot the first traitor because you don't gain any authority if you are not able to do what you will later ask others to do. The fact that he admits he wasn't 100% sure about who they had shot during the guerrilla war and in the first days of the victory shows a truthful man. You are unlikely to ever hear a Texas governor make such an admission or even look at a condemn mans last appeal never mind stare him in the eye before executing him.
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When the companies own the government what do you expect?
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@casperimprovedintransition8002 The cops have him in for questioning he's claiming he accidentally pulled it thinking it made the door open. The guy claims he couldn't get though the door to vote. Sounds stupid coming from an ex HS principal.
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@Gordon.Pinkerton Castro's father sent Fidel to law school to help with the family business not to write the Agrarian Reform Act that broke up the big plantations and gave land to the peasants who agreed to farm it including the Castro's land. With each change in human society the new ideas always began within the old ruling classes. Those from other classes must cut their ties and come completely over to the side of the proletariat. Malcolm X is an example of a Black working class proletarian leader from the Ghetto who was drawing revolutionary conclusions before his life was cut short with an assassins' bullet.
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@SC-ni5me We want government out of our lives. Stop telling us what to do. The decision on when and with to have children is a personal decision. We don't need your NAZI forced sterilization laws either. Go back to you posion Ivy League school and suck on an egg. You're no better than anyone else.
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@FifthConcerto The Chineses had campaign against sparrows to increase the grain harvest where the peasants killed them by chasing them into the air the result was a terrible famine caused by locust swarms that normally would have normally been eaten by sparrows.
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@noobsito I'm 70 years old and I grew up in the US the son of a railroad electrician and shop steward. I grew up during the cold war and remember the missile crisis, Vietnam and when Pinochet came into power in Chile. 9/11/1973. Nixon resigning the presidency. You can read what our movement has said since 1928 about the world and politics by googling "the Militant."
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@Chadwickyboy The reason this is surprising especially to Americans is they been taught that the capitalists are following a set of rules instead of making the rules through their government. Naturally if your sitting at the commanding heights of American capitalism when things go south who are you going to call? Ghostbusters? NO!!! Your going to call the head of the ruling class government in Washington and work out a plan. After meetings and discussion hay here's a plan let's have the Federal Reserve Bank buy up all the worthless junk bonds and give us real federal reserve notes (US money) for them. We'll call it quantitative easing rather than a suckers buyout.
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@jerb5965 There was no other way to remove Batista just as Lincoln had no other way to remove Jeff Davis from power in Richmond. Do you think General Sherman's march through Georgia was a picnic. Sherman waged "Total War" as he called it. You cry about spies being shot is just so much hypocrisy. Did the Rebel Army burn down farms and towns thereby denying food and shelter to the civilian population like Batista? Did they commit atrocities like US Troops in Korea and Vietnam? You and others have two standards one for communists and another for the Imperialists. You constantly try to bring us down to your level. The US strategy in Vietnam was measured in body counts. Since you obviously lost now you claim you don't win by body counts. Just as the conservatives say guns don't kill people people do the same goes for ideologies. Does the US Army hold discussions on why capitalism is good for the soldiers and why communism is bad? Of course not because then one would have to explain all the criticisms Marx had of capitalism and why those don't apply. Do as your are ordered and don't complain is the basic ideology taught by the US Army along with kill those red motherfuckers because they want to take away your freedom that the US Army protects. Yes they protect the citizen soldiers freedom by keeping his mouth closed.
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@marysmith-ke6pk They don't have the Doctors to treat people now. All you get to see now is Nurse Practionaries. Doctors quit practices to go elsewhere or quit so they can take a vacation. For every three Doctors that retire only two gets trained in the US while the third has to be an immigrant.
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A pied piper for the bosses and big business talking about them important boss idea's of supply and demand. You do all the supplyin' and the bosses they do all the demandin'.
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Leon Trotsky organizers of the Red Army victory was in New York when the revolution broke out.
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@stevie421 So you gave into Dad? Some rebel you are. LMAO
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Not possible in a dog eat dog capitalist system.
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@63Ford Maybe you can get him to put up some monuments to Black Republicans from the Reconstruction governments before the 1877 Hayes Tilden compromise.
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@Lan Hikari Freedom is nor free that's why Congress built themselves a underground nuclear bomb shelter.
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@mabelsings She is just another Imperialist cold warrior.
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@JayM928 The real thief of human potential is "Imperialism the highest stage of Capitalism". The trillions of dollars spent on wars to defend foreign investors profit and property is staggering.
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Ships arriving in Cuba can not call at US ports for six months. Anything made with Cuban nickel can't be sold in the US. They can't sell anything in the US market.
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@longshot7601 CIA just an American version of the German Gestapo.
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@accelement3499 Look man if your having PTSD then its serious plenty of combat veterans have gone to the VA for help and cried like babies.
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@timeWaster76 Castro the revolutionary that the US could not defeat.
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@mariachi3217 You can find You tube videos of Mandela Thanking Fidel for all he and Cuba did for Africa and answer the US Press saying that their enemies are not our enemies and we will not forget those who gave us material aid. The Cuban Army defeated South Africa in Angola at Cuito Cunavale to the dismay of Ronald Reagan and Henry Kissinger.
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@domenickpomponio2438 No the goal of the Pro Birth movement is all about making women give birth or die. All this talk about making people responsible is just so much bullshit. So a twelve your old should be taking responsibility because some one raped her, women with an topic pregnancy should be taking responsibility by accepting death as part of your moralist goals. The more money you have the less responsibility you have to take. That's the way capitalism works. Then rich folk and business tycoons like yourself claim to know it all. Telling everyone else how important taking responsibility is since you take absolutely none.
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@karstenerdinger2167 The Bosses will never deprive themselves of cheap labor. They've got whole skyscrapers that are empty. Cities with empty buildings and shopping centers.
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@gregbors8364 If only liberals were as honest about how they lie.
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@grieverff8ff9 I love it when the rich talk about responsibility after opening another Limited Liability corporation to hide behind.
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Imperialist propaganda is constantly feed to the the Americans with lies and exaggerations as true fruit. They came into Korea with their war machinery dropping more bombs in Korea than at the whole time in the Pacific war. Their war mongers wanted to use nuclear weapons and march into China. The used napalm jellied gasoline invented in the US to make DOW Chemical a rich Imperialist war mongering company. They cried because they could not takeover China. At no time did the Korean Patriotic forces use such terrible weapons of war only the Puppet Imperialist Criminal Syngman Rhee under direction of the Imperialist puppet master Truman were such criminal weapons against the Korean people. Never did the Patriotic Korean forces, the People's Liberation Army of China or the Soviet Union use such criminal methods of heavy bombers, carpet bombing and Napalm. The American ruling class is made up of the worst criminals in the world that need to face justice.
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@GarlandFarms Sanctions always hurt the poor first.
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@VANRICKELEN Hitler was another capitalist sucess story. Just look at what Hitler did for Big Business.
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@bobtokarchic494 Building a wall and increasing deportations will only increase the expenses of unproductive government. Increased tariffs will increase prices inside the United States only.
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Go ahead and fire your children from your families. See who they listen to then.
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That sums up the thinking of many of his supporters nothing more than those who are idol worshippers.
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@dare1ner His hero McNamara had computer programs that predicted victory in Vietnam also. Wars are NOT won by technology otherwise the US should have easily won along with the 14 Imperialist powers against the Soviet Union and defeated Leon Trotsky's Red Army at the end of WW1. At the end of WW2 the US cried about losing China the American soldiers were tired of fighting "The Enemy" and demanded to be set home from ever theater of War in the Votes for Boats movement. The US and its UN allies were battled to a standstill in Korea also. In Cuba the US sponsored invasion was defeated in 72 hours. The US theatened the whole world with Nuclear War over the independence of Cuba from its clutches. The US spent 4 trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan gaining a reputation for destroying small countries.
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@ianwatson5605 The working class has no saviors but itself. Trotsky gave his life for the cause of the working class. He speaks to and for me.
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@scorpion-fs7pg People like yourself with your crudeness expose the anti woman nature of the anti abortionists. Talking about turkey baster sex and hold guns to people heads for sex exposes you and your movement as not having any kind of moral basis to call yourself "Pro Life".
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@rajeshroshan2877 The living women has a right to life a fetus may or may not be viable. That's why is not considered a person in law. You don't become a person until you are born and a birth certificate is issued.
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@BillyBobThornt0n You side stepped the question of who and how to decide. Talking about smart decisions only displays your ignorance. Of course you always make the smart decision. You must just be so much better than all the rest of us dummies and irredeemable deplorable s. .
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Both have a cult of followers who are easily impressed with big words and brave ideas.
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@denisemcdougal6445 The American and Spanish civil wars were also both class wars. In the American civil the Rising industrial capitalist lead a national revolutionary war against the slavocracy. In Spain the capitalist and landlords led a counterrevolutionary war against the Republic out of fear that democracy would bring another Soviet Republic into power establishing instead a 30+ year fascist dictatorship.
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@saylorgreen1142Go to GAZA and wave a rainbow flag and see how long Hamas lets you live.
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@iche9373 The American Imperialist can claim to have clean hands because they took over from the British Imperialist and the Liberal British capitalism. How many died in the Taiping rebellion or British India. How many votes did the British colonies get in the British parliament? Britian is a Democracy though because Churchill said so.
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@cameronr7223 It's the end of American Imperialism.
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@eddiemunster4094 No matter how many slanders the write about him. He died on front lines of the fight against American Imperialism and nobody can ever take that away from him.
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The bosses want us to work the longest hours, at the fastest rate and for the lowest wages to boost their sagging profit rates. Profit rates go down as machines replace labor which is why the profit hungry bosses are in and out of crisis.
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@carlosmolina8763 They sell the US Treasury bonds they print to the rich so they can be paid interest from the taxes they collect.
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Probably a degree in idiotics. First you need coal to make steel. No modern world without steel. Second burning Natural gas or oil creates less not zero CO2. Third when using natural gas, oil or coal to make electricity capturing the CO2 is easier than when oil or natural gas is burned in a home or large buildings for heating, electricity or absorption type cooling.
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Annie Springer All the US government is asked to do is end the trade restrictions. That's not the same as saying ever company must trade. All these restrictions are based in the Trading with the Enemy act. How many US soldiers died in Vietnam and Korea? How many Chinese volunteers came across the boarder of Korea to fight. Yet China and Vietnam have most favored nation status trade with the US. How many US soldiers died in the Cuban revolution? I guess you would have to count a few airmen flying Alabama national guard bombers repainted with Cuban markings. Any CIA agents would fall under the rules of war as spies just like Nathan Hale.
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That is one of the most important realizations.
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@Neo-zg9zz Stand up for what? More wasted funds like the 2.3 trillion spent on Afghanistan? Russia and China aren't going to fire missiles if they get hit back by ours. We don't need a new arms race.
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@Luciano Becchio To bad you can't back up that claim. Twenty thousand died to get rid of the US puppet General Batista. LBJ and Nixon killed millions in Vietnam using carpet bombing, chemical warfare, and napalm. They of course don't count in the head of the anti communist. If you were fighting a war against communist ideology and not for property and control you would be using books not bombs. Your probably real proud of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter building homes. What kind of "Human Rights" leader votes for Pol Pot in the UN and supplies him with aid filtered through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. Carter is drenched in Blood.
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@ADobbin1 That is because two party rule insures a wealthy capitalist minority is always in power.
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@cubeman22 Why make stupid statements about a bullet to the head? Do you have some kind of fascination with political violence?
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@neonlight1214 The US had NO diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union until the FDR regime. The US Gov't cares less about Human Rights it's just something that became useful for Imperialist propagandas use in the class struggle. The British and French declared war on Germany upon realising Hitler intended to invade them and not the Soviet Union first. Once Germany invaded the Soviet Union they had no choice but to go to war with Germany.
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@longiusaescius2537 Unions are empowered when the organize all workers regardless of immigration status. Amnesty helps with organization. Billionaire capitalist want to deport during economic downturns and to create a pariah class keeping some workers with the illegal status to hold down wages of all workers.
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@itsv1p3r The President and Vice President must be natural born citizens but they do not need to be residents of a state rather only 14 years a resident within the United States. So a President could be a resident of DC or any overseas US territory and not be able to vote in any particular state.
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@kylekgh This is not a collectivist sharing culture this is nothing but naked capitalist exploitation with a rotten Stalinist Party at the head. Socialism is workers control of industry not some Stalinist's bureaucrats jockeying for power to be the new capitalists in China.
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@@apsoypike1956 Stalin does NOT represent the leadership continuity of Marx and Lenin. Leon Trotsky did and if Trotsky's ideas aren't enough for you than Fidel Castro came along and showed that revolution was possible, necessary and all the crazy and criminal things that both the Stalin and Mao leadership did completely unnecessary. They never had book bans in Cuba, or executions for simple political disagreement. East Germany had a privileged caste loyal to Moscow who could only retain power and privileges by police state methods. They weren't capitalists because they didn't own private property. They however granted themselves "incentives". And rather than seeing incentives as a temporary evil necessary do to the backwardness of Russia when the NEP was adopted it became the bureaucrats way of solving all problems. Still the bureaucrats needed to be fighting bureaucracy and its was necessary to sacrifice the worst to save the bureaucrats as privledged caste within the working class. Like Social Democrats who have put off Socialism in favor of capitalist privileges the Stalinists sought accommodation and peaceful coexistence with Imperialism. "Communists" (tankies) were suppose to defend the Soviet motherland (the bureaucracy) no matter how stupid or how rotten the policy of Moscow was. It lead to the absurdities of leaders of the American Communist Party supporting the Smith "gag" Act prosecutions of the Trotskyists in 1940 only to see themselves prosecuted under the same law after "The Great Patriotic War and permanent victory of the Soviet Union." The little Stalins of the CPUSA though they would be shaking the hands of the monopolists not doing 5 year stretches in the federal penitentiary.
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@paksta If its working so well why are people in the advanced capitalist world reproducing at a rate BELOW population replacement? Capitalist miracle countries like South Korea , Japan and China don't have sources of immigration to replace the population like the Western Capitalist countries who would also have aging populations without immigration. Is it "Poverty eradication" or "Population eradication"?
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@oLii96x Capitalism grew out of feudalism which had its own ideological justification for the class rule of Kings and Queens of the land. When the federalist became obstacles to capitalist development they were driven from power in a most revolutionary way across Europe and America. The capitalist have created a new class of people the wage laborers and we have our own class interest just as the capitalist merchants did during feudalism. The capitalist have also created their own ideological justification for their system. Just as feudal society reached a dead end so too has capitalism by it own internal logic. It was Adam Smith and Ricardo who first wrote on political economy but it was Marx who furthered the analysis of capitalism. The origin of the profit from the workers sale of his labor power. The drive by the capitalist to pay the lowest wages and work us the longest hours. The inevitable decline in the rate of profit as capital replaces labor in giant industry drives the class struggle between labor and capital. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. The capitalist origin is in nation states while they compete in a world market. Capitalism develops both in uneven and combined ways which has made American Imperialism the top dog following the second Imperialist war. While American Imperialism set the rules in its interests post world war two it is in decline as both China and Europe are its market competition. A competitions whose inevitable logic leads to world war while the working class has no interest in the bosses profits system of exploitation. Capitalism is already failing in the advanced capitalist countries as can be seen by the falling birth rates among women who the economic system of capitalism has ignored instead prefer to pay wages just enough to get a worker to return for another pay period but without the social stability to produce a new generation. Even the capitalist themselves ae beginning to question the viability of a system which has stopped producing enough children to replace those who will inevitable pass on.
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@sammalama Why always bring up theses claims of Chinese religious persecution when countries like the UK fought religious wars on their own soil for centuries. The Dali Lama is a relic of feudal times that Westerners love because he sounds so much like the Catholic Pope.
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@southduck Capitalism doesn't work like that. The bosses have to pay enough to keep workers coming back to work it depends on how much the have to train you and if you belong to a union. Agriculture is the lowest paid of all labor, temporary and as such it's the last to be mechanized. Farmers have a reputation in Mexico for hiring border crossers and then calling border patrol before pay day. Yard service is a luxury service for the upper middle class.
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@jackgreenway4646 Life is a struggle everywhere even more so with the pandemic. The US has had sixty year blockade of the island and its been tightening it even more. Cuba is only an island nation not an island economy. I never saw empty grocery shelves in the US until the recent power failure in Texas.
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@t.s.c-guitar7058 Screw you and your so called free markets. One side owns everything and uses that economic power to maximise profits. A racist two party government is what you have and what we don't need. We are going to take that private property away from you and then you'll have to work for a living like everyone else or you can chose to move into the jungle like Orangutans swinging from tree to tree and eating the low hanging fruit.
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@PwerRanger01 The original plan was to make Germany into a land of farms and milk maids.
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Why are the English Royals not called Murderer's?
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@arandomhamster233 The problem is the capitalist class and their privileged lackeys have no reason to change until their system becomes the opposite of what it started as. Then what the working class does becomes important.
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@sarahmiller4734 Capitalism working as intended taking everything up into fewer and fewer hands.
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@melvinholland9656 No because this is a class issue. The non union plants have to keep up with the union and if they can't well they can be organized also. Musk is turning out not to be the genius he claimed to be also. So far most EV's sell at prices above ICE. Maybe Musk wants to drive his truck but no one else does. Nor can they just plug into the grid without a massive upgrade.
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@usssanjacinto1 "Now people have a choice to stay at minimum wage or move up." When did that law get passed making minimum wage a choice? If we have that choice then why isn't everyone moving up? Do you just go into the office and say, "Hay I've made the choice to move up from the minimum wage."
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A falling out among capitalist thieves.
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@Szopjale1 The capitalist seek to pay us only what is socially required to get us to come back to work for the next pay period. Since capitalism seeks to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first they see education for the working class as an unnecessary expense that should be minimized and monopolized for their benefit alone. The same goes for healthcare. As far as the bosses are concerned healthcare for workers is drag on the rate of profit which goes into decline as they use machines to replace skilled labor with less skilled labor and machines. When the capitalist invest he seeks the highest RATE of profit. This is why they have industries pitted against each other in the drive to maximize profits.
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Sowell supported ever Imperialist war the United States has ever fought including the ones fought during his lifetime Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. So you tell me tell if falsehoods were not used to justify fighting those wars?
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@sploofmonkey That's always been the case with the factory system. Just watch Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" which was made in 1936. Alienation comes from the bargain workers make with the capitalists. You go to work do what you are told and in return your allowed to leave go home, sleep and return the next day and do the same thing all over again. Your wage is only meant to keep you alive so you can come back and work the next day. So when you leave your employers property your always left with a sense of having left something behind.
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@ghostface2156 They guy already gave it up so now he playing the dumb as rocks card.
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Its been working in Cuba. Like Trotsky I defend the underlying economics not the political leadership or policy. Are you defending Churchill and the famines caused by the Democratic Imperialism of the British Empire? How about the opium war launched by the British against China? Or the 700 years of British rule in Ireland? This guy has some nerve to call 'Che' a murderer when the British Army spent the last half of the twentieth century occupying Northern Ireland killing at will.
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Going out and leading a gang of murderous criminals attacking an innocent family and murdering a child in their home and then claiming a line in the sand was the reason? You have no right to even call yourself a human being if you think that is just a little bit overboard. It is a criminal action for which the severest punishment should be considered. I'm sure if a gang did something like that to you and gave some phony political excuse you would be righteously screaming bloody murder.
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@resistenceisfutile When I was young we protested America's criminal war in Vietnam and our protests help force an end as the soldiers did not want to keep fighting and two Presidents were forced from office. Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for Persident again and Nixon resigned amid the massive watergate FBI secret police scandal.
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Did Hamas give him the Grand tour? Or did he have to avoid them so as not to get killed?
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@jaquino451 No such thing as a free market. A market is always supervised with rules by a governing body. Capitalist requires a centralized nation state power to govern trade and production. The declining rate of profits ultimately require guarantees of the "too big to fail" companies profits for the ruling class of do nothing investors by the central bank.
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@gracec1665 That's not what the stats collected by the US CIA says. Cuban healthcare puts the life expectancy right up their with the US. While US life expectancy keeps droping.
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Both parties have the same problem.
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They live in their big houses, go to fine restaurants and they believe those in the Universities and News Media who tell them what the want to hear like how "Greed is Good for the Poor" "Capitalism is lifting people out of Poverty." "American Capitalist won the Cold War." "Capitalist are Smart." "Communism BAD" all the general bullshit.
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The basic job of fascism is to murder the leaders of the industrial working class trade unions and peasants who threaten the private property of the bosses. For this service the fascist demand a price be paid to them by the Bourgeois class. Hitler's unions were company unions. Unions set up under control of the bosses. Capitalist governments like the USA are well known for interfering in unions and strikes by use of injunctions and anti syndicalism laws. The idea behind the company union is the bosses set up a fake union with fake leaders to negotiate a contract.
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@asherdog9248 Since I'm retired my taxes, income and expenses are different than when I was younger. My main concern is being treated by incompetent doctors and the health care bureaucracy first with medical bills second. I've been transported by both air ambulance and ambulance to the hospital for heart attacks they could find any evidence of twice. Yesterday I had a tooth pulled and was issued an antibiotic prescription which quite clearly stated on the prescription form says I was allergic to. I returned to the clinic which also includes medical doctors only to find that the dentist went home and was told by the desk jockey that the doctor couldn't issue a new prescription but to come back Monday to see the dentist.
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@jcflores1774 Women have the Right to Life over a fetus. If men can't be required to give blood to save the life of another than why do women need to surrender their body to a fetus with questionable viability to begin with? Women have a right to plan their lives and family. If the state can't require the donation of blood then where does it get the right to tell women what they can and can not do with their body? If your own body isn't personal property that just what is? Lawyers need to stay out of medicine and pregnancy instead of grandstanding for crowds. .
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@direwolffire1955 You don't expect a millionaire to advocate for unions do you? Do you expect him to tell you the truth about labor history? How in three US cities during the great depression were the centers of General Strikes that complete brought those cities to a stand still? How the UAW was born in a sit down strikes at GM?
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@wilhelmheinzerling5341 The real proven way to get a wage increase is with a fighting union where your willing to strike till the bosses scream uncle.
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@thijsjong The bigger the splits among the ruling Imperialist classes the better for the working class. Down with NATO.
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@wevon8233 You don't see US policy blockading Saudi Arabia for murdering a US Journalist in it Embassy. All your heard is what an important trading partner Saudi Arabia was.
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@Nunya Business People in Boston call their streetcars trolleys and the rails trolley tracks. Years ago they called the poles which connected to the overhead line a Trolley pole. The workers who drove the trolleys were Carmen and their union was called the Boston Carmen's union.
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@atomariola6410 The poor become obese because food prices favor caloric intake from carbohydrates over protein.
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@iche9373 Cuba wants US out of its territory why don't the Imperialist leave Cuban terrortory?
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@TWE_2000 US Blockade is multinational. Third parties can not sell anything with Cuban contents in the US market. Ships stopping in Cuba can not stop at US ports for six months despite the distance being about a days voyage. US Treasury has fined companies as large as Siemens.
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For about 6 cents you can go to a Cuban Baseball game. The stadiums are also full. From $50 to over $1,000 for a MLB game. No luxury air conditioned boxes in Cuban games though.
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@MickeyMouse-lm6zj To be a Marxist is to understand change and history as being driven by the class struggle. When America was founded it was a beacon of freedom when compared to the rest of the world chaffing under feudalism especially the European Empires. The Monroe doctrine was an Anti European Imperialist doctrine for the Western Hemisphere. Early capitalism was a new and revolutionary system despite all its faults which are much more clearly seen today. The civil war and reconstruction period that followed abolished slavery. When reconstruction ended and Segregation was imposed was when American capitalism began its change into monopoly capitalism and Imperialism. The twentieth Century has saw the rise of the industrial trade unions in the labor movement and the destruction of Jim Crow racism by a black proletarian lead movemnet as part of the anti colonial struggle.
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@drd6893 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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@aamir1972 Protestants don't interpret the bible that way. So abortion is perfectly fine for some Christian groups. The US Constitution establishes a separation of Church and state. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..""no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
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@giovincomaz2175 The Soviet Union and China did not end in genocide or starvation either. Popular revolutions over though the Stalinist Regimes almost bloodlessly only Yugoslavia underwent a severe war. The return to capitalism in the old Soviet Russian Republic was accompanied by shock therapy that was recommended by Liberal capitalist economist Milton Friedman and Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton also ordered the bombing of Yugoslavia. Hardly a recommendation for capitalism since in reality the dream of a military marching into Soviet Union and re establish capitalism as Hitler tried to do never occurred. That was the true goal of the cold war a hot war to destroy the Soviet Union all the workers states and re establish capitalism by force of arms.
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Frederic Bastiat Oh yes the worker are free to buy everything. The bosses only pay us what is needed to keep us coming back to work the next day. The capitalist own everything and do nothing while the workers create everything and own nothing. That's the way capitalism works.
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Actually you lost the cold war and this the price Stalin wants you to pay for reparations.
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Central Bank generated inflation replaced the old strike provoking wage cut. It was made possible by delinking the value of the dollar from gold and silver.
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@davidb2206 Put the bosses on a diet. Fight for higher wages and fewer hours with no cut in pay.
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End the Blockade!!!
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@scorpion-fs7pg A fetus can do its growing elsewhere. "Never OK to Murder?" Tell that to Trump and Pence who are rock stars in the Pro Birth movement. Bombs marked MADE IN USA killed real children on a school bus in Yemen.
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Trotsky's writings are still published by Pathfinder Press.
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If your a farmer in the US that's what you are probably doing now.
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@gracec1665 Cuba's can say whatever they want. Just because you can find enemies of the revolution for your interviews on every street corner doesn't mean they are being supressed.
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N No one is ready for a civil war and attempts to start one by engaging in terrorism like McVeigh are the height of stupidity. The fact that the Democratic Party is turning against free speech is not a historical abnormality. Both Wilson (D) and FDR (D) found that necessary to shut up those opposed to Imperialist war. The Palmer raids were started by Wilson. FDR had the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters jailed. Truman (D) began the second red scare with loyality oaths while the McCarthy (R) began the witch hunt for communists in government.
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@nancymcnutt6586 Trump had fours years to deport his wife and her family.
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@vantaplat7411 We won the Minneapolis General Strike despite the mobilization of National Guard troops. West Virginia coal miners told Truman in the middle of World war 2 bayonet's don't dig coal. The army is made up of young workers and farmers in uniform. Brass hat orders to fire on their unarmed brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers will not go over well. The Russian Czar was forced to abdicate during the war when strikes broke out in St Petersburg. Many south Korean dictators were forced to flea after protests despite calling out the military. A government that calls out the armed forces is a last ditch effort to save itself.
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@mitchellhughes5180 You get a birth certificate that shows you were a live birth. No one gets a conception certificate because we don't keep records of everyone's sex life nor should we. A fetus is not a child or a baby it is totally dependent on the women's body and legislation won't change that.
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Would you expect a paper advocating for the return of British rule to appear after the American Revolution of 1776? Or a paper for the return of slavery right after the US Civil War? Such a paper appearing today in the US would be laughed now but after a revolution change in government no. The had a revolution and the pain from the capitalist past is not easily forgotten. As long as the leaders of the Cuba revolution tell the truth about world capitalism, the world situation and listen to what the Cuban people tell them the revolution will continue making history. The Cuban revolution is just part of the world revolution that is a fight for justice and the change from the rule of a few wealthy capitalist in the richest nations to that of the working people in all nations. The construction of a socialist world is that of the workers created by the capitalist world.
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@@apsoypike1956 The Cuban revolution is merely a small example of what a real communist leadership can accomplish. They have abolished private property in Cuba. Your a property owner which why you believe you need compensation. The 26th of July movement lead the revolution but it was a revolution supported by those who wore the shirts of the ordinary workers and peasants not the wealthy property owners. Lenin and Trotsky lead the bolshevik party but it was the workers and peasants organized into Soviets that made the actual revolution. I assume you are referring to the Red Guards who arrested the provisional government who were negotiating with Kornilov for a continuation of capitalist rule. If we have to arrest you also So be it. .
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@AcademiXE When Big Business speaks Congress listens.
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Batman is just the next hero/dictator.
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Tommy Sotomayor makes white folks feel good about themselves. Given the many white liberal feeling guilty about race it's not a bad hussle. Somehow abusive Black mothers are different than white ones?
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@danieltheangrydemocrat7018 That's because you a capitalist Democrat and a social reformer not a revolutionary.
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@scethabsent2745 That's because they a stuck in these obsolete religious faith ideas. They go around harassing women going to clinics that not only do abortions but are providers of birth control methods and women's healthcare in general. They aren't interested in protecting babies only in having the maximum number of children being born because that fits with their go forth and multiply religious dogma.
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The second issue with taxes in a class society is who pays them? Here is where you can see that in the earlier days of capitalism the capitalist paid a great majority of the taxes because the exploitation of the workers was such that anyone thinking that the workers would pay anything but sin taxes would be laughed out of the room. In many industries we weren't even paid in what you'd call real money but instead company script usable at the company store only. We have won a few battles since then but having a payroll check bounce is still not an unusual experience.
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As long as we live in the Imperialist stage of capitalism war is part of the workings of capitalist competition.
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Do you have any idea how many parts and engineering goes into making an automobile? I bought a new Chevy Truck a little more than a year ago 50% of the parts are made from outside the United States. How come all the Big companies abandoned Detroit?
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Ludd Zarko The leaders of the Cuban revolution were no puppets of Moscow. Neither was Albania, Yugoslavia, China, Korea or Vietnam. That is nothing but cold war propaganda. For you everything was a conspiracy launched from Moscow. Nixon was also a believer in such conspiracy demanding FBI director Hoover to find the links between anti war protesters and Moscow. The Sino Soviet split is was a pubic one. The only areas the post WW2 Soviet Union had control of beyond its borders were those countries taken by the Red Army on its way to Berlin. The Yugoslav air force bought US/UK fighter bombers starting in 1951. They were also the original leaders of the non aligned movement.
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@raybon7939 Why don't you send them a fishing trawler and a home in the country on farm land? Why not give the Chicago and New York homeless fishing boats
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@Youtuber-xs9cp It was Kennedy who was threatening to push the button who wanted to over thrown the Cuban government at almost any cost.
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@urkoolUncle Sowell is just an evangelist for capitalism which is why the Black working class finds him to be meaningless.
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@connoroleary591 Musk liberating anyone from tyranny is a cruel joke.
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It was a propaganda source for bosses in the UK during the 1926 General Strike.
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Trump had four years to deport his wife and family.
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@SkremoMcThrftsto The Checka was the secret police under Lenin. They were founded when terrorist attacks came close to killing Lenin and Trotsky. They were also special battalions that fought in the civil war.
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@juliosantana1646 American Imperialism and Capitalism is in decline. They fear the loss of markets and profits to China.
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@thatiswhotheyare "Level playing field." No such thing when you have capitalism. At best you can break down artificial barriers for entry into education and better paying jobs are try and measure and advance that with quotas. The overall goal must be to advance the unity of the workers of all nations against the capitalist by supporting the rights of those who are the lowest paid and least skilled. It is from the most oppressed that the most resolute fighters have emerged.
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@Kunfucious577 Japan was like the US a class divided society the sanctions on Japan that prohibited Japan from buying oil before the war only drove the Japaneses working people into the arms of the ruling class. All the world's Imperialist powers committed war crimes both during and after the war. Imperialist war is a crime in itself. Japan lost the war because it is an island nation and its navy was defeated. Not because of the US war criminals used nuclear weapons or sanctions on Japan. The US sanctioned China and many other countries simple because it can't get what it wants from them. It has nothing at all to do with any kind of justice. Its merely an act of Imperialist arrogance by the American ruling class.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Carlos Lazo has lead protests against the Blockade and he is a former rafter who came to the US and served in the US Military before becoming a school teacher. More people have left Puerto Rico and its a US Colony with a smaller population.
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Evidence was presented and the jury didn't buy it. Considering juries convict in 95% of the time I'd say either he's the luckiest guy on earth or the Jury refused to buy a frame job. The women's family reject their daughter's death being used by Trump for his anti immigrant campaign. I've lived and worked with people of different colors so I'm not a scared middle class racist who waters the lawn on the weekend and needs constant police protection. I don't need to research and earn a degree in racial studies to know what its about. I've seen it up close and its ugly.
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@Isabella66Gracen The Bolivian Army was being armed and trained by the US. A Cuban American CIA Agent was on site when he was murdered. The US holds "War on Terror" prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba for life without any kind of trial or tribunal what so ever. So much for the US being a human rights leader. You say he was terrible and they accused him of things he did not do. Those executed after the revolution in Cuba were guilty of serious crimes not innocent people. Che was in Guatemala City when the Government of Arbenz was overthrown by the US CIA.
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@californiabreeze2182 Look up nuclear winter genius. Who are you another 12 year old with a hero complex?
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More like this: Che to Batista Policeman: "Did you murder and torture prisoners." Policeman: "I was only following orders." Che: "To the wall."
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@living2ndchildhood347 "...intestinal fortitude..." Translation: "He didn't shit his pants."
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@M.Đ-z4u All this shows is the continual decline of the US NATO Imperialism allaince.
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The bosses want them to be illegal because it is easier to exploit them that way.
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@I_S_Chew Who will be placed in change of the Ministry of Truth?
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@williamrogers1219 Social Security is a social insurance program for your wages. Bosses want to limit and take it back as a way to boost their private profits and sagging profit rates.
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@tj-co9go No its not its capitalist greed and the inability to shore up profit rates which go into decline after the capitalist build giant industries.
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Michael Standing Contractors is just a politically correct name for mercenary.
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Evan Scammell Right he would have been so much more valuable if he done something like George Soros and shorted the Bank of England for a 9 Billion pounds sterling. No wonder the rest of the Billionaire class are afraid of Soros he could short them tomorrow and leave them sitting outside of the homeless shelter the next day.
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You notice that Pinestead gives typical support to US Imperialism with advice to China to flatten North Korea. This shows that the US Imperialist are not happy unless they are continuing their endless war against anyone who challenges their authority and power. He even has the audacity to refer to N Koreans as pollution. This shows that the Imperialists care nothing about human rights but everything their property, domination and control. China provides the US with manufactured goods but what does the US provide in return? Paper promises printed on dollar bills and treasury bonds. This paper has value only while it is accepted as a world reserve currency. Without that acceptance it is as worthless as a confederate dollar.
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@puppet_master115 We don't rely on the capitalist acknowledging anything. Itstead we rely upon being able to organize and explain to the working people why they need to take control of industry and the land into their hands such that the industry and farmland is used to provide the means of life to the overwhelming majority of people instead of for private profits.
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@dandeaton6511 Blaming the capitalist is NOT the same as blaming society. Democrats are just one of the two capitalist parties. They have always have a few positions to fill where selection takes place much like the lottery those willing to do the dirty work for the bosses like the cops, finks and are used until the become a liability. The same goes for those in who are politicians or highly paid managers or small bosses. They find out who has the clout when the next economic crisis comes and it's time to cut back or when the workers can no longer stand the boss who is in charge. This is when the banker explains the facts of life to the small boss who wants a loan. He says I need collateral so promise me you capital in case you fail. Of couse the big banks and companies are too big to fail and they get bailed out while the workers take the blame for the bosses losses.
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He called Conservatives the Wolf.
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Usually the billionaires have their lap dogs in both parties brought to heel with calls from the lobbyist or with back room deals with party leaders.
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@hmmmmmmmm754 Did you see who's interfering with them sending money to Cuba none other than the US Gov't enforcing its unjust blockade.
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mak 10 "Another problem with unions is it creates a US vs them environment.' That's called the class struggle. You can't stop the bosses from closing shop and moving elsewhere except for the fact that the size of the world is finite and moving production to mars isn't possible despite Space X. The unions were organized without dues checkoffs and their is no reason to believe that a union that fights back will have any problem with collecting dues. The bosses traded union dues check offs in return for labors support for the second Imperialist war. After the war and the big strike way that followed was over was when Taft Harley was written allowing states to forbid dues check off. This was another excuse for the labor aristocrats to halt organizing in the south despite the big struggle against Jim Crow in the south. By 1954 the union tops were Labor Statesman rubbing shoulders with the bosses and their politicians beginning the process of forgetting about those still in the shop.
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Anyone who lived in the US post WW2 has seen all kinds of state and local taxes expand while the graduated federal income tax go down. States added sales and income taxes instead of having just one or the other. They raised the sin taxes on alcohol and especially tobacco while adding state legalized gambling. The war on drugs has made vast amounts of income for police and the so called justice system off of victimless and/or self destructive crime.
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@newbwheeler9777 The root cause of war is economic. Capitalist competition for markets investments and profits. Putin represents the new capitalists in Russia. This war is about the sale of gas to Europe. Its has nothing to do about so called Democracy in the US or Imperialist Europe. Putin is acting like the Russian Czar. He blames Lenin for Ukraine.
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Its the Railay "Slave" Labor Act. In the 1950's a train crew was 5 people today the bosses want to run longer trains with just two crew and want to reduce that to one. Not tp mention all the other jobs that have been eliminated.
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Republicans and Democrats both steal form the working class to keep their rotten system going. It a bipartisan shell game. Reagan signed the first immigrant amnesty bill. Clinton ended "Welfare as we know it." Because Reagan could only provide the necessary rhetoric. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter voted to keep Pol Pot seated at the UN. Bush pretending to be a compassionate conservative signed the Medicare Part D bill.
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The Bank Robbers are small potatoes compared to the Robber Banks.
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Rather simplistic since Marx and Engels wrote the Manifesto before the Paris commune. Just because certain reforms and changes have been occurred under capitalism doesn't mean that socialism or communism has been achieved. The capitalist found that they could not operate in their system in the way their original defenders described. Their government could not just ignore popular will. The bitter fruit of neoliberalism was harvesed by the crisis of 2008. Friedman had already died and the collapse of the "Ownership Society" and Bushes "New World Order" are nowmemories being lost in history. Cynical neoliberals like Sowell supported Trump as being easier to impeach than Clinton. I suggest reading something newer like the Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution, Socialism on Trial or America's road to Socialism. .
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@RebeccaOre Fidel never made the errors Stalin or Mao made. That is why the Cuban revolution continues despite being alone in the world and under tremendous pressure from the United States with its blockade. We are overdue for another Socialist Revolution somewhere in the world or a political revolution in one or more of the former workers states before the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union. .
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Ami Riegel Somebody obviously talked but would you want that kind of celebrity?
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@Scott Covert The road to socialism is paved by the class struggle. Capitalism creates both the class that will replace them and the class struggle necessary. Ultimate victory is not inevitable but made possible from the lessons of the history of the class struggle itself. Creation of a Marxist cadre party of worker Bolsheviks stepped in the historical lessons of the class struggle is the most powerful weapon that can be used in the struggle.
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@Glaaki13 Tankie refers to the Soviet Stalinist who crushed workers uprisings after Stalin's death in 1953. These uprisings occurred in 1953, 1956 and 1968. Now its used a slur with no real meaning anymore.
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@skylanderdadandskylanderbo8327 Now the same elites will want you to fight China for there huge profits.
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@simonrobert869 Capitalism is a world system of production and trade. All talk of independent capitalist nations is even more reactionary than Stalin's socialism in one country. The capitalist exploiters are divided by nation state. Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism as these nation states come into conflict driven by the greed of the ruling capitalist classes regardless of the reformist Stalinist or Social Democratic parties they hide behind. The Noe liberalism of the American Imperialist is no more relevant than the Liberal thoeries of the British Imperialist that lead to World War one. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics is challenging the American Imperialist for markets and resources. A trade war is already taking place as another world war looms over humanity.
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@jjbanana2774 Its the continuing crisis of Imperialism. Bosses fighting for profits and influence.
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@LW13r He was going to build a great big beautiful wall. Of course building what amount two lanes and a shoulder of an Interstate highway sideways for two thousand miles was never going to happen. Instead we got a few miles of iron fence and a remain in Mexico policy until they got tired of remaining in Mexico and started just walking across the bridges around the fences and waded across the river. Surrendering as they arrived.
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Marxism.
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@Shozb0t Bosses want to make the biggest profits which is why they do the things they do. They seek to pay the lowest wages for the longest hours at the fastest rates. The buy the politicians of both parties with campaign donations to get what they want from the government. The problem lies in the capitalist system itself. The profits are a result of the exploitation of the production workers. The bosses replace higher priced skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines to drive profits their way. Then the capital value rises but the total labor exploited goes down so as the prices of the commodity sold sink towards the cost of production. The rate of profit from which the bosses measure success must then fall. To get around this problem the bosses have created a central bank from which to inflate the value of currency instead of using gold as money value. So they bosses no longer have to issue wage cuts which provoke strikes when they can accomplish the same thing by putting more money into the economy and raising prices instead. Since Nixon ended the gold standard the bosses have been giving themselves all the new productivity since the value of property rises faster than wages.
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@RebeccaOre They sent in Alabama National Guard bombers repainted with Cuban colors and American pilots. The plan was to take a small piece of territory from which a call for help could summon US forces. They were defeated in 72 hours and instead of landing more troops US Ships began taking retreating mercenaries aboard.
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Of course because capitalism is failing.
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@SkyyPiano I could care less if you think a fetus is dead or alive or how many ultrasounds are done. The question is will women have the right to decide when and with whom to have children to plan her life. All this bullshit about women seeking an abortion at 8 months and 29 days is just so much horse manure dreamed up by those wishing to deny women a safe and legal abortion. The real question is should corrupt politicians, rotten apple cops and sky pilots get the right to decide when and with whom a women can have children? How moral is it to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term by those with no moral sanding themselves against her right to control her own body?
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How come he didn't get one of the "Fair Trials" you alll like to crow about instead of being murdered in a school house?
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@granolafunk6192 Sure Congress voting to shove the rail contract Greedy Boss Buffet wanted has nothing to do with his two party campaign contributions. It safer to ship oil in pipes as long as they are properly maintained. Rail Boss greed caused the accident in Quebec where a whole town was burned down.
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Is their a capitalist who is not a vulture?
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The problem with capitalist fiat currency is you either print to much or not enough. For a money economy to work than the money must circulate it can't just sit in a bank account. Capital is itself a social force that is owned privately. Talking about running out of other people's money is as silly as a taxing your way to prosperity.
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@georgestransky9652 This is nothing more than another "Get Trump" Frame Job.
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@biner01 As Karl Marx observed those who live in a hut have different priorities than those who live in palaces.
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@jamesduda6017 Capitalism has created greatest wealth ever seen for a smaller and smaller ruling elite group of owners. It has also created a huge working class that owns absolutely nothing. We are debt slaves to the credit card, the student loan, the car payment, and the mortgage. One might ask how could such a thing happen? The answer lies in the profit quest. The workers are bombarded with you need this and you need that and a higher wage is unnecessary because what you really need is good credit that we will give you should you not strike or anyway violate our rules or terms of agreement.
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@firebird77clonefirebird89 Proof of vax "Don't leave home without it." Australian Express.
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@dcpack Repeal the Rail Road "Slave" Labor act. If the rail bosses want a strike then they unions should be able to give the bosses what they want a strike.
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@chairde People like you spout meaningless nonsense which is why you will be defeated in the battle of ideas. Capitalism is based in strong nation states. The general laws of capitalism lead it to a monopoly of capitalist owners within those strong nation states. For capitalism to continue capital must be exported outside of the original capitalist states for the return of a profit. This leads to a world market competition that treaties and 'International institutions" can not contain which an internal police and military can usually contain. Trade war replaces friendly international competition, war begins to replace trade war and world war replaces regional war. The capitalist may not like war but war likes him just as he likes profits.
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@valverdeguido President Trump in not the President of the World. Nor are the US Marines the policeman of the world. You do not dial 1 800 MIKE PENCE to be appointed President.
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Waste of time arguing with Bailey it's best to ignore him. Or suggest he go post on porn sites where his real expertise lies. People like him want to change the discussion into the size of his genitalia. Over at the porn sites he can post a picture of himself with a ruler for everyone to ogle at.
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@Jerrol Hale Because my obligation is to defended other countries from United States Imperialism and to prepare a socialist revolution right here in the United States. This is where the last battle will take place between capital and labor. With a few exceptions we have had a legal communist movement here since Karl Marx wrote the communist manifesto in 1848. We forced back FBI harassment with Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General. It much easier to build a revolutionary party and movement in legal conditions to than prepare for a revolutionary situation.
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@trollnerdJust like Ayn Rand constantly talking about the immorality of Social Security until it came time to cash her old age checks.
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@jcflores1774 The problem comes down to this if you getting an abortion for birth control reasons then you should do it early. If your doing it for medical reasons than why should it be illegal? Now can you tell what the other reasons besides those for getting abortions are? I'd like to hear a real life situation as to why a Doctor should tell a patient to go home if she insists on wanting to terminate? How would you write a law to seperate the birth control from medical reasons?
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@direwolffire1955 Please explain how everyone in the world can be billionaires and relax the rest of their lives. The word is everyone not just a few.
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Cool.Hand The War Deal and the destruction of Europe and Asia with war is what gave capitalism its second chance. Not FDR's mixed capitalism with more regulations of greed. If you want to believe that countries are communist or socialist because of the name of the party in charge that's your mistake not mine. The economies of Russia and China were not capitalist before shock therapy now they clearly are. Mexico had a one party state form 1927 to 2000 did that make it communist?
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@paulcarfantan6688 What does an empty Cuban grocery store prove compared to life of Latin American people before the Cuban revolution upset balance of power between American Imperialism and the slaves of its colonial Empire in Latin America? A whole island nation entered the modern world using the methods of socialist planning look at America's colony Puerto Rico, Haiti or the Dominican Republic and tell me how good they have it thanks to US Imperialism, Capitalism and Uncle Sam.
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How about the separation of private business and religion? Government and business already work together. That's how the boss parties get their campaign funding.
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@CM-bi6oy They already have human rights in their Constitution approved by the big majority of Cuban's. You just can't stand the fact that the Cuban people have chosen the socialist road.
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@bunyavissuthisorn5909 There is no popularity for war fever among the American working class. If anything history shows that the American workers have had to be dragged by the ruling class into every war. The bosses had to start Red Scare's before entering World War One and Two. Massive anti Vietnam war protests took place among the young who were asked to fight and die in Vietnam without even the right to vote. Since Vietnam no war has been fought with draftees. The American Workers will have the chance to overthrow capitalist rule before World War three is declared.
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@Famr4evr She belongs to a union so you can't just fire her like those of us who are employees at will.
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@PatrickBaptist Hoover was the head of the American Gestapo and ran the two red scares. The citizens committee to investigate the FBI revealed the truth about Hoover. Congress then had to hold hearings on his 50 year assault on dissent. His Cointelpro program, his black bag jobs and his Mission Impossible Break ins at the National HQ of the Socialist Workers Party. His personal life was something that liberals cited to cover up and explain his crimes. Since the Democrats knew just as much about Hoover's operations as the Republicans.
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@curtusfetters9422 This is why the US is number one in prison population exceeding even the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. A capitalist economy can't use all the working people they create so some are turned into long term unemployed who are abandoned to homelessness or imprisoned while capitalist bosses take million dollar rides on rocket ships.
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@Pryad881 World capitalism has entered a period of crisis not seen by any living person. It can only be compared to the Great Depression of the 1930's.
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@malicant123 What do you expect from a system that glorifies the greed of the ruling class?
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@domcizek Boss imperialist system failing. Cancel national debt.
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@bobbykiefer4306 Except the Arab Muslim's expelled all the Jews.
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@ilexevergreen5405 Like all the donors to the two parties.
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When you start with lies about Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and the Bolshevik Party than anything you desire is possible.
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@argonaut5617 This is the result of Stalin and the bureaucracy abandoning the revolutionary course of Lenin and Trotsky for privileges that lead back to capitalism. Gorbachev Yeltsin and Putin were all the best pupils of Stalin along with Khrushchev who sat silently while the old Bolshevik who were murdered and purges took the place of any debate or independent thought or intellectual freedom.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 A millionaire is a nobody today. All you have become is a middle class fool who worships money.
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The Cuban government listens to what those on the Island want. Which more than what the US Congress and the rest of the government does.
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@clintongriffin2077 Constitution says otherwise.
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"....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution.
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They are dying because of capitalism.
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This is why you don't support such regimes with American made weapons. End the killings in Yemen and end all sales of spare parts for those F-16's and any other military hardware to Saudi Arabia. We don't need their oil. Let them drink it with their favorite morning paper.
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@JackCarsonite Native Americans had no concept of land as private property. That was developed by the Greeks as a right to tell others not to let their goats eat up all the plants in an area.
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@ReflectedMiles To understand the way capitalism works as a system you have to understand how different businesses are both dependent and independent of each other and that the source of the profit is the production workers unpaid labor while business success is measured in RATE of RETURN on INVESTMENT. Money has to move around in order for the system to work. Now if we had a relatively free market trade. handicraft producers and farmers then the prices would generally reflect the cost of production. No one would live significantly better than anyone else and you'd have something like the Christian community you mentioned. Industrial capitalism didn't go that way because it began using energy to move things and more complex and complicated methods to save labor time in production. So you have this tendency to build giant industries which is good in many ways but you also have this need to constantly cut the cost of production and replace labor with machines but this both raises the capital value and undercuts the profit because the price tends to slope towards the cost of production.and because the profit comes from the unpaid labor of the production worker less unpaid labor in the product. So this means that the Rate of Return on investment by which success is measured must fall without an infinite market to push goods into. Before Keynes this problem was solved with wage cuts to keep up the rate of profit which provoked strikes and since Keynes devaluing the currency with a central bank and national debt to create inflation took the place of the strike provoking wage cut. Now if the investor invests in expanding production than more workers are hired and more products are sold if the is no new markets to invest capital in then it gets invested in driving up the value of capital itself which was first documented in the tulip crisis in Holland back in the 1600;s. So when you have this type of system were everyone is competing to make the biggest profit but the production worker keeps getting cut out of the value he produces you get all these problems you have. And I haven't even brought in the world market problems.
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@Spartanwazhere1 How you doing admiral? Still waiting for the chance to order the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from submarines? I bet you can't wait to get that 22 Billion dollar contract for nine Virginia class submarines fulfilled.
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@nickwalker4936 They don't use censorship in Cuba because you can't build socialism with censorship. That's what US allies like Saudi Arabia need to keep the King in power for cheap oil and big profits. When the collateral murder video was released the first thing they wanted was for the FBI and military police to find find the leaker who released it without the approval from the military censors. Who made it a state secret. Congressmen screamed for the Death Penalty to be used.
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This is the result of 21st century socialism. Chavez promised to make everyone happy with those oil profits. The economy remained in private hands. No attempt was made to mobilize the working people to take power and run the economy in their interests by either Chavez or Maduro. You can't be all things to all classes. So they relied on subsides to the rich and social programs for the poor. The lesson here is that social democracy can't work that includes in the US and in the Nordic monarchies.
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Roads are like the rest of the infrastructure its been neglected for years. Private campground owners associations are the ones behind no overnight parking laws. They built the whole Connecticut Turnpike in two years but it took five years to build a new I-95 bridge in New Haven and the Southern approach still hasn't been finished.
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@Endurator Sure it pretends to have come from God who tells people to circle a black cube and kiss and touch a holy white stone turned black by sin and broken and repaired by encasing it in silver. Ever see a white stone turn Black after being touched by a sinner?
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@danieltitus26 I disagree. First a flag hurts nobody and if the government bans it its because of some ulterior motive. Like wanting to look clean when they're dirty.
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@tptCJ US Military is a tool for Imperialist war for profits. US two capitalist party dictatorship in Washington is the problem.
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@Serafino Emmanuel They don't teach economics in high school because its easier to control people who don't have any understanding of the subject.
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@josephkevin6759 The ruling class is fleecing the working class since they are the owners of the national debt until they stop buying it. The same with the Federal Reserve Bank they have to keep lending out money and they need to keep borrowing to keep form it coming back. Capital demands to get back more money than they invest an impossibility unless you keep adding to the pot. The top has no choice but to push the masses of people into debt and poverty. When the don't get theirs then the send out he cops to take whatever you have as a way to teach you a lesson.
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Annie Springer If we had to survive on company pensions most of us would have nothing despite the promised made. That's why social security is necessary as is universal healthcare. You can not rely on the promises of the employers to pay a pension or provide healthcare.
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Technology should be left out since their is no unlimited and free healthcare and any healthcare decisions has consequences beyond any possible good outcomes. Heath care can change the odds in a limited manner but it can not produce a 100% guarantee of a favorable outcome. The decision in Roe v. Wade should have been based upon women being equal before the law and women having the right to control their bodily functions.
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Nothing tricky about it either all your cells with a nucleus have at least one Y chromosome or they don't. No one can be in both categories because the process creating a male individual always begins and always begins early on.
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Core value of capitalist exploitation. This was the practice of British capitalism back before the passage of the 10 hour day.
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@mlconley Its the basic corporate attitude, 'Shut up and don't complain. We already addressed that issue." Notice how more and more items are now non returnable even if they are brand new.
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@LC_1018 Warren Buffet the Greedy Boss of the BNSF and two party Donner is no doubt also avoiding taxes.
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@DolceFareNiente1 They are always waiting for a new hand to play at their capitalist Black Jack table. I want to shut down the whole casino.
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@turnthitchcock8432 Free Speech does not include criminal actions. Pulling a fire alarm is NOT speech.
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@SamPashmi Cuba is already free of foreign domination. The America Imperialist with their rotten Investors Empire were defeated in 1959.
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@pauljohn5940 Your lucky if you don't end up doing time in a Canadian prison.
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They serve the capitalists. What's important is filling up bank vaults with fiat currency, bond issues, commercial paper and junk bonds. Now with the computer they create money out of electrons used to represent numbers. Paid lackeys of a system of thieves sucking up profits protected by a worldwide system of police and military violence. While clowns like Amazon exec take carnival rides into space everyone else is suppose to sacrifice for the good of the company and boss fairness.
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You read a novel and now you know everything. A novel is a work of fiction. It's not the same as history. Their are published accounts of life in the Soviet Camps by Left oppositionists. They didn't get the same play in the capitalist press that Solzhenitsyn did. Capitalism did not overcome feudalism without war and killing. The English executed Charles I and the French Louis XVI along with a series of civil wars that would make the new merchant and capitalist class the rulers of France and England. The New England industrialist found that the had no choice but to defeat the southern slavocracy in a bloody civil war. These are the reasons Marx said Capitalism came into the world with Blood and Dirt seeping from every pore.
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Johnson was the one who escalated the War from Kennedy who okayed the use of Agent Orange. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter supported Pol Pot at the UN and armed the Khmer Rouge though the royal dictatorship of Thailand.
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@MrMike0921 Ford raised wages because so many were quiting because of the poor wages and working conditions. Ford was a rabid anti semite who published "The International Jew" in his Dearborne Independent. It was translated into German by the NAZI"S and published in Germany. He made ex Boxer Thug Harry Bennet head of the Ford "Service" dept. who beat the Reuther brothers. You could not talk at work without being fired at work. Ford is the only American mentioned favorable and by name in "Mein Kampf". Ford received an award from the NAZI's ambassador just before war broke out.
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@parker469a In my short life time of 66 years I would give exactly zero Presidents the benefit of any doubt what so ever. They're nothing more than the chief representatives of a small group of ruling profit hungry capitalists who seek world domination through military force.
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If she needs training as a biologist I've know a few amateurs who say if you show me yours I'll show you mine.
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@alephii We need to rebuild union power. Make every job a union job.
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@sethlinerode1047 America was able to advance because Britain and German went to war with each other destroying themselves in two world wars..
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@gracec1665 I find this kind of this kind of thing hard to believe because so many lies are told about Cuba. Like how Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were mass murderers. Somehow the people who make these claims can't find the name of just one person being unjustly executed. I should believe what you said because of what? General cynicism? That's the way countries like Canada and UK operate their healthcare systems pay more to get to the head of the line or see a Doctor in private practice.
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Socialism is a transitional period that results in an end of markets with communism as a future. The US has a SEC that regulates the capitalist stock market yet it is still capitalism.
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What do you expect its Harvard?
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@berenisemendez5223 Its a matter of getting the most as the lowest cost since capitalism is a system of exploitation. China's government is no more communist than the man in the moon.
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Since a fetus hasn't been born so the statement is both meaningless and ridiculous. Like are we going to add nine months to everyone's age now.
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@deadfriendyouforgotabout8434 His dad was like Elon Musk who bought his citizenship.
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@govindraghavan9493 "Capital isn't free." I guess you haven't yet heard of negative central bank interest rates or scams like quantitative easing?
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There is no linkage between smart people and the rich other than the say so of the rich who attend elite Poison Ivy universities. Those who work hardest like farmworkers get the lowest wages. Those who do the least walk to the mailbox every three months for a dividend check.
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@BeelP. The capitalist nations can NOT come together and live in peace because that would mean abolishing the protectionism that keeps the Major capitalism nation classes artificially rich. The talk a good game about a free market until it comes time for them to compete then ali competition is unfair.
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What difference would he have made? Reagan was in power from 81 to 89. Bush from 89 to 93? His men were in power.
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@timothymorgan2150 Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines first. Nail guns replace a hammer and nails. Electric battery powered hand tools replace muscle powered hand tools. Every special skill is replaced by general labor and special tools. The price of labor is the social cost for the laborer to reproduce his labor for the next pay period. This is why the bosses want us to work the longest hours at the lowest rate and the fastest pace to get the most surplus value out of our labor when the product is exchanged in the market place. That's because modern industry with social labor, modern energy and better tools produces more in less labor time than the old ways of doing things by hand and individually or by the farm family.
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@mikeroberts8609 I read some of the English version. Have you read "Socialism on Trial"? The danger doesn't come from reading books but burning them.
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@shuheihisagi7851 Some one who needs to shout and kick like a little baby says nothing worth listening to.
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Down with the blockade!!
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@OpiumBride What they fear most is the working class taking power from them. The Chinese Communist Party is no more communist than Norway is socialists.
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Yep one law for wealthy immigrants going to Ivy League universities and another for the working class immigrants.
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@csfischer007 You can see that capitalism is merely a system of exploitation such that the countries in which it's defenders point to as the most successful in human history can no longer produce a population that replaces itself without immigration. Sowell speaks of previous spendthrift empires elites that went into decline after waging wars. Well that is what Lenin pointed at in Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. That all capitalist Empires were doing is redividing the world for exploitation by the use of war. Lenin is also the one who envisioned the world you live in today with national independence from colonial rule to end the colonial slavery to the Imperialist nations.
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Must be tough having to pay that higher price of 9 million for a years worth of sustainable aviation fuel (biodiesel for jets).. Gates is doing his part though coming up with new and innovative ways to take more for himself at the expense of others.
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The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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@frankvandorp2059 It's a simple enough question who's qualified to decide a women and her Doctor with medical training or the Grandstanding Politicians and the Church?
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@deebee4575 Exacrly!!!
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@onamattapeeya Why don't you just ask your elite friends to get you a rocket ride so you can go colonize Uranus.
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Blake Its not possible to open a mind fixated on gold and silver. It is this fixation that the capitalist use as an ideology to keep the masses of working people chained and sleeping. If you can be convinced that "It's Miller Time and You Only Go Around Once in Life." than you are much less likely to protest the chains capitalism requires that we wear everyday at the capitalist's workplace.
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@llkk9900 Plenty of retirees are trying to get by on a social security check. You want to call me a leach when people like Bezo's and Gates are swimming in dollars go right ahead and make a damn fool out of yourself. Your dumb ass regulations at DMV took my job without any concern as to how I can get another with only one good eye now. Sure why don't I just study engineering as if they are hiring freshly minted 66 year old engineers.
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So will calling Trump Dictator of America be funny also?
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@245-TRIOXIN Come up with the name of just one person who was unjustly executed by Che Guevara. Not Ten, Not Fifty, not One hundred, but just ONE!!! Segregation ended in Cuba on Jan 1st, 1959. Juan Aledia a man as Black as coal was one of the original combatants in the assault on the moncada barracks. He was one of the twelve survivors to come back on the Granma. He was also one of the original Commandates of the Rebel Army. When he passed away he was not only a Cuban general but also a member of the council of state. Now who do you have? Carlos Moore who never participated in the revolution instead spending his youth in a New York high school. Sent there for better opportunities. He shows up in 1961 leaving two years latter. Since then he has been grinding an axe for use against Fidel Castro and the revolution. NOTE Juan Almeida not Juan Aledia
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@t.s.c-guitar7058 Your not old enough to remember the secret police activities of the FBI's Cointelpro programs. The Attorney General's list of subversive organizations. The case of the Legless Veteran. Nixon's enemies list. J. Edgar Hoover's policy to prevent the rise of a Black Messiah. The Chicago Police assassination of Fred Hampton in his bed with an FBI paid spy providing the Chicago cops a layout of his home. The FBI showing up at your job making insinuations of criminal activity.
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Down with the Saudi King!!! Release the 28 pages. No to the $750 billion blackmail threat. Justice for the 9/11 victims. No to the planned Murder of the disable guy!!
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Slavic Soldier Ya and if your such a Martin Luther King why do you call yourself a soldier? What was done in Eastern Europe was never done in Cuba. Fidel Castro never had control of either Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union. The Cuban Communist Party was created after the revolution. Neither Fidel, Raul or Che were the hand picked stooges of Stalin like most of the Eastern European Communist party Leaders. Tito never got along with Stalin and sent him a message that if Stalin sent anymore assassins he send one to Moscow that wouldn't fail.
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Ludd Zarko Well what do you know? I am tired of listening to all this crap about mass murder in Cuba . How about the name instead of all these numerical claims of millions and thousands executed or murdered. How about the name of a single person unjustly executed since 1959?
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I never had a green card either but my passport says I was born in Massachusetts. One problem though is I was not legally competent at birth.
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We are under no obligation to recognize foreign under age marriage or bringing in a personal slave. Regardless of religion. We have plenty of jail cells for anyone bring in a under age person for sexual slavery via a sham marriage claim.
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@ivrishcon-abarth38 When Fidel was imprisoned he used the time to read many political books written by numerous authors. .
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They no better than to bite the hand that feeds.
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She has already rejected first the corrupt Chinese Communist (Revisionist) Party and now the US Republican Party and two party system itself by declaring herself to be a candidate of a third party.
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@lubu2960 Why? Are you afraid of a revolution against the capitalist bosses? Afraid you won't be able to claim the unpaid labor of the working class?
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@lubu2960 You want to live like General Batista and sell your country to the US Imperialist bosses and bankers.
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@nickhockey96 You don't scare me in the slightest. People like you are to cowardly to do your own dirty work anyway. You always have to hire mercenaries. It took the whole Bolivian Army to hunt down Che Guevara and then they had a drunken Sargent murder him. What did Che say? Shoot coward you are only killing a man. You can kill some of us as did Stalin and Hitler but now their dead and their movements are either dead or dying and you can not stop the march of history, the cry for justice because the revolution is coming and we are marching forward in a great straggle for justice. If we were loser you would be so afraid you would be talking of a return to the days of targeting us.
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@drzehan When the rules of war were written they were written for conventional combat with people that don't hide behind civilians and use Human shields.
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@TheJeep1967 There are more than enough houses and hotel rooms to house everyone who is homeless today in the United States. The reason for homelessness is the capitalist market system that demands a profit be made for every action that occurs. As long as the capitalist are allowed to ,make all decisions based on maximizing profits than life will only get worse for the majority of people the working class in the United States. Their own accounting books show that the system must go into decline as machines replace labor and profit rates decline. Their only response is to try and shore up profit rates by attacking us the creators of all wealth the industrial working class.
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We aren't most countries either. Which is why Trump is not a dictator.
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Lets stop paying for a big standing army.
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@351cleavland Remember Congress still had not passed the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. Cops were still out breaking heads. We called the policeman's club the best tool for radicalization. J Edgar Hoover secretly wrote that the Young Socialist Alliance was the best organized left wing organization. So we printed his secret assessment in the Young Socialist as a matter of pride. You couldn't turn on the nightly news without seeing another protest of government policy.
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@robertsimonuy9743 The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. Make no mistake young women will be seeking back alley abortions and they will needlessly die. Just like drug abuse many will come from families that "Did everything right." When you get a call from the ER that your daughter was found in a cheap motel room with blood all over the bed from a botched abortion will you still be singing that right to life tune?
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The issued medallions so profits could be made by investors and multiple cab owners. Of course to cover their tracks they pretended they were helping the drivers. Drivers use to be union and get paid a commision on rides and companies paid all the expenses. Once the union was broken the bosses changed to the lease system so they could guarantee profits at the drivers expense. Uber pays a commision per ride but everything else comes out of the drivers pocket. They don't even tell their drivers what they will pay before you sign on and then its a take it or leave it policy. In which they take and then leave you with all the costs. The put out this propaganda that they are just a ride sharing application and not a big capitalist monopoly operation sucking billions in profit and stock value.
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Free market capitalism can't exist because money and free markets go hand and hand with corruption and business secrets. So what business has decided to do is limit capitalist greed with rules and regulations. Dog eat Dog capitalism is at work here. All kinds of small to medium sized Taxi operators will be driven out and replaced with national taxi monopolies fighting for market share. Once they have been driven out prices for services will rise and service quality will drop. Profits always come first Only when working people strike and protest do things change.
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You can bet on the Human Rights in Cuba looking very good to those living in Haiti or the Dominican Republic capitalist slums. All you want is the human right to open a coca cola franchise in Cuba and be a rich capitalist boss.
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@benchi2 Sure the Bourgeois Professor is doing fine while the working class is told sacrifice is needed.
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@philalexander7902 The whole campaign by liberals began with the Phoney Russian interference claims.
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"Castro murdered most of my son-in-law's family." Who were they Batista's hated police that tortured their victims before murdering them or counterrevolutionaries acting on the orders of the United States government. It costs 20,000 lives to get rid of Batista. One of the first acts of the revolution was a to organize a literacy campaign for the peasants.
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@rainfang1992 The US became an Imperialist capitalist power with the Spanish American war taking Spain's colonies. Then along with the UK it invaded the Soviet Union to support the Czarist white forces. The Bolsheviks called for national independence for the colonial peoples as the way to free them from the colonial powers. Revolutionary nationalism works against capitalism because Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. The Imperialist powers can only redivide the world among themselves.
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The ones who can tell the biggest lies work in the advertising department.
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@elliedaniels2245 Its NOT a system created for public health but to make big pharma and medical bosses rich.
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@margareta9081 That's the flag of the Soviet Union. The first revolution that broke the Imperialist Chains of the world Market at it weakest link the Russian Imperialist Empire with the creation of Trotsky's revolutionary Red Army.
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They can't defend against a US attack either. That is what prevented nuclear war and not US superiority.
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@codo2960 Hamas occupied GAZA and was the de facto state. It was receiving UN and EU refugee aid and instead of building it chose to destroy buying missiles and arms to wage terror attacks because its goal is the anylation of the Jews. Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in Germany and one of Hitlers allies helping to raise a Muslim militia.
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@aycc-nbh7289 Bosses don't care if workers can get water to drink as it is now. Cities like Jacksom MS and Flint, Mi had drinking water crisis without a rail strike.
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@VarenvelDarakus We need to rebuild the unions and create an independent labor party based upon the unions.
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@AffiliatePro The only people who believe that are conspiracy nuts. It would be completely impossible to do either of those things with any practicality. Second no one in government or industry could keep such a secret it would leak in one way or another. Wifi in space? Well we already have satellite phones and internet. Unless you can exceed the speed of light for information travel satellite internet will always suck. The latency caused by the travel distance up and down can not be engineered out of the system. Sure let's put up about one thousand of the largest nuclear plants on earth so we can charge cell phones anywhere at anytime in the US. If you want off grid electric power than wind, PV, water or a burning fuel are better first choices not putting a thousand nuclear plants in the sky just to get a one watt per square meter power density over US territory.
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This is the natural work of industrial capitalism. Ruling classes fighting for profits and trade.
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@berational1 You think they will be staying warm when they are already preparing for oil and gas shortages in Europe not to mention fears of shortages of diesel jet fuel and heating oil in the United States. Chopping down forests and waiting in cars to buy coal in Eastern Europe and tearing out a wind farm to expand a coal mine in Germany. .
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@ReflectedMiles At the commanding heights of American capitalism everyone is trying to maximize profit yet capital itself doesn't produce the machines only cut labor time.Then you got yourselves convinced that you an American meritocracy and not class based and have the right to rule the world because of this.
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@noobsito I'm not if anything your honesty inspires me.
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@Nyoterasu Ya collaborators with US Imperialism were taking losses. Then the US help organize the coup by the fascist general Pinochet.
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@jerb5965 "Just because others did it, doesn't mean that its excusable." Maybe not but morals are always relative not fixed. Without the Cuban revolution their would be no literacy campaign, no doctors for the Cuban peasants, no education available to all, No Latin American School of medicine, and no early end of apartheid in South Africa. Without the Russian revolution would Ayn Rand have had a University Education? With out the Cuban revolution would Yoani Sanchez have had a University Education?
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Time for the coverup squad at NTSB to "investigate". The'll investigate everything except boss greed which is behind every train accident in the US. Then the'll issue a voluuntary regulation which if it costs the railroads and the extratime of a pencil check in a box they will reject. Only regulations that give the railroads another reason to fire someone are deemed excellent and implementable to the rail bosses riding in life's luxury pullman cars.
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@Srananroots It just shows how cynical and entitled they feel.
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@racheljustrachel2732 Welfare payments haven't been raised in years.
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@ashleypurdy5105 Ya it is just so convenient that it got taken down and isn't still on a pro life site.
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@ashleypurdy5105 That's great evidence a film that disappeared. Apparently ambulances were filmed leaving Planned parenthood without there lights flashing. This of course proves absolutely nothing other than an ambulance being in an alley near planned parenthood and leaving after which they turn their lights on. No one could possibly get a hold of an ambulance to make a frame job video? Nice try but the fact that it has disappeared makes my assumptions just as good as yours.
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Put your religion in the closet and join a union and stand up and fight with the strike weapon.
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Lore Sogge Today's Cuba is also a leader in the BioTech industry.
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@luperamos7307 Demonstrations and other activities will take place in more than a dozen cities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. from Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 calling for the end to Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war on Cuba. The actions lead up to the Nov. 2-3 debate and vote in the U.N. General Assembly on the resolution against “the U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba.” The assembly has approved such a motion 29 times in a row, calling on Washington to lift the sanctions. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez called the U.S. sanctions on Cuba “a constant hurricane” at an Oct. 19 press conference in Havana, where he released Cuba’s latest report on the devastating impact inflicted on the Cuban people. Rodríguez also welcomed the announcement by Washington that it would provide $2 million in emergency aid to Cuba following the damage caused by Hurricane Ian. At the same time, he noted that the standing policy of the Joseph Biden administration toward Cuba is the same as that carried out by the Republican administration of Donald Trump. This year’s report presented by Cuba points out that the U.S. economic war on Cuba “is the most comprehensive, complex and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever imposed against any country in history.” It has caused $3.8 billion of economic losses to Cuba from August 2021 to February 2022 alone, Rodríguez said. The U.S. rulers have never forgiven Cuba’s workers and farmers for overthrowing the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, opening the road to the first socialist revolution in the Americas. So far there are marches and rallies planned for New York; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; Jacksonville, Florida; Laurel, Maryland; Milwaukee; Miami; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and Vancouver, British Columbia. There will also be public meetings in Montreal, London, and Manchester, England.
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shevashevasheva777 Actually he said, "If he is a Marxist I am not."
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This is the way a capitalist government works they only care about INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL property. Farmers, workers and even middle class homeowners come last. Its all about the money for them and their corrupt two party politicians. When they talk private property they mean THEIR PROPERTY not your personal property, your home or farmland. They will promise a job today and fire a whole factories workers tomorrow. Their promises aren't worth the paper they print them on.
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@arbitraryimagines As you can see I have my hammer and sickle flag. If I tell you I fly it for the heritage of the early Soviet Union when Lenin and Trotsky were clearly the leaders and not Stalin what would you say?
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@jennifs6868 It was founded by people who wanted to keep religious differences and opinions out of government affairs. Thomas Paine not only wrote "Common Sense" but the "Age of Reason" where he argues against organized relligion. They wanted to be able to say what they wanted to without being punished for blasphemy. Originally the Constitutions Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government not the states. After the civil war the doctrine of incorporation meant that the protections of the Bill of rights also were incumbent on the states limiting powers of the states also. A minority of the signers of the Decaration of Independence and Constition are beleved to be free masons.
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@andrewtucker94 Cuba.
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The problem for capitalist development is the tendency for profit rates to decline. With capitalism production is determined by a ruling class seeking to profit. So with the tendency of long term profit rates to decline the system is self undermining. It is a world system because of the need for world trade. The ability to wage war and nuclear war by capitalist nations injects further chaos into it.
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Basically the reason this guy goes after Orwell is because he told the truth about the Stalinist betrayal of the Spanish revolution "Homage to Catalonia". Stalin of course also entered into a non aggression pact with Hitler. Seems that Hakim forgets about that.
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The unions only account for 10% of all government jobs. Second my bet is Stossel often takes, his car, cabs, uber and black limousines to work. Its mostly working people who take public transit to work and back.
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@carstenschroder7054 The NAZI's mass support came from the non Jewish small business and professional classes. The also got support from the big capitalists because of their physical attacks waged upon the Social Democrats and Communist workers strikes and trade unions. The bosses were afraid of a socialist revolution like the Russian Bolshevik revolution in Germany.
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@phillylove7290 This has brought the Yemen war to the attention of the war it would not have had because of this heinous act.
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@NoToBigBro Trump and Pompeo will be sleeping in war beds while a half a million people have nothing but a tent or tarp to live under in the GREAT COUNTRY.
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@FreddieVee The Soviet Union was the second attempt at a workers state after the Paris Commune. It had a record of both success and failure. Lenin, the Bolsheviks and Russian working class more than any other social force outside of the colonial people themselves like Fidel Castro are responsible for the national independence of the world's peoples.
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@alfredosenalle9284 No the Standard living on Puerto Rico of its not same as the rest of the US. Some in the US live at the top with everything that money can buy and some have nothing but the clothes on their backs. The vote on was overwhelmingly boycotted since it required that the voters agree to Puerto Rico's colonial status and Independence was not an option. Unlike you and your friends at the US Embassy we are NOT waging a campaign of lies in defense of US Imperialism.
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@alfredosenalle9284 So now you as worker you must have better schooling then me since you write in a foreign language. This is true they invest and we build the machines. A division of labor takes place and you have today a world economy. The best the workers can hope for is that the capitalist invest in expanding production but remember they are driven by greed so they only invest if they can make a profit. They set the whole world system in motion but it gets out of their control and they start doing things that make sense in terms of profit but not in terms of production. They judge in terms of profit and they keep printing dollars and demanding more back than what they pay out. That is the origin of modern war and economic crisis. They workers can not buy back all that we produce. They also have us occupied building all kinds of weapons for wars. So all that is wasted. They spent $2.3 triilion dollars destroying the country of Afghanistan. When a company builds military vehicles it has a guaranteed market (the government) and sales so the risk is minimal and the profit is all but guaranteed and then they plead to sell them to allies instead of just the USA. There is nothing magic about economics the businesses where you can do the most to keep cutting labor time make the biggest profits because the selling price can stay about the same while the production cost keep dropping. That's why so many fortunes were made in computers while public transportation requires subsidies.
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@easyenetwork2023 It comes up in title 9 and questions involving privacy. Can a man claim to be a women and then just invade women's privacy? Biden said he was appointing a Black women not person. So it comes up in questions involving equal rights, affirmative action and equal opportunities.
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@giovincomaz2175 Adopting Stalinism and adopting revolutionary Marxist Leninism are two different ideologies. If its ideologies you want to debate than you need to start with the 1928 The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky.
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Has he put himself on the list?
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Another product of the two party capitalist boss system of exploitation for the American bosses who have blood in their mouths.
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@maleitch A better question is what happens to every capitalist society ultimately? It goes into a self induced profit crisis that it can't escape. Million thrown out of their jobs and sharp decline in production. How do the capitalist "fix" their problem? By world war. If you can't totally defeat them in the market place than you move onto the military battle field. Each side straining to cranking out more war ships, bombs, and airplanes ever faster from factories formally idled by the profit crisis.
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@WaluigiMangione Support the Rail workers. No Congressional Strikebreaking!!!
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@patdeen6648 That's just the natural workings of capitalism. In order to keep up profits they must continually cut labor costs. However the world is finite in size and the workers can not buy back all that we produce which leads to continual economic crisis. Capitalism is the first system to suffer from crisis of over and not under production. The capitalist close plants if the can't make a profit or can make bigger profits elsewhere.
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@TheOfficialKayy No both prisons mentioned are state prisons.
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@YourXellency One of the greatest of liberal Democratic Party lie tellers of all time.
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@cassconner6023 LOL
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@t1n4444 If it was such vital information how was it missing for 18 months and why did the FBI sit on the warrant over the weekend?
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@cubanita365 Always a pacifist sitting in the middle and condemning those who fight for liberty as the same as those fighting to maintain tyranny.
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@curtisrigs5627 Mark Twain founded the Anti Imperialist League after the Spanish American war the first American Imperialist war. The English economist Hobbs was the first to describe capitalist investment Imperialism. Lenin wrote "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism". The US Major General Smedley Butler wrote war is a racket. He described himself as a high paid muscle man for the bankers. The dollar goes for the greater return on investment. The flag follows the dollar and the soldier follows the flag.
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No ceasefire on Hamas!
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@tuberific454 Petersen understands zilch about politics or economics. Lenin was the first to see and break with the opportunism of the Social Democracy on the question of World War one. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism. That is something that Lenin wrote a pamphlet on and can not be argued with. You are either for Imperialist war or against it along with violence within the workers movement that comes from capitalism.
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@adolisfernandez1321 We've raised and sent solidarity aid to Cuba and protested the blockade. I don't have a magic wand I can wave to make things all better.
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@Philo Jones Bosses pay just enough to get you to come to work the next day.
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US policy began by Mr. Human Rights Jimmy Carter after losing the Vietnam war and wanting to put a fresh face on US Imperialism accused "Castro" of holding Political prisoners. The Cuban government affirming that the building of Socialism was voluntary opened the Port of Mariel to allow anyone including prisoners to leave. Mr. Human Rights put them in his Atlanta Penitentiary. Those new political prisoners rioted took over the Penitentiary demanding hearings that would allow them to stay. The US ended the boat lift and wrote new laws prohibiting Cubans that were found in the open sea from entering the US and instead returned them to Cuba. However if you could avoid the US Coast Guard and make it to dry land all you need to do is claim you were a political refugee to receive a Green card.
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She had no right to enforce immigration laws either. That is clearly a constitutional responsibility of the federal government not people pretending to be immigration officers. She and her gang cold bloody murdered a child of 9 years old who begged for her life. Only a disgusting racist can go beyond providing her a legal council for trial.
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@abracaroguearcane1484 No that's just more invented nonsense aimed to divide the leaders of the Cuban revolution. Fidel a law graduate of The University of Havana first brought a legal case against Batista then the 26th of July 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks. Fidel along with others was captured. At his trial he gave his famous defense as "Convicted Me It Does Not Matter History Will Absolve Me". Released from prison after an amnesty campaign he with other revolutionaries left for Mexico. There he meet Che an Argentine doctor who had left Guatemala after the 1953 US organized Military coup Che was to be the guerrilla's Doctor. There was never any question that Fidel was the leader of the Cuban revolution. Che is the embodiment of the Cuban Revolutions Internationalism. This is why Cuban children pledge to be like Che.
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@chairde When ever a rich oligarchy loses power it's a case for many tears. All you did is stop buying oil? That's always the claim isn't it. You fire a whole shift and then claim you had to do it. The workers are told "you are on your own" and you have no responsibility. That is the very essence the capitalist ruling class responsibility. They never risk anything but a bag of gold. We however are irresponsible because profits stopped flowing. You idiots don't deserve to rule.
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@cherylfowler5983 You have the right to ignore doctors because medicine is considered voluntary but not the cops who will be required to enforce anti abortion laws.
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@cherylfowler5983 I don't vote for the politicians of the corrupt Democratic and Republican parties. Those are your politicians not mine. Legal and safe abortion allows a women to plan her life. Roe v. Wade was decided by a majority Republican court. Only one Democrat and one Republican descended from the 7-2 decision.
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The suffering of working people is all around us the homeless, those who are imprisoned, those who have no medical care. Just open your eyes and you can see that the suffering has been increasing and what are the capitalist and the politicians doing but siting on their hands while things crumble around us. The capitalist are building nothing they are just feeding themselves more federal reserve notes.
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@bockscar1 He tells conservatives what they want to hear.
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He can be tried on a state basis and will NOT be pardonable by Trump. He should rot in one of his own punishment cells.
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@lavpreet5916 Of course it's not a "free market" no boss wants to give up his business to a new competitor and the corruption of a Democratic Republic by a small group of very wealthy citizens is the inevitable result. Capitalism is racked by economic crisis caused by the very way it works each industry and sector of the economy affect each other. Everyone is competing to make the biggest profit rates. Which translates into the highest level of exploitation. If roads aren't built cars can't be sold. Ford wanted to build cars but you need roads to drive them on so he wanted the government to build them. You need oil to fuel cars and railroads to move massive amounts of freight. When the ruling capitalist decide they need something big they head straight to the government. They had built a few toll roads as the first interstate highways. This was the cold war as so if it was a matter of national defense almost anything could pass Congress despite the cost. So Eisenhower pushed though the National Defense and Interstate highway act. Same with the Federal Reserve bank. A national bank had been a project of Hamilton. But the first and second national banks had been shut down. Now an economic crisis had hit and financier Morgan i believe had to bail the rest of them out. So they pushed through the federal reserve act as a way to save the private banking industry. They have to constantly bail themselves out of crisis every ten or so years or go to war to destroy their world market competition. It was true in Europe when England and Germany were the leading capitalist nations. The destroyed themselves in two world wars. Out of which the victors of the second Imperialist War the US France UK and Soviet Union set up the current world system of global trade and production originally excluding China and the the Soviet Bloc countries except at the UN but China didn't even get a seat at the UN until the end of the Vietnam war. The very thing that drives the profits in the direction of capital is new technology that saves labor time and ends up making more production possible also ends up flooding markets that can't buy back what can be produced. Over time the rate of profits for giant industries go into decline because the value of the capitol keeps rising while living labor the source of profits goes down. Milton Friedman advised them that they have no social responsibility. So this is the world you get where they ride roughshod over everyone else in a scramble for bigger profits from the latest idea no matter how foolish. If the capitalist invest in driving up fictitious capital value it inevitable collapses. You can explain to me how the whole thing isn't a rigged game when you are a billionaire who has politicians of both parties in their pockets and can go for a bailout because he's too big to fail. Unless your one of the in crowd from an elite University your getting nowhere fast in the big businessman's circles.
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@alephii That's the company line that the union is a form of communism as in Stalinism and you need freedom to make your wage contract with the bosses alone. A union movement that can lead successful fight backs will be both democratic and have no problem with recruitment. With capitalism you're the slave of the capitalists power to set your wage and conditions. Union dues were collected voluntarily up until the beginning of WW2. You paid your dues and wore your monthly union button on your shirts lapel. There were no probation periods and scabs and freeloaders quickly learned the facts of life. No one was ever forced to attend a union meeting what your referring to is the so called right not to pay dues made into law by the anti labor Taft Hartley Act whose purpose was to halt further unionization after the war. The law allowed states to decide if a union contracts could include dues checkoff it was directly written for the Southern states where segregation was an obstacle to unionization. It also required union officers from the shop steward on up to sign loyalty oaths or lose all union bargaining rights and created the decertification process.
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@Erosgates The author has a point in certain ways. The ideas involved are picked up and defended by a new class just as the initial ideas of Christianity were adopted by the Roman Empire to replace the older ideas of seperate Gods into mostly one god in different forms. The peasants were indoctrinated every week with the ideas that their rewards would come after life. As the new class of traders and merchants rose so too did the Protestant reformation. Calvinism in Switzerland, Anglicanism in England and Lutheranism in Germany. They would all emphasize the Protestant work ethic. The protestant Church became the meeting place for the new middle class who chose its preacher and would discuss issues and the meaning of the bible after the sermon. The workers create trade unions and this is where they can discuss their problems independently and freely. The initial ideas of communism came out of the old society and its thinkers only to spread among the industrial workers. Just as the initial ideas for capitalism originated in the old feudal society.
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@andrewwilkey6195 What's the advantage of a few greedy capitalist investors doing things based in making themselves fatter? We have that in the US and the only result is a fatter upper class. Real wages stopped following productivity since 1973. Why would Cuba want to become another colony like Puerto Rico?
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@catsanddogs5728 The largest cache of the world's gold still sits in vaults at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
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Originally the old ruling capitalist classes and monarchies of Europe had destroyed themselves in world war. Now that Russian and China have dropped Socialism the same kind of Imperialist war mentality has returned. Different countries lining up in trade and military alliances fighting for profits and natural resources. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism.
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@jillscott4029 In Cuba they're build a society based upon human solidarity. In the US even a billionaire can be president.
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There will be a revolution in the US before their is a counter revolution in Cuba. That is no idle boast. We are already preparing for a revolution in the US.
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Does Hamas allow freedom of speech?
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@paksta Something is obviously wrong with countries where women do not have enough children to replace the current population. South Korea, Japan and even China have this problem now. The United States and Western Europe would also have the problem were it not for immigration. Like I said it's due to a world wide decline in capitalist world trade and production. The bosses no longer want to pay the cost of reproduction of the working class. Social Democracy is failing because capitalism can no longer afford to buy off a few workers in the Imperialist nations with privileges. You don't seem to understand that it's not about having smaller families but no families at all. Every women needs to reproduce 2+ children on average for the population to remain stable. The fertility rate for women in the advanced capitalist countries has dropped below 2 children on average.
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@Nicholas-ze5vv You not obligated to pay taxes anymore than they are. Nor will the average weekly wage drop below the cost to reproduce their labor. Your finding out that you just don't have the skill and will to compete that they do. The difference is belonging to a union and contractors seeking to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hours and at the fastest pace.
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@musicaquecalma4134 The lies come from Washington and Radio Marti. Cuba is under a cruel blockade imposed by Washington and opposed by almost every other country in the world.
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This whole Russian interference thing smacks of the old cold war methods of Joe McCarthy. Fourteen secret police agencies say it is true! So if the cops agree than it must be true. LOL.
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I'd love to see you lose everything in the stock market and end up like any other "bum" on the street. You'd probably jump out the window or be crying about how you need a loan or bailout.
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Capitalism working the way it always has.
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@wubinfan603 The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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@thomaswebber259 Need to demand that truth be taufgt and not sugar coated need to allow academic freedom. Allow debate and discussion of ideas No censorship no police attacks on children.
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Stossel tells the story of the poor boss being driven into the poor house by taxes and the unions while laughing all the way to the bank. The man is nothing but highly paid stooge for capitalism.
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The fourth amendment protects you from cops entering your property without a warrant.
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So as if the rightist don't do the same thing. Demanding a right to life for fetuses and calling people illegals. Three strike laws. As if crime can be stopped by baseball referees handing out life sentences for a felon conviction and two misdemeanor shoplifting. Or cases where a Judge gives out a two hundred years in prison plus 4 life sentences.
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@nw42 The system can't avoid creating economic crisis and marching towards world war. Last time it was in this big of a world crisis only world war and massive destruction was able get to restart primitive accumulation with American Imperialism leading the pack of capitalist exploiters. The global order imposed by the victors of World war two is shattering with the decline of American Imperialism and the rise of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. Much like the pre World War One Era. Where the British Empire faced the rise of Germany with its Capitalist Social Democracy.
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@flipgunderson1946 Highly unlikely I may not see the final defeat of US capitalism but I'm convinced of its final defeat. I have way to much education to believe that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs are indispensable. Sure you are easily confused and impressed by shinny objects but I'm not. The supposed need for 800:1 incentives is completely ridiculous and the wisdom of spending value on a trip to Mars is an idiotic waste of resources. Along with Trumps Space Force.
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@JL-wf2wp Where are all the children begging for food in Cuba on Youtube videos? Where's the heavily armed police and military presence on every street corner like in real US sponsored dictatorships. New York City 50,000 Cops alone. A larger Cuba only 6,000 active duty military. Will the real dictator please stand up?
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We're talking bakeries not going to work near coke ovens. Different subject.
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@lazaroa7288 You're full of crap. No one was executed unjustly in Cuba because if that was true everyone would know their name. For the cops and their superior officers to say we were just following orders when they fired on unarmed protestors is unacceptable. Batista's thugs murdered with impunity, cut out eyeballs and left bodies on lamp posts. Is Comandante Victor Dreke Black enough for you? He was second in command to Che in the Congo. Nelson Mandela came first to Cuba to personally thank Fidel and the Cuban people for defeating Apartheid South African troops at Cuito Cuanavale in Angola.
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@Team Ai No matter what happens Fidel Castro will go down in history as the first Latin American leader to stand up to the most powerful capitalist Empire in history and get away with it. The Cuban workers and farmers have shown the whole world that not only is revolution necessary but possible. The US Empire with all its soldiers and foreign bases has only become weaker since 1959. It flails about like a dying monster lashing out in its death throws.
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@Team Ai Now that your operating under the completed AI algorithms necessary for complete control its time for lift off at Space X Boca Chica beech in Texas for Mars. By the way have you finished replacing the lead pipes in Flint Michigan and wherever else they are still in operation. The water was not good enough for GM but OK'd for Human consumption. Since dead workers don't cost GM anything while corroded engine parts can't be used and sold for a profit.
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@beckyroque8950 Puerto Rico remains a colony of the United States. Some want Statehood, Some Independence and some the Status Quo. If there was no successful Cuban revolution and people trying to repeat its success in Latin America and elsewhere would the US have the same incentive to aid development in Latin America. Puerto Rico is in and out of crisis as can be seen in the Protests over issues like education and electric rates and service. The rest of Latin America has seen US engineered Military Dictatorships along with some refusing to follow the US Imperialist line on Cuba and other issues.
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The working class in the United States has always had an immigrant component. You can not organize unions and leave out immigrant workers.
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We have no intention of asking the immigration police or local police who we can and can not organize. The communist movement is internationalist. We don't ask where you were born or what county issued your passport. It is totally immaterial, in fact it is counterproductive, to the goal of organizing a revolution within the United States which will create a government of workers and farmers to replace the current capitalist government.
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Ideas in themselves kill no one. It's humanities use of ideas and the class conflict that entails are the reason why people die in wars and revolutions.
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@blazednlovinit Such a question is immaterial. First there is no such thing as a "communist country' outside of the minds of the anti communists and some in the Stalinist movement like the now deceased Nikita Khrushchev. The peak of prestige and power for the Stalinists can be defined as some time during WW2 when the Democratic Imperialists Churchill and FDR needed him for the defeat of the Axis powers. When Stalin sat for pictures with Churchill and FDR it must have bothered the old anti communist Churchill no end since he lead the British Empire's call to "Strangle Bolshevism in its Cradle." German surrendered on May 7, 1945. On May 5, 1946 Churchill marked the beginning of the cold war with his speech famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri with President Harry Truman at his side. The American Stalinist who had been such loyal lapdogs breaking strikes for the good of the Soviet Union, touting the End of the Class Struggle looking forward to shaking the American monopolist hands now found themselves being routed into 5 year stretches at the US Penitentiary. The anti labor witch hunt had begun.
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How difficult is it to understand that The Great Purge of 1935 was lead by Stalin and those who wanted an end to the revolutionary course charted by Lenin and Trotsky. How many old bolsheviks were executed after frame up charges of being agents of Hitler? If one is to believe the Soviet government of Stalin than Lenin surrounded himself with fascists who organized a revolution. Then to say we are to ignorant to understand a disciple of Stalin? A revolutionary party where all discussion is shut down with firing squads and replaced with patronage, legal and illegal corruption is nothing more than a protective shell to save cowards on a counter revolutionary course back to capitalism.
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Because of better health the age of puberty has been declining. Just because the female body is menstruating and ovulating doesn't mean you are physically or emotionally ready for childbirth. The body is not fully grown until you reach age 18 by which time puberty has ended. Once a woman stops ovulating (menopause not the end of puberty) she can no longer have children without implanted embryos. The mass migration of poor peasants in China to the industrial cities means that for the first time in human history more people live in cities than on farms in the countryside. There is no need for the birth of as many children as possible to sustain the human race because of medecene and modern agriculture. City dwellers are more likely to have fewer children because they are wage workers not poor farmers who need children to help with the work.
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Universal law? I don't think so. At the beginning of capitalism child labor was universal and legal. Today it is universally despised. It was forced to an end in the United States by the labor movement and while it still continues in many undeveloped countries it days there are numbered.
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Melt it down for scrap metal.
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The risks of teenage pregnancy. http://www.factsforlifeglobal.org/01/1.html
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@ar6985 If only things were as simple as a historian like yourself claims. If Stalinism was the continuation of Leninism why would Stalin need to frame up and murder the old bolsheviks and charge his opposition with Trotskyism. NAZI Germany was a capitalist country it sent thousands to be executed in a final solution to the Jewish question. Stalin's fear was internal opposition not capitalism. What kind of choice do the young have when the Imperialist sound the bells for war? A choice to become cannon fodder for capitalist profits? Read a book? Well I suggest Trotsky since he was Stalin's biggest fear, his most voracious critic and assinanated by the NKVD in Mexico City in 1940.
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@pegamini Ya well your going to see rifts open this winter if not sooner when energy isn't available due to war in Ukraine.
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@alexs3187 Child labor should not be necessary to keep a family in a home with food. Plus working with machinery outside of a school setting should remain be forbidden. No need for children to be risking their hands, feet and life by working with machinery so some money bags can make a pile of money off of cheap labor.
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@alexs3187 I'd be more than happy to kick the ass of someone who dares to throw the first punch.
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Says the guy at the very head of the government.
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@durfdurffigan8680 He writings and published speeches still speak to working people even today. .
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@thomas9961 This is Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism.
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@reneebowen7745 Mmm. I'm thinking a good ole pig roast.
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@lubu2960 A revolution is made by the majority so the sellouts to the Imperialist like you end up without a choice. The American capitalist system is failing in the United States itself leaving the working class but no choice but to fight back against them. Naturally the bosses like Bill Gates and others hate communism it will cost them all the property rights and bourgeois privileges. They wave the Stalin flag now but the Democratic Imperialist loved Stalin when he was doing all the fighting for them against Imperialist Germany.
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Can you name at least one person who was un justley murdered by the Cuban gov't? Someone who wasn't a Batista murdering police or military official or a pirate or a terrorist or big drug runner?
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@sunfishdana Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. You and Goldwater can spin that anyway you want be he voted against it.
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@sunfishdana That's much to simplistic a slogan. Which is why everyone agrees on it. I'd rather deal with the Post Office anyday over the State DMV.
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Munna Bhai Capitalism only knows how to buy and sell it the working class that is both the really revolutionary and productive class that can lead us out of this hell hole of capitalism.
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@darielrodriguez6984 Do you see any police or military attacking unarmed people?
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@yourlocaldolphin The low point of labor resistance is behind us now. Class struggle is on the rise and so will class struggle politics.
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The problem is simple Africa is dominated by the Imperialist nations and their industrial companies. Profits are syphoned off to the Imperialist companies and big banks.
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@hummingbirdfeeder4979 No we need to act in solidarity with other workers in other countries otherwise the bosses will use division against us. All they care about is keeping up profit rates not making more for lower costs. They use control of an unlimited printing of money to keep us poor and make themselves rich by raising prives while holding down wages. When you can add money by printing it the value of property rises faster than wages. Because they keep borrowing and never pay it back because they print bonds one day money the next so they buy the bonds than they borrow back the money the just lent. they system works so they can keep adding money. So all new productivity goes to the bosses.
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J J He's on his way to being the next Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk nothing can stop him now!!!
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 @sdrc92126 Small capitalist production combines into larger firms who then control the whole economy.
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@abeldemota1851 US acted with disdain for the new Cuban government from the very beginning. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary
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@alfredosenalle9284 What's it like being a shortsighted apologist for Imperialism. Are you going to blow up a balloon for Marco Rubio's free Cuban internet?
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@atfrock Cuba is free from the direct rules of the Imperialist investor class of North America. The Cuba Revolution is only the prelude to the coming socialist revolution in North America. The only way for labor to be free is to abolish private property the property used to exploit others. Capital produces nothing it only demands a return on investment. For if capital could produce than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. With capitalism education and healthcare are just overhead expenses.
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@gg_rider Roosevelt started the second Red Scare witch hunt in 1940 against the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party with the first Smith "gag" Act trial. Under orders from Moscow the Stalinist Communist Party joined in supporting FDR during the war becoming the best strike breakers Stalinist ideology could create. Once their German and Japanese Imperialist competition was defeated the US/UK turned on Stalin in the cold war preparing for an Imperialist holy war against communism. The failed objective of the Korean war left the Imperialist world divided on how best to deal with Soviet Union, China and the rest of the workers states.
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@pkbrownsfan9049 Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter voted to keep Pol Pot in his UN Seat at the UN.
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It makes no difference which party you vote for when both are controlled by the rich capitalist. They say may the best person win because I've got both in my pocket. .
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In fact it's so private that the Federal Railway Administration should be called the Railway Federal Administration.
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@steveroy6334 He was talking about when he was a baby before they stuck a spoon in his mouth.
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What you telling me is I should read US propaganda novels. The greatest military leaders of the 20th Century were Leon Trotsky and Fidel Castro. They were able to do the most with the least.
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@lu544 The NATO Imperialist Alliance should be dissolved.
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@GinEric84 Executing war criminals like Batista's police is a service to humanity. Would you want a man who removes eyeballs and uses field telephones on the genitals living next door? Oh I forgot John Burge head of Chicago Police "Midnight Crew" l lived next door to you. Silly me Burge escaped with the statute of limitations while his victims are still awaiting retrial.
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@GinEric84 Twenty thousand died to get rid of Batista. Where's your concern for them? I suppose they should have exported these murder/torturers to Miami where the could have been used for the Giron invasion? The victory of the revolution required justice. If they had no trials and executions street justice would have ensued and the US would have said they needed to invade to restore order. Did Che get the nicety of one of your Bourgois trials in Bolivia? In fact he got no trial what so ever and the order was to make it look like he was killed in battle. Why? Because you could not afford even a ten minute trial where the defendant could speak. Che was suppose to die and disappear for all time. You have murder trials and executions of common criminals. The state gets unlimited resources. The criminal gets a drunken real estate lawyer. Yet when US Troops engage in massacres the criminals are set free. Releasing the 'Collateral Murder" video had Congressman calling for the death penalty for Brian Manning. Where those in the video ever punished? Lt Calley orders the murder of a whole village yet he gets a Presidential pardon. The Brass accidentally reports a massacre with Operation Speedy Express before realizing the lack of captured weapons comes nowhere near the number killed. You should fix your own mess in the Greatest Country in the World before talking about other countries.
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So the number of bosses riding around in Rolls Royces made by BMW determines how good some places are doing. The Rolls was a British brand within a former British colony. Patriotic American Bosses don't buy British they ride around in a Cadillacs, Lincoln's or drive Chevy Corvettes. Hong Kong bosses have to buy from PRC or Foreign brands. The don't even assemble a vehicle in Hong Kong nevermind designing one.
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You can be damn sure that Hong Kong bosses own everything just like the Bosses in the US do. They steal their way to the top like all Billionaires just as you hope to do.
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@firstkay Change will happen as the working class begins to struggle against capitalism. The long retreat by labor is over as strikes and protest actions against the bosses increase.
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@jagmannenarbrand8373 The US needs to end its blockade.
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@barbaraa.6190 Let's consider amending the constitution so the loser of the electoral college wins.
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Nutcase from Miami on the loose.
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Why don't you surrender for protective custody by the cops?
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@AL-lh2ht McNamara was the one who predicted victory in Vietnam based in kill ratios and body counts.
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Monopoly is the natural result of capitalist competition. If you are running a business that can't make a profit because the minimum wage than you deserve to go into bankruptcy. That is one of the laws of capitalism. If you open a business selling Ice Cream in Alaska you should know your market.
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@joemacias2360 Wasting a vote on Trump then.
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@surfboy344 No you have laws that specifically target foreign companies that prohibit trade then your office of foreign asset control issues fines and it becomes cheaper to not trade with Cuba than to trade and get into legal trouble, spend money on lawyers and lose in court. We are talking about big foreign companies like Siemens. People trying to send medicine from the US have their packages returned because of the blockade.. So don't talk about exemptions and making required payments when packages accepted marked as medicine are then returned marked undeliverable.
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The coal companies and wall street decided a long time ago to locate other industries unnecessary to the coal industry elsewhere to keep the miners wages down. If you could work elsewhere than the companies would have to run better paying, cleaner and safer operations. Safety costs money but the company can always hire another miner.
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@r32guy10 Big deal. How many kids have you adopted?
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@kevindorland738 The guards stand on the US side of the fence at the US Guantanamo Naval, Prison and Torture base. End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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They don't teach anything about it in schools because to do so would bring up the question of the origin of the profit.
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@Fat12219 Amnesty for immigrant workers
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That would make too much sense and not create the division necessary to make elections great again.
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@ashb2483 Markism in school. The ability of teachers to give you a mark on your report card. By getting rid of Markism no one will get anymore bad marks on report cards.
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It's become a case of public accommodations law. It's much like Lester Maddox refusing service to Black people in his restaurant. Each side obviously has more than just them paying for the lawyers. The court usually rules in a narrow manner against opening the floodgates of more litigation.
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@AldrichCarrasco The US Army has been engaged in gun control for years now. They get real practice when they go to war in foreign countries like Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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What the should have is a Rockefeller Tax in West Virginia as in taxing the old Democratic US Senator Jay Rockefeller.
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@wrathchild7218 Fidel Castro never had a problem finding enough people who wanted to become educated and teachers nor has Cuba become some kind of Stalinist hell hole. There is no need to pay the sums of a modern prince to a physician or engineer. One of the first things the revolution in Cuba did was to teach the peasants to read so they could not be easily fooled. As Marx suggested you use education to drive against labor privilege.
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That's like asking a pack of dogs to eat one of their own.
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@jay-by1se Capitalist move from high wage areas to low wage areas for bigger profits.
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@eddiemunster4094 Except the people who were executed were guilty of the serious crimes as charged. No one in the bourgeois media can name a single innocent person executed in Cuba. The "Cuba Quilt of Genocide" had to be withdrawn after it was discovered it had the names of living and people who died of natural cause. This doesn't stop people like Averez from telling lies though since her dad is Cuban and she most likely carries a personal grudge. The US CIA is responsible for acts of terror carried out in Cuba and the Batista dictatorship. Since I'm neither CIA terrorist or a murderous policeman of US dictatorship I would NOT have been executed in Cuba.
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@ianjharris Somebody may very well say that and you might even get Republican Socialists.
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open up Congress the need another inserection.
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@connieheitz8982 Lets stop socialism at the source and charge our kids to eat supper. Don't let your kids invite friends for a free supper. Stop Halloween candy giveaways.
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That is religious and political indoctrination. You have 9 other hours to send your children for prayer or political indoctrination.
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This is why police need to be fired.
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@TWE_2000 Those policies you talk about were those where officials and the bureaucracy gave themselves more and more incentives. The unrestricted use of incentives leads back to capitalism not socialism. The destructive capitalist policies laser focused on on trying to shore up the declining rate of industrial profit demanded by the US ruling class is what will eventually lead to their downfall. Those who believe man is just a little animal who needs a carrot in front of his head and the occasional sting of the lash will never be socialists. .Not only did the Cuban workers and farmers though off a hated US Military Stooge General Batista who got rich on the drug, gambling and prostitution business they instituted a land reform and workers control of industry. Not only did the defeat a murderous US tyrant they have defeated every attempt by the world's most powerful Empire to reimpose capitalist rule. The have played an internationalist role nor seen since the early years of the Russian revolution offering a helping hand to any people who want to fight for justice and real human rights over more profits for the big US companies.
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@TWE_2000 "I don't have to worry about the secret police arresting me if I publicly criticize the government." No? How about Fred Hampton who was executed in his bed by the Chicago Cops with the help of the FBI or maybe you can explain the findings of the Committee to investigate the FBI. We sued the Attorney General in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General and won a 1/4 million dollar judgement and a permanent injunction on FBI spying. You need not worry because the FBI works for you, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Bosses can't just raise prices without affecting total sales and therefore total profits from which the calculate the rate of profit by which all bosses judge success. When workers get increased wages it shifts production to more things workers need and cuts in on total profits. In other words it forces bosses to slow investment in schemes to drive up the value of fictitious capital like stock buybacks. Profits are really unpaid wages.
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@opulentpieyoga9079 One problem is no birth control method is perfect. If a person is so irresponsible as you seem to think in getting pregnant than do you give them a responsibility they don't want? It is easy to say there should be a law but when it comes to writing and enforcing one it is not always that easy. If a Doctor turns away someone who wants an abortion and they then decide to go buy the pill for ulcers from a veterinarian to self abort would that make sense? They could end up hemorrhaging and dying of blood loss. We had laws against abortions before and they became hypocritical like the alcohol and marijuana prohibitions. The ulcer pill wasn't available 50 years ago. Today the ulcer pill is recommended for use in third world abortions by WHO.
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@BonnChnd No one wanted to go and no one wanted to stay home either. You had to live through it to get any understanding of something so stupid.
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@Harthorn Yes it was wrong to sanction Japan since sanctions only hurt the ordinary people.
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@mattdrummond9087 You don't need to "save trillions of dollars". New York is filled with Empty office buildings and they are talking about another crisis of 2008 because they raised interest rates and can't cheaply refinance empty buildings. They including Trump are talking about going German Japanese with negative interest rates. .
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@docilenation101 Capitalist set taxes and government expenditures without any control from the working class. The bosses collect the taxes from our paycheck and at the grocery store. It costs to pay for people initially entering yes but once at work they produce more than they consume. Anytime you have more workers than jobs that put pressure on wages. But the only way to push wages up is with union working class action it will not go up because workers are deported. All that does is increase insecurity and play into the hands of the boss class. Wages are set by what is necessary to keep you coming back to work for the next pay period. If you don't want other workers coming here than we need a workers labor party with a foreign policy not a wall. What you need is a brain update. Why do you just go make sure you gated community is secure and no one is sleeping in the guard shack. What you want is a safe space.
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@KirillFrolov77 Workers control of industry though the trade unions and a labor party to control the government and set a workers foreign policy..
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Foxconn is known for treating their workers such that some actually committed suicide by jumping off buildings. They have had successful strikes by Chinese workers outside of the official Communist Party unions which have won better conditions and pay. Many are young workers who come from the countryside and live in dormitories.
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@charlesdean03 There are aspects of the capitalist economy that maybe essential to the system but don't directly create a profit. The Military is the biggest outlay that requires that its costs to be paid by federal income tax. For companies like GE and Amazon taxes are basically voluntary. When you can buy politicians to write the laws why wouldn't you not want to have yourself made tax exempt. The capitalist recognize the need for a military to defend foreign investment and they know that they have to be a source for that cost. Extending that cost directly onto the backs of working people was first done by FDR with the cost of WW2.
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@chaboi7 Its better to have them out in the open with their flags then sitting in a basement brewing up another bomb.
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"Renewable energy" still requires the use of non renewable methods to capture and distribute. That wind generator uses iron, copper and aluminum. You need lots of electricity to make aluminum and copper out of ore. If I can take the CO2 generated by coal, gas or oil, feed it to a green plant GMO, than we can take advantage of the carbon cycle and make it just as reliable as other sunlight based renewables. Thorium molten salt nuclear reactors are the most promising new energy source technology. A number of countries and companies are working on the technology. Does that satisfy you Mr J***A**? The original post said nothing about renewability. All quote "renewable sources" (wind, solar and hydro) are based on sunlight either directly or indirectly.
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"Unions are beneficial only to politicians and those robbing the system. " Gee isn't terrible that workers at GM. GE. Ford. AT&T and Verizon are 'robbing the system'. We should all work for less than minimum wage just so Stossel can wear fine clothes and bosses can get dressed in coats and ties to prove they are not those terrible and dirty industrial workers who have no respect for the management assholes.
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@swojnowski453 The splitting up of the different and profit hungry squabbling groups of capitalist is to be expected as each seek more foreign market share.
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@lissyniña The US can not forgive or forget that the Cuba revolution overthrow a US backed Dictatorship and took the socialist road.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Overall Puerto Ricans are leaving Puerto Rico because the profit system neglects the islands development. They must pay to come here and once here they must find work and a place to live. Many came as migrant laborers in agriculture doing the lowest paid and the hardest labor since the contractors often paid there transportation up front. The Puerto Rican vote was non binding since no matter how the Puerto Rican people voted the plebiscite made clear Puerto Rico was a US colony and any change would require US Congressional Action and no real independence would be recognized rather only "free association." Which means only a change in the way the United States administers its colony. The Marxist movement survives because the class struggle continues on a world wide basis until either the capitalist class or the working class is ultimately victorious. The capitalist have created us the working class as its most important product. Without us their would be no capitalism since we are the ones who make life in the industrial world possible. Imperialism began world war one and it was broken at it weakest link by the Russian Revolution of 1917. The American Imperialist thought they could suffocate the Cuban people with Batista. Instead they were handed a humiliating defeat that still echo's across the world. . Did you take a poll of the 3 million Cubans? I guess not. The counter revolutionaries waged their last real military battle at Giron. Even then they had to be trained and supported by the US CIA. Those who call for intervention want US Marines to do the fighting for them. They've had sixty years to do what Fidel did in six years. Like Fidel explained after Giron they had a good plan what they lacked is a just cause.
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@falecialogan1717 Money does go to other countries but into the pockets of American Billionaires who provide aid from an eyedropper with strings attached.
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@guybeingaguy I seem to remember the 2008 "No Banker Left Behind Act" of the Obama years.
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@u2opia2 Abortion is meant for birth control. It's there if all other methods fail. Obviously if you have an abortion than you will not be giving birth. Most English speaking people would call that birth control.
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@kekelauren6251 Eugenics is the breeding of people for 'desired characteristics' like dog breeds. In NAZI Germany that meant restrictions on Aryan women having abortions and sterilization of those deemed unworthy to procreate also referred to by the fascist as eaters. Forced motherhood is just as much a tool for Eugenics as forced abortions but for abortion or forced motherhood to be used for the purpose of Eugenics there has to be a political coupling between political policy and abortion or forced motherhood beyond conspiracy theory.
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legobuilder 369 Technically most of those are contraceptive methods they prevent conception. None are 100% effective and not all women can use them. That's why abortions are a necessary backup. An ectopic pregnancy can only be treated with a safe abortion there are also reasons for doing 3rd trimester abortions that involve the mother's health. Last time I checked the Alabama legislature is not made up of medical doctors who specialize in gynecology. The AMA says this in their code of medical ethics. Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 4.2.7 The Principles of Medical Ethics of the AMA do not prohibit a physician from performing an abortion in accordance with good medical practice and under circumstances that do not violate the law.
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The bosses can't make a profit on mass transit because they can't reduce the labor time needed to run the bus and train routes. Nevertheless the bosses get themselves a big pay from taxes and fares to manage the mass transit system just like the other profitable bosses in private industry.
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So 50,000 who are homeless and living in tents or under tarps in LA have forgotten to work? Really? I think the bosses don't have jobs for people who can't get clean clothes for an interview and a good night's sleep. Not to mention all the help being provided by a city government sitting on a billion dollars in aid that it can't spend. Then there's the clean up effort by the cops and city who just demolish and steal the little they have in a clean city program.
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@mathildeyoung1823 Yes I do and I also have a theory on how to get to that better system. Human beings have been killing each other since the time of recorded history about 10 thousands years ago. I admit I am somewhat of a squeamish person but would never object to a women wanting and having an abortion because I don't see a fetus as a viable person until after birth. You have a right to medical care but that doesn't guarantee life and it doesn't mean you can't refuse medical care. A fetus can not have a say in medical care because it can not speak or survive independently yet so that creates a quandry. Its closest living relative is its mom that leaves her with the right to make all medical decisions for the fetus including the termination of the pregnancy because its not yet a viable human being even if you don't like those decisions. A baby is an independent being and its family gets to chose it's medical care not some judge sitting on a bench somewhere. .
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spanish rampage This is just to let you know the rampaging Spanish Fascist Dictator Franco is dead. He saved Spanish capitalism at the cost of 100,000 people who disappeared never to be seen again.
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death to socialism To clarify some call a country socialist because a socialist a socialist party is in power. I do not. The Nordic countries remain capitalist because industry remains in the hands of private owners. You give the impression you think Finland is socialist.
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What's the point in demonstrating in front of a court that has already made a decision on the topic?
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@gregnorth6413 Trump can't solve the problems of capitalism within the framework of capitalism.
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@MusicLovingFool1 They are obsessed with cutting labor time as the source of record profits.
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@ZombieCore16 Face it Trump is a has been. He's just a few steps behind Biden into the nursing home.
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@JustAGentleman Spoken like a true member of the Upper Class or middle class seeking recognition from the upper class. Obviously you think of yourself as a consumer because that's your main role in society "to consume". Why not dress up as the last English Viceroy of India holding a tea cup and asking a servant if it's time for tea.
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@Wamsuo58u The system is such that it rewards sociopathic behavior. Behind every US Military adventure is a boss seeking higher profits form his foreign investment.
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@moonwalkerjntu One might note that all of Batista's murdering police and military got a trial that meet WW2 war crimes standard something Batista's police and military seldom gave those captured by their police and military. After Che was captured instead of a trial of any sort. The order came down from either General Barrientos or Washington to execute but shoot low such it looked as if he was killed in battle and not executed without a trial than cut off his hands to prove it was him.
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@goldensun441 Sowell finds himself ignoring facts when it suits his purpose.
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@malachimatcho7583 Its a talk meant to push for school privatization and put education costs on to the backs of workers and make public education something you buy from a boss.
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Because they are carrying firearms like a modern Army. The rest of the world would die laughing at the UN if As US Ambassador you complained about unarmed refugees being an invasion.
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Randy Douglas This is a flag officer who should never have been placed in charge of a bathtub. His only achievement is to show what an ass he was and reduce the confidence any sailor under his and other commanders. It was dark and foggy he missed seeing four lighthouses. The purpose of lighthouses is to be able to correct dead reckoning errors on cloudy nights. Radio navigation aids were placed first at lighthouses. He should have seen all five off the coast. He knew he had a discrepancy this is when he should have acted with caution. There was no rush on getting to San Diego. If it was war then do you just recklessly waste half of your command on the rocks to save what amounts to a few minutes out of hours. He could have turned then gone slowly plumbing the depth as he went. Afterall that would have shown if the new technology was good or bad. He could have continued south then turned for San Diego further south when daytime would have made navigation much easier.
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The bosses went off the Gold standard so they could just print themselves money. This way they can keep raising prices by adding paper money from the central bank. The do this by paying a game where they print moeny one day and bonds on another than they buy bonds that pay them back while borrowing the same money as dollars that they just lent. This way the money supply keeps rising while the do nothing. It a shell game of fictitious capital. Prices keep rising while you wage stays the same because they blame rising prices on wages. This how the avoid handing out wage cuts to keep up profit rates. See only they can borrow at the prime rate.
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@wk8000 At least i'm not as stupid as a Democratic Educator like Jamaal Bowman who pulls a fire alarm because he thinks it a way to open doors. But you go ahead Doctor and write about all the PHD"s and Nobel Prizes and the Bourgeois accolades you have received. Obviously you didn't get confused by the spelling error being a Doctor and Nobel Laureate. .
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You need to build a wall around your house and stay there.
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@fubokuen Sowell chose the life of a Bourgeois Professor defender of American Imperialism and its war making for the profits and private property of the ruling class. What will his obit say? A Black man Veteran of Korea and Civil Servant who deserted Karl Marx after an education in Elite American Universities for the life of a Bourgeois Professor expounding on the neo liberal theories of capitalism and markets bringing Democracy and Freedom. Like his mentor Milton Friedman.
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@niafeels776 This is why politicians need to stay out of personal lives.
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Evil is wiping out 100,000 in a revenge killing for 3,000 dead at the twin towers. How many more bodies does Pence and inHanity want?
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@louiswhite805 This is capitalism's finest hour.
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That's a lie. Kaplan was an SR and shot by the Cheka and Lenin left a "Testament" where he wanted Stalin removed from his post as General Secretary.
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@creatorofgods1668 Right Cuba and North Korea are the biggest threats since they could invade and take Florida and California in D day style invasions on the orders of Moscow and Beijing any day now.
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@jackwallace32 It was an excellent example of Bourgeois self censorship. At no time were the words Socialism or Communism used during the talk on The Absurdity of "S....." Good frame job talking about what other unnamed persons say and think as proof about a word the censors don't allow to be used among polite company.
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@Hunterhunter-ir9nz I know exactly what happened. She's realizing that for the educated there is no connection between work, smarts, and wealth that it for the most part its entirely arbitrary and based in class origins.
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@stanislav7920 Not only was Trotsky a revolutionary leader but an important Marxist theorist. He considered his activity after deportation to be just as important as his role in the revolution. Stalin was the leader of defeats right up to the outbreak of War with Hitler and German Imperialism. Stalin is still better known than Trotsky in the United States because he is the object of so much anti communist hysteria.
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@stanislav7920 I don't see how we have ever left the Imperialist stage of history. Trotsky wanted global socialist revolution. Isn't that the natural conclusion that any real Marxist must come to for after the end of capitalism which always develops in different countries by nation states that then trade on a world market. Socialist revolution should spread across the world. To defend the USSR you must be a revolutionary in your own nation state otherwise you are just a diplomat for the Soviet Union. Lenin and Trotsky viewed the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics as holding actions not a new country that would engage in any long term peaceful coexistence with the capitalist powers. That's why the looked to destroy the Imperialist relationship in the Imperialists own colonies. I think its is obvious to all that Stalin's theory failed. Stalin's decision to use the Communist International as a cheer squad for Democratic Imperialism during the second world war was just as treacherous as the Rightist Social Democracy in the first world war then Lenin had so thoroughly exposed as political bankrupt in the Imperialist era. You can find Trotsky at Pathfinder Press.
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Here is how well the US workers have been doing according to the US BLS a part of the US Federal Reserve Bank. http://www.thestand.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ss-productivity-earnings.jpg
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@theoskeptomai2535 You can pray before leaving for school or at your house of worship before or after school. School involves 7 hours 5 days a week that leaves 9 hours for prayer.
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@henrykstopikowski5379 Cuba is a workers state so the whole people in arms are its security. Opposition? No you mean US sponsored terrorists in the Escambray mountains. Fidel took very little Soviet advice. That's is just the thinking of the United States Imperialist were they tell all their allies what to do and how to conduct counter terrorism operations with CIA advice. For them an army is basically a military machine that follows the orders of a central commander. A revolutionary army brings justice and liberation.
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End your criminal blockade of the Island!!!
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Trotsky is more alive today as Stalin and Mao fade into their graves.
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@davemurray2880 Once again I'm under the watchful eye of the you tube censor.
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Kids have older brothers and parents who vape. The guy at the convenience store likes to earn a little cash to supplement his minimum wage. Legal or illegal everything is available for a price.
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@SC-ni5me Tell me about how government is making money in the 'abortion industry'. Government is controlled through the two capitalist party system with legal and illegal corruption. The change in the status of women is bound up with the coming socialist revolution. The fight against the dark age practices of religion is something every worker and union should get on board with because forcing the capitalist government out of women workers lives and our lives in general is a good. It helps us build confidence and prepares us for the next step in the class struggle.
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@austinbevis4266 Well now you know that the main stream media is not to be trusted.
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Actually you have no clue. Solzhenitsyn born in 1918 came along after the 1936 to 1938 Purge trials of the old Bolsheviks. He was a Red Army Major and in 1943 came into conflict with Stalin over liberating the Warsaw Ghetto which was in open rebellion. Stalin insisted that while they were only about 20 miles away that the advance be halted. Why? Because Stalin feared any new revolutions which could oust him from power. I don't object to Solzhenitsyn writing a novel. I object to people who think that their was some other course besides the October revolution that would not end up with a fascist dictatorship like Italy under Mussolini in 1922. The people purged and murdered were loyal communist not some group of capitalist entrepreneurs seeking a restoration. They were all accused of Trotskyism despite weather they voted with or against Trotsky in their past and being fascist agents of Hitler.
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I am sure you want to talk about the cult of personality of Stalin and Mao but completely ignore the British cult of personality around the Queen and the royal family. Isn't the British Empire a shining example you would like the world to emulate. When Churchill heard of famine in India he asked. "Why isn't Gandhi dead yet?"
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How many factories did Stalin or Mao close and move elsewhere for cheaper labor and bigger profits? Its you the factory owner will try and close your factory or move it elsewhere if your not raking in enough profits. Its you the factory owner who will try and break a strike with police, the miliary and fascist goons. The workers only need keep the factory running and producing if its necessary ignoring the commands of you the profit seeking boss. If you don't want to work. Than you the profit seeking bosses can go on strike. While we completely ignore you.
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Gabe Powers if the shoe fits? Which it does! Why don't you like wearing it? The border between Mexico and the US is not a Korean DMZ and even the Korean DMZ will eventually come down.
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If the cartels though she was a serious threat the would have just ordered her murder. They wouldn't need a grand conspiracy that would leave her alive.
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Were the cops including the FBI in on it too? What's her grand theory that makes her innocent. Didn't a co-defendant role over on her? Did the DNA left in the blood at the scene match at least one defendant? How about the eyewitness that was left alive. You realize that even robbing drug dealers is a crime? Was she planning on multiple shootouts? Who's the FBI informer? What about that guy with the big sign who let her stay in his RV he seems to know more than he's telling. You let someone use you RV but don't know anything about them? I just drank an ice tea? That sounds like BS to me.
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That is just the natural workings of capitalism where higher paid skilled labor is the first to be replaced with machines and unskilled labor to drive profits their way. Then as capital value rises and the labor exploited decines so to must the rate of profit fall. The problem for the capitalist is they can't trust the workers to control industry but they are too small a group to keep direct control in place so they need a centralised state and bureaucracy to control in their name and with their methods. Because they increasingly become a smaller do nothing ruling class that lives off of profits they must both privilege and cut the cost of bureaucracy at the same time.
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They don't swing that way until the face a crisis with a socialist revolution on the horizon. That is when it is critical for the workers to defend themselves from the fascists bands.
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@chairde Explain what? The goal of American Imperialism in Venezuela is to privatise the oil Industry. Give the gold mine back to US investors. Install a government that will end all aid to Cuba. Return all power to the oligarchy. Pardon the Chavez Coup plotters and enablers hold up in Miami as human rights dissidents.
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@chairde US Imperialism disguised as the United Nations is still at war with Korea. The DMZ is merely a truce line. A peace treaty has not been signed. US Imperialist power has been waning in Korea the original US puppet was driven from power getting a CIA plane for exile in Hawaii for the rest of his life. Military dictators replaced Military Dictators for many years. As anti Imperialist protesters drove out one Military Dictator after another.
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@mr-peabody Actually politicians of BOTH parties should zero concern for their constitutes. None of them had the guts to come out and speak with them inluding Trump himself whio promised to be with them.
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@sheliafarmer Fire the whole FBI Secret Police force.
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@patrickoneill7070 A lot of us are opposed to ANTIFA and BLM leaders advocating looting and burning down property as a protest to racism. I think the jury did the right thing in this instance in protecting the right to self defense. If you are stupid enough to start threatening some one with an AR 15 than you should expect the result you get.
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@jesse7631 To fight inflation workers need to insist in COLA in all contracts and benefit programs public and private. That will put a crimp in the wage cut by inflation plans of the bosses.
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@garyblackmore-7919 Americans can't move to Canada without getting permission from the provincial government and bosses first. Like many countries the rich can buy the citizenship of their choice including in Canada and the USA.
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We are living the death Agony of capitalism.
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@Random-rt5ec That is the way capitalism works. The purpose of patents and copyrights was never to create massive riches for a few like Bill Gate or long term monopoly but to encourage the development of the arts and science and secure a living for the producers. Capitalist production ends not when needs are fulfilled but when the rate of profits drop. If Chinese labor becomes too expensive than their factories will close and production will move elsewhere.
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@williamrogers1219 The worker must be paid only the total wages to get him back to work for the next pay period. .How ever after we produce enough to pay for the cost of our upkeep the rest is surplus value. How the surplus value is distributed is what the modern class class struggle is all about. The bosses want to put it in their pockets buy luxury goods and palaces fit for Kings and Queens. The workers understand much better that the surplus must be used to advance their class interest where as the bosses are only interested in themselves and short term profits. The bosses drive the class struggle against them because the rate of profit for giant industries must decline in the long run as machines replace living labor. Capitalism is not just a small tribe or even a nation that produces for itself. Rather it is a whole world of interconnecting trade, exchange and production.
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@gracec1665 The American communists have had a Party here since 1919. Before that we had a large socialist party. In the 1928 split between Trotskyist and Stalinist they said we were only three generals without an Amy. Today the Socialist Workers Party is a well organized communist movement. The Communist Party USA not so much. Starting with the Soap Boxes we have always been at the forefront of defending the Bill of Rights for all working people. Only last week we won a victory for the rights of prisoners in Florida to read our newspaper TheMilitant.com We also forced an end to secret police tactics by the FBI in Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General for the time being.
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@gracec1665 I'm close to the Mexican border and medical tourism is just a few steps away from the US side of border for Dentistry of all kinds at a better price in Mexico. Park you car in the lot and walk across the bridge to get a good price on implants or dentures. Want an abortion drug because Texas has done everything possible to prevent you from getting an abortion. Park you car, walk across the the bridge to get the no prescription necessary abortion drug. As long as border patrol doesn't see it and confiscate based upon not having a script your home free.
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@gracec1665 It's interesting that you pick stress levels because such levels are hard to quantify. People in Haiti and elsewhere in the neocolonial world are dying of treatable diseases not high stress levels. Now that around 38 million have the Obamacare "No healthcare layoff plan." do you predict a rise in life expectancy with the lower stress levels of a $600 week UI check?
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Karrie Dee McVeigh was duly convicted by 12 jurors. He wanted to present a necessity defense. His bomb killed children and his defense was he was no more immoral than the US government. So do you also want to argue that "McVeigh was a fiction". McVeigh had plenty of time in and out of court and he never denied the act. Of all the people killed 168 only 8 were armed powers of the United States. Certainly if he wanted to attack the armed power of the state he could have come up with a better plan. The dead were overwhelming civilian but no mercy was ever shown by the bomber. He could have blown the building at 3 AM in the middle of the night and/or called in a warning. .
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@Nowhy In any really large project the engineers divided up the work and go over each others work before the bridge gets built. That's why the professors award partial credit because they want to see your thinking on paper rather than just the correct answer. Professor who are lazy give the exact same exams that have the same answers and give no partial credit collect the exams afterwords and depend upon secrecy to prevent cheating because they are to lazy to develop multiple questions on the same topics. You will find that these professors have degrees in the topic and a PHD in something like education. So their clam to fame is being experts in teaching rather than expertise in the topic.
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This is why they need to learn facts and historical truths. The scientific way of thinking materialism is under attack by bourgeois liberals. They are trying to make claims that being a man and woman is a choice and not determined by genetics at birth.
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@immanueldarjean5050 She doesn't look very freedom loving by standing ion front of a US flag with an AR-15. Looks more like a pro Imperialist nationalist.
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Research This https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/US_productivity_and_real_wages.jpg Years back a train required a crew of 5 today its 2. Years ago Sparrows Point employed 15,000 Today it's just a few night watchmen. The lights are still on because no one knows where the breakers are.
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@bas-tn3um Sowell like Ayn Rand was a supporter of the Imperialist assault on the people of Vietnam. In fact Rand went so far as justifying the use of nuclear weapons.
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@williamdowden4494 Twenty five percent of the worlds prison inmates with countless of its citizens stamped with the convicted felon criminal for life label. A population under secret and non secret surveillance by private and state actors in public and private places day and night. A country were Billionaires pay no taxes while a Black man is attacked on the street by armed police and dies over less than a few dollars in taxes. Trigger happy cops who shoot first and ask questions later. You can keep those titles of sucess as a compliment if you so choose.
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@bestthingsinceslicedrice Someone with that screen name is a top US government official from the Trump administration. The Bosses of both parties want cheap labor not more welfare expenses.
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@livefree316 How about one person dying of dehydration in the Milwaukee Jail or the Chicago torture cops of John Burge's midnight crew. Even Che Guevara did not get one of your "Bourgeois Justice" trials. Instead the execution order was to shoot from the neck down to make it look like Che died in battle.
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Lexi Rae Public schools have always been paid for with taxes raised by Drum Roll!!! Government.
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Lexi Rae In Massachusetts (A Blue Liberal State with pointy headed liberals) you can homeschool your kids after getting approval of teaching plans from the District Superintendent. Once your kid graduates from home school he can then sue the state for not providing him an education. Now if you can't get away with pulling off a scam like that in Mississippi your politicians haven't caught up because they been home schooled.
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Lexi Rae No doubt that America Capitalism is "winning the race" to separate the rich from the poor.
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Lexi Rae "How is reading the Bible early in the morning before you start your day unconstitutional? Ever since 1962 things went down hill from there as whole.." You need to read the First amendment to the constitution to understand that. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." since the civil war anything that Congress can't do than neither can the states or local government do. By paying a public school teacher to read a bible on tax paid time you are establish a religion. Now maybe you live somewhere where everyone in your school district attends the same Church so you don't see the obvious problem that parents of different creeds and religions would become obviously unhappy over being taught from the wrong religious book. Catholics have one bible translation different Protestants have many different translations Jews have the Talmud and Muslims the Quran.
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@darlingdarlene4696 The new capitalist system began in Northern Europe these wealthy people thought of themselves as superior to other races they conquered as slaves and in their colonial Empires. At the same time their system of wage labor was in class conflict with slavery and to a certain extent the feudal landowners who held peasants tied to the land. Because the Japanese adopted capitalism they became honorary white people in racist South Africa. The defeat of the King by the American revolution of merchants, small farmers and slave owners was the first defeat for slavery with Thomas Paine founding the anti slavery society and a few years later the first Black Republic in Haiti after the French Revolution created a land reform with peasants owning land. The civil war to pu down the slave owners rebellion ended up destroying slavery and creating Reconstruction governments where the slaves who played a role in putting down the slave owners revolt began fights for property, voting rights and citizenship. Both Parties agreed to an amnesty of the Confederates who were waging a violent counter revolution against Blacks and the New Southern Republican Reconstruction governments. ,
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@zipzonker1576 Taxes is just a bogus issue since if they don't collect enough taxes they just borrow from the people who should be paying taxes with a promise of interest payments. The only people who pay for safety are those who are workers. The country has no future in the hands of the capitalist because their only goal is making bigger profits despite the long term tendency of profit rates to decline. Their only future is to go to war in a world wide fight to defend their nation's profits. Capitalist competition produced world war one and two. Do you want to go for number three? The last one ended with Nuclear weapons as long as they hold power in Nation States that threat will continue.
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@richardcranium3579 Only if bosses decide to stop raising prices for bigger profits.
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Bosses seek profit maximization over all else.
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@nonnobissolum Some of us have had to work for theses thieves.
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I don't think the ranchers were all that worried about regular taxes but having to worry about losing their land due to the estate tax. Family Farming or Ranching is a 7 day 52 week responsibility. If you what to drive around in the Texas desert chasing cattle more power to you.
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@a-s-greig We need to defeat our own ruling class. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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Obviously the workers were able to use the union to make themselves heard. Something that can't be done without a union.
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@chizpa305 Maybe you can explain why the homeless in Miami ,Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York don't go fishing and become rich? They don't have a culture were people who work in offices and give orders can act with impunity. .
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Its is basically a lot of nonsense that requires a religious devotion to capitalism.
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@ericthompson3402 The Steel and Auto bosses all cried about unfair competition to their monopoly price fixing.
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@pembebulut2781 So you believe god wrote you book and not men claiming to be god's prophets?
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@dean8147 China is just another Imperialist power now. It would be better to call their system Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Everything is about maximizing return on investment. Their creating the same problems every other Imperialist country has despite all their BS. My guess is what this is really about is thay are feeling the same kind of pressure other ruling classes in Europe and the US are. A working class that is tired of 996 as a tenant of socialism. (working 9AM to 9PM 6 days a week). People like Jack Ma and celbs are hated just like they are here. Probably wasting a few of them as scapegoats.
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@mtoohill Abortion was never treated the same as murder even before Roe v. Wade. That's just rhetoric dreamed up by religious fundamentalists. These fundamentalist are as phony as a three dollar bill. Their real goal is maximization of births because their bible tells them to go forth and multiply. That's what is behind their anti contraception and anti abortion morality. Prior to DNA a man could not be determined to be the father with any degree of certainty so women were always the ones convicted or accused of violating the rules of monogamy. Monogamy itself was the way property and privilege of upper class was passed down through generations.
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@joecool4656 Then why doesn't he sell his company and do that?
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Brendan Bolton Why do you make such an insulting comment? Is it because your middle class and really really greedy? Do you have secret evidence we can't see? Don't want to make into another George Soros conspiracy? Are you fighting for the religiously inspired Flat Earth theory or maybe the fluoride in the water socialist communist medicine conspiracy.
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What if they were speaking English near Mexico or Maybe Russian in Alaska or Russia near New York? How about Chinese near Chinatown or Chinese in Nebraska? What about German in Puerto Rico?
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@bdjoh011 Cuba has had freedom of speech since the victory of the revolution. The citizen soldier doesn't give up his constitutional freedoms when he is under arms.
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His jail guards allowed a mentally ill prisoner awaiting trial to die of dehydration after shutting the water off in his cell. His prisoners only get one glass of liquid nourishment on Sundays. His response has been to rail about the crime the prisoner was arrested for. The family is suing and video clearly shows which guards shut off the water and his whole operation is run under layers of secrecy. So far he as announced no new safeguards or procedures to prevent this from happening again.
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@timlois Rebuild the unions, go to each others picket lines, workers need to take on the job control. our power is in sticking together against boss tyranny. When we use our organized strength we are much more powerful than hiring some two bit lawyer.
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A small group can't just walk off without being fired and blacklisted by the railroads. They have the railway slave labor act to contend with.
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@gg_rider The NAZI's had the support of small business and the professional classes.
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@Si_Mondo We aren't talking about the British Labor Party but the 1930's NAZI party. The German Social Democratic and Communist parties in the early 1930 had the votes and membership of the working class. The NAZI's built their party upon thug attacks on Jews, Communists and Social Democrats. "Running a business doesn't automatically mean one understands economics or how it interacts with society." That's why the ruling classes have been defeated in communist revolutions like Russian and Cuban revolutions. Why they had to tolerate the trade unions in all the advanced capitalist countries post WW2. They are in crisis now because its every boss class and boss for himself.
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Jealous aren't you.
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@evieluvsmarx He was armed and supported by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter.
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@trollnerdI never heard of "Cosmic Justice" in the first place. In his own history we find that he was a civil service employee when he first took courses at Howard University in Washington. Now civil service gives Veterans preference. He also received aid from the GI Bill to go to school. Now do you here him attacking those programs?
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@gracec1665 I suppose the US doesn't charge anyone taxes either? We all get paychecks with money taken out do we not? You go to the store you pay a tax an I right? But Cuba is suppose to let other countries decide its tax laws?
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@GreyhairedOldman Class struggle is the road to socialism.
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It's important to the venture capitalist who hopes to make a killing off this invention. It's the American way invent a sinful thing then sell stuff to prevent the sin by the young.
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It only matters that they are born here not the legal status of the parents.
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@flipgunderson1946 Doesn't matter capitalism has the problem of overproduction which drives it to depression and than war. ICBM's and nuclear weapons means the US cannot escape a third world war. The federal reserve keeps BLS stats. In 1967 88% of productive capacity was being used today its down to 77%. From 194? to 1973 wages followed productivity since then wages have been almost flat. The Soviet Union was borne out of the misery caused by war as was the Chinese revolution. Your in an endless war as it is with military planners preparing for another 20 to 100 years in the middle east. If you can't invest in expanding production because markets are saturated and the declining rate of return on investment than the profits go into factious capital preparing the system for another downturn when the bubble inevitable bursts.
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@flipgunderson1946 Cuba has already proved you don't need a Stalinist police state and they are training 10,000 Medical Doctors for the poor and humble of the world now. They are a small island but I have no doubt that another Cuba is on the agenda since pressure cookers are building up all over the world caused by the failure of the capitalist system of the US Empire.
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@flipgunderson1946 You realize we aren't a bunch of terrorist idiots like Tim McVeigh? "Steal This Book" isn't worth buying never mind stealing. You realize we drove the Silver Shirts out of the twin cities without firing a shot. That Peoples Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs Leon Trotsky defeated not just the Whites but 14 Imperialist Armies. All done with formerly demoralized Czarist troops. You loss is already predicted since you think that we will be scared by your brutality as you talk about leaving my bloody corpse in the street. That was the CIA Batista strategy. Che manged to convince the Bolivian soldier to take him prisoner by saying he was more valuable alive than dead when his rifle jammed. Now they had a captive. So what did they do? To give him a trial would do the Imperialist cause no good. So instead they pretended that he died in battle. Of course this was a lie. A solider was called in and Che said, "Shoot your only killing a man." 50 million T shirts latter.
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US Policy in Africa by the "Great White Hope" Ronald Reagan. Support South African Apartheid and Condemn Cuban for solidarity in driving back and defeating the racist South African's at Cutio Cuanavale. Just another defeat for the White House at the hands of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Viva Fidel!!.
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@rell127 The continued decay of US Imperialism with its wars and depressions guarantees the birth of more and not fewer Fidel Castro's. Every fight for dignity and justice circles the globe now measured in minutes and seconds. This is encouraging others to fight back against a system that can no longer meet the needs not just of those in the colonial empires but the very centers of world capitalism and the US Empires New York City itself.
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Rex2212 Go anywhere in the world where people are actually starving and the children will surround those in western clothing seeking a hand out. Cuba has a life expectancy just a year behind the US at 79. While it's about 50+ in Afghanistan. Have you been able to find that one innocent victim that was unjustly executed in Cuba like say Ethel Rosenberg in the US? Or Todd Cameron Willingham executed on the word of a jailhouse snitch and junk science in Texas..US justice is swift when the Chicago Cops with the permission of the FBI executed Fred Hampton who had been drugged while sleeping in his bed. How is that "Cuban Quilt of Genocide"? What happened to that? is it keeping Senators Marco Rubio (R) or Bob Menendez (D) warm in bed?
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Truth hurts the little crazy gang of wolves. What's the problem echo chamber noise level not high enough for the little dogs? Oooh sorrrry. Small government backing them or police and army are used as instruments of capitalist oppression.
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Trump wants to create a 100 mile wide DMZ on the Mexican border.
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It represents segregation like George Wallace said, "Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever."
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Masterpiece cakeshop is part of a broader assault on religious freedom being conducted by anti abortion, anti contraception, anti in vitro fertilization christian groups. In this case a boss pretends to be a worker. The idea being not to take on anything directly so much as to file court cases and proceed by punching holes in previous law to the achieve the desired political result. The women's movement has basically all but lost Roe v Wade by a combination of terrorism, clinic blockade tactics, legal maneuvering. The bankrupt direction of the leaders of the women's movement into the Democratic Party and trying to control the appointment of Supreme Court Justices has made this possible.
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@Team Ai Sure and I'm free to work for the low wages any boss pays in the US. Other companies outside of the US have the free choice of selling in the US market of 328 million or the Cuban market of 11 million. If was such a failure the US wouldn't have needed to pass the Cuban democracy act. if what you say is true why keep up an ineffective blockade and take all political heat at the UN? The US capitalist can't forgive them for making a revolution throwing them and the mafia out of Cuba and proceeding from there. Cuba troops defeated the US ally Apartheid South Africa at Cuito Cunavale, Radio Free Dixie by Robert F. Williams was broadcast to US listeners from Cuba, Cuban Doctors halted Ebola, Cuba is training 10,000 foreign doctors at no direct cost to the student. Cuba sent medical and military aid to Vietnam in its struggle to throw out the US Imperialists. Cuba takes in Haitian boat people. Assita Shaker escaped the racist US justice system to Cuba and they will never give her back to the American Imperialist. In Cuba the fight for principles and a real freedom in the US they fight bigger tax cuts for the rich and an a American Dream where everyone can be a billionaire and US President. US Life expectancy is beginning to drop below that in Cuba. A US healthcare system already in crisis is becoming even worse since the pandemic. Tens of millions have lost their jobs and their meager heath insurances promises. The US State Department Propaganda from Mike Pompano and Trump is now winding up to blame China for everything to do with the pandemic and accusing Cuba of training Doctors as slave labor. This from a rich country which feeds Alabama prisoners two meals a day and uses them as free labor. A country of constant scandal where black people are murdered by the police. A country of empty hotel rooms and people living our doors under tarps.
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@Team Ai The auto bosses pulled out of Michigan and reduced jobs with robots. The same with other industries. The bosses know the value of cheap labor which is why they sent so many jobs to Mexico and China. Neither of those countries have majority caucasian populations. The bosses also fear Chinese engineering. That's the true source of the decline of the industrial cities not people with a different skin color. It was meetings at the highest levels of American Capitalism who decided cheap labor in Mexico and China would increase their accounting ledger profits.
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Marx participated in the first international, wrote on a number of subjects including what would lead capitalist society into it own contradictions like those that put the Roman Empire and feudal Europe into crisis before capitalism. He also wrote on the short lived Paris commune the proletariat's first experience with political power and a state of its own. Engels his revolutionary partner should not be discounted either as he wrote the Condition of the English working class and the Family State and Private Property. Trotsky joined Lenin's Bolsheviks when he realized that only with a party like Lenin's could the Permanent revolution succeed. Trotsky and the left opposition lost the leadership of the Soviet Union to the Stalinist bureaucracy but never ended his criticism of Stalin, Socialism in one country, Stalin's methods and the revolutionary internationalism of Marxism and Leninism. Fidel and Che made the first socialist revolution in the America's and revived the Internationalism of the Russian Bolshevism making Cuba a power way larger in the world history politics despite its size because of that internationalism.
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Now that Jeff Sessions is AG how many alien voters has he had arrested? How many aliens illegally receiving entitlements has he had arrested? I bet it is a big Zero. You call them handouts I seem to remember paying into the system for Social Security and Medicare. Why are you calling them handouts? You want to just throw the elderly and disabled on the street corners begging for food and sleeping on subway grates don't you!
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Let's do some math. 5,6,7 families with at least 3 children means at least 25, 30, 35 people per apartment.
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Ludd Zarko Got any names of "Dissidents" Like say El Sexto. He left for Miami and last I herd he was in the Miami lockup with no bail for stalking and making death threats. He however was one your great dissident activists with a medal from the Norwegian parliament. He also has an immigration detainer set for deportation back to Cuba maybe the Norwegians will save his rotten skin. If Trump wants dissidents in Cuban jails all he needs to do is ask by name and they will be on the next flight to Miami.
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Ludd Zarko You should rename the Cuban American Foundation to the Cuban American Statehood Foundation.
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@lazaroa7288 Like I said earlier you a bull shit artist since you can't come up with a single name of anyone unjustly executed. Research? What happened to that Cuban "Quilt of Genocide" have you been using it in bed with Bob Menendez on cold Jersey winters?
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@Jack Hartzell Whos is going to take care of and raise the "60 million"? Not Catholic Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They have adopted exactly ZERO children. To busy giving sermons and harassing women entering clinics. There are 100,000 orphans in the US Today and 15 million in the world as a whole. 75 Million Catholics in the US alone. If their for adoption not abortion they have a funny way of showing it.
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A. We aren't going extinct and B. Children need to be protected from exploitation and adult pedifiles. With few exceptions you are not an adult until age 18 in the United States today. In fact you may not buy alcoholic liquor until age 21 unless you are in the armed forces which you can not join until age 18. You can' drive a car at age 16 with extra limitations in most states until age 18 and a commercial vehicle until age 21. You can't vote until age 18. Working hours for a wage are limited until age 18 and prohibited in most instances before age 16. I don't care who's religion says otherwise their is no need to permit child brides in an advanced industrial country period. There is nothing to Dawah about it. End of story case closed.
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It also notes that at 15 the pelvis is not fully developed. My grandmother had 12 pregnancies, 9 live births and 7 children that made it to adulthood of which one, my aunt is still alive today at over 100 years. My mom had three of us. We are all still alive today. The reason for civil marriage is to transfer property and privilege it has nothing to do with fertility. In fact the original reason Catholic Priests in France remained unmarried was to prevent the transfer of church property to the priest's children.
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Since state employees are paid out of state funds no matter how you slice it tax dollars or government bonds pay for all state services including state pension funds. Economically it makes no sense to create huge trust funds except from the capitalist point of view. Instead of paying as you go which should be the way things are done huge trust funds were created first a reason to keep benefits low and now later on they were looted so the capitalists government or non government can cry poor and say theses funds will run out of money and so benefits must be cut. A pay as you go system is much more honest because than it is clear who is paying and who isn't and what should be paid out in benefits to those to old. disabled or unable to work for a legitimate reason. Instead we have a piecemeal system that represents when this or that group was included much like the chaotic health insurance system.
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Fly whatever flag you want but accept the baggage that goes with it. The Confederate battle flag shouldn't be flown on government or state property or inserted into state flags. Do you see a whole bunch of monuments to General and President Grant in the Northern States? No. But how many monuments do you have to General Lee throughout the eleven Southern states? You realize that Arlington National cemetery was built on the General Lee's family property for a reason. To remind every generation of all the lives lost because of his treasonous insubordination. He was treated with respect when he surrendered and his hungry men were fed a meal by their union counterparts. He was never tried or jailed. His citizenship was revoked but restored with his voting rights a few years after the wars end. He refused to sanction a guerilla campaign at the time of surrender. Something that would be later launched by southern democrats first as red shirts and later the KKK. I understand that the universal soldier has little choice but to follow commands but most of those monuments throughout the south are to civil war officers. Many who resigned their USA commissions to become CSA officers. Officers who should of had a much better understanding of the issues than a poor dirt farmer called up from the State militia. One thing I bet you don't see in the eleven states is monuments to those officers who stayed loyal to the US government and politicians who voted against secession.
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@moonlightshadow2664 A long time bourgeois economics professor left with egg on his face after the crisis of 2008.
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@acrane3496 Common Sense was the title of the revolutionary pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that was very popular before the revolution. That is why Americans say don't you have common sense. In Britain the elected portion of government, parliament is called the house of commons. The house of Lords is composed of hereditary land owners. When England was a Republic it was called the Commonwealth. This is why to this day the official names of some states are the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia and Kentucky.
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@lancebwilkins Capitalism gave political power to the merchants over the landed aristocracy. But the middle class shopkeeper and small businessman is continually replaced by the larger more efficient uses of economic power. The same happens to the middle class professionals. The independent MD has been replaced by the group practice. When you buy the goods and services during a normal week do you even know the owners of the places you shop? I travel around the country and I see the same brands for the same goods everywhere. People like Truckers are middle class they aren't just workers who own their own tools and supervisors may think they are middle class but the have to follow orders from above and are easily replaceable.
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@droe2570 Right what you want to do is define capitalism by its past and then claim what we have today isn't capitalism. As Karl Marx correctly observed on a world scale the only class that is increasing in size is the proletariat all other classes decline. The biggest challenge to the small business owners are machines and economies of scale not regulations and taxes. Every natural periodic economic crisis clears out the weak by bankruptcy. The fact that the bosses need labor and they can't find workers at minimum wage reflects the end of the lockdown and the fact that inflation has made a minimum wage not raised in over ten years not enough for even a single worker to live on in some areas. Companies that can set monopoly prices can pay higher wages and union membership is also a factor in wages. Capitalist is driven by greed and those who think they have allies in business soon learn otherwise.
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@jamesfahy3963 He had the job of organizing the Red Army and defeating 14 Imperialist Armies who invaded the new Soviet Republic including the US/UK.
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Right capitalist want orphans to raise as orphans like cattle for more Imperialist wars.
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@Dennis-nc3vw We don't have any control over taxes or the federal reserve bank. We can only take control of them with a labor party based upon a fighting union movement and a socialist revolution with workers control of industry.
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@leahmax6686 The teachers union is their to represent the teachers.
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@Daniel-yy3ty Shareholders striking can be fought by going to work and producing anyway. The bosses shut down because of overproduction so when the workers ignore the bosses and keep producing you destroy the capitalist market and profits this puts him in the position of having to find a job and go to work like everyone else. That's how you abolish private property.
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Marco Polo His next movie will be Toilet Nation where Moore sits on the crapper calling for Hillary Clinton to get him some shithouse paper.
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@mikestrashcan63mc "The government creates nothing only steals wealth." The US Treasury prints and coins money on orders from the Federal Reserve Bank. Now he bank is privately owned but manged by directors appointed by the President. The government takes on tasks where either a profit can't be made or it would be too much of a power grab for private interests to directly exert control. Nevertheless while the capitalist condemn their own government to the point of even presidents doing so. It remains safely in the hands of the rich through the two capitalist party system.
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@rhondagrisamore8175 That's the genesis of the two party dictatorship. With capitalist politicians blaming government and each other no one is responsible.
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Some things seem to never change. Just as after the 1929 stock market crash once again the capitalist classes ideologues are questioning their own bourgeois democratic state's methods and ability to do what is necessary to keep up profit rates and maintain social control.
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@marcomartinez8608 Che wasn't a murderer and the US CIA/ Bolivian Military hadn't murdered him than he wouldn't have become a martyr.
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McCarthyism is Alcoholism.
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@cantweallgetalong No Rodney King because there are two classes in the US one which works but owns nothing and one which owns everything but does nothing. You were beaten not because the problem was not being able to get along but because of the class and racial oppression in the United States especially in the capitalist state structure. The tear gas fired by a Black Policeman smells the same as that fired by a Caucasian one. In 1934 they called it "Minneapolis Communism" when we defeated the citizens alliance bosses and turned Minneapolis into a union town. We turned the first 1940 Smith "gag" Act trial into a political trial. We still publish the trial testimony as "Socialism on Trial". During the 1950's witch hunt "The Legless Veteran" Jimmy Kutcher won his job and back pay from the Veterans Administration. We were part of 'Fair Play for Cuba" defending the Cuban Revolution from America Imperialism. We played a role in the Defeat of the Empire in Vietnam.
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@sonofyah-qx8fm The only way forward is for the leaders in Carcass to move forward with nationalization of all Yankee and collaborators property now! Down to the nails in their boots! This is the route Fidel Castro took and the only way to socialism.
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@sunfishdana Hoover was Heinrich Mueller on a leash. I wonder if their is any relationship to Robert Mueller?
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@sunfishdana Disagreement with title 2 and 7 based upon government overreach. Title 2 says no discrimination in Public Accommodations. After a few trips for violations to federal court it is probably the least controversial and cheapest requirement. Libertarians like to oppose this based upon their invisible hand theory that a business owner can do no wrong. The second objection is in title 7 that prohibits discrimination in employment. This interferes with an employers 'right to hire and fire' as they please. That is why it requires statistics to determine if an employer is living up to the law. If there were no statistics then the good will of the employers like GM that hired whites only in its Cadillac Assembly Plant would have to be relied upon. Any deviation from a statistical average would require an explanation. It has its own little witch hunt clause allowing discrimination against communists and national security excuses. Hillary Clinton argued against Senator Brookes' favoring statistics at her graduation speech at Wellesley college. Which Party she supported at that time is unclear.
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@sunfishdana I'm going to send my Christmas cards by the Postal Service over FedEx or UPS. DMV is mostly an adjunct to the capitalist police which is why they treat working people with contempt.
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@sunfishdana It took me three visits to Cameron County Motor Vehicles , another visit to the dealer along with a call to Austin TX to get a temporary tag that the should have issued with the same documents in the first place. When I sold my old trailer to another guy in TX I had to help him out because CT DMV had issued an invalid VIN number by using an O and not a zero. Back to CT DMV and they claimed I didn't have a CT bill of sale for the trailer I bought in TX. I asked them if they wanted my tax money or not. That's when they decided a title was good enough proof that it was mine.
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@bungkusi2432 The solution is for the working class to organize and take power running society and industry in the interests of humanity.
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@agent109g8 The bosses cry poverty every chance they get and talk about being forced to do this or that to save themselves and their profit system. .
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@robertdabob8939 "Diversify your income stream" Oh Okay I get it diversify into Microsoft, GE, GM , Ford. NBC and CBS so no matter where the next crisis hits I still get dividend checks every three months. For the rest it means diversify into more part time low wage jobs in retail.
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@bherber If the bosses had their way your kids would be getting on the job training picking slate out of coal on a conveyor line.
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This has nothing to do with incompetence but the actions of the federal government of both Congress that wrote the law and the DEA Executive branch enforcing the law. It also raises the question of why the courts have not ruled this to be unconstitutional. Since it is clearly the taking of property without due process of law.
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@vaiyt Basically the earth being a globe goes back to the Acient Egyptians. If you don't go anywhere than the idea of a flat earth is fine but as soon as you do you have problems with the earth's curvature over lakes, time zones, the seasons, the sun rising and setting into the ocean and the differences between the northern and southern hemispheres sunset and sunrise times. Instead they always sight a massive conspiracy against them. .
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@ritwikreddy5670 State and federal fuel taxes pay for highway and road maintenance in the US. The rail companies all make money on freight service. They don't want passenger service slowing down their long distance freight service. They said they couldn't make money on long distance passenger service. Amtrak runs all US long distance passenger service only the Northeast corridor from Boston to DC makes money. The alternative is heavy interstate traffic a bus ride or an airplane trip where with lots of boarding and departure time not to mention that the airports are outside of the cities. Most people live on the East or West Coasts lots of the interior of the country is empty. Texas is as large as France. Some places have warning signs no service for sixty miles. I have personally driven for hours and not seen a car coming the other way. There are always stories about how someone driving out in the middle of no where was attacked by thieves who forced someone off the highway or how someone had to kill a thief with a gun who than never reported it and just kept driving to the next county and out of the state.
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@grondhero Capital Gains and investment income are profits which are unpaid wages.
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@bigbad9583 The real name of the new law where politicians legislate morality should be "The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act" Make no mistake the back alley botched abortions in seedy motels will return. Women especially young women will needless die. When you go to church on Sunday and see that a certain girl is missing from the choir and are told of the funeral plans what then? Will you still be singing Onward Christian soldiers?
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There has never been a capitalism without corruption and cronies. It needed a government and revolutions to defeat the slaveholders in the US and the monarchies serfdom system in Europe. Initially capitalism was progressive. That ended with the war to end all wars where different national capitalist classes chose sides in a war over colonial empires. In order to protect the capitalist system and US foreign investment a huge military budget and continual threats of war and war are necessary to keep this corrupt system going. Capitalism no longer advances any new production or investment without adding more to its protection racket of a government to protect and advance monopoly capitalism. This battle between Uber and Lyft on one side vs the local taxi bosses is like what Walmart did to so many local retailers. Local, State and the Federal government are powerless to even enforce the regulations they impose on the taxi companies because big money does all the talking and makes all the important decisions.
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When he breaks out in a rash he asks the Doctor if its an attack by reds.
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Those middle class fools acting out of resentment will become the grist of an American fascist movement. The working class whose actions may at first seem selfish are those in the interest of the great majority. Even Petersen has recognized that the truckers protest in Canada was a justified action which may have been seen as nationalist and selfish without the understanding of Karl Marx.
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@banana flesh The bosses don't care who they hurt as ;long as the profits keep rolling in.
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@jacqueslee2592 The problem is NOT overpopulation but the capitalist system and they way it works with constant insecurity. Its boom and bust cycles and the declining profit rates of basic industry.
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@jasonmamedov6769 Biden said, "Cuba is a failed state." this from an elderly man who is not necessarily in charges of his faculties. Biden also announced to the UN that "Democracy is not dead." of course what he really should of said was that the American Imperialism Empire is not yet dead.
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@krissykriss328 Too bad you can't send the whole swamp of both parties somewhere where they can't do this again.
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@bobbun9630 Reagan the representative of American capitalist resisted the South African boycott up till the very end. Pressure was brought to bear by working class action in both South Africa and outside. The Cuban Troops in Angola defeated the Racist South Africans and Nelson Mandela visited and thanked Fidel Castro on his first Post Apartheid trip abroad.
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They were "deterred" by the US Coast Guard. What you mean to say is blockaded. These are libertarians who don't know how to feed themselves and can't get anyone to do anything without payment. This is why the need to use paid smugglers. Now if you think like the typical libertarian would you the smuggler sell the product once inside Cuba or would you just give it away? You do remember Pharma bro. If protest are evidence of Dictatorship then certainly the US is a dictatorship. US officials have arrested hundreds for a failed insurrection on January 6th.
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Who do your propose do the questioning and make the determination of who is qualified to be a Congressmen?
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@manjelos The Cuban revolution was lead by Fidel Castro who developed a new communist leadership not slavishly loyal to Moscow. While the Cuban leadership openly admitts to having made mistakes they never went down the road that Stalin or Mao in China. In fact had the done so they would have easily been defeated by the American imperialist instead of opening the door of Socialist revolution in the America's. During the missile crisis Kennedy threatened the world with nuclear war. While Khrushchev showed himself unfit to lead a term of pack mules to water. He quickly announced the removal of missiles that he had proposed to secretly install and told the Imperialist they would be welcome to inspect them on Cuban soil. The say that Fidel became so angry after getting this announcement of withdrawal of missiles for empty promises he destroyed his own office. Mass demonstrations in Havana denounced Khrushchev as a coward wanting back what he had already given. Fidel made it clear he would shot the first American soldier that set foot on Cuban soil.
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I guess its like original sin once you read Karl Marx they Gods of Capitalism will never trust you again.
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@thewhitefalcon8539 The origin of the word Engineer comes from Engine. The RailRoad Engineer controlled a Steam Engine. The Boat Engineer a steam driven boat. The Stationary Engineer a Steam engine that drove machery. In England a Engineer is also someone we call a machinists who knows how to set up machines to cut metal parts including a tool and die maker.
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@paulohagan3309 A lot of people died prematurely of leaded gasoline also. Something that wasn't possible in the USSR since they produced so few cars.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 Did they let you read Leon Trotsky in the Soviet Union? Of course not he was Stalin's most voracious critic. He was the one old Bolshevik who was never rehabilitated and the NKVD murdered him in 1940 in Mexico City. Trotsky never went over to Hitler or Democratic Imperialism. I grew up during the cold war so does it make a difference if you have a nice home if its destroyed in a nuclear war? If their was no difference between the two systems why all the hostility and now that they are both capitalist why does the march towards nuclear war continue. Capitalism was born in nation states but must compete in the world market and it can't escape the Imperialist stage of history. It's not that the American capitalist haven't tried either. First with Wilson's proposal of a League of Nations and then with the United Nations and other international institutions like NATO, the World Bank and IMF. Was the end of the Soviet Union a victory for American capitalism or a defeat? Do those factories in the East now belong to the American Capitalist? Have they decisively defeated the trade unions? Or did the most corrupt like Yeltsin become the new capitalists?
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@justmissjamey Build the trade unions to fight back against the world capitalist crisis of production and trade. Make the bosses pay.
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@narlimarli7406 The problem is the definition of treason in the Constitution itself. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." Congress has not declared war with China and China can not be considered an enemy and still have most favored nation status for trade. Just because the bosses are losing the war in the marketplace doesn't make the winner the enemy.
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@jimc9596 There are no political prisoners in Cuba. America has the biggest number of capitalist gulag prisoners in the world today. The America people pay for the drug war everyday it continues because capitalist politicians can't admit its is a failure without admitting how stupid they are despite their Poison Ivy League educations.
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@aaronkochenrath5863 Qatar serves as the home of Hamas billionaires living in luxury..Why doesn't Hamas build up its government in normal buildings? When you go to war you aren't suppose to use churches hospitals and mosques for combatants. You aren't supposed to use ambulances for transport of military leadership.
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@rgmarks1107 If people aren't getting shots it's because they don't trust the government and mandates and insults are not the answer. Not just the US but the world's healthcare system has been strained to the breaking point but the major powers will spend trillions on weapons systems. So its more import for a few wealthy people to fight for bigger protts in commerce while the rest of us suffer.
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The quote "Beacon of the World" is armed to the teeth with all kinds of war weapons exceeding every other nation on the planet. Nukes, Aircraft carriers, Heavy bombers and other weapons. Harry Truman himself called the Korean war a police action. The scream about possible bloodbaths while they go on and create real bloodbaths everywhere they intervene. "Operation Speedy Express" in Vietnam is just one well known example. The win their wars by murdering civilians with the most horrible methods.
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@Manus Tham China has adopted some of the aspects of Western Imperialism without the war machinery to enforce a return on investment. Yet the Chinese are known for demanding world market prices. As the Cubans say our Chinese friends give nothing away.
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@patrickjones7434 Then once you've chosen the wrong specialty or chose the hardware instead of the software side of electronics years ago you're screwed.
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Right we all seen how playing cop 'simon says' ends badly. We've seen the video where a kid was crying while crawling forward he reached behind to pull up his pants and then was wasted. I'm not a dog and I won't get on the ground so either shoot me or arrest me but I won't play cop "simon says".
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At age 12 you aren't allowed to work with machines in a factory so you are most likely a sales person like newspaper delivery or maybe handicraft sales or farm work.
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Sowell speaks a bunch of lies to support his theories of Accounting book justice of the bosses.
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@ruoyuli4091 Biden and the NATO Imperialist hypocrites just finished killing 100,000 in a 20 year war in Afghanistan. Cancel NATO not Russian Culture.
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Maybe it would be best if TIkhistory said what he is instead of trying to prove what others are. Seems to me his theories coincide with the Austrian school of economics.
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@TheImperatorKnight No ones has created an industrial society without state control. Capitalism is based in nation states. The need for a state arose with agriculture, the division of labor and the cleavage into classes.. Groups of hunter gathers searching for food don't need to protect the surplus of food created by agriculture on land in a specific place. You can't get rid of the state because the capitalist need it to defend their control of the surplus value of production. Any theory that requires private property is going to require a state. Get rid of private property and you get rid of the requirement for a state but not necessarily the need for a new one. The use of state power was just one of the disagreements that broke out after Lenin's death. .
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Hitler was willing tool of Big Business. He was appointed chancellor by President General von Hindenburg. All the big companies remained in private hands and received big armament contracts. They day after his appointment all the police were required to where NAZI Party armbands. The enabling act was passed by his Party and the other conservative parties. The Communist Party had been expelled and the Social Democrats all voted no!! This made Hitler a dictator with no need for any more meetings of the Reichstag. This is the way capitalism functions as it goes into extreme decay and no unity among the working class for a socialist revolution can be had.
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Before Food stamps we had government cheese DF. Every Boss I've come across was looking for a way out of hard work. Actually the dumbest ones work in sales where they have constant company meetings as pep talks with all kinds of rewards promised. They give them company underwear with the company logo and a special panel in case they shit their pants after piising away hours sucking their thumbs.
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@kalburgy2114 Thomas was mad because he wasn't getting the offers of big money at capitalist law firms like the whites in hs class. He connected it to affirmative action so he became a big opponent making a career out of being a mouthpiece for big business. Sowell held a civil service government job before going to Harvard, got GI Bill money and was thrilled to get another government job after finishing grad school residency requirements. Did he use his 10 points Veterans preference?
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Regulation has reached the point to where a taxi driver in CT must have a medical card and now if you do have a medical waiver it's on you medical card for the company to see.
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@clintongriffin2077 I see it an emergency much like Trumps inserection than? USCIS is hiring so all Abbott needs to do is send his DPS Troopers to USCIS. He doesn't need to upserp Constitutional Authority with a so called Emergency declaration. Whats keeping you from working fir USCIS?
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@s3v3n3 She came here and worked without proper VISA authorization. Of course latter she got the proper visa and became a citizen so you tell me when did she become legal? Her family then came with Chain migration. Lawyers can always come up with some kind of argument after all apparently she finally came in under an Einstein VISA which means the county really needed her for artistic or scientific reasons.
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@AllPileup Don't expect it from this guy who is an obvious spokesmen for reformist tendency.
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@antone1azet My experience is just the opposite the dumbest guy, the guy who has trouble doing his job, the guy who constantly needs help is the guy who sucks up to management.
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@turtleboy1188 Its hard to avoid the truth. We are materialist because ideas even religion arise from the material world not the other way around.
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The problem revolves around capitalism where value of the social wage only pays for the workers to reproduce their labor for the next pay period. This means the to make the bigeest profits the capitalist seeks to pay the lowest wages driving wages down below the cost to replace a new generation of workers.
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@NoName-lq6vw Nevertheless the bosses are always trying to get the union officials to keep up "their half of the bargain."
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@stevehicks8944 No one is forced from their home by a landlord. All have the opportunity to learn without tution. The revolution brought the education and literacy of the peasants so they could no longer be fooled. The revolution also brought Doctors to the countryside. No one was told that they could not be an administrator rather they were told they could no longer use their position to exploit others. The Cuban revolution has never had a problem educating enough people. The Latin American school of medicine has 10,000 students being educated at no direct cost to the student.
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@davidgough3512 The employer needs only pay a wage with which the worker can reproduce his labor for the next pay period. The central bank can add money via loans to increase the value of property in currency while holding wages at the same level using inflation to cut wages and thereby favor property owners over wage earners.
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@blueponypicsFlickaSocks It good for Wall St and the billionaires who have never done better. They also own Washington. So don't expect any help from either party.
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@cherylgoodall8120 Waving a flag doesn't put food on the table.
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This was the beginning of end of segregation. The women's movement would fight for equality and the right to use contraceptives and legal abortion. Actually Goldwater was a Jew so being required to say the lord's prayer was not something Jews wished to say in school. Goldwater was not allowed into an Arizona country club because of his being a Jew. The Pledge was removed because to many were saying at the end "...with Justice for some." The anti war movement would begin to rise against Johnson resulting in Johnson's Presidency breaking on the rock of antI imperialism. Religion is a prop for capitalism "The opiate of the people." This is why the bourgeois can't have enough of this nonsense. Moral virtue was the policeman's club on a Black man's and later anti war student demonstrators. J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the American Gestapo sending out spies and provators in a secret program called Cointelpro. One of its secret goals was to "Prevent the rise of a Black Messiah".
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@jeffbguarino Capitalist don't need educated people they need workers who follow orders. They replace skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first. So education becomes nothing but an overhead cost to be minimized just like healthcare. So while the US has no problem building plenty of advanced nuclear weapons and delivery systems it can't educate enough Doctors for its population. Contrast this to revolutionary Cuba able to hold the most powerful Empire at bay with minimal weapons and never having a problem producing enough educated people despite the net emigration. Since the end of the cold war the American Imperialist see other countries as the source of educated people along with cheap labor to be used as needed. The ruling class is more interested in presenting itself as having good manners being diverse and inclusive.
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.That is because foreign diplomats are not subject to US law. They can only be expelled to their country of origin. The very fact that you can be sent to prison after being charged with a crime is what makes you subject to US jurisdiction.
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Outdated idea? Like capitalism is doing so much for the people in the US and Russian federation. The "Brain Drain" occurs because capitalism doesn't need educated people since education like healthcare are overhead expenses that impinge on profits through taxes or direct corp costs. Capitalism needs order takers and if you were Cuban and not from the US or Europe the healthcare syatem would have done better at keeping you alive during the pandemic. Cuba produced its own vaccine making it patent free.
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@agapp11able The biggest mistake was the political theory of Stalin of building Socialism in one country and not advancing the world revolution. You can't have peace with Imperialism because it's a system of exploitation. All this talk of not enough incentives and the failure of central planning is bullshit. If anything their were too many incentives and not enough honesty in the central planning which is a cultural problem that carried over from the Stalin era. Stalin destroyed Lenin's Party with the 1930's purges and what was left was a shell being run by privileged bureaucrats who began to think like capitalists and so introduced all that is wrong with capitalism back into the Soviet system. Going down this foolish road of peaceful coexistence and massive military expenditures when a well armed militia is one of the best defensive military organizations.
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@CHMichael Since housing isn't for sale and you can't be evicted or foreclosed upon or taxed out of your home you much more of an owner in Cuba than the US. You choice to purchase via mortgage is just that an illusion of choice and ownership a setup to insure banks get paid for financing. Plenty of Bourgeois economist predicted housing was the workers best investment as the price would always rise. Home ownership makes workers more conservative and less likely to strike because now they have something to lose like the farmer who is tied to the land. That was part of the reason for the home ownership drive in the US. No different than the illusion of a good paying job for life. The capitalist system is the breaker of its own illusions. It can't avoid depression decline fascism and war.
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This is what's called Imperialism.
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@beeteeinc87 Hate Moore and his stupid docs. In fact I though "Roger and Me" was a comedy. Others blame workers for racism and not the upper and middle class who make all the decisions regarding race. We don't set up racist barriors but he does. Screw him and the rest of the no good Clinton lovers.
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@crypastesomemore8348 That's a lot of bullshit the bosses determine how many workers to hire not the cost of wages. They don't hire more workers than the labor power needed to do the job regardless of the cost of labor. The bosses collect the taxes for the bosses government also. Inflation is cause by profit seeking bosses raising prices to increase their capital gains. The free lunch is what the bosses get on their expense account and when the go to the mailbox for the dividend check.
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@glenncordova4027 You should talk about hand outs when you had to bail out some of the largest banks in the world with the "No banker left behind act." Dictatorship? Sure your not a dictatorship that's why your ruling class wants to criminalize Donald Trump's capitalist political opposition. "They be a revolution in the United States before there will be a counter revolution in Cuba" Fidel Castro.
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@max420thc Forget about Venezuela a poor country that they are still trying to strangle with sanctions. They spend trillions on military waste projects. They print US Treasury bonds that they then sell to the rich who then get paid with tax money. The debt has a creditors who want more than they put in. That's what investing is all about getting something for nothing with no work required. For capitalism to keep going the workers must go into impossible to pay back debts. As machines replace labor raising capital value than since the profit comes from our labor profit rates must decline. Nixon is the one who ended the gold standard enabling unlimited inflation. Any fool can understand you can't just print money and then expect to get back more than you started with. That's why they have no choice but to keep the presses running. It's never a question of halting the presses but how fast to run them. That's why both parties keep them going. When you police the world for rich American investors who demand a return for good or bad investments you can't help but create an unsustainable situation.
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@jerb5965 Nor is the Cuban Revolution a repeat of the Stalin regime . The Stalin Regime was not a continuation of the October Russian revolution but a reversal of the first great victory over capitalism. The Moscow trials of 1936 to 1938 were directed against all disagreed with Stalin and his methods. Unlike Mao and Tito Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were not members of any of the Stalinist Communist Parties. The Cuban Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party) did not come on board util later on after the armed struggle lead by Fidel Castro's 26 of July moment had begun. The new Communist Party wasn't founded until 1965 six years after the January 1, 1959 defeat of Batista.
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No Congressional Strike breaking. Get rid of the points system.
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@carlosramos5256 Hitler lead Germany into destruction and a military defeat. While Fidel kept the US Imperialist at bay and defeated the American imperialists allies the South African racists at Cutio Cunavale.
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Pete fromtheIsland He can stop the sale of any weapon system spare parts, mid air refueling of Saudi F-15's with US tankers, halting the delivery of any more military arms, and evacuate US bases in Saudi Arabia. Demanding the halt of any more executions. No using executions to hide the truth.
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Tell Biden to end the blockade!!
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Harry Moobs Why do we need over 800 foreign military bases? Why do we need to build 22 billion dollars worth of nuclear powered submarines along with the nuclear tipped missiles to launch from them. Gov't shouldn't be about the war business but the peace business. We are entering a crisis that will NOT go away in a few weeks. Thousands are losing their jobs and thousands of small businesses are being ordered closed.
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Korea is one country they need to settle their own problems without outside military interference. We are tried of paying the price of defending capitalist investors protection in the colonies. The US needs to close all 600 foreign military bases. Why should we pay to protect low wags bosses in the third world? Let them pay the same wages they do here.
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Lies told in service to Imperialism.
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Cheap labor and resources is what big business understands.
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@jonc6157 Puerto Rico's numerical population is actually declining. Free market's don't do anything. 2008 is the result of Milton Freedman's theories.
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@MrBluntNose Resources are allocated based upon the needs of the private profit industrial profiteers. Those who can exert a chokehold like Amazon or Walmart can rake in the biggest Profits.
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@sbkarajan They overload container ships which then have containers fall off the ship and break open. releasing things like thousands of shoes. Plastic bags and bottles are cheaper than the paper bag and glass jars and bottles. They let the public water supply decline and sell you bottled water instead. .
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Why is the middle class in decline? Just when did he answer that question?
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Because the government enacted laws to prevent business from discriminating against people of color after sit-in protests against the refusal of by Woolworth's Five and Dime to serve black customers at lunch counters.
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Brian Belk Kennedy was responsible for his reckless anti Cuba policy. He brought the world to the brink of nuclear war because he was but hurt after losing the Giron assault which was defeated in 72 hours.
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US Imperialist Bankers and Bosses cut their losses. War is profits for the rich and devastation for the poor. Once again capitalism shows it true nature as a force for devastation and destruction. . .
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@wrathchild7218 Your one of these intellects who has never held a real job and just went ti school and had books and theories read to him like a child.
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Why do you go to Walmart and ask them where the Free Market is?
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Black-pill-rising. Pol Pot was armed by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter in an effort to punish Vietnam.
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No wedding cakes for Black People made by religious bigots either. Minister Farrakhan will be happy to take your business though. Are you sure you want a Klan revival based upon the religious believes of the White Citizen's council?
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@AFGuidesHD Cuba doesn't need those to maintain its independence. China is more likely to acquire Taiwan without firing a shot much like the US role in Canada. Taiwan businessmen already have interests in China. If Taiwan were to change its official name that would be an indication of it seeking to be seen as nationally independent. As long as it claims to be the true government of China its claim of independence as a seperate nation seems to be bogus. After the civil war the United States considered taking over Canada. Proposals to admit what were provinces of the British Empire did not gain popular support within them. While the British set up the Dominion of Canada for home rule. .
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@jameshouston6209 There is nothing ambiguous about it the constitution does not prohibit parking in snow zones or preventing immigrants from voting. Keep that in mind when asking a Judge if the Constitution prohibits Santa Claus from landing on the wrong side of a New York street during a snow emergency and why Republicans in Orange County, CA haven't enacted emergency parking regulations for snow storms.
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@TWE_2000 Ok Professor know it all.
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@calidawg111 Cuba shows how a workers and farmers government can work.
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@joes46985 To this day the US Imperialist are unable to accept Cuban sovereignty. They continue their blockade of the island and what prevents an invasion is knowledge that such action taken by the US would be very costly in world political terms. The Cuban government and people have many friends who would protest such a reckless action. Mexico never signed on to the Cuban threat and kept diplomatic relations with Cuba thoughout the cold war right up to sending aid to break the cruel US blockade of the island. The Mexican ambassador replied to the US proposal that Cuba designated a threat to Mexican security that 20 million Mexican's would die laughing.
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@joebouret747 That's a really stupid remark since Havana probably looked like LA does today before the revolution in 1959. Kennedy, a Democrat, was the one who ordered the invasion and bombing of Cuba so why should we like the "lesser evil"? When both parties are evil? Even Kim Jong Un understands that Trump like Obama is the representative of the US ruling class. Somehow all these fools think voting DemoPublican is a solution. We say that the working people need to stand up to the bosses attacks on our wages and living standards. To rebuild the unions as a fight force on the job and a new labor party built out of the coming union battles with the capitalists.
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@junli6065 Although Mao was a classic Stalinist the Chinese leadership was wise enough not to adopt the ideas of Bill Clinton and Milton Freedman like Yeltsin and Gorbachev. All that was gained could have been destroyed with shock therapy along with an invitation for the Western Imperialist to come back to China and do as they pleased.
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@aburden8580 We need a new Labor Party based in the trade unions without limousine liberals.
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She's a blatant liar.
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@T30-z5w He had no choice as a youngster like you did. We have power concentrated into the hands of a few as the head of state corrupted by the stock market. At least any error they make aren't those of a corrupt ruling class that is becoming increasingly incompetent. I hope he is good at his craft because most shoes are made in factories with machinery.
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@bobtokarchic494 I did not say open borders. I'm pointing out these policies will do nothing positive for workers crime or anything else. They already have plenty of laws, jails and a prison population that exceeds that of China and even the Stalin years in the Soviet Union by percentage and number. As far as bosses are concerned every trade policy where they lose a sale is unfair to them. Go ahead though you need your safe space in that gated community.
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@kyotabrown6999 Why don't you go to your safe space and cast your vote at the homeowners assocation?
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@Joseluis4wellness Much like Jesus descending from heaven to read the gospel.
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@syourke3 We've published a newspaper."The Militant" since 1928. Lead the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters General strike, fielded a US Presidential candidate since 1948. Our leaders meet with revolutionaries from the early days of the Cuban revolution. We defeated the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@valeriognudi7325 The US government is unhappy because its big companies who pay to elect the two parties can not come into Cuba and do as they please like when Batista was in power. The US government has been punishing the Cuban people for exercising their sovereignty over their own country with a multinational trading blockade.
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@Goodwill_Hunter No deal with the capitalist bandit Biden.
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@MentholCiC It's good to let them speak openly so they can be rejected in public.
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@miguelnascimento2847 Portugal which spent years under a fascist dictatorship of Salazar. It was so bold that it even called itself a dictatorship.
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@taylorstanwood8949 Like I said, "Thomas Paine" was against all organized religion see his pamphlet "Age of Reason". Go to Canada and join the LOYALIST's of the British Empire.
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@matheusvillela9150 I get it Communism BAD!!!! Capitalism GOOD!!! Anymore Sunday school lessons you want to teach?
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@Non,Player, Adeptus People are starving to death in war zones and thousands died due to starvation caused by middle east wars launched from the US.
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Nworb Sitruc The 2008 crisis signaled the end of the world US Imperialist system and the US Empire.
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@nicoled3562 We understand how your basic economy works. The rich get rich at the expense of the working class and poor. Its capitalism that creates the homeless and big mansions in New Jersey and Connecticut.
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@Danny Deal Obviously your the one who is Brain dead. The government has decided to have a lockout and re introduce slave labor. That's how capitalism works. Mean while the rich still have their maids, door men, drivers, pool boys, nannies, cooks and personal assistant. Its impossible for them to even put on a bathrobe without help.
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@crniskadu9881 When the Batista regime was overthrown they discovered that Yugoslavia had offered to sell Batista arms after the American Imperialist had stopped selling them to Batista.
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Interesting idea. Do you think the Supreme court will buy it?
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@Simbor-rh1dj Better to fight than live on your knees in front of billionaires.
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Sounds like a good time to go on strike.
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@maslondotravels Why what are they going to do build a wall with the US?
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We live under a dictatorship of the property owners.
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@jmjfanss The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments.
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Sure the should have just sat back and let Churchill and Truman launch an invasion for the Empire on which the sun never sets..
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@bloodhun23 Nancy Pelosi holds a big rally declares Trump to be a dictator who shuts down government seeks military support form Marine General Dunford. Declares herself an interm President because she was reelected after Trump. North Korea recognizes new government say's this is not a coup but just Peoples Democracy. Canada says coup ok as long as no one gets hurt.
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@silverlegend1000 Rebuild the trade unions and organize a fight back.
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@kaosisback8376 Fidel lead a revolution against the American dictator Batista by refusing to take American advice on how to make a revolution. The US then labeled him a dictator for refusing to take US advice, Fidel accomplished more for the poor in his life than Petersen will ever archive with his 12 principles.
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"...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." From the original constitution Article 6 section 3 Unlike the Canadian charter of rights and freedom or the Confederate slavers Constitution. Nowhere in either the original constitution or amendments is God or the word God used or even mentioned. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/works/age-reason/ch01.htm That's Thomas Paine in "The Age of Reason" giving the bible and relgion in general a crushing body blow.
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@JKeane-i9b LMAO.
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@davidanderson7460 What we need is working class internationalism against capitalist globalism.
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@dmay3391 I like that idea. One problem is how will the ruling class fund its military control of the world. They'll think about that for about 30 seconds and then say no.
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@giovincomaz2175 Those people dying didn't mark the end of Communism in either the Soviet Union or China though did it? The end of WW2 resulted in the defeat of Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo though didn't it. The cold war was mostly a war of words rather than a true world war. That is why it was called the cold war. It was marked by a US policy of containment of Communism which had threatened the Western Imperialist Empires starting with The Russian Revolution, the founding of the new communist parties and the 1920 Congress of the Peoples of the East. The US sought to take the place of the European Empires post World War 2 with its new world Institutions like the UN, IMF, World Bank and Bretton Woods conference.
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@ADobbin1 The real problem is the two parties are the representatives of the tiny capitalist minority.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 The Soviets were councils of workers, soldiers and peasants. The provisional government was just that provisional. A situation of dual power. Not a coup.
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@@guido4231 Like all defenders of capitalism he must deny the basic exploitative nature of the system of commodity production. He denies that the source of capitalist profits is the exploitation land, labor and nature. Since he claims to have read Das Kapital he must also deny that the system leads to economic crisis caused by the long term declining rate of profits as capital replaces higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. He can't escape the problem that capitalist are classes of exploiters divided by nation state that find themselves entering wars to defend their profits above all other groups no matter how much finger waging he and others do at the bosses.
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@Kala12326 Capitalism is in economic crisis caused by its own workings
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Racism has taken a beating in the US. It not like it all gone but the days when A US president had his Klansmen supporters riding horseback at his inauguration are gone. The law and juries will put white man in jail for murdering a black person. For a large number of caucasians racial discrimination is not acceptable. A California jury refused to convict a Mexican immigrant of murder despite Trump using him as an excuse and an example to attack immigrants during his election campaign.
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My cousin is closeted gay conservative single mother who adopted 4 children of which 3 are non white. I have respect for her because she gave those children a home they otherwise wouldn't have. How many of these Pro Birthers (pro Life) have done that? How many have opened their home to even one orphan?
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@mikeymasters8459 Down with the over educated liberal hypocrites. Join a union and fight for workers control of industry.
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@michaelsalmon9832 It has come up in questions of all women's sports, spas and bathrooms. With women being told that California law permits men who claim to be transitioning women with a penis into all women's spa facilities and transitioning high school males running in the CT women's track and field races.
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@TRmPisthebestEver Actually those are the very fairy tales that the modern bourgeois economists tell each other. They must convince themselves and each other that capital must be producing actual value without labor. Otherwise how could you sell credit default swaps or Bitcoin. According to them value is purely subjective and you can give anything value no matter how ridiculous. This is the end road all the great Bourgeois economist thinkers must travel . To think otherwise is to "cave into" dialectical materialism and capitalism not being a happy meal at the end of the day.
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Chesterman has a million dollar loan out so you can see who butters his bread.
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The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act No women has to die of a botched abortion in a cold motel room. Unless pro life gets its way. PRO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE WOMEN DON"T HAVE TO DIE.
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@foodconnoisseur9321 The reason for socialism becoming popular again is the failure of capitalism to meet the expectations of the young and working people. That's the reason for both Trump and Sanders becoming popular. The status quo defended by suit and tie conservative libertarians like Stossel is headed for the wastebasket.
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@herbalmaharaj8790 If their so prosperous how come they like the US were totally unprepared for the coronavirus? Why can't they train 10,000 foreign doctors in London, Brussels, Paris or Berlin at no direct cost to the student for the poor countries? Like the small Island of Cuba can? Sure they have state paid universal healthcare that doesn't go beyond their borders. For the rest of the world all they have is Imperialist charity funds. After all the gold, diamonds, latex and other raw materials they and the US stole from Africa, Asia and Latin America you would think that they could at least train more Doctors for their former colonies.
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@DrBeckyEm Congressional control of the executive is limited to impeachment of the President and the power of the purse unless it wants to abolish the position FBI director by statue.
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death to socialism Finland IS a capitalist country. Every advanced capitalist country from the very beginning has had taxes. England, France, the US, Germany. They raise taxes to pay for activities that don't make profits. Name me a single advanced capitalist country without taxes? A REAL country not an Ayn Rand mental invention.
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@AlanTheBeast100 The problem is the profit drive of the capitalist bosses. The rate of profit in industry declines as machine replace skilled labor with unskilled labor.
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You killed Iraqi's because you were told to. You didn't bring us any freedom. Just because the government called it Iraqi freedom. If anything your thinking shows just the opposite. Any fool can pull a trigger. Your a confirmation of that. When your in business you have an obligation to serve all with respect. The first words out of this mans mouth was that he did not provide baked good for same sex weddings. He wasn't asked to do anything special and his refusal would not be a promotion of gay marriage because the cake is eaten after the wedding so he would not be facilitating the marriage. If you asked for a cake for a military marriage and were out rightly refused service how would you feel about that?
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No he refused to bake them a custom wedding cake outright based upon it being for a same sex wedding. The questions of gay or other symbols never entered the conversation. He later claimed this as a religious right for the company he owned Masterpiece cakeshop to refuse gay customers request for custom wedding cakes. He refused any compromise of having an employee without his views or an outside contractor do the baking of wedding cakes for same sex couples.
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@moosedoggy1631 Run along now bow wow and play nice.
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@juresichj All that leis on the assumption that the capitalist system is capable of educating enough Doctors. In fact just like healthcare for workers education for workers does NOT produce more profits for the bosses. As far as the bosses are concerned education and healthcare are unnecessary expenses that need to be minimized and monopolized by the Bosses. What they want is a working class that takes their orders and waits upon them hand and foot for their every need. Because as Karl Marx observed those who live in palaces think differently than those who live in a hut. They showed them sleves to be greedy bastards during the Covid crisis where they prioritised profits and private property overall else.
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@Wamsuo58u What business tycoon is not a greedy capitalist who would sell his own grandmother if it meant bigger profits and market share. A capitalist who refuses to be greedy and compete is headed for bankruptcy court.
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@36inc (Respect Free Speech) Not really after all there are 10,000 foreign students training at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba today. All at no direct cost to the student and Cuba has a 9 to 1,000 ratio of doctors to the population while the US has a 2.3 ratio 1,000 of doctors if anything that shows that the goals of Che are still being kept alive. All Cuba and every other country in the world ask is an end to the Cuba Embargo by the US. Instead hypocrisy and double standards come from Trump in the midst of a world health crisis accusing the Cuban Doctors on foreign health missions of terrorism and being slaves to Raul Castro.
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@36inc The secret to US Imperialism is the use of local oligarchies. It makes no difference if they dress like the Saudis or wear a dashiki. What's important is the business (economic) political and military relationships. American investors in a Venezuelan Gold mine don't want to lose that investment to Venezuela and US courts have ruled in the US Investors favor. The same goes elsewhere do you think the US Investors want to lose that huge coppermine in Chile or banana and coffee farms in central America? They're much happier with sharing resource profits with oligarchs than losing everything.
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@36inc You think I'm afraid of you or your threats? Why don't you go get a life. I've already been shot in the back by the cops. I remained conscious that time. I was sucker punched once. Knocked out for 3 days in the hospital. I'm part of the Left Opposition Why should I be afraid of you? A petty bourgeois fool who thinks they know it all? Give me a break. Your lucky if you can scare a leaf on a tree.
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"History is an anchor in reality against the rhetorical whims of the Zeitgeist." While the rhetorical wims of the "cherry picking" "neoliberal zeitgeist" Professor Sowell are on full display.
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@rocknroll1959film The danger doesn't come from nut cases waving confederate flags but Big Tech who wants thought control. Liberals are known for passing laws against NAZI's and then truning them agaonst the working class. Those who have confidence in their ideas have no fear of free speech or debate. Don't forget these people think that they just need to buy everything. People aren't buying the nonsense of Rubin anyway.
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@Lonesome__Dove Most of it involves the drug war. Cops love arresting marijuana smoking college students who are then held for ransoms to be paid by their middle class families.
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@phillipgabriel8026 Very unlikely either will ever be convicted if anything.
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@austinoasis Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.
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The move to other countries for bigger profits. Who's going to buy their trucks if they push down wages to the minimum wage? Workers in other countrie are wising up and going on strike to raise wages their also. China has seen thousands walk out of those big computer assemble plants. If GM can pay a union wage here then bosses can pay a union wage everywhere including in those non union plants. This is what the Toyota, VW and Nissan bosses fear most if they don't raise their wages to UAW levels they'll face organizing strikes.
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@Porelcaminitoyotellevare Like J F Kennedy who got and accepted a pulitzer prize for a book he never wrote. The only talents real capitalist have is the ability to hire lawyers and give orders.
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The very workings of capitalism create the break up of families. Why pay the wage necessary to have a family when all you need is a single worker? To address crime one would have to arrest the professional swindlers of finance capitalism. The cops don't arrest their masters when law written by corrupt politicians. The best decision a worker can make is to join a union.
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We need to rebuild our unions and use the strike and protest to reverse the no change in real income since 1973.
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@newyorkcity76 The goal of every banker is to put his competition out of business. This is the way capitalism works. Its a game that the rich play among themselves and we don't count.
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@handle-y8d He showed how desperate he was in interrupting and defending his Qatar bosses.
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@rogerarwood2612 Sure a loyal lapdog of US Imperialism wants to dance to the tune of the Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. .
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@irw4350 At no time is the word Socialist or Socialism used.
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@jameseverett9037 The capitalist class small and large are atomized and in competition with each other. The working class advances through solidarity. We will win because our strategic role and power in production and the national capitalist classes inability to solve the problems created by its love of money and power in the world market.
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@simon359 It says that the United States is a class divided society. That the power of money is not an absolute power in only one classes hands. Money is only a tool around which to organize economy but not the only way or even the best way to organize an economy. Bourgeois society puts a price on every human relationship and forces man to come to terms with his very nature as part of nature and our very survival as a species.
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@marybailey7881 Rail Bosses have been depending on Congressional Strike Breaking. Bosses don't want to part with record profits.
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Even Sowell himself is contradictory in what he states. There was no private property in the Soviet Union so there was no need to make profits for a ruling class. Instead a privileged bureaucracy was able to seize power and institute a system of incentives that lead back to capitalism after destroying Lenin's Party in the Great Purge carried out by Stalin.
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@101Navyseals If the law doesn't apply than the grandstanding Governor and Attorney General can come out and say so. You should need to file a law suite to get the care you need.
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@stanislav7920 You haven't read any of Trotsky's criticism of The Communist International after Lenin. The Wiemar Republic where the largest party in the Communist International went down to defeat because of Stalin's policy of equating the Social Democratic workers with the fascists calling them Social fascists. Then the swing from the ultra left to the right with the popular fronts that included the bourgeois liberals who paved the way for fascism. This is how Stalin ended up supporting the Democratic Imperialist after the non aggression pact with Hitler failed. Stalin got a lot of good bourgeois press until the Democratic Imperialist had no more need for him after the defeat of Germany and Japan.
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What premise is that? A statement that "I don't do gay."
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Because they gave the cops a gun without training they can do whatever they want with it? They have an unarmed man in a cell and cops get to shot him like fish in a barrel?
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Dr Fauci will fix him.
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Stay out of it then. Congress has no right to impose a settlement the right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendment. Get rid of the Railway "slave" Labor Act.
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@mrsatire9475 One law for Ms Trump and another law for everyone else.
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Sure if only government were like a family being crushed by inflation and wage stagnation then government could solve our problems.
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Did he also predict the crisis of 2008?
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@GlynDwr-d4h Sure and the bosses are talking about using artificial intelligence because they lack any of their own.
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@Itsbootsyagain Being innocent and vulnerable never stopped a politician from sending young men to die for rich mens wallets.
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@distantraveller9876 LOL Poor Elon Musk his Space X salary is only $1 a year and he has to sleep in his own factory. Any more sob stories you want to tell?
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@donlang5841 I'd be happy to answer as many questions as you like about Karl Marx and Lenin's theories and why you actually LOST the cold war.
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@@apsoypike1956 True the wage labor system is much more productive than the slave labor system but the pursuit of profit by the capitalist and the old slave and land owners of the South eventually came back together against the interests of labor with segregation and the defeat of radical reconstruction. Capitalism with its pursuit of profits seek to pay the workers only that which is needed for the workers to socially reproduce their labor power. The problem has now become that women in the modern industrial world aren't reproducing at a rate to sustain the population. Workers are putting off family formation because of low wages and capitalist insecurity. Women have access to modern methods of birth control and medical abortion don't want the responsibility of two or three children of their own. This is a world wide phenomenon. Without immigration the United States would have a declining population.
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@SC-ni5me That's government spending money not making money. If the government wants to spend money on health care I'm all for that.
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@juniorgod321 Opening a small business or a small (food) coop can not change the natural way in which capitalism works. Capitalism naturally leads to monopoly and the rate of return on investment drops as machinery replaces labor that drives investment into paper values. The 2008 crisis is not an accident or due to bad policy.
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@loganprasch7115 Politician always can't write enough crime laws to appear they are actually doing something like murder of a pregnant women being double murder. It makes no differences since you are probably get the same time for murdering one or dozen people.
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@Isaiah_45_7 WarGamer That's right a fetus is not a person and many of the atoms and molecules that make up your body today were not the original ones at the fetal stage either.
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@olie171 "Then why when a pregnant woman is murdered, it's considered a double- homicide?" Because capitalist politicians of both parties like to do bipartisan grandstanding. The corrupt politicians like to write more and more laws to appear like they are actually doing something. How different is the punishment for one murder or one hundred murders? Can you be executed twice or serve more than one life sentence?
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What we need to do is rebuilt the unions into fighting instruments of the working class. We need a new party of the working class based in the unions not the de corruption of a capitalist party.
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That is much better than Democrats engaging in subterfuge.
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@akui88 Join a union and fight back against the Billionaire class.
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Its in both the Constitution in which the it states "..no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public trust under the United States..." and in the first Amendment " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
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I am completely disgusted by these people calling in death threats.
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Like everything else said by US Politicians there is no evidence that Fidel or anyone else in the Cuban government lived like Trump. Fidel spoke at La Plaza de Revolution in front of huge numbers of the Cuban people without bullet proof glass and all kinds of security measures that are required for US Presidents. The people of Cuba don't live like they did before the revolution with swollen bellies and no Doctors in the countryside under the gangsters who severed the big landowners.
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The Royal family is still playing the role of a personality cult while Stain's ended with Kruschev who spilled the beans in his not so secret speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956.
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You want me to answer a theoretical question. i will explain it like this. No one was told after the Cuban revolution that they could not be an administrator. What they were told is the could not use their position to exploit others. Many of the upper class and middle class left for the US right after Batista and his cronies ran away. They all assumed that a US Invasion would quickly defeat the new Revolutionary Government and return back their land and private property.
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You can't use a factory all by yourself. If you start using violence to protect your private property what do you expect? You get sent away to prison for using violence not a disagreement. The workers decided they wanted Trump as President and a majority of the ruling class wants him out. If we elect a Socialist President and Congress, assuming you don't cancel elections or have already started a civil war, we can accomplish everything we want changed in a legal and constitutional manner. Your system uses police and military violence to protect your private property both internally and externally. How many people died because the US/UK decided to invade Iraq? Your political economic system has been creating wars and world wars since its inception. The socialist/communist leaders who opposed and protested WW1 and WW2 in the US found themselves sent to jail. The FBI's cointelpro program was set up to specifically target any kind of decent that Hoover said needed to be stopped. You always want to scare people with Stalin or Mao yet you completely ignore the suffering of the people living under the Czar or the Chinese warlords. Czarists troops mowing down peaceful protestors. Young worker and peasants being sent to the front with no training who had to wait for someone to die before they got a rifle. An estimated 20 to 30 million dead during the Taiping rebellion. Japan tested biological warfare on the Chinese people.
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Maybe you can explain why the US Prison and Probation system holds the biggest number of prisoners exceeding even those in Stalin's gulags? How about you explain why there are 50 to 60 thousand homeless living on sidewalks and in allies in Los Angeles the second largest city in the US. If your economy is so great why the homeless population? Got any pictures of homeless people in Havana?
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@IskanderYari TheMilitant.com is the oldest continuously published Socialist Newspaper in the US.
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@iamnotmrpc Clinton promised to end coal and coal miners.
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@adaliallado8160 Just another counterrevolutionary pretending to be a friend with criticism. Huber Matos is your hero.
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@JoostEurovisionFans If you seriously want my advise well than what are you doing for a living now?
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Unions are the working people's organizations. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded in the Carpenters Union hall. We aren't the bosses slaves without rights to act and bargain collectively. Money doesn't make you the King.
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"Captured by the FBI" Yes "Black Activist" Yes "Political Prisoner" Yes "Revolutionary communist:" No.
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@chairde Chavez was a fool for trying to be all things to all Venezuela. Fidel Castro didn't make that mistake. When the Yankees launched their invasion he declared the revolution socialist and nationalized them down to the nalis in their boots. Once Chavez was back after the coup he should of done what Fidel did. Nationalize everything and arrest any US colabertors.
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@ShadowMark474 The Cubans are the closest since they are internationalists seeking to advance the struggle for justice with a workers state. When Gorbachev was doing market reforms which lead to the Yeltsin coup and Putin's dictatorship. Fidel was doing rectification of errors explaining how the injustices of the Stalin era were never correctly dealt with how the Soviet Party became disconnected from the masses..As Fidel stated we made errors but none as great as those under Stalin where torture and crimes against socialism were committed and because we could not rely on Soviet tanks to defend the revolution from the Enemy just 90 miles away we had to pay close attention and listen to what our people were telling us.
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@jjjackson5183 That's great for those with money and live in gated communities.
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That's complete nonsense. Trump is merely pointing to the obvious that Democrats have done nothing but talk and that the slogans of Obama of hope and change are cheap ones. That once elected Democrats forget everything that you think they promised.
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When they remove all the management dead wood, cut their pay, golden parachutes, bonuses and all the other perks they have than you can expect us to listen. The people who buy the bonds should have paid taxes to begin with.
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I struggle with idiots who think they no better than a women and the Doctor involved. Do you think someone voluntarily carres a pregnancy into late term and then just out of the blue decides she wants an abortion? What makes you think its any of your business getting involved in a decision that may very well be heart breaking to begin with?
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@Clarencechapman She fits the legal profession to a tee. Now if they put her on the court when ever question concerning women comes up the attorneys can call in a opposing biologist for expert testimony.
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@stuart6186 Children need proper sex education so they can act responsibly as they pass through puberty. You are not doing them any favors by suborning ignorance.
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Build protests outside of the county buildings.
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All you needed to be a Zionist was to want a home where you could be free of the Pogroms and the Christian oppression. Fidel Castro said "...the Jewish people were the most oppressed people in history..." Can you blame a man who jumps out when his house is on fire and lands in his neighbors back yard?
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Besides spewing neo liberal propaganda what great discover has he made?
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"Certainly getting rid of capitalism isn't the solution." LMAO Sure it just isn't possible that profit rates would decline as machines replace labor. Nothing like that could be possible. After all Petersen is a Doctor who knows everything.
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@Kamfrenchie Haiti, Vietnam and Algeria had to fight their way out of France.
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@ianmackenzie686 The schools are their to educate the young. The cops are their to enforce the laws the politicians write.
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@letsgowinnietheflu5439 The 13th Amendment outlaws slavery. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." the 1st Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" So. how is going on strike illegal?"
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@mattm7798 Who are you kidding the USA only wants the educated people from foreign countries to save on the cost of education. That was Stalin and those who followed him that developed the idea that they could build socialism in one country without having to advance the revolution internationally. Fidel Castro made it clear that the construction of socialism was voluntary and the minority who wanted to leave for the empty promises of Imperialism could do so. The poorest and most backward nation in Europe created the second workers state in history because the capitalist nations of Europe were destroying each other in the first world war. Capitalism went from the most productive to the most destructive system in human history right up to 1945 with the dropping of two nuclear weapons on Japanese cities.
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@Douglas Sirk Soros is no Marxist except in US classrooms.
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N "McVeigh was a fiction." I don't waste my time with those who believe in conspiracy left or right. The reason is once you go down the conspiracy road everything is possible because conspiracy makes it so. Alex Jones is your type.
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@melindamorgan4879 Yup you can get all the legality you are willing to pay for being sexy and getting married to a Billionaire can't hurt.
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@kylekim9448 Ah now we have an expert who has learned about communism. All hail here comes a guy who has learned about communism. Let's raise up a flag, give a good cheer and all salute this knowledgeable gentleman who has learned about communism. .
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Communism is the world's future while capitalism is the world's past.
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@yungchangsta Did the execution of Charles the first and the English Commonwealth that followed go well? You may not like Mao or how his regime functioned but Mao took a China wracked with war, crisis, foreign Imperialist domination and created a New China.under Chinese control. His peasant army ended landlord and warlord control in the countryside with a land reform and he kicked out the foreign imperialists in Chinese Cities. To borrow a Trump term he Made China Great Again.
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@vantaplat7411 Class struggle and mobilization is the road to socialism not electing liberals to te capitalist government.
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@timcombs2730 Like most policeman your good at character assassination and not much else. Nothing like presenting the learned opinion of a law enforcement professional to a court where the defendant has no way to refute the false testimony.
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@timcombs2730 I've had to defend myself from assholes since I was a kid. So what do I need the police for? Your expected to deal with all the people who become alienated from the rest of society for your daily job. But what they really rely on you for is riot squad duty. If I were you I'd quit and do something else. Its a thank less job that isn't worth the pay.
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You right lead an extremely sheltered life i wasn't born in Cuba Vietnam or Korea to a peasant family living in a primitive home only to have bombs dropped on my village. Instead the riot police taught me about life when the shot the me in the back with a teargas grenade. Now you can justify that anyway you want but I was unarmed and the riot police had no legal right to attack unarmed antiwar demonstrators on a college campus when the administration denied calling them.
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@timcombs2730 Nope I just wandered into it. Maybe you can become like George Orwell he was an Imperial Policeman in Burma at one time.
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@timcombs2730 The problem with Marxism as region is that it implies a static philosophical view. Despite the end of the cold war none of the basic problems of capitalism that brought about world war one have been resolved. American Imperialism is in decline, a huge working class has been created from poor Chinese peasants and war has broken out in Europe. Hardly the "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle as stated by Bush. When has Democratic Imperialism ever talked about putting a former President in prison. I remember 1989 well Reagan and Thatcher saying the had won the cold war talking about the end of history. The ruling classes are too greedy and to nationalistic which is why their rule and that of capitalism will come to an end. See Donald Trump asked questions the liberals couldn't answer and they fear those workers who backed Trump because they couldn't understand why they were left out of American capitalism's global plans. You figure out how to get American capitalism to grow like it did from 1945 to 1973 without world war three and they'll give you a dozen Noble prizes.
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@georgieporgie9195 You probably a big owner of foreign oil refiners where pollution is rampant. Fidel Castro gave the boot to the US Stooge General Batista and you've been crying about that for sixty years now.
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@mheermance DEI is just an HR for race sex and anything that can be identity based. The goal is to head off any kind of protest that might break out.
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@skosh6359 They real problem is that healthcare under capitalism is just an overhead expense so when a public health emergencies occurs its completely unprepared unlike all the prepositions made to defend the Imperialist profits system world wide by military force. Faucci and Rand will argue until the cows come home but it the capitalist system itself that is failing the people of the whole world. As far as the bosses are concerned healthcare is something they sell for a price like the right to live itself. The only disagreement is over who should profit. Wall street investors in general or big pharma bosses. .Your job is to vote for the "honest thief." but a thief none the less.
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@knightatthecrossroads222 The capitalist can't make a profit at education like selling you food or making cars so that's why they have it paid for by taxes and charity. They don't have child labor anymore so children are sent to school. They don't care if you learn anything because they need order takers not thinkers to work their jobs. That why the most important skill learned in high school is responding to bells ringing.
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You can't have unlimited numbers of transistors because eventually you get down to the atomic level. The same with clock speed eventually the distance traveled across a processor from one side to the other is a quarter wavelength of the clock speed. Than the distance the signal travels becomes important. The size of a chip is also limited to that of about the size of a fingernail.
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@steves3760 This is what a military defeat looks like.
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@Melodyofthesea78 So you want to bring back the days of the anti communist witch hunt with the secret police peaking at the records of library books. Don't let the "bad" ideas sneak into the class room. Trade unions are of course the "main enemy" of the bosses profit system.
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People like you would like to dispense with courts and evidence all tougher for the words of an all knowing police and police state.
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American capitalist cause economic crisis world wide with your plans for bigger profits for yourselves and all your wars and military waste. .
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Then end the US Blockade!!!
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@fkcavs The US has one of the highest GDP's in the world has it done anything to keep the working class wages from stagnation over the last 50 years? Did it stop the rise of homelessness? The crumbling of infrastructure, the pauperization of the elderly, the destruction and lack of housing stock with skyrocketing rents.
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End the US Blockade of the Island!!!
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Lexi Rae "Not everyone can be rich in this world because thats just not how a global economy works." It only works that way because we let it work that way. American School Districts raise their money from property taxes in the District. The district lines are drawn around County, Town or City lines. Those with the money to buy the best homes in the best areas also pay the most property taxes. They are set into areas like cities, towns or counties around which School District lines are drawn. How much money per pupil can be spent is then dependent on where you live. Now if you have a really high disposable income you send your kid to an expensive private school. Like the Country Day school were Bill Gates went to school. If you can't meet that level than maybe a Church or Catholic school is your choice. Or maybe you live in one of the better school Districts. I don't have kids but the last thing I would try to do is homeschool them.
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@noelleirina5628 If they enjoyed killing their would have been no captured survivors from Giron (The Bay of Pigs) sold back for medicine from the Yankees. Batista had a 50,000 man Army did they kill fifty thousand? No the tried only those who ordered massacre, and used torture. in trials something Batista police didn't even bother with. Nor was there ever a massacre of gays in the revolution or by the revolution.
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@oconnorsean12 No they mean a new class collaborationist power sharing arrangement with the bosses as if capitalism was reformable.
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@TruckTaxiMoveIt National Security Scare tactics here we go.
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That's first thing the cops tell you when they want some kind of confession where they can twist the meaning of your words. Let me see you wallet. Ah you've got 100 dollars in twenties. That's the same amount as was taken in the store robbery just up the street. We want you to come with us so you can help us catch the real thief. Enjoy you stay courtesy of the plea bargain system.
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@greenleafyman1028 The question isn't can capitalism be saved but how to go about replacing it. You want to follow Professor Reich into the swamp of capitalist reformism thats is your choice not that of those who have a revolutionary perspective.
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@mightymouse2098 A 100% tax on profits to pay the overhead costs of capitalism like education, schools and hospitals things working people need and bosses can't provide.
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@keepingbloodpuretypenation5906 He had the Imperialist so frightened that they murdered him because no trial could find him guilty and no jail or prison can hold a man like him. If he was a NAZI they have put him on trial and made short work of him. His ideas live on as do those of all real revolutionaries.
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Basically Florida DUi law is written so broadly being intoxicated and in physical control of anything that can be called a vehicle like a bicycle, lawnmower or trailer is a crime anywhere in the state.
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@gordonbgraham The issue is capitalism not immigration.
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This like almost all US documentary's makes the mistake of assuming the victory of US Imperialism in the cold war. That did not happen. Instead the people in the East reentered politics. In fact the state of US Imperialism is in worse shape today than thirty years ago. The crisis of 2008, the squabbling among the NATO powers and the route of Imperialist troops in Afghanistan are just some of the symptoms of a world capitalism in crisis.
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@shayparis2213 The bosses call any worker who wants a life as good as the contractors an inferior workers along with those who want to work safely on the job. The bosses want the cream and sugar in their coffee while we drink it black. The contractors only pay us until the job is complete and then its see you later partner.
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rdmo83 What you should be saying is that Canada, the US and China all operate under the law of the rulers not the rule of law.
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@mackenshaw8169 Unlike the Social Democrats utopianism and the joy at winning professorships. The American Association of Professors will not be leading a socialist revolution with faculty sit down strikes in those well endowed chairs. Just the opposite the leaders will come from the working class and small farmers. The professors and middle class will be towed along the line of march of towards power by the communist movements working class leaders.
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Make every job a union job and build a labor party to take on the bosses politically.
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Go back under that rock with your brother the salamander.
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@carlosramos5256 Its a British Imperialist propaganda video.
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Left Face Right Turn One step forward Two steps back Imperialism faile every time.
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@castlev1986 How effective a union is depends on a number of factors all related to the class struggle. The leaders are paid by the membership so at the end of the day the have to respond to what we the members want. if they refuse they can either be voted out of office or the workers can vote in a different union or no union at all. The union leaders all know that so that is why even the most craven pro company union leaders have to defend union militants. It's very difficult to fire us from a union job once our probation period has been completed.
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@castlev1986 Of course you have no evidence of union money going to a so called mob. It's just a charge made up and advanced by by greedy company CEO's, the secret police FBI and capitalist politicians as a way to attack our unions.
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@castlev1986 What I know is that the bosses hate us and do everything they can to keep us divided and fighting among each other and from what you say with all your unproven conspiracy theories you are either working for them or playing right into their greedy hands. I know the boss line when I hear it and it's always, "Give up the union you can't win and just because you live in a shack and I live in a multistory mansion doesn't mean we are any different." Take that line fishing and see who is stupid enough swallow it hook line and sinker. .
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@ralphtrynor9719 Einstein developed his ideas to explain the new facts discovered by careful observations of scientists of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Border patrol belongs at the border not bothering citizens at gas stations. So many people live along the US Mexican Border speak Spanish that even Walmart has its signs in both languages. There is no immigration crisis. The job crisis is being caused by the capitalists who refuse to hire and lie about all the jobs they say can not be filled.
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No ceasefire on Hamas!!!
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A lot of people are unhappy with Democratic Party liberals because of the failure of Obama with his promise of change and hope did nothing. Clinton did little but call them names like deplorable and racist. So they looked to Trump with his Make America Great Again. Plus you have the crazies on AM radio with unlimited conspiracies. You saw the real West Virginia during the teachers and school workers strike. I didn't see a bunch of MAGA hats there did you? Once it's clear that Trump is not who they want and isn't draining the swamp most of them will turn on him.
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So you mean it would be better if he had been born some other nationality under control of say the British Imperialist in Africa, Ireland or India when he would have faced hunger disease and starvation? ,
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@vknight7497 "Xi is a radical Marxist Leninist who wants to expand state control" State control for the top of the CCP who are the new capitalist with everything being done by maximizing profits with market relations. CCP isn't facing counter revolution. It is counter revolution. It is facing radicalizing working class under impact of capitalist crisis. So they are mouthing slogans most of all. CCP has made themselves into new capitalist thieves now fighting is breaking out amongst thieves. Western Imperialist cheered as CCP went down the capitalist road now unhappy because CCP is the market competition not following Western Imperialist advice on correct way to steal the most for Party tops.
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@razraz2423 The police and their so called union are part of the capitalists boss system not the labor movement.
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Erich Weiler Obviously taxes go into government hands and out to contractors like United Technologies and General Dynamics. Nuclear bomb building and defense spending in general is an economic drain since it provides next to nothing in continuing value like building a road, school, hospital or other infrastructure. Its real purpose is to defend American and other foreign investors (elites like you) profits and property holdings abroad.
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Doing the lords work of singing the songs of the profiteers of big business and neoliberalism.
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@gregbors8364 Down with the war mongers in Moscow, Berlin and Washington.
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People at home seldom produce anything since most production is carried out in factories by workers who operate and control massive amounts of machinery. That is just as true in Asia as it is in America. In fact the small operation is always being replaced by economies of scale. As Marx stated modern industry batters down all Chinese walls. It is also possible to over centralized as the Soviet experience shows but overall there is no reason to move into the factory or turn the home into a factory. Each only shows the bosses quest for profits at the expense of the social conditions of labor. Sure the assign of homework was an early way of getting more production out of workers just as the Irish immigrant who raised pigs in their working class London homes.
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Which of the two capitalist parties is that?
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Its the only way to fight back against company greed.
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@dlewis9760 The caboose also served as the conductors office and sleeping quarter's for the crew of a fireman, an Engineer, a Conductor and two brakemen. Since you could sleep in the caboose you didn't need to find a ride and pay up front for out of town sleeping quarters. Accidents like the one in Quebec would have never happened with a crew on board the train. .
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@sailingmartlet33 Rail Road Bosses set shipping rates NOT unions. As I said earlier Bosses raise prices until they see a drop in profitability. Central Bank generated inflation takes the place of the old fashion wage cut which would provoke strikes. By printing more dollars and creating more debt for the rich to buy instead of them paying taxes the value in dollars of property continually rises while bosses hold down wages as "inflationary." When in fact inflation is generate by the central bank and the boss hunger for more and bigger profits and capital value. It was Keynes who first advised the British Capitalist to rob the workers with a central bank and currency inflation rather than wage cuts.. The value of the English Pound in gold and silver had been previously set by Isaac Newton and with fe exceptions had been stable for 300 years,
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@xena4894 This is nothing more than a personal story of Larry, Dad and a bashing of Obama. Absolutely nothing about the civil rights movement until you get to the questions and answers.
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The working people need to use union power to fight back against the bosses and create a labor party based upon the unions instead of voting for the two boss parties of capitalism.
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@eoin4172 The capitalist spend a lot of time creating needs that are unnecessary like all the luxury goods. Capitalists need police and military violence to defend the profit system. To win the battle of the market the Generals who can discharge more troops are the winners in the battle for market share. Yes the capitalist who loses is eaten up by his fellow capitalists who are motivated by the instincts of the cannibal.
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Its just too big of a lie for even Petersen to tell.
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@mynameisben123 I don't see why it shouldn't. If you can't trust mothers and Doctors in general well who can you trust?
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The bosses government wants to create a two way pipeline immigrants in to lower wages immigrants immigrants out to avoid the pitchforks. They only want to pay the immigrant a wage to keep him working if he asks for more then they call for La Migra.
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@babysin1984 Mao did get rid of landlordism and warlordism in the countryside and kicked out the Imperialist powers. That in itself would be progressive task. In the past a national bourgeois would do that. He also had little choice but to nationalise the big capitalist firms or face counterrevolution. He and his regime from the beginning was infected with the poison of Stalinism. His regime also put an end to the Stalinist monolith. No longer was their socialism in one county but two countries each with socialism in one country and a third and fourth being Yugoslavia and Albania.
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@amacnaughton85 That's called the law of uneven and combined development. While Germany and England were the countries most ripe for socialism the country that first adopted it was the poorest Empire in Europe Russia. When further revolutions failed in Europe the Bolsheviks looked to the colonial world as being the easiest countries to break off from the Empires.
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@jmm1817 Did they have the constitution all laid out before the revolution beginning in 1776? If so why would they have adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1781? They treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 with the Articles still in place. In 1787 debate began on a new constitution went into effect in 1789 with the Bill of rights in 1791. Still think it was engineered ahead of time? How about the civil war amendments? They came after the war not before. So I guess you pre engineering fallacy falls on it face. When the third revolution comes we will be unlikely to tell you exactly how the new form of government will be put in place before hand.
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As far as what the new government will look like we have the ideas of immediate recall, administrative and legislative and judicial in one based in local workplaces and in some way central yet networked. We can certainly keep the current constitution as it stands with twerks around property rights and taxes. But we may want to change some or many aspects because we can't pre engineer it.
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@jmm1817 So your like the Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and don't pay federal taxes? Most of us end up spending what we earn because that's the way capitalism works for the working class. We have control over only what we get in a paycheck our social security check or UI check. The bosses control the profits and the bosses government controls the tax money.
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@mertonbyfield870 This guy is a jerk and nothing more than a US trained mercenary. When they decide to "come for your guns." This guy will be on point.
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She of course being the daughter of a Cuban exile wouldn't be telling lies now would she?
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@paulcarfantan6688 No one needs a grocery store to be open all the time or sit fully stocked up 24/7. Tell Biden to end the blockade.
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@jonlittle5032 The long term problem for capitalist industry is the declining rate of profits. As capital replaces labor capital value rises but since labor is the source of profits as prices tend towards the cost of production so too must the rate of profit by which all capital judges success the rate of profit must also fall.
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She is sitting on death row so you can't really be punished more than being killed once except for Oliver Cromwell who was dug up from the grave and hung by the English restored monarchy. The King wanted to make an example of what happens to republicans after death.
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@YTStopCensoringFreedomOfspeech It is illegal to terminate anyone for union membership. However the bosses ignore thr law and terminate workers anyway.
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@juliogarcia7670 We still publish The Militant and Trotsky's Collected Works at Pathfinder Press.
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@lachanclita5907 Its the end of Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism.
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@erichamilton3373 Own what? I was a worker my whole life what I own is next to nothing a truck, trailer and hand tools.
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Don't worry once this is over he will say a bedtime prayer and all will be forgiven.
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@flipgunderson1946 Look if you want to be a John Gualt we don't care because you are replaceable. Cuba lost a lot of the middle class shortly after of the revolutionary victory in 1959. They managed to keep going without them and replaced them. The US thought that they would get all the educated and not the lumpen elements when they launched the lumpen's assault on the Peruvian Embassy with Carter calling for the release of political prisoners. He got his prisoners alright just watch the movie "Scar Face".LMAO
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@flipgunderson1946 How many other small third world countries have developed a vaccine treatment for lung cancer currently in clinical trials in the US? Your the one looking out for number one. Human beings are the most successful social animal. Anyone with a brain realizes that. Capitalism has covered the earth and all countries rely on the others. In order for a factory especial a manufacturing assemble plant to work it requires co operation of all the workers at their jobs. When a strike happens usually the white collar and managers can not get a factory running because they have no idea what they are doing. So the sit around and pretend that they are working hoping for a quick end to the strike.
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Rex2212 Ya you can tell that the people in your video are NOT starving based upon the extra weight they are carrying. It's the faces that tell the real story of well feed people. A starving people don't wait peacefully to buy a chicken. You will see either heavily armed police and military in and outside the store or looting. That's what happens in capitalist countries when the poor can't afford to eat.
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Behind this cop are people who think like and for Donald Trump.
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The court needs only to rule that for profit corporations do not have religious rights and overturn the previous ruling in Hobby Lobby finding otherwise. However sensable a ruling that might seem some business owners want the right to do otherwise. Such a ruling does not force Jack Phillips the baker to do anything. It only means that Jack Phillips in the guise of Masterpiece Cake Shops the for profit corporation can not simply refuse to bake based on religious beliefs alone. He and his friends at Alliance Defending Freedom, who cry poverty, can now seek another way to poke a hole in public accommodation law. Does he have to bake 'divorce cakes'? No because divorcees are not a protected class under public accommodation law. Does he have to bake insult (KKK or NAZI) cakes? No because making insults is not protected by public accommodation law. Does he have to bake halloween cakes? Only if Satanists can claim to be a religion, require special halloween cakes for religious practice and the cake shop freely bakes speciality cakes for large groups of others for special religious practices. However in all these instances Jake the baker can refuse but how Masterpiece cakeshop complies is the second and more practical issue.
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Years ago when you got a union job you got fully paid health care, no deductions, no copays along with eyeglasses and dental. You got supplemental unemployment that paid the rest of your wage if you were laid off. You got paid holidays. Not holidays where if you work you get paid. You got time and a half for over 8 hours a day not 40 a week. You got automatic overtime at time and a half for Saturday and double time for Sunday or a holiday. You got a bonus for working nights. Now a days the want to fire you for pissing to long in the toilet. You come to work sick because if you use all you sick days that's a reason to fire you.
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@harpjason208 Pro Life is a Give Birth or Die movement.
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She will have learned a lesson alright that the cops are pigs.
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Ludd Zarko Can you provide not the number but just the name of a single person unjustly executed in Cuba since the 1959 revolution?
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There homeless because capitalism produce a reserve army of the unemployed.
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Forcing the shutdown of the Governor Lester Maddox D-GA Cafeteria did not result in the KKK forcing Bleck dry cleaners having to clean KKK robes. The 'free market' had about 100 years to fix the whites only Jim Crow separate but equal laws. KKK is not a protected class for purpose of public accommodation law nor is there a danger coming from reverse racism or reverse Christian bigotry. Unless you talking about the Masterpiece Cakeshop or Hobby Lobby.
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Masterpiece cakeshop was given the option of having another worker without his religious objections or having a contractor make the same sex cakes. Jack Phillips as owner refused on principle. One might ask would he also not make a cake for a Jewish, Islamic, or Agnostic couple? Are those weddings sanctioned by his religious beliefs? The other question is can a for profit business just go ahead and make any decisions they want based upon religion? Should for profit companies be allowed to hire, fire, and promote based upon religious belief?
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It is speech and what it is saying is lets keep the civil war going or get it restarted. If I were the business involved I would put up a sign explain exactly what that flag means, who the property owners is and how to contact him or her.
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@edwinmalachy Cuba is only a country of 19 million. He and Che Guevara stood on the shoulders of Lenin and Trotsky. The Cuban revolution continues despite all the claims of failure for the last 60 + years.
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@FCBanes I don't care if you like it or not. Nor am I interested in the usual everyone has a gun pointed at their back theories. All that is just self serving bullshit.
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@FCBanes They're still smarter than you because they understand the US isn't going to give them anything for groveling on their bellies.
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@FCBanes No people like you grovel before the US government and vote Demopublican. Just like every gusano at the end of the day you're condemning the Cuba people for not rushing over for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow like yourself.
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@t.s.c-guitar7058 Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General forced out a lot of the secret police activity into the daylight. It resulted in a permanent injunction ending the FBI's open ended investigation of the Party for the time being.
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@Team Ai Their is nothing hidden by communists politics. On occasion tactics are hidden just as the bourgeois hides their military and police moves. The Cuban workers and peasant farmers made a successful revolution that is why the USA can not forgive them. That's why they have been labeled with all kinds of names like terrorists. the enemy, a dictatorship, a violator of human rights, violator of the Diplomatic Conventions and so on. The great majority do not want a return to the status of a US colony run by the American Ambassador. Those who are looking to "...I know how you want to get ahead..." like Hillary Clinton supporters make their way to the US were no longer are they granted automatic green cards. They now must take the same chances as any other immigrant to the US "maybe legal or maybe not."
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@Team Ai It's well known since the days of Lenin that he decried death to "Great Russian Chauvinism". We will gladly confess to aiding the struggle against segregation and racial discrimination. We could care less as to how many glass ceilings are broken or Black policeman you hire. You still represent a tiny minority of the super rich and tear gas smells the same dispute the race of the policeman. Why would we need a bunch of professional SJW's as our leaders? We will produce our own leaders as the class struggle unfolds. It's the Ford Foundation, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and all the other foundations used to help maintain capitalism who need them not us. We want a university that upholds free speech not one which produces just so many fools for the capitalists foundations.
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Ludd Zarko Okay so you don't want to be the 51st State. How about making Little Havana the capital of Cuba with full sovereignty. Trump could give you the rights of an Native American tribe. An independent little Havana could open casinos at will. The dollars would be rolling in. Trump could then campaign for his true Cuban government like Juan Guido of Venezuela elected by US puppets like the UK, Brazil, The EU countries and Canada at the UN. You could call yourself North Cuba.
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Ludd Zarko Sitting around in Little Havana drinking Cuba Libres until closing time is the main political occupation. You are waiting for a US Invasion that will never come. You have nothing to offer. Lots of meaningless rhetoric that no one but the followers of conspiracy theories like Alex Jones believe. If Fidel said the sun rises in the East you'd say it rises in the West. I assume the reason for calling Fidel bibel is meant to connect him with the Democrats like Biden or maybe its got some meaning connected with the bible. The invasion is on hold by ever President since Kennedy (D) because the Joint Chiefs and the CIA estimate a long war and 50,000 American dead. Washington insiders may actually be smart enough not to enter another Vietnam or Iraq over for ideological reasons. As far as all you Cuban contras are concerned only a Cuba under a capitalist policeman's knee is acceptable.
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Marx and Engel's were the first to establish and bring together the ideas and concepts of scientific socialism as opposed to utopian and religious socialism. The League of the Just became the Communist League. One may note that the Manifesto is Manifesto of the Communist Party not the League.
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I think NAZI Germany is a good example of capitalism gone crazy.
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@beckyroque8950 In the US right up to at least into the 1970's you had to sign an oath swearing you weren't a member of the Communist Party or any subversive organization as determined by the Attorney General of the United States if you wanted a student National Defense Education Loan. We forced back the unconstitutional acts of the US government with the ground breaking lawsuit Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General. We forced open the files of the American Gestapo the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtaining a 1/4 million Dollars in damages, a contempt citation by a federal judge for the US Attorney General and a permanent injunction ending the unconstitutional ongoing investigation. .
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Of course the don't have any money because they keep cutting taxes on the rich. Naturally the rich are the victims of the government that they buy. They cry poor all the way to the bank.
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@dredre8103 ."..White people hate him..." Not true the Algarains were clearly caucasian. Cuba and Algeria were very close at one time. Even Malcolm X changed his thinking about caucasians after his trip to Mecca and his meeting with white revolutionaries in Algeria. The only thing you do by making that kind of statement is to give the supports of capitalism a wedge to drive between people of different colors.
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Ludd Zarko There is no significant opposition in Cuba. If you don't want the criminals in Cuban prisons than don't ask for the "dissident" criminals in prisons like Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter. If you like American capitalist government so much why not campaign to become the 51st State than you can be like Texas getting US Statehood by treaty? Trump can go down to Little Havana and sign the treaty with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Jose Basulto making Cuba the 51st state.
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Masterpiece cakeshop is organized as for profit corporation. Jack Phillips as owner is refusing to bake while pretending he is being told that he personally must bake the cake. He doesn't get an exemption from the law since he is open to the public and is not providing core religious services or products only. He like other religious bosses would like to bring religion into their business as a way to discriminate against non believers and mal contents.
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He just continued Stalin's counterrevolution to its conclusion with the final betrayal.
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The New York Times published an article about this going on in both New York and New Jersey. Quit frankly I would have never have believe it either.
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I total disagree. A few (eleven) 'white nationalist' posters are not a danger. No more than the publishing of Mein Kampf or any other political tract. What is dangerous is allowing huge private companies the power to control what can be published on the internet. The value of Youtube, Facebook is the ability of anyone to have their say. They are not newspapers with an owner that controls the publication. In fact the big media has many of its publications on YouTube and Facebook. The real target is not Trump or Obama its the rights of small publishers and the control of ideas by government and big business. It's the fascist who burned books and shut down bookstores. These gentlemen are playing into their hands.
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@ratladyroch I would have never answered a single question. Never mind sitting through 6 hours worth. The cops are only interested in twisting your words and blaming you.
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The United States actually has two Mexican borders. One is the border you see on the map with its points of entry. The other border is inland. That border takes advantage of Inland desert and extremely rough terrain in some areas and uses checkpoints to stop all road travelers to determine immigration status along with drug sniffing dogs.
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If you want to fight for religious liberty I suggest booking a flight for Saudi Arabia and bringing a suitcase full of bibles with you. When they pull you from the customs line for execution with the sword marked made in USA wave to the US troops stationed there and have a good life after life!!!
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The should not allow blue gang members into public schools.
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@kaimarmalade9660 The overthrow of the world system of capitalism began in 1917 with the Bolshevik revolution. The establishment of a workers state and workers and farmers power. Today revolutionary Cuba continues the exercise of workers state power. The working class is bigger and better organized in every country on earth.
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@comradewiskers2864 Capitalism is when after the shirt factory closes. The workers who once made the shirts have to go without shirts. Socialism is when the workers take the shirt factory away from the owner and keep it going so everyone can have shirts.
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@raah17 The US Gov't didn't mind wasting 2.3 trillion dollars destroying Afghanistan for the best politicians money could buy. You got big money as a rich Wall Street investor Why don'y you assume that debt?
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@subhendu7221 They call him a treasure because they believe he is a unusual find among the masses of black workers and farmers someone who claimed to be a Marxist who then saw the light of Bourgeois righteousness. The basic problem is his whole understanding of Marxism is based upon books and his initial refusal to interact with other Marxist when he claimed he was. Marx made it clear that communism is a movement not a new doctrine of universal reform. The ideas of Marxism are based upon conclusions drawn from the history of the modern class struggle. That history is one of victory and defeats between the two most important class the capitalist and the proletariat. The role the Communist play is to support the fights for the immediate needs of the proletariat while always pointing the forward to the ultimate victory in the struggle.
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@gpw203 So did Sowell ever say what the correct thing to do at the time was besides his typical do nothing and the magic hand of the market will fix it?
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This Trump Russia thing is just a new cold war rivalry invented by liberals who want Trump out at all costs. The old secret policeman Putin has more in common with Mueller and Comey the ones who had J Edgar Hoover's job. Hoover's FBI ran Mission Impossible tactics against the Socialist Workers Party breaking in without Guns or Badges at night and sworn to secrecy. Don't tell me that the FBI has changed otherwise Hoover's name would be on the FBI building. The FBI even sent ML King a suggestion he kill himself or be outed for infidelity.
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@coolioso808 This why the workers need to control production and not a group of greedy bosses or bureaucrats. We need to take things out of markets like they did after the Cuban Revolution. Education and Healthcare free and available for all. Raise the educational and cultural level of the working class so the bosses can no longer fool people.
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Truman(D)= Korean war Kennedy(D)=Cuba Giron and the missile crisis. LBJ(D) Vietnam escalation. Still believe Democrats are for peace?
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@augustussever5134 If they aren't medical care why do some women die without them?
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There is no real difference between the two parties anymore. Both parties promise. Both parties break their promises.
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We don't need successful dogs from the dog eat dog world of capitalism. If all you doing is stepping on others on your way to the top you serve no social purpose. The key to socialism is workers control of industry and abolishing private property not new regulations,.regulatory agencies and smarter regulators. Regulations are put in place to protect the profits of incumbents first and control any out of control greed.
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After a socialist revolution your money will be as good as a Confederate dollar after the civil war.
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They like to talk about how "Clinton would proved training." Ya training for jobs that don't exist. I already been through that scam.
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The workers are withdrawing from the Democratic Party of promises. This is a good sign it doesn't mean they are becoming Republicans. You can see that in the way the West VIrginia's school strike was fought out. The would not return to work with just a promise from a Republican governor. They demanded a bill be drawn up and passed first. They organized beyond just teachers and they did this all in a right to work state. While some maned the picket lines others went to occupy the capitol building. There slogan was "55 Strong" for all 55 counties. When they left after winning they chanted "Who makes History? We make history."
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Build a higher wall around your gated community a hole.
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@bls5160 Like CIA black sites it allows for germ warfare research with plausible denial
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@Gringosaurus US Senator Marco Rubio says Trump put him in charge of Cuban foriegn policy. Rubio's parents left for Miami while Batista was still in power and Rubio has never set foot on Cuban soil. Rubio is consumed with hate for Fidel Castro and can not accept that he was not elected as the US Senator from Cuba on the island itself..
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Well why not actually read his diary or his speeches instead of taking just this women's word. How come he did get one of those "fair trials" the like to talk about so much?
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You can tell by the title that this is just going to be a buch of Red Baiting jtwo party jingoism. Did kid yousellf this guy is a Progressive Liberal Conservative. Theses are the ideologies of American Imperialism This guy is as much of a rotten liberal as FDR and Truman who began the second witch hunt against the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamster.
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@alexs3187 I've yet to see anyone in management work their butts off. Talk their butts off and kiss ass is more like it. In my trade (electronics and electricity) people who think that they need to go as fast end up getting hurt. You need to know what your doing before you start putting your hands in a box. The same goes with climbing poles and using ladders. Electricity presents an unseen hazard. That's why you never trust or ask a customer for help.
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@alexs3187 Advocating against industrial child labor is not the same as advocating against work. It's advocating against exploitation. You think you can hurl insults without a come back? Next time you see some utility workers get out of that Lincoln or Lexus and call them a "pussy". Who's stopping you from getting off your butt? Ya you need a bigger incentive to do nothing. You'd like to hire 6 year olds to sort trash for recyclables like in India.
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@fukinyouup Because children also deserve a childhood. The bosses will have plenty of time to abuse and exploit them as workers. Why the need to rush? You claim you can't hire all the workers in the US as it is otherwise you would not be on a big campaign for deportation.
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@tanler7953 Their ability to wage war with stone tools, the bow with a stone arrowhead and no horses was limited.
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@joecostantino3684 Break up NATO Imperialist alliance and defeat for Russia in Ukraine.
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Stalin someone must have accidentally tipped over the trash bin of history. You and your revisionist history, revisionist theory and current alliance with the bourgeois liberals has nothing to do with the world revolution.
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@gymfamily The US needs to withdraw its Troops and end its sanctions and sign a peace treaty.
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@SiVlog1989 It was NOT possible to reform the Stalinist bureaucracy and Stalin's followers. Gorbachev rose in the bureaucracy because Gorbachev as a child had written the most slavish praise of Stalin as the leader. A leader who had murdered all of Lenin's closet comrades. Stalin the butcher the leader of defeated revolutions and Gorbachev could not overcome what was rotten by restructuring the bureaucracy. Instead what happened is they adopted the neo liberal theories of Milton Freedman who advised on how to bring back capitalism and markets to unleash capitalist prosperity. Instead the only thing unleashed were depression like conditions and new laws making private ownership of property for use in exploitation the law of the land. It was they who became the new corrupt oligarchy and instituted shock therapy.
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This governor should resign. This would not have happened if he had not sent in his State Police to protect previously small armed Klan Rallies with State Police dressed as soldiers carrying with M-16 Rifles and armored personal carriers against unarmed demonstrators. Their should be an immediate investigation into how many of these klansman are police officers who should then immediately fired.
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@kevinwinwood82 An insurrection is defined in the insurrection act, What happened that day does not even meet the definition of an insurrection. A situation must occur hat requires Presidential action, the President must declare one and Federal Troops can then be used for law enforcement action on US Soil.
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Go UAW!!!!
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@atatterson6992 Mostly it those who believe Education is best when teachers are paid less.
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@willardchi2571 That is because capitalist greed for profit is insatiable and the natural working of capitalist economics drive it into crisis after crisis with each getting worse than the last.
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Unlike the United States the Soviet Union was never intended to be a nation. It was to be a federation of Soviet Republics and had a successful revolutionary victory happened in German Lenin would have moved the capital to Berlin.
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@SandyCampbellHemet Trump tower has a few extra beds and I here thair lots of room at Stockbrokers homes in Fairfield county, CT. Larry Elder is going to open up his California mansion also.
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@ritagreenleaf3669 You realize it all the weal to do people who got on planes and deserted the country after the earthquake. Now they want help from Imperialist America and this is how your treat people of your own class? How long do you think they will follow Imperialist America or will they desert capitalism for Cuban communism? You mistreat people because you want an extra Yankee dollar in your pocket and then whole nations will desert the Imperialist system of foreign capitalist domination. When Fidel rode into Havana it was on US made tanks and the revolution was made with all US supplied weapons most paid for by your tax dollars. Keep giving dictators weapons and this is what happens.
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@manjelos The origin of profits are unpaid labor. Neither North Korea or Cuba have a system of private industrial owners making profits on a stock exchange.
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@dasritzoo9234 Rail Bosses ride in custom rail coaches while talking about the unprofitably of passenger rail.
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We are still waiting to see the secret tapes made in the Capital that day. We are also waiting for information on the role the FBI, it agents and confidential informers played in Jan 6th.
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The bosses quest for bigger private profits drives the bosses to attack the social standards of the working class because profits come from the unpaid labor of the workers in a pay period. This is why the bosses seek to get the production workers to work the longest hours, at the lowest wages at the fastest pace in a pay period.
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Maybe the British Imperialist would like to talk about the famines they caused? Or their war to sell Opium in China?
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@cantweallgetalong No Stalin the idea is not "socialism in one country". Its an international revolution extending the revolution not creating a showcase. That means organizing a revolution right here in the United States. That's what revolutionists do.
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@cantweallgetalong Would you like me to send you some aluminum foil for a hat? "We can't waste time trying to explain the history of our movement to closed minded capitalist". That's probably the only thing you come close to understanding. We don't need to convince the capitalists its the working class that is our constituency they can lead the struggle necessary to draw in the farmers, small proprietors and others oppressed by capitalism.
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@cantweallgetalong You'll have to wait on the tinfoil since the sweatshop bosses are having a crisis caused by the inaction of Trump and the CDC. Congress knew since they were busy moving their money around in an insider trading scandal but they were all waiting for the invisible hand to move. Their and Bill Gates's mantra is that "capitalist markets fix everything". As a corollary they well be telling everyone the usual capitalist battle cry in a disaster "Your on your own."
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@cantweallgetalong Are you sure you weren't living in Flint, MI when the lead in the water crisis was happening? That was a disaster caused by the water supply bosses saving on water costs. The bosses over at GM knew there was a water problem since there engine parts were corroding. They of course would be having a profit crisis if they had to do a recall on engines so they were granted special permission to switch back to the better water while the water company bosses were saving a bundle selling water not fit for GM's consumption to Flint residents . That could account for the crazy nonsense you've been writing since lead is a brain poison.
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@cantweallgetalong "...You never criticize a communist regime..." Sure you do that is how Cuba works as did the early Soviet Union when Lenin was still alive. The Left opposition lead by Trotsky was made up of thousands of loyal party members. Come to South Texas and you can wait in line for groceries at the HEB early in the morning. Keep six feet apart or the cops will come get you.
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@engineeringartist4801 There is no official language.
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@michaelmullins3396 Its not going to happen overnight. The US government is much weaker than in 1959 but to think that they can be defeated to save a Social Democratic government in Venezuela is just Utopian. Only a revolution like in 1959 Cuba can win.
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@guilhermeperazzini Why don't all you Venezuelan capitalists just move to the US? You know how much Trump wants you here so you can vote for him.
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No Comment is probably the father of multiple children and not paying child support for any of them. smh
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@alexstewart8097 Lets stop using communist as swear word in the liberal conservatives category of political oppositions. Who is this guy Brennan anyhow? If the guys a communist how come I've never heard of the guy? CIA is a US capitalist police, dirty tricks, assassination and coup planning team. It severs the US Empire.
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@alexstewart8097 The Cuban people are not afraid to resist which is why the Imperialist are afraid of them. The'd have Yankee boots in Havana by now if they though that Fidel or Raul was like Hussein in Iraq. Yet even in Iraq they are facing a people insistent upon their departure. More protests against the current Iraqi government and the US occupation. One way or another Uncle Sam has had to wave goodbye to places he thought were his after WW2. China was the biggest loss handed to Congress with each party blaming the other for the loss. Who lost China they would cry. Then Korea here the Imperialist suggested that they and Stalin temporality evacuate Japanese Troops.
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@Reality Lives Onward Always Cuban communism is saving lives that would otherwise be taken by capitalist negelet. Ten Thousand foreign students are training to be Doctors in Havana all at no direct cost to the students. The Russian Bolsheviks signed the first peace treaty to end WW1. A war fought to redivide the world between the two different blocks of Imperialists nations. No one in Cuba was shot for being rich. Those who were shot were either engaging in terrorism or engaged in recognized war crimes. They all received trials open to the foreign media which is more than the captured Che Guevara got from the US CIA and the Military dictatorship in Bolivia. I suppose you want to live next to eye gougers and people who hung bodies from lamp posts and left them in the streets. Does the US government hand out death sentences for terrorist like Tim McVeigh and the Boston Bomber or not? Why were Cuban CIA terrorists like Orlando Boshe and Luis Posada go untried for the bombing of a civilian aircraft Cubana 455. You've got your Cuban political prisoners like "Scarface" and you put them in the Atlanta penitentiary were they rioted to protest your dungeon like conditions. Your recent Cuban "dissident" artist El Sexto is awaiting trial without bail in Miami for Stocking and Death Threats.
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@pjpredhomme7699 That's because industry is operated for the benefit of a few profiteers.
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@annaleigh5321 The FBI, which Hoover headed from its founding until his death on May 2nd 1972, tired to get ML King to commit suicide. The Cointelpro programs were real, including the one to cripple the Black Panther Party. The Socialist Workers Party sued in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General and won a permanent injunction ending secret police tactics along with 1/4 million dollars in damages. Going back to the FDR administration Hoover had a fink in every labor union in the country. The Black rights movement of the 1950's to 1970's was a real mass movement not a few politicians calling names. Republicans abandoned Black people to Democratic Party KKK terror starting with the Hayes Tilden compromise. The Posse Comitatus act.The Republican appointees on the Supreme court made up majorities in finding the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, and Plessy v. Ferguson made separate but (un)equal OKay.
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@annaleigh5321 You are absolutely correct about made up racism. Like Oberlin college's smear campaign against a small business The Gibsons. This has been covered truthfully by TheMilitant.com .
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@tkblondish5820 I don't suffer from Petersen's lack of reading comprehension so maybe I should feel sorry for his promotion into academia as some who could only repeat back what his professors wanted to hear.
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@tannhauser7584 I don't threaten people with death. I'm just warning you of the direction capitalism is headed. Capitalism creates a working class our class creates equality first in the political and economic sense but human beings aren't equal that is the second phase of communism where from each according to his abilities and to each according to his abilities comes in. The quote "best and brightest" from the elite universities with their student debt head to the financial sector to swindle the rest of us and that's is what capitalism is all about. It's a basic swindle where capital demands a return on investment for investors who do nothing but get rich. Capitalisms death toll is much higher when you use the same methods on the Imperialist Empires. Early deaths in Africa and India would easily out pace what happened in the Soviet Union and China. Cuba a small and relatively poor nation provides the world with Doctors while the US needs to import them
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@kermitthewarcriminal7896 It starts with the statement that war is all fear and hate. Then goes on to talk about how it should come as no surprise that the Soviet Union was right up their with Japan and Germany. Well why not say no surprise like Japan, German, the US and UK? After all the US/UK fired bombed Japanese and German cities and the US Nuked Japan with agreement from the UK. Of course what the speaker doesn't say is not unintentional. The UK and US are well known for their Imperialism bringing Democracy Hypocrisy. Churchill leading the British Empire talking about Democracy when Britain controlled India without a single Indian allowed a vote for an MP in parliament. The American Imperialist invaded ever Latin American country at least once in the 20th century.
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@NewWorld-fu4qw What do I need a stupid passport for?
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@TheJeep1967 What the bosses government says to the unemployed we have no jobs. Your on your own go find one because we don't care. They keep police at the employment security office to arrest anyone who doesn't accept the humiliation of bosses who say we can't help.
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@Madasin_Paine If every politicians tax return is made public that creates a ready made enemies list of employers and business associates that can be pressured for unpopular opinions. They avoid taxes by NOT taking income but taking on debt secured with property. Federal tax is on income from work, profession or capital gains. You male a capital gain when you sell property. If you put it up to secure a debt thats NOT income by law. You pay the interest on the debt NOT a tax. You can actually deduct interst you pay on debt from your taxable income.
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Of course because now you have others producing value for your business.
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What makes you think many don't vote because both parties are in bed with corporate interests. Makes no difference who you vote for when capitalist interests are involved.
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@InsightsAbroad Join a union and fight back against BOSS tyranny.
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@jamesm568 The power of the union is when seen when we strike not when we vote for the bosses parties. To take on the bosses politically we need a new Labor party based upon the unions.
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@orlandoescobar5174 Pickets will turn back scabs.
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@lindahibberd7108 Liberals are Bourgeois socialist only.
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@ИванИванович69420 You think that we should believe more of your worthless promises? Individual responsibility?? LMAO Ya like when you found your next Limited Liability Corporation in a shell game to hide the real owners and profits.
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@Just Be Its a matter of the working class producers taking power from the wealthy capitalist classes on the world scale. Replacing the system of production for profit with a system of production for human needs.
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@cowboy4378 They are doing real well. A pill made in India is bought for 7 cents. Than when it comes here it's sold for about 50 cents to you Part D pharmacy insurance company along with your Co Pay. Then the pharmacy show you a retail price of about $5.00 telling you how much the insurance saved you. Except it turns out that Part D extra help paid along with your copay and the insurance paid exactly zero cents.
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@cowboy4378 "And the US has a bigger fossil fuel industry than Europe. What are you going to do with the thousands of ex-oil workers in the south and Gulf of Mexico?" Many roughnecks have been laid off although more oil can be extracted than originally thought from empty wells. Texas, Louisiana and the Gulf coast have lots of refineries so those jobs aren't going away anytime soon.
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What's his solution? Oh that's right he doesn't have any. LMAO
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You want to interfere with the Reagan Republican's free market profits in gasoline?
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Sheeeee Communist are working on young women with condoms and birth control pills.
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Does anyone else find it ironic that those at the Center of the once might British Empire appear to be complaining about the colonization of Brittan.
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@dragons_red Sowell is violating his own neoliberalism which says using tariffs to protect national industries is wrong.
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@asmashareef9680 Venezuela can win but only if the follow the Cuban road of uniting the workers and farmers to take power and overthrow capitalist relations. Anything else is pure utopianism. You can not have a country that is 1/2 capitalist and 1/2 socialists.
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@Sweetteawillie That's the problem your a watcher not a doer. How many times have we been told to watch what happens and then nothing happens. Where's those six steel mills and all those jobs that would be flooding back? Trump isn't draining a swamp he's turning it into a luxury swimming pool. If actually did drain a swamp it would to build luxury condo's that would be bought and sold as investment property.
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@Wraith983 The long retreat by labor is over as class struggle is now on the rise.
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@bkheaven-ly2215 A fetus is not an innocent baby. A soldier does not have a "Right to Life" either. Do you want to set murders free because you don't fear death?
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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His capitalist economy will suffer from all the same problems of any other capitalist economy. One can already see how the effort to fleece small investors by bankers and construction bosses has produced whole new empty cities with buildings that are uninhabitable.
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Capitalist only want to pay the lowest wages and work us the longest hours leaving no time for a family and children.
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Yes Bank says NO!!!
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Socialism does not come about by electing more Democratic party politicians and writing more regulations. It is the logical conclusion of the world wide class struggle. The class struggle is the result of capitalisms built in contradictions that it can not escape. Nor did Hitler end private property he merely organized it to crush all decent while he organized the ruling capitalist classes production forces to overturn the Treaty Of Versailles and make German capital the rulers of the world. Just because he called himself a National Socialist means nothing other than the word socialism is not trademarked like "Make America Great Again". The longest lasting Fascist government was that of General Francisco Franco of Spain who died in office. Private property under Franco a neutral ally of Hitler who did not directly participate in World war II was never under a threat from Franco either. Stalin became the leader of privileged socialist bureaucrats who sought to end the revolutionary course of Lenin and Trotsky. To do this required a massive purge and murder directed against all opposition and even the mildest criticism. The Moscow Trials found all of Lenin's original politburo guilty of fascism. One could conclude that Lenin made the second socialist revolution by surrounding himself with fascists except for Stalin himself. If one were to believe the bureaucracy and its supporters.
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Socialism means the working class being in control of our lives instead of professional bean counters and capitalist governments issuing regulations aimed at controlling but not ending capitalist greed.
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@arkadycaca Other reasons for having a permanent organization is to more quickly organize a response along with getting contracts that can be made and enforced company and industry wide. Your shop steward is always the first line of defense.
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@brodocbetty4856 Term limits won't solve you problem. Basically capitalism is in a world crisis and the leaders of the US Empire are unable to agree on what course to take.
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@glasshalffull2930 That may have been necessary before the advent of the highly monopolized system in the United States today but mostly it means putting the decision making back into the hands of workers in those industries so we don't have more East Palestine, Ohio's caused by labor cost cutting done to boost profits in highly capitalised industries. You also have capitalist farmers destroying land and wasting water driving out the small farmers. Bill Gates and other big capitalist does not need to own farmland. The land needs to be nationalised and turned over to those willing to work it. If your willing to farm you shouldn't have to pay a landlord or bank for the privilege of producing food for the market. The farmer takes all the risk and the bankers and middle man processor grab all the profits. You have all kinds of centralization and government control now. You don't see it because it hides under thousands of different brand names and companies owned by a small ruling class that pretends to be engaged in something besides placing bets on Wall Street company profitability. .
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HEAV¥HAND The people ripping the hard earned money out of the working man is the capitalist dictatorship at all levels shifting the tax burden to the working class. We take only donations, have a newspaper and a book publisher. We usually charge for the sale of papers, pamphlets and books. It costs money to print them. What would we like to debate about? How about education, medical care, foreign wars and the minimum wage for starters? We have candidates for the midterm elections.
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@ElBestDelWorld The Bank of England like the Federal Reserve just prints more as the bosses need it.
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@joshuaohuka7719 Capitalism builds huge industries only to let them go into decline because as capitalism uses machines to replace living skilled labor with unskilled labor the source of profits our labor goes down. So capitalism actually undercuts itself because it judges everything by the rate of industrial profit which over the long term goes into decline.. That is why trade unionism isn't enough but the workers must take control of industry itself in a socialist revolution and abolish capitalism. The capitalist create economic crisis by driving up the exchange value of fictitious capital with their profits only to have it collapse. At best we can hope they invest in expanding production but they only do that when they see profits ahead.
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@neckmostle Maybe I should credit Czarist feudalism with the mathematics of the Swiss mathematician Euler because he spent most of his life in St Petersburg University and court of the Russian Czar? .Thanks to the cold war and capitalism I have an education.
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@bwh32 Union shops were established in retail in the past and there is no profit made in the public sector at all so that idea that their needs to be some big profit margin for a union to become effective in nonsense. The only reason for saying that is you think in terms of well the bosses must still make a profit like they did in the past. If the retail bosses want to cry poverty than they can demand a lower price from the manufactures and shift more of the surplus value in their direction.
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@deeyablo In the long run the use of new machinery only results in increased investment and less skilled labor to exploit. In the long term it leads to declining rates of profit by which capitalism judges success. It makes the industrial workers all that much more powerful as a class in production of the needs of human life. Once the workers gain control they can put an end to the start stop chaos of capitalism where production is halted when ever profits stop flowing. Production to meet the needs of profit will be replaced by production for the needs of humanity.
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@dpt6849 The King and landowner have still not lost their fear of the capitalist and the bank. This is why the feudal Kings and Princes showed only their hindquarters when confronted with modern industry.
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@worldcitizen4000 Defeat for Russian Imperialism.
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@jamesbrowning9210 Most of them live in Cuba not Miami or elsewhere. Fidel has passed away and Raul has stepped down so a new generation is taking over. The idea that Cuba will adopt capitalism like the Chinese or Russian is a pipe dream just like all the non sense about Fidel being a cruel dictator everyone was afraid of. That is just sixty years of US propaganda. Cuba never had forced collectivization and a regime that dealt with political differences though gulags and murder purges. The violent opposition to the revolution has always had its origin in the US. You just refuse to accept that because you believe all the propaganda stating with the Liberal Kennedy who called Cuba an imprisoned island that he had invaded with counter revolutionaries trained by the CIA he was planning to give massive US military aid once a beachhead had been established. The same Kennedy who gave the go ahead for the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam because the British had got away with violating the Geneva convention by destroying crops to prevent an anti colonial revolution in Malaya. Imperialist politicians use food as a weapon but a popular revolution that brings the workers and farmers to power is a dictatorship because you can't buy up property and make people pay you for the privileged of being your servant.
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@revtodd Bosses only want order takers thats why they let education suffer. No profit in education by teaching workers how to think. Democrats are the party of slaveholders.
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@majesticgrey4769 "I never promised you a rose garden" nor does Cuba need to be a utopia? Why do people such as yourself think communists should leave? Is it because you're afraid we will convince a majority because capitalism is failing? After all if it so great and its political leaders so smart why do you worry about a few people like me?
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A national and international campaign to wipe out these diseases once and for all. Test and test and treat and treat until there is no more. Smallpox is gone, polio almost and fights against malaria are being waged. These are the true wars that need waging.
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@grmpEqweer The capitalist have always been profit hungry. Profit maximization leads the creation of giant industries. But just as reduction of labor time need to produce drives profits their way the increase in fixed capital value vs labor needed to produce results in a declining rate of profit by which all capital measures success.
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@ashleygriffith6001 Colorado that's the state were all those people were murdered on the orders of Rockefeller? The state militia attacked strikers in tents.
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How many New Jersey tax dollars go to pay down debt owned by people who should be paying taxes instead.
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@iri1088 And now they say you must work to pay what you owe us.
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@RebelofIreland This is a result in the general decline of the middle class layers. As the capitalist slash jobs in social service replacing them with fewer paper pushers. I wouldn't be surprised if Strossels childern don't join in.
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@jimmycricket5366 Really? His objectine is obvious to portray Russian Culture as inferior to the British/American Imperialist.
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@davefechtel1670 You've been watching to many old John Wayne movies again.
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Capitalism and Cronyism a marriage and match made in heaven.
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@jackccrofootjr7228 I crossed the Mexican border from the US without even opening my passport for Mexican immigration.
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@AaronKraftCreative System of the lazy boss failing.
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@paulohagan3309 Fidel Castro came along and showed none of what Stalin and Mao did was unnecessary.
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Cuban Americans were going to bring supplies in their own boats but were deterred by the US Coast Guard. The correct term would be blockaded.
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@paulbucklebuckle4921 Is that why your still supporting the two parties?
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@k.h.6991 This is the natural way capitalism works.
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The story is this Georgia cops are being allowed to play ICE and Border Patrol under 287g. They managed to take a simple speeding ticket and escalate it into an international incident where the cops violated the Geneva conventions. Way to go obviously the Supreme court ruling on setting a limit on police IQ is working well. Keep it up and people will be seeking political asylum in Mexico.
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@L B The cops are the best example of capitalism in government. They put a black man into a chokehold, hold him down on the ground, while he pleads for air over about a dollar in cigarette taxes killing him. While Jeff Bezos's (the richest man in the world) Amazon company pays zero dollars in Federal Income tax without the IRS making a peep.
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They are all corrupt because that's the way capitalism works.
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@LadyStacey01 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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@Mike1122. First it is completely ridiculous of accusing Jackson of betraying MLK's movement since he was on the balcony when King was shot. Second the movement was much more than just MLK. Third to the best of my knowledge Sowell never publicly participated in anything despite his being about the same age as all who did. His sole activity was to become a Republican and tell Blacks that they should have gone home after the passage of the 1965 civil Rights act and support the Vietnam war.
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Naturally because their both based on making profits for investors.
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The Northeast Corridor passenger rail from Boston to Washington DC is necessary and makes a profit because airports and Interstate Highway can not carry all of the passengers.
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@buttercupj6208 End the Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@sallyhildreth3663 Louisiana is run by Republicans and they are now willing to pay $100 for residents to get their first shot. Its basically become a political football for politicians wanting votes.
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Democratic liberals are now the ones making moves against free speech. As an example the movement against the 1st amendment to supposedly keep big money out of politics by removing the ability of organizations from entering the political debate. This is to be done through a Constitutional Amendment. A recent decision by the democratic members of the federal election commission which will require the Socialist Workers Party to turn over names of contributors and make them public. This will create a ready made enemies list for employers and anyone else who finds what's printed in the parties associated newspaper the militant or the associated publisher pathfinder press objectionable. The recent efforts in Berkeley by antifa being organized with clubs and shields marked "No Hate" chasing and attacking unarmed people who wanted nothing more than to discuss politics. These efforts under the guise of preventing free speech for fascists will be turned back on the working class in an effort to keep us out of politics. In Connecticut a small rally of Clergy demanded that a list of fascists hate groups be made into a terrorist list and then outlawed. Of course anyone who disagrees with whoever is outside of the two official parties could then be targeted. We've seen this before when the Smith "gag" Act was passed in the late 1930's to stop German Fascists in America and was then used in the early 1940's by the Democratic Party administration of FDR to send 18 members of the Socialist Workers Party and Teamster's union to federal prison. This action was actually endorsed by the Communist Party USA at the time. They would see themselves fall victim in the 1950's doing much longer prison sentences with the same law being used until it was finally ended in the late 1950's.
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@russelljordan7688 A much simpler argument is right to abortion is necessary medical care preformed by physicians in the course of human pregnancy and that any ethical questions belong in the decisions and actions of the state medical boards like any other medical procedure. That science and not man made law guides physicians. Their is no need for special aborion laws anymore than there is a need for a special law regarding cancer treatment.
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Do the history books also include that the Russian communists in 1917 were left to clean up the mess started by the first world war in 1914 or that Mao's peasant Army drive out the Japanese Imperialist war criminals during the second world war. That Fidel Castro drove out a hate dictator imposed by Washington on Cuba? Or are they mostly written by Monday morning quarterbacks sitting safe and sound in elite American University Chairs. How about that famous 'Quilt of Genocide' in Cuba that turned out with everyone alive or having died of natural causes. How about "Operation Speedy Express" where the US Army claimed 10,889 NLF soldiers dead with 748 weapons seized. They were too stupid to realize they were reporting a civilian massacre by their own Troops.
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Tens of millions killed according to history books written with exaggerated propaganda. NLF hiding or NLF part of the recognized people's government vs. a military dictatorship which murdered its way to power and was imposed by the US when Diem's regime with his brother as head of the secret police was no longer useful. Or how about the South Korean mercenaries brought in who would take over a village line everyone up and kill every third person. The South Vietnam government relied upon the United States as its only real ally and was imposed by Washington after the French were kicked out. The US calculated that the Japanese Imperialist government collaborators including Emperor Boa Dai would lose the treaty agreed to election with the French after the Viet Minh had defeated them at Dien Bien Phu. So that's why they entered the situation and canceled the election later holding a referendum making Diem the governor of an 'independent' South Vietnam. The reason the Yugoslav, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese revolutions were lead by communists is because the former collaborators and pro US politicians were tied to the losing German and Japanese Imperialist regimes and the Communists were the leadership of the nationalist guerrilla partisans. If Stalin did anything it was to try and hand these revolutions back to his WW2 partner made agreements with the US and Britain. (In Greece he was successful.) Only after the US and Britain started the cold war did he change his mind and start to provide some aid. The 'end of communism' was just the end result of what happens when a corrupt group of bureaucrats takes power and keep themselves in power with less and less mass support and in the Soviet case by murdering their loyal party dissenters to gain total power. The Cuban revolution, lead by communists of the 26th of July movement, outside of the official stalinist party (Popular Socialist Party) and internationalists instead of socialism in one country stalinists makes its history much different. No need for murderous purges or tanks in the streets of Havana. Unlike China they will not open a stock market, allow foreign investment with little control if any control at all, and allow the development of a new wealthy national business class based upon ownership of formerly large state enterprises. Allowing families to open restaurants and people to have professions is not industrial capitalism. The Cuban people want that and their government has responded to their desires. You don't think they're going to fall for the phoney Milt Friedman/Yeltsin plan to make workers "real owners" by issuing tradeable shares to each worker that can then be sold to create a new wealthy class of factory owners? You will note a movement currently in Russia against corruption and against suppression of speech has a dynamic going against Russian capitalism as represented by Putin not for it.
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Why were there so many defectors from Cuba? The old middle class did not retain its privileges and a socialist revolution makes only the beginning of socialist society possible and in poor countries that are the easiest to break off also have the most difficult developmental problems to deal with. Trade war, military threats, invasion plots, terrorist actions and promise of automatic US green card status all work against the revolution. Some people just can deal with the 'stress'. From the beginning Fidel has said the building of socialism is a voluntary act not something imposed from above. The overall policy of the Cuban government has been if you want to leave good bye. The US policy has always been one of how do we defeat the revolution? Encourage people to leave but then not provide a way for them to go. Dry Foot Wet Foot policy. The US government has a stated official by law policy of forbidding most trade with Cuba and trying to even impose its blockade on non US companies. When the Bolshevik government came to power in Russia Winston Churchill's first remarks were it must be strangled in its cradle. The general policy of all imperialist governments has always been to 'contain communism' obviously you must want to 'contain it' for a reason? That reason is it might turn out to be successful and with Marx saying let them tremble at a the prospect of communist revolution I guess that's what they do.
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Look if your so interested in them being liberated why not just withdraw US Troops and let the South do the liberating?
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@FREEMAYKELOSORBO I've done voluntary labor if that's what you mean. I suppose you only do something because some one pays you too? Don't you want to cry about how the billionaire could take a big loss of millions? You do realize that US paper money in dollars is created by the government printing office and electronic money is numbers in a computer overseen by the US Federal Reserve Bank?
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@sep7658 I guess your too young to remember how all the worlds woo's ended in 1989 with the end of the cold war and peace was suppose to be the new virtue of capitalist restoration. You remember 2001 Bush launching the coalition of the willing into Afghanistan. Then 2008 economic crash. Trump's election despite major ruling class opposition. A corona virus pandemic. After 20 years of war a defeat was inflicted on US Imperialism after spending 2.3 trillion dollars. Now we are told how we need to spend even more for the sake of threats by enemies who are both magnitudes militarily and economically weaker. What we need is a militia to defend the constitution and our homes. Put all the Generals and CEO's on the aircraft carriers and leave them in the middle of the pacific ocean with some oars so they can fight their own wars for bigger profits.
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Armchair apologist for Imperialism. From the US Imperialist perspective.
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Reagan was just another cold warrior who was a reckless military spender talking small government and Star Wars.
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@JoseTorres-dl3kh One can only indoctrinate those from who the facts can be hidden or distorted. Like the owners of America's National Debt the Imperialist ruling class Bankers themselves who have been robbing us Blind with debt backed inflation generated by the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve Central Bank working hand and glove to issue wage cuts by fiat currency for the owners of Imperialist Industry.
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Why elect another educated elitist when you can elect one of the educators of the elitists?
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@oleladyx5613 The German NAZI's who are now a semi legal party in Germany are the same as the wanna bee Ameican NAZI's they hang with the KKK not the left. The "Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" was not an alliance like ether NATO or The Warsaw Pact that commited one or more countries to a military alliance should a war with a third party break out. It was a secret agreement to divide what was polish territory between the two countries. No big business in Germany after WW1? The German economy was in a shambles after WW1 and the Treaty of Versaille with it requirement of war reparations made things worse. Just like in any other capitalist country when the bosses can't make a profit they close the factories. After the 1929 stock market which like the Great Recession was not limited to the US. Things were worse with German being on the brink of revolution. This is when the big business class decided that Hitler could solve their problems. Unlike the immediate hostility shown to the Russian revolution by the US/UK with the immediate launching of war against the Soviet Union. No such hostility was shown towards Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler in 1934. Joe Kennedy Sr. told FDR Hitler was a man you could do business with. Henry Ford was praised by Hitler for his Jew Hatred articles in his Dearborn Independent Newspaper and received the order of the German Eagle in 1938. In the UK Conservative Party Prime Minister Chamberlain had negotiated "Peace in Our Time" with Hitler.
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@dbag57 She became a neoliberal and doesn't have the slightest idea of how capitalism can save itself?
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@mwu2712 For the first hundred plus years no one was required to be a citizen or show ID to vote why the big deal now. People like Elon Musk a South african bought their citizenship where as someone who comes with noting but a few coins in their pocket and works is deemed illegal? I think Musk should be the illegal and the workers legal.
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@GinEric84 The trials were conducted before the International Press with the same standards as used at Nuremberg. The Cuba "Quilt of Genocide" was withdrawn because too many on it were either still living or died of natural causes. So called Human Rights organizations can't agree on the number of executions after the revolution. For Amnesty International the number is less than 300 for the US CIA world factbook its 3,000 for the Black Book of communism it estimates 15,000 to 17,000. Instead of counting the number of executions in the US how about we use estimates based on the number in Texas and the population of Wyoming?
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@GinEric84 The CIA man "Félix Rodríguez" at the place of execution says otherwise. He said he looked like a beggar not that he was a beggar. Nor do his recollections support the begging for his life claim. His last words "Shoot coward you are only killing a man." Getting yourself killed when you rifle is jammed is a luxury most guerrilla bands can't afford. If you are captured you can also be set free. Bolivia was ruled by a military dictatorship at the time but under the influence of Moscow the Bolivian Communist Party refused to join into a guerilla war. The true coward of that era was the Brezhnev leadership in Moscow. Dong anything that wasn't a direct benefit to Moscow was off the table.
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The Chinese Communist (revisionist) Party has more in common with the US Democrats and Nordic Social Democratic traitors. Communist in name Capitalist in deed. No one makes money on their own so why even make such a ridiculous statement.
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Is he afraid of possible conversion or maybe getting a hard on?
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@ябезимени-ж7н In the US Russia and Soviet Union were always the same thing.
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@Mike Dalby Show ID so we know your not a criminal.
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Israel has to be recognized for its right to exist as a refuge for the Jews. Hamas needs to be recognized as a NAZI like organization whose only goal is the final solution. The Democratic Imperialist US/UK both before and after WW2 refused to take in refugees. The Stalinist before the second Imperialist War refused to close ranks with the Social Democrats in Germany and paved the way for Hitler's victory in Germany. Stalin after the war had a veiled anti semitic campaign against Cosmopolitans. Only a workers socialist revolution by Arabs, Jews, Iranians and other workers in the region can bring peace. The world economic crisis means that Jews will once again be blamed for the failures of capitalism.
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@racerx4152 No Sowell just wants once to avance his theories of markets, prices and money being the solution to every problem.
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The birth control pill and the technology enabling safe abortion is not going away. What has driven the end of the traditional family is capitalism itself. Production for the needs of human life is carried out socially by farmers and industrial workers. The farmer is increasingly driven off the land by new technology and the workers is paid a wage that is just enough to sustain himself for work the following pay period. For when the bosses look at their accounting books they ask why should i pay for older workers with families when I can hire a single man who won't get pregnant. Why pay for a new generation when I can entice the young in poor countries to come and fill my jobs. Why pay taxes for healthcare when I can buy all I need. Why pay for educating Dovtor's and Engineers when I can get other countries to train them. This is the thinking of America's grredy ruling class of bosses and bankers. They pay these intelectuals to pretend the don't see any of this and that it is some how connected to a moral decline and not the system of prorfit maximization and greed above all else.
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@craigkdillon Actually a small section of a sphere can be approximated as a flat surface. That's why the earth appears flat to someone not looking for examples of curvature.
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@brianlacy8870 Not so the working class is less racists than at anytime in past history. Instead of healthcare for all. We got a Romneycare (It made bigger profits for insurance companies in Massachusetts) Renamed Obamacare. Instead of better and cheaper cars We got a "sand in the carburetor" program. Insead of road repair we got the "Orange Barrel". Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize while continuing the endless war policy. Instead of affordable education we got the Obama Speech "To open a book sometime." Now you tell us Trump should never have been elected. Why? Because you wanted not a President but instead a Dynasty headed by Queen Hillary the first. Trump was the only visible candidate without the Good Housekeeping Ruling Class Seal of Approval.
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@petitericaine Ya they automate everything so you can no longer get a customer service rep inside you get a computer with limited options. You told what you can do with what you buy in the terms of service contract. Need a repair part? We have a repair contractor. Hi repair contractor can I buy a spare part? Sorry that's not part of our business model.
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@AK-vx4dy Fred Koch of the Koch family had invented a new process for oil. The American Oil barons stole his invention and he could not finance a court challenge. So he came to the Soviet Union and helped train Soviet Engineers and the Soviet Oil industry. He left with money to take his case to the US Supreme Court and win which is how Koch Industries got started.
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@LNVACVAC it was the American Imperialists who built and used the first nuclear weapons. They used them on their "Free Market" competition the Japanese Imperialists.
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This is what a defeat for US Imperialism looks like.
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@209Richsta No for Lenin and the Bolsheviks NEP was only done because of the destruction caused by the civil war. Nor is it a question of good and evil its a question of a change in how the forces of production are organized in every country and the world market. It wasn't Karl Marx or Lenin who brought the slaughter called World War one. but the economic forces of capitalism organized as imperialism its highest stage. The Soviet Union was also invaded by 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK. American Capitalism failed in its attempt to conquer Vietnam. So Nixon and Kissinger saw the value in recognizing China and furthering the split between Moscow and Beijing. One of the Chinese bureaucrats first actions was to attack Vietnam in support of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carer's and the UK friend Pol Pot a genocidal maniac who took over Cambodia. Of course the thinking of the American Democratic Imperialists is they are doing everyone one a favor by controlling world trade. That along with profit maximization is the Imperial thinking in Washington and New York's Wall street.
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@Polit_Burro Stalin himself was a Georgian although he enacted Great Russian chauvinist policies.
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F*** Johnson was a Democrat that escalated the war you stupid Republican apeshit.
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That's because Imperialists sound the same.
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@jeanmarclentini8888 The capitalist countries of Western Europe have the same problems as the US the world wide capitalist system is in economic crisis. The problem isn't immigration but the failure of capitalism to maintain the standard of living despite the policies that the bourgeois of the Imperialist nations choose. The creation of millions of refugees that the world system can't absorb is due the crisis of world trade and production caused by ruling classes chasing profits.
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@Andreas-gh6is Legal immigration is when your rich and illegal immigration is when your poor.
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We use money against the capitalists all the time when we collect union dues.
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@citrustaco Capitalism is only about 500 years old. Before capitalism was feudalism where most people lived on the land and engaged in handicraft production. Capitalism created us the industrial workers who build and make everything. Today production is carried out with a world wide division of labor. It is estimated that to build that computer you are using the raw materials and parts pass though one hundred countries before it arrives to the end user. So while production is carried out on a world wide basis the capitalist owners are only small groups who run their business for profit to sell what is produced in a market. The natural working of capitalism have produced national ruling classes that compete for the control of the world market and resource This competition leads to Imperialist war and fascism (war on the trade unions) at home. Its is the tendency of the rate of industrial profit to decline that drives the bosses into class conflict with the workers. Only by taking control of industry can the working people defend their standard of living and move beyond the greed of the capitalist bosses who are driven to maximize profits. Economic crisis is part of the natural workings of capitalism cause by the fact that the workers can not buy back all that is produced. All capital does is accumulate and demand a return on investment. The capitalist become nothing more than a giant cycst on production sucking up surplus value in their ledger books and spread sheets. .
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@turtlemama888 Their is no reason to believe a parliamentary monarchy would have arisen. The reason the UK has a monarchy is because of the civil war that the counterrevolutionaries won. The body of Cromwell was dug up and hung in effigy. The other Commissionaires fled for their lives as refugees to New England, the Dutch Republic and Switzerland. The English (Republic) Commonwealth was crushed and King Charles II placed upon the throne.
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@ranjitbadall7557 Their going to put him in charge of the Abortion and Vice squad.
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@mxcherryblue5943 Capitalism is the US system no matter which party is in power. It's private ownership where the elite owners of capital control just about everything but the trade unions.
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@nicwelch People have been paying taxes since biblical times. A money economy only works if the money circulates. If it all ends up sitting in banks then a money economy stops running. That's why banks must keep lending or become to successful and cause the economy to stop running. What makes you think you earn your money and don't steal it? Are you one of these people who think money can create money or that Bill Gates earns his $100 per minute?
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@dasbubba841 Bosses always want to pit one group of workers against another the solution is solidarity among ALL workers NOT tariffs and protectionism for US Bosses.
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Most Constitutional rights apply to all people. Maybe you should try reading it some time.
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@morganchandler5126 It's not possible with capitalism because it require professionals to serve as regulators who must be paid more in order to judge everything in the interests of the profits of capitalist incumbents. .With Capitalism workers can't be trusted to control industry. They also need a worldwide military to defend foreign investment.
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When Sowell speaks you here the voice of American imperialism and accounting book justice.
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@belle3055 End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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Like the joke he told Nixon about African UN delegates? Youtube would ban me for repeating it.
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@bruscifer I had a grandfather that supported Hitler in the 30's but died before the war. Reagan was telling his joke in secret since if it got out it would hurt him politically and make conservatives look like racists. It seems strange that Sowell would cover up for the man who armed South Africa and white mercenaries for the Angolan Civil war. I guess his war against liberals, socialist and communists takes precedence when the need arises in defending his conservative capitalist racists political friends. Much like his defense of Democrat Mayor Daley and his cops. .
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@troydaniel3030 Not really because first of all Mueller was given the task to find a crime rather than starting with a crime. He used the usual way that the secret police operate instead of starting with a crime to investigate they start with an assumption of guilt and then look for evidence and at suspects that they hope to turn with threats of jail time for more evidence that they hope to eventually rope in the target or targets of the investigation. Stormy Daniels not much different than Clinton saying. "I never had sexual relations with that women." I think sex belongs in the bedroom not something that needs a federal investigation for a TV debate on morality.
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@ludovicleprinceroyal8721 We are't the two parties who decided waste 2.3 trillion dollars on your "unsuccessful" "nation building" war in Afghanistan either.
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You tell me when the US government has taken responsibility for it criminal actions in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba or Afghanistan?
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@precisionleadthrowing4628 Congress knew because of the charges of insider trading in January based upon the coronavirus. They of course were busy in the fake impeachment trial. Their error was to wait months before doing anything.
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@ncwordman Its NOT a meritocracy but a class society. Education and Culture is increasing reserved only for those who can pay. Capitalism naturally works to create an ever smaller and wealthier ruling classes.
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@modigrey Lenin wanted Stalin out of his position as General Secretary. Would that have made a difference? The basis of unity between Lenin and Trotsky was Lenin's April Theis and Trotsky's realizations that the Bolshevik Party was the type needed for a revolution. Stalin's idea of an alliance with a progressive liberal bourgeois instead of a workers and farmers alliance belongs in the ash heap of history.
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@firingallcylinders2949 Can I invite God over for supper?
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U.S Department of the Treasury Not interested in US Gov't trolls.
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@Make_America_Native_Again Either put up or shut up Mr Smart guy. As I stated they had NO concept of private property because it was a foreign cultural concept. Private property is specific to the capitalist era where the owners is able to extract a money profit from others who use it. It is NOT personal property or feudal property.
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@patriotamerican3069 Unlike Canada immigration is a federal responsibility only. Once that Officer said, "In the state of Georgia...." Referring to her power in an Intentional matter. She violated Article one section ten. "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation..."
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@jaimevalencia6271 Nothing can halt an all out missile exchange in nuclear war.
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The thing left out here is the Right Social Democracy always favored class peace with the employers at all costs both before durring and after the war.
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This website is NOT run by Sowell but part of his cult following.
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@raywhitehead730 Sure seems like the cops are laying low again.
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@eppyify No capitalism creates it own problems. Like world wars one and two. Once everyone especially Elon Musk realizes Tesla motors isn't worth 3 trillion dollars prepare for another 2008 crash.
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@griff3683 I disagree but respect conservatives who are sincere. Liberals and people playing of irrational fears and excessive emotions don't impress me.
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Not counting what went on inside the socialist bloc I can only think of one Stalin getting into a war with Finland just prior to World War two. China and india might of had a border conflict. If your economy isn't based in profits you don't have the problem of a declining rate of return on investment as machines replace labor then with increased capacity selling into markets without any increased demand that will turn a profit. That competition between capitalist nations drives Imperialist wars. Lenin discusses that in imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
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Sure he talks about these being issues but has no solution except to do nothing just like the conservative Republicans.
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Jeannie Seibert Clinton did what Reagan couldn't when he signed the act creating the first attack on the Social Security Act of 1934 changing mothers aid or AFDC to TANF. The 2008 crisis has enraged a large number of workers and the middle class. Trump was elected and although his is clearly a Bourgeois regime. Many are willing to make any promise necessary to dislodge Trump who they see as incompetent and his direct appeals to the workers who have had their lives destroyed by a greedy boss class. These deplorables like the coal miners are never supposed to be acknowledged.
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@ReflectedMiles He can't because the Soviet Union was created by a revolution not an army financed by capitalist bankers. Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union nor was Lenin still the leader of the Soviet Union when capitalism was overturned in Eastern Europe by Stalin and the Red Army who ha no choice but to Sovietize the area they held or give it up up the Democratic Imperialists who began the cold war in 1946. (US/UK/France)
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@shamelleism Every child a wanted child! No women should be forced to have a child she doesn't want. Cops and priests are not wanted by those who hate their rotten capitalist system.
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@AndyC1 You want to talk murder. How about murder USA in Yemen? Real live people dying doesn't bother you a bit but a dead fetus get you all work up. How hypocritical. The US government including the state of Alabama has no standing to accuse anyone of murder when they kill at the drop of a hat. Like they say RIGHT TO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE!!! YOU DON"T CARE IF WOMEN DIE!!! The real name of this law should be The 2019 ALABAMA WOMEN'S BODY CONTROL AND DEATH PENALTY ACT. Because real women will needless lie die of botched illegal abortions. They will overwhelming be young and come from all walks of life. The will seek help from criminals and they will die in cheap motel rooms. Totally needless deaths promoted by the same people who gave you Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Yemen.
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If murder is wrong in Alabama why do the have the death penalty? Teaching people not to murder by murdering them. Now the want to teach women not get pregnant with unwanted children by forcing them to have unwanted children.
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Athletes and actors are entertainers they have to preform to earn their money. The clowns (mostly Kings and Queens of Europe) and their royal performers are paid huge sums out of royal treasures regardless of how well the wedding or new coronation performance goes. Its mostly the middle class who like to see things like the changing of the guard at Windsor Place and cultism in general. You could hire many more real clowns for the sums they are paid.
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After reading the beginnings of the briefs and responses. "Phillips refused to serve them, explaining that the Company had a policy of refusing to sell baked goods for weddings of same-sex couples." He did not offer anything else at that time. Only later after the State became involved did he offer to sell a nondescript cake. That only shows that while backing down the nondescript cake could be just that a cake period. It seems to me that rather then compelled speech this is a refusal to serve based on bias. If a different sex couple came in and bought a wedding cake without telling him it was really for a same sex couple what then? i think if anything he is a skilled cake baker and not a cake artist. He wasn't asked to provide anything special yet he immediately refused service.
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What does her color have to do with this?
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Any kind of respectability capitalism had achieved with the end of the Soviet Union was quickly squandered with the 2000 and 2008 crisis and the middle east wars. We now have a world health crisis which is displaying the capitalist ruling classes as complete incompetent at doing anything but issuing orders to stay home and wait it out.
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@joeyrayparson3304 Military men? Great! Now can they avoid shoot themselves in the foot? I hope they know how to salute?
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@Szopjale1 You may be interested in The Militant newspaper online and its coverage of the 1956 Hungarian events.
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@TheMrMacintosh I like it when workers go on strike for equality like the GM strikers.
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They didn't ask for a theme cake. He just refused them service saying his company policy was that he did not provide bake goods for same sex weddings. At mediation he offered a nondescript cake. So I say he lacks principles and is trying to get a decision that he is an artist that would be forced to make art and not a master cake baker. He didn't tell the buyers he was an artist apparently this was something he thought up or was advised of later.
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@FadingSwordsman So your talking about the CZAR's family during the Russian civil war? Of course there are no stories in the bible about killing infants and ripping pregnant women open as gods will or command. The Russian Orthodox church clergy would never try to scare the peasants with such stories or do such things as a way to maintain the church and CZARS power. The order to kill the CZAR's family came from someone in the Bolshevik leadership to prevent him and his family from escaping and becoming a rallying point for the counterrevolution. I tend to doubt the counterrevolutionaries were operating under any rules that prevented them from doing the same.
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@FadingSwordsman Alexander Kerensky head of the 1917 Russian Provisional government died in 1970 in his New York bed. The traitor Huber Matos whom you no doubt remember also died in a Miami bed as did those of Giron who were captured and traded back for medicine and food.
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@FadingSwordsman You were caught in an outright lie concerning the Kerensky government. No need for me to say anything further against baseless propaganda. More people were killed needlessly in the Waco siege than the whole of the Bolshevik revolution.
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No your stayed in the UniParty.
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@irinayelverton4005 Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and defeat for NATO. Break up the NATO Imperialist alliance.
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Productivity goes up when machines replaces labor. The problem for the bosses is that when machines replace labor the profit rate goes down because the profit comes from our labor and fixed capital value rises.
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That's the way capitalism works the rate of profit is gotten very low because they have gotten rid of so many workers the capital value is high they don't want to reinvest and they just want to cut labor costs and wait until the everything collapses and then demand a bailout.
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@maassrddd The Emperor wears no clothes!!!!
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Well he should be arrested if the law is a felony and to be applied equally. Congressional immunity does not apply to felony.
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@bobahop1232 The bosses seek to pay the lowest wages and work you the longest hours so you can make the company the biggest profits.
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@bobahop1232 So because capitalism doesn't always involve outright slavery that makes everything okay? The system ends up paying an average social wage that is just enough for the laborer to reproduce his labor but not enough to buy back all that can be produced resulting in periodic crisis and now the inability to pay for a new generation of workers. Working women no longer want to be forced into poverty and working men denied the right to have a family by a system that refuses to pay them for a new generation.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 May 1st in Havana another another show of mass support for the Cuban government by the Cuban workers and farmers and a defeat for the US Imperialists and their lackeys.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Cuba holds elections for the Assemble of Peoples Power just because they don't elect those who want American Imperialist running everything and a return to unrestrained capitalism doesn't make it a dictatorship. The workers and farmers vote voluntarily for the representatives that they nominate.
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Lets all go down to Washington Protest Trump as a dictator who does not pay government employees declare a new intern President and ask for Diplomatic recognition of new government form China and Russia. Then China and Russia refuse to remove their diplomats after the new intern president says they can stay. Wrong to ignore US constitution but OK for Washington to chose the President of Venezuela?
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Conspiracy theorist.
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@juliostevens9480 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!! Doctor in the US wants to know if he's going to get paid before he does anything. The Cuban Doctors have techniques that don't require what others have forgotten or never learned.
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LibertarianGalt You right we communists sell books and newspapers and a surplus is collected and spent but much more voluntary labor that gets no payment goes into making ourselves into a movemnet of the exploited and oppressed. The Bourgeois Professor knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him for without capital he risks the fate of the workers to do the bidding of the bosses without recourse.
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LibertarianGalt The Libertarian seldom understands how the banker begam creating money out of thin air once he could convince the owners of gold and silver to bank with him fpr safe keeping. Once it became possible to lend out on paper what was in the bank in gold it was only a matter of time before there was more paper money in circulation than gold in the banks. The fraction reserve banking of gold and silver banking paper money was born. More paper money in circulation allows prices to rise because the true value in gold has gone down.
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@xchen3079 Capitalism has done worse the Taiping Rebellion.
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Hamas was created by the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood. The same group the arranged for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem travel from France to Egypt where he was under arrest following the defeat of NAZI Germany. The Grand Mufti became head of the reactionary Arab league. The Grand Mufti was a Jew hater going back to the 1920's when he organised pogroms in the British Mandate. The British gave him amnesty so he went to Germany where he joined with Hitler to plan the final solution and raise a Muslim militia for Hiler.
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@collegefootballpicks2972 National "Frame Job" Security.
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End the US Blockade of the Cuba !!!
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Destiny tran Sure in the US their building a society where Billionaires can be President. Japan and Germany still under US Occupation after 75 years. Bosses living in Luxury while 50.000 are homeless in LA. Korea no different. Lots of flashy lights in Seoul while the North is punished by Washington's Imperialist blockades. US Puppets in Korea Kicked out and saved by the CIA starting with the first puppet Syngman Rhee. Same in "South Vietnam" US puppet Diem brothers don't follow JFK's order so they order military coup. ARVN Murder Diem brothers in Military vehicle. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter support Pol Pot to Punish Vietnam. US/UK support Pol Pot in UN and supply him through Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. You come to US and are easily daseled by flashing lights and Cable TV. Opportunity is when you are paid to forget where you came from and the struggles you have gone through. I was born here and I remember what was said about Vietnam. How their lives were cheap how kill ratios and body counts ment US success. How police attacked protesters for being 'violent". When police did all the clubbing shown on TV. Scandals erupting about what could only be called massacres and war crimes. When the Ohio National Guard fired on a crowd of students at Kent State killing four. This provoked a national strike of High school and college students. The exposure of the FBI and CIA secret police tactics. Called Cointelpro. How they had lists of people to be arrested in case of National Emergencies. The B-52 bombers with nuclear weapons that were in the air 24/7 flying from US bases up over the Canadian border to the arctic circle
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@pradhyudh Governments are planning to role out central bank issued digital currency as a replacement/alternative for paper money. Private crypto is just a money making scheme set up to make and confirm payments.
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Black-pill-rising. Democrats are NOT communists you can keep them in your Republican Party since we can't tell what the difference between the two gangs of thieves anyway. You Imperialist war mongers lost after buying a bunch of mercenaries for your posturing terror war against the working people of Afghanistan. A disaster "Made In USA."
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@bradley huntoon Communism is a movement. The Soviet Union was the second workers state after the Paris Commune. The Commune fell in a matter of weeks. The Soviet Union started off in the right direction but degenerated declined and was betrayed by a murderous privileged bureaucracy. The US losing the cold war had as a by product the collapse of world Stalinism in the face of the toiling masses.
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Rather than actually fix the problems the capitalist will use d growth ad a reason to cut back on what we as workers need.
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@pcproffy The ruling class has no choice but to enact regulations of what is and isn't allowed by the profit system to keep it from getting totally out of control. The people who implement the regulations do so in defense of the profit system which has its own contradictions that can't be solved within the framework of private property and the capitalist profit making. Capitalism creates it own grave diggers the industrial working class.
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So you bought your way in.
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@Coryameta They build only if the profits of banks and the real estate sharks can be protected..
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@osasereharold-erhabor5405 That is just a term made up by American (United States) Bourgeois Professor to obscure the fact that America (United States) is a capitalist country with a ruling capitalist class. Some parts of the economy are incapable of producing profits with industrial methods or can't be paid for by individuals privately. In those instances the capitalist have their government step in and take charge. The reason is quite simple the capitalist class makes all the decisions with their politicians and intellectuals trained in the neo liberal theories of Milton Freedman where shareholder value and profits come first.
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@gerrygalvan7313 Pronouns aren't the issue here. Scientifically and biologically correct sex education belongs in the public schools not creationism and other nonsense.
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So that's why the capitalist elite think they are entitled.
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It's Capitalism with its drive to pay the lowest wages, then work us the longest hours at the fastest pace for the biggest profits. The bosses seek to pay the workers only enough to get them to come back for the next pay period and pocket the rest. They have created a world of insecurity based upon what they call merit. They constantly seek to replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines to boost profits only to create crisis of overproduction while neglecting education and health care as too expense for workers and farmers but exactly what the need. So they seek to educate a few fools and pay them handsomely to sing the praises of capitalism. Fools like Sowell who lives the life of those whom he constantly criticises as the anointed.
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@zippydooda Black people had to fight for their human rights against slavery and segregation. Racism came with the new capitalist system and Imperialism as justifications. It will go in a world revolution for national self determination and socialism.
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@TWE_2000 Like many people you mistook the Stalinist dictatorship for communism. Are you now better off with Putin as president of the Russian federation? How about China? I remember Nixon saying he opened China. Now that the Chinese have gone capitalist aren't they now opening you instead? The American capitalist police murder a Black man and thousands go into the streets protesting racism including large numbers of caucasian people and not just in the United States either. The police, the prison and the military are all essential institutions of capitalist rule. They can not be reformed because the capitalist power of a tiny ruling class can not be maintained without them. Cuba is an excellent place to visit and learn about the revolution. Our goal however is to do what was done by the Cuban workers and farmers under the leadership of Fidel Castro 60 years ago here in the United States.
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@colinyoung3685 Hosea 13:16 Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. That's straight from the Christian bible your true guide to moral leadership.
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@pankaja7974 Have you seen the pictures of Korean war refugees hit by American bombers napalm or the skin of those who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let me ask you this when will those politicians who promise a right to life for a fetus give it to the 18 year olds who are expected to fight the next Imperialist war?
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Top secret in the US is like invisible ink.
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Splendid Mendax Cops do what the ruling class tells then to do period.
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@joebouret747 Where's the pictures of the homeless living in tents and under tarps in Havana like in Los Angeles?
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@joebouret747 "...And, nobody has enough to do more than survive..." Hay that sounds like 30% of all American families.
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@snazzynasty1493 It's become more difficult to wage and win these Imperialist wars for profit because of the defeats and how unpopular they have become. The Soviet Red Army under the command of Leon Trotsky defeated 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK in 1919.
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What are they going to fight over bibles and abortions? Religion is in general decline anyway.
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Asad Haider Another disater for working people arround the world brought to you by the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington.
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@Kunfucious577 What's wrong with capitalism well I guess you've never read Das Kapital or Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism have you? The individual worker as an individual c an not protect himself from the worst social aspects of capitalism that arise in its death agony. The workers need to learn to depend on their working class solidarity as a class not government. The workers construct organizations first trade unions, a party, them a state to defend their class interests. Once the Imperialist have been defeated world wide than the state can begin to wither away.
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@jakefastf Maybe because I actually know something about capitalist economics?
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@jakefastf Creation of a pariah class of workers like segregation did lowers wages even more.
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@jerryboggs3474 Should only take another 200 years at that rate.
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@dannyv2468va2 They have free elections that the Cuban people nominate candidates to in which about 70 % of the voters participate. All citizens over 16 have a right to vote. All votes are counted and the ballot is secret.
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US Imperialist Senators are talking about a nuclear first strike.
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Briana Taylor say her name.
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@MsMattmatt24 Coming from someone pretending to be an Indian Chief that is really rich.
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@truebeliever5233 Newton's theory of gravity works for me. I can use it along with his laws of motion and conservation of energy to make all kinds of predictions on where a a object will land when acted upon by different forces ahead of time. .Space is not a vacuum cleaner it does not suck. A vacuum is the absence of mass like air. It takes a rocket to exert the force to overcome the force of gravity to get into space. On earth air rushes in to fill a vacuum the air exerts the force not the empty space. To empty a container of air you need to pump it out or remove the gas by a chemical reaction. .
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@itgetter9 This kind of legal thievery of wages goes on all the time in one way or another. AT&T stole my overtime money and then they fired me. The difference here is the miners stood strong against this kind of bankruptcy. Those banks would have never direct deposited those miners checks if the money wasn't there.
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@shirleyshearer3316 Its the result of profit maximization. Cut all social services in favor of boosting profit rates.
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@naturalbornchiller158 He runs a payoff and loan protection racket from Bank of UnAmerica.
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@ondolite3789 Southern Democrats like Senator Eastland, Governor Wallace, Governor Lester Maddox. They were all life long Segregationist Democrats.
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I don't care what this guy says or didn't say. The US has no mandate to police the world. What right does the US have to set up all these world military commands and tell everyone how to govern themselves. Trump was elected a US President not a UN President.
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Repeal the Railway "Slave" Labor Act.
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I was a young US anti war protestor back then.
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Lots of bosses in the comments attacking the Canada Post workers.
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If they don't employee that number for some reason or another their lawyer`s will get them out of it. They'll claim adverse business conditions. They basically steam rolled this thing through. Trump Walker and Ryan will take credit. Afterall you don't think it's just a coincidence that it's going in Speaker Ryan's district. Who knows what kind of arm twisting and secret deals we'll never even hear about that went into this thing. Maybe Trump told Silicon Valley Foxconn and others you can't have all the electronics manufacturing in the far east (China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia.) if they actually do build this plant it will be one of the largest if not the largest manufacturing facility in the US and the Western Hemisphere by number of workers
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It's hard to believe they'd build a single plant with that many workers just to make flat screens.
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@EcoMouseChannel What's the core argument for private property? After all if a corporation is a person in law doesn't it deserve to be freed like the slaves from its owners? The owners want it both ways no personal responsibility for their companies actions but all the possible profits that can be paid to them. Most of the big industrial entrepreneurs are all dead now anyway. Jobs is gone and all the big tech guys are on their way out the door.
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Thomas Paine was against all organized religion.
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@taylorstanwood8949 I would be caught dead putting up a Donkey or Elephant. Those are the symbols of the rotten two capitalist parties. I picked it because it represents the early Soviet Union. The left opposition to Stalin and the counterrevolutionary bureaucracy. Besides if you actually look at the People's Republic of China flag the hammer and sickle isn't on it. In fact the CCP flag represents Mao's theory lifted from Stalin with the bloc of four classes which is why they have four small stars on their flag. Lenin was against coalition with bourgeois liberals.
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@MoejiiOsmanTV China was also the site of the Taiping rebellion from 1850 to 1864 where upwards of 30 million died in a civil war.
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@BlakeLovesPoland The whole of Mexico and Latin America would have emptied out if they got the unlimited terms for immigration Cuban's did under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment act. Venezuela is still a capitalist country the majority of business remains in private hands. Many Venezuelans left after the failure of the first CIA sponsored Coup d'eta again Hugo Chavez. Like many of the old Batista supporters they are the first to have gone into exile in Miami to avoid criminal prosecution.
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The Russian revolution of October 1917 was the second workers revolution after the Paris commune. It came about in Russia after 3 years of world war. The Bolsheviks slogan was all power to the Soviets. In Russian Soviet means council. These councils were formed by Soldiers, Sailors, Workers, and Peasants. The Bolsheviks negotiated a separate peace with Germany without regards to previous Imperialist alliances. They weren't really sure they could hold out without help from a German revolution that never materialized. Trotsky as Ist Commissar of War with his armored train defeated white counterrevolutionaries and 14 invading armies.
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@GOPexorcism-we4mp If breaking promises was a crime ever Democrat and Republican would be doing time.
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Great retirement must be nice on Generals pay.
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Disowned by who? Somehow I don't remember you were you one of the students arrested in the ROTC occupation? Middle class hypocrisy is what turned me off from "movement people" like this guy. Now that he has clearly put himself into the conservatism movement I can only laugh. I heard of Ramparts but never remember reading a single copy of that magazine. This guy is living proof that intellectual losers and leaders like him are a waste of minerals and water.
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@Snakester218 In my opinion the court has opened a debate which the anti abortion forces have already lost. The Starr County Texas DA dropped murder charges brought against a women for having an abortion after gaining an indictment without comment.
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@eew8060 RIGHT TO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE!!! YOU DON'T CARE IF WOMEN DIE!!! The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. This bill will restart the Back Alley Illegal Abortions for Young Women. She was always such a good honest Church going girl. Her family was planing for college and she was saving up her Babysitting money. Now her family is planning a funeral. She didn't have to die for a single mistake.
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You can't talk abou a fetus being a person because it is not. It is inside a women's body not outside. This is why it is a completely ridiculous to grant a fetus something it can not have a "right to life."
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@madtechnocrat9234 Under Czarist Absolutism the CZAR exercised absolute power. Stalin was the choice of the rising Soviet bureaucracy. They chose him more than he chose them. Stalin according to Trotsky first felt flattered by their choice of him. After he died everything could then be blamed solely on him.
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What's your "skin in the game"? A laptop in mom's basement?
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Capitalism producing what it has become more more profitable. Profits for few and misery for everyone else. Joe Biden was the best money could agree to and buy.
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@juliotamayo413 The US had already launched a failed invasion for regime change. With no sing of the aggression letting up.
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@europeanunion6731 Macron is the President of the Rich.
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Just like what the USAF did in Korea.
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@chokkan7 Sowell's solution is to do nothing and put your trust in the bosses of capitalism.
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@primosolis2998 National "I smell a frame job.": Security.
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You can no more protect a fetus right to life than a chicken eggs. Its the mother that has the right to life not the fetus.
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@Oligarch Executor Its a bad joke when the only choice is how you to be exploited by the capitalists bosses.
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@tommccormick9290 So when ever a politician enters a school do you want them put in jail also?
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@howtheheckru8102 Trump and Vance will be luck if the can figure out which end of the broom to push.
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Singing the songs of neoliberalism to the choir.
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@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin That is false Karl Marx changed his view on the classical labor theory of value to explain what is going on by introducing the concept of labor power and the production of surplus value as the source of profits. Since this explains the increase in productivity by the use of new machines and industrial methods. This approach explains the differences profit, wages and in productivity between England, America and Italy for the same commodity. Also the amount of fixed capital that must be advanced as wages depends on the pay period of the workers and the time allowed to every capitalist to collect his payments and deposit them in the bank.
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@Ksch Koff Unlike Canada, Immigration is a federal responsibility not one for state or local meat heads.
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Every time a terrorist hollars Allah Akbar he drives away the believer and any sympathy a terrorist might have. People protesting the use of their religion (Islam) as a reason for terrorism is the first step to rejecting religion altogether.
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Maybe she can explain why he never got one of those "Fair Trials" they like to talk about so much?
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@wowfmomf6126 China has capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Mostly North Korea is isolated by a US blockade they had to tolerate a murderous US heavy bombing campaign that left no structure over two stories tall. Not to mention US war crimes including the JeJu island masacre covered up and hidden by the US Imperialist before the Korean war broke out. Imagine if not just the twin towers were leveled but the whole state of New York by a terror bombing and napalm campaign. Then you can have some idea of what the US Imperialist did to save Korea for capitalism.
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You and Rush Limbaugh keep pedaling that nonsense. Sooner or later someone will believe that when the bosses rewrite history.
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@devinligtelyn404 Sowell seeks to privatize education for boss efficiency.
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@Ghostshadows306 The sixth Congress of the Comintern adoption of the theory of "Socialism in One Country." ended the Communist course of Lenin and Trotsky.
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@jamesryan4618 Tell Congress and Biden to stay out of the way and let the bosses take the losses from a strike. No strike breaking by Congress and Biden. Repeal the Railway "slave" labor act. Make the Bosses pay out of record profits.
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@shalyfemusic Famine is when people die of hunger that never happened despite the US blockade. Cuba has been able ti survive and move forward.
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@randallanthony1794 We already have plenty of clueless capitalist politicians in Washington. People like Sowell have one answer only. Let's just give more power to the capitalist bosses because as property owners the are self anointed with unparalleled wisdom. The problem is that is a totally false idea. They only thing those people know is how to count profits as taught in an accounting class. Their system is one that is fraught with chaos because it favors cutting back on labor time as the only worth while activity to boost the naturally falling rate of profit. Once a industry is capitalised and monopolized all they want to do is suck it dry with profit taking above all else.
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@two_tier_gary_rumain Trump had 4 years Obama 8 years and Bush 8 years. Its impossible for an Imperialist Power to do anything right among the colonial people.
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@zachdoby7817 Time existed before man walked the earth and it will exist after our sun dies. Time moves at different rates for different observers in different places but moves in only one direction forward. No one so far has been able to make time move backwards or return to a place back in time like we move about in space from one position to another and back again..
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@shauncameron8390 Thriving for US bankers companies, bosses and the private owners.
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@republicansthatdidntvotefo1605 The wealthy pay a voluntary tax. They have armies of accountants, lawyers, politicians and lobbyist who participate in making tax law. It seems to me that no one really knows what Bezo's paid because tax records are confidential and releasing government info is a leakier law violation. So unless the government takes you to court no one knows what anyone paid in taxes as an individual. What a publicly traded company paid might show up in stock holder info and any company leaker releases might also show up. Even if a leaked document showed up how would you verify its authenticity? I tend to doubt that Bezo's released his own tax records voluntary.
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Francisco Rodriguez Something like where you can sue the state for not providing an education when you were home schooled. You can sue because you were born and given up to bounce around in the foster care system.
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@christopherdraper5815 No child goes hungry, without a home, clean cloths and school in Cuba. They don't have orphanages because they have a socialist culture.where no one is left behind or lost in the shuffle like in the capitalist countries including the US Empire.
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@drummerlovesbookworm9738 Open the gated communities and the spare bedrooms.
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No they prepare them to respond to bells like we do at work.
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@anthonythekaekara8731 Sowell shouldn't throw stones in glass houses.
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@throckmortensnivel2850 "Progress is our most important product." Was a trade marked slogan of GE commercials Movie star Ronald Reagan parroited on 1950's TV commercials.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ The US carried out gun control in Vietnam. US Troops engaged in mascare tactics. US engaged in war crimes just like NAZI Germany. US emptied villages into makeshift concentration camps. US land reform gave land to the landlord. US used chemical warfare with Agent Orange. US B-52 used carpet bombing , cluster bombing and napalm. Not a single heavy bomber was used by the patriotic forces. Big company's from Coca Cola to Dow Chemical got big contracts. At the wars end US promised to help Vietnam recover? Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter gave none. No help with the clean up of mines, cluster bombs, or the victims of war. Instead Carter moved on to supplying Pol Pot in Cambodia as a way to punish Vietnam.
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@Tetragrammaton22 The man is nothing more than another two party Imperialist War monger.
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@dancing4bears When I grew up you knew enough not to eat lead but we used it without giving it a thought not just in gasoline but fishing sinkers, paint, electronics solder, car batteries and pipe solder. Older homes and cities still have lead pipes and copper pipes soldered with 50/50 leal/tin. The whole water scandal in Flint, MI involved water not properly treated flowing in lead pipes. After all you burned gasoline you didn't eat it like cheerios. When it was initial put in gasoline it was as compound of lead and like I said people were initially lied to about its safety by the oil bosses. It wasn't a "consumer choice." It was quite believable as a lie because after all sodium and chlorine are in table salt which actually a necessary for life yet both atomic chlorine and sodium are highly corrosive and dangerous to both the skin and lung tissue.
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@TimJBucci Those are farmers but rich land owners like Bill Gates.
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@LaminarSound With the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 the capitalists could begin the printing of all the money they need. They are no longer limited by the amount of gold bullion in government possession or at the Federal Reserve's NYC underground vaults. The problem for them now is they've shut down large sections of the economy and those jobs in small business are always the first to go in any economic crisis. It then takes years to recover because the capitalist demand to be shown profits just ahead in any business plan presented to the banks. If they had a vaccine tomorrow morning they'd have all kinds of problems delivering it because the big healthcare businesses would be demanding fiture profits ahead with government guarantees.
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@togetherWeGrow01 I knew as soon as the second plane hit the towers that they would declare war on some country and use the attack as a reason to assault our rights at home.
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@josevilas4927 The biggest change in human life came with industrial capitalism and the creation of the modern wage earning working class. The trade union and labor party are the workers organizations for struggle along with the ideas developed by the communist revolutionary leaders. Marx, Engels, Lenin Trotsky Fidel and Che.
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@SkopLP There can be no democracy outside of that exercised by the ruling class for the simple reason that the different classes have different class interests. When both parties are controlled by and ideologically capitalist then the will do only what the capitalist see as in their class interests. You can't reform either party the workers must build their own party to fight in their class interests.
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@mathildeyoung1823 "There is no right to kill innocent human beings in the Constitution." Tell that to the nine ghouls on the Supreme Court next time they lift the stay of a death sentence. Oh that's right they were convicted. Things like junk science, testimony for reduced sentences by convicts, drunken real estate defense attorneys, police abuse of suspects, racism and eyewitnesses who could not possible see what they claimed to see play no role. "Should we get rid of all laws because "three felonies a day"?" Should we keep a system where draconian laws are used to extract plea bargains from poor and working class defendants while those with well paid lawyers can get jury trials with expert witnesses or have the charges dropped because of influence peddling?
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Sure go to your boss and ask if you can see the books.
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It's simple when the executive committee of the ruling class meets in Washington, DC it decides what it thinks are in its best interests.
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@Believer292 The reason investments are well taught in school is capitalism tends toward monopoly and the boom and bust cycle results in further wealth concentration not its expansion. Most American's not have $500 for an emergency proves not that they lack investment knowledge but that they have nothing to invest.
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death to socialism You have no right to you bourgeois property which you use for the exploitation of others. The only thing a capitalist does is use the rules of exchange to make himself rich. He pay one price for our labor and then turns around and sells it for a higher price. Capital produces nothing while labor produces everything. A machine is merely labor already preformed to save labor to be preformed in the process of production. No machine can be built that operates in perpetual motion and no one has ever created a machine which can reproduce itself. All machines must be built by labor and all machines must be set in motion by labor.
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@SkyyPiano We've seen enough of you Pizza abortion video's see if you can sell them to Domino's. All that crap is for guilt baiting women into not having an abortion.
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Remind me again what makes Petersen brilliant?
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Tankies refers to the CP of Great Britain a slavishly Stalinist Party like the CPUSA came about after the Soviet Union in 1968 set in tanks to crush the Prague Spring. It was basically a taunt raised by the British Labor Imperialists.
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@Glaaki13 Considering that the British Labor Party sent tanks to Iraq it is a quite meaningless slur. Something like calling everyone you don't like a fascist or calling the NAZI Party real left socialism. "The Militant" has been published since 1928 and covered the crimes of Stalin as they happened.
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@zesky6654 Depends on which Anarchist you are talking about. After all they served as Ministers in the Spanish Republican government which along with the Stalinist in the CP crush the revolution by force of arms against the working class opening the door to Franco's victory.
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@zhaoxiaoying9894 That's good to know but I do think you are advocating conspiracy theories.
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@Ophelia_Pain Something like Covid where everybody stocks up goes home and waits for the all clear signal.
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@cocobrez Unions need to remain voluntary organizations. The capitalist government needs to stay out of union business.
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@fawkewemf5616 Sowell is good at telling the conservative ruling class what they want to hear.
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@petervan333 It comes from two ways from Marxism one is the traditional progressive tasks of the bourgeois revolution in the colonial nations centralized democratization and land reform are frustrated by the foreign domination and support for a reactionary feudal domination. The other reason is that when the new Soviet government of Lenin and Trotsky was forced to sign the Brest Litovsk treaty with the central powers and the failed German revolution. Lenin vowed to tear Imperialism limb from limb. The Bolsheviks turned towards material support for the colonial revolution with the Congress of the Peoples of the East in 1920 and the founding of the New revolutionary communist parties in countries that never had a Social Democratic Party with the Communist international. You can see that Cuba maintains its nation independence despite being a small nation that has been under attack and subjected to blockade for over sixty years by the United States. Cuba is abe to this because not only is it prepared to defend its territory arms in hand with the support of the Cuban workers and farmers but alos because of the solidaity it has extended oi other nations and people struggling for their own dignity and justice. Fascism has nothing to do with liberating anyone rather it is a type of terrorist gangster movemnet which brings about a military dictatorship over the workers and farmers in defense of capitalist and big landowners property. A well know fascist gangster was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem the son of a big landowners family who began organizing pogroms of Jews back in the 1920's. He would go on to join Hitler in planning the final solution for the Jews orchestrating the Baghdad pogrom in 1941 while British troops stood by just 8 miles away. . .
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legalblond Actually that's all wrong. Workers fighting together is the way to socialism. Class struggle becomes easier and more effective when we all fight together across all lines that the capitalist would use to divide us.
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Business have to follow rules like everyone else. The slogan free markets is just that sloganeering. Just because you own a business doesn't make you better than everyone else.
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Like every other law immigration law is written for the ruling capitalist class. If your rich no borders can stop you from crossing. Since your rich you don't need to work and if you actually run your own business while traveling that isn't covered by the same laws a worker in a hotel or picking grapes is. They don't interfere with businessmen in international travel for management purposes. The even have special laws for allowing foreign companies managers coming to work here.
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@BumbleBeeTF A lot of medicine is based on probability or educated guess since Doctors have no way to know how all the factors will interplay. Your father is going to die someday like the rest of us with or without a pacemaker. That's why the call it a Doctors advice and you can seek other options or opinions but Doctors rarely like to contradict each other. In some instances common sense should tell you a Doctor doesn't know what they are talking about. You can also talk about Doctors just lining their pockets but that is a problem with capitalism itself not just Doctors. .
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@Nick-fg4dq No? Why is it that nearly everything positive in the world history is attributed by him to markets and investors? Only something bad occurs when government or a monopoly gets involved and a business loss is what makes the whole thing worth while. When the bosses ordered a train crew though dark signal terrority a switch was left open and at 50 mph the engineer and conductor paid with their lives but the bosses only took a 25 million dollar insurance loss that's the kind of boss justice you see with capitalism. The bosses would have had to hire a crew for the switches or run the train at a slower speed at night so the crew could see the targets on the switches which the bosses didn't have on that one anyhow. Supposedly they were doing a safety upgrade at the time.
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@JustAGentleman US wealth in general has more to do with the size and large population of the country, the land for farming and the country being untouched by war since the end of the civil war in 1865. Being connected with England and its Industrial revolution rather than Spain and it quest for gold didn't hurt either.
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@Vnexpress1203 These are the highly paid clowns who will save capitalism from itself.
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Except capitalism replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first.
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Like this is just a fake video made by American Conservatives.
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The idea is to put everything off by planning to do everything ten years latter.
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The video leaves out the whole context of the Batista dictatorship and presents Cuba as a US playground stolen from them by Fidel Castro. At no point in the video is there the slightest admission that Cuba has any rights to its territory as a sovereign nation. Instead Kennedy the US Wall Street bankers son is presented a a victim of a cruel military stalemate.
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Put up their right next to mom apple pie and chevolet as being a true superhero for American capitalism and the greedy bosses way of operations.
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This fist defeat of Sowellian economics begins with the defeat of generalized notions. That resources are scarce. This a notion based upon nothing but the logical outcome of the profit systems inability to solve its own problems within the framework of capitalist market private profit and private ownership. The reality is there is and never has been a reason to believe we are running out of resources or not finding new ones and new ways to use or reuse old ones. The second is to talk about alternatives instead of use values. Alternative are A or B Use values are much more concrete and to the heart of the why of choice. The notion that trade and risk produce value in and of themselves. In fact these activities have a cost. .As John Locke said labor transforms nature. The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it. That includes any time spent searching or thinking about how best to accomplish something. To follow Sowells thinking is to deny the material nature of the world and engage in simplistic anti historical views and notionism. Humankind are social animals who have used our hands to labor and were shaped by labor along with a voice box ears and a eyes to used for communication. Cooking to increase and speed digestion and fire After fulfilling our needs for food clothing and shelter we produce culture from which all science art and even religion develops. . .
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@johnr7365 I just finished driving my Chevy truck in a caravan protesting Biden's Strangulation and Blockade policy against Cuban families. Cuban workers and small businessmen and their families want to help their relatives during the pandemic. Biden says. No!! Representatives of Cuban immigrants were there to join the protest.I urged them to continue the protests and make them as big a possible. .
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@amarhadjimurad2363 End the blockade of Cuba!
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Ben Davison What's taking Trump so long to arrest those cops on Federal Civil Rights charges?
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@johnhill762 All you do is write and repeat so many lies. Fertile Ground: Che Guevara and Bolivia, A First-Hand Account by Rodolfo Saldaña explains why Bolivia was ripe for a revolutionary course that Che proposed.
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@proudamerican4050 In another video claims GM taking a billion dollar loss and workers losing 600 million. Sounds like GM could double the workers pay and still make a profit.
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@vageeshdevanathan She herself is the daughter of a Cuban father. Despite all the lies told their is no credible evidence of mass murder in Cuba following the revolution. Every one of the criminals executed received a trail which is more than the Bolivian Army and the CIA gave Che and their sentences were reviewed. No one has ever been shown to be innocent of the serious crimes they were accused of. Nevertheless the halted the executions of all the old Batista police force despite their crimes and gave then new productive jobs. The rejection of the Miami pact before the revolutionary victory put the Batista police force on notice that their crimes would be punished.
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@whiskeyricard So only Republicans like Reagan can wear tan suits? Tan is an exclusively a Republican color?
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@jimsummers487 The problem with the unions is with the union tops. They were housebroken by the 1950's witch hunt. Most of them have died off and a more militant mood among the workers is forcing the class collaborationist out of the comfortable chaise lounges.
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That's what Imperialism is. The movement of capital to foreign nations for greater profits where it can more easily defended by military force. USMC Major General Smedley Butler explained it in "War is a Racket" as did Lenin in "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism."
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@gloriamartinez4371 You seem to ignore that any country not doing what is wanted by "The Leader of the Free World" is subjected to international sanctions. How long do you think New Jersey or Texas would last if it was placed on a no trade list?
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@ExPwner Like I said you and the bourgeois professors want to play definitions and word games to define capitalism out of its crimes and actions. People never lived individually like the male orangutan swinging from tree t tree eating low hanging fruit. So the argument about the cave man is flawed to begin with. Even the Japanese soldier hiding out in the Philippines raided the local population for some of his needs. Another bougois theory is scarcity. There is no reason to believe resources are scarce because we always discovered more and newer ways to use what we have as we are both part of nature and dependent upon nature. Capitalism has become characterised by gambling on capital value expressed as exchange value by an ever smaller greedy ruling class that makes decisions based upon profits. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics has the same flaws as American capitalism. Both are in decline because of the tendency for industrial profit rates to decline and.both want the other markets. The Imperialist era capitalism's highest stage is marked by the fighting over the world market by greedy ruling classes which leads to both war and revolution.
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@squee116 Many of the Sowell videos are made by third parties trying to prove extreme points that Sowell himself may or may not agree with. Since Sowell appears to make no effort to enforce copyrights it has to be assumed he either doesn't know about these videos or goes along with them. He appears to have a cult following who constantly refer to him as a national treasure and such.
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Its not murder but medical care.
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We need to cut the workday and work week with no cyt in pay to have workers control of the job so injuries can be reduced not smart alack comments.
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Raymond Babcock Right as if other capitalist politicians don't do that also. Most of them hire book "ghost" writers like J F Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. The actual writer Ted Sorensen is not mentioned as author. It's the only known case where the person who did write a book got a pulitzer prize for it.
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@BenjaminWalburn Authoritarian Leader? What does that even mean because the word originates from author someone who writes so an authority is essentially a book writer an intellectual author of a subject. That makes an authoritarian leader an expert. So if you think Stalin was an expert on leadership well then your handing him a compliment even though the word has come to have a negative connotation. Stalin was infallible leader so he had no choice but to call everyone else wrong. Gorbachev authored great praise of the leader Stalin which is why he initially got promoted. Once Stalin died their was no one else with the same authority since Stalin had almost all of the other important leaders of the revolution executed if the didn't die of natural causes. Khrushchev gained authority by denouncing the worst excesses of the Stalin Era which he himself had been at best a silent partner too.
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Do they keep track of how many things they have on the shelf by computers and then raise and lower the prices at WalMart? If supply equals demand then what? The capitalist organize commodity production around the ability to maximize profits for themselves. They expand or contract production based upon profits. They always end up overproducing for markets that can't absorb the overproduction creating a crisis of overproduction. The workers can not buy back all that can be produced so they then have to create debt and credit to get production rolling again preparing the way for an even bigger crisis. You also spend a lot on creating artificial demands through advertising. Playing upon emotions to sell more. Teling all kinds of half truths and even lies just to sell a product. Do you think anyone in their right mind thinks bitcoin miners are producing anything worth while? How about nuclear weapons? Who do you plan to use them on and why do you need to produce them? All that Pentagon budget for weapons is produced for a profit to defend your world wide profit system.
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@tomk4488 Strong correlation between private property ownership and income.
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Lets all shed a tear for the loss of US Imperialist domination. The US has 800 foreign bases and China has one.
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Cuba is a socialist country that exists in a capitalist world. US policy is to prevent and destroy Cuba's foreign trade. If the United States could not engage in foreign trade its economy would be crippled. But according to those who know everything utopian socialist purity means you should not engage in foreign trade.
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Typical bourgeois politics a women's looks is more important than what she has to say.
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@Jerryman1158 And when Solzhenitsyn lived in Vermont he described the FBI as a "smarter" KGB. The NAZI's had been defeated long before Bertand Russel made that statement in the middle of the cold war. The historical origins of Stalin's regime and that of Hitlers are NOT the same. Stalin's came after a defeat inflicted on Russian capitalism by the Russian working class while Hitler was a victory for German capitalism over the German working class.
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@flagermusen The only thing that tower was capable of doing was to produce artificial lightning (big sparks). The only thing Trump and Fox News are doing is building hope in an unproven drug for coronavirus. Being unproven means just that. Double blind tests are done to gain good data and remove the placebo effect from anecdotal evidence nor is Trump's uncle one of only a few electrical engineers in the world or the United States for that matter. The idea that Trump got special knowledge from his uncle and now that he has been elected President will prepare the way to release that knowledge sounds more like a comic book Super Hero story than anything else. You don't get to violate the laws of conservation of energy and mass just because your name is Nicola Tesla or Donald J.Trump. Any physicist or electrical engineer who isn't totally incompetent should be able to design and build you a tower like Tesla's and make some big sparks.
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@BearBearBearNERDFUN Shouldn't you head to the Batman and Robin site.
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Bring in the Zebra's and the rabbits.
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@Skylancer727 As long as their is another human being on earth that needs clean water, food, medical care or shelter than Amazon's profits are excessive.
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@qwerty6789x The Philippines use to be a US colony. Plus wages and prices have different relationships depending upon where you live in both the US and other countries. Usually you need a teacher's license to teach in a US public school. Plus visa problems could result since she is not a US Green Card holder.
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@jaredcrenshaw7665 That's correct Sowell is an intellectual simpleton much like the Pope who opposed Galileo's heliocentric views based upon the telescope. Fortunately Sowell can't put his opposition under house arrest like the Pope. A flat earth is also a timeless idea.
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Viva la revolucion.
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@PurpleMusicProductions Really? Because he had a lot of help. Than again you probably an American who believes history is made by multiple Wizards of Ozs. for every Stalin or Hitler you'll find plenty of blame in others at the time of tragic events.
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@Reid James So what's your theory? That every so often a crazy person comes along makes everyone miserable?
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@OOPS2468 Sure all the bosses want is to do is cut costs to boost profits.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Look I'm not signing on to some theory about how the bosses just want to treat us like individuals and pay us what we are worth. What the bosses want is a divided workforce bickering over stupid things. Their idea of individuality is to get you to cut corners unless you go to far, get caught, which is when you will get the blame.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Your already an individual just in case you haven't figured that out yet. Your also a social animal like the rest of us. Our species has to labor together to make a life for ourselves. Our ancestors used simple tools and fire. They were organized into small independent groups that new little about what the rest of us were doing. Today you live in a world where communications to the most obscure places is almost instantaneous. A world where people still living in the remote conditions of tribal societies are connected by world trade wearing T shirts with slogans on them.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Over all you only have to pay dues if you have a contract that has a dues checkoff clause. You have no other obligation to the union. Just cross picket lines at your own pearl. The dues checkoff was something added during WW2 to get union officials on board with the war effort and the unpopular FDR no strike during the Imperialist war. After the war the largest strike wave in history occurred. The bosses passed the Taft Hartley slave labor act in Congress. It among other things allowed states to forbid union dues check offs. Janus is part of the state apparatus for represion. AFSCME should have never taken his job category into the labor movement. He like the cops and other bosses should be excluded. The industrial unions of the CIO were built without dues check offs since the workers collected dues without boss approval.
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@samgamblewhite8600 On the one hand dues checkoff makes collecting dues easier. On the other hand it allows less democratic control by the members of the union. A union that consistently fights for its members will have no problem collecting dues. Freeloaders will be asked to pay or find work elsewhere. With a checkoff the boss will take out dues with or without your permission. Instead of it being called dues it is called an agency fee for those with religious objections and it can not be used to support candidates for elections.
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@samgamblewhite8600 The reason for collecting dues is it cost money to run an organization. If you need picket signs, a meeting hall, strike headquarters or a lawyer you have expenses that have to be paid even if you can run an organization on a shoestring. Teamsters usually get a monthly union button that shows they have paid their dues.
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@samgamblewhite8600 You only have to pay the dues or agency fees. If you don't want a union contract with dues check off all you have to do is hold a representation election and than all of you slackers can go and get paid what you are really worth or if you want to be an individual slacker you can always find a boss job or open a lemonade stand. That way you can claim to be true blue and a renaissance era thinker.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Right now the unions are at a low ebb so the bosses want to further weaken them by denying dues money where possible. Now if the are on the upswing then you'll be bitching about how the bosses aren't allowed to join or go to union meetings. .
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@samgamblewhite8600 You don't have to join just pay dues. You will be told when your hired if you will be required to pay union dues. If you don't think it's worth your money just move on and go look for another job. Seems simple to me. If they tell you to bring your own tools or buy them from the company can you just wine about that, have a temper tantrum and get away with telling the boss I don't want to buy the tools but you must give me the job even though I refuse to buy or provide the tools. Do you think you can have a union apprenticeship in the construction trades and say hey I want the apprenticeship but I don't want to pay union dues? You live in a society where everything is bought and sold so why the big deal about paying union dues?
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@donnaeturner Why is it that conservatives claim they are for smaller government but want more military, more prisons and bigger interference in our personal lives.
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@randomka-52alligatorthatis34 Hamas billionaires in Qatar profit from the suffering of the working people of Gaza.
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Bosses can do the job themselves. They always claim we are stupid and they can get someone else.
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@robertmoulton2656 This will provoke a nation wide discussion of the issue. The majority of the people support abortion rights so those states that want to play the not in my state game can expect protests.
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As long as Wall St bosses run the country than health care will be only for those who can pay. Nothing gets done except that that creates bigger profits for the bosses. If you get sick or die young they just hire someone new. .
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@willpenn2797 Down with NATO, Putin and Democratic Imperialism. Solidarity with Ukraine. Stop the rich mans wars.
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@MidnightBreezey Its a BS theory generated by Bourgeois professors at Harvard Law. Basically it a hymn sung to bourgeois democracy by Black Professors as the highest form of social organization.
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@lorrainecouch348 As if The PATRIOT Act and other McCarthyism nightmare laws are going to solve our problems. All the right wants is more wars, bigger prisons and slave labor to solve capitalism's problems. Lets all thank that great Republican Nixon for putting us on the paper standard. It's only a matter of time before the paper in the dollar bill is worth more than a dollar.
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When the bosses have been screwing people for too long that is what happens. Autoworker's in the 1930's took over Chevy plants in sit down strikes forced the bosses out and fought off the cops with chevy door hinges.
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@johnsutcliffe3965 Communism is a movement not a conspiracy. We function openly with a small party organization "Socialist Workers Party" , a newspaper "The Militant" and a publishing company "Pathfinder Press."
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@kucingcat8687 Just when did we have a revolution and take over?
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@otteottema6839 The Poet is a liar he has NOT spent his whole life under occupation. He spent time at Harvard University.
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@lisettbonilla613 Do you consider Lincoln or Washington a murderer? Che shot the first spy amongst the Cuban Guerrilla fighters he also shot at Batista's soldiers in war. At La Cabana he signed the final orders to execute those charged and convicted in public trails for war crimes like torture and eye gouging. He also lead Guerrilla fighters in the Congo and Bolivia.
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@RsD996 Clean room work was considered the worst job in the plant at the Westinghouse Defense and Electronic System Center.
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@onlyone2948 It resulted in the defeat of the bosses in Europe and Japan and victory for the American Imperialists but also the defeat of the Imperialists in the Soviet Union and China. So it had mixed results. The European bosses were no longer the colonial masters they once were, Wkle American business would dominate the capitalist world. Yhe Imperialists ended the slaugter with the nuclear bombing of Japan. Ome third of the world was left closed to unrestricted business investment the colonial people would demand national independence form Western Imperialism.
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The problems of not just US but world capitalism can't be solved by the traditional methods of tax cuts, changes in the prime rate, attacks on immigrants and trade war. Long term natural tendency of the decline in the rate of profits is what is driving this world crisis of capitalist trade and production. Only by joining unions and fighting for wage increases can this crisis begin to be taken on by working people.
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Not enough true believers in capitalism want to make profits for foreign bosses?
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@phyllisclark3896 Sowell is a liar. Without protests of corporate and government policies by working people segregation and dangerous pollution would be still providing profits for the bosses.
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@seahog1911 You closed the plants so WalMart could always have lower prices and you could make everything for a bigger profits elsewhere and now you wonder why the country has the look of third world poverty? Now you have a Wall Streeter speaking about why her friends over at the Pelosi side of the Business class parties are going nuts?
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@MartinMartinm If that were true than the Imperialist bosses would not be maintaining a 60 year blockade of the workers democracy in Cuba. The'd be friends liberal and conservative alike like Adolf Hitler , Franco and Mussolini were with the US/UK until they feared Hitler would establish a thousand year Reich without an American century.
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@kirkhall6169 Mixed is just a new term invented by non marxist economist who want to make capitalism look good for the ruling class in Western Europe and North America America. Its a cooked up term where everything the capitalist government does is "socialist". and everything elses is "capitalism". It complete ignores that all the institutions in Bourgeois society are dominated by the bourgeois and their system of exchange. The politicians of America's "socialist government" are educated and select by a process to ensure that wall street rules no matter who is elected. For these gentlemen the class struggle is non existent and Imperialist war is just a nationalist mistake. Its nothing more than a rehabilitated theory of the reformist leaders of Europe's 2nd International where capitalist keeps growing unimpeded by the greed of the ruling class or a declining rate of return on investment who have come to see peace as at dinner party of privileged elite toasting against war in each others language.
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@brothermac9719 The natural workings of greed. Capitalism you will own nothing and like it while billionaires take carnaval rides into space.
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@AltairEgo1 The end of capitalism as it fails as a world system.
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It doesn't because Jack Phillips is just a cakeshop boss. His company, masterpiece cakeshop is on trial not him personally. No one except his ardent followers see how even a court dominated by conservative justices can give him a win without ether saying the states have no rights to place sexual orientation on a list of protected classes or overturning the constitutionality of the 1965 civil rights act where religion is concerned. His lawyers living in a maked up fantasy world think if the court ruled that the right to assemble includes the right to choose who will speak at the assembly that by turning this upside down the assembly (wedding) can not force his cakes to speak at the wedding. His lawyer in oral arguments before the court was ill prepared to answer questions such as what about other foods and artisans at weddings. Nor could she explain what wedding cakes say and how that would be forcing him to speak on the subject of same sex marriage. He was given a way out of this legal corundum by having either having another worker without his views make the cakes or contract it out both compromises he refused.
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@markconley5730 I'm sure their is going to be much suffering but when would you say would have been a good time to call a ceasefire on Hitler's forces once he began the second world war?
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@garbearfar1394 If Kennedy breaks out in a rash he might god to the Doctor and ask if the Reds are attacking him?
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@dellingson4833 The capitalist opposed every anti poverty measure ever proposed. If they had their way we still be working 16 or more hours a day, paid in company script for use at the company store and having our children picking slate out of the coal brought to the surface. Africans use to be forced to smear their bodies with latex from rubber tries. At the battle of Blair mountain the President sent in planes to bomb striking coal miners. The CZAR's army shot down striking Gold miners. The only people lifted out of poverty by capitalism is the capitalist themselves. Every time a strike begins to cut deeply into the bosses profits they go to the cops and courts. Poverty going down? No value of the dollar going down as more keep being printed.
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Here's an idea create a healthcare system for all and science base sex education starting just before puberty. Have a national campaign against sexual transmitted deseases with free testing for all. Extend it world wide and eliminate theses diseases like polio and smallpox.
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Gingrich should call for a national program of Walls around boss neighborhoods.
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Go wash your beard before commenting.
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@saviet4222 It easy enough question who should decide when a pregnancy should terminate a women with medical assistance from her Doctor or grandstanding politicians and religious zealots?
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@seanbentley7221 Even the Pope found it necessary to back off on ectopic pregnancy. I guess its no longer a mortal sin to end one.
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Yes, Fred Koch had his invention stole by big oil and could not get financing or a job that could pay for a court challenge and so he was hired by the Soviet government to work with and teach their engineers in the oil industry. What he earned in the Soviet Union paid for his court challenge that reached the Supreme court and financed his company. He returned before war broke out and is said to have respected their ideas but saddened to here the news that so many of them had died in the purges of Stalin.
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Its just the natural tendency of the profit rates to go down as machines replace living labor since the source of the profit is in the labor of the production workers exploited by the bosses.
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@pamjones8007 So far he hasn't been charged. If it turns out to be a missing coloring book they are going to look awful silly for hollering about national security over a coloring book.
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The best way to fight poverty is with a fighting union movement. Once Wall Street it defeated first on the battlefield of ideas it than can be defeated in the Streets and on the picket line. Then we will be able to implement socialism on a world scale. Capitalism has provide us with all the tools we need it just takes a revolution to end the periodic profit crisis of capitalism and all the misery it creates. When the working people can through off all images capitalism paints us as having and being the struggle moves on.
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Greg Our revolution is first a battle of ideas yours is a battle for murder.
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The general theory of marxist in the US is that the constitution and bill of rights provides a legal opening from which to wage the class struggle. In Czarist Russia Lenin spent hours looking for legal loopholes in Czarist law so that the workers could legally go on strike. The only real conflicts in the US constitution involve property rights, taxes and eminent domain. It's much more likely for the capitalists to try and overturn an election result and use fascist gangs to attack workers meetings, picket lines and socialists elected to Congress. You can see how angry they became with Donald Trump's election. They spent four times the money on Clinton a career Democratic Party politician only to have some rich oddball with no experience in making promises that would never be kept and more importantly he appealed to people they reject as trailer trash, inbreds and deplorable.
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We will plead guilty to taking an inch and turning it into a mile for the working class. Now that you have your plea make the most of it.
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@richardvass1462 Right it took 24 hours to reroute an Amtrak around another derailment in the Carolina's. They call this precision railroad scheduling.
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@namenotfound8747 Those who "ruined the economy" were the capitalists themselves. It doesn't take a genius to understand that the capitalist's power kept growing once they had housebroken the labor movement in the early 1950's. The early 1970's saw the end of the gold standard , wage price controls, the end of the Vietnam war, a recession, the beginning of credit card debt and the end of wages following increases in productivity. The capitalist give nothing without a fight. The end of WW2 and the no strike pledge saw the biggest strike wave in history as we boomers were being born. There was talk then of all the new armaments plants being turned over to the workers and converted for human needs production. The capitalist responded with the Taft Hartley slave labor act and the beginning of the cold war both abroad and at home. Any ideas of retooling arms plants were quickly quashed with the new war production build up. The stalinist Communist Party USA was easily witchunted because of their WW2 strikebreaking and there sectarian methods such if they could not have control of an organization they sought to destroy it.
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Cuba has plenty of fiends. Their scientists have developed new drugs to use against lung cancer. Entering clinical trials in the US.
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You have 11 hours in a day to pray outside of public school time and you also have the right to send your children to a religious school.
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@RogerDeforest I was born during the Korean war so I lived though the Nixon regime of lies and military force in service to American capitalism. I was a senior in High School in 1970 when the Ohio National Guard killed four students in cold blood. I was shot in the back by an un authorized police attacking an anti War protest on my college campus. I spent there days in the hospital after. Nixon lied and soldiers died!!! Hay Hay LBJ how many kids did you kill today!!! Thank You greedy capitalists for turning me against you, your two parties and your capitalist dictatorship.
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Basically it was a witch hunt. Something if they decided that Savages were the enemy and everyone was were asked to denounce Savages without even knowing you just that you were a Savage.
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@Help_me_understand The system requires an every bulging vast group of people looking over the shoulders of everyone else's because those at the top trust no one except those closest to them.
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@Darthdog4957 His pen name was Lenin. The Soviet Union went though 3 periods War Communism, the New Economic Policy, Lenin died during the New Economic Policy and the last period used Economic Planning with 5 year plans beginning in 1928. . (one was a 7 year plan)
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@peterbluesman And don't forget the drug reeducation camps in the US prison system. The US is now the biggest gulag operator in the world. Then there is the probation system which is another low wage big profit system source.
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Sally Hillal The government goes into debt so wealthy US Treasury bond holders can be paid future tax money. That scam has being going on since Alexander Hamilton. Instead of taxing the rich the rich invest in government and go home with a tidy government guaranteed profit paid for with tax money.
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Sally Hillal The top income people in government are government managers not unionized workers. Cops, prison guards and "justice system" employees are NOT workers.
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@Idalych Set up a soup kitchen and provide broiled dog.
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@Isaiah_45_7 WarGamer No more fascinating than a virgin birth and a body rising up into heaven. Maybe you can write a book about it and call it the book of New Revelations.
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@FJoeB1998 If you looked at the post above you'd see that I already answered that question but here it is again. "Because capitalist politicians of both parties like to do bipartisan grandstanding. The corrupt politicians like to write more and more laws to appear like they are actually doing something. How different is the punishment for one murder or one hundred murders? Can you be executed twice or serve more than one life sentence?" They also pass this stupid kind of law so people like you can play dumb and ask stupid questions.
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As for China how many died due to the brother of Jesus Christ in 19th century China? Didn't the French and English Imperialism play a role in it? Was it the largest death toll from war in Human history at 100 million with a million after the collapse lined up and executed with estimates of executions at 30,000 a day. It makes you Asians appear to be a very bloody group indeed. Lets not forget how many Chinese people who died quite regularly in famines before the 1949 revolution. While you can talk all day about the fairy tale of how westen incinties changed China while overlooking the investment in irrigation, infrastructure, scientific research and doubling the pay farmers got for their crops.
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I don't see how a market can be democratic. The power controlled by one side of the market vs the other is seldom equal. "Democratic Socialist" countries because they remain with private property in the means of production will not be immune to the crisis engendered by the contradictions within the world capitalist crisis. Employers see taxes as money that could be in their pockets this leads to the questioning of social costs like education and healthcare as to how much is too much. They don't need workers who can think. They need workers who will follow orders. In fact workers who do have education are seen as a threat leading the loyalist reporting you as knowing more than you should. Healthcare for workers is a cost seen as unnecessary because new workers can always be hired to replace those who become sick, disabled or die.
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US Imperialism destroys countries. They Carpet Bombed Vietnam and Korea to keep their chosen puppet dictators in power. The 8th Army HQ in Korea ordered the murder of refugees and in Vietnam operation Speedy Express was a civilian massacre of a minimum of 10,000 people. In both wars the US used napalm (jellied gasoline) meant to kill by burning your skin off. For US Imperialism no crime is to big no weapon is to horrible when it comes to being the worlds self appointed policeman.
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Its capitalisms failures that drive the class struggle wither it's a strike against a small company, the Cuban Revolution or the 1917 October revolution. If there had been no crisis in 2000 and 2008 Regan and Thatcher's proclamation of the end of history with the end of the Soviet Union would have been correct. Capitalist pundits across the globe cheered the downfall of the Soviet Union do you hear a lot of cheering now?
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The US Imperialist tried to drive the farmers off the land and used Agent Orange to destroy crops. This was approved by the liberal Kennedy who at first worried about violating the Geneva convention until assured that the British Imperialist had destroyed crops in Malaysia in the effort to defeat a communist revolution in that colony. Vietnam drove the genocidal manic Pol Pot from power who was supported by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter along with the collabertion of the Chinese Regime after a meeting with Carter.
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@dirtfarmer7472 Hanson spends his time talking about Roman and Greek citizenship as if was the ultimate in modern political thought while Petersen is in a state of constant confusion due to the rest of the Canadian intellectuals and Government who have targeted him as some kind of modern devil. .
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@OmegaLilchubby That is where you are wrong the system causes the problems because of the way it works. It goes in and out of crisis because investment shifts back and forth between expanding production and driving up the value of fictitious capital. And it has the problem of a long term decline in the real rate of profits. That is why it can't be simply taken over and run by honest capitalist or anyone who thinks that the methods of capitalism can work over the long term.
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@j.j.freeman9292 Homeless is cause by the profit system. Housing should be a right not used as a way extract value for banks, insurance companies, landlords and other scams to make the ruling rich richer.
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stacy cavender Action like what? Making firearms illegal has about as much of success in achieving anything positive as making marijuana illegal did. Writing more gun laws has done nothing to halt gun violence. Its acomplished nothing but given liberal politicians another platform with which to campaign on. .
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@jeanna7851 Did we forget the hero USMC Lt Col Oliver North?.
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The basic problem with this video is the authors lack of understanding of the New Left as a world phenomena and typical thinking of America as a progressive capitalist nation and not the leader of world capitalism in its final stage Imperialism. Like many liberals and Social Democrats he dismisses the anticolonial struggle against Western Imperialism as misguided by Stainism. Which many ways it was since both the leaders in Moscow and Peking betrayed the world revolution. The struggle in Vietnam against French, Japanese and America Imperialism despite its Stalinist leadership was a progressive one since it was one of freedom for the colonial slaves of Imperialism the foreign investment by Western capital backed up by military force. The United States maintains 800 foreign military base to protect its world system of profiteering. Till this very day it still maintains a blockade of Cuba because its people have chosen socialism. .
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@bobjacobson858 The basic response to any emergency in the US is for the Chief of Police to appear on TV and annonce "YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN". They were no better prepared for the Corona virus then they were for hurricane Katrina. We are now basically "On Our Own" at this point.
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@invictusdude3881 It will slow automation because automation requires profits to invests. Automation raise capital value and reduces living labor time. However the profits come out of the surplus value we create less labor time ends up lowering the price. Now you have a lower rate of return on investment. No capitalist wants a lower rate of return on investment. He must automate or prices will fall to the cost of production leaving him without a profit. Also profits shift to the capitalist industries or firms that can take advantage of automation vs those which can't do much automating.
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@nrocha2466 Under the impact of the economic crisis the Democratic Party allaince between liberals and labor is beginning to break apart. The election of Trump was he first sign of workers no longer just following the union leadership. Black capitalist investors who are the core of the Black Democrats are also part of the liberal allaince.
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@KiloCee I've discussed this previously (before the Ottawa Truckers strike.) The basic difference between the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and US Bill of Rights is the reasonableness clause. Once you have that reasonableness clause than parliament can walk all over you with reasonable laws that limit your rights. You second problem revolves around the Queen. .I will quote Thomas Paine who said the king need not speak when an act of Parliament will do. Conversely the value of the Monarchy comes in time of crisis when the elites can make appeal for King and Country through the Queen. Not to mention your Senators are appointed by the Governor General who is chosen by the Queen.
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What happens to you and your factory after the revolution depends upon how you and your factory workers are getting along. It also depends on where the factory is located. If it's in the US than running away and hoping for an invasion is an unlikely option. Where as that might be an option in the UK or Europe. If a US General decides to cancel elections and make himself President that may precipitate a civil war.
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Sure the working class has won better conditions in the Imperialist nations which drives immigration in their direction. Plenty of people risked their lives to escape European Fascism. FDR refused asylum to a whole ship of Jewish refugees sending them back to Europe. Assata Shakur was granted political asylum and remains in Cuba.
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Maybe you ought to look at the medical testimony by a doctor. Along with Hoovers drive against a "Black Messiah." The FBI's go ahead for the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. How many times was she accused and found not guilty? The same FBI that has been trying to bring down Trump for their capitalist masters like you.
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If all you own is a single factory your more likely to lose it to the bank in the next economic downturn than a revolution years away. Go ahead and keep worrying I'm sure you love to play the role of the poor capitalist just a few dollars away from bankruptcy.
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@SSGoatanks Ai isn't going to take over bosses need AI because they lack any of their own.
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Forget the mumbo jumbo no one has the right to another persons body. You aren't a human being until birth. Its always been that way because it makes sense.
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@honkymonkey9568 I would seek medical advice for what to do not a policeman, politician or a preacher. None of those other people like politicians, policemen or preachers can provide full protection of anything anyway. The best a preacher can do is wave his hands and say a prayer, the politician is good at sounding politically correct and the policeman can club the bad guy. . . .
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@Chris-wyt Chickens coming home too roost based upon Imperialist foreign policy.
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@chandlerdrummond3588 Thanks Tucker for standing up to the rich, powerful and idiotic Imperialist fools. Down with Putin and NATO. No F-35's for Germany or nuclear weapons for Japan.
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@mariabarrientos4171 We need a rescue from greedy bankers and CEO's unfortunately Paul Revere died a long time ago.
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Should she of had a speedy trial? Most defendants want to delay a trial in the hopes of getting or finding a mistake that can be exploited at trial. Did she ask for a speedy trial? Apparently not. Would the outcome have been different? I doubt it because how do you explain the evidence and testimony?
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If she wants to save her skin she should start talkin'. You don't just get border patrol uniforms at WalMart. FBI informants have agents as handlers and they keep records.
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@alfawolf7125 The whole way the wage is determined is to pay only what is socially necessary to get the worker to come back and reproduce for the next pay period. Capitalism is just a new form of slavery. The bosses rent the slave instead of owning us. Capital produces nothing only labor does. Because while we are the real producers and they just the organizers of production for private profit. We can organize, take control and operate all of society for human needs without them. Without business secrets and ignorance of how capitalism works the capitalist exploiters can not remain in power.
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@abracaroguearcane1484 Just another lie told by the counterrevolutionaries.
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@JoostEurovisionFans If your going to defend private property than you will end up attacking the trade unions and siding with at least one capitalist trading block.
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@marih3286 The US office of foreign asset control flags the smallest banking transfers by computer to prevent money transfers. Foreign companies face fines for doing business with Cuba when they try and do business in the US market. Any foreign goods containing Cuban raw materials can be reject for sale in the US market. So you tell me how that isn't an international multi territorial blockade.
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No they'll get smart and hid them near untouchable body areas.
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@ravenslaves The bosses are out in full force here.
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@Ashleycorrie8494 He's out for himself and protecting his billion dollar investments.
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May 1st protest implies anywhere as the memorial for the haymarket martyrs. Murdered by the State of Illinois for the 8th hour general strike in Chicago.
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@molliestanton2869 South African Apartheid and UNITA who were Ronald Reagan's allies were defeated on the battlefield by the Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolutionary Army. That defeated the myth of the invincible white man in Southern Africa.
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Once again they asked for a custom wedding cake not a custom gay wedding cake. They didn't ask for sunblock for white skin either. A custom wedding cake made by a baker's skill not bakers art. Artwork has to be something new and unique. You can't be expected to get something not in his book of designs. That would require art or engineering. He didn't advertise as a wedding cake engineer even if he did not all engineering problems are necessarily solvable. He did advertise as a custom wedding cake baker.
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@juandlrcol Sure it is. We can be investing in and opening a New MTA Subway, Commuter rail and Bus transit system with the snap of our fingers. How about you send me a few million. We can be up and running in no time flat.
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@yeticusrex1661 The real problem for the Mass Transit is profitability. The bosses can't make a profit because there is no way to reduce labor costs like in other industries like bus manufacturing. New manufacturing techniques reduces the labor time to manufacture busses. Post WW2 GM wanted to sell buses and cars to replace streetcars. You could ride street cars from Springfield, MA to Boston, MA Once the streetcars were gone buses services could be reduced to a smaller city transit. Since you can't reduce the labor time it takes in a bus route, there is no way to keep up the profit rate like in manufacturing. The same goes for the subways and the streetcars still left. You will find a few investors in public transit but most capitalists investors want nothing to do with public transit.
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@waltermh111 No he's a businessman who brags about his products. It's a fine lie between bragging and lying. Nevertheless he can't reserve the general crisis of world capitalism.
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I have to side with Rasheed. He is right this man deserves a transplant not another kick in the ass by super patriotic jerk offs. He spent 14 years paying insurance premiums and giving that steel company profits. Yet even worse that these people are the hospital bosses.
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Cops should be required to report to jail for the weekends.
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@ellencox8415 Gender is set by biology. You can't change your gender. Separate facilities amd places for women is based in real gender differences ss a way to give women equal political and social rights. Marxism is based in a materialist conception of the world not liberal idealism. You can't cut and paste you way into the other gender.
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@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484 Sure it does because what's good for the goose is good for the gander. I guess you're to good to work at WalMart right? GM workers should quit and work for a sweatshop boss like yourself instead of fighting back right? You want to help the GM bosses so much why not write in that you'll agree to a CEO contract of a penny less than what they will pay Mary Barra who's last year's salary was 21.87 Million dollars.
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Mussolini left the Social Democratic Party to lead a movemnet of counter revolutionary thugs.
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If there's one thing these corrupt politicians of both parties fear it's working people coming together and protesting in front of government buildings. No Rambo or hollywood hero is coming to save these people from this obvious injustice.
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@aqua_addicts1787 Its a system that is failing because its working the way it should.
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@Contra1828 When these, building a business, idiots cut their own pay to that of one of their skilled workers than we will listen. When they stop paying these 'investors' who consist of nothing but a big bag of money then we will listen.
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You don't belong in the human race with that kind of attitude.
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Zero the UK doesn't have one.
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@leafwaterman2249 That's why we need a new party without the bosses a labor party based in the trade unions.
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That was a total correct interpretation of the Reagan presidency he was their to help and did just about everything wrong.
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You can't give rights to something that has no ability to survive on its own. It would be better to pass a law giving a dog a right to like.
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The weakness lies in the union leadership not the industrial workers themselves who have only been made more powerful by technology.
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@tanjudereli3357 I didn't make the US the policeman of the world your Democratic Party colleague President Truman did that. See after WW2 aggressive war was outlawed so the US war department became the Defense Department and the Korean was not really a war according to Truman but a "Police Action". That how the US government became derided as the worlds policeman. US Propaganda used against itself. Truman violated the US Constitution by never declaring war which only Congress can do. That's why he called it a police action.
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Why not canonized him as Saint Sowell the first and put his image on a ten dollar bill next to Hamilton the banker with Friedman giving a speech to the Fascist Dictator Pinochet on the reverse side. .
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@denverarchdekin738 Creating debt is part of what's wrong with capitalism. You can't expect to keep getting paid for the past.
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@HollyOak It going the direction it always has as apologists for big business in its drive for maximum profits.
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@skeeterhoney Eugene Debs said he was a Bolshevik from his head to his toe. WW1 was a bosses Imperialist war no matter what side or country was involved. Debs opposed the war and the rotten Democratic Imperialist Wilson sent him to prison for it. He ran on the Socialist Party ticket and got over a million votes while sitting in a prison cell. .
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The Democrats and liberals have no real solutions other than getting elected and being frantically against President Trump but the Republicans are the majority party at both the state and federal levels. What happens now is on their watch.
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The founding of the Soviet Union resulted in an invasion by 14 Imperialist armies from both sides of the Imperialist war over colonies. The German capitalist chose Hitler. Plan and simple. The enabling act would not have passed without German capitalist Conservative Parties unanamous support. The Communist Deputies were denied their seas and all the Social Democrats voted NO.
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@pumkinpimp1 I'm being censored by you tube again.
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@carmiethompson2676 Repeal the Railway "Slave" Labor Act. No strike breaking by Congress and the President.
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Tell Biden to End the Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Ludd Zarko Still waiting for the name of that single person unjustly executed after 1959.
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Ludd Zarko Owen Delgado Temprana along with 20 adults broke into the Ecuadorian Embassy taking the ambassador and other diplomats hostage with firearms demanding asylum is a serious crime.
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Ludd Zarko Multiple American media accounts not well known for telling the truth about anything concern Cuba say it was an ARMED takeover. I would not doubt in the least that this plot was hatched in the den of spies at the US Interests section. Sure assault the guards take it over hold the Ambassador and others Hostage. Then give up your arms and play the role of a nonviolent Martin Luther King simply wanting asylum. The committed their first crime when broke past the Embassy guards. Maybe we should call it expedited extradition of criminals. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/02/21/Cubans-raid-Ecuador-Embassy-arrest-dissidents/2662351579600/
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The Russian Revolution died in the murder cells of Lubyanka prison during Joe Stalin's reign of terror and consolidation of corrupt bureaucratic power. The only thing that Gorbachev and Yeltsin did was complete the final betrayal.
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Said the Governor who signed into law a new Chinese exclusion Act.
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@chrissan2457 All they're interested in is saving their own asses. Soro's is just a boogey man for the right. If anything they are afraid he will do to them what he did to the Bank of England. For the right they need to find a liberal scapegoat to blame for capitalism's failure and its decline in world production and trade.
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@jackie-sh5of Well then we need to unmix it. The working people need to take control of the job for safety and environmental protection. No pay cuts when cutting hours.
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@jimmayors2315 By imposing a contract it is denying the rail workers equal protection of the laws. Its a forced labor contract that violates the 13th Amendments prohibition on slavery except as the punishment for a crime. The 14th Amendment was passed to prevent slavery by contract.
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@Nowhy Why not just give pass fail then? No that isn't an argument. The professor just didn't want to be bothered or wanted to grandstand.
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@roseodoms2149 Who are you anyway? Another middle class housewife who is scared of her own shadow? Your freedoms are being taken away?Like what the ability to lose money in the stock market? Afraid of going to the library because of the "communist" books? Afraid Joe Biden will fall asleep during his next press conference? Like that would really matter? LMAO.
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@neovenom9833 Using food as a weapon is nothing new for American Imperialism. When Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement kicked out the US Military Dictator General Batista they were unhappy so the US decided to adopt a policy to bring about desperation and hunger in Cuba because Fidel was so Popular. Did your family suffer in China? Or do you do your suffering on Wall Street? Twenty million died in the first Imperialist world war and another eighty million in the second Imperialist slaughter. Eighty million in six years.Twenty million Soviet soldiers died to defeat NAZI Germany for the US/UK.
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@vasyarogov4131 You attack Cuba because they broke out of US Imperialist rule. General Batista left his golden telephone presented to him by ITT now its in a museum of the revolution. Cuba inflicted two military defeats on the Imperialists. One at Giron in a matter of 72 hours. The other in Africa defeating the US ally Racist South Africa at Cuito Cuanavale. Yes the well being of the corrupt Cuban oligarchy, the Imperialist United Fruit and Texaco. the mafia drug and gambling industry to the big hit from the Cuban Revolution. They left Cuba thinking they'd be back first in a few weeks, then a few months, a few years and now its been over 60 years. The last assessment of the US Imperialist Military is that a war with Cuba would cost about 50,000 US soldiers lives about the same amount it cost in Vietnam when they lost.
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@Powerhaus88 How about the thousands at the Mexican border trying to escape capitalist poverty south of the Mexican border? Second how about you go to North Korea and tell Kim Jong Un you don't like his haircut and see how that shit plays out.
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@monsieurlemon As a boomer we had access to a limited number of books in public libraries and public school teachers you have access to world class professor online not to mention the ability to search huge academic libraries all at the tips of your fingers. If you can't get access its do to capitalist gate keepers charging exorbitant fees.
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I don't know anyone in the US who wouldn't gladly bring sheets to a hospital rather than pay the daily bed charge.
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"Capitalist will sell the rope with which to hang them." Lenin.
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@Edilio A Thosands of Cubans came into the streets to celebrate May Day and a majority turned out for the elections.
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@arandompassenger9516 South Vietnam was a Made In USA military dictatorship from 1963 to 1975. .
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@TriNguyen-wg5np You aren't Vietnamese anymore your American.
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@lestergutierrez2816 How about we look at the US colony of Puerto Rico? Compare it to Cuba. .
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The first amendment provides of the right to peaceable assemble to petition the government for redress of grievances. Overall the Supreme court says you can require a permit but you cannot refuse to issue one.
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What was Clinton going to do set up training schools for McDonalds and Walmart jobs? Companies open and close for profits. Just because the Companies want you to think Trump is the reason they reopened doesn't mean you should vote for a Democratic like Jay Rockefeller.
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Border Patrol if you want to even call it a job belongs at the border not at gas stations. If the needed special cops at Gas stations they'd be called Gas Station Patrol.
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@futilitariano Socialism is the logical outcome of the class struggle.
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@futilitariano The struggle in Venezuela continues. It has not been decided yet. This is the second major US organized coup attempt. The first which failed is documented in "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c Massive demonstrations estimated in the millions have come out for the government go unreported in the US. The Imperialists seem to have painted themselves into a corner now. The Pope has come out against violence which essentially rules out an invasion for the time being. The last failed coup saw the disloyal officers head for Miami so not doing real well there either. Now US/UK banks have stolen Venezuelan money deposited in their banks saying it belongs to the coup leader.
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The leader is either an FBI wannabe or FBI by looking at the hat he is wearing. I wouldn't doubt that this group has an FBI informant or agent waiting for the command to set them up to be busted or engage in secret government sponsored terror.
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Their were never two Vietnams. Their are Arabs and Jews though.
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@daviclar867 That's is a law passed by Congress not the US Constitution.
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@60 Something The point is just that it doesn't appear. When the Constitution was written they used the terms, citizen, naturalized person and person. For the most part the laws of the states did not change from the laws of England unless they conflicted with the new constitution and most of the Constitution was originally interpreted to apply only to the federal government. At the beginning there were few laws concerning immigration people arrived here, little effort was made to limit or keep track of immigrants and naturalization could be accomplished in any state. local or federal court. .
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@pfzht I'm only recounting history. The Constitution does not prohibit murder either. So if you asked a judge is murder constitutional I guess the answer would be yes because the constitution does not specifically prohibit murder either. Do you want to prohibit aliens from voting for Church Deacons and at the homeowners association also?
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He wanted Trump elected because he would be easier to impeach but I don't know what he thinks about Trump now.
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The issue here is does Masterpiece cakeshop, a for profit corporation, have to comply with public accommodation law or can it have a religious exemption? I don't attend church that often but I don't remember Walmart taking communion or Exxon sitting in a pew at any Church wedding or funeral I've been to.
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@timcombs2730 I gave you my best advice already. You could always try another job on the side and just say your doing it for the extra money. The advantage of NOT working for the government is Social Security.
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@MCMAHON1250 Sure you just sit around and mismanage everything and raise prices and pay yourself big money, cry for another bailout and you expect everyone to just sit back while you do?
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That's why the minimum wage should be tied to inflation and increases in productivity.
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@rsiraistlin2473 The working people need to take control of production out of the hands of the few profiteers and run the worlds economy based upon human needs instead of profits for a few financiers. Allowing them to run things is why we are in the situation we are.
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@williamdowden4494 Our definition of sucess is different than yours. The US is the most powerful Imperailist power ever known in human history. More Billionaires than any other country. Eight hundred foreign military bases. Largest known and ready to use stockpile of nuclear weapons. Largest fleets of both Nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers. The best technologically equipped standing Army and Marine coups in the world. Largest remote control drone bomber force. US Imperialism is armed to the teeth ready to attack anywhere in the world.
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Their is but a shrinking middle ground between the two important classes in the modern world. The Capitalist and the Proletariat. The capitalist are a hereditary class with their national interests of private profits while the workers interests lies among them and beyond national the national fronteers set up by the capitalist states. The natrual workings of capitalism create more wage workers and fewer of every onther class. The middle class is constantly being precipitated into the working class.
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What will bosses do without maids, gardeners and pool boys? Like like ordinary people instead of kings.
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@MilwaukeeF40C What capitalism left to its own devices is a wages sink below the cost of life itself. The greed of the capitalist is unstable. They are already talking about how education is becoming to expansive for them. They have plenty of war material but when it comes to health they worry more about the cost of a mule than a coal miner because they can hire another miner they have to buy mules.
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@jessicamarie8299 Basically its like sex you can write all the laws you want against illegal sex outside of marriage but no one is going to pay any attention except a few cops. Laws have to make some sort of sense they decided to move production for cheap labor but they only produce for markets that can buy the products for a profit. If the workers can't buy back all that can be produced than they create people without work who wander the earth looking for a way to survive.
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@morbidbushido You will never be free in a class society where the freedom of a few depends on the slavery of the majority. When push comes to shove the bosses always rely on the investment in profit protection provided by the police and military.
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Interesting but it seems that the article left out whatever parts they were actually talking about. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't include electronics manufactured by US based companies such as Intel or AMD. China being a capitalist country has lots of corruption so what goes across the border probably undergoes little inspection. Machine tools are also a necessity for modern manufacturing.
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Regardless of what kind of government is in Moscow and Peking neither want to be looking across the Korean border and seeing US Marines. As to the talk about China bringing Troops to the border for refugee control that's a conservative estimate. They could very well be waiting for a request from Kim jong Un for assistance. The Russian's have brought up Tanks and Troops to their 11 mile border. You don't really believe they have brought up tanks for refugee control do you? Will North Korea really blast Seoul if war breaks out or is the artillery there for show only with the real plan being to send North Korean commandos to attack the US command base in Seoul. In Seoul they've had six republics since 1948. After months of anti corruption protests the previous President left office in disgrace less than a year ago. Coup d'etat is a French word but South Korea has chosen it as a way of government.
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Why should China stop trading with North Korea? Just because Trump rattles a saber? US uses threats and tries to stave it opponents into submission. I wouldn't be surprised to find US parts in North Korean missiles. After all many items are traded on the world market and may be traceable back to their manufactures but not traceable through their distributors. US refused to allow China its seat at the UN for 25 years do you think the Chinese people are afraid of US threats? The Russians helped North Korea build and supply their first reactor. After that all you need is the common form of Uranium U 238 exposed to a neutron source like what you would find in a reactor to create plutonium. In fact all those depleted Uranium shells fired off from US tanks in their 'Gulf War' would be a fine source of U-238.
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@fkcavs I don't kid myself into thinking I can prove anything to you.
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Oliver North the man who sold missiles to Iran in order to arm the contra thugs.
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@WorldPeaceiu89 Why not just give out amnesty and create jobs building things working people need instead a solution of more cops and armored vehicles? Of course profits for billionaires would go into the toilet.
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@jeffmerritt8260 Malcolm X is the guy liberals and conservatives love to hate.
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Lexi Rae We don't have bible school in school because we aren't a Canadian society. If you want your kids in bible school you can either send them to a private school or have them meet at anytime outside of school.
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Lexi Rae "..All around the world people are murderer for reading the Bible..." Yep and your "Right to Birth" President Trump and former "Big Liberal" President Obama are enabling The Prince of Saudi Arabia to do so. After the "Bone Saw Coverup Murder" of a US Green Card holder (Professional Journalist) at Turkish Saudi Embassy Trump said, "We need the Jobs". So why did we need the jobs then but not now?
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The difference being that foreign companies decide what they want to build instead of the nation in which they operate which makes foreign nations appendages to foreign capital.
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And with robots taking all the jobs who will be their customers?
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I had both kinds at one time. You can also do square and cube roots by dividing the linear distance between one and your number in half or by a third. The advantage to the circular was the printing was on the wheel and it had two clear pointers you could set the distance between and unlike the stick kind you never had to worry about it falling apart on your way to and from class. Since accuracy is based on distance to print on the circular at four inches around was about as accurate as a 12 in rule. I think they also had trig functions on the wheel or with slide rules along with a linear scale and maybe one marked off from 0 to 90 or 360. Our high school math books came with trig and ln functions printed as tables in the books.
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@pjs3894 Can you explain to me how CEO's deserve Golden Parachutes and bonuses after the 2008 crisis while workers at GM had too take a pay cut Exactly what do the super rich do to earn their $100 dollars a minute? You've got a hell of a nerve to call me a thief because I earn a union wage. I got the biggest raise in my life of $1 an hour after going on strike at Westinghouse in 1976. I bet your scared of electricity and think ohm's law was passed by Congress.
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@pjs3894 The simple answer is the capitalist bosses all make a profit off of the actors and sports players skilled labor. A profit is what's left after all expenses are paid. Employing people is just the skill of administration and direction of an economic enterprise or activity. They only hire people in anticipation of them performing an activity that will make them a profit.
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@navyrotc2012 So the Danish have "Honest Capitalist" who tell you up front that they are screwing you.
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@shortclipmovie2233 No the US Imperialists would be unlikely to approving something like that since it would obviously out of their need to keep things under their control. Selling them all the convention weapons they want to buy at a profit is more of their kind of idea.
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@Johnjackjack At business school they teach the prospective bosses that unions cost the bosses in overall profits,.That's why bosses oppose unions unless they are faced with no other choice. They agreed to accept unions because of strikes and protest demanding union representation.
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@drakadog7405 I always thought I would do well as an electronic technician until that whole industry left for Mexico and latter China.
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@bigbad9583 "..It's about control of another's life..." That's correct its about government interference in the most person decision a women can make with whom and when to have children. The State of Alabama wants to make that decision and turn women into automatic male incubators. They'll be sending out cops to investigate every miscarriage. Issuing warrants for Doctors suspected of counselling women to have abortions out of state.
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@bigbad9583 A fetus is not a slave its inside a woman's body nor is it an independent being. Religion is losing its hold on people. Church attendance is declining. Abortion was just legalized in Korea. Only a hundred years ago dissemination of birth control information was illegal as it was considered obscene. Diaphragms were smuggled into the country from Europe though to Port of New York. Roe was decided in 1972 after laws making contraception illegal were overturned in 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut. We will be pushing for a decision recognizing that women have all their reproductive rights including the right to an abortion free from government interference as they are equal to men. If you don't like that they have your own babies.
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@lisahoffman4075 Its a matter of creating confidence in a confidence game. This is the way capitalism works. Boom and Bust each worse than the last. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. War, fascism and revolution.
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@mikechisangakapapa6644 Sowell like Business and Political Science Professors pay a price for not supporting policies to maximize profits and the right to private property.
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@ZebZanko You think anyone cares about forms when they are a fly by night contractor? When a building inspector shows up to check licenses suddenly everyone becomes a laborer for the general contractor.
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@alanboggs2315 Give the immigrants documents just like everyone else then.
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The ruling capitalist class wants to turn immigration into a two way pipeline under capitalist control. Let 'em in to lower labor costs. Kick'em out to avoid the pitchforks.
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@tajmajal4197 Fourteen Imperialist armies along with czarist troops wage a war against the new Socialist Republic including the US/UK. Any war waged to defend the working class and poor farmers is a just war against the armies of the property owners.
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@micgrull6687 As if the right never does that with their calls to get tough on crime and demanding a right to life for fetuses.
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@marcrankin1707 Most abortions are medical so i can see online abortions being availble from states that permit it and medication delvered in the mail.
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He speaks for the American Imperialist whose interests are not aligned with either Hamas or Israel. Every capitalist and Imperialist power has their own interests which come first.
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It is a small group of haters who among Cuban' American's who want the blockade.
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@penmaster003 Colorado has no special abortion laws so where all the infanticides you talk about? Your like someone who doesn't understand how to use a ruler. You know where the beginning is and where the end is but don't know what the in between markings are for.
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@Demosophist Newtons physics works fine at speeds that don''t approach the speed of light. Engels didn't like imaginary numbers because he though they weren't real but the truth is that the inginary numbers are real they just got tagged as imaginary. None of that invalidates Das Kapital. Which is Marx and Engles work on political economy. The most important change in modern capitalism is the use of an inflatable fiat currency with the US dollar as the reserve currency in world trade. Like I said your ideas are the reactionary ones Marx points to as fuedal socialism in the Communist Manifesto. The fact that you system requires private property makes it a capitalist system no matter what you call it. It i nothing but another Utopian economic proposals like those of Gandhi. Naturally it involves feudal relics like the Christian Church which maintained an earth eccentric biblical view of the world despite the evidence collected by Galileo with the telescope pointing to a heliocentric model. Basicly your electric universe is just modern mythology. A nice bedtime story one can tell children like Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. As Marx famously said philosophers solve the world the point is to change it. The idea that the sun is powered like electric light bulbs shows a mind that has spent to much time reading books and engaged in abstraction. Next thing you will be telling me is how the energy is sent by dark matter or thought 5th dimension wires. . .
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@pedrofernandez8729 He did nothing of the sort he was a big military spender. The workers in the East still belong to trade unions and that like the Cuban Revolution the trade unions stand in the way of unlimited boss power now on both sides of the old Berlin wall. .
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@meminustherandomgooglenumbers Debt increased under Reagan from 1 to 3 trillion. The gold standard was temporarily dumped by Nixon as a way to export inflation caused by out of control Vietnam war spending. Reagan continued many of the same reckless military war production policies with star wars which was intended to give the US first strike capability in a Nuclear War. He also funded Islamic Terrorism in Afghanistan along with other Pro Imperialist Regimes militaries worldwide like Carter before him usual.
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@godswill2260 This is the result of capitalist greed and the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington, DC
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The Federal Reserve Bank is a "Privately owned Bank" whose director is appointed by the President. The government is the executive committee of the ruling class.
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Congress has exceeded its authority the right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendment.
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Who do you think built nuclear power plants in the USA? Nuclear Physicists?
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@hugh261 Fascism is something that arises as a counterrevolution force when capitalism reaches extreme crisis. The best writing about it was done by Leon Trotsky in Fascism what it is and how to fight it. .
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@chizpa305 Hati was the first Black Republic in the Western Hemisphere. It remains dominated by Western Imperialism. The Cuban people kicked out the American Imperialist banks and big companies. Capitalist production must continually work to cut the labor time and skill need to produce otherwise prices would fall towards the cost of production and profits would go into decline. Modern capitalism gets around this problem with central bank generated inflation. The value of property as measured by currency value risis while wages are held down by capitalist crying poverty due to inflation.
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@dreadfulbodyguard7288 The US Constitution says "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.."
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@citacita7889 Its a ruling by state judges on a federal question where they lack any judicial power.
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Its the workings of capitalism. The bosses only want to pay a single worker while the market is good. When the market is bad then the bosses want to save money on unemployment insurance.
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Waste of time casting a vote for the two party bosses. Democrats use scare tactics to catch votes. Segregation is not coming back without a counter revolution. No one is in a position to lead one now either. Demcrats want you to worry about police unions instead of building real unions and a labor party that doesn't include the Demopublican bosses.
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Class drives ideology. The industrial revolution has created a working class in every nation.
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@Aimless6 Crossing the border is like a traffic ticket in many state courts its just a civil offense.
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@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484 They are demanding an end to two tear pay scales and hiring on temps as permanent workers.
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@IrishAmerican17 "....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution. Nothing says you must have a single flag at a political convention
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ls7orBust We have the right to join unions, organize a labor party and to use those unions and party to advance our interests vs the capitalists. With the first and second amendments we have the right to revolution if the ordinary process of amendments and elections fails.
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ls7orBust "..you don't have to work a job if you don't like the pay/conditions..." We already have the right to quit a job so that isn't adding anything except in situations like war where the capitalist government tries to take that right away in the name of unity of the nation in Imperialist war. The capitalist were frightened by the post WW2 strikes in the US so they passed the Taft Hartley slave labor act as part of the second red scare. You know the one where the red hunters called in everyone accused, required confessions and the naming of names so even more could be brought in for confessions or job loss and jail.
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@g590412 It's bourgeois and Church hypocrisy. They want orphans raised like cattle they can use as cannon fodder in their wars.
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@semyonbudyonny1895 Stalin is the last person I'd look to for having any idea of what is going on. Lenin had to straighten him out on support to the liberal government of Prince Lvov. Later Stalin would claim that the February revolution and not the October revolution abolished the taxes on the peasants land. While the defeat of the most advanced workers in the west resulted in fascism the defeat of the most advanced workers in the Soviet Union produced Stalinism.
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I would say this has more to do with the decline of the pettibougois left and the crisis in both of the US ruling parties. Unable to relate to the working class they look to this idea that they can change things by becoming super revolutionaries using identity politics.
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@echelon2k8 Don't kid yourself its all about who has the best price.
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@Max Wylde Since only about 9% of workers belong to unions there is plenty of non union jobs for you. That gives you plenty of say to work elsewhere. In fact what's keeping you from opening up another Microsoft and being another Bill Gates?
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@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 This is the same political line the Imperialist have been promoting for the last 60 years your situation is hopeless surrender now or else. The Cuban working people have a communist leadership who experience has taught them how to lead an internationalist class struggle against the Imperialist powers. More than anything the Cuban revolution is a story of a David holding a mighty Goliath at bay first without Soviet Nuclear weapons and later without the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc itself. Its a story of the courage power and human solidarity that the modern working class possess when it has a leadership it both deserves and is deserving of the title communist. .
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@joecool4656 Industrial methods, monopoly tactics and economies of scale drive out the small businessman who is replaced by big business.
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Exactly. The best thing you will ever get from him is his declaration of not being a socialist.
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The place for border patrol is at the border not bothering people elsewhere. I don't see why there is a Mexican immigration problem to begin with after all immigrants pay taxes and when they work part of their labor goes to the owners of capital. An economy is not a limited pie that doesn't get become bigger when more people are working. The US BLS says that 20% of capacity is going unused. What this means is the bosses are refusing to hire because profits from monopoly prices require some to be unemployed to keep wages low and profits high. The only proven way to change that is with a militant union movement that is not afraid to shut of profits with strikes and protest.
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Opinions do matter because the world doesn't end at a line in the sand, the ocean or a river.
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Border patrol belongs at the border and not gas stations. If they were suppose to be at gas stations they'd be called gas station patrol.
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It is just as illegal for a US citizen to cross a US international border at other than a port of entry as anyone one else. However the border patrol agent never gave that as a reason for stopping them. Instead seeing them speak spanish was given as the reason.
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@Mulletmans Those who think American Imperialism won the cold war are wrong. The overthrow of the Stalinist police state regimes began with the shipyard workers in Gdansk. The end of the cold war has meant the politicization of the working class in the East. Putin a creation of Stalinist rot is finding that playing the role of the policeman for the new Russian capitalist oligarchs is not the cake walk he thought it would be. The greedy American Imperialist are in no mood to share with friend or foe.
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@BigChump23234 I've had great teachers Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel and Che just to name a few.
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The whole community should have had the ability to decide for themselves first not being subjected to a we the state and federal government are going to do this regardless of what you want or say. They don't even need all the property for the factory. A lot of it will be used to build a company town to the liking of the Foxconn Bosses. Plus the giveaway of tax revenue to Foxconn. Down the road the same politicians will be talking about how the government is broke and can't keep schools open five days a week.
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@scallen3841 If we stopped selling the Saudi Arabia government police and military supplies they would have to deal with their own situation. The same goes for the rest of the middle east. Why should we play the referee? Let the Prince explain why he needs a 1/2 Billion dollar yacht to all those who come from foreign countries to slave away in the oil refineries and petrochemical industries.
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Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore.
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@bonanzatime That is why profit maximization eventually leads to crisis.
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@primelason Why don't you just become management or take a pay cut to save UPS profits?
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@AmericanTestConstitution The capitalist border police don't work for the unions. You don't win higher wages by exclusion but by inclusion. You win by workers solidarity not support for capitalist government immigration policy which will always be bring more workers in to keep up competition and to throw others out to save on social benefits. What the bosses want is a pirah class for super exploitation. What we want are jobs and a life worth living.
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@windjamrr Those with confidence in their ideas have nothing to fear from free speech.This is not Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany. Tell BIG TECH and MOMMY YOUTUBE we don't want your spying anymore.!!!
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Should change the name of the show to Democratic Party Now!!! How Amy Goodman came to love capitalist politicians and intellectuals.
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@pamm2652 Well if a Doctor can make the decision why do they need to write a law then? Obviously the Doctor can't make the decision otherwise they wouldn't need to write a special law. Do the write special laws for amputations and other medical procedures like when to remove a cancer tumor? .
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@mikkayosef8008 The US is ruled by a tiny class of capitalist investors and bankers not a bunch of "droopy grandpas". Plenty of US working class elderly are homeless. Life expectancy in the US has gone down.
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How about the 100,000,000 that were murdered by lead used as additive in gasoline. What's the moral record of fossil fuel companies?
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Cut the bullshit and end the blockade.
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What Conservatives and investors don't want you to know about Hitler. That he was Pro capitalist and was installed into power with the complete support of the Conservatives in the German Reichstag. .
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@seth7745 The billionaires have their politicians write the laws so the tax burden falls heavists upon the working class. When the income tax was passed the only taxes workers paid were property taxes if the owned a home and the belongings inside. It wasn't until the social security tax was passed and second world war that workers began paying income taxes. State sales taxes were passed after the income tax was passed.
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@kayvan671 The cold war began with the Churchill speech at U of Missouri, Fulton, Mo. in 1946. About a year later the British would leave India and Pakistan. 1949 the PRC proclaimed. A division of Korea after 3 years of war. A defeat in Vietnam for first the French and then the US. Fidel Castro leads the first socialist revolution in the Western hemisphere. After seven hundreds years of war and occupation with Brexit Britain may now be finally leaving all of its first real colony Ireland as talk of a united Ireland is on the lips of the people in both North and South. .
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If you don't have a job then go to the fields and get yourself a job instead of beefing abstractly from your college dorm room.
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@martypickens6760 Social Security is a pay as you go system you don't save up and then pay out. Those who work pay for those who don't its as simple as that. You are covered because you are a worker or the family member of a worker in private industry or self employed. The boss want you to invest in their crisis ridden system because they know that its like playing the lottery that they can come back and say well this stock failed or this company went bankrupt now we can't pay what we promised. They know an individual saving up can not match them and they decline in the rate of profot and expansion of debt is just the way the capitalist system works. They want to invest in government debt because they know gov't must pay them from taxes that they should be paying.
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@concernedcitizen8870 No Jews are probably the most persecuted people in history. Law in Israel not really any more racists than laws in other bourgeois countries. Like Turkey. As capitalism goes into crisis Jews like other national minorities become scapegoats. Trotsky Soviet Commissar of Military and Naval affairs was a Jew white counter revolution depict him a red devil with star around his neck. What is important is what workers do. .
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@hubertusvenator5838 A republic is a government without a monarch. You can't be a real monarchist.
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@dougsfriendskeeter The petti bourgeois is a worker when he wakes up in the morning by noon time he is talking about how big a boss he will become by the afternoon he has gone bankrupt.
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@dlewis9760 Sure it makes sense to bosses who throw workers out of a job are able to temporarily increase private profits at a social cost to the newly unemployed workers. Mean while the Capital value rises but the number of workers goes down meaning that the rate of profit will eventual slump as prices tend towards the cost of production. That's why they become too big to fail and need a government bailout of private industry. They want to squeeze every last bit out of the investment made so onv=ce the railroads are on the verge of collapses they go to Congress with a hand out for recapitalization. Once re capitalized at public expanse then they are sold off for a song ans a dance to the same kind of private efficacy.
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@GintaPPE1000 That is NOT what happens instead a rise in wages cuts into profits first which is why companies fight so hard against wage raises and anything that could increase labor time like safety and anything that would limit the number of hours in a oay period..They want you working the longest hours at the lowest wages at the quickest pace in a pay period. Your unpaid labor is the source of all the profits and pays all the overhead costs. They raise prices only if they can increase profits if demand goes down then production which is the source of the profit slows and overhead costs as a percentage of costs rise.
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@devilbooster1082 All of capitalism possibilities have to be exhausted before socialism can begin to take hold. Communism is a movement of the working class on its way to state power first on a national then an international scale. This will be the greatest change humanity has gone through since the beginning of agriculture and civilization. It will be marked by both defeats and victories wars and revolutions.
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@Andreyabish Some 'dumb commies' are holding the might of the Empire at bay just 90 miles from Key West. The real dumbies have been sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for about 60 years now.
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The basic reason for homeless problem is the use of homes as a source of income for the capitalist class of exploiters. The basic reason everyone can't have a home is because it would not be profitable for the capitalist who demand a return on investment for every outlay of capital they make. Their system goes in and out of crisis as profits shift back and forth between expanding production which comes to a halt upon overproduction and driving up the price of fictitious capital which then collapses as its exchange value dwarfs its actual labor value. Capitalism can not continue indefinitely because markets are not able to absorb all that can be produced and the rate of return on investment ges down as capital replace living labor in production. The only way the capitalist have been able to get around these problems has been to implement a fiat currency where money is constantly extended as credit for production that hasn't yet occurred. They have themselves convinced that capital must be producing something without labor. That is because it is the only way to explain where the profit comes from if it is not being produced by human labor.
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Headship of a nation and the system held accountable? You must be joking when has the US two party system ever made any meaningful change. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?
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@joseevaniersel7280 If she hadn't constantly preached against the morality of it and hang out with ruling class types who are the chairman of the Federal Reserve bank you might have a point. Whats wrong with her taking private charity and becoming a beggar like she counseled everyone else as the only true moral value. Very few don't qualify because of having a parent or spouse who does makes even a disabled child qualified. The money has to be declared or deducted from your paycheck as a wage, salary, or self employment not a gift, capital gain, dividend or interest.
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@DarkAngel2512 Social Security is NOT a pension that pays based upon investment. Rather is its a pay as you go program of age and salary insurance. Inflation that normally devores most pension savings is COLA'd. Payment is based upon a complex formula that uses your best 20 quarters and is indexed for inflation. Sowell received GI Bill benefits due to his veterans status as a draftee for the Korean war. One of the arguments for affirmative action was past conditions of servitude and discrimination.
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Bosses are only interested in profits. Profit ratres go down as machines replace labor since the source of the profit is our labor.
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David Francisco Economic freedom to buy and sell is the only freedom which is guaranteed by capitalism. This freedom can only lead to monopoly, depression and war. A freedom for which the majority become slaves to that only freedom. A freedom which sets a price on everything including the free elections held under the rules of the free market.
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@landonpowell6296 You're seeing how well for profit Insurance company healthcare works right now.
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@christinedoyle9212 We have the best politicians money can buy.
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@mikegery2990 He lied about spending his whole life under occupation.
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@scatton61 Nothing more ignorant than a fool like Sowell who believes in limited resources and not the limits imposed by the capitalist system of production. Ask yourself when is it we haven't found more uses for what is already have here on earth in the natural world. Actually it's genius like Sowell who are running out of excuses for a crisis ridden system that is in state that the brilliant bourgeois scholars said was no longer possible with the controls being exercised by the central bank.
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@kaiyasko1729 We lead in the safety precautions because of a high orange barrel to construction worker ratio.
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@jmm1817 I'm part of the communist movement not a true believer in some kind of new religion. “Communism is not a doctrine but a movement; it proceeds not from principles but from facts. … Communism, insofar as it is a theory, is the theoretical expression of the position of the proletariat in this [class] struggle and the theoretical summation of the conditions for the liberation of the proletariat.” Frederick Engels. If you seek a further explanation well you can start here. https://themilitant.com/2019/11/09/communism-is-not-a-doctrine-but-a-movement/
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@jmm1817 We don't have a pre engineered society because that's not the way the class struggle proceeds.
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@jmm1817 Again we've be accused of "..using our own laws against us..." before by a government attorney in SWP v Attorney General. Marx in the communist manifesto also sees how we will use democratic rights from bourgeois democracy to defeat the bourgeois. So many of us are such trained experts without even being lawyers this come as almost second nature.
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@jmm1817 So? You already don't get all you claim to earn? No MIT dropout w/scholarship and loans which I paid off years ago. My writing has improved since then. I don't hate to write anymore.
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@jmm1817 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states. Plus history teaches the old ruling classes never give up voluntarily. They may try a coup or a slaveholders revolt like in the civil war. A group of industrialist tried to get General Smedley Butler to overthrow FDR. With Trump's election a continuous campaign to overturn the election result has been waged by a section of the ruling class unhappen with his election and even more so with those workers who voted for him.
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@BoskoTheChief Capitalism with its periodic crisis provokes the class struggle. In 1991 Thatcher and Reagan were proclaiming he end of history with a perminate victory for capitalism. That whole euphoria came to an end with the 2008 crisis. The workers as whole not just the national minorities are interested in what socialist and communists have to say. We are the keepers of the communist continuity going back to early socialist and communist parties of both the victories and the defeats. The capitalist along with their two party politicians can not "fix" capitalism. You can see mass protests rocking all the established governments from South America to France and Hong Kong. Building revolutionary leaderships that can lead the way out of the dead end of capitalism in decline is the goal of every worker-bolshevik. The example of Cuba is the one we should be emulating across the world. Just 90 miles away from the Greatest Empire ever seen stands the Cuban people ready to provide solitary and assistance based in need not profits. There are 10,000 foreign students studying to be Doctors in Cuba as we speak. While in the US life expectancy continues to decline creating a healthcare crisis. Greedy big Pharma created the opium crisis because addiction creates a market that just keeps making profits while the body of the poor keep going to early graves. Unlike in Havana you see homeless in tents living in LA. Half a million with no home outside of a car., tent, or tarp. So how do the capitalist respond with help? Their help is that they send out the cops to take the little the homeless have and cart it away to the dump. You think that those mass protests will be confined to other countries? They are on the way here whether you like it or not. A world wide pressure cooker is building up.
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@BoskoTheChief Okay so Big Chief the World Bank has GDP osculating up and down in Europe no higher than 2008. Is that a proof of a communist conspiracy at the World Bank? Or is it an end of growth in Europe by capitalism?
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@Kincaid7 The majority of people live in cities now. That should give you a clue that agricultural productivity has risen in China and India to support those big cities and more workers than ever before. The capitalists are a class that makes profits from a system of ownership. The profits are what is left over after all expenses are paid. If the capitalist can not keep cutting labor costs the price of their commodity will drop to the cost of production. For the capitalist it makes no difference how he cuts the cost of labor but the cost of labor must cut. It is the world market that is the capitalist 2nd biggest enemy after the workers who he must cut the wages of. The origin of modern warfare is tied to the capitalist need to sell on the world market. The capitalist are grouped by nationality while the worker have no nation. The inability to use all their industrial capacity and the competition on the world market dives both wars and depression. Depression is the problem of overproduction caused by the inability of the workers to by back all we produce. War solves this problem by destroying the foreign capital of the competition. Socialism solves the problem of overproduction by ending production for private profit instead production comes under workers control for human needs.
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@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521 The US will not invade Cuba because of the armed struggle from all of the Cuban people it would face. That is the power of a socialist revolution with national self determination. That was also the original idea of the Soviet Union a voluntary federation of socialist states not a single country.
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@brandtmanning1084 The world doesn't need to be perfect only made better. That's what our species has been doing for thousands of generations and years with social labor creating a surplus and transforming nature while creating culture and transforming ourselves in the process. You live in a world today that no one could for see just 400 to 500 years ago.
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@Ufthak Imperialism has a definition its not just a political swear word to be thrown around. Its a combination of foreign investments and foreign military force used to guarantee the return on investments. That what makes the advanced capitalist countries Imperialists. National Independence movements threaten Imperialist investments and that's why struggles for national independence threaten the worlds national capitalist powers. The worlds Imperialist powers fought two reactionary world wars to redivide the world among themselves. The end result was victory for the American Imperialist since they were both an advanced capitalist power and protected by geography.
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@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503 The same theories of the Reagan and Bush years that lead to the crisis of 2008. Follow the pied piper of profit maximization what possibly could go wrong?
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@DolphinsWIthIgloos The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act Paramedics to ER " Sixteen year old unconscious female on route bleeding profusely from the vigina suspect a botched abortion. She's crashing." She was someone's daughter. Now her family is picking out a coffin instead of sending her to college.
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@prayunceasingly2029 I'm 68 and I have about zero to show for it. I owe more money than my auto and trailer are worth. People actually own their home in Cuba or pay a rent of 10% income they don't forcelose, repo or evict you. You haven't lost enough wealth yet. Go buy a home and car see if you can hold on to it for more than ten years.
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Right on the money! What kind of economic crisis would be without another No Boss Left Behind act. Can you imagine all health insurance bailouts that will be needed when 35 million no longer have company paid health insurance.
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@jonlittle5032 No I get that from right wing ideologue who insist that making mud pies invalidates the labor theory of value and that the profit comes from thinking. The mistake most people make in looking at capitalism is to see only what they want to describe as good attributable to private capital and everything bad a "socialism" or government doing stuff. All modern capitalist economist end up arguing profits are non materialist since how else can you justify the derivative as anything but a continuous drain on the economy as a whole. The problems the capitalist have can be seen in their own accounting books which is why they must keep them secret. The problem for the capitalist is actually the second law of thermodynamics. He can't create a perpetual motion machine. .
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Phil Silverman If everyone had kept the mouth shut at most there may have been circumstantial evidence. You have a right to lawyer up and that is what all parties should have done. Otherwise he should have been prepared to challenge the law since he knew he was breaking it. They plea bargained him and he took the deal his defense is others did it and he was targeted by Obama Democrats.
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@YTStopCensoringFreedomOfspeech Actually your status as an independent contractor is determined by law not necessarily by what the company chooses to call you in a contract. Usually the difference is determined by how much of the job is managed by you and how independently you are in the relationship. Miss classification is a way for bosses to save lots on overtime. The bosses usually have to pay you a piece rate rather than hourly to pull this scam off. Taxi driver is the most common independent contractor because you are the one who determines most of what is done and you are paid a percentage of the meter or flat rate charge. If its on the up and up they probably gave you a copy of the contract they had you sign if not they probably kept it in case you complain later on. Keep records of your working time because most likely they aren't or are destroying them.
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@JustSomeGuy98 I don't care what Party you belong to Pro Lifers are considered rightests as are those who want more people in prison or jail as a solution to social problems. Reagan was from California, the Bushes are Connecticut Yankees, Trump changed Parties 5 times LBJ, Carter and Clinton was all Southern Democrats. Its only been recently that the parties have become more split between liberals and conservatives. People like progressives and Sanders were completely irrelevant outside of small areas of the country in the past.
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@smeff099 Freedman like his Democratic liberal colleagues advocated for capitalism. Both were committed to saving the system above all else.
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@rachs86782 I use that symbol to emphasis the early Soviet Union and the "Back to Lenin" fight by the left opposition. This battle of titanic proportions began with Lenin who wanted Stalin removed from his post as General Secretary. Lenin died and then Trotsky took up the banner of world revolution fighting the developing and counterrevolutionary officialdom. Down with the NEPman, the Kulak and the bureaucrat. To go forward one must go "Back to Lenin." It was Stalin and the cowardly bureaucracy that murdered the revolution in the Moscow Trials of 1936 to 1938. Lenin's closest comrades were tortured and forced to confess to crimes they had not committed. All were accused of Trotskyism. Trotsky had been exiled in Mexico and was murdered by a Spanish NKVD agent Ramon Mercader on Stalin's orders.
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treeghettox Off the hook for what this is one of the most foolish videos I've ever seen.
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@flipgunderson1946 The right has nothing but the past and that is why they will ultimate lose. As they have throughout history. The right always thinks in terms of the physical weapon. Their officer corp is cynical, their non coms are drunkards, their conscript army has nothing but its paymaster. Our cadre is armed with ideas. Our cause is just. You can kill us but you can not halt the spread of our ideas. You fear us but we do not fear you. Che's last words, "Shoot you are only killing a man." and so the drunken non com fired his weapon.
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Stossel should make a video on how the federal government has cut taxes for the wealthy from a top rate of 94% to 30% and how the local state and federal debt is just a way for the rich to avoid taxes through lending. How state and local taxes have increased and risen hitting hit the working people hardest instead of the wealthy. How inflation by printing money hurts the working people and boosts profits. He will never touch such topics because his handlers at Fox News would never allow it.
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Part of US bankers and bosses drive for profits by American capitalist two party system of capitalist dictatorship.
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Rex2212 Go Fuck yourself ADOLF.
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Scats Scats Who are you another Jackass for Christ booked for the Billy Graham show?
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Hillbilly smart enough not take a contract to go to Saudi Arabia and have his head sold as intellectual property.
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He's one of those quirks of nature dick and balls on top brain between the legs.
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How about you head up to North Korea and see what they say about your idea.
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@punche5250 Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces defeated the invincible white South African Apartheid army at Cuito Cuanavale, Angola. Driving a dagger into they myth of the invincible white man in Africa. The allies of Ronald Reagan UNITA and South Africa suffered a humiliating military defeat on the battlefield and at the UN when the New York accords were signed. . .
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The Puritans obviously became either another protestant sect that disappeared or changed their sects name to something more PC before the term PC entered the language.
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The ruling class doesn't care about education only their bank accounts. They don't want an educated working class because that would be a threat to their bank accounts. They want to keep the immigrants down so they can better exploit them.
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The reason the capitalist have had their government set up all kinds of regulations and regulators is because the capitalist have realized they must prevent their own greed from taking over and engaging in all kinds of antisocial acts.
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Marx foresaw that (new machinery) and other internal contradictions of capitalism. A markets and sources of more cheap labor limited by the finite size of the world and the rise more capital v labor used in production pushing investment from a declining rate of return on industrial production value into the raising the values of fictitious capital.
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Can I come down and put up a memorial to those who died Vietnam because of the US government policy of anti communism and Imperialist domination?
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Soon this kind of thinking that police actually protect will lead to police protecting you everywhere you go. Your going to pay more and more for police protecting you as they begin a drive to protect you from yourself.
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Ludd Zarko How about you provide the name of not one thousand, not one hundred, not ten but just one person unjustly executed in Cuba since 1959?
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Ludd Zarko A teenager involved in an armed takeover of the Ecuadorian Embassy in Cuba holding the ambassador and other diplomats hostage demanding asylum.
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@endriu55 No FDA Sure bring back the profit hungry unregulated drug market. Once enough people die of a drug in the market the market for it drops until it gets renamed. Going through another killing until enough people die making profit hungry companies and their owners rich beyond belief. Struggling to get rid of capitalism all together and then you can begin the process of ending the alienation that makes people turn to drugs to make them feel good.
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John Grit Perdue Pharma is a good example of what happens when government approved greed is allowed to take over. You can thank them and the FDA for destroying millions of lives just so the Sackler family could become billionaires. They are the worst drug pushers since they were able to do it all legally but unlike the poor they will never spend a single day in a jail cell. They are no different the the British who made fortunes selling opium to the Chinese.
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Ludd Zarko Ya so if you made it to the boss level and maybe you happy now despite what is going on with the rest of the country. The depression with 38.4 million thrown out of their jobs in the last 9 weeks. That's over 10% of the total population.
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@maxscott3349 Fire all the crooked cops now!!!
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US politicians for years pointed fingers at each other over the 'loss of China' as if the had a right to own and control China.
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"What part of illegal is unclear?" The part where you violate my 4th Amendment rights, the part where you assume guilt without a trail, and the part where you detain without conviction.
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Federal Reserve says 23% of industrial capacity is going unused. So there could be more jobs but the bosses refuse to hire. Plus creating more more welfare moms and kids will only further strain the safety net and add to welfare costs. Building a wall will not provide any economic benefit just like all these so called wars on terror are a net loss. ICE is a police agency like the rest of the police they are an enemy of labor.
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"Our markets' Well maybe you own or control a market but I don't. Starting at the beginning of WW2 a 'labor shortage' required more workers so Mexicans were recruited to come here and not just from the border towns but the actual Mexican interior. In one form or another this continued right up to the 1960's as the Braceros program. The program ended when Congress and the President couldn't agree and many farmers feared that without Mexican's their crops would rot on the ground. Well the Mexicans came anyway and so developed the policy of your not suppose to be here but we are glad you came.
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Anyone who thinks the same people who closed plants for cheaper labor elsewhere are now going to bring back jobs and prosperity are either sadly deluded or out right liars. The price of Chinese labor is rising because of strikes and protests. They and not some politician or capitalist are our real allies along with other workers regardless of nationality or immigration status. Trump wants to build a wall and Nancy Pelosi wants a 'smart' electronic wall. That has nothing to do with jobs. It is just a process of building a state more responsive to the needs of the capitalists with their show us ID where ever you go. The Trump administration is already adding more temporary visas to replace those not coming across 'illegally'.
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Look once you go beyond a being a single proprietor and incorporate than your in the same category as some of the biggest business' in the world. Also until recently society and the government did not recognize same sex marriage and in some states such relationships were illegal. At best the compromise would require him to facilitate the making of same sex marriage cakes. Hardly the case of putting a gun to his head and telling him make a cake or elses. Setting up a corporation requires you to abide by corporate law in return for the advantages one receives by incorporation. I understand why corporations would want to influence politics and some might want to be religion specific but this smacks of someone wanting his cake and being able eat it to.
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The idea of operating a whites only business based upon religious belief was rejected long ago. How is that different for a business where your religion says you don't have to serve same sex weddings? From what I've read the guy in Oregon deserves a break because it seems that a Democratic Party politician wanted to make his career on crushing a family only business. He was never offered a compromise and the aggrieved asked only for $400 dollars while they were awarded $135,000. His law firm First Liberty seems to be genuinely concerned with religious liberty not forcing religion down everyone else's throat like the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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I do understand the difference and so did the State of Colorado when they offered Masterpiece Cakeshop the option of having an employee without Jack Phillips views make the cakes or having an outside contractor do them. Phillips refused on principle and has lost every appeal since.
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The problem with Englishmen and Canadians is you want to pretend that you live in a democracy or republic not a limited monarchy. We have a government set up as limited constitutional republic with a bill of rights. The reason you don't have that kind of government is because people like you are "sick and fucking tired".
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We don't have a state Church like the Church of England. Instead we have a free exercise and establishment clause in our first amendment.
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"Half of the descendants of those living in America today were digging up turnips or whatever in eastern Europe and were no more than vassals of whoever was in power at that time while we in Britain had a fully functioning democracy" Typical argument heard at an English dinner debate concerning the "White man's burden." In fact your democracy was working so well that 26 Counties of Ireland fought and left over lingual and religious persecution leaving you with a United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland. Yes the US constitution was based in English law and the Magna carta was advanced for its time. However neither England or Canada have anything as radical as the US constitution and the Bill of rights. No where in the Constitution is God or an official language mentioned. Neither is there an escape clause of reasonableness included like in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A clause in the original constitution forbids any religious test for any office. "...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." The first amendment prevents Congress from prohibiting the free exercise of or establishing a religion. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
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A business can put up a sign like that but it doesn't mean that lets them off the hook for public accommodation law. The purpose of those signs is to remind the customer that they are expected to be on good behaviour in the business if they expect to be served. Should a customer be acting up it allows a business employee to ask the customer to leave without getting into an argument about why they're being asked to leave.
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That theory of 'natural selection' driving business didn't work in the past with regards to race. So American Apartheid was officially disbanded by public accommodation law. The Supreme court recognized in the 1968 in the Newman v. Piggy Park Enterprises decision that religion was not a valid defense to violation of the 1964 Civil Rights act. The movement engaged in public protests while also demanded government action to end the discriminatory practices. The laws came after the protests and the cultural shift against racism.
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I think they should get a cutting torch and a rope then pull down the statue and sell it for scrap. Once melted down it could be used for worth while items like toilet bowls. They could then take out the bodies of the old racist general and his wife then cremate them in a mock Klan rally. A new statue should be raised in honor of the colored men who fought and died for their freedom at the hands of the bastard general.
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It's legal for a women to go topless anywhere in New York state on public property that a man can.
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Okay if aliens who enter here are not under the jurisdiction of US law then they can not be deported because in order to deport someone they need to be under the jurisdiction of US law. Diplomats are not under jurisdiction of US law instead they are under the jurisdiction of the Geneva convention on diplomatic protocol. The US signed the 1949 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights convention on Human rights so that mean's that not only are they entitled to equal protection and due process under the 14th Amendment but also under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Fascist bastards are born without a brain meaning they don't need a skull.
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@NoWay1969 Sure Black Democrats in the cities know they are holding off a French revolution while Republicans are busy counting pennies and food stamps. Its the natural workings of capitalism that are creating more and more crisis which they haven't got the slightest idea of how to solve.
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@FCBanes The just passed a new constitution in Cuba. .
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@jamesbrowning9210 The USSR had nuclear weapons Cuba does not.
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How many of those "Best Schools" did you attend?
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Under law what your religious views are will not be questioned. The Newman v. Piggy Park Enterprises case in 1968 says you can not use religion as a defense to violation of public accommodation law. Just because your interpretation of the Torah, Bible or Quran means this or that doesn't mean you get to do this or that. A line must be drawn on one side is religious freedom on the other side is religious tyranny.
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Ludd Zarko Russian Soviets. Okay how about the writings of Leon Trotsky like "The Revolution Betrayed" or "The Stalinist School of Falsification" for starters. I still have a copy of "Samizdat" Voices or the Russian Opposition around somewhere. Sure you'd like to leave the US out of anything to do with Cuba because then you would not have to make comparisons of a powerful socialist revolution with its most obstinate capitalist opposition. Why don't counter revolutionaries like you ask Trump if he will make Cuba the 51st state for you?
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Ludd Zarko You know that there is no Cuba opposition of any significance outside of those in Miami and New Jersey. Why not be the next Texas and seek statehood by treaty?
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Ludd Zarko Like all the Cuban anti communists you sink into the pornographic trash pile. You have a total of zero constructive ideas about anything what so ever. You demand political power as an exile community that has no support outside of the US government who have financed all your terrorist escapades. Since that failed the US tried creating an dissident movement by giving away books to so called independent libraries and giving air and internet time for lies and half truths. Yet once against that failed when Yoni Sanchez lost her uniqueness and now she also wants the Blockade ended. As Fidel said after Giron they had a good plan but what they lacked was a just cause.
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@Anler Cabrera No Soviet Union but Cuba remains socialist must be really pising you off. Hay what happened to the "Cuban Quilt of Genocide"? I hear Senator Bob Menendez uses it for cold New Jersey nights? Is that where it went?
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Daneel Olivaw Hey did Marco Rubio ever find out what the secret weapon used against US Cuban Diplomats was? I think he should haul in Joe Basulto for a chat. He could ask about "Brothers for the Desk Job." Rubio should bring in American Hearing Aid manufacturers to find if they head any bad noises lately.
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Daneel Olivaw Does the Cuban American Foundation keep track of all the "imaginary friends" left back in Cuba?
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Daneel Olivaw Well I figured you would know since you such an expert? I hear that the anti-Cuba CIA Terrorist Joe Basulto has become another Martin Luther King endorsing non violence. Whats you take on that? Do you think he's going to Havana to officially surrender? That way he can write letters from jail like King.
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Daneel Olivaw I paid Uncle Sam so now he pays me. Do you think he is getting a good bargain?
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Uncle Sam doesn't mess with me because he knows better than end up with Jewish Communist Lawyers asking questions in a US Federal court room. He paid a 1/4 million dollars and promised not to spy on us anymore in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General. We got a better ruling than Trump could with the Gestapo Head Muller. Not everyone can get a Federal Judge to hold the US Attorney General in contempt of court.
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If they want to be more "inclusive" they should end admission based upon gene pool. Thirty percent of Harvard Students are the sons and daughters of Harvard grads. It's common knowledge amongst Boston students as a whole that once admission to Harvard has been accomplished, "All the hard work has been done." The great majority of Harvard Students are 'Upper Crust' to begin with.
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Congress did not recognize Confederate Soldiers as war dead. It made increased pensions available to Spanish American war veterans and widows and children of US Civil war veterans and children and widows of Confederate Veterans. Their is no pardon included but a Confederate soldier could seek a pardon by applying for one some time after the civil war as was legislated by Congress. General Lee asked for one and got one but that didn't make or allow him to become a union soldier nor did he get to collect a pension.
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Just more keyboard warriors and xbox360 experts.
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That is just more baseless propaganda that makes the Russian's responsible for everything perceived as going wrong elsewhere.
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He served in and out though. At that time a Bush would serve in a National Guard or Air National Guard without fear of service outside of the United States.
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Sure filming interferes with the lies the media and schools tell us about the role of police in capitalist society. Their real job is to crush all protests against ruling class policies. Pushing back against the frame up methods, torture, and brutality of the capitalist police force makes it harder for the rulers to do what ever they feel like and defend there profit system.
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He was enough of a leader that he wrote a letter to President Lincoln during the Civil war for the International Workingmen's Association and received a response back from Lincoln from the US Ambassador.
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You can pay them $20 an hour? Well then why don't you?
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The Soviet Union is gone get over it. Plus anticommunism won't help in building a new militant labor movement. America's top labor officials who are mostly social democratic have been leading a retreat since 1954. The Russian Revolution was in 1917. Stalin didn't garner complete authority until the Purge and Murder trials of the old Bolsheviks in 1936 to 1938.The Left oppositions was much bigger than just Trotsky. Thousands were sent to the camps by the bureaucratic counterrevolutionaries.
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Gorbachev presided over the final counterrevolutionary bureaucratic betrally first begun by Joseph Stalin.
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@blazednlovinit One Hundred thousand? Is that the latest believable "estimate" prepared by those who support the Capital of Human Rights in Washington, DC? How about that poor and harassed dissident El Sexto. Don't want him released from the Miami Jail for where he awaits trial without bail for stalking and Death Threats. Don't you want you daughters to dating such a great Artist and Human Rights defender. .
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Representative government and what they told you in school about equal branches is wrong. Congress wrote the Constitution and it is the most powerful branch. The other branches have zero power over it being only able to temporarily blockade Congress but it has the ultimate 2/3 majority power of impeachment of either the president or the supreme court justices or the chief justice, it can override a presidential veto, or gang up with the president to pack the Supreme court.
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You don't live in a tribal world with the US being the Empire like at the end of WW2. Sure Make America Great Again gets a lot of traction but if you think all those union jobs are coming back your wrong. Whatever they decide to build here will based on profit alone. Those of us who worked a Sparrows Point were promised vacation pay like teachers had for the summer time and told our jobs would be like those of airline pilots. You can go down and look at the once largest industrial complex in the western hemisphere. Personally I'm glad I left when I did otherwise I would probably dying of cancer.
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The capitalist will always blame the workers and the unemployed for the crisis of their system. The only reason for making homes into commodities is to make profits out of the need for a home. It was capitalist greed that created the 'housing crisis' not the poor who seek life like every other human being. For years they had been able to create a home market with prices rising as the average family moved every five years. Eventually prices rose way higher than the actual value of the homes. Once this realization set in only a collapse in home values could happen. Mortgage payments are a large part of circulating capital so once layoffs began with another crisis of overproduction those unable to pay lost their homes to foreclosure a drop in value started because of overvalue in a poor market and soon it was affecting the biggest finance capital firms in the world. This is the natural way capitalism works it is not caused by bad intentions other then the bad rules of capitalism itself.
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Article 20 of the universal declaration of human rights provides that everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association. Both Mexico and the US voted for the declaration.
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A couple comes into a custom furniture builder says we want to buy a bed for two. Manager says, "Who's it for?" "It's for us." " Sorry we don't endorse interracial marriage.", " Sorry we don't endorse Christians marrying Jews." " Sorry we don't endorse Muslims marrying Christians." "Sorry we don't endorse same sex marriage." or " We would be happy to build one for you sit down and lets design one."
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They're Supreme Court Justices not Conservative Preachers and hypothetical situations do matter. Masterpiece cake shop has lost every appeal so far. They don't hear every appeal that comes their way either. The easiest thing to do is just reasert a states right to have public accommodation laws. The only way to tamper with that is to issue some kind of limited ruling putting the ball back in Congress's court by citing the so called restoration of religious liberty act which is nothing but a way to satisfy conservatives donors that want Christianity and religion given special rights by government. Judge Roy Moore, a prime example of that kind of thinking, lost his Alabama election campaign for Senator and no doubt that lose will have some effect on the thinking of 'nine wise souls'.
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Obviously an attack on the Irish.
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"They are no exception to the Laws of this Country the United States." The Jim Crow laws "De Jure segregation " forbidding or preventing Black Americans from accessing whites only areas, equal educational opportunity and equal employment opportunity were enforced and the law until Black People fought against them. In fact the Supreme court in Plessy v. Ferguson state's desire to provide separate but equal facilities was legal. Over fifty years later with the beginning of the end of racial segregation the supreme court would rule that separate but equal was inherently unequal in Brown vs Board of Education. In fact as far back as the very beginning of the Republic the Alien and Sedition laws were written to make disagreement with government policy a crime. Over the years plenty of political opponents have been accused of attempting to destroy the country. "Americans can't break into their Country." Well maybe so but the US government has no problem with interfering with the political process in other countries under the guise of saving democracy, regime change and the war on terror. This has been especially true in America's backyard Latin America. They have spent over fifty years imposing a cruel blockade on Cuba because Cuba's people got rid of the dictator Batista and decide they wanted to take a Socialist road. They have supported the most criminal dictatorships from Pinochet in Chile, the Generals coup in Brazil, the dictatorship in El Salvador, Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua and the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Guatemala.
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You know what everyone knows that workers cross the boarder to harvest lettuce, melons and other vegetables in Arizona, Texas and California. Then moving North through California, Oregon and Washington State. None of these anti immigrant posters would even consider working in a harvest. In Connecticut and Massachusetts immigrants come to harvest tobacco in the Connecticut river valley. The thing is most of the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are basically city states. The number and size of farms are small. There are no unincorporated areas and what Texas calls a city we call a town. So like the rest of the US cities they are mainly controlled by the Democratic Party.
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The purpose of testing a bomb is done for two reasons. One is does it really work. The other is to warn others that they are to be respected and not subjected to threats and pressure. If you don't test your bomb but use it directly well that doesn't necessarily mean it won't work. The joint US South Korea military exercises will end. When things seem quieter North Korea may or may not go about testing then if they so choose. The fact that they have tested at least one bomb successfully should indicate to Washington that they are not to be messed with. Since officially North Korea is in conflict with the United Nations to begin with what they say will do little to convince them that they should be taking another course of action.
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Economics is not a zero sum game. People who come here and work create wealth both for themselves and their employer.
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This is something that was missed by the women's liberation movement of the 1960's. That movement was what made women equal in most areas of life in law, employment, sexual, and family life. However the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution reflects the leaders of National Organization Women reliance upon the Democratic Party rather than the street movement that won abortion rights. Obviously this is an archaic law meant to protect the child's parents or the adult spouse instead of the child.
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We understand enough to know that laws are written by corrupt politicians like Jan Brewer.
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Maybe cops shouldn't be leaving hair trigger firearms laying around in bags.
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President Trump should send out the US Marine expeditionary force to take down every monument to CSA General Lee, CSA General Stonewall Jackson, CSA General Bedford Forrest and every other monument to CSA officers throughout the country. If they can pull down Saddam Hussein monuments in Iraq they the can certainly pull down monuments to terrorist in the United States. Start with the cradle of the Confederacy in Montgomery Alabama and finish with The last Confederate capital in Danville, VA.
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LOL
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Put the ICE thugs in a freezer.
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You realize these new passports are suppose to super secure with internal chips. Anybody can make a birth certificate.
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Let's say Trump leaves a tax on remittance going to Mexico. So how does he separate that from other payments going to Mexico? Like spring breakers and business travel? Okay What if Mexicans get smart and open bank accounts in Canada or some other 3rd country and sent their remittances through Canada or another 3rd country? In fact what if companies spring up in 3rd countries that for a small fee less than the Trump tax provide the remittance transfer? How about a tariff? Well Mexico could implement similar tariffs going on goods made here going there driving our and their trade elsewhere at higher prices. If prices rise than the end users will pay. US companies manufacturing in Mexico are unlikely to like something like that. How about an Entry tax. Well that will require an agency to collect and administer the tax. If its placed on all admissions than tourist agencies will oppose that as well as businesses that now count on part of their income from legal crossings by Mexicans and Canadians.
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Cuba locked itself up? No the US tightened the screws with it blockade and plans to replace the Cuba government with one of its liking.
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@lurkingsoldi2107 Capitalism is based in nation states with a capitalist class. They can't help creating crisis of overproduction and increasing competition. This leads capitalism to war out of first depression. You can already see this developing with the beginning of trade war. The capitalist all know that trade war makes things worse but nevertheless they are starting to play with the fire of trade war. This can only lead to real war or world war three. All over who gets to sell what and where and for what price.
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We don't want a federal police state. No person is illegal. Remove the second internal southern land border from Texas to California. I'm tired of being asked if I am a US citizen at the internal checkpoints. We are not a new Demilitarized Zone.
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The parasites receive checks in the mail called dividend payments. If we close foreign military bases, end the endless war, release nonviolent drug abusers, close prisons, reduce the militaries size, rebuild infrastructure and use the 23% unused industrial capacity than we are on the right track. Firing public librarians will just mean less access to knowledge to those who can't afford private education.
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Once again Paul the man victim of cancer needs to blame others for his problems. What's the matter stock market investments go down this week. Weeping over the loss of your great great grandfather's mansion to Yankee carpetbaggers?
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If you can't pay a minimum you don't belong in business.
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The capitalist continue to invest in new machinery as a natural process of capitalism itself. They do this in anticipation of lower labor cost by replacing first skilled labor and then unskilled labor. This however has its own dynamic of writing off old machinery at its recyclebly value and the new machinery must justify its use as increasing return of rate of return on investment. Creating new machinery that reduces labor cost and the cost of creating (investing) is not always guaranteed to be the best business decision. So what your really talking about is technological innovation. The capitalist always socialise this initial cost onto government and universities. Only in the more specific and applied use of technology do they assume the cost
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Even in the US most funding for basic research in science and engineering comes from government funding now. DARPA brought you the packet switched network and GPS. Research is paid for by a number of government agencies at Research Universities and then commercialized (privatised) for market purpose.
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Large companies also have armies of engineers assigned to solve problems and design what the customer wants.
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No that's not what will happen instead the workers still in industry become all that more powerful. A work stoppage in one place becomes all that more powerful because it brings a whole lot of other places to a halt with just in time deliveries it also amplifies a work stoppage with new machinery the capitalist will not just replace labor but also try and reduce wages. This all but guarantees a more militant class struggle.
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Union workers are always accused of being greedy because the capitalist lose a portion of their 'unearned' income. Even the capitalist government calls income from dividends, market manipulations, derivatives, capital gains, rents and commercial paper unearned income so if it wasn't earned how can it be claimed to have been obtained through work? Don't try and tell us the government isn't bought and paid for by business.
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Mexico is a country plus plenty of people fly the flags of their county of national origin like the Irish, Polish, and others. CSA battle flag should not fly on government or state property. You fly it. You own the baggage that comes with it.
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@christinaheuer7169 Christianity was the ideological glue that held feudal Europe together. This can be seen in the use of the English word Lord. Not only does it have as a synonym God or Jesus but so to as a way to address the superior barons and kings of feudal and even modern England. Judges are still properly addressed as Your Worship, My Lord, My Lordship.
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@donlebo6824 This is the typical two party way of choosing a president. In Nixon vs JFK it was said afterwards that Nixon's 5 o'clock shadow lost to Kennedy's youthful appearance after the debate in which issues don't matter but make up for the camera does.
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@dpjmj Bill Clinton took time off from the campaign trail to execute a Black man who believed he could eat his jello after his execution. Clinton "Ended Welfare as we Know it." One of the Black women with children at the Bill's signing latter died because medicaid no longer paid for her medicine. Trump switched parties 5 times.
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@naomidoss2623 That's right Sowell got his Harvard degree doing just that.
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@IzaakCha7 Imperialist wars of aggression for foreign investors. Every Latin American country was invaded or had their elected government replaced by a Military dictatorship in the 20th century by the United States. "That's crony capitalism not real capitalism with the free market and the 'non aggression principle." says the libertarian. Crony capitalism is real capitalism.
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@Lunatic4Bizcas The Imperialist system failed in 2008 and all the kings men and all the kings horse can't put humpty dumpty back togather again.
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@l1mi13 Well he read Karl Marx on economics "Das Kapital" rejecting any contact with any living Marxist and then he began his career as a Bourgeois thinker who rejected Marx after being placed in a privileged position at the US Dept of Labor. This is where he made the earth shattering discover that the bureaucrats at the dept of labor were out to save their own skins and not the true communist. It was 1960 and he could gone to Cuba to see the revolution or join the movement to secure civil rights but then he might of faced the blacklist of the McCarty era. You did get hired for federal jobs or get student National Defense loans without swearing you were not a member of the Communist Party or an organization on the Attorney general's list of subversive organizations.
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@SockieTheSockPuppet Maybe you should propose canonization of St Sowell by the Pope?
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@SockieTheSockPuppet Fine with me I wouldn't want to be canonized in the first place. Should we campaign for your canonization as St Sockie instead?
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@SockieTheSockPuppet No I haven't I've just refused to adopt the morals of the ruling class. Why because the dominant ideas and morals of any era are the morals of the ruling class. Our morals are superior because we promote human solidarity which are the morals of the working class and all the exploited producers. Do you think that Cuba could not build nuclear weapons if they chose too? Who would we use them on the American people? Asked Fidel Castro? We have the protection of a moral vest because we tell the truth good or bad. Lenin was the first to question Stalin's actions wanting him out of his position as General Secretary saying he was too rude had too much power and that he wasn't sure he would always use it wisely. He died before he could open a political fight against him and his bureaucratic methods. Trotsky also unsuccessfully tried to have him removed. Stalin became the Napoleon Bonaparte of the Russian Revolution. He turned the pages of Pravada into a mouthpiece of liars and cowards who were constantly accusing others of the crimes they committed. The history of the party was rewritten and monstrous lies were told about anyone who could possible become a rival to those who were members of the not so secretly privileged clique surround the now Great Leader of Defeats Joseph Stalin. . .
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@xano2921 NATO is an Imperialist allaince set up by the US/UK/France . It's purpose is to make and threaten war on those countries that don't do what the Western Imperialist want.
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@xano2921 The US has been escalating with trade sanctions against Russia. Sanctions that hurt ordinary people.
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@flytink1 Sanctions on Japan were the cause of Pearl Harbor. The US and NATO are no better. The US and NATO killed 100,000 in Afghanistan in a war against Afghanistan Taliban fighters who were originally armed by Reagan to fight the Soviets. No reason to support the US and NATO in another war for profits..Ukraine needs world wide solidarity. We need to support working people in Russia not starve them. .
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The thing is everything about the FBI being America's secret police force is true no matter what unprincipled liberals are saying today. They don't investigate crimes they investigate people looking for a information that can be used as political blackmail, information for disruption purpose and murder. Unprincipled liberals are cutting their own throats be jumping on this type of FBI bandwagon set up to investigate Trump. Just Google Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI, Cointelpro, SWP v. Attorney General, Fred Hampton.
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The FBI has been protecting liberal and conservative capitalists since its inception in the early 20th Century. It started with a campaign against radical immigrants. Don't you have WalMart board meeting with Hillary Clinton or is she on some other board of directors now like Berkshire Industries or Bloomberg.
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Commodities are cheap until you can't afford to buy them. One third of those newly printed Federal Reserve notes head out directly on airplanes to foreign banks. The largest economy needn't worry about debt that much because it does all the lending. A small economy needs to worry about debt because it may be cut off like a family that defaults on their credit card debt.
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US Should leave Korea without conditions.
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The name of the channel Liberty Vault obviously is pro capitalist as it sees locking up gold and paper as the way to wealth accumulation and Bourgeois Liberty. The violence in the Russian revolution came from the old ruling classes who wanted to destroy the new workers state just like the Paris Commune. Stalin was the one who wanted Lenin's body embalmed given his original training as an Orthodox Priest.
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Capitalism isn't a win win on the contrary its a win lose situation where the too big too fail bosses are the winners. Capitalist are the involuntary promoter of modern industry and competition leads to monopolization. Capital moves for the biggest profits at the lowest wages and uses military force though dictatorships in the third world to defend those profits along with the US military machine.
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The thing is the Democrats aren't after Trump for robbery but political thought control crimes.
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@droe2570 People quickly leave sinking ships. If you have to rely on paying non competitive wages to stay in business don't expect to be in business long. You may have a right to start a business you don't have a right ti make a profit.
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@lancebwilkins Cuba educates plenty of Medical Doctors many go on foreign medical missions. Do they all just run for the US Embassy? Most Cuban's want to live in Cuba and support their government. Even Cuban's like Cuban American Iraq war veteran Carlos Lazo have turned against the blockade and US interventionist policy.
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@robc8468 What's your definition of middle class? Is it based on occupation or income? Most people at the beginning of capitalism were farmers of some type or other. In England they had to kick the peasants off the land by passing the manor enclosure laws to create a propertyless working class to be used as laborers in the factories. In America the working class was created out of immigrants, former slaves and economically destitute free farmers as capitalism developed here.
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@mattschrader5047 Ya hope in religion if only we could return to the days when the pope could tell us what to think about how the sun rotated about the earth and keep Galileo locked up or executed instead of just in lifetime house arrest. Ideas have a life of their own and the advancement of culture and education dooms capitalist exploitation no matter who or why it is practiced. The only snake oil being peddled is that that claims that capital produces something on its own and that billionaires are billionaires because they are born as a special genius class destined to rule over everyone else while blasting into space on expensive carnaval rides.
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@lightfox11 Wall Street does not ask for your permission. They and the two parties make their decisions based upon shareholder value and profits. Your not invited into their party.
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@23wisegal You give theses politicians including Trump to much credit. Trump couldn't do much in office because he's just one person at the head of a vast bureaucracy of decision makers. He can do even less out of office because his popularity and influence have stagnated.
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Said what would happen? A Boss Vowing to raise wages? LMAO
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@debrasrnek4223 No empty homes have investment value. Ask President Trump he has lots of empty condos/apartments in his Trump tower.
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Glorious Revolution? Wasn't that back in 1688?
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@AzrealMaximus They can't really say to much since she was a George Bush tryout.
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@jjthefed Capitalism is all about the right to swindle and the raw deal. The truth about how the system of swindle for the profits of a few is what eventually brings it to an inglorious end. Capitalist can't escape their own lies and the violence the will need to keep there class in power. When slavery and feudalism got in the way of the new capitalist system they were first abolished by revolutionary means. The same thing will happen to the capitalist who are organized in nation states.
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@jasamkojajesam6108 Fetus are not babies. This law ends rights to medical care for women by replacing the police for doctors. Any doctor who practices gynecology in Alabama will be under scrutiny for attempted abortions by state police. Its real name should be used the 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. Its goal is "GIVE BIRTH OR DIE".
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@icecold7184 The capitalist are already thinking about launching another World War in the drive to defeat their world market competition with the threats made against China.
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If Che was the murderous killer claimed why did the US not have him put on trial like the NAZI's instead of having him murdered by a drunken Bolivian Army Sargent. Why didn't he get one of the bourgeois democratic trials? Even the dictator Batista had Fidel brought before a trial before sentencing him to 15 years in prison. The real Human Rights abuses in Cuba are carried out at US occupied Guantanamo Bay Naval Base where people are held with life sentences and no kind of trial at all.
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First Janus is not a union supporter. Quote "His fight is not their fight." Janus was a capitalist justice employee. His job was to track down those not paying court ordered child support of course that means jail for unemployed workers or those who can't afford the judge's order. He like prison guards should be kicked to the curb. We don't need their scabby asses in the union movement.
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The wolf of course is the Conservative like Sowell.
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@matthewkopp2391 Your problem like the rest of the petti bourgeois left is a refusal to leave the capitalist Democratic Party. Why waste your time trying to capture and reform something that has always been pro big business to its core?
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We have seen the development of the surveillance state where any transgression of law is now kept in a searchable database. It is then argued well if you didn't do the crime you wouldn't be doing the time or if you aren't doing something wrong why do you care how many camera's are watching?
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The best anti poverty program is a militant fighting union movement.
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Family farmers and ranchers vote Republican because they want to leave the farm to their children not having to sell half in order to pay the estate tax. Their struggle to keep their farms and ranches is a progressive one. The only former union man (SAG President) to be elected President was Ronald Reagan since his union busting of the PATCO union this is why the officials can't convince an ever shrinking membership to vote for any Republican. They and many of the leaders of the 1960's and 1970's social movements are Democrats by default. They refuse to do much of anything except be part of the Democratic Party vote catching machinery or talk about nominating Democrats to the Supreme court. As workers we don't have the same options our leaders do. They may be able to keep sitting in a Washington office talking to Senators and Congressmen but we have real economic problems and you can expect us to begin a fight back with or without them.
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Its just like when Superman comes on TV right?
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Ever union battle becomes a class struggle. Bosses will make their threats now and the battle will continue regardless of the strikes results. A contract is only a temporary recognition of the relations between the working class and the capitalist class. The union battle become a class struggle and raises the need for a labor party to battle the bosses in Congress and the government to take control of production away from the greedy class of bosses.
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Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
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What is setting in is a deep seated realization that capitalism does work the way its defenders claim.
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@kylemccormack1785 We are living though the Imperialist era of capitalism. The capitalist nations began the first world war. The Russian revolution was a response to the misery caused by the war. It's United States Imperialism that is the main threat to peace in the world today not the Stalinists whose power to betray revolutions has been on the decline following WW2. The Republicans, just like Stalin did in Russia to the peasants, betrayed the newly freed slaves to violence and segregation. Plus at the time of Vietnam the American Imperialist said victory was at hand because of the number who they were killing. What I object to is the hypocrisy and the white wash of capitalism. Let's put all the cards on the table in history not just Republican Party propaganda. Afterall thousands of Communists were murdered by Stalin in the Soviet Union and 100's in Spain not to mention all the leaders of the 1917 October revolution except Stalin and Lenin who died of natural causes.
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@kylemccormack1785 White people accusing others of being racists. When have we heard that before. Lenin advocated national self determination and Trotsky discussed Black Nationalism with the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party before the rise of Black nationalism world wide in the late 1950's and 1960's. What I've said can be backed up with facts in history .Its not some unsubstantiated BS like Che being a Mass Murderer. All you need to is come up with the name of a single person murdered by Che. The real reason for all this BS is to replace the historical record with lies. Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin All you need to is refute what is said in there. Just like you can't refute Das Kapital. Instead you need you need to rely on name calling and slander. Stalin and Hitler would be proud of someone like you.
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@kylemccormack1785 When did I say the US was Fascist state. Just because the US uses a massive secret police apparatus to contain the class struggle when it deems necessary doesn't make it a fascist state. Sure Henry Ford was praised by Hitler and got a NAZI medal just before WW2 doesn't mean the ruling class defeated the labor movement and set up a fascist state.
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@Propagandalf These wars are fought for capitalist control. Putin is not independent of the oligarchs rather he is their hand maiden. In one way this is a war between the Imperialist profiteers of America vs those of Imperial Europe and Imperial Russia and on the other it is a fight for the national independence of Ukraine. This is why capitalism can not bring peace.
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@violinhunter2 King George had his own kind of idiocy. He wanted to revoke previous charters that allowed self rule. He wanted to collect taxes from crown colonies governed from London. He refused to allow the importation of money. American coins had to be secretly minted with dates from the English commonwealth. All newspapers required a crown approval and a stamp tax. The crown issued general warrants to search for whatever and wherever they wanted. The quartered soldiers in homes without permission. Most of the first ten amendments to the American Constitution are reactions reflecting the abuses experienced by the colonists in the time of King George III. The federalists said the federal government would be limited in powers to those enumerated in the Federal Constitution. The anti federalist wanted the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments) to limit federal power.
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How so? Marx wrote on the Paris Commune. Lenin died in 1924 and struggle broke out in the Party. Stalin read what Trotsky wrote but did you? Trotsky was the last of the old bolsheviks to be rehabilitated just before Gorbachev resigned. See Pathfinder Press.
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@shsfootball7478 You sound like the CZAR. Political Prisoners in the camps often marched to work and ended work at eight hours and held strikes. You thinking of the NAZI's capitalists who had no work for the Jewish slaves so they exterminated them using capitalist production methods of mass death.
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@odelldaniel7868 They can go down to social service now and get a foster child in preparation for adoption. Why are they waiting?
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@Jeff-0012 You are an advocate for ideological brainwashing talking about instilling values in children's minds instead of educating in the science of human sexual reproduction. Just like capitalist brainwash you into the love his money that is only worth the paper it is printed on. Sacred object is what priest drinks out of when he says mass. Why Right to Life Priest Blockade Clinic? Why Right to Life Priest not teach birth control, provide free condoms and birth control pills? When can women trust sperm not to fertilize egg? Should women look at moon to calculate cycle for rhythm method?
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@rickcoona8368 The man in office always takes the blame for a bad economy. Only a miracle can save Trump now.
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One nation under god with freedom and justice for some.
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He should have gone to prison for unauthorized sale of government property to a foreign power. A ordinary supply sergeant would have been crucified.
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@sidology1.0 If you want to understand economics than you need to begin reading Karl Marx. Starting with wage labor and capital. Then price value and profit. Once you gone that far your ready to take up Das Kapital. Production in modern capitalism involves setting in motion working people and tools all over the world. A computer in production travels through an estimated 100 counties before it is ready for sale.
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@eujinlee9936 That too is the ideology of the capitalist "slave" society. That by becoming an owner you escape the society of slaves. If as you say that the schooling creates slaves in a slave society than the masters also need an education to be the masters of the society. The creation of the working class by the capitalist is great step forward for humanity not a step back into slavery but a step forward. If you come out of school with nothing more than the ability to read, write and basic math that gives you access to culture that people of the past feudal societies never had. It is our class that will become the new ruling class and thereby abolish all class distinctions.
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@fukinyouup Because that is considered the age of majority for most things. Qualified and mature enough to work with most machinery. An 18 year old will have 44 plus years to work.
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@fukinyouup How about you fuck off. I haven't put a gun to anybody's head.
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@alexs3187 You don't think I would let you beat me with insults did you?
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I would say no union that vigorously defends it members will have no problem collecting dues. I would plan on a lot of no strike agreements going down the toilet. If you want class warfare a lots us would be more than happy to oblige..
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I don't see how Kennedy had another viable choice unless he wanted to spend the rest of his life in an underground bunker.
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@chetpomeroy1399 My understanding is Che went to Khrushchev and asked only that he tell Kennedy he would install missiles if he did not back down from any more invasion plans. Khrushchev said he would go one better and secretly install missiles. Not wanting to offend a powerful ally the Cuban's acceded to his demands. When Kennedy began making threats then Che told Khrushchev if the strike us don't wait for them to strike you before hitting them. No doubt the Fidel announced that any invasion would be meet with the most severe measures up to and including a launch of nuclear weapons to defend Cuban sovereignty. Khrushchev than panicked and had the announcement made on Radio Moscow letting the Cubans find out the same way Kennedy did by the Radio broadcast. Naturally that left them as an unhappy ally left out of the decision process. In later meetings with the Soviets Raul Castro was told look your 10,000 Km away we can't help you if the US chooses to invade. That was just another reason the Cuban's had for limited trust of the Soviet leadership. They'd already discovered the Yugoslavian proposal to sell Batista arms when the US decided to stop supplying the dictator. Che also criticized the Czech's for sitting on a large cache of WW2 German arms but wanting liberation movements to pay market prices for them. All this points to the fact that the Soviets were not serious about further revolutions anymore than the UAW leaders who would tease the GM execs about how they'd be sitting in their wood paneled offices after the revolution.
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@johnhill762 You are just another liar in the service of Imperialism.Quoting a deserter as your source. .
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@tanler7953 Since there are no written records it leaves us only to speculation. A group had to come up with a way to divide or spread out as it became larger since only with agriculture do we start to have control over the size of the food supply in a given area.
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@marlajacques6947 Not about the Crow Creek Massacre since it is believed to have occurred in the 14th Century. Speculation is that the war that caused the massacre was driven by drought, food shortages and overpopulation based upon the conditions of the bones discovered.
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@jg0943 Larry Elder and Candice Owens are examples for Black economic success. That however also aligns them with the capitalist superstructure. What many forget is just because a person is not an economic success that doesn't mean they have nothing to contribute. Both Nicola Tesla and Thomas Paine died in poverty.
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@winomaster Focusing on speech delivery and not content shows how politically shallow you are.
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@garyoldham4449 Capitalism is based in nation states with tiny ruling classes. These ruling classes always have shifting alliances as trading relationships change. While the US has been in decline its ruling class has decided to make enemies out of the new capitalist regimes in Russia and China. This is one of the reasons why the workers must take power away from the capitalist profiteers.
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@danscalone8110 The bosses always look for ways to take back what the give with one hand with the other hand.
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He didn't break in he became acquainted with Trotsky through a female comrade.
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Capitalists always seek to cut wages to save their profits and profit system. They can move where ever but the world is only so big and the always create more industrial workers. We are an international class while the capitalist are a divided one of different nationalities competing with each other.
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@cmb9059 As long as we have capitalism when you do win higher wages it is only temporary since the bosses always seek to reintroduce competition after a winning strike. If you leave those WalMart and other warehouses unorganized then that puts pressure upon companies that pay union wages to reverse what you've won on the picket line.
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@Hilal Hulawi Last time a Southern dictatorship tried to rule the whole country it was nearl driven into the sea before being resuced by the American Imperialist who took over from the hated Japanese imperialists.
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Like Reagan who was going to build a Star Wars defense.
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Hamas is a Neo NAZI military organization. No ceasefire on Hamas!! Its leaders are billionaires who live in luxury in Qatar.
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@grondhero Basic Economics is Basic Propaganda. My guess if you read that book and saw nothing wrong with it that you can't even define economics.
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@keithbusick6859 it will most likely be overruled if a federal appeal is made. It forbids those who swore an oath to the US Constitution and rgen engaged in insurrection from holding a federal office. So it would be up to the person who would swear him in to refuse to administer the oath unless Congress wrote more specific legislation. Nor did the alleged insurrection occur in Colorado but Washington, DC. The other problem is that an intersection has to be declared by the President which would be Trump. If declared an insertion on Jan 6th and then became an insurrectionist. The problem with that is Congress refused to convict after the impeachment trial and he hasn't been convicted of insurrection and the Armed Forces of the United States not just the militia need to be activated during an insurrection by the President. .
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This was Posturing by the American Imperialist that did nothing but cause a disaster for the people of Afghanistan. A "Made in the USA" War buying the best mercenary forces money could buy to bring nothing but death and destruction to one of the poorest countries in the world. This was part of the Imperialist Drive against Democratic rights at home along with the opening of the US Torture center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. An Imperialist naval base held dispute the will of the Cuban people and their government. While the Imperialist cry crocodile tears for human rights and those of women and girls the move to deny women the right to same sex bathrooms and locker faculties.
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@pluztaxx2718 Like Freidman his professor he believes in the everlasting American capitalism. The days of the last Empire are coming to an end.
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gnbutler First if the company had their way you wouldn't get any hearing whatsoever. You be an "employee at will" on the outside looking in. That said arbitration always favors the bosses and the unions need to use union power to negotiate not arbitrate.
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@johnteets2921 Bosses seek to drive down the cost of labor to boost their sagging rates of profit. As bosses compete to cut skilled labor time with machines and unskilled labor they end up with an ever declining rates of profit as prices sink towards the cost of production without inflation which the bosses use the central bank for. By pushing out currency to the banks they can then raise prices to capture more surplus value from our labor. The seek to drive of the value of property vs wages. This is why all wages and benefits need cola adjustments to prevent the bosses from cutting wages with inflation.
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@JOHN----DOE That's the only hope I see. A number of recent strikes against two tier wages have taken place. Both my father andI I were on strike when we were young.
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@Cupid-Stunt Its called capitalism and it is working the way that it should be expected to. A ruling class that is to big too fail need not do a thing.
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@vnchreturningdestroychinaa2586 BULLSHIT
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Or come up with a way to create false vap alarms. Think about arranging for vap alarms at all toilets in the building at the same time. A vap emergency.
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You get rid of the danger the same way smallpox was instead of playing the shame and roulette based sex game.
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@johncarapinha5600 I don't usually reply to insults. In your case you seem to be what we call a frantic petti bourgeois. I find it quite amusing that you have yourself worked up in a lather which is probably more than a horse after running the Kentucky Derby.
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@saran.4001 Those strikes carried out in the middle of the great depressions were the beginning of a social movement that would organize workers on an industrial bases. These and other battles would push FDR into signing the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, Social Security Act of 1935 and The Fair Labor Standards act of 1938. Millions of workers would pore into the new CIO Unions. The biggest companies in the US like GM and Ford in the US would be forced into signing union contracts with sit down strikes. The unions were a social movement such that they would also take up membership issues with landlords and social workers.
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@dylanc9174 True enough and that fact is why capital in of itself produces nothing. Today the richest man in the world Elon Musk wealth of 300 billion is dependent on his company being worth 1 trillion. However his wealth is based upon almost totally on speculation not sales or number of units produced. As long as people are convinced of Musk's plans and genius his stock price will rise. Once it becomes apparent it is not it will crash much like the mortgage backed securities of 2008. This genius says he will take humanity to mars to escape global warming. He recently pulled 5 billion out of Tesla and like many big investors they pull out of overvalued stock first and let the other people take the losses due to speculation when stock value evaporates.
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@debbiesherman3215 Time to rebuild the trade union movement and a labor party independent of the bosses.
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@Chris-wyt The problem with blaming nationalism for everything is that the modern nation states arises with the change to capitalism makes in the world from feudalism. Fixed borders and centralized government in nation states only began developing with capitalism in Western Europe before spreading across the world to other peoples and because of colonialism. The ability to make a profit is found first in replacing simple tools and machines with more complex ones which require less skill to operate making the ability to profit in the long term greater from lower paid labor possible even with higher paid skilled labor to make the new machines. At one time capitalism required gold and sliver for money to be used in trade today the gold sit in bank vaults and the silver along with gold is limited in use for jewelry and certain industrial uses. Paper and numbers in computers have replaced gold and silver. Trade and production is conducted through a vast network of electronic communications and banking.
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@timpoolsbeanie2296 Libertarians start with assumptions like voluntary trade being free, private property being necessary due to limited resources and a state being only necessary to defend property rights. The when their assumptions which are at the core of modern capitalism don't produce a good outcome they blame it on state intervention. So in essence their reasoning is circular. The choose the axioms for their ideal system and when it doesn't produce a desired result blame the state but who is the state if not the executive committee of the property owners.
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@Pebblebeach-carmel You need to Get Obama to tell another fable about his dad first. Then the liberal hypocrisy can proceed.
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@cathecavanaugh615 I'm not a Democrat as that is the Stalinist/Social Democrat error of the 1930's Popular Frontism. I'm 69 and have never voted Democrat in an election since becoming a Trotskyist Marxist Leninist during the Vietnam era. The Democrats are just the other group fighting for power and prestige and for capitalism. Kennedy and Johnson were the criminals who are responsible for the death and destruction of Vietnam. These soldiers were used as cannon fonder for American Imperialism.
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@chloechampange9658 She is a Boss Tool of big business.
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@wanderingsoul4104 China Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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Going to Mecca and circling a Black Cube along with kissing a Black stone is going to save everyone.
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@francus7227 Capitalism produces a new class struggle between a wage earning working class and a profit taking capitalist class. Previous social systems were not based in factory production with a modern working class that operates and tends machines but farming and handicrafts. Capitalism is a social system where production is carried out socially and the profits distributed privately. The capitalist sek to monopolize the social surplus for their own ends while the workers want to use the surplus to make their own lives better. This class struggle will continue until one or the other wins a decisive victory over the other or the ruin of both occurs. That is the lesson of the class struggles from history.
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@francus7227 The class struggle is the teacher that provides the lessons that communist points to. Sowell can write all the propaganda he wants and you can choose to believe his accumulation of half truths, lies and denials of reality at you own peril. Sowell is no smarter than a young child who sees a flat earth and a sun rising and falling from the east into the west. Sowell only points to what proves his contentions choosing to ignore or discount others. Sowell is nothing more than a simpleton dressed in academic clothing. The first law of capitalism is the drive to make and maximize profits above all else. At the end of the day the only right that capitalism defends is the right to buy and sell in a market. This is why he screams freedom to trade as the ultimate human freedom. For the capitalist desloves all human relations into the icy waters of the cold calculation of monetary value.
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The unions need to be organizing a bigger fightback.
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 @AW-nz4gl Unless he wants to vote Socialist Workers Party what difference does it make to favor one of the two boss parties over another?
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@jimmycricket5366 His arguments always come down to mistakes of the government not recognizing "the wisdom of the free market".
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@marcuslawless9672 Trump has a history of abandoning his most ardent supporters. Those who went to the capital on Jan 6th.
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@2SLipo The Bosses don't care. Your just a cog in the profit system with an assigned number on your social security card anyway.
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@cantweallgetalong All those corrupt socialist regimes are have now gone over to become just another corrupt capitalism. Listening to you sounds like you're the head of a corrupt socialist regime in the US. Should we call you Gus Hall instead of Stalin?
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@allenatkins2263 You should take that up with Ayn Rand and company. She said Social Security was immoral for her whole life. Yet she had no problem cashing her old age checks.
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@mikeunconfirmed1489 No such thing as an "American wage". Teachers are paid a weekly or biweekly salary and can earn some extra money with after school activities, summer school and private tutoring. Some states pay UI during the summertime. School district taxes are based on property taxes putting the tax burden on farmers, homeowners and renters instead of where wealth is created in construction, communications, transportation, mining and manufacturing. They often pay for buildings with bonds which is just another way for the rich to siphon off value from tax money instead of paying taxes themselves.
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@towardstar This is the natural way capitalism works to shore up the declining rates of profit. The way to fight back is with a militant labor movement all the more necessary with this new crisis with over 33.5 million without jobs and counting. We need a new labor party based in the unions not one controlled by capitalist donors. The fightback begins with come together and collectively refusing to work faster or do more in less time as the bosses will want to make us pay for their crisis. Standing together and all stopping work in defense of others is the way a real union works.
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@TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter Depends on the school and the students English Language proficiency for bilingual education in Texas public schools i assume it's similar elsewhere.
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@ctrl.alt.delete.7045 A capitalist is a capitalist regardless of nationality. This video is brought to you by Chinese capitalist who are rivals to the CCP the NEW TANG DYNASTY. Note how they promise a free market will lower prices. You don't believe bosses want lower prices for you? For them yes but for you? No this is just a scam video to get you mad at the CCP while not telling you the real truth which is the bosses were unprepared because they don't want to invest in any new equipment for extra capacity. It's just not as profitable as gambling on Wall street with hedge fund money. They need a subsidy before they do anything now anyway. One group cries because another is getting more. Of course they tell you a free market lower prices and fixes everything. It's part of capitalist propaganda. "Free markets" fix everything until they don't. Their idea of a free market is WalMart where they can control as much of commerces and trade as a monopoly actor possible can. They set the price of labor, the price they are willing to pay the supplier and the price you pay them. Who wouldn't want a situation like that.
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@guilhermeperazzini We get to say what we want here because people like me fought for the right to do that. I can do nothing to help you leave there. I'm not a lawyer. But if you can get here than you can be part of the fight for immigration amnesty and a rebuilding of the union movement. I'm not signing on to any anti Cuban revolution stuff. It's clear that the US Cuban relationship is one where the US green lighted the Batista coup and has sought to destroy the revolution from the very beginning with or without communism. If you think Mike Pence with his CIA and US Marines are going to solve Venezuelan's problems that you must be wearing historical blinders or have a case of amnesia. The only thing the CIA and US Marines bring to foreign countries is death, destruction and a dictatorship meeting the needs of US Imperialism.
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@junglechick13 That won't solve anything because its is asking the corrupt two party politicians to do what they can't even begin to do within the current setup. The problem for the working class is having our own political party not trying to reform the two corrupt parties of capitalism. You can't elect a wage increase or do anything constructive without organizing independently from the capitalist classes institutions. A new and fighting labor movement is needed along with a party that represents our interests like the Socialist Workers Party TheMilitant.com
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@junglechick13 Get yourself a subscription to TheMilitant.com as a first step and check out the books and Pamphlets at PathfinderPress.com Start first with building a movement and worry about getting votes later. Votes will follow a successful movement. Eugene Debs got a million votes while he was behind prison walls.
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@emilio2647 The Cuban economy collapsing? A joke based in propaganda only. They've kept going despite Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union going capitalist after a deep shock therapy in the Soviet Union and the US Increasing its international sanctions on Cuba. Socialism was eaten out from the inside in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe using only the old methods of ever increasing incentives and trying to implement an ideological purity instead of relying on the creativity and power of the working people themselves. Dupont is an example of capitalist greed knowing no boundaries selling Teflon all over the world. Now that almost every human being on earth has the chemicals that make it in their blood and DuPont's cover up has been exposed they paid a big fine of 16 million dollars. LOL They probably make that in about an hours time. Do you like having Teflon in your blood? The number who will die and suffer birth defects is almost unfathomable. They kept selling and polluting because of the big profits. They knew at least as far back as the 1960's it was a danger. Its like agent orange in Vietnam. Profits and a victory for capitalism came first. Human health last. After all it wasn't sprayed on the lawns of the rich. Their children weren't sent to die in Vietnam to prop up an American capitalist dictatorship.
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Shouldn't they ask if she talked to Senator Sanders?
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Read "The Militant" newspaper published since 1928.
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No for Sowell he would argue you git what you deserve which is nothing in his play book.
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@terrilove3300 The purpose of public education for the working class is turn out a new set of order takers who can pay attention to machines along with some basic literacy. Education is also the way to maintain social status and pass down privilege. Education for the ruling class starts with private schools and 5 to 1 student to teacher ratios.
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@terrilove3300 Education like healthcare is an overhead cost for the bosses industrial profits whether paid for with taxes, privately or with insurance. Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor and machines. Simply put the bosses see no need for an educated workforce. All they see is the need to extract profits from sales and beat the Chineses Capitalist competition and other bosses in the world Market.
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@williamfriar6295 This was another self censored talk about a dirty word that can't be used in polite public circles. "Socialism". Note that no where in the talk is the dirt word used only in the title.
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The biggest reason is we have a profit based healthcare system not a healthcare system.
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@ezragonzalez8936 Cubas population is just the size of New York City. It can't possible be self reliant as an industrial nation given both its population and the size of its land mass. The US blockade makes trade difficult for raw materials, semi finished goods and aquiring spare parts.
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David Burland Class struggle is the road to socialism.
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@mafiousbj The railroad workers were made into slaves by the Railway "Slave Labor" act. It is almost impossible to go on strike.
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Sure there is. Other cases came to the court claiming interracial marriage was a reason to deny public accommodation based upon religious belief. They also lost.
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@stephenparry6811 Cuba ended segregation in 1959 it took another 5 years to pass the US 1964 civil rights act. The US had no official diplomatic relations for over 50 years. Yet they had a US interests section where they decided to create a phoney dissident movement of independent librarians and media. These people were paid for doing this from the interests section along with being supplied books which were not on any censorship list to begin with. Other parties are not illegal but they don't use a party system in elections like in the US. In the US people are arrested and imprisoned for planning to bomb political activities even when the FBI plans them but the Cuban government should give people planning bombings a free pass? How many plans did the CIA hatch in its drive to assassinate Fidel Castro. Did the Cuban government repaint bombers with US markings to bomb Miami like Kennedy did with US Alabama National Guard bombers. For years the US denied this and the bodies of the dead airman were not returned until the US families demanded that Washington tell the truth which is when the bodies were returned.
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@stephenparry6811 In the US the FBI acts as a political police force which you call democracy. They set up former FBI head Muller to search for connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. The had nothing but hot air to begin with. Nevertheless Muller is able to arrest and prosecute based upon lying to the FBI men who already knew the answers to questions asked. They dredge up a witch hunt era law requiring agents of foreign powers to register with this the imprison a known Russian women for discussing politics with Washington big shots. The claim that Russia Today and Sputnik interfered in the US election as if it was a state secret that those are Russian Media outlets.
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@stephenparry6811 Go look up The Legless Veteran, Citizens to Investigate the FBI, the Cointel Program and Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. At one time the FBI had one informer in every union local in the US. Not did they just spy on political opponents considered dangerous they engaged in disruption programs designed to create a paranoia of an FBI agent behind every mailbox. Efforts to Blackmail ML King into committing suicide. Getting different groups to fight with each other by writing poison pen letters. Providing the Chicago police with the layout of Fred Hampton apartment who they assassinated. Spying on any kind of new left group form antiwar, black rights, women's rights and earth day.
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Nospam Spamisham Your problem is western journalists have never been banned from Cuba and such a claim is completely baseless unless you buy into the standard conspiracy theories. Are you guys still trying to get Fluoride out of the drinking water or accusing Eisenhower of being a communist dupe?
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@makeromaniagreatagain9697 The average US trained Doctor has debt of $100,000. Doctors who graduate from Cuban medical schools have no debt. The difference is in Cuba they are building a society based in Human Solidarity. In the US the ruling class is building a society where Billionaires can be President.
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@omhari199 "Thank good my country is poor." Why not write Trump, the "Leader of the Free World", a thank you note?
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@strategic1710 Including Thomas Sowell TV
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By the way we now have a new $.10 a bag shopping bag tax in CT. People like me refuse to pay the tax at Walmart so now we leave past the greaters who they mostly fired with a cart full of groceries and no bags.
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Daniel Natal As far as you know debating a communist is a crime in itself since you might actually read the communist manifesto. Should one of Hoover's men have seen you with it in a library you might be called for testimony and asked to point a finger towards the librarian.
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Daniel Natal If they didn't want Soviet criticism and subversion than why didn't they just end segregation and call it a day?
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Daniel Natal I get it Marx was okay in the beginning because he supported a Democratic Republic and died before criticism of an Imperial Empire began in 1898. Mark Twain's membership in the anti Imperialist League is kept hushed up while a debate over his use of bad language in the US goes on. You realize no debate in Cuba, a mostly black country, goes on over Mark Twain because literature is not censored for bad words.
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Daniel Natal When I went to high school everything in history was focused on pre WW1. I guess they want to focus on everything post 1980 so they can avoid all the pre 1980 inconvenience. There is a lot of blood that flowed from 1900 through WW1 WW2 till 1980. Anyone entering that era faces a minefield of monumental proportions.
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@psychedandelevated2854 Thats all you cold warriors ever had was childish name calling and superior weapons of war.
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Then expect to die in as a result of fascism and Imperialist war. We aren't individuals striving to succeed rather we are social animals who use social labor and tools to make a life for ourselves. We also produces a surplus which is passed onto successive generations.
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@tannhauser7584 I guess its time to stop wasting my time with someone who plays the hurt feelings, delusional and socialism never works card. Is Simon says you favorite game also?
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He was a big military spender and a strike breaker.
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Her is a self confession from a capitalist economist that educated workers are not needed only those who can follow the orders of a corrupt and lazy runling class that believes it was born to rule.
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Not a word about the crimes of the American and British Imperialist when this frame job begins trying to equalavat Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union.
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@brianniegemann4788 We've got an answer its called trade unionism and then building a labor party based in the unions and taking power away from the billion class once and for all. Its starts with strikes to take workers control of industry.
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@jasperkensington2644 Rail Boss Greed on Full Display!!!
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@nancysalerno7036 Ya he might be asked to explain why train crews and track maintenance are cut to the bone while train length has gone up to two miles long. Why tank cars are still leaking after derailments. How a train catches on fire and goes down the track headed for derailment?
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Canadian investors lose Venezuelan Gold Mine then the go to a US court to get back their investment by stealing CITGO from Venezuela.
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@meganh9460 Macron President of the Rich and 70% of France agrees. Go Yellow Vests.
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@tessforbes8687 The purpose is to give a win to the righest who have lost almost all of their culture war issues. This will now open up a national debate on working class family issues. If the bosses want a fight we will give them one.
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Now you know what it was like to live during the cold war.
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@teriteri1290 They have to issue warnings about communism now because Trump failed to "Make America Great Again." What a bunch of losers.
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@susanjohnson747 Wrap yourself in a flag, sing Yankee Doodle dandy and refight the war of 1812.
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@susanjohnson747 I'm being sarcastic. You don't live in the 17th Century when Paul Revere was a craftsmen who made pots and pans. You live in a world economy that developed out of nation states that began as small producers market economies. Modern life relies on a world trade, massive basic industries, electricity and yet still some go without clean drinking water and starvation and famine affects poor countries. So you don't get any real security with more nuclear weapons or endless wars like the 20 year fiasco in Afghanistan. Fighting over who gets to make a profit is what leads to wars in the modern era.
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@nadermazari3334 Your already under western influence with the use of the English language which is today a language of world culture and trade. We are the most verbose people on the planet with over a million words many of them technical terms. Germany produces the machines that get shipped to Taiwan to make the electronic chips that go into the computer your using. You live in a world economy where things are produced by workers who run and build all the machines and everything that makes modern life possible. No one is going back to tending a few goats, planting some vegetables and wearing animal skins.
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@dalegribble1560 The Cuban people are well armed with both a small conventional force but also with a whole population trained by national military service and organized into territorial troop militias. This is why the US has not dared to send in Marines like in so many other counties. It knows that the Cuban people will fight to defend their revolution with their governments leadership arms in hands.
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He's smart because he tells you what you want to hear and gets paid for it.
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@TheJeep1967 The capitalist refuse to hire them because it would cost them profits and they don't want to hire more skilled workers or train more otherwise they would not refuse to take older workers. They have no use for anyone who can't give them a bigger profit. They set a wage rate above which they will not go because the demand to make a profit no matter what. They let industrial capacity sit idle because of their greed. Conservatives just jockey with liberals for more power, profits and privileged.
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@Parabola_PJ Ya your a big shot not much smarter than the regular dumb cop. All it took was a few bucks to buy you off now you an advocate for Wall Street greed and need to put everyone down with a bunch of stupid insults. That shows that you have no respect for anyone or anything but an almighty dollar, other bosses and scabs. . Ode to a scab - Jack London 1876-1916 Ode To A Scab After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab hasn't. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust, or corporation Solidarity wins
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@IsraelLuisGeerRivera-ff4cg I never made that quoted statement. The best defense against an invasion is a workers state militia based in the Trade Union locals that can also respond to natural disasters. A small federal army no bigger than the largest state militia is all that is needed in times of peace along with a full time coast guard. All nuclear arms held by all countries should be scrapped.
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Anyone starving in Cuba since 1959? I guess not otherwise the US Empire would have overturned the revolution it hates years ago. "It steals from those who have until nobody has anything." Sounds like the WalMart or Amazon business plan. Never pay a penny more for labor that you don't absolutely need to and take the business of any competitor you might have and make it your own.
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@wtfisthishandlebullshit Right and healthcare for Pregnant women should be a priority instead of assembly line birth by day time C section.
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The problem here is the refusal of the Venezuelan United Socialist Party leaders to move down a real socialist road like Fidel Castro did in Cuba. Instead of constant dialogue with the capitalist opposition and all the talk about all Venezuela's being brothers they need to organize and lead a revolutionary movement that can put Venezuela's working class into power. This is now the second coup attempt the first being when Chavez was President. The idea that the workers in the US can halt the US governments actions on foreign policy is pure utopianism. They can win but only if the follow the Cuba revolutions road. To continue the current policy is doomed to failure. A country can not be 1/2 socialist and 1/2 capitalist. What good is a pink tide if it doesn't lead to real socialism. This dangerous foolishness leads to opening the door to a US invasion and war.
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@Lind Morn Bosses use to get strike breaking injunctions from the state courts. Once workers began ignoring them FDR passed the NLRA. Then the bosses began running to the Feds.
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@Bellephrontos Sowell pleads ignorance and then his followers proclaim him to be a great intellect.
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@waspwrap1235 What happened in 1953? Stalin died. East German workers went on strike, Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada Barracks and the Rosenbergs were executed.
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@Daniel-yy3ty Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@razzprince2877 Most American's have no idea who is responsible for world wide lead poisoning either.
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Cuban Archive run by a former Cuban American VP of Chase Manhattan Bank who got her "Human Rights" education in Chile as a University Student during the Pinochet years who has relatives that were US CIA trained US mercenaries at Giron (Bay of Pigs). Basically the Human Rights activities in Cuba are sponsored by the US Government along with a campaign of lies and propaganda from Radio and TV Marti broadcast and paid by the US Gov't. A fake twitter war was launched from the US on the internet along with wild claims by Marco Rubio that Cubans were being murdered by the Regime. The violations of Human Rights in Cuba take place at the US prison and Torture facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. What this should real be titled is "Once again the US Media and Gov't are lying through heir teeth about Cuba."
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I wonder if she would have felt the same way if she arrived after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 but before the 1964 civil rights act?
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That would be a stupid provocation.
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@tram84mvp The capitalists hand out bonuses and extra benefits as a way to divide the workforce into good and bad workers or "all knowing" workers (long time workers) and "new dummies" (newly hired workers). This is why they oppose things like social security, unemployment insurance, and universal heath care. They want complete control such that they can use the carrot to keep us on the treadmill.
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@jakk2631 Yes capitalist propaganda needs to be required brainwashing. Capital merely accumulates. As machines replace labor then the capital value rises and the labor needed to produce declines. Since the profit comes from our labor the rate of profit must decline.
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@MickyRichards Support the Rail workers!!!
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Joseph Cocchiola How liberal of you to understand that not all black people are liars. Any more game changing understandings like how black capitalism can solve the problems of Black industrial workers? The Democrats and Minister Farrakhan have been pushing that stuff since the 1970's. Government assistance is required because capitalism can't produce living wage jobs. TANF was a failure not a sucess so why keep beating a dead horse of how government assistance is the problem and not the bosses at AT&T, GM, Ford, GE and the rest of the big industrial firms.
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The use of hijabs is required in the Islamic Republic of Iran and enforced by the Religious police.
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A 100% profits tax.
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Okay other than more propaganda and exhortations to work hard and read a book how will Republicans being in charge change that? The manufacturing jobs have been robotized, the white collar jobs have been computerized and WalMart can only hire so many people even their the cashers are being replaced with self checkouts.
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@ghost robles Abolsih all taxes on the wage earning class and tax the capitalists only. Stop borrowing surplus capital from the rich and start making them pay taxes.
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@johnsacromoni6775 No that's not that true anymore. The price of labor is rising in China as the workers struggle for higher wages. Trump or Obama have no control over jobs leaving or coming back. Those decisions are made on the cold blooded basis of corporate profit. They don't build a brand new factory with the most modern machinery based upon which party is in power especially when they control the Washington game to begin with. Nor is an American company going to use the most modern technology in a Chinese factory giving away all their precious secrets. They're already screaming about that. Bill Gates has been crying about his inability to get 20 bucks for every computer sold in China for years now.
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@pacjam418 The video equates the decline of capitalism with a lack of Puritan motivation and the decline of the middle class and plundering of the working class by big capital as the inability to make capitalism work for the masses of people though savings. This is the natural way in which capitalism works it creates an ever smaller and ever wealthier ruling class while the middle class is driven down and into the working class. Its nothing more than slavery to the big capitalist who are nothing more than a wealthy class of labor exploiters for the advancement of capital.
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@uzefulvideos3440 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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According to Abbot (1:05) she "put right back out on the streets" people accused or convicted of serious felonies like sexual assault of a minor. Well it was a judge who did that if they made bail, dismissed the charges or they were found not guilty after trial. Or maybe Abbott got mixed up and his DOC released the convicted felons because in most states felons do time in state prison not county lockup which is reserved for misdemeanors and persons awaiting trial who can't make bail. Huntsville could also be over capacity with pot smokers doing life. Update could be the life doing Pot smokers either died off or released. Texas didn't want to look to liberal in the 1960's.
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@johnnyindiana1330 No sign that immigrants want to become scabs for the bosses.
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You'll be able to go online to an out of state Doctor and get it sent to your very own federal mailbox that state officials can not touch.
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We need a labor party based in the trade unions.
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Economics is not a fixed pie. No one except citizens and some permanent residents can collect welfare legally. If you want to claim they are all using stolen ID well welcome to the national passport system called the Real ID driver's license. If they are allowed to continue you will be showing Real ID wherever you go. Yes that is a good idea about having another amnesty. That way we can use the real anti poverty weapon the Union and the strike together. They have taken high paying union jobs out of the country to Mexico to raise profits exploiting Mexican's and want us to fight for the jobs left here between Mexican immigrants and native born. Capitalism requires a certain number of people to be unemployed to insure profits. In the absence of a union how quickly you can be replaced along with what they must pay to keep you coming to work determines you wage. Everytime the capitalist see unemployment getting to low they raise interest rates at the Federal Reserve calling it an overheated economy where they need to slow growth keeping the stick of discharge to prevent any real natural wage growth. Only a strong militant labor movement can change that.
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Capitalism is what you got. You can talk all day about a libertarian utopia but for libertarianism to work there can be no class struggle. Capitalism and the capitalist mode of production create class struggle due to the profit motive. In 1877 The Democrats were a regional party of the South and the Republicans were a party of Wealthy Northern Industrial and railroad interests. Reconstruction ended and a depression crisis produced the Great Railroad strike of 1877. A clear case of a new class asserting itself outside of the traditional parties. The Democrats are a Party of liberal social reformers (SJWs) who seek only the reform of capitalism and fear a struggle of the working class. The union officials and conservative leaders of the 1960's social movements corral Democratic Party votes in return promises of reform and government posts. Despite liberal propaganda FDR did not lead any of the 1934 General Strikes or the CIO industrial union movement. He in fact did everything to halt this movement by currying favor with conservative AFL leaders. The Black rights movement wasn't lead by the Democrats JFK, LBJ, Senator Byrd, George Wallace or Strom Thurmond.either.
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Workers of tried of hearing the bosses line of give us more because you can tighten your belts and do with less. The Railroad workers voted down the contract and then Congress shoved the contract down their throat.
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@moralityisnotsubjective5 Sowell being a success at what exactly?
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@timwhiting6721 Bankers are just itching to lend out so much capital today.
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@justtakethemtomcdonalds8090 Exposa of secret communist conspiracy from Kremlin that secretly won the cold war for stalinist bureaucrat's like Bezmenov. Now Putin the old KGB Colonel is President and other bureaucrats are the new capitalists. Who other than the Marxist with his dialectical thinking would have thought such a thing possible?
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The NAZI's no doubt decided to murder their wounded soldiers when they were losing on the Eastern Front to save on the cost of care both immediate and long term.
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@vladG30 Reagan was an idiot. We should negotiate an end to missile tech and use a militia to defend the country from invasion and our constitution along with a coast guard. If you want to spend a lot of money lets do something worthwhile instead of more Afghanistan that cost 2.3 trillion.
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@ИванИванович69420 Higher life expectancy in Europe because of better health care. We have more obese people because big profit made on selling high fructose corn syrup as food with healthy food more expensive and bosses paying low wages. Bosses want end to regulations so they can sell oxy as the wonder drug. Overthrow boss government make the rich work or move to an island for self exploitation.
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@ИванИванович69420 Mandatory licensing?? Right lets let A&P butchers do surgery because the dead tell no tales.
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ALSO-RAN ! Trumps plan to force hospitals to be transparent?? He's going to build them out of plexiglass.
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@Deak-tj4ml US Empire will support any two bit dictator that will support foreign property rights of US investors. US/UK were fine with Hitler until he began to challenge their world superiority. Hitler's error was to attack the Soviet Union first instead of invading and taking the British Isles. Japan was foolish for bombing Pearl Harbor without a follow up invasion or taking the Philippines first. Instead they should have routed the British out of their Asian Empire especially India.
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@Deak-tj4ml Oil business is not that simple. Refineries work best with a mixture of heavy and light crude.
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@sult145 Truth is revolutionary and it always defeats lies.
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@dianeclark8256 Imperialist bosses spent 3 trillion dollars showing military power and instead had to withdraw in defeat. Trump about talks how his way of rape would have better results.
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Public funds are not involved they are refusing to do the transplant because his insurance from a job he did for fifteen years will not pay once he is bankrupted by the future transplant costs. They are refusing to do the transplant because public funds will not pay after he is bankrupted just like anyone else would be under the American Insurance system. It a case where medicare medicaid normally takes over the cost after you are bankrupt because then insurance company gets off the hook for future costs.
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Kennedy the Democrat also played the game of brinkmanship over Cuba but he lost..
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@geoh7777 It confession that capitalism has no need for anyone but people who follow orders of a corrupt ruling class that thinks it was born to rule.
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Nathan Bracey Orwell was spied upon by the Special Branch of the British secret police among other things. He is a contradictory figure having been an Imperialist Policeman, fighting on the Republican side of the Spanish civil war and later seeking to support British Imperialism during WW2 but being rejected. If you think he is writing only to criticize Stalin or the Soviets you are wrong.
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@ozziecrosby2092 There is no need to pass through a murderous Stalinist dictatorship and the Cuban revolution proves that.
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@Fish.Filet. Find a BIG LAKE and jump in.
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@f. m. That won't work. The whole world benefits form a division of labor including the US. Besides when they create more industrial workers that tips the scales internationally in our favor. Strikes in China are already raising the price of labor there. The conditions of the 19th English working class were documented in Engels, "Conditions of the English Working Class." Irish immigrants raised pigs in their flats as a supplement to their low wages. Our brother are workers in other countries not the American capitalist elite. Nothing can stop the course of history.
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@matthewwilson6155 I think voting without wearing clean underpants is a problem.
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@LUCKYPUCK-007 Why would you need ID if government was a neighborhood activity and not a way for the rich to enforce their laws.
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@kathleenhillock9366 The most well known conservative women Phyllis Schlafly against the ERA use to announce before each speech she gave was to say she had asked and received her husbands approval before speaking. Her big warning was that the ERA would produce integrated bathrooms.
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In 1944 Trachtenberg was a representative of Stalinism. Stalin and Roosevelt were buddy buddy at the time. The Stalinist CPUSA went so far as to declare the class struggle over and permanent victory of the Soviet Union at the end of WW2. Only a few years later with the Korean war and the execution of the Rosenberg's. About 100+ Stalinists would be doing 5 year stretches in the Federal Pen.
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Liberalism is what brought you the computer? And all this time I thought it was technological advances that did?
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Cliche Guevara Trotsky did an awful lot of writing on Stalin, the Comintern and the Soviet Union for to dismiss him with the wave of the hand. All you talk about is deeply flawed systems as if you believe one can suddenly stop and then start the other. Did you actually read anything that Guevara wrote? Do you have any idea what the man said? What makes him different than say Marshall Tito or Khrushchev? Or did you figure he'd make a good punching bag for anti communism?
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@stevequerin2504 NASA provided the needed excuse for further development of the ICBM. The Space Force is just a further effort to reduce the number of soldiers needed to enforce US Imperialist control.
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@Humanity Galatica We f like rabbits.
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@jennifercockfield3218 The have to give Catholics communion wafers to remind them not to eat human flesh for at least another week. "Body of Christ." is what the priest says before placing a wafer on the communicants tongue.
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@343butterfly No they nominated her for her "radical looks" at the end of the day she will do what the ruling class wants.
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How about innocent soldier being given the right to life?
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@bkheaven-ly2215 Obviously you just want to give a Sunday Sermon. Go ring someone else's doorbell.
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@bkheaven-ly2215 Not interested in your hocus pocus nonsense. Anyone can make up silly stories, tall tales, fables and create a religion based around magical ideas. Just ask L Ron Hubbard about Scientology. Like I said go ring someone else's doorbell with that Jesus saves a life BS.
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@te2934 Private Property is NOT personal property. Property forms and family organizations have changed over time as has the social organization. True Native Americans practiced agriculture and domesticated half the plants and animals we eat today. North American's did NOT have any large animals like water buffalo or oxen the could use for agriculture. What's called a city is as small as 10,000 people in biblical times How big and dense of a city any group of people can build a is limited by their agricultural productivity. There are places where North American's built cities but they vanished so little is known about them besides the archaeological record.
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@johnbland1422 What did they do with the buffalo afterwards? I mean if 20 people drive a couple hundred Buffalo off a cliff and a thousand or more then work on slaughtering them maybe that isn't such a bad idea? Buffalo aren't like cattle you can't approach them so they aren't domesticable. Supposedly they roamed the western plains. If you ever traveled out west you now how wide open and rural some areas are even today. The North Americans didn't have horses, pigs or cattle until the Europeans brought them. Obviously people exaggerate about things a story starts and then after it passes between a number of people it has a tendency to change.
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@johnbland1422 They probably had times of not enough food and wore out the soil in some areas so they probable did get into conflicts. Other parts of the world people bult civilizations that disapeared for reason unknown. We still don't know how they built the Egyptians pyramids without modern modern tools.
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@davidrossi1486 The Native Americans DID NOT have horses prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th Century. So the video's pictures of Native cavalrymen was not possible before the arrival of the Spanish.
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Cruz will be going to Cancun again when winter comes.
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Congress wrote the constitution and it has the ultimate legal authority not the President, Supreme Court and certainly not the Military. The President, vice President and Officers of the United States can only be tried and convicted in impeachment proceedings before Congress. The house must vote by 2/3 rd's majority to impeach and the senate by a 2/3 rd's majority to convict.
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@OliverNorth9729 They are not all that homogeneous having 52 dialects with only the same writing.
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@theunitedworldofworkers7274 Exactly the Minneapolis Teamsters organize a workers defense guard that sent the Fascist silvershirts back to North Carolina without a shot fired. Local 544 said send us Hitler and we'll have him running too.
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@Jim89M By that point you have a state of dual power. If you are interested further in the subject I suggest "Fascism what it is and how to fight it by Trotsky." Maybe I misspoke and should have said what is important at anytime is the working class being able to defend itself with mass mobilization. If we have trouble with fascists bands we will have armed workers detachments at that point and a state of dual power. The key to victory is found on the road of mass mobilization and self defense. Not an few individuals owning tanks for future use.
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Answer to the first question is that utopian socialism is not possible because it must compete with the cheap labor that the capitalist exploiters use and invest (buy) the newest machinery. The workers are paid on average just what is needed to sustain life so their ability to buy their freedom from the capitalist is blocked much like the Black American slave being unable to buy his freedom. Only a few slaves could buy their freedom and the same applies to workers. If you want a further explanation I suggest "Socialism Utopian and Scientific" by Engles. Robert Owen a rich Cotton merchant and social reformer was the founder of New Lanark, Scotland commune is given praise for what he could and couldn't accomplish. Owen concluded that private property, marriage and religion stood in the way of creating communism despite it being both just and possible. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm Obviously for me to boycott life under capitalism will result in death unless I should join the libertarians and move to the jungle eating low hanging fruit and thereby avoiding the 'original sin' of collective labor. The communists choose the methods and ways to best push the class forward to victory. A general does not fight an enemy from the bottom of a cliff if he can come around and attack from behind trapping the enemy from retreating because of the same cliff.
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As far as little successful communes Cuba is the example you are looking for. Its neighbor just 90 miles away has been waging hot, dirty and cold war against the people of Cuba and their choice of socialism. Economically and politically the "Socialism in one country" theory advanced by the old Stalinist regimes is not possible. One side must eventually win or lose. Cuba did not go back to capitalism because its leaders were not corrupted and cynical stalinists who put their privileges ahead of the world class struggle.
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@Eric-sn4qz Capitalist bosses own the two parties and write the rules for themselves. That is why Ms Trump is a citizen and the women in the video is not.
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This man is nothing more tan another fool who has discovered Gold in the New York Federal Resolve bank.
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@naziusa2652 Typical fascist with no ideas except meaningless sloganeering for political violence.
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The trade union and the labor movement is the most important movement to develop with the change to capitalism. Communism is the historical materialist theory of the class struggle of the Proletariat in its ongoing battle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist. it history is one of both victories and defeats. Women protesting the Hijab regulations of the religious police in Iran are just the tip of the spear aganst the opiate of the people Islam.
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@halt1078 There is no South Vietnam anymore than their is a Confederate States of America.
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@Deborahtunes Cry me a river. Bosses don't pay union dues and there are always plenty of jobs that don't require union membership. Don't want to pay dues just quit and go work elsewhere.
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@shadowzach00 No the American Imperialist never consulted the American Irish when dealing with the British Imperialists or any ozther sub national group when making foreign policy. They will change course when they realize there hostile policy is a complete failure and will then try and kill the revolution with kindness.
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@smallestcat The bosses must pay the workers to reproduce their labor to come back to work for another pay period. They always seek to pay us the lowest wages and work us the longest hour to make the biggest profits. That's because our labor produces surplus value that the profit seeking bosses always seek to maximize and keep for themselves.
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@latinsizer California is super expensive. People in Oakland live in third world shanty towns while whole blocks of commercial buildings are totally empty.
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@djm5687 Math is not going to solve every economic problem because its not possible to quantify everything with a monetary price. Not all human activities and labor produces value. Not every activity can be industrialized to produce profits despite their economic value.
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@KingRyanoles When Adam Smith was talking about a free market that was when Paul Revere personally ran a shop making pots and pans. Not monopoly capitalism where whole industries are controlled by a few players on both a national and world stage or Imperialism where the banks who are the most parasitic of all capital get a piece of every transaction and foreign investment where the foreign investors profit is backed up by military force. We live under the collective planning of Washington were the bankers and too big to fail profits come first. You've created massive debts that can not be paid that are choking off world production without creating more and even bigger debts. The banks and bosses want a dystopian world where everything is controlled by computer and artificial intelligence because they themselves don't have the intelligence or the guts to admit that they are making the lives of everyone else miserable.
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@ReadABookAndLearn They have yet ti fully understand American Imperialism. That while productive capitalist seeks to pay the lowest wages worldwide finance capital still accrues to the American ruling class. They ask why have they abandoned us for the rest of the world. The national foreign policy needs of the two classes that make up America are exactly opposite. This is exactly why the economic roots of racism lie in capitalism and not the "ignorant" working class. The ruling class finds the best way to explain is purely parasitic role and exorbitant wealth though self congratulatory bourgeois university propaganda about its love of democracy, hatred of chattel slavery and smart entrepreneurs verses "ignorant and deplorable" workers who don't understand world market goals and the profits needs of the ruling capitalist classes always come first. Hitlers dream of world domination by a Third Reich (Third Republic) was no different that the of the Britain's Empire and new American Empire that began just before world war one. .Just as Hitler found the need for collaborators amongst the sub human so to does the American ruling class need its partners in all kinds of crime carried out in defense of its foriegn investment and endless war strategy for profit maximization
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@glasshalffull2930 We aren't the ones talking about a new Cold War with China and building more nuclear weapons to maintain a proper military posture. Nor were we the ones who saw Victory in Vietnam with body counts and kill ratios. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter armed and supported Pol Pot ar UN. He also gave the Chinese the green to invade Vietnam. The rise of capitalism starting in Western Europe is full of conflict and death not one big happy bedtime story of a free market serving the needs of a free people. .
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BMW Enthusiast Its the two parties of capitalism that don't want to debate any Socialist candidates.
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@MeanBeanComedy That's not true. They don't want to debate but we debated William Buckley on Firing Line in the late 1960's on the war and black rights. Build a movement large enough and they will have to acknowledge and debate us. Chanting about hate speech is stupid. You say to the capitalist parties, "OK we won't try and take over using a coup or violence as long as you let us speak and debate but when we are the majority then you must let us run the government'. That was Lenin's approach. All previous revolutionary movements were for a minority. Socialism the first revolutionary movement of the great majority against a minority but you must first clearly have the majority first. This is why you must patiently explain first.
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@Minecraftizawsom You'll get no argument from me on that point.
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Karl Marx 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. Does that sound like creating completely equal human beings? It recognizes different human beings with different needs and having different abilities.
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@francescomorales7812 The capitalist seeks to maximize profits. To do so he seeks to pay the lowest wages and work us the longest hours in a pay period and charge the highest prices. The capitalist seeks to pay only the social minimum for the reproduction of our labor in a pay period yet get back the total value of what we produce in that same pay period. .
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He "Won the Peace" in Vietnam by withdrawing in defeat. He destabilized his administrativo with the continuation of the war in Vietnam after Johnson was forced to resign. His supreme court justices gave the votes needed for Roe v. Wade.
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In the nations where capitalism developed first they began to export not just their overproduction of goods but capital for the development of the Imperialist economies so their development has been distorted by the needs of monopoly capital in the Imperialist nations. This lead to world war one and the battle over who would control what territory and markets. Free markets if their ever was such a thing were limited to the internal markets of the first nations to undergo capitalist development as they all had protectionist barriers to enable the growth of local industry. Markets in every nation are controlled and regulated by agreements between industry and government leading to the domination by the big investment banks and industrial too big to fail corporations. The United States opposes ant real socialism like in Cuba and instead prefers those countries where politicians and access to markets is unhampered by the local people. The Chinese were able to take advantage of American capitalist greed and build a Chinese capitalism with a huge new working class. Now the American capitalist fear a rising China just as the British Empire feared Germany before world war one.
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@TheMorriganAensland Then it will quickly become another law the bosses enforce selectively. If it actually becomes too much of a problem it will be repealed or a court will rule against the law itself. Overall the bosses don't care who get hurt since they know the same rules don't apply to them that apply to us.
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@Ant-yq3gm End the Blockade of Cuba!!
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@alfredosenalle9284 Cuba doesn't want to become Puerto Rico or Haiti. American Imperialism is in crisis the election of Donald Trump shows that. The American ruling class like the British believes it can survive by keeping a world wide Empire. It been a net importer not an exporter since 1973. Britain the country where capitalism first really got going is wracked with crisis. It left the EU and now even what's left of the UK is under strain as financial turmoil and strikes grip the nation with Scotland and Northern Ireland talking about leaving. The American Imperialist worry about losing their markets to China and a shift away from the dollar as the reserve currency. Loss of reserve currency status will create a crisis as the price of all those imports jump. The idea the living standards are no longer rising any more in the US is a BIG problem for the American Imperialists.
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@hungedteddy7971 Ya Democracy where they change is the guy at the top while the rest of the government, CEOs and lobbyists just circle around into different posts while the essence of neoliberalism remains the same. Profit and Shareholder Value must be maximized at all costs. Capitalism neglects healthcare and education because industrial profits aren't made that way. Ih fact capitalism becomes so exploitive that it must create massive debts for the ruling class to buy and companies become to big to fail because of the declining rate of profit. It becomes necessary to inflate the money supply to keep the world Imperialist profits flowing.
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If the bosses don't want to invest in housing cut the military budget and build housing instead of new nuclear weapons.
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@spheric5725 They walked right up to the Border Patrol official port of entry. That is the legal way to cross. Only a few days before they had no problem deploy troops to the border. No what they were doing is treating them inhumanly as an example and this time they went to far.
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@fazole The only one racing to the bottom of the barrel is you.Pure or not capitalism is what you have when the major means of production are in private hands. Your right about the abuse of terminology which what you do when creating a pure capitalism that is somehow is free of murder while a pure socialism is not. Purity is a measure of contamination. Which is the promised utopian purity achievable by only the libertarians of the free market, non aggression principle, tax is theft, and anti collectivism (as long as it's not the collectivism of the joint stock company) promise all. The only thing the communists promise is class struggle on the way to over throwing the capitalist states in the nations of the world. It will be difficult, it will be hard, and many proletarians have and will be dragged into the grave with the capitalists. So let those who have no spirit for struggle stand aside and let others move ahead to the front lines of battle. We saw only a glimpse of socialism in the early Soviet Union before the Stalinist bureaucracy began moving backwards and then destroying Lenin's Bolshevik Party with the 1936-1938 Moscow Trials. This is why the left opposition demanded a return to Lenin and not handing back power to the Cadet Paty, NEPman and the Kulaks. (Itself a term redefined by Stalin) You can still see the revolutionary internationalist aspect of a workers and farmers state in Cuba where history is still being made.
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@Matthew-yc6nx The workers at NABISCO pushed back on the bosses plans with solidarity and won a new contract going back stronger and as victors showing what we can achieve when we fight back together.
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@jamesbrowning9210 Wealthy for who though? And conditions of life in the US are in decline compared to Europe. The average lifespan has taken a hit since covid. The country is more class divided. Workers are looking to using union power over electing politicians. Hatred for the corporate elite has never been higher. Corruptions is seen as a fact of life. None of that spells anything like the post war era of prosperity.
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@sueyoung2115 The basic problem is the distance squared law. Once microwave energy and electromagnetic energy in general leaves an antennae it diverges as the distance squared. The only exception is a lase beam. So you can look into the creation of masers (microwave lasers) just remember like a microwave oven the energy must pass though materials that would dissipate or reflect its energy. The most likely explanation is hysterical people who work for the US Gov't.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 Imperialism remains the highest stage capitalism. Capitalism can not avoid the tendency of the real rate of profit to decline despite hiding it with fiat currency.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 Its the domination of a country by foreign investors who back up their investors with military force. It explains the seeming continued growth of capitalism in Europe and America by the transfer of wealth from the colonial world. Life in the Imperialist countries grew better while life in the colonial world got worse. The two Imperialist wars shifted the balance of forces on favor of the United States and the colonial world. Since the end of the world war power has shifted even further towards the colonial world with few victories for American Imperialist power outside of stand offs. Stalin's Russification policy also failed and Putin's attempt at a revival are only further destabilizing the Imperialist world as a whole.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 The chief problem capitalism presents is Imperialism. That is capitalist development into nation states whose ruling class come into conflict over world markets and resources to exploit. No capitalist wants competition at home never mind on the world market. They may try and settle disputes with various trade packs and agreements but when push comes to shove Imperialist war has been the ultimate arbiter even though those who began the first world war became the biggest losers. Lenin and Trotsky lead the socialist revolution not a plan to build "socialism in one country" as Bukhara later theorized with Stalin's agreement and the Chinese now claim to be doing. All talk of socialism in one country is utter nonsense. As the world situation exists today the defeat of the American Imperialism will end capitalism world wide. It will be carried out by the workers and farmers in the United States itself not a foreign invasion. .The only foreign invasion the American capitalist face is an invasion of ideas and common sense.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 The third world countries now have greater political independence as the working class has grown in size in all countries along with the importance of the world market. Politics and economics are both connected to classes. Even the poorest countries in the world like Burkina Faso have seen attempts to extend the socialist revolution.
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kevin weinz Does that explain the crimes of Imperialism also? Putin and the Orthodox hierarchy get along quite well. Stalin himself was a candidate for the priesthood.
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@caeserromero3013 Lenin was shot by an anarchist and Trotsky was nearly blown up by a bomb. Stalinism like Hitlerism was only a temporary phenomena. Imperialist capitalism is no further along in solving its problems then it was before World War One. If anything it has become all that much weaker. Every country and people in the world have been drawn into a world market and the proletariat has only become larger and more combative on a world scale.
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@majesticgrey4769 First you statement about innocent folks on holiday is just inflammatory nonsense like your early silliness about driving a people's car. None of that can be said about Cuba. It was also untrue about the Russian revolution before the death of Lenin and the rise of Stalin and the counter revolutionary bureaucracy. In fact the arbitrariness probably didn't begin until near the end of Stalin's rule. Arbitrary arrests serve no purpose except to prove no one can escape state power. Such was also true during the red scare period in the USA when people were arbitrary accused of being communists and fired from their jobs. The government went to the extreme of going after supporters of Trotsky despite Trotsky been deemed one of the worst Enemies of the Stalin. A simular counter revolution was carried out in the United States after the victory in the civil war. The new Southern States Reconstruction governments were crushed in a counterrevolution recognized with the Hayes Tilden compromise. According to the Government the body count in Vietnam meant victory over communism. Seems rather hypocritical to be bringing up body counts since capitalism is responsible for the fastest methods of mass death nor is it innocent of anything claimed about either Stalin or Mao.
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@danhobart4009 What you can't rely on is the Imperialist capitalist classes.
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Sowell was just so good at singing the songs of neoliberal conservatism they couldn't resist. Once he "discovered" that Karl Marx was wrong about the exploitation of the working class no University door could remain closed.
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@maskedrebel9670 He went to Church and said a hail Mary just before another Space X rocket crash.
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They though the US would restore capitalist and Imperailist rule in a matter of weeks not decades.
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@willengel2458 The main contradiction today is a world market controlled by competing national capitalist interests.
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The price of labor is the average price of the cost to maintain a worker for the work period. Supply and demand comes in where the unemployed are used to keep the price of labor down and then workers join in a union to try boost their wages. That's called the class struggle and it is the most important thing for every worker and socialist to understand first before anything else. The capitalist doesn't earn his money he steals it when he sets two different prices one for the labor time paid and another for the labor time sold.
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@corntrollio854 Che died in the Bolivian jungle murdered on the orders of the the highest levels of the Bolivian government with US CIA approval not in Trump Tower Moscow. Don't believe the lies told by Whitney & Co. He just a cynical capitalist Boss talking about the methods of the CIA and traitors to the working class.
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@corntrollio854 Boss we lead the Minneapolis General Strike in 1934. Made you pay a union wage after a picket line battle. Open the way for the Teamsters over the Road trucking campaign. Boss where you at? I'll come work for you if the job and price is right. I can fix anything electrical but the took my CDL because I only see out of one eye now. I drive a white chevy pickup and haul a 25ft camper.
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@Rufusismydogsname I don't see him breaking a sweat but maybe I missed the day he poked himself with a pencil. I have no love for elite academics nor do I have any control over what the bosses government does. The only thing I found absurd in this video was the arguments made against an abstraction of whatever it is these guys are talking about. Capitalism is basically a rigged game where the house always wins. The Bourgeois are the controlers and funders of Elite University Professors chairs. They and their ideas are the ruling ideas of capitalist society.
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Tell that to the Florida dictator Marco Rubio.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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No to Congressional Strikebreaking. No to using Congreesional Strikebreaking to protect Rail Boss profits.
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@badofi There are plenty of Bourgeois scholars who decry the mistakes the bourgeois have made after the fact. Most fail to understand that it is the very economic and exploitative nature of capitalism that drives them into Imperialist wars of world conquest.
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Its the bosses who refuse to hire without seeing a profit for themselves. The bosses who seek to profit from division of people.
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@josecipriano3048 Stalin was never the sharpest tool in the box. Stalin dissolved the Communist International as a favor to the Democratic Imperialist and judging by his most slavish follower and thinkers in that copse of an organization. A perminate victory of the Soviet Union had been achieved and the class struggle was over. Just as Stalin was unable to believe Hitler would break his word he was unable to believe the Democratic Imperialist would break up their alliance with him.. He offered a simple trade don't bother me and I will help you extinguish any revolutionary struggles in your area of influence. And so he sent assassins to Yugoslavia to murder Tito treated Mao with contempt and only reversed course when it was clear his Democratic Imperialist friends wanted back all the old colonies and were willing to make war on Communism as the main objective. .
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@danieljakubik3428 The Soviet Union was NEVER origanallly intended to be a country.That was Bukaran retreat from Marxism with the Theory of Socialism in one country signed on to by Joe Stalin and forced down the throats of the Left opposition in the CPSU and the Communist International. This along with the return of to the theories of the second international is why so many Revolutionary situations were lost. The 1959 Cuban revolution and its leaders would revive the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. This is why the Cuban revolution is still making history.
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@jonnyd9351 A "temporary" dictatorship of the new class that is coming to power is always necessary during any revolution. The American revolution had a temporary dictatorship during the war of independence and the same was true during the American civil war. Loyalist were shot even after the treaty of Paris ended the revolutionary war and many went into exile in Canada which became what was left of British North America. In England the new class hesitated and the civil war that followed resulted in the return of the monarchy and no amnesty for the original 59 commissioners who voted for the execution of King Charles. Those who were dead had their bodies dug up and executed posthumously while those still living went to the Dutch or Swiss Republic or New England (the northernmost of the American colonies). This is no doubt why Benjamin Franklin said we either hang together or we will hang separately. The English would try and conquer us during the war of 1812.
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@DominikPlaylists LMAO.
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@flyinghighagain7712 Six months ago if someone told you there would be a possible food shortage or 30,000,000 out of work would you believe them? The virus has set off a panic in the upper class. Things are not going to be the same. Their politicians haven't got the slightest idea of what to do next. One thing is certain they will try and foist the cost of this crisis onto the backs of working people, farmers and whatever is left of real not fake small business.
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@flyinghighagain7712 Actually we do spend a lot of time writing, reading, publishing and selling books and a newspaper. Almost every Saturday is spent going door to door doing so. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com
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@williamedwards1528 The bosses let whole industry decline in the pursuit of profits. The don't want the workers to control the industry because then the rate of profit would decline.
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@conzmoleman End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@mikesgoodmann9349 When Fidel first came to the US he wasn't white enough to stay in the Major Hotels so he stayed in the Hotel Theresa as a guest of Malcolm X. Maybe you can move out to the Vineyard with Obama its not that far from the Kennedy compound. The President whose Cuban CIA mercenaries were defeated in 72 hours by Cuba's Revolutionary Army and Revolutionary Police. The same President who would later say after threatening the world with nuclear war that victory would be ashes in our mouth. He played a game of brinkmanship and lost. He and every President since have had to try and starve the Cuban people into submission with the blockade and use CIA terrorist attacks like the one that brought down Cubana flight 455. Killing all 73 passenger and crew. The use of Alabama nation guard bombers and crew in planes painted in Cuban colors to bomb the island. The bodies of dead crewman remained in Cuba for years because the United States government would not admit to the crime until pressured by the dead's families.
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Typical Republican promise. Play to the masses with gas tax holiday and then let roads and bridges deteriorate because infrastructure is left wing. If capitalism could build roads without tax money why isn't Wall Street a toll road?
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@operationdomination3102 Another disaster for the working class cause by the Two Capitalist Party dictatorship in Washington DC.
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@petercristo992 You realize some conservative thinkers were once Marxists or Communist. That ideas have a life of their own and you can't keep foreign ideas out with an Iron Curtain or a Trump Wall.
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Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. The national bourgeois can not consolidate into a international class to regulate world trade. The end of the cold war shows that to be true. The American Imperialist were unable to consolidate their power with the Russian and Chinese regimes. The Cuban revolution never needed to use forced collectivization or purges to stay in power. The decline of capitalism as machines replace labor results in declining rates of profit. The use of the central bank to inflate the value of currency only disguise that essential truth. Capitalism must come to an end because we can't keep paying a return on investment to the too big to fail and we can't have another world war to restart primitive accumulation. The working class has only become larger on a world scale and the Imperialist bankers profit system is holding back the development of the whole world. That is why liberal democracy the rule of capital and its hangers on is on its death bed even in the United States today.
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The federal government has been placing the tax burden onto the states because they know that by creating state competitions for lowest taxes they can reduce the overall costs of social services. While they talk about the unaffordability of social services they say absolutely nothing about the cost of debt service to the big capitalist state bond owners. The capitalist love cost plus government contracts and they love government debt because unlike other kinds of debt obligations and contracts the chances of a bankruptcy are virtually nil. They capitalist who say they don't like government debt and cost plus contracts are expressing their jealousy feelings concerning not what they get but what other capitalists are getting.
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I don't? A short google search will show a huge debt in illinois and capitalist government attempts to exit promises made to state employees. State employees don't get social security unless they paid in at a private job or the state specifically arranged with social security to do that. This is equivalent to what that did to other workers in the private sector through bankruptcy. The capitalists made promises they had no intention of ever keeping. Latter they closed those plants and industries reopening without a union and then came up with these bogus IRA accounts which inflation tore down to almost nothing.
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It is called reverse robin hood where the rich constantly come up with new ways to steal from the working class.
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@lesfox2010 Sowell is a mouthpiece for American Imperialism who sits in a chair at an Elite American Bourgeois University think tank the Heritage foundation at Stamford University. From the top rung of elitist professors he defends the neo liberalism of his mentor Milton Freedman. His theories can be best summed up as capitalist greed is man's best instinct and the capitalist ruling classes government is the capitalist worst enemy. He dreams of a free market the way a Catholic Priest dreams of the second coming of Christ.
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@Eric Pham This is what Congress is doing for airline and hotel bosses right now. Airports empty as are planes flying empty. Hotels bosses getting essential industry pay for being empty.
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@Eric Pham I don't think closing down small business and passing bailouts will solve anything. No one earns their money in a capitalist economy it's a matter decided in the class struggle. They capitalist want to invest 1.2 Trillion in a rehabbing nuclear weapons. 22 Billion in Virginia class submarine. If we get elected into power before they decide to cancel elections will put an end to that shit quick. Same with that Space X trip to mars crap.
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@anneyoung1298 Except drinks for the Bourgeois class at the bar.
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@timclimer6348 Are you against voluntary blood transfusion and voluntary organ transplants also? Why do you need a policeman involved in what a women does with her body? Do you want to save cancer tumors from surgery also?
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@josephnewbern2717 I know this that their are two laws about everything in the US one applies to the rich and the other everybody else's. Rich women will always have access to abortion because money talks. Everyone else is needs to meet some kind of hypocritical standard because of religious authority and state power.
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To bad they didn't give Hawaii independence instead of making it a state then Jesse Jackson could have been elected President but it wouldn't have made a dam bit of difference anyhow.
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@MilwaukeeF40C Because if it was superior a backwater like the United States would never taken the place of the British Empire. The Europeans would still be the most advanced in terms of culture, economics and military power. Instead they decided to go to war with each other to redivide the world's colonies among its greedy capitalist Imperialist Empires. The United States capitalist in their quest for world domination had to defeat both the Japanese and German Imperialists. That would not be possible without Soviet assistance. They and the British used the Soviets like an old dish rag once their Imperialist enemies were defeated they began plotting for a military victory over the Soviet Union and China. The first problem was that the armies and people could not be quickly turned against previous allies. US Troops in the East wanted to go home after the surrender of Japan. The people of Europe were left destitute and hungry and the colonial slaves wanted their freedom. Had Stalin been the revolutionary he once was and not the cowardly beaurocrat he had become socialist revolutions would have easily washed over Western Europe. He had feared his rival Trotsky having murdered him and the Spanish revolution. Now he had no choice but to Sovietize the area under the feet of the Red Army as the Western Imperialist and capitalist hostility to the Soviet Union began to rise. .
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Go sign on to the US Marines if you want to show how patriotic you are instead of belly aching over Vietnam.
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This guy is the type who bought radical books so he could show them off on a bookshelf. Probably never even read the communist manifesto and if he did than he immediately concluded that the Frankfurt school provided some good hot dogs to snack on. This is why Marx said the working class would be the next revolutionary class and not some burned out radical college students.
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@manjelos North Korea is very isolated and its history is different than Cuba's. First American Imperialist got an agreement from Stalin that he had no right to make. That the nation would be divided for purposes of evacuating Japan's already defeated Army. US Troops came ashore after Japan had surrendered unconditionally in Tokyo bay. They took up positions at the Japanese Imperial Army base and announced English was the new official language. They refused recognition of the Korea workers and farmers peoples committees instead preferring the collaborators of the Japanese Imperialist war criminals. Like Vietnam the Korean war was an Imperialist massacre of a people who had fought the Japanese Imperialist only to be betrayed by the victorious Democratic Imperialists. The country was carpet bombed and Mac Auther the General in charge wanted to use his authority to launch nuclear war on Chinese cities and create a ring of radioactive cobalt at the Yule river. Truman removed the General using his authority as commander and chief not wanting those weapons used without his approval because after all Stalin also had some bombs by now and the Europeans were not keen on world war 3.
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@rosan727 They have the resources the bosses just don't want to part with a nickle.
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Well maybe they should turn the UAW into a real International Union.
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Let's get all touchy feely telling stories. This course of action will lead to further erosion of abortion rights because the middle class gets its political marching orders from the ruling class. Abortion rights don't affect middle class women the the same way as they affects the rights of the poor and working class. Why? because they can afford to be touchy feely. They will always be able to get an abortion with their money, the ability to travel and with the money to buy a safe abortion just like before Roe v. Wade. Just like Ms Clinton. Abortion should be "...safe, legal and rare..." With Doctors being demonized and clinics being forced to close this is what is happening. Only mass action protests can reverse the sucess of the Give Birth or Die movement.
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Another fraudulent video being perpetuated by Thomas Sowell TV. At no point does Mr Factual say or prove marriage was destroyed in America. Instead it's nothing but vapid political rhetoric. First the problem was it wasn't a decision made in a ballot box. Then it was a long term drift to the left symbolized by Obama. Sowell's favorite punching bag for everything wrong. If married couple's weren't getting special privileges in tax law, divorce proceedings and childcare it would have been a non issue much like the color of nail polish. That seems to be the problem this Great Economic Thinker has totally missed. I guess he only thinks about economics when it suits his free marketism.
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He tells you bosses what you want to hear.
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@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766 He became fair game by making claims of having been a Marxist. The videos are NOT even posted by him but his followers who play a game of pretend. He a Republican Party capitalist think party fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution of War and Revolution. Just my kind of topic. He has a Republican cult following who post about him being a genius and a national treasure.
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American capitalism showing it true face after 20 years of war and devastation the Imperialist leave for bigger profits elsewhere.
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Holding them accountable? Ya with a socialist revolution. Put the whole swamp in jail.
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Fire all the cops or put 'em in jail. Go get a job instead of defending these idiots who get themselves killed while speeding. Biggest cop killers are Chevy and Ford.
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That's is just the way the tax law works. You pay tax on income. They pay tax on capital gains however unless they sell that property they have no capital gains. So if your estimated stock bond or property value goes up it doesn't count as income.
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@rogerc23 Canada did not arrest the CFO for Canadian law violations but only on request of the US government. At most they will extradite her to the US for prosecution after a Canadian court circus. The US executes accused murders after trials not foreign company executives convicted of violating US third party trade laws. The rest of the world doesn't like the US government telling them who their companies can and can not do business with. The US government has ways to twist the arms of those who don't go along with US foreign policy up to and including war.
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These are lies being told from an American perspective were the unjustified actions of the United States Imperialists must be justified and put in the best possible light.
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@rickenbacker315 This is the result of boss profit maximization polices. Bosses want to set the price and the wage they pay. They want the longest hours for the lowest pay. A strike is what they deserve no Strike breaking by Congress let cut them cut the pay of Bosses like Warren Buffet of BNSF who brags about paying less taxes than his Secretary. Buffet drives a desk for a few billion a year. His big safety hazard is paper cuts from reading the Wall Street Journal.
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@smokinhalf Capital only accumulates and it was the English capitalist economist Keynes who advised the British Capitalist to rob the workers with inflation of the money supply by watering gold. To keep the system going they must now keep printing money to continue to raise property values faster than wages. Its a totally unsustainable system that can only lead to hyperinflation if allowed to continue.
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@Dr.Beetlejuice110 Its the change from farming to industrial worker. Another child on the farm always meant another hand to lighten the load and farm familes produced most of their own food. A worker is paid onlt enough to return to work for the next pay period more children only means more mouths to feed.
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@joemartin1253 For all the talk about Che being a mass murderer they can't put up a single name and face to the charge. I can give Texas Gov Rick Perry who executed an innocent man. Cameron Todd Willingham.
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The important thing here is not that they won the most but that they were able to defeat the local ruling class who at first thought they would only need to offer a 1% raise to satisfy them. Instead they made a demand and backed it up with a strike and protest at the legislature. They refused to leave with just a promise and not a contract passed the legislature and signed by the governor. The did this despite threats to declare the strike illegal and divided them. They were ready for a long strike because they had organized to provide child care for those who depend on school as child care and to see to it that no one would be forced back to work by homelessness or starvation.
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@javiervaldes7596 Cuba has friends who protest the blockade every when ever we can. The five hero's returned and the blockade will also end. The capitalist are too greedy not to try and kill the revolution with kindness.
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Sorry Superman V got the Best Propaganda Award.
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@boogysattva Of course their was zero unemployment and the profits were rolling in. Meanwhile the concentration camps were being opened for the slave labor of working class trade union leaders, the disabled, Socialist, Communist and Jews. But it was Great for Big Business just like the War was good for American business even though the workers had to sacrifice.
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@giancarlamarinelli4910 Sorry did mean to upset you. Not all your responses appear in my thread. Do you consider yourself a socialist and have you read Socialism Utopian and Scientific by Engels?
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@giancarlamarinelli4910 You were born in the country where everything points to the final battle between capitalism and labor taking place. Check out the The Militant newspaper and the books at Pathfinder Press. I only wish I was in my 20's instead of being 70 years old. People like George Orwell thought Stalinism might last for centuries not decades.
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@patwilliams595 The bosses collect the tax before we even see our paychecks and at the store when we buy something. So how are you gong to stop paying taxes?
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There is nothing progressive about bourgeois liberals despite them calling themselves 'progressives'. If there is a reduction of tensions between the two imperialist powers and an end to the Syrian conflict this will give the workers and peasants a chance to breath and organize. They same goes for Korea. Trump and his faction want some stability rather than continuing these conflicts without end. The biggest cold war warriors were the Democratic liberals. Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. So when I here all this Liberal talk about Russia being an enemy I'm in no way surprised. The Republican's General Eisenhower and Nixon were warriors elected on peace platforms. Eisenhower was elected to end Korea and Nixon Vietnam. The theft of Clinton campaign materials was done with one of the most well known and easiest hacking tricks ever thought up the email fishing scheme. Hi I'm from Microsoft give us you password so we can help you out. This in itself shows how bright these educated fools are.
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He and Freidman love to talk supply and demand except when the working class makes demands that the capitalist are required to supply. John L. Lewis being an example. He and Friedman like to deride him as the world's greatest oil salesman. When in fact he lead an industrial union the UMWA who broke with the craft union mindset of the AFL in the mid 1930's creating an industrial union movement the CIO. The Oil Workers Union also joined the new CIO. They cost the bosses plenty in both profits and by forcing change upon industry after industry starting with the great auto workers sit down strikes of 1937. No longer could the bosses just ignore us. Lewis was a working miner with a tenth grade education that Presidents had to listen too. You won't hear Friedman and Sowell talk about how higher wages mean a shift in capitalist production to the things workers need which shifts some new investment towards meeting those needs also.
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That is not the issue rather the issue is organized prayer in the public schools.
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@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134 You only pay taxes on income and capital gains. You avoid taxes as a boss by stock buy backs that drive up stock prices and you take out loans from banks using stock as collateral that way you never pay a tax because there are no taxes on debt. You only pay taxes on a capital gain by selling them. You cost is the price of money instead of taxes. You can also buy tax free bonds and put them up for collateral. They mature to pay the debt.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 End the US Imperialist blockade of Cuba. Stop trying to strangle the revolution.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 AOC is a Democrat a member of one of the two Imperialist ruling parties. She is the kind of "socialist" Lenin would call a traitor to the working class. You no doubt first learned how to steal for others and then they let you steal some for yourself. Now you sit back and tell us how successful you are!!! You don't change any of the facts about capitalist exploitation or why it must be overturned in a socialist revolution. Your proof is the same that can be found in Atlantic city or Las Vegas. At the end of the day most go home with empty pockets from the casino and no one every takes over the casino by playing the table games do they?
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The only people who constantly talk of paradise are Christians not communists. Want to live in paradise ask for directions to the nearest Catholic Church.
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@Razehell42 The 1st and 14th amendment protect the right to strike.
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This women doesn't fool me and by the way Mark Twain was a founder of the anti Imperialist league.
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@axiom1509 "Too much power in the hands of unstable people represents the greatest danger to humanity." General Milley has just revealed why the capitalist with their unstable system should not be trusted since the economic instability of their system creates their mental instability.
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@bverji If only the owners of capital didn't sell their stock and bonds back and forth to each other could you claim that refiners don't compete with car mfgs for capital investment. If I'm running a school company I compete with local school board funding not the fed's and If I can make money by continuously investing in new machinery or technology I would take out patents to halt any competition for nine years.
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The law says you give implied consent such that you can have your license suspended or revoked. You can still refuse to have your blood drawn or take a breathalyzer because that's your fourth amendment right. Plus it seems that a judge might not even issue a warrant given it could interfere with his medical treatment do to his being unconscious.
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For Imperialist Clowns like Pompeo and Trump Socailism has failed over and over yet its the biggest threat to US Imperialism.
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@gilraybaker826 So the according to you the US Imperialist Military clique is breaking apart at the top levels.
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@hurricane8634 I'm sending my Christmas cards USPS not UPS. Go ahead and send them UPS just ilke at a conference of the wealthy where they paid $13 for a hot dog with mustard.
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@hurricane8634 Small business is almost as misleading a term as taxpayer. No one who participates in the economic doesn't pay a some kind tax. Extremist argue that workers are not workers but contractors and contractors are all businesses. Marx says private property is the property used to exploit others. So an independent truckers who only owns a one truck can't be using the truck to exploit others. It's only when you begin to hire others to work your tools that the question of exploitation arises. Most real small businesses that are successful are in some area of the economy that can't easily be rationalize with new and better machinery and economies of scale. Some small businesses treat their employees well others can be slave drivers. Pus the SBA classifies small businesses as those with less than 100 employees. Some small businesses are only small on paper but in reality they are owned by holding companies for monopoly purposes.
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Hamas is a NAZI like organization. When would a good time be to call a ceasefire on a NAZI like organization Hamas. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a supporter of Hitler and the final solution. Hamas leaders are billionaires who live in Qatar luxury. The Muslim brotherhood was also a fascist organization. Hamas wants to create Martyrs for the profit with an F. Arab countries ethnically cleaned all their countries of Jews.
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@Aaron of Ruth Imperialism doing what is expected from capitalism.
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@polytor4 Well according to Medal of Freedom Winner Rush Limbaugh this was only a common cold virus which was being used by Democrats as a way to Bash Trump. Saying it was caused by dirty habits IS RACIST.
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@One earth It was Mao who said "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Take a close look at that campaign picture
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@creman12 The road to socialism is paved by the class struggle. The working people need to take control of production with the trade unions and build a party based upon the trade unions independent of the capitalist parties to take control of government away from the capitalist in a socialist revolution.
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Lets see if Mrs Blackburn want to denounce the centralisation of credit in a National Bank, Graduated income tax and public schools.
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@Speedo123100 There is a way forward with class struggle.
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@jimc9596 Sure I need to listen to privileged Bourgeois Professors of political science, economics, and business who were granted tenured chairs after a period of required political examination to keep out any anti capitalist thinkers.
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It in the best tradition of the Spanish inquisition and Hitlers book burning.
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@whitneywhitney8356 The bosses can't just raise prices without cutting sales and total profits. When workers win a wage increase that increase goes to pay for things workers need and creates increased economic activity because of that while cutting down on total profits which are unpaid wages.
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@trekpac2 This man is an defender of Imperialism like in 1914 The Imperialist said they did not want war but war is what Imperialism brings to the world.
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@ninabarrett7795 Trump will now go after those who went after him. Payback is a bitch.
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@ryanheath77777 Republicans are mad because Koch Industries isn't getting its big profit share. Healthcare is an overhead cost for the bosses they prefer that you die because they can always hire another worker while healthcare costs them money that could be lining their pockets.
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@rigga4203 Nothing is free. Big Pharma is collecting profits from government payments and Republican bosses consider government money tax money and their money. The rich pay most of the taxes because capitalism works to pay you only enough to come back to work for the next pay period.
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If Hamas is left in power the last day will come sooner rather than later.
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@kosttzan886 That is the last of their concerns. After all as long as the dow jones average is rising thats shows things are going well. Going well for the boss class at least. They also seem to believe the general propaganda from thinkers at the Mises Institute that socialism is taxes and that they could also pay a few more pennies in taxes if necessary. Gates gets down to the nitty gritty that they hold the line at a cap on wealth and in so many words admits his own self interests would make that true.
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@russelljordan7688 How have I done that? Rather than deal in the actual topic of abortion you'd rather go off on tangents like straw men and adoption. Adoption is only a viable solution after the baby is born because life is not guaranteed before birth and separation of the fetus from the mother is basically an abortion if the fetus dies unless of course you have discovered a new talent of mind reading the physician before or after the act. .
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@Flying_Spaghetti_Monster The road to socialism is through the class struggle. This is what Karl Marx meant when he said communism is a movement going on before our eyes in the modern world.
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The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. Women will die if 5 of the 9 ghouls on the Supreme Court vote to overturn Roe v Wade.
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Novels are by definition fiction. The origin of political novels was as way to write criticism without running afoul of the censors. Modern censorship in the United States is carried out not by heavy handed priests looking for porn or government book checkers but in other soft manners. Accusations of disloyalty to the nation, flag, and anthem ( Mr. Trump and the sports protesters). Cleaning up political corruption by disclosure of party contributors. Modifying the first amendment to prevent big money in politics. Refusing an agreement to publish after a holding company CEO reads the book. Having the first amendment end at your employers door. Secret and not so secret blacklists. Endless ongoing FBI investigations. Having an attorney generals list of subversive organizations or now a list of terrorist organization. A public exposay of a bookstore selling revolutionary books. Halting or censoring prisoners newspaper subscriptions with claims of a threat to the institution. Turning science into religion and keeping Mark Twain out of the library. All of these things and more have gone on and been considered as a way to attack first amendment rights and chill the right to speak freely.
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That's nothing more than another slander of Trotsky because even today the ruling classes everywhere and the stalinist idiots still hate him and Lenin for leading the second socialist revolution after the Paris commune.
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Sorry professor Jetoler but since English is the name of a language it should be capitalized and pls is a nonstandard abbreviation for please.
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@MAGA COUNTRY The problems of white collar workers are not the same as those of us who work in a trade or are industrial workers. A bank teller doesn't get dirty, risk falling into a machine or off a ladder. The same goes for salesman. Why would Real Estate bosses want to join a union and why would the AFL-CIO want them? Textile bosses moved most production out of New England to escape the unions to the south and later out of the country. Logistics? Their are still plenty of Teamsters and single owner operators who want to join a union.
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@Randy2747 Most of the opposition to unions comes from the bosses and the college educated white collar employees. All of the bosses see a bigger profit bonus at Christmas time and the white collar, HR and secretaries think of themselves as "smarter" even if the make an equal or even lower salary. Nothing enrages a secretary to the CEO more than a union janitor getting a bigger paycheck.
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There are whole companies devoted to keeping unions out by any means possible including armies of scabs ready for strikes and propagandists devoted to scaring workers out of voting union.
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If systemic racism and re segregation is the problem why is the working class at fault? After all the middle class and ruling class make all the decisions? Seems to me that all the anti Trump forces want a coup d'etat without even a candidate that they can agree on. Every real revolutionary Marxist including Marx, Lenin, and Fidel Castro have always argued against coup d'etat because it produce no real change but just a change in administration.
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Stalin there is no doubt that you studied in the school of the great idiot, original photo shopper, biggest slanderer and corrupt bureaucrat. After the ordering the signing of the pact dividing Poland with Hitler you put out the word to support NAZI Germany over the West. Once Hitler broke the pact policy flipped to support for the West. The CPUSA now became the best strikebreakers and your stooge Earl Browder held a national meeting where after a singing of the National Anthem a unanimous vote was taken dissolving the Communist Party into the Communist Political association. At the end of WW2 The Daily Worker announced an end to the Class struggle and permanent victory of the Soviet Union.
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@williambarr2698 Last week Rubio wanted to launch an FBI witch hunt against Puentes de Amor.
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Too bad he was unable to make a cogent argument against Marx in any of his books or writing instead just being someone who nips at the heels of others. Marx's discoveries and his ideas and methods have changed the world.
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@n.m.8768 Musk who closed down production of electric cars he can't sell and gets government contract for rockets that blow up mid flight and on the launch pad. This man is definitely a genius who know how to fleece both Congress and fellow investors.
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@chungusmaximus526 End the Blockade and the excuses!!!
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@dayanmederos6564 End the US multinational Blockade of Cuba.
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Ya that water in Flint, MI was real clean. I really enjoyed living in a California homeless shelter. The Cuban revolution was made with all American arms. Keep selling those guns because we know which way to point them.
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@robertlehman9411 Ya like Canada has no controls or taxes on anything. If there is one thing peasant farmers and slaves know it how to do it is to produce food. Maybe as a philanthropist you should concentrate on saving Canadians dying of Drug abuse on the streets of Toronto or maybe helping those Canadian farmers being pushed off the land by capitalist farming. At the time of the revolution Cuba had 3 million people it has about 12 million today that's a factor of 4 Where as the population of Canada went from 18 million to 38 million about double. Canada has much more arable land and is not blockaded by the USA. .
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@FREEMAYKELOSORBO Maybe we should just abolish private property here like what was done in Cuba. What do we need billionaires for?
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Let's get the oil rig business straight. With capitalism one person robs ten to build an oil rig not the other way around with socialism 11 people work in the oil business. America is a Republic because the founders didn't want a kingdom with a parliament like the English had. So it is both a republic and a democracy. Not just a Republic without democracy like a military dictatorship.
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@snsm6730 When business controls and buys everything what do you expect? AOC and Sanders are nothing more than Social Imperialists. Socialists in name only.
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@that1commandment That's just the the bosses think about us. On one hand they have all these politicians and mouthpieces talking all this crap about how you need to get experience and when you have some all they want to talk about then is how worthless you are.
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@PowerGuy 1 The road to socialism is through the class struggle.
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@PowerGuy 1 Five of the basic problems with capitalist economics is the declining rate of return on investment, new machinery replacing labor creating layoffs, the inability of the workers to buy back all that can be produced, Imperialism/military protection of foreign investment and driving up the value of factious capital till colapse. Now according to you we should keep capitalism because its better to have bureaucrats loyal to a wealthy class with theses known problems because someone (not you of course) might be able to "get ahead." Instead of a system of where bureaucrats are in control making themselves into the new capitalist. That was one of the mistakes in Russia letting old Menshevik opportunists into the new Communist Party after the revolution who the became supporters of Stalin. . As long as you have capitalist running things or set up coops run with profit as the goal you have those problems. Communist have no illusions in the bourgeois democracy and the capitalist state. The workers need to be prepared to defend themselves against would be military dictators and fascist gangsters.
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Easy questions for you are why are billionaires in business? (Secret Answer: The Money) Why do billionaires want government controls? (Secret Answer: The Money) Class Dismissed.
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@joec5544g They can't just raise prices without affecting sales numbers and therefore total profits. The union workers well spend those extra wages on theing workers need boosting other areas of production. Hiring more will drive down the number of unemployed forcing the bosses to raise the average wage of all workers. The biggest hit will be taken by the bosses wasting profits in gambling schemes and stock buybacks.
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Like it or not Israel has become a refuge for the Jews because of the traitorous actions of the Stalinists and Social Democratic leaders. No real communist leadership like in Cuba developed among the Arabs that could create a Socialist Revolution in their territory either. Instead Islamic reactionaries have taken over Gaza and Southern Lebanon.
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@mikearchibald744 Chomsky doesn't know the meaning of class and thinks using terms like capitalist class is unhelpful rhetoric and insteads prefers to talk about elites. The Russian revolution had taken the Soviet Union out of the capitalist world to a workers state. Lenin was the first to call for the removal of Stalin from his post. Lenin dies. Trotsky was the second he lost to a privledged bureaucracy lead by Stalin.
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@muxion If capitalism was a success story and the happy meal that Sowell and Freedman would lead you to believe it would not have lead to two world wars.
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No one can say much about a head being split open because no one likes or condoms stuff like that at least publicly. The Greek thing seems like a Mexico New Mexico thing. But these Middle Class black women getin' down and going all Black national seems a little vapid. Even Malcolm X would be chuckling about this.
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Malcolm X wasn't known for running away from a fight. How many of these 'leaders' are speaking up for the panthers victimized by Cointelpro still in prison despite Obama and his pardon ability? How about Assata Shakur she actually has to remain in Cuba for political Asylum. Instead of 'safe space' what about creating some fighting space? If you could even create a safe space what the hell would you do with it?
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Look I get it Black or White Middle class women need safe space form dishes and house work. So you go to college and get yourself a degree and become a healthcare facilitator. Easy job sit in an office and give out directions big pay and talk all jive all day. Yo dude you got foot fungus take a left.
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@Proverbspsalms What does that have to do with the price of Trump or Biden's haircut?
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@danar810 Sure Amazon wants to have its cake and eat it too. The reason for having contractors is the same reason Fed Ex does they try and shield themselves from union organizing. The bosses always want to move things into a courtroom and into an argument about who is responsible where they have all the advantages. Our strength comes from solidarity with other workers the best course of action is to always try and bring other workers into the fight. Bringing more workers from other contractors into the battle.
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@ComradeOgilvy369 "Real Communism has never been tried." Conservatives are the ones who always say that. Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests. It is the history of the one class of victory and defeats. The modern proletariat in struggle with the other most important class in modern history the capitalist. Its been an acknowledged force since its founding by Marx and Engels with the 1848 publication of the Manifesto of the Communists Party. Continued on by Lenin and Trotsky along with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The Militant has been published since 1928.
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@Mayonnaisetdy For Trump to win Biden needs to be in a Coma. Trump abandoned his most ardent supporters on Jan 6th.
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@Mayonnaisetdy Never underestimate the stupidity of Democrats or the cowardice of Republicans in the face of a character like Donald Trump.
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That's the way cops operate the they don't do this stuff to people who have money because they have lawyers or donors to the police union who have get out of jail free cards. If you had a drink that gives them another reason to bash you and then claim you were drunk and needed to be restrained.
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@billgatesisntadr7995 This is why working people need to make a world revolution not in one country alone. Take control of industry out of the hands of the bosses with union power and a labor party.
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@tonykennedy1615 Another instance where Sowell argues with popular notions as he presents his own group of notions as an explanation. Sowell the lover of facts gies on with notions about how the situation will be resolved using military and police force over an extended period of time. He of course points to the American Imperialist military assault on Vietnam and the British Imperialist demands that it remain the government of the Falkland Islands as examples of his raising the price theory of justice where justice can be something one buys at the store like the newspaper.
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@ronmcmartin4513 The problem is that since capitalism puts all ideas into competition it can't help but expose the truth.
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Constantin Ait ! You don't understand she will always be called a traitor by most of the American ruing class. Sure there much nicer about it today Just as Khrushchev ended up having to denounced Stalin. American politicians had to denounce McCarthyism. Beat up someone on a playground in the USA and you'd certainly be in hot water.
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@TheAtreaustyle12 Cut off payment to bond holders first. Make those who can afford to buy bonds pay taxes. No to bad debt created by Imperialist war you invested in Afgan war time to take a loss and write off.
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You can always follow the male orangutan into the jungle and swing from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit.
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@WarningStrangerDanger Its only natural that some things be centralized and other decentralized. Time is an example of centralization. Is it the same time everywhere on Earth? How about the way people think about time and how that has changed. .
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@earlthepearl4161 Yes according to Boss Sowell the Protestant work ethic of capitalism is why Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are rich and not the ability to use the economic system of private property and profit maximization for themselves.
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Sowell pay any price for George Bushes wars or the 2008 Bailout?
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@meredithhunter6419 I'm being censored by youtube again.
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Moose 1010 Marxism is based not in idealism but originates in facts both good and bad. From these facts come political generalisations and strategic lessons of a class marching to power shortly after we were borne in the coal mines and textile mills of 17th century England. We like other sciences are materialist not idealists. Your problem is to confuse justice with idealism.
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@PatriciaSantos-qt9lw When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union breaking the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Then Stalin became the ally of the Democratic Imperialist FDR and Churchill. If Stalin was a fascist for allying with Hitler than he was a Democrat for join FDR and Churchill.
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@Zero-ei8jn Come back when you are released from the state mental asylum and make a coherent argument.
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Unfortunately for you, fishface494, you will no longer get a chance to be under the thumb of English or French colonial rule. Today your choice of oppression is to be under or part of a less powerful neo colonial rule or immigrant to the rich countries and become part of the working class. The British also introduced the opium trade and the Japanese brought the black plague to China experimenting on people as a biological weapon. Somehow I don't see how either advanced anything in human knowledge or technology. Even nuclear power was possible before nuclear bombs were made. One reason being is that nuclear reactors had to be built before nuclear bombs could be.
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@Mman. Its because action are the threat and not ideas. In the Imperialist era the working class that is the revolutionary class and the defender of free speech.
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@Alaskan-Armadillo I've heard that argument before most notable from Linguist Noam Chomsky. He usual brings up Kronstadt and the Spanish CNT. Most of American anarchism centered around the IWW. Many of the best leaders joined the early Communist Party. The still exist but haven't played much of a role in anything since the turn of the century in 1900. The critical problem in the American labor movement is support to the Democratic party given by the Stalinist's and Social Democrats. We counter that with a proposal to build a labor party that can challenge the other two parties. People like Chomsky and student anarchist end up abstaining from elections where many working people still vote. While we (Google "The Militant") run Candidates to challenge the capitalist candidates.
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@horsekondom96 No, all the government needs to say we are taking your grass for the public good and we will pay you the market value.
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Bosses want all the profits from the new productivity. They don't care what happens to workers jobs.
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@poppadoc5614 Free Bus? THATS COMMUNISM!!!
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Trump took over the Republican Party by making appeals to the working class. People liberal Democrats took for granted.
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Ricky Did you live in a homeless shelter or your car while not making a dime?
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Ricky You opened the door with the claim of "...go weeks or months at a time without making a dime..." I've heard that some retail businesses claim that they stay open from Christmas to Black Friday not making a profit. That their only reason for existence is for the Black Friday to Christmas sales and profit. If your in a seasonal business you may go for months without making a profit. Yet I did't hear about any big sacrifices of management. Instead they get an end of year bonus and our hours are cut with others being laid off.
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Ricky You just can't avoid being being another Hillary Clinton insulting workers who aren't part of the meritocracy with your brilliance can you? Unions aren't killing off small business thats the role big business plays. Profits move towards those industries and businesses who can replace labor with machinery. It's the Domino's Pizza and the Olive Gardens that are driving out small restaurants. Like all small business restaurants are being driven out by assembly line methods and economies of scale. That has been going on long before there even was a minimum wage. WalMart, Amazon, Domino's Pizza and other big sweatshop bosses are only interested in weakening and keeping the unions out. They appeal to the small businessman as ally against any increase in the minimum wage. Their interest in raising the minimum wage is driven by an increasing fear of a radicalized working class As an addendum: The failure of capitalist methods used in medicine is what has driven the coronavirus crisis.
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Right people like theses grandstanding Politicians and Priests and religious nuts should be the ones making the decisions.
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@raumlu Capitalism is based in wage labor and private capital. Communism is a strictly voluntary world society made possible by such a high level of productivity that no one needs to be compelled to work. Socialism begins as a capitalism without the capitalist in charge or wage labor without the capitalist. It goes beyond just a welfare state by closing the stock markets with the workers controlling the administration of the enterprises. Things are taken out of the market as that becomes possible to create the abundance needed. You don't have empty apartments being used as investments. Nor is medical care something that can be stolen by those who need it. This is also made possible by the shift in thinking that the working people go through on our march to power. Our ability to organize and run our own organizations independent of the capitalist and their Poison Ivy League lap dogs shows us our real capabilities.
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You ride a skateboard. Plus everybody who works on the books pays taxes and for those who work off the books their boss pays taxes assuming the IRS can find him in a cash business. Since those without proper documentation pay taxes in they seldom file for refunds nor are they eligible for the social security benefits. Its a way for the government to collect taxes without have to provide anything.
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@salazam In the US the Bosses avoid taxes by doing stock buybacks and taking out loans based upon stock put up as collateral. This way the pay no income taxes on loans. Instead the pay only the cost of the loan and can deduct any interest payments from actual income. So Elon Musk grandstands about having a dollar a year salary while spending as much as he pleases after doing business with a banker friend. They avoid ever paying back the loan by just renegotiating it every year that way it never comes due until they actually die. Inflation guarenteed by central bank money printing means the stock value rises faster than the loans value. Isn't capitalism a sweet deal for the bosses?
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Obviously your talk or what you heard was different than mine. You're right though birth control is not needed to control sex but birth control helps control when you can and can't get pregnant. That's why it's called birth control not sex control.
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@angelabolin1730 Send them all to the gated communities.
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@Pepsiman1848 We run candidates for political offices including President if the honestly wanted to know what we think they could ask or read our newspaper "The Militant." which is available for research online. We be more than happy to give them an earful but usually they don't like what we have to say. They like hearing themselves talk and give the politically correct answer.
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@neckmostle The decisions of private capital and the capitalist governmen need to be taken from their hands and put into those of the working class. Those who do the work should make the decisions.
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@FaithOriginalisme The capitalist have industries all divided up yet each depends on the other. Ford had a vertical monopoly at one time starting with coal and iron mines including the ships to transport the ore. Yet in order to sell cars he needed roads to be built by the government which was his idea also. Not to mention oil refined into gas and diesel for fuel. The capitalist judge everything by rate of profit. Start a small business hire some guys to paint houses and get some paint, brushes, rollers, spray gun and truck. Should be easy enough to figure out the time needed to paint and make a profit from running the business. Now did you ever think about the industry even just to make the paint that goes into thar process? It is massive. When everything gets screwed up like in 2008 they have no choice but to bail themselves out. But like always they want us to pay for their crisis. So they said you aren't paying for the house get out and the auto workers were getting too much. They tightened up on everyone went on a campaign to make us tighten our belts. They created the crisis because they drove up the value of homes until the market exchange price collapsed. When the had the revolution in Cuba do you think Fidel Castro said okay I'm going to tell everyone how rp do their jobs? No they said your not going to be able to use your administrative or government position to exploit others and if you don't like that well there's a plane or boat leaving for Miami. They use education to drive against labor privilege.
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Break from both parties of capitalism. Cancel the national debt!!!
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Aaron Williams you are really out of touch. Lots of people have to work at minimum wage or slightly more because they can't find someone to buy their skills. If you actually have to work and not sit home with mom and dad or have to get a job post college degree. Eventually you will learn that in one way or another simply because you can not escape the truth no matter how you think you can deny it.
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Unions become a form of direct democracy when they take control of how the work is done. In the transition to socialism management job becomes more of one that takes care of the administration of things rather than people. If Elon actually comes down to the plant floor and works with and does the jobs of the actual production workers that shows a sense of humility on his part. As long as we have capitalism the trade unions serve to place defensive limits on what management can do at work without the workers consent.
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China does not want US troops on its border. My guess that also applied to the Russian Federation. Look at a map. China and the Russian Federation have land borders with north Korea. Each country has at least one railway crossing into North Korea. Corruption is much more advanced in China and the Russian Federation. The United Nations is hardly united about anything. If the trade is profitable than it will continue. For the US to try and stop another country's ship from entering North Korean waters would be seen as an act of piracy on the high seas. Limits on textiles? That's an easy enough problem to solve just put another companies name on it. Bill Gates has been trying to stop software piracy in China for about 30 years now. Microsoft has been able to stop about two percent of windows piracy in China that means 98% of the Windows systems sold in China are pirated versions.
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Sending Feds into Chicago? Think twice Black People about bringing in FBI Feds. They were the ones who set up Fred Hampton's murder. Their FBI informers stood by while the civil rights murders were committed. Why aren't they punishing the Blue gangsters? If federal troops are sent to Chicago will they just be there watching for gangsters and driving away the 'corner boys'? Or will they become paper checkers on the street? You noticed in the video how illegal immigration hit into the questions. You look Somali or Haitian show me your papers. On the street fingerprinting a reality now. You forgot to pay that outrageous parking ticket during the last snow storm go directly to jail. Your probation officer forgot to check you into the system last time. Go to jail. You were let go from your slave and didn't have the cash for last month's child support. Go to Jail. FOI you are a Muslim we have to be extra careful with you boy. We need to ask questions let's go down to the station. Emmanuel may be a fox but Trump is a wolf.
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Then where are you going to send them and how will you pay for it?
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@kalburgy2114 Sowell lived though the who era of the movement and did nothing but take personal advantage of government jobs and VA benefits. He claims to have been a Marxist based upon reading the encyclopedia Britannica and the independent study of Das Kapital not wanting to be accused of actually talking to a Marxist because then he might be accused of having other ideas.
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@KristaErrickson The Democrats also represent Wall Street, the military contractors and the bosses in general.
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@GreatLeviathen So if you walk by a place and see someone naked inside you call the cops? If Johnny comes home and says, "I saw Ms. X without her top on." You take out your phone and put in a call to the "Legion of Decency". They advise you to call the cops, get pictures of Ms. X for evidence and to Report Ms. X "..as being seen without her top on.." by your Johnny to the cops? You show the pictures to the cops and your charged with violation of the indecency act for taking lewd pictures without the other person's permission. This is why almost never call the cops to begin with I don't want to get shot or arrested over something stupid.
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Same shit different vehicle. The boss would go to the casino and loose the drivers wages than they'd change the pay day. I remember one time when we were on a Monday pay day schedule.
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His 14th amendment due process rights are the first ones being violated here.
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@ReflectedMiles So at the end of the day did or didn't Boeing and the Airline bosses choose profits over safety? Those planes crashed for a reason. What's your explanation and what are your credentials?
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@warrenlewis3977 Wages are set from the bottom up. When the minimum wage goes up all wages follow as the bosses lose their unearned profits.
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@deadlyta The bosses all have common affairs that can't produce profits the same way that industry does by constantly reducing the labor time needed for production. In business school they call them overhead costs. Workers need to look to themselves and not a government of the bosses to do what is necessary. We have organized powerful trade unions and we need to use them and create a labor party based upon the unions to win the battle of democracy with the capitalists. We are talking about building out in a horizontal direction instead of top down. You never going to fix top down without the nessasary horizontal.
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@deadlyta If you read the early works of Marx he says the state can't readily be wielded by the workers. After the Paris Commune experience he came to the conclusion that the workers would need to build a whole new state of their own. Like anything centralization has both advantages and disadvantages. The history of capitalism is towards centralization. I assume your an electrical contactor. Would you like to have a system with no standards for wire size ampacity and insulation and voltage? You've got your prints and specs written up in a small book. You need to estimate your job for labor time and materials how would that work without NEMA and NEC standards? Or if the standards varied for no particular reason across the country or world. I'm old enough to have seen a two phase 440 volt system. Seen any of those lately?
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@SkremoMcThrftsto Felix Dzerzhinsky was the original head of the Checka. He was a polish communist who kept a picture of Rosa Luxemberg in his office and although he sided with Stalin he died in 1926 before Trotsky's final exile.
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@megajoohyun7255 Hi I can recommend The Militant Newspaper Pathfinder Press, Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed From Lenin to Stalin Victor Serge The Revolution Betrayed by Trotsky Lots of Material is available on line at The Marxist Internet Archive. The Militant Archive online goes back to 1928.
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@jacquelinem2873 Its the way capitalism works the bosses want to pay us the lowest wages work us the longest hours at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits.
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No they don't.
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@chicken29843 The stock market only developed with capitalism.
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@joemarooni4580 Of course it's clueless because it assumes capitalism itself had started with bank accounts. Banks only became important after the growth of trade and money economy. In fact at the beginning of capitalism Spain and Portugal had the gold while England and British North America were poor. Britain and America became rich though industrial capitalism not because they had gold inside of banks. In fact the more gold they discovered and brought back from the New world the cheaper it became. Adam Smith recognized that but not this fool. Instead like the typical high priest of capitalism he believes in the endless growth of capitalism though the bank account.
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Nothing but BS lies.
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Trump wants war. He is nuts. Stop the provocations now! US out of Korea! Let the Korean people reunify under their own terms. The US Imperialist Troops came in to evacuate the defeated Japanese Imperialist war criminals and have been their 72 years now. If Trump wants peace he can stop his threats.
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Why Bernie Sanders has failed us. He joined the Democratic Party.
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Its the failure of the worldwide capitalist system.
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@totallyjonesin Biden is lucky if he remembers his name and Nancy Pelosi has the same problem.
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@carlinwrite5964 The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act "Prepare for the arrival of another botched abortion." Paramedic to the Emergency Room.
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Its the death agony of world capitalism.
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@OJB42 If economics was just trade off than were did the modern world come from?
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Maybe you should explain how its is that the communists were able to get the capitalist to build their industry?
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When people wake up they will be wearing Yellow Vests.
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@joecombs7468 If y'all love free markets so much why do you want to stave out the Cuban people like any other capitalist boss does to strikers. Oh and Boss you didn't just grant us rights we took them with Minneapolis communism in 1934. Every read "Socialism on Trial" Boss? Why don't you leave for country like Saudi Arabia if capitalism bring so much freedom? They've been bringing them freedom with oil revenues for at least 70 years now. We got Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's AG Griffin Bell held in contempt of court for refusing to hand over FBI and CIA informant SPY files.
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Minneapolis trucking bosses had to recognize the union and pay a union wage opening the way for the over the road campaign. in 1934 after a General Strike lead by the Communist League of America in the mists of the Great Depression Boss.
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@haraldbredsdorff2699 When you can't argue with the man's idea then you launch personal attacks.
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@michelleyb8536 The Democratic Party plays the role of proposing rotten reforms to save capitalism at all costs.
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@LNVACVAC How does your hymn to Bourgeois Democracy go Oh Canada, God Save the King, Advance Australia Fair, La Marseillaise another please don't keep us all in suspense.
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@LNVACVAC I'm a pole monkey by trade. I may not know much about raising a crop or forging a hammer. But I've worked in the big Steel Mill at Sparrows Point, MD. I know what hot steel looks like when a cobble is rolled. Hot metal going up in the air like ribbon candy.
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@patcamardo316 Trump was busy playing golf and doing nothing. He delayed withdrawal for political reasons and their is no reason to believe he would have done any better except his promises. By the way how has that wall done anything to improve life? Trump is nothing but another Imperialist gangster from the other Imperialist party. By the way he switched parties about 5 times am I right? So in reality he's just as establishment as all the rest. He made his billions in the gambling and real estate rackets. No different than any other parasite like Soros, Gates or Buffet.
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@leapdrive If you've been paying attention Putin blames Lenin for Ukrainian independence. Lenin was also the first to call for Stalin's removal from his post of Party General Secretary.
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@209Richsta Communism is NOT a doctrine discovered by some universal reformer rather it is a historical movement with victories and defeats of one class in the modern world the proletariat in struggle with the other most important class the capitalist. Marx also saw the ruling ideas of any epoc as the ideas of the ruling class. That is another reason not to try and work everything out ahead of time in Bourgeois Universities as their ideas are both limited and distorted by the ruling class and the development of the productive forces themselves. The very first problem with the Frankfurt School is their failure to halt the rise of fascism in Germany. Nor is Marxism about creating total equality because people aren't born totally equal. Lenin's anlysys of Imperialism is why we support the rights of colonial peoples to form their own state to achieve the closest cooperation between workers of different cultures and development. Our goal with regards to women is to enable the to participate fully in society. For this reason we see a need for separation of the sexes rather than forcing everyone together in the name of a rights for a very tiny minority that usually wants anonymity trans people. The second reason we don't go along with this is its an attack on materialist philosophy to say a man can become a women just by thinking he can. Some things need to be allowed to stand or die on their own like religion and art. Religion has much lees of a hold on people and I think its totally wrong to take art and subject every kind of art to political criticism.
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How is it that her Professors missed the plagiarism in the first place?
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The US government is operated by two stooge parties bought and paid for by a super wealthy ruling class. The were the ones to use criminal methods during the war. Napalm a terrible and criminal weapon dropped as bombs. Never did the Patriotic forces use such criminal ganster methods. Not a single heavy bomber was used by the patriotic forces. The Washington Imperialists dropped more bombs on Korea during their conquest than they did during the whole war with Japan. They talk of prisons when they have the largest prison system in the world. They talk of human rights when they kill unarmed black men so their police can take vacations. They built the first nuclear weapons and used them first. The executed two communists for giving away the secret of their bomb. They have more of these bombs in submarines, missiles and planes yet they say they are peaceful when they invade. Their way of help is by murder rape and torture.
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That is nothing more than Imperialist propaganda.The artillery will hit US and puppet military bases first.
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He assumes that the feminist movement exists in a vacuum outside of class society and that without struggles against capitalism it just goes on its merry way doing the lords work. He ignore the changes in the role of women in capitalist society and society as a whole has undergone and the direction it takes for a few facts to support his overall contention that capitalism does the lord's work if only those meddlesome communist, socialist, feminist and labor leaders would stop complaining.
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@Dbo_Sports Right according to him everything is explained by choice and the heavy responsibility and big risk the bosses take when the business goes belly up. Who gets to do the choosing and why is of course answered by the magical free market. The fact that capitalism like feudalism and slavery before it has outlived its usefulness is off limits because no ruling class in history has ever accepted its own death as a class. When your a privileged ruling class do you just give up your position because humanity is better off without you?
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@redskywalker3374 He was President. He routinely declassified documents for use at Mar A Lago the place is guarded by Secret Service and with camera's. Like all Presidents he kept documents from his presidency so they government will need more than just simple possession to show that a crime was committed.
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@jimmayors2315 The 1st and 14th amendment protect the right to strike. The Congress and the President have exceeded their authority.
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If in Massachusetts don't tell anybody to do anything because they might end up dead. Don't tell anybody to get fucked because it might lead to rape. Don't tell anybody to go jump in a lake because they might not be able to swim and drown. Death penalty supporters don't tell anyone you want the death penalty because someone might actually die because of that. It is tragic that a young person 18 years old at the time killed himself but punishing a 17 year old for telling him to do it with a 2.5 year felony sentence? Predicted on plea deal to avoid a 20 year sentence. Judicial overreach and prosecutorial excess in the 'liberal state" of Massachusetts. Texas won't want to give in to pandering to criminals like Massachusetts does. They'll threaten 45 years on multiple charges and accept 25 years with 5 years suspended. Unless of course you have a ruling class approved lawyer. Than you get 10 years suspended because your a member of the DuPont family and murdered someone in Delaware and after a trial not a plea deal with a judge talking about how doing jail time would serve no purpose.
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@russelljames5631 Its always some elses fault. They're going to have to pull back on plans for world domination. Like the 800 foreign military bases. The 5 trillion wasted on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new nuclear weapons projects and ultra hyper missiles.
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@houstonharwood7197 Sound like a good deal for Trump Jr. Three day work max for a speech. Even a communist like me doesn't make $50,000 in a year. Playboy.
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@johntheherbalistg8756 They've had a class of private property owners in charge since the end of feudalism. They lost power for 70 days during the Paris Commune and came close to losing during the economic chaos caused by the World Wars and the Great Depression. You like to define capitalism in such a way that you can disguise boss rule as something else. Like pretending that a capitalist government isn't really capitalist because you convinced some sell out Social Democrats to do your bidding or that Hitler was a Socialist not really what the German ruling class wanted. .
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@lonniehill3455 Union is their to protect the members not the bosses.
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Why don't you move to Saudi Arabia and enjoy the accommodations and the company provided by the religious police.
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That's why the live out on an island. We should move them all out on an island and then ignore them.
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@greenvilleobserver9431 Two wrongs don't make a right.
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@fatherthomas1575 Why evacuate scientists who might not return? Why not keep civilian aircraft grounded and fighters in the air to meet jets or drones from the "Great Satan"?
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According to what I read the company dumped the concrete from the trucks and is suing the union for the loss or the concrete and other damages. The court ruling only allows the suit to proceed in state court it is not a final ruling. The union can then argue about the expired contract and if it had any responsibility to the company once the contract expired. Since it is the union which is being sued and not individual workers. It also appears that drivers loaded and took out loaded trucks and brought them back still loaded or partially loaded and refused to complete their deliveries.
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@kurtsnyder4752 I'm not sure about all the particulars but the case before the Supreme court was that the NLRB should have jurisdiction and not a state court. My understanding is the case now proceeds in state court.
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@tommak6516 The bosses need the surplus value produced on US soil since anything the buy elsewhere is out of their national control. Because of the boss's hunger for profits and overproduction the need to sell the overproduction in the rest world. The competition for profits in the world market leads first to trade war and the real war. This is because the bosses have no way to sucessfully arbitrate disputes outside of their own nation and certainly not in the world market.
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@B86432 Squeeze the bosses and they will cry uncle. Bosses are sitting fat with profits in the bank. Cut them down to size with a strikes that cuts off the flow of profits. Send them to the food bank and homeless shelter.
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@farmerthatflies Eastern Airlines bosses bit off more than they could chew wanted to operate without the union. In the end they were eaten alive by the other cannibals in the Bosss class. The Eastern Airlines workers had to find other jobs but they put the Boss class on notice that union busing didn't come free of charge. Every strike big or small is a test of forces on the one side are the bosses and their lackeys in the two capitalist parties on the other is a group of workers. How long they can hold out depends on the solidarity the strike can achieve. If the bosses want to cry poverty we say open your books show us were all your money goes. The bosses don't want to be subjected to that kind of scrutiny instead they want to keep as much possible about their financial situation and profits as business secrets.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 Does the soldier also have a right ot life during his enlistment.
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This is really crazy.
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@generalchrome They don't talk about the American Revolution and Civil war because it invites criticism of tyranny and lying bastards like Bush and Clinton.
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@LouieKaboom Here the US BLS stats to show how capitalist have been taking all the increases in productivity starting under the Nixon regime. https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTuo.jpg
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Texas Republicans sending in Military slaves to do work for Texas Democratic Party Oil Billionaires and Republican Golf course owners. No help for victims of natural disasters.
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This from the News Agency that halted the interview with Professor Jeffery Sacs who pointed to Biden as responsible for the crisis and the Nord Stream sabotage.
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@Luke E THis is a "GIVE BIRTH OR DIE" bill and thats what will happen. Women will die of all kinds of treatable pregnancy abnormalities. It is a bill meant to punish women for not having a proper pregnancy with death if need be.
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@codeinecowboy8607 The US maintains a massive network of federal state and local police spies at the ready should struggles against capitalism break out.
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@craigkempton1 This idea that we are promoting a utopia most likely comes from just reading the title "Socialism Utopian and Scientific" and not the content of the pamphlet by Engles. You realize that this is the country where the final battle between labor and capital and were I to just leave for "socialist paradise" given I'm a native born communists that would be considered tantamount to treason. I don't kid myself into thinking I'm the one who will play the major role in the coming American revolution. I may very well likely die before hand. But I do what I can as a propagandist of ideas.
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@craigkempton1 Well when everyone pretends what do you get then? The capitalist don't pretend to pay wages they would like to pay only an hourly or piece rate wage and have you work the longest hours in a pay period and then work out the figures such that you get just enough to come back to work for another pay period. They opposed everything the working class has ever won in the class struggle. What brought down the Stalinist Regimes in the East was Solidarity a movement began by the workers in the Gdansk shipyard not Ronald Reagan who was a one time FBI informant and Imperialist war maker.
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@mismutt88 Well than North Korea must not be all that bad afterall.
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@mismutt88 North Korea has been a victim of US Imperialism not a rival that would take over a dozen sovereign countries.
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@mismutt88 So the US carpet bombing, napalming and massacred refugees was done for freedom of haircuts and to save the unborn? LOL If Stalin didn't have nuclear weapons MacArthur would have been allowed to nuke Chinese cities and create a world wide nuclear winter in the process.
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@mismutt88 You realize a lot of cultures don't use toilet paper either including Japan. The length of mens hair during the cold war determined how patriotic you were also. I stopped wasting my money on "shower in a can" and don't buy bottled water either.
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@mismutt88 How many died in the lastest US Imperialist war in Afghanistan? 100,000 and over a million refugees. According to Republicans now they are now going to spend $200,000 on each of 69,000 refugees invited to come here but your outraged over a country your military destroyed and blockades trying to stave them into submission over haircuts and abortion. Why not just come out and say how your ProLife also. LMAO.
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The Soviets built the first Tokamak. The US and UK could not believe it at first.
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@TheBrianna4555 I suppose no one starved in Ireland while the British had grain shipped to London from Irish docks. You want to criticise Stalin for doing things that were unnecessary fine but if you want to play these games where capitalism entered the world peacefully than you are not a student of history. Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore. The 1840 population of Ireland never recovered until the last quarter of the 20th Century. The Irish potato famine was man made by British landlords and capitalists. The "coffin ships" that took the Irish peasants overseas as indentured servants were insured and the owners collected from insurance policies creating a scandal in Parliament.. The British starved Bengal during the second world war. When Church was told of it he asked, "Why isn't Ghandi dead yet?" Not to mention the Americans and British deciding to back the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion. Or the wars fought with China for the rights of British Mechants to sell opium from their Indian colony.
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@jakeweberzwier8655 She should just honestly talk about how much a supporter of US Imperialism and military intervention she is in favor of. How the capitalist like Bill Gates are doing everyone a favor by becoming billionaires. That the capitalist is not greedy he just like the pictures of Ben Franklin on the $100 bill and having a large collection of them.
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@JohnBoyJoy The union fight for higher wages. The capitalism works based upon creating profits from private property. The source of both the wages and the profits arise from the labor of the production workers. That is why a class struggle breaks out between the workers and the capitalists. The profits represent the surplus value our labor creates. The capitalist are the involuntary promoters of modern industry. Their system enters into a natural crisis when investment shifts from expanding production because of the tendency to overproduce for markets that can't buy back all that can be produced to driving up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses. The profit drive coupled with the national hostilities of the bourgeois class produced both the two Imperialist wars anong with the Russian and Cuban revolutions.
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@jeffbguarino I guess its a waste of time for me to say anything more. Your mind has already been poisoned with American Imperialist propaganda from the defenders of the Empire.
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@nicwelch Property Taxes hit the homeowners harder than business owners. Most people don't use the value of their home to for business purposes like a machine or truck. Sales taxes also hit the buyers of consumer goods hardest. The local state and national debts are ways for those who should be paying taxes to invest in government projects for a guaranteed return paid out of tax money. Originally only the rich and middle income paid income tax as most workers were exempt since wages were so low.
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Lenin never had been in an ordinary workers home. I don't believe that lie for a minute. More likely Sowell's neighbors in Bedford, CA have never lived in a Black or Brown working class neighborhood until they decided to call themselves biracial. The man is too full of himself to understand anything that actually takes place.
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@barahng Stalin had all the major leaders of the October Revolution except Lenin (who died in 1924) murdered including the organizer of the Red Army victory over 14 Imperialist armies Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs Leon Trotsky. The world Communist movement split in 1928. Stalin abolished the Communist International as a favor to the Democratic Imperialist FDR and Churchill during WW2. Stalin revived all the old and rotten theory's of the reformist leaders of the second International. The leadership of Lenin and Trotsky was never a one man band show. That's American thinking where everything is controlled by one man except of course the American government where Trump became a dictator. .
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@msimon6808 You really have not made a single point since you haven't yet show that the world ever reached "communism". We are still in the Imperialist era the highest stage of capitalism. Nevertheless we have had state power somewhere in the world since 1917. The capitalist exploiting classes are divided into nation states but must compete in a world market. They are unable to arbitrate trade disputes outside their national border leading to Imperialist war. Maybe you would like to expalin how you big companies work without central planning? Are we to believe a CEO sits in an office and the business runs automatically by computer without bugs? That the CEO and his subordinates just spend all day playing computer games and looking out the window? Didn't you have a CEO who came close to destroying the company by implementing libertarian competition between all managers with everyone trying to beat each other at making the biggest profits.
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@Lord_Volkner Bosses control government with the two parties.
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@DAVIDMAINORD If Trump builds a wall and increases deportations that will only increase the unproductive costs of government. If h enacts tariffs on food from Mexico plan on paying higher prices at the grocery store.
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@greenbongos Does a clear blue sky prevent a mechanical failure on a small aircraft?
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@laever1804 What's its number so we can look it up?
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@borodel619 So since you were teleported during a dream that makes teleportation possible? Why not watch some old Star Trek episodes for that famous line "Beam Me Up Scotty."
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@isaacgreen9202 I put the Patent numbers and the claims on the Linked In MIT Alumni website and apparently only one person was interested. No one said anything else one way or the other. The government takes out patients to prevent others making the same claims and using the patent laws to earn royalties. Since a government patent requires no royalty payment you are free to build what ever they claim to have built. The patent examiners will routinely reject any claims that are considered scientifically impossible. Like burning water, magnet motors and perpetual motion machines. The patent examiners don't build your machine to see if the clams made are true. If your rejected than you best course of action is to prove your claim with the device you built. So far none of the magnet motors, water burning cars or perpetual motion machines have passed that test.
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@sherrylandgraf556 Hamas was created by the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood who sheltered the war criminal the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an allie of Htlers and organized the 1941 Pogrom of the Jews in Baghdad.
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Give him the Mom bakes Apple Pie by Chevrolet award.
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@eshelly4205 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded in the carpenters union hall. In 1916 in the middle of World War One Lenin wrote "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." The Russian revolution was started by a strike of women textile workers in St Petersburg on International Women's day. Capitalism can not stay out of economic crisis and Imperialist war for profits.
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@Tourian Universities supply the needed brain power for weapons development.
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@norbertk5400 Don't trip on that deportation flag you just wrapped yourself in.
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Who are these people who cry tears for small business? Yep it's those who are running small business like selling Ice cream in Alaska and heavy winter coats in Miami.
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@pbnjeffy1611 Yes there is the Socialist Workers Party.
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@bbb-si8mb Gowdy was the cops boss when he was a DA. He would dare to arrest them for police brutality without political pressure being exerted.
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@chriswharton What point?
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@CHMichael Nothing lasts forever especially when subjected to water and salt. Why fix when its not yours that's the attitude of the bosses and owners of capital when it comes to housing for the working class. Why put in additional investment if you can't raise rents? Why give out raise if they are only going to be taken back with higher rents. The capitalists by virtue of their position in the market try and control all the prices in their favor. Best to let government build housing for workers financed by private loan guarantees than then repairs can be neglected a story of government inefficiency can be told all the while the payments roll in guaranteed by tax dollars. Capitalist "efficiency" in housing finance can be best understood as the result of the crisis of 2008. The "Junk" science of "Nobel Prize" winning economist who all claimed Karl Marx was wrong came crashing down when the derivatives theory failed at producing anything..
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@guidototh6091 Why can''t you define freedom then? It's not the ability to do whatever you please because every country has l laws about what you can and can not do.
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@guidototh6091 What's you lack is a just cause and what you fear most is not me moving to Cuba but the Cuban revolution coming here and taking away all your bourgeois privileges A working class that no longer listens to the contrived theories of the Bourgeois University professors and takes a socialist road by striking out on it own defending it own self interests.
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@guidototh6091 Your idea of free and fair elections are the ones where Fidel Castro would be excluded by name and ballot boxes are watched over by US Marines while US NGO's give a good housekeeping seal of approval. .It was all laid it all out by the US Congress in the "Cuban Democracy Act" You had your free and fair elections and government in Afghanistan. The best politicians money could buy ran away with the dollars after the US Army got out of dodge.
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@TWE_2000 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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You think you need a lot of education to work at Walmart, Amazon and McDonalds. That's where the jobs are today. Fifteen Dollars an hour and a union.
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@123duelist When you have job and your working so many hours you don't have the time not to mention that the homeless are kicked out of libraries. Its increasing difficult to get information from the internet. Capitalism also replaces higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines.
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@ncwordman I keep being censored.
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@itgetter9 They aren't lying thieves like both parties and wall street bankers.
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I'm happy to hear you have jobs and wish you and your families well.
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Clinton would just continue the Obama do nothing program where promise are made but never kept. When I was young and you went down to the Employment Security office they actually had jobs they could send you to and when I say jobs I mean more than one. Now when you down they tell you about computers. "You need to apply online." So you fill out black hole applications and never even get a chance to make your case for why you would be a good worker if they couldn't hire you today. I worked at Sparrows Point, MD that was the highest real wages I ever made along with 15,000 other Steel Workers. Today they have a few night watchmen. The US makes more steel today than ever before of course it's all made in smaller unionless plants paying poverty wages.
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@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. According to you everyone is a "socialist" except the true capitalist like the austrian school and libertarian conservatives. As early as the communist manifesto Marx points to the reactionary and bourgeois socialist along with the German "True Socialist" for what they are. Professor James Burnham was once a Trotskyist communist who became a leader of American Conservatism so that also makes them 'Socialists' using the your traditional "Red baiting" logic.
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@yamchayaku The origin of the profit is the unpaid labor of the production workers. This is why bosses want the quickest pace, longest hours and the lowest wages.
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@Biswarup_d The Dems say we have 500,000 homeless.
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The human species is collectivist by nature. You don't see any libertarians going out in the jungle and living like male orangutans swinging from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit do you?.Each individual is somewhat different do to sexual reproduction, the division of labor and where and when they lived. What distinguishes man from animal is the use of labor to make a life for ourselves and our species. For to enable the creation of all culture Science, Art and even Religion man must first be able to eat drink and have shelter. The change from the animalist life and the primitive communism of the hunter gathers to the agricultural peoples required the creation of a small ruling class to make decisions on how to use the surplus agriculture created and defend it from war by war. They abolished cannibalism and replaced it with slavery. The agricultural peoples created the domestic animals and domestic plants out of the nature itself. One half of the plant food we eat today was created by the Native Americans. So when some says they created a new GMO well you can say that Native peoples created Corn and Potatoes. The problem with the neoliberal theories of private individuals doing the work of the gods in their individual pursuit of profits is that it is completely historically inaccurate. The Internet, GPS and even the moon landing were all developed and paid for with tax money allocated for the cold war with the Soviet Union. With the loss of the monopoly on the atom bomb which itself required a vast government paid for and directed industrial complex money would pore into education, universities and industry like water to gain a first strike capability in an insane arms race right up to Reagan's presidency and the implosion of the Soviet Union.
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@StudyQubic "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." It's as true today as when it was written.
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@Qiellor You can't have a hybrid. That will only allow the capitalist time to regroup and take back any gains you have won. Plus its already been tried with Popular Front governments in the 1930's. Instead of halting the spread of fascism they allowed fascism to breath new life into a capitalism on deaths door.
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@JM-wf2to Like all retail chains they close when corporate looks at return on investment. Its anchor stores in big malls with large entries that take the biggest loses.
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Hasmas is a bourgeois terrorist/state group that has nothing to do with any kind of justice for anyone. Nothing excuses the deliberate murder and rape of civilians.
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@firingallcylinders2949 Well then doesn't the Lord provide? Does he like microwave dinners from Wal Mart.
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@panglilla868 I agree that sanctions are designed to make ordinary people suffer and do nothing to further human rights.
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The problem was setting up a ladder to climb in the first place. What the hell do you need to climb a ladder for? Once Stalin and the bureaucrats began taking privileges for themselves it began the march back to capitaism.
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@Make_America_Native_Again What kind of property did they have and what did the ownership rights did they confer upon the owner?
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@MrSalsa1973 They are driven by the need to make profits which is why their system enters into crisis. The seek to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hour and at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. Capitalism is a world social system of trade and production that capitalist seek to operate in their own interests of both their nations exploiters and the nations with the big foreign investors profits.
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When the hell did "Joe" work? You shut the country down and what do you think working people are suppose to do? No one wants to work for less but the bosses are the ones who raise prices.
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@michaelwythe7522 Anyone who believes that the UK was fighting for anything but King and Country is first class fool. FDR was also fighting for an American Century. The Brits would lose the title of the worlds most powerful Empire to the US.
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@bngr_bngr He's claiming he pulled it by accident.
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@jamesmclean4495 Do you find words to be a threat like most liberals? Or are you a conservative who thinks he liberals are destroying the country. Billionaires pointing fingers at each calling one another Fascists and Communists is about the same political level you have reached. So the solution to the problems in Venezuela is for Trump and NATO allies to elect the Venezuelan president? Why don't you go down to Venezuela and explain how people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are going to save us all by blasting into space and colonizing mars.
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@jamesmclean4495 All we need tp do is respond to capitalist politicians with truth to show what a bunch of idiots they are. Its greed that drives the system and greed will be its downfall. Leave the capitalist in charge and nuclear war will be humanity's fate.
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Well I'd like to know why you think the capitalist would succeed where Mao and Stalin failed? Plus the Taiping rebellion was one of the bloodiest wars in Human history back before the world reached it size in WW1. Marx and Lenin didn't start 1914 World War One that was a brutal Imperialist conflict started by the rich capitalist nations. Three years of war for the Russian peasants and then the revolution lead by women textile workers. The capitalist forces wanted to crush the revolution and then 14 Imperialist nations invade in a civil war until 1921. So after seven years of war they should just automatically become a socialist paradise? Sure the US supported General Chang in the Chinese civil war and he lead a dictatorship on Taiwan.that was overthrown by revolt.
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@millecinematics Do the cops have Xray vision or are they planning to do brain scans?
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@tarajoyce3598 You can't just vote you way out of capitalism. You have to constantly and consistently fight back using the methods of the class struggle voting for the "better boss" doesn't get at the root of the problem.
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@axeblue End the US Blockade.
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@ReflectedMiles If capital could produce on its own than a perpetual motion machine would be possible.
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Just like Trump Reagan was also a one time liberal Democrat and Hillary Clinton a Goldwater Girl. It's a one party two faction capitalist government. Both Parties are controlled and financed by the ruling rich. That way the can say may the best man win because both are in their pockets.
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@earlonaweary9155 Is Trump a Christian or not? I think government should get the hell out of our lives. We don't need to be told when and when we can't have an abortion by a bunch of lawyers with to much time on there hands writing more laws. They should be required to count orange barrels on the Interstates until the roads get fixed.
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@AndyC1 I can see you be trained well in commons sense. Well not really. Maybe you should look into being lawyer the are skilled at working either side for the cash. The life of the women trumps the fetus everyday of the week and twice on Sunday. Why you want to create a regulation nightmare is incomprehensible to me.
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@AndyC1 Like I said we don't need capitalist politicians telling us how to lead our lives. Keep you fat nose out of other people's business. Congress is always having a sex scandal anyway. They vote for all these middle East wars. What gives them some moral status to talk about saving lives? You want to punish women by making them have a baby they don't want. Have you thought about applying for a place in lunatic school. Go ahead and have your own babies if that's what you want. Oh wait your a man and can't have your own. Why not just go and have a sex change operation if you want a baby so bad. I'm sick of hearing about innocent fetus and looking at your bloody post abortion pictures. Send them to Domino's for a free PIZZA.
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@mineben256The new law "The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act" means the capitalist police force will be sent into hospitals and clinics to do frame up arrests of doctors and nurses who attend to pregnant women who are having miscarriages or who tried to self abort. Since abortion is a Class A felony the police SWAT teams will be shooting first and asking questions later at hospitals in the Ronald Reagan western cowboy tradition.
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@mineben256 How liberal of you not to support militarized police is Trump going to make you the next AG so you can demilitarize the police? No your advocating for the control of women's bodies. Women's bodies are special and you want to interfere in women's reproductive rights. Keep you god damn laws off women's bodies. Once that law goes into effect next thing you know all the Doctors and nurses who performed abortions in Alabama will be under police surveillance for frame ups to railroad them into prison with plea deals.
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You've spent years yelling about how abortion is murder. Any who thinks you aren't going to seek "Gods Retributions" upon the Doctors and Nurses with police frame jobs on those that performed abortions has been absent when they gave the history lessons on Alabama lynch law and American lynch law in general.
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@agees924 These two Party male politicians who vote continuously for wars lack the both the credibility and moral standing to be telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies. Pro Life means Pro Death because that's exactly what will happen when young women driven by desperation into the arms of criminals die of unsafe illegal abortions in dirty motel rooms.
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@agees924 A dog and many other animals have exactly the same characteristics, a will to live, can experience pain and has emotion. Are you going to make laws saying pigs, cows and dogs have a Right to Life?
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@mineben256 We weren't the Stalinist faction of the Communist party. We aren't a cheering squad for the Democratic Party either. Our party fought the Smith 'gag' Act at the beginning of WW2. Comrade James Cannon's testimony to the court is printed in "Socialism on Trial". Comrade Jimmy Kutcher fought the Red Scare in the McCarthy era his battle against the VA is in "The Case of the Legless Veteran." We got a Federal Judge to hold the Attorney General of the United States in contempt of court, pay damages of 1/4 million dollars and issue a permanent injunction restraining an open ended investigation of the party in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General.
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@milicadjordjevic4498 Since WW1 the White house has continually been advocating and ordering the murder of real humaning beings and calling that "War for Democracy." Just how can we 'tame men' if we let them push us around on the abortion issue?
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If he doesn't want to sell cakes to gays then maybe he should open a business selling auto parts as long as he doesn't have a problem with women drivers.
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It seems to me he would have to show he is an artist and only his art could produce a cake. He claims that he had to stop his wedding cake business and he had lost half his business and laid off five workers. That seems to point to him being the manager and not the cake maker. He may have started his business before gay marriage but once that became true he should have known that eventually he would end up with this kind of problem.
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Amazon Prime employee thousands of minimum wage sorting workers by using contractors. A strike at the home sorting facility in Louisville, Ky is what will bring higher wages to the Billionaire Jeff Bezos workers.
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Stossel lies that was not Sowell first government job. He had a civil service job in DC before he began attending classes at Howard University. He also received GI bill benefits to pay for school and you won't hear Sowell criticizing Veterans preference for government jobs.
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@FirstKissOnMars They make these people all at the same elite universities and they know only one thing how to hold out their hand for a pay out.
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Liar pants on fire.
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Ya the US use of Agent Orange and carpet bombing was a real benefit to the nation. You don't want to live with yoor own people is what you mean to say. You prefer the luxury that capitalism provided the few,
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@cek0792 I like how you think your opinion of me really matters.
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@cek0792 Most off all I like your ability to go off on a tangent to the original discussion and add an absolute zero to it.
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@lesleyvivien2876 As a neoliberal Sowell's been sitting in a corner with egg on his face and no clear path for capitalism's future.
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@Jace T Hi, Judas were those thirty pieces of silver worth it?
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@chanszenge I'm opposed to capital punishment but unless this guy claims actual innocence which given previous convictions won't have the same creditably that someone not previously convicted would have I don't give him much of a chance for surviving the next 10 days.
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What's Nancy Pelosi doing?
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@joebp91 Right their busy writing up the phoney "Green New Deal".
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@JayBee-se8ou Enjoy riding you cycle and I hope you never need the American medical profession.
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@JayBee-se8ou I love camping we live in our trailer which beats the old folks home hands down.
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Red as in Socialist.
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Here a good way to do that at Marxists.org. After all you need to really study it to know it.
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Does the soldier have a "Right to Life?" Giving a fetus a right to life is completely ridiculous. You have abosultely no way to affect what goes on in a women's body except though medical care. That immediately makes her life more important because she has already had time a social investment made in her. She will be expected to be the primary care giver.
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Boss get bad reputation no one wants to sacb for boss.
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Bosses are the ones who need to sacrifice their record making profits. No buying politicians and using the government as a strike breaking apparatus.
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@lansingdoesbusiness9356 Sowells only connection with Marxism was first his reading about Marxism in the Encyclopedia Britannica. When he was an undergraduate at Harvard he specifically made it a point of NOT talking with Marxists since he wanted to study Das Kapital without every talking with an actual Marxist to avoid be accused of using others ideas. I have yet to find any mention of him belonging or speaking to any political organization besides Republican Party meetings. Our Presidential Candidate Fred Halstead debated Bill Buckley on firing line.
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@qbek_san Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests rather it is the historical movement of one class the proletariat in struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the Capitalist class. It is a history of both victories and defeats in the struggle for a socialist world.
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@qbek_san Have you read it or anything else by an actual Marxist or do you just take the word of Bourgeois Academic Scholars like Sowell?
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@kir8379 Emperor Bush wears no clothes!!!!
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@rogerp566 Obama is just anther bought and sold two party hack.
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@annemartin6237 Kennedy will be looking to see if their are any reds under his bed tonight.
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@locly4692 Give us a break he opened a newspaper which was closed down by the government and was a political exile prevented for even remaining in Europe being forced out of every country until he ended up in England. Like every bourgeois liar you paint the victim as the criminal. More than likely your the one with the parents paying for your every request. Just like Leon Trotsky who was elected chairman of the 1905 Soviet and then imprisoned when the Czar went back on his word.
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@heretodaygonetomaui3567 Pol Pot was a thug not a communist. In fact Socialist Vietnam saved Cambodia from the Pol Pot and the US lead Western Imperialists
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@sunshynff Because I'm tired of "smarts" playing games and not telling the whole truth.
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@sunshynff Thank you for understanding.
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@keanedeas675 No one was ever unjustly executed in Cuba after 1959. The same can not be said for the MADE IN USA General Batista.
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@keanedeas675 Give me a name of just one person who was unjustly executed not a bunch of made up bullshit. Name Please!! Someone who wasn't a torture cop removing eyeballs. Someone who wasn't an armed terrorist or a pirate. Someone who wasn't a corrupt drug dealer.
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@uncleogrimacy No Congressional Strikebreaking.
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@oooshafiqooo And now you have an imperialist war taking place in Central Europe.
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@WayofYahushua Neither Trump nor Biden is not a lessor evil. They both answer to the Billionaire class.
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The couple is also involved by being represented by the ACLU and Masterpiece bakeshop is being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom. This is not just a small case but one with heavy hitters involved. So far the baker has had every appeal heard and every appeal rejected. Plus he was offered a compromise which he rejected.
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@lali3262 Welfare for the disabled and elderly who's SS is to low for survival.
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@chadasonmcgraw Capitalism has its own "built in" contradictions that drive it into depression and then war. The capitalists are divided into competing trading blocs. The blocs come into competition for cheap labor and markets. If the world were infinite than capitalism could continue but in fact it is finite. The workers can not buy back all that we can produce. The decline in the industrial profit rate sends the capitalist into investing in to fictitious capital while cutting real wages and increasing exploitation as ways to shore up profit rates. The crisis of 2008 showed the world that capitalism lacks stability when 1/3 of the world value of capital disappeared. Trump is already playing with the fire of trade war.
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@chadasonmcgraw I guess you never worked in a factory otherwise you'd realize that the workers run and repair the machines necessary to produce all those products. The only role the top capitalists plays is to go to the mailbox to collect the dividend check. With capitalism every new production time savings advancement means a layoff and back to being in the army of the unemployed. While the bosses toast each other for the temporary rise in profits they will see at the expense of their competition.
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pa_2600 Deportation will be another "feel good" move like the war on marijuana was.
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Robert Slackware If I don't have toilet paper I have scrap T shirts as rags that can be washed. The thinking that everyone needs to be a survivalist is just more capitalistic individualistic thinking. Ever social crisis that happens under capitalism can be described as 'Your On Your Own". That's because profits come first and keeping the working people divided is the source of all profits. Your free education ends at 18 any more education you must pay for or be lucky enough to get otherwise your worth minimum wage. Capitalism and the capitalist government needs to go in a socialist revolution not the election of a fake Burnie "Our Revolution" election as President. A Fidel Castro type of revolution where the building human solidarity comes first is what we need. Not the elections of more corrupt two party politicians.
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@Bruno Pereira The one problem for the libertarians is capitalism has never worked according to libertarian principles like a non aggression principle that denies class struggle of any kind is real. Then since capitalism already exists whatever the libertarians propose is only attainable by the reform of capitalism as it already exists. For the librarians the government sands above classes that don't exist and only becomes involved when violence occurs. Since private property is the highest expression of human freedom a small class of capitalist owners always maintains the right to break strikes using the police. The workers may strike but not defend their picket lines since private property demands the right to hire and discipline by starvation without question. According to the libertarian the rights of the property of billionaire capitalists exceeds any number of workers and unemployed should they want to defend their own property from repossession by banks or the company with foreclosure, reposition or eviction orders.
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@cjmacq-vg8um If its headed they way you say then its the US government and Wall street that is responsible and NOT North Korea, Let the South Korean boss pay for their own protection for their corruption.
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@PikachooUpYou Correction accepted.
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@nobledarkmoon Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@bobahop1232 When we lead the Teamster union during the great depression the workers would ask what they could have our response was anything your big enough to take. Our goal is workers control of industry through the abolition of the rights of private property. .
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@bobahop1232 Bourgeois Private Property as defined in the Manifesto is the property used to exploit others. Personal property loses is class character. Also from the manifesto.
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Examples of property being used to exploit other is bank mortgages on homes, private railroads, mills, mines, factories, corporate stock and bonds.
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@bobahop1232 Education should be free and life long along with healthcare. That is already been shown to be both economically doable and necessary by the Cuban revolution. If bosses don't want to hire then the government will and pay workers to build things working people need. We are tired of being told that nothing can be done about unemployment and the homeless, We are going to increase the number of educated working people in economics, medicine and in general to prevent the rise of a privledged educated caste that would bring back capitalism. That's called using education to drive against labor privilege. We are going to have a workers foreign policy also. That means an end to the production of nuclear weapons and retooling the military industrial complex.
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Capitalism is such a system. They need workers who follow orders not workers who can think for themselves.
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@marioc8775 Puerto Rico has no limits on what it can purchase in the US market or world trade laws different than the mainland United States or International Sanctions being imposed by Washington.
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LibertarianGalt No doubt at best an off hand comment or one being misinterpreted by a bourgeois professor who makes a living selling books to those wanting an explanation for the Russian Revolution and the rise of the communist movemnet without doing any of the reading of the documents. If there is a single thing one can say about Lenin is that over and over he denounced Imperialism as capitalism use of war and slavery of other nations to create a few rich criminals. Lenin who called Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism.
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LibertarianGalt If Mussolini had waged war against the Italian king uniting the nation around that goal instead of around the goal of enter the war for a peace of the pie being taken by France, Britain and United States. The Imperialist war had broken out and unlike the "Socialist" in name only leaders of Germany and France they had kept to the promise of not entering the war. Yet the Italians did not use this opportunity to advance against the King and the nobility.
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LibertarianGalt . "They weren't Socialists only in name. Marx wasn't even the first Socialist." Are going to lecture me next on how Christ was a Communist? That comes from the fact that in 1912 the Socialist International announced its parties would not lead the workers into a war with each other. When they did vote for war credits then it was most likely Lenin who began mocking them as Socialist in name only.
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LibertarianGalt I don't really care about Hegel. Many people have had mystical ideas about some things and good ones about others. After all should I reject Jefferson's ideas on Church and State because he still believed in God? Sure belief in God is mystical but does it make a difference 95% or 99% of the time? See that's you problem you think we are on some kind of crusade to create ideological purity.
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LibertarianGalt You guys are the real mystics with your belief in free market magic price signalling and the ability to escape labor value in prices.
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LibertarianGalt Where does the profit come from then?
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LibertarianGalt After all isn't the cost of labor the cost of the laborer to produce his labor for the next pay period.
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@arianGalt Doesn't really answer the question because first if the service is illegal one can't legally buy it and not all business create profits all the time and businesses both compete and cooperate in making profits. The person who owns pays a capital gains tax needs only to own a business not run it so obviously you don'r have to offer a service ayt all just own the business to make a profit. What is the biggest business in the world if not the US Gov't if you buy its Treasury bonds your are guaranteed a profit. They talk endlessly about government but the clearly can't do without government or banks public or private. You have to be able to buy his services and he has to be able to hire people to create them. You can quit and work somewhere else and he can fire you and he can hire someone else. You can go on strike and he can close his shop and open it somewhere else. Of course its easier for you to go on strike than it is for him to just close down an auto factory or electric plant or coal mine or railroad. What if they say they can't make profits and close a bunch of businesses all at once. Who can wait longer for a business recovery you or the businessman?
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@arianGalt If that was true there would be no arrests for corruption since someone is just selling a service others wish to buy. Go into an auto repair shop see if you can buy the service directly from the mechanic. Afterall he provides the service. The joke is go to America everything is for sale. The new immigrant gets off the boat he says I hear everything is for sale they tell him yes would you like to buy the brooklyn bridge or at least part of it?
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Its just the continuing crisis of the Imperialist system.
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@hitardo As soon as the market for the product goes South the bosses say see your later partner its sure been nice knowing you.
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@Shaymuhs It reflects the world wide crisis of capitalist trade and production. This isn't 1776 When Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations. You live in a world interconnected by trade and capitalist production. What happens in one part of the world affects the rest.
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The US President FDR the Democrat wanted war just as Wilson the Democrat did. Both lied about not wanting war. Oil was also part of what began the war with Japan the US refused to sell to Japan. That of course was a decision of the Standard Oil Monopolists despite being broken up into a number of companies. The US was secretly aiding the British sending American Officers who were already fighting with Japan in the Far East.
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@Brent Sevigny It a two party capitalist dictatorship. Where capitalist thieves argue over how cut costs and raise profits fo a new class of the kings of commerce. The American government was founded by two classes one of wealth merchants and the other of wealthy landowning slave holders. The constitution and government was organized to protect them alone above all other classes.
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You don't here this kind of lynch mob talk when the accused is from a wealthy family and the victim is a healthcare CEO. One will get a public defender the other one of the best lawyers money can buy.
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Oh but so called nice White Christians tried claiming a religious exceptions to those public accommodation laws. The court rejected those claims.
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The Democrats wanted an end to reconstruction and the Republicans gave them that in the Hayes Tilden compromise of 1877. While the Democrats created the KKK it was the Republicans that allowed such a force of counterrevolution to be organized. That makes both parties responsible for Jim Crow. The correct thing to do is organize a new party based in the working class along with a new militant labor movement. That is what the Socialist Workers Party wants to do. Go independent of both capitalist parties.
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@C2yourself These kind of statements are all necessary to denigrate a man who would be a nobody had his ideas not influenced so many people.
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@C2yourself Why do i need to read a bunch of insults written by political opponents?
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Well no it didn't just originate with the protests against capitalism at the World Trade organization. But it actual dates back before Lenin wrote, " Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism" with the English author and economist Hobbs in his book on Imperialism detailing how the advanced capitalist countries were exploiting their colonies. Post world war two the Imperialist capitalist nations were no longer in the same military position to impose their will in the colonial world. Just like the end of World War one they found themselves facing revolutions and losing control. .
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@tonygall0 By collecting gold they could better control the value of the dollar. When paper money was issued as gold and silver certificates you could not issue more than the gold and silver you had on deposit in the US Treasury without risking a demand that government would have to fulfill its obligations on the gold and silver certificates or them become a prefered higher value currency over the Federal Reserve notes. Confiscating Gold was the first step in devaluing the dollar by money printing or Government order. .
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@@davegreen7169 Thats youtube correcting my spelling again
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@@davegreen7169 Basically it was the war and the betrayal of the Social Democratic and Stalinist leadership that gave capitalism a new lease on life.
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@edwardst-pierre1020 I think if you were expecting a talk about the civil rights movement you will be disappointed. Instead its a story of Larry and his Dad. An interesting story. Then again the conservative Barry Goldwater 1964 Candidate for President voted against the 1964 Civil Rights act in lock step with the Dixiecrats. Hillary Clinton at the time was a self described Goldwater Girl.
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China and Taiwan businessman operate in China and trade goes on between them.
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@rollyaponte2281 Now that they have their law they can't understand why it would apply? It it didn't apply than why haven't the Governor and attorney General publicly said so?
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@graysonllewellyn8734 The kid came to Congress to get heard by Senators and Congressmen. She was well within her rights to question him publicly he chose not to respond.
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They are constantly caught in telling lies and that's why they get leaked.
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@austinbosh7402 Before WW2 it was called the War department. After WW2 the name had to be changed because the NAZI's had been charged with fighting an aggressive war. So the name "War Department" was politically incorrect and was eventually changed to "Defense department". The US wasn't waging war in Korea it was just a "Police Action" also because waging war was politically incorrect. The tyrannical nature of the US government was exposed after the "The Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI" took documents from the Media, PA sub office. Direct evidence of the FBI as a secret political police force was exposed along with the secret COINTELPRO programs and methods.
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@iloke11 You''l sing a different tune when they show up at your home in the middle of the night.
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Brian Belk We aren't perfect beings and have never claimed to be. Drones are a US gov't weapon along with the invention and use of Napalm, cluster bombs, agent orange and nuclear weapons. Its capitalism that needs terror to defend its oppression. Stalin is nothing more than a Soviet version of a UMWA President Tony Boyle a gangster bureaucrat who managed to grab power using violence. The 1936 to 1938 Moscow Trials were directed against loyal communists not capitalists since they had no property by 1936 and the civil war was finished by 1922. The US used heavy bombers during Korea and Vietnam once again the real terrorist sits in DC. No Soviet or Chinese heavy bombers were used in Cuba, Vietnam or Korea. The US also used repainted with Cuban insignia Alabama National Guard bombers to attack Cuba just before Giron. The US publicly threaten nuclear war over Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. The US needlessly used Atomic weapons on Japanese cities just so Truman could hint to Stalin what he could expect after the honeymoon was over.
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@lukebruce5234 Kennedy lost Cuba so naturally he was looking for a way to get something he lost back. Same with Nixon. He and Kissinger hoped to get something back for their defeat in Vietnam. This is why Kissinger went on jet diplomacy with Real Politik off to Moscow and Peking. Its like losing something you won on the picket line because the bosses hope to cut loses with pillow talk. It was completely disgusting to watch Nixon toast Mao and Brezhnev while he ordered the carpet bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong harbor.
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Steven G Well you certainly spent a lot time pointing fingers over "Who lost China." Who gave General Batista the green light to cancel the 1952 Cuban elections? Was that Ike or Truman and what difference does that make when both ruling parties are controlled by the ruling rich.
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@highlander918 Actually capitalism is destroying itself with wars and depressions. Now US Imperialism was saved by geography and came out stronger after WW1 and WW2 . The rocket like the German capitalists first V2 gave birth to the ICBM and the US mainland will not be saved in any new world war. This is why the US capitalist have such interest in a missile defense shield at least since Reagan was President and Trump is setting up a Space Force. The availability of cheap SAM's upsets the air superiority capabilities of the US Air Force.
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@highlander918 Unlike the libertarian utopia mindset capitalism did not enter the world with a non aggression principle. It came in dripping in the blood of civil wars in Europe and America. If you actually read the few pages of the Communist Manifesto you'd realize Marx gave capitalism credit for creating among other things a world market and destroying feudalism. The capitalist needed a working class so in Europe enclosure laws were passed to throw peasant serfs off the land to create a working class that owned nothing but its labor to sell to the highest bidder. In America the working class has always had an immigrant component. Higher wages were paid in the Eastern cities to slow the movement to the American West. "The communist regime you idolize set off the largest thermonuclear detonation ever recorded." Did 100's of thousands die in that detonations like the US detonations in Hiroshima or Nagasaki? American capitalism lacks any moral defense. You want to call yourself a primitive being as a defense? Well those are your words not mine.
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@highlander918 The American capitalist are blinded by the glitter of gold for them profit making is the most important of all human activities. The only lesson the American capitalist have learned if any is that you can no longer send in the US Marines and expect unwavering support at home. Trump said he wanted to be president of the US only. Okay so why doesn't he match his words with deeds like closing the 800 foreign military bases? The US, China and Russia are all capitalist countries now so why can't they agree to destroy all those weapons with the US and Russia going first since they way out number all the other countries. When the US doesn't like another countries leaders it tries to starve the country into submission with sanctions. This is also something that must end. The continual drum beat of war comes from an Empire in New York and Military command Washington. Since the politically correct name change of the War department to the Defense Department time after time the American people have been lied to about immanent invasions from Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba just to name a few countries where the US Invaded them. Saddam Hussein was another Hitler who had to be stopped at all costs. It took six years for the defeat of Hitler at the cost of 20 million Soviet Lives and just six weeks by the US Imperialist and there puppets to defeat Hussein. After which Bush demobilized the Iraqi army telling them the usual capitalist insult "to get a job in a free market" Well guess who was hiring? More terrorist of course.
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Brian Belk Japan was on its last legs as its Navy was defeated while as a collection of Islands cut off from any further natural resources (Oil) necessary to wage any further war.
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Brian Belk If we are talking about people who "drone" on about communism without even reading the communist manifesto than just maybe you are one of those who requires spoon feeding from capitalist professors who have all the answers.
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Capitalist production world wide has about one crisis of recession or depression every decade since the late 18th century panics as the were called then. Marx says these are crisis' of over production. The ability to produce more than what can be sold as a profit. Lenin and the left wing of the Social Democracy correctly saw capitalist competition for markets and colonies as the true cause of World War one and not a "War for Democracy" being fought by Russian, French, British, Italian and the Johnny come lately US Empires.
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Brian Belk My "professors" Lenin and Trotsky lead the Oct Bolshevik revolution along with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara they lead Cuban revolutions. I was part of an anti war movement that kicked Uncle Sams ass out of Vietnam. We circulated petitions to Free Nelson Mandela. I knew Cesar Chavez personally since I worked on the successful lettuce boycott. I helped free The Cuban Five. We successful sued the US Attorney General in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General. A 1/4 million in damages along with a permanent injunction ending the FBI spy activates. I was also a Westinghouse striker. I got the biggest raise of my life time of almost a $1.00 an hour after that successful strike. We stand with plan parenthood against the anti abortion proto fascists. We put a million Pro Choice protesters in the streets of DC. We will be out their protesting capitalist police torture and murder. Give the cops life in prison.
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Brian Belk No I haven't held bourgeois government positions of power. How about you? As if your politicians are responsible for anything other than protection of the profit system.
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Brian Belk Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter should have one of those Pol Pot posters for you. He supplied Pol Pot via the Royal Dictatorship of Thiland and along with the UK voted for Pol Pot keeping his seat at the UN. Next time you see Carter at a Habitat for Humanity gig look for the pile of skulls next to him.
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Brian Belk "...Good ideas don't need terrorism to spread... " Why don't you go tell that to the CIA whose agents Luis Posada and Orlando Bosch bombed the civilian Cubana flight 455 killing all 73 aboard. The Chicago cops who as judge jury and executioners assassinated Fred Hampton with the FBI's permission and assistance.
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Brian Belk What exactly are you accusing me of? I didn't order the carpet bombing of Vietnam. The cops shot me in the back with a tear gas cylinder. They had no right to do that. I had to be helped to the infirmary where I pissed blood waiting for an ambulance to Cambridge City hospital. I was on my own campus MIT had not asked for the Cambridge Rioting Police. The cops then rioted beating anyone they saw. They unsuccessfully tried to break into the west campus dorms including the women's dorm.
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Brian Belk Your the ones who can't justify all the misery you cause with your Big Profit Low Wage policies. Your beginning to fear the working class. This is behind the rising fear of socialism in the United States. You always want to chose our leaders. Which why Carter chose Pol Pot over Socialist Vietnam. Unlike the story professor Peterson tells the Moscow trials were exposed as Frame Up trials by the Dewey Commission as they happened in 1936 to 1938 BEFORE WW2. The Democratic Imperialist US/UK needed Stalin and the Soviet Union to defeat their capitalist rival NAZI Germany. See this US Propaganda movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrKDBFJoo2w Make sure to read the very beginning about out "allies freedom". Then watch for at least a few minutes so you can read the complements by all the top US Generals and the Secretary of War of the Soviet War effort.
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Brian Belk I have never voted for a Democrat or Republican. If you vote for them than they are you government so man up and take responsible for their actions.
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Brian Belk If libertarians and capitalist in general wanted responsibility you wouldn't be hiding behind limited liability corporations. Your idea of help is abolishing our social wages like social security, making our trade unions illegal and setting up some church sponsored soup kitchens and winter coat drives while you parasites enjoy unlimited vacations. Your Empire is the biggest threat, cause and supporter of wars. There is no real ideological difference between Christianity and Islam. You just can't get away with the Salem witch trials, the Spanish Inquisition, execution by stoning, and burning witches at the stake. One only needs to read the read the Christian bible to find that the lord has no problem committing war crimes, atrocities such as ripping open pregnant women and dashing infants to because Samara lost its faith.
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Brian Belk We always opposed censorship as seen in our latest wining battle with the State of Florida Department of Corrections attempts to prevent prisoners from reading our paper TheMilitant.com Despite conservative bull shit attempts to smear us as Democratic Party liberals or Bernie Bros we are neither. We've run a Presidential candidate in every election since 1948. That's why I have chosen the avatar I have and not a donkey. Your government supports reactionary Islam in Saudi Arabia because Trump says "We need the jobs". Actually the capitalist need the profits the don't give two shits about jobs.
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Brian Belk American capitalism is already a corrupt and oppressive system. Stalin and Mao are dead and where they once governed through corruption has returned to your kind of corruption in a capitalist private property system. Keeping the doors of free speech and discussions open as wide as possible prepares the political clarity needed to move the struggle forward. A police torture murder over a twenty dollar bill by one of your Blue Gang Thugs smiling for the camera resulted in massive non violent protests. The US President and his Attorney General want it beaten of the streets because unlike the looting it requires a political response. Looting although more expensive than a twenty dollar bill can be dismissed as criminal destruction of property while mass protest can not be ignored. The building of a massive disciplined working class movement is the way to prepare for the victory of socialism. The way to win justice for George Floyd and all the victims of this rotting system is with mass protest in the streets. A President ordering the tear gassing of protesters so he can have a bible photo op in front of a Church is little more than the usual "Strongman" Propaganda approach like General Batista, Papa 'Doc" Duvalier, Rafael Trujillo or Augusto Pinochet.
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@highlander918 Soup is something eaten for lunch.
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@highlander918 Most of you know nothing about my ideology because you rely on what someone else has said on communism and those who have actually have read something have had no real political experience with us. Capitalism requires a strong centralized state. The capitalists are grouped in a classes based on these states. They compete in a world market. For them to keep system going they must continually reinvest the profit in new machinery or new production to keep the cost of production below the sale price. Now if markets were infinite they could keep this process going ad infinitum. The rate of return on investment also falls because the new machinery increases the capital investment but because less labor is used the ability to profit form labor falls. The bring in the new machinery to cut labor time but it also has that negative effect. They then move investment into financial schemes which produces "bubbles" where paper values are over valued and collapse. Another problem revolves around banking capital. Banks continual lend out depositors money for a return of more money. The borrower buys with his borrowed money something from a producer who either buys more items or deposits that money back into the bank to be lend out again. If the bank which always lends out money on the premise getting more back becomes to successful they end up with all the money and no one else can buy anything with banks becoming to cautious because of past losses created because borrowers could pay back their loans.
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@highlander918 Your "way of life" whatever that's suppose to mean because there are two clear ways of life in the us one is to work for your living and the other is to own and profit for a living. Just as you don't care about individual workers we don't care about individual capitalists. If you go bankrupt, lose money in the stock market, are driven out of business by other more "efficient" capitalists why should we care? If we win in the elections a mandate for socialism we will make it a socialist country with or without your permission. If you try to shut down the elections like General Batista or try to organize a capitalist revolt like the southern slaveholders we will crush you with force of arms. Simple as that. It is a battle of ideas and in the end we will win that battle as the class struggle continues.
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Brian Belk Did you go out protesting when that man was murdered by the police in Oct 2019 or did you just sit back? Do you want to include the police as infiltrators or do you just want to blame unknown leftist? Police agents in the past engaged in disruption of anti war demonstrations throwing projectiles to enable police attacks. We sued the US Attorney General and won a 1/4 Dollars in damages in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General and permanent injunction against FBI spying and disruption.
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Brian Belk I never said or told anyone to 'Burn down the country". That's a lie and slander promoted for a justification of police assaults. Its common knowledge that Trump had those non violent protesters in front of the White House attacked and teargassed so he could pose with a bible across the street. His actions have been denounced by former US Military Generals. Hardly a bunch of radical leftists.
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@highlander918 When Eugene Debs went to Prison for his antiwar speech he got over a million votes as the Socialist Candidate for President. When 18 members and leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party went to prison for the opposition to the 2nd World Imperialist slaughter we turned the trial into a book of testimony called 'Socialism on Trial" the Jury convicted urging leniency. We have had our bookstores bombed and bullets fried through the windows and a comrade killed by a right wing thug with a pistol in a bookstore. I've worked with electricity since I was 12 worked with live wires and dead wires, watch red hot steel go up in the air and come down like ribbon candy, I've climbed utility poles, used cranes and been up in buckets. Now do you really expect me to be frightened by a writer who calls himself soup?
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@highlander918 You can buy that book "Socialism on Trial" at PathfinderPress.com or read a free version online at marxists.org That's assuming you don't get to scared of "evil ideology".
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@highlander918 Supposedly this was said by JFK after he lost to Fidel Castro. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossibly make violent revolution inevitable." The US Generals understand this since they know the history of people like the Shah of Iran, the last Russian CZAR and other tyrants. Using the military to put down domestic protests is a last and not a first option. It doesn't go well if the military fraternizes with the protesters.
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@deborahdean8867 Fidel Castro never had a problem creating enough educated people.
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@deborahdean8867 This idea that only capitalism with its privileges can create the educated people to administer, invent, and build is nonsense. Cuba has 10.000 foreign students studying medicene at no direct cost to the student at the Latin American School of Medicene.
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tommy 2tone Communism s a movement NOT a country. Capitalism is what you have in the US the rulers are Wall Street Bankers and Bosses who are on a constant drive to maximize Profits. That is what the two parties are about. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and these Wall Street Profiteers are why Production is moved out of the country and since 1973 have been a net importer. You live in the center of a world capitalist Empire that is in natural decline as worst aspects of capitalism become glaring to everyone. Its problems can not be fixed only the working people taking control of society can change what is happening.
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@stevethecountrycook1227 I love it when you sweet talk me like that.
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Nothing more than anti communist trash talk.
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@Kitkat23670 In Cuba state workers pay no taxes. Income taxes are only collected from independent professions and small business.
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Right lets all move into chairs like politicians and reporters and see how that kind of economy works. Will call it a sit down strike.
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@funkymunky7935 What's like being a monk?
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@proudboricua6102 The only difference between the two parties is one of appearance not substance. Senator Kamala Harris is an excellent example of why you can't trust the cops.
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@dutchpuke1633 Actually if you read Marx he credits the Paris commune with setting up an elected government of legislative executive and judicial with universal suffrage and Democratic recall at any time along with no pay higher than that of the skilled workmen.
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@stevang4720 Repeal the Railway "slave" Labor Act. No strikebreaking by Congress or the President.
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@stevang4720 If bosses could just raise prices they wouldn't fight against wage increases or cuts weekly hours. Bosses seek to maximize profits. That;s why the want the most work in longest hours at the lowest pay.
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@pawel5280 The only thing really true is it originated in Wuhan province. To say it was a deliberate act is ridiculous. Chinese capitalist lose money if they shut down. All the mainland bosses are connected to the CCP. So by closing shop they create a crisis. Do you think they want make themselves the target of the working peoples rage? Naturally they cook up a story of America being at fault. Trump helps them by his blaming the whole thing on China. Each side wants to blame the other. Congressmen knew since they are now embroiled in an insider trading scandal involving the virus. Their defense? Everyone knew. Either way they knew and sat on their hands being concerned about an impeachment which had zero chance of success.
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Destiny tran Naturally US Imperialism with it 800 military bases is in charge of allied militarily controlled Puppet states who all sign agreements. You being ripped off provides me a chance for a few good laughs. Did you overpay for bad Japanese air bags? US bosses who run a capitalist protection racket get help form puppets who need help being thieves in their own countries. US Troops stand guard against ouster of capitalist thieves. US Troops are well trained in gun control. Busting down doors shouting, "Get on the ground" like American Policeman shooting first and asking questions later.
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Destiny tran Look as long as everything goes smoothly elections can provide enough greed control to keep a certain stability in the rich capitalist countries. Just in case a certain number of soldiers are kept in reverse if instability should create some small crisis. The problem with advanced capitalism is it has problems in the world market that can't be solved in nation states under the control of small capitalist ruling classes.
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@paulsheppard1108 The bosses only want to innovate if they can cut labor costs to drive profits in their direction.
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@Lets-ROLL-93 Big companies get what they want because the boss parties serve them.If the government bureaucrat puts up a fuss that's the end of the gravy train promotion system and lobbyist contacts Congressmen to complain about regulations and red tape. They all scream in chorus about the need to make profits.
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@yourztruly8255 What purpose does the Bouglois serve comrade?
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@oldmadenewcreations Can I demand you give me blood or a kidney so my life can be saved?
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@mikestahlman8225 Alliance Defending Freedom gets donations from Billionaires. LMAO
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@rodman9794 If they wanted to fight for Democracy they could have waged war on Alabama and Mississippi.
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Black-pill-rising. We have rights because we fought for them no god ever gave any man a right. Only a fool believes god gives rights and the biggest of fools believe Bill Gates, Donald Trump, George Soros and Mike Bloomberg are working to create free speech. Capitalism only needs free trade not free speech.
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Black-pill-rising. Stalin had thousands of communists murdered in the Soviet Union and 100's in Spain along with Trotsky assassinated in Mexico. That all began to reverse with the Cuban revolution. The counterfeit communists of Stalin's movement have basically collapsed. The battle with the Stalinist was a long one and we still haven't seen the last of them but neither have the Social Democratic traitors of the 2nd Socialist International completely disappeared either.
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Black-pill-rising. If everything was as simple as that how do you explain the Stalin and Hitler regimes. Hitler never touched private property he was supported by the big businessmen. He praised Henry Ford and reprinted Ford's "The International Jew". Other men can take you life as evidenced by the death of Christ on the Cross.
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Black-pill-rising. Antisemitism is a tool of reaction. Throughout history Jews have probable been one of the most persecuted groups. The American ruling capitalist class is overwhelmingly white and Christian. By private property you mean bourgeois property the property used to exploit others. Over history the type of property changes dependent on the way society is organized. The American Indian people did not have ithe idea of private property rather property was used in common. The Indians did not have banks mortgages or rents of tee pees and houses. They not create modern industries. So they had no factories or railroads for ownership by joint stock companies. Instead they practiced hunting, fishing and subsistence agriculture. They had no concepts of land or nations with fixed boundaries. The nation state with boundaries is also a product of social organization. Europe only became divided into nation states after the fall of the Roman Empire and the ending of the power of feudal kings and the rise of capitalism.
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@tHebUm18 That's been true since about 1973 but the long retreat by labor has come to an end and the bosses are now facing class struggle. The two party system that was so effective at containing protest is broken opening the road to building a class party of labor without the bosses.
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@trex19681 Notice that none of Che's victim's have names. Apparently you could be a mass murderer after the Cuban revolution with the world press observing and murder people without anyone knowing who they were. LMAO.
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We need to join unions and begin a fight back against the bosses.
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So you're a boss who collects the taxes?
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@terminsane If that was true the bosses would just raise prices so they could charge you $100 for a hamburger today instead of tomorrow. Why should the rich have all their private property to begin with?
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@yodaguy6956 LOL Like the bosses never passed the Taft Hartley Act requiring unions certify themselves to be free of "Communist Party" members.
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@TheRisky9 Insurance companies are an example of finance capitalism like the banks. They were formed by the need to spread risk across the ownership class.
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Maybe its because he has nothing of consugence to offer blacks or workers. He sings the praises of the bosses and you wonder why we shut of the record player.
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Just more American capitalist propaganda. Hitler's support came from the pauperized middle class small businessman and professional. The failure of the Stalinist and Social Democrats to close ranks and take political power allowed Hitler to establish his capitalist fascist dictatorship.
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@DefaultFlame If you want a relationship you need to have them otherwise you will have a self fulling prophesy. Tell her your not promising white picket fence, life in the suburbs and life near hear mother. That way you won't need to get divorced why the next layoffs hit. Tell her you can give her what capitalism promises which is nothing. .
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Building the Trade Unions and a new labor party independent of the bosses is the way forward. A fight for workers control of industry leads to socialism not electing Democratic Party "woke boss" candidates. Socialism comes out of a class struggle movement of the working class not bourgeois college students raising their hands for Joe Biden.
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@tickle.yabooty1409 Marx Engels Lenin Trotsky Fidel Che Yes Stalin and Mao No.
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This is like 9/11 in that Israel had supported the terrorist over the PLO. Just as the US supported the terrorist in Afghanistan in opposition to the Soviets. Will Israel do like Bush?
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"....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution.
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@stephanlukas8623 The need to d grow and go green is going to be used as an excuse for crazy policies that have no connection to what working people need and the generalized crisis of world capitalism. Neither party can accomplish anything because it always revolves around begging for capitalist reform of regulations or doing nothing in the hopes of a magic free market going into action. Trump who made appeals to the working class was immediately demonized as a scoundrel.
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Sure your name wasn't Harry Bennett the ex Boxer Henry Ford hired for his "Ford Service Department". He enforced Ford's no talking at work policy.
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My guess is the bosses were playing hardball and bit off more than they could chew and provoked the strike after refusing to sign a new contract.
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Right no one should ever question the authority of government officials in the US to tell us what to do. After all we have the best government money can buy.
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The crisis of 2008 took the wind out of capitalism sails.
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I'm surprised they still answer the phone.
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@davemalone4421 A lot of people would like to know what role FBI confidential informers played. The FBI is well know for Engineering Frame Jobs and other secret police political disruption tactics.
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@chrischri6143 The Republicans like to talk about opportunity in the abstract but really they want everything for themselves and Wall street. It's just that the Democrats are smart enough to know you have to appear to be giving out opportunities and choose those who will support the capitalist system.
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@vermintky "The greatest show on earth." Capitalism has been a destructive force in the world since it entered its highest stage Imperialism and descended into world war 1 in 1914.
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@night6724 Hitler built a movement of political thugs based in a demoralized middle class suffering under the impact of Germany's defeat, war veterans and criminals. The capitalist turned to him with the fear of a coming socialist revolution being unstoppable. He would of course extract a heavy price for services rendered. But his promises of a Greater Germany. a thousand year Reich and a role for the national socialist employer was the much more attractive of the three alternatives.
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What's really going on here is the right of a for profit corp. being able to claim to have a religion outside of the exception for those companies involved in core religious activity only. Phillips pretends to be a worker when really he's a boss. This is a way to win sympathy for his attack on public accommodation rights.
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if you are homeless in America it's because in America you're on your own. There is little to no planning before hurricanes because that would be expensive and require organization so once again you're on your own. They come on TV and tell people to evacuate now but they have no plan as to how people living in a big city can evacuate. So everyone poor and rich alike try to leave in a state of gridlock where vehicles can't leave because there blocking each other's path. Nursing home patients across the street from a hospital die due to loss of electricity. The reason things like this happen is because you are on your own and the biggest threat is that hungry people without the normal resources will break into stores for water and food. So they send in the National Guard and who hand out two meals and four bottles of water. They real purpose of the guard is to prevent 'looting' by hungry people who live in the cities and are always left behind from capitalist prosperity.
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Chinese communist government? Don't you really mean to say Chinese Communist (Revisionist) Party running the government for Chinese capitalists with their stock market? The only difference between your party and the Swedish Social Democrats is you have more revisionists in your Party because China is a bigger country. When someone tells me that China is a Communist country with a Communist Party running it I have to try and keep from laughing. Lenin defined Imperialism as a capitalism with a capitalist class having the ability to export capital. This makes the New China an Imperialist nation since the Chinese capitalists are investing around the world. We oppose any Imperialist military adventures from the United States including war with China but now that you have a capitalist class with a Communist (Revisionist) Party government. A Communist government in name only you must oppose you own ruling class and any military adventures if you are a real communist and not a communist in name only.
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Sowell is just another mouthpiece for big business. That's why he sits in the Milton Friedman chair. Maximize profits and shareholder value.
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Intellectuals wring books of self criticism. As Marx once said turn the arm of criticism into the criticism of arms. Let the intelectual criticise the intelectual to show the flaws of the intelectuals.
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The constitution does not expressly forbid non citizens form voting. In fact non citizens have only been prohibited from voting since he end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
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@richardfreeman8458 If you have money you go to the head of the immigration line in the US. Foreign investors get to make the same decisions about our lives that American bosses do but I'm suppose to worry about someone who came here to work getting a vote. I don't think so. The real threat to our lives in America is the capitalist bosses and their government not foreign born workers. Voting for the bosses two parties isn't going to accomplish anything to begin with. Its just another attack by the bosses on us and our rights.
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@richardfreeman8458 You have corruption because you have capitalism. The goal of every capitalist is accumulation of capital at the greatest return on investment. Income produced by investment is the promise of a free lunch and like they say there is no such thing as a free lunch. Capitalist compete in a national markets which are controlled by the nation state capitalist classes in Europe, America and Japan. Within theses nation states the capitalists can settle their disputes with each other using a court system. On the world scale they are incapable of doing that. Instead their market competition for profits drives them into Imperialist war. The working class has no specific country. We are paid by the hour and spend our wages to live no matter where we live. We are the productive class of people who don't get a free lunch.
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@richardfreeman8458 Don't you think its rather late in the game to say well you're against interfering in other countries when the US did that to the rest of the world for over one hundred years especially to Latin America. The US invaded every Latin American country at least once in the 20th century not including the dictators empowered and the 60 trade blockade of Cuba. Now you unhappy because of what? People mostly descended of Native Americans living in countries heavily influenced by the United States for 100 years or more (The Monroe Doctrine) are coming north?
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If and when there is another another economic slow down the workers should not except a single effort without a fight to lower wages whatsoever. This is one of the things workers are fighting for on the picket line. To get back what GM stole from them when the bosses were crying bankruptcy. These bankruptcy are staged events by the bosses so they can cut wages and reopen without out the union elsewhere.
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Sowell forgets the biggest crimes of the twenty century were the two world wars waged for the defense of the capitalist nations Empires.
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@zippydooda People like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk aren't interested in raising anyone in the world out of poverty their interested in making themselves rich and taking carnaval ides into space. They talk about colonizing other planers while destroying this one. They are concerned with one thing only grabbing as much as possible for themselves like the rest of the capitalist class.
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@0r30-d2c All anyone in my youth needed to do is criticise a sacred cow of American Imperialism (the Vietnam war) and your going to be in for trouble. You didn't raise anybody without handouts either because even Bill Gates or other Billionaires with kids use public roads paid for with tax money. What your saying is you'd prefer the old British system of letting the evicted Irish peasants die by the side of the road of starvation than encourage poverty by letting them eat grain being shipped out of Ireland or keep farming land at a loss for the landlords because of the tax system. Sure don't encourage poverty have capitalist private property system that uses a pirah class of impoverished unemployed criminals for life to keep wages down and the stock market booming. They close down whole industries and move plants and work around the globe but the capitalist system doesn't encourage poverty but handout do?
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Who says that besides the religious. Is that the best he can do criticise those who believe in the second coming of Christ producing a heaven on earth?
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Trump needs to return to the negotiations without preconditions or so called gestures.
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Right you need more Blacks like Sowell praising Mayor Daily's "shoot to kill orders" to the cops.
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@gregblackburn4280 A fetus is NOT a baby. It doesn't breath, drink or eat on its own. It's part of the womens body until birth. Do you plan on investigating every miscarriage as a possible abortion?
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You aren't protecting life by interfering in medical decisions. A fetus is a special case. Why do you want lawyers and judges to make decisions about medicine?
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@opulentpieyoga9079 Theses are the theories of Medical Expert's who haven't yet learned how to use a band aid.
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@WarmongerYT All you need to do is explain how you write a law that guarantees birth control methods always work and how a Doctor can be sure they aren't giving a patient an illegal abortion? They use to hold court hearings to decide if a women could have an abortion is that what you want?
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@opulentpieyoga9079 Its late and I've spent to much time making and replying to comments.
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@poetmaggie1 Picking out facts seldom explains anything rather trends and directions are almost always more important. A fact by itself means nothing without you comparing it to something. Petersen is easily overwhelmed and confused about everything so he starts throwing around facts as if they in themselves prove whatever he is trying to say.
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Sowell picks the facts and then chooses the reasons. Like his circular reasoning used to make himself look smart. Blank is for Blank. You then fill in the Blank.
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@mikewalters3048 The Bosses want skilled immigrants to save on educational costs. That's why one out of three new MD's is an immigrant. Education like healthcare is an overhead cost for the bosses who want to pay the lowest wages for the longest hours at the fastest pace. Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor and machines first. This has the natural tendency to push down wages to just the social minimum needed to sustain the laborer till the next pay period.
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@thomasemcdonald1 I figured you already made the case against the Republican half but yes I agree. I too hate the whole establishment (Capitalist System). http://www.pathfinderpress.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.134/.f
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@annacolleen wesson etters If you knew history than you'd know that the Black rights movement of the 20th century was also about equal pay for equal work that the capitalist denied to black workers. Their were no cotton plantations with slaves in the 20th century either. Democrats wrote Jim Crow laws and Republican Supreme Courts found them constitutional. Republicans betrayed Blacks starting with the Hayes Tilden compromise which green lighted KKK terror in the Southern States that would spread up south to the Canadian border.
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@harshitmadan6449 Capitalism has created a sea of refugees swimming towards the Imperialist mother countries. The US VOA told everyone about capitalist superiority. Now they wish they had kept they had kept their mouths shut.
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@harshitmadan6449 if America capitalism wanted workers who think they would have never allowed the decline of the school system to a mere bell ringing and metal detector learning opportunity. What they want is people who can be bossed around by a ruling class of educated idiots trained at the Poison Ivy league Universities. You want a reversal of almost suffrage suffrage back to one where only big property owners count just as you propose. We are bad for not following in lockstep behind Her Majesty Hillary Clinton the First. An example of a figurehead type of democracy.
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@harshitmadan6449 Better the tyranny of the working class majority than the tyranny of the capitalist class minority.
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@rosaliethomson4655 Right Social Democrats are Socialist in name only supporters of Democratic Imperialism and capitalism. Social security payments are limited to wages or salary and the have a top limit despite pay into. Protest the Democratic Imperialist Party you support the wars that kill the young workers in uniform. Protest the lies you Democrats tell. Protest the Traitor Sanders who votes for war. .
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@andrewreynolds912 I think Musk and the billionaires should get on a spaceship and head for Mars.
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@上原恵太郎 Marx began by just pointing at the problems that capitalism has the fact that the capitalist can't fix their problems with their state power isn't Marx's fault.
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@Happiness1876 Bosses know the law will no be enforced against them. Its only meant to stop the fight for higher wages by all workers. Divide and conquer is the Boss Desantis plan.
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@comentedonakeyboard We publish a newspaper going back to 1928 that is available on line along with books at Pathfinder Press. Our Party the Socialist Workers Party has run candidates for office since 1948. I don't answer personal questions about my location. .
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@comentedonakeyboard I'm sure if you search The Militant online for 1953 you can read about the uprising in East Germany.
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@juanleon5431 The problem is this the leader of the US labor movement for a long time were in bed with the bosses protectionism that is why MAGA got so many people like Coal miners Autoworkers and Steel Workers behind Trump. Trump unlike Hitler is NOT leading a fascists movement. A fascist movement makes political gangsterism its chief political activity not winning electoral contests. .As Karl Marx explained Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests.
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@fivosdebrito Guaido was nominated by Mike Pence and elected by TRUMP, NATO leaders and other US puppets.
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@hollyyates554 Class struggle is the way forward. Build unions at Amazon and WalMart.
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Pol Pot armed and supported by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter.
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If you think revolutions can be manufactured than you actually understand nothing about the class struggle.
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Vox Daze Redbaiter's Inc see a communist conspiracy behind any protest of capitalist injustice. LOL
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@Dalonghair By inflation that's how. The use to give out wage cuts but they were to unpopular so the created the Federal Reserve bank to manage bank and Industrial profit making. This way the can blame the unions for inflation while walking away with bigger profits. From 1840 to 1932 a ten dollar gold coin was worth $10. What's it worth today? Maybe $750?
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This started at National Campgrounds with the pandemic, the excuse that no one could interact, giving everything over to contractors and advance internet reservation.
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@aburden8580 We don't need to wait for perfectionists and a real socialist movement can inspire millions to join the fight back against imperialism and capitalism both here and around the world. We need to be thinking of ourselves as the real makers and doers in human history. The people who actually make a difference not a bunch of bean counting capitalist jerks. .
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@AwkballOddward You got that right. Intangible meaning non existent. Just how many dollars did Putin contribute to the Trump campaign? An intangable amount like ZERO.
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You may be an accountant but you don't understand economics. All you understand is mathematics as used by the capitalist class because if you actually understood economics you'd have to explain how the capitalist are going to get out of the problem of the natural tendency of profits to decline. You need to explain how the profit system can escape its own demise.
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@karinaiglesias4337 End the blockade!! Support Carlos Lazo Puentes de Amor!!
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@karinaiglesias4337 Throw around a political swear word like totalitarian that has become all but meaningless originally meant to refer the to Hitler and Stalin regimes. Cuba never went though a Stalinist counter revolution nor was it hobbled by a Stalinist communist party like China and Yugoslavia. Fidel Castro lead the 26 th of July movement that made the revolution only becoming a socialist revolution after the initial victory over the US sponsored Dictator Batista. If Cuba is a dictatorship than so is the US.
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@karinaiglesias4337 Look my understanding is their is no limitation on library books from capitalist culture in Cuba. All the noble prize winners in economics have been able to say is little more than the profit is justified, Karl Marx is wrong and capital actually produces something. They had all kinds of people with Physics and Math degrees from MIT working at those big banks creating derivatives form repackage loans and mortgages that came close to sinking the whole world economy in 2008. I read the book and Che quite frankly admits we are still infants in this area. Their are plenty of problems with capitalism that make it an unstable system besides the vast inequality in income and wealth. I heard this idea also that you can just start fresh and ignore the past without making the same mistakes of the past. The capitalists, libertarians and even the Church all plan things centrally in their organizations plus the have more laws, rules, and regulations in the US than you can shake a stick at. So anyone who tells you they've got a magic fix doesn't know what they are talking about. Here they have to write greed control regulations so a big companies don't throw toxic waste into the river because its cheaper to throw it away that way. In Cuba you have to have rules so everything doesn't degenerate into chaos. You have a national currency so you can exercise some sovereignty over your economy otherwise you at the whim of the Eurozone or US Dollar and their central banks. .
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The US Constitution applies to all persons under United States jurisdiction since it is the Supreme law of the land. All persons are entitled to due process of law. Which means the government can't just do as it pleases.
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@voytekw.6947 Our faction didn't follow in the Stalinist faction beginning with Trotsky and the Left opposition. So yes there was a Communist opposition minority going back to 1928. Who had their ideas confirmed by the Cuban revolution of 1959. At the end of the day all you have is just so many bumbling fools like Jordan Peterson who is lucky to find a light switch in the dark. We kept a whole historical record of the world class struggle since 1928 in a newspaper "The Militant."
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@Ziegfried82 You should then understand the significance of the Cuban blockade. Do you remember when Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter ordered the Navy to pick and return all Cubans in the Florida straits and return them to Cuba? The dry foot wet foot era? If you could reach dry land THEN you could claim political asylum.
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@ItsOlDino Because we interfere with the lies the bosses tell about themselves and their crisis ridden system of production. The bosses can't help drag the workers and the trade unions into politics which is why we propose the workers take a giant step from Industrial unions to industrial union party. A labor party that can fight for a working class political program that ignores the needs of profit.
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@acbeaumo Its another crisis created by the bosses capitalist system of profits for the bosses.
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@itsslothh3908 Services make it possible for all of us to be able to work. You just want to cut services to save the bosses money they don't put any savings into our pockets. They are going to take whatever profits they make and try and come up with new ways to extract more profits from us. That is what they do with money. If they create a situation with a lot of workers without work on the Mexican side of the border than you can plan on them opening new factories over there. Wall street will be calling him a genius because the bosses will live in the US and commute across the bridge to Mexico.
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@lainiwakura1776 What makes you think you have any kind of control that can stop it? Any kind of anti cyclical activity would cut into profits.
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@MrElDiesel Move to Saudi Arabia. They have very hospitable religious police who provide a close shave at their embassy's.
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@MikeMyers-th1rk If that was true then Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz wouldn't still be having nightmares over Fidel Castro and Cuba.
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@lluneytune Why do't they put up a toll gantries to charge you for your electric car once you leave your gated community? Why not make Wall St a toll road?
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@danielmocsny5066 Republican and Democratic elites fear a working class that ignore the needs of the bosses and their rigged capitalist system.
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It's that lady in New York harbor that came from France.
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@marksimard7157 They were sent on a fools errand based in the lie that US Imperialism had won and not lost the cold war. The did just about the same thing as in every previous war for profits. The established a corrupt regime to their liking calling it a democracy and after 20 years of fighting and training a National Afghan army and police on the model of capitalist corruption the whole thing came apart in a matter of days defeated by a reactionary bunch of Jihadist with nothing more than small arms and IEDs.
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Being able to tell the BIG LIE in front of the whole world is an excellent talent needed by capitalist politicians of both parties. She will go far!!!!
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@michaeld9682 The party who's presidents always declared war on communism. Like Wilson, Truman and Kennedy and Johnson. The party of Southern segregation and the KKK.
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@alwaysopen7970 They have to look like they are doing something radical if they are to keep the system in tact. Bankers aren't the most popular people among small business since they usually demand collateral. If you want small business to hire after the pandemic they need access to lots of cheap capital since they probably lost most of it during the lock down. The National banks would probably be happy to sacrifice the community banks on the alter of big business if it means saving themselves.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful You don't get to socialism by electing capitalist Democrats to add regulations. Socialism comes about through the class struggle of the working class taking state power though a socialist revolution.
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You just can't wait for that big check the bosses send you in the mail.
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@syourke3 I believe the quote comes from a public argument were one of Marx's relatives claims he is a Marxist and Marx then replied if he is a Marxist then I am not because Marx disagreed with his relative. The reason for calling yourself a Marxist was because you disagreed with others like the Anarchists or LaSalle or Utopian Socialists.
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The problem is profit maximization. The bosses want the longest hours the lowest pay and to use up all the equipment until a collapse occurs then they can go to Congress and cry about how they are too big to fail and need a multi billion dollar bailout. Once the get bailed out than they can talk about government inefficiency how they know how to make a profit and demand they be given the railroads back for a song and a dance so they can do the same thing all over again. The railroads profit comes from unpaid labor. They love to talk about how they hate paying a tax but love taxpayer funded modernization. The rail bosses ride up and down the railroad main lines in Private coaches while they talk about how passenger rail is inefficient and too expensive. .
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Notice "I saw you speaking Spanish". The last time I checked you hear a language you don't see it. This to me says he was racial profiling. Once they produced ID (Drivers licence) he should of ended it there. Certainly any further 'investigation' was just harassment and completely unnecessary. Border Patrol doesn't need or conduct an Obama birth certificate check on every suspect. Border Patrol belongs at the border not at gas stations or other places of business.
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That's right and guess on who has big money to spend on a loud bull horn?
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@robertdabob8939 It's had two coup attempts one against Chavez and the second where Guido was nominated by Mike Pence in a one candidate election winning Trump Nato and US puppet votes.
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Telling people that the bosses need to lower wages is the worst thing you can do. Let the asshole in the video go tell his boss at the University that he wants lower pay. The fact that they call themselves the Empire and Golden state shows they got the dough.
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The genocide of the Jews is the endgame of Hamas with its demand for a Jew free Palestine from the river to the sea. Hamas occupied GAZA and it used humanitarian aid to launch attacks on Israel. It is supported by the Iranian Islamic state which denies the holocaust. Hamas wants a Muslim caliphate unlike the African national Congress which called for a non racial Democratic South Africa.
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He just refused them outright which is why he will probably lose. If the person wanted a cake with a hunter theme you could be refused if you can't or won't do a special theme. Had they asked for a gay theme than he could refuse but refusing to sell a cake in itself would not qualify.
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The man offers to make custom wedding cakes he refused to make any cake saying he does not make wedding cakes for same sex weddings after about 20 seconds. His claim is that he doesn't want to make custom gay wedding cakes because it would be sending a message of approval. The offered him compromises where he could have a worker without his religious beliefs do gay wedding cakes or contract out gay wedding cakes. He refused. Instead he and his attorneys with an anti gay rights organization Alliance Defending Freedom have appealed all the way to the supreme court losing in every appellate court so far. He refused to sell wedding cakes to at least five couples and cupcakes to two women who wanted to celebrate their anniversary. The called him and asked if he would sell a wedding cake for a dog wedding which he found no problem with. The man is obviously a bigot hiding behind religious belief.
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Buying any pre-made cake is like telling them they can ride in the back of the bus. You can go to Walmart and buy a cake with a message like 'Happy Anniversary John and James' but not from Masterpiece Cakeshop. He's not being asked to create an offensive message swastika cake or even a clearly gay cake since he refuses to produce any cake whatsoever for a gay wedding.
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@vicentemagdaleno3154 Those who feel sorry for themselves are utterly useless. It is those who can learn, think, see and plan ahead of time for what is needed next for the class struggle that will become the next and most valuable revolutionary leaders.
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@tj3771 Now that you have given up 'the victim mindset' what kind of mind set do you have now? The 'born again' liberal Christian mindset of Jimmy Carter or the 'we can do no wrong' conservative mindset of Ronald Reagan? Please tell us what great discover you have found in your change of environment and great application of research?
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@righteousgod8376 We sued the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General and got a federal Judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's Attorney General Geffen Bell held in contempt of court. The judge awarded a permanent injunction and monetary judgement against the FBI. A victory for political rights for all. .
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How do you spell it Trader or Traitor?
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Simpletons with big titles like Doctor and Phd.
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@s.marcus3669 During the Federal Desegregation order for the Boston Public Schools Boston was rocking something in a little cradle called racism.
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@aishamohammed9178 No I saw racial hatred in Boston when the Democratic Party lead the anti-bussing battle. The one where Joe Biden said everyone was against forced bussing. Everyone of Biddens friends that is. Those Black Students who boarded my bus for South Boston High said NO to Democratic Party racism. The racist burned buses in Louisville at the same time. They threatened to blow up the tunnels to East Boston. The had to be held back by hundreds of Boston cops in riot gear usually reserved for attacking student anti war protests.
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@dylian_ No but I'm already wondering what a statement like that could mean? Equal prices for products no matter who the buyer? Capitalism was created out of Feudal Europe starting with the first sucess in England being the place where the merchants gained shared power over the King and the peerage in a series of civil wars, the execution of King Charles I and the English Commonwealth.
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@dylian_ Once capitalism became the choice of colonial Empires and then in a World War to redivided their colonial possessions that ended any progressive role the Capitalist Empires played. It has been the task of the working class to defend democratic rights including the rights enumerated in the US constitution here at the center of the last capitalist Empire.
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@dongkwon1242 Prison and disgrace.
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@mmc6172 China doesn't need to execute criminals despite having the same right claimed by the United States to do so. The Canadian government needs an excuse to extradite a Chinese Business executive for violating US third party foreign trade law. China could ask for a list of Canadian war criminals wanted by North Korea for atrocities committed on orders of US commanders from 1950 to 1953. North Korea would guarantee fair trial for Canadian war criminals just like the US would for Chinese business executives. Nothing political North Korea just want to hold fair trials for war criminals.
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We understand that China is a sovereign country like the Korea's. That it rightly kicked out imperialist powers from China after WW2. That General Mac Arthur talked of attacking China's cities with nuclear weapons and creating a no mans land with nuclear weapons at the Yalu river. No one wants nuclear war, except those who dream of unlimited power and in the end building more nuclear bombs will not make the world safer. Kennedy's military advisers told him to launch a first strike on the Soviet Union and Cuba. Kennedy said no. The US playing world policeman is what drives the building of more nuclear weapons by small countries seeking sovereignty. US has over 7,000 nuclear weapons with the Russian's close behind. Just as the US of 1877 is not the same as the US of 2019. The China of 1949 is not the same China of 2019. What China does inside China is China's business but when Chinese businessmen invest in foreign nations and China starts building aircraft carriers one begins to wonder if China is not seeking to be a new Imperialist Power?
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rdmo83 China is a sovereign nation capable of dealing with any Chinese problems. The US has no business talking about human rights when 1/2 million people are homeless in the US despite empty apartments and hotel rooms. We have the largest gulag system and Trump wants to enlarge it so refugees can be held in family jails which the rest of the world will correctly call concentration camps. Henry Kissinger should be tried as a war criminal right here in the United States along with a list to long to fit into a small comment. Once his sentence is finished here he should be shipped off to Vietnam if they want him to stand trial there.
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@bender9222222222 Capitalism needs order takers not thinkers. As far as the capitalist are concerned education and healthcare is wasted on us since they can hire all the labor they need and buy all the healthcare they want.
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@Pretermit_Sound All does is create a type of insurance contract which requires some one to put up additional private capital for a bigger overall profit. No one puts up an insurance bond on a government construction contract and loses money. Its done on a cost plus basis and if the cost become to high the contractor pulls out by declaring bankruptcy. If things go South the bond owner will claim it was an act of God that could not be foreseen just like other insurance scams where lawyers then get involved raising costs even higher. Like a carbon tax it does nothing but put money in someone else's pocket in this case an insurance company. Its just an old boys club where everyone from politicians to contactors and insurance fraudsters sign on the dotted line making promises they may or may not have any intention of keeping.
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@raftopher2911 End the Blockade of Cuba.
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We see how happy you are when the Teamster's roll up in some big paper recycling trucks to those big wall street firms with a Smith and Wesson on their hip and a union button on the lapel and read an announcement that the revolutionary government has ordered the confiscation of all stocks, treasury bonds, mortgage contracts and commercial paper for immediate recycling and if that isn't enough the IBEW will provide electronic technicians and electricians to take down any computer hard drives that need hard drive wiping of electronic property records. Once that happens it will break the back of any capitalist resistance and you thought foods stamps were expensive?
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@ackers5861 Repeal the Railway "slave" Labor Act. If the bosses want a strike then give them a strike no using Congress as a strike breakers.
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Still 13,000 could be with 3 shifts or 4 rotating turns. From pictures I've seen of electronic assembly workers they all sit next to each other compared to heavy industry or machine shop metal working and assembly. Also is the 13.000 only Foxconn workers or is that an estimate of the total number of all the jobs the plant will create. The plant could be multi story and parking garages instead of lots could be used. Also if your FOXCONN and your getting it for free why not overestimate and take as much as you can get. What you can't use could be sold for a tidy profit.
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@theguardians3923 Have you ever lived in Haiti or maybe in Ireland when the British were exporting grain from the country while the Irish died of potato famine on the side of the road. Cuba has 10,000 foreign medical students all being trained at no direct cost to the student. They have medical brigades serving in 40 countries. Their life expectancy is only a year behind the US. Oh sure you live in a rich country and you can afford to waste labor and resources on trivialities like jewelry and the latest iphone. And of course to keep the Empire going requires lots of soldiers to be trained. That's all good though because you get to talk about freedom when you've got more prisoners than China has with 4 times the population.
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Actually if the US had not been stupid enough to create Batista the Cuban revolution might never occurred.
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Dander Spat Trump is working on a deal where he sends protesters of police murder to jail while the cops go free. How long do you think a regime like that can last? Not mention the 40 million without jobs on the Obamacare "No Healthcare Layoff Plan?" Naturally Venezuela has economic problems it only has oil to sell on the world market. Oil sells for zero dollars on the world market now. The charge for storage of production that can't be sold.
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Dander Spat That's just more lies about drugs put out by the cops and secret police as a reason to arrest and jail any opposition to ruling class policy. Ya well now we have the Obamacare "No Healthcare Layoff Plan." Where's Donald Trumps promise of a better plan. The bosses idea of a good plan is one where you pay them to be sick to replace the lost profits from the work you would have performed for free after you earn what they pay you.
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She probably does better judging pie eating contests.
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She'll have no problem voting for the next bill for military contracts to build more drones, bombs and nuclear weapons.
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@RaquelSantos-hj1mq Sure everyone dreams of moving into Dad's trailer.
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@BlakeLovesPoland It has a social democratic government. It's just as socialist as Britain with the Labour Party, The Kingdom of Sweden or France with the Socialist Party. In fact Juan Guiado the choice of the US Imperialists including Biden is a member of the Popular Will Party a former affiliate of the Socialist International. The only real sin Venezuela and Hugo Chavez committed was assisting Cuba and welcoming Fidel Castro. That is just an unforgivable sin against Washington that can not be tolerated by the Imperialists and the Empire.
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@BlakeLovesPoland Who does the ranking and how do they determine freedom? Let me guess an NGO funded by a US foundation?
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@BlakeLovesPoland Fraser Institute is hardly a pro labor group. In fact does it have any connection to the labor movement in Canada or elsewhere? Looks like a Canadian version of Libertarian types who oppose collectivism. The even reject Adam Smith's labor theory of value for marginal utility. Maybe they should hire marginal utility to do the work needed.
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@BlakeLovesPoland Quite frankly I don't have a trusted source to determine "labor freedom." Is it the ability to go on strike? Or is it the need to go on strike? The relative happiness of the workers? The value of their wages on the world market? The number who belong to unions? The number who don't feel the need to belong to unions? It might be interesting to read the Condition of the English working class by Engels and compare it to the conditions of workers in the England or the US and Canada today. The Irish immigrants in England use to raise pigs in their flats to supplement their income.
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@Barskor1 Hitler's regime where he ruled by decree after passing the enabling act by a minority in the Reichstag. Capitalism requires a strong central government to defend the property rights of the big capitalists. The US Military is the force defending the US Imperialists and their allies world wide profit system. The original American government was limited in by a federal constitution. Today more and more we are ruled by executive department agencies and Executive orders. Instead of debate in Congress and passing laws more and more we are governed by the executive departments administrative law and court rulings.
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@Barskor1 Look we don't live in biblical times where things were made by craftsman. Today everything that is made from raw materials is mined or dug from the ground using massive machinery. It passes through oil refineries, steel, aluminum and copper mills. Railroads carry freight from coast to coast from China to Europe pulling freight trains of hundreds of cars with just two or three crewmen.
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@tomasv8732 If your free today it's in spite of US policy because US policy was to roll back communism with war to open the way for US Investors. We know that the most corrupt elements of the Stalinist Communist parties are the new rich also. Putin & Co. are just so many Stalinist gangsters.
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@tomasv8732 The capitalist need to constantly reinvest their profits. They need new markets and labor to exploit because their drive to profit has them replacing labor with machinery. Why? Because those industries and firms that can cut labor time can enjoy bigger profits until the price drops to the cost of production once again. Within a capitalist country the capitalist settle disputes with contract law outside they have built International Institutions in the wake of two world wars set off by imperialist competition for colonies, trade, resources and foreign markets. In the old Soviet Bloc my understanding is exchange prices were set on labor time expended in products between countries. The world market doesn't work that way. The price is set by the producer with the greatest costs all the others take advantage of whatever their labors savings ability is. So an African country were cotton is harvested by hand competes with cotton picked by machine in the US and the US has tariffs to favor its cotton producers in its home market. The surpus sold on the world market competes with the African cotton. In the US the Big Capitalist maintain power through their two party system. When they finance the campaigns of both they can say, "May the best man win." because both are in their pockets. They have state by state anti socialist laws from the early 1900's to keep us off the ballot by declaring themselves to be major parties and requiring independents or third parties to petition for ballot access while they get on automatically. When they have Presidential debates they refuse third parties candidates access or put them on at a separate time and place.
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@tomasv8732 Markets are the sources of violence not freedom. It's people fighting over resources limited by nature or by man. That is what a market is. Freedom is walking through a wooded area and eating wild grapes. Tyranny is ownership of vast tracts of land for investment purposes with barb wire fence and no trespassing signs. You define a free market as (?), call that capitalism and then say everything else is disconnected from it and the responsibility of ether a bad man or group of bad men (collectivist). There is no way that myself and a group of friends can open up another Union Pacific railroad. I'm limited to entry into monopoly business by the capital requirements and into non monopoly by greed control regulations. If I advertise to install Christmas tree lights on trees I could be subjected to charges of performing electrical work without a license. You want an electricians license okay you need to start as an apprentice. Your going to be denied the chance because you don't have political pull and the process is not transparent because of property rights.
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@PattyMayo11588 The correct name for new law is the 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. The goal of the moralists who lack any human compassion is to make abortions illegal again. This will return abortions back into an illegal operation. Now young women will be once again dying in motels where criminals will be giving abortions. Those young women will come for all classes and backgrounds. The will die in dingy motel rooms. They're last human contact will not be a family member but the criminal abortionist who will say "Don't worry honey the bleeding will stop soon." So instead of planning for college or a dream job with her family they will be planning her funeral.
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What would he include that isn't already in?
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@So1othurn No he doesn't the we need to stop paying the rich bond holders who do nothing but take our tax money. Tax them instead. Make them pay the overhead costs that the rich capitalist refuse to pay. Like the things workers need and make them pay a living wage. Make the rich pay if we have to tax them down to their gold chains and necklaces.
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@philmerc364 If no one challenges their power they will just keep muddling along driven by their need to make profits like a drunken cavalryman aboard his horse. The only people who see an end of history are those unwill to make it.
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@deathblosomrules Congress needs to close 800 foreign military bases and decommission nuclear subs.
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@wasabininja3494 Oh and if all else fails bring God in to help make your point. Thomas Paine who wrote "Common Sense" an attack on the English monarchy also wrote "Age of Reason" were he took apart Christianity piece by piece. God was left out of the 1789 constitution with religion held at bay in the no religious test clause and in the first amendment. Jefferson himself recognized the danger that firebrands present. If your rights came from God then all you'd need to do is sit in church to get and protect them. Oh and stop calling everyone who doesn't sign on to your nonsense sheep. The only thing we agree on is that voting DemoPublican leads nowhere.
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@deathrips I'm not a 007. Cultural Marxist nope not that either. Marxist yes. Our morality is opposite to capitalist morality. Still in all shouldn't the "Voice of Reason" read the "Age of Reason?" Do a search its available online.
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@kickicker6058 Its just the natural working of finance capitalism. Workers need to join unions and use union power to fight back against the fiat currency system. Make wages indexed to inflation and demand governmnet funded public works at union wages.
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Sure why should China have Taiwan. When the speak Chinese in Washington and Canberra and can sell them more opium.
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A new born can survive if the mother dies in childbirth that is a fact, An embryo early fetus can not survive if the mother dies in a car crash or for any other reason those are both facts.
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@johnny4aces410 Any one with a brain knows their no safe space at the entrance to a pig stye.
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@davidfetter The Bolsheviks had the majority in the St Petersburg Soviet when Kerensky was negotiating with the counter revolutionary General Kornilov. Most of the minority opposition walked out after Trotsky's resolution prompting the him to remark go and walk into the dustbin of history.
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@warheadsnation Lenin died in 1924 long before the first state plan.
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@buttplug8021 DeSantis the new boss to pass a state version of the Chinees Exclusion Act.
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@Wesley Buirkle Capitalism at its best one again. Only instead of New Orleans and Katrina we are now seeing how great insurance company healthcare works. Imagine how much better a Libertarian Party guy like Dr Ron Paul would do. He'd be talking about how healthcare works best for those who can pay. That government can't help because to do so would be immoral. He'd say the best solution for the poor was to seek help getting a tax free burial plot otherwise mass graves would half to do.
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Mark my words once this crisis is over it will be revealed that top CDC Doctors treated and empty beds were reserved for Wall Street Bankers, the President, big shot CEO's, Congress, The Supreme Court, and anyone with cash and connections. The poor will be treated under outdoor tents in cots by nurse practitioners at best.
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Primitive communism is when there is just enough to go around. This was the case for tribal people who were hunters and gatherers before developing agriculture. (The planned raising of crops and animals for food.) This lead to an agricultural surplus, a division of labor and a hereditary class that had made decisions. Abundant communism is where the need for a state to defend socialist property property forms from counter revolution has disappeared. It can only be had after a world socialist revolution and further development in the poor nations. The state withers away because there is no longer a need to protect the ruling class, the working class, from itself. Until the final victory of world socialism its is necessary to protect socialist states from capitalist restoration. Mismanagement and corruption by a small bureaucratic layer lead to the demise of socialism in the USSR and China not any kind of superiority by capitalist production methods. Capitalism can not outrun its own internal contradictions. This is seen today in the results of the 2000 recession, 2008 recession, the election of Trump, Brexit, middle eastern wars, refugee crisis, talk of war with China and the tensions within the EU member states.
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Now as to the free speech in Cuba if their was a decline in free speech it occurred when copying the Eastern bloc. Since the rectification period and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc free speech has certainly expanded. Mostly this seems to be generated around foreign journalist being expelled. The Cuban's are quite sensitive to foreign journalist coming in and writing lies or looking for things to justify a condemnation of the revolution which would then justify some kind of attack from the very hostile power ninety miles to the north. Cuba has had numerous terrorists attacks with origins connected to the United States and the disident movement which receive money from US sources has little if any internal support. For a long time the US government broadcast Radio and TV Marti specifically to Cuba and medium wave commercial broadcasts from Miami have always been available in Cuba. Free speech has not been all that safe in the US these days either. After 9/11 the Patriot Act was passed and more recently the Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment which in the name of fighting big money contributors would have gutted the first Amendment. President Trump has called for the firing of sports players for 'taking a knee' to protest police brutality and the first amendment does not apply on your employer's property unless you have a contract that says otherwise.
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When you can't 'drain the swamp' or do much else why not do some grandstanding and flag waving?
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Nworb Sitruc Pompeo can pass everything except a plate full of donuts and eggrolls.
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Sounds like the capitalist bosses that Sowell loves and defends.
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@gosiazachoszcz1367 The Franco Prussian War resulted in the Paris commune of 1870. It was the first Marxist state. In 1914 the richest capitalist countries in the world went to war in Europe and then the Russian revolution happened. In 1939 once again the richest countries go to war and destroy most of the industrial world except the United States and then the Chinese revolution occurs. The US decided to instal a Military dictator Batista in Cuba and Fidel Castro drove him from power. Maybe your capitalist rulers should stop going to war and installing dictators when their system fails and you wouldn't have Marxist revolutions. The Capitalist are obvious like you just "to smart" for their own good.
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@gosiazachoszcz1367 Capitalism is based in nation states. Just as trade unions challenge the capitalist corp for of organization so too does the socialist state. Socialism like the trade unions is based in the working class and as such they are easily one thousand times more democratic than any capitalism regime could be at the same level of development. The class struggle within the nation state does not proceed evenly why would it do so on the nation state level? If the capitalist state just allows all view to be expressed why the need for the resort to the Red Scares after the Russian Revolution and in 1940 with the approaching world war? Why the drive to keep Trump off the ballot and intimidate him with all kinds of "Trumped Up" criminal charges. Why do the entitled Democrats need to go after workers in Red Hats?
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@elzoog Mine weren't happy but I would classify myself as conservative but antiracist before Kent State my HS graduation year. For me it wasn't rebellion against parental authority as much as it felt like finding yourself cut adrift with nothing to guide you. You had a government, President and social system doing stuff that no longer made much sense. We all wanted more freedom but weren't sure what to do with it.
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@maguswest The same people who sat next to Stalin (Khrushchev for one) who did nothing to stop his crimes later denounced him (Khrushchev once again) in the 1956 speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU. So the question is not was it rough for you since many actually benefited but did you do or say anything about it? Claiming past oppression in the Soviet Union means nothing without having taken any action against it. It is no different than a "cultural Marxist" claiming political superiority based in past oppression where they did nothing about it. I would hope that you actually did something and could write about it.
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@kellywilson5124 She is one teacher. One subject that is not touched upon in the public schools is why the victors of the civil war the National Republican Party allowed the defeat of the Republican Reconstruction governments in the South by the defeated slaveowners organized into the Democratic Party who then organized a reign of terrorisms against the newly freed slaves and anyone who defended them. A government that couldn't protect democracy within its own borders was then going to bring it to the rest of the world?
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@TrendyStone They should have NEVER agreed to any take back contracts period. I seriously doubt your gang of Wall Street gamblers is going to throw in the towel on a whole industry and sell it off in bits and parts at a BIG tag sale. You forget a simple fact we produce your profits and our labor operates, builds and repairs the machines. All you do is the paper work. You build giant industries and let them go into decline because your bookkeepers keep telling you that money can be invested at a higher rate of return elsewhere. So you drive up paper values like credit default swaps until they ultimately burst like a soap bubble. It is certainly possible that you have overvalued Boss Musk's Tesla and Space X and will see them crash and burn.
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@barraqali336 Class struggle is the road to socialism.
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They aren't making reforms. They are making history.
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That's all he does is write books and talk the conservative capitalist party line.
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Have Mike Pence lead off dressed as Indiana Jones. Trump will get France to pay for the parade. Even better remove all the prison guards so we can have our own Bastille day
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Clinton didn't feel it necessary to even pay any attention to us. She though we could be just taken for granted. We had eight years of hopey changey and what did we get from that?
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I'm stupid because I know what a BOSS is and your smart because you don't?
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The US needs to pull out its troops from Korea and to end its sanctions against the North and sign a peace treaty.
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Jews have been the most slandered people in history. Every major economic crisis brings with it Jew Hatred. Hamas is a Jew Hating organization that roots go back to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who raised a Muslim Militia for Hitler. Hamas has nothing but disdain for all life including those Hamas rules over in Gaza.
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The bosses all support LBGT their bisexual they buy all the sex they want.
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@madtechnocrat9234 Stalin was the choice those elements who had become tired of the revolution. No matter how underhanded he still need to win votes and maintain the state. The Czars had ruled for centuries as feudal military chefs by Devine right much like other kingdoms and principalities. Two entirely different social systems and organizations. Calling Stalin an absolutists' is just feel good name calling. .You want to talk as if nothing ever changes than maybe you should join Thomas Sowell and he can tell you about inflation in ancient Egypt as if modern capitalism and ancient slave society was all the same.
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@ga6589 They have opened a national debate and now the issue will be discussed by the workers and farmers. This also bring up the issues of family support since the economic system is not supportive of working class families with its constant crisis of production and trade. If they thought they were going to settle the issue in a simple way I'd say they are wrong.
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@Michael-qy1jz That is what capitalism has turned into. You can't just reverse history and go back to earlier times like those before the industrialization of the United States. The government is nothing but the executive committee of the ruling class. Everything is done with the goal of making a profit for investors. The fact that they've turned Wall St into a gambling casino is just due to the natural workings of capitalism. They have too big to fail corporations and government bonds which keeps them afloat. This stuff has absolutely nothing to do with Karl Marx and everything to do with the development of capitalism. Marx pointed to the way capitalism would develop because of natural tendencies.When everything is judged by profit and loss in accounting books this is what happens. Naturally the stock market corrupts government. Capital can only accumulate and demand a return on past investment. When government guarantees then no way can they take a loss. If they were to close the two big to fail then what? Everybody just become homeless because you can't pay the mortgage or rent? As capital replaces labor the rate of profit tends to decline which is the measure of capitalist success. So massive industries go into decline because they lose their profitability. Then they have to get he government to intervene with bailouts and more incentives. .
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You the type who spit in peoples faces.
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Fight for a $15 dollar minimum wage. This will result in more jobs producing things we need and help raise the wages of all workers. The bosses will lose out in terms of profits and special luxure good prices.
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@chris borkes Unions don't represent 30% of the workforce like in 1954. Union greed no capitalist greed.
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@chris borkes CEO pay has gone from a 40:1 ratio to 400:1 ratio between the lowest paid to CEO pay.
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"Progress is our most important product." Was GE's slogan that Ronald Reagan parroted in 1950's commercials. GE Bosses no doubt want to beat their chests as smart innovators not the company responsible for PCB pollution of the Housatonic river. The company that used PCB's in electrical power transmission equipment for forty eight years. Reports on the dangers of PCB began as early as the 1930's. Like lead in gasoline and DDT PCB is was banned due to the environmental dangers it posed. Had not a public outcry arised big business would have kept raking in the profits from this man made hazard. .
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How Dare You Disrespect My Sexdoll Plenty of libertarians talking about how capitalism good socialism bad. As long it's the Boss collectivism of the limited liability corporation thats good but when the workers organize into unions to fight for higher wages that's bad. Or so the libertarians say. They play the role of the oppressed capitalist under the boot of his own government.
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Anything big in terms of a protest or strike was meet with labor spies, KKK, private police, local police, FBI, special deputies, national guard and federal troops. All at the orders of Big Capitalists, Judges, Mayors, Governors and the President.
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That's all poppycock because when wages rise for those at the bottom wages for all workers go up. This increases economic activity resulting in more jobs and raises the living standard.of all workers. Their is no such thing as a maximum wage because you have no way to define it. The biggest reason being is your employer does not open his books so you can see what is going on. I don't know what you summer job was but I do know that some people who have cronies get no show jobs or summer jobs in school system based on who they know. Maybe the town would prefer to let the grass grow all summer in which case they didn't need you to begin with. Your theories all very nice but in reality mean nothing. Bosses pick up and move all the time or declare bankruptcy for reasons you will only hear rumors about. The biggest reason for moving is to boost profit rates and get out of promises they made in union contracts. Sure there is always a boss who wants more work for less money. Where did all that pension plan money go? Bosses fire people because they like to intimidate others. They want more work for the same time. They fire people for reasons like saving on that medical plan that you get after a year. Making themselves look good because they're incompetent or thieves trying to cover their tracks. Some would make good dictators. You'll find out how fair they are when your fired for no reason other than your age or because they don't want to make a reasonable accommodation like changing a font size. Do you like getting verbally abused for no reason whatsoever? Should you have to just take it? Do you like being fired by someone in Wisconsin when you work in Connecticut? Someone you never met and will not even answer a phone call? Do you like being sent to the secret police security office every Wednesday? Maybe you like a boss waving his arms in the air firing you on every Friday and calling you back to work at 4 AM Monday morning?
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Sure the slavocracy thought they could also win after all they just had to do is keep the Northern industrialists power out or so they though. Lincoln emancipated all the salves in the southern rebel areas. Now the ex slave became a soldier with a blue uniform and a Springfield rifle. 190,000 ex slaves taught their masters an important lesson. We are men not animals. We will no longer tolerate the abuses of the past. The same fate of the slavorcy now awaits the American capitalists. Now the time has come for capitalism like chattel slavery to also meet its maker not god but the industrial working class. It's only a tiny ruling class that runs industry and finance for the sake of profit. Their right to rule ended because instead of development they use their profit more and more each day to fiances war to keep themselves in power for ever bigger profits. They have created millions of refugees and victims of war because of their profit drive. Everytime everywhere the working class comes to power they seek first and foremost to crush us with military and economic might.
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1.The quit was admitted to be a fake with names of people still alive and others who died of natural causes by the Miami Herald and has disappeared. 2. Which capitalist party the counterrevolutionary pick as the best is no concern of mine. 3.Whatever was done to homosexuals in the past was admitted to be a mistake ended a long time ago. The Stonewall riot was in 1969. Remind me when the US decided to treat them as human beings and the US supreme court ruled unanimously for them? They can't even get a wedding cake made in the US without a big fuss. 4. Miami remains the center of Cuban the conterrelotion. Why would you expect otherwise? Can you prove that the morning was 'mandatory'? Of course not but it's a good charge to make because few American morn a presidents passing and the Miami worms are letting out only the real secrets that only they know. 5. Those who left early on were Batista supporters and those who feared the fighting that would take place after a US invasion. Those who left latter left for economic reasons which the US forced multinational embargo exacerbates. 6. Zapata was a common criminal convicted numerous times none of which were remotely political. He attacked his guards continual. He died on a hunger strike of his own choosing. He was treated humanely and there was no evidence that he ever did anything political or was tortured. 7. Like I said before the Cuban people know what is said in Washington is a lie. They also know what happens when former socialist countries go through shock therapy so a new capitalist class can get wealthly and renew their exploitation of labor..
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@MiguelMartinez-lu9kv It's merely another move against workers by Boss Desantis. Bosses will get a wink and a nod when it comes to who they hire. None will pay a dime in penalties after their lawyers get into court.
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Religion is less important in the modern world than ever before. Catholics and Protestants live and work next to each other in America as do people of all kinds of people despite original national origin. A secular state makes religious freedom possible for all. The UK is still a Protestant state not to mention its retention of other relics of its feudal past.
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@chuckkady7282 At 5:12 Michael age 57 asks his question. You mind is closed anyway.
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@pharmerdavid1432 Malcolm X was close to the Socialist Workers Party in his last year NOT Republicans.
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Lets send all the homeless people to your home because you should be your brothers keeper. You care for the unborn ends when they are born. How many Catholic Priests have adopted children? Exactly zero.
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@Zoey-1031 Its going to take a revolution to solve the problem. You have to replace the whole two party state administration with workers control of industry and community.
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@bertkilborne6464 Free speech because those who have confidence in their ideas don't need censorship. No to BIG TECH censorship. Workers control of industry.
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@craigscott2315 We live in a capitalist market based dictatorship. As long as we don't come together and organize they will just dictate everything to us. When to come to work. When to go home. How much we get paid. What the price we will pay. That's what the mean by a free market. Freedom for them and debt slavery for us. We need to a new union movement and a new party without the rich donors a Labor party.
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@jimperkins6073 Open the secret files so we can all see what's inside.
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Maybe you should have though about this before you voted for 5.3 trillion dollars to destroy Iraq and Afghanistan with military waste projects. Maybe you should have told the banks they couldn't throw people of homes and jobs to save your bankers profit rates. .You bosses were profit chasing and saving on wages because of Milton Friedman by shutting down production and moving work elsewhere. What did you think was going to happen? The problem is you believed the lies of the marginal value theory economists. You were convinced that trade was producing value and not labor. You built a house of cards on Friedman's neoliberal theories on monetary policy. He had you all dazzled with his mathematical models and you were convinced he was a great scientist.
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Horses are NOT native to the Americas the Europeans (Spanish) brought them here.
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@Max Wylde Some people don't belong in the labor movement Janus is one of those. His job was to get workers who could not pay their child support arrested. Like AFSCME Prison guards they should be thrown out. He belongs in one of those Police Blue gangster unions.
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@gunzogunzo6959 I Disagree it only shows the brutality of the Crown Prince and the Saudi ruling class. It shows nothing about the Saudi people because they are not allowed to speak and even some of their religious leaders are executed as terrorist for mild criticism of the rot on top.
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@mattschrader5047 And now that the sons and daughters of the slaves are workers whose children go to school why do they need a boss who gets his position and his privileges based upon private property, profit maximizations and inheritance?
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Kathleen Shaw Why don't you put on your confederate flag shirt so we know who you "patriots" are.
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@jajajajajajajajaja867 The two parties were founded by property owners and the first role of the government has been to protect the assets of private property owners only after abolishing property in human beings also known as slavery. Instead of property owners owning people and property they now own property and rent the laborers labor power by the hour or pay us by the piece.
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Telling conservatives what the love to hear.
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@Triumph2024. The truth must not just be the truth but it must also be told and Sowell lies when he say that South Vietnam was a seperate nation. It was nothing of the sort rather it was a regime that was generated by a peace conference in Geneva where the Imperialist powers sought to divide the country with the agreement of China and the Soviet Union after the French Imperialist were defeated decisively at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Sowell also lies about the need for Truman to unleash nuclear weapons on an already defeated Japan. Sowell also lies about the fight to overturn Jim Crow because both of the capitalist parties were both responsible for jim crow and only acted after they were put in the position of being the origins of the practice before the whole world. Sowell himself despite being the same age as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King played absolutely NO role in that movement before his entrance into academia where he became a well know sidelines critic. Coming out as a defender of Mayor Daley's "shoot to kill" orders that even Southern Republicans had no stomach for.
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@Triumph2024. Sowell is also know for being "smart" with circular logic. A equals A is one of Sowells favorite discoveries. Along with other truism like no solutions only trade offs which is deliberately meant to hide the fact that human society has been creating a surplus of production since the change from hunter gatherers to agriculture. It's necessary to keep this fact hidden to defend the opulence of the ruling class and the origins of wealth as being ordained by mystical forces like market intelligence and other.ideas invented to defend the capitalist mode of production as the end all and be all of human creativity.
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@Legate-Jon3s I agree every working class person should go down to the picket line to learn and help out if possible.
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@StephiSensei26 Churchill was the Conservative Democratic Imperialist of the British Empire where the vast majority had no voting rights.
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Turn America into one BIG Prison is your solution?
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Singing the songs of the capitalist bosses love to hear and record profits as proof of the record success of the bosses.
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@pc2555 Marx and Engels wrote the Manifesto in 1848. The Paris Commune of 1871 lasted 70 days. The Russian Revolution of 1917 70 years. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 is still a living revolution of 65 years. I watched 60 minutes last night they were talking about Empty Commercial Real Estate creating a slow moving financial train wreck creating a crisis on par with 2008. We are a lot further along since the manifesto in both theory and in economics.
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@ey67 Capitalism can NOT solve its basic problems of the declining rates of industrial profits and the splitting up of industrial nations into camps for purpose of competition that leads to war. The era of Imperialism as first pointed to by Hobbs and then Lenin is the highest stage of capitalism. Only the combined destruction of World War two and the betrayal of the Stalinist leadership saved capitalism in the 20th century. Capitalism, world capitalism has once again entered into a period of deep decline and the ruling classes face opposition from China to Chicago. The revolutionary experience of Cuba and the Cuban people is something we should all seek to emulate.
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You can't regulate greed out of capitalism you can only abolish private property and take away the power of money and the commodity fetishism.
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He moved capitalism to a new level of thievery. Going off the Gold Standard and on to the Paper Standard.
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@bethbnolan End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Lets send the best of the best like Bill Gates, George Soros, Charles Koch, Jeff Bezos, and Paris Hilton.
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@rolandboeing7477 The opposition to communism lives in Miami. Just as the opposition to the American Revolution moved to Canada.
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@hggryrdchgc Poking holes in liberal capitalist theory of the welfare state is easy enough coming up with a replacement policy is where Sowell fails miserably. No ideas other than the theory of markets fixing everything.
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@jhood758 Romneycrats.
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Ultra Right is always the excuse that the Democrats use as to why they can't do something even when they are in power. Obama could have passed single payer health care in his first term with the Democratic majority. "This is what we get when we leave our leaders for sale. You have a corporate neo-con beholden faux left 'centrist' or in other words a 90's republican. Against a faux populist right winger (former lefty) who promises...." You realize most people don't have the slightest idea as to what or who you are talking about in that phrase. "Trump is serving his donors (and himself) in a way Hillary would not have been allowed to get away with even as should would have loved to." Why is that true?and Why would Hillary want to get away with it? You are an argument for not voting at all or a third party but the campaign finance laws are their to protect the two party franchise. You will have political corruption legal or illegal as long as you have a capitalist system. Advocating an end to free speech by groups (unions, corporations, artists, and filmmakers read Citizens United Supreme court case) as a way to clean the system up is nonsensical.
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@SB-ok3xc Marx called for a dictatorship of the proletariat. A Democratic state that defends the interests of the working class like that of Lenin and Trotsky and Fidel and Che. The US is a bourgeois democracy or a dictatorship of capital. The working people must have the full ability to discuss the ideas of communism.
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Islam will decline the same way Christianity has because the fighting between different sects guarantees its ultimate decline. The more the Sunnis fight with the Shiites the better the case of the unbeliever. Islam is nothing more then another flavor of the opiate of the people anyway. The wahhabist are only 3% of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi ruling class' is officially wahhabists and sitting on a social powder keg. Like the rest of the world Saudi Arabia has been dragged into the modern capitalist world. Huge numbers of working class people operate the oil and petrochemical plants in Saudi Arabia. Thirty percent of the country is non-muslim immigrants. How long before they go into motion, demanding religious and political freedom and start making their mark on history.
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It's only a matter of time before the Saudi rulers and the center of Islam goes under and they take strict Islam with them. It will become like Christianity in the West something you do once a week out of tradition and even then less and less relevant to people's everyday lives. No more getting out the prayer rugs five times a day and listening for the call to prayer. It will be nothing but another ho hum religion that no one really cares about. The Islamic State of Iran is under mass protest now. Doesn't look good for the Islamic hardliners in Tehran. The masses are angry about the money wasted on Hezbollah and other Shiite Militia.
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Ireland was once one of the most strictly Catholic Countries in Europe when it first broke with the UK. The Church had its hands in everything. Now their voting on not removing some restrictions on abortion which they already done but on removing all restrictions on abortion.
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Right the Saudi rulers will go all liberal and allow women to drive? Soon the say. Once their people get just a taste of freedom they will want more. In the meantime the sale of beards in Riyadh is at an all time high. They had to pull back the religious police because those criminal scoundrels were getting out of hand. If they let them continue cutting heads it would be their heads which would be cut.
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If freedom is hellfire then let me roast in hell.
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Henry Ford didn't want anyone talking at work. Countries didn't have borders before capitalism.
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@timetraveler4473 I'd say tax the rich down to their gold chains if we have to. Banks keep making loans to government because they want more money back. Tax the rich instead of borrowing money from them. Don't borrow a dime just make them pay taxes.
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Stop the provocations now! US out of Korea! Let the Korean people reunify under their own terms. The US Imperialist Troops came in to evacuate the defeated Japanese Imperialist war criminals and have been their 72 years now.
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No one can argue with that.
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@jasonraczkowski6001 Jay Bee is a used car salesman that was fired form his post as a Yale English Professor.
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If they were serious about fighting ISIS, wahhabism and Sharia law the would pull out all US Troops and ending all transfer of weapons to Saudi Arabia. The terrorist were created to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. It's the US government and Saudi oil money that allowed them to take over Afghanistan in the first place. Fifteen of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudi. The Full Congressional report on 9/11 is still secret. Did Saudi Arabia go on the Chump list? No. Instead of letting the most morally bankrupt regime on the planet fall. A regime where the religious police do beheading in the street. Who for some strange reason sit on the UN human rights commision. A regime that makes it a capital crime to even hold a Christian church service or posses a bible. Mr Chump posed for a handshaking picture. Well I guess that's better than Obama bowing to the King. The only reason these Islamic terrorist have hope is Saudi Arabia. They figure if they can fight hard enough than they'll get recognition as a state. Pull the rug out from under them like Lincoln did to the slave states by announcing freedom and down they will go along with all the Islamic terrorist who follow them. Holding up refugees for FBI checks in the name of fighting terrorism is ridiculous. It has absolutely no way of working correctly.
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So what is this suppose to prove besides Hitler being a liar about his own history? Plenty of people have changed their politics. Including one of the founders of the modern American Conservative movement Professor James Burnham a one time supporter of Leon Trotsky. Notice that the ideas that seperate them are not discussed but instead who belonged to which group. So when you get down to it British Nationalism Like the White Man's burden and America's Social Darwinism is really closer to Hitlers National Socialism. Afterall the NAZI defense at Nuremberg was they had taken their racial laws from America. Anglo American culture is full of racism in defense of Imperialism. And it biggest defeat has been inflicted upon it by Marxist revolutions. A defeat for the nationalism of the capitalist nations by the oppressed colonial nations was one of the unintended results of world war two. The Sun would now set on the British Empire.
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@IronskullGM Buy yourself a violin and cry me a river. Carter got his "disdents" and then locked them up in the Atlanta Pen where the rioted against the dungeon like conditions. Then Carter begged Cuba to take them back.
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@mahlonrhoades4509 He only includes what support his contentions. Did he mention the were no horses in North or South America before the Spanish? That people living in small groups of hunter gatherers with mostly stone tools have limited ability to wage a murderous war. That many groups did not have a written language. That corn and potatoes are GMO's? They don't survive without human intervention and they were domesticated plants developed by the peoples of North and South America. No Sowell would rather go on about liquor and guns because it suits his shallow thinking of capitalism and trade being responsible for everything. Here were people who had no need for land surveys, private property and imoney incentives to produce a life for themselves. It flies in the face of all who say people need rich bosses to tell them every move to make.
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@erikkovacs3097 That's not the way the bosses look at it. For them everything is about profit maximization. After all if they don't do that investors money will go elsewhere. This is why the capitalist system creates misery, poverty and wealth for a few. Its natural workings push the middle class into the working class and poverty.
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@manuelapellicier1714 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?
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@Hemiboybr549 It means that the bosses don't pay for it. They take the money from your paycheck and collect the tax at the store. You have no say in government over how the money is spent. The big donners to the two parties choose who they want in Congress and the Whitehouse. That way they can say may the best man win because they've got everyone in their pocket.
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@foxmulder4331 Obviously his colleges are listening intently. Hanging on every single word.
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@sithsquid1 Sure lock up a bunch of extra people with 3 strikes laws and other BS because then we can be safe from ourselves. Crime, homelessness and drug addition are all social problems the result of a system that has no place for a large portion of the population that can't make some rich one percenters like Anderson Cooper and Tucker Carlson a tidy profit. Capitalism can no longer do anything but make things worse for the working class.
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@bryceknight-ryder3239 They can tell the truth about Vietnam without indicting the two parties and Imperialism. Military force used to protect the interests of American capitalism abroad. They have to admit that Kennedy knowingly authorized the use of Agent Orange and biological warfare. That they theorized they could win in Vietnam based in kill ratios. That the military strategy was to use ground Troops as bait so air power could kill more faster and better. That General William Westmoreland became known as Gereral Waste More Land. That the truth revealed in the secret Pentagon Papers provoked a Constitutional crisis. That Veteran's thew their medals on the steps of Congress in Protest. That the term fragging entered the vocabulary as slang for throwing a fragmentation grenade in an officer hooch. That US Troops were refusing orders to engage the enemy. That the troops of the 82nd airborne division rejected the idea of deploying to Washington for an Antiwar protest at the Presidents request. That a bitter defeat was handed to American Imperialism as the most powerful Empire in Human history that it has never fully recovered from.
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Exactly!!! The US should end their multinational blockade.
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@photai7501 Mass deportation is a punishment that began with the Chinese exclusion act. It's always been used by the capitalist bosses for the failure of capitalism to maintain employment. It's always used against the most militant workers who refuse to accept the bosses excuses.
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@jakeweberzwier8655 Capitalist Bosses like Trump, Soros and Bloomberg are responsible.
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@Andie1951 Canadian Billionaires want American healthcare. Their loyalty is to the Bottom line.
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It's also the most expensive turnpike in the country today.
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The Big Dig was overall a successful infrastructure project in Boston. Not a crumbling one.
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@dominicj7977 Nothing of course. Buying a car is a skill where you need to make the sales manager panic to get the best deal. It a similar process where every you have a direct negotiation over the price.
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The problem that many don't understand is that once you get to the place where you have banks. Banks create money. Now if you don't believe me you need to listen to Milton Friedman when you pass money back and forth between banks you create money privately. You can play a game by yourself on paper to see how this works the banks asset value will rise because because they can count the same deposits more than once if the beginning loaning money back and forth to each other all without ever violating the requirement to keep a reserve on deposit. As long as the money can be just numbers on paper not actual gold or silver you can't get away from this problem. People don't want to carry gold and silver around to buy and sell everything which is how banks came into being. They had to tell people that their money was insured against loss to get back the trust in banks. They also had to create the central bank because of this. How do you have a capitalism without money and banks? Why do you think so many banks failed durring the great depression? They use to issue private money durring the great depression. Why is this possible? Because you only keep a fractional amount of the total on deposit. Now you have the German and Japanese Central Banks having zero interest rates. The problem is that most people suspect something fishy about banks but don't really understand how capitalism involves both the circulation of money and the creation of capital. You think you can just easily assign prices with a market and forget that when you put money into a market it becomes possible to create more money and thereby change all the prices. That's why in a real socialist country not only are they internationalist in out look they try and get away from commodity production the production of commodities for money. This is why in Cuba people appear to be living much better than their salaries would imply.
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Unlike the US Government their government listens to what their people want. They don't want US Intervention!!!
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@hitreset0291 It's a great example of Republican purity of ideological leadership. They get to claim both state rights power because ERCOT is a Texas only entity and small government whatever that suppose to mean along with a free market sending out humongous utility bills. The also get to beat their chests for "Texas" Energy independence. A state with the biggest of everything including energy production of both wind and fossil fuels goes dark.
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@dmay3391 Kennedy's likeness is on the US fifty cent piece. He's was a lying two Party politician. l've never heard of a Progressive Fascist before so please explain what your talking about. Is it anything like a Canadian Progressive Conservative?
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@rapunzelz5520 The problem of Education is not local vs. national control. Capitalism doesn't need people who can think. It needs people who can follow orders and do what they are told. That's the purpose of public education. The rich send their children to private schools to prepare them for being the bosses in capitalist industry and government.
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@clemkadiddlehopper3455 Ah yes the clown from the Red Skelton show speaks. Much better to make education another for profit capitalist enterprise like healthcare. Obviously a success when outbreaks of contiguos desease arrsie. With no workers being able to read and write they spread of Bolshivk propagnada could be haulted like the corona vires as US borders and cruise ships. This way the bosses could suck more value out of the workers with contracts they can not read.
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@justinruiz5054 Real wages in the US have stagnated since 1973 with the shift to fiat currency and the end of the Post war (1945) capitalist nations Bretton Woods agreements. As far as rising living standards this is just a mantra repeated ad nauseum by the neo liberals based on inflation and penetration of the world economy by the US dollar. While home and transport in Europe and North America are powered by modern energy sources. The poor are still burning wood from forests and using animals for transportation. They talk of renewables and taxing fossil fuels. While third world emissions by two billion people burning wood and charcoal could be cut with natural gas used just for cooking alone. That of course would require an actual will to do something serious rather than posture and talk about the pros and cons of who pays for what with the taxes and incentives.
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@jamesryan4618 Leon Trotsky advised the leaders of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters General Strike that paved the way for the creation of the Teamsters as a powerful industrial union
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If V ghost showed up at my window acting and talking like that he would be told his order would be delayed, accidentally forgotten and while he was sent to the waiting area. By the time he came into Taco Bell hopefully he would be screaming and hollering so the manager would call the cops and tell him to never to return again after having his money returned.
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The people doing the "otherizeing' are the ones who demand you 'Speak English' or think you are ignorant because you don't speak the 'King's English". The native language of Ireland is not English but Gaelic. One reason for kicking the English out of Ireland was the insistence of Crown authorities that everyone 'Speak English''. A person's identity and culture is tied up with the first language they learn as a child in the home. To tell someone well you and your family ended up on the wrong side of a border after a war so now you must speak a different language is wrong. '.
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fynes leigh Its from each according to his ability to each according to his needs. Now do you want to live in a society where you can contribute or do you want to live in one where you can't contribute because of the way the economy is organized? Do you want to be able to meet your needs or do you want to live in a society that can't meet your needs.
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fynes leigh I'll be sure to keep you in mind Professor when asked to give you a rating for the brilliant thoughts of another "Great Helmsman" such as yourself.
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Nothing more hypocritical than this imperialist cry baby talk. Ah did Newt take a loss on his stock futures?
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@williamferland3829 This is what the idealist moral hypocrites want. They know damn well that people like to have sex and the see that as a problem. Women have been escaping into the workforce and those who want to control every aspect of our lives with the police are horrified. The more politically and socially equal women get the less ability the bosses have to divide us at the workplace. These politician who order the deaths of millions in wars could care less about any ones life least of all a women's. We are all just replaceable parts in one big profit generating machine.
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By the time Trump is done well be paying higher prices on both sides of the border and end up with fewer jobs. The only winners will be the bosses on both sides of the boarder,
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Ron "Chinese Exclusion Act" DeSantis.
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You need to read Malcolm X.
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@randallanthony1794 He's popular among conservatives because he says nothing can be done about problems of neoliberal capitalism which is the best thing since sliced bread.
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@DadbrosGarage The most effective way to fight for higher wages is with a strike not voting for more Democrats.
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@hewillneverleaveme.4564 Careful observations show that the planets are all in elliptical orbits around the sun. So while the sun may appear to be rotating around the earth that was disproved by Galileo using his telescope. Instead the earth rotates in front of the sun whlie circling in an orbit around the sun. Because this model is true its possible to predict sun rise and sun sets for any day and any time at any place on earth during any year. The reason we can do this is because our math and science is true.
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@legendarylano4745 The Bosses aways seek government guarantees for profits "too fat to fail" should be their slogan.
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It's basically because outside of conservative circles Sowell is totally irrelevant.
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Organize join a union and stand up and fight using the strike weapon.
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With zero or negative interest rates at the Federal Reserve what could go wrong?
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@duster0066 Cops do what the master of police dogs tells them. These clowns love to pay the victim of their liberal brethren and then blame a dead "bad man" named Joe Stalin. If it wasn't for Stalin you'd be speaking German instead of English.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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He has you convinced that the capitalist earned his money instead of using his special position in the exchange of labor and production to accumulate more than he puts in. He leaves out the process with which modern money is created.
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legobuilder 369 Go back to building your legos because obviously your not mature enough to understand what the grownups are talking about.
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legobuilder 369 Mommy say, "Time for little boy to go back and build super heros. Eat green beans be big and strong like daddy."
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You scream about 65 million dead babies. There are 15.1 million orphans in the world and 100,00 in the US today. Who's going to pay for and care for an additional 65 million unwanted children? How many women who die of treatable pregnancy conditions which require an abortion is acceptable for you "Pro Birthers"?
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@jszgarrison Its the failure of capitalism that drives the world class struggle not its success. .
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@johnkeck How does that have anything to do with the click bait video title? Where's are all these relevant facts he is supposedly famous for.
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@1Lyricalbeauty I'm not a member of your local so I am trying to tell you what to do. This is something I might consider doing. My guess is your contract has a no strike no lockout clause. Since this sounds like a lock out to me i'd get together a group of co workers and ask the local officials why your being locked out and are you going to get your regular pay. Then if I felt that I did get a good answer I would get together with your friends and picket the plant. After all GM is going to need parts once the assembly strike is over and if your locked out they can't claim it's a wildcat strike. This nothing more than the bosses trying to punish you for GM's greed.
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Why because otherwise his books would only make good door stops in college dorms.
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Let the bosses figure out what they want to do for now our goal should be raise wages, end tiers bring more workers into the unions and then a labor party.
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@BobRooney290 This is why the workers need to organize unions since the capitalist can't just raise prices without printing more money. The unions are in a much better position since they can stop the flow of profits by using the strike weapon. Then we can also organize a labor party without the bosses to take away the power of the capitalist government. That way we've check mated them no more excessive money printing and no more big profits for doing nothing.
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@bradraymond5925 Not really since the original conflict was between slave and non slave states where as the political conflict today is more between classes, rural and urban. What does a state like ND or WY have in common with VT or DE? Plus in the original Congress VA the largest state had 10 reps where as today CA has 52 reps and Texas 38 reps. A much bigger ratio between smallest to largest.
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The title of the video has nothing to do with the content.
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@MasterKeyMagic The profits that theses companies make are just unpaid wages. The bosses want a system where they pay you a wage that is just enough to get you to come back for the next pay period. So they want the longest hours at the lowest wages. The bosses can enforce their "position" in the market because they are the owners of capital. They are a tiny group of Wall St gamblers who own controlling interests in the banks and companies. Their system goes into decline because of its own natural workings and they seek to unload their profit crisis on to our backs. They use to issue wage cuts but now with their control of government and money they use inflation because it lowers wages and increases property values. Wall st is nothing more than a rigged gambling casino where the house alawys wins when bankers head to Washington for a bailout and free money.
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@joaquingonzalo1945 So Sweden has a failed economic system?
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@vancouver4sure That's what you say. Eh Boss!!! You Canadians practice a cult of personalty around the Queen and Crown and my bet is Trudeau lives way better than the average Canadian. . We just saw an example of how Trudeau treated protesting truckers in Ottawa.I wonder how well Canada would do without trade with the US? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
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You heard her admit the US Coast Guard is enforcing the blockade.
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Prices keep rising even with the changes made to make it look less than it actually is as does productivity in the private sector. Wages in average have stagnated since 1970. CEO pay has gone from about 40 times the minimum wage to 400 times the minimum wage. The idea that the US is a meritocracy or is on the way to being one is just BS propaganda to defend the ruling classes profits. I am glad they beat Governor Justice and the phoney's in the legislature. What they need to do is pass a Rockefeller tax.
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@blakebrown7794 This is the result of a system that puts profits of the rich ahead of all other considerations. As long as we are willing to allow them to control everything than we will get the wrong people put in jail and more common crime. You can't lock up El Chapo and let Big Pharma skate from the opium crisis with fines.
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@anderander5662 They did NOT have the concept of private property like the Europeans. The horse came from the Spanish. Most did not have a written language in North America.
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@bluemax92 This is what the defeat of an Imperialist power looks like. Sorry but you LOST the cold war.
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@xCorvus7x With the new capitalist system and trade came racism. It will be destroyed with the coming socialist revolution.
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@luisaymerich9675 South Vietnam was never separate country it was an invention of the Imperialist created at the 1954 Geneva conference which had no right to decide anything about Vietnam. Its was a conference to take what had been won on the battlefield away from the legitimate revolutionary forces and hand it back to the Imperialists. Ukraine has been recognized at the UN as a country within the Soviet Union before the founding of the Soviet Union and at the founding of the UN in 1945. It has a separate language and literature. It was one of fifteen republics within the Soviet Union set up as a voluntary federation.
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Greg Scarlatoiu is nothing more that a US Government Propaganda voice that originated from Radio Free Asia. He is what you might say a Professional Propaganda Human Rights Voice that became US policy after their defeat in Vietnam. This policy of concern for Human Rights was originated by President Jimmy Carter. It was necessary to hide the US Vietnam policy that lead to the My Lai Massacre, Operation Speedy Express, the Phoenix Program, and Operation Ranch Hand. Some of the most egregious atrocities in modern warfare. Naturally you should notice the sense of urgency in the CNN reporters voice as if this was an issue of life or death. Scarlatoiu is what the right calls a deep state operative that rotates around in and out of government. He has received plenty of awards from his masters in both Seoul and Washington where his committee is based. No doubt he was well paid for the interview and an asset for US ruling class policy which is all about property and has nothing to do with human rights except for the right of the rich to own everything.
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True and the Democrats failure to do anything meaningful except follow the GOP.
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@uio890138 That's it though when do we mandate someone be the sole custodian of another for 9 months.
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@uio890138 No it shouldn't for a number of reasons. First the life of the mother is more important because she will need to bring more than two children into the world just to replace the current population. Not everyone gets a right to life as it is now. A soldier gets no right to life now does he? In fact he is expected to sacrifice his life for others.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 It sounds more like something said by Confuses. Just another saying to justify a return to capitalism by the CCP.
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@mmakshak Just as King Charles need to fight useless wars within Britain so he could keep collecting taxes the modern Imperialists must keep fighting Imperialist wars to keep up the rates of foreign profits. Parliament ordered the execution of King Charles in the English revolution. A republic was proclaimed but then restoration and counter revolution brought back the King.
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@musicaddict4214 So you advocate a more pure capitalist society. I guess that would mean an end to pollution controls on vehicles and the sale of gas masks to those wishing to "Breath Free".
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Re build the unions and than a lbor party based in the unions.
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If UAW wins big it will inspire others and we will have a union movement once again.
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Bosses see record profits, live in gated communities and are convinced everything is fine.
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@Lando-cb9ol He spent most of the time talking about his committee. She spoke for about 30 seconds while he filibustered for over 5 minutes.
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@shauncameron8390 Capitalism in the Netherlands is working so well for the farmers that they are protesting.
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Well if he can't stop Hamas terror now how is he going to do it when he's a recognized state?
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China's 1949 revolution was always lead by the counterrevolutionary Stalin faction. Mao's Bloc of four classes theory says it all. The problem for the Chinese Stalinist wasn't a lack of wanting to sell out it was the capitalists lead by General Chang who refused to buy.
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@coolioso808 Patients. A successful battle will inspire others and enable a change in union leadership to one more class struggle orientated. One may have to wait ten years sometimes and other times 10 years can go by in 10 months.
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@staceyellis1965 If Rubio gave you free internet without BIG Tech censorship that would be communism and we cant have that in this country.
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@dancing4bears First the producers of leaded gasoline lied about its safety. If it had NOT been rushed into the market than alternatives would have been used and while the automobile industry may not have developed as quickly we lived for 1,000's of years without automobiles. An estimated 100 million people died early deaths due to leaded gasoline. Just because someone can buy something or puts a label on it does mean it should be built, sold or used in the first place. Leaded gasoline was taken out of the marketplace because it was poisoning the air that all of life depends on.
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@jeremyrangel8138 If you have money you can buy US citizenship just like many other countries.
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@susansmith9263 I suppose you believe no other President did that or that national security isn't just an excuse to keep dirty tricks secret.
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@worldmeta2016 Totally different situation. The workers were divided into the Social Democratic and Stalinist Communist Party while Hitler was leading his brown shirt thugs using political violence against his Social Democratic and Communist opposition who refused to close ranks and fight against the fascist threat. Hitler never won any election and his party didn't win a majority in Parliament. Today in the US there is no mass labor movemnet threatening the bosses with a Socialist Revolution who then need to begin the use of fascist gangsters against the workers. The Democrats and Republicans are both parties of the bosses who are in a political crisis caused by the economic contraction and decline of capitalist world trade and production.
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@LaminarSound Your right "..Government intervention emphasizes and exacerbates that very problem..." Because the capitalist use their state to defend their rule. Trump said 10,000 factories closed on Obama's watch. You don't think those who worked in the those 10,000 factories were happy about losing their jobs? How many workers would vote to close down the factory so production can be moved elsewhere for cheaper labor or because the economy went into another capitalist caused crisis.
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@LaminarSound "...capitalists don’t print money..." as individuals that's correct but as a class they control the printing of money though their state and government. US Treasury also plays a role in adding money to the total currency in circulation. They issue bonds printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. What they can't sell on the open market the Federal reserve buys with money printed back at Bureau of Printing and Engraving. They also collect taxes that can be paid in US dollars only. They are also custodians of various Federal Trust Funds.
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@LaminarSound Seems to be working in Cuba despite all kinds of US sponsored sabotage. Oh sure next week it will all be gone!! Which is what has been said since 1959. After the Death of Comrade Cecilia Sanchez of Cancer. US newspapers printed the "real news" that actually she was killed during a shootout between Fidel and his brother Raul and Raul had been wounded. No lie is too big! No story is too false! about Cuba not to be printed in the US. The latest hasTrump all but closing the Embassy after reports of injury to Embassy staff of completely unknown origin. .
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@LaminarSound The US Gov't prohibits travel and spending money in Cuba by US citizens without US Gov't approval. US Retirees can't go their and get their SS Checks there. Yes the US Gov't has an entry waiting list and is deporting undocumented Cuban's. Those attempting entry from Mexico must wait in Mexico for permission to enter. Cuba only has population of 11 million how could they absorb 5 million immigrants? You should ask Trump or Marco Rubio about the secret weapon used against US Diplomats. Ask about the secret audio laser weapon.
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@accabreogilvie2537 The is the result of Imperialist war along with the lie that the US won the cold. The premise that Imperialist methods can win a war on terror was a complete fraud from the beginning. After 3 trillion dollars, thousands of dead Afghan soldiers and US troops, millions of displaced persons and refugees both internal and external the US Imperialist bosses and Bankers decided to cut their losses and withdraw. Afghanistan was sacrificed by Bush and the two Imperialist Parties on the alter of private profit for US companies.
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@nghtwtchmn129 Sure the US has been sanctioning and blockading them. Since the refuse to bow down to Washington who keep demanding that they make gestures. I've got a gesture for the two parties except it would be classified as obscene. Cuba's leaders are more polite and civil than me.
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@nghtwtchmn129 Maybe Havana, Detroit, or LA are a good places to learn.
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@jnc1028 Since he is a public figure the standard of proof for defamation is much higher than that for a private individual.
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@sena4son Lets say as an Irish Catholic in New York I go to a Jewish deli and buy a corn beef sandwiches. I get on a plane at JFK airport for New Delhi can I eat my sandwiches in Old Delhi?
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@BaitulMukaddas I see those who oppose religious fundamentalism are the enemy. The cow was slaughtered outside of India but that is still a problem for the Hindu fundamentalist.
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No support to the NATO Imperialist allaince.
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@mathildeyoung1823 Maybe you want to sit back while these politicians try to take away our rights with stupid laws but I don't. Wake up call!! A woman can't stop being a women. The average American commits "Three Felonies a Day." So stop breaking laws. LOL
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@shauncameron8390 They spent a lot of time writing and reading and made a living publishing articles and newspapers along with raising money for revolutionary activities..
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Skilled tradesmen are a better paid minority of the working class. Capitalism always works to reduce the wages of the skilled workers to those of the unskilled by replacing the skills with new interment in new tools to reduce the skill required to do the skilled work. This is a generalized phenomena with capitalism.
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This channel operates in much the same way the political followers of Chairman Mao do. A political topic is chosen and then a quote from Thomas Sowell is read after which followers dutifully hail hin a a great national treasure.
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@Zyo117 The capitalist want the system they have now.
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@pwp8737 Capitalism produces class struggle and class struggle is the road to socialism.
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@pwp8737 So is the PWP afraid of the fascists? Do we need to come to your rescue?
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@russetwolf13 The teach the bosses to be anti union in business schools because they explain that when a union is established bosses no longer have a free hand and profits suffer such that any advantage the union might provide the bosses like a more stable wrkforce isn't worth the added expense.
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@ds29912 Capitalism works to break up working class families with the natural way it works. Why pay for a worker and a family when all you need to do is hire a single worker?
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@thechiefwildhorse4651 If your a natural born citizen your born without a passport, a driver's license, and all the rest of the show ID cop nonsense. I'm part of Naval Intelligence you see I have a belly button.
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@PdoxDV Build a labor party based in the trade unions.
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@fullmetaltheorist Because the two parties give themselves special rights to get on the ballot and socialist were denied their seats in the New York legislature. Then in the 1930's you had Stalin's Popular Front theory where labor made a coalition to elect liberals. When the American workers as a class decide to form an independent labor party it may proceed very quickly with American speed.
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@daniangoodman-jones3931 Abolish private property does not mean. "We take your stuff."
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death to socialism All the rich people left Cuba and they are still going strong.
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death to socialism You want everything done for you. You tell me where you can become a Doctor and not take out about 100,000 in loans like in the US. The Covid death toll in the US is sixty times the rate in Cuba right now and they are on track to have the whole pop vaccinated by Nov. with a vaccine they developed. In Cuba the Doctors come to you. Here you can't trust the Doctors because a lot of them do stuff for the insurance money. Life is hard there one reason is the US multinational Blockade but they don't have the crime problems like in the rest of Latin America. You cross to Mexico from Texas and you see soldiers with rifles riding in pickups with one guy standing up ready to fire.
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@shopliftingshame8828 The rich should pay 100% tax on profits tax before anyone else pays a penny in taxes. Biden is a tool of big business and Sanders was a traitor to the working class when he voted for the Afghanistan war.
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Fook Yuu They are Imperialist countries without the military expenses of the American Imperialist they are able to buy off a section of the working class with a few reforms issued with the end of WW2 in the Western countries destroyed in the 2nd World Imperialist war. Rebuilt with US Marshal Plan loans. They are part of the world market and the capitalist classes have been unable to escape the Imperialist stage of market competition instead it has only intensified since the end of the Cold War and the crisis of 2008 and now the Covid Crisis.
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@macq1 The industrial workers produce surplue value so they should be paying no tax on their wages neither should anyone at that income level and then the profits should be taken first and spend on the overhead social costs of education and healthcare. Since Imperialist military adventures are unnecessary than all that productive capacity can be redirected into production for human needs of the people in the colonial countries to help them develop their nations instead of destroying them in the intestes of profit and foreign investors.
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@scorpion-fs7pg Well what were you trying to say?
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@SkyyPiano Number one the "baby" has no "right to life" if it can not survive outside of the uterus without medical measures since a woman has the right to chose their medical care including no care at all. Pregnancy is not a crime. Your rotten apple cops don't get the right interfere in something that is legal like pregnancy. No ethical doctor is going to perform a third trimester abortion without a good medical reason. Someone showing up for a last minute abortion will most likely sent to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation which is where all those hollaring that "abortion is murder" should be sent. How many murder convictions have you been able to sustain against a physician for abortion/murder? In fifty years I count exactly one. Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell would have gone to jail for murder with or without special abortion laws. Third trimester abortion laws are nothing more than "feel good" laws written by corrupt politicians seeking reelection.
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There is nothing moral about forcing a women to give birth against her will. I know someone who got pregnant because a so call doctor told her she couldn't. His reason being abuse suffered as an unwanted child who was later adopted. The abuse was no doubt real but the sperm only needs to meet the egg. It has nothing to do with abuse unless her actual reproductive organs were removed or severely damaged. Knowing her adopted mom she was sent to a Quack doctor who knowly told her that so a latter pregnancy could be declared a miracle from God. She had the child without a father because he wanted nothing to do with a pregnant girlfriend. She is raising the child without a father on welfare. She doesn't have a high school diploma because she was home schooled by a single mother supported by church donations instead of being sent to a good surban high school less than a mile away. Mom also could have sent her to a Christian high school but I guess somehow that just wasn't Christian enough.
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@Gambit22003 Well if it's a personal view and your not trying to force it on others who am L to tell you that's wrong.
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@Jon Smyth Like those good ole days when the Catholic girls disappeared for a year only to come back later with baby sisters.
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@RCSVirginia The "Free Press" helped orchestration of the US CIA anti Chavez coup that collapsed. See the movie "The revolution will not be televised."
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@julieharrell2585 I be glad to help you out if you want a baby.
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@ParkrosePermaculture People like you also like to throw around the term fascist at those you don't like just like another almost meaning less term free markets. Fascist refers to a counter revolutionary movement that came to power when the workers movement failed to take power in a socialist revolution. Free Market was originally a term invented by Adam Smith to describe the competition in markets with buying and selling of commodities for money. Today markets are highly controlled and regulated to insure profits go to the incumbent owners of capital.
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What's wrong is the US ruling capitalist class.
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War only n=benefits the tiny Imperialist ruling classes. Oppose your own ruling classes desire to go to war.
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@vincentzhaiven4017 "Give Birth or Die" should be the Pro Likers slogan.
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@zhaoxiaoying9894 The CIA always acts in the interests of the Imperialist bosses. Assassination and terrorism the methods used by the CIA never are never those that advance human rights. The Democratic Imperialists never had a problem with Stalin while he was fighting their Imperialist enemies Japan and Germany. If fact the praised his regime during the war despite his murder of loyal communist revolutionaries. The same is true of China when the Stalinist revived capitalism in China the US Imperialist couldn't be more pleased. Now that China competes with the US bosses on the world market they are singing a different tune.
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@marylouocallaghan9923 Defeat for Russian Troops i Ukraine. Cancel NATO. Oppose any more NATO or Democratic Imperialist interventions. Nuclear weapons out of Europe.
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You realize that a large part of the world uses the bidet instead of paper?
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@dai19721 How long before you start using old dollar bills?
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@bobahop1232 No I'm not a supporter of the New "British Imperialist" Labour Party that sent tanks and troops to defend the Empire from Ireland to Falkland Islands.
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@aidanmeyer69 I am a communist because i've been convinced not just by the comrades in the movemnet but from about 9th grade when I first read the Communist Manifesto then with the explanation of the Vietnam war being part of a battle by the colonial people for their freedom from Imperialism. It left me wondering why Communism had stopped at the borders created by world war 2. I also wondered about the question of democracy. I couldn't reconcile this seemingly contradictory problem until one day some came by an activist booth and brought up Trotsky. This immediately brought up a tirade of insults such that i had to find out who he was and what his politics were about.
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@petervan333 That true that the US/UK and Soviet Union all officially fought on the same side. My uncle had been in the Army in Europe and my dad in the navy in Pacific. But the promises of the civil war amendments had been ignored for over one hundred years when it came to people with a different skin color. I had an uncle with skin white as snow but the kinky hair of a Black person who was the but of some very bad jokes and Greek neighbors who could easily be mistaken for being black..We also live not far from a SAC airbase where plans took off and landed with nuclear weapons on board. This was also the era of the cold war when as a child we were supposedly preparing for nuclear war by going under our desks. Between the war and all these protesters being accused of communism along with this supposed threat from the Soviet Union would you be curious about what the whole thing was about?
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@dag3014 He is correct in saying no president has been treated the way he has by the political establishment. What they have done to him in terms of which hunting they usually reserved for Socialist or Communists like myself. I was 20 years old when the FBI showed up at my job as a school bus driver for an investigation.
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@enigmaticallis3110 Well why not hold a protest of the actions of the state government? Its a violation of due process clause of the 14th amendment for the state to remove him from the ballot without a hearing. You have a first amendment rights. Use them before you lose them. Don't be ashamed get angry.
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@michelleayres5608 That's true. The more who understood that profits are unpaid wages and inflation is caused by bosses raising prices than the more workers will either join in strike actions or unions to engage in strike actions.
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@OutragedPufferfish The railroad bosses have to justify every firing to the unionized workforce. That's why low level managers are not allowed to make the decision to fire. They only deliver the bad news.
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James C Besides the war on immigrants what war did you fight in?
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@alejandromaldonado6159 "Common Sense" was a revolutionary pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. Has he ever actually debated a Marxist or does he just debate liberals in absentia usually and then just make claims that liberals are really Marxists.
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Never happened in Cuba.
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@chungusmaximus526 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@eriktronstad8063 I'm the actual communist. TheMilitant.com
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@armonshakur_VMGmultimediaEnt. The failure of world capitalism. Milton Friedman turns out to have egg on his face.
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Lets tax profits at 100% then. Stop paying tax money to treasure bond holders. They should have paid taxes instead of getting paid interest on money they didn't need. Capital produces nothing.
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@shittyopinions Every state but South Carolina provided caucasian Union regiments. The South was unable to sell cotton with the exception of a few blockade runners and no other country officially recognized the Jeff Davis government. Most of the war was fought in Virginia and the southern states. The southern soldiers did not like digging trenches protesting that that was the work of slaves. The lack of food for Lee's troops resulted in indiscipline and soldiers raiding farms for food. Logistics was a nightmare they had to have troops on trains just to prevent looting of food.
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@shittyopinions Slavery in the south was replaced by the sharecropper/tenant farmer system with long contracts. This was latter supplemented with the state contracted prison labor system. New criminal laws for vagrancy and loitering with harsh sentences were used as a way to get around the 13th Amendment and provide the capitalist owners of coal mines and factories with cheap labor contracted out by the state.
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What your missing is the big picture of why affirmative action with quotas came about. The ruling class had imposed segregation back when it had given up on reconstruction in the South after the civil war. The demands of the proletarian Black rights movement became not just equality from that point forward but a redress of past grievances including the social exclusion of Blacks for all kinds of better jobs and education. People like Hillary Clinton at the time opposed quotas when she opposed Republican Senator Edward Brooke at her graduation from Wellesley college. However both the end of segregation and affirmative action didn't mean the end of capitalism and now some Blacks see themselves as not needing the program to achieve their status and others remain committed seeing it as the only way to guarantee both their and the offsprings status just as the middle class Hillary Clinton originally feared quotas. The ruling class itself sees the need to have a certain Black middle class to keep the more rebellious elements under control.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@henryc1000 Cuba paid Canadian's and other foriegn nationals with 20-30 year bonds at the 1952 taxable value I believe. The nationalized Texaco when they refused to refine Soviet Oil as a previous law required them to refine oil for the Cuban government. The US said its companies and nationals can not negotiate with the Cuban government for payment.
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Introducing a prayer for capitalism is about the best the bosses can hope for.
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@tammylaronde8593 Biden can't lead because he's in cognitive decline. Trump can't lead because many in the ruling class have him pegged as a dangerous nut. The Republicans won't cross him for the time being. They'll wait to see if he wants to run again before announcing. Frankly I don't know who the Democrats will run but I wouldn't rule out Joe Manchin.
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@imo9868 Yes we are well aware of Trump and his followers skill as physicians and medical experts. They are the reason why we have done so well during the COVID crisis. Trump is also up against a dead Hugo Chavez along with other right wing conspiracy bug a boos. Don't forget all those judges who betrayed Trump's claims of ballot fraud. Even Mike Pence became a traitor to the cause of Trump.
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@36inc The US Imperialist and their friends in the oligarchies talk about bringing "democracy" by use of carpet bombing, agent orange and napalm against people who voted against Imperialism in Vietnam and Korea. They kill without mercy including not just small children but even babies. Yet they claim to hold some kind of moral high ground.
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@36inc (Respect Free Speech) Che's goal of One, Two, Three Vietnam's was the goal of an internationalist. If the Imperialists were tied up in to many wars at once than that would become militarily and economical unsustainable even for a Goliath like the US.
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@KnightTutor South Vietnam was never a nation. Instead it was a creature of French Imperialism after their defeat in the battle of Dein bein phu. That the American Imperialist wanted for their Empire which they tried to hold on to by force of arms.
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@luism5514 What does a profile pic have to do with rebuilding the unions? I ues it to represent the early Soviet Union not the later Stalinist nightmare.
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Put him in cell next to Trump.
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@javiergarcia-ue9wm Bosses are doing all the work necessary for us to show what the greedy bosses are all about. Fight back with union power and a Union Labor Party in Congress.
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Trotsky was the first to write about the Stalin School of Falsification.
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MrSaiga308 That is basic US Gov't propaganda meant to deflect from criticism that it need not to have been used on people.
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@GenerationX1984 Natural the MSM is he mouthpiece for big business. Its owners and profit makers also.
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@georgegeorge6887 You can't easily import power to ERCOT because it is not synced to either the Western or Eastern Interconnect. If the whole national grid were synced then power like wind could always be available because massive low and high pressure areas across the continent would mean the wind always blows somewhere. Overall transporting power is cheaper than mass generation. This is basically a failure of the private profit system where individual power generators control production and reliability.
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They bring in fly by night contractors for inspections because then they can be blamed and the company can insulate insulate its profits from lawsuits. The Railroads got rid of the crews in the caboose which use to watch the train from the back for things like smoke from hot wheel bearings which were an early sign of a derailment.
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@hectornadal715 Another disaster for the working class by the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington DC.
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@walsh9354 Obviously you've never been to a desert area. You sweat without feeling it. You can dehydrate quickly. You need to keep up both water and electrolytes.
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@jamesc.e.s.4551 Capitalism working as should be expected.
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@dawnfire82 Tkat's all you have. "propaganda"
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@dawnfire82 Your kindness will be remembered when we abolish private property.
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He finds those that he needs to support to support neo liberal theology and provides the true believers in American capitalist opportunity what they want to hear.
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@johnr7365 That is what we have to come together on real and good current issues despite party label than organize visible peaceful protests. That way we can't just be ignored and just flap our gums on Social media bitching and complaining all day. But do not let up on anything you think i'm wrong about.
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Hamas is a capitalist party of Billionaires that live in Qatar luxury. They make their money by stealing UN Aid after endless war and say the refugees war creates are the UN's problem not theirs.
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@outbackgearforu I wrote that to specifically point out that he does not practice what he preaches. He is basically one of the anointed ones he so bitterly complaints about himself. He is a neoliberal and if you don't know what that means i suggest Milton Freedman both his teacher and the name on the Chair at the Hoover Institute at Stamford that he sits in. We went though a similar period called the second Red Scare begun by FDR with passage of the Smith "gag" Act and conviction of 18 leaders of the Minneapolis Teamster and Socialist Workers Party. That bipartisan attack on civil liberties was eventiall associated with Republicans because of Joe McCarthy although it was begun by FDR and ironically supported by the Communist Party at the time of passage along with the conviction of the supporters of Trotsky. Neoliberalism became mainstream with the election of Reagan a long time cold warrior and witchunter. . . .
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@simonrobert869 Bosses seek to pay the lowest wages, work you the longest hours and at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. The solution is to stick together and join unions to fight back against the bosses.
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@chseahawk If politicians were Pro life they'd close 800 foreign military bases and stop trying to starve the people of Cuba into submission.
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@danielthoman7324 LOL
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@vocalize_official Communism isn't about living in model countries but the revolutionary change to a socialist world.
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Donald Mackay The cop's have their own movement called "No Lives Matter".
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Stupid idea.
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@earlysda It shows the bankruptcy of capitalist development following primitive accumulation.
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@svs2699 YOURs is a "GIVE BIRTH OR DIE" movement. It basically outlaws all gynecological services as attempted abortions.
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@anonymousantonet Their is no American the country. What there is is a small group of super wealth capitalist and their hangers on in the middle class and then the rest of us. Any wars launched by the last Imperailist Empire serve the goals of the super wealthy capitalist alone. They with their wars for regime change, nuclear bombs, ICBM's and nuclear submarines threaten life on the planet.
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@ghrohrs2025 Unionize the "woke" with workers control of industry.
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@rocknroll1959film FDR had the Smith "gag" Act passed against NAZI's . The first victims in 1941 were the 18 members and leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters local 544. The American Communist Party applauded Roosevelt. As soon as WW2 was over and the alliance between Stalin and the Democratic Imperialist US/UK finished the Truman/McCarthy witch hunt began. The Smith "gag" Act was a key tool. Beware of liberals bringing gifts.
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@rocknroll1959film Sorry I don't fit your "Progressive Agenda" of learning good manners for the intellectual elite.
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That still has all happened under a bourgeois democratic regime.
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@mysterial_1 He is a liar he hes not spent his whole life under occupation. He spent time at Harvard University.
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@pokerbeast6402 A lot people are out of work now. Airlines are flying empty planes and a lot other crazy stuff is going on. What makes you think you've got some right to attack people who work at McDonalds?
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@vepraksoldat2963 Congress has an underground shelter.
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Mr Choo LOL LOL
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@GrandmaCathy Why do you think the ruling class sends their children to expensive private schools?
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Trump is basically a bag wind with policies that will fail to achieve anything. Want to change things join a union and fight back against the billionaire class.
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@T16-s5o Drug war and opiate crisis obviously.
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No the enemy is to be found in the capitalist class.
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David Quintero The problem is that Maduro refuse to lead a revolution like Fidel Castro and nationalism the Yankees and their supporters down to the nails in their boots.
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@pattyrobin58 Wrong it is dependent upon Canadian tar sands oil other wise their would be no need for a pipeline down to the Texas and Oklahoma refineries from Canada. Oil comes in different types of crude heavy and light. A mixture is best for refining which is why oil gets transported around the world. Plus most of the oil companies belong to American big business and the profits go into their pockets. Even BP is owned by US investors.
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@gloriamartinez4371 Ask them what?
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Russia and the Nordic countries are all capitalist countries with stock markets and their capitalists all invest in foreign countries where they export more capital than they import making them Imperialist nations.
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@gloriamartinez4371 "...they don’t do what the US wants..." Sure they do. The New York banks though the International monetary fund and the World bank demand payment on loans and so demand cuts in social services just like the capitalist state and federal government do here in the US. Isn't nice to lend money and get paid back with interests on national and state debt instead of having to pay taxes. You call it a Free Market. I call it being made into a government controlled over taxed debt slave.
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Russian and Chinese capitalist are both competitors and supporters of capitalism. In all various trading bloc agreements govern who can sell and buy what where. This is what the Trump trade initiatives involve. He seeks better trade deals at the expensive of the EU, Mexico, Canada, China and other trading blocs like the TTP.
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@soygolpista Obviously he doesn't have a clue.
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@sammack203 Do you build roads with road insurance?
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@Alexandra-fz7lk Sounds like a religious fanatic. Flat Heather's often cite the bible as proof. They also deny Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity. Their basic problem is the are unable to show that they have any theories of geometry.
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@Lord_Volkner Libertarians dream of a world with no class struggle. It's really as crazy as Mao making steel in every village or Ghandi home spinning cotton only on a mass scale. Basically it's a doctrine to justify capitalist exploitation. It's holy priests are developing it much like a new religion. The love a "free market". Everyone is going to sit cross legged outside their home with something to sell while their mate goes shopping.
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@jgalt308 The spiritual part is found in his theory of alienation coming from commodity production and the profit drive. This is how the spiritual is connected to the material.
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The actual cost of production is in labor time. The exchange value is something different as it is characterised by use including in other words need. Subjective value says the value is in the mind which is merely stating that nothing would have any value if living humans didn't exist. Or for those who like to overemphasize the individual if says only an individual can decide what something is worth. In which case anything that people use socially would have no value. Capitalism is characterised by modern industrial processes that are interconnected in many ways such that each relies on the other despite private ownership. Without labor operating the machinery of production everything would come to a halt. As you see the idea that things have only one value subjective or labor is a crude distortion of reality. It makes more sense to say that objects have both a labor value to find or create and a use or fetish value. Gold has a high price because of the labor needed to find and extract it. Its use and fetish value was in money and before money as a yellow metal for jewelry. Today is no longer used as money although the largest cache in the world is in the cellars of the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Gold is still used in jewelry and as an excellent non oxidizing conductor of electricity in microelectronics.
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@ExPwner We've always labored since men first walked the earth and used primitive tools. Money was only a latter invention of the Ancient people of Samaria. Even then Capitalism didn't exist until the end of the middle ages in Europe. People who lived in cultures without a written language most likely engaged in trade that was a form of barter and since they wouldn't have written things down and not yet have the mathematical ideas needed for counting. Money is good as a universal medium of exchange. The capitalist invests in both fixed and circulating capital. Fixed capital is the machinery, tools, land ect. Circulating capital is the wages part that comes back when the workers spend their wages and the capitalist collects his receipts for product sold. The English King George didn't want the American colonist to import money so they had to secretly mint Massachusetts Pine Tree Shillings with the dates of the English Commonwealth. It isn't capitalism without modern Industries, the use of wage labor and commodity production. Living on a farm and making handicrafts to trade is NOT capitalism. All of capitalist industry must be set in motion because they are all interdependent on each other despite being privately owned. What does Marx say in the Communist Manifesto as the goal of the communist? Abolish Private Property the property used to exploit others. Not abolish money or machines. Money itself has changed over time. It began as banks issuing receipts for silver or gold and that the continued right up to the great depression.Some bosses use to pay us in script that was only usefully for items bought at the company store. Union Construction workers demanded to be paid in cash because of bouncing company checks. Today money is no longer connected to the value of a commodity rather it is a fiat currency much of which consists of numbers circulating between banks, government and corporate accounts.
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@ExPwner Find someone else to play your childish word games with.
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@ExPwner You wanted to talk value and deny the labor theory of value. Then you wanted to ague capital was just as necessary to produce as labor. Then I argue that capital in its form of money value wages and modern Industry was NOT always used in human cultures. If capitalism is a hokey game and feudalism a baseball game the only thing that could possible be the same is the labor of the players Have I missed anything you have to say now? Unless you want to admit subjective value is use value I think we are done here because I'm not going to deny that something needs to have a use value in the human mind before it can have value. Maybe you should go criticise your bourgeois professors and their theories for saving capitalism from the capitalists own actions.
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@Budsc1 Maybe they'll all get on a Space X capsule for mars without enough fuel for the return trip.
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They came across legally. The walked right up to the port of entry.
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@deplorablewhiteman3628 The whole thing was kept under wraps for a week. One story has them crossing at Antelope wells, NM and then waiting hours for the bus to return but according to google it's about 1:29 hours and minutes to Lordsburg, NM from Antelope Wells NM. Border patrol has lots of vans so why weren't the used? I smell cover up and dirty cops.
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Do you prefer flashing fixed message signs or message changing ones. Say like, "Merry Christmas Stay Home for New Year." "Border Crossing. It's a Crime Against Nature." "Bad Hombres Stay Home! We Also Have Jails!".
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"I can pick and choose which company I want to work for."? They pick you, not the other way around and unless you have a contract stating otherwise you can be fired for no reason at all. It's called fire at will employment. If you work for company that produces a complex product with lots of engineers everyone including the production workers sign a patent agreement making your ideas theirs. This usually extending for two years after leaving to prevent idea poaching. If you work for a company that thinks the workers are stupid they only give the bosses a bonus for something new that saves them money. Capitalism in England built the first prisons and workhouses. The USA is the developed world's largest jailer both numerically and percentage of population wise. Sheriff 'Joe' Arpaio will cost an estimated 45 to 50 million dollars in what can only be called a liberal lawyers gold mine due to numerous lawsuits brought against him and his department. So far 8.1 million has already been paid out. Sheriff David Clarke had a prisoner die of dehydration when water to his cell was turned off. No one can even remember when something like that happened. Clark feeds his prisoners neutral loaf and juice on sunday like many US jailers. Clarke has been forced out of office and is now a Republican fund raiser. The end of a brilliant political career. Paradise is what Christianity promises along with an after life. Go and seek out the nearest Catholic Church for promises of paradise and after life. Life is not easy in Cuba ask any Cuban and they will confirm that fact. The revolution brought land and the titles to that land to all who wanted to work by it dividing up the plantations including the Castro family plantation and encouraging not forcing collectivization. Raft traffic has ended with the end of the US dry foot wet foot policy. Now an immigrant from Cuba must go through the normal US immigration process instead of the just signing a paper claiming political status. The US no longer wants Cuban immigrants or immigrants in general. A least one ex criminal is seeking political status by wearing a US flag as a caped crusader. He obviously hopes that he will get attacked so he can get political status and permission to immigrate from the US government. Yoni Sanchez seems able to write a lot of slanders, half truths. She gets funding from and speaks at the Cuban American National Foundation. She goes back and forth and in and out of Cuba. If the US is so fond of immigrants why close the doors and adopt a two party bipartisan policy to throw as many immigrants as possible.
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@franka2743 Break up the NATO Imperialist Alliance. Solidarity with Ukraine and end all sanctions on Russia. End the US Blockade of Cuba!!
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@franka2743 Millions of working people can!!!
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No doubt that they did.
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Doesn't make a difference even if they were doing that. He also could have ended it at the mediation level but decided to take it further. The police drive around all day specifically looking for traffic 'law breakers' is that a recognized defense? If the cops weren't driving around I would have been pulled over?
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US Capitalism and its foreign investors the US Imperialists are in crisis. The profit system is in decline because of its own failure in 2008.
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@dalegervais1462 Keep writing lies because that's all your capable of not a single tax dollar ever went to the UAW. Money went to GM and GM still pays it workers less than management. Write back when the GM CEO is running the company for a tent on an LA sidewalk with a "dumb" phone in her hands.
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@rob8224-x4h Start with the needs of human beings are you will make the correct moral decisions. The needs of women and children come first not the needs of what is just the beginnings of life. Women are the principal care givers and creators of children they should be the first to make the decisions and social polices should courage the protection of living beings not pre life as pre life between sex to pregnancy and then birth requires care and love not the withholding of care and love in service of an abstract moral ideology developed by a people to explain things they only began to comprehend.
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They only way things will change for the working drivers is to go back to union struggle. In 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression coal truck drivers in the open shop paradise Minneapolis struck and waged a battle that became the Minneapolis General Strike. Inspiring workers across the country and leading to organising both inside workers and the over the road central states teamsters conference.
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@grawss Oh so your another Libertarian who spends all day trying to separate Capitalism form Capitalism's governmental executive committee. Everyone knows those politicians are owned lock stock and barrel by the capitalist class. Trained in Capitalism's ideology at the elite universities and elected with corporate money.
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@grawss Do you really think I'm stupid enough to believe in the tail of Lemonade Stand capitalism? Where a poor boy makes good by fight off government lemon inspectors rising to the top like Jeff Bezos?
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@NaomiSims-id2vn Send them to the protective custody lock up because that will probably be the only safe space for them.
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@rumbleterrier3365 Trump no matter how heroic was destined to fail.
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@jabrokneetoeknee6448 Workers power is weakened by the class collaborationist leadership of the unions. Support for the Democratic Party in the US and the reformist social democrats in the so called Nordic countries where monarchs still rein. These Social Democratic gentleman keep the workers chained to the capitalist bosses despite winning elections. Their cheif role is to protect the bosses profits and property as the caretakers of capitalism. Their chief role is to negotiate away wages and increase givebacks to the bosses.
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@tomk4488 Weetern nations aren't interested in creating their own world market competition in Africa.
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@nunamorais4392 National "Frame Job" Security.
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Have you ever heard of a Boss voluntarily forgoing the biggest profits possible for more production at a lower price and profit level?
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Trump just doing what past Imperialist Presidents have done. International law or law of the jungle. Bushes' invasion of Iraq was based on a lie also. The Empire of Imperialist investors is in crisis. "Imperialism is the Highest Stage of Capitalism." By V.I. Lenin.
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@albertchurchill4845 To be a capitalist is to have a special social position enabled by the ownership of private property used for the exploitation of others.
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Do you know who your next door neighbor is or the person down the street or over in the next city? What do you want a dictatorship with a flle on every resident and citizen of the country?
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@roms7656 It was Micheal Faraday who discovered induction which where all of Tesla's idea's about AC power originate from. No credible scientist from any country believes Tesla's claim of practical power values for wireless transmission of electricity are possible.
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@bjorn-erikhanssen7946 Send a BIG thank to the two parties and Milton Freedman for Profit maximization policies.
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@walterfechter8080 Capitalism at work.
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That's correct Social Security was set up as a social wages insurance program not an investment portfolio.
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i can almost fart my ABCs Pol Pot had Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter as a supporter at the UN and also was supplied though the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. Next time you see Carter swinging a hammer for "Habitat for Humanity" think of Carter with a pile of Human Skulls.
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Published since 1928 The Militant is a good online source for the 1960's the Cuban revolution and Black nationalism in the past.
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@louisjgroup1973 End the 60 year Blockade against Cuba!
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The first aid to the Islamic Republic of Iran came from the Reagan Whitehouse basement when Col Oliver North sold missiles to them. Regan in his mad mans drive against Soviet power armed the Islamic Terrorists in their war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Just goes to show that the only allegiance the terrorist has is to death itself.
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@Bobbgeane For capitalism there is no such thing as a hopeless situation for the ruling class. They will do what it takes to save themselves no matter how many lives it takes in the process. If desperation sets in nothing can stop them from pushing the nuclear button except a socialist revolution itself.
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@DidiArte Orwell was a communists under surveillance of the British special branch (British Gestapo).
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@jamesp2333 I don't vote for parties that take corporate funds. That way you don't elect people who are working to make your boss richer and you poorer.
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Separation of powers doctrine means he can only be removed by Congressional Impeachment.
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@Balbuccijoey Bastion of the world revolution. However that center has shifted west to Havana, Cuba only 90 miles South of the most powerful Empire in world history.
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@mimsyborogove3906 Trump said he was cooperating fully with the government over documents and he routinely had them declassified before taking them to Mar A Largo. The residence was guarded by Secret Service Agents and Cameras. Warrant was issued Friday search wasn't conducted till Monday. Warrant charges that crimes were committed now the government needs to bring a case and reveal the testimony used to obtain the warrant or drop the case leaving it with political egg on its face. Russia has nothing to do with this or me. Communism is a political movement not a nationality.
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@calibean7736 I far from ready to canonized him or proclaim him to be a saviour but these actions appear to be completely unwarranted and just another politically motivated assault on constitutional rights by the FBI.
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These miners are standing up for all of us who've been victimised by boss greed. Cashing your check at your bosses bank for cash money when you get it is much safer than a direct deposit or depositing your check into your account. A direct deposit and check deposit can be reversed at the whim of the bankers clearing house rules set up before electronic banking made instantaneous banking transfers possible. This is an example of legal thievery by the banks.
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@RCmack And if Clinton was elected she'd be helping herself not the miners. All these frantic anyone but Trump liberals and Rhino's are upset not because they lost but because Trump won. You can easily see the people they hate the most are workers who didn't vote for their fake creampie promises. They have no constructive ideas whatsoever. Medicaid for all? Well a lot of unions already have a plan better than medicare. It's the same old song and dance about who gets what and who pays. We use to have what was probably the best highway network in the world. Now we have an orange barrel system.
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@emcemc7506 Black Lung payments were won in the class struggle between the coal companies and the UMWA. Obama played no role whatsoever in that. Plus I don't need you condescending "Try to Keep Up" Obamaesque attitude. You can try and keep up with me if you can. Liberal ideas of the past may have included unions but since at least the Great Railroad strike of 1877 American liberalism recognizes only the sell out leaders in the labor movement who can make great speeches with almost no substance.
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They don't give. They are Imperialist. They only know how to take.
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@ryanhutchins2634 "....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution.
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@PaulBengtsson The professors should have caught it when it was written not years latter.
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@uno9331 A union is what you make of it. The bosses would much rather deal with you as an individual because then they can more easily fire you and set you wages and time worked.
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@samgamblewhite8600 I don't like paying for the cops or for rotten politicians in the state house do I then get to refuse to pay sales taxes?
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@VidkunQL Ode To A Scab After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab hasn't. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust, or corporation Solidarity wins By Jack London
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@samgamblewhite8600 To have union representation the workers vote in a secret ballot election to decide if they want union representation after a card check petition of at least 50% of the proposed bargaining unit has been filed with the NLRB. If the majority votes yes then the union is certified as the exclusive bargaining agent for that bargaining unit. Making freeloaders pay dues or a payment in lieu of dues after the vote is taken is majority rule. You are not required to have union representation in any dispute with the boss. If you come along later and don't want to pay dues or payment in lue of dues then don't take the job. If 30% of the workers in a certified bargaining submit a card check petition wanting a different union or no union at all another secret ballot election will be held to determine if that bargaining unit wants the current union, a different union or no union at all.
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@samgamblewhite8600 This is the system already in place in the US. The argument by the oppositions is their claim that they should be allowed not to pay union dues as a contractual deduction from their paycheck. The Taft Hartley law allowed individual states to outlaw dues check off contracts. Those states with large numbers of union members like the Northeast, MidWestern and Pacific Coasts have dues checkoff while the less organized states like the Southern States and Texas passed antiunion "Right to Work" anti dues check off laws. The American auto assembly GM, Ford, Chrysler plants are all union no matter what state they are located in. The same goes for the big class one RailRoad companies. Boeing in Washington state is union as are many oil refiners. Most of the landline telephone companies are union while the cell tower and cell stores depend on the carriers and lots of cell work is contracted out.
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@Max Wylde The first amendment makes Unions legal. You beng a monarchists whats keeping you from moving to Sweden?
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@Max Wylde Hitler and Stalin both tried that and failed. Bourgeois Democracy is the best type of capitalist government because its the cheapest. It's only when the capitalist class see's itself being kicked off the stage of history that they turn from fascist methods to a fascist government.
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"...Yes, a union can exist, but it's illegal to use extortion both on members and on management to achieve their aims, ..." and you a member of the American Arbitration Association who's bourgeois legal education at the finest of elite Bourgeois universities qualifies you as the ultimate judge for "fairness".
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@АбонентДоступен-с3у Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@annpatterson7714 The problem for the bosses is what Karl Marx, Lenin Trotsky and Fidel Castro said is true. They don't like being told that their system can only lead to war and fascism without the working class taking power in a socialist revolution. Despite the hopelessness for the bosses their is no situation that is to hopeless for them. The only question is how many of us will they take to the grave with their system of profits and exploitation.
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@katweaselproductions6924 Yput just another Imperialist.
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@colby9743 No you'd rather hide out in your gated community waiting for Mexico to pay for a second wall.
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@Pixelarter The Bill of Rights and other sections were included or added to provide protection from a tyrannical government. It was also written to protect private property instead of feudal property.
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@alan4sure "War is a Racket" by USMC Major General Smedley Butler A self proclaimed "Gangster for Capitalism." exposes American investment backed by military force. "Al Capone operated in three counties I operated on three Continents." The US maintains over 800 foreign military bases as the worlds last capitalist Empire. Canada is totally dependent on US arms.
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@ernestkhalimov1007 US doesn't have to like them. All they do is write nothing but lies about Cuba. Twenty thousand died to get rid of the US armed dictator Batista. The US bombed Cuba with Alabama national guard bombers painted in Cuban colors.
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@christianr2897 I know it's hard to be sarcastic in print, US politicians are known for exaggerations and a movie was made about North Korea invading the US but I wasn't being serious.
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@christianr2897 Still in all they are called the axis of evil and the US does everything in its power to prevent them for engaging in trade or commerce with the rest of the world with its cruel multinational sanctions in efforts to strangle their people for disobedience to Washington's dictates.
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@chuckkady7282 Was the King of England elected or the Emperor of Rome? Or Pontius Pilate?
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Capitalism has come to the point where greed regulation is required by Federal Agencies. That is why the government bureaucracy keeps growing. The capitalist don't trust, believe or want the workers controlling things that OSHA and the EPA do from their headquarters in Washington. Yet they complain about the cost of these officials and agencies who themselves become corrupt.
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@guineapiglady2841 Reagan was President and scariest one of all.
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So he's a failure at being a professor but good at being an intellectual?
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@BGTuyau Do you usually ask someone to prove a contention that you have made? I have read his work on Marx and heard his childish reasoning on full display when being interviewed about his supposed desertion from Marxism. Marxism is not a new doctrine of universal reform but rather a working class movement. While Sowell came from a black sharecroppers family and held wage workers jobs he never to the best of my knowledge participated in any kind of Black, labor, socialist or communist organization before deserting marxism. When his professor who was supervising his undergraduate thesis suggest he speak with a Marxist economist he reject that out of hand saying he didn't want any outside influence. So what you have is someone who claims to be a Marxist who totally sits out the class struggle which is making headlines with the fight against segregation and the Cuban revolution in 1960. Where does this so called Marxist go? To Cuba? No he is ushered into a cush job at the US Labor department where he develops a completely unoriginal theory that the government employees have their own skins to save. Some how this convinces Sowell Marx is wrong.
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Ricky Unions are wasting their members dues and time by supporting Democrats. Charter schools: Nothing but a promise for better education by attacking unions and lowering the teachers pay. JFK was the anti union scoundrel who attacked the Teamsters union. The bosses see tax money as their money which is why the seek to pay lower wages to state employees like teachers, bus and train workers. For them thats money which could be lining their pockets.
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Ricky We aren't Democrats so we could care less about the Propaganda issued by the FDR regime. As a favor to his supporter Dan Tobin of the Teamsters his AG used the Smith 'Gag' Act to attack the Minneapolis Teamsters union and the Socialist Workers Party. It was nothing but a "frame job" head to toe.
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Ricky Investestors = Idiots with huge bags of money in charge of everything. Do nothing bond holders leach off of tax money. Tax them at 100% and there will be no need of a national or state debts. Those areas of the economy where labor can not be replaced with machines can not produce profits so those areas are passed off to government and charities.
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When did they use the word Socialism or Socialist?
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@ax8124 Sowell often reveals liberal hypocrisy but as far as proving much of anything like how welfare creates broken families and not the natural workings of capitalism well no. Black and white sharecroppers had families because they were tied to the land and families needed to farm the land. In industry the bosses only need a single worker not a family. So the change form sharecropper to industrial workers was what destroyed Black families.
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They called up King because no one at border patrol would talk.
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@ybrueckner5589 What facts? Vietnam was a nation that wanted to free itself from Colonialism, first the French, than the Japanese and when the war ended the French tried to retake their colony. The French were forced out but a Geneva "peace conference" among the Imperialist powers decided to give half the country back to the Imperialist collaborators who were suppose to hold free elections with the agreement of the Soviet Union and China. The free elections were never held and the US became the new representative of the Imperialist collaborators government. When an election was finally held the Diem brothers became head of government and the police. They were not following orders from the US Ambassador so they were killed in a military coup engineered by Ambassador Lodge with Kennedy's approval. Things got worse for the military government so instead of just US advisors regular military were sent to fight a war of counterinsurgency by use of masacre, terror and assassination as the United States became the new force of occupation. Like in Korea and after the Cuban revolution some wanted to use nuclear weapons. That risked retaliation by China and the Soviet Union. Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary? Japan was on the verge of surrender wanting to know what terms it could get and as an island militarily blockaded having its navy defeated. Nevertheless Truman decided to try out the new weapons and inform Stalin of the results.
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@simon359 Kissinger's problem was he couldn't control the class struggle and people like Fidel Castro.
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@EmpowerSportsMagazine We still publish The Militant and Trotsky's works. Pathfinder Press.
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@lisettbonilla613 "Nor Washington or Lincoln said that "a true revolutionary was a killing machine". Nevertheless both Washington and Lincoln had killing machines following their orders. Comandante William Morgan and others took up arms against the revolution and were shot for doing so. Do they execute or imprison those who knowing enable crimes of murder in Texas with firearms? How about all those movie stories of ex Confederate soldiers as bandits. Do the get away with murder at the end of those stories?
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@lisettbonilla613 Actually if your interested in 1960's massacres I suggest Operation Speedy Express.
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@lisettbonilla613 I understand the US CIA has been fooled for years by Cuban socialism in the CIA world factbook. You ought to run for senate as another Joe McCarthy exposing Communist infiltration of the CIA. US owners were offered 20 year bonds at 1949 tax valuations. US Capitalist government said nothing doing, refused to negotiate. Canadian's and others took the bonds. US says it has a perpetual lease on Guantanamo. Can I have a perpetual lease on a 45 square mile America Port and pay you $4085 dollars a year? The US launched a war on Spain in 1898 so it could take the Spanish Colonies of Guam, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. It was denounced by Mark Twain and the American Anti Imperialist league.
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why don't you ask Wall Street with their record profits.
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moshegoldberg9685 I'm not like Bezos and Musk who are having wet dreams of moving to mars after a trip to the moon. Maybe you should give them a call and see it you can get a trekky prize with a bowl of cheerios.
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@CrackedShells I'm only twenty miles from the Mexican Texas borfder. Abbott swoops in to make a splash now and again. Putting the wall though a favorite Republican golf course wasn't that popular. Space X is know for a few crashes also. Not much extra space in a 25x9 ft camp traller. Would you like me to send some up to your place?
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@mespabilo It will cost the boss some of the record profits.
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@musicaquecalma4134 I don't read or speak Spanish. I got sick of listening to the posturing of Yoani Sanchez. According to Western Media who couldn't issue enough accolades she was the one women who was telling the truth about Cuba,. Last I read she sits in a Mami University Professors chair as a "Presidential Scholar" nor smelling the ink of a pressroom she once claimed to be her destiny.. She's a big zero. Her confidence lies in educated "Cuban Professionals" probably people like you wanting the incomes of the west.
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@paladinsix9285 The poorest people in the world live in the United States and Western Europe.
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@dounghataiwataim5180 Comrade Kim of Korean Peoples Army say "Drive the Imperialist into the sea!!! '"
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@xShadowWolf17x No the right thing is to help build a fighting labor movement in Alabama.
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They walked right to the Port of Entry just as Trump had said all asylum seekers must do. They operating under the law of no compassion they held them for hours. It seems just a few weeks before they had no problem bringing in troops on helicopters but here supposedly they could only find a single bus.
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The United States is a capitalist power with a ruling capitalist class. With the Spanish American war they became an Imperialist power. Out of the Imperialist war to redivide the world came the Soviet Union where the Red Army would defeat 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. The hostility of the US ruling class to the anti colonial revolutions of the 20th century is based in the US having become an Imperialist power with foreign investments to defend with military force. The early Soviet Union gave support to the struggle of colonial and semi colonial people against Imperialism. This class hostility towards the Soviet Union and the colonial nations is why the US had the foreign policy it did and NOT because the ruling class loves democracy and freedom. The US and Western European allies feared a second front opening world war 3 in Europe over Korea and that and the fact that the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons is why the US didn't just expand the Korean war. The same was true in Vietnam the US did not have full military support from its Western European allies and Canada. Bombing attacks on the North and Cambodia resulted in massive world wide protests. Killing Soviet advisers could also result in further rather than less Soviet aid. The Cuban revolution was also in solidarity with Vietnam. The idea that the American Imperialist could easily win the war in Vietnam had the been "smarter" as the video poster claims is false. When they began investing in China they had no intention of creating a capitalist power that would become world market competition for themselves anymore than the could for see that their greed and NATO expansion would lead to the Russia Ukraine war..
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Society is organized to make the rich richer not meet human needs. As long as we have capitalism we will have homelessness because that's the best way to push up the price of housing. No reform can 'fix' capitalism.
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@Jordan-nw4sj I'm sure the Governor and state Attorney General are just real busy just and can't call the family, the hospital's Doctors and attorney to explain the law. It just goes to show how Pro Life these politicians really are. Pro life in words. Pro do nothing in deeds. No different than the reaction of both parties to the Jan 6th events. They decided to hide rather than talk to the people they claim to represent.
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@adilevnatimasheva4370 Sowell has yet to run for dog catcher. He's obviously too good for the rest of us.
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@reedwright301 So what all Sowell says is only trade off are possible. Like the rest of his nonsense that is untrue. Sowell plays the dumb one and pretends that trade produces value when he says it can be beneficial to both parties the same goes for taking risks where he says their can be big payoffs when taking big risks. As if gambling was not governed by the laws of probability and even if you can't predict the outcome it is has a labor cost because gambling doesn't add anything. He denies the labor theory of value for the subjective one by vugarlising the ideas of previous philosophers including the early classical economists. John Locke said labor transforms nature. For Sowell he pretends like all the modren bourgeois economist that the entrepreneur is producing something secretive not connected to his human activity. This is why he glorifies the capitalist as a producer while ignoring how production actually takes place.
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Capitalism doing the lords work.
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@hudsonh3985 Bosses often create their own problems by refusing to maintain infrastructure so they can campaign on having a surplus in the budget. Next thing you know potholes and boil water notices are going out. They close down highway rest areas because the don't maintain them then they say they need to do a study on reopening with limited services or permanent closure. Meantime trucks have serous parking issues and if they kept up with maintenance to begin with they never would have needed a study or a closure. Then you have bosses wondering why everyone is getting off the Interstate at private rest stops that provide showers, parking, a hot meal and creature comforts.
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@seahog1911 Those decisions to close down Detroit and Baltimore along with plants throughout the country were made at the highest levels of American capitalism. They decided that our lives were worth less than all the new rolexes they would be buying. If they did not want to take advantage of Mexican and Chinese workers they wouldn't have sought to pay them the lowest wages possible. They government works for them and they own those legally and illegally corrupt politicians and their two parties.
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Roosevelt and Truman started the Red Scare with the 1940 Smith "gag" Act trial of the 18 Leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. Jim Cannon's Testimony is published in "Socialism on Trial."
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@greggrogers6289 If that was true than big business would need government and keep financing two party politician. Thomas Sowell is a has been Marxist so was Mussolini what does "use to be prove." Some people change their mind on the theory of evolution also. I've read Marx and Lenin and listened to his interviews about the facts he learned at the Labor Department and I think proves him to be unable or unfamiliar with Marx's teachings on the state like on the Paris Commune. Lenin set those who backed off from Marx straight with State and Revolution. I guess Professor Sowell never read that short pamphlet either. You don't know almost nothing about us or our movement all your read is propaganda and half truths from scholars like Sowell. Has Sowell ever read Socialism on Trial? or you for that matter but you already talking about nightmares. Did you ever get nightmares thinking about nuclear war and nuclear winter? Or when Someone like Richard Nixon came on TV and said something like "We must first win the peace in Vietnam?" As he was bombing them back to the stone age.
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@MartinMartinm No I beleve your talking about Kazakhstan where sputnik was launched into space in 1957. Kennedy began the blockade as an effort to overthrow the Cuban government after the failed invasion by US CIA mercenary forces, Wanted to create hunger, desperation, loss of wages. 899. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 The British consevative politician Chamberlain meet with Hitler and declaed "We will have peace in our time." Joe Kennedy told FDR that Hirler was someone you could do business with. US never breaks diplomatic relations with Fascist governments only with communist. Would not recognize Soviet Union until 1930 after us/uk invasion defeated by Trotsky's Red Army. Did not recognize People Republic of China until 1973. Ever country in the world votes against US Blockade. Big lie told about how Lenin was in the pocket of Germans and Trotsky in the pocket of American Jewish businessman. Communist movemnet split in 1928. Lenin had died in 1924 but not before calling for Stalin's removal. Trotsky then took up the battle against Stalin. Stalin is the murderer of Lenin's Party and a traitor to the world revolution who allied himself with the Democratic Imperialists after the German Fascists broke their non aggression pact.
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A mass murders T-Shirt? Well shouldn't you be able to name not one thousand, one hundred, not ten but just one person who was unjustly executed? Someone who didn't hide behind a policeman's badge or military rank when they murdered and tortured those who stood up against the US 'Made in USA" dictator General Batita. Someone who didn't take up arms and became a terrorist. Someone who didn't put the whole nation at risk by getting involved in the drug trade or someone who wasn't an armed pirate? Certainly you must have a least one person who was as pure as driven snow?
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@MasterVideoStudios Too bad lossssssers.
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You don't see people wearing Kennedy or Khrushchev shirts do you? This guy Joe Rogan is basically a clown. Still waiting for the name of the single person unjustified executed.
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Only a beginning and ending node can have an odd number of bridges otherwise you would not be able to leave an intermediate node on a different bridge.
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@luissalazar2590 The bosses have no intention of raising anyones wage what so ever. The bosses will pay no penalties. It is just another grandstanding move by the bosses who seek sympathy.
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A capitalism in crisis will seek to make us take the degrowth while the bosses continue to live high on the hog.
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@kirkhall6169 Its a term associated with economist who can explain almost nothing beyond supply and demand curves. People who insist that class struggle is counter productive. Who get Nobel Prizes for essays on "Game Theory." Who insist that capital must be adding value to the product in non material ways. Its a whole cluster of Bourgeois Professors who are only jarred from their seats by the class struggle taking place outside their office.. People like Samuelson who had to pull his prediction that the Soviet Union would surpass the US in production when 1989 occurred and then there were the others who said it was the end of history and with a vicory and not another defeat for capitalism. People who said after taking the advice of Milton Freedman in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe they would become flourishing Western European Democracies. People left scrambling for the blackboard when the 2008 crisis hit. How could the neo liberals be wrong? Capitalism has yet to escape the Imperialist stage of history. For the world is divided into nation states that must compete in a world market. The biggest obstacle to American Imperialism in the Western hemisphere is the Cuban revolution. The Imperialist can neither forgive nor forget that Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement made a socialist revolution with no one's permission. A revolution made with all American arms. A fire that is still burning just 90 miles South that still threatens to engulf the whole Imperialist enterprise. Sixty years of blockade and terrorist attacks yet still unable to dissuade the masses from their revolutionary government and leadership.
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@kirkhall6169 D growth revolves around the idea that nuclear power is too dangerous as an energy source and that molten salt nuclear technology will never work. Once those falsehoods are recognized the whole D growth movement falls apart like the house of cards it is built on. Some one stupid enough to seriously announce D growth will probably be overthrown for being dumber than a rock. Greta T is being used by revisionist liberals as figure of sympathy to shame others into following an idiot who meets the requirements of identity politics. .
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@roughhabit9085 The first rule of ignorance is their is plenty to go around and Sowell is one of the best examples for that. If there was not enough to go around then our population would be self limiting like other animals and the theory of Malthus where the size of farms can only grow arithmetically while population geometrically would have resulted in a huge die off. Since the beginning of agriculture our species began creating a surplus of food production such that no one on earth needs to go hungry. The reason for hunger is quite simple misallocation of resources caused by the capitalist drive for increased accumulation of profits above all else. Half the human population lives in cities not the countryside where most food production takes place The population directly engaged in agriculture no longer as important as the population doing everything else. Yet the small farmer like the workers is being ground into the dust by the capitalist bosses market manipulations whose only goal is to enrich themselves at a cost to everyone else. .
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@Wew42 Section three was passed to defeat the real inserection of the civil war by Confederates officers and landowners that continued after the civil war the newly freed slaves were part of Southern Reconstruction governments and their fight for land, property, and rights. In 1870 Congress passed the Klu Klux Klan act to enforce section three. Nothing Trump did compares to what the slave owners did after the civil war. In 1877 both parties agreed to remove federal Troops from the South leading to a counterrevolutionary reign of racist gangster terror including an Congressional Amnesty for all but about 100 former confederates.
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@lordofthewoods This doesn't really apply because its to simplistic and only makes any sense when just two people are involved not multilateral trade packs.
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@lordofthewoods I assume US companies want to be paid in dollars and Chinese companies want to be paid in Yuan. The banks then trade money based on an exchange value. For simplicity 1 dollar equals 1 yuan in exchange value. I spend 10 dollars in China buying 10 yuan and a Chinese friend speeds 5 yuan in the US. buying 5 dollars. After the banks exchange that leaves the Chinese bank with 5 dollars and 5 yuan less in my friends account. And the US bank with 10 dollars less in my account. So which bank got the better deal?
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@visassess8607 A million people demonstrated outside of the United Nations against nuclear weapons in 1982. Reagan was in office talking about building a Star wars defense which was just code talk for a first strike nuclear war capability. Most of the cold war was spent arming dictatorships and thugs like Pol Pot and the Generals in Vietnam and Indonesia to kill their own people to halt the spread of communism. The Cuban revolution took place without any initial help from Moscow and Washington couldn't understand how that was possible. The US ruling class was angry when they atom bomb monopoly was broken and their role as the new Imperialist Power in Korea was challenged. General MacArthur wanted to drop nukes on Chineses cities and create a necklace of radioactive cobalt at the Yalu river. They had SAC Bombers with nuclear weapons on board flying over Canada up to the arctic circle in the air 24/7/365. Senators talked about throwing a nuke into the men's room in the Kremlin.
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Do the Imperailist talk about the 20,000 who died to get rid of their Monster Batista?
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I remember a Cuban lawyer named Fidel Castro and heard tell of a Russian one named Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) Do you think they should interview Fidel's niece Mariela Castro?
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In England that might be true but in the US ordinality the winner in a civil case can't collect legal costs unless the case was frivolous.
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@andrewjones-productions He needed to have a partner to avoid the changes of being a monopolist.
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Most economists agree? No most economist don't agree. Cuba never had forced collectivization like China or the Soviet union. So they don't have the problem of antagonism between the government and the farmers. This means the can get realistic quotas but what they can't do is avoid the problems of lack of spare parts and fuel for mechanization and the productivity of agriculture caused by the US blockade. Which much more important than incentives which can easily backfire into into less production in efforts to raise prices. If farms have to use Oxes instead of tractors than naturally productivity will suffer the same goes for the need to use manufactured fertilizer. Plus the farmers need a standard of living like that of the urban workers. They need access to industrial products to replace handicrafts.
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@daniellewis2133 Probably no more so than other religions. The only religion with a good reason for having prayer during school time are the Muslims who ordinarily pray 5 times a day facing Mecca. Other than that you can probably pray quietly during lunch or study hall.
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@tl1539 Its nothing more than capitalism with a counterfeit communist party in charge.
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The US CDC is a Federal Agency so things like ths start there not with US governors. While US Senators were arguing about an Impeachment that had zero chance of success Rome was burning. They are now caught up in a insider trading scandal from January around the virus. Only a week or two ago Trump medal of Freedom winner Rush Limbaugh was talk about this being a common cold virus that Democrats were using to bash Trump.
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@bosatsu76 So because he supports a raise in the minimum wage which the Democrats with their Congressional majority can't pass we are suppose to get all excited? Let him call for end to the Blockade of Cuba. Tell him to denounce Jeff Bezo's for his union busting scare tactic's at Amazon. How about he spend some of that loot for syringes and Covid vaccine for the poor of this world? He sitting on a pile of cash tell him to do something worthwhile with it instead telling everyone how hes has seen the light as if he's another born again Christian.
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Sure he's just another kind of Superman that one can watch on TV for entertainment.
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Free Gaza from Hamas!!!
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@ififif2022 The agrarian reform act gave land to those peasants who wanted to work it. The US maintains a sixty year long blockade and propaganda operation called Radio and TV Marti. Miguel Diaz-Canal was elected the same way Boris Johnson of the UK was.
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@morganhillfightclub2996 They say those dogs alert on drugs but how do you know that they just don't alert on command. What about when the dogs alert and no drugs are found?
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Trade unions is what cost the bosses the most and have the biggest effect on inequality.
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It originates in English law so yes other former English colonies like Canada have it.
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jhan bass Its an admission that the capitalist don't need anyone anymore since they've got plenty of maids and pool boys.
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America can now claim the highest incarceration rate in the developed world exceeding that of the of Soviet Union under Stalin. This is what capitalist Democracy is about punishing the poor for wanting what is advertised on TV and then stealing it. The alienation brought about by capitalism is also part of what drives drug abuse and the associated crimes.
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Go join Alex Jones on the conspiracy circuit.
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@OlJackBurton Look at how the price of gold has gone from $32 an ounce in 1973 to $1830 today. The price of gold was set in 1944 at $32 an ounce and back in the past it was around $23 . That is because they just print money and keep lending it out since if it came back to the federal reserve the whole worlds economy would collapse.
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@alandirigo2196 Wrong it was set by an agreement at the Breton Woods conference in 1944. American's were not legally to own it except for jewelry and industrial purposes for a whole period of time. That law was passed back at the beginning of FDR administration requiring everyone to sell their gold to the government at rising prices to deflate the dollar by 59% price of gold was set in 1900 at $20.67 by 1935 it was $35.00 and the $32 rate was lifted with the Nixon administration that ended the Gold standard because France wanted Gold for dollars. Prices rise as the Federal Reserve adds currency by loan when it sets the prime rate. In the past prices fell as the cost of production fell. To prevent profit rates going down the fed must deflate the dollars value by continually adding currency. That has the effect of raising property value in dollars and making wages worth less. That was the reason for setting the Nixon setting up the phony wage price board. Wages were held back in union contracts while prices were allowed to rise at the supermarket.
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@alandirigo2196 Well if other countries want gold instead of dollars that indicates the value of the dollar has devalued. The pound Sterling was pegged to gold by Issac Newton and stayed that way with a few exceptions until 1914. Remember paper money was original a receipt for Gold keep in a private bank in many cases. (The Bank of England was private at one time.) That's why the price was tied to gold. I think John M. Keynes was the one to come up with the idea that you could control the economy by printing paper money and lending it from a central bank. If you look at the Federal Reserve stats you will see that wages followed productivity until 1973 after that they have stagnated.
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@Cyborg_Lenin The man is a libertarian simpleton attributes all problems due to the bosses government not following free market theology.
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@jmd11185 If you put all the arms dealers in Jail who will bailout American companies?
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So if this guy is such an expert in politics and economics why is he in academia?
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They want 2oth Century wages? Ya I guess we expect better than 19th century wages.
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@donnaeturner We have plenty of good things that could get done without creating another reason to add to the military waste stream.
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@marhawkman303 Pregnancy is more dangerous than an abortion. So if the mother doesn't want to give birth for any reason that is the safer choice. Abortion isn't murder unless you want to call refusal to donate blood or a kidney murder because to be murder an individual must be involved and if the fetus is an individual it loses its right to the women's body.
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@marhawkman303 Because it is already settled law that you don't have a right to any part of my body. So if the fetus is a natural person it loses its right to survive off the mother's body. Now wither it survives or doesn't survive after termination is of no consequence to the women involved. Once labor is induced that's then the end of the story. Now it would probably make cesarean sections illegal but it would keep you happy right? Would want to interfere in Gods work and make a mistake now would we?
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@TheRealLesterGreen If that was true it would lead to the impossibility contradiction coming from the rising accumulation of overall social wealth seen in capitalism during times of relative peace and prosperity. Without the workers producing surplus value their would be no accounting for the profit and differences in profitability between firms, nations, industries, and time. It would imply a fixed pie with a zero sum total for economics. In fact labor has two values which make it the special component in commodity production. One value is that which is needed by the laborer on average to socially reproduce himself for the next pay period. The other is the value that at which his labor power is sold as the product of that labor which was done at the bargain of an average social value of reproducing his ability to work. He works only so long as he can make his employer a profit and he comes back to work only so long as he can reproduce his labor. Whittier he is paid by the piece or by the hour his employer seeks to get from him the longest hours, at the lowest wages, at the fastest pace of production.
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@temple1612 In CT we use paper ballots. A vote for Yang is a waste of good recyclable paper.
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@thomaswisniewski5380 Women have had abortions since the beginning of time. Abortion isn't murder and people aren't illegal either. I could make a good case for Christianity being a celebration of Cannibalism.
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@Runswithwolves6323 Say hello to the New Tax collection team at the Federal Reserve bank. They run a printing company in Dallas, Texas. Callec the Government Printing office.
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What we should be doing is building an independent party of the working class based in the unions not fixing a corrupt party of capitalism.
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The middle class is not an ideologically independent class its individuals must choose one side or the other. Because there is no private property with socialism there is no need for massive regulatory agencies (OSHA,MSHA, EPA). Instead the trade unions and local committees will take their place with scientific advice.
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In 1916 Lenin wrote "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." Nothing has changed about the world's nation state based capitalist classes. Their competition in the world market leads to Imperialist war. When the capitalist invest in expanding production that is the best the workers can hope for for when they drive up the value of fictitious capital in speculation eventually it collapses, the capital disappears, and an economic depression occurs. Her ideas of neoliberalism are the same as those of Milton Friedman. The same with the idea of the market acting with intelligence and being manipulatable by "economic smarts" who use monetary and tax policies to slove all pronlems. Her whole presebtation shows she has not read anything about even classical economists never mind Marxists.
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These are heinous crimes by Hamas that can not be excused. The Jews are the most slandered group in history.
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@JonROlsen You need to rebuild the union movement first.
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@wesleyc.4937 For all you know they are classified documents concerning secret decoder rings in cheerios boxes.
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@amity 150 I'm voting Socialist Workers Party not for a renegade riding on a Democratic Party white horse.
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and this guy is a fraud.
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The problem for the bosses is the union movemnet is an international movement of workers.
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There is a difference between conservatism and fascism. For fascists it's all about murder and shutting down debate. William Buckley debated Socialist candidates for President Fred Halstead and Vice President Paul Boutelle, Black Panthers, James Baldwin and others. If Buckley was a fascist he'd refuse to debate and instead hurl insults and make threats. So Greg which are you? Conservative or Fascist?
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Limited government doesn't mean smaller government.The Bill of Rights and Civil War amendments are meant to limit government power. The secession of the southern states was obviously a great federal government crisis. Was it met with smaller government as the solution? "Socialism violates the life, liberty and happiness clause" Sorry Greg but there is no "life liberty and pursuit of happiness" clause in the constitution. I've already gone over the fact that we aren't Democrats (members of the Democratic party) and your effort to smear us as being so. Anyone who bothers to read both the Constitution and our paper themilitant.com will see that you don't know what your talking about. As far as baiting us to go to war against Trump. Do military (marine corps) strategists take the bait supplied by the enemy? Think carefully about that one because the only thing the US got from Vietnam was John McCain. We make our own decisions as to when we will take state power. We will clearly have the majority behind us when we do. Trump and Sanders represent the political crisis in the two ruling parties. Some of Trump's policies are congruent with ours and the needs of the working class. Like beating back the spy agencies "intelligence community", a lessening of tensions on the Korean peninsula, and agreement with Russia to end the middle east wars.
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You can't carry out a purge anymore than a drunk named Joe McCarthy could. His biggest enemy like many military lifers was Jim Bean not communists. We turned the first anti communist Smith 'gag' Act trial into "Socialism on Trial'. FDR's Attorney General Bittle wasn't all that happy with his 'win'. Taking the Stalinist CPUSA to trial was much easier since their only talent was explaining the latest excuse Moscow had for its counterrevolutionary policy. We won the case of the legless veteran Jimmy Kutcher. How shameful to take a Disabled Veteran's, (a man who lost his legs during the second great Imperialist war) first real job at the VA, threaten his VA pension and his elderly parents with eviction because he refused to leave he SWP. SWP vs Attorney General officially ended the 30 year ongoing FBI investigation of the SWP. If Trump fires the 'intelligence community' and takes away more security clearances it will be your loss not ours. I'd be careful with the threats. You wouldn't want the latest google algorithm outing you as a possible terrorist.
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The Enlisted in the Armed Services are overwhelming made up of the sons and daughters of the working class. They won't be in any hurry to shoot down their parents regardless of how many "Oohrah,” “Hooah” or “Hooyah.” yelled by drill instructors and other lifers. Going for military action against your own people is always the last and most dangerous step taken by a ruling class and its government. Just ask Hosni Mubarak , Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Shah of Iran, General Batista and Admiral Kornilov how things worked out for them.
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@heffes1667 Who are you?
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@peabase My guess right now is you see everything thew a liberal-consevative defined world. That is not the same as a marxist one of class defined interests. There is no shame in telling the truth the shame belongs to those who lie for their own political benefit. Stalin destroyed Lenin's party and became the head of a conservative labor aristocracy much like the so called "socialist" labor leaders of the second international. Those who wanted to continue the communist course of Lenin in the Soviet Union were lead by Leon Trotsky as the left opposition.
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@TYKLE82 No they can't just raise the price otherwise they would not fight so hard against it. A raise in the minimum wage comes out of profits and cuts into luxury good production. Fewer yachts and more nutritious food being sold.
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@Philo Jones First you tell me to starve by not going to work and then you say I've never done an honest days work. Of course your idea of an "honest days work" is sweatshop wages with a union wage no doubt being a dishonest wage. If I get some skill I' be able to "command" a higher wage. First I have yet to hear of ability of a worker skilled or unskilled to be able to just command a boss into paying s higher wage. The bosses pay a higher wage based upon the skill level of the job not the skill level of the worker in a job. A skilled electrician isn't going to be paid an electricians wage if he works below his skill level doing something elsewhere.
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@intelliGENeration The Bill of Rights was passed upon the demands of New England's small farmers who wanted guarantees from an all powerful national government having the bad taste of the English King and parliament from the revolutionary war still fresh in their mouths. As Thomas Paine observed it is wholly due to the constitution of the people and not the constitution of the government that England is freer than Turkey.
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Ya that's why he killed himself in his bunker.
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Our goal is simple abolish private property.
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@herodotusdreams The state does not stand above classes on the contrary it represents a class. As Marx wrote the proletariat can not readily take the old state and wield its power. You have to build a new revolutionary state based upon the defence of the working class. That is the lesson of both the Russian and Cuban revolution.
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@ianrotten4453 Capitalism works until you need a bailout.
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@antoniomontana397 Sowell sits in the chair of the main theorist of the righteousness of American Imperialism Milton Freedman.
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Benedict Arnold was an American revolutionary general until he became a traitor. Huber Matos was a Comandante in the Cuban revolution until he became a traitor. Assuming this is true what exactly does Hitler being a one time communist prove?
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Nothing is Free in a market.
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@shauncameron8390 Unlike the bougoies who are divided by nation state in so many ways. The workers have no such insurmountable divisions and any such divisions stand in the way of common actions against the bosses.
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Speaking of Bears Biden palsn to release more Grizzly Bears for enviromental reasons.
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@S3Mi87 Friedman will be forgotten because he merely spewed propaganda and opinion. Communism is a movement based in facts. Friedman's theories like capitalism bringing freedom are already proving false. Just look at Saudi Arabia or how the liberal and conservative capitalists are fighting each other in the US. He died just before 2008 which once again shows that capitalism creates crisis and the cold war was NOT the end of history.
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@ummin3872 He was so sure of victory in that election that he burglarized his loyal opposition the Democrats.
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@orangefield2308 This is how the capitalist have tried to solve their crisis of overproduction which causes depression. By deflating the value of the dollar you can issue continuous wage cuts without looking greedy. Workers fighting to keep up with inflation are accused of causing it. Machines replacing labor done to increase the profit margin that end up cutting the profit rate now appear to keep thing going. The capitalist have once again fooled themselves into thinking the are getting even richer until an even bigger crisis hits like 2008. Book value becomes red ink. Capital can not produce anything for the simple reason that machines can only save future labor time.
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@carlos_herrera US Imperialist attack Cuba. US Imperialist say Monroe Doctrine makes Latin America property of US Imperialist. US Imperialist invade every Latin American country during 20 the Century at least once. US invade to protect bigger profits for US banks and US big companies investing in foreign counties. US Marines fight for bosses profits.
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@John-rv8ie No the general law of capitalism is the law of profits. The capitalist produces for a market in anticipation of making a profit. To do so he must sell at a price above the cost of production. His goal is to maximize profits or shareholder value. You can't sell to people who don't have the money to buy. The market fills with products of every kind and type until a crisis occurs when the markets become too full and the capitalist to successful suddenly like bolt of lightning out of the blue this overproduction becomes a burden as the costs continue and the profits fall and begin to reverse because the buyers can no longer buy the products. Profits if their are any are put into driving up the value of fictions capital. The bosses issue the layoff notices and the crisis then feeds on itself a solution must be found and what is it debt. Huge amounts of debt must be created to restart production. This then starts the cycle all over again.
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@mikesgoodmann9349 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Hitler got his racial ideas from America and Segregation. The KKK is an example of a counterrevolutionary gangsters.
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@a.bismail6492 I see the flag as a symbol of slavery and segregation because those were the people who made the greatest use of that flag.
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@Brennus of Gaul It cost Soviet Union about 26 million lives to defeat Hitler. The US based their Vietnam war time strategy on kill ratios and total killed (about 2 million of about 14 million Vietnamese). The goal being to kill faster than replacements could be trained. Since they lost in Vietnam its all about deriving the biggest numbers possible for their Human Rights campaigns to make the ugly face of US Imperialism look good. In the case of Cuba The Black book of communism decided to just create numbers apparently because the CIA figures were to low. Do the Imperialist ever talk about how it took 20,000 lives to get rid of their dictator General Batista? The new Soviet Union was the first power to sign a peace treaty during WW1. Exposing the wars real aim through documentation of secret treaties not a "war to end wars" or for "Democracy" but to redivided the world amongst the Imperialist nations. Have you come up with a figure for the number of lives saved by the the early end of WW1? How many American lives would have been lost had the Soviet Union not defeated Hitler at Stalingrad? Is the number of people who got their vision back or had their lives saved by being treated for preventable disease by Cuban and Cuban trained doctors ever included? The Cuban volunteer doctors who went to Africa to halt the Ebola outbreak saving untold numbers of lives had that outbreak not been halted. The Cuban government bases their foreign policy on respect for the chosen leaders of other nations not coup plots, regime change wars and having puppets declare themselves President.
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@d.gillis9660 She already been tried out by George Bush in a job at treasury. You know Bush Sr was the secret commie as Reagan's VP and former head of CIA.
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@jamesrichey I'm not sure what your saying? How do the billionaires absorb this through the stock market? Why does that give them dominance? Them instituting austrarity that I understand. They will try to make the unemployed pay for their crisis along with those that still have a job. They'll start cutting the UI benefits saying without doing so the unemployed won't return to work and for those who have jobs they will be telling us at work that there are others that can do your job better so shut up and keep working. .
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Its not a matter of them allowing it. Its a matter of us building it. In 1934 they weren't going to allow the coal truck drivers and inside workers of Minneapolis to get a pay raise and join a union either. A little thing called the Minneapolis General Strike broke the back of the open shop Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and the Boss Roosevelt regime.
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@ronberman8947 The US invaded ever Latin American country at least once during the 20th Century.
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@Idalych Wages and Prices don't directly translate across currencies and countries. Even in the US the cost of living varies from state to state but probably the biggest factor is do you live in a rural area or a big city. Very few people who come here are on the pennies on the dollar scale with those people most likely in subsistence agriculture. They will eventually want the same wages as everyone else. Capitalism always wants competition to hold down wages whether its native born unemployed or new immigrants. You can't expect the government to be doing you a favor by grabbing people off the street for deportation. Neither Trump nor the Democrats want everyone deported or all immigration halted. What they want is more control and to split any working class fight back. Rebuilding union power and a new labor party independent from the Democrats is a way to bring about change and to push wages back up. https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTuo.jpg
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@Idalych We don't want to encourage immigration but we must also recognize that immigrant workers are already here. We don't propose that the workers sit by while inflation saps our buying power due to the not so 'Invisible hand" of capitalism. We propose that the unions embark on an organization drive and create a new party of labor. Unions can push up the price of labor and decrease the exploitation of labor at the workplace while a new Party of Labor can fight in the political sphere for a minimum wage tied to the cost of living and increases in productivity. Now if you like those ideas and want to learn more I suggest TheMilitant.com
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@Idalych I am not trying to put words in your mouth or gain brownie points. More than anything else I am trying to say is that we as workers must rely on our own organizations to prosecute the class struggle. We can't expect George Soros or the Koch brothers to solve our problems. We have to recognize that the workers and small farmers in the colonial world our are allies not our enemies. Politicians in Guatemala telling their people to march to the border is obviously irresponsible. The result being is they are now refugees at the Mexican side of the border. Still economics is not a fixed pie. Using profits to boost stock price instead of investing in things we need and building more close to useless things like nuclear subs and walls or digging ditches to fill them will not help. There should be no 70 hour work weeks while others go homeless and jobless. You should not need to work two or more jobs to support a family. If we do not have work for some reason then there should be free education and full pay until new work can be found.
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@Idalych I don't want to put words in your mouth but my understanding of libertarianism is that seeks to reverse the direction capitalism naturally takes. Capitalism moves towards monopoly not small business. Competition within a capitalist country between different companies in the same market is usually settled peacefully through a court system. Competition between different capitalist countries and trade wars have lead to two world war. Prior to world war one Lenin had argued this was capitalism direction while Karl Kautsky argued no that the capitalists would see the destruction war would cause and instead unite into an ultra Imperialism.
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I would argue that Ron Paul and others are quite sincere in their beliefs. I would also argue if you allow the blind rules of the market to take over you are courting world economic disaster. After the ashes of WW2 the US's geography allowed it to be the 'ultra Imperialism'. The US publicly said that the breakup of the Soviet Union and a restoration of capitalist relations was a victory. Richard Nixon warned then President George Bush it was not a victory without a Marshall plan to replace the old Soviet Union. Bush at the time said we don't have the money and that was the end of that.
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@Idalych As far as classics go I have only a few pages of Das Kapal. One reason being is my generation was more involved in the national question (Vietnam and Black people) and what was the Soviet Union? So we would be more likely to read "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Lenin. "Value, Price and Profit" as Marxist critique of capitalism and 'The Revolution Betrayed" by Trotsky at least that was my development. If I had to do all over again I would start with "Socialism on Trial" because it answers lots of questions and it doesn't suffer from any language translation idioms and age of writing style. ir is not a long winded book (pamflet) either because its actual trial testimony By James P. Cannon and the prosecutor keeps interrupting with a get on with it attitude.
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@Idalych What is missing in your analysis is the role that a fighting union movement can play. Capitalism with its 'invisible hand' will continue as long as the workers in any country allow it. You can't wage class struggle at a ballot box when there is no real difference between the parties seen as 'major' and therefore the only real choice. Not only are capitalist police departments not going wage a class struggle for us but it will be waging a struggle against us regardless of what the shoulder patches say.
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@Mr.Needle-Hamster The natural workings of the capitalist system.
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@psycho.dad5252 Your boss knows that you will either quit or take his job which is why he isn't promoting you. Promoting people who can't do a job is a smart way to get rid of people who wouldn't ordinarily be fireable.
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@luxuscarnage4828 Of course not that would cost money and they wouldn't want to cost some skin flit his profits. You can grandstand about pro life, get the support from the church and pass $50 billion bailout bills for semiconductor companies who made big profits because they pay the campaign funding cost.
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@luxuscarnage4828 Two parties run this country and those with the money are assured that they get their way. Hillary Clinton said abortion should be legal and rare. Legal for people like her with money and privilege and rare for everyone else. That's is essentially what it is because abortion services are already available in 90% of most counties in the US before the ruling. The number of abortions had already been in decline because of better birth control methods and medical abortion by pill is available with an online consultation. It is nothing more than pure hypocrisy that will end up hurting those who need the abortion but not the politicians can claim that their hands are tied.
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They will also have to address the question of abortion pills crossing state lines.
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It's the profit drive that moves work from higher wage areas to lower wage areas and replaces production labor with machines. However the world is only so large so at a certain point this process has to end as far as moving production to lower wage areas. Then a new problem appears the workers can't buy back what they produce. The individual capitalist then stops or lowers production because overproduction has produced a falling profit crisis. Workers are thrown out of their jobs in cost and cost cutting measures. Taxes can't pay the costs of the unemployed so the move to slash benefits and throw millions out of their homes because they can't pay the mortgage or rent. Now if the capitalist really needed more educated people they would be lower the price of education as provided by their state. Instead they have been raising the price of education. They don't needed workers who can think. They need workers who will follow orders from the chain of corporate command. In fact they have spies reporting on workers who are deemed to 'know more than the should."
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The fight of the workers for higher wages is progressive but the workers must inscribe on their banner not just higher wages but the end of the wage system all together. Their is no such thing as a 'good capitalist' they all participate in the exploitation of the working class using the army of the employed to hold down wages.
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Like the French no chance what so ever.
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Lamont Cranston INC. I see now you want to sterilize us. We call things by their real names that's why it's called The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. You want to control reproduction just like you want to control immigration. Like I said we call things by their real names. That's why the real name for your grouping is not a Pro Life movement but Pro Death movement. You don't care if women die of illegal abortion as long as you can control most of us like any other capitalist boss.
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@Belinda.Villas Plenty of Catholic women choose the pill over the rhythm method. Its proven safe and effective more so than the rhythm method. Considering all the scandals involving the Catholic Church and child abuse I am wondering why you even bring them up. Cardinal Spellman of the New York diocese was a Pro Death movement Cardinal he blessed the Vietnam war.
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@salt27dogg It was a reckless action by Khrushchev since the plan to install the missiles secretly was never all that believable by the Cubans including Fidel. The Cuban's went ahead with the plan as they felt obligated by solidarity. Kennedy went to a state of nuclear
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@Isaiah_45_7 WarGamer Hosea 13:16 KJV You God is a self admitted war criminal.
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@jessicascrazylife3530 Because first of all your argument is one of some kind of moral superiority. So you keep your legs closed!! Oh how intelleget of you!! Oh I had six and I didn't have any complications. So what? Have you ever played a game of chance or does your religion forbid that also? Get yourself a pair of dice and roll them. Write down to total of the dots on top of the dice. Now keep roll them for maybe 100 times. I can tell you that the most likely number you will role is 7 because you can get that sum with 1 and 6, 2 and 5, 3 and 4, 4 and 3, 5 and 2 , 6 and 1. now with 2 as the sum you can only get that 2 ways 1 and 1, and 1 and 1 the same is for 12 only 6 and 6, and 6 and 6 so the most unlikely total is 2 or 12. That is the way probability works. So each time you get pregnant and bring your pregnancy to term you risk of death is like another roll of the dice. The other choice is to have an abortion which is less likely to result in death. The insurance companies know this and that's why they are much happier to pay for abortions than childbirth. Not to mention what happens when they have to pay for children's childcare.
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@jessicascrazylife3530 I love hearing about how the upper and middle class "..takes personal responsibility..". The whole reason for founding a company is to avoid personal responsibility. Sure you like throwing a few tax dollars at single mothers and even better if you can get a preacher involve to provide more nonsense about how god works in mysterious ways. If he is so mysterious why even bother listening to idiots who can add nothing?
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@jessicascrazylife3530 Sure you claim it's murder as if people have not been killing each other in wars for property and religion. The English just ended their last religious war in Ireland with the Good Friday agreements in 1999. Government wants the poor to bear children while the rich and middle class get the option of abortion. They need more bodies for soldiers and minimum wage jobs. That is why the first attack on abortion rights after Roe v Wade was the passage of the Hyde amendment to prevent federal medicaid money paying for poor women's abortions.
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@scorpion-fs7pg If you looking for sex change so far unless you born with both parts you stuck with what you have.
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@scorpion-fs7pg The rights of babies begin after birth. You problem is you don't trust women but you do trust preachers and the police. After all a preachers has read the bible over and over again and the cops know the difference between right and wrong. That's why they well be hot on the trail of possible abortions using SWAT teams along with informers in Doctors offices. No miscarriage can go uninvestigated. Just to make their job easier they will require all pregnancies be registered and than matched with records of birth or missacage. You won't mine giving up your rights as long as the cops protect you am I right? Oh yes it will be wonderful world and everyone will be happy reading the bible before bed time.
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@scorpion-fs7pg Who is going to enforce your no abortion ban? Sheriff Andy Griffith and Barney Fife? Mayberry may never be the same.
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@scorpion-fs7pg "...who are you to say how old a child should be in order to be protected." I could ask the same question of you. So that is a ridiculous question that needs no answer.
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@ngif1736 So what are you going to do have required psychiatric exams before an abortion can be performed? The psyrinks are lucky if they can tell the difference between a mass murderer and someone really pissed off 5 minutes before the wrong guy commits mass murder. Those people hollering murder and going nuts for Jesus outside the clinics are the ones who need psychiatric help!!!
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@ngif1736 All the Pro Birthers purpose is to halt all safe and legal abortions. If that is what you want then your no different than the rest. As far as demonizing those who believe in Pro Birth well keep them out of the Pro Birth movement and you won't get demonized. No I see no reason to let the corrupt politicians, the rotten apple cops and the sky pilots off the hook. Sleep with dogs and you get fleas. Actually the number of abortions is in decline because of better birth control which all you Catholic friends who follow the Popes edict also want declared illegal. It is not a question of will women seek and get abortions instead its a question of access to a safe and legal abortion. Will only the wealth have access to safe abortion care or will all women have access to safe abortion care. The fist attack on abortion rights was the Hyde amendment directed at those who would get access through federal medicaid funds. So as one sees its started with another attack upon poor women and working class. If you and your highly moral friends don't want an abortion then don't have one. No one is forcing the women in your congregation to get them.
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@ngif1736 Kermit Gosnell Who murdered 3 infants born alive after his 3rd term abortion screw ups. He's the kind of Physician who shouldn't be proscribing an aspirin.
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@ngif1736 Abortion is political because a section of the ruling class has made it political. Your not a doctor and neither am I. I know enough about medicine that given our current knowledge they can't predict as much as an electrical engineer like you can. If you had the choice of eye surgery done by a doctor with what amounts to an exacto knife or a robot with the same knife under control like a modern hard drive electromechanically picking out the correct cylinder to read from? Unfortunately I had the exacto knife procedure and the outcome was poor. I didn't lose all my sight in that eye but for the time being nothing can be done. Someday maybe the only need for abortions will be medical. That isn't today. The anti abortion forces are against birth control also. That should be a clue for anyone who looks at who they have with them.
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@johnnyrebel3340 I'm not a doctor so I'm not going to get into the technicalities of abortion medical care. You have a right to decide what medical you want and what you don't. In the case of children the parents or parent have the right to make that decision. Refusing extraordinary measures is already a right of parents for their children. You also have a right to give birth at home or any other place you choose without a physician. Someone shows up at an abortion clinic who asks for an abortion. An examination puts her into a gray area of possibly being viable. Do you tell her to go away we can't help you? Or after a discussion with her do you give her a shot which will induce labor which then results in a preemie. Now are you obligated to take extraordinary measures to save the life of the preemie? What if the women had a natural born preemie in the gynecological doctors office? Maybe she had the preemie at home and alone. If the preemie dies at home or on the way to the hospital is that now going to be a crime? I don't pretend to know anything beyond what seems reasonable. You want to talk about situations like 8 month 29 day abortions accomplished by cutting the spinal cord while the baby is already in the birth canal. Then form there you what to extrapolate into writing regulations for all possible situations. Do you also plan on stationing the police to watch and investigate gynecological offices for possible law breaking abortion doctors?
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@johnnyrebel3340 "Culling the population" is conspiracy theory.
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@ngif1736 I don't vote for or support either party but I'm not a fence sitter or centerest either. Fence sitting is right for those who don't understand a political argument. Fence sitting is also the position of the political scoundrel. Prior to the last presidential election each of the candidates moved toward each other until the election put one of them in the White house. Then one or the other conceded to the victory of the other.
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@ngif1736 You want to put trust into people who don't deserve it. Now your calling yourself mainstream which is a typical centrist argument. Vote for me or follow me because I'm mainstream. Forget about the issue because I'm in the middle and the middle is where everyone agrees.
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@mariyarybak6109 On her deathbed she said she was paid to be pro life. They paid her to say what they wanted her to say. She sold her soul for a pot of gold or at least what she felt she needed to survive in a capitalist country.
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If that we true you couldn't be imprisoned only deported. Like a diplomat.
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The DSA was founded by Michael Harrington its goal from the beginning has been to take over the Democratic Party instead of building a new party. This is what the radical Peter Camejo said about that strategy in 1976. "We must go out and tell people the truth about the Democratic Party. It's a war party; it's a racist party; it's a sexist party; and it's anti-labor. And the minute you start telling people to join such a party, you've undermined your entire ability to have a strategy for social change."
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The class struggle is the motive force of history that's why history is important. The ruling class would like everyone to come down with a case of amnesia and early onset alzheimer's. They don't like the truth being told and their spokespersons like to either rewrite history to make American Imperialism look good or make them into the victim when really they are the criminal.
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Canada has yet to reach the point where the Social Democrats (New Democratic Party) control the Canadian federal parliament if history serves me well. They did at one time control some provincial governments. Canada also has an appointed Senator for life system and the Queen of Canada is still sovereign So Canada has yet to become a Republic and your Charter of rights and freedoms is much less radical than the US Bill of Rights and civil war amendments. You can correct me if I you think I am wrong. As far as costs and outcome the Canadian healthcare system is better. As evidenced by a longer expected lifetime at birth 80 years, You do pay a very high sales tax of about 15%?
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The happen because of the drive for profits over all else. To drive profit their way the bosses must cut labor time yet because the capital value keeps rising the rate of profit keeps dropping as the amount of labor that can be exploited becomes less. This is why the bosses let industry go into decline and once it becomes to much of a problem for the capitalist system itself than the bosses go hat in hand for a bailout from the government. This is why on international scale railroads have to be nationalized because the market capitalist system doesn't work for highly capitalised industries.
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@jimbo2227 No the argument concerns the nature of the state. If you don't have a workers state to defend the new relations of production than you will be easily overrun by capitalist states and the old state apparatus resulting in a defeat. The revolutionary situations appeared what was lacking was a leadership that could carry the revolutions forward.
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@Dungeoneer420 Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union.
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@talldavid30 You mean Jan. 6th the day the Sheep became afraid of the cry's of the Lambs?
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"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation." Nice try but no evidence exists for that quote. "The goal of socialism is communism." In the historical sense yes but the Social Democrats (or Democratic Socialists) who vote for Imperialist war credits like Sanders were denounced as "..traitors to the working class." by Lenin Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priest. Its starts with facts. It is the modern class struggle going on before our eyes and one classes history of both victories and defeats. Inflation is created by the central bank as a means to cut wages by allowing bosses to raise prices while holding down wages.
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@oscarinacan That's the whole theory of markets making intelligent decisions, Like other bourgeois economist he believes in money being equivalent to votes and creating a bougois paridice that is free to choose. As far as Sowell is concered you don't need to learn how business works that to much for the reader of book of about a 700 pages. You read wage labor and capital or Value Price and Profit you'll come away with knowing more than that whole book will teach you.
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Certainly its linked to the Huawei case. Trudeau needs a reason to enforce US foreign policy in Canada without looking like a Canadian stooge of the Trump administration. Until Trump came into office the Iran nuclear deal was finished as far as the EU Canada and the rest of the world was concerned. Huawei has also be told that any 5G equipment it builds will not be sold in the US/UK, Australia and New Zealand with threats to national security being raised as an excuse to keep China out of their markets. Canada as an addition 10% of the US by population under a crown government set up by the British Empire is expected to follow suite but has yet to announce its marriage plans.
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@sennaha He begins his 915 page explanations of Basic Economics with the Garden of Eden from the bible and Genesis. Like the rest of his work it's meant to mystify though the use of notions and citations much like the work of a biblical scholar. He could have saved the reader a lot of time by recommending Marx and Engels basic works on economics Wage Labor and Capital or Value Price and Profit.
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@leejouglard8602 Left wing Right wing doesn't apply to American politics since we never had a monarchist party like France which where that comes from. Before the civil war the Democrats ended up supporting Southern slavery while the Republicans formed a new Party dominated by Northern Industrialist that opposed any expansion of slavery. Unlike Europe American capitalism has never had a crisis big enough to produce a mass socialist or communist party. FDR tasked the FBI as a political police force to counter a rising Militant Labor movement in the 1930's.
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@GCEXTREMEMN The two party system is a fixed game. The big donor contribute to both saying, "May the best man win." because both are in their pocket. They always give us the same choice more taxes on us and better services or less taxes on us and poorer services. That's no choice at all. The bosses go laughing all the way to the bank. Since they can't make profits with production anymore their shifting to giving themselves free money from the central banks.
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The company got what it could expect when the let the contract expire.
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@tomjscott Sorry but the religious ship of "Just say No" sailed a long time ago. Nothing stopping you from becoming a monk though is it?
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@tomjscott So you go ahead and live your life that way. You go ahead and talk about sin but remember we have religious freedom in this country so we don't have to follow your particular brand of bible thumping. You haven't proven anything since plenty of people enjoy sex and make use of birth control.
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@tomjscott What's stopping you from becoming a monk? You don't have to have sex and that should make you happy. Why do you feel the need to tell everyone else how to live their lives with your so called truths?
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@tomjscott Sure a women can use abstinence, birth control or abortion to prevent or end an unwanted pregnancy. You can also have all the children you want if you decide not to be a monk. No one is requiring you to have an abortion.
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The American Imperialists Investors Empire has been in and out of crisis such that is unquestioned leadership of the quote "free world" is being questioned in foreign capitals.
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@chasbodaniels1744 Sure you look down on us and we look down on you for being sold out to the highest bidder.
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@tylerham5726 The US Military has been defeated by small arms militia in Vietnam and Afghanistan. A national militia is a very effective fighting force as shown by the Cuban revolution which defeated US supplied Dictator Batista with small arms all made in the US.
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@Outrunninaround. Bosses engaging in monopoly price fixing. The fear unions which is a reason for them to pay more. You strike and you cut off the source of profits which is labor.
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@anmona4803 The US has a for profit system for healthcare. Instead of educating enough Doctors it has to rely on one new immigrant doctor doctor for every three who retire.
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@brandondavidson4085 Since the end of reconstruction rights under US capitalism have never been given but taken. The same goes for European capitalism any rights the workers have had to fought for and taken from the capitalist governments. Capitalist law grants nothing but words on paper. Every right in the US Constitution has had to be fought for over and over again because with capitalism no rights the workers ever have have any permanence. What they give one day while saying how grateful to us they are they look to take away by use of the other party tomorrow.
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Just another attack upon free speech disguised as a national security issue.
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@highcouncil1302 Ya High Council just the user name shows your desire to make yourself into a small ruling group which is what a High Council is. Should we bow down to your highness? If your going to slander Cuba's leaders with an unprovable slander at least get Fidel's brothers name right its Raul not Raphael. I guess they stopped slandering Fidel and Raul as billionaires because that would make Trump possible less successful so now the slander has been lowered to millionaires.
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@highcouncil1302 (Respect Free Speech) Hows that "High Council" working out? Is your council getting a lot followers? After all you can't have a High Council without a lower class or caste. Every time you launch insults that makes all that more interesting. If Raul is just a millionaire why doesn't he just take his loot and move to Miami? Certainly Trump has no problems with the Royal Saudi's who are billionaires.
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@highcouncil1302 (Respect Free Speech) Ah so that's the reason Forbes magazine reduced him from being a billionaire to a millionaire after all a Billionaire makes laws instead of having to follow laws. How are you doing with your "High Council" getting any volunteers to live under the rule of the "High Council".
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@muchoed5119 Bank failures occur due to the natural working of the capitalist system. Neither reduction or increase in regulation can prevent them. The federal bureaucracy cycles in and out of the industries they regulate. You can be sure that these regulators won't bite the hand of their future empoyers.
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@nate2855 Support the Railroad workers No Government strikebreaking. Repeal the Railway "slave" labor Act make the bosses come to the table. No using bought and sold politicians. The railroad bosses have been making record profits.
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@terrywilliams3925 Orwell was a Trortskyist who became disillusioned after fighting in the Spanish civil war where Stalin ordered the murder of 100's of members and leaders of the Spanish Communist Party who sided with Trotsky. He died before Stalin did in 1953 and never lived to see the 1959 Cuban revolution.
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@wegfarir1963 Modern Imperialism is characterised by foreign investment that skews development of industry to the needs of the Imperialist nations home market and a higher rate of return for the Imperialist investor. The Imperialist institutions set up post world war two are meant to continue this in uneven development for the sake of profits because direct military control by the Imperialist powers was no longer possible. The fight against Imperialist exploitation was taken up first by the bolsheviks with recognition of autonomy up to an independent republic for the nations within the Czars prison house of nations. Unlike the League of nations which was nothing but a gabfest among the Imperialist powers about colonialism after the failure of the early revolution in Germany. Lenin and the bolsheviks vowed to tear Imperialism limb from limb with the 1920 Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku. New Communist Parties would be founded among workers in countries that never had a Social Democratic Party like China. The colonial people would now recieve Soviet Aid to break the chains of colonialism and capitalist slavery. While the Imperialist Powers held a gabfest of talkers at the League of nations.
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@wegfarir1963 With the death of Lenin in 1924 a split developed in the Party and later the Communist international over a number of issues including nationalism. While Lenin had declared war on Great Russian Chauvinism Stalin revived it. The Soviet Union was never conceived as being a nation rather a federation of Socialist Republics with autonomous regions. Both Tito and Mao sided with Stalin in the dispute with Trotsky. It wouldn't be until the 1959 Cuban revolution that you would see a rival of the revolutionary ideas of Marx and Lenin. Cuba's role in world politics was always different than the Eastern bloc, China or the old Parties of the Communist International. As is our movement which has been in the United States since 1928 publishing The Militant.
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@wegfarir1963 I can't tell you about everything that went on in the Soviet Far East or China because we lost access (and I don't claim to know everything either.) when Stalin murdered all his political opposition including most of the original leaders of the Soviet Union. You can go through our paper and see that we told the truth about what was known at the time. We know about the injustice involving the nationalities like the Ukrainians, the Volga Germans and the Tarter's deportation. .You can go back in history and I don't think you will find anyone else's who actual did something about colonialism from Europe itself. Lots of American Indian tribes lost their languages and cultures also but until Lenin and Trotsky ideas reached here no one gave a damn about their cultures either. You looking at things today and certainly everyone knows about the injustice of Stalinism. That was not clear except among the Trotskyists even when I was a young person. Go ahead search and you will read about the 1953 Strike by workers in the German Soviet Zone. The 1956 Hungarian Rebellion and the 1968 Prague Spring. We lost comrades on ships bound for Soviet Union hoping to meet revolutionaries during the war. We aren't professors sitting in privileged university giving lectures on safe spaces. We are people who have taken risks to get out the truth when it was unpopular. Communist Imperialism? Do you even know what the economic definition of Imperialism is? Or do you just throw about words like sailor swearing up a storm to sound smart because you read some book a professor wrote? How should I know everything about what China is doing in Tibet? You want me to defend the CCP policies well I don't! Sorry Bud but gio ask the CCP!!! smart ass!!!.
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@wegfarir1963 I don't have the slightest idea of what you are taliking about when you say Soviet plans didn't help. Ww are not going to "adopt plans" that call for Muslim Caliphates or returning the Dali Lama to power because Western intellectuals pretending to be indigenous think this is a good idea. Your already convestant in English we aren't going to reject the idustrisl revolution for advancing some tribal form of development. In other words we are going to pretend that going back to the past is a better way of living but you go ahead and move into a hut and work like a 14th century peasant if thats the life you idealize.
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@cavelleardiel Taxes? If its anything like the US Taxes are always the bosses responsibility to collect and pay. First at the workplace than at the store. As far as respect for law I think Mr. wise already showed with the crime rate that to be bogus. As far as racism goes unless you can show laws, unaccounted for patterns you pretty much stuck with having to accept that the obvious victims of racism from the past in Europe were national minority groups like Jews and non white people for Sweden. Seems rather ridiculous to be accusing newcomers for racial discrimination unless were able to take over the nations institutions somehow like when Swedish UN Troops stood by while Patrice Lumumba was murdered.
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@mvs3553 When men get pregnant they will want abortions.
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@johnnyrebel3340 No that's exaggerated BS. Your a Pro Birther. Who has no moral ground to stand on to begin with Trump like Obama before is responsible for war crimes carried out by his Saudi allies. Including the murder of children on a school bus from a bomb dropped from above. You want the corrupt politicians along with the rotten apple cops to do your dirty work. To punish women for getting pregant. I could care less about the thinking of your sky pilots who consult a book of an evil God. EvilBible.com
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@digitaldaydream420 Biden and the Brass can't face the music so they put a USMC Lt Col in the Marine corp brig.
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@Greg Smith "....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution.
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@Abdominal65 They could always hold hearings on who read the communist manifesto.
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@nobonesaboutit7639 Belief in a non aggression principle is just that another religious belief. What does it have to do with abortion?
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@nobonesaboutit7639 Why do you think a law will give a fetus a right it can't have to begin with? Now are you going to investigate every miscarriage as a possible abortion?
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If Clinton had done it all the hard ass Clinton supporters would be talking and explaining how necessary it is.
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"Enemy of the people" was the slanderer Stalin used against all those who had political disagreements.
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@MattG-n2z People have been moving from place to place since the birth of our species. The United States has always had immigration since its founding other countries in the Western hemisphere have seen large scale immigration in the 19th and 20th century. What's crazy is Trump blaming immigrants for the capitalist systems problems.
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Bourgeois like yourself no doubt.
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@pp-bb6jj He continued a war he promised to end. The overspending on war would set in motion the end of the gold standard and the Bretton Woods currency exchange agreements.
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Work ethic was nothing more than capitalist propaganda. You work and they sit in a chair counting their profits. Capitalism is a system that promises something for nothing where the rich pretend that the are both smart and work hard. They are neither.
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I don't have to demonize Stalin. The Khrushchev revaluations of 1956 did that. They were an admission by Stalin's close if not closest ally. That the 1930's purges included loyal communists. You want to buy into the theory that Lenin surrounded himself with fascists to make the second socialist revolution that's your choice not mine. As for the 60's generation I'll take Malcolm X over Angela Davis any day.
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@johngalt6525 China also decides what to build and where. They did not follow the advice of Milton Freedman and institute shock therapy like Gorbachev/Yeltsin.
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@gmac8586 China isn't Communism. It is Capitalism.
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@eliaskline5649 The ink isn't dry on the contract before the bosses begin planing thire next move in the class struggle against us.
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Seal of approval granted by Chamber of Commerce bosses. A bill to Make the Boss Rich Again.
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@ififif2022 End the blockade!!!
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The British were forced to leave the US in the revolution of 1776 and defeated again in the war of 1812. The Louisiana Territory was purchased from France, Alaska from Russia, the western states were taken from Mexico by war , Florida from Spain and British Empire (Canada) agreed to the northern border of the US without any more wars. In Canada, Australia, and New Zealand the Queen is still monarch and the ultimate ruler. The British had half of Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, South Africa, and Ireland at one time. American Imperialism political control functions through, 'friends', puppets, US military bases and threats of war and war. The Europeans and the Japanese Empire functioned through direct political colonial rule with administrators and armies. The Europeans had to give up most of their colonies after WW2 because France and the British were militarily exhausted.
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@Andreas-gh6is They can pass an amnesty bill making them legal with a vote in Congress and a stroke of a presidential pen.
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@rudyoliver4950 Trump will busy running a clown show in DC. Be prepared for military victory parades on national holidays.
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Put Gordon Chang in one of the planes flying into Chinese airspace so he can be shot down and be another Francis Gary Powers. Sure play provocative war games with other nuclear powers because Congress has a well stocked fallout shelter. Afterall no one could make an error and set of nuclear war.
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@howes1960 You are total idiot who thinks capitalist politician reads script like movie star. Politician only doing what man trained in lies of priests at universities can. Defend capitalism.
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@popdog20051 It is the greed of the capitalist and the crusade for profit that lead to defeat his defeat in the crisis of over production. Markets will tumble as production roles past without him.
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@drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima China is Capitalism with Chinese characteristics everything is done using markets and at market prices. The CCP is the police agency for the capitalists with state industry runs on a for profit base. As Deng Xiaoping said, "It is glorious to get rich." They follow Milton Freedman religiously. Freedman says to maximize profits within law. Who laws is the question you should ask because the only law they follow is that law that says profits come first. Work Hard Make Profit for Company says the signs in front of African Chinese companies. Chinese capitalist want American and Western Europe markets this is what China's Road and Belt incentive is about. A new Silk Road to China built at market prices. It will cut out the route across North America to Europe taken by ship and train.
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@pouglwaw5932 The only thing Canada's Parliament guarantees is the rule of the Queen and property owners. All one needs to do is read Thomas Paine's common sense to understand that. It just a dictatorship of property owners. Just as Athenian Democracy was a dictatorship of slave owners. The Queen need not speak when an act of Parliament will do. A Queen is no more useful than a capitalist.
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@LoveEm-r9i So Trump plan is to make him self King instead of King Biden. Trump King for the common man!! Vote King Trump!! He will save America from the last King!!
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@drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima Please continue where do you think I am wrong?
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@LoveEm-r9i How very True Comrade!!! Trump is nothing with propaganda and business support. Not enough people believe propaganda and not enough voters are businessman.
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@nastrodomis Profits are unpaid wages.
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@yacin6472 Sowell is trying to present he crimes of American Imperialism as justified by the national rights of the Jewish people to exist.
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@gelinrefira They didn't vote for American Imperialism so it is seen as a defeat for "Democracy."
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Actually it was based in a lie told by Bush that we won the cold and could remake the world in US capitalism spitting image. That military and not ideological defeat of the Taliban was possible. Just like in Vietnam they spent lavishly on a new class of corrupt gangsters only to lose to a different set of gangsters in this case. Imperialism (foreign investment) can not improve life only destroy it.
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You have no absolute right to practice your religion.
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First off he didn't ask a Muslim baker. Like I said, the two and one of their mothers came into the store and sat down to order a custom wedding cake. He said he didn't make wedding cakes for same sex weddings. At the mediation level he offered to sell a nondescript cake not a custom cake. He has lost every appeal now. His claim is that if he provides a custom cake that would be compelling him to send a message he doesn't agree with. He will most likely lose on that claim because to agree with him would open an enormous religious hole in public accommodation law.
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Most trades create custom products. In the wedding cake business you can ask for all kinds of designs if the company can make them. Just go on line and look at them. If they asked for something he could make for some kind of technical reason fine but he refused to make any custom cake at all.
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Public accommodation law at the state level goes back almost 100 years. On the federal level it was part of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. So no the right to engage in discrimination based on religion was rejected in the 1968 Newman v. Piggy Park Enterprises decision.
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Maybe you should go back and reread or get out the dictionary because describing what fascism is and liking it are two different things. As a bolshevik I am what every fascist hates most. Comparing the IRS to churches? Once again another non sequitur. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/non%20sequitur
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He has a right to refuse entry to police officers based on the 4th Amendment. You will also note that he calls the place the "EAV Barbell Club" a club can decide membership on any base whatsoever. But is it a club or just a business called a club is something I'm not going to argue right now.
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You have the right to practice religion but using religion as a defense to discrimination in the marketplace has been rejected by the supreme court in past decisions.
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Yes we love to here how when your wealthy and break the laws it doesn't apply because they do it all the time. I guess if Trump wanted to make himself a president for life by canceling elections he could just go ahead and do it and then pardon himself for doing so.
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@feetgoaroundfullflapsC I think its funny how Stossel condemns government when his whole career after leaving that Princeton University for the entitled has been made possible by the FCC licensed TV monopoly.
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The problem here is the baker. The law allows a wide latitude for businesses to make decisions. It does not allow a business to bring in their own prejudices into business decisions. If he's that worried about gays eating wedding cakes than he should just stop selling wedding cakes. Which he has already done. His next step should be to close down all together because gays may be eating other baked goods like donuts.
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Look I've read as much as I can on the case. From what was said to the court he outrightly refused to sell baked goods for a same sex marriage. They had not even said if they wanted a specially designed cake or just a plane cake. It was only later that he offered to sell a nondescript cake at the mediation level. He did not have a sign in the window saying Christian Bakery nor did I read anything about him having a cross on the wall or anything else that would imply a culturally conservative Christian establishment. They didn't ask for a halloween cake or a divorce cake. If he had sat down with them and at certain point said something like well I've never made a cake with two men on it and had explained his feelings he would most likely not be in this position. He should have been prepared for this after the legalization of gay marriage. From what I've read his only real defense is to ask the court to decide that he is an artist and he would not be able to put his artistic expression into something he is personally against. So is he an artist? Or is he just a master cake maker? Plenty of skilled trades require custom creations but electricians, carpenters and plumbers are not considered artists. I can't come and work in your home because I'm an artist who can't work near a gay bedroom not a tradesmen engaging in discrimination? Instead of I only do commercial work or I don't specialize in cabinet making.
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I'm dumb? Or are you just dumb founded?Tell me something what is a steel blank good for besides making WW2 era steel pennies.
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@duchett743 Sure lets let Wall St blackmail the rest of us.
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@Censoredbyfscists I don't need your redemption as if I was a coupon to be punched for credit.
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He just ignores the history of the the revolutionary movemnet against CZARism for a simple story of "Communist Totalitarianism" as a mime that just swoops in. So typical of those with no explanation of why capitalism ended up producing the first world war. A mime from a book sweeps in and takes over according to Sowell.
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@thehighestlove Qatar has millions of immigrant workers with no access to citizenship rights. Its hardly a Democracy when only 12% of the population can vote because most people who live their are NOT citizens but immigrant workers.
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@jameshebert1875 No one needed an ID or citizenship to vote in the first hundred years of the Republic. Why now?
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The workers will join trade unions and in the trade union they will learn the modern ideas of the class struggle from the communists. Islam is little more than a doctrine of war for Muslim traders and warriors. Like most of religion it serves as an opiate of the masses. The middle class in a decaying capitalist is most likely drawn to religious ideas and notions of a grand past.
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After all the Democratic Party belle aching about January 6th you'd think DC statehood would be off the table.
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The question asked was about the Constitution and then they title of the video is meant to inflame in viewer. One might just as well ask does the constitution prohibit the sale of illegal drugs and then write judge finds drug use constitutional.
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The problem is that the industry controls to politicians and the regulators. Warren Buffet owns the BNSF he donates to both parties and uses government against the unions. .
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It exposes the lie that you can clean up the two corrupt parties with campaign finance law. It also exposes the FBI as a political police force.
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@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484 Sure GM bosses are living on the sidewalks of LA. Why don't you quit and go work at WalMart since you seem to like working in a sweatshop so much. Your most likely a boss who is jealous of anyone but idiots like you making big bucks.
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Republican Party boss Abott sending in Military slaves to protect Oil Billionaire Profits.
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@plantmanstudios That's because we are a class divided society and the interests of the working producing people are in conflict with the bosses who only think of themselves are their property as the only things needing protecting and their property owners government reflects that in every way.
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@jonihaynes-haasch8988 I say let him run why do we want a Democratic Party dictatorship?
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@onecupof_tea As I asked elsewhere did the English ruling class just give that healthcare to you because the King and parliament wanted a health population?
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@kjellg6532 Norway's government also voted to gave a peace prize to Henry Kissinger the architect of the carpet bombing of Vietnam. Lee Duo Thou politely told Norway to shove it.
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@JamesAtherley I see that i'm being censored by the youtube algorithm again. So i will just riterate all those things came as a result of class struggle which like capitalism itself develops in both combined and uneven ways.
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@4golfing Companies without unions began offering healthcare plans to keep the unions out.
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@barefootprofessor3455 Someone will have to replace them because the birth rate has dropped below replacement.
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@popopop984 The liberals who are trying to save capitalism are more dangerous then the Republicans because their hypocrisy is not as clearly visible as the conservatives. Both parties are reactionary and can not be reformed. Instead a new party based on a fighting union movement is what is needed.
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@johnnyindiana1330 Why don't you get out of that chair and do some work for a change.
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Sorry Pal but Halley isn't even Jewish.
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Bosses don't want to work or they want to be most successful boss with the biggest and the most of everything which is why they become bosses in the first place. The fact that many get economically outsmarted by other bosses isn't my fault. If a boss decides to open up a mud pie factory like Ben Shapiro postulates in his proof that the labor theory of value is wrong than no matter how much he pores into the business and how many hours he works well there's just no market for mud pies. The free market teaches him lessons that communists already understand. It's no win for workers when a boss fires us because now we are back into a labor market where the bosses are always trying to lower wages or create inflation to boost profits with the Federal Reserve Bank.
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Ya politicize the Olympics because you can't get your way.
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There are 1/2 million US citizens in Mexico. What come around goes around. You'll find out happy American companies are when Mexico arrests, maybe jails and deports US companies bosses working in Mexico.
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I read that many are overstaying visas and paying off Mexican officials with bribes for work permits. The old scam of torching your car for the insurance became a new one in South Texas were you cross the border and allow you vehicle to be stolen. Never underestimate the power of the bribe.
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Enlighten us about how harsh they are. From what I read current Mexican immigration law consists mostly of paying fines for violation of civil law. Bringing in firearms and ammo will get you 10 years in jail.
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@philsmith2444 Sowell who would be about the same age as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King is continually proposed as a Black leader by Conservative Republicans because he played zero role in the struggle to end Jim Crow and is considered to be safe spokesman for big business interests. If you've ever been on an elite university campus you know that they are always congratulating themselves as scholars and gentleman.
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It's the result of the natural workings of capitalism that was able to free itself from the losses it took from the class struggle in the early 20th century.
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@kennethlauer4735 You and the "Pro Birthers" are the proto Fascists. Eugenics was invented in the USA not by Hitler. His Nuremberg laws were patterned on those passed by segregationist planter class Southern Democrats with Business class Republicans giving the stamp of approval. The NAZI's in their defense of their crimes said they did nothing the USA didn't do.
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@kennethlauer4735 Fact sheet answering the out of context claim made by Herbert Cain and the second out of context claim long with many others. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937/Opposition_Claims_About_Margaret_Sanger.pdf
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@janbour8152 This is not 1945 where the rest of the industrial world was smoldering rubble and American bosses could export products using Marshall plan loans intended to receive capitalism from its own demise caused by the first world war. The only solution is for workers to take control of industry out of the hands of the profit makers and run in under a general overall worldwide plan. The end of capitalism is coming because the rate of profit must fall as machines replace skilled labor with unskilled labor. Capital produces nothing otherwise the construction of a perpetual motion machine would be possible. The greed of the bosses drives them to attack the trade unions and launch Imperialist war to defend investors foreign profits.
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No to any government disinformation board. Capitalist government of both parties already gives out enough disinformation.I think we are capable of understanding that.
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@paulg444 He chery picks his evidence and then makes conclusion where every decision an economic one based solely upon supply and demand and markets distribution limited resources. He draws conclusions based solely on two things occurring at the same time. Listen to Sowell and you will conclude that women's menstrual periods drive the orbit of the moon or the moon drives the menstral period.
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@freedomworks3976 A struggle broke out in the Soviet Union over those who wanted to continue the Communist course of Lenin and Trotsky and those who predicted a long period of capitalist stability before the advent of the second world war. The politics of Stalin lead to the destruction of both Lenin's Party and the communist International as revolutionary organizations and working class defeats in China 1928, Germany 1933, Spain and france 1939.
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@apatizinguense Six year old can be adopted. Can't easily put a fetus into the man's body can you? How many Priest have adopted children ? ZERO. Church law forbids Priests from adopting. How about a law to allow meat packers to buy dead human bodies and resell the meat? Think we should go back to cannibalism to save food also?
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@lindamorgan2678 So your for dogs right to life?
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@AF-yq9es Islam like Christianity is facing all the problems that come from the development of the modern world.
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LMAO.
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@bockscar1 Sorry it doesn't work like that. I live here and we will make a socialist revolution here. The class struggle goes on internationally. The Imperialist nations including the the US/UK invaded the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky's Red Army defeated them. Once the working class decides it wants socialism nothing can stop them.
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@qbek_san The rate of crime among the poor is roughly the same the sentences handed down for crimes reflect the racism of the bosses capitalist system and the meritocracy. That will not change with a capitalist cultural propaganda offensive. The source of common crime is the dog eat dog capitalist system and the alienation that the system breeds. After all Sowell's free market theories can't stop drug dealing since it is just an illegal market activity of what was once a very profitable business of British Merchants who sold opium in China. The British Imperialist even fought wars with the Chinese Emperor over the right to sell Opium in China.
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Blue is a gang color.
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@donkraemer50 Nothing would prevent one of them from becoming a resident of convenience like Dick Chaney who had a hunting cabin in Wyoming. Originally He and Bush claimed Texas residence. Cheny had a Texas drivers license and worked out of an office in Huston. .
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When you draw the boundaries of the new state you include the white house and Blair house
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@Nick-fg4dq Ya as if big business lead the campaign against segregation or industrial pollution or any other progress the working people have made.
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End the Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@idreesmutahr865 Employers seek profit by replacing labor with machines and since this raises the capital value while reducing the labor used in each piece produced it inevitably leads to a declining rate of return on investment. This is why even if capitalism did not have the contradiction between the increasing ability to produce and the inability of the market to buy back al that can be produced production must inevitable halt as machines replace labor. Since labor produces the value that no longer resides in the product but instead the machine.
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@calebaw You replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor not the other way around. That is the natural way in which capitalism works. You pay a skilled worker or engineer more because of the cost of the education needed to replace him. The engineer must now go into debt to pay for his education yet you only want to pay him to come back to work for the next week. He gets laid off or fired like any other employee. As Marx pointed out the middle class professional man is also pushed down into the ranks of the proletariat. Labor savings machines makes more production possible and initially drives profits in the direction of the firm or industry replacing that labor but it doesn't increase the size of the market unless the price goes down. Even then the world market is finite not infinite so the contradiction develops of the ability to produce rising while that which can be sold at a profit does not. The value of the machines keep rising while the amount of labor from which the profit and surplus value originates goes down this is what lowers the average rate of return on industrial investment. This is why the Wall Sr Journal says their is no good model for the electrical energy market. The capital value of the physical plant transmission and generation is so high compared to the labor to keep it in operation kills the profitability. The profit was made building the plant and transmission facilities so now the are being allowed to go into decline while working people are left in the dark when ever a natural disaster strikes the system. Lineman have to be brought in from around the country and Canada because of cost cutting measures. So the capitalist now have themselves a new market for small generators because electrical reliability is being allowed to decline. The economic advantage of an economy of scale is being sacrificed for more small scale production and all the problems that will arise form doing that.
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The computer has made many fortunes while bankrupting thousands of small businesses fixing selling and building them. Not to mention the armies of clerical employees dismissed. Its become a world product manufactured out of the physical control of the American capitalist and now they are crying about the loss of intelectual property as if the can own ideas for eternity. China which they applauded for going capitalist is becoming a market competitor which is out of their military control. The had themselves convinced the won the cold war only to discover they created more Imperialist completion for markets. After spending 3 trillion over twenty years of war initiated by Bush to show that you are either with us or against us the US Imperialist Bankers cutting there losses were routed by a bunch of reactionary militia in Afghanistan. The war created thousands of internal and external refugees a disaster for one of the poorest countries in the world while the Imperialist talk about where they went wrong and how this has cost them "leadership of the free world." Spewing nonsense about how tightened they are now of terrorism and what great democrats they are. The real fear is that the working people around the world are tired of their wars and excuses about how they are going broke and can't afford to pay us a stable standard of living never mine a better one. Promising how they might turn most of us all into welfare recipients in a scheme of universal income just so the profits can keep rolling in. Throwing out a few crumbs like Marie Antoinette letting us eat cake. They are their rotting capitalist system are the real problem.
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@timobrienwells Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalist world economy. Capitalism since 1914 is now more of a destructive force it has changed into its opposite. The national ruling classes can only resolve their differences through war and increasing efforts at capitalist exploitation to reverse the tendency of industrial profit rates to decline. While the Imperialist have spent two trillion on armaments this year alone. Our state power in Havana has developed a vaccine is on tract for 100% voluntary vaccination in Cuba by the end of the year and is offering technical and production aid to any country that wishes to proceed with their own manufacture of the vaccine. Mean while Biden talks a lot about doing something calls people ignorant and his government ignores its own scientists. Big Pharma and War profiteers will be posting record profits.
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@MrBelsik No Congressional Strike breaking.
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@MaloneMantooth When the US government gives help it comes with strings attached. They provided lots of military aid, military training and sales to friendly dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and to the old Latin American dictatorships. Other countries asking for help like the US installed puppets in Vietnam and Korea.
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@MaloneMantooth Who asked for help and what kind of help did they get?
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The US Imperialists are slow learners.
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@kennybachman35 Build a labor party based in the trade unions to take power away from the bosses two parties.
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@tishie42 You seem to all forget all the violence and death associated with building the European Empires. America dropped the first nuclear weapon. The British Imperialist were responsible for starvation in their Empire. Carpet bombing was begun by the RAF and American's on the Germans. The British pioneered human shields and cut off the thumbs of weavers in Bengal.
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@Mystik3Al Please explain how choking a Black man to death over a few dollars in cigarette taxes is crime fighting?
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@sportsnoticeboard i tend to think when a cop puts someone in a choke hold and the person being choked say's they can't breath that it's intentional. I was jumped on by a whole bunch of cops and I played dead. So I'm still alive.
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@michaelalguire419 If a Catholic family has five or less children they are using birth control or sterilization. Which already violates Church doctrine. So go ahead and kick him out.
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@MijoShrek Actually we need to enact an Amnesty program like Reagan did.
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@YouYou-sm8tf Lower the debt by taxing those who have the money to buy bonds in the first place. Problem Solved!!! Amnesty for all immigrant workers will help with reorganizing new unions. Universal healthcare for all. It's becoming too expensive to keep Bill Gates and other Billionaires on life support. Education for a lifetime. Raise the educational level of the working people and you will lift the rest of the world's people out of poverty. No taxes on the working people, small farmers and producers. 100% tax on corporate profits. A fictitious person doesn't need an incentive. Cut CEO pay to that of a skilled union worker that's all the incentive needed.
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Hes represents Wall Street like both parties do.
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@charlessmith4242 He's a conservative unelected Republican Politician at the federal level with a Yale Law Degree. They get tested out in other jobs before getting important appointments. He started out in the Missouri attorney general's office, got appointed to EEOC chair, US Court of Appeals and then Supreme Court. Those in the Executive and Judicial branch are the most slavish to the interests of Wall street because their jobs require it to be so. Trump was the only untested capitalist politician with major powers in a century at the very least. If he wasn't performing as expected you'd read about it in the Wall Street journal.
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@learninghowtodothis8062 First that is NOT an example of history repeating itself since what you claim hasn't happened yet. Second the statues torn down honor thousands of white men fighting to PRESERVE slavery. I think you need to go back to history class now
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@jb-2714 Had nothing to do with Antifa like you claimed. None of what you originally stated makes any sense. One hundred ninety thousands Black men fought in the Union Army where's all the monuments to their sacrifice? Republican's betrayed Blacks when the agreed to the Hayes Tilden compromise and the Republicans on the Supreme Court found separate but equal constitutional.
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@jb-2714 Now that you claim not to be defending the original post I responded to you make even less sense. You just wanted to create confusion so you could make you claim about erasing history. The communist movement split in 1928 and its been the Stalinist who have tried to erase history including that of Leon Trotsky organizer of the Red Army victory over 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. Did they teach you in school that President Wilson ordered the invasion of the Soviet Republics? That he continued the war after the armistice? That's a subject they like to avoid in US history class. How about at Hillsdale college do they talk about the US invasion of the Soviet Republics? Were you one of the people who condemned the tearing down of statues at the end of the Soviet Union also? Or do you just condemn rioting when it suits your political purpose.
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@jb-2714 "Tearing down statues is what communist do." I've never torn down a statue nor can you claim that it wasn't done during the French revolution before Marx was even born. It's just another so called crime that people like yourself claim is something communists do. Maybe US Troops shouldn't have pulled down a Statue of Saddam Hussein for the MSM TV audience or are US Troops communists also? LMAO. Capitalism is responsible for racism and benefited from the overthrow of the Southern Reconstruction governments and the imposition of segregation. Only socialism and national self determination can lay the ground for the abolishing of all racial discrimination.
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@jb-2714 Racist ideology only began with the development of New World and the European markets demand for the crops raised in the tropics like Sugarcane, Tobacco, Cotton, and Indigo, The need for labor in the tropics enabled the Black slave market. Elese where European capitalist conquered the world for profitable markets and resources. Communism is a movement not a nationality. Its one classes history, the modern proletariat, of victory and defeat in the modern worlds class struggle with the other most important claas the capitalists. Our power is that of working people in the industrial trade unions worldwide and the Cuban workers state. It was the industrial workers at the Gdansk shipyard and their union solidarity that began the popular revolutions that ended the Stalinist monolith with ex Stalinist bureaucrats wana be capitalists seizing control. .
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The only thing Sowell proves is that humans existed in tribal societies without written language, private property, money and nuclear families.
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Workers need to organize unions and make work pay.
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This ignores what the Communist Manifesto teaches: "The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer. They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism." Fascism is also a movement a counter revolutionary one which organizes the petti bourgeois and declassed lumpen proletarian criminal elements into a movement of thugs at the service of the landowners and big business.
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@DR--- Without the union teacher pay on average would fall towards that of part time retail work. The incentive to be a teacher would be no more than that of a baby sitter. No effort to teach would be made because the goal would be strictly to get paid at the end of the week. Because that's what thinking about the need for money leads. You do nothing more than go though the motions to please a principle who sits on his ass in the office waiting for problems to develop. Why make an effort if your only going to be fired tomorrow? You'll get yourself a McDonalds workforce but you know what smart one go ahead and destroy your whole system in the name of profits. See what happens when the workers evict the bosses from the plant like in 1936 at GM in Flint Michigan. You respect nothing but naked power. And when you went around evicting workers from their homes because you system can't keep us employed the workers evicted you from the factory. So what was it going to be sign a contract today and hope to take the money back tomorrow or send in the cops and national guard and risk the loss of a whole factory?
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Are they smart because the say they are rich or are they rich because they are smart or are the two completely independent of each other?
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@ScotttheCyborg We are interested in how good the bosses are at crying poverty. When the cost of labor goes up workers have more money to spend on things we need so production shifts away from luxury goods towards things working people need. The bosses lose out on the profits which they would waste in driving up the value of fictitious capital anyway instead the find themselves employing more workers producing things workers need. Of course they will try and counter that which is why it's called a class struggle.
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@ScotttheCyborg Inflation happens because the bosses control the central bank and money printing for themselves. That's why we advocate COLA escalator clauses in contracts and social benefits. We propose workers control of industry and raising the cultural level of the working class in place of the bosses regulatory agencies. We don't need some government regulator who works for the bosses government and is beholden to them. All they do is rotate from regulator agencies to corporate posts anyway. Nor do we expect the Swiss bankers government to be leading any kind of revolution. Next time you bankers break into sweat it's probably because your profit system has generated another economic crisis by driving up the speculative value of capital until it collapses.
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@TheMyamicahVision We cab fight back against all that because automation can be fought with a shorter work week with no cut in pay and assist workers in other countries in their struggle to raise wages.
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@letsgowinnietheflu5439 I probably break the law by waking up in the morning do you think I care?
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@JefferyQuinoa You wont see him questioning a CEO about his big paycheck.
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@cidsapient7154 They don't pay income taxes because they own property and take out loans based upon collateralize debt. That is why many big companies no longer pay dividends but do stock buybacks and make the value rise. Which would you rather do take out a loan based upon collateral or sell property? Pay interest or Pay the tax. Now remember that property value rises with inflation unlike wages in fact if wages are held down profits rise but instead of paying dividends they do stock buybacks. Federal taxes are only collected on income and capital gains when property is sold. so a tax is paid by those who sell their property not those who buy.
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I have no problem sending Israel economic aid but I think we should end all foreign arms sales to any country.
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@sethlinerode1047 I'[m being censored by youtube again.
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That's false because what is important is not just having the potential but also the ability to produce a surplus beyond what is needed for the home market. Britain had the largest Navy in the world. Germany came in as number two. Britain and Germany each spent close to twice what the US did on the War. Each side thought it would be quick war. Britain and Germany were still where most of the technological advances took place. The US was more like China when it was still behind the EU.
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@stevecobb12550 Right open a lemonade stand and then join one of the two parties for goo goo (good government)
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Basically capitalism is a system of thievery and the thieves may end up losing.
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It means the end of US Imperialism as economic investment defended by military force. The US LOST the cold war despite all the crowing about the defeat of communism.
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I already have my pitchfork. http://www.themilitant.com Maybe it is time to get yours.
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"They believe their own lies." Sounds just like Western leaders telling us about how great it is to work for Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
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Wasting your time with Hamas since it is an Islamic NAZI type organization.
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The only value they have is money and they want more of it for themselves. Its just goes to show America is a sham Democracy. Nothing more than a capitalist dictatorship.
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@eroccha It singles out Chinese for where they can and can not purchase land and it also requires them to obtain permission from the State and FBI before they can enter a University Research Lab.
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@@user-hh6dw9sy7x The Africans benefit came when the sons and daughter of Sugar Cane slaves the Cuban Revolutionary Army volunteers returned to Africa under the Command of Fidel Castro to defeat the invincible white man the South African Army, Unita and white mercenaries who were Ronald Reagan ally's at Cuito Cuanavale,. Angola. Driving s Dagar though the myth of he invincible white man in Africa.
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@loanokaharbor8303 All that I said was true which is why you attack me because you can't counter my facts. DeSantis law violates the US Constitution in more than one way. He has no authority as a state or governor to make foreign policy that clearly belongs to Congress and the President and his law also violates the equal protection of the laws and due process clause for ALL PERSONS in the 14th amendment.
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@dewaynemizzell7009 Intentional termination of pregnancy not intended to result in live birth.
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N Either withdraw the the conspiracy theory of McVeigh being a fiction or forget about me responding.
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@praiseno-thing7642 You represent the danger of a fool who hasn't got the slightest idea of what he is talking about. You idea of politics is attaching labels to people and organizations about which you have not the slightest independent knowledge.
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@donaldduck2986 What he's talking about is workers being classified as independent contractors. There was a time before the 1099 form that the IRS was told to take a hike when they wanted to tax those who made a living doing casual labor. By paying you as an independent contractor and issuing you a 1099 form the companies avoid having to pay payroll taxes and the minimum wage. You are then responsible for a tax of over 15% for Social Security and medicare and that's before any additional federal income tax.
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@FullAuto737 Communism is a movement of a class on its way to state power. Its the history and direction of that movement in its struggle with the capitalist class. Since capitalism is organized on a nation state basis the communist movement battles the capitalist on a nation by nation basis culminating in a socialist world much like how capitalism battled with feudal methods of production until a capitalist world developed.
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@anthonytwohill9726 Bosses cry all the way to the bank counting their billions. You see them taking carnival rides into space while other sacrifice for boss profits.
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It was Stalin who ended up creating a cult like following.
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@jimmayors2315 Congress has exceeded it authority the right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments.
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@willong1000 The problem with convicting Fonda with treason was that Congress never declared war on Vietnam. See according to official logic starting with Truman and Korea the US was merely helping out with doing the policeman's job. Of course a few cops can't hold back a revolution so heavy bombers and biological warfare became necessary.
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Pure hypocrisy from the country that armed the Islamic terrorist in the Cod War against the Soviet Union. Hamas is nothing but an Islamic fascist Jew hating organization that rules Gaza with thuggery.
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I support the couples steam roll the baker on his ground.
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Off the gold standard and on to the paper standard. Cutting wages by inflation.
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Keep drinking the vanilla extract.
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@Porkeater2610957 If he was Cuban he would have been a successful Huber Matos returning the country to its "rightful place" as a colony of the United States.
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@vasyarogov4131 ."...Take responsibility..." Sure tell me to take responsibility when you and the rest of the wealthy capitalists hide behind limited liability corporations. Your Milton Friedman says business isn't obligated to do anything but make profits for the owners. Dysfunctional regime? Who is it that ordered the shutting down of all nonestial business but the ruling capitalist class with Trump and Congress as their executive committee. A million people losing their jobs every week and you accuse us of being dysfunctional? When you were manufactured in the 'bot factory did the forget to insert the artificial intelligence?
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@neovenom9833 You'd like us out because your ideas are a failure and you don't want to compete with ideas only with commodity production. You fight your Imperialist wars with the most efficient methods of murder. You invented poison gas war, machine guns, nuclear war, napalm, cluster bombs and massive carpet bombing. You talk piece while preparing for Nuclear war and the being the first nation to create a space force to extend the ability of the American Imperialist Empire to wage war from space. You don't care about anyone in China. You want bigger profits which means Imperialist competition with China. Nixon claimed he opened China. Now China has opened you. All you do is cry about the Chinese capitalists taking markets from you. According to Trump you closed 10,000 factories. You closed them because of your profit crisis. Either you lost business to foreign capitalists with a lower cost of production or you invested in building factories in foreign countries for bigger profits with lower wages.
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@Powerhaus88 Typical rightest where politics is reduced to physical assaults on those not in the bubble. Unlike the old Soviet union and Eastern Europe Bloc countries no one has to escape Cuba except criminals who hijack boats. You only want people the revolution has educated.from Cuba anyway. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter wanted the "Political Prisoners" and when they were allowed to leave Carter had them locked up for committing crimes. They then rioted in the dungeon like conditions of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary within six months Carter wanted to return The Pillars of The Cuban Community.
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@Powerhaus88 If Trump wants "freedom loving" Cuban's why is he deporting about 100 undocumented Cubans every month? US Policy toward the Cuban revolution as far back as 1960 has been to create desperation and hunger in Cuba because Fidel Castro was too popular with the Cuban people and communist influence was spreading rapidly.
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@yungchangsta Capitalism is already headed in the direction you are complaining about. Fights over trade in the world market, mass unemployment in the US and those who can't pay the mortgage or rent will be headed into the ranks of the homeless. All brought to you by the two parties that belong to the rich. America where billionaires fight to be the President.
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@The-Roofie-Timelapse How about we give you a win for having the largest prison forced labor system in the world today. Not enough? How about being the first to create a military force to wage war from space. Trumps heroic "US Space Forces" with uniforms modeled on Star Trek. You might have a Nuclear weapon gap of about 100 Nuclear bombs with the Russian Federation but your on track to spend 2.1 trillion to maintain the US Nuclear Posture with new nukes. Don't American capitalists usually complain about lower labor costs for the Chinese capitalists? By creating more American Gulag labor from illegal immigrants that to could be reversed. How about the trucking bosses they're going to be winning big with the self driving trucks replacing 300,000 truck drivers. You have over 10% unemployed as it is now so now your on track for an even bigger homeless population now. Your wins are always our losses. Your President Trump will be running another has been "Make America Great Campaign" campaign. The chief enemy will be the loyal Democratic Imperialist lapdog "Socialist" Democrat Joe Biden painted as a witch or demon from the depths of a Venezuelan Oil Well. .
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@enigmo20 They are driven by greed if they are leaving China its because the Chinese workers are costing them too much and they are looking for lower costs elsewhere. Its like how the US became a net importer because our labor became to expensive so they busted unions and cut production costs by replacing labor with capital until capital value becomes so high and labor from which the profit originates becomes so small that the rate of return goes down. This is one of the reason capitalism fails. You can't leave an ever smaller ruling class in control who are maximizing profits unless you want everything to come to a halt. Just as capitalism destroyed the slave market the proletariat must work to destroy all markets. Especially the capital, education and healthcare markets. The only reason to have a market is to allocate scarce resources.
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@JonathanMyl If they could just pass it on they wouldn't worry about the extra costs. While it depends on the store mostly I never saw a retail cop in the store except to investigate cash register shortages. The general policy is you don't interfere with shoplifters or cash grabbers. At minimum wage with crap medical or no medical at all its certainly not worth it.
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Yup hire people to do the dirt work of smuggling because you can't find volunteers. When you have to pay people to do the smuggling why won't they just become you ordinary libertarians and sell the medecene for whatever the market demands? She doesn't send in a Container ship because the US Coast Gurad wouldn't permit it. She has sent 800 lbs so far that's not even the dry weight of a single container.
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Its a Labor Party and a leadership that never recovered from the defeated 1926 General Strike.
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@Gobidragon You are now revealing yourself as a true racist. Your history was one of denying women and nonwhites access to your universities. Without the Chinese invention of gunpowder then you would never been able to create European and US Imperialism.
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@teriturkett1 He took an oath to Defend the Constitution of the United States which is more than Democracy Now which accepts without question the FBI spy agency actions now.
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@darthvader5300 The human rights violator in Cuba is the US Gov't at Guantanamo Bay. They have prisoners who have never had a trial that the torture and hold fo life sentences. The Cuban people have demanded that the US Imperialist return the territory stolen by military force from Cuba at Guantanamo Bay.
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@happydaze7386 Plus healthcare and education do not produce a profit and for capitalist industry they are an overhead cost. Giving fee rain to industry and capitalism can never solve either of those problems. The idea that you get a choice in either is complete nonsense. First the US only trains two Doctors to replace every three who retire and the patient has no real way to know anything about the quality of their healthcare. Second Education is based in school districts. The districts are divided into areas with property tax being the funding. So in many instances no real choice would become available with Charter Schools since the rich and poor don't live in the same housing districts which is the determinate of funding.
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How are we going to prove were citizens? Seems to me the governmnet is suppose to ptove your NOT a citizen. Does this mean evetone is going to have to carry a national ID card?
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@onamattapeeya That just another "Big Brother" idea. The bosses want to push the idea that everyone and everything needs to be watched by the cops 24/7.
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@onamattapeeya As usual my posted replies deleted by youtube censorship.
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@rjc7289 You have a hell of a nerve to call us thugs when you call out the national guard to break peaceful picket lines and protect scabs. When you machine gunned down strikers in Ludlow, CO for the profits of Rockefeller. Police murders of strikers during the great depression.
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@feebeedee You don't believe that BS about how free markets are going to lower prices and taxes do you? The Electric monopoly wants a free market? How naive are you? They want higher prices any way possible. Does your electric bill ever go down?
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@frentz7 It took a civil war to end slavery what makes you think the capitalist will just give up peacefully?
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@mirochka485 I'm just pointing out that America never needed to limit immigration before the first Imperialist war of destruction caused by the fight over colonies and market competition. The war produced the first big defeat for world capitalism with the victory of the Russian Workers and Farmers. .
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@andrewb90 Organized crime is when gangs of thieves attack a store or shopping center where they just go into en mass and take high priced items. .
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@swingingfordearlife Free market capitalism died long ago replaced by the wedding of industrial monopoly capitalism, finance capitalism and then Imperialism the export and control of capital in the colonial world leading to the trade war that produced world war one and an even bigger Imperialist slaughter world war two.
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@williamrodriguez4311 No capitalism always has a stock market in any country developed enough to have one. You have to have at least some capitalism to have a working class in order to make a socialist revolution. Once you have crossed the bridge to start socialism the end of the stock market is one of the first signs you are no longer living in a capitalist country.
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@williamrodriguez4311 The end of the stock market is not the same as a market collapse. Real capitalists are usually libertarians who worship at the altar of Ayn Rand.with "Capitalism the Unknown Ideal". The reason it's unknown is because what is described is completely impossible. You can put them into the bag with various utopian socialists and then you have a bag of completely worthless idealists.
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@williamrodriguez4311 Rand herself testifies to the difference in the early Soviet Union compared to the latter under Stalin. She gets an education not possible for women in Russia under the czar and her friend Kerensky. She complains about not being able to leave but does in 1926 despite the American Red Scare following WW1 and the US not even recognizing the Soviet Government until 1930 but being one of the invading forces during the civil war.. She and her dad leave for the white side of the civil war yet go unpunished after the whites are defeated. She says her dads pharmacy in Petrograd is taken by the bolsheviks. Well when you left for the white side during the civil war did you think the medicine in your store would be allowed to just sit on shelves? Her complaint that bourgeois students were purged from the University but International students helped reverse that decision. That is a sign that the Soviet system was working at the time since the decision was reversed.
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@williamrodriguez4311 Well if your interested I suggest TheMilitant.com newspaper and PathfinderPress.com I try not to talk at people but I do have opinions about things some of which can be very sharp and I will defend them.
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Reagan was a true Cold Warrior. His CIA armed the Islamic terrorist in Afghanistan and Oliver North sold missiles to the Islamic Republic of Iran. All in the name of defeating the Soviet threat in Afghanistan and Central America. You can thank Reagan for arming real enemies who would do real damage in the west for the claim of victory over a mythical one.
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Even today despite Trump and his anti Mexican racism a huge number of people cross the US Mexican border legally and they are not all US Anglo's or even US citizens. In some areas it was not even unusual for Mexican women to be taken to a US hospital in an ambulance crossing the border to give birth. You don't think they stopped while border patrol checked everyone's papers?
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People like Sowell who sit around pontificating on how capitalism is the best thing since sliced bread until it doesn't work.
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@digitalnomad9985 You just another sheep who believes whatever lie he is told by the US government. For you war is peace and peace is war. Saddam Hussein was a new Hitler with weapons of mass destruction. We supply Saudi Arabia with bone saws and sulfuric acid because we like the free press. We aren't fighting a war causing a famine and killing Yemeni children in school buses that's Saudi Arabia doing that. We just need the jobs from the military contracts. New Jersey use to be a prosperous state until it elected a government the other states didn't like so the good states decided to blockade evil New Jersey and sanction it and now New Jersey is a poverty hell hole after all the good stock brokers and hedge fund managers in Princeton left for Greenwich, CT. The evil Trump was made President by the Congress after counting electoral votes despite Clinton having the popular vote. Two years later Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker of the house by the Democrats. The Democrats with help from France then had a big 'women's march' in Washington and Pelosi declared herself to be President and Trump and his lackey Pence to be Dictators. France immediately recognized the Pelosi government as the real Peoples government and Canada and Mexico agreed. All the Banks in France and Canada would no longer allow the evil Trump to sign checks on French and Canadian bank accounts.
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@xincindyxu6963 Communist China who you think your kidding Mao gave up communism long ago with the Bloc of Four Classes. General Chiang had a guilty concise from his massacre policy and was afraid to join a coalition government being urged by Stalin and the US advisers. Afterwords the US Imperialist Congress debated "who lost China". The US Imperialist figured, their WW2 victory, made them the new owners of China and the rest of the Universe.
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If you rich your always legal. Just ask Trump's wife.
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@turnne You think we are fooled by your continual printing of fiat currency. Wages in the US stopped following productivity in 1973 when Nixon ended the Gold Standard. You system can not avoid crisis as the rate of profit declines and you seek to cut government expenditures that you need to regulate your own greed. In fact you can't educate enough engineers, scientist and medical doctors in the United States you have to hire them from the third world since the educational system is in decline.
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@turnne I don't know why you feel the need to contradict me? Higher paid jobs even if you count Medical Doctor or a Computer Scientist they had at least some of their labor replaced or cut by machines and lower paid technicians. The capitalist seeks the maximum return on investment. Not the raising a mythical bar of no cost being too high. Things that can't produce profits are shuffled off to Government an Universities.
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@fctryoffetsh39 Workers at other companies will be cheering because they will see the UPS fight as their fight. UPS bosses no better than to cry poverty when they've been making record profits. Its time for the bosses to pay up instead of cutting back.
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@fctryoffetsh39 Think so? I got about $6.50 as a laborer hired on at Beth Steel in 1976. What do you think that would be worth in today's wages? We didn't have all this two tier wages BS. The Bosses cried poverty for years to get these kind of concessions and record profits. We struck Westinghouse for two weeks and went back with a dollar an hour raise. .
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@DonaldBrown-b6r I'm taking about the postal worker.
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@daleboe8912 Back to the stone age no doubt.
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@hennagaijin7856 All you prove is that your good at playing the capitalist casino game. I work hard I buy a lottery ticket i become millionaire see capitalism works. Did you drive your car on turnpikes only or did you drive it on government built highways?
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@hennagaijin7856 Das Kapital is Marx's effort to explain exactly how capitalism works from what money is to things like the declining rate of return on investment as capital replaces labor in production. To really understand economics you need to understand that its a whole system in motion and different players have different interests. That some one running a small contracting business is just a small player in the realm of what is going on. Any Rand never gets beyond her love for the industrialist. She put him up on a pedestal as a modern god. Same with John Galt an engineer who leads a bosses strike. You realize Ayn Rand received her university education and advanced study in Bolshevik Russia as women were not allowed in the University before the Oct Revolution. Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests. Its the history of one classes the proletariat victories and defeats with the.other most important class in the modern world the capitalist class. Since 1917 we've held state power at least somewhere in the world even if not under the best leadership or the most favorable conditions. As you can see the end of the Soviet Union did not create a stable Imperialist world. The working class is bigger as a percentage of the worlds population than at any time in past history and none of the advanced capitalist countries are under the boot of fascism. Both the Social Democrats and the Stalinists labor aristocracy are weaker also. The world's production levels have still not returned to those of 2008.
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@daviclar867 Maybe you should actually try reading the Constitution and tell me where it says that non citizens are prohibited from voting.
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@daviclar867 I guess you fail to understand the English language and law as the Constitution guarantees due process of law to all persons not just citizens. In other words the police can not act with impunity like in country with an absolute monarchy or military dictatorship.
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@jakubklis6797 CIA plausible denial.
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China was taking the capitalist road so now the world is paying. Just like bosses everywhere they put profits first and healthcare last.
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@asmera4547 Look to me that the truck was going uphill also.
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@deborahdean8867 No that was a Truck driver who was attacked after the trial that found the police not guilty in the Rodney King case.
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Right and he can make a wedding cake, hire someone else to do it, or contract it out. Turning men and women away hungry for wedding cake must be against biblical teaching somewhere.
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@sorrella A government shut down is when they clear out all the federal campgrounds which actually bring in money. Nothing like Congress creating unhappy campers. Of course maybe they save on those sub minimum wage volunteer stipends.
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@RaymondHng That is because American law is based on English common law. The Justices also look at the discussion around the Original Constitution and the Amendments when making a decision on Constitutionality. At the time they passed the Amendment they wanted to encourage immigration and made birthright citizenship an incentive to those who came here knowing that if their children were born here they would be citizens.
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@josephconner3742 The policy of two party neolineralism showed itself to be bankrupt in the crisis of 2008.
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What do you want a wall for to begin with? Years ago we only needed a birth certificate to cross the border and no one carried about Canadians or American's working on the other side of the border.
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Can we send you the transportation bills?
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Sure the capitalists don't want a minimum wage if they could get people to work for less and go back to the days of child labor they would be ecstatic.
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Go! UAW Go! Make the bosses cry for profits.
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Of course not it a two party capitalist dictatorship.
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@Non,Player, Adeptus No to be Professor Peterson is to deny the existence of Leon Trotsky. Instead he beats around the bush hoping no one ever hears of Trotsky because to read Trotsky is to understand Stalin and Stalinism.
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@clearcrossroads US Imperialist take your army and your atomic weapons and leave Korea.
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@al_Cal08 The US needs to remove its army from Korea.
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@IAM Maple If anything the native born American working class is less anti immigrant and racist than any other time in history. It's these entitled middle class social justice warriors with to much time on their hands creating problems where there aren't any. As an example Oberlin college decided it needed to get some privilege for its entitled student shoplifters. A campaign started by social Justice warriors over three Black students involved in a combination of using fake ID, shoplifting wine and assault on a clerk at a local bakery got the backing of the administration in calling and picketing the Gibsons bakery as a racist business. The administration demanded the police not be called for first time student shoplifters. I wonder if i did the same thing at the Oberlin Book store if I would also get a free get out of jail card. Going so far as having protests calling the bakery racist without any Black students involved. The Gibsons fought back and won a jury judgement for libel. So now they are making the claim that it was just a matter of free speech. See TheMilitant.com , oberlin college and the Gibsons bakery websites for more information.
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Where does it say that a for profit corporation operating outside of a core religious area has the right to a religion? Also I have yet to see the corporation as a fictitious person do any actual labor or attend a religious ceremony.
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@peoplezk1 The US should unconditionally withdraw from all its foreign bases. Every nation has a duty under international law to protect embassies from attacks. If the government of Iraq doesn't want diplomatic relations it should say so instead of allowing pro Iranian militia fake protesters to attack the Embassy in the Green Zone and doing nothing. You have a US Embassy in Iran if you don't want us their all you have to do is say so. Attacking Embassy's is a violation of International law. I suppose Salimani just showed up by accident with no planning. I guess the CIA spies are better than the Iranian ones.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!! 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?
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That's no marine that's a mercenary.
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@Mike-ks6qu You couldn't explain the difference between a "Marxist" and a liberal.
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If that's the case would you auction off his books to pay the national debt?
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@georgieporgie9195 Why don't move to Saudi Arabia and open a bone saw business? Load up a suitcase of bibles for Saudi Christian immigrants. Find out how enjoyable the hospitality of the religious police can be. What every you don't get to excited over how great a country it is and lose your head.
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@georgieporgie9195 We don't tell other countries how to run their nations that is something the US Gov't does to other nations. Despite all the talk about US Democracy when Trump claimed many Mexicans illegally voted against him he called on the police to find them. After police searching high and low in Texas the found one Mexican person who voted. She was hauled before a Judge and Jury. She was convicted and sentenced to 8 years in jail. Obviously this will stop two Mexican people from voting against Trump and costing him the next election. Another day of shameless hypocrisy for the US.
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@samshubby1607 Anther ass sitting investor waiting for the dividend check in the mail.
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@shafslam4785 In the end the US lost in Vietnam and Fidel Castro defeated the South Africans in the Angolan civil war. Kissinger was considered s success because he was able to get the Chinese and Soviets to split and reduce aid to Vietnam. He had goodies to offer the Stalinist Regimes in Moscow and Beijing in return for their backhanded support to Imperialist power outside their own borders.
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His plan bust the teacher unions, by ending tenure and create a test for ideological purity along with vouchers that would only pay part of the cost of education to further the class divisions. His plan makes sense from the boss viewpoint where everything is assigned a price and only those with money can afford it.
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The correct thing for the working class to do is abandon the Democratic Party and build a party of our own based in a fighting union movement. Our power is in the workplace and on the picket line not in an old party of corrupt politicians.
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@wardjunior1450 Texas is going to pass an Armed Fetus Act where fetues will get the right to shoot their way to freedom.
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@tampabayfl813 Without labor their are NO profits. Which is why the rail bosses want the government to step in. The source of the profit is the unpaid labor of the production workers.
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Religion has been declining in the US also. A poll about religion found that a low of 20% in New Hampshire say that religion is important in there lives and a high of 65 percent say so in Mississippi.
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Absolutely the wrong approach. Our power as workers is in the workplace not at the store. The bosses would be happy to abolish the minimum wage and they would do that first. Then handing out free money would be used to divide the working class in favor of the bosses. A short time later they would be crying about government expenditures and lower your welfare scheme with austerity like they have always done. The biggest division in the working class is between the employed and unemployed. That type of scheme would only serve to increase that division. Instead we have always favored a sliding scale of wages and hours with no cut in pay. That way work can be divided among all along with wages..
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Give 3281Anonymous the prize for a cynical and stupid remark.
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@Ksch Koff The US Constitution prohibits Georgia from making its own foreign policy. Article 1 Section 10 "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation..."
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@Ksch Koff The laws regarding reciprocity of drivers licences are interstate compacts between the states the ones regarding Canadians are US federal law because states can't make their own treaties. The cop knew who the car was registered to before she stepped out of her vehicle because she recorded and ran the cars plate otherwise she'd be impounding a stolen vehicle. She asked for additional ID and when provided with that in addition to a valid licence she refused to accept it. The cops needed to stretch this into how do I know this is a valid license in other words it could be counterfeit because otherwise she would have been limited to handing out a ticket. A traditional Georgia speed trap works by a series of speed limit signs leading up to one a red flashing light on one of the old US highways like US 1 US 13 or US 17 The cop sits in wait on a side road follows you through all the speed limit signs an then the intersection busts you for doing 27 mph in a 25 mph zone or not coming to a full stop.
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@Ksch Koff She exceeded the speed limit which she admitted to doing. The cop should have written a ticket and called it a day. Her drivers license was valid. If she produced an actual passport how would the cop know if it was valid either? Passports is just another document being issued by another country. They have numbers just like driver licenses. Its security measures would be just as unknown to the cop as the drivers license. Would he even have the ability to check the passport number? She produced a copy of the passport that also includes a number that can be checked with immigration to determine if she had entered the US legally and had not overstayed her electronic visa Its just another case of government overreach because it is possible and cops pushing for the right to demand ID at will. The original purpose of a drivers licences was to prove you could drive period not as a universal ID that cops could demand. The cops involved should be fired especially the supervisors. A new law should be written that for every new cop hired two cops should be fired. Obviously a maximum IQ test is not enough.
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@billm2065 He may be a full time union rep after his local represents thousands of workers. You can bet he has to deal with management assholes everyday.
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@saatvikpandey9045 A fetus being alive has no more to do with the question at hand than cancerous tumor being alive, a male foreskin, whole blood or any other human tissue that may be subject to medical amputation, transplant or removal. It doesn't separate from the womens body 'till birth. What makes you think a legislature is capable of practicing medicine in the first place? Most of them are luck if the can apply a band aid never mind write a medical book on obstetrics. Do you want doctors and patients making decisions on pregnancy or do you want the state legislature and governor passing laws so politicians can grandstand as the savours of babies? After all they do such good jobs with everything else they get involved in like education public healthcare and economics. .
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@rsiraistlin2473 Bitcoinis the worship of the ledger book and the number itself.
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@captiveexile2670 America won't let Canadian citizens with Canadian felony convictions in without getting a special visa. The same goes for US citizen's trying to enter Canada. The Russian Stalinist's deported Solzehnitsyn for the same reason they deported Trotsky. Truth hurts the Party of Kulaks, NEPman and bureaucrats.
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Ya right by who? They other party I suppose? Are you really that naive?
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@davef.2811 Hatian's arrive in Cuba all the time and they are welcomed into the country.
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@MilwaukeeF40C We are a movement and you've never gotten very far with your secret police, your discriminatory blacklisting and your firing. We keep defeating you starting with the 1940 Minneapolis trial. We lost to Stalin and Hitler but only temporarily. See we are born without fear of the ruling class. We know how to push back. In the 1930's GM was the largest company in the world they signed a union contract after a successful sit down strike.
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@amihere383 Capitalists are greedy bastards paying the lowest wage a worker will accept. Class struggle is the own language a capitalist understands. That's why they want a pool of the unemployed and want you or the state to pay for as much of your own education as possible. When you go to work non union they pay just enough to get you to come back to work for the next pay period. They want the guy who will work the longest hours and complain the least. Oil Changes are done at Walmart for the at or just above the minimum wage. Mechanics use to work in the gas station now its the convenience store were the minimum wage workers selling donut does now. When they have to many engineers they send them down the road like anyone else. Nikola Tesla died as a pauper in a small hotel room. Capitalism invented the atom bomb kid and gave humanity two world wars. 80 million dead in 6 years is the record rate of death. Two bombs from 2 B-29's on Japan 200,000 dead.
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@daviddromaine Remember this when you go to the grocery store.
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@archietheproto7706 We will be more than happy to sell the school system translations of all the writings of the great marxists we publish at Pathfinder Press.
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@donde2k I haven't heard that story before. Did Jesse Smolllette give you any advice? Of course none of these people have a name and their is no reputable Bourgeois newspaper that would make such a report. I bet that its in a movie made with funds from places like Chase Manhattan bank. If money belongs to those who have it why does the US Treasury Office of Asset control interfere with transfers to Cuba. Is it my money or does it belong to the US Treasury? So countries like all of the Soviet Union, China and Cuba were or continue running on other peoples money? Since the US and many in the Imperialist countries refused to trade who did all the work? Certainly Hitler should have won the second world war. After all Stalin would have run out by then right. Don't you think sixty or seventy years is a long time to run on the same paper money. Common denominations in the US last less than 10 years. What did Elon Musk do to make Tesla motors worth 3 Trillion dollars? What happened to all that value that disappeared in 2008 or 1929. All you need to do is show that the laws of thermodynamics are wrong to prove capital creates something.
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@MasterofScrutiny All the Imperialist nations have to do is stop going to war. They started World War one not us. The US decided to Green Light the General Batista dictatorship canceling elections. A young lawyer Fidel Castro decided he didn't like having his ability to run for office canceled. To the majority of Cubans Fidel is a George Washington to the loyalist collaborators he is the devil. It like Indians who have much more contempt for Winston Churchill than Adolf Hitler. A lot what people think depends on what class and nation they belong to. Innocent people were killed right and left in Afghanistan by the US military. Over 100,000 died and millions were driven from their homes and all for what?
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If he showed up in prison as a homophobe that be sure to turn him crooked.
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@CKLee-rs4kl How do you figure that they owe him? They are appointed for life and they are picked for the loyalty to the capitalist system not him as an individual. The whole thing plays out in front of an audience of millions. Trump changed parties like socks so how do you figure he even fits into the role of a traditional liberal or conservative.
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@MichaelMiller-xj1ti Sorry to disappoint but the Cuban revolution continues to move forward. World capitalism is clearly in decline.
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Human Resources Socialist want to overthrow the capitalist state and replace it with workers control of industry like in Cuba.
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@gblargg Not at all. Unless you look at how close capitalism has come to total destruction through world war and nuclear war. Just like building cars capitalism makes the industrialization of war possible. The capitalist state grows because of the irreconcilable nature of the underlying class struggle . It's no accident that US capitalism has the largest GDP and is the most powerful Empire in human history. To say that real capitalism is some guy opening up a lemonade stand is to ignore modern industries.
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@bodean2222 Your essentially saying we need a revolution because short of electing a a whole new party without the typical capitalist money corruption how are you going to accomplish that? As long as you have capitalism then this is the best it gets for a form of government.
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@jeffforsythe9514 Have a good trip and don't forget to write.
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13ased_American Cuba is a Democracy already just because their people don't want a capitalist party system doesn't mean they aren't a Democracy.
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@soilsurvivor It seems to me that's why the court system has been just been going around in circles. They say that the state has some kind of interest in late term regulations but then don't seem to be able to articulate exactly what that is. When you take a life for monetary gain or out of some kind of passion that is easily understood. Does anyone want to really admit they don't want to be a mother? Then again the actual number of abortions has been in decline most likely because of better birth control methods and availability but also because they just aren't done in 95% of counties as it is now. Those who do get them are mostly done medically so you can actually go online and see a Doctor who will give you a script just like codeine for a toothache. We still have a federal drug war on marijuana despite only a couple of states maintaining a total ban. .
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@congarone That's what the US does when ever the want to punish a people for not taking orders from the US Embassy.
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That's right he could go out and ask a representative from a real Socialist Party like the Socialist Workers Party that even runs a US Presidential candidate instead he asks or quotes a bunch of celebrities.
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@AntonGudenus NATO was set up as an Imperialist alliance. The first world war was started by the Imperialist nations in a war to redivide the world. The USSR was invaded by 14 Imperialist powers including the US/UK when it signed a separate peace treaty with Germany. The fact that you were unable to draw in the wannabe capitalist of Russia is a lost opportunity for the NATO Imperialists. The original promise to the Soviet Union was no new NATO allies east of a united Germany. But like any other promise from the Imperialist it wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
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@bentonrp The workers need to take control of production out of the hands of the bosses with trade unions and the government with a labor party. Demanding escalate clause in all contracts and for social services. We know that they way forward is to abolish private property and organize production for human need not profit.
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@rolandosantaana8200 Look around you dumb ass capitalism is failing once again. You think with 35 million unemployed in the US that as soon as they pass another law (opening up) humpty dumpty will be put back together again? The Soviet Union had been under a hardened bureaucratic murderous clique since the Moscow Trials of 1936 to 1938. It was the Soviet Union and the Red Army that defeated Hitler not the United States and the United Kingdom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LNXsZHBJk There it is in an official US Propaganda film. Watch the first few minutes to see all the thanks and praise given to the Soviet Union from the US Secretary of war to the top US Generals. The had to make this film for the fear of Stalin halting the Red Armies advance and signing a peace treaty before reaching Berlin. Three years later they would launch the cold war. Sure Stalin and his gang of idiots were surprised but we weren't.
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@rolandosantaana8200 In the Soviet Union the NEP officially ended in 1928 and the first five year plan began in 1928. 1928 to 1991 63 years is a lot of time to be "spending other peoples money." Especially when you included the damage caused by WW2.
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@rolandosantaana8200 "At least in our democracy we can vote our president out if hes bad." The best you can do is vote against the other candidate most policy sees little change. Bring in a new face every 4 to 8 years is the best that you can do. Even Kim Jung Un understands that. Each promises change. Each gives you the same. The Cuban communists must really know how to stretch out a Yankee dollar since the rich people left shorty after 1959. They are still running today despite all the warfare both military and economic waged against a tiny island of 11 million people. Let me remind you that the failure of capitalism in 1933 Germany brought in a fascist dictator Adolf Hitler to save German big business. To make Germany Great Again. Hitler was appointed not elected Chancellor of all Germany.
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@rolandosantaana8200 "I am very educated." You tow the two capitalist party lines. You educated into the ideology of American capitalist superiority. You are the best of everything and your country is the best in the world, your military can deploy a million troops, drop "smart' bombs and kill with nuclear weapons all in the service of saving lives, your President is the leader of the free world, everyday the media deploys truth in the service of big business which is the best in the world. If it weren't for a few Reds everyone in the world would come to Washington to pay homage to the Greatest Commander in Chief. An all knowing man of the people.
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@rolandosantaana8200 Our Party has change leaders twice and neither died in office. They have elections in Cuba and one doesn't have to be a Communist Party member to run. Just because you do not like the way we choose our leaders doesn't mean we will change how we do it. Some one with the leadership abilities of Fidel Castro doesn't come around everyday. We don't throw our leaders overboard like worn out shoes. Most of your leaders are not elected but appointed from the top down. The people who are the owners of property have the biggest say over everything its their votes that count in the boardroom and in the two party machinery. The only independent mass organizations of the working class are the unions and even here the capitalist and their government claim the right to interfere in union business.
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Mao and Stalin are dead. The continual breakdown of the Stalinist labor aristocracy works in our favor and against yours. In 1959 they put Batista's torturers on trial with war crimes standards used in Nuremberg. I don't remember reading about any demands for the NAZI's still in prison or released being retried. Plus besides all the talk of political murder or bosses being killed no one has yet been able to provide the name of a single person unjustly executed in Cuba. In fact the Cuba Quilt of Genocide was not withdrawn because of a cold New Jersey night but because it had to many names of the undead and those who had died of natural causes. The United States executes terrorists does it not? In fact it holds terror suspects without trial on stolen Cuba property.
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@rolandosantaana8200 As if the capitalist Obama regime don't tax us to death just so you can spend 1.2 trillion on brand new nuclear weapons and Trump is reviewing "nuclear posture" (Read ability to threaten nuclear war if the American capitalists can't get their way.) We will spend some resources to build an artificial island for all those who want to try out new methods of exploitation on each other. No one was forced to stay in Cuba except those serving prison sentences but even here the revolution was generous it provided Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter with all the "Scar Faces" (see the movie) he wanted. Jimmy who was a supporter of Pol Pot at the UN locked them up in the Atlanta pen where they rioted and Carter demanded Cuba take them back.
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@rolandosantaana8200 The US Constitution guarantees all the rights we need to make a legal and bloodless revolution. We however would be foolish to believe that the capitalist would not try a "slaveholders" revolt like the southern slavocracy in 1861. We are a legal Party and movement and the government admitted that in so many words after Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. They officially closed the open-ended FBI investigation of the party.
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@finalfight505 Open the secret documents so we can see what is being hidden!!!
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Now I understand why this guy thinks like he does. He thinks everything can be simple described as a game. so games can have different outcomes. What he fails to understand is the connection between politics and economics. The role and history of money, industry and human labor on earth. If he is correct than what will be produced is massive trade union struggles and a new labor party. It will produce protests which can't be crushed.
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With Sowell and his friend "the Patriot" George Bush what could possible go wrong?
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@questioneverything8802 Sure even better call for an international space wall. We can put up a faraday shield to keep the swamp from getting headaches caused by Russian satellites broadcasting RT reruns.
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The US has been attacking North Korea and Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Socialist bloc. North Korea no longer had a large group of nations it could trade with on favorable terms. The only thing sanctions are is war by other methods. Despite the hypocrisy the US cares nothing about the Korean people on either side of the border. For the ruling capitalists class everything is about them making profits.
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@thundertazzy4127 Twenty thousands died to get rid of Batista all the weapons used in the revolution came from the US. Including the tank Fidel rode into Havana on in the caravan of freedom. Are you going to make the US Imperialist pay for all the death they caused by the US armed dictator General Batista or do you just care about the armed criminals and the US collaborators? Go read the declassified State dept documents. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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@lisakvieira9201 Why about a 8 months 29 days and 11 hours? Maybe for a hungry Catholic who missed Communion?
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@007kingifrit American Imperialism is a failed capitalist system. A ruling class that can not house, feed and cloth its slaves deserves to die.
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@007kingifrit Capitalism created the new kind of slave the man works like a dog for the boss who owns the means of production. The workers create everything and the capitalist claim ownership of everything. He profits from the unpaid labor of the workers and the uses to profits to further exploit the workers and widen the gap between the rich and poor. The bosses system of profits must always go into decline as he must use machines to replace labor to drive profits his way but this results in less labor to exploit but more capital value inevitable causing the rate of profit by which he measures all his successes to go into decline. So even if capitalism didn't have the problem of the workers being unable to buy back all we can produce and the collapsing of ficticios capital value it would still come to an end as profits inevitably go to zero. It's built right into the profits systems accounting system itself.
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@teatime009 You won't see Strossel interviewing logging bosses and asking why they don't pay higher wages. The logging bosses would just tell him to take a hike. You won't find his boss friend who built his payroll skimming operation question what his income is either. In fact we didn't hear what Strossel makes either. Nevertheless we are suppose to be angry because one group of workers has been able to maintain their wages while the bosses have been screwing the rest of us.
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@sherriflemming3218 The bosses control the two parties that way no matter who wins they are in their pocket.
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@aakkoin Hitler was never elected to any post including dog catcher. He was backed by German Big Business like I. G. Farben and Krupp steel. He organized big business for war to retake Germany's position before the Treaty of Versailles. He had an organized goon squad in uniform which he used for strikebreaking and to break up political and union meetings. He was handed power as Chancellor of Germany by President General Hindenburg.
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@atomicboomstic8715 Fire Dr Fuckshe!!! Abortion is a women's right.
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@balthasar3 The only reason they are called the Greatest Generation is because they gave up a lot of what the workers had won with the CIO Industrial Union movement to be on the winning side of WW2. Because the US mainland was left untouched the industrial power of the US meant the beginning of the most powerful Empire in human history. As a boomer we are the only ones connected to the Great Depression and WW2 by word of mouth and family. To say we are selfish for wanting to avoid the misery of that time shows just how unconnected you are. During the depression they put cardboard in their shoes to get more out of them. During the war years they had a wage freeze and ration cards for food and gasoline. Have you ever seen the inside of a working B-24 they have two pilots and the instrumentation that looks a bunch of automobile gas gages and odometers. No auto pilot you flew it using your feet and hands. The radio was a tube set. Tubes burn out like old lightbulbs. The belly gunner worked upside down. The side gunners worked through a large opening in the sides of a plane. Not everyone came back and not every plane returned.
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You were not poor because of colonialism your development was held back because of colonialism and western Imperialism. It was Lenin and the Bolsheviks who vowed to tear Imperialism apart and that is what happened following World War two. The western Imperialist countries could no longer hold back the colonial revolution. You will discover that neoliberal capitalism free market theory ends at the borders of the Imperialist nations. The Bourgeois of each nation divided up and regulates commerce within its border using a state to defend its class interests, International they each defend the Bourgeois nation states class interests with borders and the political economic power within the International organizations set up post world war two. Just as no capitalist considers any competition fair in the home market no bourgeois grouped in a nation state considers competition fair in the world market.
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You trade your labor when working to pay the costs of reproducing your labor for work. So if you get sick you pay yourself or if you become disabled than Social Security pays you. You ability to work is determined by the market for your labor. If nothing else when you get old you'll depend on others unless you die quickly. The Railroad operates 24/7. The bosses want the workers working the longest hours at the lowest wages. The rail bosses unilaterally have cut jobs and fired thousands all to maximize profits at the expense of labor. They have instituted a point system a federal Judge has ruled is not subjected to bargaining so the rail workers have demanded paid time off for sickness.
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@daviddobson6716 Capitalism replaced cottage industry. No one makes nails in a hand forge or rides hay burning horse. The wood you use as a carpenter is cut and milled thousands of miles from your job site. The computer you use was built out of parts made in multiple countries factories ad mines. Small business just fills in the cracks of modern industry and its the industrial workers who make modern life possible. Our work is essential to the world economy. Goods made in Chinese factories our shipped in containers to the West coast of the United States by Rail to the East Coast then to Europe. The people of the whole world are tide togther by world trade no one country has everything or can dominate all the others. Those days are over. Every country will have to decide does it want a country with capitalist bosses in change or do the workers and farmers want to run things?
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@chucklindenberg1093 The bosses had their chance to provide a secure retirement by capitalism before the Great Depression. You can't do it no matter how much you and Milton Friedman talk. You want a system where the bosses do nothing but own, inherit and manage. While we do nothing but work for your convenience.
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@brianjones7660 People actually own their homes or pay a percentage of their income in rent in Cuba unlike the US where the bankers and landlords own and can kick you out. No one is kicked out of their home and made homeless like in the US. Neo liberal capitalism with its markets only has homes for those who can pay. A home is something to be used as an investment for the wealth of the property owners. in other words its a commodity to be bought and sold for the benefit of the buyers and sellers making profits in a market.
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Blaire Tyrant She made the rape claim concerning the Roe pregnancy later on 1983 and then recanted.
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@pjs3894 T Even the top actors don't make the money the super rich like Gates, Bezos & Co do. They are paid piece rates and are part of the middle class not the working class. You don't have to watch pro football or buy what they sell on the TV ads either. Some bosses make money off those games otherwise they wouldn't pay the players. If people didn't watch TV and Movie and the bosses could make money they wouldn't pay top actors what the make either. I'm the person you called a thief not them so like I said where do you get off on calling me a thief? I'm not a hedge fund manager betting on the failure of Gamestop. You ask me these guys are no different than high stakes gamblers and card counters. On Wall street everything is legal as long as you don't get caught.
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@powercomm Capitalism is a precursor to socialism. We aren't the doctrine of a regime but a movement of a class in struggle created by capitalism. We are the industrial working class capitalism's most important product.
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@mcloathin3354 No one can mame a single innocent victim of the Cuban revolutions execution of murderers and terrorists. But everyone knows Fidel and Che were "MASS MURDERERS" People in Cuba are starving until you see the fat guy say "Hambre" on youtube.
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@mcloathin3354 The defendants in the 1936 Moscow Trials were all Old Bolsheviks and all were accused of Trotskyism. Trotsky had been forced into exile in 1929 convicted in Frame up trials in 1936 to 1938. Murdered in Mexico by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader.
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The Trojan horse is headed up North on the new I-69 in South Texas with parts coming south on the old I-69 from Port Huron, Michigan (NAFTA Superhighway). Destination out I-70 east to I-270 towards the swampland on the Potomac. Once it gets there it will say proudly assembled in Indianapolis, Indiana from parts made in Mexico, Canada and China but with 50% made in the USA. How long do you want to spend as a 50%er?
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Bouigois politics has gone prono.
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Since I'm "over the hill". I'd say English will be my last language.
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@LindaBartkowiak Conservative usually call themselves neo liberals but they are also those who believe that capitalism can be reformed to the advantage of the masses of working people.
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The debt is a way for the wealthy to make money instead of paying taxes. They lend money to the government instead of paying taxes and then they get paid back.
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You'll get no argument from me on that one. The ruling class decided it would be better for prices to rise than to directly cut our wages.
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@tovarisch3039 I suppose the Belgian Congo isn't rich in Cobalt and that played no role in the Murder of Patrice Lumumba while Swedish Imperialist UN Blue hats stood by?
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@cainandrews2335 He has the right to say what he wants. I do see YANG as another one of these libertarian fucks who believes in Ayn Rand and dumb shit like "Capitalism the Unknown Ideal."
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Why does her being a "white chick" make any difference? Do you know if she did or didn't live in poverty? If you such a brite "Professor of Economics" keep you comments relative to the discussion instead of launching attacks on "White Chicks" Thanks for the brilliant comment Professor "boob" of identity politics.
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Sorry but America was founded on freedom of religious belief.
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A union that vigorously represents its members will have no trouble collecting dues. I would plan to see a lot of no strike agreements going down the toilet. You want class warfare and a lot of us would be happy to oblige.
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@MrRedsjack Cuban Doctors often serve in foreign Medical brigades. Cuba created its own COVID Vaccine. Those who become Doctors in Cuba do so to be doctors not princes. Naturally the western middle class is horrified that a Doctor doesn't command a the lifestyle of a prince.
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@eddydominguez1568 All the theories about a long term capitalism surviving require the capitalist to be producing value and not just accumulating it. American capitalism has reached a dead end. The ruling class must continue to feed itself dollars it creates by the central bank to keep the system going. Just like in the 1930's the system can no longer produce more value it can only rob the working class. This is what drives the class struggle both nationally and internationally. History shows the workers will have a chance to abolish capitalism, private property and set up a new state power. In all the advanced capitalist countries the industrial workers belong to trade unions and no where has fascism been able to raise its ugly head. The working class is a big part of every country in the world today and we have more culture than ever before in human history. The working class was small in Russia, China and Cuba when our class took power compared to all the other classes today we are much bigger and the only class that grew both in size and percentage on a world scale. Once capitalism is overthrown in the US the rest of the world will stand up and cheer. .
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 They've forced the bosses to raise wages and better conditions for the working class by means of class struggle which is why the bosses fight so hard against unions. A strike shuts down the source of profits for the bosses by denying him the right to exploit us as the labor he hires. When ever the wages of the production workers rise it means more of the production goes to the working people who got the raise and expanding production for the workers who will now increase production for the things workers need. But this is only temporary as the bosses kept moving forward by maximizing profits threw increasing competition between workers and therefore maximizing exploitation.
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Joe Biden is trying to prevent the election of a bourgeois rival Donald Trump by using all his governmental powers to defeat him. He administrations talk of Democracy and Human Rights is just so much Imperialist Propaganda. The Cuba people don't want a system where a capitalist elite chose two party candidates whose only purpose is to fill the coffers of the rich capitalist elite.
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Go!! UAW GO!! Show them Union strike power!!!
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@ferdburful6352 Like it makes a difference if they are investors or paid off by investors?
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@mightymouse2098 We need a party independent of the bosses based in the unions. The unions can take up the struggle at the workplace and the Labor Party in the political arena. The industrial unions can become organizations of workers power taking up social issues as well not just at contract time but all the time. During the Cuban revolution the areas under rebel control had their own medical aid and schools that was available to all not just rebel soldiers but even Government Troops captured or who surrendered after battle received medical care. This is how the battle to win the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes proceeded. Everything was done in a politically defense manner so as not to be crushed by superior forces like the Coal miners strikes and the Battle of Blair mountain in the 1920's when Federal forces were sent to West Virginia.
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@mightymouse2098 Maybe a better way to look at is like this if would all the Republicans go along with setting up their own education hospitals and schools and how would they do that? Would it be private schools and hospitals just for those who could pay if not would the top leadership go along with this or would you have to split the Party over theses issues how about who didn't belong to the Party? Could you set it up as a dues sustaining and contributing voluntary organization? I want you to think of who your going to work with and how your going to do things and why.
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@firstandforemost87 You still get a wage or salary since profit is surplus value. The best use of profit is to expand production not be put invested in driving up factious values. If you keep replacing labor with machines the capital value rises but the labor needed to produce goes down which is the source of profit so the goal of the industrial capitalist moves away as his capital value rises and his total profit slumps as price do to the cost of production meaning his rate of profit declines. With too much profit he puts it into banks and then demands to be paid for his past productivity not his present. They become a parasitic cyst on production. Driving up capital value way above real value until it colapses in a recession or depression. Then they say we are too big to fail you must sacrifice for the good of capital value we need to make even more or we will stop doing anything and throw you out of your home for not working for us. That is the logic of capitalist greed and economics. Build giant industries and then let them decline as long as you can hold up prices above costs and make a rate of return to keep the stock owners happy. See its about being the most competitive, cutting labor time and paying the lowest wages down to the minimum wage. Health care and education those are overhead costs not human needs. They say why do they need more doctors when we treat them like an insured piece of machinery. We make everything as easy as possible in the factory and coal mine why do they want education, health care and control of safety?
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@ManiAvila The workers develop as a class though their experience and chose their own leaders. The biggest obstacle to the workers and the socialist revolution was our own leaders in the Social Democratic and Stalinist Communist Parties. The end of the cold war was a defeat for both the Imperialist who failed to take over the world into one military command and the Stalinists who crumbled in the face of mass protest of their fake communism. Only in Cuba did you see a real revolutionary leadership meet the challenge the Imperialist presented with their threats of star wars and fake promises of ever growing material betterment under neoliberal capitalism. In Cuba the Revolutionary Armed Forces were fighting the South Africa racist regime while in Moscow Gorbachev was filling his face with Pizza for Pizza hut commercials and asking Margaret Thatcher how she planned to feed the people of London.
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A medicine with similar effect is sold as a prescription antacid.
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Bankruptcy is a tactic to steal your pay while transferring ownership to new company owners.
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@andresrodriguez252 That is nothing but a bold face lie. The US CIA agent who was at the scene attributes the decision to murder him to the highest levels of the Bolivian government at the time General Barrientos a brutal dictator who murdered striking miners who could not act without US CIA approval.
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@beldiman5870 Hatred of the CEO by the workers is not the same as CEO's hatred of his workers.
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Railway "Slave Labor" Act. A judge gets to decide if you can strike.
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@royfrye2871 Cancel the national debt!!!
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@starspaceschool587 They all talk the same neoliberal Conservative Republican Party Line.
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@KibyNykraft You sound like a post modernist yourself. Someone who has decided he can manufacture reality out of whatever ideas he has.
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@coreybrowning9659 Its not complicate at all women have the right to control their bodies. Not the Church or the State. Take your rotten apple cops, your corrupt politicians and your sky pilots leave on a trip for mars and don't come back.
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@weaksignal8009 Nonsense.
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Stalin the only reason you won and Hitler lost is because you hadn't finished another deadly purge. This time of Red Army officers before Hitler broke the pact dividing Poland between you and him. If you had finished the purge early or Hitler could have waited a month or so Hitler's armies would have marched all the way to Vladivostok. The smell is so bad I can only conclude that someone must have opened your casket by accident.
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@pawel5280 You guys were killing each other in the Taiping rebellion long before there was a Mao or CCP. In a war with the Qing Dynasty costing 10 to 30 million lives. Why should we get involved in a war over a Falun Gong Yoga Class?
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Few people understand money including how banks are able to create more on their books than actually is in circulation. The bank began as a safe place to store a heavy metal called gold. Today the banks play a major role along with insurance companies because so much money goes to them and investment comes from them.
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@Eren-cy6ln Who exactly is the enemy?
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@PerspectiveEngineer Finance capital is the most parasitic of all capitals because it demands a return on investment unrelated to the success of the business to which it makes the loan. In other words it is simple a matter of calculating and avoiding risk. But when you the owner of a mortgage contract that is seen as less of a risk since if the borrower doesn't pay you get back the home or land which you can now sell to a new owner. It only becomes a problem when you run out of customers to sell the forclosed homes or land to. Its also like investing in government bonds. Government is assumed to be infallible. It will pay despite what it does with the money borrowed like the 2.3 trillion borrower to pay for the Afghanistan war. The war produced nothing but 100,000 dead and millions were displaced as internal refugees but that money is to be repaid despite it having done almost nothing of value in one of the poorest countries on earth.
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@JayJayM57 The bosses will have to take a cut in profits. They can afford to halt stock buy backs and layoff the pool boy.
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@printz-of-peepz The British pound had value in gold set by Newton that except for war time was stable until World War 1. With paper money a bank can put more paper into circulation than they have gold on deposit. You could buy gold in 1800 for about $20 until 1933. That's when Roosevelt took gold out of circulation at about $23.50 an ounce. After WW2 the US Bretton woods agreement set gold at $35 an ounce. France wanted Gold for dollars so Nixon said "NO". That temporarily ended the Gold standard and then Ford made Gold ownership for speculation legal again. By printing money the value of property can rise in the market while the wages can be held down by blaming wage increases for inflation. This is how they got away without issuing strike provoking wage cuts until 2008.
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@alanboggs2315 Prices aren't set by supply and demand because their is no such thing as a free market. Bosses try and set the price of labor such that it only pays the cost of the laborer to reproduce his labor for the next pay period. After we have worked a certain amount of time we have put in enough labor to pay for our social cost the rest goes to the bosses. That's why the want us working the longest hours at the lowest wages and at the fastest pace. When they sell in a market they only want to sell at a profit. New York is full of empty office buildings that could be repurposed as apartments but the bosses don't want to spend on immigrants who can't pay. Just like those who become homeless or sick the bosses say it cost them too much. They and others like them have created these world wide social problems and now they hope to escape payment.
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@cnnmsnbcarefakenews4688 They had the best mercenaries green back dollars could buy. At 3 trillion dollars the Imperialist decided they had spent enough destroying and causing a man made disaster in one of the poorest countries in the world. All while talking about building democracy and a modern society. Capitalism only brings death and destruction not democracy. The middle eastern countries are some of the richest in the world and the most repressive.
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@ManiacRedBird And just where did Stalinist rule lead to but back to capitalism just like the great revolutionary and organizer of the Red Army Leon Trotsky predicted. The Democratic Imperialist had to rely on Stalin to beat their Imperialist competition NAZI Germany. The second Imperialist war cost 80 million lives in 6 years. Nether Stalin or Mao can beat the record rate of death of the second Imperialist war. All I need to do is count the Taiping Rebellion, and the fist the first Imperialist Wars and I'm well beyond the claims of 100 million in the Black book. Plus Cuba has trained thousands of doctors who are saving the lives of 100's of thousands. While the US plans to spend more on new nuclear weapons for Imperialist posture.
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@ManiacRedBird No you are the troglodytes ignorant one as can be seen by your seen name you have chosen. You worship feudal landlords. Like the Russian Czar, English King and Chinese Emperor. You the one who lives in the past glory of Kings and Queens and Land Barron's.
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@ManiacRedBird But you have not asked yourself what are the origins of ideas and what do they represent. Mao, Stalin, and Mussolini all started out as Marxists as have other intellectuals including James Burnham the founder with Bill Buckley of modern American conservatism. Mussolini moved to the right supporting his own ruling class in the world war and in so doing ended up leading the Fascistas a movement based it the decaying petti bourgeois wipped into a frenzy by Li Duce as a force for political violence against the workers peasants and their leaders. As Trotsky said had the Bolsheviks not taken power when they did than fascism would have had a Russian name. Stalin ended up leading a political cult of personally that started with wrong polices mistakes and later leading to the creation of a murderous bureaucratic machine of labor aristocrats. Mao was one of the international followers of Stalin and had not the butcher General Chang not been so stupid ignoring American advice Mao would have lost the Chinese revolution by making Chang a partner in a coalition government. Anyone who has made a study of ideas will conclude that those of Stalin are closer to the Social Democrats that both Lenin and Trotsky argued against. That the ideas of Stalin and Mao are alike and those of Che and Fidel Castro are in line with those of Lenin and Trotsky.
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@katelawlor9610 The Imperialist liar is a danger to peace worldwide.
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No real loss they aren't about justice anyway.
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@Famr4evr No he didn't their were no witnesses. He called the cops and reported a suspicious person. The cops told him to stay put. Instead his story was he got out to find a street sign. (Ya a neighborhood watchmen in a gated community didn't know where he was.) If it had been anyone else but a neighborhood watchman in a gated community he'd been arrested at the scene. His wife was convicted of perjury for lying at the bail hearing claiming indigency.
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rdmo83 The capitalist rule through their two parties. The number of elected Congressmen and Senators out of 535 not elected by those parties and their campaign funding is no more than 5. The Judiciary is appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. All of the Supreme court members are trusted and tested grads of either Harvard or Yale law school. The judiciary is independent of the people since judges are seldom removed except for blatant corruption.
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@ericcsudduth5166 Plenty of American citizens break laws that they don't even realize exist. Plus many people who break laws pay fines or go on probation. Jail should be retained for serious crimes since it is a social and economic cost that the rest of us have to pay.
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This video starts with the lie that Fidel Castro brought the world to the brink of Nuclear War. No it was the Democratic Imperialist Kennedy that did that. At no time has Cuba possessed nuclear weapons or have nuclear arms stationed on Cuban territory. Kennedy had SAC B-52 nuclear armed bombers in the air 24/7 and US nuclear mussels in Italy and Turkey. Its classic propaganda of turning the victim into the criminal. The Democratic Imperialist Kennedy's dictator Batista was overthrown and Cuban independence is something the Democratic Imperialist Kennedy and his successors can not tolerate.
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@BaconNBeer Don't you have an appointment on the Alex Jones show? Or a speech to give about Fidel Castro's' Forced Doctorization for a globalist power grab? Maybe you can help invent a story about how Chinese restaurants are using soy sauce to drive the global viagra market. LMAO
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@jcharris1146 You mixing fiction with fact. There are so many O'Briens in Massachusetts we could probably fill Fenway Park.
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@jcharris1146 Here is what a well known 20th century anti-Stalinist communist has to say about Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1974/05/solzhenitsyn-gulag.html
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@emsnewssupkis6453 Wrong Icon the Chinese flag is one big yellow star and four little ones no hammer and cycle. I use it as representative of the early Oct 1917 Russian revolution before Stalin destroyed Lenin's Bolshevik party with the 1936 to 1938 Murder Purge trials.
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They have a place for people who engage in assault it's called Jail. McCarthy's real enemy was a Red alright. His name was Johnny Walker Red. He lost his epic battle at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He got a lot of help from the Chief of the American Gestapo J. Edgar Hoover. Heir Hoover like Heir Mueller opperted a national network of paid snitches.
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Slarti Bartfast "Those who only accept the word of another are complete idiots who can be dismissed with the wave of the hand." N. Lenin. There is no evidence that Lenin ever used the phrases 'useful Idiot'. No one including the librarian at the US Congressional library could find that. "Useful Idiots" seek jobs with the two parties. Experts from the national swaps outside of DC are brought in to do brain transplants from freshly killed alligators and other predatory animals like hyenas. Lots of want Lenin wrote is online at https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
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Slarti Bartfast So sorry to so disappoint you Professor Bartfast. It's great to realize that the entrance to the Ivory Towers of the Poison Ivy League are still being jealously guarded by off duty Mall Cops such as yourself.
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@Sa S Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act which required all union officials from the shop stewards on up to sign loyalty oaths. Truman not to be out done by a Republican Congress with an executive order set up loyalty oaths for all government workers and contractor workers.
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@WanderingExistence If clowns like Freedman and Hyrak and the bosses they advise knew how to prevent capitalism form entering crisis and declining real profit rates then they wouldn't need to constantly propose new policies to save capitalism from the bosses own greed. You'll find that for them there is always another excuse and new lecture to be given on how the bosses only made a few mistakes and they need another chance to show how capitalist could work. Then the go on to praise the bosses almost perfect moral character if only the bosses could behave in a saintly manner, resist the desires of the flesh and selfish aggrandizements. Then all would be well for the parishioners belief in capitalism.
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@WanderingExistence They love to mystify everything as much as possible and then use mystification as proof of knowledge.
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@757flyer End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@Redmanticore You can not reform the capitalist state. You can demand that criminal cops be jailed and win a demand like that but civilian review boards and more training will not change the real sources of violence the underlying irreconcilable class conflict. Only a socialist revolution like that lead by Fidel Castro can change and bring about a new man, new women and build a society based upon human solidarity.
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The GREAT HERO who was going to build a wall and make Mexico pay along with other stupidity like Draining the swamp. Leave the rest to him The man would be lucky if he could zip up his fly.
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@stevestiffler9120 The alternative to a capitalist bosses bureaucracy micro managing everything is workers control of the industry and community without private property where almost everything belongs to banks and other exploiters.
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@Steve-qd9oh Last time I checked the local shoe store has been replaced by WalMart and other big Shoe store chains.
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A. They have plenty of money to throw around. B. This indicates a less than complete confidence in their economic and political system. Capitalism.
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The federal government can send troops to protect a states republican form of government or enable the insurrection act. President Eisenhower sent in the US Army 101st Airborne from Ft Campbell, Ky and federalized the all 10,000 Arkansas National Guard. All to enforce a Little Rock High School Supreme court desegregation order. Nine Black students would designate the school.
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First no one except people who live near a border can take advantage of other countries lower cost of living. A dollar leaving the country comes back in exports. This is especially true in poor countries. For years the US accepted anyone leaving the old socialist bloc or Cuba as automatic political refugees with a rubber stamp. Just because a country is not officially at war or having an internal civil war does not mean someone is not under threat of a criminal gang or unofficial death squad. The government has no intention in deporting every immigrant only enough to scare the others and create a pariah class the can be exploited with minimum or sub minimum wages therefore driving down all wages. An amnesty would help raise wages because those at the bottom of the wage scale can no longer threatened with deportation. The US also has no intention of deporting Foreign nationals working as management of Foreign corporations doing business here. That makes amnestied immigrants more likely to struggle against their conditions and that will raise the wages of all. The Social Security act was passed in 1935 as a concession to the workers who fought 3 citywide general strikes all lead by different factions of the Communist Party in 1934 not only did the strikers include immigrants but the leaders also included immigrants. The American working class has always had an immigrant component. What other countries do as far as immigrants go is their country's policy. We don't have to do what they do or don't do.
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@TruztNoI To lazy to do a google search? The Mayor of New York makes just under $260,000 Here's the management figures for 2009. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/table-of-top-mta-salaries-1.1973752 and here's an acticle where Union empolyees average just under $90,000. https://medium.com/@johnnyknocke/the-mta-loses-six-billion-dollars-a-year-and-nobody-cares-d0d23093b2d8 Public Transit can't make profits because the ability to replace labor with machines is limited. Building the buses and trains is where the profits are because manufacturing cost can be cut with new machines.
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@donaldclement311 Trump wasn't elected President of Venezuela nor is Venezuela another US state or colony like Puerto Rico.
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@penmaster003 You a completely brainwashed idiot. You trust government fools to write laws on how to practice medicine. No one is aborting healthy 9 month old fetuses accept in the minds of the Plastic Jesus crowd.. Its just a political football so capitalist politicians can play the hero as another Clark Kent or Batman. You think Trump and Obama are saving the world. There is no need for limitations because the politicians are lucky to be able tell their ass from their elbow without a chart in a hearing room to begin with. They didn't have any limitations in Colorado. We don't need your false morality or you playing the well educated enlightened dip shit.
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i am sure in that fifteen years that the company collected tax money from his paycheck that he will never see again.
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@jamesbosworth4191 The bosses have their paper the New York Times and we have ours The Militant. Published since 1928 and online.
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He out rightly refused service and the cake is usually served in the reception hall after the ceremony not the church. He's not even facilitating the marriage and since he refused all service at first and only later offered a nondescript cake when brought in for mediation. That shows he has no principles except to refuse service as a way of expressing his bigotry not his religion.
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Black US farmers protested and demanded to be able to sell chicken to Cuba!!!
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@castlev1986 That's why you do know WTF you talking about.
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@castlev1986 Everyone know that cars get flat tires also doesn't make all tires flat. Mob :a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. We call that mass protests and class struggle. The bosses, finks, scabs and the cops call us "The Mob."Its how the industrial unions were built. Like the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes and the Minneapolis Citywide General strike. The first amendment gives us the right to assemble and protest boss policy.
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@castlev1986 Robots can't take over because you can't build a perpetual motion machine. What does happen is the capital value of the company rises and the ability to produce more with less labor goes up. Now initially your total profit rises but you sale price will once again slump towards the cost of production and your profit per item must also decline since labor time in production is the source of profit. So unless you have a bigger market for your production your total profit must go down and you only sell in markets where you can make a profit to begin with. So what this means is the RATE of profit in all industries must also decline and since the world market is finite capitalism, itself, if it had no other problems like the proper allocation of capital to production not speculation, must come to an end as profit rates go to zero. Unions are organizations of workers. Since we are the only class that becomes larger in the modern world our unions become all that more important.
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@castlev1986 We don't need the capitalists. History shows that in every country the workers will fight back against capitalist austerity programs. On a world scale the number of wage workers has kept rising both numerically and by percentage despite increases in productivity. All the other classes like the small farmers, middle class and capitalists decline. Capital keeps combing and accumulating which can only result in a decline in profits rates. The capitalist produce for markets not to keep people clothed and feed. The capitalist can't run a factory by themselves either. They become totally parasitic collecting value based upon ownership only.. They are also divided into nation states competing in a world market. They become unable to arbitrate trade and market disputes between different capitalist classes this drives them towards Imperialist war. Their is only one solution to the crisis of capitalism that's world socialism and national self determination for the poor nations. Revolutionary Cuba points the way forward both setting an example in solidarity and the fist major defeat for US Imperialism in the Western Hemisphere just 90 miles from the most powerful Empire in world history.
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China doesn't want US troops on its door step. Its interests are in a united Korea without US Troops or the status quo.
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The reason for calling Amazon a Public company is it shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Since it is publicly traded it comes under the rules of the Security and Exchanges commission whach was set up as part of the New Deal to save capitalism and return "faith" in "honest" markets. According to your definition of socialism the United States was probably more Socialist than the Soviet Union in 1929 before the stock mrket crash. Everyone was conned into put every extra dime into the stock market.
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@virginiamoss7045 The practice of granting the right to a corporation came from England where the king granted the right to form corporation to those he found favor with. Most corporations are generally chartered by the states only a very very few are specifically chartered by the Federal Government. Since before the civil war the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states any corporation chartered by a state was never bound by the Bill of Rights. After the civil war the states were bound by the doctrine of incorporation to be limited by the Bill of Rights.
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Dean Hazelwood 100% Tax on profits. Charge 125 % more for all High IQ investors.
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We all know how when you belong to the club you take a vacation when ever you want and come back for another job as a professional mooch.
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@williamcary8029 The Kurdish people meet the requirements of a national group. A separate language with their own customs and culture. They have historically been oppressed in those countries whose borders were drawn in more modern times. When I say oppression I am talking about not being allowed to use their own language but being forced to use someone else's language and educate your children in that language. Since that area has been their traditional homeland why should they be asked to assimilate? All of the wars and revolutions in the 20th century were fought over the rights of smaller and less economically developed nations to be able to run their own affairs without having to submit to what others wanted. The Soviet Union broke up over economic inequality and national rights. Canada came close a break up over the rights of Quebecois to use French as their language and have the respect of English speaking Canadians. The Irish English relationship was about the English wanting to stamp out the different language, religion and culture of the Irish for over 700 years. Unless you want to bring racial discrimination and Native Americans into the conversation saying it would be like a small group of Floridians wanting their own country is nonsense.
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@SovetUnion63 Lenin declared war on Great Russian chauvinism. Stalin despite being Georgian endorsed it. Think of what it means to be Soviet. Are you Soviet just because you lived within the confines of the old Soviet Union's borders? Aren't those of us who fight for workers and farmers republics in the rest of the world not Soviet also? That is part of the whole crux of the problem thinking that the Soviet Union was a country rather than a union of politically equal workers republics. Once you decide the Soviet Union is a country than you have endorsed "Socialism in one Country". Molotov signs a pac with Von Ribbentrop where Poland is partitioned between NAZI Germany and The Soviet Union and where Stalin receives permission to march in and take Estonia. Lithuania and Latvia. So Stalin the "Great Leader" of the "Soviet Union" gets permission from the mortal enemy of the world revolution Hitler to size small nations without any indication that they were even willing to be part of the Union. .Sure once the Red Army had entered than no doubt some sham elections were held with the expected outcome.
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@Steven Andrade We remember Che and Fidel because they put internationalism back into communism. It was Cuba and Fidel who took in the FBI frame up victim American Black Rights fighter Robert F. Williams and gave him a Radio from which to broadcast Radio Free Dixie back into the US. Assata Shakur is an escaped slave who has political asylum in Cuba. We know that the Cuba people will never had her back to here slavemasters the US Imperialists. We know the rebel army won not just one military battle with Imperialism but two. One at Giron and the other at Cuito Cuanavale.
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@vojtasks Our negotiation power is based in the ability to shut off the flow of profits. That what a real strike can achieve. Like the Teamster local 544 in Minneapolis during the depth of the Great Depression. The great CIO Autoworkers sit down strikes at GM. As Farrell Dobbs said, "You can have anything your big enough to take."
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@vojtasks No you don't work less for more money. Wages stopped following productivity in 1973. Since then wages have stagnated while productivity soared. Capital intensive labor is paid more because that is where the industrial unions are. The CIO autoworkers take over of the GM plants with a sit down strike fighting off the cops with Chevy door hinges are history that still lives today. Everything workers have was won in struggle not because machines replace labor. Machines replacing labor only produces a falling rate of profit by which the bosses measure success. They replace labor with machines to drive profits their way but the increased capital value but with less labor in the commodity produced drives down the rate of profit as time moves forward in the whole economy.
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@stuckinthemud4352 If I don't work where do I get the money to pay for the tax on the land? So unless I'm a Native American I'm pretty much prevented from owning any land outside of a county and state without a property tax. If you don't work for someone you have to own property. That's how capitalist can get out of doing jobs they wouldn't want to do. If you belong to a group like being a worker who pays social security tax you and your family can get paid if you or your children become disabled or old. Working or labor is part of how people make a life for ourselves. With agriculture a division of labor and class society was born slave society replaced hunting and gathering and civilization was born. Now the deliberated raising and domestication of plants and animals replaced hunter gathers need for cannibalism in times of a scare food supply.
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@stuckinthemud4352 We would not have what we do without the citywide Minneapolis Teamsters General Strike of 1934 and the Great Flint. MI UAW Sit Down strikes at GM in 1937 to 1938.
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@stuckinthemud4352 "There’s a big difference between a union that just wants better rights and a union that ultimately wants to abolish private property rights." One is lead by union militants who have historical lessons and theory on how to win a strike while the other is lead by those in the union business. That was one of the reasons the Taft Hartley act was passed. and FDR began the Red Scare in 1940. Just setting up fake company unions did not work so the bosses now needed a new way to choose who to negotiate with. When the workers begin to struggle they turn to the unions first and those who can lead a successful fight become the new leaders in elections held after the strike. .
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@stuckinthemud4352 What makes you think a union that seeks to advance the rights of workers is any different than one in which at least some of the members and leaders point to the ultimate goal of the workers movement as the abolition of private property? Do you have this mechanical view of how a revolution takes place? That we have some secret plan worked out in an underground bunker somewhere? That we have a book somewhere that lays everything out that your secret police have yet to find?
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@stuckinthemud4352 Sure and when the boss says "No" then what? As long as the workers think capitalism is fulfilling their needs in the long term they will not seek ways to struggle against it. The fact that large numbers of workers began cheering Donald Trump for calling it a rigged system and draining the swamp indicates a political awakening among the workers. That is what has the liberals terrified.
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@commenterthe3rd Better to debate online than in person with some people who can't take any criticism. Afterall when you do have a debate you already been asked the question before so you can devlop your answers.
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The chickens are coming home to roost on the Swedish Social Democratic Imperialism. The Swedish working class is now being asked to pay for the crimes of western Imperialist policy. The Swedish UN Troops who stood by while Patrice Lamumba was murdered in the newly freed Congo. The Swedish Volvo bosses who threatened to run scabs in the Dublin, VA truck plant if a strike was called.
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And all those executed were guilty of serous crimes as charged.
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You have 11 hours a day to pray outside of public school.
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@gotaigo The capitalist don't need workers with education they need order takers. Driven by profits they invest in machines to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. To make the biggest profits they seek to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hours at the fastest rate at a wage of just enough for the workers to come back for the next pay period. When the market for commodities become saturated a crisis of profits develops and the bosses say see you later partner as they cut production in order to place the burden of their profits crisis on us. Because a surplus of workers develops during a crisis of overproduction they seek to impose wage cuts but since that produced strikes the bosses have the central bank print money to use inflation to drive up prices and the value of property while holding down wages and claiming workers are causing inflation.
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@gamingwithmatt3598 Ya go play your games elsewhere.
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So in the end what was the motive? Someone who spends all his time looking over weapons system for sale to the government loses his marbles? Doesn't surprise me in the least. Talking about wasting money on electric heat given his self promotion as a big shot like his play acting seems childish. If they had this guy on the Raytheon Payroll its probably because they got to charge cost plus for hs time. He plead guilty and was quickly sentenced to life without parole in Texas.
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@martywardjr.9054 As as the capitalist control the political system though their parties no matter what name they call themselves.
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@josiahbennett7573 Just how does DNA enter into politics?
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@redlion3486 Need to break two party monopoly on elections. Make access to ballot equal for all.
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@ΣτάθηςΒαρλάμος That maybe one of the last to openly endorse Hamas but plenty of Stalinist groups still exist because they still give support to states and regimes like Putin's and China despite their economies being clearly capitalist. They never had any problem supporting any crime the bureaucracy of their favorite Stalinist Regime be it Tito, Stalin Kruschev, Gorbachev, Mao or Deng. Their way of approaching political disputes is NOT through discussion, debate and a show of hands but though the use of slander, bureaucratic tactics and political violence. Even though many had left the Original Stalinist Communist Parties the popular front thinking from the past still influences large swaths of middle class intellectuals.
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Repeal the Railway "slave" Labor Act. NO strikebreaking by Congress or the President.
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@Alex Wells The cops ran away abandoning Fort Apache. Now six city blocks are without the blue thug services.
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@dylaninnes8541 We are going through the biggest change in human life with the industrial revolution since the neolithic revolutionary change from hunter gatherers to agriculture about 10 thousand years ago. What began as a middle class culture of merchants and traders in Western Europe is today a world culture of trade and industrial manufacturing production. A class struggle between the two most important classes in the modern world is going on. The proletariat and the capitalist over how best to organize that whole world system of production and trade.
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@Lucas Lombardo If he was the murderous pysco claimed why didn't they put him on trial like the NAZI's instead of having him murdered in a make shift school house prison by a drunken Bolivian Army Sargent?
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@ALex T Send the US and Chinese Presidents to Japan for a Sumo wrestling match. No war between the Chinese and US working classes.
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@steamnamebbderinvade__ Eighty percent of the Venezualan econmoy is in private hands. Chavez and now Maduro are bonapartists. They claim to be up against tremendous pressure and saviors of the nation. Instead of mobilizing the working class to take power the disoriantae everyone into a class collaboration regime and schemes that can be all things to all classes. It works for a while since oil revenue paid for many social programs until the oil market tanked.
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@srobsonscosta8887 My answer would be chapter one and two of the communist manifesto. Chapter One starts with paying a tribute to capitalism for what it has accomplished in the revolutionary battle with feudalism while Chapter Two is a more theoretical vision and polemical argument of how socialism/communism will come about and what it will do. Chapter three is more of an explanation of what is wrong with other socialisms. Chapter four is outdated and would be replaced by Trotsky's 1905 Permanent Revolution or the more correct but later 1917 April Theis of Lenin. It's a short read meant to acquaint anyone with the ideas of scientific socialism. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
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@XZAceXZ They elected Chavez for reasons similar to Trump. Trump promised to drawn the swamp. Chavez promised to fry the heads of the oligarchy. People such as yourself are all worked up over Chavez but said nothing about Venezuela's problems until after Chavez was elected. Now you come out with all this BS. Well why did you big supporters of capitalism do nothing until after Chavez was elected? Once Chavez starting talking with Fidel Castro then he crossed the Imperialists line in the sand. The US Propaganda was now saying he was crazy. A coup attempt with US Big Media engaged in lies was organized except it failed.
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@XZAceXZ Now that the right has control of Brazil and the Cuban Doctors have been kicked out. Everything is fine in Brazil. You going to make things better with the Bill Gates belief that "markets solve all problems" approach meaning you will do absolutely nothing. Now the ruling class will have everything they need. Brazil will be declared a Democratic friend of the US. Whose wisdom will be recognized with a social distanced kiss from Mike Pence.
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I'm sue some voted for Clinton so what is the Democratic Party doing for them?
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ls7orBust Now you expose yourself and libertarianism for what it is a pro capitalist ideology that includes repression without any nonaggression pact. Any attacks upon the Communist party with the big C will inevitable become attacks upon communist parties of the little c and the labor movement as a whole. The right to strike includes contracts so if the contract says you can't fire people at will than you can't fire at will. A contract with a fire at will clause or recognition is worthless since all the strike leaders will promptly be fired or bought off.
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He can run for Senate from South Carolina and replace Mitch McConnell on his way to being a Republican President.
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Defund the Military put those generals out collecting donations in Red buckets for the 1.2 Trillion dollars for more nuclear weapons.
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@SaltyMinorcan Hows that free world working out for you?
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@godschildyes The bosses are counting on the Railway "Slave" Labor Act to avoid serious negotiation. Tell Congress and the President No strike breaking!!!
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Take your delusions in Polish capitalism and explain where all the jobs in the Gdansk shipyard went.
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@DVOID1 Hope he gets taken out by one.
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@cedriceric9730 Pull the plug on cost plus contracts and require generals to raise funds with Salvation Army red buckets.
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Why not punish him even more by picketing his store which he also complained about.
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The dominate ideas of any society are those of the ruling class. Liberals are NOT communists.
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Profits are just unpaid wages.
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@h98-n2x The elect the assemble of peoples power.
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What is your idea of a Democracy?
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Capitalism pays workers a wage and to make the biggest profits they need to work us the longest hours at the lowest wages. This along with the business cycle is what breaks up workers families. Men and women don't want to have children because of the economic instability of the capitalist society they live in.
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@JennaLeeEquals3 If your a workers its deducted from your check before you can spend it. If your a contractor than your income is reported on a 1099 forms to the gov't. You need to do just about everything in cash which is difficult for most people. .
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@donsimon34 Cke and Camillo images are displayed on buildings in the Plaza of the revolution.
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@bigbad9583 b The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act Now the sky pilots will be getting more work holding Mass and Church funerals for botched abortions. You keep you women in line don't you. They do what you tell'm or else.
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@cyrene7784 They make it up on the fly. Actually it shows how really desperate they are. They see a decline in Church attendance, Catholic women using birth control and having abortions as a threat to their power and are reacting accordingly. They either look for or make up extreme situations to bolster their cause of police control over our lives in general and especially the most personal decisions a women and her family can make.
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@muchoed5119 The US is the only foreign power on the Korean peninsula it needs to leave its military bases and sign a treaty ending its war on the Korean people. It has no "legitimate interests" in Korea.
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@blipblop92 All that is BS Wall St calls pension money dumb money for a reason they get to control it and use it to make bets.
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@weirdshibainu The American Stalinist were strike breakers during the Second Imperialist War. When the war was over they declared the end of the class struggle and permanent victory of the Soviet union. In a few years they'd be doing 5 year stretches in the federal Pen. Trotsky said the Stalin was incapable of abstract thought.
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@truck6859 In any epoc morality is based upon the needs of the ruling class. For capitalism the ability to pass on property to heirs required a system of marriage, birth and divorce records for the nuclear family.
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Tax the rich down to their gold chains to pay for the things working people need. Capital creates nothing. Money doesn't grow in a bank.
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@mikebooth930 A system based in the love of money and greed must eventually come to an end as unsustainable.
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FBI and CIA are no different than Hitler's Gestapo.
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@Max Wylde Blah Blah Blah you real worry is not getting to keep a big bag of gold all to yourself. Your a capitalist cry baby. Probably lost all your money in a stock market swindle.
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Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter was voting support for Pol Pot in the UN and supplying him through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. Next time you see Carter think of a pile of Skulls.
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@philcollins2546 No more foreign arms sales. A militia is the best defense of a free state. Close all 800 foreign military bases.
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@richardfoster736 End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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@hectormorales6175 That's the kind of union you don't need. So you can either join another union, possible transfer to a different local, or organize a palace revolt. The way to organize a palace revolt is to bring issues that the officials can't ignore then bring in more and more workers in the union to help with the issue to backup your palace revolt. It's been successfully done in the past by the UMWA Miners for Democracy and in 1934 by the Minneapolis Teamsters who fought pitched battles with the employers "Citizen's Alliance" making the open shop town into a union stronghold. All that done while the back stabbing Dan Tobin was International President. If you aim your fire at the bosses other workers will want to join you and that puts backstabbing officials on notice that they can either join or be replaced with a new leadership.
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@joecool4656 With a union your uncle no longe can micro manage his business for every dime in profit. Capitalism always moves in the direction of monopoly not more small businesses in competition. Unless the business holds a monopoly choke point like Amazon or WalMart small business is constrained not just by labor costs but the cost of materials and the price a buyer will pay for the products. You also have the costs of new machinery. Business is much more than just labor costs although labor cost is usually the most flexible.
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@calebgarrett214 We aren't going to de unionize industry just to make lemonade stand capitalists happy. The construction industry still has a number of small opperters who are always want a break on labor costs. Well if you can't pay the labor price than don't low bid the jobs. We aren't interested in fixing capitalism. The corrupt and pro capitalist forces in the labor movement can be pushed out when the workers decide they want to struggle against the capitalist system for their human needs. If you are interested in Monopolistic tactics than you should research Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Or more recently Comcast. Comcast made itself into a big cable operator with contracts to small operators getting them upgraded for Internet service. With mortgage agreements that took the small operators systems if the could not make their payments for the upgrade.
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@calebgarrett214 Cops are NOT workers and they aren't in any real union just an organization for protecting themselves from justice. They go around collecting donations from small businessmen like you. No one wants to belong to a union that is looking for a way to find common ground with the bosses. The top Brass at the AFL-CIO wants to organize bosses because for them the union is a business and they are in the union business. Workers naturally 'club together' to take up problems with the bosses at work. That is how unions begin. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded in the Carpenters Union hall and the first Continental Congress also meet in the Carpenters union hall.
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Border patrol belongs at the border not one hundred miles away. They don't belong at WalMart in Harlingen, TX or on the I-10 median in Louisiana. Which I can personally say I saw their vehicles parked. Their legitimate function is at the border not being a Gestapo using a one hundred mile excuse to sustain what would normally be a fourth amendment violation. If you are going to allow a one hundred mile excuse that then includes every international airport and 100 miles in from the East and West coasts. You might as well throw the 4th Amendment in the trash can so Border Patrol can protect you from aliens.
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You're not helping by name calling. Your lowering yourself to the level of an angry child.
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Border patrol had no reason to stop them. The Supreme court ruling applies to persons at a checkpoint traveling in a motor vehicle not detaining shoppers in a convenience store. Even then keeping them 40 minutes is over the top. The had US ID and that should have been enough to presume that they were in the country legally. Exactly what kind of check takes forty minutes to run?
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@scottw5315 Churchill was a representative of Democratic Imperialism. He is hated more than Hitler in India. Reagan was another Imperialist who's ally Apartheid South Africa was defeated by Socialist Cuba in Angola. Reagan was FBI informant T-10.
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@BigChump23234 Ronald Reagan was a supporter of South African Apartheid, the contra's dirty war in Nicaragua and the invasion of Grenada.
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@BigChump23234 The bourgeois can always afford to be pacifists since the can hire the mercenaries to do the fighting for them.
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@BigChump23234 It should be obvious that bankers can;t be trusted with money in any way shape or form so the solution must be to de commodify distribution and production since that's the only real way to break the power of money. So we are back at the problem of ridding the world of capitalism.
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@BigChump23234 The Imperialist don't go to war expecting to lose but just what war did they "win" in the 20th century, WW1 ended with a loss of the whole Russian Empire. The Imperialist had to confine themselves to the colonial countries in the pre WW2 era. After the war most of the Empires crumbled China became independent and only the American Imperialist saw gains. Yet they were defeated in Korea, Cuba and Vietnam not to mention that the United Nations went from about 50 independent states to over 150. Despite the Stalinist and Social Democratic traitors Imperialism is weaker today than any other time in history. Because capitalist development is both uneven and combined whole nations can remain asleep only to see the class struggle suddenly awake millions. If the Imperialists are to shore up profit rates they must wage war. How else can the keep the colonial slaves in check not to mention the working class in their own countries.
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@BigChump23234 Do you think Malcolm X is a joke also? Maybe you should run for office as BOZO the clown doing a salt shaker dance.
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Clearing peaceful protesters for the benefit of a photo opp for a government official (Trump) is a violation of the first amendment to the constitution that protects ."... the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." It doesn't justify rioting but it certainly doesn't justify an order to the governors by the Attorney General "to dominate" the streets. It's Trump who said, "I here their pleas." Well if that's true why does he think he needs to call for the domination of the streets with military force?
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@juliostevens9480 She is a natural born US citizen who never held Cuban citizenship. Here mother left Cuba at age 14 before the 1959 victory.
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Pinochet was nothing more than a US/UK puppet.
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@frankiliano7656 Simple Trump has no internal opposition in North Korea that he can use to maneuver against Chairman Kim. Maduro refuses to lead a revolution to overturn capitalism in Venezuela instead he like Chavez thinks Social Democracy is the correct route to follow by leaving the Venezuelan capitalists in power with regulations and state interventions. You can't have a 1/2 socialist and 1/2 capitalist country. . Maduro has allowed the capitalists to trade Bolivars for Dollars at a below market rate which is now creating even more problems with corruption and inflation. This is an example of the worst Utopianism of Social Democrats with their foolish policies of uniting with 'progressive' capitalists. Today the Generals are with Maduro. Tomorrow another Pinochet may seize power and destroy all the gains the Venezuelan working class has made.
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@diastrus1236 America did not win the cold war rather the lies promoted by Stalin eventually caught up with his followers. Stalin leader of defeats and murderer of the old Bolsheviks Lenin's closest comrades.
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@joseph_bunnyman318 I agree.
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@wolfheartstarrella7883 Withdraw from the two Party shell game Vote Socialist Workers Party. TheMilitant.com
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Petersen is easily impressed by math and technology. Musk's crazy ideas are just true enough to get him a lot of investors and a cult following.
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Man created god as the explanation for what we do not understand and to celebrate the most important things in human life. Birth, Puberty, Marriage and Death. So no. God did not create man. Man created god.
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@karlagarcia1851 If you were born on earth your not an alien.
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@apeman9238 If it never worked than why was the US so afraid of the Stalinist? If something doesn't work it usual comes to a quick end. Maybe you can explain why US politicians thought it worked for so long only to change their mind after 1989? Seventy two years is a long time for a political regime not to work. The English quickly discovered a Democratic Republic didn't work in seven and have had a monarchy ever since.
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They were put in prison for running a bus into the gate of an Embassy. I wonder what would happen if I ran a bus into an Embassy in Washington? Would I be put in prison or a mental hospital or would I be deemed a political actor and welcomed by the Democrats and Republicans? These people aren't political prisoners but those who engage in acts damaging property or crimes against persons. They aren't political prisoners but criminals.
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@thatiswhotheyare A "level playing field" is itself a utopian formulation under capitalism. It is not a possible when the bosses have control of the state, production and the education system. The are always going to grant themselves and their children advantages. Only after abolishing private property can a real human being emerge without all the markings of class and the division of labor.
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@chang-kp9sp When workers go on strike for higher wages in Mexico was do the investors say then?
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themailman43 Pope went to Cuba yet its illegal to bring bibles into US Trump and Obama ally Saudi Arabia.
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themailman43 Certainly the US CIA should have known that and have ordered the pope to stay home. How do you define a Muslim country?
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NATO is left over from the cold war. Russia is now capitalist so the containing communism excuse is gone. The Europeans need to settle their own problems. Even Trump say we are spending money on them that they don't want to contribute.
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@scallen3841 Lots of theses request for aid come from governments which we would not accept as democratic republics if they were US states. Most got aid because they put their hand on a bible and promised not to let communism take over. What I mean by aid is police and military supplies.
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@bonanzatime You've got all the "best and the brightest" from the elite universities running the big wall street banks and companies. You hired all the brightest physics and math majors from MIT at the Wall Street banks so what was the prob;em exactly? Greed got out of control as you sold mortgage backed securities to each other. Driving up the price of housing in the process. We all paid the rent in the building I lived in but that didn't prevent the landlord from being foreclosed on. I'm watching another "bright one" "Bankmen Fried" entering court on TV now.
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Sorry gentlemen but neither you RINOS, Democrats or Trump Can Make America Great Again. The American Century is over for good. The Empire is losing its hold over the rest of the world.
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In the US we had the NTSC National Television Standards Committee system. Never The Same Color Twice.
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@Iwaxberrox Growth of profits and privilege no doubt.
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@woldenracing7370 Karl Marx is the best teacher one can find when it comes to the workings of capitalism starting with wage labor and capital and the value price and profit. Das Kapital expands on all his ideas. When Marx brought it to the publisher he said never had someone with so little published so much on the subject of money.
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@RM-lk1so Truth is not easily hidden and the young are always the first to recognize injustice.
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@asherdog9248 How stark what difference was? I think you and the rest of the meritocracy are the problem. You believe everyone has the same opportunity to get a Harvard Education yet Harvard has about a 30% legacy admission meaning 30% of the students inherited the position. Do you also believe in Social Darwinism? Do you also believe man is nothing more than an animal who works only when you hang out a carrot out in front of his head with an occasional hit of a stick.
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@rosaliethomson4655 No it means taking control of industry from the owners using the most despotic of methods. Like the strike and factory takeover. Solve the crisis of overproduction by destroying markets themselves with overproduction. Open all books size all private property. Put all accounting into public planning. Remove all locks on all doors and open all vaults to public inspection. You get the general idea don't you? Work to educate all in political economics so no one can be fooled. .Base all decisions on how best to defend the working class from all forms of division and all tyranny of privilegie. Make all education and health care free of all charges for all who are sick and all who want to learn. Create a working class of Doctors and Engineers for everywhere send construction workers and other to poor countries in brigades of solidarity Make use of everything possible, don't let claims of private property stop production. .Destroy the sex trade with free birth control, free abortion, free sex education and free love hotels provide education to all former prostitutes in a trade of their choice.
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End the Blockade!!
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szililolabu I've read your statement a dozen times it just as pointlessly as the first time. You hate communism? Slow to understand? Understand what? That you hate communism?
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@timlois Democrats are no better than Republicans. We don't win anything by voting for the bosses two party monopoly on government. .
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ace-zq8pm What did he change his mind about?
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@sharlenethorpe1253 Canada has a problem similar to the US not enough Doctors educated for the population. The need to rely on immigration because Canadian Capitalism doesn't work any better than the US version.
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You right the bosses only want us to make their profits anybody else is just kept around to keep wages down.
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They why don't you need a certificate of conception instead of a birth certificate?
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@justme-in2jb We put the blame where it belongs on a crisis ridden capitalist system.
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@MAGA COUNTRY Is true capitalism like the true Scotsman. True capitalism is competition based. US capitalism is not competition based. There for US capitalism is not true capitalism. I thought you guys didn't like giving away free things like ladders. I've heard of Jobs for All but never Ladders for All. Are we going to climbing Trump Tower as practice?
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@MAGA COUNTRY If I wanted Utopia I'd go to Vatican City. This country has a first amendment and your government can't touch me. I can write what I want, say what I want and print what I want.
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@MAGA COUNTRY Here's another tactic they use. Your going to be questioned. The FBI never asks a question that they don't already have an answer to. You asked about something but misspeak or forgot about some obscure detail. You could have just shut them down by lawyering up. But you don't want to look guilty so you make a statement and guess what? You just lied to the FBI.
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@MAGA COUNTRY Its the same with all these obstructing justice charges. The build a timeline and then they come up with something you supposedly should have said but didn't. How come? Obstructing justice.
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@MrMJmusicLover It is Lenin who mercilessly fought the national chauvinism of the second international. It was Lenin who declared war on Great Russian Chauvinism and Stalin who reintroduced this poison into Lenin's Party along with destroying it with the Purges of the 1930's.
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@thereszahealed The Imperialist decided to cut their losses.
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@Mr.Needle-Hamster All that is happening is the natural workings of capitalism is catching up with itself. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@TheOriginalAndysGarage Trader Biden, Trader Pence, Trader Trump, Trader Obama, Trader Bush, Trader Reagan, Trader Clinton, Trader Reagan, Trader Carter, Trader Nixon Imperialism fails everytime.
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@SamuelClemente7718 Trump had four years to deport his wife and family.
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It's your job to finish off these brutes. Do you think Fidel Castro ever bowed down to any US President? You organize a socialist revolution and we will defend you here in America. It is possible to defeat the imperialists and Cuba proves it.
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@Johnjackjack The successful teachers strike wave was conducted in mostly right to work states ans state which forbid teachers strikes.
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@wirbelwindeurope3591 Pull all US Troops out of foreign bases and close them. No to Imperialist war!!
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@williamcunningham6442 NATO is no friend of Ukraine.
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@JayJayM57 Fight for higher wages give your boss on a diet. Tell them no more investing in Art Work.
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Capitalism is always minority control and the ruling capitalist class keeps getting smaller. What's a "free market" we've already had the fake breakup of monopoly which just rearranged the ownership. The size and number of 'small business" keeps getting larger in size and smaller in number.
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@seth7745 The truth must not only be true but be told. What is important about good propaganda is it true and does it say something that isn't trivial. The US Gov't was founded by property owners and it was set up to defend the rights of property owners. With the exception of the Constitution the laws of England became the new laws of the United States. So only property owners could vote just as it had been in England at the time. The organization of Corporations was originally a privilege granted by the English Crown. Corporations were often granted monopolies. So the idea of corporation being seperate from government in the past is false that has only become possible because in modern times anyone or any group can set up a corporation in any State of the United States as long as it has a lawful purpose. So saying that their is a difference between a capitalist government and a corporatist if by which you mean that the government used to be capitalist and not corportist is bad propaganda. Why do I call the Parties capitalist because the political party were originally set up to represent classes in England the Tories represented the feudal landowners and the Liberals the newly rising capitalists. So if corporatist and capitalist isn't the same thing how are they different?
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@kayvan671 Not at all because all that has happened is the US has lost the cold war and Trotsky's predictions of what would happen to the Soviet Union proved correct. History put Stalin and Stalinism on trial and found them unfit as revolutionary leaders. All that crowing by Thatcher and Reagan about winning the cold war sounds a little premature now doesn't it? Instead of US Troops marching into Moscow and Beijing with flags and victory speeches for US Imperialism you've got more Imperialist competition and no big sellouts like the Mao and Stalin regimes to help you out when push comes to shove in dealing with the coming and inevitable revolutionary struggles.
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@lmcguiness5476 In 91 the Imperialist were reduced to making speeches about their victory over the Stalinist in Western TV studios as if they were leading the Masses in Eastern Europe from Washington and London. They'd just signed the death warrant for Apartheid South Africa with Cuba three years earlier.
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I will worry about CEO's that live in poverty when it becomes true. This man put in 15 years making others rich.
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Frances former colony of Haiti is doing so well.
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@oranebrown2169 Sowell an "economist" how come people like him didn't see 2008 coming?
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@BlaineNay He your regular Academic genius in economics. If people had paid their mortgages then it would have happened. "Gov't shouldn't have loosened rules." Another case of we wanted government regulations until we didn't. Its always the boss class politicians and not the who;e capitalist market system itself.
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@jasondashney Although he lived though the mass black proletarian movement that brought down Jim Crow he did nothing but sit on the sidelines and announce the 1965 civil rights act as the end of the movement.
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@jasondashney The Black proletariat's movement against Jim Crow was the one of the most important events in Black History. This guy is just another Bourgeois Professor following in the footsteps of Milton Freedman. Malcolm X was an actual leader of the movement who drew anti Imperialist and anti capitalist conclusions. When Malcolm spoke he spoke for millions. When this guy speaks its for the capitalist elite whom he assures with conclusion's that capitalist is the best thing since sliced bread and nothing could possible go wrong because of their worship of markets and money. Cryptocurrency is just the latest example of everything wrong with capitalism and a so called free market. AS every Marxists knows finance is a game where one group try's to cheat another group and then the losers go to court. That is exactly why a free market is a fiction. Nothing is free in a free market and its a source of conflict which is why a market requires a policeman and a court.
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@thatpart7344 You don't "implement communism". Just as capitalism began taking the world out of feudalism. We first have to take the world out of capitalism to socialism before anyone can talk of implementing communism.
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@jacquelinealthoff5842 Duh everyone knows that people like you love playing the victim of liberal fools.
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@hubertusvenator5838 Just how many and for how many years has Portugal been ruled by monarchy or dictatorship in the last two centuries? What you really need is some new military Generals to keep order don't you? I'm sure we have more than a few political refugees from Portugal in the US today. People who just didn't fit into the Portuguese order.
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@hubertusvenator5838 Its hard to relocate J P Morgan Chase, GM, GE and other big American companies into Monaco.
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@hubertusvenator5838 Oh well I stand corrected. Seriously though I don't take monarchists seriously. As far as the gold goes I have no control over it.
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Did not the Democracy of the Slave owners in Greece precede the Democracy of the Capitalist? Were the slave owners bad for their ideas involving land, math, geometre and science. Should we try and tear them down having their slaves work for them instead of eating them like what we did to each other before agricultural slavery? Sowell left poverty to become one of the anointed.
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@Insomble Call it what you like it. The politicians call it a democracy because otherwise would you call it a dictatorship? A Marxist might refer to it a a Bourgeois democracy to signify it is the dictatorship of capital. Its Senate is based upon land like the house of Lords and its representatives on the population with the voters limited to male property owners. Just like England the franchise was eventually extended to almost the whole population. They chief advantage of a constitution is that it is more difficult for a literate population to be taken advantage of. A republic mere signifies a government without a King as in the Roman Republic which had a Constitution. So a Constitutional Republic is actually partially redundant. As the Constitution dictates the rules rather than the king.
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@Si_Mondo Free Market screams the capitalist is last and only freedom that capitalism protects.
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The British had an Empire and took the Irish as soldiers everywhere they went. I"m actual named after spy that was half Indian and half Irish in a book by my first name.
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@joea9608 Where is that exactly?
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@joea9608 So far you haven't cited a single instance of a non citizen voting.
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Basically its capitalism with state intervention to organize for war. It comes about as counter revolutionary.
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@maxwalsh234 No its people like you who are the ones pretending that capitalist Democrats are the saviors of mankind. Trump points out your hypocrisy and you go wild.
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@maxwalsh234 Queen Hillary was the candidate of indigestible promises by.coal bosses and steel magnates alike. People like Warren Buffet who brags about paying less taxes than his serrate and wanys bigger profots from BNSF. Jeff Bezos owner of the Washington Post and Amazon.
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@guitarsrcool4922 Bad news for the capitalist elite. US Imperialism is weaker now.
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@Quaifen What your witnessing is the end of the US Empire. It began with the crisis of 2008.
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@Larry_Sycamore Capitalism is in world wide decline including in the advanced capitalist countries.
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@empressbisbee219 They need to put more lawyers in jail for having a mouth without a permit.
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@10revver01 He's not telling the truth the government borrows money from people who should be paying taxes.
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Cuba does not want nuclear weapons because they have no need for such monstrous weapons of war. They have the morality of the revolution as a defense.
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@Smoothoperator65 Sowell plays ball for team Republican a party of wealthy bosses who run a profit system that is in world wide decline.
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@retroactivehistory Sowell and Friedman say limited reserves are best disturbed by so called free markets. Are you sure resources are limited? When have we not found new uses for what we have here on earth? Now if resources are not limited then why do we need to use markets to limit them. See how easy that argument was to dismatled.
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@mattheweven4764 Our solution to the capitalist wars and economic crisis is for the working people to take power from the capitalists, their government and their parties.
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The neoliberal capitalist cultural bias enters the video quickly when medicine is defined as cultural capital. So is Cuban socialist culture the reason the did so well during the pandemic and can educate more Doctors than the need for their people?
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Neither is China yet its on the most favored nation list for trade.
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@landonpowell6296 Has anyone in the US Media said a word about an actual antiviral treatment? http://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/216780-cuba-biotech-industry-has-enough-antivirals-to-treat-covid-19
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@oranmulcahy90 You hit that nail squarely on the head.
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@tylerlaroche2509 Now its going to open a national debate and those who made careers pandering to anti abortion forces will find out they may not have as many friends as they thought. The arrested a women in Texas on murder charges for having an abortion and quickly had to back off.
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I love listening to theses fantasy novels about how the capitalist ruling class is oppressed by their own government. Just when did capitalism ever exist without a centralized national state apparatus.
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Banker and Bosses are interested in maximizing profits for themselves. They want us working the longest hours for the lowest wages at the fastest pace. Only by joining unions and fighting back in a collective manner can we change things. The bosses give up nothing without a struggle against them. Theses experts are about as valuable as an old worn out pair of shoes.
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When McArthur came to Korea two days after taking the Japanese surrender he took over the main Japanese military base and would later use Japanese troops to put down protesting Koreans.
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We need a NEW party based in the trade unions.
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This law's real name should be The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. The ProBrithers who care nothing about the real women who will die should this act get approval from five of the nine black robed robbers for the ruling class on the Supreme Court. The real name of their movement should be "GIVE BIRTH OR DIE".
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@deniseanzaldi5316 This is the result of capitalist greed.
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@larsonator69 You will care less if millions of unwanted children are brought to term. You not Pro Life Your Pro Death your slogan is GIVE BIRTH OR DIE!!! Ours is EVERY CHILD A WANTED CHILD!!!
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First no one in the US suggested a proportional response to Japan. How to respond to Japan was never debated. War was declared the next day with only one pacifist Congress Women voting no. Second Japan was occupied by US Troops with the war's end, its constitution was written by the United States including the limits on the Japanese military strength and the US maintains military bases in Japan some 75 years later. The atomic bombing of Japan was unnecessary as they Japanese realised hey were defeated and were seeking peace terms since the island was blockaded by the US Navy which had defeated the Japanese Navy. Sowell is merely a defender of American Imperialist war policies no matter what the situation.
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Aboilsh the CIA, NSA and all the rest of the "intelligence agencies."
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@scatton61 "Economics is the allocation of scarce resources which have alternative uses." Can you tell which resources are scarce? In fact economics is about use value, labor value along with the creation of surplus value. If something is scarce we just spend more time looking for it or using something else if we needed more than we had now. We wouldn't necessarily be raising the price through the roof as the only solution we could also ration it like during world war two. In fact it was John Locke who said labor transforms nature. Explain how gambling and trade is an act of production? Being beneficial doesn't actual cost or create anything. The cost is in making the determination to begin with so it a loss to both parties who have to determine cost. Same with gambling even if you get the odds right it still a cost and hasn't created anything.
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@RandoTark The reason for rationing occurs when there is not enough to go around. Okay let's put you on a boat in the ocean with a broken down motor. The boat owner who also owns the water bottles on the boat decided it's time to jack up the price of water because help may not arrive for days. Still want to talk about the rights of property, freedom to buy and no need io ration? .We had rationing in the United States during world war two. The theory of the magic market allocation is false because first of all if things become scarce that doesn't mean more can be produced or a prices just rises slowly up a supply and demand curve. Speculators can buy up supply and then sell it for an even high price. Could be a plant shut down unexpectedly and others can't pick up the slack.
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@scatton61 Sowell wrote a bedtime story called "basic economics" where he sings the praises of neoliberal capitalism.
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@scatton61 The slavery of Africans practiced by Europeans for the growth of plantation crops was not the same as that practiced elsewhere in the world. Africans were chosen because of their inability to run away was limited since the were neither Native American who could go off into the surrounding countryside nor European with the ability to escape and blend into the towns.
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What's called a town like, Ware, Ma, in southern New England is called a city out west. Including Julesburg, CO. and Arroyo City, TX. Most of the towns in CT, RI and MA are or were based around industries like textiles. Most of the western towns are based around agriculture. Even Ohio has miles of corn fields off the Interstates. You can drive for thirty miles on US highways without seeing a gas station or hours without seeing a car coming in the other direction in the Western States.
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Ty Nel "Don't let this capitalist system here get in your way." Obviously the best way to do that is to make a revolution in the US Empire first. That way it wont be getting in the way of other revolutions.
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Ty Nel Nope There never will be a successful communist country because communism comes after socialism. To have socialism you must first defeat the American capitalist Empire because they are the most powerful imperialist power. Without their defeat no socialism in any country can be anything but a holding action like Cuba. I been pushed out of my last jobs because of incompetent eye doctors. At 59 I was hired by AT&T as a premise technician. I don't know why I was fired but it had nothing to do with my sight, performance or a criminal record. AT&T did not challenge my UI. Nor would the manger who ordered my firing return my phone calls.
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@mementomori1749 Stalin began his retreat from Marxism Leninism with his theories of a progressive liberal bourgeois class that could be a trusted ally of the workers. That is the basis of the "Popular Front Against Fascism" enunciated by the Stalinist "Toad" Georgi Dimitrov. This was previously rejected by Lenin in his April Thesis and the basis for Lenin's alliance with Trotsky. This resulted in the loss of more than one revolutionary situation in Europe including France and Spain. If the USSR was Imperialist than it must have been investing in foreign countries like China? Stalin began the retreat and to succeed he needed to murder Lenin's Party of all its good elements. All so he and others could begin the social differentiation of secret bureaucratic privilege. That lead to the creation of a Party of corrupt and rotten bureaucrats like Yelsin and Putin. The heirs of Stalin and Mao did what every Trostskist knew they would return to capitalism for their own self aggrandizement.
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Whats wrong with the price calculation theory is that the prices are not natural with capitalist trade and production. The real value of labor is in both labor time and the quality of the labor. After all what is the cost of labor but the cost of the worker to reproduce his labor for a given time period. The ability to centralize has both advantages and disadvantages. With capitalist pricing each capitalist if he is not part of a cartel to begin with calculates his price based upon labor time if his profit if not held up artificially it tends to fall towards the cost of production. If you believe US Steel ups and lowers it prices like Gas Stations to the producers of finished goods but instead the sets prices in contracts for a given time period I don't know what to say. Ford was at one time almost a complete vertical monopoly. Starting with Ford Iron ore shipped on Great Lakes Ford vessels to the Massive Furnaces of River Rouge. Hitler was also an admirer of Fordism.
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@Guckchuck123 Chucker Np because MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is a temporary phenomena. Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism is not a stable system for human life on earth. This is an era of war, fascism and revolution. Should nuclear weapons fall into the hands of a fascist state like NAZI Germany then the prospects of human life on earth are limited. A minority of the American Imperialist has a;ways wanted to use them in crisis. General MacArthur in Korea, General Curtis La May during the Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis and some wanted to use them in Vietnam. .
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@Ufthak No because the Chinese have only recently adopted capitalism and began investing in foreign countries. The don;t have much of a NAVY either nor have they fought many wars beyond their borders The US invaded at least every Latin American country once in the 20th century it also has way more foreign military bases (800 )than any other country . The US came out of WW2 as the leading world Imperialist power. Mao kicked out all the Imperialist powers from mainland China.
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Capitalism is always built in a nation state and the first nations to adopt the system created a head start for themselves. Imperialism the investment in foreign countries for the benfit of the capitalist in the imperialist countries. This is the highest stage of capitalism as the colonial countries can not develop in the capitalist manner without coming into conflict with the capitalist in the Imperialist countries resulting in only a few collaborators in the colonial world.
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None of that prevented the US crisis of 2008 though did it?
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@RawOlympia People expecting a return on investment is a something for doing nothing concept.
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@prayunceasingly2029 Ya your a shareholder until you own a company like GamePro with a hedge fund doing an unknown short against you. See how they cried when a few guys ganged up against them. They won't make that mistake again but you the small guy are just tomorrow's lunch. When I was a kid they paid 5% at the savings bank. Now they pay 0.05% that's right two decimal points to the right better and it was government guaranteed up to $25,000 when $2,000 bought a new car. Gold sold for $35 an ounce not $1800.
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@bobinthewest8559 I think we have a different definition or understanding of what capitalism is. If Nixon didn't end the gold standard then he would have had to sell gold to France for US dollars. Another thing is the introduction of the credit card expanding the availability to use credit beginning in the 1970's. Why is modern America capitalist? It has a small class of capitalist owners who exercise power through "institutions" like government, industry, the two parties and universities. The dominant ideology is one of support for capitalism even if it is renamed "Democratic Socialism". Is the state under control of one class or above classes? Can the workers use the capitalist state or do they need to create their own state? Can there be a peaceful transfer of power from the capitalist government to a socialist government. That very question was argued in front of a Federal Judge in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General. People who have confidence in their ideas will have no problem with free speech and open debate. Do you think rebuilding the union movement, workers control of industry and a labor party are extreme radical policy? The important thing in China isn't what's still state owned but the creation of a huge new industrial working class out of poor peasant farmers.
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@asdwinner1234 Sowell devotion to capitalism and markets is worthy of a protestant preacher which is why his ideas fall short. His book Basic Economics is a collection of facts to support his generalized notions developed to support his falsification of Marxism began by the liberals who developed their ideas in opposition to Stalinism and Social Democracy to explain the rise of American Imperialism out of the ashes of World War two. The crisis of 2008 exposed the weakness in the Imperialist world neoliberal system.
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@adrianrock1287 He planing for another big giveaway to wall st with zero or negative interest rates.
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@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 The set it up that way to try and remove its decisions from political pressure. Congress could always revoke its charter.
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The braceros program ended in 1965. At first they feared crops rotting in fields. However Mexican border crossers solved the problem and since the problem was solved no big deportation program was ever needed. The goal of current immigration law is to control immigration such that when they need to hold down wages that will open the gates and when they don't the will send them back. They don't save on immigrant worker benefits in bad employment times but on native born benefits.They also have no intention of deporting enough workers to raise wages but instead on creating a bigger and lower wage pariah class of workers. Just like they say McDonalds jobs are only for the young and old. They now argue that some jobs like carwashing, landscaping, and agriculture are reserved for the immigrant with or without papers. This is why only solidarity of workers across national and immigration status can reverse the problem. You can't expect paper checking cops to help anymore than other cops will help strikers. E-Verfy will become E-Goodboy anyone who is a troublemaker or political enemy will go on or off their national list.
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There is no 'WE' in America. There are the super rich who own everything and then there is the class that works and produces everything while owning nothing. You don't own your home. Its the bank or landlord who does. You don't own your car or truck. Its the bank or finance company who does. The so called ownership society died in 2008. It was replaced by the No Banker Left Behind government of Bush, Obama and now Trump.
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@Meng776 For every $3 in social security tax taken in $2 are paid out as benefits and the 3rd goes into the general fund with a trust fund bond being issued.
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@jonlittle5032 Profits increase only because you are able to initially charge the same price in the market but the actual labor in the product has gone down since the products trade at the value of labor in the product than the new value will assert itself as in a lower price and since the profit is created by labor the overall rate of profit goes down. Of course to see a lower price you would need a currency value over time not one that continually expands as governments print more money. You can see the labor theory of value assert itself in the ability to make profits in public transit. Originally by cutting the time to get from place to place public transit was a profitable business. Now it needs government subsidies to keep going. Same with many other mature industries. Government had to step in and issue regulations to guarantee profits for incumbents. Then to remain profitable companies had to cut labor costs and bring back the old conditions of labor exploitation. Today the capitalist have lots of unused capacity because they can't produce profits with the capital equipment they have now. Government has to invest and raise capital with a combination of debt which the ruling class buys and taxes which must pay the interests on debt and the rest of the capital investment.
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@jonlittle5032 Whatever I write the guardians of the Kings English, proper grammar and spelling will never accept. Your problem is capitalism creates its own gravediggers. Sure that's a quote from Karl Marx. As the son of a railroad electrician and shop steward. I wasn't suppose to go far in school. I was suppose to enter trade school in 8th grade. The problem at the time was the cold war and the need for scientist and engineers so they felt someone with a natural talent for math couldn't be wasted. So I end up at MIT even though I score 400+ in English comp. I guess they thought I was an immigrant for whom English was a second language. LMAO.
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@jonlittle5032 Nope I don't have a degree and I've written two term papers never for a Professor with your name. I done more writing in the Youtube comments section than anywhere else since leaving High School. More likely I waited on you in the dept store, installed your cable tv, or drove you in a taxi cab. .
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@jonlittle5032 I never claimed to be an author . I am listed as an MIT alum but you'd have to know one to get access to the directory. You may be a published author but you don't publish anything without modern industry. The size of the press run needed to make a profit makes publishing anything written by an American University professor possible even if he has to pay for the total pres run.
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@ififif2022 End the Blockade and the campaign of lies from Radio and TV Marti!!!
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Plenty of laws against bad acts so there never was a need for hate crime laws.
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The passed campaign finance laws as way to deodorize the two parties after the Nixon presidency. The real targets are third parties and their donors. They seek to create lists of small donors and contractors so they can be harassed by employers, police and government officials.
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@fenyxra5060 Karl Marx urged Abe Lincoln to make "Death to Slavery." The slogan of hie second election campaign.
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"Our battle is against an ideology. A Poisonous and Monstrous Ideology responsible for the deaths of more than a hundred million people in the 20th century." Ideologies are much less dangerous than a gun it is hard to kill someone with a book. Then again you are preparing for an assault on the first amendment just like the Democrats. I
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@CrowTR0bot Bosses want to control everything for their benefit the price, the wage and then have the politicians shove everything down our throats.
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@donnaeturner Sure lets build what current science say is impossible. Space WiFi and the ability to charge a cell phones out of thin air.. We already have space WiFi called satellite internet its the last choice of any internet user. Why? Distance creates latency that can not be engineered out of the system. Sure we should build about 1000 of the largest Nuclear power stations in the world in space so everyone can charge their phone wirelessly anywhere in the US with a field density of one watt per square meter. I think we should put up more towers so we won't be in places with no service first..
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@alanrobertson9790 UK is smaller and developed earlier. The king was the one who issued royal cooperate charters to his favorites. In the US since the civil war the railroads have always decided what the government should do for them and how they would be regulated. Congress created the long distance telephone monopoly because the investors said the long time needed to get a return on investment was too long and the amount of capital was too much. Latter on they broke up the telephone monopoly over the issue of how to use of how to integrate long distance by wire and two way radio communications. In the end all the cell phone companies merged into just three carriers and the local lines are dominated by even fewer same with cable TV. Small are eaten up by the large and Wall only breaks them up as way to cut wages or split off the more profitable areas from the less profitable ones. The Republican Party ran the United States with the old slave owners Democrats in the South after the counter revolutionary defeat of Republican Radical Reconstruction right up to the first world war when the lying Democrat Wilson promised peace only to deliver war and jail the Socialist Party candidate Debs along with the first wichunt and political deportations.
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@JustSomeGuy98 No if any has been indoctrinated its you because my views are those of a small minority at this time and even smaller when I first developed them in the early 1970's. You can't be indoctrinated with minority views. I have actual read many of the writings of the most well know Marxist authors leaders like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Fidel Castro. I can also tell you that Stalin wrote very little and American Marxist authors and leaders like James Cannon, Farrell Dobbs and other have also been very influential on my thinking much more so than any college professor. Most people who lived in the East and China never had access to Trotsky because writings were were banned by Stalin and those who followed in Stalin's footsteps right up until the Gorbachev years. Gorbachev himself had written accolades of Stalin as a child and Khrushchev had been one of his closest associates despite his denunciation of Stalin's crimes in his 1956 speech.
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@JustSomeGuy98 If I'm so indoctrinated why is it you can't point to anything false that I have said. I pointed out facts not ideology.
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@ctrl.alt.delete.7045 A capitalist is a capitalist Chinese or American. This video is sponsored by THE NEW TANG DYNASTY a rival group of Chinese capitalists. Note how they say a free market will lower prices. You don't believe the bosses want lower prices do you? When was the last time your electric bill went down?
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The revoultion was defeated because if the counter revolutionary policies of the Stalinist Communist Party of Chile not the power of the US CIA.
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@Yashuryabetcha Regulating capitalist exploitation can fix the problems the system creates for itself. It has a natural declining rate of profit caused by replacing labor with machines. The capitalist always seek to pay the lowest wage possible. The system doesn't create a bigger middles class just the opposite is true in fact capitalism drives the middle class into the working class. It drives out small business replacing it with big business. When the can't sell more they stop reinvesting in expanding production and instead turn to speculation driving up the prices of ficticios capital until the values collapse. After a colapse a recession / depression ensues. This happens every 5 to 10 years no matter which party is in power or what new rules they write.
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@lisetsantos6250 They don't have internet? Aren't you going to tell us about the lack of deodorant or toilet paper shortages also? Do you educated people have a landscaper help with all the hard working keeping the hedges trimmed and grass mowed? Give the kids an allowance so they can learn to budget and spend money?
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@coachmikesinfo Sorry those who have been let go lost their health insurance so I'd say you need to prepare for 35 million cases of temporary insanity.
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Management moral that is.
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"Honest management" like the US bosses who decided that developing the rest of the worlds industry would enable them to make the biggest profits possible by holding US wages stagnant.
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@joewiediger2737 That is just about all his ecmomic theories about capitalism amount to belief in the god of money and good works of greed. A new Jesus of the dollar.
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@mikeoxlong3676 Its just more of "Not in my backyard" infighting.
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@db4290 Schiff is just another university educated elitist.
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@rachs86782 If Bolshevik had not taken power when they did then fascism would have a Russian name and not an Italian one. That had the majority in the Petrograd Soviet and when the all Russian Soviet meet they and the left Social Revolutionary delegates also had the majority. Lenin's policy of" Land to the Tiller" for the countryside was much like the Cuban revolutions. The break up of the big landed estates in the countryside and no interference with the small family farmers who were to be helped to produce in anyway possible. Collectivization was to be strictly voluntary. Instead the Stalinist majority decided to advocate for "Kulak (large land owners) Enrich Thyself" as a collar to the temporary NEP in the cities. This had the exactly opposite result than the one wanted. Meaning now the revolution was headed back towards enabling big capitalist farming, exploitation of the landless peasants and reduced production of food in the countryside. This then resulted in the majority in the politburo going to forced collectivization as a solution.
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@E3KGaming Its just what has become usual in American bourgeois politics now. Smear the opposition as sexual perverts or some other criminal or semi criminal grouping.
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@a.gabbey5569 Its an ideological defense of capitalism. It's elitist by definition common sense would tell you that.
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@MarcBonesss And just what has the populist right have to offer? Promises to drain a swamp? Blaming anyone who they think will gather them votes. Despite the hope of the right and the fear of the left the workers in the US are less racist and less anti immigrant than any time in history. In fact since 2008 the workers of all colors are more interested politics and socialism than anyone has seen since the end of WW2. We have even sold papers to those waiting outside to go into Trump rallies.
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@MarcBonesss The first world war took the Soviet Union out of Capitalist hands. The second World War ended with the ruin of all the European empires and more countries taken out of the capitalist world. A third world war will not leave the US untouched. Other powers have the ability to deliver nuclear weapons on US soil. All of the capitalist classes are nationalistic so you aren't really revealing anything. For a fascist government to rise it must first be able to defeat the workers organized in unions.
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@Aimless6 The two capitalist parties of capitalism are suppose to set policies that drive capitalism forward instead of into one crisis after another. What the bosses have done for themselves is created a game of wack a mole based upon private profit and property with rules they set for themselves.
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They organized the best mercenary army money could buy.
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@satansmitingscarejob5207 That was already tried in Iraq and did nothing but make things worse.
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I can create a corporation for business purposes for about $20 in any state of the union. Now if I want to raise capital from a stock exchange I must contract with the exchange to be listed and then come under the rules of the federal SEC. So the corporation is privately owned. Only a very select few corporations receive national charters from Congress. The number of shares you own usually determines the number of votes you cast in elections for officers. The trade union is seperate from the federal gov. or state with the exception that they want the federal gov. or state to certify them as the bargaining representative for which a secret ballot election is petitioned for and granted. .Should the workers which to decertify an election or change certification an election can be held. Since trade unions came about differently in Britain I don't know how you join or don't join one.
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@michaelsanger7795 The decline of the Imperialist system of profits and trade is what is failing world wide.
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@Liberty AboveAllElse Their only suppose to be stopping people for immigration checks. If your crossing in the desert why do you got through the checkpoint? They place the checkpoints on roads where crossing the desert is difficult. If your crossing through the desert its to bypass the check points.
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@billdougan4022 That goes double for license plates. Remember dirty license plates a cop can't read are a motor vehicle infraction along with improperly crossing a white line.
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@mickwayne3398 Warren Buffet is this years scrooge. He buys politicians brags about paying less taxes then his secretary and drives a desk for a few billion a year. Scrooge Buffets idea is you drive a train with over 100 cars at 70 mph with no sleep with a conductor in the same shape what Buffet wants is to pay the Engineer a few more dollars and to fire the conductor.
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@breakingmadeline3063 Some people are better off without their spouse.
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@yeanah2571 The rail workers are going easy on the bosses they would only cost them about a penny out of every dollar in profits, Years ago an Eastern Airlines boss wanted out of a union contract and ended up in bankrupsy court with nothing instead. Their slogan was just one more day when they were on strike.
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@armonshakur_VMGmultimediaEnt. Its the death agony of capitalism.
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@Attmay Sorry but I'm not going down the emotional road of crazy. Discussion over.
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@undrwatropium3724 It was an illegal and immoral war. They sent whoever they could including people like Forest Gump who had no business being their except as cannon fodder. My year they introduced the lottery so even without a student deferment I wouldn't be drafted. Some people joined ROTC because they decided they would be drafted on graduation and wanted to be officers if they had to go. Some were arrested for something minor and a judge gave then the choice of the army or jail time. Protests within the military developed as GI's discussed the nature of the war and minority soldiers racism. The antiwar movement reached all the way to both sides of Vietnam and across the world. Various state secrets were released that became very embarrassing for a government that claimed it was fighting a war for Democracy abroad to protect Democracy at home. Richard Nixon had won 49 of fifty states in reelection. VP Agnew was first forced to resign in a corruption scandal and Nixon after the Watergate break-in that was motivate by a paranoia of being surrounded by political enemies.
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@mosespray4510 Of course capitalism is failing because its strangling itself. The US, the West and the Eastern bloc are all follows advice of Milton Friedman of maximizing profits as the way to the future.
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@jeffforsythe9514 The fist step toward socialism is for the workers to win the battle of Democracy.
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@jeffforsythe9514 When you come back from heaven or the dead let us know what it was like. Have you decided on a name for God yet or are you all still arguing on what to call someone who speaks only to one person at a time?
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This is the result of capitalist greed pure and simple. The Sacarle family and Big Pharma made a billions turning injury and dispare into drug addiction profits. The coal companies took the profits to the New York banks and left nothing but devastation in West Virginia. Its the same in the big industrial cities. They close down and move production for lower wages elsewhere or they opened new plants with new machines that make more with way less labor lower wages and no union. We need to rebuild the unions into a fighting force and a party of labor without the bosses to fight back politically.
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@MrSlavikman Obviously capitalist countries can't get along either.
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@mryhdy6266 Yes everyone at US school board meetings is glad to be getting the FBI's democracy protection detail.
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There's only one problem for Strossel and others like him. How do you explain the two red scares in America? The first after the Russian revolution with deportation of suspected revolutionaries. The three 1934 general strikes being lead by different factions of the Communist Party two were lead by the faction that was saying Stalin wasn't getting it right. The second 1948 red scare where a hunt for communists was organized by Congress with use of subpoena power and contempt of Congress citation to send people to jail without a trial! Remember everyone could be a witting, unwitting, knowing or unknowing communist or communist supporter. If you didn't talk you must be guilty and if you did talk then you must be able to point your fingers at someone else otherwise you weren't being truthful. Big lists were drawn up to investigate and halt the spread of this menacing ideology. It reached a point where even protestant ministers were under investigation and the inventor of the atomic bomb Robert Oppenheimer had his security clearance revoked.
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Bosses need to sell any product they produce AI would just result in lower labor costs with increased capital investment. It would only add to the problem of declining real rates of profit for the bosses. The workers gain self confidence and learn about politics from taking strike actions against the greedy bosses.
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@flipgunderson1946 No man is an island and if we believe we are ultimately not social why risk your life for the benefit of others? Those under that brainwashed belief in cynicism only will never be a socialist or understand why one soldier will not only risk but give his life to save his buddies. The central theme of Christianity itself is that of self sacrifice for others, 'God gave his only begotten son so that others may live and have everlasting life" if God can do that for you than why wouldn't you be able too?
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Miles Christi I've been a commie for longer than you've been alive. I been homeless so I don't care about all your trinkets. I want the ruling class to pay for what they did to me. I'm just itching to make Bosses and Bankers homeless. I want them to live with nothing but the cloths on their backs. Then they can explain how good their system works. We will build an Island for them. Where they can come up with new ways to exploit each other.
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@flipgunderson1946 Ninety years ago the Stalinist said, 'We had only 3 generals without an army." Guess what? Who has an army now? I'll give you a clue it's only 90 miles South of Key West, Florida.
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@fritzforsthoefel8031 Playing with tax policy won't solve the problems capitalism in crisis has created.
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Capitalism with its national boundaries also creates national ruling classes the richest of these states export capital to the poorest creating oligarchies in them . The competition between the richest over who gets the markets in the poorest combined with the decline in the industrial rate of return results in creation of fictitious capital and creation of crisis like 2008 that affect the whole world. The squabbling can only lead to world war making socialism the only way out. Some in the US are demanding China buy more or face tariffs and war.
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@f.b.lagent1113 Give up you DOJ Badge number and Name so when can have you hauled into Federal District Court.
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@Times397 Profits are unpaid wages.
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Why should they knock on her door when they can knock on your door?
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Yes and your husband is more likely a George Meany and not a Eugene Debs.
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The should send him to Saudi Arabia. He can try to bring the Pope there for a conference on apostasy and blasphemy without the religious police cutting his head off first.
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@ThunderAppeal Capitalism is the reason the US has a pile of 7.500 nuclear weapons.
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There is more profit in a business than the number reported to the stockholders. Some is reinvested, some goes to CEO's and management pay and bonuses, and some goes into repaying loans.
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Trump U Provided an "excellent education" until it was shut down.
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Those who claim that minimum wage was "designed for teenagers" are also wearing 'designer jeans' and the Emperor himself is wearing no cloths.
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My point is those who argue most against the minimum wage don't have to work for minimum wage. I buy my jeans at Walmart they don't shop there because its lower class and for the masses instead preferring the more expensive stores like Kohls brand. In fact these professors are usually paid out of stock and bond profits in their endowed chairs. The middle class has IRA's and other stuff that have income that is derived from profits. A rise in minimum wage will result in a drop in profits. Naturally if your income or a good part comes from profits your going to have a different view of things.
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They only way to change the economy is to fight back against capitalist exploitation by use of a new union movement.
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They are different names meant to make the capitalist system sound better. It like a free market. Nothing is free in a market and in a store or Market like Wall Mart cameras watch over shoppers in the store except in the bathrooms. In the bathrooms signs remind shoppoers about the penalties for theft.
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@jamesbrowning9210 Why aren't you joining the Marco Rubio campaign to blow up balloons for a free internet in Cuba?
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Sorry but the supreme court said otherwise in United States vs. Wong Kim Ark in 1898. No the exceptions are for those not under US jurisdiction such as Diplomats with diplomatic immunity. If you had no jurisdiction over so called illegals than you wouldn't be able to put them in Jail.
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Go ahead waste some time in your court system we'll come down and picket your factory.
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Maybe there dismantling the wall you have erected in your mind concerning others who don't agree with you? I'm a flat out communist but you won't see me burning flags or attacking MAGA marches because it's counterproductive to explaining what the class struggle is and how to fight back against capitalist injustice. There is no need for me to dismantle stone walls or engage in brainwashing techniques when capitalism in decay will do that for me.
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And soon you will be locked up for murder or assault if you go to far.
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No socialists understand how capitalism works and what leads it to the contradiction of destruction of capital in war. The main things capitalist design around is maximising profit as measured by profit divided by investment capital pre quarter year.
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And yes immigrants like everyone else have due process of law rights. Which means they are innocent until proven guilty. Not only do they have these rights under the US constitution but also under Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Governor Brewer flunked US History class otherwise she would know that the word used in the first amendment is people not citizen. She is just another case of a hand raiser who swears or affirms to protect and preserve the US Constitution without even bothering to read it. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Do you see the word people or do you see the word citizen?
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Masterpiece cakeshop is the defendant not Jack Phillips the person.
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Right and Christians are the majority of people in jail. According to my cousin that makes Christians political prisoners. Somehow I don't see it that way as there being in jail has nothing to do with there being Christians. Now just because attendance at Mass is down and fewer are entering the priesthood that does not mean Christians are looked down upon it just means fewer believers. Less hunger for the communion wafers doesn't mean no one goes hungry for real food.
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The 'tomato' alliance was always one that promoted the containment of communism and the possibility of rolling back communism. Now that Soviet Union no longer exists it has taken on the role of advancing the interest of the US Empire up to the Russian border. Trump's decision to make other powers pay for the military aspect show as a desire to place costs of Empire upon other junior partners while realizing Russia is just another capitalist competitor nation.
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@SgtJoeSmith Where are they in CA on home golf courses?
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Cruz had one US parent making him a US citizen by birth. He renounced his Canadian citizenship so he would not be a dual citizen.
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It's all about keeping wages low and union busting. If you join with the immigrant workers and fight against illegal status wages for all will rise.
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Trump is Chump not a Nazi. See anyone can be a Chump only a fascist can be a Nazi. Chump is just another way of being the opposite of a Champ. Trump won but actually he lost given his popularity after election so that's why I say Trump is a Chump.
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End the war on immigrant workers! Build a fighting union movement to take power from the corrupt politicians in Washington, DC. We don't need a wall! We need a revolution!
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What kind of message does that send over the air? That America is run by a brutal police force?
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He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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@Father.Beocca Like the poster said Sheriff is on the wrong side of bars.
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Evict Landlords Not Tenants!!!
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He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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Takata and Ninjabear Same thinking resulted in the end of reconstruction. The American Bourgeois as represented by the former radical Republicans abandoned the former slaves in the face of what would become KKK terror for the election of their candidate Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. It has become the task of the former slaves and their supporters from the working class of all colors to stamp out what remains of segregation and Jim Crow-ism. Business large or small is to timid to take on the task preferring social stability over social equality.
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zaq1320 Monopole magnets (a magnet with just a north or south pole) have never been seen inside a lab either. There is a theory that a magnetic monopole existed at the beginning of the universe and physicist say that nothing rules out the existence of a magnetic particle of only a north or south pole like an single positive or negative electrical charge but so far though no one has ever seen one or the evidence of such a particles existence.
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Move out of the neighborhood and into a district and place where you are happy. Don't like others at your place of work quit and find a new job. Afraid of liberals build a wall around your home get a permit to carry a pistol and buy one. Get an armored car service for you transportation. Hire armed bodyguards. Don't be an internet crybaby!!!
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John Grit Posting more idiocy. Your big grip is about paying social security tax and medicare tax. Reagan was the 20 mule team Boraxo president with an endorsement from the Alzheimer association.
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Meaningful work should not be a privilege that is doled out with eye droppers with continual efforts to discipline the working class. Seventy hour weeks and forced overtime should be replaced with forty hour weeks with no cut in pay. We should be able to spend time with our families instead of living on the job.
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You asking a capitalist to stop being a capitalist and you're asking a capitalist to do it.
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Trump says he is going to build a border wall. What do you want to bet they keep those checkpoints anyway? Also using a ruse to get you to stop for immigration and then escalating it to drugs was not spelled out in the so called original limited ruling of the Supreme court. Border Patrol unlike regular cops needs no reason to stop you now if they claim jurisdiction first then if your deemed a political enemy expect harassment. What's next is declaring the whole country near a border as an airport or ocean. I've already seen border patrol trucks not ICE in the Louisiana I-10 median. It about 600 miles from the I-10 Texas border to Laredo Tx the nearest Mexican border town.
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Dream on fool!
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We don't need a wall! We need a socialist revolution! We need to follow in the footsteps of Fidel Castro!
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You plane is headed for a crash landing Flight Cadet.
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The only thing you will hang is a pictures of Adolf Hitler and General Lee in your bathroom. Is "We the People" a real organization or just rhetoric that you hide behind like that screen name?
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+John Becker I don't see ordering a child out of her seat as a lawful order. He had no reason to issue such an order to begin with. There was no reason to believe a crime had been committed so he had no reason to be there to begin with. Without commission of a crime or a situation where life or property is in imitate danger police should not be called their job is suppose to be investigating crime and arresting criminals not enforcing minor school policy rules.
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Yes I can blame both the officer and the school administration. The cop had no real legal reason to lay a hand on that child since no crime had been committed, she wasn't a danger to herself or others nor was property or life in imitate danger. The school officials abdicated their in loco parentis obligations by not using any or all other means to resolve a minor discipline infraction. This type of thing has a name. Its called the criminalization of working class and black normal adolescent behavior. Without the cameras and youtube this incident would have been covered up and swept under the rug with the cop being given another commendation.
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If this goes to court where he is the defendant not explaining why he needed to give that order and why it became necessary to attack a young women will leave a jury thinking guilty. Of course the DA can throw the fight like a corrupt boxing match in criminal court and a judge in civil court can save his ass through some technical explanation. Any laws that allow this type of action against a peacefully sitting minor child in a school by a police officer need to be invalidated.
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She may have been technically administratively insubordinate that doesn't give an armed thug the right to lay his hands on her. His proper course of action would have been to leave the room because this was a school administration problem not a criminal or public safety problem. This is clearly police overreach of authority.
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All those charges are a reach. Cops use them when they have no real crime and need to cover their ass or threaten someone. How long was justice being obstructed? seconds minutes hours days He tried to put her in a head lock. When a teacher asks a question and a kid gives the wrong answer causing laughter is that disturbing school and cause to bring in the cops to arrest the kid and or those who laughed? The media said she was 16. Did the cop have reason to believe she was 18? Was he trying to use his reputation as "officer slam" when he said, "you know me". When the correct statement would have been "you know my reputation as officer slam."
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Liberal gun control isn't enough. Let's now take away squirt guns as more gun control.
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The Democratic party was clearly the party of the KKK in the South. They were known as the Dixiecrats. In 1968 The Presidential Election saw something happen similar to the 1860 election. The Southern Dixiecrats chose George Wallace and he ran as the American Independent Party candidate and got a number of electoral votes in the South. Hubert Humphrey ran as the Democrat and Richard Nixon ran as the Republican. Nixon won and so did the first black Senator since reconstruction Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke. The next time Nixon ran on a southern strategy so as to undercut another George Wallace or Dixiecrat run. Many Dixiecrats switched parties because of the concessions the Black movement won from Lyndon Johnson (D-TX). The thing about the new southern Republican party is that it is also a party that elected two Indian American Governors. Republican Supreme court nominees also voted to overturn the Texas abortion law in Roe v. Wade.
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When you get down to it today the Republican's are now the majority party. Something the Democrats had been starting with the Roosevelt administration after his taking the reins of power during the great depression. Both Parties are still in crisis from the effects of the great recession. The Burniecrats seek to take the over the Democrats with their political revolution and the Republicans are split into rino's and tea partiers. The Republicans have elected two Indian American governors in the South so I would think that the old George Wallace Dixiecrats turned Republican group has left history down there. The Bush family heralds from Connecticut being only transplanted Southerners. Florida is filled with New England retirees and Texas's growth means its added people had to come from elsewhere. I don't think you're going to find anymore sharecroppers in Mississippi and Alabama either. Trump himself started out as a New York liberal now turned Republican conservative while Hillary Clinton started out as a Goldwater (R-AZ) girl.
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How about the worship of Federal Reserve Notes.
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@Skyfighter64 Fire aal the cops now!!!!
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He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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People from out of town may not realize that plus it is a good way to show that their are those who to this day can not accept people of another color and this man refuses to accept that god damn flag and its true meaning. Plus people who come out and protest all these monuments to mostly southern officers connected to the slavocracy and KKK rallies are doing what Lincoln wanted to bind the nation's wounds not to continue this racist bull shit of a separate south and so called separate southern heritage. Do you have any Idea how many Irish Catholic Immigrants were drafted as the landed in NYC to fight in a war and die for a cause which they knew little about? If it were up to me at the time I would have put many more of the CSA Leaders and military officers in chains for what they did. Grant let Lee off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Go ahead and fly the god damn flag at your house but it doesn't belong at the state house.
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That's because health insurance isn't about health but the profits for the insurance companies and how to make you pay the most for the least amount of healthcare. I have medicare but it won't pay a dime for dentures or eyeglasses. You can get a five hundred dollar a month prescription for dry eyes for $9.00 which I don't really need but nothing for five hundred dollars worth of new lenses (they won't sell me just one) or $5000 for a set of dentures.
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Race will always remain an issue until a socialist revolution takes place in the United States itself. It is and always will be an issue of who owns your body and your labor. We own our bodies assuming you don't commit a crime. Even then those with more resources than others get different treatment and outcomes from the criminal justice system. Most of us must sell our labor to the highest bidder. Given that there are a lot more laborers than bidders regardless of your skill does that entitle the owners of massive industry the right to set the rate to maximize profit while the workers have no say over how the profit is used?
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That's right!!! The people running the government today are like the slavocracy of 1860. There time has past and they need to be replaced permanently. We put up with them for now and spend our time debating the merits and weakness of capitalism. We have a small party and we prefer a replacement through democratic means. But we also understand that just like the slavocracy they may decide to shut down or ignore an electoral victory. You can see what happens when someone other than an anointed politician gets elected going on right now. Trump wasn't suppose to win but he did. Hillary had all the big money on her election. Why do you think they picked the former head of the FBI Mueller to investigate. People like Mueller are skilled at frame ups. Trump has been in office only five months and they've been preparing to remove him since his election victory was announced. If he continues or becomes more of a liability they' ll overturn the election results in one way or another. That doesn't mean he has any real ability to solve the problems he promised but it does show how they treat one of their own. Imagine if a real socialist from the Socialist Workers Party not a Bernie Sanders was elected to office.
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Che his life and his accomplishments have outlasted his mortal life. Do you ever see pictures of Kennedy or Johnson on T-shirts? Che was a trained medical doctor who after graduation traveled throughout Latin America. He saw the richness of the minerals in the region like copper in Chile and Tin in Bolivia dug from the ground by miners whose children lived in conditions of utter poverty. He saw what happens when a people elect a government in Guatemala that the banana companies don't like. He met young Fidel Castro that was in exile in Mexico planning a revolution to overturn a dictator installed with guns on order of the US Ambassador. He signed on as doctor for the guerrillas and ended up being second in command for the Rebel Army. The dictators police used torture not seen or used in Latin America before. Removing eyes, nails and the most brutal methods were employed. The torturers received trials that they never gave their victims. The Cuban people paid with over 30,000 lives for the revolution. A dictator's army of 30,000 was defeated by a rebel Army of 800 and the Cuban people themselves. Yet you have crocodile tears for 3000 tortures. Today because of the foundation laid by Che and the other Cuban revolutionaries more Doctors are trained in Cuba for the world while the USA can't train enough doctors for the US population and relies on importing doctors from the neocolonial countries to meet health care needs.
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Very often it's the police that create riots. Either they attack a demonstration or gathering directly or they use agent provocateurs to get the dirty work going.
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Sorry about the spell check bloopers does that answer the question?
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Trump hit a cord with almost everyone who has ever been hauled before a judge and that is that they are "so called judges". The system works today by charging you with the most serious charge or charges available with a 30 year prison sentence if convicted and then plea bargains it down to maybe 3 years. People are doing life on these three strikes laws because the last time they were picked up with a joint in their pocket or shoplifting. You have plenty of people doing long stretches on marijuana charges with no violence involved because they fit into the so-called king pin status. It's not a justice system but an injustice system and if you're a judge your part of it.
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They aren't just all white juries. In many of the trials of Black Panthers and others mysteriously many of the jurors were friends and relatives of cops and not just one friend or relative but multiple jurors who would obviously vote and argue for the cops version of events. Once you are convicted it becomes almost impossible to get your conviction overturned. One reason being is that you are now considered guilty. You must then argue that there was a lack of evidence, new evidence or the trial procedure was so biased or tainted that a reasonable jury would find you not guilty. Since few American Juries vote not guilty that is a very high bar to meet.
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The flag and Confederate monuments have the historical symbolism of the civil war and specifically the symbol of those fighting to continue the slave system come hell or high water. Keeping these flags and statues up on public property is almost like a state religion for some people.
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@assurdo8888 I don't think we are talking about the same thing. Closing down the FDA so anyone can make any claim of a drugs suitability with neither proof of safety or effectiveness is one thing that I am against. As far as the Marijuana classification as a narcotic that is completely bogus. It belongs in the Tobacco and Alcohol category. People addicted to opiates need treatment not jail. Arresting dealer/addicts and then turning them into drug kingpins is just abusive. Arresting people who are dealers but not addicts should be the goal. You can't fix capitalism which is why you will never fix the drug problem with in the capitalist framework. A socialist revolution opens the door to solving social problems. Stalin effectively closed that door with the 1936 to 1938 purge trials of the old bolsheviks.
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I don't want to work with people who are on the job drug abusers of any kind because they put me and the other workers in danger. The same goes with those using drugs while operating a motor vehicle. if you insist you don't need help than maybe jail is the right place for you.
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@assurdo8888 I'm in Texas a few miles from Mexico. The guy in the video being from Harvard makes him one of the elite thinkers of American Capitalism. The traditional reaction to capitalist corruption and greed has been the rise of the administrative state where three and four letter federal agencies make the rules for controlling greed after scandal. Now a whole group of 'radical' thinkers called libertarians want to eliminate them on the grounds that capitalism is self regulating. We'd like to have trade union control over on the job safety, production, and pollution. If we had socialism Medical Doctors would control medicines (Drugs). Of course your right about corruption of the FDA. There has also developed since the 1960's the class action law suite where lawyers get together clients to sue companies for wrong doing. Now they sued the makers of Xarelto in a class action and are now seeking more clients but the doctors are still prescribing as I have a prescription for it. Unlike other countries you must have a Doctor's prescription to buy any drug or medicine outside of a very few cough medicines, aspirin, NSAID's, topical antibiotics and toothpaste. Opiates from codeine to fentanyl come under both FDA and DEA regulation.
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Life expectancy has gone down since the 2008 crisis. One driver was the prescriptions of the legal opiate Oxycodone. The Sackler family became billionaires with the sale of oxycodone with claims of little to no addiction problem. This is a crisis that can no longer be contained by the drug war such that politicians can no longer use drug crime as a way to gain votes.
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@assurdo8888 Many became addicts starting on legal drugs because these "Pain relief clinics" were set up to sell oxy. Everyone from the Purdue Pharma and the other even bigger drug companies, the distributors , prescribing doctor, and pharmacists were making big money. The cops at DEA were supposedly asleep at the switch to busy going after El Chapo whose was getting guns from the ATF I guess. I don't think you have any idea how many people were turned into addicts, cut off and then left to fend for themselves. Which is the way capitalism always works. (Hurricane coming then expect the mayor and cops to announce "Your on your own." Nursing home patients dying across the street from the hospital during a hurricane because of a power outage.) That's the true crime of private property along with a lack of available treatment. When they do get treatment many are left sitting at home with nothing to do. People such as this asshole making the video just wants an excuse to end all treatment for those who can't pay. Do you live in a country were daytime TV constantly advertises to the elderly and disabled audience for a better but private medical insurance plan if you sign your Medicare/Medicaid government paid healthcare benefits over to these parasites? "Medicare/Medicaid may not pay for vision and dental needs but call us because our plans let you keep your own doctor." they scream.
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If you want to know more about the "opiate crisis" than search for podcasts on NPR (national Public Radio).
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"..we been tryin' ever since...honor.. honor the confederate soldier." Haven't been to successful have you?
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Great! Now we know where the racist live.
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Unless you were drafted or want to claim to be economically drafted you joined the Marines for you own reasons. You didn't fight for any democratic rights by joining the Marines people like me did that. That's why I get to say what I want on here. No rights were won by shooting yellow people in Korea and Vietnam or Iraqis and Afghans. The confederate flag represents segregation just like George Wallace of Alabama and Lester Maddox of Georgia. A segregationist Congress can write whatever it wants but it can never remove the blood on that confederate segregationist banner. Oh and don't worry those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution possible.
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Read the actual declarations (not just the ordinances) of secession by the seceding states at. (Not all wrote them) http://www.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp and you will see that succession was all about slavery. You can also see that in the Confederate Constitution where the most important difference is perpetual African slavery. The section 4 of the 14th Amendment "...neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void...." This would seem to prevent any aid to Confederate Soldiers. Although at least some former Confederate Officers volunteered and served in the Spanish American war and some Confederate soldiers are buried at Arlington and other federal cemeteries. The 1929 Law makes confederate soldiers eligible for grave markers. The 1959 law allows for some possible pensions. You can assume that may imply recognition as US soldiers but it's not an actual statement. Then section 3 of the 14th Amendment. "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." This is how former Confederate soldiers could serve in the Spanish American war.
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It's hard to bust someone for an attack on Christ until the second coming of Christ. No evidence of a crime committed no crime to be punished.
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@jamesbrowning9210 Why so many Puerto Rican's come to USA if capitalism is working. If socialism not working in Cuba capitalism failing in Puerto Rico.
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@puertorricane They are already Cubans who left the island that are turning against the policy of the American Imperialists.
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Sugar is cheap so maybe she couldn't afford a healthy diet? Maybe she got depressed? Where can she turn for help? Now if she had money she could hire the Best Doctors, go to the gym, buy nice cloths and live in luxury. How could she do this? By being a thief like her landlord, these companies and investors. They all have a licenses to steal.
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Why? Because the landlord can afford to become a rent collector. Why do we need landlords? I know someone renting the other side of a home isn't getting rich but so what? What about people who own 64 unit apartment buildings and how about those who own multiply 64 unit buildings? Ever been to New York City? Even in CT the richest state in the union a landlord can try and rent a mold infested trailer. If a landlord can't meet a base requirement of a safe for human habitation building or apartment then they should fix it. If they refuse or don't fix it in a reasonable time then you should get help moving or be able to place your rent in escrow and they should be prohibited from renting that unit until the problems are repaired. The biggest problem I've had with landlords is refusing to fix or a bad heating system. I know what to look for and if I get the inkling that there's something wrong to begin with or they don't like to repair things I will just flat out refuse to rent. I lived in an apartment where the landlord gave me a verbal promise that should anything break she would fix it. Well the fridge stopped working 6 months later. I called and she said she was too busy getting ready for vacation. Should I allow my food to spoil while waiting for her to come back from vacation? I bought a new fridge and she paid for it.
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Like most cops they are uncountable. Put ICE in the freezer.
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If they are 'going broke' its because of all the tax breaks they keep giving the rich and then putting the tax burden on the workers, unemployed and middle class. Stop throwing nonviolent illegal drug users and the mentally ill into prisons. Before "illegal immigration" from Mexico they had the forty year old and legal Mexican Bracero guest worker program. They recruited Mexican Peasants from within Mexico not just the border towns to come and work in low sub minimum wage agricultural jobs. Once they finished work or the bosses decided that they were troublemakers they were returned to Mexico. That way not only did the bosses get cheap labor but there were no social costs like healthcare or unemployment insurance. The exploitation of these workers was an embarrassment to the Kennedy administration so it was replaced with "illegal immigration". A wink and a smile from border patrol "La Migra" during the harvest seasons and deportation for the rest of the year.
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This is why the labor movement needs to fight for Amnesty and an end to the guest worker H.x visas.
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For forty years starting in 1942 the agricultural businesses of California, Arizona and Texas legally recruited guest workers at sub minimum wage and without any kind of social benefits from the Mexican interior. It was called the Braceros program. Their super exploitation became a political issue in the United States. Kennedy ended the official program and it became the "illegal alien" program. At harvest time border patrol with a wink and a smile allowed crossings. When harvest time was over then it became time for deportations. These people are workers not criminals. The bosses want to use them to lower wages by criminalizing them. The have no intention of deporting all of them because that would leave jobs unfilled and push up labor costs. Instead they are hoping to turn them into a pariah class that can be used against the unions to push down the wages of all workers. We want amnesty because we are for a heads up labor movement not a heads down one. The real criminals sit in Washington and on Wall Street. Most of them would make a serial killer blush.
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"We bought our land from Mexico." So you own land in Mexico?
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You shouldn't describe yourself like that. When Mexico wouldn't sell than the buyer (Senator Calhoun and the rest if the US gov't) waged war, took more and paid less.
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John Grit No the best way to make money in a "free" market is to do what ever makes a profit. Take the example of Pharma Bro. He raised the price of necessary medicine because he claimed a free market right to do it. Holding medicine just out of reach so you can get the highest price is another example of how capitalist greed affects society. The supreme court signed off on Social Security and Medicare. No one put a gun to their heads.
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John Grit Your two parties are only for democracy among themselves. Government taxes are voluntary for big corporations many of whom also receive government subsidies. You don't need to please customers when your the only game in town. The utility companies are the clearest examples of that. Capitalism always moves towards monopoly in any new market. The insurance companies took you on as a bad risk if you didn't pay a million dollars in premiums. Lets say you only paid one hundred thousand dollars in premiums than some one else paid in the nine hundred thousand extra. You don't get something for nothing as you imply.
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John Grit I don't tell the tax man to rob my neighbors. I'm smart enough not to give them any credibility by voting for them like you do. FDR could legally add seats to the court if Congress rewrote the Judiciary act. Its been done before by Lincoln. So it wasn't a gun to the head threat. You have to keep calling FDR the Democrat a Socialist as a way to smear people like me. FDR had his lackey at the Justice department charged 18 members of the Socialist Workers Party with sedition under the Smith 'gag' Act as a way to stop us from opposing the Imperailist war drive. We of course ignored that and turned the trial testimony into a pamphlet called "Socialism on Trial".
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I don't know what kind of store you operated and I don't really care. Anyone who has to go shopping because they don't live in a tropical jungle eating low hanging fruit knows that the number of choices for shopping has gone down. Its the natural workings of capitalism that produce recession and drive small business out of business not those receiving a Social Security check. It easy for those who dream of being another Amazon or WalMart who then go along with the ruling classes policy because they fear an even worse crisis which could wipe out all their savings not saved in a mattress.
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You cry about taxes and the tax man putting a gun to your head on one day and the next your writing books extolling cop and military violence. DA!!!
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John Grit The only one making a fool of themselves is you!!!
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John Grit Capitalist hide behind all these capitalist front organizations like GE and GM. I bough a battery at Sears a few weeks ago so no they didn't go under. Some libertarian CEO nutcase came close to driving it under though. Luckily it was to big to fail. When you get rid of the private property system you no longer need to have taxes. Their has to be taxes with capitalism because not all necessary activities can turn a profit from investment. Plus the working people want their children educated not child labor being used to pick slate out of coal.
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John Grit We should get rid of all taxes but the income tax. The capitalist would rather have all these other taxes because a graduated income tax makes them pay more. They want to get rid of the Social Security and Medicare Tax because they see that as an excuse to end the social security and medicare programs meaning that could be money in their pockets.
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John Grit Don't you want to write a letter to the Florida DOC protesting censorship? What is it that corner boys, bank robbers and Hitler said?
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John Grit There are basically three kind of taxes property tax, sales tax and income tax. If you can't pay property tax you can't rent or own a home. Sales tax does not cover capital gains and only hits buyers. Theoretically Henry Ford could run his vertical monopoly without ever having to pay a sales tax. Income tax hits those with income this hits anyone with income and capital gains. So the rich favor reducing income tax and the poor want relief from property tax. The federal government collects mostly income taxes and sales taxes on motor fuel and sin taxes on tobacco an alcohol. That's the reason for such a big noise on income taxes and almost none about property taxes. Medicare tax and Social Security tax fund the needs of the disabled and elderly workers so naturally the capitalist do like them because that could be money in their pockets.
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It s a case also of a Boss wanting to use his business as a way to force his religion views down other people's throats.
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May 1st International Workers day!!
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Where in the Bible is it foretold that you would be typing on a computer?
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Ludd Zarko Still waiting for that single name.
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@victorhrodriguez1159 Rojas was a Batista Police Chief.They say he gave the order for his own execution I'd call that a guilty plea. The regime tortured and murdered prisoners among other crimes and they knew that they would be punished after the revolution since the rejection of the Miami pact by the 26th if July movement made that clear,
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@carlosramos5256 Ochoa had to face justice.
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@carlosramos5256 All you do is write lies. He endangered the revolution by engaging in the illegal drug trade. Go to your CIA contact and collect your judas money now.
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+Jason Hall They should have never brought in a heavily armed blue jacketed thug to begin with. This girl was not engaged or about to engage in any violent or dangerous actions. If the teacher was unable to achieve his objective (getting her to go to the office) a guidance counselor should have been called. If the cops are thought of as jokes in the school than that does not give them an excuse to act like the jack booted thugs they are. They don't belong in schools to begin with.
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+Anun Kash And what lesson was that? How being a cop means your above the rules the rest of us must follow? How cops get to engage in excessive force attacks based on dislike of political protests or minor rule breaking? That's the lesson I learned after being shot in the back by a cop during a campus police riot nor sanctioned by University officials. Did I get a dime in compensation? Did we even think of suing back then? No.
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Don't confuse a disciplined attitude towards the police and their actions with respect.
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Being a student at MIT and being shot in the back by Cambridge Police while on the MIT campus during an anti war protest has a life time effect.
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Want to elaborate on the expenditure concerning federal funding for a Mosque. Where can I find out about that?
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RiteNow Publishing Sure wiring hidden batteries in series will result in a higher voltage. Wiring hidden batteries in parallel can result in circulating currents that discharge both batteries.
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The Trump administration is going to be handing out more H visas so more workers can come here legally.
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@rs72098 Capitalism breeds alienation that's why drugs have a market in a capitalist economy.
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"Socialism creates nothing. Its promotes mediocrity and laziness (look at the current crop of Bernie Sanders supporters for reference)" If that was true than the Stalin's Soviet Union would have not created such fear in the US ruling class requiring a cold war. The Soviet Union was the first to put up an artificial satellite and a man in orbit. Hardly the product of laziness and mediocrity.
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How about I remind you of the deaths caused by world war one and the twenty million Soviet Citizens killed during WW2 and the total of 80 million people killed world wide in WW2. Oh that's right German Fascism wasn't real capitalism. Stalin's purges were directed against his loyal party opposition both Left and Right in defense of the secret privileges taken by him and his 'socialist' bureaucrats.
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John Lewis With this, if this and that, then this. I'm not a Democrat so I don't sign on in lock step with whatever they are doing. I didn't sign on to overturning Citizens United by gutting the 1st Amendment either. There wouldn't be any "left wing nonsense" if he had just baked the cake or agreed to the compromise. You want a further extension of corporate power based in religion I don't.
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Rendell Porter Once it gets the the Supreme Court there is no more shopping for judges.
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People like you aren't applying.
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@Vextos1 No the bosses just don't hire without a seeing profits ahead. They replace skilled labor with unskilled labor first. They don't need people who can think. They need people who will do what they are told and like it. If they needed thinkers they'd have the government paying for more education. They want everyone to be a wage slave. Once you wake up and realize your a human being with self worth you become an enemy of the state.
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@Brilliant Chaos Lets take things into our own hands and fight back with union power. They problem is letting the rich have everything. They are always going to fix the system for themslves as long as we don't start speaking up for ourselves and demand we get instead of taking the asshole in this video's advice and go begging for lower pay.
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Go hide in your gated community and I hope you don't melt for the fear of the socialist revolution.
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The current quality of healthcare does not justify continuing down the same road of a healthcare system based on producing profits and not health. As measured on the ability to produce profits this is the best system in the world. If you want a system to provide healthcare you will inevitably come into direct conflict with the tiny class of capitalist rulers. On the ability to produce the best health for the greatest amount of people at the least economic expense than the Cuban system is what you want.
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silver soulja And you are probably "to stupid" to do anything but call the Maytag repairman.
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@royrogers3133 Class struggle is what produces results for the working class not this free market nonsense. A free market has never existed they began as a place to trade and soon the required a policeman to protect the market and arbitrate disputes. The capitalist has control of government to protect his profits and the profit system itself. he always is the minority but want to control both the price of labor and the price at the grocery store. He wants a rental contact and a mortgage but he wants to treat you as an individual with no written contract. He doesn't like strikes so he calls his friends over at the courthouse and police dept or Congress if your name is Warren Buffet and you own the BNSF.
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How about Dr Tiller the women's Doctor O'Reilly called Tiller the Killer later killed by a anti abortion terrorist? Where was the due process provided by O'Reilly and his O'Reilly 'divisor' show. This guy certainly deserved due process. But when Fox news is taking up your defense one has to wonder why? They wouldn't have to keep telling everybody that they are fair and balanced if they were or could even be fair and balanced.
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Now that's it issue put it in a museum with the Confederate flag. People can then debate the Vietnam war and how the government has tried to rewrite the history of Vietnam as just a mistake or a good war because Soldiers died for Johnson's and Nixon's refusal to end the war despite how unpopular it became citing what amounts to patriotic idiocy.
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This is the way cops treat rich white people. This rich fucker came up to the cops which no one but a rich white person would do and probably drunkenly demanded a cigarette. Cops decided to bring him in for PC (Protective Custody) because they didn't want to leave him out being drunk and get jammed up for allowing a rich white drunken shit head to get run over due to police neglegence. Doesn't matter how many SJW awards the fucker won he is as useless as Hillary Trump and Donald Clinton.
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Jon Lacey would you be happier with less authority in teachers? You realize that every night the news reports all kinds violence going on in the world that exposes young minds. Respect for 'our country' (US Empire) has to be earned. For the most part it deserves none. As a part of the communist movement I am a consistent opponent of most policy as made by both parties. I do not nor would I advise people to burn flags or shoot water pistols at pictures of US politicians because it trivialises the seriousness of class struggle. In my opinion the reason behind all the noise over this is the bosses drive to cheapen working class education as a way to raise profits. The bosses and the generals need workers and soldiers who will follow orders not educated worker soldier thinkers.
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So you want to play the Mayflower card. Because the American working class especially the industrial workers unlike the European and Japanese was first made from immigrants, our defense of immigrants regardless of immigration status, Marx being a German Jew, our opposition to Imperialist war, and our general lack of patriotism it is assumed we must be either foreign born or have a lack of education in American exceptionalism. We will always be internationalists because the working class is a class without borders. In the US we have a party built like Lenin's Bolsheviks armed by Marx's, Engels' Lenin's, Trotsky's and Castro's ideas and the living revolution in Cuba under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Unlike the Social Democrats and Stalinists we have always been in the forefront of defending workers rights to read, to discus, to organize, to keep and bare arms, and to assemble by use of the bill of rights, the civil war amendments and the amendment giving women the right to vote. We have defeated the US government in SWP v. Attorney General and SWP v. FEC. That didn't stop a government attorney from claiming that we were using 'our own laws against us'. In a recent move to get the list of our electoral campaign supporters the FEC has declared the SWP to be a major party. Back to teachers: I believe teachers should have authority best obtained through example in the classroom. There is however no place for abuse of students in school. As to police authority it has always been the position of Marxists that the old state apparatus can not be readily used by a new revolutionary government. The United States has a history of some of the most violent battles between strikers and protesters exercising their constitutional rights and private armies, police,and national guard unit ordered assaults. Do we advocate violence no but we do advocate the right to self defense. We want cops who engage in excessive force and torture fired, arrested, tried and jailed.
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I won't bother answering insults of those unable to make a civil argument.
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TSA was implemented to protect airline property and profits.
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Good idea maybe he can refuse to sign another military appropriations bill and the soldiers will leave foreign bases and catch the red eye home to Fort Dix so they can muster out.
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You talk all day while sitting in those boss chairs. You are going to come to the conclusion one day that while you enjoy all those privileges, that like a frog in a pan of water heating on the stove, that you and your capitalist system will become dead to the world.
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@josephwheeler1 The problem develops that as bosses use machines to replaces labor to drive profit in their way the value of the capital rises but the source of the profits is our labor so what happens is the overall rate of profit keeps declining. So the bosses use to issue wage cuts. But now with a fiat currency they can cut wages with inflation by printing more money.
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The actor is a worker and in the Oregon case that also appears to be the case where husband and wife are not employing labor. In the Masterpiece cakeshop the cake shop is an employer.
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The actor is a worker so they can quit at anytime. If Cakes By Melissa is just a married couple then they are just a married couple who own their own tools much like a couple who own their own rig and a drive truck as team drivers so they also should be able to refuse service for any reason. Masterpiece cakeshop is clearly an employer so no they must serve all comers under the public accommodation law. To rule otherwise is to allow corporations of all sizes to use religion as a defense to violation of public accommodation law.
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We don't know what the couple would want designed on the cake since he stopped and refused to make any bake goods that would celebrate same sex weddings. So even an anniversary cake would fall victim under his way of doing things. He has been arguing that cakes are speech. What about mashed potatoes or a green bean salad. Have the American Nazi's sued for Hitler cakes or the KKK requested KKK cakes? How are they protected by law? Did he post signs saying he refuses to make same sex wedding cakes after all this wasn't the first time he said no? Did he post in his shop that he is serving Christ or God? No of course not because he knows that to post things like that would drive away business from customers who aren't gay or Christian. He would rather hide his views on same sex wedding cakes rather than risk losing business for posting something like that nor has he asked that he be allowed to do that and his friend at the Trump administration the US Solicitor general has said they would not approve of that.
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Jack Phillips is the cake shop manager so he could contract out all the samesex wedding cakes or have an employee without his views make all the same sex wedding cakes. So why does he refuse to do a perfectly possible compromise? It is obvious he wants to make it as difficult as possible for the couple to exercise their rights to service without religious discrimination. His goal is religious tyranny not religious freedom.
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The actress is not a company. Public accommodation law says the cake shop company cannot refuse service based upon sexual ordination. If it was a private company not open to the general public serving only certain churches then the cake shop would be exempt. Public accommodation law has been before the Supreme court before and found constitutional despite Piggy Park Enterprises claiming an exception based upon religious views overriding the federal 1964 civil rights act. You brought up the Hitler cake so its up to you to explain how Hitler cakes or KKK cakes fit into this. In fact why don't you go order a Hitler cake and come back and tell us how it all worked out.
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Jack Phillips basic freedom is not being infringed upon since he personally doesn't have to make the cake. To allow for profit corporations that operated in the public to claim a religion when not specifically organized for religious purposes is religious tyranny. We've already seen this in the Hobby Lobby case where the court majority ignored the religious right not to be a conservative Christian and the health needs of the 100's of female employees for the religious rights of a few corporate owners.
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Their is a difference between an artist and an artisan. But by immediately refusing there is no doubt the the refusal was based upon sexual orientation not a lack of artistic inspiration.
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He like Hobby lobby is claiming a right to use religion by for purpose of expanding the rights of private property owners over those without nor is it a special situation where the tools are operated by the owner without the hiring of wage labor. All any thinking worker needs to know is this: These facts make it just another example of boss tyranny pure and simple. The right of the bosses to use religion as an excuse for their decisions was rightly rejected a long time ago.
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I suppose if you've never needed to work to pay your bills and been over lorded by a boss that wants more out of you for less you probably wouldn't understand.
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Some can only crawl on their bellies and accept boss tyranny others don't. The effect of the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was to strip Hobby Lobby's 100's of female workers of safe and effective birth control methods from their inclusion in any Obama care healthcare plan for Hobby Lobby workers. Just like Masterpiece Cakeshop it is all based upon boss rights to set up a for profit corporation and then claim it is a way to worship god.
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@rye-bread5236 No you don't you'd like to be that guy and then run out on her.
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@jamesbrowning9210 No other country has faced that kind of hostility for 60 years. It sole reason is to punish the Cuban people for getting rid of the US dictator Batista and using socialism to construct their country. Its also included a campaign of lies, terrorist attacks on Cuban soil and the bombing by the US CIA of a Cuban civilian airliner. .
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@jamesbrowning9210 Did the USSR ever invade the US? The US did however invade them. Just what did they do to deserve such hostility? In fact Stalin gave both FDR and Churchill way more during the war years than you ever gave the Soviet Union. In fact you treated him the same way you treat your other employees when they are no longer useful you cut your losses rell them to look elsewhere and say sorry good bye.
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@hellsonly8908 And what did the Soviet Union get for Stalin's treachery? Nada. Because of Stalin capitalism and Imperialism got a new lease on life.
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@hellsonly8908 Stalin would lead a group of privileged bureaucrats who would reverse the communist course of Lenin and Trotsky. Before he died Lenin wanted Stalin out of his post as General Secretary. Trotsky also tried to have him removed he also failed. Stalin would sign on to Bukharin's theory of Socialism in one Country and became the leader of defeats. Stalin revived the bankrupt theories of the second international. Stalin became the executioner of Lenin's party and began the march back to capitalism.
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Some markets require huge investments as a barrier to entry. Like Power plants and Health Care insurance. Even then permits and regulation is required to keep out frauds and other wrong social acts that might be taken to increase profits. For those business that require lower barriers to entry. Permits and licenses are required to limit entry and prevent market chaos. Taxicabs and small construction contractors fall into this category.
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The most Important inventor of the 19th Century was not Thomas Edison but an ex employee Nicola Tesla. Tesla's inventions make modern life possible in the form of creation and distribution of electric power and the induction motor that drives factory production. His death as a penniless immigrant in a hotel room doesn't make American capitalism with the Horacio Alger concept of rags to riches myth look good. In fact were he to arrive today on a H1B visa and quit his job he would be an illegal immigrant subject to deportation.
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John Grit One of the Greatest scientists of all time Albert Einstein was a socialist. Rudolf Diesel the inventor of the Diesel engine was a Utopian socialist. When capitalism first began you could argue that all the scientist and engineers came from the feudal system so feudalism should be preserved.
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John Grit FDR and Hitler socialist? Well they are actually very similar in that the prepared their ruling classes respectively for an "American Century" and a "Thousand Year Reich". The question to be decided by war. You in fact show that with the facts that you point out that most liberals leave out as inconvenient facts. The big difference was the class struggle was much sharper in Germany than in the US. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany having smashed the trade unions on the road to dictatorship and given control of the cops who now wore the SS and SA thug NAZI armbands. FDR was the result of bourgeois democracy with support from the reformist social democrats and a cheering squad of little wanabe stalins. Both Hitler and Roosevelt maintained the underlying structure of private property. Their interference in the free market was justified in the same way Bush had interfered in the free market to save the free market.
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Einstein was a socialist in the same way many working people are in a general opinion that we need control in how we spend our lives at work and a government that represents us. Einstein was enough of a socialist to generate an FBI file. The reason for "innovating" in the capitalist mode of production is to increase profits by reducing labor time. Those companies or branches of industries that are best at innovating will see profits flowing in their direction. However innovations that create a rise in profits also require some additional investment. Here is where a general problem for capitalism lies. Increased investment may increase the overall profit but it may also lower the rate of return on investment. No capitalist wants a lower return on investment so they begin investing in fictitious capital. Paper values like stocks, bonds and derivatives. By biding up the paper values they set the stage for a collapse in the paper values.
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John Grit If anyone is headed down the fascist road it is you with your American military nationalism and support of the capitalist police force not Einstein.
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John Grit FDR Killed Jews by sending refugees back to Hitler. Any progressive role played by the Republicans ended with the Hayes Tilden compromise of 1876. The anti war party in 1917 was the Socialist Party. The anti war Party in 1941 was the Socialist Workers Party. For every war since the anti war Party has always been the Socialist Workers Party. Since the Spanish American war the Republican and Democratic Parties have always been the twin Imperialist war parties.
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John Grit Certainly the class struggle was sharper in Germany because they were going through all kinds of economic crisis and pre revolutionary battles since the end of WW1. Inflation was such that people carried Reich marks around in wheelbarrows. The German capitalist saw no other way to maintain their power other than through a totalitarian state. Once the enabling act was passed their was no need for the trappings of bourgeois democracy. Hitler ruled by decree not with any kind of consent of the governed through a parliamentary debate or with a Supreme court placing any checks on executive power.
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John Grit You created your own job. How really creative of you! Does your job also include printing the book? Or manufacturing the paper and cutting down the trees? It would be worth much without others printing it on paper would it now? Maybe you could be another Gutenberg creating a press with movable type and using papyrus for paper. Most things are made in factories using machines and labor with a general level of culture instead of individual craftsmen. Now if you want to really individualistic you'd copy those Japanese soldiers who didn't surrender for about fifty years hiding in the Philippine jungle. You'd move to a jungle and live off of long hanging fruit.
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John Grit With the advent of monopoly capitalism unions are continually pushed into the state apparatus of capitalism. A fight against gangsterism in the unions and making them independent of the state is possible. Tony Boyle being removed as head of the Coal Miners union came about as a result of the successful battle for Black Lung benefits paid for by the operators and guaranteed by the capitalist government.
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Gerard Morin 'Guys I need help." So go to the local Metal Health clinic. There you can explain you why you post all kinds of crazy videos about over unity, cold radiation and the reason the power company is scamming you by taking back the current that flows into your home.
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Tim Gray Right!! He is a fox pretending to be a lamb.
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Kali Southpaw We can fight back against the law of value by organizing unions with all workers included. Sure the Walton family and Jeff Bezo's won't like it
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762 Goat You "... make 60 k a year and am about to pay off".. your..."250k house." So that proves you worked more than four years. Maybe you'd like a 'hero of capitalist labor' badge?
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Their celebrating International Women's day! One hundredth anniversary of the Strike by Women textile workers in St Petersburg! That set of the February Russian revolution!!
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If the government had to follow the bill of rights the'd have to arrest themselves.
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The best way to change laws is to ignore those against the right to strike and protest. The laws always change because the corrupt politicians always want to take credit for changing the law.
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Chris Ammar All that shows is that capitalism is a failed system. Nor enough work cut the work week with no cut in pay. Close foreign military bases and build homes and schools with the money saved.
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Ludd Zarko Juan Almeida my spell check created the error since it doesn't like Almeida
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Ludd Zarko He wasn't a snowflake like your avatar either.
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Looking at it from a Communist view the boss class wants to discriminate against all working people based upon their sexual identity. Its clear that this is what he wants because he refused any compromise such as training other workers to do the job or contracting out his gay wedding cake business.
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Right private lives were not the object of ending segregation. However public accommodations are not considered private when business is open to the public and they were also the subject of desgration that required government intervention in business because so called free market capitalism doesn't use invisible hands. It's just as foolish as those who think prices are set by supply and demand over being set by the labor power need to make them or do the job. Supply and demand seldom sets prices.
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Before the civil rights movement Black people traveling for either their job or pleasure out of town bought a book called the green book so they would know where the could stop for gas, morels and restaurants. Even in Springfield, MA Friendly's Ice cream restaurant would allow black kids to sit but would not wait on them.
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Price of production is determined by labor time multiplied the labor rate. Cost of production is determined by wages paid for the time used to produce. They don't raise or lower the cost of an oil change by the dealer checking on how much oil he has on hand. Same goes for the price of gas. When the gas truck shows up at the gas station they don't lower the price of gas or raise it in the morning or lower it at night or on Sundays. Same goes for getting your car fixed or bidding on a construction job. When you get your car fixed the figure the labor time by estimate and then multiply by labor rate then add the cost of parts. It has almost nothing to do with anything else. If they can't get the part or fix it some other way they don't do the job if they have lots of parts they don't low the price. The worker gets his wage paid by the estimate time times his wage rate. Only with monopolies or a production price that can't be justified in the market does supply and demand come in. The worker must be paid a wage so that he comes back to work the next day and not a penny less.
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Discovery of ignorance always come first, protests against ignorance comes next, government action defending ignorance comes forth, then government action against ignorance next, lastly ignorance dies off. It's a never ending human process (dialectical materialism) now connected to capitalism and its class divisions.
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@kgtmustang Well than you organize picketing of city hall and the courts by passing out leaflets.
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Trump wants to create a DMZ on the Mexican border.
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The capitalist and his ideological supporters love to talk about Free Trade which along with Private Property are the only freedoms and rights the capitalist needs. Does the capitalist have to forgo consumption in order to for his business to prosper? If he actually starts as a business with just himself and a few workers that may be true but once he gets to a certain point his necessary consumption is no longer a significant part of his profits if his business is expandable. He then begins to use his profits to expand and compete. If anyone is expected to tighten their belts it's his workers because that is where his profits have their origin and is the easiest cost to control. Does the capitalist live to serve his customers? Yet he also works hard to manipulate his customers and to create new needs that allow him to profit with advertising to show his product as best and that you need things like cosmetics and 225 TV channels while you can only watch just one at a time. While the capitalist smiles at his customer at the checkout line he curses them for being finicky, difficult to please and wanting to much. Do the capitalists spend money on innovation? They prefer innovation by basic scientific research development be done at universities and paid for by government funds. While large firms hire armies of engineers to continually develop and reduce costs in production and services they provide.
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@victorhrodriguez1159 Besides making a fool of yourself what are you doing now going to meetings with Marco Rubio hoping for a for some new business? Maybe he'll put you in charge of that free internet he promised Cuban's. You can help supply the hot air to fill the balloon. .
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@carlosramos5256 World War 2 was from 1939 to 1945. Churchill couldn't of said what you claim during WW2 because the Cuban Revolution did come to power until 1959. You can find pictures of him and FDR sitting next to Stalin during WW2. Hitler only wanted what Churchill had an Empire. Instead the US ended up with the Imperialist Empire after WW2.
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@carlosramos5256 Churchill headed the British Empire none of its colonial people had a single vote in the British Parliament. In India they hated him worse than Hitler. The US/UK were part of the 14 Imperialist armies to invade the new Soviet Republic. Churchill said, "Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle". Lenin's call for the freedom of the colonial slaves of the European Empires cut at the heart of the colonial Empires of Britain, Germany, Turkey America and France
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@carlosramos5256 I can give two shits about the Russian Czar and his family. The Russian's didn't make the mistake the English did with King Charles family. They weren't going to let the CZAR and his family fall into the hands of the counterrevolutionaries.They were allowed to live longer than anyone should have expected. He should have resigned in 1905 instead of sending the leaders of the 1905 Revolution to prison and exile. The IRA sent Louis Earl Mountbatten to an early meeting with his Lord and master This kind of Royal Scum like the Saudi Prince are your type along with CIA mercenaries like Posada and Bosch.
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@jeffgriscoa8131 Without the Cuban revolution the world history of the second half of the twentieth century world be different. Cuba doesn't promise free stuff instead the revolution can delver free education and medical care because the working people are in power and unlike with capitalism where healthcare and education for the working people are overhead expenses that need to be minimized to maximize profits. Healthcare and education for all are recognized as the first need in building a socialist society. The profit drive means skilled labor is replaced with machines and unskilled labor and as the capital value of firms rises the labor needed declines mean these two tendencies work to lower the rate of profit for which the capitalist have no solution but to keep demanding a free lunch for investors who own too big to fail companies.
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@jeffgriscoa8131 Tell Biden to let us spend out retirement money in Cuba like anywhere else in the world. Are you afraid that retirees will leave the US for Cuba?
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@jeffgriscoa8131 Education in the US/UK/EU is mostly indoctrination also. Indoctrinating people into social democratic, liberal, or conservative capitalism. You can become a medical doctor in Cuba at no personal cost and that achievement will be recognized world wide.
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@Science Bear Why should I waste my time with someone who obviously holds 3 PHD and thinks he is another Einstein You know it all clown. .
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Being an atheist and Christian are mutually exclusive categories. You can of course become one or the other and go back and forth between the categories. Just as you can be for free speech when talking and against it when someone else is.
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The court needs only rule that for profit corporations do not have religious rights for purposes of public accommodation law. When was the last time you saw GE sitting in a pew next to you.
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This is not a case about does an individual having to do something. It's about a for profit corporate entity having and exercising it's religious views in the marketplace.
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It more like a Christian taco stand owner who sells both beef and pork tacos. A muslim comes in and asks for a beef taco the Christian shop own says I can only sell you a pork taco.
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Jack Phillips did not like the compromise of either having another worker without out his views make the cakes or having an outside contractor do it. His actual involvement would have been extremely minimum at that point about the same as selling cookies for unknown purposes.
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That's not the question being asked but I don't see how you would have to create any special art but I don't see how you could refuse to put Jim and John on a cake if you were willing to put Jim and Jane on a cake.
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He was found to be a US citizen that's why he couldn't be deported.
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The confederate widows thing comes from some sort of law passed in 1958 involving the payments of Veterans of the Spanish American war. I don't know how many people it involved but it was very very few.
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Every so often some politician talks about session so he can make headlines.Without a constitutional amendment it can't happen legally. Despite the rhetoric the two parties aren't that much different from each other. The Democrats usually have the cities and the Republicans the suburban and rural areas. Even then how would you divide things up? Creation of city states? Nothing but pure grandstanding.
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There is no right for states to leave the union. They signed on to the Articles of Confederation and Union. They signed on to the constitution for a "...a more perfect union..." The constitution has ways to add, divide and merge states but no way for states to leave. The President before Lincoln, Buchanan (D-PA) said secession was illegal but did nothing about it. There never was nor has there ever been a legal way for a state to leave outside of Federal Constitutional Amendment or Federal Constitutional Convention. That's why the 13th, 14th and 15th do not need to clarify a pre civil war supposed right to leave.
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From the US Constitution Section 1 Article 8 On Congressional powers "...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;...."
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The federal government put down the southern insurrection. If Great Britain or France had entered into support of insurrectionist areas with troops than they would be repelling an invasion also. The North invading the South is a simplistic view. Legally the federal government was putting down a secessionist insurrection lead by southern slaveholding planters.
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Look if South Carolina was obeying the law and not being the aggressor why did they fire on Fort Sumter. Somehow or another Lincoln didn't fire missiles launched from DC at South Carolina now did he? The Northern States were tired of having to spend state money on a Federal law to return fugitive slaves and the people of Boston decide they wanted to exercise states rights and used interference with federal marshals prevent them doing so. Cost the federal government upwards of $15,000 to return one slave who sold for a little more than $1,000. Not to mention the second federal marshal killed in the line of duty. Your were losing slaves and spent all your time in Congress bellyaching about it. Just like today you got all these people bellyaching about aliens and now you want to force states to do the Federal government's dirty work.
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You don't just get to steal federal property because it was in one of your states. Damn slave holders tor up Kansas all over the right to own people. You know damn well that was what it is was all about not any of this state's right BS.
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Just like George Wallace he wasn't campaigning for states rights he was campaigning for "Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow and Segregation Forever." You damn fools can't keep your mouths shut so whose fault is that?
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Actually Republicans seem to be the Party defending free speech today. However both Parties defend it so long as it gives them an advantage over the other Party. Only the working class will consistently defend free speech and the rest of the bill of rights and the civil war amendments. For the ruling class and middle class free speech and the other rights mentioned are only defended when it helps them in their quest to save the capitalist system.
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Let ask this question. How many people should we knowingly allow to break highway speed limits every year? Or how many people should be allowed to break parking rules without getting parking tickets each year? How many unsolved rape and murders should we allow? Is overstaying a tourist visa any different than crossing the Mexican border at other than a port of entry? If we have a border wall will the government take down the second inland border checkpoints? Do we really need a wall at places that are all but already uncrossable now? Why not build a Canadian wall?
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What about all the other dads could they also get their children kept out of Vietnam? Of course not. He got that favor or privilege because he was a member of the ruling class. (Bush attended Yale not Harvard). College students could also become officers and remain out of the draft while attending college or getting a job that was considered essential to national defense was another dodge. The great majority of the draftees came from the working class with the national minorities being over represented.
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Few wars are meaningless especially those that last 10 years. The Vietnam war took down two presidents. Lyndon Johnson did not seek to run again. Nixon was elected in a landslide of electoral votes from every state but Massachusetts because he promised peace with honor. Nixon resigned before his impeachment trial in the Senate. Senator Rockefeller told him he didn't have the votes. ( He need 34 out of 100 to avoid a guilty finding). The war ended because GI's didn't want to fight anymore. Nixon had two choices end the war or establish a police state at home and draft more soldiers. That war cost 50.000 GI's their lives and 1 million Vietnamese lives. It was condemned across the world with huge protest marches everywhere.
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He kept it going for over four years since he was elected to a second term which is when he received his landslide electoral vote election. That's where I learned it doesn't make a difference which of the two party candidates is elected. A real street movement is what makes the difference. His expansion of the war into Cambodia, the murder of four Kent State students by the Ohio National guard which resulted in a nationwide student strike had a big effect on young people of the time including me a high school senior. I had little interest in politics before since I thought of it mostly as popularity contests. Ever since then they have tried to rewrite the history of the Vietnam war. For years they talked about it as being a mistake. The only mistake about it was that they lost. The first GI's to come back were frowned upon by business as being soft or losers. Then they decided they needed to change that policy and make everybody into a hero as a way to end any discussion of the war.
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What is never talked about when states are claiming bankruptcy is all the tax money going to pay down debt to wealthy bond holders and who should have been taxed instead. No one should have to surrender their home before cuts are made to wealthy bond holders In fact every family should have a home without having a mortgage. Just like government built roads they should build housing. You should not get kicked out because a spouse died, divorced or became disabled. Lots of us were promised pensions from multiple jobs when we were young. Everyone should at least get the level of railroad retirement government guaranteed. Plus their is no reason to create gaintic trust funds, IRA's or pension savings. Instead a government guaranteed pay as you go system will work quite well.
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Unions work well when negotiating wages and working conditions at the company and industry level. Pensions require long term company and industry stability. That is completely impossible in a capitalist economy. There is no way to predict that far into the future how companies and industries may change or go bankrupt. Companies and industries which pay higher wages are also the first to look to automation and new technology to cut the labor needed to produce. When that happens now is less money going into the pension fund such that when it comes time to pay out the pensions promised from the fund have they have been depleted because those who were the first to retire becomes a bigger number compared to those who are still paying into the pension fund. Social Security gets around this problem because the number of people paying in is always rising as does the population and the Social Security tax receipts rise as do our wages.
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Not really the reason Mexicans come here is to work at the jobs that provide the greatest profits and lowest incomes. Time to fight for unions and amnesty.
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What lies? Oh that's right Red baiters like McCarthy were "truth tellers". J. Edgar Hoover's Gestapo sending out finks and spies into every area of life looking for commies.
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Some people will be leaving voluntarily so they can get those new H visas the Trump administration is giving out for growers in the South West. That way they will be legal.
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He was a leader of the First International.
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There were others who had thought up communist societies where there was a equality among people. Most of them were religious societies where people would get together for the common good and share resources. Marx called this utopian communism because they could not compete with capitalism in its production methods so only a few would join and they would forever be indebted to capitalism and it production methods. Marx had studied previous societies documented at the British museum and came to the conclusion that the most important things humans did was to labor and since the end of primitive communism where their was no surplus to sustain a separate ruling class societies were divided into classes based upon their relation to the means of production. That these societies developed in such a way that the previous methods would fail because as the productive forces increased they would come up against unforeseen contradictions. He wondered if capitalism also would also come to an end because of unforeseen contradictions. So he sought to lay bare how capitalist political economy worked and its contradictions in his famous work Das Kapital. He also saw how capitalism created a working class and that this class could, would and should take power from the capitalists because like previous forms of societies unforeseen contradictions would set us back into the past without a new way of organizing society. However should this new class take power there would no longer be a ruling class separate from the productive class and this would result in communism with more wealth than ever before in human history. However humanity would need to pass through a revolutionary stage suppressing the old capitalist class and go through a period of socialism (capitalism without the capitalists) on to communism at a world scale.
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The most prosperous and powerful turned into the biggest pile of rubbish in the history of the world. There's a reason why Marx said "workers of the world unite" and not Aryan Nation of the world oppress. If he didn't want to be defeated by "four Superpowers"why the hell did he get into a war with them? Adolf Hitler and Jeff Davis defeated by their own stupidity. Even where they win by successful murdering all the workers leaders despite their political affiliation and then avoid foreign war like Spain, Portugal, and Chile are they able to last a thousand years without returning to bourgeois democracy. No because the class struggle between labor and capital produces a new leadership and the best way capital has to deal with the workers is under a bourgeois democracy. Fascism is a card played by the capitalists only at the last moment because it is the most costly and least likely to succeed in a revolutionary situation. Lenin and Trotsky lead a revolution and Trotsky an army made up of soldiers of a defeat czarist army and that defeated a Russian counter revolution army and 14 Imperialist foreign nations including the US Army. Fidel Castro stood up to the mightiest empire the world has ever seen only 90 miles away and thumbed his nose at them.
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Interesting historical revisionism. Hitler with his mighty army was just 'forced' into taking over Czechoslovakia. LOL Under his own racial theories the Germans with the best genetics left for the United States anyway. Henry Ford was a hero of Hitler and Joe Kennedy said Hitler was a guy you could do business with. Yet he allied himself with Japan (Honorarily Ayanian's no doubt LOL) who ended up "forcing" FDR into declaring war on Japan and then Germany. LOL He was able to get a non aggression pact with Stalin. LOL He could have easily defeated Britain after first having rolled across France and the low countries. LOL He could then taken on the Soviet Union but once again he was just "forced' into breaking his pact with Stalin. LOL Like other Empires and Emperors he got the empire into too many battles at once and then internal collapse set in like a house of cards. LOL LOL LOL.
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Stalin was no doubt a criminal but he was our criminal. Hitler and the rest of the ruling classes are criminals in their own right. Most of what you have to say is just nonsense developed by pseudo scientists. Even if Hitler succeeded it defeating both Britain, the Soviet Union creating a European Empire and getting a truce with America. What would he have then?A European Empire! A European empire based upon German capitalist superiority and German military occupation forces would be destined to collapse because of both economic forces and national differences. Trying to maintain an empire through brutality is a prescription for disaster.
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Without the police protecting those racist they would have been run out of the black community. I wonder how many of those racists were out of uniform police?
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People who enter under spousal petitions can get green cards rather quickly since there are no limits on them. Their spouse must be an American citizen and the immigration service must be satisfied that they entered into a true marriage not one of convenience solely to get a green card. The immigrant spouse may work but the citizen spouse must agree to pay all the necessary support costs of the immigrant spouse. People who want to come here under family petition are limited to a certain number each year. This is where the complaint of having to wait in line comes from. The process is slow and bureaucratic and once again you may work after receiving your green card not before but you must be sponsored by citizen family members who agree to pay your cost of living. Then there is the lottery based green card this is limited to people from countries that are underrepresented in immigration like Mongolia. So if you want to read about how to get a green card I suggest going to USCIS website and trying to decipher what is being said. Like the "Green Card for a Lautenberg Parolee" apparently this program ended but was later renewed by Congress but the renewal was not recognized by USCIS.
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I recently travel along the Texas border and was approached for no specific reason by a person who spoke about Mexican migrant workers being paid with a portion of what they harvested. This of course went on at a place close to the Rio Grande because going more that a few miles away would put you in the desert.
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@addiesalt NAZI Germany was capitalist. Hitler's support came form the big German companies. Henry Ford was the only American mentioned favorable in Mein Kanpf. Ford received the NAZI award of the German Eagle from the German ambassador just before war broke out. Joe Kennedy JFK's father told Roosevelt that Hitler was someone you could do business with. One of Hitlers first acts was to expel the German Communist Party Deputies from the Reichstag. The NAZI's had the support of all the Conservative capitalist Parties when the Enabling act was passed. All of the Social Democratic Party Deputies voted no. The passage of the Enabling act allowed Hitler to rule by decree.
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Oliver North the man who traded war materials to Iran for the ability to arm contras in Nicaragua. Hero of the Reaganites and Presidential overreach by going specifically against the Congress's resolution not to arm the contra's. If he were a supply sergeant he'd been Court Martialed. Instead he became a hero of both parties and the return of secret Presidential power to make war against the stated wishes of Congress. The constitution gives Congress the power to make war not the President but that would allow debate something the ruling class can not stand.
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How many times have the US Marines invaded Central American nations? How many times has the US government sent weapons to South American dictators and Nicaraguan contras. They been treated like a 51st State should you just grant them automatic citizenship?
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Bosses alway seek to pay the lowest wage acceptable. Unions use collective power against capital. Without government power to break strikes and protests the bosses would not be able to impose the conditions and wages they do. The world is only so big and the capitalists need labor so they can't set up shop on the moon or mars. They run out of places to run to. The Chinese workers are striking and raising wages in China. As wages rise in Mexico Brazil, China and elsewhere the incentive to move elsewhere drops. The bosses find themselves face to face with labor in the biggest manufacturing country in the world.
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Given that only 6% of workers in the private sector have union representation the bosses have already all but eliminated them. We need to be organizing unions to fight back. To fight for a higher minimum wage and replacing what's left of private pension plans with an increase in social security benefits. A new fighting union movement that doesn't play by the bosses rules. Strikes should be organized and carried out. Instead of endless grievance procedures. No more of this keeping our heads down and waiting for the next contract to be signed and then have it ignored by the bosses. Who say if you don't like it than file a grievance. How does a real work stoppage sound. Mr. Bossman?
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American capitalism does not allow for equal opportunity. Those young people who have families with money will always get ahead start in education. More expensive neighborhoods have more tax money to spend on schools. The early schools that Bill Gates attended are in no way like those who get a public education. So when you argue that American capitalism provides meritocracy that is absolutely untrue. You always hear about how Blacks and Latinos are getting unearned affirmative action admissions but you never hear about how the poison ivy league schools like Harvard admit about 30% as legacy admissions.
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Capitalism needs an army of the unemployed to hold down wages. The capitalist like to talk about how they are providing jobs and lifting those they hire out of poverty. The truth is they never hire unless they can see it as a sure way to make a profit by producing a commodity for sale.
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@john-s9m3f "Bosses alway seek to pay the lowest wage acceptable." Is that the one you agree with? This is why they don't want social healthcare. They'd much rather hire you for a short time and come up with a bureaucratic reasons to fire you so they can get someone else to take your place and almost none will never be able to make the year before you becoming eligible for healthcare, sick and vacation days. Coming up with more and more reasons to assign you points for offenses. Telling everyone how things would become better and more fair. Changing the job requirements for people who had physical handicaps just to get rid of them, save the healthcare and a couple bucks over the minimum wage. Sure before 2008 they couldn't get good workers except for the partially disabled. Now they were just tossed out like old dirty rags. Just to add to the hypocrisy they claim to be fighting hunger from Black Friday to Christmas every year by having minimum wage cashiers ask all the customers for a donation. I was glad to quit when I did.
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What I think is this. If Libertarians don't like the system of social production than they should follow the male orangutans into the jungle and swing from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit.
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@travisdonaldstanley6420 They are already greedy. We need to rebulid union power. In 1954 30% of all workers belonged to unions. Today its 8%. Plus millions have been cheated out of private retirements and healthcare promises. https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTuo.jpg This shows how wages followed productivity until 1973.
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Sorry Jan Brewer and the rest but you signed on to the Universal Declaration of Human rights.
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Clearly some like conservative Ann Coulter are better than the rest of the native born who came as the children of poor immigrants because they are not the descendants of Immigrants but as she says settlers. Coulter has yet to claim the master race title but clearly the concept of a liberal meritocracy in her mind is headed towards that of an unapologetic Master Race.
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Into the streets to protest capitalist injustice.
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Walmart would strong arm suppliers for lower prices. Why because the actual surplus value is created by the manufactures workers. The retail distributors share the surplus value created by the manufacture of commodities. Most Walmart workers go on the books as overhead rather than production although the predictability of retail sales is much more quantifiable today than when retail was done by small dry goods stores. If workers fight for higher wages and win it will also force the layoff of lots of dead weight like extra lawyers, unnecessary managers, industrial psychologists, store police, merchandising experts and so on.
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You first!
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A libertarian world where property rights were the only guaranteed human rights would be a complete tyranny of property owners to the detriment of all other peoples human rights.
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Exactly. Getting rid of slavery with the civil was a great step forward despite all the pork barrel corruption of the Lincoln administration and after the war the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad building agreements pushed through Congress. Today all the agreements made for tax breaks for companies to locate and sports team subsidies are a forms of legal capitalist corruption.
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The reason this teacher is under attack is because the capitalist system does not need or want educated workers or soldiers. They want unconditional obedience. Educated workers pose a class threat to a capitalist world system that is in decline do to overproduction and the decline of world trade. This and the decision to attack education as to expensive for working class children are behind the call for her head. One might note that Mr. Trump and the 'Goldwater Girl' Ms. Clinton have both been members of both parties and are personal friends. Mr. Trump's call for investigation and prosecution of crooked Hillary has been dropped because that was just vote seeking rhetoric.
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Bob White This is my view as a communist. '...teaching people to disagree with tolerance and making intelligent arguments is the proper way.' I don't see how that can be done with your first post calling for a witch hunt to cleanse schools of philosophy and politics. If all teachers had to do was teach facts than it would be a simple job to just compile lists of facts, teach them, and use standardized tests to see who could remember them.
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With a screen name of AllHailEmporerTrump. I think that says it all. Not much reason to argue with those who hail the Emperor. Can I sell you a pair of knee pads?
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Lets see given that Trump had the Clintons at one of his weddings and both Trump and Bill Clinton are such ladies men I'm wondering if Karl Marx was right when he said the Bourgeois take great pleasure in seducing each others wives? Could it be that either a swap orooh or a threesome/foursome went bad and that's why the Emperor Trump and Queen Hillary aren't getting along that well. Oh and just for the record I wasn't foolish enough to vote for either the Queen or the Emperor. Since 40% beats both 30% and 30% shouldn't Congress just have rented out the White House for money to lower the deficit? By the way. Could I interest you in a set of Chain Mail for you next Jousting match in the Colosseum?
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Ann Linley Yea anyone willing to climb over bodies to the top can be a President and a war criminal at the same time. Steve Jobs start as a thief making blue boxes and he became a very rich one.
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Ann Linley I don't care if they started with only a pair of a underpants in Alaska. How about that great Idea called an artificial satellite (Sputnik) and the National Defense Education Act that followed? Off all the people you named how many hold at least one patent or copyright that started their business? Not two or three but just one? What they all hold in common is the ability to manipulate people and climb over bodies in a psychopathic race to be the biggest profiteer.
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Apple company? An exploiter of child labor and other labor law violations in its Chinese partners factories. A company started by an admitted law breaker Steve Jobs. A man who manufactured blue boxes for the purpose of fraud. He stopped because he was afraid of being caught by the police. His blue boxes allowed for the theft of AT&T Long distance toll service. I don't really care about how he broke laws but at least be honesty about your hero's. In Jobs case his best skill was obviously learning how to cheat others.
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Ann Linley Are goods imported from the European countries made with cheap labor compared to US labor costs? Like a German Porsche or Swiss watches? So a Utopian boycott of Apple iPhones is the answer? You should think before typing.
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"Throw out every modern convince you use... cell phone, computer... wear Levi jeans? Burn them. They are all produced by capitalism." They were produced under the capitalist system for private profit. Before capitalism people wore cloths. Should capitalism have been halted because clothes were invented and used in both slave and feudal times? After all no need to build textile factories when home spinning will do. That was the economic theory of the British Imperialist war collaborator Mahatma Gandhi. Humanity has only had a peak at what can be accomplished with socialism. We have also seen what happens when capitalists are allowed the freedom to do whatever will produce a profit. Like WW1, WW2 and the atom bomb.
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Ann Linley I've had to buck the system since 8th grade. It's easy to give a student a low grade when its something very subjective like English. There a student can write a book report on an imaginary book and can get an A. They taught us how to read using phonics and then wonder why we can't spell. You have poor hand writing. We will take off for that. Use a pen but don't be sloppy and cross out words because we will take off for that. Things and concepts like imaginary numbers can't be faked. Teachers said I did sloppy work but they couldn't argue that I didn't get the right answer.
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Ann Linley Study money? Like how the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank works to replace wage cuts with inflation or why the creation of a huge Social Security trust fund is completely unnecessary and how money earmarked for social security goes into the general fund? In about 1934 the federal reserve bough up all gold on the orders of Roosevelt at about $24 an once. After WW2 the price was changed to $35 dollars an once. In about 1972 Nixon closed the door on the $35 an once exchange rate making it a fiat currency. Today's gold price is $1284.00 an once. Now which would you rather own Federal Reserve stock available only to the banks and the ruling class or federal reserve notes (US money)? This is why when I hear arguments for lemonade stand capitalism I can't help laughing.
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Ann Linley My problems stem from reading to many books in the library and on the internet which has made me into an even greater intellectual junkie. The second part is getting into to many arguments with authorities. I will continue on with my jousting pole approach towards capitalism because its simply what I was meant to do.
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That's the kind of thinking that gets the liberals so wound up. Stop saying stupid stuff and you won't get a stupid responce.
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@ivanalejandro6184 Che gave The US Ambassador at the US Minister of the Colonies at OAS a hearty "Thank You" saying the revolution was stronger than ever due to the US sponsored invasion at Giron. Those who were captured were put on an auction block and sold as slaves back to US Millionaire President Kennedy.
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@beckyroque8950 Interesting. One question though how did Yoni Sanchez manage to get her college degree without being contaminated? I seem to remember her saying something to the effect that she avoided all the mass organizations. She quit her job leaving me with the impression that her boss tried to convince her to stay not force her to stay. So the reason Cuba is a dictatorship is everyone is part of the secret police who carry no guns. While in New York we have police cars and unformed police everywhere because we are a democracy.
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@beckyroque8950 A 99% of 22% voted for statehood. Now I should answer the rest of you statements because the first was not totally misleading. Vote for whoever you want it makes no difference to me.
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Only a socialist revolution like that carried out by the Cuban workers and farmers over fifty years ago can free the workers and farmers of the middle east.
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Fire all police including Muslim Police.
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Kruschev gave many a heart attack to the crustatins at the 20th Congress where he gave what became a not so secret speech about the excesses of Comrade Joe. Admissions that the great Purges had gone way to far in executing loyal communists and the that Comrade Joe was completely befuddled for three days while Hitler's armies invaded the Soviet Union. Stalin couldn't believe his fascist friend would tear up an agreement.
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+Anun Kash Do you call the cops when your child refuses to go to her room? Oh that's right your raising a little angel.
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They pay sales taxes and they pay property taxes through their landlord, so the only taxes they might escape is federal and state income taxes because their employer relies on their keeping quiet while paying them in cash. If they are not paying social security tax then they don't receive social security benefits. Now if they received amnesty the lower than minimum wage earners are more likely to demand they be paid minimum wage and the government would collect social security taxes. To receive food stamps you must prove you are legally in the country to begin with. Other than health care through an emergency room they are not eligible for medicaid or medicare. In states that only issue drivers licences to green card holders or US citizens they are more likely not to insure or register automobiles pushing up insurance costs.
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The reasons for union job loss in the construction industry are the changes in technologies involved in construction and the inability to organize new workers. The trades had control over the apprenticeship programs thereby guaranteeing union wages for members. The bosses have gotten picketing restrictions imposed by judges that prevent sympathy walkouts. So long as you follow boss law than job loss will follow. Amnesty will help to organize immigrants with or without green cards but as long as you don't organize anyone to begin with job loss will follow. So called 'good' union bosses will be enticed to go nonunion if they can get people who can do the job.
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@matthewaleman4401 Right the Cubans need to follow America's lead and trun the country over to New York bankers who can introduce education and healthcare for those with money to pay and create homelessness to help cut wages, get rid of unions and boost the profits. Then they need to have a national debt so bankers can be paid to lend the government money instead of those high tax rates. They need to pay more for everything so the rich can have more money to invest, trickle down and for projects like trips to space to cut air pollution and taxes on Walmart bags to save the planer,. For some strange reason they think they have a right to decide what they want and not US Bankers and CEO's.
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Without the use of or the threat of use of the CIA, US Marines and US Army the New York banks and American Investors would have to accept local/national control of nations. No one in Cuba voted or had the right to vote for Trump so why does the US continue its blockade of the country. It also goes beyond US companies and forces other nations companies follow the US line by threatening to close the US market to those companies for not going along with the US Embargo. In the latest UN vote condemning the US blockade two countries voted against ending the blockade the US and Israel.
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"...how does the U.S. government putting dictators in place in South America make capitalism responsible?" Easy the capitalist control the US Congress through campaign contributions. If Congress didn't want the CIA and US Ambassador doing things like that they could express their will by voting to cut off funds for doing that. If necessary then impeaching the president for not carrying out the laws they write.
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If the Labor/Capital relationship is really voluntary why is it that the capitalists so forcefully oppose unions and strikes?
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+MsHojat Cops don't belong in schools. Minor school rules are enforced by school officials who can order detentions, withdraw privileges, call parents. order suspensions and expulsions. I have argued elsewhere that trespassing requires a sign, verbal order or verbal warning neither of which was given nor can you argue that their was any imitate danger to life or property. This was a clear case of police over reach. You can't kick a minor out of school during school hours either once they have arrived at school because of in loco parentis.
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+Anun Kash Not if the order is invalid or illegal.
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+Anun Kash You are not required to carry ID with you. Consequentially an officer can ask for ID but you need not comply. An officer can ask you questions after arresting you and reading you your rights but you need not comply nor can they legally use force to obtain a confession.
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The cop's been fired for what he did. He now deserves a jail cell. Will he get one?
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The US will only accept reunification on terms that would allow US troops on the Yalu river. The North will not accept US troops in any reunification deal. China will not abandon N Korea because it won't accept US troops on the Yalu river either. The masses of people in the South don't want another war. Japan isn't suppose to have an army except as defense force after WW2 so even if they wanted to impose their will in Korea they can't. The only ones who are reckless enough to see war as a solution is the United States ruling class.
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There may be a few liberals who toy with the idea of reunification and withdrawal of US forces but the reality is otherwise. How many bases has the US left without a big movement to see them out. France is a Nuclear power so it could leave NATO, Vietnam forced them out militarily while big protest movements forced them out of the Canal Zone and Subic Bay the Philippines. In fact they got a new agreement to begin returning to Subic bay.
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You screenname says all anyone needs to know about you.
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Their kids if born in the US are natural born citizens unless their parents were diplomats. As far as a high school diploma goes they may end up getting a GED. Each country has its own laws concerning citizenship.
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That actually originates in English law that those born on English soil are the Kings subjects. So Canada and the rest of the English world follow that tradition. The 14th amendment also made everyone born here and under US jurisdiction a citizen and when Congress was discussing the amendment they decided that making citizens of new immigrants children was good way to attract immigrants. So later on the Supreme court decided that a Chinese man born on American soil was a citizen and could not be deported because of the Chinese exclusion act. Unless Congress can write a law to pass supreme court muster or amend the Constitution that's not going to happen. Most people enter legally and then overstay the visa. Plus it is perfectly legal for anyone to enter legally while pregnant and have their child born here. In Canada they will refuse entry if you can't pay for the child's birth in cash or credit. The citizenship laws of countries like Norway and Japan are different even being their legally and born their doesn't get you citizenship. Plus the 2008 crisis was not caused by immigration but Wall Street capitalist greed.
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The have no intention of deporting all immigrants and permanent resident status is not really permanent. As far as Mexican's who cross the border to work in agricultural fields the growers don't want to pay higher wages so when the Braceros program ended Illegal Mexican immigration became the excepted way to harvest fields and keep wages down. When there is an economic crisis then the bosses want to deport immigrants with or without papers. When things are going well then they want immigrants to come in to hold down wages. For them is just another game the play with us. That's why I'm against any new police moves against anyone for whatever reason. None of their wars do anything but make things worse. War on Vietnam, War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Iraq, now Trumps War on Immigrants.
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I want changes to but I want a solution that is sensible. I'm against a policy of scope and grab for deportation. That's just political grandstanding nor is modern Mexican culture all that different from ours but considering we can't even get along with Canada that well I think we have the problem and not Mexico.
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There have been big to do's over Canadian Lumber and when Canadian citizens enter the US for business or sales purposes. My sister is a tour guide she takes people from all over the world here to see Washington and the monuments. Now any kind of increasing negative image from Washington or more border checks and TSA being dicks here and her work will be affected.
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There is no line to cut into. He was waiting for a kidney transplant not a heart but for someone as ignorant it's a waste of time trying to explain anything anyhow are you a legal immigrant or just another know it all who saw an immigrant on TV last night.
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The United States is an Empire. Any one who has driven into New York State has seen the "Welcome to the Empire State" signs. It has treated Latin America especially the Central American countries as 51st states. Whenever they get out of hand they've sent in the US Marines and they have trained their armies in putting down political opponents along with arming death squads. Now when people from the outlying areas of the Empire come here their poorly treated in the land of Human Rights.
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Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro and a lot of other people think otherwise.
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The billionaires and trillionaires are in competition with each other in their own countries and even more so between the capitalist ruling classes of different nations. They begin to blame each other and the working class for the contradictions of capitalism. The most important contradictions in Capitalism are the inability of the working class to buy back what it produces, the limited size of the world and so the limited market, and the decline in the rate of industrial profit. The declining rate of industrial profit leads to investment schemes as a new way to create capital without using the surplus value created from industrial profit to create new labor saving machinery.
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No incentive to get ahead. What's the ratio of bosses "getting ahead" to workers with an "incentive to get ahead." If there really is "an incentive to get ahead" why do bosses keep the wages of their employees secret? We've already seen how well Bill Clinton's TANF program has done after he and Congress abolished AFDC. They only people with "incentives to get ahead' are managers, CEO's and those who believe the promises from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. As long as we live under capitalism the biggest slice of pie will go to the ruling class. Sure stop welfare and give the bosses freedom from taxes. How many times have we heard that as a solution to the working classes problems.
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My socialist theme goes back to the 1970's. Unlike the other two parties we don't close down after an election. Nor do we support Democratic Party politicians even if like Sanders they claim to be socialists. The Socialist Workers Party has run general election candidates since 1948. However what is most important to the working class now is not how the votes were cast but how the class struggle proceeds.
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I wonder why South Korea has North Korean websites blocked? Of course the people who will damaged, Korean's of all political persuasions, are left out of the decision because the US Empire with its record of waging nuclear war in the East claims the father knows best title.
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@bennydavid623 He gives her all good answers no matter how tough they appear. The US has been broadcasting lies from Radio and TV Marti for years getting only a few to believe the lies coming from those intellectuals bought and paid for with US dollars.
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Walmart's prices are no lower than many other retailers. They however want to convince customers that those prices are lower and that they would rise if wages went up. On a macro economic scale the one area in which prices that would go up is in the luxury goods area. Production of necessities would rise to fulfill the needs of the minimum wage workers. Bosses and capitalist owners would see a decline in overall profits which would be a good sign for workers since they would be competing to invest in the production of necessity market instead of speculation on debt, futures markets, bonds and stocks.
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+D D Part of their success is based on their reputation. Retail is all about convincing the customer you've got quality and low prices. Walmart is everywhere now and its role in the market place lets it strong arm its suppliers, dictate all kinds of terms and use area pricing to drive out its competitors. I often shop there out of convenience because other department stores are a considerate distance away or have closed there doors. I would not buy a computer there but would buy a TV, a gallon of milk and motor oil.
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Capitalism is all about lying and cheating. Crony capitalism is just plain old regular capitalism.
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Its in the workers interest to fight for higher wages not to save one business over another form competition or monopolistic practices. Those are the natural workings of capitalism.
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123chargeit Cuba is an example of socialism and no one is starving there. The Cuban people share what they have among themselves and with the rest of the world. They educate more doctors for the rest of the underdeveloped world while the USA imports doctors from underdeveloped world because the AMA limits the number of doctors that can be trained in the USA. When Ebola broke out in Africa they had no problem finding volunteers to serve the needs of people in Africa while Obama sent only a few military doctors and confined them to treating health care personnel.
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123chargeit Venezuela has a Socialist movement. Outside of oil private enterprise remains. Why does the US need to continue over 50 years of a cruel blockade against Cuba?.Why military aid to Saudi Arabia and its Sharia a law monarchy. Try bringing a dozen bibles into Saudi Arabia and see how fast the religious police throw you into jail.
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Saudi Arabia is a US ally with a real dictatorship. They are allowed to trade and buy plenty of weapons from the US keeping the dictatorship in power. Cuba isn't a dictatorship and that's why US propaganda, blockade and terrorism is a failure among the Cuban People. The Cuban people have retained their dignity. They have no intention of 'opening up' the way China has. Foreign investment will be strictly controlled by their government. The US Imperialists and the Miami Mafia have predicted time and time again that the Cuban People would surrender to Washington. Instead they have been forced to recognize the revolutionary government despite the plea's from the Miami Mafia and return the 5 hero's. When Fidel died a few contra's got drunk and spewed their hatred of the revolution in Miami while in Cuba the masses of people celebrated his life and a reverse of the Caravan of Liberty that took the revolutionary government from Santiago de Cuba to Havana.
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We aren't a Christian country to begin with. Nowhere in the founding documents of the US is the word Christian used.
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I have no theory of melting pots. I have theories of freedom. One of those is the theory of limited government and instead of government control of your life for the benefit of others. The US constitution sets up a republic with enumerated powers and limits to that power. Every state has the right to a republican form of government guaranteed by the federal government. The New England small farmers wanted a "Bill of Rights" (the first 10 amendments) to protect them from what they had experienced under Crown Tyranny. These rights were extended and individual states power limited after the civil war with the civil war amendments. English law starts with an all powerful monarch and then limits placed upon the monarch starting with the magna carta.
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I am not sure that that's going on. Instead I hear about Jewish cemeteries being vandalized, Jewish community centers being threaten with bombs and Islamists immigrants or citizens being attacked and arson of Black Christians churches. Show me an instance and I will write a criticism.
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The other thing is you say if. Well If isn't good enough. You have to have an actual situation. Should Government cemeteries not have symbols of religion on graves? Well no because that is something one expects to find in a cemetery and interference would be considered intolerable but so would limits on which religions could have symbols there. I don't think temporary exhibits should be interfered with as long as others get to have theirs. Neither should government funded libraries or universities with the exception of granting government endorsed religious degrees.
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I live in the US and if someone told me that a church was being closed by force by the worshippers of some other religion than it is in the interests of the working class as a whole to see to it that it would be allowed to stay open. Taking any special position of the catholic church in the Irish republic out will do more to unify Ireland than keeping it in. Defending those who want to worship as they please will help that along. No Church closers no Mosque closures no Synagogue closures.
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There's been more than one bomb threat and even Trump has come out and condemned it. I'm not afraid of some liberal calling me names. Especially a Black liberal. All I have to do is mention Ralph Bunche and they immediately talk about how dangerous I am, how they earned everything they got and how I they proved their race equal by me being stupid.
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Maybe it's just a mistake but my YouTube video title says this is about the removal of a cross from a hospital not a city hall. Providing a place to pray for the sick in a hospital is not the same as a display at city hall.
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Having a place to pray in a hospital is a non-issue. If it is an issue it usually turns out to be something dumb like not being allowed to run through the halls shouting hallelujah.
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In the US issues concerning hospitals and religion revolve around the hospitals that are owned by religious organizations. The questions concern can they engage in activities denying women information about birth control, and abortion and still be government contractors (they receive Medicare and Medicaid funds) and could they get government subsidies for employees health insurance (Obamacare) without including birth control means and devices in those contracts. I believe they lost both of these issues because in the US government must use 'the power of the purse' to pursue current social policy. The Supreme court has ruled abortion to be a right but social policy makes it frowned upon. It is as liberal Hillary Clinton said. "a right and rare". Those living in the big cities and the New England states can get abortions rather easily. While those living in other rural areas have almost no access because of the travel distance required. Of course the well off layers of the working class and middle class have access by travel. So you have the hypocrisy of those who can afford children don't have to have them whilst those who can least afford them do have to have them.
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The cross clearly doesn't belong in a place where governmental decisions are made. An Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore tried something similar. No sooner is he elected than he is suspended.
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Your laws are written by the ruling capitalist class why should the working class care about your problems? All you want is cheap labor and that's why you're harassing anyone who looks Mexican.
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We don't need you laws or your capitalist system. We need to follow in footsteps of Fidel Castro and make a socialist revolution.
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Legally some documents are required to work in Mexico but the penalty for not following the law is no where near as harsh or cruel as that imposed upon Mexicans entering the United States. This harshness and cruelty is reflective of the dominance of the US Empires dog eat dog system and its wealthy ruling class' industrial and military power.
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Bobby Soles What you really can't stand is someone who doesn't just line up behind big business but instead has a mind of their own. As Lenin said. "Those who accept only the word of another can be dismissed with a wave of the hand."
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No he is claiming a religious exemption for Masterpiece bakeshop not making wedding cakes that would be used for a same sex wedding. Certainly he hasn't refused all LGBT people because that would require some sort of test or oath to be taken. They don't all have some specific visible characterization that says I'm LGBT. Public Accommodation law says masterpiece cake shop can't refuse on that basis. He was offered a compromise of having another worker without his views to do the job or contracting it out he refused to do either.
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He advertised selling wedding cakes including pictures of wedding cakes on the internet. It's a long stretch to claim that a cake represents speech of the bakery and especially the actual maker. A bookstore can easily say we sell books based upon who the patrons are or that this is a Christian Science reading room for our religious activity only. Do Christian book stores have problems with others demanding they sell a particular book? To the best of my knowledge the only problems involving books stores is sales tax and employees.
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I worked for a large retail chain that wasn't very organized in selling products. So if you don't have something as advertised first apologise. The second defense is calling another store or having a manager call corporate for more information. In that instance its always about trying to satisfy the customer not turn them away. The only thing most stores have to watch out for is having sales because they can only have them for two weeks out of four. So stores like Walmart have rollbacks and others might have reduced prices or as advertised prices. Then there is the possibility of confused signage so if an old sign is left up or a new sign is up early the customer gets that price for at least one item. Prices that are way out of whack or can be changed by a customer moving a sign or changing a ticket are usually refused This however was an outright refusal based on religion alone. That's probably why the court took the case since the issue is so clearly posed.
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Like I said he refused outright and how is a same sex wedding cake different than a regular wedding cake? Since he refused to even discuss the matter that's not clear at all. If he said, 'Ok' and then actually said, "I can't do this or that." he would have a stronger case for refusal. "I never made a rainbow cake before or we can't get same sex figurines." I worked for a cable TV installation contractor. A lot of guys would reject jobs that they thought would take more time then they were worth. They came up with ways to suggest to a customer how a job would have to be done just so they could get a refusal. Acting stupid and telling a customer your going to run black cables and drill holes all over the places will usually do the trick. Another one was good for rental housing was we can't drill a hole without the landlord's written permission to put a hole in an exact place.
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Yes race is a social construct but genetics determine skin color.
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Whats this have to do with a bakeshop refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding reception?
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Why comment if it's just a waste of time?
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NAZIsm in the form of people wearing NAZI uniforms is legal. What is illegal is NAZI violence. That way you are prohibiting an action not an ideology. If a fascist movement rises in the US it may reuse Hitler's ideas but it will have an American nationalism not German nationalism as its uniform.
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An immigration judge is just another high paid job that is bought with a university degree. The best thing that could be done is to fire all of them. You can bet that they never send a foreign banker home.
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Congress made the law. Congress can change the law. Instead they'd rather argue about who talked to the Russian Ambassador, what did they say, and when. A's if somehow that is going to solve our problems at home. Their is no reason we can't build enough hospitals, train and pay enough Doctors, Nurses and health care personnel to take care of everybody who is sick in the United States. So instead of doing that their ranting on and on about insurance companies competing, medicaid expenditures and tax cuts and how a bunch of Congressmen are meeting in secret to come up with an acceptable plan. Maybe that's where the Russian's come in they are laughing at a county that can build massive aircraft carriers but has to charge people $5,000 dollars to fix a second ingrown toenail in an emergency room because second toenails are a preexisting condition not covered by insurance companies.
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For the capitalists their approach to everything is "there not enough some will have to go without." For them they never go without. Taking money from single mothers will not raise wages. If you don't want to "import poverty" than the capitalists can raise wages. Of course any wage increase will cut into profits.
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@jpg7616 High wage jobs which are mostly skilled are replaced first. This is what drove the auto industry to robotics. This is also why the general level of education is what many jobs are reduced to. So if you don't understand numbers you can't be a cashier. The same with being a truck driver if you haven't learned to drive a car how can you start driving a truck?
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Drop a load! But keep your pants on!
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+Kevin Qujada It wouldn't be done to a rich man's or Judge's kid.
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Those with money send their kids to private school. If a kid did get out of control (jumping up and down in class) they'd call in a shrink and or send him or her to a private mental facility. That may be stereotypical but don't tell me that they'd bring in a local street cop and do what they did to that girl.
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A Naval Romance?
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Seems like an admission that Trump and the Republicans will be out voted in four years or maybe the Republicans will get all the new voters from the dreamers and still be out voted? So far the only thing Trump has done is to increase deportations just as Obama did after Bush and get appropriations to mostly rebuild the current wall and fence areas.
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The reason I wrote about Black Americans was to show that just because government writes laws that don't mean they are just laws. It has nothing to do with where Black Americans originated from. Also you could replace Black with Mexican American and they also faced the same problems with regard to being treated like second class citizens in the 20th century. The treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe made Mexican's living within the new boundaries between Mexico and the United States citizens. Parts or all of eleven US states were part of the Spanish Empire and then part of Mexico after Mexico archived independence from Spain.
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Shyron Gray The United States is not a theocracy there is no requirement to believe in any god, gods or no god at all. You have the right to have a church and worship as you please. Problems begin when some people want to take away other people's right to worship differently or not at all. This usually originates from people who believe that they are the true believers and want to use governmental power to subjugate others to their beliefs.
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They deserve regular nutritious food because they are human beings. People like George Soros, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates can get by with less.
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If you want to marry a dog or horse have at it!!! LOL
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@AndrewBouchierUK The small boss is always just one step away from being eaten by the bankers or crushed by the price of labor. That's because he doesn't have the protection of being "to big to fail" like the big capitalist who own the politicians and control the money printing at the federal reserve bank.
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Bill Gates started with a head start education at a private school. He than spent some time at a college where the saying is all the hard work has already done. At age 21 he left Harvard when he could access his 1 million dollar trust fund. His basic skills are being an expert manipulator of others and being a ruthless businessman. He fits in well with other ruling class robber barons like Thomas Edison, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. He bought the DOS operating system from someone who lived on the other side of town. Windows and Mac OS/10 are ideas that came from Xerox The Microsoft office suite was built out of control of the Windows Operating system an advantage of secret source code knowledge his competitors and the original inventors didn't have. He was able to bamboozle the IBM Giant at lest twice first selling them the DOS software licenses and later agreeing to co develop OS/2 while working on a new version of Windows.
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Trump can declare war but he needs an army who will fight it. How many more are willing to die for Wall Street and the richest people in the world?
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Yep and Trump is raising the number of H visas so workers can come in from Mexico legally. Of course once your here legally its hard to just say well you didn't come here legally. Trump knows that Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California growers want cheap labor and have the campaign funds to pay for it.
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They are not interested in protecting anybody's rights except their own right to profit. The economic slowdown after 2008 has created a massive problem for them. They need to appear to be doing something about it. So they have come up with the Mexico, China and immigration problem excuse. The weren't enforcing immigration law before 2008 because it benefited them. Now they've decided that creating a pariah class will boost profits by lowering wages of all workers. They have no intention of stopping immigration legal or illegal even if that were possible without creating one giant police state. They want immigrants to know you will accept exploitation or go back.
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Amnesty now! Reagan signed it into law so should Trump! Stop using immigration status as a double jeopardy punishment!
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@user-marco-S Should of had two engineers in the loco like when they had an Engineer and a Fireman. You get two pilots in an aircraft.
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US BLS Stat from Federal Reserve Bank http://www.thestand.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ss-productivity-earnings.jpg
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The libertarians are in decline manly because they are utopian thinkers. Their ideas are basically ones that go back to the past and somehow they want to return back there. The most important revolutions of the 20th century were the Russian and Cuban. The others that lost and won were of secondary importance because they were all connected to Stalinism and the eventual clear defeat of the Russian revolution in 1991. There has been no libertarian revolution because the librarians reject revolution to begin with instead they propose adoption by thinking about how good libertarianism sounds. The Cuban revolution continues despite Washington's pronouncement of imminent demise brought on by wishful thinking since invasion is out of the question for the time being.
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@unsec-genantonioguterres5788 No it was Eisenhower (R).
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Miner wants to go home at night. Company wants more tons of production. Miner wants to breath air company doesn't want to spend money on ventilation. Miner's stopped digin coal after the invention of dynamite. Stopped shoveling it after the longwall miner came along. Ya still might find a dog hole mine here or there.
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Do worry you little minds Trump is increasing H visas so workers won't be coming here illegally.
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I suppose I should care? If I've had trouble with anybody its been with bosses and government. What do I care about people crossing a river or a line in the sand? The government and employers like AT&T has done nothing for me but give me trouble. Now maybe you are getting a big contract or they paying you big money for doing nothing but I not getting any big payoffs and profitable corruption like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. So as far as I'm concerned that's their problem not mine. So you are either simple minded or getting a payoff in some way or another. My mama didn't raise fools except for my brother.
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You have to start somewhere so our politics start with the world. All the countries where capitalism started have immigration. In fact unlike the Europeans we have always had an immigrant part of the working class. In the past the bosses have always played one group against another. So the first step is amnesty for immigrants with amnesty there is no reason for the immigrant to fear deportation. No fear of deportation means an immigrant willing to fight for higher wages. Of course if your a union plumber you probably believe talking nice to the bosses wins good contracts. In my opinion that is a losing strategy. A much better social strategy was employed by the school workers in West Virginia. As long as we have capitalism we can't stay on strike for ever and they will use the unemployed outside the door to threaten or replace those who are employed. We aren't going to win every strike either.
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OK So you support the bosses and their governments and cops. Discussion over. Your ideology is one for losers.
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niki wiki Seems to me he hit the nail on the head. You are just unhappy because he pointed to all the recent policies of the two parties. I would go further and say we need a socialist revolution.
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@i Draw Systems that reward merit and skill. Like the old mafia Don said. "The only difference between them and us is they have a license to steal." The most successful company in the world Apple Computer was lead by a fraud named Steve Jobs. Who started his business career building blue boxes to defraud Ma Bell of her toll charges. The most important skill in business is how to cheat and steal without getting caught.
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Denying a prisoner water is a from of torture. They know which three officers did this yet Clarke has done nothing. He and those in a authority who do nothing are guilty of crimes against Humanity. PRISONERS LIVES MATTER
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Shoaib Assar So it's alright to grop in a private room? Where everyone knows what your being searched for?
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He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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@johnc.8298 Blah Blah Blah. The system is in crisis. That's why socialism is on the agenda. You can't control your greed and that will be your downfall.
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@joelsherrer8784 Well if your a Brit, Canadian or Aussy you think that socialism is the Labour Party, NDP or Aus Labour Party. In the US the social democrats are still working on a Democratic (Capitalist) Party takeover. The best organized and most serious group in the US is the Socialist Workers Party. TheMilitant.com
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@AbsitInvidea You talking about Jeff Bezos (owner of Washington Post), George Soros and Warren Buffet. Liberalism the ideology of reformists.
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@Diabolical05 Your talking about the lemonade stand capitalist not the big monopolists like AT&T, GE, GM, Ford and the rest of the big companies. So we should all feel sorry for the Pizza shop owners who are being driven out of business by Domino's? Capitalism works toward creating monopoly not more small business. If you are allowed special minimum wage exceptions what would prevent other companies from getting them? A small businessman should welcome a national government paid healthcare system because it would give him a known cost instead of having to deal with insurance companies looking to extract as much as possible from him with a yearly contract or not being able to offer healthcare while bigger companies can do so leaving him at a disadvantage in the labor market.
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@Spartacus547 Unlike MAGA there is no trademark on the word socialist. Conservatives use the word socialist as a swear word like liberals use Fascist in their battles over how best to save capitalism.
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Oh sure you and Ann Coulter are better than the rest of us because her ancestors came off the Mayflower as settlers while the rest of us are immigrants.
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In the modern era its the working class that defends democratic rights to strike and protest. You can see it today when the West Virginia school workers struck and protested despite capitalist law, threats, and then they won. People like Trump, Clinton, and Brewer are headed for the ash heap of history. The day will come when the Border Patrol like the rest of the cops will take off their uniforms and go and hide.
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"...yes we are better at everything were stronger and faster..." I seem to remember someone else making that claim until it had to be modified after Jessie Owens beat the athletes of the Third Reich. Was it Adolf Hitler? What's stopping you from claiming the title of Master Race? To many wimps and anti feminists feminists like AnnColuter among the Master Race these days? You are the proud victims like Hitler who claimed Germany went down to defeat because of a Stab in the Back.
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Notice the word used is people not citizen. Obviously the could have used the word citizen but they used people instead.
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"The right of petition, and of the people peaceably to assemble for the common good, shall never be abridged." That's from the Arizona State Constitution. Once again the word people is used. I guess former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer didn't bother to consult her State constitution?
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"Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association." Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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@colamations5066 I'd of asked for a lawyer with the first question asked by the cops since they only want to come up with a reason to blame you.
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Hows things going in Miami? Still waiting for the next US invasion of Cuba?
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Don't forget to open the door so the nice ICE agents wearing black kevlar body armor can check for hidden criminals.
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@dt6692 We are seeing how US capitalism is a failure. Libertarianism is just an invented capitalist utopia that has absolutely no chance of ever being adopted.
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@Bourikii2992 The American Imperialist system requires a standing military to enforce the foreign investment contracts of American corporations. The military and police spending is considered essential to protecting profits while education is neglected because skilled labor is replaced with unskilled labor and machines first in the hopes of boosting profits. The private school education Bill Gates received as a child included access to a computer when only elite universities had computers for general usage. Naturally if you pay the teachers more assure that the students have breakfast and give them a small class size of half a dozen a better outcome is achieved compared to classrooms of twenty five to thirty. Its called private because you aren't invited except by invitation only. The sole purpose of Charter Schools is to de unionize the public schools. The idea is to convince the workers that the inability to fire teachers is the problem and not a system that has less and less need for education and especially an educated working class. The bosses want order takers not on the job thinkers.
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@Bourikii2992 American Imperialism is based in private investment in foreign countries. All one needs to do is see that the US is the world's leading Imperialist power is to look at the size of its Imperialist Army, Navy, Air and Space force. It stands at the ready to defend US Imperialist interests worldwide. Capitalism is intrinsically epolitive of the working class and the capitalist seek to fight it out for profits in the world market because capitalism was born in nation states which makes it impossible for the ruling capitalist classes to arbtrate trade desputes amongst themelves except through world Imperialist war. The Soviet Union ended in 1991 when the counterfeit communists of Stalin's making turn to Bill Clinton and the American Imperialist for economic advices. Lenin and Trotsky were among the first Social Democrats to advocate for national Independence of the colonial nations oppressed by Imperialism. The leaders of the Imperialist Empires that went to war in world war one and two had no interests in freeing the colonial slaves. .
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@Bourikii2992 Ron Reagan was an FBI informer and one time President of the Screen Actors Guild does that make him a "secret" communist also? As a young person Stalin trained as a Priest in the Orthodox church. Stalin had all the "old bolsheviks" who were Lenin's closest comrades murdered after the frame up Moscow trials of 1936 to 1938. All of them were accused of Trotskyism and conspiring with Hitler to return capitalism to the Soviet Union. All you have is a fixation on the secret police. Saudi Arabia has both feudal/capitalism and dictatorship. Yeltsin forced though all his free market reforms for shock therapy on advice from Milton Freedman and the American Imperialists. Bill Clinton gave him an "attaboy" for using tanks to shell the Russian White House (Supreme Soviet). Yet that is supposedly communist Imperialism and the US war in Afghanistan was just an exercise in "Nation Building" Democracy. Sure the US only goes to war to secure peace not a piece of the action in the game of capitalist exploitation.
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@Bourikii2992 That's all tax money that the working class will be expected to pay back with interest because government is too big to fail. The two parties which are really just a single capitalist party with two factions have been in power since the American civil war. Putin like the Chinese leadership was trained in the Stalinist school of falsification and privilege for bureaucrats. Those who wanted to continue the Leninist communist course in the Soviet Union were expelled from the Communist Party and Communist International and founded a new communist movement. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara came along and showed in practice that none of what Stalin did was necessary.for the success of a socialist revolution. The US has Troops station on 800 military bases world wide they make Putin look like a Jr Achievement Imperialist compared to them.
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Ball's and Vagina are reproductive organs breasts are not. Almost all cultures require some sort of covering for the reproductive organs even those in the hottest of jungles. Some women want to walk around with their chest uncovered outside just as men do. A man may work without his shirt on at an outdoor construction site but not in an office or most restaurants.
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How about the assination of Dr Tiller. You know the guy O'Reilly kept calling Tiller the Killer. How about the guy that murdered 9 people in that Black church.
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The guy who killed Dr Tiller was a Christian Fundamentalist terrorist. And if you go to the Southern Poverty Law center you can find incidents ranging from the mild leafleting done by racists to murder where race or nationality was a factor.
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I might just take you up on that. The Southern Poverty law Center may not have all the terrorism cases and it has apparently left out people shouting Allah Akbar. Terrorism being defined as people using violence to intimidate a political, a national, religious or racial group from exercising their rights than I think you can find plenty of the home grown types. You also have police using excessive force and attacks on abortion clinics by Christian fundamentalist extremist terrorists. In a lot of instances these plots were foiled by police. Now wither some of those people were entrapped or actually were the initiators I have no way to know. You also have the fact that the United States government supports and has allied itself with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has a religious police and Sharia law. This kingdom prohibits all religious practices except Islam. You can't even build a Catholic church there. Yet we are suppose to believe that these people are somehow an asset against Islamist terror groups.
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Ask for the 28 pages.
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Clarke is a 16th century dungeon master. His guards use denial of water as form of punishment. At least one prisoner died of this punishing torture. Clarke who knows the identity of the officers who shut off the water to the prisoners cell has done nothing to discipline or discharge those who committed the crime. PRISONERS LIVES MATTER CLARKE IS A CRIMINAL HE NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY ATTORENY GENERAL SESSIONS.
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People like you would scream if Koran was donated for display on state property to remember the deaths of Muslims in the Twin Towers. If anyone is being Politically correct it's you. It like the same bullshit that because most prisoners are Christians that that means Christians being targeted for prison.
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No to building concentration camps. You've probably never seen the Rio Grande other wise you'd realize that building a complete wall is a big engineering challenge. You can't just build a wall in the middle of the Rio Grande river and you can't just build it on the banks of the river either. There are canyons that make crossing impossible in some areas and there are those areas were the river is nothing more than a wide stream ankle deep. Think about building 3 travel lanes of an interstate highway sideways for 2000 miles. Even Border patrol doesn't want that because they want to see into the Mexican side.
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@ExploringWithJared "...there's definitely places that don't have electricity or running water..." Like the homeless camps in or near every US city small or large.
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@carlosramos5256 Lets talk about Yoani Sanchez than. How did she get a free university education in Cuba without even being a member of a mass organization?
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@carlosramos5256 You do agree that the US should end the blockade right?
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@carlosramos5256 The CZAR was the richest man in the world responsible for the deaths of millions at the front not to mention all kinds of anti Semitic pogroms and was shoot during the civil war by Bolshevik forces who feared he would fall into the enemies hands and provide a rallying symbol for the counterrevolution. Lenin and Trotsky were informed of the decision after it occurred.
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@carlosramos5256 Batista's forces were armed and supplied by Washington and the 26th of July Movements initial arms were all American made and almost all captured weapons of the dictatorship. The only reason the US calls Cuba a dictatorship is Fidel refused to follow their advice and surrender to them.
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@carlosramos5256 The execution of King Charles I was ordered by 59 commissioners of the House of Commons. After restoration of Charles son King Charles II the Commonwealths 59 Commissions did not receive pardons and were executed post mortum or forced into exile in New England and Switzerland. England still remains a monarchy. There are only records of a provisional approval yes vote by the CEC not a final approval after Bolshevik had been taking losses. Stalin had Trotsky murdered in Mexico long after having taking power. I doubt you'll find similar sympathy for Osama Bin Laden's family or anyone else killed in collateral damage by NATO forces. Sure Lenin as head of government takes final responsibility although the idea originated in Ural Regional Soviet.In Stalin's Moscow trials the evidence was fraudulent and exposed as fame up charges by the Dewey committee. Did Fidel ever send assassins to foreign countries to take out enemies of the revolution? The US CIA had over 600 plots to kill Fidel. Luis Posada and Orlando Bosch died in their Miami beds.
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@carlosramos5256 Fidel didn't send assassins for the same reason he opposed the students attempt to assassinate Batista. A revolution is not a coup d eat.
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@carlosramos5256 I read about it in one of the books about the revolution.The earlier student plot (Revolutionary Directorate) to assassinate Batista failed and they were killed. Once Batista's armored train was derailed and the soldiers refused to fight Batista "got out of dodge" as we say in the US. Fidel then began the caravan of freedom to Havana.
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+MsHojat As the reporter said if this was a school for the ruling class and better off middle class professional layers a cop would not be brought into the school or stationed in the school for this type of situation. If cops are not allowed to engage in this type of violence against the son or daughter of a Judge then it should not be permissible to use this type of violence against the rest of us.
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+MsHojat Actually the cop had no right to touch her to begin with. Cops are suppose to investigate crime and make arrests. They call them law enforcement for a reason they enforce written laws . They are not empowered to enforce minor rules made up by teachers and administrators. Their was no evidence of anything becoming dangerous to life or property because of this students actions. The proper action by school officials would be to use there own resources like guidance councilors and others to deal with a non compliant child. Since she wasn't making noise the proper action would to be to continue the class, order a detention and arrange for a parental conference.
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Unlikely but liberals have difficulty with Washington and Jefferson owning slaves. While conservative say that's a truth better not talked about. The current excuse of both is that they were men of their times.
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Sure they pick something where they are trying to enter a mature market that requires a small initial amount of capital and then try and expand in size by holding down wages so as to be able gain the capital needed to expand. Gates had an initial $1 million dollar trust fund. Sure big business likes to talk about American Dreams while crushing all small business in their pursuit of profit or using contractors to isolate themselves from unions when necessary. My dad founded his business at age 48 did he need everybody to work like a dog for minimum wage? No How did he do it? He understood the business and wasn't trying to become the next GE, GM, Mcdonalds or whatever. He never had more than four employees yet he did quite well for himself. My dad had three giant manufacturing competitors. If they wanted to they could have crushed him like a bug including his former employer who had fired him and latter offered him a bottom level management job which he correctly rejected. His former employer never found his legal source of their equipment and decided to just leave the market in that area. At the end of the day maybe they felt getting into a battle with him wasn't worth it.
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Why is it my responsibility to keep up the illusions of small business owners like the so called American Dream of small business owners? With 8 out of 10 new businesses failing after 18 months shouldn't you be knowledgeable before you enter into the world of small business?
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@doom4067 I hope it doesn't happen but with the capitalist means of production an inflation like that in post WW1 Germany is not an out of the possible. Germany's capitalist economy had workers taking their pay home in wheel barrows filled with Deutsche Marks. Two billion an hour pay for entry level workers might not be out of the question then.
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@nicolasarnold7210 So why do sweatshops exists? Certainly the owner does better in a sweatshop assuming he does not get hit by a strike and union or an excessive rate of worker turnover. The reason is that in any individual negotiation for wages the employer has the upper hand due to unemployment.
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Go ahead and puke your remains out. Whatever you do don't eat any food picked by Latino Farm Workers. Keep your racist blood pure. Turn the grass on your front lawn into a racist purity vegetable patch. Raise some pigs in the backyard that way you won't be eating meat processed by immigrant labor.
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McDonalds is not just a hamburger business its also the supply of product business. The restaurant side competes with your cooking at home. The supply business competes with the grocery store. Can you get more out of the workers you already treat like slaves? (If it's time to lean it's time to clean.) I don't think so. Will you raise your price maybe and maybe the whole business shifts back to the grocery store and home. Maybe you'll just slowly raise your price like always or maybe if your a franchise owner you'll get a reduction of cost from the supply of products. Now with you workers having more money to spend and the bosses less the business's in the luxury goods only goes down if the bosses decide not to spend more capital gains than on luxury goods and the business's in the maintenance of life goods go up. Can they automate? Yes and no they don't have a handle that they can twist to get more automation. Nor does investing more always result in pushing up the rate of return on investment which is the true way business measures profitability not aggregate profit.
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Good point raising the minimum wage will cut CEO pay. If $15 an hour isn't enough raise it hirer!!!
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There needs to be a struggle to cut hours with no cut in pay. The only way to solve the perceived problem of automation is the end private property and reduction time of your working life. If it actually got to a place with just CEO's and robots who would buy the commodities produced?
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Venezuela has a social democratic government. It nationalized the oil industry to pay for social services. The rest of the economy remains capitalist. The oligarchy wants that income and of course the US government and ruling class can't stand something like that so they are looking at ways to attack them. They tried a coup and now they have enacted an embargo.
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@smalltown7773 You be under arrest for being a danger to your self. Than you will be sent to a mental institution. You tell the judge anything other than what he wants to here and its back for another six months.
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@Sahnz :D Me too. TheMilitant.com
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Don't you already have a wall around your gated community?
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Once the wall is built than Trump or whoever will still not be able to stop 'illegal' immigration. Instead he will issue H1a Visa's for ag work and the other half of people here without proper docs will just come in as usual on tourist visas like the are already doing or by crossing inside of the thousands of tractor trailers that cross the border with the help of an undisciplined and corrupt border patrol.
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+Willi nillI We needed a revolution like Cuba. These type of police must go.
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When you fire a missile from any known point on earth the guidance system can get you to the target. When you are underwater in a submarine you don't have the ability to tell where you are with enough accuracy to hit your target. That's why the US built the GPS satellite system. The Soviets were probably satisfied with creating a big hole anywhere close by. The Soviets also had a doomsday fuck you'll monster bomb.
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It not a simple system of triangulation like lighthouses or radio direction finders. Instead it relies on position of the satellites and timing differences between pulse signals from different satellites. It's more like LORAN in the sky. It's also my understanding that to get the accuracy wanted simple Newtonian mechanics will not do the job and Einstein's general relativity where times runs slower because of gravity being weaker at the satellite's locations is required. The advantage to GPS is you can correct the satellite location from the ground if necessary and you make the measurements in real time. The advantage to INS is militarily it is vehicle contained and can only be knocked out with a direct vehicle hit in war. The disadvantage is that INS distance errors become larger the further the vehicle travels from its starting point. This is not due to friction because the accelerometers measure real acceleration and gyro's real directional changes. Its sole due to the accuracy of the instruments as manufactured.
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Been playing to many video games lately? A machine isn't alive. It can't spend a wage. Obviously some one owns the machine "a minimum hourly base fee to use machines," and that is where all the problems arise. One class of people own all the machines and does nothing with them while the other class owns nothing and produces everything by running and making all the machines.
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I assume nothing of the sort. When the 26th of July movement defeated General Batista no one was told they couldn't be an administrator, engineer or doctor. What they were told is that they could no longer use their positions to exploit others. Those who were unhappy left for Miami and no one has ever been forced to stay in Cuba. Instead the US government has used every possible way it can come up with to defeat the revolution. How I manage my life is up to me. Not everyone wants to be a CEO so they can use dollar bills as living room wallpaper.
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Right everyone has a right to say no as long as they all show up at work the next day.
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Let say you work for a private company and not a school. You work for the three months and the CEO declares a dividend at the end of three months and sends out dividend checks to the stockholders mail boxes what did the stockholders do to earn their dividend checks? Since they did no required work they did nothing to earn that money. In other words they are ripping people off. And what they get has no limitations like a welfare mom who must show need and receives a limited amount of monthly cash.
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All your doing is repeating ruling class propaganda. The old develop problems medical problems, have grown children and disabilities which push them out of any higher paying jobs. The New York banks won't be voluntarily giving up control of national and foreign investment anytime soon. George Soros give a little money to liberal causes and the blast the hell out of him as a Jewish Anti Semitic Communist Nazi. Most of the ruling class stays out of the limelight but Paris Hilton likes to show off her tits.
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The contradictions in capitalism are that to keep going new markets need to be found and new cheap labor must be exploited to produce more profit and the workers never get back everything that they produce. So because the size of the world is finite as is the size of the market capitalism comes to a screeching halt at times such as in 2008. The problem is that market forces get out of control in many ways such that things happen that don't make any sense. From a market and profit manufacturing sense dumping garbage into a dump, river or ocean makes sense but the pollution that follows makes no sense at all. What that means is capitalism left to its own accord ends up with humanity shooting itself in the foot at best and nuclear war at worst.
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Everyone knows that nuclear war makes no sense so why build new and improved nuclear weapons like Trump plans to do?
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That was the excuse that concentration camp guards used at Nuremberg. Calling the cops by the school officials to enforce minor rules was wrong to begin with as were the actions by the cop. The non action by the student did not warrant the use of police force. The school officials should have continued the class and used their authority after class to further investigate, order an appropriate sanction if deemed appropriate and called the parents in for a conference if necessary. American class society has been adopting the notion of zero tolerance such that even minor rule breaking deserves severe punishment. That's why we have the greatest prison population of any industrial nation by both percentage and absolute number.
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How about a Day without a boss?
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PC correctness was invented in the university as an alternative to actually doing something positive. By speaking correctly they advance the political cause of middle class manors. You see according to them the working class gets to dirty and talks to rough to be allowed at the dinner table. A dinner table where cloth napkins are properly folded and chairs are ornate. Obviously the police are racist regardless of their own skin color. You might say it's part of the required police employment training.
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As soon as they can create enough middle class fear of immigrants border patrol will be stopping everyone everywhere to check your papers.
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Send home the Imperialist pussy grabbers. Plenty of stray cats in Washington.
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They want to create a DMZ on the Mexican border.
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@JK-ip5zc That makes no difference. It just means he has a different ass to kiss.
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Let's hold a trial for every Confederate officer at their statute for seditious conspiracy. The KKK can send in a few of their dunce cap lawyers and after the vote of the people assembled the saute will be destroyed by US Marines.
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Black Live's Matter is a movement against police brutality and use of excessive force by police against black people. It has it leaders and organizations but it is not a specific group with a membership list. In most states both the Democratic and Republican Parties require that you check a box to be a member. Just because someone has checked that box and later does something bad or illegal doesn't mean a whole party can be blamed for the actions of just one person.
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@sifumode9460 In a socialist revolution the working people take control of industry and land. Land goes to those who will work the land. Industry comes under workers control. In Valenzuela 80% of business is in private hands. Neither Chavez or Maduro had or have any intention of going beyond social democracy.
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Best way to protect yourself from overzealous cops. Don't answer the door and don't talk to them. Taking away money from local cops is a good idea. Go Trump.
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Mexico can't pay for the wall without it coming from Wall Street profits. A wall serves only the interest of the rich in their quest for profit and cheap labor.
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That's the usual bourgeois solution to their systems crisis. First it was WW1 and then WW2. This time around geography will not protect the US. That's why limited war has been a US policy since WW2. Turning half the working class into cannon fodder so the other half can slave in munitions factories will not be as popular as the rightists think.
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Laws are changed all the time. The immigration of Mexicans across the border without proper papers to work in agriculture has been the actual (hidden policy) law since the early 1960's and the Kennedy administration. It replaced the braceros program. They will build this wall along with issuing more H 2A visa's which the Trump administration has already begun doing. Business from Maryland to Washington state want cheap labor and Trump will deliver them H 2A visa workers. They've already been clamoring for more workers and complaining that they want to follow the law. So at the end of the day a wall will be built so Mexican workers can come here carrying an immigration work visa paper. Only Washington with its swamp could come up with this type of solution.
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We aren't against people believing in god we just don't believe you have the right to impose your ideas, belief in god, on others. If church attendance is down maybe it's because people aren't believing anymore.
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Outside of the belief in god and Jesus Christians have had nothing else in common starting with the Protestant reformation. Where do you think the words Protest and Protestors come from? Do you know what an arabic numeral is? Why not replace all those Arabic numerals with Roman numerals in your bibles? Sure you would like your form of Christianity imposed on everyone else because lots of people realize it's a waste of time listening to bible thumpers. Jews have been legally on English soil including the colonies since 1740 making them if not famous founders nevertheless participants in the founding of America. You can put your cross on private property, wear it round your neck and even have a Jesus day parade on public streets. What you can't do is put it on state property as a permanent memorial because that favors one religion over another by government power.
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I don't care if you spend 24/7/365 worshiping your god. We have a Republican form of government set up by a constitution that both enumerates and limits it. You don't get to use some sort of corrupt government way to impose your way of worship upon those who want to worship differently or not at all. Why don't you go to the middle east, like Saudi Arabia, bring along a suitcase full of bibles, once you're found out they will cut off your head with a sword marked made in USA. Don't forget to wave to the to the US Troops before your trip from life to afterlife.
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Nope I am still using one. However my Windows 7 needs some work on it.
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Put that flag in front of you house so we will know where the Canadian Bacon Maple Leaf fascist lives. While you're at it raise the flags of your friends the Imperial Empire of Japan, the Third Reich, the British Empire, Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire and the American Empire.
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That battle flag has a meaning dripping in blood first in the civil war itself and then through the segregation era that followed reconstruction. We do not have a separate southern culture or heritage except in the minds of the bigot in the North or South. UK is a nation CSA is not nor did it get international recognition from any other government. Go fly your flag in your front yard that way we will all know that only bigots should approach. It does not belong in front of any government building but it's fine for a museum piece. Nor do we need all these confederate office memorials. Most of them should go away like the Saddam Hussein statues. Send out a marine contingent to pull them down, send them to the landfill or use them for recycled material.
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The UK is a recognized government not a never recognized 'government' organized by a seditious acting Plantation slave owning class that refused to recognized a democratically elected government. Besides every racist supporter of the CSA terrorist criminals can fly their flag on their property letting all who pass by know that they oppose government of the people, for the people and by the people.
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The civil war killed more Americans than a total of all Americans killed in wars since then. It's considered the first modern war because of the industrial methods of death. Gatling gun, artillery shells, Howitzers, rifled muskets (1861 Springfield rifle), telegraph communication, supplies and men move by railroad, trench warfare.
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Bring Back the third shift nap!!!
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Feb 8th Women's day commemorates the February revolution in Russia started with a strike of women textile workers. Big shots over at the Thomas b Fordham Institute whose support of charter schools can be summed up as "Students learn best when Teachers are paid less". Talk with much hypocrisy about disadvantage students (meaning the children of workers) losing a day of education. The fact that most working people upon graduating high school will never get any education they don't pay for beyond what is needed to do your job is never talked about during the "education debate." Those at the "think tank" spend their time thinking about how best to advance education that meets the needs of the private profit system while keeping the workers fooled into thinking that education is the reason why the bosses are rich.
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Keep ICE in the deep freeze where it belongs.
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This is an example of an uncaring bureaucracy. He should have been granted citizenship retroactively. If your convicted of a crime that should be part of your punishment at the time of sentencing or plea bargain. Not something imposed by uncaring bureaucracy later on. Nor should decoration be a life time punishment.
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It really makes little difference to most people as seen by the number of views. Why the need to hold what looks like a firearm and a rifle scope?
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+Anun Kash I don't see a slap to the face in fact his height and her sitting down precludes that. A cops job is to investigate crime and to arrest criminals not drag minors out of class rooms on a teachers and administrators orders. If she was off school grounds during school time that would be truancy. She can't be trespassing because students are required by law to be at home under parental supervision or at school during school hours. Once a student is at school the school officials become 'in loco parentis' the local parents. The student was never told to leave school property because in fact that would be illegal for the school officials to do that without involving the parents and having an expulsion hearing as a minimal requirement. Nor was there any immediate danger to life or property. This is clearly an overreach of police authority.
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+MsHojat Police need suspicion of a crime being committed to detain someone for questioning. Since she made no effort to move she was compliant for preliminary questioning. Now to put his hands on her or you they need probable cause to believe you or she has committed a crime or there was a serious danger to life or property. She wasn't trespassing because no trespass warning by sign or verbally was given. As a student and a minor being in her seat on school property during school time she can't be trespassing because school officials are acting in 'loco parentis'. She is required to remain on school property for the school day once she is there. Breaking minor school rules does not rise to a criminal action. What this really is is an overreach of police authority in a concerted effort by the ruling class to criminalize black and working class youth.
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Minors do forfeit certain rights to school authorities for the purpose or running the school free from disruption. School never the less is not a constitution free zone. Police do not gain respect by abusing their authority in or out of school. I've been the victim of excessive force and that's why I hate them even though I have two extended family members that are cops. .
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Communists say take down the cross it doesn't belong in a government building where governmental decisions are made.
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@HisChildMelissa75 Typical Fascist response.
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First to those who say it's not about slavery I say read the justification for Secession by the State of Mississippi and other states. It's all about justifying secession and the right to own slaves. A's early as 1852 South Carolina held a convention to start the process and specifically cried about the plight of the slave owner. Mississippi said they would lose 4 billion dollars worth of slaves. Even the CSA money had pictures of slaves working on plantations. Anybody who says it was about Southern pride and Northern aggression is either a fool or liar.
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I have to disagree slavery and the associated slave economy was the root of the differences and led to the war. Lincoln didn't make slavery the issue at first because he was committed to holding the country together. Karl Marx wrote Lincoln and urged him to free the slaves as a way to win the war. Whether that influenced Lincoln or not I don't know. Most people thought it would be a short war. A few musket volleys and canons shot off before an agreement was reached. The war dragged on and Lincoln decided to issue the emancipation proclamation as a way help crush the current rebellion in those areas in rebellion only. That changed the essential character of the war from one of just holding the union together to one of a social revolution. It also resulted in putting 100,000 black men under arms in union uniformers. We are left wondering what Lincoln would have done had he not been murdered and vice president Andrew Johnson from Texas not taken over.
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What about those black POW flags. Aren't they the symbolic flags of a defeated army/military?
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Throughout history in Europe the Jew as always been said to the enemy of a declining Empire and Absolute Monarchy alike. No doubt the scholarship of Karl Marx and the revolutionary fervor and writings of Leon Trotsky (Leon Bronstein) who lead a red Army made up of defeated troops of the Russian monarchy strike terror into the hearts of Capitalist and there corrupt spokesman and diplomats everywhere.
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One can actually read the actual articles of successions passed by at least some of the 11 states and see that the slavery and the slave economy was the real issue. Nowhere in the constitution does it allow for states to leave the union. The right to secede was window dressing and ideological reasoning for succession while the real issue of slavery. Mississippi in her article of succession estimated the value of slaves to be 4 billion dollars. https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
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I think it would be better if you were allowed to fly the NAZI flag on your property that way everyone knows you stand for the Hitler regime and white supremacy. In this situation the confederate flag is flying on the technicality of a small piece of property but appears to be flying on the property on the property of the nearby business. Also note that this is on Calhoun St. Which is no doubt named after the famous South Carolina politician US senator, and vice President John Calhoun a stanch advocate for slavery before the civil war.
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Sorry I'm not German so I can't do much about it. Nevertheless the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) once had a no extremists law which forbade both Communist and Nazi parties.
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You bosses treat us so well what do you expect?
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First if he was born of at least one American parent he is a natural born US citizen. Second if he was born in the Panama canal zone not Panama then he would be a US citizen because he was born under US jurisdiction unless he was the child of foreign diplomats.
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He could of tried that and risked his reputation as a quality cake baker or found the buyer suing him for a poorly made cake, a refusal to pay in full or a case of credit card fraud could have ensued.
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The thing is the bakeries owner wasn't black nor was the couple. Go back under the rock the KKK hides under.
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I'm not part of the LA Jet set nor was my wedding a lavish affair. He refused on principle which why I find this case relevant. I really don't care if Paris Hilton gets thrown out for not wearing panties at the Sheraton motor lodge.
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Ignore the Chump rallies. All they want to do is divide the working class along the Two Capitalist Party lines. The capitalist have two parties we have one the Socialist Workers Party.
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I love to hear how rich people talk about the need for responsibility. Just tell me why do they call them limited liability corporations?
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@jameseverett9037 Limited liability corp. Means your ability to hold the actual owners responsibility is limited. Small business buy business or contractors insurance. The McDonald's hot coffee case is the one people like yourself argue as excessive. McDonalds could have settled for a cheap 'Happy Meal" price but instead wanted to pay its low wages price. After all McDonalds is run by poor lemonade stand capitalists. Large corporations self insure if your to stupid to buy insurance or accept that your self insured what can I say? Happy meal taste bad?
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@jameseverett9037 Do you run a venture capital firm, a GM, GE, or Union Pacific Railroad? My guess is the local corner boy knows more about business than someone who wishes he could be his own employee. If you really want no work no brain capitalism you buy government guaranteed bonds. Everyone who knows anything keep some of their capital portfolio in the safety of government bonds. Even the Chinese buy US Treasury bills. Hedge funds are also good since they promise to make you money no matter which way the market goes. Otherwise you could be wiped out in the next recessions. Or you make money giving advice on investment. You don't fool around with something like a Pizza parlor or an auto repair shop. Real capitalists never look back. They don't go around crying about how they wish they were a worker and how no one understands them.
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@jameseverett9037 Because you made the assumption I don't know anything about capitalism or how capitalist think. I can tell just by your complaint that most likely you haven't reached the point where you are disconnected from you workers. You probably still know the names of most if not all of you workers. Now maybe you business becomes big over your lifetime like Ocean State Job Lot or maybe you go broke because of the coronavirus. The people in the middle are always confused because there is no third ideological position in capitalist society. You find yourself being constantly buffeted back and forth in and out from one class position to the other.
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Maybe you should run on a Yang Gang program of free monthly haircuts.
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@donlebo6824 I'm not a Democrat, Bernie Bro., Our revolution or DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). My Party the Socialist Workers Party runs our own candidates in every Presidential election since 1948. We don't withdraw in favor of one or other candidates either. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com reflect our politics. Two party politics is filled with hypocrisy including the Tipper Gore attempt to protect sensitive ears.
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@saralopezgarcia4883 We object to being slandered by Republicans as Democrats. The Democrats are your loyal opposition. We are not the slightest way loyal to you and your Democratic Party friends,
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@mikehawk302 If you don't care why do you waste you time saying so? No one cares that you don't care because that makes you neutral unless you seeking to recruit cynics for some stupid reason.
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@mikehawk302 A guy "who doesn't care" is getting all worried about someone without a life? It's a video about communism not how to make pumpkin pies in which commentators would comment on pies. Except for those who don't care about making pumpkin pies.
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@franciss8507 The vote was never counted. Next week their going to announce life sentences for parking in front of a Texas Port a Potty.
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@thetruthwillsetyoufree9209 A revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system is what is needed.
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@Superman-lx5fn Responsible hypocrisy as only those who can't afford to travel will be affected. If people like Donald Trump can't be responsible with sex than why should anyone else be expected too?
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Yep it a capitalist dictatorship. You can vote for either party because both are in the bosses pocket which is why they want you voting in the sham democracy.
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@DerrellStumpfel Boss hunger for profit means production moves to low wage areas.
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If your a teacher who doesn't like unions what's keeping you from going to work at a nonunion Charter school?
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@johnparitsky1130 Cops can't prevent the alienation caused by the system of private profit and property.
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@MADOUT_VPS Cops can't stop the decline of American capitalism. Those with a conscious will quit leaving a force of the most brutal and they will lose all support among the working class as they become nothing more than brutes handing out beatings to enforce capitalist property laws. The ruling class will have no choice but to use them against strikes and protest of capitalist policies. This will result in their complete loss of support among the masses of people. Capitalism can't be fixed as it has entered a deep world wide decline. Profit rates are in decline as Wall St becomes nothing more than a giant betting parlor. Workers have no choice but to join unions and fight back against the profiteers.
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@danielkokal8819 A bum whose ideas lay the basis for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959. The the bosses of American imperialism can neither forget or forgive.
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@crashonline1 Obviously the bosses don't need educated workers they need more order takers, machine watchers and pool boys.
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@kaimarmalade9660 Obviously your a middle class intellectual who is happy with the status quo. If capitalism was working as well as your friends down the academic hall claim then Trump would not even have become who he is. Capitalism is in a world wide crisis of its own making and their is no reason to believe it can be solved within the confines of capitalism and its requirements of private property and profit maximization. What the middle class fears most is loss of labor privileged. You believe you live in a capitalist meritocracy and you are cream that rises to the top. The truth is the academic must sing the praises to capitalism to become the academic and continue that praise should he wish to remain in that expensive university chair in which he sits.
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@kaimarmalade9660 We spent the last ten years traveling/living in a trailer in campgrounds. I bet you could get paid to do a study to find out why some people would rather be working outside rather than sitting inside scribbling on paper. Does it ever dawn on the Adam Smith Crowd that some people don't care about their art collection?
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Historiadores Pineros Another capialist BUM looking to make a profit from murder of innocent people by US two party capitalist dictatorship in DC
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Interesting notice how every Sowell video has theses people who write the same flattery about Sowell being Brilliant and a national treasure. It must be either 'bots or a cult pneumonia. Sowell himself though got aid from the GI Bill, scholarships and was working at a Civil Service job in DC when at Howard University and a DC DOL job after Grad school because of a Professor intervention.
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@jakeweberzwier8655 We collect Yankee dollars in union dues and use them against the bosses all the time.
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Basically this is a call for a new McCarthyism cleansing of academia based upon Stalinist falsification of history. Little mention is made of what is factually wrong. Instead she blasts Zinn as a Jewish communist and decrys his interpretation as anti America just as Stalin himself would blast his opponents as anti Soviet. The author relies on sources such as FBI spy files to prove her contention of a communist conspiracy directed by "The Party". The problem of course is according to the files and the author herself he left "The Party" in 1953. The same year Stalin died. The other problem is the Stalinist movement has undergone a world wide degeneration including in the United States itself. The Communist Party USA can not produce a newspaper nevermind a vast conspiracy involving Obama. That of course has had the exact opposite effect on US Bourgeois Democratic and Republican politicians and professors who regularly now call each other Communist and Fascist. The real danger emanating from both sides are the calls to limit speech and ban books based upon ideas rather than actions. Conservatives have plenty of cash let them write books and publish rebuttals if they chose to do so. This kind of rebating trash scholarship is reminiscent of accusing Protestant ministers of being Communist dupes.
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@seapeajones One Billionaire going to bed with out his extra portions compared to millions who go hungry because capitalism is organized for profits not the general advancement of humanity. Resource would be better spent here on Earth than going to another planet to start over.
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@daphnetruman The all got trials the media admitted that at the time. They didn't like the trails but no one challenged the guilt of the Batista Police murders and torturers. The US would have prefered their justice system where white policeman who killed civil rights workers with impunity. US White policeman went on trail laughing and joking because they knew all white juries would never vote to convict.
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@Junius24 The bosses only want to pay in wages what it costs to reproduce our labor for the next pay period. Our labor produces more than what the pay us which is the origin of all profits and taxes the government collects. They do this in order to maximize profits and pay for the bosses.
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You are the enemy.
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@@eddiethebass221It symbolizes the Russian Revolution of Oct 1917 and the workers peasant alliance.I will NOT take it down just to please those who lie about the October revolution and the early years of the revolution. Do hear of anyone demanding of the removal the French tri color because of Bonaparte? How many people and state flags flew the flag of the slavery in the United States until recently? Putin now flies the flag of the CZAR and the counter revolutionary White Army. .
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@RedWolf0007 Thats because education and the realm of ideas is dominated by the ruling class. So naturally he sounds smart because he just a propagandist for the ruling class of American capitalist. Those without the faith of Job in the bosses system of exploitations are considered dumb just as Blacks and non whites were considered to be inferior by Northern Europeans were capitalism developed first. Sowell and others like him can't help but express their contempt for workers. It's why he calls John L Lewis the "greatest oil salesman." As far as I'm concerned he just another boss talking up the company line of how things will get better if we keep our heads down.
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@RedWolf0007 The ideas in peoples heads are either confirmed or rejected according to the material world surrounding us. Capitalism entered a world crisis in 2008 not seen since the great depression of 1929. The rejection of Obama and liberals is the rejection of Popular Frontism. The era of fascism ended with the Soviet victory over Hitler. Now is the time to build new Leninist Parties that can act as the most powerful weapons against capitalism though intervention in the class struggle as it unfolds.
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Give him a brass hat with scrambled egg and you got yourself a military dictator.
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@stevec9972 Arguing with a Professor is like arguing with a Physician you seldom make a dent. Recently I've been feeling sorry for him instead of being angry with him.
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The cops need to begin seeing the insides of jail cells not being released on technicalities.
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@joshyang7226 They were promied a pay check in other words a wage for work done. Maybe in China the top party officials get their profits first and tell the workers we didn't promise a pay check but you can still work. Such a system is modern slavery and deserves to be burned down to the ground.
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@asalamander7182 That's right its just another do nothing political scheme. We need escalator clauses to fight inflation and a cut in hours with no cut in pay to fight automation.
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He can not halt the decline of American capitalism and its Empire.
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@Nick-fg4dq Sowells problem is the same as his mentor Milton Friedman knowing just enough to appear smart but unable to get beyond either a classical understanding of economics developed before Marx or into the non materialistic view where value is subjective and capitalism is a workable system if the bosses use just the right mixture of government intervention and free managent operation to maximize profits. For the modern capitalist economist capitalism and the crisis it produces can be managed by the use of central bank policy. Like every bourgeois economist since Keynes they are stuck with the contradiction of the increasing state power and government intervention needed to keep the profit system on track.yet with no clear way into the past that these reactionaries hope for. For they are stuck with disproving Marx's conclusions on capitalism and Lenin on Imperialism along with Trotsky's ideas on political revolution in the workers states. The capitalist lost the cold war when popular revolutions over though the counterfeit communist regimes in the Soviet bloc and sent China down the capitalist road while Cuba underwent Political Revolution. It only took about twenty years after all the hoopla surrounding the implosion of the Soviet Union for the worst economic crisis to occur since the Great Depression of 1929.
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@TheSGBrown Given his age and his claims to be a Marxist he had the perfect opportunity to go to Cuba and see the revolution when it was in its earliest days. Instead he chose a job at the capitalist governments US Dept of Labor.
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@SockieTheSockPuppet Marx didn't under stand how pricing worked? Yes Sowell denied that Marx's crisis theory unfortunately once again they are in a crisis that rivals the great depression of 1929 since 2008. You realise that even his mentor Freedman stated the United States didn't get out of the Great Depression without going to war. Think they will once again start to think their problems can be solved by war like in 1914 and 1939? Or do your still believe the kool aid served up by Freedman and company that capitalism brings Democracy? Any of those oil and dollar rich Middle Eastern countries became bastions of Democracy? How about China and Russia did they become democracy after drinking the US Regan/Clinton/Freedman Kool Aid? Sowell said he supported Trump because he'd be easier to impeach than Clinton. How'd that work out? Do you understand how pricing works? Going to give me the old hackneyed circular logic of the subjective theory of value? That's where the price is whatever I can get you to pay.
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@SockieTheSockPuppet Do you understand how prices work? Do you think a businessman draws supply and demand curves to determine the price he charges? I think the only thing they teach in economics 101 is how smart the professor claims to be. He tells the class what to think and say and you nod your heads for an A. The businessman has one goal to obtain the highest rate of return on his capital invested. If he has some other goal than the competition will drive him out of business. His goal is to monopolize the market or divide the market amog a few for the benefit of all. His goal is not competition but the defeat of all his competitions. His only interest in competition is when he needs to spend his money. He seeks to pay only a wage necessary to get his workers to reproduce their labor power their ability to work for the next pay period. So he seeks to get the workers to work the longest hour at the lowest wages and fastest pace so he can sell in the market for the biggest profits. The role of the capitalist government is to be the manager of the common affairs of the capitalist class to take up areas of the economy that can't produce private profits the way industries that can constantly reduce labor time can. Henry Ford wanted the government to pay for and build roads with taxes because he knew if he waited for the development of private turnpikes of early American he would have to wait years before he could sell mass produced cars.
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@sudipkumarroy3790 Haven't you heard the American Imperialist behind Trump are giving up on Freidman's and Sowell's free market theories for nationalist mercantilism that lead to the two world wars.
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The Dem's are just capitalist hypocrisy now on steroids. They are good at making the best un kept promises. They'll promise the moon and put coal in your Christmas stocking.
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@daniel3231995 Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and break up the NATO Imperialist alliance.
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@flytink1 NATO and the US are an Imperialist alliance that has been operating under the illusion of having won and not lost the cold war. Ukrainians are not victims but fighters for national independence just like other countries that have fought the Imperialist powers like Ireland, Cuba, Poland and Vietnam.
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Janus was a capitalist justice system employee he and others in the justice system should be kicked out. Janus activity was to track down those workers who could not meet court ordered child support payments sending them to jail. He and others like him don't belong in the union movement. He would have never had any court standing if they had not taken him and others like him into the bargaining unit. This should be a lesson to the whole labor movement that scabs in the Capitalist Justice system don't belong in the union movement. Kick their scabby asses out now!
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Those federal reserve notes are issued by a private bank own secretly by no doubt the richest families in America.
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What do you think advertising is? Truth about the product for sale or a bunch of bragging to get the highest price for the cheapest product.
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The US/UN are war criminals and the only right they have is to be tried in the Hague and given long sentences. The problem is you can't expect an Imperialist war criminal to convict himself in an Imperialist court so they go unpunished.
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Truman and Stalin had no right to divide Korea after the war. MacArthur used the defeat of Japan as an excuse to set himself up as the new Imperialist in control of Korea. Official language was changed from Japanese to English. MacArthur didn't like the anti Japanese guerrillas who were the choice of the Korean People so he immediately launched a campaign of suppression and murder. Without enough American Troops he turned to the defeated Japanese war criminals and Korean collaborators. Here's a BBC documentary about the killing of innocent refugees who were deliberately murdered. A crime that was so heinous it was hidden in secret pentagon files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPxCn__PBWA What kind of democratic government issues orders to carpet bomb their own people. At no time during the war did the PDRK, the Chinese volunteers or the Soviet Union use heavy bombers. MacArthur wanted to use nuclear weapons during the war and create a nuclear barrier that could not be crossed for 100 years. His dog leach was unceremoniously pulled back by Truman for not realizing he could set off WW3. The coca cola drinking Syngman Rhee was set up as dictator and rescued by the CIA when student protests outside of blue house threaten his criminal life. Just as before the end of WW2 he went back to being a coca cola drinking stooge hiding out in the US. You might call him the General Batista of Korea. Paid for and owned by the US government.
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Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker Eighth Army commander OK'd war crimes against civilians from his command. I'm sure if they came down your street and burned down your home murdered your friends and relatives from the air, used napalm on you you'd be singing a different tune. How many terrorist did they create fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and how more are still coming from operation Iraqi Freedom fighting the New Hitler? It was "sixty fucking years ago"? Plenty of assholes are still fighting the civil war also. I gota fly my stars and bars because I'm a jerk off who thinks the civil war didn't kill enough people or I need states rights or I have a separate southern culture. No porblem with bulshit like that though? How long before you realize Trump wants to be president of the world just like Obama. If wanted to be President of the US only he'd let other countries fight their own battles. If the Koreans want to fight it out well let them have at it. Every capitalist in the world will be happy to keep them in debt for the next century after they destroy themselves.
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The South has had six republics since WW2. The last President was kicked out and along with some CEO's is now in Jail. They don't have problems with "dictators" as long as they tow the US policy line. They send over Mike Pence who reports that there is no daylight between South Korea, Japan and the US so obviously their is. They catch a picture of him sitting there with a stone cold face while Kim Jong un has his sister smiling in the background. Pence will no doubt get the consecutive of the year award for that one and not much else.
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The nineties saw the end of the Soviet Union and a big economic shock imposed on what was the rest of Soviet Union. So like Cuba and Vietnam they were hit by an end of favorable trade. What plays out here with Trump making a big noise will no doubt play out differently in Korea and in the rest of the world. The North talks nationalism and self reliance. Both sides claim to want reunification. Nikki Haley saying the US won't accept a Nuclear DRPK isn't going to win friends and influence people. Like him or not here's a guy who snuck on the world's policeman gave him a boot in the rear.
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Nukes don't give you much domestically for very long and world opinion is also likely to reverse. Eastern Europe went down without Nato firing a single shot. I think the whole mess is more likely to fix itself if the US withdraws and stops having yearly practice invitations. Nor do I believe they are all that isolated. It's about 120 miles by air from Pyongyang to Seoul and medium wave commercial broadcasts are well within night time range.
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Actually this is Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism. The US became a militaristic Imperialist Power with the Spanish American War. The fighting between the Imperialist Powers and the victory of the Russian revolution in 1917 is what weaken the Imperialist Powers. Trotsky's Red Army defeated 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. The revolution was spreading to Cambodia and threatening the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand which is when Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter intervened with aid to Pol Pots murder gangsters.
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Fire all the cops replace them with the NRA.
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@realdragao6367 The only success your Imperialist military won is that of being the most brutal of imperialist murder monsters.
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@coolioso808 That's not going to work because all your talking about is small scale commodity production. You might just as well sign onto the neoliberalism of Milton Friedman or others theorists like Ghandi who urged homespun clothing or Mao building small scale steel production in villages. All of what you talkin about requires massive basic industrial production and semi finished goods to make all of what your talking about even possible. What you really propose is becoming a petti bourgeois within the capitalst system because you have no confidence in the industrial workers takin control of production with a communist leadership. .Really great plan 1/3 of the profits created by the free labor go to the investor. No wonder the bosses like the idea they get one hour a week of free labor from everyone who signs up. Sounds like a real community a boss gets paid for his past accumulation of capital and out of every 3 hours you put in you get back pay for one. The "mayor" and the experts they of course get fulll time pay out of the last 1/3. Sounds like a real plan for accomplishing exactly nothing.
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@laurablake8330 If it were only as simple as Sowell claims. German's with Hitler in the forefront decided they were a superior German race. That once unified then they could have an Empire like French and British he was so envious of. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and remains so today.
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@cemented Stalin began the march back to capitalism and was the leader of defeated revolutions. The US Empire and world capitalism are in decline.
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@cemented War favors the winners? Brilliant? I would have never guessed that war favored the winners. LMAO
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@lebowski_dude That's the whole problem they can't fix world capitalism no matter what they do. You can't de corrupt a system that is based upon the corrupting power of money. You can't get away with just shutting down when overproduction occurs without creating even more problems with bankruptcy. The lies you tell are exposed faster than you can initiate damage control.
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The Government of the Soviet Union was NEVER the same as the government of the United States. Nor were their any significant private owners of capital in the Soviet Union.
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If anyone did it I suspect the US since they've been provoking Russia with NATO expansion and cancellation of the nuclear forces treaty..
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@keithstirland1388 Running water has a cost to purify and deliver. The building owner in the United States usually pays a water and sewer bill based upon a water usage meter. In rural areas they may use individual shallow or deep wells and septic tanks for disposal of waste. Many people also buy drinking water in bottles.
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@freyjablue. Hamas is the defacto government of Gaza. The won an election over Fatah and then murdered their opponents.
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Bosses are counting on Presidential and Congressional Strike breaking. Repeal he Railway "Slave": Labor Act.
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Why would people who don't like service from homosexuals want service form homosexuals? Usually unless someone is a flamer no one knows who really is a homosexual. Since the majority is heterosexual and homosexuals live among us why would homosexuals suddenly decided to engage in discrimination? Only recently have they been allowed to a marry so this guy may have picked cake baking as a business before but just like Lester Maddox he will probably be required to serve or close because he said, "I don't do gay." He probably has already lost business and find people coming in to mock him but he should have thought about that before going all anti gay.
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Well go out and see if you can find a homosexual run business that discriminates against heterosexuals. My suggestions is to get a T-Shirt that says "Love Me I'm Straight". Then see if they refuse you entry into a gay bathhouse. Then bring a case against it. Good luck with that!!! Joe Blow v. Happy Dudes Bathouse The only problem with that is if they let you in.
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@Fazer1971 "...he is a useless loser, trying to take away money from successful people..." You mean like those stockholders who biggest success is owning stock and getting paid for owning it.
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Capitalism where everything is bought and sold is what produces corruption.
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@forestchicken3302 Your screen name says it all. Keep flapping you wings someone else might get scared.
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Get something straight German Big Business bailed out Hitler's the National Socialist GERMAN Workers Party which was headed for bankruptcy. They provided strike breaking service for the bosses. Henry Ford is the only American mentioned favorable in Mein Kampf. Ford also published the anti semitic rant called the International Jew. translated by the NAZI's and was awarded the "Order of the German Eagle" just before war broke out.
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@Goodkidjr43 "HOW is the middle determined?" It depends on the social structure of a society. That structure also determines the thinking that goes on within that society along with its level of development and economic direction. The personal slave of the ancient world didn't produce anything of value and survived at the will and cost of the owners. Most of us in the wage earning working class produce value and survive when we don't produce value because we were part of the class that produces value. The capitalist class survives because it owns capital. The capitalist may manage his business or have another occupation but what makes him a capitalist is the ability to survive without the need to labor. The business owner who can't afford to place the business under professional management and still make a living belongs to the middle class.
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@lancebwilkins I don't look at it that way the capitalist control the two parties, government and markets free or otherwise. The Coal miners have partial control over their healthcare fund. They've used the fund to build hospitals and clinics in the coal fields. Despite supposedly be the richest country in the world for every three doctors who retire we rely on a new immigrant to fill one of those spots. I like the Cuban system. They educate way more Doctors then they need and get outcomes that are better or rival the US for a lot less money. .
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@williammorse8330 Well the industrial revolution is what really drove capitalism forward and all kinds of new industries developed also. You have huge companies that have control of mining, minerals and oil who create semi finished goods and then you have the big distributors like WalMart and Amazon. Between them you have consumer manufactures who are crushed from both sides. When you see the money Walgreens says you saved with insurance it has nothing to do with the manufacturing price of the drug. A drug leaves an Indian factory for 7 cents and bu the time it get to the pharmacy its a dollar at the insurance company price.
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@mikerodrick2430 The capitalist profit comes from not paying the full social value of the labor in the product to the workers but instead privatising it as profit. Now if he takes the profit and reinvests it into making more products for the market that's the best the workers can hope for because that will naturally draw in more workers have the tendency to allow the workers to demand a higher price for their labor. However he must have and see a market for expanded production. What does he do with the profit if he sees no way to expand production? If he raises wages then the workers would be able to purchase more but he doesn't do that because then profits would go down so he invests in driving up the value of capital itself. Stock, bond, mortgage prices, national debt, ect. However a realization sets in that theses paper values are too high and then they drop. The values oscillate up and down all the time but every 7 to 10 years they go though a major crisis that effects the economic well being of the whole economy and even the whole world's economy.
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@williammorse8330 If you wanted to do things that way you'd have to have workers control and economic planing of all the major industries and distribution networks. Otherwise the prices in markets along with advertising decides everything. WalMart and Amazon don't want to lose any of their place in your life. So they will keep saying they started as successful small businesses and that we all need less regulation and ability to run our business free of any "outside" or "government" control. Of course the local building inspector may act like a tyrant over a homeowner but you don't think they get away with acting that way to big business.
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@murrayscott3513 Anything worthy of being called education is not going to happen with capitalism because the system needs order takers not thinkers. An educated working class will not sit still for its own exploitation.
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@ronm6359 Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in charge of one of the biggest frauds in history the electric vehicle as the solution to pollution. Capitalism began destroying the world with World War one. The middle class is completely incapable of doing anything but decline under capitalist rule. In Cuba they replaced the privileged middle class with proletarian Administrators, Doctors , and Engineers. They waved good by to those who wanted the consumerism of the United States and its world wide Imperialist system of oppression and war. People like you shriek in horror at the thought of a Princely Doctor earning the wage of a Taxi Driver. Your terrified of your fate under a capitalism that has less of a place for you today than it had yesterday.
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@mattschrader5047 Basic industries are monopolized as is the means of distribution. Any small manufacture is squeezed from both sides with no way out except to squeeze his employees. Billions are out of poverty because of the struggles waged against Imperialism capitalism's final stage. None of the societies in the East went through the kind of collapse that occurred after the 1st and 2nd Imperialist world wars. Nor have the capitalists been able to inflict a big defeat on the industrial trade unions like in NAZI Germany or Fascist Italy or Spain in any of the industrialized countries. Popular struggles lead by working people defeated the Stalinists leaders in the East allowing some of theses wanna be capitalist to seize industries and the banking system.
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@mattschrader5047 "This debate has already been settled by honest economists and historians," You mean among the paid lackeys of capitalism in the Bourgeois Universities. Your proposal is nothing more than a massive witch hunt and murder purge based in the flag waving of constitutions written by the leisure class. Cable TV, Internet, cars, and cell phones are no more than modern day beads use to buy Manhattan from the Indians and even those are not universal. A system based in nothing but numbers in accounting books that loses all relationship to reality is headed in only one direction that of collapse. The rich must be satisfied with a return on investment despite the world market having a finite size. So you must keep accelerating the printing of dollars until you create a hyperinflation since the value of a dollar has no relationship to actual wealth or labor time.
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@mattschrader5047 he difference between a capitalist and Marxist economy is private property and private profit. The first thing the state does in socialism is to take control of basic industry and then operate it on a needs basis not a for profit basis. You don't need nor is it necessary to have centralized state control over every nook and cranny of the economy. If you leave basic industry in the hands of private owners they will just run int into the ground until they can get tax money to recapitalize it. Nor can capitalism work without a government. That's a fable told by libertarians who's economic thinking reduces everything to a lemonade stand. That's why workers control of industry is essential not government control. If all you do is put a few creampuffs in charge then you will get capitalism no matter how you start or what you call you call yourself. This is why the Stalinist in every country had to destroy workers democracy to maintain power. The Scandinavian bosses have the economic advantage that comes with the US paying the cost of Imperialism and Volvo bosses behaves in the US the same way all the other bosses do threatening to use strike breakers. People don't "provide for themselves" as individuals otherwise there would be no need to trade. You could just swing from tree to tree like Orangutans eating low hanging fruit as there would be no need for markets or world trade either. You can see how a no government planning approach works in every natural disaster with capitalism.
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@gregl6759 T There is no way that segregation can be reimposed in the US short of a counter revolution. The bosses don't even dream of that during contract negotiations nor are the getting away with in a way anywhere in the US. When has history ever repeated itself?
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@mghegotagun The only problem with that theory is welfare payments have been curtailed not being maintained by either party. Clinton did what Reagan couldn't, "Ended welfare as we know it."
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@mattschrader5047 The more or less government politics is nothing more than a Republican electioneering slogan. They have no intentions of starving themselves of bigger profits at our expense. They talk endlessly about the national debt but never do they talk about who owns the debt. Control of the debt and government spending has nothing to do with electioneering slogans and everting to do with what the ruling class sees as necessary to maintain power. .
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@gregl6759 Segregation was imposed by extra legal violence in the Southern states by the Democratic Party as agents of the old plantation owners and approved by the Republican Party based in the newly rising American capitalist class. That included job segregation and lower pay for Black workers doing the same job. That's a lot different than Black people who are still defacto segregated in housing neighborhoods choosing to live together in dorms. The Leninist idea of national self determination for oppressed nationalities is that they get to decide how they want to overcome their oppression and develop their own culture. That of course is at odds with the we are all the same and need to integrate for the good of the former oppressor nation. So just as you would not support forced Russification of Eastern Europe why would support forced Americanization of Blacks and other nationalities that were incorporated into the United States.
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@mattschrader5047 Individual liberty? What kind of liberty did the Russian Peasant have when he was sent to the front and had to wait for the death of another soldier so he could use a rifle to get a chance to die for the Czar? You think the Chinese peasants had liberty under the warlords and Imperialist amies who plundered the country at will? in world war one the British killed 10,000 German soldiers with a single underground blast of the German line. You think Truman wouldn't have nuked China if Stalin did have an atom bomb also? What chance do we have after nuclear winter? The US is a COVID disaster because of capitalism compared to Cuba. The basic problem with capitalism is greed and you can't regulate greed out of a system that glorifies property rights and profit above everything else. Does the system work? Well slavery worked for Rome and for agriculture in the southern States until it became itself an obstacle to economic development. One of capitalism's biggest never talked about problems is the tendency of the rate of profit ti drop as machines replace labor. Now the capitalist may be able to settle their differences peacefully within their nations states but who will settle trade disputes among the nation states? That's where the drive for Imperialist war originates. Are the capitalist becoming more international in cooperation or more nationalistic? If the US can't play the role of world policeman what will replace the US?
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@kriss9652 What this really is about is the creation of a propertyless working class which has no interest in profits and private property. Without a middle class to sing the praises of capitalism and upward mobility people who own nothing and must work to survive become dangerous because we have nothing to lose in a confrontation with the bosses of capitalist industry. This is cause for fear among capitalist liberals as well as conservatives.
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@mattschrader5047 Religion only becomes a problem if the Church uses it for a basis to attack the revolution. We had a guy who was a mormon who wasn't sure he could go on strike he didn't try and cross the picket line and instead was happy about the raise and the union after the strike.
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@mattschrader5047 Where do you get this information that we can just outlaw religion? Much more religious freedom in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe under Stalin than in a place like Saudi Arabia.
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@oldsalt8011 Capitalism always has a tendency to move production form areas of high labor costs to cheaper labor costs as a way to boost profits. Almost all trade between the Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc countries,China and the United States was prohibited by US law during the first half of the cold war which ended with the US defeat in Vietnam. Opening up trade became a way to gain promises to thwart support from Moscow or Beijing for anymore revolutions in the third world. China wanted trade and investment and if the US said no than Europe and Japan would only be too happy to engage in trade and investment without the US. Job decline occurs because capitalism is about profit not jobs. Capital seeks to replace skilled and higher priced labor with unskilled and lower priced labor along with machines. Since labor is the source of profit this also has a tendency to reduce the overall rate of profit as the capital value rises.
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@emp0rizzle A car and a house isn't much good if a nuclear war breaks out. Same with your health. You can see how well a system that prioritises profits responds in a crisis. Capitalism by the numbers has to come to an end because as capital replaces labor profits rise temporarily only to decline as the labor needed to produce does and with a higher capital value the rate of profit must continually decline. The problem with debt is when it becomes unplayable.Then hyperinflation sets in money is printed and disrupted so fast it loses value in hours instead of months or days. Germany is the largest country that ever had that problem.
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@emp0rizzle Such as? My advantage is not owning anything larger than a pickup, a camp trailer, hand tools and the ability to fix most things.
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@bigreaper7425 Why don't you tell us. Instead asking us to explain your opinion or observation?
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@Sandalphon777 You must be really afraid of losing that pot of gold.
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@buzztrucker Speak for yourself. Religion is in decline because all it was is ideological justification for pre capitalist systems of social organizations. Capitalism raises economic competition and love of money as the new Gods of the capitalist nation state. It works to create lives of luxury for a few and misery and poverty for the majority who serve theses ultra rich bosses of capital. Unlike agricultural based societies which had tied the productive to the land the proletariat has no chains other the those of the system of private property and unlimited greed that created us with exactly oposite interests of this tiny few greedy bosses and bankers. A socialist world is the historic task of the proletariat.
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@Parla Verita When have the Democratic Party officials been communists? Most have never belonged to a trade union never mind a communist party of any kind. We don't write the tax laws or control what Congress debates. If the middle class wants communism its because of the failure of capitalism. I don't care if you don't like the symbol of the Russian Revolution or how many Bourgeois take offense at your capitalist country cultural dinner parties.
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@forestchicken3302 The American Imperialist began their assault on the Korean people when the entered after the surrender of Japan and set up shop as the US Army Military Government of Korea raised the US flag over the old Japanese military headquarters and made English the official language using the hated Japanese Imperialist as administrators.
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Keen R A boss only hires if he sees a profit ahead of time. Economic growth is always followed by economic decline. Just what did they tell us? That the economic pie is only so big. Your cut has already been decided upon and if we have to raise wages than we will put more of you on the street. Thats when capitalism goes into recession the big bosses become cannibals eating up those to weak to survive? Recessions and depressions are older that the Russian revolution of 1917. The Tulip bulb crisis of 1637 occured before Karl Marx was even born. We aren't responsible for the anarchy of monopoly market capitalism and so why should we sacrifice? Its a problem inherently inside the natural workings of capitalism. The workers should not give back their wages to capitalist crisis and central bank manufactured inflation. Figures from the BLS say that since 1973 productivity has risen over 250% while wages have remained stagnant. In fact this is why the Socialist/Communists call for not just higher wages but the overthrow of the wages system itself.
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The free market is an example of idealism since it has never existed. Only class struggle produces real results. A market is nothing more than a social conventioneer that always required protection from a government. All the libertarians do is talk about how capitalism could work not how it actually works because they need ti hide the truths discovered by of Karl Marx and Lenin. .
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@ameyb9241 Your living through the end of Imperialism the Highest stage of capitalism.
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@Trip_mania World capitalism has been in crisis since August 1914 when the first Imperialist war began. The world has only become more developed and the worlds working class only become larger and more internationalist. Less racists and while the capitalist nations ruling classes have only become more divided. Unable to divide the spoils among themselves the capitalist nations march again towards war and fascism. Fascism or war on the trade unions at home and Imperialist war abroad. Revolutionary Cuba points the way forward in a world without Bankers and bosses running the means of production. The profit and private property system fails as capital replaces labor then the rate of profit must decline since the orgin of the profit is our labor. The capitalist become nothing more than a class of useless bosses demand something for nothing since capital can only accumulate and demand a return on investment.
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Under capitalism some must always go without. It's a general law under capitalism. To set up a working health care system would be to expensive. To expensive for who? Obviously big money. They are just like the gangsters who says the only difference between us and them is they have a licence to steal. That sums it up in a nutshell. They demand the right to skim something off the top off every activity and everything produced. They are nothing more than financial and industrial parasites.
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Actually there is no reason to create debt. Either society can make something or do something for all and pay for it or it can't. If tomorrow morning we ended all mortgages, home rents and made those who lived in their homes the owners and then readjusted wages is there a reason that wouldn't work? Wouldn't you want to keep your home clean and in good order? Now in Healthcare and Education we need to pay the Educators, education workers and Healthcare workers but why do we need insurance and education loans. So now we can release a whole lot of people from real estate, banking and insurance to work elsewhere.
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@AmericanThoughtLeaders American Though LOSERS!
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He worked for one of the most powerful newspapers in America own by the richest man in the world. It's only a matter of how much punishment will come down on the Saudi regime because it has spread way out of control egged on by the journalist themselves.
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@elizabethstanley7137 Democrats the other party of Imperialist war.
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@Parrhesia-zt1cq Trade war is waged by big capital for cheap labor and markets.
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It's not a term or policy related just to Kissinger alone but the way the capitalists and their followers look at the old, the ill and the unemployed. They need some of the unemployed to hold down wages but that doesn't mean they need all of the unemployed. This is the same reason they need some immigrants but not all immigrants. This also explains their contradictory policies. On one hand they want immigrants to fill jobs at a lower wage who come here legally since they are can be more easily controlled by legality but on the other hand those who come illegally are less likely to complain and have fewer rights in the law making deportation easier and less costly. The most dangerous immigrants are not the gangsters its those who see through the hypocrisy of ruling class policy and decide they have nothing to lose by fighting back. They like paying workers a McDonald's wage but they still need the next generation of workers for their system of exploitation. So the question becomes should we finance the next generation through higher wages with two partner families or by paying women welfare benefits where their occupation is to raise the next generation alone.
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Robots don't buy cars or anything else for that matter. It's not even worth answering something as stupid as Flintstone has said.
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@jjthefed Youtube has been running a censorship operation since Biden's election.
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Three Democrats with three solutions. 1. Vote Democrat. ReElect Me. Why? 2. We will give you training for new clean energy jobs. Is the government going to come in and built the new factories or is this just another empty promise? Like her ones during her husbands regime? They did cut welfare costs for poor children though and added the Effective Death Penalty act. Universal Healthcare? The right wing was to strong for the Clintons. Or were the Clintons to weak? 3. Companies like Google and Amazon should move in because it would be cheaper. Well how much cheaper can you get than minimum wage for Amazon Prime workers over in Louisville, KY? That's just a another race to the bottom. Conclusion: A new Militant Union movement is needed as the best anti poverty program. Democrats and Republicans are just two different factions of the a ingle Boss Party.
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@chseahawk What other medical procedure requires an argument in a court of law?
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@Nitidus That's because so called American political science is just about numerical data in surveys. Since the can do some math and use computers they call themselves political scientists.
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He gets paid for that at Princeton why should he do it here?
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At a one hundred to one ratio only the most racially bigoted would be scared.
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At a one hundred to one ratio only the most bigoted would be scared.
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@star_1_man214 Let's be frank here many middle class caucasians are afraid to walk into neighborhoods that are poor and working class and into all black shopping areas in the daytime nevermind at night. Naturally a large middle class caucasian crowd isn't going to be afraid of a single Black kid. It would be an admission of something they don't want to be tagged as.
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Ron F Unfortunately things are going to get worse before they get better.
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@Variety1985 Profits are unpaid wages.
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The judges always look out the window before making a decision. When either party is totally in power in Congress and has the presidency they can rewrite the Judiciary act and add justices like what was done during the civil war.
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@behxld750 The Stalinist saw to it that the Spanish Revolution was defeated by using murder as a policy against any who dared to disagree with them.
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@matthewkopp2391 The "petti bourgeoise" always finds a way to accommodate himself between labor and capital. The Libertarian is nothing more than an apologist for capitalism complaining about Social Security and playing up a sob story about taxes being theft. You can't really get much more petti bourgeois than libertarianism unless you belong to a food coop, work at a 501c and belong to an anarchist collective.
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@STho205 Makes no difference which party is in office the problems lie in the capitalist system itself. The neo liberal conservatives who were going to manage everything for the rest of us right up to the crisis of 2008 were full of BS. Wall St. is nothing more than a gambling casino for the rich. They run horse races for the biggest profits by working us the longest hours at the lowest wages for the biggest profits. They only want to pay a wage that is the social minimum to get you to come back to work for the next pay period.
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That's because just as feudalism is a precursor to capitalism so to is capitalism to socialism as without capitalist industry no working class can develop.
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@shauncameron8390 Sure and the capitalist think their system will last forever as they run the worlds economy into one crisis after another.
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@shauncameron8390 Capitalism enters in crisis after crisis caused by the limitations of the system itself. The bosses are divided into nation states who fight for the biggest profits in the world market. The top Imperialist dog post ww2 was American Imperialism whose Empire is now in decline. Soon it will be every nations boss class for themselves as they realign for the next world war.
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@shauncameron8390 The last capitalist investors Empire is in political and economic crisis. .
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@Kalimdor199Menegroth Money? You mean those paper federal reserve notes and the electrons in the computers that are backed with nothing but the "full faith and confidence in the United State Government." In other words a military backed investors empire in decline. Capitalism prepares the ground for Communism with the creation of a world market, world culture, a working class and modern industry. The whole history of humanity is the creation of ever greater productive forces and when those productive forces outgrew their ruling class shackles a new form of property relations arose. The door to the future was opened first by the Russian and later the Cuban revolution.
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@Kalimdor199Menegroth Capitalism began destroying itself with world war one. They have no way to successfully arbitrate disputes on the world market and escape the natural tendency of profit rates to decline without world war because the world capitalist system is based upon greedy ruling capitalist classes organized into nation states fighting for profits.
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They are driven by greed and can't help themselves because they origin of the profit is the unpaid labor of the workers. All the end up doing is just piling up surplus value. At best they invest in expanding production at worst the drive up the value of fictitious capital and then it collapses. They lie about how their system brings Democracy and not Tyranny. They began the World war and the Bolsheviks called for peace. The Russian Revolution took Russia out of the war and then they were invaded by 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK who claimed to be fighting for Democracy when they jailed labor leaders like Eugene Debs.
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Those who were executed after the revolution committed crimes like out right murder and torture none were innocent that's why they don't have any names. The US has spent 60 years unsuccessfully trying to defeat the Cuban revolution.
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It's the opportunism of the Stalinists who lack any real principles involving justice. Many of the Jews ended up in Israel as the results of the rise of Stalin and the defeat of the German workers lead by the Stalinist and Social Democrats by Hitler's brown shirts. The Democratic Imperialism US/UK closed their doors to Jewish refugees before and during the war. After the war the victorious allies neglected the needs of the Jews as displaced persons including the British who halted vessels on the high seas put them in camps on Cyprus rather than let them immigrate to Israel.
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They don't want to return of the private property system of home evictions and job firings just so a few billionaires can go on space flights. When the revolution triumphed they had 600.000 unemployed and 100,000 prostitutes Children with pot bellies full of parasites. Fidel Castro never had a problem with educating enough Doctors or any other traditional middle class profession. End your cruel blockade. You don't have to like us when you trade with us because we certainly don't like you and you Empires 800 foreign military outposts. Close the Guantanamo Bay naval base and human rights atrocity prison on Cuban soil and return it to the Cuban people.
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Iglesias I advise you not to rob banks.
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And for those think the police and prosecutors won't arrest and prosecute for DWI/DUI despite blood and breath tests saying absolutely otherwise just youtube or google it.
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@matthew1776-t1c Its only about 10% of the US population. Its ruling class has its own strategic interests not necessarily in line with the USA.
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So far I can't find my pension. Militant fighting union movement means an all workers movement like the CIO. Coal will be needed for a long time to come because you can't make steel with natural gas.or oil. The companies made those promises for pensions they should pay.
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The capitalists moved out of the older industrial cities not because they are losing money but because they figure that they can make bigger profits elsewhere. If the unions keep organizing across state and international borders the companies are going to be less inclined to move. The unions need to be seriously organizing instead of giving back.
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@id10t98 You can't predict the future market or how exactly technical change will affect an industry or company that why we need more workers to join unions for on the job issues and a labor party independent of the bosses for the political and social battles of working people.
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I find it completely hilarious that "Thomas SowellTV" which is a center devoted to the worship of the "national treasure" intellectual Thomas Sowell puts the blame on "Soft-Subject" subject intellectuals for destroying "peaceful countries". If there is one nation that spends more on war, war preparations, that built and used the first nuclear weapons and has by far the greatest number of foreign military bases (800) it is the United States. Only an intellect with the mind of a Joseph Goebbels could peddle such trash without calling it pure propaganda.
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Actual the worst of the racists were those in the National Republican Party who despite winning the civil war refused to defend the Republican Reconstruction governments in the South from Democratic Party KKK and Red Shirt violence. Sowell of course will remain silent here because it would embarrass his tribe of Republican bosses. Instead he focuses on ideology preferring to ignore actual deeds. As far as the promoter of racist ideology goes Henry Ford take the prize publishing the International Jew which was republished by the NAZI's who gave old Henry a medal.
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Nothing but Democratic Imperialist propaganda from the very beginning.
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@Klyskada So how are elections free in the US? In 1917 Socialist Eugene Debs is sent to prison for opposition to Democrat Wilson's war. Same thing happened in 1940 FDR signs the Smith "gag" Act and 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters are sent to Prison. Then Truman begins with the loyalty board and investigations of subversive activities. In 1954 The Communist Control Act is passed. Outlawing the Communist Party. President Trump speaking to Congress says he will not let Communists enter the country that America will never become a Socialist Country.
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It completely ignores the role and desires of the working classes of all nations for a presentation of the superiority of capitalist culture of the west.
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Hamas roots are in the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who organize a fascist Muslim Croate Militia for Adolf Hitler.
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@unclegeemus Democrats have no real proposals so the keep running against Trump. This is how the will approach the Mid Terms vote for us because we are against Trump.
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Marx based his ideas on materialism. It was Lenin who saw the revolutionary potential of the nationalism of colonial peoples. The Marxist ideas of women's liberation come from the need for women to participate equally in the new society as workers. Trans is a small minority and why the do not deserve to be under physical attack you can not turn yourself into the opposite sex by thinking you are. I oppose the transitioning of minors since you don't become the opposite sex by surgery or by ingestion of powerful hormones. What you choose to do with your body as an adult is more of a personal decision. Personal spaces for biological women and women's sports should remain off limits to males.
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@asahearts1 For Sowell it a chance to talk about money and prices but what he fails to say is the the leaders of Hamas are Billionaires making their money off the suffering of the Palestinian people. He says we don't really know what the Palestinian people want. What does he think they want? Some more of his theories and books on how capitalism works like a magician doing god's work.
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@robfromvan Bosses say education is best when teachers are paid less.
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@mythicfolfi4652 Bosses would rather fund more wars for their foreign investments and get their hands on that social security money so they can gamble with the future.
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@luperamos7307 Germany is divided by class its government is one that is loyal to the German capitalist class of imperialist bankers and bosses. All its major German parties agree that reforming and saving the German bosses Imperialist system of capitalist exploitation must come first. Putin was denied an seat in the NATO Imperialist alliance so he has struck out on his own. Now the "peace loving" German Imperialist have voted for rearming themselves and the British Imperialist who are nuclear armed and having an economic crisis are becoming alarmed by "German militarism". Throughout Europe Protests are breaking out against the NATO Imperialist military alliance.
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@luperamos7307 No born in Massachusetts USA. Their are small protests against the blockade in the US just as their was a letter writing campaign to free the Five Cuban anti-terrorist hero's. I grew up during the cold war just a few miles from an air base where B 52 nuclear bombers took off and landed 24/7. We saw the injustices on our TV screens the Black American beaten by police for wanting the Constitutional rights that the civil war guaranteed them 100 years earlier, the unjust slaughter of the people of Vietnam and the murder of 4 unarmed students at Kent State University Anti war protest by the Ohio National Guard. The media seldom realizes the more lies they promote the more idiotic they look.
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@drewski1441 No they are meant to advance the perspective of the German Imperialist regime or German capitalism. The American Imperialist are still much more hostile to Cuba when it comes to just about everything. They seek to an advance a more paternalistic attitude of being the wiser Europeans. If have been paying attention the NATO allaince is no where near as united as it was in the past. Trump told them to pay up for own defense, France lost an Australian nuclear sub contract to the US and withdrew their US Ambassador in protest and called the UK a vassal state of Washington. When Europe is cold this winter the American Imperialist glee over the NordStream sabotage will make for a lot of unhappy Eurozone Bosses. Putin collection of ex Stalinist gangsters are not radically different in thinking or in the social structure they defend from any Rightest European party.
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No Sowell just defines Socialism like he always has when government does things. He was the one who was thinking and believing the US Republican Senator Joe McCarthy lies that the US Government was coming under Communist Control. This is why Sowell the Marxist wanted a job at the US Labor Dept and discovered that his professors had played him like a fiddle.
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Basically this is nothing more than a rightist attack on public schools to push the goal of private for profit schools. In other words children learn best when teachers are paid less.
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@kylemccormack1785 I'd say if Stalin had not built a nuclear bomb when he did we'd alread of had a nuclear winter caused by the Imperialist war in Korea.
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@petunialuna4801 The Big German Capitalist saved the NAZI party from bankruptcy. Naturally they wanted National Socialism because they would reap the benefits of war profiteering and a labor movement crushed by NAZIsm. Hitler's plan was to wipe out everyone East of Germany and Northwest of India so the Master Race of Germany could expand. The western imperialist though he was nuts. However he was there kind of nut and had he not signed a treaty with Stalin indicating he would attach the west next he probably would have been ignored by the western Imperialist in the hopes he would wear out Germany in a battle with the Soviet Union.
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@petunialuna4801 Fascism doesn't come to power through propaganda or elections rather its chief method is to destroy the labor movement with violence and destroy the rights to free speech and assemble.
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@petunialuna4801 You have to remember workers with the exception of the railroad workers had few rights before the citywide general strikes of the 1930's and the battles that built the CIO industrial unions. Plenty of workers went on strike and had organized mass picketing that ignored antilabor injunctions. Politicians writing laws and judges making decisions end up with egg on their face if they can't enforce them. That's one of the reason FDR proposed and Congress passed the Wagner Act. Plus the easiest way to foil De Sanis Questionnaire is to launch a campaign to give him the answers he wants leave him looking like a fool.
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@codeinecowboy8607 Actual Winston Churchill is hated more than Hitler in India.
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@JERRYR708 Repeal the Railway "slave" Labor Act. Tell the bosses to come to the table instead of buying politicians.
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@genegeneish Abolish the profit system and Private property.
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@kharnthebetrayer1575 Your a nutcase who plays video games and thinks we want a his truck, pipe wrenches and house. I can do anything a plumber can because I;m an electrician. Smarten up and stop acting as a plumbing fool for big business. "Abolish Private Property" The property used to exploit others. Personal property only losses it's social character.
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@neilreynolds3858 Like I said they only read what was permitted and were denied, "The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals" written by Trotsky in 1928. Since Trotsky was an Old Bolshevik and the most consistent opponent to Stalin. Trotsky was the last to be rehabilitated just before the break up of the Soviet Union. Only Cuba permitted the works of Trotsky in their libraries. Stalin had Soviet culture purged of all his political oppositions writings as anti Soviet works of propaganda. Communism is not a new doctrine of universal reform with its holy priests. Rather it is the historical materialist movemnet of one class the proletariat in its struggle with the other most important class in modern history the Capitalist of both victory and defeats. You will never understand the thinking of Marx without understanding the how the class struggle proceeds which isn't possible without political debate and discussion of the modern world. Of course she likes Trump because he's an isolated opponent of his own class making appeals to working people. She was trained in Stalinist theory where you ;look for allies among the capitalist class instead of to the power and strenght of the working class.
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@genericnamehere7602 No that's your argument. The communist movemnet split in 1928. With Trotsky leading the left opposition this is from "The Revolution Betrayed" Chapter 9. . The Soviet Union is a contradictory society halfway between capitalism and socialism, in which: (a) the productive forces are still far from adequate to give the state property a socialist character; (b) the tendency toward primitive accumulation created by want breaks out through innumerable pores of the planned economy; (c) norms of distribution preserving a bourgeois character lie at the basis of a new differentiation of society; (d) the economic growth, while slowly bettering the situation of the toilers, promotes a swift formation of privileged strata; (e) exploiting the social antagonisms, a bureaucracy has converted itself into an uncontrolled caste alien to socialism; (f) the social revolution, betrayed by the ruling party, still exists in property relations and in the consciousness of the toiling masses; (g) a further development of the accumulating contradictions can as well lead to socialism as back to capitalism; (h) on the road to capitalism the counterrevolution would have to break the resistance of the workers; (i) on the road to socialism the workers would have to overthrow the bureaucracy. In the last analysis, the question will be decided by a struggle of living social forces, both on the national and the world arena.
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@ricpel9975 You to soft on the capitalist their whole system need to be done away with that's the only way their will ever be peace in this world. You can never expect to have peace with these idiots fighting over who gets to sell what where and make the biggest profit possible. The first thing to do isn't gun control its ICBM nuclear weapon control.
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@andrewferrauiolo4618 Abolish private property, the property used to exploit others. Make having a family again possible say no to Warren Buffet who brags about paying less taxes than his secretary and the BNSF Better Not Start a Family type bosses.
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If the bosses could just raise prices they would fight so hard against raising wages. A raise in wages cuts into boss profits.
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The US Gov't refuses negotiations and refuses to allow US companie to negotiate for themselves. The blockade will end because it is unjust and everyone knows it is. It will become more and more a political liability for US policy. You spent 20+ years pretending that China was Taiwan also. Ten years refusing to recognize the Soviet Union. It took about 5 minutes to recognize Hitler and Franco though.
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@hershellacey9405 You always dream of owning everything. Making everyone into the slave of private property.
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@hershellacey9405 What's your point then? The American Imperialist think they can buy up whole countries and then dictate what they can and can't do. The days of the banana republic ended with the Cuban revolution. The successes of US Business imposing its will in Latin America are limited. The election of Juan Guido by the US and Western Europe as President of Venezuela was a diplomatic failure. The votes of the US and NATO allies didn't count in the Presidential elections of Venezuela. It's difficult for the Imperialists to gain any political support when they bring nothing but demands for more concessions to the Imperialist bankers to the negotiating table.
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Sowell gets paid to tell conservatives what they want to hear.
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@PeaceLoveStrength An :"Honest President" who was an FBI informant code named T-10. A governor who ordered a police massacre over a vacant dirt lot. What I like best about Reagan is he signed an immigration amnesty bill and the New York Accords ending the war in Angola recognizing his ally South Africa's defeat.
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@christophersantana5895 Put him up for sale and then pay off the national debt.
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Vox Daze So your an advocate of racism among non whites? Sounds like identity politics to me.
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Free GAZA from Hamas!!!
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@JustMark87 No Democrats sat on their hands and did nothing while rightests chipped away at abortion rights. That's because rich women will always have access its the poor who will be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term or seek an illegal abortion.
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Capitalism not providing the opportunity promised? I guess you really don't understand economics and propaganda.
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@Bodge18 No, They're part of the propaganda effort to keep capitalism alive in the UK. Otherwise they'd be complete separated from state power and taxed not just in the UK but Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They along with the peerage are just so many fossils kept alive for use against the working class. Those elected to the English Parliament and who serve in the British Army swear an oath of allegiance to "...Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ..." No one in the UK system swears allegacy to anyone or anything besides the fossils called Kings and Queens.
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@Bodge18 When Che carried out the executions of those who were Batista spies in the 26th of July's guerilla army or those who were tried and convicted of war crimes something Bastas police and army seldom did you call that murder. So what do you call it when the British army shoots down peaceful protestors in 1972 Bloody Sunday. All sworn to defend the British monarchy! Long ago it was said by Thomas Paine that the King need not speak when an act of parliament will do. If the Brits wanted a figure head and not a cult of personality than a sculpture would certainly serve the purpose much more cheaply. They spent over 400 years and are still trying to get just the right mix of Bourgeois Parliamentary Democracy and Monarchal Tyranny.
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@Jd 04techreviews The sun has set on the British Empire. Goodbye EU. Hello to the class struggle.
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@idontgiveafaboutyou Other than the Stalinists and those who followed Stalin who murdered our faction (loyal communists) as admitted to in Khrushchev's speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU. Who did we execute unjustly. Ayn Rand was a well know opponent to Bolshevism from the beginning. In her account of Soviet Life included leaving St Petersburg so she could be on the other side of the civil war (No jail time or execution when the whites were defeated and she could not escape "Red rule".) Complains about being purged from University for being a bourgeois student where that decision nullified as it should be. (She would have been rejected by any Russian University prior to the Oct revolution because women were not allowed to attend.) She tried to get a travel visa to a hostile country (the US) that had invaded the Soviet Union and that had no diplomatic relations with the USSR until 1930. (She left in 1926 with a legal visa.) Her father's pharmacy in St Petersburg was lost no doubt due to leaving it with a locked door to the needed medicine during the civil war. So just how did she suffer at the hands of the early Soviet Union?
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@jonathantaylor6926 This is class struggle workers vs capitalist bosses and their politicians. Strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amendment.
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@Noname-dr1jm By hammering away against Imperialist war you trap the capitalist within his own nation. Then you can demand he meet the needs of the working class instead of driving down the price of labor for bigger profits. In the end he must surrender to the socialist revolution since bankruptcy is not the only solution.
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@idkidk3893 True about the labor unions and we a for them getting bigger and defending the rights of working people as a whole on and off the job. By hammering away at Imperialist war you prevent the capitalist solving the problem of the economic crisis with world war like in the 20th Century WW1 and WW2. With the end of WW2 the American capitalist were able to revive themselves by floating Marshall Plan loans to rebuild Industrial Western Europe and Japan. Communists are for development not destruction by war. We don't want the clock set back to primitive accumulation.
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@Noname-dr1jm Civil war become necessary when bourgeois Imperialist forces obstructed development by making alliances with feudal and warlord elements. China was free in 1949 and went back to capitalism in 1989. Democratic India was free in 1946 with an extra 40 years of capitalism its still behind China. Spain spent years under a fascist dictatorship and is now a kingdom. Same with Saudi Arabia. Unlike many countries in Western Europe capitalism is no longer capable of overthrowing feudal relics in a therogoing democratic revolution but instead they find allies in these relics and methods of a bygone era.
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@xchen3079 Sowell probably lives in a SF Bay Area mansion instead. You can take bets that he doesn't live in Oakland.
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@xchen3079 The change from family farming to industrial worker is what breaks up families. A boss need only pay you to return to work for the next pay period. If the capitalist market goes down then the workers are laid off to say on wages but the expenses continue. On a family farm the work is shared among the whole family including the children. If welfare is only given to women with children not whole families than the man will be pushed out into the ups and downs of the job market that only pays for his subsistence. Of course conservatives want the family to be supported by the worker but then the they don't want to pay the wages necessary to support the whole family. The capitalist wants control of everything so he can make the biggest private profits. Education and healthcare are just government and boss overhead expense to be minimized. After all capital works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. This initially drives profits their way until prices slump towards the cost of production. Then the rate of profit must decline.
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@xchen3079 Obama lives on Martha's Vineyard which is an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A Thomas Sowell is listed for Belmont , CA
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@xchen3079 Child factory labor in United States factories abolished before I was born. Child labor in Agriculture was common right up to the 1970's. Migrant farm workers brought their children to work with them. United Farm workers union demand an end to Child labor and schools for children of migrant farm workers. You think family is abolished by reading a book by Marx? Very funny. Capitalism abolish traditional family by making everything for sale. Capitalist still face mass industrial trade unions in the Imperialist nations. Companies pay higher wage to keep trade union out of the business. Nevertheless typical workers are more likely to NOT have two parent family than past generations.
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@xchen3079 Did you ever read book Maoism vs. Bolshevism
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re you a I don't want to insult you but to get elected president like Obama you need a majority of electoral votes from the states. In almost all states the candidate that wins the majority of votes in that state gets all the states electoral votes. When Obama first ran for President he was a Senator from Illinois. Professor Sowelll has never run for any office to the best of my knowledge. The Hoover Institution pays Sowell to do whatever he wants. Obama is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School. Lots of members of the Black Panther Party came from Oakland. As Oakland was the origin of their Party. In China you have one Communist Party in the US you have more than one party that claims to be the "Communist" Party. The reason being is disagreements that developed in the Russian Party and the Communist Intentional after the death of Lenin. The failed Chinese Revolution of 1928 was one of those issues.
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@xchen3079 To the best of my knowledge atrice Cullors lives in Los Angles, CA which is the other major urban are in California besides the Bay Area of San Francisco/Oakland. Obama is a Democrat and Democrats are NOT communists but capitalists while Sowell is obviously a Republican the other big capitalist party in the United States. Obviously you learned your communism from Mao who learned it from Stalin who turned it into a state religion. That's why you think communism abolishes the family. Stalin was a one time candidate for the Orthodox Priesthood.
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@xchen3079 Maoism leads to defeats like that in Indonesian. Stalin lead the 1928 defeat in China. In fact Stalin lead defeats in Germany Spain and France The Chinese Stalinist put the Trotskist in prison or the fled to the West after the revolution. That never happened in Cuba. We are the real communist movement not he American Stalinists who have all but crumbled into nothing. Do you remember reading Marx on how the capitalist in England passed the 10 hours law? The capitalist make concessions to the class struggle. We have bultl big industrial trade unions in the United States we have taken the capitalist at their word and brought them screaming and kicking into court where they have had to acknowledge our right to have a legal party. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. We lead mass protest against the war in Vietnam. We are preparing a socialist revolution right here in the United States and we know how to defend ourselves both legally and with the class struggle. Stalin, Mao and the second International were class collaborationist. They are ALL revisionists. Mao says the National bourgeois is revolutionary in New Democracy that is totally false. The National Bourgeois ran away with the Imperialist to Taiwan and now the CCP has brought them back at the Foxxcon factory in China. CCP can not defend both the working class and the National bourgeois. It has become a party for the capitalist in China and the new billionaires. It wants to create a Chinese Imperialism with its first aircraft carrier and its first new military base in Sri Lanka.
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@xchen3079 You such a smart guy you should be a bourgeois professor like Sowell and you can help save whatever Imperialist country you like Mr smarty pants. Thanks to the Cold war I was invited to attend MIT so no I know nothing about science, math computers or engineering. We just use to crash the IBM 360 at MIT for laughs.
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@xchen3079 I guess I;m still that 20 year old student back at MIT in 1972 who is disappointed in his professors political conservatism and left to become a revolutionary.
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@xchen3079 Cuba has no need for a Stasi or secret police like the FBI in the US because they don't have a ruling capitalist class that is afraid of its own demise. They didn't do what Stalin did in the Soviet Union after Lenin died and the didn't do it now in Cuba either. The ruling class put our leaders in jail in the past but like I said we know how to defend ourselves so they are less successful. Those who though the British workers would never rebel didn't see the British General Strike coming. Capitalism must come to a end because of its own natural workings. The ruling Imperialist nations classes are to greedy to peacefully divide the world market among themselves. You claim to be a scientist than you know that capital can not produce by itself becauae otherwise a perpetual motion machine would be possible. You also know that people like George Sros and Bill Gates are just profiteers who took advantage of markets. That education among the working people is what drives against capitalism. The more who understand how it works the less space the capitalist will have to maneuver. The more who question ruling class policy the more who will come to agree with us. The rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy was only possible in the poverty of the Soviet Union as it was not inevitable. As Trotsky said if our generation isn't strong a ready enough for Socialism a future generation will be. We have very good relations with the Cuban Party we Publish books by them and go sell at the Havana book fair. They have no need for anther party since they are already a revolutionary leadership. We don't have to agree on every single thing in world history or every policy to get along with other in the world socialist movement. You think like a sectarin Stalinist who needs to have an enemy to battle in order to rise in the party.Maybe you would like t read three Chinese Generals in the Cuban Revolution in /Chinese. Pathfinder Press.
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@davidlafleche1142 The origin of the capitalist profit lies in the exploitation of the working class. Karl Marx Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Lenin.
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@mrbigglezworth42 Stanford University pays Sowell to sit in a chair across campus from those he criticizes and live in a bi racial liberal neighborhood. Sowell knows quite well that to bite the hand that feeds him means excommunication from academia. Sowell admits that he wants more for doing even less. He just another Bill Clinton stamped with the Republican logo.
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@oliverb.8995 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Capitalism destroyed the Black family when Black people went from being sharecroppers to industrial workers. Instead of the family being the basic production unit on the farm a capitalist boss need only hire a single worker not a family and the business cycle further exacerbates the situation with layoffs.
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@Ghostiification Corruption is a disease that comes from capitalism with the use of money and profits as the way to judge everything. Nothing is ultimate in a world where there is no firm ground and therefore no special frame of reference. Capitalism comes to an end because its flaws only become apparent as it develops. The genius of Marx was to foretell us what he saw after careful observation.on the workings of the system and the course it must take as it develops. Every defender of capitalism has found it necessary to deny the basic truths about the general tendencies of capitalism. The general tendency towards monopoly and combination of industry to keep up an average rate of profit. The development of an ever smaller ruling class of capitalist and the pushing of the middle class professions into the ranks of the wage workers. The shifting back and forth from using capitalist profit to expand production that eventually becomes too much for the market to absorb resulting in a shift towards driving up the value of capital until this produces a cris when the workers can't buy back all that can be produced causing the capitalist to order the layoffs which only exacerbate the economic crisis as the value of capital now falls..
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@denissullivan5035 Pol Pot ended up being supported by President Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter. Fidel died as a Communist and has a legacy that continues.
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The sole intention is to cut the social costs of immigration from the state budget while giving a green light to police harassment of immigrant wrkers.
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@masudawan8357 Tony Blair head of the British Labour "Imperialist" Party criticism leader of the Western Imperialist alliance Biden on how to lose a war.
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Government is controlled by the ruling capitalist class who only act in the popular will to rein in renegades who threaten the capitalist class overall ability to make profits. Government wasn't set up because people are more important than profits. The ruling capitalist class obviously sees profits more important than the working class unless faced with class struggle
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@odelldaniel7868 Working women need the right to abortion to plan their lives and compete in the job market.
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@odelldaniel7868 Do the teach scientifically accurate sex education about birth control and use of condoms at the right to life meetings or at Sunday Mass or in the Church schools, public schools or at Planned Parenthood? Medicine is an overhead cost on the capitalist books and for the capitalist government. If a worker dies the capitalist can always hire another.
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@odelldaniel7868 Only women can reproduce children. Their bodies are special adapted to do that. Why should someone else have the right to control another's body? Slavery is the right to own another's body and the labor of that body. American capitalism destroyed slavery in a bloody civil war with no compensation to the slave owners. Why does Lincoln's Republicans party want to disadvantage women in the labor market?
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@odelldaniel7868 Well why don't men become responsible then? They can have all the babies they want now that the liberals have discovered that men can be women. "Women should have control of their one bodies but...." "Slaves should be free but...." Why do we need the Butinski? Because that's all these Pro Lifers are. They want to make decisions for others. They want to return to the days of abortion trials. Where a woman had to buy legal aid and appear before a humiliation board of male doctors and lawyers who would then decide who had a right to life a women or the product of conception. Because a fetus is NOT a baby until born. It's a product of conception. A fetus has no rights because before birth its incomplete. Medicine is voluntary and should remain that way not forced upon or denied to someone. No one should worry about dead sperm and no one should worry about dead fetus because achieving maxim production of babies by saving sperm and fetus life is not only unnecessary but a ridiculous cause of idiots only. To be Pro Life you must be Pro Death also because life always ends in death anyway.
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@steves6756 The poor choose Socialism and National self determination over Imperialist domination. The 1917 Russian workers State was born out of the 1914 first Imperialist World War. You don't know what you are talking about since you think socialist all the same for the same reason you think communists are all the same you look around and listen to bourgeois propaganda because the dominate ideas in any society are the ideas of the ruling class. One only needs to read the communist manifesto to understand that. That's because you are hung up on labels. You need to have truth in labeling laws otherwise its so easy for the capitalist to fool you because they are so greedy and they need to convince you that is not true. Then need to keep passing laws to say they are fair and don't cheat and they punish cheaters. You love trade so much why do you pass and enforce trading with the "commie" enemy trade strangulation laws? You own house, America's house, is falling apart because you'd rather pile up money in a bank than pay repair costs. They flee from the crisis created by the world Imperialist system of trade and profit. You take the victims of you free trade laws put them on planes and send them back where they came form. You say America all full up now can't take anymore because your bosses only create for market and printing dollars by your US Federal Reserve Bank is the biggest marketing scam in world history. Keep passing out paper while demanding we give you even more back. It works only on those ignorant of basic economics. Too bad you capitalist can't just print you way out of Das Kapital and Lenin's short pamphlet on Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism. A sign over the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York City should read "United We Can't Win and Never Too BIG to Fail".
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@odelldaniel7868 Okay so now you sign on with the Democratic "Imperialist" Party of Bourgeois hypocrites for them an abortion is just a plane ticket or Big Doctors Bill away. Like Hillary Clinton who said, "Abortion should be rare but legal." Rare for the working class and legal for hers. The Democrats will also pass a new law repealing the no sleeping under bridges law. Allowing more Immigrants to sleep under bridges across the Rio Grande.
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@BerraRazuke1 Did you stop reading The Manifesto at Chapter Three Part One Section 3? Reactionary (In opposition to) Socialism. I don't think anyone reading the paragraph in full would find it complementary to be called a "True Socialist". I mean if you think "..all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature.(3)" Sounds complementary? Maybe you need to leave the Steam Room and look else where for your brother. Your contacts could have fallen out
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@steves6756 That has always been the way bourgeois law works. It expands and contracts based upon the perceived needs of capital. Naturally you don't need a vaccine if your hired "illegally". Any dumb bell should understand that. If you are illegal you get vaccinated to hide the fact that your illegal. You don't go around and say "Ha Ha Ha Ha I'm illegal so i don't need to get vaccinated to get a job go to the gym or watch a movie because I'm illegal and your not. Nana Nana Da Nana " Your problem is the reading of too many story books instead of using your head.
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@odelldaniel7868 They call those boats and airplanes. The first built boats back in the time of Noah and Powered Airplanes when the Wright Brothers were having fun in North Carolina.
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@odelldaniel7868 When the pass the law and sign it into law then we will cheer.
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@steves6756 Look sorry but punctuation was not my strong suit professor. Obviously if you tell everyone that the streets are paved with gold and freedom people will come here even if its just to see for themselves. Believe it or not people in other countries actually listened to all that hoopla that you blasted during the cold war over Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. They watch reruns of American movies and TV shows with subtitles. You have that Lady in New York harbor. With that inscription give us your tired your poor and your hungry. Leon Trotsky lived in Brooklyn, NY as an exile he was the co leader of the Bolshevik revolution with Lenin. Organizer of the Red Army victory. This is an advanced capitalist country which makes even riper for communism. To be picked like a plum.
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@odelldaniel7868 Not a child until it leaves the birth canal and takes a breath.
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@arahantiusdetache5103 Pope says Okay for followers to use product whose origins were stem cells. See even Pope change his mind.
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@steves6756 Cuban American are protesting blockade by Biden they don't want the strangulation policy. Sure we are a minority now just as we were a minority in Russian until the revolution. Numerically the capitalist are always fewer then the working classes. Actually I'm in a trailer and use a chrome book connected to a Moto. Ideas that are true become part of the human mind. It's our ideas that carry out the invasion not our soldiers. We are defensive which is always how we proceed. Why Coast Guard block access and Congress make so many rules about trade with Cuba if you like capitalism and trade so much why the strangulation policy? Afraid Cuba become another China?
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@bluwng Right because I have free speech. Make bosses pay so workers can afford children instead of using force. Fetus has no rights because you need to be born first.
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@jr6200 An abortion occurs before birth not after dummie.
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@mikedavids2602 Then you can teach the sperm not to go after the egg. Give sperm lessons at your local church. Hold Sunday school for sperm.
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@jr6200 No rights until after birth. Does that answer question? Einstein says magnetism is the relativistic competent of the electric field. In other words magnetism is the result of moving electric charge. This is why you can't separate a magnet into separate North and South poles. Instead you get two new north south poles.
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@jr6200 No I've answered now you are dreaming up situations to obtain sympathy for the fetus so you can demand a policeman club a Doctor over the head for a violation of feudal law. If you want to play games go to the casino and give the bosses you money they will be happy to send you home with empty pockets.
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@jr6200 Because that's when you become a biological complete human being by taking a breath. You go from physical dependence on the mother's body to social independence and dependence on the rest of humanity. Now think about that critical time when one becomes two. Its actualy just like when two becomes one at conception. Its the women's body that does most of the work why do you need to control it? Why do we need every pregnancy anymore than we need every sperm or egg? Start with human needs and your going to come out with the right and not the wrong answer. Let the individual women make the choice not a government mandate like one child per couple or maximizing child production by making abortion illegal. Why do you want to teach responsibility by forced pregnancy so the most irresponsible are saddled with one of life's greatest responsibility. Stop trying to shame women for getting pregnant. Quit shoving cash register in everyone face over everything with a store detective behind every post.
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@jr6200 Once again you not paying attention the child is SOCIALLY DEPENDENT not PHYSICALLY DEPENDENT. Physical Dependence to Social Dependence because Social Dependence is is Individual Independence. See how words are interrelated. This is why government is both democracy and dictatorship. Social Independence is confusing I put it that way to see if you'd catch that to make you think. Why would a women go though 8 months 29 days and 23.5 hours of pregnancy to have an abortion? Actually you sound more like these Doctors who want to preform assembly line birth by cesarean sections in the day time for income maximization.
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@jr6200 Well Physically the fetus is dependent on one person. That's a fact not dogma. Once you born anyone can feed, cloth, bath, and shelter the baby that makes the baby socially dependent also a fact not dogma. The word Dogma comes from the Church who's ideas are called Church Dogma. Dogma is like saying everything must be done centrally because doing centrally is better. No some things are done better centrally some aren't. Most are best done by people who are the ones impacted. Now you could make an equal amount of left handed and right handed screws but most are right handed. Now why is that? I'm not sure but I don't think its just done dogmatically do you? Why are most people right handed and why do most European languages write left to right but some cultures use right to left. If you write left to right are you more likely to be right handed? Because writing with the opposite hand will smudge ink. I had a left handed uncle and my brother wanted to write left handed but they made him write with his right hand. I'm 69 years young.
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@jr6200 You clutching at straws at this point. Make any argument you want I gave you a materialist agreement and all you do is now say your capable of stretching a point. Next you be joining the liberals who have been trying to stretch men into women for the purposes of a fake equality. I can't see a situation where you would need to kill a baby because even in war usually there is another solution.
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@jamesclark4927 Look Boss you want me to go on vacation then you pay for the plane ride and the stay at Trump hotel.
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@Izziharassedbynycooficials I'm a Truck driver do you know how many Voluntary manslaughter raps I've beat when backing into a loading dock with a Russian boss? The Comrades say I got a reputation to keep not a schedule to meet. Same with making Children. We like sailors with a ship in every port.
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@BerraRazuke1 The Imperialism began as national capitalism that had outgrew its home markets needing foreign resources and foreign markets. The world is finite not like the infinite greed of the Imperialist ruling classes. There's only one solution to Imperialism ans that's Socialism and National Self determination. Despite all your nuclear missiles and drone aircraft you are militarily weaker today and more politically divided than at anytime in history since the end of WW2. The workers trade unions in the East remain intact and the defeat of the stalinist regimes was done not by the Imperialist but the masses themselves while "wanna be capitalist" "Stalinist bureaucrats" seized industries for themselves.
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We've had to fight both parties for our rights to have a legal organization since World War one. Wilson had Eugene Debs jailed for speaking against the Imperialist War and the same was done to our comrades by FDR in the First Smith "gag" act trial of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters union. We know how to fight for our Democratic rights against both parties of big business. We had Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell held in contempt of Court in Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General. We take workers constitutional rights seriously and have a history of pushing back against any witch hunts conducted by liberals or conservatives.
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@BerraRazuke1 "No, America didn't create imperialism," Ironically America was both the first colony to free itself and one of the last capitalist powers to become an Imperialist power seizing Spain's last colonies for itself. USMC Major General Smedley Butler does a good job of explaining what Imperialism is. "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." Foreign Investment backed up by military force.
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@BerraRazuke1 Right Britain was an outlying province of Rome and after the end of the Roman Empire it became a feudal state with a king.
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@jan_phd The Anti Abortion opposition is based on religious subjugation of women by men. The use of religion and the state to bully into women forced childbirth. Not a single priest has adopted a child and no one else can be forced into surrendering control of their body for another living persons benefit. Send the homeless to go live with the Pro Life hypocrites.
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This is the result of the two party capitalist dicatorship in Washington DC.
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@alanc745 Send the Rail Bosses a BIG tax bill if they cause a strike!!!
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@RaiseTheBar1976 Trump is now running a campaign to Save America. The working class needs to realize no one is coming to save us but ourselves.
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@RaiseTheBar1976 I not STUPID enough to vote DEMOCRAT. We need to start using Union power and then we need to form a labor party WITHOUT the bosses just workers to run for office. First take away the government and then take everything away from the capitalist bastards. Let them go find a job.
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@inisipisTV The worldwide failure of neoliberal capitalism is on full display. Bosses and Bosses governments from Washington to Beijing are in crisis as it becomes each nations boss class for themselves.
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@Tallacus The real answer is to abolish private property the property used to exploit other's. Just like what was done by the Cuban Revolution. Put production under workers control and use mass education to raise the cultural level of the working class. Close down the New York gambling casino and profit center Wall Street. Make every job a union job.
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@fersuremaybek756 No it's the economic stratification differences iin culture that lay at the heart of the problems in other words is economic class struggle not a special cultural struggle going on. Racism came with capitalism and colonialism and is being desrroyed in the class struggle against capitalist class society and its class culture by the proletarians which ate constructing a new world culture in and off itself. .
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@fortpark-wd9sx Its the defeat of racism and variety not diversity we stand for.
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@aoeu256 The Democrats promise social spending and the Republican tax cuts no one can eat their promises. .
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Unlike the poster of this video I don't go around pretending to be someone else. @rcnelson
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@poopshoes7579 Ideas of racial superiority came with the new Capitalism system. That's what racism is based in not dislike or fighting among other tribes. The fact that I have to explain what it was shows what a defeat it has taken in the 20th Century with all the defeats of the Imperialist system by the colonial slaves. All the capitalist Imperialist foreign investors Empires of capitalism suffered defeats in the 20 th Century both internally and externally.
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@sc6210 Ya well you should be sent to prison for a vote that was never counted. This is the kind of shit you'd expect in Saudi Arabia.
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Telling you what you want to hear no doubt.
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@1014p Rand Paul wasn't he the one who said gov't healthcare would make Doctors into slaves?
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@1014p Some individuals are "responsible" like the rich and those who don't want to lose their credit rating while the poor who can't pay outrageous bills well they shouldn't have gotten sick or hurt on the job to begin with right? After all people like Biden, Trump, Bloomberg, Soros, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are just indispensable right? The only healthcare that will work for the working class is the Cuban type of healthcare system.
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@1014p I've have never claimed to perfect but I'm not easily fooled you need to get up very early in the morning if you think your going to pull the wool over my eyes. I'm not overly impressed by people with degrees from Harvard after all I'm an MIT dropout and my father was just an electrician who did his apprenticeship on the railroad.
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@parrishtv1991 DeSantis does NOT have the constitutional authority to make foreign policy or to violate the due process or equal protection clauses. of the 14th Amendment. Chinese law applies in China not the United States. China got rid of the landlord system. In the United States you have the landlord system. .Landlords own land make the farmer pay rent or lease if he can not buy land.
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@roughhabit9085 Sure let's all have a parade and pass out lolly pops for fools who believe in Sowells and the bosses theory of scarce resources and not the scarcity of ideas among a ruling class that sees its system in a state of chaos and is losing its self confidence. Ask yourself when in the history of mankind have we not found new ways to use what we already have right here in nature on earth.
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@johncampanella622 Rent gouging capitalist can't make profits if everyone had a home. They need to use monopoly tactic to keep losing their wealth. They are the two big to fail bosses and bankers.
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@amb7440 Their homeless because the bosses can't make a profit off their misery.
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@chavonj4680 gov needs to bulid housing and stop wasting money on Spacex. Stop subsidizing Real Estate sharks.
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@andrewmo49 You idea of support is more do nothing talk.
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Joe Franklin We plane to "force" an end to private property as soon as we get a majority agreement to do so. Just as it became necessary to "force" an end to the Rule of George III and to "force" the end of southern slavocracy ownership of human beings as property with no compensation for the property "stolen" by Yankee Troops military power. "Force" plays a role in history. You have no problem using "force" with military and police power to keep your world capitalist empire in power. We will have no problem using "force" to defend the rights of the working class since they will make that decision.. Those who talk of a capitalist "non aggression principle" are either ignorant of history or liars.
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Without a central capitalist state military and police power to force its decisions made in so called free markets how would the Empire maintain its power? The only right capitalism defends is the right to buy and sell at the property owners price. The workings of capitalism guarantee that the number of property owners declines while their wealth increases.
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Joe Franklin Children have the right to learn and study. Of course since that work, which yields no direct profit, is considered a waste of tax dollars which they view as lost profits. Instead the capitalist consider only that work and workers who can make the bosses richer and defend their system as essential. Everything else is considered red ink on their balance sheets. A cost which needs to be eliminated as a way to halt a decline in the rate of profit caused by replacing labor with machines.
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Joe Franklin One only needs to turn on the TV to see the actions of the Empire in the Middle East. Neither Iran or Iraq sends Congressmen or Senators to Washington. So where does the right to military intervention in other countries business come from? It is a right developed from centralized US military power slone. The only debate among the ruling parties is should the US President infomed Congress before taking that action. The rights of the people of Iraq or Iran are completely ignored second only to whatever the people in the US think.
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Joe Franklin Naturally as a worker I don't understand the grand theory's of the Poison Ivy leaguer's overeducated capitalist meritocracy. As a new rule and regulation all deplorables shall be required to genuflect twice on Sunday before the bosses lackeys in government and industry.
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@koichinishi9075 It is a complete crisis caused by capitalism.
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@koichinishi9075 Capitalism is based in the nation state but operates in the world market. The world market is finite so competition for those finite markets breaks out which leads to trade war and then real war. Globalism is not the direction the world's national based capitalist classes are and will take. Instead the are already entering into trade wars over who gets to sell what at a profit where because they have all entered an era of overproduction. The ability of capital to make more than it can sell at a profit. Our ideas are based in materialism not idealism. Idealism is where you get together decides upon ideals like say those expressed in the bible and try and make everything fit into that box. With Marxism we start with facts and draw generalizations from those facts. We aren't always right but we are right more often than wrong. Let say our ideas are too idealistic. Well do you think world war III will provide the final fix for capitalism?
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@koichinishi9075 You think of capitalism as a lemonade stand. That's about the sum total of your understanding. I don't see any understanding of the world market problems I bought up. Want to comment on the bosses rivalry developing between the US and China? Guess not. You live in the world of a big business selling of the 5 cent cup of lemonade to sidewalk passerbys. What if someone opens a lemonade stand on the other side of the street? Now you have competition just like Chinese and American steel companies. Do you think US Steel wants to have to shut down operations at a mill because of world market competition? How about the Chinese company?
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@TonyDQT Actually communism promotes innovation because we will raise the general cultural level of the working people with free education and any labor saving measures that use to throw people out of work now benefit all. Your problem is you confuse the labor aristocrats with communists. Do you have an idea how many people want union jobs like autoworkers?
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@TonyDQT Everyone hanging around naked sounds like a college prank not like any kind of serious comment. Then again maybe you like self amusement. Have you considered sitting with your thumb up your ass at the Kiwanis club.
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End all sales of arms from the US to Saudi Arabia. They can read about it in their controlled press along with a breakfast cup of Saudi crude.
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@billythetaco6002 Another disaster caused by the two party capitalist dictatorship in DC.
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@chseahawk Man began taking God out of the picture when humanity began practicing medicine.
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Because of the hostility of the two different social property forms. On one hand you had the ownership of human beings. The other required a free labor market where the slave can rent himself out to the capitalist bosses. Slavery was hostile to capitalism just as capitalism is hostile to socialism.
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Do you think United States was a paradise of free thought during the McCarty years? Or during Segregation? Affter all the NAZI's paterend their Nuremberg racial laws upon the Segregation laws of the United States. Laws written by Southern Democrats and found Constitutional by Northern Republican Supreme Courts.
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@bogglerful Big Government? A good slogan now can he explain what the hell it is he is talking about? Big Business government?
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@jerrycave5331 And where does the "hard headed" intellect the "national treasure" Thomas Sowell live and work but in the rarified air of the intellectuals at the elite Stamford University sitting in the Milton Friedman Chair endowed by the richest people on the planet. A Thomas Sowell lives in Concord, CA a suburban town with a big population of self described multi racial individuals.
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Blah Blah Blah. When did American capitalist care about human rights? Twenty million Soviet Workers died to defeat fascism. When did Democrats do anything for labor?
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@ConnecticutEmporium I watched plenty of videos of Cuban people with only an overweight guy saying he was hambre (hungry).
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Property owners and Capitalist have a government set up to protect their assets. The natural way for capitalism is to work is for wealth to accumulate in fewer hands with bigger value. Then the natural way for the accumulation of capital is for the rate of profit to go into decline. To make profits the capitalist must exploit labor. Today the capitalist have detached the value of currency from gold or labor. This allows them to inflate the currency with a central bank to cut wages. The creation of wealth is done by labor not capital. .
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@Daniellihomes If its actually a one man or family business where your both the labor and the management than obviously you can't exploit yourself. However if its a capital management operation than its just another example of capital exploiting labor. Small business doesn't become big with crushing others including the employees in the process. People who do odd jobs all their life to get ahead end up worse off than workers who get social security. The economic system favors capital and large firms. That's why most people in the US don't live off small subsistence farming anymore and Walmart and Amazon have a stranglehold on most of the so called free market no one goes to the local blacksmith to get nails or uses horses for everyday transportation. When the Cuban revolution broke out no one was told they could be an administrator. What they were told is they could use their positions to exploit others. Administration is a skill like ant other. The goal of a capitalist administration is rate of profit maximization. To make do nothing shareholders rich capital must be monopolized to hold up prices which tend to fall towards the cost of production. Other wastes of value include a military to defend the foreign investments of the Empire.
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@michelangelobuonarroti916 If you vote for me on Wednesday I will pay you $1000 on Thursday.
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At the end of the day the American Police and MS-13 will merge. This is because both are really criminal gangsters.
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Prices are way higher in Alaska than in the lower 48. The Alaska money comes from oil revenue. The real goal is to end all benefits but Social Security which will be cut by $1,000. This is his own words on the Ben Shapiro show. The benefit is not meant to live on so get ready to buy some apples or open up a lemonade stand.
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@estebanbareiro1270 THIS SUCKS BIG TIME Both my wife and I are on Social Security each of us receives more than the dividend and no private pension. People on welfare programs consist of the elderly and disabled under the state/federal SSI payment limit, those on TANF, Food Stamps, housing assistance, general assistance and UI. What this new program will do is buy McD's for the new homeless expected to be created by Yang silicon valley barons of tech supporters. Yang on the Ben Shapiro show makes it clear that this is a program to manage us, which we can't be expected to survive on and cut social program costs in the interests of big business capitalists owners like Shapiro which is why Shapiro likes it so much. Rewrite the 1938 Fair Labor Standards act for a 30 hour week with no cut in pay and boost the overtime premium to triple time or face a socialist revolution like that lead by Fidel Castro in Cuba.
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There reasons the elderly and disabled don't just go to work. Medical conditions, healthcare costs and lack of part time and full time jobs that don't create more healthcare costs. No one is going to hire a 55 year old at what you could make when you were 25 and if they do you are going to be set up to be dismissed within a year because companies want to save healthcare costs.
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It does come with strings attached. He says he wants a constitutional amendment preventing you from using as a asset for a debt. The capitalist want us in debt to keep us working but they do want us to default or go bankrupt. Bankruptcy is only OK for big companies who want to take our jobs, cut our wages and break our unions.
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@estebanbareiro1270 Why would the upper class (10%) want upward mobility? It gets lonely at the top and they want their children up their with them not down here with us.
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@ELee-zv5ud The American and other capitalist ruling classes are incapable of doing anything about climate change since to do so would require economic planning and bringing modern energy to the rest of the world to replace wood burning cooking fires.
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@antikokalis No such concession on our part. You were unable to defeat in war what was left in 1991 after Stain had destroyed Lenin's party in 1938. The best you could do was to set up a 1945 containment wall and pray for victory since you lost your two post 1945 big "police actions" in Korea and Vietnam.
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@w.s8676 TEAM AMERICA Like Trump, Obama, Soros, Koch, Bloomberg, Bezos, Gates, and (Mark) Cuban? These are the same people who will lecture to death on the free market and how capitalism is best. The President and Congress sat around doing nothing while the virus spread. The had little to nothing in reserve and what did have they had a hard time finding. No doubt they like George Bush realized to save the free market we must intervene in the free market. Of course the Bosses aren't going to react in a temporary situation and make more protective equipment available it would interfere in their profit plans of just in time production. Meanwhile they are thinking about how free markets solve everything,' price signals and other horseshit theories based upon the invisible hand of capitalism.
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@w.s8676 Capitalism brought you two world wars. The winner of both wars was the United States not counting "Who Lost China" because of geography now a third will not leave the US mainland untouched. The American capitalist know that and that's why they want a space force and an anti ballistic missile shield. They been talking about winning a first strike war for decades. General Curtis LeMay urged Kennedy to do that during the "Cuban missile crisis" Kennedy didn't want 1/2 or any part of the country incinerated. Reagan also liked the idea but the scientist said it couldn't be done. With the end of the "cold war" came they though they had won the war. They announced a "peace dividend" thinking they'd have smooth sailing from that point forward. What the capitalist can never account for is their own greed creating crisis after crisis. 2000, 2008, 2020.
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@PIB2000 Liberals hope to lull the workers to sleep with their phoney promises of a better capitalist government.
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@w.s8676 When all else fails call you opponent bad names like you playng the role of a capitalist dupe.
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@themonrovian8441 Right their called that because you need to get back at liberals calling Trump a fascist.
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Tuho The mainland Chinese capitalists ARE the Chinese Communist Party. They fear themselves? I don't think so.
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@libertarious Did you ever actually read it or do you just read what anti communists write about US. Comrrade James Cannon rose to testify in the 1940 Smith "gag" Axt trial of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis teamsters when being violence bated about the Workers Defense guards drilling in Minneapolis. "We say the workers have a right to defend themselves and if that is treason so be it. " We still publish the trial testimony as one of the best explanations of the communist movemnet ever published.
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@loulasher Just when did Fidel Castro abuse his power the way American capitalist politicians due. Castro never launched a wichunt against political opponents like FDR, Truman and the spy master J Edgar Hoover? Did Fidel Castro ever go around bragging about how he is the leader of the so called free world. As far as professor Richard Wolf gies he tells lies about the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party promising not to lead a revolution to FDR in exchange for New Deal reforms. Nor have we followed the petti bourgeois left into the middle class professionals like you who shamelessly parrot the Conservative British Imperialist leader Margaret Thatcher. As far we are concerned you can take your money and shove it. We don't want it.
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@somebloke13 Like every good defender of capitalism you need a perch to look down upon the rest of the world without realizing the perch you are standing on is crumbling beneath your feet. Capitalism produces a world in constant flux and change. Giant industries arise only to be thrown in the trash bin for the more extensive and lower costs. No firm ground exists in a world with no special frame of reference. The politicians of American Imperialism Reagan and Bill Clinton who thought the had entered a new Jerusalem after the defeat of the Stalinist find themselves in a knock down drag out fight over who is for and against Democracy and who will be a Dictator. The economic crisis of 2008 tore apart all the theories of a capitalism working without the same problems of the machines modern industry have. An unexpected breakdowns that could have been foreseen if the ruling class had not been so enthralled with its assumed magical operation of the profit system. The ruling class which had been so convinced that centralize government power was the cause of the Stalinist economic problems now turned to the centralized power of government and the central bank to save themselves.
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@TearThatRedFlagDown The bosses alawys turn to fascism like Hitler, Franco, Mussolini and Pinochet when they see their system being threatened. The era of fascism ended with the victory of the Soviet Union over NAZI Germany it is not the threat it was in 1939. Rather the anti Comintern allaince was crushed in 1945.
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@michaelsalmon9832 You can't think your way into being the other sex.
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@michaelsalmon9832 Then as a materialist you would oppose the abolishion of biological women'a only facilities and sports in the name of trans rights and equality or would come down on the side of equal rights idealists? Science says we are born as one sex or the other. You may want to think or pretend you are another sex but you can't be the other sex. Should minors be surgically or hormonal transitioned or is that a form of child abuse?
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@michaelsalmon9832 Workers send their children to school and working women have demanded the use all women's facilities equivalent to men's in industry. I've worked in industries where we have bathhouses because we get very sweaty or dirty on the job. Coal miners had to fight to get soap in the bathhouse.
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@michaelsalmon9832 Materialism says that the ideas in our head originate from the material world. That ideas don't control material but instead material controls ideas. Economy like the natural world is in constant motion. Its capitalism that crates the propertyless proletariat that creates everything in the modern world while the capitalists accumulates possession of everything. Having a small ruling class is essential to early primitive accumulation and economic development but they become later on an obstacle to further development since the lose control to the natural workings of the profit system of private property and profit maximization.
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@michaelsalmon9832 Read Socialism Utopian and Scientific. Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests rather its is a movement and history of one class in the modern world the proletariat in struggle with victories and defeats with the other class the capitalist class. Our weapon in that fight is international class solidarity and the establishment of the workers state and trade unions to defend against the capitalist state and capitalist contortions. The building of Leninist parties is the mightiest weapon that can be wielded aganxst the capitalist. In order to have the freest discussion of communist ideas the proletariat must fight for the free speech of all under the conditions of capitalism. What kind of revolutionaries would we be if we simply dismissed the struggle for national independence by the colonial people as bourgeois nationalism? We being giving the bourgeois nationalist a weapon against the workers in the Imperialist nations. Instead we undercut the bourgeois nationalist by supporting the freedom of the colonial people right up to establishing their own state dispute its class character. That is why the nationalism of the colonial and semi colonial people is revolutionary nationalism that can only be carried through to it conclusion by the revolutionary proletariat in the Imperialist era. .
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@michaelsalmon9832 The capitalist Democratic Party is using the trans issue to attack hard fought for and won women's rights. The Cuban revolution remains socialist. Their are no Red capitalists in Cuba like in China. No stock market. No private property that can be used to exploit others. The fight by a socialist lead women's rights movement is to make it possible to bring women into industrial work and thereby strengthen the trade unions. If its not safe for a women to perform a job why is it safe for a man?
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@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 I suppose we should be like MLK and Gandhi and let ourselves be murdered instead? That way we can go to our graves as "nonviolent"
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@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 Sure they executed the so called anarchist who shot Lenin. The Red Terror became necessary during the civil war because the whites and other so called revolutionaries would not accept the decisions of the Bolshevik government whose legitimacy was shown with the Votes in the Soviets in Oct 1917. They decided that they were the true revolutionaries and they needed to use violence and terrorism to overthrow the Soviet government. Just like your self confessed anarchist terrorist Emma Goldman. Individual terrorism is counter revolutionary and was rejected by both Marx and Trotsky bit not the anarchist Goldman or Bakunin . .She decided to leave Russia and go to Germany where she worked writing a gossip column for a Democratic Imperialist Party rag called the New York World.
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Donald Trump was also a Democrat back then.
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@edwardst-pierre1020 We need a socialist system that recognizes the development of all benefits all not an age 5 or 6 examination that determines your hierarchical social status for life.
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@winomaster The rich are no more financially independent than anyone else without a working class for them to exploit those federal reserve notes would only have a paper recycle value. You require us but we don't require you.
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@winomaster That's a nice stereotype did you get it from some old book directed at the 1960's hippies? To bad none of it is true about me. Keep telling yourself that the money is good and extolling the advantages of how many things you can buy with it. Survey said, "Trump would lose." To bad things are not as simple as the "Family Feud".
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@trombone113 As long as you vote for the bosses two capitalist parties than you will get policies to advance capitalism.
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@ika5666 They are an international organization the capitalist elite. Like all capitalist they exercise their power with a combination of ideas, wealth and ownership of private property.
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General Batista was a corrupt dictator armed and supported by the United States. Twenty thousand died in the revolution to drive him from power.
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Unlike TYT I'm in no hurry to sign on with the FBI witch hunters over at the J. Edgar Hoover building. Hoover was America's first head of the American secret police from its founding until he died in office.
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The Hammonds say they had a legitimate reason to set the fire and that they government has been trying to force them off their land to put together a wildlife preserve buying up neighboring land. The Hammonds also point out that as ranchers they have every reason to preserve the land even more so than a government wildlife preserve that will be abandoned when the next Washington cutbacks occur.
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You mean like no citizen rights for immigrant workers who make up the bulk of Qatar's working class.
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When the invasion came at Playa Giron Fidel said they had a good plan what they lacked was a just cause. What holds the Cuban people back is the US Blockade of the island not the Cuban government. Thousands marched in July carrying the 26th of July movements flag of the rebel army. M-26-7
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@garyoldham4449 NATO is a pro American Empire Imperialist Military alliance. It is coming under strain as each ruling class has its own need to arm and choose partners for profits.
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@despicabledeplorablemgtow3837 Hayek is just another intellectual idiot playing games with words and who was looking for an excuse to pretend that capitalism can develop and function with a limited state power. As you can see it adds just more and more professional regulatory bodies to protect the incumbents along with terms of service to prevent even the most minor of competitions. Like the case where Microsoft bought criminal charges of fraud over the coping of free software that was copied with microsoft trademark still attached sending the Copier to prison after all other charges were dropped when the truth about the software was revealed in court.
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"Fair competition." No such thing obviously this guy wanted to take the other guys market and that is what this is really about. .
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@Gonya Kulie Its just a plan to target workers for more police harassment by the bosses state cops. No boss will pay a fine not overturned on appeal. They will play the victim in the bosses courtroom.
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U.S Army Airborne Infantryman Typical Imperialist bluster where all problems are solved by a US Marine invasion coupled with nuclear weapons if approved by the US President as a life saving measure.
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Kingy B NewsCorp has sunken to a new low with this Chinese Communist conspiracy theory.of the viruses origin. Only a week ago Rush Limbaugh was claiming the corona virus was another Democratic Party scheme to "Get Trump" with nothing more than the common cold.
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@mariaherradi8732 In Cuba the counter revolutionaries are starving for attention since they lack a just cause.
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I don't think the'll be loading Billion dollar assemble plants on to ships any time soon since they have been crying about the Chinese stealing their intellectual property.
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@AnaCara Its not some big secret teachers unions are their to represent the teachers. Just like the Chamber of Commerce represents businesses.
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@AnaCara Both parties are responsible for disaster preparation. Yet every time a disaster occurs the first thing they do is announce "Your on your own." They don't prepare for disasters because profits come first. They'd rather spend money on war prepartions to defend foreign investments.
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@MrDanielsahne Yes what would we do with a "genius" like Sowell discovering Karl Marx's flaws. Like how capitalism doesn't exploit the working class for profit, that limited resources being best distributed by "free markets" and that there are no solutions only trade offs. What would the world do without the leadership of the neoliberals in Washington, DC? Sowell spreads the gospel of neo liberal capitalism according to Milton Friedman. The same gospel and advice given to Regimes from Pinochet in Chile to Gorbachev and the Chineses. Shock Therapy coming to a society near you. You just don't realize what you missing free markets creating peace and democracy instead of war and dictatorship. All you need to do is follow the pied pipers of neoliberalism. .
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@september1683 High quality bourgeois propaganda from Thomas Sowell.
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@september1683 Sowell is mystified by capitalism which he spends his time glorifying as the ultimate achievement of mankind. His claims of having been a Marxist show only a vulgar understanding of Marx. His book Basic Economics can be summed up as a bourgeois mystification of the subject beginning with the definition. He begins by explaining that the Garden of Eden was not an economy because everything was available in abundance and economy is about scarcity. It's basically an attempt to take human labor out of the subject and dress it in objective bourgeois clothing and going on a binge glorification of free markets, supply and demand, and attack everyone else for not understanding why American capitalism is the true final system of human achievement. The only flaw being the government. Like all Bourgeois economic thinkers they fall on their sword once they venture into this area because it is completely a political subject now that no longer contains just the happy meal face of free markets, apple pie and Chevrolet. Most of his life has been spent hanging around the neoliberal Conservative Republicans whose political movement collapsed with the George Bush administration and the crisis of 2008.
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@danscalone8110 A lot of areas of the economy use to have fixed prices but it was decided it would be better to let prices be market driven such that monopoly prices could take over after driving competition out of the marketplace. It also became a reason to drive wages down. The only way workers can do better in the labor market is with unions and a minimum wage.
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@isaiahcastrejon8484 The goal of socialism is to remove things from the market such that they are available to all You can do this by producing for human needs where the workers see what they are doing is part of life and work is not something that is alien to you like it is under capitalism where industrial commodities are produced to make profits for the capitalists. To drive profits their way the capitalist are in a constant drive to cut production time by the use of new machines. They replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first. The agricultural ruling classes religiously worshiped what made they considered that made great them great. The water the land and the seasons of the year. They developed the first mathematics to count what the kept in storage and written records of their lives. The modern capitalist has a religion also he worships the machine, mathematics and science as his greatest benefactors. This is why the love the idea of Cryptocurrency. It is the promise of private and secret exchange paid for by the mining of special numbers found by computer time invested such that a ledger book can be verified. A supposed fool proof way of quarenteeing honesty. As one can see a MIT computer genius has now be arrested in a scandel where billions of dollars in crypto disappeared.
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@Cho Biden Trump, Cruz, Obama the Clintons are all Ivy League. The all repersent the same ruling capitalist class. Abortion will remain safe and legal for the propertied ruling class. Why because before Roe they had abortion humiliation boards where you brought in a lawyer to argue you had a right to have an abortion.
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You are realizing what a sham the whole system is. Goodwill is doing its best for the Goodwill CEO.
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@UnvaccinatedAmericans Yes your right Goodwill isn't an entity unto itself. An even bigger ripoff at Goodwill is the subminimum wage jobs. The only thing nonprofit about Goodwill and other charities is they don't pay dividends and of course they avoid most taxes. Places like Goodwill are usually run by a board of directors made of 'community leaders' (bankers and local manufacturing bosses) who then hire one of their own as a CEO. They like to talk about how they 'volunteer' for the board of directors which amounts to a couple of hours a month at best. None of their 'jobs' train you to do anything except work an unskilled job.
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Why is their no uproar? Because it's capitalism as usual. If the disabled make an uproar. Then they'll be an uproar.
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The irony of the whole thing is these "WOKE" bosses were the same ones who actual practiced meaningful racism and job discrimination with last hired and first fired policies. Now if you listen to the them we were the ones responcible becuse we don't have the Good manners of a Hillary Clinton. Clinton herself was a "Goldwater Girl"
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Authoritarian rule? Like when was the CCP not authoritarian like the authoritarians over at the British Empire or the authoritarians of the US capitalists two parties.
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@joecostantino3684 Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism can not bring peace or democracy. This is just part of the continued decline of American Imperialism. American Imperialism did not win the cold war. Rather the Stalinist regimes were dfeated by popular revolutions with wannabee capitalists taking over who were the most corrupt of the Stalinists.
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@mehg8407 The American Imperialist want war because its always good for the business profits they get to sell the armaments to destroy other people and then they get to sell more to those who fear war and lastly but not least they get to sell the products to rebuild. They get to call for national unity and sacrifice by the working class. This is why the boss class needs to be removed from power.
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Yes Marco Rubio is more than happy to sacrfice the Cuban people for his next Presidential election campaign.
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The Democratic Party is full of war mongers.
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A bunch ICE Scream men.
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Stalin biggest enemy wasn't Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, or Tojo. It was paper, ink, the pen, the typewriter, the mimeograph and printing press. His idea of revolution was to be the losing player in a game of whack a mole where the revolutions were the moles and the imperialists the winning wackers.
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If you want to understand capitalism than you need to read authors like Karl Marx VI Lenin Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro and Che.
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Six hour days with four shifts.
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De @AJ-jy6lb Down with the NATO Democratic Imperialists. Defeat for Russian Troops in Ukraine. Back to Lenin not forward with Putin. Socialism and national self determination. Build new Bolshevik parties in all countries and nations.
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@flatreality4213 All you need is a set of binoculars or a telescope and look across a body of water 10 km wide and you will find that you are unable to the person standing at the waters edge from the other side of the waters edge.
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@Kizzie4shizzie Fire the cops we don't need any of them.
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@v2919 When you role the dice in a preganacy do you want a crooked politician sticking his hand in your uterus?
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@noahblanco6105 Call out Hillary Clinton and the hurt feelings police. Get to a safe space while they doors are still open.
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@Gongolongo Its ability to accomplish anything is being limited by the economic crisis the American Imperialist investors capitalism finds itself in. Just like the war in Afghanistan with the best Afghan politicians and billions of military hardware for nation building that only resulted in a twenty year long defeat. Technology can't overcome the problems inherit in the capitalist mode of production. All the theories of neoliberal monetary policy went down to defeat in 2008.
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@walterm2618 Bankruptcy is what happens where company takes on debit and then defaults on its payments. The creditors then haul it in to court for reorganizations or dismemberment. A better explanation is to say they entered a period of economic and political crisis. That the roots of the crisis lay in the use of capitalist methods by the Moscow Stalinist bureaucracy to advance its own interests seperate and apart from the masses of working people. The end up going back to a type of capitalism because the bureaucracy was not capable of self reform no new communist leadership was created or developed out of that struggle. Most of the workers still belong to trade unions and many industries remain in state hands
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@sayeedshah1434 That was when Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter was supporting the landlords terrorist war against the Afghan government. The same type of reactionary forces that would attack the world trade center and provoke the US Imperialists into 20 year war of revenge on Afghanistan killing 100,000 and creating millions of refuges in one of the poorest nations on earth.
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You realize that Sowell believes that education is a waste of money and that it should be restricted because of scarce resources.
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@grondhero Sowell must have been a believer in conspiracy theories from the day he walked into a college class room. So much so that he must have believed that Republican Senator Joe McCarthy was correct and not a liar with claims that a secret takeover of the US Government by Communist was underway and he wanted to get in on the action. His professors must have played him like a fiddle by getting him a position at the US Labor Dept. Once their his hopes were quickly dashed by the cynicism of the top officials and the fear government civil services employees had of losing their jobs. What had been proved wrong is Ultra Right Republican Senators Joe McCarty's lies and not Karl Marx. Since he refused to discuss ideas with Communist instead wanting to "Make up his own mind" he either missed or never understood that the state, a special body of armed men is a product of the cleavage of human society into classes and the state is necessary to defend the ruling class of any particular era. That the proletariat can not readily use the Bourgeois state in the Communist Manifesto and later on after the experience of the Paris Commune that the proletariat must build a whole new state of its own. Lenin sets those who missed that fundamental idea straight in State and Revolution.
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@Say_When You are George Bush should meet and discuss the cure for erectile dysfunction. Hansen probably wrote a book on it also.
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@tkps Harvard give preference to legacy admissions. The ruling class has always had an "Affirmative Action" and "Head Start" policy for their children. You don't think Bill Gates education was the same as an inner city school or even that of an average High School.
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@thehopeforunderstanding9263 The man is an idiot who violated his own oath. He had his conviction overturned with help of the liberal ACLU.
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@SassaFrass28 The CCP is Alex Jones greatest boogieman. Tune in for Jones latest view from the Psy ward.
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They will own everything and you will own nothing is the motto of the capitalist bosses at the WEF.
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If the church was against killing people why did Cardinal Spellman endorse the US war in Vietnam? Who's going to take care of the so called 65 million babies? Not the Good Cardinal he is married to god and possible waiting to become pregnant with the next savior. Adopting children? That would be way to much like work. Is his housemaker serving him good food, washing his vestments and keeping the rectory clean? For the Cardinals sake I hope so nothing like having a few beers at the rectory either.
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@zhoubaidinh403 Trotsky would lead the left opposition to what would become the Stalinist bureaucracy. It was Stalin who would demonize him into an Arch Enemy of the people. Trotsky was falsely accused of being an agent of Hitler and Imperialism. Trotsky had been expelled from the Soviet Union and would land in the only country that would accept him as a political refugee the country of Mexico.
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"General" Senator Sanders can get off his high horse and move to Israel since he is Jew to seek a position in the Israel armed forces in creating a strategy to destroy Hamas .
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@shin-ishikiri-no The Black working class were the shock troops against racism1
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@wmcrockett3637 Its a ruling but State Judges who lack any Federal Judicial power.
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You try and run scabs at GM they the rest of the Unions will come out. The yellow dog non union contract is also illegal. Go back to your sofa and watch Playboy TV because you are a first class idiot drinking some very LSD laced sweet kool aide.
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@dknowles60 It is Non Ya who suggests running scabs and a return to the "yellow dog" contract. There are special companies now that provide scabs for small operators. I've been out on strike at Westinghouse years ago. The company will try to start a back to work movement and send out flyers about how the union is hurting the company unnecessarily. The bosses obviously wanted a strike by waiting to the last hours before making a contract offer and now that they have one thay aren't sure how to proceed. They've already backed down on taking the strikers healthcare. They've asked and received a boss judge's decision for a mass picketing injunction.
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@dknowles60 Where the hell is emc?
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The extreme right has always wanted a small government. Now Trump is giving them what they want. No government except for the cops and military. The prison guards, TSA, ICE and CBP will only work for free so long and then Trump will declare a self made emergency and send in the Marines to run the prisons, check air travelers and guard the border. He can then seek reelection as As America's First Military Dictator making capitalism great again.
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A better idea is to put ICE in the freezer.
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The only one capable of destroying his country is you!!! Luckily I only rent a camp space. You want to put all those city cops and county jail guards harboring immigrants in jails in jail fine with me. They could always decide not to arrest anybody then they couldn't be accused of harboring criminals in a jail. You're the kind of idiot who thinks "The Russians are Coming" is a left wing university researched documentary.
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The name was male when I was born check out the book KIM. I was born in a hospital paid for by Smith and Wesson not far from the first armory commissioned by George Washington. As a worker I don't have a country but as long as the United States claims me I'll use the rights entitled to US citizens. If the government sends me a letter making me stateless I seek a hearing at the UN among other things.
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What good is a choice of thieves? I'm not promoting a flood I am promoting a wage increase through amnesty. After Reagan granted amnesty wages went up. They will go up this time as well. The thing Trump is promoting is racism and fear of immigrants blaming them for the failure of the capitalist United States Empire. The only thing that will accomplish is lower wages for all. When any immigrant with or without a green card gets out of line the bosses will call ICE for a deportation. Trump is continuing Obama's record deportation policy. Liberals are promoting a border park with Mexico when the don't even have an open border with Canada yet.
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Wages will go up because skinflint bosses won't be able to impose their sub minimum wage rates. Bosses won't be able to call Immigration when ever someone or a group of workers protest their conditions of work. By getting rid of immigration rules that are used to send back legal immigrants to get a status change on their green card for minor problems that will also help. Let's not forget the bureaucratic bumbling US embassies and consulates that keep those with family petitions waiting for decisions. Obviously when you (you singular tense) are running the most powerful Empire humanity has ever seen things get difficult.
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I edited out Google spell check errors. They are able to impose sub minimum wages at carwashes by paying piece rate wages. Newspaper delivery, domestic labor and some restaurants are exempt from FLSA because they are not within the scope of interstate commerce. Immigrants fill those and many other low wage jobs including farm labor. Despite the propaganda that a rise in the minimum wage will kill jobs just the opposite happens. More jobs are created because the increase in demand for everyday goods rises with wages. While capital creation (profits) go down. Voting for Trump as if you could buy a negotiator to create more jobs by raising or threatening to raise tariffs and kicking out immigrants will do nothing but exacerbate the bad situation working people find themselves in after eight years of Obama and his Obama care. Congress has dropped the healthcare issue for now because the republican majority party like the ruling class that sent them there can't agree on what to do.
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@brucecampbell6578 What did you find out? That they come from weakened or dead viruses?
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Ruling classes seeking to advance the interests of their capitalist class. Russian troops out of Ukrane.
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Fascism is the vomit expelled by a dyeing capitalism. Its is a movement of political thugs who attack Jews, Trade Unions, Socialist and Communists. Trump is merely a demagogic capitalist politician who has embarrassed bourgeois liberals by stealing votes with calls to drain the Swamp, referring to Hillary Clinton as crooked Hilary saying what do you have to lose by voting for me.
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Capitalism means private property that is property that can't be used by others and profits derived from the exploitation of others by the use of private property.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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And just what are you the truth marshall? Is that anything like Marshal Dillon?
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Who do you expect them to represent?
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@eddieroberts4666 The Union collects dues and anyone who doesn't want to join and pay dues is free to leave.
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@eddieroberts4666 If others want to form organizations to have a say nothing is stopping them. At the end of the day the school board makes the decision. In my opinion the whole response to covid was botched by the two parties because they are never prepared for any kind of disaster other than to say, "Your on your own." The spend billions destroying other countries and creating the most advanced weapons of war but can't role out a vaccine without turning the whole procedure into one big political circus.
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You'd lean more by going to any strikers picket line.
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@ConsciencepartyUSA Buying a car from a dealer is an experience in itself because the salesmen rarely has the authority to make a deal. Its a game where the actual decision is made by the sales manager the actual price the dealer is paying he MFG is usually publicly available and then the MFG usually has various incentive programs. They like to make you think they aren't going to let you have the car. If you have someone with you and they head for the door that will usually put the sales manager into a panic and they will plead that they need to make a profit. They also play with the price by what they offer for a trade in value and financing. .
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@adrianstonehouse28 They open borders nonsense is another two Party myth. Like Clinton's victory and Trump beating Biden. The EU has internal open borders as do the individual states. Anyone who has actually been to the southern border will quickly realize it is open for those going South only. Mexican Customs doesn't even look at your passport. Try going back into the US and they ask you questions and check your passport. Plus from traveling along the border you can see a fence and more border patrol than state or local cops.
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@villaanderson7454 Chinaphopia. The belief that China can take over the world in a conspiracy against Trump voters.
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@cypheir Throwing a meatless bone to the unemployed should 25% lose their jobs is the Yang Plan.
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These ruling classes think they are immune from justice. Every so often they go just to far. The Saudi's though it would just be another murder of an opponent. Instead It has blown up in their face. This is how a capitalist class functions. It relies on police and security forces violence to maintain its rule. It makes it harder for Western countries to justify support for these thug regimes. Only the Saudi people themselves can overthrow them. We can't do for them what they need to do for themselves.
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@Khajiidaro The is because the government is the executive committee of the ruling class.
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@borntobewild9056 Where is you evidence and at what cost?
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@MTMILITIAMAN7.62 A human member of the female sex. Do you want to halt sex education like Sowell also?
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@maryshaffer8474 Nothing can change the nature of the capitalist police force. It primary reason for existence is to defend the capitalists private property. To keep the unemployed in line and enforcing management rights. When the bosses need scabs they will count on the police to herd those animals past picket lines.
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@thomaswaters4963 Now comes the inflation tax to pay for the war. Prices will rise and the poor and working class will be made to pay for Bushes "New World Order" "Where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle." After Vietnam they ended the gold standard. Only this time the rest of the world may not take anymore paper dollars.
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@Johnjackjack Bosses want us working the longest hours for the lowest wages to make the biggest profits. They only want to pay what you will accept to come back to work for the next pay period.
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@Artcore103 The unions are defensive organizations of the working class what the unions need to do is organize a labor party and use that party as way to make gains for the working class as a whole. Since the Democrats and Republicans are the parties of the bosses.
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@Artcore103 Its the bosses and their government that are short sighted. Their world system of production and trade is crisis ridden because of the natural way in which capitalism works.
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@Artcore103 The weakness in capitalism is that the capitalist seek to make profits and that does not necessarily coincide with the creation of value. The capitalist are the involuntary promoters of modern industry. In doing so capital becomes ever more concentrated and monopolistic. Capitalism generates no wealth in and of itself which why all the modern capitalist economists must deny that the profits are created by labor. This is why the must mystify the creation of wealth. All the early classical economist including adam smith agreed with the labor theory of value. All this talk of how the government is interfering with the smart bosses is just so much nonsense designed to mystify how value is created. Anyone can play the role of the bosses fighting to make the biggest profits with the other industries. What they can't do escape the decline of industry when you run out of markets for products you can't sell at a profit and the international competition between the bosses of different capitalist seeking to make profits for their ruling class. You can't escape the creation of crisis and the drive to make the biggest profits until you end up in a situation like what the world economic forum cries about. All people like you talk about is how we need to give another bunch of capitalist the new opportunity to do the same thing those who proceed them did. How does going bankrupt help when you create an economic crisis like 2008? Sure lets all lock the doors send everyone home and wait for federal judges to decide whose fault the crisis was. Bezos took advantage of the possibility to centralise the search for products beginning with books using internet communications and computer technology. His ability to act as a middleman of gigantic proportions was made possible by the falling costs of computer technology. People such as yourself as easily mystified by numbers and machines.
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@Artcore103 The real problem is that capitalism, trade and money don't produce a damn thing. Capitalism success is based in modern industry and change from the division of labor into a division of machines tasks with the use of generalized social labor in its place.
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@Artcore103 It's not a coincidence that when capitalist overproduce for markets that can't buy back all that can be produced and that they then use their profits to drive up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses creating an economic crisis. Nor is it a coincidence that unlimited competition leads to war between the capitalist classes orgainized into nation states. World War one was the result of Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism as was world war two. Had the stalinist and social democratic labor leaders not betrayed the world revolution capitalism would not have received a new lease on life after world war two. This however is the era of war and revolution with the lesson of the Russian and Cuban Revolution still making an impact upon world history. The era of fascism was defeated at great cost by the Soviet Workers. The final battle between labor and capital will take place in the United States as once the American capitalist ruling class is defeated the rest of the world will stand up and cheer.
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@lyndaslater516 Democrats are the other Party of Imperialist wars.
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Bosses go bankrupt and now they cry poverty. Another case of a too big too fail company wanting a bailout. No different than durring the crisis of 2008.
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It was part of a decision made by Wall Street at the commanding heights of American capitalism to drive down wages and use foreign workers as the excuse.
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@MAXIMUSMINIMALIST Nonsense this was a cold blooded decision made by the top bosses of American capitalism on Wall Street who played the victim. When it was over they had robbed the workers of everything they had promised. Their jobs, their pensions and their medical benefits. When the bosses declare war they demand a wage freeze so they can make even bigger profits. Germany fought for a thousand year Reich. FDR for an American Century.
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The America Imperialist have just one interests their own. Now you can see how the capitalist classes of different nations defend their own national interests only. In the fight for bigger profits there are shifting allaince. Yeltsin is the one who fired on the Supreme Soviet in a self coup for which he received praise from Bill Clinton because now the American Imperialist could be sure their market reforms and shock therapy would be successful. Now you are going to see that crony capitalism of Russia is no different than the Democratic capitalism of America. Posner is also an old time Stalinist like Putin.
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@romankvapil9184 He and other bosses are raising wages now because of the uptick in the economy. Things like stock options and bonus are carrots hung out as bribes to accept low wages and poor working conditions. They already know approximately how many people will either quit or get fired and they like their workers to talk about these bribes as a reason to stay.
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@bernardkung7306 Its the liberals who see themselves losing their political power and hope to stop all freedom of thought by political correctness and exclusion.
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@cee5067 After spending 3 trillion dollars US Capitalists Bosses and Bankers cut their losses after being defeated by a reactionary cult of Islamist.
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@federalreservebrown2507 Go ahead and self splatter we don't a bunch of dumb f's anyhow.
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@markhuddle889 He was a bureaucratic leader like his friend Stalin. He promoted a cult of personality of infallibility.
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@up2me967 Why don't you go back into the closet with that Klan robe and policeman's badge.
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@koalabear1984 The communist movement split with the death of Lenin and Trotsky continued the communist leadership until Fidel Castro came along and revitalized the movement with the Cuban revolution. The Stalinist eventually did what they accused the Trotskyist of and returned both the Soviet Union and China back to capitalism. In Cuba despite their isolation they continue the revolutionary leadership in the world today begun by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. They see themselves as part of an international struggle for justice and socialism.
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@Pumpkinprohousehold Mao was a Stalinist NOT a fascist like Pinochet or Franco. He came to power on the post war anti colonial revolution. The Stalinist despite their counter revolutionary nature are part of the labor movement just as the Social Democrats are. Stalin launched similar campaigns in the 1930's against opposition. Attacking people because of their past in efforts to prevent the rise of a "nascent bourgeois" is exactly what lead to the end of the Soviet Union and China as workers states. In Cuba they did not engage in such stupidity and therefore they didn't wind up like China or the Soviet Union. Instead they publicly and honestly discuss problems and mistakes rather than punish scapegoats with "mass movements".
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@Pumpkinprohousehold Its going nowhere because it wholly based upon peasant farmers instead of the urban workers with peasants as allies. If you read Mao on New Democracy then your going to be looking to a progressive national bourgeois which is not possible in the age of Imperialism. Mao himself never had a national Bourgeois he could rely on and his followers had to create one just like Yeltsin and Putin did. Maoist were slaughtered in Indonesia and Shining Path in Peru achieved nothing but prison cells. Mao's guerrilla war tactic was possible in a large overwhelmingly poor peasant country dominated by warlords and a weak feudalist/capitalist regime dominated by Western Imperialism. In the Imperialist era only the working class is truly revolutionary and only a revolutionary party with an internationalist program can lead them and the small farmers to conquer political power. .
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@scott31312 If she had leaked she would have been a whistle blower and we can't have someone like that in government.
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@soulman.9835 The whole thing is an old boys network that includes Blacks and women now. Business will try and corrupt even the most lowly building inspectors,
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@criscogames5634 Sounds to me like your fat in a can like most conservatives overweight from overeating like Denis Prager.
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@danielcamargo539 ALL YOU ARE SAYING: IS GIVE BIRTH OR DIE!!!
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Trump is elected. MBS is the next keeper of the two holy mosques. He rules by divine right. He controls what can and what can not be printed or said in his Kingdom. His court system is based in Sharia law. His religious police serve as judge jury and executioner. They execute people in the public square by cutting their heads off. His idea of liberalism is to stop arresting women for driving cars and locking them up as terrorists. Trumps power and other capitalist powers are limited to what the working people will accept. Right now we are fighting the Florida state government over the rights of prisoners to read a communist newspaper. The working people in the US find this kind of thing to be extremely repugnant this is want the ruling class really fears. They don't want to be tagged with supporting another dictator. Like Diem in Vietnam or General Batista in Cuba.
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He is no closer to being a dictator than FDR, Truman, John Kennedy, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama were. That's just more Pro Democratic party rhetoric. Their is nothing progressive about the Democratic Party. In the US there is a two party dictatorship. Two parties for war, Two parties for Imperialism, Two parties for racism, Two parties for sexism and most of all Two parties for capitalism.
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@Nb123022 He just another Republican propagandist for the neoliberal capitalist party line. Loved by capitalist bosses big and small.
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@kingcassius2586 The difference between him and Oprah Winfrey is she's the Black billionaire who became rich by taking advantage of the opening the end of segregation gave black people into the general culture of capitalist America and while he's just an ideological defender of the capitalist system. Sowell became a Republican when most blacks became Democrats after the Texas Democrat Johnson pushed through and signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act that that the Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater voted against it. You''ll accept Winfrey and Barack Obama because you think they beat the system without becoming part of it. Where as you''ll reject Sowell for telling you how he became part of it. This is what amuses me about so many Black intellectuals and leaders. The all talk about how Black capitalism is the solution to black problems but haven't got the slightest idea what they are talking about or how that would work outside of a few Muslim bakeries.
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@StellarFella The Clinton family are no slouches when it comes to corruption. Plus they attended Trump's wedding. it more of a family dispute between them.
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How many remember when Obama bowed before the King of Saudi Arabia. That shook up some conservative voices but not a word from the Democrats. Instead they had just another excuse.
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@RanchDressingPop-Tarts What do you think the American workers can't do?
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@livingabroad8344 End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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@mikesgoodmann9349 No you didn't. Your just another Bozo the clown who thinks hes a smart Sunday school teacher.
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@mikesgoodmann9349 Yes we are ignorant and deplorable we hate the Bourgeois Professors. Those like the educated Trump, Obama, Mitch McConnell the Justices of the Supreme court and all the other lackeys of the Imperialist bosses. Cuban Troops in Angola Defeated Ronnie Reagan's ally the Racist South Africans putting a death mask on Apartheid South Africa. Radio Free Dixie was broadcast from Havana by Robert F. Williams. Upon the victory of the revolution segregation ended in Cuba. The Cuban revolution taught the peasants to read so they could not be exploited like the had by the Imperialist bosses of the Sugar trade and United Fruit. Fidel Castro outlived 600 CIA sponsored assassination attempts. Only one other country in the world votes with the American Imperialist at the UN in favor of the Blockade Israel. The five Cuban hero's framed on espionage charges were freed by international solidarity. Protest against endless CIA terrorism gave the Imperialist a gut punch. Today the people who were looked down upon as nothing but sons and daughters of sugar cane slaves are the Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade. .
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@danemadsen3908 The "Democratic Imperailist" running dogs talk of Human Rights while launching Shock and Awe on TV. When their Collateral Murder video was released they demanded the death penalty for the US soldier Brian Manning for handing it over. The said it was "Top Secret" because just like the NAZI's they seek to conceal their crimes.
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@EzekielsCall Subversives? Why not go join Alex Jones he is big on conspiracy theory. Have you checked under your bed for reds who could have snuck in while you were sleeping? Watch out for Demon Rum which took the life of Senator McCarthy before he could drop atom bombs Moscow, Idaho and Cuba, Alabama.
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Hiccum Blurpaedius Talk like Alex Jones and nuts will follow.
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If stocks go down its a good sign.
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The problem isn't Trump but capitalism. Science became the handmaiden of capitalism. Now you wonder why no one trusts you. Capitalism works against education because it always replaces higher paid skilled labor.with machines and unskilled labor first.
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@tulw2728 I was smart enough not to vote for either. I think if you check into it you will find a decline in voting in West Virginia. Jay Rockefeller, Jim Justice, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump have all switched parties. Trump didn't get the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" from the rest of the ruling class. That and his appeal to workers pain who have been ignored by the liberals got him elected.
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I fail to see why Clinton would be any better despite all the attacks lead by Clinton supporters on Trump voters in this comment section. She promised this and she promised that. She promised to fix healthcare back when her husband was in power. She was holed up in a secret room and when she emerged she said the right wing was too strong. I don't call that person a leader. I call them a deserter. Looking for bigger and better tasting deserts no doubt..
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@tulw2728 You realize iron isn't like gold. Its ore comes as an oxide not a free metal. You can heat it all day and it won't change into metal. The steel company changes ore into metal by mixing it with coke made in ovens out of metallurgical grade coal along with limestone to get out the impurities. Then they start it burning in either an open hearth or blast furnace. They usually throw in some scrap iron to cheapen the overall cost. A chemical reaction takes place as the coke becomes carbon dioxide by taking the oxygen form the ore leaving iron behind as a free metal. Carbon content and what other metals are mixed in give steel its different kinds of properties.
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@tulw2728 They strip mine the ore in places like the Mesabi Iron Range in MN using gigantic machines. It goes by rail or boat in the Great Lakes to the mills. The coal (coke) is used in making iron metal from the ore in the Blast furnace or open hearth process.
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@tulw2728 A large amount of Iron cannot be recycled anytime soon because its used in reinforced concrete for building roads, bridges and buildings. That brings up another problem. That of portland cement used in making concrete. Not only does it take a huge amount of energy to heat in the process of making it but the process itself release CO2. Then add cost of transporting such a heavy and dense material to the kiln and then the end user.. It is estimated to be responsible for 10% of worlds CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions.
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@tulw2728 I think the Green New Deal is dead on arrival. Anyone who thinks you can put up currently designed windmills, PV and solar to replace all fossil fuels usage is nuts. We should be pursuing better nuclear technologies and capturing CO2 before it gets released. Voting in a new set of Democratic Party crooks isn't going to solve anything either. Politically I don't see this problem being solvable within the capitalist social framework.
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@tulw2728 We've had Nuclear energy for less than one hundred years. We've had fire for thousands. If we rejected fire as dangerous we would still be riding horses and eating only raw food. France's electrical energy is almost totally powered by nuclear. We could factory build plants with a modular design instead of each being a custom job. Any problems with design could be all fixed more simply instead of having to look back and analyzing each custom design. We have much better computer control technology, small video cameras and robotics that would make the human errors that caused "Three Mile Island" much less likely. We have built experimental molten salt reactors that could be powered by past nuclear waste and use thorium instead of uranium 235. U 235 is as rare as Platinum. Thorium is much more plentiful. They also have advantage of being walkaway safe meaning no more Chernobys and Fukushimas. Most of Fukushima was a disaster for those who lived in the area who could not escape due to no disaster planning and a low sea wall. Had they properly planned for a disaster than those big diesel generators would have come online powering pumps and prevented the partial meltdowns. Instead the generator rooms were filled with seawater along with conduit going to the pumps. That problem was anything but "Hi Tech." It was a case of let's save some money problem.
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@tulw2728 By the way your sarcasm isn't all that funny. Maybe you should change your screen name to Bozo the Clown that way you can get a few cheap laughs like Al Franken.
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@tulw2728 There are no win win situations with the late capitalism we have today. They lied about Nuclear energy. They said it would be to cheap to meter. Working people believed those lies and purchased all electric homes in Ludlow, MA. Later the had to retrofit their homes with oil or gas heat. What makes you think that buying a 2 Kw PV array will produce 2 Kw on a less than maximum possible basis? MIT claims it has bought the production of PV in North Carolina. You don't believe they are really going to get their actual power from North Carolina do you? Companies can play that game while using power made at home in New England. At a certain point that becomes either impossible or wastes power by being actually transmitted a long distance.
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@tulw2728 The Green New Deal starts with a lie that the New Deal ended the Great Depression. It didn't!!! The FDR War Deal ended the great depression with the European capitalists destroying each others manufacturing capacity along with the US destruction of Japan. New Deal bureaucrats just enriched themselves. Just like all the current alphabet soup federal greed regulation agencies. Capitalist production could not be revived without massive destruction of capital such that primitive accumulation could restart world trade.
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@tulw2728 i've been to lots of demonstrations for Women's rights, Anti racist rallies against Democratic Party racism in Boston, and Anti war demonstrations. I never went to SeaBrook, NH because I didn't agree with the anti technology sentiment. Nuclear needs consideration because of its energy density. Physics prevent getting any more energy density out of PV.
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@tulw2728 Do you have PV at home? If so why and how is it working and if not why not?
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@valeriehofmann2615 Organize unions to make the bosses pay.
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@Bob-bb3ur Why not build great big beautiful walls around your communities and practice capitalism in one suburb.
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The neoliberalism of Sowell, Capitalism and Company can't reproduce enough chlldren to replace the parents.
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@welshgruff Bill Clinton "Ended Welfare as we know it." the result even more broken families. It the profits system itself that breaks up families with it boom and bust cycle and the drive to pay the lowest wages and charge the highest prices to make the biggest profits.
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@DriveInFreak If abortion is murder what do you call putting an 18 year old in a uniform giving him an M-16 and sending him to some foreign country to fight and die?
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@cyberpunk2453 So are you also going to tell us how National Socialism was real socialism also. Hitler wanted an Empire like the British. He rebuilt Germany with an arms economy and violated all the provisions of the humiliating treaty of Versailles. He invaded Poland after signing a non aggression pact with Stalin. France and Britain then decided they would go to war with Germany again. The truth is capitalism can't work without a national war economy. You need to keep the unemployed occupied building arms and dying in wars to defend Empires.
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@ab6789 Those who carried out the orders of Stalin are long dead. Those who fought against Stalin from the very beginning have a whole history going back to 1928 that can be found in the pages of The Militant newspaper.
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@troythedeconstructionist1382 Good for you!!! Would you also like a pat on the head?
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@yukonfarnsworth1688 Socialism? No what you call socialism is capitalist reformism. You promise reforms that last for a short time until the same problems reappear and more reforms are again made until the problems again appear. We've had both homelessness and luxury for the rich before. It was called the Great Depression. The failure of the New Deal ushered in the Second World War Deal.
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@johncarapinha5600 Asked and answered. Minneapolis 1934.
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@johncarapinha5600 Asked and Answered. Senator Joe McCarthy. Communism is a movement, Move on Mr. Prosecutor.
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@saran.4001 I picked Minneapolis in 1934 as a sucess because communism is a movement not a country. The working class militants of the Communist League of America successfully fused with trade union militants in local 544 general drivers of the Teamsters Union to lead what would become the citywide Minneapolis General Strike of 1934. Two other citywide general strikes that would take place that year. The San Francisco General Strike lead by the longshoreman and the Communist Party of America. The second was lead by the Akron rubber workers and the American Workers Party. Shortly thereafter the Communist League of America would fuse with the American Workers Party to become the Workers Party of America.
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"The only system that takes people out of poverty is capitalism." Sure that appears to be the case in the developed countries but as far as history goes capitalism also gave humanity WW1 and WW2. The most productive system also leading the way to the most destructive system. All their actions are taken based upon profits and rates of profit not doing anybody favors. Nor can you say Belgium capitalism did any good for its rubber plantation slaves in the Belgian Congo.
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Also just a change in wages paid doesn't necessarily mean you've been lifted out of "poverty". If your an African tribesman outside of the money economy does you children working in mines for rare earth elements mean your on you way out of poverty in into an early grave in the mines.
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@saran3214 John asked where and when not for an explanation of why. I could give another answer like New York in 1986 and be just as correct. In New York the Socialist Workers Party in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General won a Federal court battle that culminated with a permanent injunction closing the FBI's open ended investigation of the Party and paying damages for illegal actions used by the FBI in their covert war on dissent. The suit by the Political Rights Defense Fund forced out the truth about how the FBI spies used Black Bag jobs, informers, snitches, and mission impossible tactics like break ins without badges and guns.
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@saran3214 The great majority of cars and light trucks sold in North America are made in North America not Korea and Egypt. The workers at GM just finished sucessfully striking GM.
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@saran3214 Why should I debate someone who changes the facts that they present? First it was Korea and Egypt where cars are made .Now its China, Mexico and Canada and 31 other countries. My 2016 Silverado was assembled in Ft Wayne, Indiana with 50% of parts made in the US. Honda, Toyota and VW also assemble cars here.
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@saran3214 I don't need to "read a book" on manufacturing having been a worker inside a number of manufacturing plants. They aren't going to move all manufacturing to China for the simple reason that they don't trust the Chinese with all their private property. They've moved out of the big industrial cities into small towns as a way to better control workers and make bigger profits with only one big company in town.
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@saran3214 A 'tiny' socialist group that manages to get a US Federal Judge (Thomas P. Griesa Praised by the Conservative National Review in an obituary) to hold the Attorney General of The United States in contempt of court doesn't happen every day. Lucky for the US Attorney General the US Federal Marshals were called off by the US Federal Court of Appeals before he could be arrested, hog tied and hauled in chains before the court to face contempt charges. How many other 'tiny' groups of Socialists do you know that can wage General Strikes and provoke a Constitutional crisis. LMAO
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@johncarapinha5600 "Hey, Kim, why aren't you engaging me in debate anymore???" Because we would have to debate the meaning of debate and other words first. I'm neither willing nor qualified to be your 7th grade English teacher.
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@saran3214 It I'm not going to play a game where you decide what is or isn't a sucess.
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@johncarapinha5600 The basic reason for not answering you is that: ,A. A communist country can not exist because its a clear contradiction in terms. No matter how many times N Khrushchev said the Soviet Union had reached communism it never reached, "from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs."
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@johncarapinha5600 B. If I say socialism is successful in Cuba. Then you will just pariot what is said by US capitalist politicians. Why should I supply another platform for Radio and TV Marti in English or a platform for Voice of America propaganda. You will act like Sara and will claim they aren't successful by the standards you set which prove nothing but your ability to pick the standards to prove they aren't successful.
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@johncarapinha5600 Your unhappy with the message so he obvious messenger was no good nor am I not playing a TV game show where you get to ask for a final answer.
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@johncarapinha5600 The "final answer" is that the class struggle will not end without a final victory.
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Another 'responsible' gun owner advocating a shoot first ask questions later mentality.
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@FettiMagazine Why ask silly personal questions instead of having any real answers to the problems I have posed? I can just as easily pose many other more interesting what ifs. What if Stalin had not built nuclear weapons and Truman had used nukes in Korea and on Chineses cities like General MacArthur wanted and a nuclear winter fell over the earth? What if the US/UK and 12 other Imperialist Armies had not invaded the Soviet Union after the victory of the revolution? The US was the only large industrial power left standing at the end of WW2 what if Hitler had defeated the UK but Stalin had then defeated Hitler? How well would have the US done without Western Europe to reinvest in? What if Hitler had been defeated early on by the Communist and Social Democratic Party United Front? What if the Soviet Union had stayed on Lenin" course in the countryside? What if Stalin had not ordered the NKVD to murder the left opposition in Spain? What difference would it make if I lived in the Soviet Union?
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@FettiMagazine No one has a choice as to where they are born. If the question is why didn't I just leave for the Soviet Union that would be considered desertion if the goal was to avoid the class struggle here in the US. We fought FDR for our rights as a Party during WW2 and were successful in defeating the effort to drive us into illegality and underground like in Europe and Stalin's Soviet Union. Does that answer your question in sufficient detail. Communism is a movement to replace world capitalism first with world socialism. Since the beginning of WW2 it became obvious that the final struggle with capitalism would take place on American soil. Only the American working class and farmers can defeat American capitalism since America is non-invadable. America being the most advanced capitalist nation also makes it the ripest fruit. We've also lead successful fights to save political prisoners in foreign countries from here in the US. Having a legal party here provides us with the ability to reach out internationally. The end of Stalinist rule in the East has opened up our ability to reach out into areas we were barred from previously.
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@FettiMagazine Communism is not a doctrine with its holy priests either rather it is the history and the course taken by one class the working class in the modern world class struggle with the other most important class the capitalist class. It is a history of both victory and defeats. With WW1 we entered the Imperialist and highest stage of capitalism in which we live today. The cold war ended with a historic defeat for American Imperialism which has resulted in an Imperialist world only becoming weaker less stable and even more divided. While American media made a big deal about anti communist President and former FBI informer Reagan Reagan telling Gorbachev to tear that wall down. The wall and the Stalinist regimes were overturned in popular revolutions not the result of an Imperialist USA and NATO troops marching into Moscow and Beijing. In fact Reagan was the one who would sign the death warrant for Apartheid South Africa ending the Angolan war of independence with revolutionary Cuba.
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You want to set up a police state to track everyone for a lifetime of exploitation by a government of the rich.
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@danielwillens5876 They have no legitimate purpose.
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@danielwillens5876 Vaccine passports have no legitimate purpose because medical care is voluntary because its your body, every individual is different and no medical outcome can be guaranteed. Its should be up to the medical professionals to explain the risk and benefits and to convince you first before you agree to any medical care not a one size fits all treatment as if we are horses and cows on a ranch for other peoples benefit.
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@richardleeskinneriii9640 Its just part of the dictatorship of capital. They want you thinking you got a choice when you don't. Its a dictatorship of capital.
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@camadkins5487 Capitalism gave man the rifle, machine gun, poison gas, bomb and nuclear weapons. You no nothing about me personally or the history of the avatar except a bunch of capitalist propaganda. You a hypocrite who wears blinders who will ignore capitalism bloody history upon entry into the world for propaganda that says it wasn't real capitalism. .You can't make an argument for capitalism so you have to wave the bloody shirt of Mao and Stalin. We should all just forget how the English ruling class starved Irish peasants to death so they could sell beef in the English market. The IRA did the world a favor when it sent Lord Mountbatten to an early meeting with his Lord and maker.
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@Smokin129 If a family were in a car accident and only the children survived we wouldn't just let the children wander he streets in this country would we?
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@williampennjr.4448 I don't bother with people who don't like my style, grammar or spelling. Some clown says he knows all about me by looking at my avatar and then goes on to say I'm Okay with the deaths of millions. The person is obviously under some kind of delusion promoted by bourgeois professors like Professor Jordan Peterson. The British built much of their Empire on dead Irishmen and that's a fact. Starting with the initial accumulation of capital and the use of the Irish as convict settlers and soldiers. They'd been seen as NAZI's except they were one of the Imperialist victors in WW2. It takes military force to create and keep an Empire like that of Britain or America. Besides Stalin was a minor figure in the revolution and only was able to seize power by using all kinds of subterfuge, lies and deceit. Lenin died before he could oust him and Trotsky was exiled and later murdered by Stalin after he'd already murdered most of the revolutions leaders and Lenin's Party in the 1930's Moscow trials. Petersen can't understand why his friends Musk and Bezo's aren't ours. Drones on and on about how stupid everyone is compared to him and Alexander Solzhenitsyn the novelists. Personally I'd be surprised if he knew how to tie his own shoes in the morning. .
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@marilyndillard1658 Party Boss Abbott using military slaves cares only about oil billionaires and Capitalist Ranch owners. Did nothing for workers when the light went off except make the same artificial favoring promises.
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@Chris-wyt And when the nationalism of the colonial world threats the bosses of the advanced capitalist world. Imperialist war is the result. Capitalism creates a world market with uneven and combined development. Economic crisis is the bitter fruit of capitalism. What you see in the world today is very similar to the pre world war one world of the early 20th century. Instead of Britain vs German it increasing America vs China. .
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Co Oliver North sold missiles to Iran.
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She answered the Kosomol question. He should have asked more about here papers and writings. That would be much more interesting than the old red baiting of someone from the former Soviet Union. Anyone who thinks you get to socialism by sneaking in secret party members is an idiot who knows nothing about Marx or Lenin.
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@loendsti Yes the old Conservative neoliberal Walter Williams proudly proclaimed self ownership as if he had recently bought his freedom from slavery.
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Trainrhys The whole history of American capitalism is that when a strike is effective the bosses turned to state and military violence to break strikes. Starting with the great railway strike of 1877. The same year Republican's betrayed Southern Reconstruction governments with the compromise of 1877. They also throw Constitutional rights out the window when they face a militant labor leadership. In 1940 FDR began the second witch hunt with the Smith "gag" Act prosecution of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters for opposition to the coming Imperialist war.
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James Registe China is like Sweden. They claim to be socialist while being capitalist.
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@chazzmccloud36 He'd probably tell you riding the bus fair for you and driving a Tesla is fair for him.
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One thing is certain Mexico doesn't keep records of entry or exit. Don't forget to report to immigration when walking across the US Canadian border for takeout either or go out the wrong door of the International library that straddles the Vermont/Quebec border .
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Go ahead remove government from marriage all together. Instead meet the needs of families with a social wage like that proposed by Nixon in the Family Assistance plan.
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@panzerofthelake506 Gee I guess you won't be able to spend the money needed to build the next generation of nuclear weapons and the rest of the military waste budget. I like giving everyone one a rifle for the defense of a free state don't you? After all thats about all Fidel Castro needed to keep the worlds most powerful Empire from launching an invasion. Talk all you want about Mao and Stalin but Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter supported the genocidal maniac Pol Pot at the UN and gave him arms to punish Vietnam. You and the British Imperialists supported the Quing Dynasty against the Taiping Rebellion. Your generals who talked of using Nuclear Weapons on China and creating a necklace of radioactive cobalt during the Korea war. The reckless conduct of Kennedy who nearly set off Nuclear War because you lost your colony of Cuba. Your CIA that supports and uses terrorism as a tool of foreign policy. And now Trump he levels a few criticisms and you proceed to tell more lies about how much you love democracy. You want to punish him for all your failed policies as if you could do anything different. When your whole system is rigged in your favor.
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@dizzzzzzler I tell you what gutted the Black family. Your capitalist greed with its boom and bust cycle along with the drive to pay a single a worker only that needed to get him back to work for the next pay period. All you care about is yourself and your precious profits along with your do nothing rent collecting meritocracy talking a lot of gibberish called protestant work ethic. Reagan couldn't end welfare so Bill Clinton "Ended Welfare as We Know it." More broken families of all colors afterwords. We don't need your advice for anything. All you neoliberals succeed at is bigger economic crisis when ever people are stupid enough to take your advice and turn whole countries into nothing but a giant tag sale.
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So don't like the rules Move Out. Don' come crying on the internet. Get a job.
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@pffear Elder says follow me to the top of the pile and you be worth a whole lot of money.
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@SAMSARA1411 We need to build a third party based on the trade unions.
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@vanderful2397 Nope lets tax the rich down to the gold chain level. Let them find work at minimum wage.
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@lindaamspaugh1030 Why don't they open up all the empty hotel rooms and all the empty housing being allowed to go to hell? Trump Tower has empty rooms after all he has lots of Real estate. .
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@lindaamspaugh1030 Where do you think the corrupt American ruling class can go hide in the world?
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@ddmau7995 Hay Mau Do you have a picture of Diem brothers and Henry Cabot Lodge on your Bowls.
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Class struggle is the road to socialism rebuild the trade unions and a new Labor Party based on the trade unions without the capitalists.
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@kaic1649 Don't worry both parties are only anti war when they are losing.
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We have Greeks who are unhappy about not being able to get an international copyright so they can prevent using Macedonia as a name of another country. Middle Class Black women who are not privileged like white people investing in a safe space that can only be found outside the US. I can understand the frustration working with other Middle Class women but just what does a healthcare facilitator do? i mean do you go out looking for sick people and get them to the doctor? I drove a medical Taxi and I took people to the Doctor but somehow the privilege of coming away with $100,000 so I could start a safe space never happened.
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It's a political move by Wu who wants Black Democrats support and votes. Like it makes a difference what color these Democratic Party hacks and bosses are.
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colonel 100 The also sell a "Mexican" Version Silverado.
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@manjelos They don't run there economy based upon making profits and private ownership of industry. So they don't fire people and tell them go find a job. They have a governmnet that works for the Cuban people not a few rich families. They invest in things to make the life of their people better not what will bring in more money for the rich or investments in fictitious capital. Saying they keep everything is just nonsense. We aren't talking about lemonade stands where a boss can lose his shirt either. We are talking too the big to fail banks and companies in America. What belongs to America's richest families. Not some body who buys a few stocks for an IRA plan as part of the All American pension plan swindle. They make every effort to see to it everyone has a job in Cuba they can't micro manage everything either and don't try to. Their people have a right to have a profession and education is free so the child of a laborer can become a Doctor or Engineer. That's right bosses can't lose their profits except when a strike happens. That's what class struggle is. When Batista fled Cuba another military general tried to step in as a coup leader. Fidel and the 26th of July movement called for a General Strike which prevented that from happening.
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@ericmadsen9655 The only "Vowed" to raise wages. "After the holidays" when they will fire a lot of workers because in retail that's when they need us the least. Sure we "VOW" to raise wages for those that no longer work here. LMAO
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@ericmadsen9655 I worked six years in retail by doing my job and not breaking the rules. I watched as more and more people were fired for petty reasons. The obvious reason was healthcare. If they can't fire you before that one year period when you get vacation sick days and healthcare it gets harder to fire you. They fired the receiver and it cost them $14,000 because he had a good lawyer. I started before 2008 when the begged people not to quit. Now all they do is fire anyone. They told a disabled worker with more years than me she had to pick up something heavy which she obviously couldn't do and when she said no the told her we don't need you your laid off.
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Sowell loves to score brownie points against a few fools who have a big megaphone.
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The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendment.
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You mean the welfare payments to Big Business after 2008?
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@ThatsRight1776 Communism is the working classes march to state power.
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@ThatsRight1776 We don't want your capitalist empires state power. Everything we do is aimed at increasing the self confidence of the working people to destroy that state power in the most centralized capitalist most powerful police and military state power in history. Libertarians are nothing more than children running lemonade stands who debate their phony nonaggression principle where everyone pokes each other in the belly instead of threatening nuclear war.
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Immigration was much simpler as was the naturalization process. No laws prohibiting aliens from voting were even written until the late 19th Century. People came here and courts were suppose to keep records of who came here but since this was a federal mandate over local courts more than likely once you arrived enforcement was lax.
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@BuGGyBoBerl Nothing says you have responsibility as a capitalist until you mismanage things to the point of bankruptcy by overproducing for markets that can't sell anything more at a profit. You invest in expanding production until you run out of thing to invest in for a profit because the workers can't buy back all that can be produced than you drive up the value of fictitious capital like stocks, bonds or mortgage contracts. Eventually the profits stop flowing so you start shutting everything down in an economic crisis. You blame the workers for not working at a wage where you can make a profit instead of realizing your the problem with your hunger for profits,
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That is the whole problem with Sowell's neoliberalism.
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@aj25055 You have to remember your dealing with people who would sell their own grandmother for another nickel back in unit production cost.
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Canadian Senators are appointed by Governor General US will Invade Canada to create democracy.
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@casteretpollux The capitalist world has enter into decline as the problems of capitalism cannot be solved by the traditional reformist methods and party leaders. Only the preparation of new Bolshevik parties built in every country can halt the coming wars to defend the profit system from the worlds working class majority.
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Naturally Bosses are seeking higher profits at our expense. I say STRIKE THEM!!
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Keen R We will see how long it takes till the GM workers who have stopped those GM assemble lines and those profits from rolling in until they get a contract that they like. Crocodile tears are coming from the Boss press about losses to other bosses in the parts manufacturing business.
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@LilNeenerMcWomanRaypist US Imperialist have lost every major confrontation of the cold war. Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. The end of the cold war did not bring more stability for the American capitalist or expand their power like the end of WW2. Instead it brought less so it too was actually a defeat. They got new world market competitors. Sure US Imperialist dream of a world where they are in control of everything and everyone fascism and World War three are their dreams. CCP is the counterrevolution and by adopting capitalism they have created all the problems that come along with it. CCP is a Communist Party in name only.
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@dingus_doofus CCP was always a Stalinist sect after the defeat of the 1927 revolution. China adopted the methods of capitalism and it got what every Marxist can tell you capitalism brings a declining rate of return on investment, creation of ficticios capital which can only collapse, and a ruling class unable to solve the problems of capitalism and most important of all a new working class and class struggle. .
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If you father had not been a foreign citizen participating in an armed Invasion to claim land them maybe he'd still be alive. Batista was greenlighted and armed by the US and defeated in a revolution made with all american made weapons many actually seized from the dictatorship. Twenty thousand died to get rid of a US imposed dictator and then you think that everything should just be handed back to you like nothing happened? You think you have the right to buy and sell on your terms alone and then send in the US Marines to enforce your banana republic contracts. Well it doesn 't work that way in the world anymore. You want to do business in your former colonies you have to abide by their laws. Instead of going for a CIA coup de eta or electing a countries President by a vote of Imperialist Powers.
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Look at Norway? Probably one of the worst places on earth to rely on photo voltic. I'd go for wind first. During the winter time snow has to be cleared off the array and the angle of the earth is such that suns rays passing through the atmosphere have lost energy because of the longer distance traveled in the atmosphere. I'd probably choose wind over photo voltic. You also might consider mobile flow batteries as a way to power vehicles. Nuclear from manufactured modules or molten salt breeder reactors as a source of electrical power. Either way your taking electrical energy and storing it as either hydrogen on site or pushing electrical energy into and out of the grid to power cars by electricity. How many H2 cars do they have on the road in Norway? Is it a number greater than 100? At least one company pulled out of supplying H2 in four places. In Germany Linde pulled out of its H2 powered vehicles. No doubt both because of costs. Producing hydrogen from hydrocarbon reformation has the problem of what to do with the CO generated. Generate more H2 but then produce CO2 which then must be sequestrated. The problem with hydrolysis is the energy wasted in I^2*R=P heating of the electrolyte. The metals Nickle, Lithium, Lead and Cadmium in batteries are all recyclable. Walmart will give you a five dollar credit for a car battery exchange. You are for a hydro project but against building more damns? Usually hydro is the Canadian way of saying power (electrical power) since most of their power comes from hydro electric damns. We will give you the benefit of the doubt that you meant hydrogen like when you put Lithium in with other heavy metals. .
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@bluegrassman3040 The defeat of US Imperialism in Vietnam. Opened the door to the defeat of Stalinism by the people of the East. US Imperialism has gone into further decline.
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Medallions are a scam to begin with. It's a way to skim off profits for the owners and traders of medallions. Like other industries technological change is causing a drop in the value of older methods. The real winners are the bosses at Lyft and Uber. An MIT study says 3/4 of drivers working for the ride sharing companies earn an estimated $3.37 an hour while Uber claims it to be $15.68 After complaints by Uber the MIT researchers said the will take into account Ubers more optimistic assumptions.
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What the hell does prayer have to do with "Data and Evidence"?
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@BlowitAllUp For a vote on Tuesday I will give you $1,000 on Wednesday as long as my plan saves federal spending.
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@Astronautadelvoid In an interview with Yang on the Ben Shapiro Show Yang explains how he is going to end all other benefits and how this will reduce federal spending. Included in his explanation is how this isn't going to be a benefit you can live on. So if what Yang predicts happens, a 25% unemployment rate, I guess we will all just be living on sidewalks in cardboard boxes or working for subminimum wages because we are suppose to be working because we like our jobs not because we need to alienate our labor to live. No mention about how this will affect the lives of the one percent like Shapiro. I guess it will be business as usual for them going on Mars Space Trips and riding around in Tesla self driving cars.
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@Astronautadelvoid Its a plan to buy votes plain and simple. When you get laid off or can't work you get $1000 a month period, no food stamps, no public housing for the elderly, disabled, or single mothers, no heating assistance, no SSI, buy your own healthcare, oh and make sure to save because a constitutional amendment will prevent you from using the $1,000 as a loan guarantee. Maybe Yang can include a cardboard box in the deal so you can homestead an LA sidewalk.
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@mizzury54 He's a long time defender of "free market capitalism" where by the bosses who do whatever they want are leading us towards nirvana. .
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@HildaKeating Let Hamas bring in the hostages its holding.
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America is a two stooge party capitalist dictatorship. Stooges rotate in and out of office and nothing ever changes.
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I don't vote for the two stooge parties so I am not the cause of price fixing. Keeping up the price of milk for the mostly family farmer dairy farmer is a good thing because it guarantees that milk will be there. Keeping up the price of milk in the supermarket is price fixing for profit only. What is Trump really independent of? His elite education at U Penn? Or how about Congress? Is he independent of them? He can issue presidential orders and directives but for most of the rest of his ideas or plans he is required to get legislation passed by Congress. Republicans in the Congress don't pass anything because they are caught between campaign donors and voters just like their Democratic opponents. Most of our lives are spent at work where we have no say in much of anything. Isn't that the definition of dictatorship? If you don't like something your choose is to follow that order or quit. Don't contradict your boss or risk being fired. He can yell at you but if yell back out the door you go. Now every two years you get to vote for someone who will do little to nothing to change anything in your daily life. Is that democracy?
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"Democracy is the fairest way people have found to take shit from each other. Everyone gets an equal say in what gets taken from who!" Is that true in the United States? Wages adjusted for inflation have been stagnate for the last 25 years and the minimum wage when adjusted for inflation has declined. The cries for a increase in the minimum wage are meet with scorn and fake concern for the mismanaging cockroach capitalist who will discharge his employees. The private pensions based in unionized industry have disappeared with the unions as well as the private company paid insurance plans and other perks. Productivity is up and so the value of stocks has skyrocketed and big companies were bailed out of problems caused by their own greed and now you have the nerve to say something as repugnant as that? Golden parachutes go to mismangers while workers are thrown on the streets. By your definition of democracy that can't be what we have it can only be dictatorship because obviously the riches are rising for the richest of the ruling class.
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If that's you answer Johnson I rest my case. The boy who cried zombie That's right socialism raises the working class up to be the ruling class. It gets rid of the problems of the continuous need for cheaper labor and a decline in return on industrial investment that leads to the rise of fictitious capital and financial collapse. War and the battle between different Imperialist nation states for colonies, cheap labor and natural resources also becomes unnecessary. When the next socialist revolution breaks out the revolutionaries will not be stuck with the cobwebs of Stalinism and be much clearer on the question of a privileged bureaucracy. The Stalinist have lost their battle with Trotsky. Since they no longer control one third of the earth they can't act as sellouts with their Socialism in one country theory. Which meant that everybody was supposed give up every struggle as a defense of the Soviet Union's bureaucracy and detente with Imperialism was the most important struggle everywhere. The Chinese Stalinist learned early on that the could do detente without a following of officially recognized parties and that's why the Maoist movement has always been small despite the revolution in China and the Sino Soviet split.
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The original intent was correct but the founders could not conceive of an industrial society. They were also dreamers which is the same thing you cause me of. The English Republic had failed so why didn't the framers just set up another kingdom? Marxism doesn't rely on utopian ideas to bring about a revolution. Instead Marx saw a class struggle originating out of capitalism itself as the motive force for a new society. It's not about building a massive bureaucracy like capitalist America which requires them in an effort by the capitalist to control their own greed. They don't trust the workers which is why the don't allow our unions to do the regulation with scientific advice. It's not about building massive prisons for the mentally ill and those who have become demoralized by a system that can not use all the labor available and instead must imprison it so it can be exploited for sub minimum wages. This is a system that becomes more irrational and makes less sense each day it is allowed to continue.
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There you have it embedding in the Constitution itself the right to revolution amendments. No matter how much things get messed up in Congress and the rest of government you have the right to argue about it, protest it and if necessary change it by force of arms as a last resort. If you compare our Bill of Rights to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms you will see that ours written over 200 years ago is much more radical while there's written in the 2nd half of the 20th century contains a limitations clause. In fact the ultimate power in Canada still belongs to the English Monarchy in the form of the Governor General of Canada who is appointed and serves at the pleasure of the English Monarchy not the elected parliament or Governor general's life appointmented members of the Canadian Senate who must be property owners and do exercise their veto power.
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Once a revolutionary government comes to power we will institute a currency change which will make your horded money worthless.
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The decline in health care is the natural result of capitalism and the bosses greed. Lots of workers belonged to unions and union contracts had healthcare included. Many non union bosses had healthcare included as a way to both keep out the unions and make themselves competitive with union jobs. Starting in the late 1970's the bosses have been on takeback anti union drives. Healthcare was a fixed cost they wanted to reduce and eliminate. They have done this in a number of ways. First by breaking unions and declaring bankruptcy so they can then reopen nonunion elsewhere. This is why so little coal comes from union mines today. In other areas they now hire through temp labor agencies without benefits which can be shut down should any on the job union talk be heard. They have added waiting periods along with increased rules so that they can dangle benefits in front of your face for a year latter in which time they will fire you for some reason or other.
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According to the World Bank as of 2015 the average life expectancy in Cuba is slightly higher than the US and the infant mortality rate is lower than the US. What this proves is that Cuban Communism works and American capitalism doesn't. If you have money and go to the Doctor they will fall all over you in treatment. If you're from the working class and go to the clinic they say you're at the wrong clinic go elsewhere. Then you call and get an answering machine saying they will call back which they never do. You're just a nobody that they don't really have any time for or somebody to fill the schedule time that is open.
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"In fact, every other country in the world that has no communism, has better health care than Cuba and they are all democratic free market economies. So there you go, you are proven wrong. " Look anybody can repeat propaganda mantras so where are you figures and statistics? That's not what the world bank says when using life expectancy and infant mortality of course they're not real capitalists and of course their are no real capitalists in America. Bill Gates is just a self employed guy worth billions. Actually Cuban communism has everything to do with healthcare since they have the Latin American School of Medicine. They train foreign Doctors worldwide all on Cuba's dime. The US health care system relies on the immigration of foreign Doctors. Keep beating the same old drum for Clinton, Trump, Reagan and Bush. The Soviet Union has been gone for over twenty five years now so how is capitalism doing their now? Improving life for Putin no doubt. While everybody is fighting against even worse corruption. People have been yelling about how free markets are solving all problems and when they don't then obviously there are no free markets or the whole thing is just more capitalist bullshit utopia talk.
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Right keep telling everybody there is no capitalism here or anywhere. Sooner later you should be able to convince somebody else. I guess you've never worked anywhere otherwise you'd know most place require you to get permission to piss. You backed down from your original propaganda mantra concerning Cuban Healthcare why should anybody believe anything else you say? They have already come up with new and innovative treatments for Lung Cancer and Diabetes. Keep repeating that 50 year old mantra that Cuba is going to fail next week. Why should I leave? You realize without people like me you wouldn't be able to turn on a light bulb or connect to the internet.
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Your essential problem is you think the human history is bloodless and that capitalisms return to Russia and China without war and destruction was a victory and not a defeat. If real war had broken out you would have been able to reset the capital accumulation clock like after WW2. Nor can you escape the built in contradictions of capitalism which caused the 2008 crisis of greed. The ideological sellouts in Moscow and Peking have lost almost all influence in the workers movement. Meaning you can't turn to them and offer detente in return for imposing counterrevolutionary defeat. You see idea's have a life of their own and the barriers once in place around China, Russia and Eastern Europe are lower than ever before. Now the revolutionary ideas forced out of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself were kept alive within the United States are now free to recirculate back into the old Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China.
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In the US 8 out of 10 small businesses fail within 18 months. Most professions or trades require licences. Licenses usually require some kind of additional apprenticeship in addition to education. Still think everybody can be whatever they fucking want to be?
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A Thomas Sowell lives in a well to do Belmont, CA neighborhood full of liberals calming to be biracial no doubt and just a tiny African American population. He has just adopted the usual white attitude that Black people in the city at night are suspicious by nature. What other reason did the cops have to draw their guns besides the claim that they live in a war zone. .
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Cops are always racing around getting themselves killed by Chevy and Ford. What they need to do is get a job or turn themselves in for being a criminal.
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Sounds mostly like someone who talks in circles That's because Sowell is a supporter of the stus quo but most famously for welfare cuts. So Bill Clinton "ended welafer as we Know it" and nothing has improved but instead gotten worse for those in poverty.
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Sure you need a way to suck up value.
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Of course not when the crisis of 2008 hit Sowell was hiding out at the Heritage foundation instead coning into Congress and talking all that free market nonsense.
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@jonathandantonio649 Right for Sowell the bosses are the victims of there own government. They buy politicians to insure maximum profits and then the greed of the bosses ends up getting the best of them. Sowell's solution more of the same by the greedy bosses. I say build the trade unions and a labor party. Workers take control of industry and establish a workers and farmers government. Abolish the bosses private property and land to farmers who will work it not Bill Gates.
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The bosses enact regulations to pretend that they can keep their own greed from getting out of control.
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Stossel fails to tell the whole truth concerning the hanging order. It was a response to the rich hording grain during the civil war that would have cost many more lives in the cities should the grain shortage result in starvation in the cities. There was a debate in the area concerned over should grain only be sought through revolutionary propaganda or should force be used. While Lenin clearly favored force 'hanging' in his first order. His second order a few days later appears to be a less forceful demand that action be taken which implies the first order wasn't carried out.
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@rlud304 Those are more bull shit all encompassing laws that need to be overturned.
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Ya Trump is a victim of communists.
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@Noneya Business Your already duped if you think Burnie is anything but a social democratic traitor.
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@Noneya Business Nixon toasted Mao and Brezhnev does that make Nixon a communist? For people like Joe McCarthy anyone talking to a communist or reading a bad book like The Communist Manifesto or Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism was disloyal. You live in the most world dominating centralized military Empire in World history but your for smaller government? Do you realize how much of a joke that is in the rest of the world? Your going to spend 1.2 Trillion dollars on new nuclear weapons approved by Obama with Trump doing a nuclear posture review just in case that's not enough. You've authorized 22 Billion to build 9 Virginia class nuclear powered and missile equipped submarines. The bosses and your government are constantly demanding proof of citizenship. The police are being turned into heavily armed soldiers using military tactics. The prisons are already over crowded and you want more built for immigrants and done with profit making private capital. The DMV keeps lifetime records on the smallest of transgression. Instead of jury trials you have a plea bargain system where the government can get a six month sentence by threatening a 30 prison term using another law for a jury trial. And as a conservative you trust corrupt politicians, rotten apple cops and sky pilots over women and doctors. If you had your conservative less government way you'd require pregnancy registration so no miscarriage could go unpunished.
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Weill Cornell West admits to the bankruptcy of Gandhism and the nonviolent MLK approach vs the Malcolm X defensive approach. "We were there to get arrested but the police pulled back, we couldn't get arrested and then we needed the protection of Antifa and Anarchist folk because the Fascist were coming." "The KKK are just police in different uniforms." Malcolm X.
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What's important isn't the oppression of the working class but our ability to combine and fight back. We are the revolutionary class not the middle class with its petty privileges and prayers for salvation.
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Stalin you and your gang of corrupt bureaucrats are the reason the Soviet Union collapsed and the Chinese announced the victory of a new Social Democracy complete with a stock market. You dug your own grave and no one wants a corpse as a leader. If you actually read the article you boast about you'd see that on a per capita basis the Black community, over whelming working class, receives about twice the rate of food stamp help that all other races receive. You like your mentor are complete idiots.
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Stalin go back to the grave you body smells bad. You died on a floor because no one including you trusted bodyguards wanted you to wake up and order another deadly purge.
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@Hold Your Breath Don't have anymore rerun rights to 'The Big Picture' Army 1950 TV shows?
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@Hold Your Breath Damn I'll have to watch them on Youtube.
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The can only legally ask if you've been convicted not arrested. Unless your becoming a cop they you must answer but it makes no difference in those cases. You could be arrested for treason but if there was only one witness you'd be welcomed into the PD.
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Only certain government employers can even legally ask that question. That doesn't mean that an employer can't somehow find out. However the can't fire you for that so they would need to come up with another reason or claim the employee at will exception.. They can only ask if you've been convicted of a crime not just arrested. If its a private defense contractor then if it comes up it will be the government that does it with a security investigation.
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@jasonlucas559 Hitler was anti abortion for German women who were punished with the death penalty.
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He also forgets that the US also had fascist monuments and so did Spain. Their was even an anti comintern. Henry Ford wrote "The International Jew" and Hitler translated it into German. The idea of the fascist movements was to crush the trade unions and replace them with company union set ups. As Trotsky said. "Fascism would have a Russian name had the Bolsheviks not taken power in the October revolution." The only way to halt the rise of fascism is with the socialist revolution not to rely upon the capitalist and their state. Fascism always hides in the background until the workers begin to move into struggle. Then the fascists despite whatever their ideology is come out to attack the workers and their leaders to shut down the political space working people need to discuss ideas. The ruling class only turns to fascism as the last alternative to save themselves from socialist revolution. The very first thing Hitler did after taking power was to murder purge his party with the night of the long knives. Hitler was able to pass the enabling act after having been appointed Chancellor of Germany by President General Hindenburg with the support of the capitalist parties.
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If it just a matter of guns than the Connecticut river valley is still a major gun manufacturing area.
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Fort Sumter was the final straw but you already had the makings of a coming civil war with Bloody Kansas, John Brown's attack on the Harpers Ferry Arsenal, Boston citizens refusal to comply with federal law (the Fugitive slave act) and the Dred Scott decision. The recent school workers strikes started in West Virginia a red state and hit OK, AZ, KY, CO, and NC except for CO those are all Republican red states that voted for Trump. If anything it shows a rejection of voting Democrat as a solution to problems.
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@1dood Basic Economics written as basic mystification.. First assertion all economics is about distribution of scarce resources with alternative resources fulfilling wants that always are excessive.. No its about fulling basic needs that human beings have to food, clothing, water, and shelter after which we create culture from which all art, science and even religion springs Our species from the very beginning used labor in a social group to achieve those needs. Since the beginning of agriculture we have been creating a surplus of food production. Second we have always found new uses for what we already have. Our hands are shaped for grasping and our voice box for communications. We are as much a part of the natural world as we are shaped by it. Capitalism is the first system which has crisis caused not by shortages but by overproduction for markets that can not sell all that can be produced at a profit.
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@matthewmcmahon6727 No the problem is you and your profit system. Who do you think does all theses jobs now? Your the ones sitting around in colleges and offices act like a bunch of spoiled brats asking who going to clean up my mess? People like yourself are wasting everything as it is now and your talking about how no one will make my bed for me and who is going to out the garbage? .Do you need someone to wipe your own rear end alao?
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@donharrold1375 The problem is society is organized based upon profits for the capitalist class.
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@donharrold1375 You produce plenty of waste from overproduction for markets that can't absorb all that can be produced for a profit and using tariffs to protect home markets. You were sitting back and hoping Hitler would destroy the Soviet Union like the British ruling class which is why you ignored the plight of the Jewish Refugees. Your ruling class didn't recognize the Soviet Union until Stalin was firmly in power after 1928. You recognized Hitler in 1933 before the Soviet Union. Just like you've blockaded Cuba for 60+ years.
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@donharrold1375 You've never done a proper body count that was required to create your Empires both internally and externally. The loom was an invention of India that the British stole and cut off the thumbs those caught using it. Nor have you done an accounting of all those who died in religious wars. You tell these lies as if your societies were created by fendley trade and not with the crack of the rifle the roar of the cannon and the destruction of the nuclear bomb.
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@donharrold1375 Hitler is the product of counter revolution just like those Southern States that over through the Republican Reconstruction governments. The Weimar Republic was a tottering capitalist regime and Hitler built his organization of thugs out of resentment over the Treaty of Versailles. The big capitalist turned to Hitler because they feared the workers in the Social Democratic and Communist Party trade unions with the loss of their property. The same reason the Confederate slave owners refused to accept their defeat after the civil war.
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@FlameUser64 Actually its the industrial workers who are the revolutionary class not middle class students seeking to found new NGO's and movements for nonconformity.
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@bane3991 The goal of the school system is to reproduce the class of the students that entered. This why school districts are arranged the way they are.
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@AT-zl6dk Social Security is the real solution.
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@GomerBarnFloyd They said the same thing about the original computer technology. Its not going to create a perpetual motion machine. Nor will it solve the essential problems that capitalism creates.
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Why don't you go down find out what a scabs life is worth?
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@kennethhunt248 I haven't been to Baltimore City lately but they got some mighty good tasten Crab cakes.
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@bodeendaqueeble8212 Your either a boss or have been set and propagandize to make such a foolish claim. Maybe you can a claim the Alexander Kerensky award for menshevism in service to the bosses for recognizing their rights to profit.
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@bodeendaqueeble8212 The only reason socialism is being spoken about is because of capitalisms failures. If you could keep yourselves out of wars and depressions Karl Marx's works would be the writings of an obscure philosopher in old books in the musty cellar stacks of large libraries only like the library of Congress.
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They can bring in FEMA trailers.
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@JohnSmith-xu7ev Going to have to pull back on the plans for world domination and the unlimited military budget.
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@JohnSmith-xu7ev You just can't resist showing your disdain for us can you? Why don't you just go vote for Hillary Clinton she's your type of leader. A big bag of wind like all those professors who gave you lessons at your elite university. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism just as true as in 1916. When Lenin wrote it. No Imperialist ruling class can escape the need to extract extra profit from the colonial slaves if capitalism is to survive in the more developed capitalist world. Nor can they escape the drive towards making alliances to steal each others markets and resources on the world stage. Your only small groups of greedy bastards within nation states. Your nationalism is reactionary while that of the colonial slaves leads in a socialist direction. Towards an allaince of workers and peasants. .These are the lessons of the history from the Russian and Cuban revolutions.
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@thetavibes9021 Organize and fight back with union power on the job and the organize a Union Party independent of the Bosses to take control of Congress.
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@Greenerfuturesmana The bosses went off the Gold Standard in 1973 we need to fight back against the paper standard some countries already have negative interest rates to feed the bosses greed. I say drive profits negative if we have to. We need to take control of production and then bring more workers on to the job make more to drive down prices and destroy the bosses market and profit system. Make production for human needs we already have all the brains we need as industrial workers. Make education free to drive away all education economic privilege. Kill the sex market like they did in Cuba with sex education, free birth control, free abortion, free love hotels, free medical care with education and productive jobs for the former prostitutes and bourgeois maids.
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@DWalsh-bg1cu LOL Exactly.
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@taqiyyamuhammad6170 Dose Hamas try to avoid civilian casualties? No its goal is an Islamic Caliphate and genocide of the Jews. It does everything thing to maximise civilian casualties on both sides because uses human shields and uses the refugees in the wars it creates to steal more humanitarian for its goal of genocide. They fire hundreds of rockets bombs at israel with the sole goal on maximizing casualties.
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@nickmoore7598 They are NOT being carpet bombed. US had no business going into Iraq or Afghanistan since ZERO out of 26 of the 9/11 terrorist came from either Iraq or Afghanistan. Eighteen came from Saudi Arabia. Bushes CIA had armed the Afghan Taliban terrorist as part of the cold war against the Soviet Union. Hamas is on a genocidal campaign against the Jews world wide. It has stated that Oct 7 Pogrom is just the beginning. It seeks the Establishment of a Muslim Caliphate and a jew free world.
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The truth is getting out Youtube is always trying to cancel people who tell the truth about their Democratic Party friends.
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@Av3ntur0zky United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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@jonathanherrgott6490 You want to get rid of the debt than tax the rich instead of paying them interest on money they don't need that they lend to gov. for a tidy profit.
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@craigcampbell5442 Well I'm for no tax on the working class and all the tax on the capitalist class. People who have the money should pay the tax. Seems obvious to me. The bosses profit and surplus value originates from our unpaid labor and the bosses own accounting books show that to be true.
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I would worry about that the real communists will see to it that the rich get their just rewards.
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Oh and do you remember how Fidel Castro kicked out the Mafia.
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@navii2e The world capitalist system is in crisis of its own making. The US being the center since 1945 is no longer the economic or political power it once was compared to the rest of the world. The Stalinist leadership did what they accused Trotsky of taking the Soviet Union back to capitalism.
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@nicbahtin4774 The working class must realize no hero's on white horses will come to save us. We must organize to abolish private property and abolish class society in the process.
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@nicbahtin4774 You don't seize private property (the property used to exploit others) and then give it to someone else like Stalin. The idea is to abolish private property all together. Those who wanted to continue the communist course and policies of Lenin as represented by Trotsky fought against the course that eventually lead back to capitalism as Trotsky predicted before being murdered by Stalin in Mexico city. The Stalinist are no different than people like Tony Boyle one time leader of the UMWA. They became nothing more than murderous officials in Red Army uniforms. This is something that both Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fought against for their whole lives.
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The ruling class monopolizing everything for themselves and wonders why the can have more.
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@art6268 One hundred million dead due to leaded gasoline. If you actually read Marx he said capitalism is the most productive system man has achieved. He credits the bourgeois for creating marvels If it had no flaws then it would need to be replaced. The enlightenment and the Bourgeois epic rationalize many things like except economics. Probably the biggest problem capitalism has is that it arose in nation states and these capitalist nations have divided the world market among themselves. Unlike in the national market the capitalist on a world basis have not been able to regulate their market system to keep themselves out of crisis. So while GE and GM don't set up private armies to fight one another capitalist of one nation have gone to war with the capitalist of other nations to fight over markets and resources. So on one hand you have a world market but who gets to sell and buy what where becomes something to fight over. That is capitals biggest contradiction since if human kind is to survive we can't afford to set off nuclear war. Now before world war one many said war was unthinkable and the nations were just to tied together in trade to go to war with each other. Yet this world war lasted 5 long years and cost millions of lives. no act was to monstrous such that only "the civilized nations" deprived themselves of cannibalism and torture according to Churchill the British Imperialists.
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The white house and Conress need to step out and let the strike occur after years of Rail Road boss abuse and record profits. The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14 th amendment.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@herbbluntman2287 No first the vote was never counted. Second the law prohibits literacy tests. Third she was not verbally mirandized before signing a confession.
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@allenatkins2263 Basically because the purposes and obligations of American communists is to make a socialist revolution here. Since we are non deportable we can also do best to strike at the actions of the Imperialist Empire inside the belly of the beast.
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@allenatkins2263 I changed the smoke alarm battery. Answered questions on youtube and did some reading. Uncle Sam pays me for paying him.
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@allenatkins2263 Maybe but if I told you six months ago that 30,000,000 would be unemployed would you believe that even possible?
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@FatherFirst Trump promises is to bust the teachers union for cheaper education, to create a chaotic voucher system, and set up a test for ideological purity and believe in Trump as as the new founding father and the Savior of America from a communist conspiracy created by capitalist liberals. Trump obviously only knows what the liberal professors at the University of Pennsylvanian taught him about communism. The reality is Trump is no different than any demagogic liberal with his plans to save American capitalism, private property and the profit system from its own demise. Trump can NOT bring back the post world war 2 boom anymore than Putin can restore Stalin's Soviet Union.
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@codent Trump shouldn't have promised what he couldn't deliver. Like Congress was going to approve building one half of an interstate hiway for two thousand miles sideways and then saying Mexico would pay. Its been recently taking 5 years to build ten miles of interstate in level Texas farmland after the contract was awarded. Trump was afraid to end the 20 year fiasco in Afghanistan fear of not getting re elected. Like building a wall was going to accomplish anything but make some construction contractors rich? Large numbers just come across and then surrender anyway. The governor of Texas had troopers stopping all truck traffic from Mexico for searches until grocery bosses started screaming about supply chain disruption. What is behind all these problems is the failure of capitalism world wide.
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@TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter They teach them the ideas of the ruling capitalist class. It a bedtime story of neoliberalism like what you can read in Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. Based on Adam Smiths 1776 Wealth of Nations Where the invisible hand of capitalism does the work of the Lord if only the governments and Bosses realised that they need a too follow a new moral code invented to save capitalism.
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@engineeringartist4801 So are engineers who are bought off with 13 pieces of silver.
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@mrhumboldthippy Your problem is that our nation was founded as a Democratic Republic where government powers are limited instead of the peoples. Accusation of a crime is not the same as having been arrested for committing one. Congress writes laws on immigration and what you THINK the laws is not what the law actually says nor is your ignorance an excuse for being wrong. Entrance into the United States at other than a port of entry is a civil NOT a criminal offense. The reason for making it a civil offense is to comply with the United States signatures on International Treaties. If Congress wants to change the law or revoke the treaties that is their decision not your Party, Trumps or your friends.
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@Vaprince33-3 Now legacy admissions are the law of the land.
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Making automobiles requires multiple plants making parts. The bosses like to run "just in time manufacturing" which means the don't like to create part inventories. If Ford is training scabs then the bosses are playing hardball. Maybe the new leaders want to see how the members respond when the strike begins? The bosses may want to use court injunctions to try to limit picketing and then run scabs. After all if you're still in the plants you can still use the sit down tactic. Most of the parts are made to go into final assemble and they can't don't sell some parts separately. Nor will they run final assembly without key parts which would cost to much instal as repairs later on. How determined you are and how much solidarity you can win from other workers will determine the outcome in any battle. Remember they have to have vehicles to sell if they want to make profits paying you to make parts that can't be readily assembled doesn't result in bankable profit.
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@ellyreginald6546 Because bosses only care about making a Yankee dollar.
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@somedandy7694 Screw Jos Biden and his, "Let a thousand flags fly." regime.
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@robertabell9182 I'm going to let you in on a secret it make no difference if it's owned by the CCP, Koch Industries, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, John Tang, or George Soros because their loyalty is only to gold and sliver and most of all the biggest profits possible. It make no difference who you vote for when the big donners finance both saying, "May the best man win." since they have both in their pocket. Trump being not a conservative but a populist is what angered the rest of the ruling class. His slaughtering of "sacred cows" is what had them so angry. You don't just call for jaling big time crooked politicians and call the FBI Gestapo head Mueller a witch hunter and get away scott free.
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@hughjassle5876 Anyone who puts confidence in Democratic Party liberals and police to stop fascism is a complete idiot.
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@farzana6676 These things are the continued fallout from the 2008 capitalist crisis. At the height of people captured crossing the border at other than a port of entry 350 people per year were captured per CBP agent Today it is 15. With almost four times as many agents and counting. A really big big crisis. Yawn. If their is a crisis its from people showing up legally at the ports of entry seeking asylum.
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@guilhermeperazzini Sorry but some of us "Rich Guys" actually have responsibilities that keep us from just leaving the trailer park and jet setting around the world.
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leonardimas1 Forget about boycotting Israeli products. Their is nothing progressive about Hamas. In Israel itself we are seeing joint strikes being carried out dispute nationality. Boycotting Israeli products is counter productive since no significant section of the working class leadership wants it. Hamas is a reactionary Islamic sect.
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@j7db Get a subscription to TheMilitant.com newspaper and join the socialist/communist movement to end capitalist rule.
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@peedrosmom Did you mean to say you need a savior for president?
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@martymcfake Make every job a union job fight to take back the profits that would pay for new machinery.
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Just what do the Profesional Seat Warmers propose?
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@simpleman4059 What the homeless ought to do is create sanctuary suburbs.
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@gsp49 Next time you get on an airplane ask who assembled that Jet Engine and who built the airframe. Do you know the difference between a back lobe and a side lobe on a radar antenna? What the purpose of sulfur hexafluoride is in a full power wave guide? What a ferrite wave shifter is and does? How to wire a three phase dual voltage nine wire induction motor and make it turn in the reverse direction if necessary? How to measure standing waves in a transmission line? My guess is people like you don't understand how cable TV works either.
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viet nam Why not call 1 800 MIKE PENCE and have him make you President of Vietnam.
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@YKKY The Cuban revolution is based on sound ethical political economic and moral principles. It's is not based upon the false promise of the Wall street hedge fund casino. Where a free lunch is the basic promise of capitalism to wealthy investors. Despite all post cold war Keynesian neoliberal theories where capitalism can now continue forward unmolested by the evil Empire of Communism. The worlds biggest military Empire along with its NATO allies was defeated by one of the smallest and poorest nations in the world after 20 years of the most vicious fighting to create what Bush said would be a "New World Order" Where the rule of law would replace the rule of the jungle. The capitalist war mongers have shown them selves to be nothing more than Human hyenas feasting by profit maximization though Imperialist wars of plunder.
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@YKKY The Social Democratic traitors have been making the European ruling classes beds for years now why not just continue? You handmaidens of Imperialism don't have the guts you were born with!
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@erickolb8581 Obama is a capitalist politicain who has nothing to do with unions or Socialism except when they wants our votes just like Trump or any other politician. Usually they only want to meet with our leaders seeking to convince them that they have something to offer us which they don't.
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@robertwalker2923 World capitalism has already entered it biggest crisis since the 1930's. The last time the Imperialist nations went to war without nuclear weapons 80 million died in 6 years of fighting.
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I love the border towns Like Laredo, El Paso, Progresso and Harlingen.
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@fasteddie9055 Actually support to the US Blockade is dwindling such that Cuban Americans themselves are protestant it The Blockade is an act of war against the Cuban government and people. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 LDM Source: Department of State, Central Files, 737.00/4–660. Secret. Drafted by Mallory.↩ Rubottom initialed the “yes” space provided on the source text.↩
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@ezragonzalez8936 Qatar is a dictatorship selling oil and gas wealth the majority of the population are exploited immigrant workers living in dorms who have no vote and protested not being paid. Switzerland is one of the first countries to adopt capitalism. Lenin lived their in exile and thought it would be one of the last countries to have a revolution. Its a center for bankers and I'm sure all the bankers in Singapore are doing well as they also require exploited immigrant workers who live in dorms to build the paradice. .I'm not really sure why you pick Ireland as its people were starved to death by British landlords and capitalist such that peasants died on the side of the road. My ancestors left on the ghost ship as many were allows to set sail so the owners could collect on an insurance scam and 1 in 5 sank on the way to America. They arrived here and were both married at age 16. The census of Ireland did not exceed 1840 until the 21st century. Your an economist than you can explain how money grows in a bank and where the profit comes from and how the capitalist will get around the decline in the profit rates as machines replace higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor. You realize healthcare and education are overhead expense for the capitalist to be minimized in order to boost profit rates. A dead worker can be replaces by another unemployed one. So for the capitalist he seeks to pay only a single worker just what it takes to get him back for the next pay period which is why the seek to work us the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace. Their are no morals behind capitalism except that of seeking the maximum profit and winning the battle of the marketplace along with use of the government to defend the profit system.
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@ezragonzalez8936 I'm NOT going to surrender.
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@michaelb247 Capitalist Democracy just like Ancient Athens was a Democracy for the slaveholders.
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@maniswil2 The railroad bosses are no different than any other companies bosses they want the production workers working the longest hours for the lowest pay. They want ti convince you that your part of the company like Warren Buffet who owns the BNSF. He sits in an office all day bragging about paying less taxes than his Secretary and he wants you to fire you because you don't meet his point system requirements by coming to work with 2 hours notice when ever they decided you are needed. He drives a 9-5 'desk where safe operation of desk drawers and paper cuts from improper handling of the Wall Street Journal are the safety issues for a few billion a year while you drive a train with a 100 cars down tracks at 70 miles an hour with no sleep and a conductor in the same condition. Buffets solution? Get rid of the conductor and pay the Engineer a few more dollars.
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@indsov2010 Typical company loyalist crying about unfair his life was. After all no one was willing to work for less than he did.
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@joebloe1401 Thats because getting a computer to preform the tasks of a driver is not as easy as the who say it can be done. Many things can happen that a driver will recognize right away that even the best computer programs can't. Artificial Intelligence is just a long held myth. Road signs are placed to continual train drivers in how to drive they can't readily train a computer in the same way. They would need to erect all kinds of electronic systems to communicative with the self driving truck.
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@eric63377 Rail Boss rely on their hand picked stooges in the FRA to do their bidding.
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This is his idea as a way to reduce the federal budget to save the rich tax money. Next time you get laid off you'll be getting this freedom benefit rather than UI. It should buy you some McD's hamburgers while you live on an LA sidewalk. It's just another Democratic Party cutback like Clinton's TANF.
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@elainemcmurtry8714 Right incomes rose by a factor of four in China and in the US they've stagnated since 1973, Why don't the have a how to become a rich business man course in public school? Obiously only a few can become a 1 percenter and they don't want social mobility either.
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They can always vote to put the Queen back in charge.
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@JMT1985MO Workers need their own political party just like we need unions independent of the bosses we don't need to enter into a coalition with liberal or conservative bosses.
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You can give him a choice just like Lester Maddox who ran his restaurant either serve or close. He not a worker either he is an employer. So he can't claim to be a wage slave because he's profit chaser that hires wage slaves.
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Custom wedding cakes is a niche business so in rural areas the number of custom wedding cake bakers may be very small meaning the ability to travel a long distance, if a local refuses, for a cake becomes a necessity. Some people may be refusing out of religious convictions and others may be doing it because they think they can and are using religion for an excuse but are really bigots. So how do get into their heads to tell the difference? Those who are engaging for bigoted reasons are most likely to stop their practices if they have to obey the law. The option for the religious is to separate the custom religious wedding cake business from the nonreligious bakery business. For the Christians this should not be that big a problem unless one is worshipping the Golden Calf instead of God.
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The distance argument was recently brought up in a Texas antiabortion case where Texas argued that the ability to travel to New Mexico for an abortion meant that the Texas law wasn't restrictive as based by distance of travel required. That was a recent case that the anti abortion forces lost.
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In case of doctors no one wants a doctor that is forced to do anything since the chances of screwups is high to begin with. The anti abortion people have used shame, threats, and murder to intimidate doctors from performing a simple and legal procedure. They want to open a hole using religion in public accommodation law which will then embolden them to proceed further. The reason for making them comply is those who are sitting on a fence will come over and accept making gay wedding cakes. Just as few would refuse to serve Black people today since it is a done deal. Those who insist on being racist show themselves to be that way and Black people soon find out.
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@fisharmor Anybody been to the free market tha Sowell talks about?
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@stephenparry6811 I guess as long as its wearing Made in America cloths any action by Congress is OKay in the battle against Godless Communism. Don't get caught reading those bad books in the public library. In fact don't be the librarian who puts a bad book back on the shelf. J Edgar has his men watching for those who check out the bad books. In fact I discovered I was a Hard Core Communist being labeled as such by a University Dean before I even knew a Communist Party member.
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@thefreeman8791 You going to twist everything such that the US is a Guiltless victim in all cases anyway. The central opposition to the Cuban Revolution from the Bastia coup to today has always been based in Washington, DC. The opposition wither from the terrorists or the so called disedents is always paid by and under control of Washington. They decided what provocations are the best to use in any situation.
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@stephenparry6811 Hypocrisy is when US policy claims to care about democracy. When are you going to admit that what they do is totalitarian instead of theses claims of shame on both houses. Did China or the Soviet Union use carpet bombing, supply or use Napalm, Agent Orange, or Cluster Bombs in either Korea or Vietnam? Did they threaten Nuclear war if they didn't get their way? Yet somehow a new US Election created a world "Human Rights" leader from the US Military James "Human Rights" Carter. The same "Human Rights" leader who supported and supplied Pol Pot in the UN and with supplies funneled through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. You always want to talk about a dead Stalin (d.1953) and a past Soviet Union (1991). Somehow this past is an excuse for current US wars and violations of "Human Rights".
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@scottricklaroque7428 For a Cuban to get that US Green card you needed to claim political repression. If you change your mind than you can be subjected to deportation and stripped of US citizenship. They had a Cuban Quilt of Genocide why has it and those names disappeared? People have left Cuba for a number of reasons.
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@scottricklaroque7428 The first group consisted of the Batista cronys, then people frighten of a US invasion, and those who want to be part of the consumer culture. You read all the stories about millions of political prisoners and thousands executed but when asked who these people are and what their names are they seem to not have a name.
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@scottricklaroque7428 These so called dissidents are paid by the US Embassy (Interests section) who then come up with incidents for a natural provocation. Yoni Sanchez was a big deal however she is old news now so no more "Human Rights" Journalist awards for her. Even she has decided to condemn the US Blockade. El Sexto he was another big name as a graffiti artists. Now he's sitting in a Miami Jail with out Bail because of Stalking and Death Threats.
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@scottricklaroque7428 In Cuba they don't let in US NGO Human Rights groups because they are considered a National Insult. The message to is to clean your own backyard before asking to look at ours.The Cuban people know much more about the justice provided by the US including the celebrations of Adolf Hitler's birthday by the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Gerald Reed is still rotting away in jail a victim of Chicago Police's John Burge's Midnight Torture squad. The Cuban Five are considered National Hero's.
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@scottricklaroque7428 A few years ago donated computers were being sent from here to Cuba via the Mexican border. The US CBP attempted to stop them by confiscating them at the border. Now you understand the US attitude towards technology being allowed into the island.
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@Bear Foxtrot I don't need a trip to the USS Kirk in one of the last choppers to leave Vietnam.
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@scottricklaroque7428 As usual it becomes necessary to equate Fidel with Stalin and Mao. Stalin ran his great Purge starting in 1936 while Mao had his Cultural Revolution Purge. Nothing like that happened in Cuba. Fidel and his brother Raul were founders of the July 26th Movement not members of the old Popular Socialist Party. Koreans like Vietnamese were the victims of US Imperialism and all kinds of US war crimes. Heavy bombers were used to "Bomb them back into the stone age." Truman had no right to divide Korea with Stalin. MacArthur threatened to use nuclear weapons on Chinese cities and create a nuclear no man's territory.on the Yalu river. These great bombing campaigns for Democracy were never used on Mississippi or Alabama.
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@scottricklaroque7428 The American civil war is not at issue. US conduct in Vietnam and Korea was one of an Imperialist power. Voting rights were denied to Black Americans in Alabama and Mississippi while the US was bringing democracy with fake elections, out right military dictatorships and War Crimes committed by US Troops and Bombers. The Puppet Diem brothers in Vietnam weren't doing as told by the Great Liberal Democrat Kennedy so he order an ARVN Military coup. The "Made in America" Korean Dictator Syngman Rhee had to be saved by a special CIA flight to Hawaii where he drank Coca Cola for the rest of his miserable life.
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@makeromaniagreatagain9697 ".. the students aren't trained for free. They still pay for their training though taxes..." I see we have an economist here. In US universities the number of Doctors trained is limited by the AMA along with the number of immigrant doctors being limited by the CBP cops. This is done because otherwise the salaries of Doctors would decline meaning even worse health for the people. While no such limits are placed upon engineers. The engineers are needed to increase profits by cutting labor time. Healthcare is limited to those who can afford to hire doctors like maids and butlers, those who can afford health insurance and for those who have nothing they must rely on charity or extended families.
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@scottricklaroque7428 You're the one who's ignorance of world and US history is unfathomable. The US/UK Democratic Imperialist invaded and fought with the forces of the old Czar against the new Soviet Union. Churchill said. "Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle." The Bolshevik slogan was that of Land Bread and Peace. Meanwhile the Democrat Wilson who promised to keep us out of World War joined in to the Imperialist slaughter. The Bolsheviks signed the first peace treaty with Germany along with making public the treaties of the Czar and the Democratic Imperialist plans for world domination. That was the original sin committed by the Soviet leadership. In the US Eugene Debs was railroaded to prison for denouncing this act of the US capitalist class seeking colonial expansion and world domination at the cost of the working class.
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@scottricklaroque7428 The US made itself into the World's Policeman in Korea. US immigration policy with Cuba is like the rest of its policy designed to make things as difficult as possible. Hundreds of so called Cuban Freedom Lovers are being deported back to Cuba under Trump. Same with the flotilla once they arrived it took no time for them to be arrested and sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary where they then rioted over dungeon like conditions. US diplomats then pleaded to have them deported.
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@scottricklaroque7428 Need to fight what? A bull who has no idea in which way he is going? The US always enters its wars of aggression and imperialist conquest with flowery language about how it stands for Democracy. It is always necessary to play the role of both the victim and the savior. This kind of playbook comes straight from the Christian Bible as the story of Christ. They need to put out lies to gain support. Like the "Gulf of Tonkin incident" and the false story of the "Baby in the incubator" Kuwaiti/Iraq war story. Do you remember when Saudi Hussein was the "New Hitler".
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@scottricklaroque7428 I guess I have exhausted the Good Professors love and excuses for capitalism.
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@alexstewart8097 Can we be sure you're not Alex Jones?
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@spec24 I don't need go to Venezuela to see shelves without toilet paper. All I need to do is get into my pick up and go to the San Benito, TX Walmart its been that way for three weeks now. What do you think now? Should we call this "Trump Socialism"?
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@spec24 So your a smart guy who understands economics? Where does the profit come from in a private industrial enterprise? Who owns the Federal Reserve bank?
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@alexstewart8097 Socialism requires a new kind of state with a new kind of democracy not a bourgeois multi party democracy where the biggest liars with the most campaign resources win.
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@alexstewart8097 That's a basic slander of Fidel or whoever Forbes magazine wants to slander. They do nothing but talk about the greatness of capitalism but then claim to be the friends of the poor. Fidel challenged them to show a single foreign bank account in his name. Did they ever find one?
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@alexstewart8097 I am not a disinformation agent of any country. Go ask Comey and Brennan if they been "communist since their youth" if anyone knows the answer to that question it is them. After all J Edgar Hoover claimed to have plenty of stooges in the CPUSA.
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@alexstewart8097 Obvious it's personal vendetta for you. You and Forbes readers of course love the poor and like General Batista drop a quarter in the poor box after Church on Sunday.
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@roosterboy7357 Not only did the American people know about Stalin's purge frame up trials in 1936 to 1938 a Committee of American Intellectuals lead by John Dewey investigated the charges and found them to be frame up charges. Watch the first few minutes of this official US propaganda film about the Soviet Union in WW2 before the end of the honeymoon in 1945. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo94Q_vGi6k You see they needed the Soviet Union to fight their battle with their Imperialist competitors Italy and Germany. The last thing they wanted was for Stalin to stop early at the Soviet or German border. The war ended when Soviet Troops took Berlin in May 1945. In about a year and a day Churchill would give the Iron Curtain speech announcing the beginning of the cold war with Truman sitting on the stage.
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ghosttrain2066 Like most of the boss class you have nothing to contribute but personal insults. Since you can't argue with facts you resort to personal insults because you are a phony who's total political educations consists of how to use politically correct name calling.
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Biao Long Segregation ended with the 1959 Cuba revolution. Cuba has given political asylum to Black people fighting US racial segregation. Including Radio Free Dixie broadcast by Robert F Williams from Cuban Transmitters which could be heard all along the East Coast. Nelson Mandela first out of the country visit was to meet with and thank Fidel Castro and the Cuban people for their help in freeing him and South Africa from the Apartheid government. Represion of gays goes back long before the Cuban Revolution to biblical times. Being Gay is not the same as being Black. Black people can't hide their Blackness while Gays can easily hide their being gay. Cuba reversed that past policy. Plus Spanish culture is much more sexualy then English cultures.
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@willo1345 I never claimed that all people who left for the US were terrorists. That doesn't mean they weren't a lot of terrorist who did. I live in the US and I comment on that relationship since it's the one that I am involved in. You want to claim whatever from another country fine. Just don't expect me to play guessing games with you as to what your problems with the US are and how that makes you as pure as the driven snow.
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@willo1345 Sure the Cuban's should put down all their arms and go all Martin Luther King so all the "Good European" Social Democrats in the name of Ebert traitors to the working class can take over and run it like Sweden or the Capitalist Banking State Monopoly of Switzerland.
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@willo1345 The US has always used immigration from Cuba as a weapon against the revolution. It's just part of their overall strategy to create hunger and desperation in Cuba. You realize they find dead bodies in the US Rio Grande/ Mexican Rio Bravo river and in the Texas desert and along with the rest of the US Mexican border. Life is not easy in for those who live in poverty. Cuba cannot be allowed to succeed because it will encourage others to follow. What follows is an official declassified US State Department document. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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Biao Long So now you are the moral leader of humanity!!! No US Doctors were ever flown in for Fidel Castro's surgery. That's just another lie told by people like yourself. Those who need a stone to grind because of their own shortcomings.
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Biao Long The US Gov't doesn't care about anyone except the rich and powerful US Citizens. Why should I support of a US Government of the Capitalist class? You go ahead and if your lucky you might get the Bone Saw and Sulfuric acid contact with Saudi Arabia. After all Trump says, "We need the jobs." Go ahead and support the greedy assholes who only got 50,000 US Soldiers killed in Vietnam. They were fighting for the democracy of a US Created Military Dictatorship in South Vietnam. A Black soldier couldn't vote in Mississippi or Alabama but they were sent to fight and die for democracy in Vietnam. You either think I am stupid or you are or maybe you get something extra out of the system or at least you think so.
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Biao Long I'm sure a couple of US counter revolutionary Doctors like Dr. Orlando Boshe in Miami made the announcement that they were hired but then canceled. If i'm arguing about why Cuban Doctors are better its because they became Doctors for the right reasons and aren't hacks who can't afford to quit and do something else. Since Cuban Doctors aren't collecting US Medicare/Medicaid and Private Insurance piece rate pay they aren't finding problems that don't need to be treated either.
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Biao Long End the MF Blockade and then Cuba will be able to buy medical equipment.
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@sanniepstein4835 Maybe you should ask Bezos and Musk where they plan to hide out after the revolution?
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@sanniepstein4835 Why do you think the Communist Manifesto ends with? The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
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@stephenparry6811 The didn't put anybody in front of a firing squad for being rich. The put criminals who had been using torture and assassination in front of squads. Most of the old police force were told to go home and stay out of trouble. Those who began a rebellion with US support were defeated. The US CIA organized rich Cuban's into a a brigade that were landed by the US NAVY and supported by US Alabama National Guard bombers painted with Cuban colors. Those captured were trade back to the US for medivene.
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@Outlier999 Speak for yourself. I HATE the lottery!!! I was born into the working class but I also understand Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Castro and enough math to win the actuaries award and attend MIT. Marx and Engels were the founders of the communist movement not a new Doctrine with its holy priests but the history of a class the proletariat of victories and defeats in the struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the Capitalist.
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@johnburns4017 Who was then?
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Earthquake hits Haiti a few weeks ago Biden does nothing but block entry now Haitian people coming in from the rest of Latin America.
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National Border patrol council is just another "cop union" wants more laws and more ability to impose cruel and inhuman treatment to prevent their members from being fired. They want more jails to get their members more work and more border crossings not fewer.
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Keep barking dog your master is listening.
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Once a drunk sees flashing blue lights ahead they become a blue light seeking self improvised missile.
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Mama says time for good little boys to take their vitamins so they can grow up and be big and strong men.
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How's life in the graveyard.
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@tomaszszupryczynski5453 The whole Secret Polce agency needs to be shown the door. The J Egar Hoover building needs to be demolished because Hoover and his spies were an insult to a Democratic Republic.
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@rayblanco5204 Finks Burglars Informers.
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"The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to administration officials." Straight from the US Wall Street Journal The US business think that they should own Latin America because they have dollars. It is the same in the US. Business controls government and dictates to the workers and farmers here.
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@omhari199 You need to work on that Trump Thank You letter ask your English as a second language teacher for help.
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@bakedturkeys2132 Like the US law it is intended to be enforced by a corrupts ruling class that desperately wants to hang onto power.
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@badda_boom8017 The Soviet Union was born out of the Imperialist war.
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No they use the Stalinist theories of Mao in China. As far as Vietnam goes I don't know what they do their except that Ho Chi Minh sided with Stalin but he was sent to China during the war of liberation. China attacked Vietnam after the War with the permission of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter. Vietnam rejected forced collectivization but helped the people of Cambodia get rid of Pol Pot another one of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters friends. .
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@c.galindo9639 For the boussois any interference with his bougois rights and freedoms are those of criminals seeking to cost him his bourgeois right to profits from private property. The bourgeois clams his rights to be god given and proof of his merit and not his buying and selling and turning everything into private property monopoly. He hails competition and is the involuntary promoter of modern industry until it stops producing a profit for him.
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As long as you have capitalism you will get this result. it can help but go into crisis because the workers can not buy back all that we produce and still give the bosses a profit. The bosses can help but enter into speculation for the biggest profit. The system has to come to an end because capital can not produce anything rather all it does is accumulate and demand a return on investment. That is why it can't do the impossible grow in a bank. The origin of all profits is the unpaid labor of the production laborer.
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@stevenmillikin558 US intervened in Cuba war of Independence for it own Imperialist interests.
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Yourname Here He is a criminal and should be sent to prison.
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It because the so called leftists the Social Democrats and Stalinists only want a better capitalism with a better boss as they oppose the workers taking matters into their own hands and abolishing capitalism.
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@nightwalker3828 Republicans are incapable of doing anything but crying poverty. There only ideas are a return to the past and a nostalgic love for the 18th century.
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@kevdaag2523 I've just been allowed back on to you tube after being banned for hate speech on Joe Biden's election day and after a short reprieve in January.
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@craxd1 What plan?
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@freddypizza3832 Why don't get go to a place where capitalism is bringing democracy like say Afganastan? Opps I almost forgot it didn't work? How about the middle East certainly they have lots of petro dollars you'd really love the religious police who are know for giving "criminal unbelievers in the profit" close shaves even better than gillete. US Imperialism provides such a wide variety of dictatorships to live under I'm sure you can find one to love and invest you stolen profits in.
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Just more of the Sowell theory that Socialism is when government does stuff. Same as when he though the US Labor dept was under Communist control.
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@innerviews897 How's it going Adolf? Have you built your suicide bunker yet? Still hiding under a rock with your brother the salamander.
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@r.davidsen The ancient Egyptians were the first to have conceived of the earth as a globe and even estimate its size even better than Columbus.
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@wateva4270 He is basically saying if he's almighty then he can't exist because he could then eliminate himself which means he can't be almighty even if he hasn't yet eliminated himself. So if he can't be almighty because that would not allow him to exist otherwise he could end his existence which would mean he isn't almighty since he can't save himself from himself. So logically he can't exist unless you system of logic allows for the unknown but if it allows for the unknown than you have the problem of god being all knowing but if he is all-knowing then he can't be almighty because to be almighty you can't know him because you can't know everything and if you can't know him then he doesn't exist
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@r.davidsen Any culture that studied the sky and made maps for travel would come to the conclusion that the earth is a sphere. The fact that you can't accurately map North America on a flat plane means any single table sized map will not accurately represent air mile distances between 5 cities like Boston , Miami, St Louis, Los Angles and Seattle no matter how its made.
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@cletustollery6914 Rail Bosses want o cut more jobs for even bigger profits. Warren Buffet needs to be put on a diet.
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@tlotlo7971 You won't find them among the greedy ruling class at least not in any significant number. One will need to look towards those exploited toilers of industry and the land. People that Fredman and the capitalist liberals write off as deplorable and irredeemable.
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@eyobwalid2332 Sowell thinks the same thing. For him capitalism, "free markets" and private property are the best things since sliced bread.
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Where in the constitution does it say that you have a right to impose your religion on others after opening a limited liability corporation as a privilege granted by congress and the states?
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It really doesn't matter whether Jack Phillips is successful or unsuccessful with imposing his views. The court needs to only reject masterpiece cake shops appeal by denying religious rights to for profit corporations. When was the last time you saw Exxon taking communion wafers at mass?
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Yes and when murder is legalized we will all be able to kill each other with all kinds of weapons legally purchased at Walmart, Amazon and Sears.
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Public accommodation laws were written and enforced because business refused to serve people because of race or other reasons. The Supreme court found them legal on a national level when they ruled the 1965 civil rights act constitutional. Given that 21 states have added sexual orientation to their state laws it seems hard to make the case that states can't have and enforce such a law.
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You need to explain how a custom cake is different than a meal that requires custom cooking when a same sex couple celebrates their anniversary? Would business want to put up signs saying our religion forbids serving same sex couples? Maybe they'd be happier putting up signs like Interstate buses have. "Seating aboard vehicles operated in Interstate or foreign commerce is without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin." 'Cakes made in this shop are produced without regard to sexual orientation."
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Orthodox Christians and Protestant Christians are just categories of Christians who can't even agree on when Easter is. The Catholics are ruled by the Pope and his decisions concerning Church dogma. I don't know what sect he belongs to but if he had up a sign saying I serve _____________ Christians only he would have a very strong case but fewer buyers of cupcakes, birthday cakes, and wedding cakes. He did offer to make a dog wedding cake but I'm not sure which religion marries dogs?
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His statement was, "I don't make cakes for same sex weddings." The decorations were not discussed.
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I completely disagree. All you have to do is understand the difference between a person (a natural person) and a corporate entity (a fictitious person). Requiring a natural person to complete or make a contract can be considered slavery while requiring a corporate one under pain of asset forfeiture can not. Masterpiece cakeshop was offered a compromise of having either another worker without managements religious views make the cake or have an outside contractor do it. Jack Phillips as the owner refused. At best Jack Phillips the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop would be facilitating the making of a cake celebrating a gay wedding which his religion does not permit. His sale of non religious items makes it clear he is not a single organization for religious items only. Many states also condemned interracial marriage before the Supreme court ruled such laws based in religion unconstitutional. It's not necessary for an item to be on a business's menu for a business to sell it. It is only necessary for a business to provide it. Could someone purchase a simple anniversary cake from Masterpiece cakeshop with two names that appeared to be of the same sex? Suppose the owners of Walmart decided they wouldn't do it either.
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All you provide is an English language lesson concerning the meaning of pronouns. Since the court has already declared same sex marriage legal in all 50 states and territories the overturned law concerning marriage in Colorado law is a moot point. State public accommodation law here is the issue which you seem to find amusing? Maybe the ruling class and idiots like you would be happier with pickets and protesters in front of bigoted store owners? Anecdotally our wedding cake was very modest and simple. Two or there layers with nothing other than our first names, congratulations and a figurine. A little bit more complicated since it was multi layered than what you can buy at Walmart. You wedding or hoped for wedding was or will be one of extravagance and much more elaborate. He said he would not bake on the basis of religion not that he didn't have the proper figurines in stock or didn't want to buy them. If that had been the reason and not his religious views than he had ample time to clear that up at the mediation level. I actually read the briefs supplied to the Supreme court and listened to the oral arguments you obviously did not. Maybe you're a busy school of management professor or business owner or another type of conservative fruit cake without the time. Who knows?
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"Oh, but, there are public accommodation laws" Yes and parking in a no parking zone will also get you ticket if an officer believes that you vehicle is found to be parked illegally. In most states once the legislature writes and passes a law, a governor signs it, an agency then enforces it, then a court will hear a violation of it and make a decision. That is essential how law in the US works. Masterpiece cakeshop has successfully had appeals of the original court decisions heard (not all appeals are heard) but has also lost each appeal now going for the last appeal on this theory of a corporation having the religious rights of its owner and his pretending to be a baker and not the owner of a bakery.
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He said he didn't make cakes for same sex weddings obviously that means they were either gay or lesbians being married. I merely wanted to make the anecdotal case that a wedding cake need not be that complicated such that it becomes a recognized work of art. Since he refused to make any custom cake for them he couldn't know how complicated it would be. Go to Walmart or a grocery store, buy a bakery made cake and the will customize it with a names and happy birthday or names and happy anniversary or virtually anything you want and will fit on the cake. He does not make Halloween Cakes? Not the issue here because he's not being sued by Satanists. In the brief written by the ACLU lawyers he also refused to sell cupcakes to be used in a lesbian commitment ceremony and did offer to sell a cake for a dog wedding. Certainly a person so religiously dedicated to faith and marriage as something only possible between a man and women would not facilitate and degrade such a ceremony by celebrating sex between dogs as a marriage. Then again no one can force a fool to eat from the tree of knowledge.
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Thats not the question being decided it is not can Phillips be compelled to make a cake its his company. Masterpiece cakeshop is on trial here not Jack Phillips the owner. Explain why Masterpiece cakeshop should be allowed to claim a religion. Why not let GE be catholic and GM be protestant? Cars and Jet engines take much more engineering than a wedding cake.
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Look the court almost never challenges religious belief if you say that's what you believe they take it as good coin. This comes on the heals of the bad 5-4 Hobby Lobby decision where they said a closely held company claiming the owers religious belief could be excused from providing birth control under Obama care. If that wasn't a case of religious tyranny and corporate power being exercised over employees I don't what is. We recognize corporations as fictitious people but they don't have all the rights of natural persons.They are slaves to their owners despite the 13th Amendment , they can't vote in elections, or serve on Juries. Do they need lobbyists and input in Congress? Yes they do because lobbying will prevent lawyers from passing laws for doing something like requiring water burning cars or over unity generators. The other thing is Jack Phillips declined for his company as whole and continues that position. The question of what the cake would be or look like was never even discussed. He also refused to provide cupcakes for a lesbian commitment ceremony. Now the court cannot rule on his religious beliefs but he did offer to make a dog wedding cake. The court has already and correctly recognized that a company deliberately assigning a worker to knowing do something against their religious belief when other employees could do it then and firing them for it is illegal. Why don't we just call in King Solomon cut Jack in half and his employee half doesn't have to make the cake while his owner half must supervise.
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What I'd like to know, given that American law works by precedent how do you want to draw the line without either opening a gaping hole in public accommodation law or making it a personal decision for Jack Phillips only?
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He has already revealed that he doesn't make all the wedding cakes. So yes in this case King Solomon can cut him in half by Masterpiece cakeshop having either another employee or an outside contractor without his belief make the cake. I believe he was offered that as a solution to his deeply held belief but refused. What the religious belief is concerning dog marriage is irrelevant. Dogs aren't protected by public accommodation laws they apply to human beings only. So is his complaint that he couldn't get a cake made with a slogan against gay marriage. If he had said I want a cake because I am getting married and I want a different sex marriage cake that would be equivalent. Someone might think he was kinky though. There aren't any laws or court cases concerning free speech cake until this one came along. If my wife Deb goes in and wants a cake that says happy anniversary Kim and Deb would he make that? After all my legal name is Kim but my name stems from Kimball and I am male. Do you think he'd believe my wife? After all she could be lesbian wanting to eat his cakes. (Kinky!) Years ago they often checked your credit card and said sorry you can't use your wife's card, I had to constantly take out ID and even today if I meet someone new they say oh Tim or Jim. Do you really think it's a lot fun to be constantly challenged like that? I meet four new people today alone.
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@brunods4560 Sowell is hooked on markets and capitalist just like a drug addict. For him everything needs to be put in a market for perfect competition. According to Sowell unskilled workers can't be exploited because they can be hired elsewhere. Except they are exactly who the capitalist exploit for the profits. Without the ability buy their labor power in a pay period and pay only the social cost of reproducing that labor power while selling the extra surplus value that labor created their would be no profits. Since profits and losses have nothing to do with the working time of the capitalist they can't be a wage. A capitalist can work sixty hours managing his business or pay a someone else's. His profit depends on market conditions not his labor. He always seeks to work the production workers the longest hours at the lowest wages and the fastest pace for the biggest profits in a pay period.
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@freedomworks3976 When Karl Marx spoke about slavery he said labor in a white skin could not be free as long as labor in a Black skin was in chains. He urged Lincoln to make death to slavery as the slogan of his second campaign for President. Republicans betrayed Blacks in the compromise of 1877 Hayes Tilden election. The same year as the great railway strike where the bosses used Ferderal Troops against strikers,
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@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. A football coach saying a prayer after the game is the latest threat to the editors of the bourgeois New York Times. How dare he say prayer on government time doesn't he know we have built nice churches for our truly anointed.
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Daniel Natal The Cointelpro programs was an example of Hoover going after Reds and dissenters. Plus the A bomb was not a secret. Hoovers methods were no different than Muller's. Instead of we found a law being broken. It's a we know who the criminals are now lets build a case. You go down this road of where its okay to violate the bad guys rights because we know their bad guys you just one day away from dictatorship.
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Daniel Natal Israel and any host of other countries aren't the US government. How do you justify bad acts here because of bad acts going on elsewhere? The US was fighting for Democracy in WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam. The federal government seems to have forgotten the Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the former slaves voting rights in America. They were cheating them out of the right to vote in Mississippi and Alabama. Why didn't they carpet bomb and nuke those states and their capital cities? If they didn't want Soviet criticism and subversion than why didn't they just end segregation and call it a day?
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Daniel Natal Not sure why? I guess it's a complement. Why did you read Das Kapital? I've only read part of it. Instead reading the manifesto, Value, Price and Profit and Wage Labor and Capital. Plus Leon Trotsky, other authors and the movements press. TheMilitant.com
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@nathanallen1111 That's because they were all educated in the classrooms of people just like Sowell defenders of neo liberal capitalism.
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As long as you have capitalism you will have poverty.
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@speed8701 They have cameras on every door and register. They don't miss a trick either. A fifty dollar bill went missing and after looking though all the cameras they had a supervisor arrested.
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@staloki I'm the kid who wore glasses did math and was teased in gym class by bullies. I landed one right smack in the face of one who deliberately tripped me and I then sat with his girlfriend durring lunch. I say Petersen has always been a fake. A so called professional who thinks he's another Freud who can fix broken brains with big talk. What makes him think he has any right to do so or even knows anything more than anyone else but a degree from a bourgeois University? When he can't argue a point about a Karl Marx he just repeats tired out slanders. Musk is little more than a confidence man who made it big. Why don't you go to South Texas and sign up to go to Mars? You, Musk, Petersen and Bezos can be the first to be on a Mars colony.
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@staloki You got to the moon because America needed an excuse to build rockets and a military to defend the Empire. Cowards hide out in gated communities. the White House and Congress with armed men to protect them. If the shoe fits put it on.
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@angelusonhigh3066 World War two ended because the Imperialist powers of America and Britain did not have the political ability to politically turn on a dime and defeat the Soviet Union as Churchill had hoped to do using recycled German NAZI's. Since then the Imperialist powers have lurched back and forth in unwinnable wars as their relative decline has set in.
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@johnstonks Musk is just another capitalist huckster like Thomas Edison and Bill Gates relying on the hired help for all the good ideas who you worship him for. No one in their right mind has the slightest reason to spend billons to colonize mars. Tesla motors will sent out thousands of pink slips in order to pay Musk 50 billion in compensation.
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If you can find or build a monopole magnet you will receive a Nobel prize in physics. A monopole magnet is one which has only a north or south pole. You can separate charges such that one object has negative and the other positive charges. Where as magnets when broken apart only produce two more magnets with north and south poles. Magnetism is the relativistic component of the electric field. A. Einstein in Special Relativity 1905. The relativie motion of charges creates magnetic fields.
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@roymaddocks3184 Democracy Now joins the "National Security" "frame job" railroad "Trump" express.
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@penguinsfan251 Reagan took money from the controllers union for his campaign. The no strike law violates the 1st and 13th Amendment by making it a crime to go on strike and replacing the controllers with Military slaves who can not break their contract.
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@dhart28 Reagan spent like a drunken sailor on defense as a true cold warrior he sought a first strike capability with Star Wars. Like Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter before him who Armed Pol Pot and supported him at the UN no kind of regime or movement was to rotten to support including the white mercenaries in Angola, the South African racists, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghan Islamic terrorists. He armed real enemies of Democracy for the glory of defeating the mythical ones. As the cold war ended the biggest defeat of Reagan policy was the Victory at Cuito Cuanavale of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed forces over the US allies South Africa and Unita it dove a dagger into the myth of the invincible white man and the end of a Regime by a man who sat in ts prions for 27 years Nelson Mandela.
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@juliatobiason3932 You can have all the children you want. I know plenty of truck drivers who can help you have babies.
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@scottosborn6193 Society is divided into classes and the capitalist class and industrial working class have opposing interests. Politics is just the expression of the class struggle in words.
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Imperialist think only of themselves and how to make a bigger profit.
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@paulfrost2560 Democrats are a right wing capitalist party that would like to create one Party capitalist rule.
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@Paulus1 They swing political names around at each other like swear words such that the lose any meaning and certainly their original one. General Batista called himself a Democratic Socialist at one time and Mussolini a Social Democrat. Names don't count but how you conduct yourself and how you can explain your ideas. Plus words and their meanings don't always directly translate between cultures. The working class is already diverse what we need is some unity and action. AOC turns everyone off with here antics BS Green New Deal and foolish ideas anyway. Sanders and Warren are busy trying to make a no good system fair and work for alll the people. .
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@olajones324 The FBI has no role in the white house.The secret service protects the President.
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@williamtell5365 The second amendment like the first was put into the Constitution as a check on Federal power.
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No to any more Imperialist wars. End the blockade of Cuba!!!
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@levinoseberg4284 The reason you have to keep taking about communism failing is because capitalism is failing. The first try at a modern republic was not in the US but England back in 1649. King Charles head was cut off. A commonwealth was proclaimed. A few years later the monarchy was restored and it along with the peerage still retains power today. Over one hundreds year until the Revolution of 1776 and almost another hundred 1865 until the second revolution ended slavery.
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Basic Industry (Oil, Coal, Gas, Steel, Aluminium, Copper, Electrical Generation, Rail and Truck transportation) in the US is in private hands. This along with Banking and Stock Markets makes the US a capitalist country. The workers social wages and public services does not make the US a socialist country but instead a Capitalist welfare state.
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@presidentmerkinmuffley6769 Paine hated organized religion. When bosse control the price and the wage that's boss tyranny! UNION YES!!
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@arya3944 That's the CCP or Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. The US is just the dominate Imperialist power which has been losing market share to China. That is the sourse of the conflict as the US ruling class cares nothing about democracy when profits are involved.
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All favors is private property tyranny with a centralization of wealth and power. Its not centralized tyranny because you aren't allowed to think that. Instead you are told we have different brands so you have a choice between tyrants where everything is micro managed for you benefit. Of course you are never allowed to see the company books that's a business secret for the bosses only.
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Sowell is just another American neoliberal signing the praise of capitalism to the choir.
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@caesaryumury5839 They think nuclear winter can be avoided by switching to renewables. .
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@scorpion9500 Naturally you don't think private investors want to risk their money on a huge investment without some kind of profit guarantees.
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@farvasstache6532 Makes no difference Trump doesn't control what the auto bosses do anyway. Wall Street and the bosses always want to pay lower wages in aby new industry. They are always look for new investments for their profits looking for a way to make more by lowering wages.
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@farvasstache6532 The government acts as the executive committee of the ruling capitalist class. They view Trump as having ruined the two party Bourgeois gentleman's game. He went beyond limits calling it a rigged system and Clinton a crook to chants of "lock her up." Now they've decided to do to him what they did to the Stalinist's in the 1950 claiming their defending democracy not hypocrisy. They hope by sending Trump away along with compliance from the rest of the Republican Party they revive a faith in two party rule which is not going to happen. I was listen to the radio while driving my truck in South Dakota and I head an announcement for a meeting about a labor Party.
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@agent109g8 The workers need to organize their own labor party based upon the unions and make workers control of industry and society a reality.
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Good time to go on strike and make the bosses pay.
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@Cuteypie-b9b The capitalist says he hates taxes but he loves those big government contracts. He hates social services but he loves a big standing Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force that protects his foreign investment. He hates unions except the police union which defends his property rights.
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@omar...4250 Hamas has nothing to do with justice. It goal is to cleanse the world of Jews period. It is a NAZI like thug group that has taken over GAZA.
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Sure bring in some more capitalist boobs we need clowns more to laugh at.
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@LaoZi2023 Get rid of the unelected capitalist administrative state that serves cooperate interests its suppose to regulate.
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@LaoZi2023 Workers joining trade unions and using the strike weapon to defend our class interests is the way forward. Out of a militant labor movemnet it will quickly become evident that we need our own party independent of the bosses parties to take on the political and government attacks.
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@ashleygriffith6001 The capitalist Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and CEO's will save all and make us rich by making everything in Space and moving us to Mars to beat the evil Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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@johnjay6370 If you don't want women choosing abortion for birth control than make birth control and sex education free and available to all. The problem is that hormonal birth control itself may be abortion since it could work by preventing fertilized egg implantation. Its a wakeup call because no one is talking about the real issues of a good paying and meaningful jobs to support families but instead all the talk is about fetus rights. A fetur can't even breath yet conservatives want to endow it a right to life that no 18 year old gets.
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@johnjay6370 If she almost killed herself twenty years latter that's a long time to be carrying around a guilt complex. When I was 18 in 1970 we wanted to change a lot of things unfortunately we weren't that successful.
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@thomaskalbfus2005 They didn't have many Blacks in the old Soviet Union but Stalin himself was a Georgian who spoke with a thick Russian accent. The United States had gotten Stalin to agree to declare War on Japan when VE Day was declared. With Japan's defeat Truman suggested and Stalin agreed to a division of Korea for purposes of evacuating Japanese Troops. Neither party had a right to divide Korea since the war was over and spontaneous people's committees had sprung up in Korea forcing the Japanese to stay on their bases. Like almost everywhere US Troops are stationed the NEVER leave without a fight. Syngman Rhee was a hand picked stooge who spent the war being a totally irrelevant unknown in Washington, DC. The US Took over for the hated Japanese Imperialist and declared English to be the native language. For the United States helping Korea was like France helping Mexico with Maximilian. The Japanese had withdrawn to their barracks and instead of evacuating and leaving Korea to the Korean's the US decided to "Help with "nation building democracy" By using its military forces along with the Japanese Troops to suppress the people's committees that had sprung up in the area it now claimed under its military control. Accusing North Korea of launching an invasion is like accusing Northern Mexico of invading to oust Maximilian. Syngman Rhee claimed to be President of all Korea after his phoney elections and massacres. He celebrated his election by murdering his non communist opponent. Only former Japanese collaborators wanted US Troops.
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@maggiereeves2534 Tell Biden to end the Cuban Strangulation policy. No defect spending!!! Tax the rich down to the reckless and gold chains level if necessary!!!
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@maggiereeves2534 That's Good it shows you stay away from criminal types like Biden.
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@adeledorman6447 That's because you lack any self confidence.
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@cyclonutterd7075 We will run our own candidate like we always have since 1948.
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@bluemax92 January 6th The day the sheep became afraid of the cry's of the lambs.
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How much more do you want to spend maintaining the largest prison system in the world?
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@nadermazari3334 What you saw was the failure of Imperialism to inflict a military defeat upon communism.
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@nadermazari3334 Capitalism seeks to pay the lowest wages just enough to get the worker ro socially reproduce his labor for the next pay period. This is why the BNSF railroad with its Precisions scheduling nor allowing the workers to have a family life is called the Better Not Start a Family railroad. Capitalism with its failed world market system is producing the class struggle that will bring about its end in the Industrialized west. You need to get out of what ever underdeveloped country you live in and see the farms and industry in the United States Corn to feed animals growing for as far as you eyes can see. With huge machines that harvest in hours what would take a thousand people a month. .The United States feeds 350 million with about 8 million farmers including their families.
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@nadermazari3334 You can spend all day praying to Allah, Jesus or Yeshiva and that won't feed your family. None of those ancient texts will teach you about electricity. The west took the ideas of the ancient peoples from the Islamic world like algebra and the number system. The British built the most accurate clocks you could carry in a ship and mapped the entire world with them. That computer you use was made out of parts soursed from over one hundred different countries.
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@nadermazari3334 Islam the newest of the Abrahamic religions has been around for 1400 years. The communist movement began in 1840 in Europe. More people living today have read the 1840 communist manifesto than the 1400 year old Koran. Islam can change nothing.because it's ideas were developed before the capitalist era where a working class is needed to operate machines to produce the needs of human life. Capitalism has already defeated the old systems of feudal relationships reflected in the Bible, Koran, and Confucianism, All those holy books that claim to have the true word of god are distorted by the changes in the meaning of words over time not to mention that the authors were all men writing down the words and until the development of the printing press had to be copied by scribes who are also human and subjected to mistake making. After all just like Christianity there is more than one type of Islam.
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@nadermazari3334 As far as the Imperialist are concerned they are more than happy to have the Saudi's and the rest of the middle east monarchies and dictatorships. It's much cheaper for them to pay off a few mullahs than to have to deal with another Cuban revolution in the middle east. After all the CIA originally funded the taliban and bin laden as reactionary bulkworks against communism. The only thing Islamic terror has achieved is a harvest of dead bodies.
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I guess it comes from the bosses themselves. Henry Ford was the publisher of "The International Jew" that was translated and reprinted by Hitler. The FBI has always been the biggest anti free speech agency since its founding. Why not arrest and prosecute anyone for actual violent crimes. Instead of debating if a violent crime is hate crime or "love" crime?
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@purplefood1 It was a a war among the Imperialist thieves and to defeat the Soviet Union.
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@mintz9782 Communist "ideals"? I don't know we had ideals? You get to socialism through class struggle not by supporting "ideal's" whatever "that's" suppose to mean? Marxism Leninism or communism is the theory of the workers movement on the way to win the the class struggle.
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@emmanuelgoldstein1918 Cuba not only has a n army but a territorial militia that would respond to a US invasion of the island which is why the US does not invade. They are well organized and ready to respond arms in hand to defend the revolution. Just as the Five heros returned to Cuba from US life sentences so to will the blockade end. The Imperialist will be forced into retreating as sympathy builds for Cuba's just cause and against the billionaries government in Washington and New York.
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@emmanuelgoldstein1918 The US doesn't invade because they know they will face an armed people and a rebellion thougout Latin American colonies.
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@dalegribble1560 Trotsky's Red army defeated 14 invading armies durring the Russian civil war including the US/UK.
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Half truths and outright misrepresentations along with slanders. That's why no one discusses these so called damages outside of profit seeking bosses wanting to blame others for the decline of the world capitalist system.
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@PR-qo5cn I don't have any boats can I come and use your's?
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@beckmc8939 A 100% profits tax.
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Ronald mcdonald That why you need a revolution of workers and peasants power because then the bosses can''t cheat because you change the system to beak the power of the capitalist by overproduction which kills the market and money system itself. .
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@rcenal6995 Charge 100% tax on Profits Tax. Charge an over education Tax on all CEO's.
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@devinlent1556 Cancel national debt as those who made the loans didn't need the money in the first place.
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@robertlowther6979 The rich don't need their money since most is profit so 100% tax on profits and then we can talk about tax brackets on CEO salaries and wages. No tax on anyone paid at an rate hourly rate below a union autoworker or union tradesman.
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@maryjankowski9032 The American Imperialist lost the cold was since instead of creating a world of a mighty unipolar American Imperialism they have two new Imperialist competitors in the world market place Russia and China. Their system of world trade and production entered an unprecedented crisis of a magnitude not seen since the great depression in 2008. A crisis that is reflected in the two parties bickering over every policy to "Make America(n Imperialism) Great Again". Capitalist greed is what has caused the Empires downfall. Both parties say capitalism can be fixed when the system has produced its own downfall by its ultimate "Greed is the best of all emotions and desires policy."
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@3kzmom280 I don't know who you are but you must be a real peace of work. .
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What happened? Cat got your tongue? It's difficult for me to even believe your female.
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@3kzmom280 I think your a piece of work because you lack empathy for those who might not be as fortunate as you not because of you opinion on abortion. My grandmother had 11 pregnancies, 9 live births and 7 children who reached adulthood. She loved them all. No one else in the family had that many and I suspect two of my aunts may have died of unsafe abortions since each already had three children.
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brandy will These are weapon's of terror used the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington.
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@cidsapient7154 What makes him worth more his money, his TV fame or his education at an elite university? Inquiring minds want to know? What makes Queen Hilary the choice of most of the elite and "educated" in the suburbs? Clinton went to the girls finishing school Wellsley college and graduated Yale law spending 15 years defending big business at Rose law. Sourse WSJ.
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Capital has always been created by labor. It's never created by property or resources. From the creation of coins to the mining of gold and silver to the printing of fiat currency and the numbers in a bank's computer they were all created by labor of one kind or another. Capital itself is a social force that is privately owned but set in motion by all of society and that contradiction has persisted because of the past when the production of surplus value was limited and so a small ruling class was needed to make all the decisions. But capitalism creates the universal laborer the universal machine operator reducing even the proud middle class professions to nothing more than laborers and paid slaves of the bougoies class. .
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@RealMTBAddict Bosses can find the money in those big profit statements. Put the bosses on a diet go on strike now.
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@RealMTBAddict What's keeping you from taking up a collection for the bosses crys of poverty?
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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If they pay $65 or even $165 dollars an hour for scabs it would only be till the end of the strike and if the strike is defeated the first thing the will do is lower you wage to about 65 cents an hour.
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@joshuafrescas5899 The US military has multiple commands for the world it policies for the US Empire. Africa Command, Central Command, Southern Command, European Command, Indo Pacific Command and Northern Command.
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@HurricaneJD Capitalism breeds racism and bourgeois universities and bourgeois professors can not change that system no matter how many books they write or classes they tesch. Capitalism began with rascism as idelogical justification for slavery and then dual wage scales it will end when destroyed in the coming socialist revolution.
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@darkskinglory899 Where did I say that and what makes you think I wrong about WOKE Bourgeois Professor being able to accomplish a goddamn thing? Most of them see themselves as having a stake in the capitalist system. The only thing they're interested is pointing fingers at anyone but those who are actually responsible the capitalist government, its two parties and the capitalist bosses themselves.
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@stephezak1 Conversation or no conversation the material roots of racism lie in the new capitalist system and the plantation slavery system that was grafted on to it. As an ideology it has taken many blows but only the end of capitalism can open the road to the final end of racism. It is world phenomena not limited to America alone.
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@danamontada2134 This is the result of the world crisis of capitalism and its effects on the working people of Cuba. The sixty year long blockade waged against the revolution like the that against the trade unions and the standard of living being waged by the bosses against working people in the United States. The American capitalist and their parties have no solutions to their crisis expect to load it on to the backs of workers and framer here in the United States and try and starve the Cuban people intosubmission with a blockade.
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@nielwright1 US became an Imperialist Power like Europe when it took Spain's colonies in 1898. Then it entered the first Imperialist War to redivide the world among Imperialist powers. The Russia workers rebelled and the Lenin and Trotsky lead the revolution. 14 Imperialist nations invaded including the US/UK. The US would invade Latin American nations to defend its bankers and bosses foreign investments. Just like World War one the FDR regime would jail his Socialist opponents. 18 Leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters would be convicted on the Smith "gag" Act charges.
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@jesseholliday3480 End the Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@grekygrek Stossel always pretends to be surprised. He of course is a privileged investor/speculator with a stake in keeping capitalism alive.
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@KingSG_ Srossel lies using his puppet after all the US won't even permit him to even legally travel to Cuba the blockade has become so tight. The US coast guard is blockading and boarding any vessel leaving the US for Cuba. The Mexican navy vows to break the blockade with food and medicine.
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@Miner-49 A better name would be project "Frame Job." As the whole purpose is to lure people into making statements that could incriminate them by posing hypothetical questions, making secret recordings and then creatively editing the results.
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@glenncordova4027 What's stopping you from sending them some?
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Mexico does have to follow your orders boss.
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@akwit82 Basically foreign investment serve the bosses hunger for profits because then corrupt dictatorships and military force can be used on weaker nations.
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Trump is as much as responsible as Bush and Obama. Reelection concerns drove continuation of the war. It was a war for big business profits and the US bosses world market positions.
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Teaching nevertheless is an honorable profession. Its is the wage laborers who will abolish capitalism and if capitalism did not create us how would we be able to abolish it?
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Lets all shed a tear for the Big Tobacco companies.
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@fauxque5057 March in the Streets to defend abortion rights.
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Ya he is good at lying with a straight face.
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It's out of control authority yet it is even more out of control when the person is black. Having Back policeman on the force doesn't make it any better. Cops know Black people don't have the same resources to fight back unless they are organized. How the cops act is determined by the number of mercedes in a neighborhood.
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Nevertheless the cops do kill some caucasians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ooa7wOKHhg Right now these killings however usually occur as a single person at a time. When multiple people are killed at a time it is usually in the context of a political one. The killing of four caucasian students at Kent State was done by national guard and resulted in a nationwide student strike. The Black movement to overturn jim crow discrimination in the south and discrimination by custom in the north faced a much greater use of police violence that compares only to attacks waged upon the labor movement as a whole.
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Ten people were murdered on memorial day 1937 in Chicago when cops opened fire on unarmed striking steelworkers another 50 were victims of gunshot wounds and another 50 were severely beaten by the cops. How many were people of color? I couldn't find that stat. Remember this was before the second mass migration of Black people to the industrial cities of the north starting with WW2 and the preceding military buildup. This was more unarmed protestors murdered by the cops or klan in single day then any day of unarmed civil right protests after WW2.
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If anyone is dividing people it is the police by the actions they take and the politicians who refuse and delay seeking justice for those unjustly killed by police. Corporate media must report or see themselves out reported on social media.
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Speaking for power from the otherside of the room.
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@dailyrant4068 Small business is gobbled up by big business as a general law of capitalism. Raising the minimum wage will push up all wages. Rents are high in the cities if anything it will work to increase economic activity in the rural areas.
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@Joe Crawford I can and have read a number of economic texts online at Marxsits.org, I've also read, Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism. Capitalism has its own built in economic contradictions that the ruling classes can not escape that will send it into first trade war and then real world war. Just like it did in the 20th Century.
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@cindyl.3699 The Constitution requires the President, VP, Senators and Congressmen to be citizens but not the voters. That was left up to the states. Only starting in the 20th Century were voters required to be citizens. Most states required voters to be male property owners.
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Ford published the "International Jew" which was translated and republished by Hitler. The woke Democratic Imperialist are all fake anyhow. FDR turned back a shipload of Jews who sought asylum while the Socialist Workers Party took the plight of the Jews to the working class unions. A maas picket of the German American Bund was held in New York. Hamas is a NAZI like organizations and Israel's right to exist must be protected as a refuge for the Jews. The Jews have been the most slandered people in history and blamed for every economic crisis. While the Arab people of Gaza are suffering it is the fault of the NAZI like Fascist Hamas and NOT Israel. Arab and Jews in Israel go on strike together. Hamas broke a teachers strike for back pay. Hamas murdered all political opposition after winning one election in 2006 in Gaza. Why do you want a ceasefire on NAZI's? .
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Right the should go and listen to elite eggheads like Sowell who sits up at Stanford University Heritage foundation think tank. .
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@cindyhaduik7171 The guy is a first class idiot. Why did the 2008 crisis occur? "Well if they paid their mortgages." DAAAA A really deep thought. Like the 1600 tulip bulb crisis greed took over and they bid up prices until the whole thing collapsed like a house of cards.
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 @davidjones-vx9ju Should take to long to build to using Trumps specs. Half of a four lane Interstate Highway including shoulders running sideways for 2,000 miles. Can anyone say Orange barrel?
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I like Cuban style socialism.
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@ryanh2691 A wall achieves nothing organizing unions and class struggle is the way forward.
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@heidiconnolly6454 The US Empire is collapsing along with its "New World Order." Which is becoming a "New World Disorder."
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@MilieuChris The problem is capitalism is just a new system of exploitation that is now in decline.
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@@apsoypike1956 Look at your capitalist high tech miracle and you see a population in decline. Half the human race is voting against its conditions of life under advanced capitalism by not having children.
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@waspwrap1235 The Rosenbergs were the only American Communists officially executed by the United States. They were falsely accused of giving Stalin the secret of the Atom bomb and being indirectly responsible for the Death of American soldiers in Korea.
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@gamalwilliams6811 The Imperialist hypocrisy is astounding.You spend 3 trillion dollars causing the death of thousands and displacing millions from their homes and you call your self the defender of rights of women and girls. Have you no shame?
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Like you didn't try and erase all the US Colored Troops sacrifices in the south. They were overwhelming form the South with 180+ regiments at the end of the war. Yet where are their statutes? After all its just about history and not keeping racism and division alive with a General Lee and CSA officers monument cult.
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@john_cockpit She is a pacifist. Hamas is a Neo NAZI group. Do you think for a moment tjhat NAZI's wouldn't hestate to put a pacifist in a concentration camp with the Jews? Why call a ceasefire on NAZI's?
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The pacifist lady wants a ceasefire on a Neo NAZI organization Hamas. Once world war two began when would have been a good time to call a ceasefire on NAZI Germany?
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People have come to hate city intellectuals and scholars. They've always got a solution that involves saving capitalism.
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@Rootiga China will have a revolution to establish a real communism as will America. Most likely though a third country will have another socialist revolution first.
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Musk's agenda is the same as other capitalists. Bigger profits and beating his capitalist competition. Just like the so call SPD and Democrats just another group who wants to win the battle of the market using different government policies.
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@AA-il8ee The unions need to fight for automatic wage raises to match inflation. Workers need to set price monitoring committees so the true cost of living can be tracked. That bosses can't just raise prices while the Central bank prints more money. The Union need to build a labor party to take control of the government away from the bosses two parties.
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@InsightsAbroad Yes. Google "The Militant" newspaper.
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@tandava-089 Jew hatred always rises when capitalism enters an economic crisis. They are always blamed for the natural workings of the capitalist system. They also played a role beyond their numbers in the Russian Revolution. The counter revolutionary white used Jew hatred in their propaganda. Trotsky was pictured as a Red Devil and with a Gold Star of David around his neck.
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@tandava-089 Since my original post was deleted. Jews are always blamed whenever capitalism enters a crisis that its natural workings produce. They serve as scapegoat for the ruling class and the middle class are the ones who become the most jealous elements since big capitalism is crushing them. Every fascist group and movemnet has had a jew hating component. .
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How about raising the minimum wage? We can't all be small business and the number of small business goes down as capitalism develops. The big companies and Bankers all talk about how they love small business except when it matters than they try and strong arm those small business who want a loan and those who want to sell to the big companies. The top wants to build sympathy against the trade unions by appealing to small business and the unorganized. FDR and Nixon took the country off the gold standard so they could rob us with inflation instead of issuing the old fashion wage cuts when capitalism goes into crisis. Index wages and soc sec with inflation and put us back to work with jobs building the things working people need. Tax profits at 100% before taxing wages or salaries. Capital produces nothing.
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@conniewilson John Gualt is the story of a bosses strike against communism. The problem is that the bosses don't actually contribute anything so their strike becomes meaningless. Fidel Castro never had the capitalists problem of inability to produced educated people like those idiots Stalin and Mao.
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@MizTheDonGargon The problem is capitalism has no need to develop the poor nations unless the workers in the rich are making wage gains. Then you want to move production for lower wages. This is why Cuba decided it would be better off with Socialist development. What good is a cable tv equip.plant in Mexico if the cable tv market is in the USA? Your class hostility drives you to invest into the poor nations and creating an even bigger working class.
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Your just an apologist for the book burners.
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Rush Limbaugh a real hero defending Trump for a Chi Comm virus attack that was nothing more than a common cold.
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As the economic crisis of world capitalism continues the ruling class begins to devour its own. Capitalism is all about corruption legal and illegal.
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@TheMastergabe They seldom recover any loss. The average worker has no opportunity to steal much of anything. It's management using scams like playing with registers and sales prices or throwing away merchandise in the dumpster to recover it. Every entry and exit door has a camera on it along with all the cashiers. Then the have many others located in the ceiling. Only the bathrooms and employees lounge are exempt by law. If a District manager comes in and orders you to load up his vehicle with whatever your covered by the camera since they can't enter without being seen either.
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@wilhelmheinzerling5341 Why?
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@wilhelmheinzerling5341 Have you been members of both or is this just book knowledge?
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@wilhelmheinzerling5341 My experience is those who talk about unions hindering workers want the unions to be used as another disciplinary way to increase profits or help the bosses through new ways to increase productivity by cutting labor time.
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@wilhelmheinzerling5341 But you've never been in the Scandinavian unions?
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@wilhelmheinzerling5341 I tend to think that the Scandinavian workers aren't doing any better than we are here. If your uncle is talking about years ago well we had a lot more say over things years ago also. We use to take the boss with us for a liquid lunch. He would go because we would tell him if he didn't we be wouldn't be back until the next day. Some of those countries had Social Democratic governments that went unchallenged for years after WW2. The Social Democrats were actually based in the unions unlike in the US were the unions and now Bernie Sanders have spent decades trying to take over the Democratic Party. You might be interested in TheMilitant.com
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@Trd2020 "Here’s your $15 you asked." So as the new Fed chair your handing out $15 in exchange for a roll of toilet paper?
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@stinkycheese804 You smell bad.
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No evidence of her having been through of the American GULAG system.
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The biggest victory communist have ever made over the extreme right is to convince everyone they are conspiracy nut jobs.
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@1Dark.Paradise.Lost1 Tell Hamas to release the hostages it is holding.
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@AkiraNakamoto Ludwig Von Mises is an idiot like all libertarians who thinks the capitalist government can be separated from the policies of the capitalist firms. It's the old no true scotsman argument. It's not true capitalism because the bosses use the government to defend the profit system. The capitalist seek to make profits which is why they can't help creating their own competition. The capitalist are divided into nation states while the working class in all nation states has no real national identity since we are exploited by the capitalists. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. .
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School Choice is just a fraud designed to get parents fighting over a smaller pie.
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@damienhaydon2703 Just another member of the Boss Class who committed treason by making the Democrats and Rhinos look like the first class idiots they are.
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@damienhaydon2703 No that is not the way the system works the people who will get taken to the cleaners are those with liile because all the rest have lawyers to hide behind.
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@damienhaydon2703 They way the avoid taxes is not to take an income or claim a capital gain instead you take out loans secured by stock Sp ypu never pay a tax on debt and only interests as you gi buying money when needed.
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@cidsapient7154 Sure you can because taking on debt is not the same as income. I have to sell the property before a capital gain occurs. You have collateral a bank is happy to lend you pay NO tax on a debt.
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@m6a1u57 Why sell property if you can take out a bigger loan to repay the loan. You pay only interest on a loan you never have income because you take out loans and the value of property rises deflating the value of the money and loans. Would you rather pay interest on loans or taxes on income? Put up property for collateral or sell property for a capital gain? Upon death you lose the property as collateral. Nothing is a certain as death and taxes. When I say property I mean any kind of property not necessarily real estate. This is why some companies don't pay dividends. They do stock buy backs to boost the value of the property so they can take out loans instead of declaring income. Amazon has never paid a dividend.
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@m6a1u57 Look over now!!!
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@m6a1u57 Why do you think Elon Musk brags about a one dollar salary?
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@Iwaxberrox Her point: It isn't enough that we boss you around and make your life miserable but no we want to extend the dictatorship at work to even more facets of your lives. We won't even consider you having the right to vote any of our well chosen corrupt politicians out of office.
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The Professor lies the economic problems in Cuba are overwhelmingly caused by the actions of the United States government that uses its power over the world economy to try and crush them with an economic blockade.
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@TROLLBUSTER12 Repeal the Railway "slave" labor act. Let the bosses take a strike without protection from the politicians.
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@schizoidman7916 Wages stopped following productivity in 1973. Only through class struggle can the workers improve their lot on life. Unpaid labor is the source of profits which is born out by the capitalists accounting books. Capitalist operate production to maximize profits not to meet demand. Only the capitalist government has the right to demand. They revise production goals based upon profitability and sales. Everything is planned out in advance as much as possible to avoid risk.
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@Joe Green US Imperialism lost the cold war, the 2008 crisis, the defeat in Afghanistan and Putin's war destabilizing Europe prove that assessment to be true.
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@schizoidman7916 "Labor isn't only one portion of the cost of production." Capital of course is the other and to produce capital you need labor. So tell me again what is the other cost of production if it isn't human labor. Labor is need to produce and production is needed to survive. Al the machines and computers were built by labor intellectual and manual. On the capitalist books capital accumulates. He pays back the banker who does nothing but provide capital. You can see how unstable this system is ever 8 to 10 years when a crisis of production hits. Millions lose their jobs and businesses large and small go bankrupt. All because the system runs chaotically to meet not need first but profits first.
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@Joe Green Sure the car dealership is not guaranteed to succeed but GM, Chrysler Goldman Sacs are too big to fail. The system is chaotic and profits for the wealthy take priority. It makes no difference how the profit is made and so war becomes just another way to make profits. Capitalist Government under Bush goes on a nation building spree in Afghanistan. End result 2.3 trillion invested, 100,000 dead, millions driven from their homes and the best politicians money can buy go into exile with bags of cash. How can you call that a working system?
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Janus was a capitalist justice system scab. His job was to vigorously enforce court ordered child support by jailing unemployed workers and those who could not pay a judges demand. AFSCME should have never taken these type of scabs in. They like prison guards are enemies of the working class.
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This will little to no effect on unions which vigorously defend their members. The officials who don't listen to their members will quickly be looking at a no dues situation.
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This will little to no effect on unions which vigorously defend their members. The officials who don't listen to their members will quickly be looking at a no dues situation.
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@WaluigiMangione Congress needs to back off. Bosses are relying on Congress to avoid negotiating.
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@johntrojan9653 The capitalist don't need educated workers the need indoctrinated workers. Order takers those who will take order from the bosses and know their place as slaves to the master class of capitalist profiteers and bankers. The very logic of capitalism leads toits own decline. An ever smaller ruling class can only make ever greater mistakes and it can nt help but bring itself to an end.
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@linanicolia1363 That is a A4 on a piano. What do you propose to do outlaw music? Aren't you being a bit silly?
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@johnthegreat That just shows what a failure the capitalist system is. It destroys families and then blames the victim. Then they talk endlessly about what a success it is. Cuba doesn't have these kind of drug murder and social problems and it is poorer overall than the United States. Locking people up because all the system need is order takers who will accept the lowest wages. The bigger a firms industrial army gets the more success in the market place is achieved by issuing a discharges of the industrial soldiers. .
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@johnthegreat It has nothing to do with rewarding or not rewarding educators but the lack of jobs. Capitalism can't use the labor and tools humanity has as it is now because the bosses demand to make a profit despite the falling rate of retrun on investments. Their own economic statistics show that the use of industrial capacity in the United States has gone down since 1968 when they started keeping track. Just like empty apartments at Trump tower bought for investment and homeless people on the street.
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@vitosanto3874 Rap is an art form. I doubt that they'd want the kids reading Engles conditions of the English Working class either or Malcolm X's last speeches. Rappers make big money so whats wrong with that from a capitalist standpoint? . In fact those devastating conditions for working people are going to produce the next Malcom X's that speak for the whole working class just as Malcolm began to do. There are plenty of things they could teach from Black history that would give those children a sense of pride in themselevs that a better world is possible but then the'd run up against the capitalist power structure. The'd have too send in an Obama to quite things down.
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@johnthegreat The capitalist don't need workers who can think they need order takers. That's because the invest first in machines to replace higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor. Education like healthcare for workers is an overhead cost to be minimized in the interests of higher profits. After all the more the workers learn about how capitalism works the better able we become at defending our class interests and the more conscious we become of our own self worth.
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@johnthegreat They can play the lottery also what you say proves nothing since the number of bosses never exceeds production workers except in firms that manage capital only and capital can not produce without labor otherwise it would violate the laws of thermodynamics since a perpetual motion machine would be possible.
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@johnthegreat Have a good day.
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@wonderland2016 A stock market naturally corrupts a Democratic Republic. Wall Street is interested in profits not education. The bosses can buy all the education they want. They want order takers not thinkers. They talk about getting rid of jobs with automation because that's they way the profit system works, As machines replace labor profits initially rise but overtime the rate of return on investment must fall. So they allow whole industries under monopoly control to go into decline. Education and healthcare are boss overhead costs and therefore a drain on profits. Fot the boss taxes are another drain on profits and thats why they want us to pay more so the can make more loans and increase payments on national debt which is money they lend instead of paying taxes.
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Their was no sperate South Vietnamese nation to support your theory to begin with. It was just a leftover product of French Imperialist collaborators.
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We object to the creation of an Empire. Capitalism began by a middle class of merchants replaced Feudalism because it was an obstacle to the productive forces. Now you have gotten in the way of the productive forces and we the industrial workers will get rid of you by revolutionary methods and wars just as you did to your class enemy the feudalist Lords and Kings. You began destroying the world because you are selfish bastards based in nation states maximizing profit fighting each other for the control of the world in Empires for profits in 1914. You haven't changed a bit. You days like Chinese Emperors, Russian Czars, war lords and American slave owners are numbered. We will get you a job!!
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Capital produces NOTHING PROVE ME WRONG!!!! Capital only sits and accumulates money circulates and Labor produces all.
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@rosaliethomson4655 The US gov't was founded by Property owners and its a government of property owners only. The laws of England governed the colonies and the States and only Property owners could vote. The constitution defers the qualifications to the states and only property owners could.vote. Athens was a democracy for slave owners only and the US Bourgeois made themselves a ruling class of property owners. A dictatorship of property owners. Communism is the movement of the proletariat the property less against the property owners. We own nothing they own everything. The are a class of exploiters who produce nothing but profits for property owners and misery for everyone else. Maximization of Profit produces Maximization of misery. Unlimited competition produces unlimited destruction. The hunger for profit can only be destroyed by the hunger for justice. The property less must destroy private property by abolishion just like slavery without compensation in a revolution. The love of money will die when money can't buy the necessities of life destroy the market system by using overproduction against it. Drive against the profits by taking them away. Wrest all control of property form the property owners using the most depotic of methods. Make work pay and profits go negative.
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@PDG--rj8eg As long as their is a penny of capitalist private profit that's a penny that can be put to good use.
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@Fats Hernandez I don't believe in throwing workers out of their jobs while Wall Street gets golden parachutes and bonus. I don't hire people because I'm not from HR. I'm not the one who believes that man is a little animal you feed grass and then use a carrot and a stick to get work done. That's all the true thinking of all capitalists. Their laziness is seen in the fact that they need to hire maids, pool boys, gardeners, butlers, drivers, nannies and doormen.
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@Fats Hernandez Your a small businessman who thinks he needs to get ahead. You can't afford to hire the maid and pool boy today but you do like keeping up with the Jones tomorrow you will be hiring maids as part of getting ahead. Hillary Clinton is your candidate because she understands your need to get ahead. Somehow you need to explain how American with its 'true capitalist freedom' has been caging people into the largest GULAG system in the world today. Trump has just proposed building more cages for immigrants seeking asylum. Growing a business? At who's expense? That's why small business jumps right on board the drive to hold down wages so that they can 'grow'. Why not call it was it is? Plans to take more market share and or get bigger profits come hell or high water. Capitalism has to make an attempt to control greed otherwise it could not justify its existence. Capitalism functions best when capitalist make more profits for the capitalists. "I don't believe in throwing workers out while wall street cuts itself billion dollar bonuses and runs our government/military and media without our consent.." That's real liberal of you but ALL capitalists profit from unemployment, war and low wages. We aren't a party of ultra rich communists and we intend to keep it that way. You can't buy your way into our party and you never will. Go start a party for ultra rich communists and then you can be the head of that party.
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White Liberals Are Racist We will abolish private property not divide up the loot form business. No one was told they could be an administrator after the victory in Cuba. They were told they couldn't use their position to exploit others. It is a different social system not a bigger welfare state. Liberal aren't socialist or communists their just another version of conservatives like you. Following in the shoes of Ralph Bunche not Malcolm X.
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@Oppaisenpai97 American citizens are required to pay taxes where ever they live and where ever they make their income. So that's an invalid argument. Tax evasion is already a crime.
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@Oppaisenpai97 What if we change what? Overall we will support anything the workers want to do that will move us forward and together in the struggle for socialism. We don't know in advance exactly how that will come about. We know that that there is enough wealth in the US to do what revolutionary Cuba has already done in creating a healthcare and educational system and more because this is an advanced capitalist country and not a small island facing a third party economic blockade.
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@Oppaisenpai97 What country is that? In the US most people commit three felonies a day as argued by a lawyer in a book with that title. So the idea that someone could escape US taxes by changing citizenship still would require them to move their finances off shore. That would be nothing more than a technical problem considering the power of the New York banks in world finance. US companies and individuals already do that anyhow. They get away with it because its like asking a wolf pack leader to punish a youngster for eating a lamb.
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@T Mac "The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to administration officials. In sight isn't just Valenzuela's Maduro but also Cuba .." From the Wall Street Journal. So as you can read straight from the mouthpiece of US Imperialism this is a Trump policy initiative to support US business interests and has nothing to do with Democracy in Venezuelan and obviously everything to do with oil profits. What they'd really like is a Prince Muhammad bin Salom who murders opponents in Embassy's but the Venezuelan masses won't except a Prince as a ruler.
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@T Mac "...opportunity to get a good job..." Sure give everyone the 'opportunity' to work for less than the current workers. Build more homeless shelters and soup kitchens for those waiting for "opportunity". Tell the young about the 'opportunity' to get their ass shot off in Iraq for oil company profits. Send the old and disabled to landfills for a opportunity to live by recycling like orphaned children in India. If that isn't enough opportunity tell them about the Bill Gates story or how I took a million dollar trust fund and fought my way to the top.
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The central bank and a capitalist government regulating everything are required by modern industrial and finance capitalism. The whole reason for having a central bank was to prevent bank failures during financial panics. It was planned and set up by the representatives of the richest financiers in America.
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@chukah9484 Who is planning to use bio weapons and why?
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@olliefoxx7165 Well it was a total failure since it affected all countries especially the United States and China. A bio weapon is useless if it can't be contained. Its like nuclear war not very good option since the winner ends up being a loser afterwords. So unless you are a suicidal country it makes no sense.
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@olliefoxx7165 That's conspiracy theory first because bosses don't think that far ahead. Second the ruling elite rely upon a happy middle class to sing the praises of capitalism. A pandemic makes capitalist rule more unstable just like wars do. The only government to come out ahead was the Cuban because they have the highest Doctor to population ratio in the world and were the only country to both develop vaccines and achieve a voluntary vaccination rate of 90% along with providing medical aid to foreign countries. As far as which group of billionaires did the best or worst what difference does that make to those of us who aren't owners of capital? Jack Ma and Elon Musk fight for profits bigger bank accounists have nothing to do with me. If Western capitalist wanted to go all out in MFG N91 masks or resperatrs the could have but didn't because why waste money on the elderly and sick who are a drain on profit rates. The US government paid to build hundreds if factorizes for World War two. All the did is order a few masks to be made and subsidize Big Pharma. F'in Bill Gates got involved saying Intellectual property rights of big Pharma had to be respected.
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@olliefoxx7165 That transfer of wealth has been going on since 1973. A number of things all happened around the same time. They overspent on Vietnam, the rest of the world wanted gold for dollars so Nixon suspended the gold for dollar $35 an ounce rate and all new productivity went to the bosses. Most 60's radicals and labor tied themselves to the Capitalist Democratic Party. China doesn't recognize intellectual property so anyone can manufacture anything developed in China. American capitalist decided bigger profits could be made else where so the United States also became a net importer While globalist bankers and companies became rich beyond belief. They spend their time planing for wars and how to maximize profits. Healthcare for the populations and education are gov tax overhead costs to be minimized and reduced since capitalism replaces higher paid skilled labor with machines and lower paid unskilled labor. The only time the ruling class cares about the nation is when its rule is threatened. All we are is a cost of production to be minimized. They think that they are smart and their system is the only one possible. The truth is the only thing capital becomes is a giant cyst on society demanding a return on all past investment. Instead of paying taxes they like a national debt to invest in and make money off taxes. Instead of investing on expanding production the look to making more money in speculation on the prices of factious capital like stocks bonds and mortgage contracts. Now that they have done all this they are contemplating launching a war with China to save themselves. Don't be fooled into thinking the Chinese and not our own ruling class is the real enemy. The Chinese Stalinist have taken advantage of the Western Capitalist to advance their own interests. They can't escape the problems of capitalism by pretending to be communists with a lot of retoric
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@olliefoxx7165 "Ideology Kills" well better watch out for the next book being published Should we appiont you head censor to save us from all the bad ideas?
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@olliefoxx7165 Why don't you just go by yourself a ham sandwich?
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@olliefoxx7165 The idea was that you didn't need any that you could just magically order things and you didn't need to pay any attention to theory at all. Stalin found himself the leader of a bureaucracy at home and also destroyed the Communist International. Lenin wanted Stalin out of his position before he died. Trotsky tried to have him removed but failed and ended up being deported. Trotsky spent ten years in exile writing about all this and leading the Left opposition. If Lenin had lived than maybe Stalin would have never usurped power than again maybe Lenin would have ended up in exile with Trotsky. I don't buy into anything Jordan Petersen says because he is so full of contradictions he ends up making no sense at all. If all you do is count up bodies than you end up looking at the British Empire and the rest of the European Empires along with things like leaded gasoline. What are you going to conclude then? One of the Chinese famines was caused by the kill the sparrow campaign. The idea was grain would be saved by killing the sparrows but instead what happened is the locustA which are also eaten by sparrows ate the grain instead. At the last minute Stalin decided to defend Moscow he had the government packed up and ready to evacuate East. What if he had done that and Germany won on the Eastern Front?
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@TheRadicalCentrist.1776 The times is part of the liberal hypocrisy.
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McCarthy ran on the premise that the American Stalinist were a threat to American Democracy. His tactics were to accuse someone of being a communist supporter and then ask if an acquaintance was a fellow traveler or was a communist he had evidence gathered by Hoover's FBI of anyone seen doing anything that could be politically linked to the communist party. If you said no then you would be accused of secret membership regardless of how true it was.
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@NeuroPulse The capitalist bosses and their politicians make all the decisions in a rigged capitalist system.
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Capitalism the toll road to tyranny.
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@fazole Quite true education in the minds and hands of the working class becomes a weapon against the bosses system of profit and private property.
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Wall Street made a cold blooded decision to export capital to third world countries for bigger profits . Labor tops pinned their hopes on the bosses plans for protectionism to save jobs refusing to organize muni mill operators.
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@jackstuder1930 His due process rights were violated at the very beginning when the decision to exclude him was made without a hearing.
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@kevingil1817 So now anyone who says something at say another Hillary Clintons Women's march and a minor riot occurs afterwords can be denied ballot status for any election on the say so of a judge?
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@kevingil1817 So anyone Democrats don't like can be removed? What does being born in a foriegn country have to do with being a candidate if your a citizen?
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@crossman3940 First of all anyone doesn't mean everyone for the simple reason that capitalism doesn't work that way. Anyone can win the lottery also but not everyone. So you have proved nothing because capitalism works by socially paying the workers only that needed to reproduce their social labor for the next pay period. The special property of labor is that it can produce more in a pay period than it costs.
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@donoimdono2702 Joe McCarthy claimed to have the names of 200+ plus State Dept names of communists in the State Dept he was never able to provide a single name or prove that the State Dept had a singe communists in it..
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@etherealceleste Yes McCarty was said ti be a right winger but many say he also had a left hand which he used when blowing his nose.
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@fartwhif Sure set up another Batista Military dictatorship and we will grind into dust.
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@smokedbrisket3033 That was before the newly rising class of wealth merchants decided it wanted to rule the world in the name of profits and foreign investments.
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How about we give you a right to being castrated i the name of Christ.
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No the role of government is to defend the ruling class. Capitalism is just a new form of slavery where the bosses rent the slave instead of owning us. Capital produces nothing and therefore deserves nothing.
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@cheongwenpa Why do we need the capitalist in the first place? Where did their money come from? They produce nothing. They create catastrophes by bidding up values in fictitious capital in efforts to profit without producing surplus value which can then only collapse. They create the business cycle by their own actions based in greed. Then they blame us. In their competitions for more profits they replace living labor with machines. This drives up capital value but reduces labor needed for production. Since the profit comes form out labor than the rate of profit (Profit/Capital) must decline. So the very measure which the use to judge success goes down as machinery increasingly replaces labor. If we judge everything using their methods than the productive forces must stop growing without class struggle.
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@cheongwenpa You let them take risks and then we get 2008 and 1929.
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@ScienceNotFaith We don't care about your theories and notions of Bourgeois government what is important are the facts of how it operates. The motives of those in the two parties are the same as the rest of the ruling class. Protect and advance the creation of profit above all else. To maximize profit as shareholder value as the sole goal of the corporation. Is that not what the bourgeois economist Friedman says? How better to advance profits than to have the government in your pocket? Of course your theorists can't admit the truth because that's an admission of a class government and not a "government of the people" but the government of a ruling class driven by greed and profit. No the rulers are humanitarians bombing, murdering, and waging war in the name of Democracy and Freedom. How could it be otherwise?
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@ScienceNotFaith The government was set up by the rising class of merchants and slave holders in America after fighting a bloody revolutionary war against a tyrannical King. As Marx concluded the state in any epic represents the ruling class not abstract theories fixed in time or notions dreamed up in university think tanks. To win that revolution they needed to use revolutionary methods and that's the origin of the US Constitution not love of countrymen but the love of bourgeois private property over feudal property and eventually of wage labor over slavery and serfdom.. Which drove the civil war destroying the landowners property in human beings.
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@ScienceNotFaith How can you have a capitalist economy if the king won't let you import or coin money? The foolishness of the English Aristocracy is still with them today reflected in Margret Thatcher accusation that socialism works until you run out of other peoples money. Just like the King believing that not being able to hord money and society, the ruling class, can run out of it.
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Joseph Cocchiola "No one has ever died from Capitalism." Are you sure that you aren't a late night comedian? I could come up with a very long list of victims of capitalism at both its very beginning and now its death agony. For starters how about Milton Friedman who wrote Capitalism and Freedom and then went down to helped the Butcher General Pinochet of Chile. I'd say when a General overthrows an elected government with help from Washington that's government intervention. Same thing with General Batista in Cuba. That's why the US is called an Imperailist Empire. Its throws its weight around for all the US big companies foreign Investment. It has the audacity to set up a US Military command structure over the whole world.
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Every day a Cuban Doctor or Doctor trained in Cuba saves a life that's a life that was not even considered worth saving by Washington. Cuban doctors serve in over sixty countries in medical missions.
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Google actually provides some useful services but most of their income like Facebook and Twitter is tied to eyeballs seeing advertisements. Facebook and Twitter could drop off the end of the earth tomorrow and in my opinion it would only be a loss for advertisers. Youtube is owned by Google and the only reason I write comments here is that I don't have anything better to do. Google allows me to bash professors and other defenders of American capitalism that ordinarily I would not be able to do.
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Joseph Cocchiola Why don't you move to Saudi Arabia? Defense Department? No it's the war department renamed for political correctness following WW2. The capitalist countries war (Defense) department. Plus everyone with a half a brain knows those two party politicians are controlled by the big capitalist donors along with the capitalist mass media.
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Joseph Cocchiola If capitalism has overcome hunger why in the most successful (The United States) capitalist country is there a need to make collections for food pantries? Plenty of food is produced so why is it that some can't afford to buy food? The reality is if the government stopped issuing food stamp EBT cards we would see a French revolution of hungry people while Bill Gates would be saying we need to purchase a new version of Windows.
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Welfare came in because capitalism is a failure. The bosses discovered they could make bigger profits form transforming the third world in to a low wage boss paradise along with replacing higher paid union labor with unskilled labor and machines. Its just the natural workings of a system of exploitation. Since they can't waste a lot of labor as soldiers policing the rest of the world they have the welfare state. Their is no need for them to be educated because their is no work for them to begin with so naturally they don't become educated. The bosses cry poverty and complain about taxes while profits soar in real terms but decline as a rate of profit which is the real measure of boss profitability. . .
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We let Col Oliver North go. He sold weapons to Iran. The man is an arms merchant. We sell arms to every dictatorship that will do the US Gov't bidding.
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The American Imperialist invaded after Japan's defeat taking over from the Japanese Imperialists. A series of American Military Puppets have run Korea.
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@joelellis7035 No communism is a movement on it's way to state power and the abolition of private property. Getting rid of the stock market, credit default swaps and other fictitious capital is high on the agenda as the first kinds of property to be abolished. It starts with workers control of industry replacing government agencies. The end of a standing army and closing all foreign military bases and retooling defense plants for civilian needs.
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@joelellis7035 Communism is a movement of a class on its way to power. The Stalinist dictatorship were brought down internally not by foreign capitalist invasion. The new Chinese working class has already shown its ability to fight back against the rotten "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" Capitalism. Mao for all his faults did what the KMT was to cowardly to do KICK out the IMPERIALIST who would have never left otherwise. China is still ahead of "Democratic India." South Korea is that your example of capitalist Democracy? Six republics and constitutions in 70 years? France only had Five in over 200, Germany four in 120. People giving up private property? We don't run the banks and repo companies. If you haven't lost you home in 2008 or make it till the end of covid the next tens years will bring another crisis guaranteed. My very small private pension disappeared. Should I hire a lawyer to chase the company the moved to Mexico? Good thing I have Social Security.
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@joelellis7035 Learn about what how capitalism leads to economic crisis because the workers can't buy back all we can produce. How wages have been stagnant for the last 47 years while all the new wealth goes to the top bosses? How the central bank creates inflation where you rob us by raising prices and holding down wages. As the money supply increases the value of wages declines while the value of property increases. How the national debt is a way for the rich to avoid taxes and make a profit from government investment. Well tax'em down to till the pennies in the watch pockets if we have to.
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@joelellis7035 The works in Cuba all belong to unions, control the workplace and the government that why your so afraid of them if the American workers find out how things work in Cuba they'll want that here and you'll lose all that hedge fund money. You think you won the last election? Well we will see how much stability you get out of the Bidden regime. I call it a LET A THOUSAND FLAGS BLOOMBERG!!! Presidency.
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@joelellis7035 Capitalism brings on economic crisis recession, depression and war. Communism is a movement not the DEMOPUBLICAN Party. No inflation the increase in the money supply decreases currency value and increases property value. Your type kept lying about wages increasing faster and that's just not true. Wages for a Union electrician assuming he can find work of less than $40 an hour today and $10 an hour in 1971 compared to the price of gold $35 in 1971 to $18,222 today show who's been getting rich. If the rich paid their taxes there would be no need to borrow and no need to pay back the rich out of tax money. The capitalists want only the profitable part of the economy and want the unprofitable part paid for out of "fair taxes."
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@joelellis7035 You'd like to turn Cuba into another Haiti or Dominican Republic so you can make big money in Real Estate, Sugar, Hotels and Gambling. The US says it wants to privatise medicine and education in Cuba as a way to prosperity. Property for who Miami bankers?
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@freedomfight1933 Or maybe Socialism on Trial about the 1940 Frame up Trial of 18 members of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters local 544.
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@Daniel Navarro Like the the SHU at Pelican Bay, CA. one of Harris' hangouts.
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@joelellis7035 You just want the property and money don't sing the Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter song to me. You know you want the cash and the big penthouse hotel rooms all to yourself.
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@joelellis7035 You do the same thing their you od here close down the union shop and open up a union free WalMart. A free market is when you control both the wage and the price.
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@freedomfight1933 You realize that communism is a movement not a state doctrine? It proceeds from facts and is going on in front of our eyes. Its the history of one of the two classes in its struggle for power in the modern world. What was defeated in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was a murderous traitorous bureaucracy in its final betray when the US lost the cold war unable to defeat the East with military power and rebuild with a new marshall plan. Trotsky had prepared the movement for that possible eventuality before WW2 was over.
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@comment6864 So the crooked Stalinist Bureaucracy becomes the new capitalists and you call that democracy. Milton Friedman goes in advises the crooks to make the workers the "real owners" by issuing them all shares in state industries and then they create an economic crisis called shock therapy so the workers have to sell all their shares to the new capitalist bosses and you call that "Openness". Its like capitalism always is and will be. As crooked as a dogs leg.
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The problem is the disenter's lack a justice cause to defend and no monopoly on practical ideas that will move the poorest people forward.
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@jonc6157 No corporate press, no stock market with a capitalist ownership class to corrupt the government. Decisions made on how to best to advance the Cuban working people and the international struggle for a just world. A society with little violence where people share what the have with others. Big government control is where the logic of capitalism leads to as the need to guarantee profits of the two big to fail and the national debt becomes paramount along with the need to win the battle of the world market and guarantee foreign investment from other national ruling classes. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism as you break up into competing blocks of capitalist countries on the way to war and fascism. You ruling classes are much too greedy to stay away from the cookie jar and war becomes the way arbitrate world trade disputes. For as machine replace labor the rate of profit must decline when the market becomes saturated with no more room room for monopoly sales at a profit.
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The economic calculation problem is the theory that only boss can do arithmetic and engage in planning. It's just to difficult a subject for the rest of us. Only the bosses can create an Empire that is "too big too fail".
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@thethan3 Well he obviously failed to explain it to you since you haven't refuted my claim. What is it a theory that is just to complicated to explain? The problem revolves around assigning a price in the first place so it is not something Marx did not understand. Misses is stuck with the problem of capitalist assigning prices in the anticipation of profits. They libertarians are stuck with explaining the need for the state sector that doesn't directly produce profits along with the tendency of profits to decline in highly capitalised industry. Sure they were riding high after the implosion of the Soviet Union but where are they now? They keep talking about global warming as an excuse for everything they do now.
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That was an old theory where everything becomes either communism or capitalism and totals up to the same thing. With the death of Stalin the Soviet Stalinists became weaker and more divided. In the West instead of the Fascism of McCarthy taking over he became discredited and the anti communist which hunt ended. The Cuban revolution surprised just about everyone since Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the 26th of July movement didn't originate from the Stalinist movement but independently. .
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When capitalism enters crisis then Jew hatred rises especially among the middle class who see Jews as market competition. The fascist always build themselves up on Jew hatred.
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@RichBuddy End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@One earth Look at that picture "Political Power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Guess who said that? Chairman Mao not Marx or Lenin.
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@josephpfalzgraf4213 I was born here I did not grow up in China to become a privileged law professor and run away to the US to open a business so I could be even more privileged. Since unlike most Americans I've actual read the writings of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and others. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and it shows no sign of being able to escape the Imperialist stage. Now if world capitalism is self regulating and able to grow peacefully without ending up in a world war which produced the Soviet Union as the first workers state where did the capitalists go wrong? Now you say you won the cold war yet here we see Putin trying to become another CZAR and create a prison house of nations and China becoming a competitor of US Imperialism copying it from books by Milton Freedmen not Marx or Lenin arming itself for coming trade wars. In fact the Chinese Party has rejected Lenin. Of course being American you know almost nothing about philosophy except Capitalism good Communism bad and how and when to count dead bodies. .
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@josephpfalzgraf4213 And before you start going on about communist having freedom in Capitalist countries like the US. Well I was born during the cold war and I remember having to sign a loyalty oath just to get a college "national defense:" loan You know the one where its say I am not nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party or any organization on the Attorney generals list of subversive organizations. And the red hunt purge went beyond just the stalinists to included those diametrically opposed to Stalin the Trotskyists.
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This is nothing but more ruling class we will fix capitalism for you drivel.
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@AL-lh2ht Lets all shed a tear for silicon valley's intellectual property it set to China. I playing a violin now as Bill Gates realizes that we need to eat and not a new operating system as he seeks to buy up available US farmland. Those poor investors at Silicon Valley bank who got bailed out.
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Diablo in Wehrmacht Test your gloves for pin holes often. A scab is a terrible thing to waste.
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@darkroses3479 Republicans betrayed Blacks with the compromise of 1977. Abortions won't end because they become illegal for the poor and working classes. They will just become unsafe and women will be in the emergency room with injuries and illegal sales of abortion drugs will become a new source of illegal profit and police corruption.
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You must live in a "bad" neighborhood. .
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Bosses who live in their big houses and luxury gated communities are crying poverty.
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Wong Deso Just another boss plan to cut the cost of education by busting teachers unons, abolishing tenure and issuing vouches which will only cover part of the cost of education and then to top it off he plans a national ideological purity test io keep out thise who criticise profit maximization and boss decisions as anti American communism.
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@soniag4516 Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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@Recipe_For_Disaster_TV What was the cause of the War on Terror?
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@Recipe_For_Disaster_TV The 9/11 Terror Attacks. See just like the Civil war being caused by Slavery. it wasn't all that hard. Usual people want the simple answer of what was it that set it off.
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Bosses are always working hand and glove with Liberals and Conservatives to lower wages for bigger profits. Just ask Liberal Boss Jeff Bezos and conservative bosses like the Koch family.
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@rovers141 Ben Carson and Larry Elder are both known as Conservative Republicans. The "click bait" title of the video is "The Civil Rights Movement". The title should have been "Memories of racism Larry Elder and his Dad's personal experiences." Obviously funding is a problem because its based in property taxes within a school district. Its supposed to be equal in a school district with school choice and desegregation making that true. Outside of school districts its not. Otherwise you would not of had the absurdity of a homeless Black women in Connecticut being charged with theft for sending her children to a school district outside of the homeless shelter's district.
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@rovers141 "Improving public education starts with improving the economy in low income areas." Our party, the Socialist Workers Party says the way to combat low wages and unemployment is with a fighting union in one hand and a labor party independent of the bosses in the other. What do the boss parties say? More welfare and more taxes or less welfare and less taxes?
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Those are ALL polices that began under Democratic regimes because BOTH parties are controlled by the billionaire class.
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Well exactly what do you expect? You decided to send weapons around the world to halt communim by supporting dictatorships. According to neoliberal theory no country should spend on education and healthcare if it interferes with foreign profits. Free markets are suppose to save the world!!! Gov't spending only allowed on military weapons only. Then when it all went south bailouts for too big too fail. Sure Trump was going to build a 1/2 of an Interstate hwy sideways for 2,000 miles? You can't build a 10 mile bypass in 5 years!!!! Now they want to put Trump in jail for doing what Democrats have done? Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the rest of the billionaires will be going on trip into outer space though. Once they've all finished ruining everything here they can start over on Mars right?
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@targgthewise2892 Congressional immunity doesn't apply to felon. If they have him and his face on video this sure seems like another Democratic Party stunt.
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You can'r expect the bosses to control their greed by having themselves punished. We need a union movement that fights back with strikes and protests for all workers regardless of immigration status. When we are united we win. Divided we lose.
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@andrewgarcia3136 The problem is the cops didn't violate the law or even misinterpret the law. They in fact operated under supervision of a DEA agent and federal law.
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Want to be the new President of Qatar call 1 800 Mike Pence.
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The corporate tax is voluntary.
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@libertariantranslator1929 For what? The failure of industrial capitalism stock markets driven by greed into collapse. The real cause of capitalism failure is the private property system itself. A free market is a fantasy dreamed up by the defenders of capitalism as an idealistic goal that can never be reached. Where as the real driver of human history is the class struggle.
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@libertariantranslator1929 Anyone who has read Mein Kampf knows its a plan to create a racial pure German Empire like the British and French Imperialist. The Bolsheviks were the first to call for an end to the war and a peace with no annexations. The signed a seperate peace with Germany and after the US/UK signed the armistice they invaded the Soviet Republic along with 12 other Imperialist armies and counter revolutionary whites. Imperialist NAZI Germany, capitalism on steriods, was defeated by the Soviet Union. You lost every major confrontation of the cold war and you did not defeat communism rather the rise of the popular revolutions in the East means a return of the workers of the east into political struggle. As the counterfiet communism of Stalin was revealed for all to see. The Cuban revolution keeps moving forward like a bone in the throat of US Imperialism. As comrade Trotsky said if our generation is too weak to create a socialist world certain the future will be bright as we bring the spotless banner of socialism forward. Meanwhile your two capitalist party system is in crisis caused by the failure of the Empires war in Afghanistan along with your crisis of 2008 and the use of police state methods against Donald Trump for criticizing the Empires policy of globalism. .
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Varza Aryata The American Imperialists investors want a world Empire not refugees from the colonies. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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Varza Aryata After the Paris Commune the Soviet Union was the second attempt at a workers state. The new Soviet State was invaded by 14 imperialist powers including the US/UK. In the US a red scare was started by the Democrat Wilson who had Socialist Eugene Debs imprisoned. In Cuba Fidel Castro drove the American Imperialist and their collaborators from power. All attempts to overthrow the revolution and reestablish a capitalist Cuba have failed.
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Trump really has nothing to do with McCarthyism. If anything the Democrats and left are acting like McCarthy. You need to actually listen to McCarthy and even then it makes no sense unless you actually understand the context of the time.
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@donnaeturner Big Talk from a little man. The gov't already has the Communist Control Act of 1954 but is afraid to enforce it. Plus we have a court ruling in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General that ended the FBI investigation of the Party.
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You don't understand how international trade works. If they kept all the internet technology bottled up in the US the big tech companies would lose all that international market sales. Plus some of it was invented in the UK.
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@AleadaA Just what do you think Trump will do? The rest of the ruling class wants him out for raising the expectations of the working class. Something no modern capitalist politician is allowed to do. His demagogue about immigration amounts to nothing more than making immigration a more controlled immigration. Fewer illegal crossings and more temporary visas issued. I can think of better ways of spending money than building one half of a 2,000 mile Interstate highway sideways across a desert and a Texas river area isolated form the rest of Texas by a desert and immigration checkpoints anyway.
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@lilajagears8317 Sowell and Williams bat righty for their tribe of Republican bosses who abandoned Blacks after winning the civil war to Democratic Party organized terror.
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@gregoryeverson741 Union YES!
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Could also be that Texas liberal judges and politicians aren't building minimum security nursing homes like Connecticut for alzheimer's patients doing life. Instead these 'dangerous felons doing life' who can't remember the CO's name are being released into regular nursing homes.
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End the plea bargain system! Jury trials for all! Amnesty of immigrants! Amnesty for drug users! Fire the police force!
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john free The US maintained a 30+ year cold war fiction that Taiwan (The Republic of China) was the true government of China. Nixon ended that.
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@johnskarns1607 American capitalist are no longer Masters of the Universe.
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@johnskarns1607 Right and now should Trump be re elected will his use of the nuclear option solve our problems? Sure I love the idea of nuclear war and nuclear winter. Mike the Pillow guy can then sell all American made Winter parkas for July and August in Miami and South Texas. The problem is greedy CEO's moved production to China and now the Chineses capitalist have the profits but greedy CEO's the've still got their mansions and what's the cost of a bottle of milk and a gallon of gas to a billionaire? Why should they bring back production unless they can make a bigger profits here with costs lower than China? You problem is though you had a country to begin with you don't it belongs like everything else to the rich alone. Besides the Chinese and Russians already know that Nixon was pretending to be a mad man who needed to be restrained.
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@davidmajor1508 Sowell is an American bourgeois professor who speaks for the neoliberal capitalist bosses.
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@davidmajor1508 World capitalism is in its worst crisis since the great depression. All the finger waging of Milton Freedman and Sowell at the bosses Imperialist investors and their governments can not reverse the crisis. What Friedman is right about is only WW2 saved the capitalist world system (along with the betrayal of the Stalinists and Social Democrats) Now you're seeing a 21st century rematch only instead of Britain and Germany. It looks like it will be the United States and Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Its shows that when Lenin wrote "Imperialism is the Highest Stage of Capitalism" in 1916 based upon the work of the English reformist Hobbs he was correct. Capitalism turns first towards trade war and then towards Imperialist war to defend the super profits of the Imperialist ruling classes. Why is it that capitalism can not end peacefully? Because of it tendency towards war to solve international trade disputes and because of the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline in the long term. World capitalism has to destroy in order to restart primitive accumulation and up the rate of profit.
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@davidmajor1508 Now that I have responed and Sowell like Freedman has clearly made fools of themselves since now they don't have a capitalism that was able to avoid the crisis of 2008 what does he say now? "Oh my ideas might come in handy for a future generation!" Sure if somehow they can have both a war that destroys enough capital without going nuclear. "There is no hopeless situation no matter how bad for capitalism." to quote Lenin. Otherwise we might end up waiting till kingdom come for another chance at Socialist Revolution. The revolution must be prepared just like the overthrow of slavery was before the civil war of 1860 to 1865 in the United States.
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No he just using the just defense of the Jews right to defend themselves and get back their hostages with the false equivalency of the US terror bombing of Vietnam in defense of a US installed military dictatorship and the US atomic bombing of a defeated Japan. Sowell is no different than any other bloodthirsty terrorist.
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jkirk1626 You be getting "Pie In The Sky When You Die."
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Unions that vigorously represent their members will have no problem collecting dues. Janus and others like him working in the capitalist justice system have no place in the labor movement. He and others with jobs like his should have never been taken in. AFSCME and other unions who represent scabs working in the justice system should unceremoniously kick them out.
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@nina-ll2dv Hamas steals UN aid. Its leaders live in Qatar luxury. It says the refugees its endless war creates are the UN's problem.
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American "thought control" leaders.
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Lest teat Sowell on facts like has their every been a free market? A market without government and the protection of a police force?
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Keep it in your pants JERK!
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You can build protests against injustice legally in front of the county courthouse. Use the rights we have to peacefully protest and build a movement against this kind of injustice.
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Againo your story makes little sense. $20 of PV will probably run a total of two 60 watt light bulbs at best. You have to meet NEC not what someone printed in an installation manual. Obviously you tried to undersize the ground with larger conductors. Most likely you picked the conduit size by what you could fit inside not the minimum size required. Also a real electrician knows better than using the minimum when having a long run with multiple turns, pull boxes and heavy gauge wire. It must have been a bitch getting it in, pulling it back out and back in again. Did you use plenty of wire grease? I beat you had to move something because the wires were to short to easily pull back in after trimming them for the first install. I screwed up at least once when I installed a service entrance panel upside down on a supply house workers advice. We put some red nail polish on the main breaker to indicate down was on.
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The genie is out of the bottle that capitalism has created. Capitalist seeks to pay a worker the lowest wages and work us the longest hours at the fastest pace for the biggest profits. It creates a mass of unemployed as winning the battle of the market place goes to those who can issue the greatest number of discharges and then to top it off the rate of profit then falls as machines replace labor. Which means the system can't but help to undermine itself. This is why when you look around the world at capitalist miracle countries like South Korea and Japan you see an aging poulation and a birth rate below the level needed to reproduce human life.
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@KratostheThird Just as the labor movement grows under the very nose of the capitalists. The capitalist grew under the rule of King and Queens as trade and production became more important and powerfully than the nobility and the landed aristocracy. They played at first a most revolutionary role sweeping aside all that was holy and devine by natural right. Instead they substituted naked self interests and competition in the market. Just as the rise of agriculture gave rise to neolithic man who Empires used slaves captured in war instead of eating them like cannibals as surpluses arose that later allowed the linkage by trade and the creation of a yet new man not just the capitalist bit the wage workers he employees. Men of no property who must work together and act in ways similar to the machines the opperrate. They become the new producers of modern life as it has arisen. .
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@KratostheThird You asked about the past? You don't think we got here a couple of generations ago do you? Post war prosperity was built upon the destruction of the industrial world by war following the great depression. The United States was shielded by geography. Another world war will not leave the United States untouched like the first two did. In 1916 Lenin wrote Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. The only real change is who the major players are. Instead of the British Empire with an aspiring Germany its the United States Empire with an aspiring China. A dispute broke out among Marx's followers after he died over the question of can capitalism be reformed or must a revolution and a whole new way of organizing production come into play. On one side was Edward Bernstein and the other Engles. Economically the question centered around the long term tendency of the rate of profit to fall. To the best of my knowledge no one has proposed a materialist solution to that problem that has positive connotations. As world war one approached the leaders of the Second International divided on the attitude towards war and national defense.
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@KratostheThird The simple answer to Professor Sowell is that actual Marxist do not think capitalism can be reformed by a welfare state that it is basically self undermining and while we the communist will fight for any reform that helps the economic and social position of the working people we will not promise to save private property or the profit system. As he has chosen to advocate for. My opinion is they decided it would be better to hand out some cake than say, "let them eat cake." Sowell who is the student of Milton Freedman a "New Dealer" who became a neo liberal says "FDR and Johnson" should have sat on their hands and taken no action. He said the same thing about Bush in 2008. I suppose we should have just sat around and waited for federal bankruptcy judges to straighten out the whole mess? Just like FDR Bush had to intervene in the free market in an attempt to save it. The FDR administration was the time of the "pump priming" theory where state intervention would reform and save capitalism.. The sole reason FDR was able to save the capitalist system was the destruction caused by the second world war and the betrayal of the Stalinists. That allowed a restart of primitive accumulation while the Stalinist were only concerned with the quantity of flattery they could heap on Stalin and the Soviet leadership. . My formal education is grounded in basic math and science. I'm not a university graduate. Although I have both formal education and experience with modern physics and math beyond calculus. I also have the advantage of having been associated with the mass protest movement of the 1970's and the Socialist Workers Party which publishes The Militant. The Militant published since 1928 is available on line as are the works of the earlier Marxists at Marxist internat archive and newer material is available at Pathfinder Press.
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@mwngw The only morals a capitalist has is "how can I get more profits from my business". That's the full extent of his moral view. In America he chases the dollar. In China he cases the Yuan. If the American capitalist feel threatened by the workers in the US they will have no problem enlisting the aid of an American Hitler.
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LOL
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@giridharrajagopal5491 US agreed to a one China policy with Beijing so it maintains a under the radar unofficial recognition of Taiwan and sells them US made arms. Taiwan has no seat at the UN and has virtual zero diplomatic recognition from the rest of the world. Taiwan still goes by the official name "The Republic of China".
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General Batista canceled the 1952 election and made himself a corrupt dictaorship.
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@donaldfrazier5244 These Republican's proposes starvation as the solution but you won't see Pompeo on a diet. Both parties are capitalist parties who can't fix a rotten system without more wars and destruction.
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Put ICE is salt water and let it melt.
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@Merry-Go-Round123 Amazon profits are just unpaid wages.
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@91dodgespiritrt You imperialists always want to deport us. You can;t deport ideas. Capitalism can't bring peace or democracy. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@soylentgreen9492 Capitalism and the quest by foreign investors for super profits, Imperialism, is the driver of war only battles for revolutionary nationalism by those nations subjected to Imperialism and world socialist revolution can bring world peace for the human race.
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@soylentgreen9492 Don;t include me with you.
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@soylentgreen9492 If we occupy a trench together, comrade, we don't surrender, comrade, unless it is to save our lives to fight another day. Take a break if you like comrade but the war is not over until final proletarian victory.
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Why not join a union go one strike and demand higher pay. What makes you think you have a right to make a profit and tell others what to do?
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Its nothing more than US capitalist ruling class propaganda.
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The problem with the Democratic voters getting directly paid to vote is what is preventing Trump's AG Sessions from going ahead with indictments and trials?
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@martinmarriott1819 Free speech for all. Those with confidence in their ideas have nothing to fear from debate. Workers control of industry.
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A rewrite of history since Stalin had promoted the political line for the German Communist Party that the Social Democrats were Social Fascists and the twins of NAZIs. This division of the working class allowed the NAZ"s to take power without so much as a punch thrown in anger. Stalin predicted a quick defeat for Hitler but the time to lite the fuse of revolution had passed and so the German working class went down in defeat.
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The bosses like Stossel say education is best when teachers are paid less.
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@thomasjosullivan9179 Why call a ceasefire on Hamas which started the war and is a NAZI like group that tolerates no disent in GAZA. Israel is NOT South Africa. Jews are a majority in Israel and had their land stolen from them in both Europe and the Muslim countries.
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And US anti Cuba Senator Bob Menendez is due for sentencing. Seems he took one to many bribes from the wrong people.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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You can't even legally visit the country and you say go take a trip there?
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@DopelyTV US Government regulations "Travel to Cuba for tourist activities remains prohibited by statute." from US State dept web page.
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@DopelyTV Correct they do everything possible to punish the people of Cuba and then they go on to Grand Stand about how much they care. When all they care about is their money and property.
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@macbones6179 Who you going to call if the FBI shows up? Ghostbusters? Hope you don't die laughing. Everything is a joke until the Feds show up. Just remember your best course of action is to lawyer up right away. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@mikemcconnell7800 Democrats are not communists.
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@TickedOffPriest Its not possible for capitalism and the capitalist government to work for anyone but the rich. Only by class struggle and abolishing private property can society to be remade to function in the interests of the working class majority. Capitalism only puts wealth and power into the hands of the capitalists.
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@TickedOffPriest I don't own any land to plant an apple tree in so the question is moot.
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@TickedOffPriest It would all depend on to many other factors to answer a question that has little to no connection to a real situation. Why would some one need to seek permission to deal with crop yield? Do the apples grow on command of the person granting permission?
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@TickedOffPriest Maybe you need to explain why someone needs to own land to plant apple trees in the first place? The idea of land ownership and peoples relationships to land has changed over time and is different depending on the time and social system. Your question is too general to give you an answer without more information.
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@TickedOffPriest You can tell that to your middle class friends at the home owners association and see if they agree. Or buy a home in a middle class neighborhood, tear down the house and plant an apple orchard and see if the capitalist government doesn't set you a court date for violating zoning laws. You see it all depends on the social system and is not a preconceived absolute right. You could probably buy a large tract of land in Wyoming plant an apple orchard in the woods and no one would even bother you or possible on government (Bureau of Land Management) land in the West. .
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You see Marxism is based in facts and the needs of the working class not some preconceived dogma of property rights like the sectarians, libertarians and universal reformers who have plans all worked out ahead of time just waiting for implementation.
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The American Imperialist make their decisions without consulting junior partners.
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@deemzz8275 Capitalist politicians of both parties are responsible. Supporters of abortion rights like Railroad Boss Warren Buffet want to hire workers without families because off the time off and higher wages required. That why they call it the Better Not Start a Family railroad.
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@funky_tooth China is one system one country. Capitalists in Chinese Communist Party show that they are traitors to the working class and Imperailist running dogs when they invest in foreign countries.
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Due process wasn't meet because the person being denied their Constitutional rights didn't get a hearing. The state is interfering in a private organization the Republican Party.
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@nosuchthing8 It was written after the civil war and was directed at Confederate slave and landowners who were trying to deny the newly freed slaves their rights . The last section gives Congress the right to enforcement. "The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Congress considered section three after Jan 6th and took no action. Its election interference by an incumbent party into another parties selection process. If this ruling stands then anyone who is an government official and says something others don't like can be excluded from election.
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@nosuchthing8 Socialist Victor Burger was denied his seat in Congress. He is the only person before Jan 6th it was used against after the passage of the 1872 Amnesty Act. No Democratic Party Klan member Senator in the 20th Century was denied their seat.
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@justtakethemtomcdonalds8090 Conspiracy can at best produce a 9/11 because as it enlarges it loses its conspiritoral advantage such that it becomes less dramatic and therefore less effective assuming 9/11 produced what the conspirators wanted to achieve in the first place. Too many Americans only think pragmatically. If A created B today they automatically think A will create B tomorrow. The idea that B can return to A is usually considered impossible. Yet this is what happens when charging and using a storage battery. If I told you that I could explain revolutions in terms of battery building you would tell me they are completely unrelated.
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Willy Friedlander You need to see a doctor!!!
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Willy Friedlander I need to spell like "u". LMAO
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Willy Friedlander I don't believe in Bad Man Underground and Good Man in Sky.
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@Robert DeSio BAN MAN underground. GOOD MAN in sky.
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@Robert DeSio The video poster made claims about Marxism so that makes him fair game for a reply. If he didn't want criticism then he should have disabled the comments section. If you don't like being criticised than keep your big trap shut. Marxism refuses to die because the class struggle also refuses to die with a clear winner. Capitalism has its own internal contradictions that drive the class struggle with or without privileged liberal capitalist university professors sitting in ruling class endowed chair professorships at Posion Ivy league universities.
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@EzekielsCall Capitalism is a class system where the capitalist collect wealth by owning the means of production. This a fundamental truth that can't be wished away. You can say it is fair or unfair if you like but capitalist wealth is sucked out of the working class and goes to the owning class. The owner goes to the mailbox every three months to get his dividend check paid to him by virtue of capitalist ownership.
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Keep it in your pants JERK!
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@PickedOff100 Its basically a theory that denys the origin of racism in the New Capitalist system and the Black plantation slavery that was attached. Instead it says its a fundamental flaw of white people who founded the country and race is bulit into everything but most of all Blacks believe in American Bourgeois Democracy as the highst achievement of mankind. It completely ignores the facts that the biggest blows against slavery, imperialism and racism in the United States were struck by the American Revolution, the civil war and the black rights movement that overturned Jim Crow. .
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This is nothing more than a BIG LIE told by the capitalist bosses.
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@PeruvianPotato All you need to do is look at the federal Reserve stats to see that all the new wealth is going to the top since Nixon ended the gold standard gains in productivity stopped going to the working class. Why don't you end the blockade of Cuba? What are you afraid of now after sixty years of blockade? Your going to see a rise in class struggle now as the long retreat by labor is over. Look at the protests rocking Peru now.
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark
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@wdd3141 Sowell is just another one of the anointed he has so much criticism of. He is just a paid mouthpiece of neoliberal capitalist ideology. He is just as much a product of government jobs and government benefits as anyone else who was not wealthy and got a formal education during the cold war. His advice to Blacks following the over though of Jim Crow symbolized by the civil Rights act of 1965 was to go home. Like all neo liberal conservatives the unquestioning belief in capitalism ,so called free markets and private property is fixed for all time. This is one of the few times he has actually admitted their is such a thing as a working class. According to the Sowell, the good middle class professor, we are NOT exploited by the capitalists and the new marginal theories of markets and capitalism solve all the old questions of classical economics.
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@BenjaminEaster-b8b You just can't talk about anything without crying about your money can you?
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This is one of the only proven ways to battle and win higher wages. Keep squeezing the greedy bosses because were all 100% behind the UAW.
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They have found that the either had to adopt these in a limited way or been dragged kicking and screaming into adopting them. The capitalist have not be able to escape the early predictions of Marx and Engels. They have conquered the world and created an ever growing working class of propertyless wage laborers and declined in size along with the middle class being pushed down into the level of the working class. Their system has entered into natural decline as profit rates are pushed down by rising amounts of capital and smaller amount of labor needed to produce the same commodity. They find themselves in ever greater economic and political crisis.
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The Fascist in Italy are like the Brits because they are Monarchists.
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@ИванИванович69420 "If licenses were so good at their job why are there so many medical malpractice lawsuits everyday, week, and year?" Licenses work like door locks. They only keep out those too dumb to come in by the open window or who can defeat the door lock. A policeman driving by seeing you going in the window will become suspicious. Assuming you only take multiple choice exams from kindergarten to the medical license exam it is possible you passed by the law of probability only -- very unlikely though.
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The "VOW" to raise wages. When? After the Holidays when we don't need you.
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Yup She was hot and showed promise judging a county fair pie eating contest.
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@saxasmidlife This is a religious law.
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@saxasmidlife A fetus doesn't breath air. So it is NOT a baby.
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@MrPanetela More cops and bigger jails just like the Drug wars. Why don't you take up a voluntary collection to pay for your cops and jails. Oh that's right Steve Bannon ran away with the money for a private wall.
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Plenty of FDA approved drugs cause injuries and if the drug is made illegal it would go underground like abortion pills in many other countries. Maybe concentrate on pregnancy care, birth control, child care and support to families with children.
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@isabelgellibrandi7496 They were a joke that the media played up as an example of youthful idiocy. In the end the became establishment Democratic liberals.
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@thegeeg1751 Keep you nose out of other peoples purpose.
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Its just the continuing failure of the Imperialist system.
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@hughmongous9036 The capitalist system is unable to outrun its own contradictions. It wasn't the NEW DEAL that solved the Great Depression. It was FDR's WAR DEAL. The capitalist powers went into WW1 not expecting the creation of the Soviet Union. They went into WW2 expecting to do defeat the Soviet Union and win the market battle instead the ended the war being defeated in Eastern Europe and China. While turning a large part of the industrial world into ashes.
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@MegaNiQ There is no "true communism" because communism is a movement it proceeds from facts not a holy book. The best way to get a philosophical understanding is to read "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
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@randylahey5940 I don't answer "Fucktards"
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PearlPerlita Venegas "...I came from the ghetto... & moved up..." No you came from the gutter and found a home.
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PearlPerlita Venegas The OG's don't F*** with us because we have a rep like the Muslims. A bad neighborhood is relative. My mom was shocked when the primary school principle told her we lived in a bad neighborhood. I grew up in this "bad" neighborhood of skilled Caucasian workers. Our neighbors were Greek so they had to put up a jockey statue at the driveway so passersby's would think they were uppity Negros moving into a white neighborhoods.
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PearlPerlita Venegas Drug abuse is not just a problem of the poor either. The corner boy doesn't dream of the day he will be in the boat talkin' about how much time he can do with his homies headed for the fishbowl. Instead he dreams of being the "kingpin" living in Obama's neighborhood , out in Jersey or Connecticut with the big time stock brokers.
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PearlPerlita Venegas I lived in Willimantic, CT for over ten years without a car and never once was either myself or my wife assaulted or our home broken into. It was convenient for Dan Rather and the liberal Hartford Current to attack the city as "Heroin Town." Just as your frame-up charges of Black communities. Unless their "slumming" the upper and middle class doesn't go to the poor neighborhoods for their drugs when they have user neighbor dealers to get a fix from.
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PearlPerlita Venegas The real problem for workers of all colors is first of all the Bosses crisis wrecked profit system. That is the origin of the misery drug users seek to escape from. Blaming anyone but them and their responsibility free corporate system is the politics both parties put forward.
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Communism isn't an ideology with its holy priests. Its a movement of the working class on its way to state power. It proceeds from facts and the class struggle. From these facts and the international class struggle arise methods and principles that drive the struggle forward to final victory over the most centralized capitalist military power and Empire in human history.
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Michael Murphy Like every capitalist disaster you can expect the Head of the Police department to come on TV and announce "Your On Your Own."
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@usssanjacinto1 Burnie is a Democratic Party social reformer. He and other Democratic Socialists leader seek to curry favor with the bosses seeking a few table scraps from the bosses table. For them victory is found in election from which they seek to save capitalism since they fear the bosses might call them bad names like commie.
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@sult145 The IDF is incapable of carpet bombing. That requires heavy bombers like the US B1 B2 and B52. The IDF does not have those kind of planes.
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@sult145 So everything is preordained by Allah and you have no responsibility. This of course means when you are defeated it has been decided by your god Allah. We will fight to free Gaza from Hamas whose billionaires leaders are stealing UN Aid and launching rockets at Gaza because they want to create martyrs for sympathy. This is the truth and it will lead to the defeat of the Islamists dream of a Caliphate.
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No his vision is one where a colorless wealthy meritocracy rules do to living in wealthy neighborhoods and exercising supervisory power over all aspects of working class life.
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@mlscards1761 We sell arms to Saudi Arabia. They killed an American journalist. Trump Biden Obama and Bush don't have a problem there?
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EpiDemic117 Orange man doesn't like David Duke like you do. You guys do your best negotiating when your half in the bag anyway like the South African Pik Botha or trying to project yourselves as a complete nutcases like Nixon's strategy for the losers at the Paris Peace talks. Plus I'd ride in Hugh Thomson's Helio anyday. Its people like Lt Calley who gave the US Forces in Vietnam a black eye. The My Lai massacre include not just children and pregnant women but infants. What was Lt Calley doing anyway trying to outdo god in Hosea 13:16 KJV?
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@brianwells4507 There is money like bank notes and checks that circulate and then there is capital like commercial paper, bonds and stock.
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@Idkwhatsupwithyou Companies like Amazon are already doing that by not paying out dividendes. Using union power to fight for wage increases in the workplace and building a labor party is the way to take on the bosses politically and their two party government.
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@robertagabor3736 US Imperialism developing Haiti into a model of Democracy.
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@Brave2standalone Boo Ho Ho The teachers union didn't do anything. Its just politicians grandstanding hoping to make a name for themselves and get reelected.
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Ya rich people get to do whatever they want when crossing most borders.
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@jackccrofootjr7228 People with money can buy US citizenship or any most any other citizenship. Billionaires aren't refused entry since they are covered by a different set of laws.
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That's called a strike.
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@danamaxwell2542 You can always carry protest signs against "The Railway "Slave Labor" Act"
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When the revolution failed in Germany than Lenin and the Bolsheviks turned towards freedom for the colonial slaves of Imperialism. They held the Congress of the Peoples of the East in 1920 and encouraged the founding of communist parties in countries like China which had only a small minority of industrial workers and had no Social Democratic Parties.
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@johnharrison6745 Look this guy doesn't know what he is talking about. The "marxist" who thought you can just sit around and wait are the right wing leaders of the Social Democracy. They became traitors to the working class in Germany. All Marcuse and others are is armchair revolutionaries who sit in professors chairs leveling criticism. Before the war they were talking about how wrong Marx was about capitalism inevitable entering into decline since the living standards of the German workers were rising. When they totally misinterpret everything he says. It was Lenin who made the role of the party to be the tool used to raise the political consciousness of the workers beyond simple trade unionism. These same professors were disconting the revolution potential of the working class in the 1970's are so they are now in the capitalist Democratic Party talking about how they can create equality with DEI. These people are no more "Marxist" than Thomas Sowell. They've read Marx and then plagiarized or revised Marx to suit their purposes. Tearing the revolutionary heart out of Marxism to make themselves into armchair revolutionaries and professional Social justices Warriors in the service of Bourgeois illusions of grandeur.and an everlasting capitalist world. These are the heads of NGOs, micro investments and George Soros open society. These people are nothing but the product of Bourgeois ideology of slow and steady reformism. They achieve little to nothing except to provide a distraction from the ongoing class struggle.
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Just another video about have China is winning the battle of the world market. Yet do we hear anything about how trade wars lead to real wars like world war one and two. How devastating the wars were for the lives of working people how the bosses used us as cannon fodder? Nothing about the Jews needing a place of refugee or Ukrainian peoples right to self determination.
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You like facts okay Henry Ford Published in his Ford Newspaper the Dearborn Independent a Jew hating series called the "International Jew" this anti semitic rant was translated into German by the NAZI's and in Mein Kampf Ford is the only American mentioned favorable. Ford received the Order of the German Eagle from the NAZI ambassador just before the outbreak of war.
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@nickfrost9771 It's called the long term tendency of the rate of industrial profits to decline. It's one of the underlying defects in the capitalism system that causes it to go into crisis.
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You either are a capitalist or your not. You need to able to live off your investments with minimal decisions required which is more than just being some cockroach capitalist who thinks he's on his way to heaven on earth.
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@bigbad9583 You going to lose the ideological battle because you can't help your self when in comes to insulting and shaming women with terms like 'Ho bags'. This is just another way to insult working people by capitalist liberals and conservatives alike. The same economic forces of competition and the world wide decline of capitalism are driving us together.
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@bigbad9583 You type of education originates from the Poison Ivy League. You just can't help yourself when insulting women and working people in general. Now we are all Tramps just like Clinton said we were all deplorable and irredeemable. Keep talking like that and I'm sure you'll be getting a fist in that dirty mouth of yours.
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@daves2552 People who buy trucks want something they can use to haul trailers and loads not some drama queens spaceship. I wouldn't even consider an EV Truck without an EV infrastructure matching cell service.
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The province is getting a good chunk of money is that good or bad? After all next week could be another 2008. In the US you need to invest at least $500,000 in a select area or $1,000,000 and hire at least 10 US workers to get a permanent residence card.
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roger gerritsen Libertarians are idealists hence utopians. This is why they worship books such as "Capitalism the Unknown Ideal." It's unknown because it is completely impossible. Capitalism didn't start without a centralized state power and that state power only grows as the needs of capital do. There is no material reason to believe the capitalist will unilaterally dissolve their state or abolish taxes such that they loose protection of their private property maintained by police and military violence. Only the working class can begin to accomplish such a task with a socialist revolution. They are against workers even having a social wage like Social Security. Instead they say we should depend on the family and private charity leaving profits untouched. We shouldn't join unions because that's the use of collectivism. Yet do you ever hear of any complaints about the collectivism of the joint stock company?
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Nathan Bracey (Respect Free Speech) The problem for the republic began with the Spanish American war. This resulted in the US Anti Imperialist League one of its most famous members was author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). Cuba was one of those nations fighting for independence from Spain. Instead what happened is the US went into Cuba and became the new Imperialist power. You can't be a democracy at home and a military Empire abroad. The US does not hand out aid with out strings attached. Cuba has been educating more Doctors where they have 9 doctors for every 1,000 people while the US has about 2.3 for every 1,000. Many go on international missions some delegations bring back income and others don't. They also have 10,000 foreign students in training as Doctors at no direct cost to the students. Despite these acts of peace the Trump administration continues to be the 11 US President to continue on the failed no starter negotiations where the Cuban government must dissolve itself before any negotiations can begin. They also seek to end the Cuban medical exchange calling the doctors slaves and military trainers. This is just another regime change policy directed against a small country which demands to be treated as an equal instead of a US Colony. Having no shame they wish to punish Cuba by hurting patients in third party countries.
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@danhall6922 (Respect Free Speech) Marx and Eagles were in the UK personally when they were refugees from the German anti socialist laws.
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@professorcranium4792 Professor "Empty" Cranium teaches another lesson. Will you be publishing this wisdom in a peer reviewed journal sonn?
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@ozziecrosby2092 King Charles I and King George III Democracy has never worked. A King is necessary to run a country.
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@mateo8120 How about a law requiring underpants to vote.
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@reedraikes7471 If wage increases could just be passed along bosses wouldn't fight so hard against them. In fact inflation is caused by greedy bosses raising prices to try and boost profits from a currency that has no fixed value. Its all part of a rigged system of capitalism that makes the bosses rich at the workers expense.
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@nh1776 Think the capitalist have escaped the problems that lead to world war one? That's was the whole purpose of the theories of the neoliberals like Sowell, Friedman and the others like Keynes and people like Ludwig von Mises. They spent the first half of the twentieth Century destroying each other with fascism and Imperialist war for the redivision of the world for colonial plunder. The first world war produced the Soviet Union. The second resulted in a Soviet Victory despite all the losses and odds against one. The Imperialist Powers in 1945 were than not in the political position to launch another world war and the defeat of Japan also resulted in a victory for the Chinese that the United States was thsn unable to defeat.
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@StudleyDuderight Your going to see more capitalist failures because you can't run everything from a central control point like those banks and Big Companies in New York. They are talking about a slow moving train wreck caused by overbuilding office buildings without renters in New York like 2008. Bailout city here we go.
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@StudleyDuderight Certainly not true in China and only got worse in the former Soviet Union because of Yeltsin following Clinton / Freedman's advice and forcing through market reforms with an artillery barrage on the Russian Supreme Soviet. Even so all those countries were way ahead of the colonial world and India at the time. In Cuba the are still fighting back the Imperialist power to the North despite being alone.
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@heroesytumbas His desire to create a Greater German Empire based upon a finance capitalism of a new German type. It was supposed to last for a thousand years. Instead American Imperialism won the war and its rule is crumbling in less than a eighty years,
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@heroesytumbas Mark Twain founded the American Anti Imperialist league in 1901 before Lenin wrote Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916 based upon the work of the English Economist Hobbs. Republican McKinley made The American Republic an Imperialist nation with the Spanish American war taking over Spain's colonies and denying the Cuban people their right to national independence until the 1959 revolution lead by Fidel Castro and the 26th Of July movement. You aren't entitled to your own facts. The first world war was one to redivided the world among the Advanced capitalist Imperialist powers. It signaled the end of capitalism progressive era and the rise of the reactionary one. Hitler's plan "Mein Kampf" is what it is. A diatribe about the how the Superior German people were denied their rightful place by Jews, Communists, the French and Anglo Saxons. In 1945 the Era of Imperialist capitalist fascism ended with the defeat of NAZI Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Imperial Japan.
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Typical Conservative attacking the teachers and the whole idea of the pubic school in favor of a cheaper educational system that guarantees the class differentiation and monopoly of education for the ruling class. Saying the best education is to be found in the real world. If 5 students in a class was the size for Bill Gates. Why is it 25 to 35 for everyone else?
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Capitalism does need thinkers but order takers why because capital always replaces skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first. Healthcare and Education are overhead costs to be minimized as unnecessary when another worker can be hired. Only the class struggle produces change as it impinges on the rights of capital.
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@StockyDude World capitalism has other problems as well which is why it will be replaced. They only produce for a market and the capitlist become national ruling classs which take the war of the market place into the world war of the battlefield and the declining rate of retrun on investment creates class struggle. Pre Keynes capitalism had the wage cut post Keynes has central bank generated inflation. Capitalism has always run into the periodic crisis of overproduction like the world crisis 2008.that we are living through. . .
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@StockyDude The class struggle ebbs and flows we don't win all the time. The world is riper now than any time in living memory for another revolution in fact we are overdue many would say. The Cuban leadership has taken the movement the farthest so far but we have been a legal party in the US the 1940 Smith "gag" Act trail in the US. We lead the Minneapolis General Strike Played a role in the Black Rights movement with Malcolm X speaking at our forums. Sent out Candidate for President to South Vietnam to meet GI's. Convinced a Federal Judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG in contempt of court. We publish books by revolutionary authors and a newspaper since 1928 The Militant. Stalin was the murderer of Trotsky and we still publish Trotsky's Collected and major works.
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@StockyDude All revolutions are set off by the delay and difference from the way things are and they way they could be. Marx got his ideas about revolutions from studdying them. That's what every bolshivik does when time permits. We study, we think, we organize, we agitate and we educate. we study all including those who we disagree with and agree with. We explain how every injustice is related to the class system of capitalism.
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The idea of a republic goes back to ancient greece. The Dutch Republic 1568. English Republic only lasted for 11 years from 1649 to 1660. It would be 117 years before a Republic would then be proclaimed in America. Socialism as an idea has been around forever as far back as early Christianity. Marxism or scientific socialism is different in they way to get there is through the class struggle rather than it just being a 'good idea' to adopt. As ideas go it is not that old. Newer than Newtonian Mechanics and about the same age as Darwin's Evolution which is still controversial although less so than Marx. Darwin upset the teachings of the Christian Church while Marx has always been a thorn in the side of the ruling classes and fake socialists everywhere.
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@seamonster936 Plenty of class struggle in the west. So far what has been lacking is a leadership like the bolsheviks in 1917 Russia. You don't need to go back to world war one to see that either. France in 1968 is only the most recent example. Capital can only guarantee the class struggle not perpetual wage increases. In fact that ended in the US in 1973. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/US_productivity_and_real_wages.jpg
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Oh and before Hitler Germany was doing real well. The middle class was doing so well they earned wheelbarrows full of cash. The problem was it cost wheelbarrows full of cash to buy anything., (Inflation)
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@sweatingprofusely8198 Hardly because what you most likely mean to say is utopians and people who become political sedentary excusing themselves for their youth. Marxism is neither. It is a guide to action and a way to look at the world.
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@CVN-78 Sure the immigrated for better incomes from Cuba after getting their free education Like Yoani Sanchez now a Presidential scholar in Miami.
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@Edilio A Cuba just had elections.
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I don't want to show my papers wherever I go. If you blindly trust the cops and government than when you get your plea bargain be happy in you cell. You say I did do it? With legality turned on head you will need to prove innocence. They merely need to suspect guilt and hit you the big baseball to extract a plea.
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Right where do I pick up my George Soros check at the Bank of UnAmerica?
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The capitalists are not going to hand over basic industry to their employees without a socialist revolution. Such a thought lies only in the minds of idiots. Every capitalist loves government contracts because they are guaranteed a profit on cost plus basis with virtually no risk involved. If they bid wrong they merely declare or threaten to declare bankruptcy and government will bail them out. We have also seen when they have a too big to fail Bank or Industrial company they bail out first ask questions latter. The apologists for capitalism always have a theory that is devoid of reality. Gee wouldn't it be nice if capitalism was able to continue development without Imperialist war which is nothing more than cold blooded murder. How wonderful a world we created by murdering people halfway around the world to save power for the national collaborators of the Japanese Imperialist war criminals.
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Space X is just another waste of capital by the capitalists. It show their complete indifference to the rest of humanity. That money could go into clean drinking water in the third world but instead it's being wasted because a few ultra rich would like to be space explorers.
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We don't need 'greedy capitalists' to begin with CEO's are way overpaid. Stocks, bonds, commercial paper and mortgage contrast are just ways for the do nothing capitalist to suck value out of the economy. DMV is just another case of two stooge democracy bureaucracy. At a big company they treat you the same way as at a big DMV. There is no need for the greedy capitalist with economic planning. What did Bill Gates do other than start with a million dollar trust fund, business connections, the ability to hire, legal manipulation, business manipulation and market manipulation.
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Internet and GPS was conceived of and built first by ARPA Advanced Research Projects Administration. US Military funded. In fact almost all basic science and engineering research is paid for by government funds because the capitalist lack the vision to see past the next quarter. Even the capitalist constantly discuss the problem but have never been able to find a solution other than having their government do the funding.
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How about we give the military and police red buckets and let them raise all funds voluntarily outside of shopping malls?
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"...The capitalists don't use government funding as the solution..." The provide the campaign funds that get Congress elected. They pay the piper they choose the tune. In 1958 they passed the National Defense Education Act. A whole generation of us got to go to college that would have been unavailable otherwise because of the fear of the 'red menace'. The general way capitalism works is to have what can't be done profitable be the task of government. Then they attack the government for doing things that are unprofitable as socialistic. How about we close the Post Office and let UPS and FedEx do all the letter carrying? Why not have private sidewalks and streets with toll barriers starting with Wall Street. You realize Congress is talking about putting up Toll Gantries across the Interstate system to fund infrastructure. Like the say on the Mass Pike "No Transponder. No Problem. Pay by Mail."
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The US government limited communication networks for the advantages they provided to AT&T. They provided a mound of data to back up their rate charges to the FCC and the FCC rubber stamped them. The original internet and long distance internet communications (digital techniques) took advantage of old and noisy analogue lines as a way to get more out of an investment that wasn't worth much anymore. In fact I remember reading one day that the internet business had become so big that they were now building new lines instead of just using old ones. AT&T refused to allow anything that didn't belong to them to be attached to their local lines. So you had to use hand set cradles for acoustic coupling to their network or buy a direct connection from them. Their local switching equipment could tell how many ringers were attached so if you were using more ring current than what your bill of rented devices used Ma Bell knew you were cheating them. Once radio shack began selling ITT brand phones those days of the AT&T monopoly over everything possible came to an end.
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You're just not old enough to remember the AT&T monopoly. Every out of state call in the US went over AT&T long lines. AT&T was the majority stockholder in every operating company across the country except for SNET (Connecticut) and Cincinnati Bell. Only rural area's that AT&T didn't want and a few other places were served locally by non AT&T companies.
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Was it just a coincidence that the Soviet Union built the first artificial satellite and beat the US when they put Yuri Gagarin in space? Unlike the US they suffered a lot of destruction from WW2. Twenty Million Dead Yet they put a satellite in orbit scaring the shit out of America. Congress then passed the National Defense Education Act. Government paid education and research like never seen before.
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I guess you never heard of Leon Trotsky. You certainly know nothing about either the Russian or Cuban revolution. Keep up your bourgeois insults is always shows how smart you are.
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We are Trotsky's heirs. In 1928 they said we had 3 Generals without an Army. In 1934 we lead the Minneapolis Teamsters General Strike. Nothing goes on in the class struggle in the United States that we don't become involved in. Fidel Castro had a subscription to our paper The Militant. We publish books in eleven languages and more than twenty subjects. By Pathfinderpress. The Communist Party USA well they still have a website and a lack of Generals.
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I think I've wasted enough time with you. Bye Bye.
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Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter and the UK armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN. The Reagan CIA would arm the Taliban and Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan. .
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Bernie is not a Lenin.
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The Venezuelan capitalist are acting like Southern slave holding class. They lost the vote so now they want to break the power of the government.
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Look your already feeding a useless class. Like these talking heads. Or how about Paris Hilton or the Kardashian's. These are people do nothing but receive quarterly dividend checks. You can bet on John Stossel getting his share of unearned wealth. If capitalism works so well why have wages been stagnant since 1973? Why do they have 20% unused industrial capacity? I have yet to meet a supervisor capable of thinking for anyone but the company.
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You mine as well put a large part of the middle class in that category. For the usefulness provided by the supervisors and various nonprofit corporations helping with the job of sprucing up capitalism and the ugly face it presents. The get a clean white collar job and extra pennies in their pockets telling everyone else how stupid we are not to recognize what joy and happiness are brought to the workers and farmers from government and the mahogany paneled walls of corporate power.
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Actual the phrase was attributed to Lenin but the librarian of Congress searching all of Lenin's works could find no such usage. Instead it seems to have first been used by right wing Italian social democrats to describe their left wing comrades as useful idiots for entering into a coalition government with the Stalinist Italian Communist Party some time after WW2. It gained popular use against anyone not deemed anti communist enough in the cold war. Even Ronald Reagan was once labeled a 'useful idiot' for signing a missile treaty with the Soviet Union. So its basically a derogatory term used among capitalist politicians to describe each other.
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@jefferymartin8782 I could easily respond by termng you a useless idiot. After all that's who is mostly produced by Harvard and Yale universities. After all the useful idiot idea fits in well with the capitalist characterization of the working class. We of course are useful when making them profits and as the unemployed we serve to hold down wages of the employed. The reality is we can do without them but they can't do without us.
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Cliche Guevara That was the result of the Stalinist movement. On a world scale the height and unity of their movement came somewhere around WW2. Stalin dissolved the Communist International as a concession to FDR and Churchill. Stalin and Tito of Yugoslavia split because Stalin had promised Yugoslavia and Greece to Churchill. Once Stalin died the first execution was that of NKVD Secret Police Chief Baria. China had fell into Mao's hands. Now two countries were building socialism in one country.
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@j.2903 Bernie is a "Socialist" gone over to the capitalist Democratic party. First the excuse was you couldn't build a new party fast enough. Then he devolved into a Hillary 'I was a Goldwater Girl' Clinton supporter. I thought you guys didn't like to do things based upon "feelings"? Our goal is for the workers to break from the capitalist Democratic Party not to join it. We have no need for either party. You can easily find that in TheMilitant.com
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Cliche Guevara "Those who only take the word of another are complete idiots who can be dismissed with the wave of a hand." Lenin. Did I say Stalinism was real communism? No but you seem to imply that. How about libertarianism they claim this isn't real capitalism. The first to call for Stalin's removal from his post as General Secretary in his 'last testament' was Lenin just before he passed away and the second was Trotsky he was exiled and later murdered in Mexico by a NKVD agent, the third were all the Old Bolsheviks who said Nyet just before being shot. So it was not like no one said no or that those shot were fascist capitalist agents as the Stalinist press said. Back to Lenin was the battle cry of the left opposition not just here but Internationally. You see Marx was right about capitalism and its crisis' caused by overproduction. The inability for the workers to buy back what they produced. This why 2008 occured. Lenin was right about the conflicts between different capitalist ruling classes over foreign markets, foreign investments and colonies being the driving force behind WW1. This can be seen today in the conflict between different capitalist blocs EU/UK, US/Canada, Aus/NZ, China/Russia. The drive to get profits drives them towards war abroad and fascism at home. Same problem different day. How can the ruling classes divided up the spoils among themselves without going to war? Trotsky was right about Stalinism being a counterrevolutionary tendency within the labor movement and their loss in Russia and China is a victory for the working class not a defeat as the capitalist pundits claim. It is easier than ever to pass revolutionary marxists ideas around the world and no Soviet Union or China can pretend to be Marxist and help the Imperialists like they did to Vietnam and Korea. They can't sell out what they don't have any more the 'prestige' of the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution.
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Cliche Guevara And what the hell is your criticism that we should be more pragmatic? Let's take up the central bank problem. They set it up so they could keep chasing dollars instead of going into depression. What do you think here? That they will go back on the gold standard? Take out all of the gold in the New York Federal Reserve bank and mint it up at West Point, Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco and then put it back into circulation? I don't see you arguing with any of the basic points I had. Instead you tell me well I've outgrown that and it is ideologically flawed.
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@maplenook Ya they are yet fully dominated by intellects like Joe McCarthy.
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You still face the possibility of nuclear war because capitalism breeds national competition for markets and resources.
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@lance8080 National protectionism will inevitably lead to another Imperialist war which the neoliberals thought they could prevent with world market rules for the so called free market competition.The ruling classes are divided into nation states some more p[owerful than others as the decline of the world's most powerful capitalist investors Empire the United States continues to decline relative power vs its rivals.
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Just another case of capitalist thieves robbing each other.
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I'm saying capitalism has outlived its usefulness that the next stage is for a world socialism to replace a world capitalism. The way forward is the class struggle.
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@toocoolfortheroom380 Why was the word Socialism only used in the title and never in the talk?
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Trade wars are meant to serve the reactionary capitalist interests of the ruling class.
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@y0r00 Your politicians control Congress and FDR wanted to go to war with Japan to support the British imperialists. So he ordered the end of oil sales to Japan. USMC Major General Smedley Butler exposed the role of big capital in "War is a Racket." Try reading it you might just learn something. Butler said Al Capone operated in three counties I operated on three continents. He was a self described gangster for capitalism. Like Kennedy who said Victory in nuclear war would be ashes in our mouths the ruling class cares only about its own losses. Kennedy was already to go and being egged on by Generals like Curtis La May. Khrushchev had done absolutely nothing to prepare besides launch a criticism of a modern art show which all the dutifully followers of Moscow praised.
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@atpnguyen1442 I'm a communist and proud of it!
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@johncenasdad408 Some of us may be smart some of us may be dumb but you can't tell the difference? Other wise you would have to ask such question. LOL LOL LOL
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@murp9388 If you follow Social Democrats they you will ultimately end up like Maduro in Venezuela.
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@OneWildTurkey The capitalist create a new class of industrial workers who produce everything yet own nothing. It is the contradictory nature of capitalism to be both the most productive system in human history and also one that is wracked with war revolution and economic crisis. The capitalist are organized and chained into Nation States from which the engage in competition in the world market. The workers are not chained by property to nation states and so our interests become opposed to everything the capitalist class does when he tries to profit based upon the competition that drives them to Imperialist war over markets and resources. Nor can they escape the natural tendency of profit rates to decline as machine replace labor which is their measure of success.
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The pied piper of neoliberalism.
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@paulg6527 The basic qualifications are support for the capitalist system of exploitation.
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This is why the American workers need to take up an internationalist view as an international class taking on the capitalist internationally. A fight against low wages anywhere is a fight for higher wages everywhere.
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Why don't you become a criminal if it's such a good scam? Get yourself a long term so you can get a PHD and be a professor.
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@RespectMyAuthoritaah No you haven't answered the question. If going to prison is such a good deal why send your middle class kids to college when you have them sent to prison at no cost? You present being a criminal as being a good deal but then tell me you aren't one because of you don't subscribe to ideologies. But aren't you encouraging criminality by falsely presenting it as a good deal? So aren't you and not an ideology encouraging criminality. Its really no different than continually saying what a good deal it is to be an alien without official papers but don't break the law and come here. You say don't break the law but it is really a good deal for those who do.
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@RespectMyAuthoritaah I take issue with some so stupid as to believe a better deal awaits the person who enters the criminal justice system. People who violate laws seldom want to enter the wonderful criminal justice system you describe.
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The capitalist system doesn't need educated workers it needs people who can follow orders given by the ruling class of capitalist. .
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Just becareful you don't shot yourself in the foot.
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When bosses control both wage and price that's BOSS TYRANNY UNION YES!
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@jameseverett9037 Sowell is just a consevative capitalist ideologue. He bats righty for the Republican Bosses. Bill Clinton was the first Black President since he handed out a huge number of federal patronage jobs to Blacks.
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The American Bourgeois Democratic Police show no such pacifism. Peace Prizes go to such US Imperialist Bourgeois war mongers like Henry Kissinger and Barak Obama. Le Duc Tho to his ever lasting credit never accepted his from the Democratic Socialist "Imperialist" Norway.
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@Humanity Galatica We slaughter the unborn to have for supper on Maudy Tuseday for the devils last supper.
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@Humanity Galatica You don't get it do you? When God dies so does the devil and the Christian faith. You will be mocked and forgotten history as the believers in Roman and Greek gods are today.
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@davidmills7601 CRT is a lot of horseshit from Harvard Law meant to Blackwash capitalism.
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@fin31337 The workers need to use union power to take control of industry. Then run it for human needs without the slightest concern for the bosses private property.
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The end of an Empire is approaching.
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@Yve55 Trump himself got fewer votes than Clinton. He is however the President due to the Constitution and the fact that Congress accepted the vote. Evidence that Marduro stole the election or just rhetoric. Was Guaido a candidate?
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You want money go see Guido because he now has what is Venezuela's in the Yankee Banks. Of course Guido will want your support in return for money. Nothing like being able to buy your way into power after the Yankees campaign to sanction and strangle a country.
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@kiyoshim9593 "The revolution will not be televised." That's the history of the first US sponsored coup. The worlds economy was destroyed back in 2008. The real problem is you can't sit halfway between socialism and capitalism. The other problem is you can no longer pay for 21st Century socialism with oil dollars what you could before because of the collapse in the price of oil.
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@JamesKerLindsay A country run by a small capitalist ruling class can't be a democracy except for the ruling class.
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@sirvandovargas1182 Sanctions only hurt ordinary Russian's not the Oligarchy. The US ruling class is still fully in control. Trump only represents a division in the ruling elite. Sanctions by the US ruling capitalist class are a form of war. The US Imperialist NATO forces just finished destroying Afghanistan. Their can be no peace as long as the Imperialist investor nations dominate world trade. The nationalism of the ruling classes is what leads first to trade war and then real war. Socialism is not a different kind of capitalism like that in China or Sweden. Rather it is the working class in power like in Cuba where industry is under workers control and foreign trade is under control of a workers and farmers state power.
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@jensphiliphohmann1876 Do you now? Has he got you voting Republican or Conservative with his recent smear tactics of national socialism as socialism. The Sun set on the British Empire leaving them according to the French as a vassal state of Washington.
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@ILoveGrilledCheese Bushes "New World Order" has become capitalism's "New World Disorder." Law and order has become unlawful disorder.
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In Sweden 70% of workers belong to unions. So that is how wages are set. Fast food bosses have to compete with people buying microwave dinners and people eating at home. Compare that to the other industries where monopoly power exists.
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@beverlychinello5310 Now's your chance to show how a dictatorship works. The cops ran away from the station and now the government is trying to determine when the cops should return and how to do that without creating a Tienanmen Square where tanks roll in and protesters are killed.
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Like all of US two party politics the 'big lie' plays a role because it is so outrageous it must be true.
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No Marxist would ever concede to the concept of intellectual property. If someone comes up with a good idea why would we promise not to use it? Other philosophers and economist accused Marx of stealing their ideas. We give credit to others when appropriate. We find it quite amusing to be accused of only taking the ideas of others and cherry picking when you obviously do that. Did Bill Gates invent the computer and the internet or did others do all the work and he do all the "cherry picking"?
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@MusingsFromTheJohn00 Sowell like Hamas uses a just cause, national self determination, of Jews, Arabs and Vietnamese to push his own propaganda about Imperialism and capitalist development. The Middle East is full of Billionaires including Hamas leaders and yet many of those countries have not even held a sham national election. The billionaire doesn't need to become a furniture salesman or librarian either.
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@mrpoolplayer6379 Sowell has been running with lies told by Democrats when it suits him Truman's decision to drop Atomic Bombs on an already defeated Japan and the fiction of an the independent nation of South Vietnam instead of a military dictatorship puppet government put in place by the US Ambassador Lodge when the Diem brothers were no longer useful. Nor has Sowell ever said a word about the FDR administrations refusal to admit Jewish Refugees during the 1930's.
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@d.h.4778 Those laws were written by rotten capitalist politicians.
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Ya right the bosses keep moving production and opening and closing plants in an effort to have a race to pay the lowest wages and make the biggest profits.
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@bkheaven-ly2215 The mothers right to life comes first. You can't legislate morality. The reason we put murders away is because we are afraid of them. It's much better to practice birth control and safe abortion than to turn a women into a baby making machine or go back to practicing infanticide. Nor are you going to be able to investigate every miscarriage for the possibility of abortion. The whole idea is completely ridiculous. You'll never be able to stop medical abortions by pill which is the way most are done now. A fetus is not a baby in anyway shape or form.
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@bkheaven-ly2215 I don't need a lecture on morals by someone whose holy book says "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.” Like I said go ring someone else's door bell with your :"Good News.:" Read your own nonsense book before telling people you know something based upon that book. Your killing the meaning of the English language with stupidity. A fetus is not a baby. It doesn't live or breath on its own. When are you going to get that through your thick head. A cancerous tumor is human do you want to save the tumor also? How about hair and roe nails?
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@bkheaven-ly2215 Have a good day.
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The workers in the production industries produce surplus value. If you think a union can possibly represent all members equally than you have no idea how the unions came about in the first place. If you think that all you need to do is buy your way with dues money like buying a loaf of bread and sit back and wait for wage equality that will never happen either. The unions above all are organization to be used first of all to fight for control of the workplaces and wages. They've gone unused and mislead for at least 50 years now. When a group of workers wins a battle it affects the rest of us just as a defeat does. Any class struggle battle has further implications because it affects both the politics and economics of even those not directly involved. Why? because the capitalist system of trade and production is a world system and interdependent. You don't want to pay dues because you aren't getting properly represented well why are you running for union office starting with steward instead of engaging in threats of desertion? Who do you think cares about a threat of desertion in the middle of a battle but the bosses? Now you threaten to desert acting like a crybaby. Why didn't you opon that big mouth of yours last week?
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@Merakis100 Its nothing but a frame up trial that the AG has brought before some lowly administrative law judge without the benefit of a jury. It's part of the ongoing Democratic Party witch hunt. The case is a complete travesty of justice since their aren't any victims to be found in the first place. You keep calling him a criminal but then when it comes down to citing a law he broke you can't find one so you just keep searching because you've already decided he must be guilty of something and that you just need to find a law you can use against him. That is the type of justice one gets under fascist rule. They decide who the criminals are and then they just need to manufacture evidence for a so called crime using so kind of vague or unjust law.
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@Merakis100 You NOT holding criminals to account. They have decided who the criminal is and THEN they went looking for a law to use for the purposes of a crime. She ran on a promise to "Get Trump."
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@loturzelrestaurant End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@mrbisshie Before the arvail of the Europeans the had no concept of private property, land surveys, and no horses. Many of the North Americans had no written language and only stone or bone for use as tools. Outside of Central and South America they did not have the agriculture needed to support slavery and life in towns and if they did they disappeared into history like possibly the area around Poverty Point, La. with the strange mounds or earth of unknown origins.
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@vothbetilia4862 Well next time you start yelling about Stalin and Mao killing people on the way to industrialization now maybe you should remember your own history.
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@oceania2385 The Retail Clerks were at one time considered a skilled and white collar workers because it was a clean and relatively safe job compared to jobs in industries like auto, steal, rail, coal and meatpacking. Clerks actually had to do math or operate a cash register. .
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@oceania2385 Right and if you look at the federal Reserve stats it will show that wages rose with productivity from 1945 until about 1973. The long retreat by labor is over. Strikes and protests are on the rise. Workers at UPS are "just practicing" to picket.
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@oceania2385 Actual workers don't move the needle? Okay don't keep me in suspense what did comrade Gramsci say that you believe is so important? Since he sided with Stalin against Trotsky only to die in prison and have his relatives latter accuse Stalin of letting him die there that outcome in life certainly doesn't say much for him. Trotsky didn't die alone in prison. He left the nucleus of a Leninist working class party in the United States. Fidel Castro came along and lead a revolution that is still making history and that the American Imperialist have not been able to extinguish. The economic crisis of world capitalism is having the same kind of effect on the American workers it did the British just before the British General Strike and the rise of the labor party. Wages stagnated in Britain for years and the reformists said the British workers would never go into class struggle, Post war capitalist prosperity in the developed world ended with the crisis of 2008. Go to Pathfinder Press and order some books.
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@oceania2385 Zero defaulted and paid off years ago. Why?
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@oceania2385 No because to default only means you didn't pay on time.
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@oceania2385 My loans were a small part of an education never completed. I think what you are referring to is the long term tendency of profit rates to decline as capital replaces labor. That is what to Social Democratic leaders like Edward Bernstein began to question because the lives of the German workers and middle class before the war saw an improvement. It was Lenin who came to the conclusion this was possible for a few because of opportunism and Imperialism that for a small part of the working class to be bought off with improvements. This was made possible he concluded because of the super profits generated by Imperialism and the opportunism of the trade union leaders in getting better conditions for a few skilled workers.
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@oceania2385 The point is that the material gains made with the trade unions are always temporary because as soon as the workers return to work under capitalist rule they are placed back in competition with each other. The real gains are made in the ever greater and larger organization and confidence of the proletariat.
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@oceania2385 I'm retired but been a past member of Hotel workers, Teamsters, IUE, USWA, IBEW, and CWA.
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@oceania2385 The liberal FDR put 18 of our leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and the Socialist Workers Party on trial in 1940 with the Smith "gag" Act. During the trial the question of the Workers Defense Guards that drilled in Minneapolis after the fascist sliver shirts had been invited by the bosses was raised for violence baiting. Jim Cannon rose in the federal Court room and testified, "We say the workers have a right to defend themselves and if that is treason so be it." The whole trial testimony of Jim Cannon was printed as a pamphlet called "Socialism on Trial." Everyone says its one of the most convincing arguments for socialism ever made. We later put the FBI on trial in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. A capitalist Federal Judge in New York held Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's Attorney General in contempt of court for refusing to turn over informer files that revealed a forty year war on political rights guaranteed in the US Constitution.
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I don't trust Muller any father than you can through him. The FBI was reigned in after its exposure in Cointelpro, the Church committee hearings, Attorney General v. Socialist Workers Party and by the Citizens Committee to investigate the FBI. When you hear people talk about the 'deep state' this is what they are really talking about. The Attorney General changes as does the President but Hover was in office starting with the first Red Scare after WW1 until death in 1970. It was said that no politician in his right mind would touch Hoover because he had spies everywhere.
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One reason? How about enforcement of the Patriot act. A clearly unconstitutional act rammed through Congress by the leaders of both parties without even time to read it.
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He's not my president but Patriot Act was bipartisan not a pet project of Bush. It went through the Senate 98-0. Hitler's gestapo was also entrusted to carry out the law. Obama promised to close down Torture Camp X-ray. What gets me the most is this liberal hipcorcy it all OK when it's done by a Democrat but if Republican does it a big hue and cry is raised. Its anyone but Trump. Then what? Mike Pence or will Muller find some dirt on him? Will they bring back Queen Hillary? Nope because she is all washed up and dried out like an old oak leaf. The whole thing is a big sharade. Liberals make promises they have no intention of keeping. Reagan launched an attack on welfare mothers but it was Clinton who signed TANF into law. The Clinton's stopped campaigning just so they could go back to Arkansas and preside over the execution of a mentally retarded man. Clinton signed into law the Antiterrorism and effective Death Penalty act. Both Bill Clinton and Obama promised universal healthcare instead we are stuck with a rebranded version of Massachusetts Republican Romney Care.
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Right wing bogeyman? Nope career agents are the ones involved in and responsible for carrying out mass surveillance. Years ago the had the legal mail cover where the collected names and addresses of mail going to political enemies. Then if that wasn't enough CIA sneaked the letters into private rooms where they were open and read. The sent ML King a letter urging him to commit suicide or be drawn into a sex scandal. The had the Chicago cops go and outright murder Fred Hampton.
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Sure you're sorry that's what the all say and promise we won't do it again. I call it political amnesia if you actually believe those lies and promises. They promised never to do what they did in Vietnam either. Now we are in endless war on terror and all congress can do is argue with Trump over who should run the VA.
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Trump's popularity has rose since he promised to meet with Kim Jong Un and sign a peace treaty. Wall Street is happy with the tax breaks so the liberals who say anyone but Trump are fading out. Trump has promised to allow the Veterans to seek private doctors despite it costing more so his popularity is rising their also. He is a hard guy to pin down but he isn't turning the country into a fascist state or going for nuclear war.
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Peter Blood the reason you say zzZZZ is because liberal hypocrisy is true. That's why you ignore the real recond of Democratic Party liberals as I have pointed out and instead preferring go back to taking a nap like all liberals do when someone questions their anti working class policies.
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What Muller was brought into do was create a frame up so Trump could be impeached. At the end of the day like many traditional FBI frame jobs it had to go down and dirty into someone's personal life. Who cares what he did or didn't do with Stormy Daniels. Now it seems that the FBI or Military intelligence had a fink inside the Trump campaign for nefarious purpose.
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The way to do it is educate enough healthcare professionals and then pay them to work with dollars from the federal reserve bank.
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@ripvanwinkle2002 If you need healthcare most likely you can't work and don't have the savings to pay for it. It would work something like social security.
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@mr__OK Going to be a lot of prescriptions for ulcer medication being used by pregnant women who want to terminate a pregnancy.
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@kazaiza6405 Chelsea Clinton wiil be able to get all the abortions she wants. That's why mommy Hillary the first said, "Abortion should be legal and rare." Legal for the ruling class and rare for the working class.
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@CT-rw1rw The majority of Trump supporters are NOT fascist gangsters or hardend racist or semi fascist. They are ordinary working people looking for a way forward out of the economic crisis.
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@c-man5679 Your mostly cowards who hide inside gated communities and behind walls. You wear ICE Scream man uniforms.
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The only thing he shows is what a bunch of incompetent boobs his party and government is.
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Like in America the banksters and elite remain untouched. Price of gasoline even after foreign exchange is higher in Alberta than Texas. Yet Alberta tar sands oil gets shipped to Texas. The real estate interests and capitalist are the ones sucking up value and preventing the construction of new homes. Like the rest of the capitalist world money printing allows for ever rising prices and the resultant wage cuts. Profits are just unpaid wages.
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Just what is the value of the new nuclear weapons being produced by capitalist government contracts? You don't have to produce a damn thing of value to become a billionaire. All you need to do is be in the correct place within an oragazation to steal a billion dollars. Just ask the leaders of NAZI Hamas who are billionaires living in Qatar luxury.
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The biggest affirmative action admissions go to legacy applicants who make up 30% of Harvard admissions. The court ruling means nothing concerning them. Clarence Thomas has basically said the same thing as Joy that he was denied positions at prestigious law firms because they assumed he was an affirmative action student.
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The missed the deadline for the Reagan Amnesty. Pass a new Amnesty law.
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@leebyrne9842 Briana Taylor say her name.
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@OliverNorth9729 The Soviet Union was NEVER intended to be a country but a federation of Socialist Republics. The whole idea of making it a country began with Bukarans theory of "Socialism in One Country." signed onto by Stalin in 1928.
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Yep Sowell will work to put Western Imperialism in the best possible light. You won't her him talk about the murder of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo while Swedish Troops wearing UN armbands stood by. Nor how angry Ronald Reagan was that Cuban Troops under the command of Fidel Castro went to Angola to defeat US Imperialism partner South Africa. Or all the governments overthrown by CIA cover actions.
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@barryon8706 No but The Militant Newspaper founded by the American followers of Leon Trotsky in 1928 began explaining what the dispute in the Russian party and the Communist International was about. You can read about everything the Stalinist did and tried to cover up and why the did or made the mistakes the did and do. It is searchable and available online along with books at Pathfinder Press including Samazdat voice of the Soviet Opposition. Sowell called Fidel Castro a dictator when he demanded the return of Elon Gonzales. While Sowell talks about all these things he knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him. Like most Bourgeois Professors he spends most of his time sitting in a chair maintaining respectability waiting for you to come to him for pearls of wisdom since class struggle things like carrying a picket sign or marching in a protest are as alien to him as the subjects he writes about.
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@barryon8706 Like that word has any meaning. Author itarian ism something to do with a book writer who is an authority on a subject.
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@barryon8706 Probably connected with lawyers judges and cops with the saying "they threw the book at him". Or when some accuses the cops of keeping a big book.
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@barryon8706 You tell me? It sounds like Noam Chomsky term for everyone who doesn't line up behind him and his ideas.
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Have you way at burglar king.
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@kobemop Imperialism and capitalism doesn't directly gain extra profit off of Gays.
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@KelliAnnWinkler Actually socialism is workers control of production. No such thing a a mixed economy either it is controlled by the rich capitalist class or the working class. Capitalism enters decline because of falling rates of profit and competition that begins as trade war and leads to world war. The 20 th century saw two world wars caused by the failure of capitalism to arbitrate the world market among capitalist nationalist thieves. World War one was caused by the fight over colonies by the richest capitalist nations.
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@robertmartin995 Capitalist development has two major contradictions one is it creates ever smaller greedy ruling classes based in nation states which must compete in a world market leading to trade war and then real war. The other is the natural tendency of profit rates to decline as industry becomes more capital intensive and less labor intensive. What's been growing in the last 50 years is all the new productivity that has been going to the bosses while wages have stagnated. They decline of the American Investors Empire and the rebuilding of Europe, Japan and the Capitalism with Chinese characteristics sets the stage for world war three if a socialist revolution does not in the mean time intervene. The mismanagement of surplus by the Stalinists in the Soviet Union and China does not mean that those economies did not grow. That is just a wives tale told by the fake economists of Western Imperialism. The biggest decline in those economies came when they converted to capitalism. The Stalinists did what they accused Trotsky and his supporters of returning to capitalist relations.
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@robertmartin995 You've got a whole layer that survives much as the bureaucrats in the Soviet Union did. That whole cynical layer of educated rent seekers doers nothing but stand guard on the workers to defend the profit system. You can't operate without that layer giving orders and counting every penny. You have to pay them more to maintain their loyalty otherwise they become "corrupt" just like those who profited from the early days of the crisis of 2008. During every crisis you seek to make us pay for the failure of your profit system. Socialist revolution is not about feeding a new bureaucratic layer but making the workers masters of production by raising their cultural level. You can see in the world today that the capitalists' learned nothing from world War one and two as they head towards world war three.
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@sharonlibrarian3643 It was a property owners government set up to protect property owners. Its bourgeois Democracy just like Ancient Athens was a Democracy for Slave owners. The Slave owners government always dictated to the slaves and the Property owners government always dictates to those who are propertyless. In other words the capitalist dictarte to the proletariat. The company dictates to the workers as does the company owners government dictates to us because both parties are the parties of capitalist property owners. Capital exploits labor just as the slave owner exploited the slave. Land is either owned by property owners or the property owners government and you have no rights without access to property.
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@bernadettesemple9301 United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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@arthas640 The Chinese were given the order to invade from Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter and the UK who were supporting Pol Pot at the UN. Carter wanted to punish Vietnam for defeating the empire.
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Shore blame the teachers instead of capitalists replacing higher paid skilled labor with machines and lower paid unskilled labor first. Since the end of the cold war you've come to the conclusion that raising the price of an education is good business along with bigger loans for the fewer positions needed at the big companies. All you want is a few order takers to run things while you sit back and collect your dividend checks and watch you property values rise.
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@jasonjohnson6344 What makes you think misspelling a single word gives you the right to go on RANT and act like the BOSS who needs to show what a superior assh*le he can be?
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@GRAFITTI000 Higher paid SKILLED labor with machines and UNSKILLED Labor. It means they don't need an educated workforce but one which can follow orders. The goal is to cut education expenses which is an overhead cost on capital not to improve education. They want vouchers and school choice so they can create a tiered and cheaper market driven educational system where those who can pay more get the better schools than they can get now. As far as they are concerned education is just a paper that entitles the bearer to privileges.
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@GRAFITTI000 Its not about choice it's about creating some kind of free for all fight. Everyone wants to choose the best school and then there aren't enough seats in that school so a free for all fight now develops over who can go their. .So then the wise free marketeers now propose extra payments for the school of your choice as the best way of distributing education.
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@wiswc Do not kid your self this guy enjoys a good time as much as anyone else. You living through the death agony of capitalism that began in 1914. and out of the ashes rose the new Soviet Republic.
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This is the result of capitalism and the logic of profit. These giant industries were built when profit rates were much higher. Now to get more capital investment they must either write off past investment which looks bad for the wall street sharks, get rate increases, cut labor costs, get government hand out or they must somehow cut other costs. So purchasing insurance means you can extend the life of equipment until failure and if the insurance can't cover the problem their is always Congress and a federal bailout.
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@dippyduty6163 Democrats are the Party of Promises and Republicans are the Party of "No". A Democratic Party "Promise" is not any better than a Republican "No".
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@dippyduty6163 They said, "No to the bailout only so they could claim opposition later on." Bush said. "I had to intervene in the free market to save the free market." They and the Democrats said Yes to 2.3 trillion war of revenge launched on Afghanistan. Reagan said Yes to one of the biggest Military budgets. Who twisted the oil companies arms to raise the price? Prices don't rise automatically someone has to give the order to raise them. Obviously if they can just print money and then thee companies can raise the price. Value of property rises while value of wages goes down because bosses like raising prices not wages. You don't need to be a genius to understand capitalism you just need to think like a greedy boss.
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@bighands69 Nixon made his own bed by with his secret plan for peace, the failure of Vietnamization and his use of the spy agencies against the loyal Democratic Party. Nelson Rockefeller delivered the news that he could not survive an Impeachment vote. Nixon "temporarily" ended the gold standard and that permitted more spending to inflate the dollar and devalue it in world trade. That was basically the end of post war prosperity no more wages following productivity as all the new wealth went to the upper class. .Despite "the Reagan Revolution and all the boasting about "winning the cold war" and "the end of history" the Dreams of Milton Friedman died on the cross of shock therapy and China's industrialization and the dot com crisis and 2008. Rather than Bushes "New Work Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle. You have a "New World Disorder" where a Joe Biden promises the world that "Democracy is not Dead." The problem with rebalancing is the world capitalist system.
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@SenorJuan2023 I'm wondering how many classified lies we are being told right now by Biden right now?
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@SenorJuan2023 Democrats are caught in classified lies and exaggerations all the time. Like the Gulf of Tonkin incident used to justify Vietnam. Democratic liberals were aligned with Segagatioist Democrats. Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl. Trump was a Democrat and Republican. He changed parties like changing socks.
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@dippyduty6163 Speculators are people with too much money they drive up prices by buying things up at one price and then holding on to it until they can sell it for a higher price. War is caused by different groups seeking market advantages. Instead of sending only weapons to Ukraine we ought to offer resettlement to any Russian soldier who surrenders and that undercuts the war effort and is ahead of the curve on the future cost of war refugees.
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@SenorJuan2023 Bush calls for war and Democrats can't raise their hands fast enough. Reagan calls for welfare reform and Clinton ends Welfare as we know it. Not a dime's worth of difference between your parties. Hillary Clinton called for abortion to be legal and rare now we have what she wanted. 51 billion out the door to the next George Washington. Anything else you want to do for us?
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@SenorJuan2023 Neglected childhood? Well Clinton and Obama fixed that problem for Black people didn't they? Building more prisons, longer sentence for drugs, destroying Black families with a jobs to China program.. Do you even think before you bable? Get off that high horse all your politicians went to the same elite schools with the same professors. Trump went to UPenn. Liberals had it in for him because he stole your votes with his appeals to workers. This is why you talk all that horseshit about a bad childhood. Your party made sure Sanders wouldn't get the nomination with the George McGovern rules meant to prevent anyone who wasn't a Party insider from getting the nomination.
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@marktomasetti8642 The Socialist Workers Party will again run a candidates for President, Vice President and other offices. if nothing else it shows what even a small party can do. TheMilitant.com
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@marktomasetti8642 Sanders said we could not take the time to build a new party. We disagree a new party to unite the working class in the class struggle is the only way forward. To the union brass we say stop wasting time and dues money on Democrats but join us in building a new party of the working class.
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@marktomasetti8642 I've listened to Mr. Yangs proposals. He was interviewed by Ben Shapiro. In that interview he makes it clear that his UBI is not intended to be an living income rather a welfare supplement and a cost savings project. Once you sign on you forever agree to be barred from any other gov't benefit besides social security where you will get the bigger of the two but not both. You can bet he won't tell you in any debate that his real reason is to cut gov't costs not help anyone. His real appeal is to the meritocracy where their rule is justified upon being "smart and sophisticated" elite university graduates. This is why he where's his MATH pin.
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@marktomasetti8642 I will check it out and but I not sure I like the idea of passing out funds since that then opens the door of government accounting of the funds spent. What if you want to give directly and is the government going to maintain a list of who you chose to finance.
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@WDEMMEL Capitalism is based in nation states. That is why the are destined to fight Imperialist wars. Since they have no way to peacefully arbitrate trade disputes despite their efforts. They.and especially the US are much too greedy for that. Like London withdrawal from the EU NATO itself is not gaining but straining between Germany and France and the UK and US Imperialists national interests The US Imperialist did not notify the NATO partners but withdrew independently from Afghanistan.
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One thing the libertarians have got right is that the capitalist government is the problem they just can't figure out how to regulate a system of exploitation and corruption.
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Kolchak was looked too by conservative bourgeois forces as a possible dictator to be installed after the February revolution for purposes of suppression of Bolshevism and the more radical worker and peasant elements.
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That is much more of a real question. East and West Germany reunited in a peaceful manor. North and South Vietnam had a civil war before reuniting. I don't see that peacefully happening without the DPRK giving up its Nukes and the US pulling out its troops.
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@clenke0 Its already illegal to own an automatic weapon and military weapons like hand grenades and rocket launchers. Laws can only accomplish only so much in a society where capitalist greed reins supreme.
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Why don't we take in 50,000 Russian troops who surrender instead of a million refugees down the road?
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They walked right up to a port of entry you can't cross more legally than that. You can bet if it was a border patrol agent who was throwing up after being in the desert a Border Patrol helicopter would have been called for an immediate medevac.
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@Jessica-mq3mm It isn't what you know but who you know. Don't mistake Sowell for anything but a either a paid convert to libertarianism or someone who never understood Marxism to begin with. He may get away with what he says about Lenin because no one is still living that can say otherwise but he can't say that about either Fidel Castro or Che Guevara because their stories are to well known. He accused Fidel of using Elon Gonzales for propaganda purposes and hold a Sword of Damocles over the families head. Well Elon still live in Cuba to this day.
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WTF do we need a betting parlor (stock market) for in the first place?
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The unions need to organize a labor party without the bosses. Put workers in political office.
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@ericvulgate Fascism rises its ugly head as thugs who assault political and trade union meetings. Its the vomit expelled as capitalism enters into decline and the workers begin to rise in class struggle.
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@kenyat6419 If you were born on Earth your not an alien.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Professor James Burnham a one time Trotskyist became a founder of the American Conservative movement that makes Conservatism a branch of communism according to your logic. Capitalism offers freedom for the boss and slavery for the workers.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Now you a wage worker yesterday you were a member of the upper middle class. I guess your who ever you want to be and never worked in a job were you were on call to the bosses 24/7. Only a tiny proportion of the world lives in the centers of world capitalism. The revisionist said Marx was wrong that capitalism wouldn't end up in war caused by unchecked competition. They said capitalism was flowering and doing the work of the lord like you. Then world war one occurred and all the talk of a peacefully developing capitalism went out the window. Revisionist and dishonest propagamdist like you made their case for the everlasting peaceful capitalism and ended up cover with egg on their face. You might just as well preach from a bible for all your knowledge. Reality will have to stand on its head before your convinced of anything. Your a broken record who raises all the same fears of communism that have been advanced for over a century because you have nothing else. For you man is like a donkey who needs a carrot in front of his head and an ocasional whip of the lash. Since you can't argue for capitalism than you must argue that nothing ever changes.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Yes their is free education in Cuba but at what price? Zero because the childern and their familes pay no direct cost right up and through the University level. Capitalism works in just the opposite way it keeps replacing higher paid skilled labor with machines and lower paid unskilled labor. Healthcare and education are just overhead costs of production to be minimized for the sake of profits For you everything can be measured with a dollars as if Humans had no interactions in markets. According to people like you no class struggle takes place and if it does it is futile in the face of the wise and just capitalist bosses of the market place. All you have done is put yourself in a bind because now you argue for the bosses creating a meritocracy with capitalism which is obviously untrue. Too many workers learn and understand how the system works to explolt them with private property and that spells death for capitalism.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Look all you types talk endlessly about how much you love capitalism and how it grants you results without limits until your faced with a strike or other protests against the rotting system. You can also believe in a flat earth or whatever religious nonsense you want. See like all the counterrevolutionaries ruling class idiots you can't help express you contempt for the garbage collector. .Bill Gate's Microsoft is in decline and he's buying up farm land because he knows people don't need software but food to eat and he wants to get a monopoly choke point control for him and his posterity. That's all businessmen want is a monopoly chokeponit to make themselves rich beyond belief. They want control based upon private ownership rights. Gates had no problem railroading those who copied free software to prison on the technicality of coping a Microsoft trademark..
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@alfredosenalle9284 Why don't the Miami Cuban's protest public education and demand an end to social security and medicare. How come you don't burn your social security cards?
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Why don't go play the lottery you can't win if you don't play? How much do you need to spend before you can win? People win the lottery all the time now don't they. What makes you think Wall street is any different? You keep talking about how capitalism works but you can't explain a thing about it except that you believe like a Catholic Parishioner belief in the pope.
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@michael-kunk-flynn9955 Rail bosses are counting on Congressional Strike breaking to save their record profits and BNSF Warren Buffet has bought both Parties. .
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@Eric-sn4qz Native Americans never spoke English, French or Spanish before the arrival of the Europeans.
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@Eric-sn4qz Europeans didn't eat corn or potatoes either.
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@mrsatire9475 Its the capitalist system that is failing and that's why the bosses like Joe Biden or Donald Trump can't fix capitalism. Biden is using the FBI to criminalize polical dissent and immigrants are just another working class group they have their eyes on. The goal being to drive down wages of all workers and to halt the rising tide of strikes and protests.
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@Eric-sn4qz No one is here living off Bennies. That is just rightest propaganda. You have to work to get Social Security and only the old and disabled qualify for it. They are working and making some fat boss a fat profit. Most likely someone like you.
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The Parking Garage sounds like a Peoples Park at UC Berkeley in 1969. In that instance Gov Ronald Reagan sent in 800 Riot police over it being made into a concrete parking lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOm7OdY6oc
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@annfrancis6287 The Jews bought a lot of that land from Arab landowners. Jews in Arab states were driven out and into Israel. Lets not forget the reactionary role played by Arab landowners and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who sided with Hitler and Raised a Muslim Militia for Hitlers final solution. Twenty percent of Israel's population are Arab citizens. They go on strike together, that didn't happen in South Africa before the end of Apartheid, and an Arab medic stayed behind at the music festival only to be murdered by a Hamas terrorist while bandaging the wounded. After Hamas won its election in Gaza it fought a civil war to murder its opposition. Teachers striking for back pay were fired. Calling Hamas a NAZI like organization is not rhetoric but truth. They aren't interested in developing the economy of Gaza they have their billionaire leader hiding out in Qatar. They are investing in war and political terrorism for their stated goal of a Jew free world. They killed 25 Jews in Argentina. Hamas murdered all political opposition so why do you want to leave them in custody of the innocent people in GAZA? How do you propose to remove them? with a die in for palestine protest? Why do you go to them waving a white flag and see how long you last?
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@katespinosa3561 Are they their now? Where did the 148,000 in 1948 go to and how many are left? The British and French Imperialism played a reationary role everyone knows that. Anyone who actually owned a farm in a village before the 1948 "Nakba" is to old to do any farming. Workers don't own anything anyway we end up leaving home and going elsewhere anyhow.. The people spewing all the venom are the middle class who think they can get rich by playing the victim card. Hamas leaders and Iranian government investing in arms and attacks upon the rights of their own working people. Why should we support them?
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@mariahewitt9787 Hamas bosses Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh are worth an estimated $4 billion each, and political bureau leader Mousa Abu Marzouk is worth $3 billion. They live in Luxury in Qatar! Iran provides them with weapons and the steal humanitarian aid for weapons. Hamas murdered all political opposition in Gaza. in Israel you can cricise politicians and workers both Arab and Jew can and do go on strike together. No such freedom in GAZA. Hamas is responsible for Israeli attack in Gaza!!! It said it was going to win a great holy war and told believers ti go to Mosque. because Israel was going t be destroyed.
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@AHappyCub You've noticed one of my weaknesses English language spelling.
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@alexandrasymeon5893 You can bet the racial characteristics of Jews who lived in Muslim lands was very similar to their Muslim neighbors. Hamas, the NAZI like prison guards of Gaza are waging a holy war that they call upon all Muslims to fight to destroy the Jews in a genocide. The leaders of Hamas are Billionaires living in luxury in Qatar.
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@taxpert2999 Before 1948 Zionist settlers purchased lands from from Arab landowners. The British and French controlled the Arab territories as colonial powers. With the end of the war the Jews were left as displaced person in the concentration camps and housed in Italian and German military barracks. Zionism became popular because the US/UK had refused the Jews of Europe Asylum and Hitler's rise to power was made possible by Stalin's misleadership of the Communist International. The Jews were a majority in Jerusalem. The end of the war sawc the creation of many new states and new borders including both those of the Arab, Muslim, Jewish, Hudu, and European lands. Arabs states decided they would not accept the lines drawn for the partition of Palestine/Jordan. They tried to use war or politics by other means to win their objectives and lost because they could not put forward a program of socialism of justice for the masses of Aranb workers and farmers. Instead now you see a corrupt Muslim leadership of capitalists businessmen and landowners wanting more for themselves.
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@chrisgormley3517 This is just another vote catching promise by the other party of capitalism and big business.
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@rvninnorthcarolina3377 If a country has a stock market its a capitalist country. Venezuela, Canada, China, UK, US, Denmark, and Sweden all qualify.
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Seven-FingersThree-Toes-nw9hu Capitalism came into being about 500 years ago. Before that the nation state and world trade was non existent. Marx never claimed resources were limited that the capitalist thinker. Money has to circulate for capitalism to work if like gold it just sits in a vault like Fort Knox it doesn't do anything. That what most of you idiots never realize.
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Well do you call daily profits losses in the millions a joke to GM stockholders?
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The Chinese weren't foolish enough to take to Milton Freedman's and Bill Clinton's advice and create an economic crisis with shock therapy.
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He tells rich white conservatives what the like to heat most. How white folks need that welfare money that is just destroying the Black family and not capitalism doing the work of the devil.
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@nealdavis7807 That's interesting but lawyers interpret law with this exception "IT IS WHOLLY OWING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE, AND NOT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT that the crown is not as oppressive in England as in Turkey." Thomas Paine The other four states did sign on to the 1789 Constitution. Rhode Island under threat of being treated as a foreign country. The articles formed a "union" the 1789 Constitution formed "a more perfect union".
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Cuban government listens and talks. US Congress goes into hiding on Jan. 6th.
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@justforrow The American Imperialist were defeated in multiple ways on the battlefield, with Troops refusing to fight, at home by the working and large numbers of middle class people. They had so overspent that France wanted Gold for dollars and Nixon said no. Kissinger tried his best to win in negotiations with Moscow and Beijing what he couldn't win on the battlefield.
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@halt1078 On Oct 30, 2020 Sec of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Hanoi in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to celebrate 25 years of US Vietnam diplomatic relations. When something no longer exists then it is up to the one who says otherwise to prove that it does. The Confederate States of America no longer exists despite the wishes of a few who live in a make believe world. No one expect US politicians believed and claimed Taiwan (The Republic of China) after 1949 was the government of China except those who refuse to accept reality.
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@halt1078 Youtube is censoring me but as I said the Republic of South Vietnam means nothing anymore despite whatever the US claims as it was nothing more than a puppet state with a puppet army created by the United States for its purposes. The Paris Accords was an agreement that the Imperialist USA would extract from Vietnam in return for giving up the military support to its puppets Military Dictatorship. Yours is merely a theory of words on paper it's just a game the US Gov't wants to play so it can defend its own military economic and political interests in the region by citing a piece of paper.
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@IAmAlpharius20 The Soviet Union had no capitalist investors and as such was not an Imperialist power defending private property and profits in the rest of the world. With the death of Lenin a struggle broke out in the Party over continuation of a revolutionary communist course or the anti Marxist utopian dream one of the Stalinist bureaucracy building socialism in one country.
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@IAmAlpharius20 Lithuania and the Baltic States were part of the Czars prison house of nations until world war one and the resulting Russian Revolution allowed them a short lived independence.. World War two saw Hitler try and destroy the Soviet Union as the center of a Jewish Bolshevik Communist conspiracy taking those countries by force. The Red army marched all the way to Berlin and the Elbe river. Stalin no doubt enjoyed all the praised lavished upon him by Churchill and FDR. Less than a year later Churchill who had once risen in Parliament to demand Bolshevism be straggled in its cradle now gave the Iron Curtain Speech as Truman looked on. The UK/US had invaded in 1918. Stalin was left with no choice but to Sovietize those nations the Red Army had now occupied or face the Imperialist on his doorstep. He tried to give Churchill Yugoslavia and Greece but was unable to murder Tito. Truman offered half of Korea to Stalin which Stalin had no right to accept.
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@mab7175 The ruling class has been operating on Milton Freedman's neoliberal theories since Ronald Reagan was in office. Why do you think Bush said he had to intervene in the free market to save the free market. When the New Deal greed control system collapsed during Nixon's day then the neoliberals took control. Greed was back and it produced the crisis of 2008. The problems lie in the natural workings of the capitalist system itself. The workers need to take control of industry and run it on a socialist basis NOT one of private property making profits for a few greedy ruling class families and their offspring. We need to recognize we live in world economy and these greedy ruling classes fighting for profit threaten us with wars and economic crisis caused by their own stupidity.
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@johnnytrigger7226 The American capitalist will turn to fascist gangsterism when the labor movement threatens them and their declining capitalist system.
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@Deborahtunes You only pay union dues when you belong to a union. Only about 9% of workers belong to unions If you don't want the union or a different union you can get a decertification election by collecting 30% of the bargaining unit signatures. If you want a union you need to begin collective actions against the bosses and bring in a union with an election. Any union worth belonging to will have no problem collecting dues even from freeloaders. The unions were built during the Great Depression with militant strikes like the UAW sit down strikes at GM and the Minneapolis Teamsters who waged a general strike against the bosses Citizens Alliance making Minneaplis a union town.
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And now the American capitalist will pay for all their lies.
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@orlisadephillips9936 Sowell is just a shill for conservative big business and their hunger for profits. Reagan financed Islamic terrorism in Afghanistan and secretly had missiles sold to the Islamic Republic of Iran in his reckless war against Communism. His ally Unita and racist South Africa were defeated at Cuito Cuanavale, Angola by the soldiers of Cuba's revolutionary armed forces. A defeat the drove a dagger into the myth of the invincible white man. Reagan traded a claim of victory over a mythical enemy for the creation of a real one Islamic terrorism.
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They were to busy trying to keep the war in Vietnam going. Goldwater wanted to go nuclear which is probably why LBJ trounced him. Kennedy brought the world to the brink of nuclear war over Cuba.
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@kimberlynolin1783 The Democrats are responsible for state Jim Crow laws. The Republicans starting with the Hayes Tilden compromise ratified segregation practices. The posse comitatus act withdrew federal troops protecting the newly freed slaves, the court findings in 1877 that the 1875 civil rights act unconstitutional and Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 made separate but equal the law of the land. Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 began the reversal of that was decided unanimously with Earl Warren the Republican Chief Justice. The First popularly elected Black Senator was Republican Edward Brooke from Massachusetts.
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Its the two parties and the crisis of capitalism that is the real threat to Democracy not the flaws in the Constitution. It's the big donors who control the two parties. The threat to Democracy comes from the wealthy Capitalist class and its meritocracy.
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@johnathandoe9804 That's because you live in capitalist society towards the end of capitalism. You have a ruling class that owns everything and gives orders based upon making profits. Big business doesn't work the same way small businesses do. They want to hide the truth abut how it works and even to themselves because if they told the truth it would be revolutionary because truth is always revolutionary. So they give orders and comannds that don't make sense because they are always try to cut cost and save money for themselves. They create massive debts and demand payment when the debts can no longer get paid. They shut things down so they can save money while producing more but then we can't buy back all that can be produced.
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@shadowzach00 No the American Imperialist never consulted the American Irish when dealing with the British Imperialists or any ozther sub national group when making foreign policy. They will change course when they realize there hostile policy is a complete failure and will then try and kill the revolution with kindness.
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@bebetterthanyesterday7 The leaders of Hamas are billionaires living in luxury in Qatar. There riches depend upon creating sympathy for the refugees created by wars the Arab leaders fought to wipe the Jews and Israel off the map . The goal of Hamas is endless suffering caused by wars to gain more UN aid which they can steal for use in more wars which cause endless suffering. Hamas clearly states that the Refugees are the UN's problem not there's.
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@printsspravedlivy31 How many crimes by the NAZI like regime of Hamas are the Great Russian chauvinists willing to tolerate? Putin invites the leaders of Hamas and Iran while claiming to be fighting a war against fascism in Ukraine. Hamas and the Iranians murdered all their communist opponents but just like Stalin you have no problem with fascism when it raises its ugly head. Instead you look for reasons to compromise with counter revolutionary organizations. People like yourself will never be able to defend their own rights when the fascist gangsters come for them.
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@ghosthunter0950 Now your starting to understand the truth about Israelis and Palestinians. Hamas and it leaders only care about their own billions and how much they can loot from UN and EU aid. If the conflict ends than so does the need for aid to refugees. Hamas murdered its secular opposition in Gaza. It gets support from Iran which seeks to create nuclear weapons and supports Islamic terror organizations.
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Truman was a liar and involved in the witch hunt Issuing executive orders to require loyalty oaths and creating the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations. The Monroe Doctrine was originally an anti Imperialist Doctrine aimed at the European powers in the Americas. The OAS is actually as Che stated the US Ministry of Colonies. The political opposition to Revolution came from the USA, big Cuban land owners and other big property owners. The US was of course engaging in a campaign of lies about the revolution. Lies first he points to a book about 100,000 prisoners that they says most were released after the invasion than he say the were imprisoned after the invasion. No it was not Cuba landing on the wrong side of the Truman Doctrine with "Soviet style communism" but a real socialist revolution that ended Cuba's colonial status. Most of this is the typical "neutral liberal academic" propaganda bullshit sourced from US Scholars and government seeking to defend American Imperialism by puting the crimes of Imperialism in the best possible light. It's all about being fair to the Bosses neoliberal paradise.
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@Lucas_07-PL Stalin was put in power by those who wanted nothing more to do with the communism of Lenin and Trotsky. Stalin became the leader of defeats first in China and signed on to Bukharin's 1928 revision of Marxism with prediction of long term capitalist stability and an ultra left attitude towards the Social Democratic Workers in Germany preparing the ground for the rise of Hitler and German fascism. After the defeat in German the Stalinist swung to the right with the popular front with bourgeois liberals in Spain and France unleashing a world wide murder machine against the supporters of Trotsky. A successful socialist revolution in either France or Spain would have reversed the march towards world war.
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@str.77 That's completely false the Bolsheviks had the majority in the Petrograd Soviet when the voted to take power and the red guards arrested the traitor Krensky who was conspiring with Kornilov who was marching on Petrograd to drown the revolution in blood and the meeting of the All Russian Soviet confirmed that. As Trotsky later stated had the Bolsheviks not taken power when they did Fascism would be a Russian instead of Italian word.
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@IonaOrr One class produces the other class does not. One controls the national government and the national bank. The other doesn't
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@bluegrassman3040 It may seem to be a step back since the Communist movement seemed to disappear overnight. Yet what you missed is this was foreseen by Trotsky When he first criticised the theory of "Socialism in One Country" back in 1928. This theory was penned by Bukharin and signed on to by Stalin. Stalin was only dead three years before his whole legacy was condemned by Khrushchev. One Step Forward Two Steps back was the title of a pamphlet by Lenin where he defended the concept of a revolutionary Party without open opportunists
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@chrismargoni Pay goes to the bosses in a world investors empire so people like Bill Gates so he can fly around the world spending 9 million on carbon neutral jet fuel to tell us he's saving the planet with green energy.
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@djm5687 You have a whole privledged management structure plus payments to do nothing share holders. use of profits for stock buybacks, unused industrial capacity and the waste of labor resources in things like defense spending and people left out in the cold homeless. You have all kinds of industries and infrastructure just allowed to go into decline because the return on investment is near zero or in the case of government funded works allowed to go into decline so tax cuts and more debt payments can be made to and for those who should be paying taxes to begin with.
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@djm5687 The Stalinists did what they accused Trotsky's supporters of betraying the revolution. What was defeated was a second labor aristocracy like the rightest Social Democrats who voted for their own Bourgeois in 1914 with the outbreak of World War One. The mass trade unions remain in both East and West while the capitalist remain ever more divided by nation state and the American investors Empire is in world wide decline. Imperialism still remains the highest stage of capitalism and this remains the era of Imperialist war and socialist revolution.
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@sharlleglerg3146 He was part of the revolutionary team that freed Cuba from American Imperialism. The name Kennedy is already being fogoten while Che lives on.
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@rebavan8878 Zimmerman was a self appointed neighborhood watchman spoiling for a fight.
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@tamipierce5916 Zimmerman the self appointed watchmen reported Martin as a suspicious person to the cops for starring back at him and running away. Zimmerman chased him down got into a fight and then killed him in "self defense." What was the crime that required the watchman to chase down and kill Martin? Do you tell your kids to run away from strange men in cars or do tell them to go for rides with them? The state of Florida eventually brought charges against Zimmerman. Since Martin was killed and their were no other eyewitnesses we only have Zimmermann's testimony. He called police and was told not to get out of his car. Later Zimmerman would claim "he got out to look for as street sign since he didn't know where he was." How convenient a neighborhood watchman in a gated community didn't know where he was? The cops did nothing for the same reason they didn't arrest the Menendez brothers at the scene of their parents murder. Zimmerman belonged to the innocent till proven guilty rather than the guilty till proven innocent class. After all Zimmerman was a watchmen and clearly lived in the gated community. Marin was just another Black youth "probably on drugs or something". When they finally get around to arresting Zimmerman his wife claims the are indigent. Zimmerman's wife is later convicted of perjury for claiming they were indigent at the Bail hearing. .
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@tamipierce5916 I replied except you tube censored it.
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Who can afford to eat a $50 dollar meal?
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@hjones4922 Workers need to take control of industry with the unions and a labor party.
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@sunshynff This is why we need a labor party based in the unions to take control of government away from the bosses.
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@sunshynff Get your local district and international union to pass resolutions it is something we have to make happen. I'm retired so all I can do is write and talk. See "The Militant" online or get a paper sub.
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The sum of numbers 1+2+3+4...+100. Think of pairs of number that sum to 100, 99+1, 98+2, 97+3 ... 51+49 now you have 49 pairs which is 4900 plus 100 plus 50 which is the mid point adds up to 5050.
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If the bosses had their way children would still be getting on the job training picking slate form coal on the conveyor belt.
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God Speed The idea that British Tories could run a World Empire without British Ideological Supremacy of one sort or another is laughable. They brought Indian Troops for use in South Africa. They refused to leave all of Ireland using religion as way to split the Irish people. The British founded the "Royal Africa Company" for the slave trade. The Sun set on the British Empire on Churchill's watch. FDR rubbed that in to Churchill when he set Joe Kennedy to be the Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Kennedy the banker who made a fortune with insider trading who got his start selling whiskey to Boston's Irish.
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@Alex-fu3mi By hammering away at Imperialist war we trap the capitalist within national borders.
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Th capitalist want to make everyone replaceable with a pi rah class of workers. This is why both parties have similar policies attacking immigrants and deporting them. The racist are in both parties including liberals who were long time allies of the Southern Segregationists. Queen Hilary is no better than Trump. She had Bill rush home to execute a Black man who was saving his jello to eat after his execution.
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@challengingoldhollywoodmyt2934 We don't get pampered at the private "Country Day School." like Bill Gates did. His "Country Day School" had a computer installed when only few elite Universities had them. Classes with maybe 5 to 10 students from K-12. He was taught the ways of a bourgeois parasite early on leasing his baseball glove to his sister.
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Anthony willett "Satanists" do you plan on burning heretics at the stake or a religious revival with more Salem witch trials?
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@twostroke5104 Well we like the idea having elections with immediate recall we aren't in favor of throwing good leaders overboard just because they have served one or two terms. I think if you search that the longest serving US Senator did so for about 49 years? While they are elected for 6 year terms. FDR was elected President four times dieing in office.
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@twostroke5104 We have unions now where we negotiate our wage where each side can have a test of will with a strike or lockout. We call that class struggle. .
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@twostroke5104 What about Amazon paying a head tax for building housing in Seattle? Jeff Bezos Amazon didn't pay any federal and raked in billions. Why would he and Bill Gates oppose paying a small tax if they care so much for people?
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@frontrider3240 It was and will be an alliance of Imperialist powers used to dominate the rest of the world for the sake of American investors profits. Making threats and then waging war wherever the Imperial interests are threatened.
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Ending foreign wars is a good cause along with closing all foreign military bases but the two capitalist parties consider that something that can't be questioned. End the US sponsored Saudi air war against Yemen. Stop the refueling of Saudi planes with US KC-135 tankers and quit playing the game that we don't know where the Saudi planes are headed after words. F 16's are "Made in America" and without "Made in America" bombs and spare parts none of the fake coalitions planes can fly. How about ending the almost 60 year blockade of Cuba and returning the Guantanamo naval base occupied against the will of the Cuban people.
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@Bonez0r Why don't you tell us how the US American revolution and Civil War were unnecessary and how we could be like the Canadians who get their rights from a benevolent English monarchy without anyone dying in the process. In 1776 you'd be a Loyalist explaining how the English Commonwealth was a failure and so would any other Democratic Republic.
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@connor6564 What and miss out on the defeat of the last Capitalist Empire?
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@Football5198 We are not Democrats nor do we urge votes for Democrats in the last days of the campaigns because we run our own candidates with a Party (Socialist Workers Party) independent of the two capitalist parties. There are plenty of resources to see to it that every human being gets the basics in life. What stands in the way is the tiny ruling class and its mismanagement of the world's economy. The people getting the free stuff are going to the mailbox once every three months for a dividend check based upon their stock and bond ownership. You've probably had too many football head trauma crashes to realize that.
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@Football5198 After all taxes should not be raised upon the rich since they are doing such a great job of running everything. In fact "Tom Steyer" businessman and investor is promising to save the world from a seat in the White House. Wow a second Donald Trump straight from the corporate boardroom.
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@Football5198 Head explosion? How about you go out and seek a head transplant before the brain becomes frozen in time.
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@connor6564 The end of the Soviet Union meant the Stalinist can no longer claim that they were right in the Stalin Trotsky split by pointing to Stalinist Russia. Now they have to debate us and can not get away form any of their history rewrites.
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@seeingimages We don't yet have a needed maximum income tax.
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@Jacket01 Communism is movement not something that is practiced like medicine. Plus its not a failure in Cuba just 90 miles away.
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@CryptoBellwether US currency is manufactured under the orders of the US Treasury, Federal Reserve bank and the big Private banks who own the Federal Reserve Bank. It's not real money like Gold, Silver or Paper money backed by gold or silver. Its called fiat currency. Under the theories of capitalist economists the "money supply" is regulated in such a way that inflation replaces wage cuts. This way the boss can plead not guilty of causing inflation and can blame workers wanting higher wages as responsible for inflation. So what you have is a change from the old fashioned unpopular wage cut to an inflation driven bigger profit system. Do you want to debate that???
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@CryptoBellwether Actually it is capitalism that is failing on a world basis. The period of globalization of production is ending. Instead we are entering another period where world overproduction, the ability to make more than can be sold at a profit on a world market, has become a problem. This is the beginning of trade war and instead of international organizations regulating trade bilateral agreements will be replacing them. Trade wars and trading blocs will lead to more wars and then world war if not stopped by the working people who have no interests in the bosses trade wars and wars of plunder in general.
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@Jacket01 I thought you didn't want Cuba's to have the internet access? Why sanction foreign tech companies and make them pay fines? Why keep bandwidth between the two countries limited to that which was available in 1959. I guess you changed your mind and now complain it isn't good enough. Why not end the blockade of Cuba and stop interfering in third country transactions. People die swimming across the Rio Grande river and crossing the Southern desert. Why not open the doors to anyone who makes a human rights claim from the rest of Latin America? Mexico had a defacto one party state from 1929 to 2000 why didn't Congress open the doors from Mexico at the southern border? Trump now says no to Cuban '"illegals" sending them back by the plane load. Immigration like trade is used by the US to hurt Cuba because the US Ambassador isn't allowed to run for President of Cuba and turn the country into the 51st State.
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@CryptoBellwether Capitalism is responsible for the two world wars. It's capitalism that doesn't work. Outside of Cuba we just haven't been able to successful replace it.
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@Pupsmaner If your good at Baseball you can sign multi million dollar sports contracts with US Professional Baseball teams. Baseball is Cuba national sport. In the US its second only to American Football. Cuban players come for the money they don't "flea" on rafts. In fact they go to third countries so they can be "free agents" instead of 'draft' picks. (More money for the free agents.)
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@Roady What facts? Like how free markets fix everything?
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@RealAmerican666 The problem is that she had already disclosed the alledged 2006 affair in 2011 long before the 2016 campaign. The agreement was unsigned but contained exceptions for law enforcement purposes. She took the money nevertheless. Cohen violate New York law by loaning money to his client to make the payment. Daniels was in talks for a payment with media sources before accepting the payment from Cohen. Daniels not only lost her lawsuit for defamation against Trump but was ordered to pay Trump's attorney fees of $300,000. Her allegations of an affair remain unproven.
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@RealAmerican666 First of a DA can usually indict a ham sandwich. Second the whole thing was basically a shakedown by Daniels that Democrats hoped to use for political purposes. Since Trump isn't a lawyer and paid for Cohen's advice he was basically insulated by Cohen and the attorney client privilege. The FEC didn't buy the original charge and Cohen who sits in a NY prisons was given immunity for his testimony is the only one who can give the prosecutor evidence that the payment was made only for campaign purposes and not to protect the President's personal reputation. Trump's first motion is anyone's guess. The DA could be asked to explain why the statute of limitations on the felony shouldn't apply. The FEC ruling could be cited as a reason to drop the charges to a misdemeanor and which would shorten the statue of limitations even further.
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@RealAmerican666 Even if a woman is unfaithful it would have the same media effect as a man. For a Democrat they'd be talking about it being empowering for a women.
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@jerseyhere8941 Why should we move. When we can make you miserable? You think your loyal opposition the Liberal Democrats are bad? Well you ain't seen nothing yet. So far you've thrown 35 million out of their jobs over a virus. How happy do you think that's going to make them? Comrade (I use to be a socialist.) Peterson is going to be fully blasted out of his chair over what's coming next.
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It's easy enough to get an online copy and read through it noting both what it says and what it doesn't. I have concluded that it does not set up three co equal branches but all real and naked power resides in Congress. To those who think it is difficult to pass constitutional amendments remember it takes at most only 50% plus one to elect those who can pass new amendments.
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Why don't you as that question to the Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran and the gencidal HAMAS. Islamic fascism has a long history going back to world war one and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who raised a Musim Milita for Hilers final solution. .
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@m3gAnac0nda Conspiracy theory? Sounds more like your the NAZI the were BIG on blaming the Jews for everything.
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@zacharymcmillan2788 A women outside of a closed liquor store said, "Why can't we get drunk if it's the end of the world?"
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The top NAZI's also tested out with high IQ's.
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@busyshah Hamas is a Neo NAZI organization holding the people of Gaza hostage in a prison camp. The IDF is doing its best to defeat the Neo NAZI Hamas?
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@idioticcatfish6927 Das Kapital explains how capitalism works. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@mikefrancis8223 Sorry that ship sailed a long time ago in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. We put the FBI on trial and defeated them.
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This is another "Big Lie being told by the US CIA.
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@cafeta Keep telling the BIG LIE Made in USA.
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@TheJimicus Since Nixon ended the gold standard it's been a world of fiat currency among the capitalist nations. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism that produces war and revolutions as evidenced by 20 th century history. Using a fiat currency and inflation to rob the working class will NOT solve the problems of capitalism which go deeper into the shift between investment of profits to expand production and to drive up fictitious capital value.
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@pierreprtn4059 What atrocities? This women is another butt hurt daughter of a Cuban contra. They lost their property power and privilegie and are unhappy about it.
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This is the way capitalism works. It a system that only serves the interests of a tiny minority of billionaire bosses.
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@wevon8233 Since the victory of the revolution in Cuba the political opposition in Cuba has always come from the United States. The US Gov't has waged a 60 year campaign of lies, trade blockade and terror attacks on the people and government of Cuba.
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Its just the capitalist system in crisis.
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You just admitted to living in an authoritarian society.
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@toddhiggins6318 The ideas of the ruling class are always the dominate ideas of society. Capitalism replaces skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines which explains why the capitalist don't need educated workers any more than they need healthcare for workers when they can always hire another one of us if we die on or off the job.
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@ingevankeirsbilck9601 "Children used to grow up on family farms and turned out ok." Then along came capitalism which freed the slave and the serf circumnavigated the world and created giant industries like steel oil and electricity.
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@ScottCleve33 You never need to prove you were a dog before voting before why now?
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@innertubez Unlikely to be sustainable since the slaves were already running away, better roads and the railway would only facilitate the problem of runaways and slave rebellions. The British and American navies were already putting an end to the African slave trade with the New World. Once they began putting black men in Union Army uniforms slavery was finished as an institution in the United States. Like Hitler the South was reckless. Confederates under orders from Jefferson Davis and the confederate cabinet fired on Ft Sumter giving Lincoln the political advantage of not having initiated armed conflict. Hitlers errors was first to sign a nonaggression pact with Stalin instead of France and Britain. Who then realized he was coming for them next. Instead of finishing off Britain he then attacked the Soviet Union. He would become so overconfident that he just casually declared War on the United States after the US declared war on Japan for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. .
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@alfredosenalle9284 The party doesn't control the government. The other parties in Cuba are so small that they are insignificant. Their needs to be injustice for a political opposition in Cuba to come into being. Those who want privileges leave for the United States. So you have dissidents like Yonai Sanchez who place their hope in "Professionals wanting Western salaries." and cynicism like we pretend to work and they pretend to pay.
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@alfredosenalle9284 More people have left the American dictatorship in Puerto Rico than Cuba and the American Puerto Rican dictatorship has a much smaller population. Are you going to blow up balloons for the Hatian's or the Mexican's who die in the Rio Grande or the Texas/New Mexico/Arizona/CA desert? My ancestors came on the Ghost ships that left Ireland while the Irish people died due to British Capitalism and Imperialism. Many of he Ghost ships sunk before they reached America. The owners collected the insurance value.
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@alfredosenalle9284 My ancestors left Ireland while peasants died of hunger on the side of the road. No one left Cuba because of starvation they left because they wanted the promises of American capitalism. How's it working out for you? Are you making a lot of money as a boss like Marco Rubio now? How did that business deal between the Traitor Huber Mato's son and a Batista relative work out. Did they go tp jail for medicare fraud or beat the rap?
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You need to cry for a US invasion in order to bring capitalism back to Cuba. You can't overthrow a popular government like that of Cuba without support from the US Imperialist military. You cry about dictatorship because no one in Cuba wants or needs business parasites like you and you need to pretend to be victims like all the middle class liberals. Fidel lead a revolution against injustice. You can't lead a counter revolution based upon lies invented in the United States. As Fidel said after Giron, "They had a good plan . What they lacked was a just cause." Not all Cuban immigrants can become part of the stable upper middle class. Their isn't enough room at the top. Capitalism is just a stage in human history like feudalism before it. It reached its ending point in 1914 when they capitalist launched the first world war. The Europeans destroyed their capitalist Imperialism in two world wars leaving the American Imperialists as top dog. Now the American Imperialist are in decline while the phonies of the CCP hope to make China into a new Imperialist Empire and take trade away from the American Imperialists. Just as Lenin wrote in 1916 Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Yes their will be a revolution in the United States. At age 70 I will probably die before seeing it. Its hard to predict history. Many thought that the Stalinist regimes would last for centuries before Stalin died. His body wasn't even cold before protests broke out in 1953 East Germany.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Unfair to who? Presidential scholars like Yonia Sanchez who got a free university education? Not enough privileges like in the US and Europe for the educated right? Cuba has an Army so does every other country in the world. Cuba doesn't have a CIA that engages in terrorism though does it. It doesn't send out agents to take down civian airlines like the Luis Posada and Orlando Boshe did to Cubana flight 455 and a President that announce that no country in the world has a right to harbor terrorists. No country except the United States that is. It doesn't have prisoners held without charges or trial for years at the US Guantanamo Naval base. They US holds that territory against the will of the Cuban people. The US has held people without bail fir the Jan 6th events without bail for over two years. So don't go on about how Cuba needs lessons from the United States about human rights and dealing with protesters. You have to holler for intervention from Miami because you don't have a just cause and the upper class can't do its own fighting.
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@alfredosenalle9284 The Cuba Laidies in White have their peaceful protests and the the Cuban police take them home in the a bus. The government does go our murdering people either that just part of the US campaign of lies by quacks like Ben Shapiro. Saudi Arabia has never in its history had a national election and it executes people by beheading in the Street and murdered a US journalist in its Embassy. You don't see US Presidents cutting off trade with them though do you. Its precisely because Cuba sets a good example that the US can't stand them. They make the richest capitalist country in the world look bad. They make the US ruling class look like it really is a bunch of thieves and scoundrels.
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@alfredosenalle9284 You forget that I know how business works so I know that they don't magically prosper. No small business gets rich without getting big injections of capital from a bank or silent partner. If some has a good idea for something they will get both the workers and tools needed in Cuba. Banks in the US don't give out loans just because you go in and ask now do they?. They want collateral or to see a signed contract. People who defraud them go to lail don't they. You can't be a big boss with thousands of minimum wage employees and ride around in a limo though can you. Their president actually comes out and meets with ordinary people instead of hiding behind secret service. The US blockades them also doesn't it. with all the hypocrisy about how much the ruling class cares about Human rights, Get rid of the blockade.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Your wasting you time arguing with me. End the blockade and then we will see how the economy works. If the privileged ones all belonged to the party then they be no different then people like you and Yonai Sanchez.They'd be full of BS and telling a bunch of lies like American politicians. Ben Shapiro would praising them for their realism and they'd be like the Chinese or Russian's. American capitalist politicians would sucking up to them. You wouldn't need to cry for intervention because they sell out faster than Gorbachev in a Pizza Hut commercial.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Who do you think your kidding? You don't give a damn about poor people here or anywhere else for that matter. Neither does the American ruling class. All you want is to set back and let the profits from investment roll in.
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@alfredosenalle9284 If it makes no difference why keep it? Many of the workers in Eastern Europe are unhappy with their new bosses and the American Imperialist turning their countries into debt slaves. A vote to dissolve the Soviet Union was never taken. Gorbachev just gave everything away on advice of Bill Clinton and Milton Freidman the same fools who prepared the crisis of 2008. You just a capitalist ideologue who loves the system and the Wall street bosses. Sure Jack Ma is prospering under 996 which had to be withdrawn. Ma has gone west and hiding in Japan. In many of those countries the workers still run the state owned company. Trotsky's political revolution is still on the agenda.
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@alfredosenalle9284 You don't live their so where do you get off making invites to another peoples country? You just another American like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz who have never even set foot on Cuban soil. I send solidarity aid to Cuba now. to help break the blockade all you do is cry about prosperity. If were really Cuban than you could have moved to any other Latin American country and "prospered" under your theories. Why get a free education in Cuba and then leave for the US? Why don't you go back to Cuba and instead of crying all that nonsense about Dictatorship? You just another middle class fool who thinks capitalism is like sliced bread. That it works like magic and that nothing will ever replace it. My family lived though the Great Depression they brought us to treat other with respect and to understand how lucky we were to have food on the table. They lived when thinga were rationed and they had ration books. My father and uncles experience war first hand as combat Veterans. They were enlisted men, Have you been an ordinary factory worker dishwasher or a driver anything but a privileged middle class brat who knows all? I leaned at a young age that work is what produces wealth unlike middle class brats who have everything handed to them so they can prosper.
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@alfredosenalle9284 Look end the blockade and we will see how things proceed from their instead of all this nonsense. Bill Gates didn't graduate from college either. So under your new theory capitalism doesn't create a meritocracy either. All you do is blow a lot of smoke to try and create a lot of confusion. Before capitalism people didn't have the tools and knowledge or culture they do today. I've read about how the Cuban economy was organized so don't tell me everything was ever distributed or claimed to be distributed with exact equity either. I went to college and read books because I want to learn about the world not become a member of the capitalist class. I though college would make me a better electrician like my father. I didn't even know what an engineer did all day. The standard of living will rise much faster without all the nonsense inserted by the defeader's of capitalism. Capital doesn't grow in a bank and investors aren't creating anything. Capitalism its ideas and methods along with the ruling classes can only take humsnity so far. It becomes its own worst enemy. If you actually used your head and though about things instead of just advancing talking points you'd realize that Marxist like Marx and Fidel Castro had very deep insight. That's his ability to lead a revolution from a small island is more than a historical accident. That like the Russian revolution of 1917 it signifies something new in human history. If the capitalist had won the cold war in 1989 like they said back then they would be still crying years later about having lost Cuba and been defeated in Afghanistan. It does nothing now but produce ever smaller ruling classes that go to war from different nation states for the sake of their nations capitalist profits.
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And now the American Imperialist Empire is seeing defections. The US Dollar may lose its special position in world trade. The failure of mass terror in Afghanistan is having world wide effects.
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@erich6860 Bosses wont be buying homes for investments if they had to pay higher wages they'd have to cut back on housing investments. Government will find building contractors if they spent the money. The unions need to build a labor party to take the government away from the bosses two party set up.
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@inquizative44 Sowell role is to run cover for the role played by the Capitalist and big Landowner class in Jew Hatred. Henry Ford publish "The International Jew" which was translated and republished by Hitler. The refusal of FDR and the British to allow Jews fleeing Europe after the NAZI came to power in Germany entry.
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@marcusbuckner5582 He was talking about Democratic Party Liberals. That doesn't mean he endorsed Republicans like Eisenhower.http://www.pathfinderpress.com/s.nl/sc.7/category.47/.f
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Rightest terrorists can be defeated for the simple reason that even war with the best trained military infused with capitalist ideology can be defeated with the revolutionary justice of socialist internationalism.
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@keithkelso9872 No to the Railway "Slave" Labor Act. Tell Congress no strikebreaking.
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@sunweaver President of the association of BIg Business brainwashers.
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@AlexKidd4Fun Notice how "fair" MSM always call union leaders and officials "union bosses". As if they had the ability to fire anyone?
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@sunweaver The star stand's for the Communist Party's leadership. You obviously have some kind of fixation on Muslims. What was it bad potty training? Playing with brown fish in the bathtube?
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@sunweaver A "free market" where both wages and prices are controlled by the capitalist bosses is tyranny. UNION YES!
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@harmanjotsingh4230 Bosses want to control everything manipulating markets and printing more money for maximizing profits at the expense of everyone else just so they can line their pockets. They want to own everything and make us pay and work on a treadmill where they control how fast you need torun. UNION YES!
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@harmanjotsingh4230 The two parties control the government and when both parties are bought by the big donners the bosses can say "May the Best Man Win." because both are in your pocket. Small Business? No Big business labeled as small. A company with 5 employees is small. Mid sized would be 50. A company with 100 or more is big. Yet the SBA has businesses with as many as 1,500 workers or 40 million in sales as small. A single family business with 2 adults will have a hard time managing 20 workers by themselves.
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@debanydoombringer1385 Well people who are convicted of serious crimes go to jail so they can't be teaching anyone but those already in jail. If teaching was all that good of a racket more would be doing it. Maybe your family doesn't run a zombie corporation but they are the newest slize ball operations. The bosses have been getting all the new wealth since 1973 when wages stopped following productivity. Must be nice to be a banker and order up all the money you want at next to zero interest rate. By the way what would happen if everyone paid all their debts back to the banks? They'd have all the money and the economy would stop running.
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@sunweaver Hedge funds those guy work real hard gambling with other people's livelihoods. Must be nice to spend all day at a walls street casino. .
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@hibentley Sure leave the world in the bands of these greedy capitalist classes whose drive for profis means the lowest wages and the longest hours such that the workers have no time to create and have a family. Tell everyone you aren't the problem but its decline of religious morality and that capitalism is the source of the best. Equal rights for the individual to become as greedy as they please. After all your creating opportunity and giving everyone a chance by making the breaking of glass ceiling possible.
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@davidhynes This is part of Trump's agenda. Blame China for all of the problems in the US and it goes along with his tearing up the Iran nuclear deal. Canada is afraid of the wacko in the White House. Obviously this is another US Third Party trade law. Trump claims she violated US law when here companies subsidiary did business with Iran. The US writes laws about trade it isn't even a party too. Trump said he wasn't going to be another President of the World. If's that's true he should drop this nonsense.
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@helpfulsysops3593 After 20 years of Imperialist war for profit and 3 trillion dollars devastation of one of the poorest countries in the world the US Imperialists seeking to cut their losses withdraw.
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Put ICE where it belongs in a freezer.
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@neckmostle You aren't going to tell me the Bill Gates story of inventing the operating system or browser are you? He did neither. The saying is that Bill Gates never had an original idea he couldn't steal. Most of the computers inventions came from investment in research paid for by the US government at Universities NOT private capital or bell labs research. According to the Supreme Court the electronic computer was invented by a professor during world war two NOT sperry rand. Capitalism gives nothing it is merely the organization of production using money and competition in markets. Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb either. Tesla the poor Serbian immigrant was credited with inventing the polyphase AC generation and electric distribution system along with the induction motor. He died a pauper in a New York hotel and had his papers confiscated by the government. The Soviet Union put the first artificial satellite in orbit and did the first experiments with a Tokamak which was dismissed at first by the US and UK.
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Sowell and George Bush would be hanging from trees for the crisis of 2008 and the bailouts.
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@douglemay7989 The have the right to a union under the first amendment to the constitution which gives them the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
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@douglemay7989 The decline of the education system is connected to the general decline of world capitalism at the leading capitalist power the United States. As long as you have capitalism which is a system of exploitation than the education for the working class majority will not be worth a damn. The focus on creating and maximizing profits for a few precludes that. They can not escape the tendency for profits to decline and the system with it.
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@rameychisum2891 A fetus is NOT a baby. It has no more rights than a cancer tumor does.
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@JohnAlbertRigali How many Texans like having lots of guns? How many are made in the Connecticut river valley? Western Massachusetts and Connecticut?
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@Людмила-м3т3р Solidarity with Ukraine and the Russian people who are being punished by the NATO Imperialist alliance of capitalist thieves and scoundrels. This is not a war for nation independence but a war for the new capitalist profiteers in Russia and against Ukraine. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. No to Imperialist war. No tp the NATO Imperialist hypocrites.
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Hamas wanted to create Martyrs for the Profit with an F.
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@larrydugan1441 No its just can't be sent without all kinds of red tape because of BS like being a states sponsor of terror.
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@RodrigoOswego In the US speculators like Bill Gates buy up farm land and rent it out to farmers.
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@michaelotieno6524 The Cuban government will listen to the Cuban workers and farmers it will tell the truth and chart a way forward. In Germany and the UK the politicians will lie and grandstand for capitalism and deny that the greed of the riling classes is the cause of war in Europe.
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@richardfoster736 Oil bosses and AT&T didn't want to take 30 year bonds for the tax value of their property they had declared under Batista's rule like other foreign investors. Instead they called on Kennedy the Banker's son to overthrow a popular revolution. .
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@alfonsobenitez8574 You didn't escape your parents ran away for the promises of the American Imperialists. The American Imperialists lost the cold war and now the world is seeing the true nature pf Imperialism as the Russian neo capitalist invade Ukraine in a fight with the American imperialists over oil and gas profits.
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@richardfoster736 Since the Cuban state is not distinct from the military everything not an individuals property is militarily owned. Legal visits require pre claerance red tape not required for any other common distention. Flights to cites other than Havana were halted by Trump. Marco Rubio a Miami "hater" claims responsibility for Trump's policy.
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@AlexNepali In China wages are rising due to strikes. In the US wages have been stagnant since 1973. Guess what time it is in the US? Strike Time!!! "Communist" Teachers by striking are leading the way into battles with the "Capitalist Running Dogs of America "
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The Democrat Johnson signed the Civil Rights act of 1965 while Republican Goldwater opposed it. So the Democrats claimed they were the Party of Civil Rights. Most of the hard core Segagationist Democrats never changed Parties but were then defeated in the South. Both Parties had to be dragged into recognition of Black Rights. The Klan was as American as Apple Pie among the ruling class.
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@jfverboom7973 A vote either Party is a vote for war and depresion.
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Sowell is all about how Money and Might make right.
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@sosopwsi829Jjw9 The real estate sharks drive up the price of land and housing in the higher wage areas.
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@TruckTaxiMoveIt National Security Scare. Judge issue warrant on Friday afternoon. FBI spends the weekend on a fishing at he beach.
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@nunya7705 Your a witch hunter. I was born here. I can be president. You can't kick me out. You don't even know what was classified. For all you know it was secret decoder rings in cheerios boxes. We don't just acept what we are told by the government and FBI who have told many lies and been a witch hunting police agency. Why don't you leave instead? Go some where like Saudi Arabia. Enjoy the hospitality of the religious police. I hear they give close shaves.
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@west_park7993 Speculation since the "secret" tunnel has been their since 2008. before Trump was even President so the secret service should have know about it when Trump became President.
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@atonyb88nola Then the communist need to be made into communists.
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@atonyb88nola China and the Chinese Communist Party is about as Socialist as Swedish Social Democrats. .
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@atonyb88nola As long as China was making cheap consumer goods for Walmart the were the best communist country in the world because they brought back capitalism. American bosses could't highly praise them enough. They claimed this was the smartest thing China could do. Back then American bosses couldn't close factories fast enough to send production over to China. Now that 2008 created the worst world crisis since 1929 its all China's fault. We aren't suckers who just fell of the turnip wagon. Capitalism is the world's problem not Chinese workers.
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Why is it that the so called "thought leader" says nothing about the strikes taking place in China?
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@atonyb88nola What else is new? They have more capitalist running dogs in China then ever.
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@NathanJennings1222 Korea carpet bombed by the US Imperialists with support from their puppet Syngman Rhee and the UN. Later cut off with sanctions to this day. Venezuela nationalize Oil company but leaves 80% in private hands. US demands regime change with 2 coup attempts. Vietnam defeats the French elections in the South are canceled due to fear that Ho Chi Minh will win. US creates a phoney Gulf of Tonkin crisis as a reason for an invasion and a 2nd unconstitutional war under the police action theory. Cuba US brings the world to the brink of world nuclear war because their puppet General Batista was overthrown. Cambodia US supports Khmer Rouge once it is clear that they will be a reactionary bulwark against Vietnam.
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@robertgaylord314 Actually it's the capitalist government that has wanted to restrict free speech and political dissent. On can see this in the records of three important political trials of their time. Socialism on trial. https://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1941/socialism/ The Case of the Legless Veteran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sbdlIdt9HY and Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General in FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying These are also recorded in TheMilitant.com Newspaper and Books published by PathfinderPress.com
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@Lord_Volkner The unions need to organize a labor party to take the control of government away from the bosses.
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@Lord_Volkner The capitalist bosses have two capitalist parties with politicians they pay that do what they want to defend the profits of the bosses and their too big to fail banks and companies.
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@Lord_Volkner People such as yourself who think they are Lords.
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@Lord_Volkner Ya right your just another patron of the capitalist oligarchy talking about your high moral standards.
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@Lord_Volkner A higher standard of hypocrisy.
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@Lord_Volkner Symbol of the Communist movement of Lenin and Trotsky who brought peace out of the Imperialist slaughter for re division of world for Imperialist Empires and profits. The Red Army defeated 14 invading Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. Soviet Russia signed the first peace treaty of the war with German only to come under attack by the Democratic Imperialist.
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@Lord_Volkner You tube censors me because I have something to say which is more than the hypocritical attacks you should be directing at your virtue signaling Democratic Party corporate friends.
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@Matthew-yc6nx Both parties have those kind of districts.
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No AOC is Democrat in Democratic District. Socialist in name capitalist in game. Unions need to organize a labor party and then run workers for office. Workers need to vote for those who can best fight back regardless of color. Choose based on ability not color. Malcolm X became one of the best mass leaders of workers of all colors. Same with Fidel Castro. Racism came with Capitalism and Imperialism (foreign investment in the colonial contries) and it is being destroyed in battles for national self determination and socialism since 1917.
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@johncronin7875 They have a government where the president actually listens to what his people say when they come to his home instead of hiding out in the White House and making speech's to the elite Washington Press core on the Whitehouse lawn.
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@susanfrancis5471 Reagan and Carter told as many lies as Trump and Biden.
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@danielmocsny5066 Those workers who voted for Trump were tired of the Democratic Party lies, broken promises and the capitalist system including the governmnet which is rigged against them. Trump told enough of the truth to get elected. Then he was attacked by liberals who feared an upset apple cart that could get out of control.
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Nelson is just a bossman talking down and dirty. They made him forman and gave him a head transplant to reduce the cost of language training.for board of directors meetings.
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@jamesbrowning9210 Why so Many Mexican's flee to the US why so many die at the US border?
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@jamesbrowning9210 The Cuban government has never made a serious effort to stop anyone for leaving Cuba. The United States for years encouraged wet foot dry foot migration. It their policies that caused the deaths of those who left in leaky boats or on rafts. Cuba has punished piracy and educated more people to take the place of those who leave. A segment of the Cuban American community no longer supports the US blockade. Elon Gonzalez went home to his father. Miami s not the Capital of Cuba either. The source of opposition to the revolutionary Cuban government comes not from Cuba but the United States. The kind of injustice that creates protests in other Latin American countries doesn't exist in Cuba. It the US Gov't policy to try and create hunger, loss of wages and desperation to motivate the overthrow the Cuban government.
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@jamesbrowning9210 I don't disclose my location or answer personal questions,
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@jamesbrowning9210 They are plenty who come from Puerto Rico also. They leave for economic reasons and Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter stopped them from coming by having the Coast Guard sneeze vessels because he didn't want anymore coming to help with the immigration crisis then declared by the governor of Florida. The people held without trial and charges in Cuba are at the US Guantanamo Bay torture faculty. Cuba needs no lessons in Human Rights from the quite "Human Rights" leader. Cater armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN. Today Biden fist bumps the Prince of Saudi who has never held a national election in his country. The US calls Cuba a state sponsor of terror when they harbored US CIA terrorist who bombed Cubana 455. Its nothing more than two party hypocrisy.
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@andrecampbell9651 The US is an Imperialist power defending its foreign investors property and profits. That is why they have 800 military bases and a Navy and Military. To enforce the "Rules based" international order. The country is class divided and ruled by a tiny wealthy minority. The American Imperialist can neither forgive or forget that Fidel and the Cuban workers and farmers carried out a socialist revolution under their very noses. The Cuban revolution shows what working people can accomplish with a real communist leadership and not a counterfeit like that of Stalin and Mao. Capitalism can not avoid its own tendency to go into crisis and decline. Imperialism is its highest stage and the capitalist ruling classes can not avoid going to war to redivide the world among themselves. They did it twice in the twentieth century destroying most of the industrial world except for the Western hemisphere. A third world war would quickly go nuclear but history teaches that the American workers and farmers will have a chance to defeat them in another revolution.
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@DutchGuyMike The US needs to tale its Troops off the Korean peninsula.
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@DutchGuyMike Close all 800 foriegn military bases that the US uses for its Imperialist investors protection. They only make bigger profits for the bosses possible. If those people want capitalism let them pay for the defense of their own ruling class. Let South Korean companies pay for the defense of Korea from the North if capitalism is so strong and mighty in Korea. If the North is a failed state with a failed economy what are they afraid of?
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@Shepardofman South Korea is a class divided society. It has a capitalist government that represents a tiny and extremely wealthy minority. Like workers everywhere they have no choice but to fight back to defend their living standards with trade unions and strikes from the declining rate of profits hidden by the world wide inflation caused by the American Imperialist and there dollar printing.
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How about you move to Saudi Arabia and enjoy the comforts provided by the religious police.
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He is ideas of neoliberalism are being forgotten as we talk.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 Its is quite true that Stalin sovietized the Areas the Red Army controlled but considering Imperialist hostility what choice did he than have? Trade Unions have also used bureaucratic methods to enlarge themselves. We want to replace the bureaucratic leaders and methods not destroy the trade unions. The German capitalist went to war with Hitler as their leader. The fact that they lost doesn't absolve Democratic capitalism from Fascist capitalist crimes. The Stalinist lost control in the East when the realization of the weakness and not the strength of democratic imperialism began to take hold among the masses. Truth is a revolutionary force of history all the lies told in defense of Imperialism will come back upon the American ruling capitalist class and hit them like a ton of bricks. Your seeing that already. All Donald Trump did is raise a few questions and he became an almost unstoppable force. Bushes dreams of a "New World Order" Where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle have been dashed upon the rocks of economic decline and military defeat.
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@usafvet100 Of the former colonies. Cuba is the one that comes closest to Western Europe and the United States in many overall ways if not even exceeding some. You don't see homeless people, beggars and drug use epidemics. They also have a high level of education of their people and overall health.
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Sorry but the Legal scholars from Harvard and Yale are the ones who run the government. Wall street bosses are the ones who fiance the two parties not barber shops
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@aliciabell6688 And when the managers fail who bails them out?
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The capitalist all think they won the cold war in 1989. However the quickly squandered that victory with the crisis of 2008. Now you are seeing how each capitalist nations ruling class is out for themselves. That they have not solved any of the basic problems that both Marx and Lenin pointed at. The increasing world market competition and economic chaos drives both Imperialist war and socialist revolution. As Marx explained here and again the workers are victorious but the real fruit of the class struggle lies in the ever expanding organization of the working class and the class consciousness of the working people. The end of the retreat by labor in the US is over as the last capitalist Empire will be brought down by its own working class.
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Kim Jung Un Will be happy to help out. He has a one way door. Billionaires go in and don't come back out.
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When I think of Queen Hilary I want to throw up.
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@kellyberry4173 Communism is an internationalist workers movement NOT limited to any specific nation or nationality. The original Soviet Union before Stalin was a federation of Soviet Republics. Soviet is a Russian word loosely meaning council in English.
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@orionsshoe2424 After the Paris Commune it was the second example of a workers state with the communist leadership of Lenin and Trotsky. It was Stalin and the privileged Soviet Bureaucracy that drowned the revolution in blood and ultimately lead it back to the capitalism of Putin and the Russian oligarchy. Fidel Castro lead the Cuban revolution which was made under the very noses of the American Imperialist and continues today despite a cruel 60+ year blockade.
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@lindadavis5668 Few men have accomplished what Adolph Hitler did .The Clinton's did what Reagan couldn't "Ending Welfare as we know it." She's just another Democratic 'Imperialist" politician. She was a "Goldwater Girl". Graduate of the elite girls finishing school Wellesley College and Yale law. Know for her "militant" leadership of Wellesley college parking lot protests. Failed the DC bar exam. Stood by will Bill took time off from the campaign trail to execute a Black man who saved his jello as a post execution desert. Put in charge of a secret plan for universal health care she designed a national Health ID card. "Abortion should be rare but legal" like it is now. Rare for the majority legal for the elite.
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@majesticgrey4769 Yes if you get into that car of yours that you family bought to drive to college and decide to go on trip like you say you'll end up in trouble with men who wear uniforms and carry guns. You may not like the free accommodations they provide along with the baloney sandwiches either. Best thing for you to do is your homework and stay out of trouble listen to what mom and dad say before "going communist.".
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@Ryanowning Did your Professor tell you that? That America was the exceptional nation and world leader?
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@rickmorty7284 No its not. Its about them not doing what you or that other idiot wants like Swedish monarchy disguised as socialist for the Volvo bosses. Anyone who has read Marx knows that a revolution is both possible and necessary and that the workers must build their own state.
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@kated3165 You full of total BS.
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@lindawarnke5150 You've got more people in prison than China with four times the population and you call the US a democracy. The Constitution says "...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States..." Now I would vote to appoint her or a democrat because I'm against capitalist law.
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@Vaporlass "....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution.
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He supported Pol Pot with arms and at the UN. A real "humanitarian" supporting a genocidal maniac.
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TheBlankFromHeck The FEC should be shut down as a threat to democracy.
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@robertwelsh4094 If he a treasure why not put him under control of the US Treasury dept.
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Russell Jordan She and her father were in CBP custody at 9:15PM . What that means is they are not free to go anywhere. Just in case you don't understand. At 5AM she was vomiting and gravely ill. They should have called a doctor for medical advice then. Instead she was loaded onto a prison bus for an hour and a half trip. They had 163 people detained in a garage with four border patrol agents.
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@thatlady4189 The girls uncle? Was he also on the trip? Or was this just a story?
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@yort-r9t Watch out for Karl Marx in the public library I read the manifesto in 9th grade and became a hard core communist.
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The way the law works for business is you hire lawyers to hide behind. A lawyer is not obligated to report any crime you might commit or admit to as that would violate the lawyer client privilege. A lawyer can't advise you to do anything illegal. The can advise you on the law. Somewhat like this. The can tell you island X called a tax haven doesn't reveal the size of bank accounts. You can only take $10,000 out of country Y without reporting it on a form required before leaving country Y. Country Y ordinarily doesn't search or question persons leaving country Y headed for country X. Have I told you to do anything illegal?
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@downstairs741 Its become a BUZZ word most likely because Obama graduated from Harvard Law and its a BS law school theory.
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The open guns of world war three sounded on the battlefield of Iraq. As the Iraq war did not lead to Bushes "New World Order" instead it held up a mirror to the decline of the American Empire. The futile exercise in nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed the Imperialist hypocrisy.
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@idalbertomendez3603 Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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That has created an international problem for the United States because in order for you to travel as a US military member you are issued a red passport that makes you a US national. You can claim citizenship after you have deployed in a war zone but do it now not later. You can also claim citizenship after completing basic training. If you served 'honorably' after 9/11/2001 or in certain previous wars you can apply for citizenship immediately.
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Intellectual property which means Bill Gates gets to rent your body and what you think up then belongs to him alone. The Chinese don't recognize the ownership of ideas.
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@spaghettimon3851 End the US Blockade!!!
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Dear Stossel, I don't want to pay for your policemen, your military, its cash of nuclear weapons, and you capitalist judge system. Think I can get a Supreme Court ruling saying I don't have to pay taxes to support those aspects of the capitalist government that I don't want? I feel that paying for a US Empire world military command structure is tyranny don't you? Why should we have to pay for that? Why not demand the closure of all 800 US Military foreign bases?
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@sylviabrooksfunchess2438 Is that your description of the American capitalists and their Washington pals?
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This is what the decline of US Imperialism looks like. A two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington.
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Total BS your problem is the declining rate of profit and the creation of a greedy ruling class shutting down production and cutting labor cots to prop up profit rates. All your neoliberal economic theories require capital to be producing without labor. You all worship at the alter of Milton Freedman's stupid theories.
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@sathalel4084 We don't want you money as much as we want workers control of industry. We plan to do what Fidel Castro did in Cuba here. Make a socialist revolution under your very nose.
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The inevitable downside of capitalism is Nuclear World War 3 fought with Nuclear ICBM's.
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Its not much different than how the original New England textile mill owners got their female wage slaves. Hay we can get you extra money as a farmer's wife as a textile mill loom operator (now a ride sharing driver). Uber and Lyft are worth massive amounts of money because they put all the actual costs of transportation and even the data time used on to the backs of the drivers. The use their market monopoly position to rake in the profits just like Bill Gates did with windows.
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Your just another smart guy who thinks his job isn't 'menial' and he can't be replaced. Nevertheless the bosses have been successfully holding down the real price of labor since about 1973 such that real wages are no longer rising with productivity instead the wealth has all been going to the top. Lyft and Uber are just new taxi and limousine companies who will take the local markets much like Walmart has taken lots of smaller grocery and department store business. Like any boss they operate based on capitalist greed and fighting for market share. A study done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows these drivers at "ride share" companies earning on average of $3.33 an hour less than half the minimum wage. These bosses are taking advantage of laws that allows them to classify these workers as contractors instead of workers.
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You've just admitted to one of the problems of capitalism in that it always throws out and reduces labor time yet the workers get no benefit from the increases in technology. If fact what happens is the return on investment in business wich become more capital intensive drops as new machinery replace the old. This leads to the capitalist not investing in new machinery but instead investing in new ways to create fictitious capital. This can only result in bigger and bigger crisis like 2008 when the law of value hits home.
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No that's not the solution. Instead with socialism the workers don't get tossed out and told your on your own and find another job. With economic planning you can choose to make more or move some workers to another job where you will get free training or education without a cut in compensation. Adapt or die that's the attitude of the capitalists towards the workers. Coal is important in the manufacture of both steel and electricity. While coal production has been moving to open pits in the west even if Hillary Clinton were elected she could not replace coal in eight years time. Milkman is coming back in the form of grocery delivery service. Whales are endangered by US military submarines. Uber is a party to breaking capitalist law because of their claims that agreeing to a terms of service agreement covers everything that the drivers and passengers need. insurance companies are screaming about not being able to charge commercial rates for the vehicles being used and are refusing to pay for accidents. Ride with Uber at your own risk. Hope you have a good ambulance chaser if your hurt.
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Ride with Uber at your own risk.I hope you have a good ambulance chaser if your hurt. See Uber will claim that they contract out their rides and its the vehicle owners responsibility for insurance. The vehicle owners insurance will claim that the vehicle owner didn't pay for commercial insurance and refuse to pay. Have fun suing someone who is so hungry that they choose Uber as a job. You can't get blood out of a stone. You might be able to get the vehicles totaled value but I'd sell it for scarp cash value and hide all my assets.
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Most people like you don't know what work is anyhow. No one expects you to do a job to begin with. You think someone like Bill Gates is a genius because he is a great manipulator that started with a million dollar trust fund.
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"The information is out there..." and so are the X Files.
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A self coup fails.
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Back then John Adams was the "Stalin" of his day. When he came into office Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Act. Just like today "immigrants were suspicious" and Jeffersonian newspapers were shut down.
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@franke.3098 Outside of being able to count bodies what do you know? Do you know anything besides capitalism good communism bad? Don't tell me I don't know history tell me something I don't know or facts about wars and revolutions. See if you can get beyond telling me how dumb I am for not Loving mom, apple pie and chevrolet.
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@mardukevii9180 The thing the profit system ends up doing is leading to economic crisis and Imperialist war.
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People like this content maker will become totally irrelevant. Most will if not already be bough off by Wall Street.
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Love hearing how the capitalist bosses are victims of their own government. They teach these fools in the top Universities like Stanford where Sowell does his pontification.
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Shows only the absolute stupidity of the capitalist who demonize their own government. They need to create shortages to maintain profits.
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@ski6712 The US military has been defeated with the most military might the world has ever seen. Solidarity with Ukraine and antiwar Russians. Cancel NATO not Russian culture.
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@AnnaLVajda Don't kid yourself WalMart wouldn't be possible without all kinds of government services starting with good roads for truck traffic. For the capitalist everything is about how can I boost my profits and cut costs. Now if you get in the way and end up homeless well they had out chicken feed for you.
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@bender9222222222 The is no such thing as fair with capitalism the rich should pay all the taxes and the working class should pay zero. The national debt is held by wealthy bond holders who instead of paying taxes are lending the government money from which they benefit with a guaranteed return on investment.
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@bender9222222222 The rich also know that you can't just print as much money as they want because history shows inflation can get out of hand and when that has happened it called hyperinflation it became so bad in post ww1 Germany that the price of lunch changed while you were eating and workers were paid daily taking home the wages in a wheelbarrow.
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@bender9222222222 Like I said get rid of all the taxes on workers like sales and state taxes. Then make the rich pay all the taxes. Capitalism is a fraud. Capital only accumulates it produces nothing. It based on the idea that an investor deserves to get back more than he puts in. its a "free lunch" for the do nothing bosses. 100% Tax on profits.
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@bender9222222222 Class struggle is the road to socialism. Make every job a union job. Put everyone to work who wants a job build things working people need and train more Doctors and nurses at full government expense. Cut the military budget to zero, retool the defense plants for civilian needs and close all the foreign military bases.
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@bender9222222222 I came through the Port of Boston dressed in a donated salvaged British potato sack on a ship that nearly sunk for the insurance value.
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@abcsandoval Sowell is just a salesmen for more self congratulatory Imperialist propaganda. US Troops had no business in Vietnam it wasn't two different nations or people like the Jews and the Arabs. Nor can the problems be solved solely by military and police force with "free elections".at some time in the future. "Nation building" was the Imperialist solution in Afghanistan and twenty years later they are another Islamist nation not a Democratic Republic. Sowell is someone who will tell you a half truth to get you believe the lie in the other half.
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@abcsandoval Sowell solution more Billionaires in the Middle East like their aren't enough already like those who live in Qatar and are the leaders of Hamas.
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@die1mayer What does Hitler do for an encore after he conquers everything right up to the border with India? He was leading a thousand year Reich of superman. Hitler is just going to let a small group of people on an Island and the French whom he hated control their own Empires? The European ruling classes ALL hated and feared the Soviet Union because when the Revolution in Germany failed Lenin and the Bolsheviks turned towards freedom for the colonial peoples. The held the 1920 Congress of the Peoples of the East and were sponsoring Communist Parties among nations that never had a Social Democratic Party like China. He had declared war on Imperialism itself.
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@primmakinsofis614 It shows what had already been prdeicted by Marx and Lenin. That the capitalist would enter into such acute competition for markets and resource that they would go to war.
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@hq3473 Capitalism always needs new markets and resources to exploit. Like the US the Japaneses were late getting into the game so to speak but when they did they went all out in their area of the world. They would go to war with the CZAR in 1905 and defeat the Russian Navy.
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@ralphbernhard1757 I can't disagree. The US however didn't count on losing China to the Chinese.
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They should have caught the academic problem when it happened not years later. It just like going after Trump because people disagree with him.
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When you start with lies like, "...Too bad all the young people were outside waving Sickle and Hammer Flags..." why should anyone put their trust in you? The Democrats and Republicans neither Marxists nor Communists. I am and I am calling you out as being liar for ultra rightist political purpose. They don't call themselves Marxists or Communists so that should be the first clue that they aren't.
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Person will? Explain please?
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I get it. You know I'm wrong but somebody else will explain it? Thanks for the no information and non explanation.
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That's an expected response from someone born with a brain between their legs. Go over to Youporn they need intelegent commenters like you. You can post pictures of your 'junk' and get a lot of gay viewers.
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You could have national campaigns to get rid of these diseases and require testing for all international travelers crossing international borders. We use to be required to get a smallpox and polio vaccination before attending public school. Travel to certain counties also required vaccinations. It is not the backward thinking that needs to change since it is in a minority just like the majority that wants anatomically and scientifically correct sex education not absence only. It is the refusal of the Medical profession and politicians to take a stance and demand this.
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@BUDDYSHADOW Its the time pressure that the bosses who like Warren Buffet who sit in offices all day driving a desk and demanding bigger profits that is the cause of these "accident" which are NOT accidents at all but do to greed of the capitalist bosses. The capitalist government is totally ineffective the same way it can not stop any other of the social castropies caused by the Bosses greed and their crisis ridden system. Only workers control of industry and our use of the trade union can begin to address these problems.
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@jackieollij7434 Your lies are noted. Fidel had no Swiss bank accounts or African diamonds hidden as family property.
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@stankozubenko8520 What was the reason for decline? People like Paul Samuelson had predicted a Soviet Economy exceeding the USA right up to 1989.
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@stankozubenko8520 What was the reason for decline? People like Paul Samuelson had predicted a Soviet Economy exceeding the USA right up to 1989.
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@Bucknastyy End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@christinefury1040 Cuban Americans are beginning to turn against US Imperialist policy just ask Carlos Lazo and his Bridges of Love organization. End the Blockade!!
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Obviously she became a threat by acting outside of the two boss party system.
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Fascism is a movement not just a type of politician. Trump talks about MAGA being a movement now some with in it may be fascists'.
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@Zenth-cq1tb You decided to move production elsewhere for bigger profits and then decided it was cheaper to hire foreign educated labor and now you are wondering how you recreated the tower of babel? You know if people like you and Sowell weren't so stupid we would have half the problems we do.
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It's because of Stalinism and Social Democrats reformism.
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Of course Brittain was rich because its colonies were poor. It lost it's colonies after the war. Now it's in an economic crisis despite being one of the first countries to adopt capitalism.
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@williamwest9204 The mad men of the American capitalist ruling class still occupy Washington DC. Armed to the teeth and building more nuclear weapons they are a threat to life on the planet.
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Communism is a movement not a romantic doctrine. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Capitalism can't outrun its own contradictions. It can only lead to war against the trade unions (fascism) and Imperialist foreign wars. The ruling classes are just to greedy to do anything else.
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Dela Flowers Capitalist care only for profits in or out of fake CCP. CCP recommends Hong Kong Bosses fire protesters.
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Dela Flowers We aren't going to tell anyone they can't be an administrator especially if their good at it. We are a workers party (Socialist Workers Party) and a workers movement. If your workers are happy with the way you are doing things why would we want to change that? TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com
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Dela Flowers No I didn't. Members of Communist Party USA?
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Dela Flowers So one of the Latin American Partido Socialista Trabajadores? What makes you think I would know them? Plenty of communists around I certainly don't know everyone.
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@DeliciousDeBlair There is nothing wrong with the building of a road and railway connecting China to Europe. The problems arise because of the competition between different national capitalist classes for markets, cheap labor and the profits that go along with them. if the world were infinite then the capitalist could keep building, reinvesting in new machinery and never run out of markets. The problem for them is that isn't true. So trade war begins which is followed by real war. How far away are we from a real war with China? That would obviously be a disaster for the world but will each side pull back from the brink before it becomes to late?
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@DeliciousDeBlair There can be no level playing field since capitalism is based on the nation state. Inside nation states the capitalist have rules of competition. These gentlemanly disagreements in national contract law between say GM and Ford are mildly and easily enforced with civil law by their state apparatus. Outside of the nation state the rules are decided upon by brute military strength. The last big test of that brutal power was called WW2. After which a system of rules of power and tested military strength was set up called the United Nations and Bretton Woods Agreement. The big powers sit as permanent members on the Security Council with veto power over any joint UN military action. The General Assembly is there to provide a complainers and protesters forum only an like an open steam valve. Bretton Woods provided the new monetary rules for the capitalist countries. As an addendum: Each capitalist state reserves most of it wrath, police violence and military state power for use against its own workers and family farmers.
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@DeliciousDeBlair You could go back to the end of WW2 and changed the word China with USA and CCP with Democrats and Republicans and you would have a very similar if not the same argument. .
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@virginiagillespie4610 Liberals like Obama bowed before the Saudi Prince.
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@IlanSanto-vd7ei I'm really tired of the liberal BS. All this BS about Trump being a threat like you are guys are angels. Everyone knows you lie like rugs.
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France will pay for it.
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Capitalism replaces higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first.
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Sowell provides not a shred of any credible evidence that the actions of Amadou Diallo were suspicious such that cops need to have their guns drawn. The cops had their trial moved on the grounds that an impartial jury in NYC could not be found. Of course this would not happen in the neighborhood of the Thomas Sowell who lives in Bedfird, CA. His training as a Marine is totally irrelevant unless the cops want to admit they are an occupying military force of American Imperialism at home that was used in the Korean "police action".
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@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Unions provide the workers with the experience of running their own organizations without the bosses. They learn how to use solidarity to defeat the bosses in the class struggle.
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@NothingButTheTruth2.0 You asking why a tiger doesn't trim its own claws? You don't actually believe the lies Democrats like Biden and Clinton tell about themselves? The two party system is suppose to swing back and forth defending overall capitalist interests. The bosses always seek to have a pirah class that they can use for extra exploitation and to hold down overall wages. A last hired first fired group for when the profit needs of the bosses resulting from either overproduction or underproduction of commodities that can no longer get the same rates of profits. The bosses seek to manage production such that they can always make a profit despite the natural tendency of profit rates to decline as capital replaces labor in giant industries over long periods of time.
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@AlejandroMartinez-it4qq Batista was your Dictator. Eighty three men sailed on the Grandma only 12 survived the landing the others died at the hands of the Dictatorship. Than you cried to Kennedy please Banker Kennedy help us take back ours and your property. Banker Kennedy sent all you Cuba international playboys for CIA military training. Then you invaded at Playa Giron. As Fidel said you had a good plan but what you lacked was a just cause. You were defeated in 72 hours despite US Navy ships just off the coast.
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@Lando-cb9ol It's actually comes from English law as the King wanted everyone born on English soil to be subject to his rule. The only exceptions are the children of diplomats. Other countries have their own laws but most of those who were influenced by England like Canada have birthright citizenship. If you are a private sector worker you are producing more than what you are paid. Plus the US birth rate has fallen below replacement.
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His role is to show the superiority of capitalism over all past systems of production which anyone who reads the communist manifesto already understands.
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If they fled Cuba it is because they were criminals from the Batista dictatorship. Otherwise the left for the promises of America. Building Socialism is a task for a free people those who want to leave for the United States have been free to do so. It is the United States that had the wet foot dry foot policy for many years.
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With the way the US hands out weapons to anyone willing to call themselves an ally who knows where they came from not to mention as an example of capitalist government thinking with what happened with "fast and furious" weapons that the DEA ended up letting the Mexican Drug Cartels have.
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@一-u5l Stalin was an idiot unable to think abstractly. Churchill was a leader and representative of a dying Imperialist Empire. The British Labor Party would become the British "Imperialist" Labor Party devolving into a rotten party of capitalist saviours like the American Democratic Party.
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@dominicus9891 If Stalin had understood Marx and Lenin he wouldn't have made all the errors he did. Stalin reverted back to the pre war and backward ideas of the second international like many of today's reformist leaders of the Socialist and Communist Parties. .People like Gorbachev and Yeltsin along with the Chineses Communist Party were and are just following in Stalin's footsteps.
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@pamlemm903 Sowell also repeats the lies told by Stalin told about the Tartars and Voga Germans siding with the NAZI's.
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@joesullivan259 No doubt you're a skinflint boss who loves his money. You invested heavily in Clinton and lost. Me I can stop laughing at you. You'll be getting what you deserve after the revolution which is an honest job with no golden parachutes, big bonus checks and every 3 month dividend checks.
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@ParkrosePermaculture The capitalist political culture seeks to mystify everything which is why terms are constantly screeched and twisted like pretzels. College educated people like yourself are part of the problem NOT the solution. Authoritarian is another example its rooted in the word author which means someone who runs things by the book. The NAZI's also did this by taking the name National Socialist German Workers Party when they chief members were the non Jewish Petti bourgeois and declassed petty criminals. It was anti Marxist to the core yet today once again Capitalist libertarians are calling the NAZI Left Socialists. In General people like yourself will become the supporters of big capitalism since you have no serious way to live without it. You never really left libertarianism.
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Panakeje I don't remember him using his name but his real political attacks are aimed at Trotsky. After all few people see nothing good about Stalin since the end of the Soviet Union. This is why talks about if only I were the Marxist Dictator I'd ussure in the damn utopia. Of course if he attacked Trotsky directly it would lead to much more interesting discussions.
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@flyinghighagain7712 In Cuba they had a revolution where the peasants were taught to read reducing illiteracy. They would like you to believe communism is a dangerous ideology because protection of their ideology requires carpet bombing, napalm, agent orange and cluster bombs. The US couldn't stand losing Cuba to the Cubans. The spend their time writing some of the most outrageous lies about Cuba. Do they say anything about how they bombed the island with B-26 Alabama National Guard Bombers painted with Cuban markings? Do they tell you about the 20, 000 who died in the struggle to oust General Batista? All they want to talk about is how his police who engaged in monstrous torture were tried and executed. A trial that most of their victims never got. How a US CIA agents Luis Posada and Orlando Boshe admitted planning the downing of a Cubana civilian airliner killing all 73 people aboard. These terrorist were protected by the Bush family even though Bush claimed no country had the right to harbor terrorist. Bush Sr. was once CIA head but now that they are dead they took the rest of their secrets to the grave.
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@flyinghighagain7712 it's still difficult for most Americans to understand how a society could be based not on free markets but human solidarity. How working people could handle issues like safety and pollution through trade unions rather than government officials easily bribed and based in a state bureaucracy protecting profits based in a capitalist government in DC. How organization could replace hiring and firing where you left on your own with education being a right as necessary for life itself.
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@flyinghighagain7712 No you won't get to socialism by changing faces in DC with a Bernie Sanders creating a fairer capitalism. Only the working people can change the system through their own struggles to end the abuses of a system that puts lawyers who are protecting capitalist thieves in charge who know little other than how to play a game with each other in a rigged system.
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@flyinghighagain7712 I'm sure more US capitalist politicians will provide you with all the necessary "Happy horseshit."
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@flyinghighagain7712 "Fake small business" is when the law is written such that a businesses held by holding company, large franchise company or say a business with a very high capital to labor ratio can fit into the small business category. How would you classify a small business? Number of workers, capitalization, ownership? Shack shack qualified (later returning its money) as having less than 500 employees per physical business location. Some other guy complained with 310 employees and six locations saying he didn't get anything at all. I tend to think of a small business as less than 15 full time or no more than 25 full and part time workers with a total capitalization of less than a million dollars own by a family. I think that is more than generous. Not a company traded on the stock exchange or a holding company run by a dozen people with a billion dollars in capitalization, people owning multiple franchises each viewed as a single business and a 100 worker cleaning or building trades contractor.
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@flyinghighagain7712 Let me try and explain it this way. Most recessions are set off by an economic problem in capital markets what Marx called, fictitious capital which causes a contraction in production and trade. These crisis are cyclical meaning the happen about every ten years or so. They've been hoping to stave off this one with cheap money loans by central banks. This one was technically set off by the virus. That doesn't mean it's not an economic crisis like all crisis before it. The capitalist can't avoid doing what they've done in all past crisis making us pay for their systems crisis.
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Jose C To bad all you millionaires lost the Cuban revolution. Defeated in 72 hours at Giron. Waiting for an invasion by US Marines so you can reopen your gambling casinos, your bordellos, the big haciendas with plenty of maids, a butler, driver and pool boy. Those days when Batista's cronies lived like kings while the peasants had empty bellies and their children had no clothes with bellies full of parasites. The days when the country was run from the US Embassy.
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Jose C You shouldn't expose your lack of knowledge. I don't know who is worse the Maoist or foolish people like you who think the Maoist are Leninists. Lenin's April 1917 theis agreed with Trotsky's Permanent Revolution an alliance with workers and peasant farmers. Stalin was forced to retreat from the alliance with bourgeois liberals which he later revived as a theory with Lenin's death. This can easily seen in Mao's bloc of four classes. Mao had to found The Peoples Republic of China without the National Bourgeois since their rep General Chang refused to join a coalition government a recipe for disaster (Spain, France, in the 30's and China in 1929). After Mao died the CCP welcomed back the National Bourgois making the bloc of four classes complete. Look at the Chinese flag those four stars are for the four classes. Workers, Peasants, petti bourgeois and national bourgeois. Landlords and Warlords were left out.
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Jose C A casino is a clearly a case of capitalist parasitism like the lottery tickets. You get nothing but the fetish of possibly winning money. You actually get something tangible which has a purpose when you buy most commodities or you trade you labor for money the universal commodity.
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Jose C Your the ones who have decided to spend 1.2 trillion or more on new nuclear weapons. The American capitalist are already in a crisis bigger than 2008. 33.5 million unemployed. We will all see how long the supposed non aggression principle lasts. You won't be able to keep your greed from attacking us in the name of austerity to solve you profit crisis and the decline in the rate of return on investment. It's up to us to begin the fight back against austerity. Those protests might look like support for Trump (Who has been smart enough to get ahead of the curve.) but with no end in sight they will grow larger with less support for your politicians. UI promises to the 1099ers are empty since they don't get reported until January. Many of those in tourism bus drivers , B&B, and guides won't see work until next spring. Predatory banks will be foreclosing on homes and small business. With that kind of unemployment bosses will be cutting wages down to the minimum pleading poverty as the usual excuse and how we must all sacrfice.
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Jose C I'm a gas station coffee guy. All that talk about drivers carrying pistols is just not true.
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Jose C Why don't you just code you way out of this depression or have you reached the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
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Jose C You want me to Code Neanderthal? Char Jose_C Jose_C= Neanderthal Print Jose_C
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Jose C Will you marry the New Chineses Emperor of the New Tang Dynasty?
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Jose C I'm sure with your millions you will have no problem making a purchase or maybe a rent to own relationship.
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Jose C Sure you are. You're on you way to being the next billionary.
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Jose C Where's you proof that I'm richer than you? You claim to have more knowledge so time to spill the beans.
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Jose C Your going to be a billionaire because you a genius who can code and lives in the greatest world Empire/Meritocracy. Your going to be famous on TV Radio and Screen door. Everyone will say their goes the most educated genius of a man in the world Jose C and not only will he be a billionaire but the first world trillionary.
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Jose C What the hell are you babbling about you need to buy more lottery tickets or bet on the ponies if you can't play the stock market. How else are you going to be the next trillionaire. Get to work and stop wining about not being a millionaire. For Christ sakes people are going to think you some kind of communist.
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Jose C A guy like you who gives up so easily is never going to make it to "Shark Tank". I do your coding. job. I give you all this inspiration and now you say your not planning to be filthy rich?
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Jose C I seem to remember some "inferior minds" making a some big bucks off the Mass Lottery. https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/09/30/frequent-cashers-policy-one-year-winners https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/how-mit-students-gamed-the-lottery/470349/
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Soren G Tool? I left MIT over 45 years ago. I had lots of fun sending Jose C to the wood shed. He's really busy now looking out for the rich like any other dumb cop.
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Soren G Sorry but I left the tool production factory (MIT) before I could be indoctrinated. I don't have a university degree. Comrade (I use to be a socialist) Peterson is the actual elitist. Running around talking about all his university "post modernist comrades" as if they are the really important Marxists.Those us who are both Marxists and actual workers don't count. I've never actually had a white collar or supervisory job.
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Donny Danko Screw you since the left opposition are the workers who wanted to continue the path of Lenin and Trotsky. The Oct 1917 Politburo had seven members only Lenin and Stalin died natural deaths. Stalin accused all the rest of being part of a Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center in the Moscow Trials with the beginning of the murder machine. Four of the seven were ethnic Jews. That's one of the reason Hitler was always yelling about Jewish communism. Hitler was a darling of world capitalism including in the US and Britain until he began threatening the French and British Empires. Hitler praised Henry Ford republishing his antisemitic rant "The International Jew" first published in Ford's Dearborn Independent. Ford received the Nazi awarded Grand Cross of the German Eagle just before the Imperialist war broke out. American Intellectuals including John Dewey investigated Stalin's 1936 to 1938 frame up trials and declared them frame ups.
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Donny Danko When the Nuremberg Trials were held the NAZI's argued that they took their Nuremberg racial laws from the American Souths segregation laws. They also cited a popular American theory of Social Darwinism that predated today's American capitalist ruling class theory of meritocracy.
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And the Republican Goldwater was stupid enough to vote against the 1964 civil rights bill. Democrats will have immigrants always voting for them as soon as they pass an amnesty bill you and Trump will be against.
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@-ED- Is their a reason to believe bitcoin is not a fiat currency since it is not backed up by any tangible commodity? The coins are really just special numbers mined by computers with a predetermined limit after which no more bitcoins can be mined nor do those numbers have any intrinsic value. i can't make any use of them as with gold or silver being used to make jewelry or the industrial use of gold and silver in electrical equipment and electronics.
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You also say there is no central bank with bitcoin. Well the US Federal Reserve is the world's central bank and with few exceptions all other currency issued by national central banks are connected by exchange rates and so is bitcoin only it is not guaranteed by a national political and economic banking scheme. I have to buy the coins from others who have bought extras with either a currency trade or a commodity trade. The bitcoin central bankers are the coin miners who invest in electricity, computers and time to find the special numbers that can be verified by all users. Past records of trades are kept in the blockchain as a way to look back and then individually decide on the value future trades in the blockchain where both parties must agree. The only thing decentralized is the blockchain records everyone has access to the blockchain record keepers. How long do you plan on keeping all the records and what use will even a big trade made 20 to 50 years ago have besides historical interest? What about small trades like buying a pack of chewing gum?
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@mikesgoodmann9349 Na he rather live next to you and Hillary Clinton in a gated community.
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@mikesgoodmann9349 You know absolutely nothing about racism. My uncle had skin as white as snow but his hair was kinky which made him the butt of jokes about his dad being a N** in the wood pile. It only took 1/10 of being black to make you the victim. Nelson Mandela came first to Cuba to thank Fidel for all he had done for Africa. Malcolm X said Cuba now their is a real revolution. See we do more than just talk like all two party politicians We lead by example. Fidel and Che were only 2 of 12 out of 83 who landed on the Beach arms in hand and made it into the mountains. Fidel broke up his own families farm with the Agricultural reform act. The revolution against Batista was made with all American arms. Most of them captured from Batista's demoralize soldiers. You see the big May day rallies in Havana that's because workers first learn to vote with their feet. The 26th of July movement victory caravan rode into Havana on American made Sherman tanks.
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Biden is tooo cheap!!1
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France will pay for it.
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The've been running speed traps in small town Georgia forever. Probably since they invented the police car. You would think they'd keep the local cops off the Interstates. Guess not.
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@DontTreadOnTeachers Libertarins always talk about how capitalism and markets could work without a government when the capitalist monopolize government. They and not the socialists are the real idealists.
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@raycogo3302 No labor time to produce goes down but the value of the capital rises. Profits go towards the now more productive firm or industry which is why the investment was made however prices slump towards the cost of production over time which means an overall declining rate of return on investment since the profit comes from our unpaid labor. The very statistic by which all capitalist judge success. So capitalism successful innovation always proceeds its decline by the logic of maximizing profits. Capitalism is the first system with the problem of overproduction. For if the capitalist can not sell all that is produced at a profit he will take a ;loss but since the workers can not buy back all that can be produced then capitalism will inevitable enter crisis of overproduction. Too much produced without enough buyers.
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@raycogo3302 Their demands for a profit are getting in the way of the productive forces and that means their time is up as a class for they have become no different that the previous exploiting classes of land owners and slave masters. If the productive forces are left in their hands the will only use them to destroy us. That's because capitalism always creates a centralized nation state power to defend bourgeois private property. This is why all the Imperialist powers are reaming and preparing for war with each other despite the possibility of nuclear states launching attacks on each other. .
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You supply the votes and they supply the promises. Create a labor party with the unions and put workers in control of Congress and the Whitehouse.
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@GenXDesigns Unions have always been voluntary organizations of the working class not tied to the capitalist and their state power. Labor has always had to protect itself. What you suggest is the creation of company unions of fakers. The two parties are tied to the bosses and the big donners they call the shots
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The cops always play a game where they were taking a long blink when something happens to the strikers but never miss trick if the strikers get tired of the attacks and fight back.
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@CVPI222 You can also bet that workers in Mexico and Canada at GM Plants are talking about this strike.
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My guess is he is just going to let this thing just string out and hope they stop asking him anymore questions.
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@TychoKingdom Its an open secret that construction bosses go in and out of bankruptcy court all the time and they hide all kinds of real assets like tools and trucks from the bankruptcy court.
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@petercristo992 The best way to scare a capitalist politician and the bosses is to put them to work. When a stockholder has to stand next to hot steel going in the air like ribbon candy he gets an new concept of risk. When the Rail bosses have to go in the yard and watch out for rolling stock they get a new ideas about rail safety.
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@masvik9720 It goes along with the myths that Al Gore invented the Internet, Bill Gates invented DOS, and Edison invented the lightbulb.
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@GabeHiggins I was working with a neighbors 4G LTE AT&T iphone today. I found it to be very clumsy compared to my android.
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@GabeHiggins I also think we will only see 5G in areas with lots of phones and small areas where a tower is to costly with pole attachment being a favored way of delivering cell service. You don't need lots of bandwidth for any ordinary use besides those large new UHD TV.
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Goldie O Sure he will that's why he calls himself Nasi (Nazi) and Goreng (Herman Goering NAZI Chief of Propaganda.)
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@dinosore4782 Lenin's brother was not a Marxist. He was instead a terrorist who believed all you need to do was to assassinated the Czar to make change. i could go on but when you start with a lie... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ulyanov Here the claim is he was influenced by Marx. So What? Lots of people were influenced by Marx including one of the founders of American Conservatism James Burnham who was a former member of the Socialist Workers Party.
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@goldersgreen2177 Who's brother?
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@nobonesaboutit7639 It is completely ridiculous to give something a right it has never had and never will. You can no more guarantee a fetus a "right to life" than a chicken egg. In fact nowhere has anyone been granted a right to life outside of those societies who believe that their ruler is a god that will never die.
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@mortendanpedersen4159 The title of the video has absolutely nothing to do with the content. Most of the Video has nothing to do with the Soviet Union but rather CZARist Russia.
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@Powwer69 Congress wrote the Constitution and made itself the most power branch when it is united. It can impeach Justices and the President but a President and the courts can not touch sitting Congressmen without tacit Congressional approval.
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Sowell's America you notice how he says nothing about America colloquialism or Imperialism. The Bolshivks were the first to begin a serious campaign against colonialism.
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@scottrichardson1529 The Imperialist ruling classes started world war one..The crimes of Western Imperialism went on for centuries Stalin's were only for a few years. The imperialist invaded the Soviet Union and Trotsky's red army drove them back out. Lenin called for national self determination of the colonial peoples. Mandela thanked Fidel Castro for all he and Cuba did for Africa. We need a US Imperialism's "New World Order" like we need a hole in the head. You'd still be selling the Chinese opium if Mao hadn't kicked the western Imperialist out. No one has starved in Cuba despite the US blockade. The Imperialist nations held a gab fest called the League of Nations after world war one. The Bolsheviks held the Congress of the peoples of the East in Baku.
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@AkiraNakamoto Their was a split in the Party in 1928 that began with Lenin death in 1924. Lenin wanted Stalin out of his post as General Secretary. Socialism Utopian and Scientific explains why we are not utopians or idealist but materialists. Sure we took power after a vote in the Petrograd Soviet and later after another vote in the All Russian Soviet and the rest of the country. We along with the Left SR's had a majority. .
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@AkiraNakamoto Any finding concerning probability doesn't invalidate Einstien for purposes of GPS or Newton for bathroom scales. I really don't know what you think you have proven? Are sure you haven't got the know it all complex.
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@AkiraNakamoto Sowell rejects class struggle for markets. Let me know when you give up the fetishism of the free market. Something that has never existed in the history of mankind How often can you have a market with just two players? Once you add members than you must talk about groups and not just individuals. Class struggle in the modern world involves groups and nation states. You now have a world and a world market that many people on the globe that are aware of While previous generations were much more ignorant and unconnected.
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Advice from Sowell and others. Sit back and do nothing, You can't possible do about your situation because a free market is the olky fix. Something that has never existed nor will ever exist libertrianism for thw working class corporate and government power for the Capitalist class,
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@AkiraNakamoto All that does is reconfirm the 1st and second law. It doesn't prevent a better organization of the world does it? Nor has all your knowledge put an end to the class struggle. Its nothing more than Sowells smug "little know it all" conclusion that nothing can be done so sit back and watch. If you and Sowell are correct than we should be destroying ourselves from the very beggining of human history. Afterall no progress could possible be made by man or life in the form of biology either.The fact that we can't know what goes on beyond the event horizon is no reason to put down our tools and surrender to death.
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@AkiraNakamoto The last research from MIT was unable to find a violation of the laws of thermodynamics at a micro level. Once I have cataract surgery my bad eyes will be able to convey to my stupid brain what you are babbling about concerning the conjecture.
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@AkiraNakamoto Maybe so after all I didn't pass Quantum at MIT. Although I've heard of the argument between Bohr and Einstein. I'm NOT an academic or professional engineer. Seems to me it proves the free market knows nothing. That Sowell and Friedman are just commodity fetishist. After all their is no free market. A market is just a social construct that requires regulation/protection in any real situation. No one has written an algorithm for a data processing machine that neither stops or falls into a simple loop.
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@Kingzombiemyanmar Russia should leave Ukraine to the Ukrainians. They is no need for Putin to launch an invasion. Putin can't bring back the Soviet Union because it was created by the revolutionary proletariat not leader of a new private property banking oligarchy.
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More people are interested in politics and want to here what the real socialists have to say. The defeat of reformism does not mean that the working class has been pushed of the stage of history. If anything the defeat of swamp candidate Clinton and the choice of the no experience Trump means just the opposite.
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I guess there scary enough because so far every judge has ruled against the bakery. Remember the left only has to be scary enough we don't need to be excessively scary just scarry enough.
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@mariapatel3522 Does the man have a mind or only the fear of another intelectual of his own kind? Karl Marx was a mass murderer? Anyone that Karl Marx murdered have a name?
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Nobody moves for laws. Workers move to find jobs and bosses look for where they can make the biggest profits. As long as these capitalist parties are in charge things will get worse for the working class. Should be another recession/depression in ten years time.
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Survivalist news? You'll be lucky to last a few months after a nuclear war.
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Workers are more likely to move to where the jobs are rather than the bosses moving jobs to where we are. Jobs may pay more in the NorthEast and Far Western States but living costs are higher their also. Most people want to work where the pay is highest and retrie where cost of living is the lowest. But other factors enter like family and moving costs. I wouldn't move to California without the prospect for a high paying job but I move to Texas for the chance at a good paying job. I'm retried now so I travel around in mostly rural campgrounds.
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@JustMe-fs2yh Its a two party dictatorship.
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@Robert Le Education and Healthcare are overhead expenses with capitalism to be minimized and made available only to a few. In order to drive profits their way the capitalist replace skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. This raises the capital value but lowers the labor needed to produce such that when in prices inevitably slump towards the cost of production the rate of profit must go down because the source of the profit is our labor and not the capital. "Simple"ton" capitalism" also caused the crisis of 2008.
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@Robert Le Your the one talking about how charter schools work by the principle of simple capitalism. I point out that education doesn't work for under capitalism because of the way it works and you call it ranting. Well i guess you don't understand how the capitalist economy works. That the goal of the bosses is profit maximization.not offering people something that they will give you money for. Cuba has ten thousand foreign students studying medicine at no direct cost to the student and sends brigades of Doctors to poor countries. While in the United States for every three Doctors who retire one has to be replaced by an immigrant Doctor. That is why we say capitalism can't produce medical care and education for the working class. All a charter school is is a school sent up with extra funding and lower pay for the non union teachers. You don't think Bill Gates went to a school like that no his school even had a computer when not even all the Ivy's had one. He was papered with small classes. The ruling class is taught how to boss at a young age. They are taught public speaking. He even got in some practice being a parasite by leasing his baseball glove to his sister. The same opportunities are not out their for everyone the your class is the most important factor in how successful you are. They are the benefactors of the real "Head Start" program called hereditary class position.
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George I would have nothing if the Social Security Act of 1935 had not passed Congress in the middle of the great depression. Something the bosses are always talking about taking away with the empty promises of private "bankrupt" pensions. That bill for a social wage for workers would have never passed Congress without the three General Strikes lead by different factions of the Communist Party in 1934. We are the industrial workers and we make all modern life possible. Not bosses like Bill Gates who do nothing but suck blood. Gates and friends did nothing but move the Computer industry to China for lower labor costs and then cry about the loss of intellectual property rights to China. The Chinese won't pay Gates for claims he owns the rights to every thought that comes from brains he feeds. Gates is a bad joke in the computer industry called a bully who wears glasses and a sweater running a company that never had an original idea it didn't try to steal. He tells others "You realize Microsoft has the market for office productivity." His only skill is being a ruthless monopolistic tyrant in the business world. When he couldn't get people sent to prison for copying software that he and big tech boasted as being free he had them jailed for copying the Microsoft font on the CD hard copy. .To control and limit markets big tech writes terms of service and limits parts sales to partners all to keep you or small business from repairing or using the parts and software you or a small business paid for in any way but theirs. Big tech has decided it must monitor all information to watch for dis information. Those who have bad ideas about the ruling class of bankers and bosses must be contained with technological innovation to make the world safe for the capitalist exploitation. Its an ought right lie that capital can produce a god dam thing otherwise a perpetual motion machine would be possible. All capital does is accumulate and demand a return on investment.
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George Before Keynes the capitalist worshiped the idols of gold and sliver. Marx was able to that capitalism would go into decline because of the contradiction of the profit being the unpaid labor of the workers that would require the capitalist to develop machines to replace labor but this would cause the rate of profit to fall and drive the bosses to unpopular wage cuts. . Keynes came along and told the capitalist what they wanted to hear that capital actually produces and you need to forget your love of gold and replace it with the love of debt, the number, the machine and the ledger book. This is the world you live in now where love of the machine, love of the number and love of debt has replaced the love of gold. Despite clanging the way you count a profit and replacing the wage cut with inflation you can not avoid the maximization of profit as the goal of the capitalist and capitalism can not avoid facts that iits based based in the exportation of labor not capital producing anything. For if capital colud produce without labor than a perputual motion machine woud be possible. This is why all the MIT Math and Science genius hired by the banks to create a productive derivative failed and the 2008 collapse happened.
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@Robert Le Why should the middle and upper class democratize the schools? Why would they want meritocracy.. The capitalist would much better like to show the justice of capitalists reward and punish system, how the poor and homeless aren't victims of capitalist greed but just the natural result of a human imperfections and how a little corruption isn't all that bad. After all they got politicians who can write greed regulations and arbitrate everything down to the penny. Liberals like Warren Buffet they drive a 9-5 desk for a few Billon a year bragging about paying less taxes than his secretary and risk paper cuts and pencil stab wounds. While two workers at BNSF an Engineer and a conductor drive a 100 car freight train at 70 mph with sleep fatigue. Buffet wants more he says fire those who can't meet his new work point system, get rid of the conductor and pay the engineer a few more dollars. Mean while the Railway Slave labor act says the workers can not strike without capitalist government permission.
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Lets cut the EV credits and Space X feeding at the government trough. Increase taxes on the rich.
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It has brought up the whole question of why the US government supports such a regime and its Yemen war. The journalists have torn the liberal reformer mask off of the regime showing its ugly brutality before the world.
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tin pan alley 1619 Broadway Many workers correctly understand that the election of either party to power is an absolutely meaningless exercise.
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tin pan alley 1619 Broadway Forty percent of the US eligible electorate didn't vote in the last presidential elections. That is a real world fact. What do you think those voters do for a living? Write and dance in Broadway musicals like you?
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@TheMacrebnac Yang can be quickly summed up as a FORTRAN "Continue" statement. He promises a continuation of capitalism.
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tin pan alley 1619 Broadway Whats the going rate for an IQ of 130? Is it more or less expensive than a 1750 SAT Score?
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tin pan alley 1619 Broadway Oh I thought all the politically correct people could only used the word pussy when talking about pussy willows. Now you won't be able to get the Village People to sing at your next birthday party. I hear they've got a DJ that plays old Anita Bryant Orange Juice songs at special rock bottom prices for occupants of Trump Tower like yourself.
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@TheUmbrellaCorpX7[エヴ] Yang is just a "Continue" (do nothing) statement in an old FORTRAN 77 program.
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@TheUmbrellaCorpX7[エヴ] The man (Yang) set up VFA with claims he would create 100,000 jobs. VFA has 30 employees and has created 2,500 jobs. Anyone can "...want(s) to get stuff done...". Past sucess or failure is a good barometer for future sucess or failure. Trump got elected and the sky didn't fall except at Hillary Clinton coffee klatches. The sky won't fall if Yang doesn't get elected either.
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@jasonorndorff7425 A flat tax will develop loopholes just like the federal income tax. The bosses will plead poverty as they claim they're just one step away from homelessness on an LA sidewalk while hiring another another caterer for the next swimming pool party.
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@Eric Pham You think they can just flip a switch and put everyone back to work? They're already preparing you for the misery they are going to inflict upon the workers because of their coronavirus crisis. Bosses don't restart production without contracts in hand. They're talking about a failure in the food supply chain. Food prices are going to go through the roof.
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@Eric Pham I became a Communist over the Vietnam war. The economic part was more theoretical because of the post war prosperity if you can call it that was just ending. No one i know thinks of those countries as anything but capitalist countries with reforms. For that whole period the biggest struggles broke out in the third world, among minority workers in the US and the continual breaking up of the stalinist monolith. Everything changed with the 2008 crisis. For the first time since the late 1940's the working class as a whole not just those in the big plants, railroads and minority neighborhoods are interested in what we have to say. TheMilitant.com
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Naturally they let everything decline until they decide they can get the government to declare a foreign enemy like China beating them in the market place then they use tax money to subsidize themselves be cause they heed tp put compete with China.
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@chodingchoding3026 The US Puppet Diem brothers were overthrown in a military coup greenlighted by Kennedy and the US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. The Diem's were murdered in the back of an ARVN APC. That was the last so called civilian government in south Vietnam. A US backed military dictatorship with hundreds of political prisoners took over. Buddhist Monks protested by self immolation. President Johnson (D) arranged a fake Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify and get Congressional support in sending what would become a million man US Army in Vietnam. Every night on TV they would announce the number of Enemy, GI's Killed and the kill ratio. This was supposed to prove that the war was winnable because if they could kill enough there would be no one left to fight.
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@chodingchoding3026 On May 4th 1970 the Ohio National Guard shot into a crowd of Students at Kent State College. Four were killed including an ROTC student. Colleges and High Schools across the country ended business as usually in the largest ever student strike. The callousness with which the President and vice President who treated the deaths was disgusting. Just thinking about it makes me angry. I hate the US Gov't and both parties and I always will. Johnson and Nixon should have been tried for crimes against humanity like the NAZI after WW2 and not just Vietnam but for all the unnecessary GI's deaths they caused. Instead Norway decided to give the arch war criminal Kissinger a Peace Prize. To his everlasting credit Lee Duan never went to Norway to accept his Peace Prize that criminal Kissinger did.
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@raiklaub975 A fetus has no rights period.
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@timclimer6348 Abortion is a women's right. A fetus not a person.
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@josephnewbern2717 No you just want to punish women for having sex and want control of their bodies by a male religious order.
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@timclimer6348 I'm Okay with people picking scabs, penal implants or getting tattoos without government permission also.
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@timclimer6348 To prove murder you need to show that a person existed. In general we issue birth certificates and death certificates. A fetus never fits into the living being category. It's part of the women's body. It's the women's overall right to do as she pleases with her body and plan her life not yours.
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@josephnewbern2717 Women have a right to plan their lives and control their bodies without government and religious interference. You don't want an abortion or don't want to have sex that's your choice. When abortions are illegal the only difference is women die of illegal abortions. These Pro Life hypocrites care nothing about the women involved only maintaining some hypocritical moral standard just as you talk about sport f@ing. You do better to mind you own business. Evil is forcing someone to give birth against their will not posting a symbol next to a screen name. How many orphans have you adopted because the world has plenty as it is now any so called saved baby deserves better than to be raised like cattle in an orphanage.
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@josephnewbern2717 I tell you what why don't you go volunteer your body as a way to save fetuses? Go to the Vatican and ask to be a part of a research project for fetal transplant from mothers dying of cancer.
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@josephnewbern2717 You need to read the last line of the communist manifesto. "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!"
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@raiklaub975 Facism is the vomit thrown up by a dying capitalism and pro life anti abortion is part of the that anti worker, anti trade union, anti woman, and reactionary scum. Hitler made abortion punishable by death for German women. A fetus has no rights because no one has the right to another's body. It's as simple as that. Keep your reactionary capitalist government out of working women's affairs. No one needs your permission to get pregnant and control their own body. The only rights you care about are the capitalist states phoney human fights nonsense. You politicians are always the first to wage Imperialist war and use hunger as a weapon.
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@johnholliday5874 Hitler made abortion of the Master Race by German women a capital crime. Pro life doesn't give a crap about real life . Now that they have passed their antiabortion laws they have yet to prove they've saved a single baby.
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@johnholliday5874 You need to read Mein Kampf to understand National Socialism is anti Marxist and a plan to make Germany an Empire like Britain, America and France. He admired Henry Ford and translated reprinted Ford's anti Semetic tracts "The International Jew." Ford accepted a NAZI medal just before war broke out. The Nuremberg laws were modeled on American Democratic Party segregation laws. Liberal Joe Kennedy reported back to FDR that Hitler was some one you could do business with. "Hitler was the darling of German capitalism because he provided the strike breaking muscle.
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@johnholliday5874 Your the one who wants to write laws to make a fetus into an independent being with rights while ignoring the actual real. women involved. Lets write laws that prevent death by making it illegal thereeby
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@johnholliday5874 Why not write some laws to save innocence sperm while your on your high horse? The laws passed are those pushed by religious moral crusaders to give them a reason for assistance and corral votes for Grandstanding capitalist politicians. .Since they are completely unable to do anything about our real lives they are going to save the ideal constituent an unborn voter of a future election cycle.
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@johnholliday5874 You think of a human being as some kind of individual animal divorced from labor and the society we live in. You have yet to explain how passing a law invented by capitalist politicians who sole elected qualification is the ability defend property rights with police coercion can save a single mother or fetus. When you wife or daughter gets pregnant do you want a policeman with a badge and gun protecting against abortion or Doctor at the bedside? Do you think they need to bring in these politicians as medical school professors?
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@johnholliday5874 That's because you live in the world of the King and Property Owner who needs police and military protection from uneducated workers and peasants. Your own measure of success maximum profitability predicts you ultimate demise. For if capital could produce without labor than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Instead capital only accumulates and demands a retrun on investment. You become nothing more than tiny groups of greedy fools fighting for markets and resources.
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@johnholliday5874 The Imperialist ruling classes are to greedy which why you move towards Imperialist war abroad and fascism or war against the trade unions at home. You're' driven by profit and maximizing return on investment. You build giant industries only to let them go into decline because as machines replace labor than the rate of profit must decline. AS the've become too big to fail. You invest to expand production when you see a profitable market ahead otherwise you take your profit and drive up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses. You must keep building gaintic mounds of debt from which you demand a return regardless of success or failure of the enduing business to add any real economic value. You've built the worlds biggest military empire from which you go about the world demanding that the poor give you profits or death. You two party system of political domination is coming apart at the seems. As Liberals begin a drive to paint conservatives as Russian fascist and conservatives call liberals Chinese Communist with each side demanding the right to tell any lie in the crusade for profit.
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@johnholliday5874 So your not interested but Imperialism is still is the highest stage of capitalism and the end of the capitalist stage of development came with world war one. The destruction of the world wars only gave capitalism a second chance to restart primitive accumulation.
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@johnholliday5874 You mean Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. They are just copying the American Imperialist. Capitalism is based in nation states and the proletariat has no common interests with the capitalist especially capitalist making war to defend their nation capitalist profit system. Like the American Imperialist China gives nothing away. You can't escape the problems of capitalism with greed regulation or with a communist party following the theories of Milton Freedman. The problem for the American Imperialist is they've let their own production slow in favor of world financial gain. They fear the working class at home and the Chinese producers on the world market. They though that the end of the Soviet Union gave them a free hand on the world stage. They spent 2.3 trillion in Afghanistan for the best politicians money could buy only to lose to Chinese investors.
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Thats it go a name calling binge now to prove how smart you are.
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@will9134 Sowell made his whole career on attacking all his political opponents as Marxist, Communist, Liberals, Black, and Labor leaders who never did anything good according to him. Only smart ones like Sowell and his consetravie friends are blameless they are always correct and never make mistakes except when they don't follow his moral guidance. Yes Sowell was born as a perfect thinker which is why they call him a national treasure. When he dies they are going to canonise him as Sainit Sowell the perfect one.
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@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Why don't you tell us what big success you've become?
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@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Why don't go move to Saudi Arabia. Tell 'em how your a fellow Brit who owns shares in Saudi Aramco and likes the hospitality provided by the Prince at Embassies and would like to inspect a company of religious police like the good ole days of King and Country. .
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@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Maybe you'd like to lecture on Winston Churchill and Britain's finest hour when Bengal starved so the British Army could eat or the effectiveness of Human shields used by the British Army in the Palestine Mandate or How about the Civiling Mission of the British Empire?
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@pbxn-3rdx-85percent You educated by Brits because you use their form of English. Americans don't say Eh!
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@pbxn-3rdx-85percent If you speak Korean and are Asian why don't you go move to North Korea and give advice on how North Korea needs capitalism and Capitalist Bosses like you. Afterall you seem to think North Korea needs my help. I bet your closer and could do more for them so why have you gone to help Chairmen Kim out? You could become famous be like the next Milton Friedman who went to the Soviet Union to meet with Gorbachev. .
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@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Why don't you go to North Korea and tell them how much you love Imperialism. See if they need a clown like you to tell them what to do.
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@07zeka In free market theory investors take a rssk. Not so when you become "Too big to fail." like Chrysler, GM or the government bonds bought to finance the war spending because you have s government Federal Reserve Bank guarantees. It's been that way for all of Sowell's lifetime. He is just a propagandist for something the existed in the past and in his imagination only.
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The same problem that Conservatives have. The problem is capitalism.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 Marx lays out a general direction. None of the russian revolutionaries thought they could do anything but a holding action until the revolution succeeded in one of the more advanced countries like Germany first. The Paris Commune lasted 70 days. Lenin declared a victory after they lasted 70 days. When the lost the revolution in German they turned to tearing Imperialism limb from limb. Marx never put some timetable on anything either. I'm not really interested in what some professors says. Communism is a movemnet not a bunch of Bourgeois Professors pontificating on what would be a good way to introduce a universal reforms of capitalism. The fact that the Soviet system lasted 70 years and included China itself shows the viability of a workers state and planing. Cuba is continuing on with a workers state and also shows how you can put Marx's ideas to work and out do the neoliberalism of Sowell and Friedman. China and the United States have very similar problems connected to capitalism and the neoliberal ideas of Sowell and Friedman with their "rob the workers" with central bank generated inflation first proposed by Keynes. The capitalist all hold meetings where they plan out how they are going to manage the exploitation of us at meetings of the federal Reserve board and the same is true in the rest of the world where central banks do the central planning.
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@liviamaclean6324 Well now you have Putin who succeeded Yeltsin and Gorbachev going back to Stalin who had Trotsky deported and would destroy Lenin 's Party. How are thing now with Putin as the New Czar? You got the flag of the capitalist counter revolution and a wealthy oligarchy in charge what more could a lover of capitalism want? Stalin accused all his opponents of wanting a return to capitalism yet its his followers who were the ones who succeeded. Why not move to China they are catching up with the number of billionaires. Why wait and not get in on the action on the ground floor as they say?
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@liviamaclean6324 Your just like Gorbachev who could wait to eat at Pizza hut. You've bought into this "happy meal" capitalism story where you just put everything up for sale then the magical free market does its work. How what a hard life you had in the gulag. Well would you have been happier if the United States had used nuclear weapons instead of the cold war? They would have used them if Stalin didn't have them. Reagan wanted a first strike capability also. You'd have been turned into a "happy meal" if people like Reagan had their way.
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Sowell is a real "smart" who has supported every Imperialist war since Vietnam. When you look at 4 trillion dollars of Debt you can thank Sowell for his urging of the wise two party spending of Federal Reserve Notes on corporate military adventures.
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@AllUpOns The US floated Marshall plan loans to rebuild Western Europe the Soviets were specifically excluded from receiving any aid. You were all singing a different tune when all your colonial possessions didn't want a return of the European masters. The only ones flourishing are the bosses like Credit Suisse who just got themselves bailed out. Your whole European Union of Bosses is coming apart under the impact of Putin's war. Your all rushing to buy arms because your nothing but a bunch rotten capitalist ruling classes. Bosses like George Soros with his Open Society are crying about how civilization is ending. Hows you Davos crowd friends doing? I hear it's "man overboard" "every boss for himself".
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@AllUpOns The US was the only industrial nation not devastated by war. It used that advantage for all it was worth. Now it is a situation with China just like the British Empire was with Germany. You think those Chinese are anymore Communist than the German Social Democrats were in 1914? Sure they are all flourishing that why they have all theses problems that keep coming up like War in Ukraine and middle eastern conflict. Where and why do you think all these refugees are moving across the planet? Ya they are doing terrific. That's why all these protests are breaking out and everyone hates these establishment politicians. The only thing a clown like Sowell proves is how disconnected to reality he really is.
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@neptasur As long as the capitalist rule than no rights the working people have will be safe from profit sucking scum.
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@neptasur You don't build anything without all kinds of plans first and you only produce if you anticipate a profit in the outcome. Not only that but the rate of profit declines as you replace labor with machines which means capitalism itself must come to an end. Markets don't make decisions people do with capitalism business secrets are enshrined in law. One of the demands of the workers must be to open the capitalist books to see how the income is being spent. With capitalism production occurrs only so long as a tiny ruling class profits. Profiting itself is very much nothing more than gambling with the economy. Their is no "a central planner" rather a general central plan is worked out among all the producers. Capitalism is exploitative and it developed in nation states these nations capitalist exploiters are like thieves in the world market who can not get along as so wage Imperialist war in efforts to take what others claim. That has beening going on and off in some part of the world since 1914 and since 1917 the workers have held state power as a class in addition to having industrial unions.
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@neptasur GM AND GE don't go to Walmart to buy the raw materials they need. The difference is the capitalist privately plan for profits and that is what makes the system unstable and causes all the social crisis. You can't avoid a declining rate of profit as machines replace labor. Obviously if planning works for the capitalist then the workers can do an even better job of planning and cooperation among different nations and people. Capitalism developed in the nation state and can't escape that level of organization because each tiny greedy ruling class has its own national interests despite having to compete in a world market. You can't escape the Imperialist stage of history and arbitrate trade disputes in a world court. Instead you must use war and threats of war. Only the working people by over throwing the capitalist class in every nation and entering into the closest cooperation possible can avoid the prospects of a nuclear war. Because just as much as capitalism is so far the most productive its also has the potential to be the most destructive by blindly following the profit motive and worshiping markets as a price mechanism.
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@neptasur You want to take things out of the market and make them available to all. Aaron Swartz wanted access to Jstor made universal. I'm using a non microsoft operating system. When I need to write a letter I use Open Office. The government and courts should have never ruled software to be intellectual property. Bill Gates was a monopolist who never had an original idea he didn't get elsewhere. MIT campus workstations are non windows OS. Gates bought the original DOS system and convinced IBM to buy licenses for it from him and turned around and sold nearly identical MS-DOS to other large mfgs. Everything about Gates and Microsoft was about market share along with a snowjob about microsoft superiority. Their are lots of computer geeks, engineers and libertarians who hate Bill Gates and Microsoft. Many will argue that had computers developed without proprietary software we would be in a lot better off. The UNIX OS was much superior to DOS. The graphical user interface was a Xerox idea not microsoft or Apple. What's wrong with proprietary software? You don't get access to the source code and the user is told what he can and can not do with software he or she purchased as a way to protect the Microsoft or Apple monopoly in other areas. Let's say you buy Visual C++ from microsoft well you are specifically told you may not use the software to write a word processor. Let's say you buy a lot of computers for your company and you want to do your own mfg of the computers. Well the Windows OS software license does allow that. You can buy windows and mfg. computers just not for yourself. Now lets say you like the Apple OS but want to manufacture your own computers once again you can't legally put the apple OS on anything but an apple mfg. computer even if you buy a copy of the apple OS from Apple. Microsoft and the big companies don't want you fixing anything unless your authorized. A guy went to prison for making copies of freely distributed software by microsoft and Dell. HP won't sell me most parts anymore but will sell them to their authorized repair facility who won't sell them to me either. So free market? Nope monopoly capitalism. It's all about grabbing the market for your buddies and for yourself anyway possible.
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@neptasur We want to take Education and Healthcare out of the market first. So in other words you don't pay directly for education and healthcare. Bill Gates was a master marking and mass advertising manipulator. Software should have never been allowed to be classified as intellectual property With Windows 10 Microsoft said they would sell Windows as a service like all the open source software with no more charges for updates. No doubt as a way to try and keep up the Windows monopoly. Well now that ended with Windows 11 so its back to the same old deal make everyone buy a new computer for a new version of Windows whether they need it or not. If you use an android phone your using open source software. If you use a Google chromebook your using open source software. Most of the internet runs on open source software because it avoids all the licensing issues and source code secrets associated with the closed source software like microsoft and apple products. . As for Gates giving people what they want well no The idea behind patents and intellectual property was to give limited time monopolies to encourage the development of the arts and sciences not create billionaire monopolists. Gates will tell you he's for business and ya hes for killing small business and making himself and a few of his buddies rich by using all kinda of monopolistic tactics. I'd be for capitalism if it could live up to its promises but it can't instead its about making a few rich at the expense of everyone else and worse than that it leads to Imperialist war. What kind of deal is it for the capitalist to control what you've already bought paid for afterwords? Now they want to control the market to prevent you from doing you own repairs. Gates sold Windows to the big manufactures for $20 a copy for years the same software everyone else was expected to pay $135 or go to jail. He cry's about no protection for intellectual property in China. Well serves him and all the big computer manufactures right. He doesn't give a damn about innovation and never did its was always about lining his pocket by cheating everyone else big, medium and small from IBM, Word Perfect, Lotus notes to the small business and the consumer. He used the control of the operating system to take down and drive nearly everyone else out of the market and without government protection of intellectual property and closed source software none of his bullshit would have ever been possible.
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@neptasur Short answers.Take things out of the market means. You don't pay for them privately at time of use. Rather socially at time of creation. The idea of price control is to attach price to labor time. To drive down the price of labor privilege though education. To use some incentives to raise the general educational and cultural level of the working class. Bill Gates was enabled by outdated and unnecessary long term laws concerning patents and intellectual property. Government didn't punish but instead enabled him by punishing others and allowing secret monopolistic software price structures. The price structures were deliberately set to enable huge mtg as favorites and intellectual property laws used to enforce this structure. Without protection for closed source software we would have a much more useful and democratically manageable software today. .
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@neptasur Okay you asked what I thought the capitalist government should have done about Bill Gates. I gave my answer. After the Cuban revolution no one was told they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is they could not use their position to exploit others. Cuba still has least economic differentiation of income in the world. Why do we need people like Gates who are protecting a financial Empire? He never did anything special except coming up ways to monopolize market share and enrich himself. Capitalism is based in exploitation and nation states its this type of organization and greed that breds Imperialist war. Ypu can't get along with each other which is why your class needs to be overthrown and removed from power on a world scale.
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The DPRK is labeled as part of Bushes axis of evil and subjected to an international sanction. The American Imperialist walked in after WW2 and took over from the hated Japanese Imperialist. They made a deal with Stalin he had no right to agree to. They refuse to recognize the popular peoples committees instead the recognized the collaborators of the hated Japanese Imperialist. They installed their fake Syngman Rhee in a phony election which Rhee celebrated by murdering his opponent. Rhee had to be evacuated by US CIA special Transport from his Blue House because of Mass Demonstrations to Sunny beaches and Coca Cola in Hawaii. They carpet bombed Korea until no structure higher than two stories was left standing. Even today the US Imperialists still maintain their military base on Korean soil.
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@Gridlocked No because I'm not in the habit of spreading US Gov't Propaganda and so called "news stories". I say the US Gov't needs to withdraw all Troops and weapons nuclear and others from the Korean Peninsula. Let Korean's settle their own differences without foreign troops. End all the US sanctions.
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@Gridlocked North Korea is a very isolated country and I'm not in a rush to condemn them with whatever the US Corporate "Greed" News cycle reports.
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@lizzieb6311 Communism is an international movement. Unlike capitalism which is based in the Bourgeois class divided by nation state.
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@TommyGunz327 So says the Bourgeois Professor.
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@lizzieb6311 Yes those "Hard working" Bourgeois Professors creating a new generation of wealth building Wall Street Hedge fund managers , CEO's, investment bankers, Tech Moguls, Lobbyists and Bourgeois Politicians getting stinky underarms at the keyboard.
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What Trump is saying is hes just another Imperialist politician.
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@mrchicken940 This is what's called a dictatorship of capital. It makes no difference who you vote for when both candidates of both parties owe the soul to the company store.
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@mrchicken940 Seems to me capitalism is whats failing. Popular revolutions lead by working people overturned the Stalinists in Eastern Europe not a US Military victory in the cold war. If capitalism is doing so well why does Donald Trump think America needs saving now. Would have anything with the declining rate of return on investment would it? .
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@mrchicken940 Communism is not something you try like an ice cream cone or religion. They only thing thats has failed is the Social Democratic and Stalinist workers leaderships. For capitalism to "win." it must be able to produce economic and political stability. The cold war ended but it produced the opposite more instability. Its either world socialism and national self determination or World War three. Take you pick because that is where capitalism is headed. The greedy ruling classes will choose Imperialist War abroad and War against the trade unions, fascism at home. They did the same thing with world war one and two. What makes you think they are any different now? Isn't just unchangeable "human nature." that prevent's socialism? Or do believe the liberal capitalist ruling classes have changed their "nature" and will save you from nuclear winter? For capitalism to continue a single greedy Imperialist power must be able to dominate world trade and arbitrate all trade disputes. The American Empire only created new rivals with the changes in the East and China. This why they lost the cold war because no one won. The Stalinist regimes collapsed under popular revolutions not an Imperialist War with American Troops in Red Square and Beijing.
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@mrchicken940 Did the world adopt capitalism in Europe on a first try? It had to go though stops and starts as the capitalist fought over political power with the feudal landowners. Since the birth of industrial capitalism the working class has been fighting with the capitalist first with trade unions and then by establishing a workers state in France. The Paris Commune. In 1914 the Imperialist nations decided they would redivide the world amongst themselves. This needless mass slaughter give rise to the second workers state in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Republics which formed the Soviet Union.
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@kswan4235 My Silverado VIN starts with a 1 assembled in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The top three pickups of all types are Ford, Chevy/GMC and Ram.
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@UCiU5hL6TDHcALOxVEHOGsTA Well I'm probably older than most of you so I expect to have things break. I had my v6 auto long bed Sonoma for 13 years. Multiple replacements on the steering linkage. Then again I know what it's like to lose the steering arm control on a sunken I-95 in Providence RI with a gasoline tanker in the rear view mirror. I feel steering problems that no one else really feels. Towards the end radiator, heater core, AC comp. fan clutch did some trailer towing from CT to CA and CT to TX and back again. Bought the 2016 Silverado V8 5.2 reg 2wd G80 (1500) for heaver towing so far no issues except ReCall on vacuum brake. Three year 30,000 went by uneventfully. I did hear of a guy who got a whole new 2500 GM Truck because of a defective block that released all the oil. Electric power steering on mine. Aluminum block v. a steel spark plug. That's why I only replaced 5 out of 6 on the Sonoma even though I didn't really have to. That last one you needed to jack the Truck up and get the steering wheel in just the right position.
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American capitalism is about selling lies about how money grows in a bank and other nonsense.
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@basil7292 The Cuban revolution was made with all American arms. All attempts to overthrow the Cuban government originated in Washington, DC because the contras lack a just cause to defend. This is why they always call for US intervention.
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@lrodriguez6691 You just a supporter of American Imperialism injustice and Bourgeois nationalism. The educated loose their privileges when education is no longer a privilege. This is what people like you fear most.
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@LoneLee2022 Whats preventing the pouis church going conservatives from adopting all the orphans in the world today instead of coming up with ways to create more?
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The production workers who are expected to work the longest hours the lowest wages and at the fastest pace are paid much less than the bankers hours that the bosses work sitting behind a desk.
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Sure after all these hospital and insurance bosses want to look good on TV. The realty for these bosses is they don't want to help anyone but themselves and their fat bank accounts. You go through a double triage at the hospital one is for medical condition the second is for how much you can pay.
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The biggest cop killers are Chevrolet and Ford. More cops kill themselves in traffic accidents than anything else. Yet you don't see the cops putting choke holds on the CEO's of Ford and GM.
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What you need to is think in pictures and numbers at the same time connecting the two. Algebra is connected to Geometry through pictures on graph paper. All trig and trig functions are is names for the pictures you draw. If you remember the pictures you can draw them and then reconstruct the reasoning needed to solve problems you forgot the answers too. That way you don't have to worry about remembering everything.
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@josephcioppa1943 Sure and now Bill Gates is buying up farmland because he knows you need to eat and not a new operating system. He is doing his part for Green Energy by spending 9 million yearly on carbon neutral jet fuel for his private plane while talking his usual BS on the need to protect intellectual property and what an innovator he is.
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@jeannedouglas9912 Obviously because it is completely meaningless.
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Is he going to abolish the federal debt tax payments to bondholders? Consumption tax = sales tax. That's where Bill Gates pays the same tax on toilet paper that you do.
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@thejfoshow1320 The right wing German Social Democrats have been pro capitalist since the days of Edward Bernstein who was one of the fist revisionist of Marx and his revolutionary teachings. All these gentleman have done is lead the workers into the slaughter for the Imperialist profiteers.
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@tradcatholic Eugenics later used by Adolf Hitler was invented in America and supported by ruling class figures like Republican President Teddy Roosevelt. Sanger signed onto the Eugenics movement in an effort to get laws in thirty states and the Federal government overturned that classified any birth control information as obscene and outlawed material. Something your Catholic friends would no doubt want returned as that is their ultimate goal in the quest to save souls. The obvious reason that the poor don't want unlimited children is you wage is set by the class struggle and not the number of children you have nor can you raise additional food like a family farmer who can with enough land. For farm families additional children mean more hands to work the land where as more children to workers in cities means a bigger burden with no increase in pay.
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@waywardson8360 Typical cowards. Shooting unarmed people in the dark and no doubt in the back.
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@warrioroflight6872 Sowell is a neo liberal. According to him capitalism can only go wrong when they give in to the evil communists. The problem is that the capitalist are driven by greed and their system of production is creating a whole class of people who own nothing but are more than capable of operating a world system of production and exchange without the DAVOS crowd. .
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@warrioroflight6872 Sowell has read Karl Marx and concluded that the working class is not exploited by capitalism. He's also familiar with the argument about the tendency of long term profits to decline and undercut the very workings of the system itself. He seems to be more confused about that then agreeing one way or another. The first argument in itself would not mean capitalist must come to an end but the second does because it points to a fundamental flaw in the way in which the capitalist themselves judge success. Capitalist investing in expanding production is what Marx says is the best the workers can hope for but the only invest in expanding production if the see profits in the future. If instead they invest in driving up the value of fictitious capital like mortgage contracts 2008 , stocks 1929 or tulip bulbs 1600's Dutch Republic. The values collapse producing an economic crisis. Seeming monetary value disappears. Suddenly the ability to pay for the right to survive disappears. .
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@samyoon7459 Everything the working people have was won in class struggle against the capitalists. Its the American Imperialist who entered Korea after the defeat of the Japanese Imperialists and proposed the division of the nation with Stalin which he had no right to agree too that.
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He was the scapegoat for the hated "996 is a tenant of socialism policy". Work 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week Ma favored the policy which was ended by the Chinese Supreme court after protest that it violated Chinese law..
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@durstigerhugo1312 Close all US foreign military bases. No use of the US military to defend the bosses foreign investments. No to the NATO Imperialist alliance. Retool military production for human needs. No to the US Foreign policy of Endless War!!
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@lemokolyon NATO is an Imperialist allaince of capitalist powers set up to defeat and contain the spread of Communism in Europe and worldwide. Its is a military allaince of capitalist ruling classes diametrically opposed to the interests of the people of those nations who are dominated by Imperialist foreign investors and the workers in the Imperialist nations themselves. Russian capitalist oligarchs were excluded from Bushes "New World Disorder". They along with the Imperialism with Chinese characteristics Party seek a place under the old sun of the British and now crumbling American Empire. The internationalism of th EU and NATO is nothing more than the internationalism of capitalist austerity, militarism and exploitation in Social Democratic clothing.
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US AID isn't set up to help famers in the US or internationally. Its set up to advance the interests of the Billionaire class of bankers and bosses.
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@mauriciomaroto9128 Communism is a movement its class struggle of the industrial workers in the modern world on the way to state power transforming society and ourselves in the process. Its going on in front of our eyes. It starts from facts not a doctrine and proceeds from there. The communists are merely those who have absorbed the most important historical lessons and direction the worldwide struggle takes.
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@leonardolopez1511 How's that Pork Barrel working out?
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Notice that Sowell himself has never done anything since entering academia except write books and a newspaper column. That he resides in the same bubble and echo chamber he so bitterly companies about. .He is totally infatuated with markets and cost benefit analysis. In Sowell's world of idealism everything needs an owner so it can be properly controlled or disposed of and everything needs a price so it can be properly valued. Anything that goes wrong can be attributed to either the wrong owner or the wrong price. The worst of the worst of course those who interfere with the owners pricing decisions Since a price will be paid later on accord to beliefs of this genius. . .
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@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766 Sowell wants to claim he was a marxist which makes him fair game for political criticism. If their is one national group that has been subjected to the horrors that a capitalist crisis can dish out its been the Jews. It's the Jews who are courageously fighting the NAZI Hamas. The other place where people are fighting to maintain their national identity is in Ukraine. Do you think was an accident that Jews played a major role in the Russian Revolution? The head of the Red Army was Leon Trotsky (Bernstein) a Ukrainian Jew? Marx taught me about capitalism, Lenin about Imperialism and Trotsky about the Soviet Union how it had a contradictory nature.
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@Mike__G FDR began the witch hunt of the McCarthy era with the 1940 prosecution of the 18 leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party. In 1953 the Rosenbergs were executed as "Communist Spies." In 1954 the Communist Control Act made the Communist Party illegal.
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@STho205 They should be paid their wage first because the problems of finance, sales and profitability are not their responsibility. If capitalist government is going to allow this then the capitalist government should pay.
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Those things came about do to working peoples class struggle against the bosses not the good hearts of liberals and conservatives from the capitalist class.
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@diji5071 The Chinese Party has officially rejected Lenin.
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So that gives a blue gang of criminals the right to shoot up the place? and turn everything into a shootout at the OK corral?
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Don't give me that bull shit I know you live three doors down on the left in that old park model with ya moma. Fix up the god damn place before the armadillos move in.
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The basic reason capitalism will eventually fail is because the size of the world is finite. Once new markets, resources and cheap labor are no longer available on the planet the national capitalist ruling classes will begin fighting amongst themselves for markets and raw materials. Without successful socialist revolutions in the nuclear weapon holding states we are doomed to nuclear war and the end of our race caused by capitalist greed.
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Ok you just said two exactly opposite things first that micro capitalism will take over and then you talk about extra terrestrial investment. So you talking about going where? Some place beyond the moon or the moon? By micro capitalists your talking about what? Basket weavers? Micro business going to the Moon? You got to be kidding? The natural way capitalism works leads to combination and monopoly not micro business. You can't just switch over either. Mao tried making steel in villages and he didn't have to worry about competition. It didn't work out economically either. Steel is made in large mills because of what's called an economy of scale. The same goes for automobile production and assembly. Do you think you can buy all the parts to an automobile and make it at home cheaper than buying one at a car dealership? and even if you could do you than think you could sell it at a competitive price?
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@f-86zoomer37 No they didn't expect to have a new Imperialist competition. They figured on making big profits by investing in China.
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@trevorreznik3908 Parties play no role in Cuban elections. The Cuban Communist Party does not propose or endorse candidates. They are nominated in the neighborhoods people live in than their acomplishments are posted and no electioneering is allowed. The vote is secret and voluntary.
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This is the way that capitalism treats those who work. They been sucking this man's blood for fifteen years and now they don't want anything to do with him. Completely disgusting!
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@anneschreck5136 Sowell is a mouthpiece for the National Republican Party that betrayed Blacks and Republican Reconstruction Governments in the South after the civil war allowing Jim Crow terror to take hold.
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@2Bluzin The charges have nothong to do with tax fraud. They are claiming he inflated the value of his property for loans but the loans were all paid back on time and its just a techincal viloation that is normal business practice. This law is usually used when banks can't recover the loans value do to non payment and exaggerated value.
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@willaimmaxwell5069 The cop who murdered George Floyd had 18 complaints lodged against him before the killing of Floyd. Charges are not a conviction and over and over cops are arrested and beat the trial or go down on reduced charges.
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@paulmacdonald99 American police murder with impunity. The cop who murdered George floyd already had multiple complaints against him. He had already been given awards for the shoot first ask questions latter approach by American movie cowboy police.
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@ArtyAntics The police murder and act with impunity. If it wasn't for the miniature digital camera The Cops in George Floyds death would be reviving medals and hero commendations. When you had out medals for murder you get more murders.
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M&M Princess The only one dead in the George Floyd case is George Floyd. Not "law abiding citizens." In the US you can buy all the justice you can afford even if its on a legal insurance payment plan. I'm no Democrat as can be seen by my avatar so teke you problems with them up with them and not me OK. Sure require us to work longer hours, for less pay and more taxes so you can open more life in prison nursing home prisons. I wonder when you will be advocating for tougher sentences on repeat parking meter violations.
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@Bobby Axelrod Obviously a blue ganger like you is on the wrong side of the prison bars now.
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@xchen3079 The Defense contractors made a killing. Just because the "New World Order" failed like NAZI German's plans for a thousand year Reich doesn't mean the bosses didn't like and support the idea. War is never a good investment but the end of the cold war gave those who want war a new reason to think it wasn't such a bad investment after all. You do remember all the hoopla about the end of history and how communism was defeated without firing a shot. Now you have a shooting war in Europe and US and Chinese capitalism in trade conflict. Seems like Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism. Can the capitalist ruling class settle their trade disputes on the world market without war?
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@xchen3079 They have no war do they? What do you call the war of NATO allies over Cyprus between Greece and Turkey? Where did you do your reading? Over in China where they kept Trotsky's works as a state secret? Defense contractors get cost plus government contracts. The profit is guaranteed at every stage of development and procurement. Once an item is developed they cry for the right to sell to allies. You don't understand American slang. When someone makes a killing in business it means they made a lot of money.
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@xchen3079 George H. W. Bush is the one who announced the "New World Order" in the Speech to Congress to begin the first war on Iraq. 1/16/1991
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@boatridecharm Education like healthcare is allowed to decline because as capitalism develops it replaces higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. There is no way to make profits by educating the whole working class.
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@boatridecharm It works the same in Europe. If it didn't you wouldn't have fought two world wars. The French, British, German , ect. are just as greedy and have to compete in the World Market. They face the same problems of declining profit rates. That is why the retirement age was raised in France. Germany is re arming because of Putin's desire to become another CZAR with a Prison house of nations. He blames Lenin for Ukraines independence. Same with the neutral for capitalism Swedes and Fins. The Social Democrats and Greens could join in the NATO Imperialist Alliance fast enough. You may not want war but war wants you. .
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The welfare state is not the goal of the communist movement. A job for all who want to work is a goal of the communist movement.
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@sonofode902 Wrong with capitalism there is a job for all who can make a capitalist a profit. I'm not familiar with the Son of Ode economic system.
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@sonofode902 The natural workings of capitalism is to pay the lowest wages possible their by making the highest profits. So why pay a wage that can support a whole family when all you need is a single worker? He and others claim that the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage hurt working Black teenagers. The act also for the first time federally outlawed child industrial labor and the minimum wage generally didn't apply to farm labor plus the country was going through a recession. I'm not convinced that the minimum wage created Black teenage unemployment. Since these other factors may have played a role or even exceeded any effect of the minimum wage law.
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@sonofode902 Communism is a movement of a class on its way to power. It starts with facts then draws general conclusions and proceeds from there. God is not involve because no one can show the existence of god as a fact. Economic facts show where value comes from, who produces value and who appropriates value. Value is not a god that magically comes into existence. The origin of value lies in human labor as does profit and wages. In the modern world production takes place with a world division of labor and a social force called capital but privately owned and controlled by a few. Capitalism has a number of built in contradictions that drive its decline and entrance into depression and war. It can not escape those contradictions by any form of regulations insead only its complete overthrow and the reorganizations on a world socialist bases can halt it form destroying humanity itself.
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@sonofode902 Economic facts show where value comes from, who produces value and who appropriates value. Value is not a god that magically comes into existence. The origin of value lies in human labor as does profit and wages. In the modern world production takes place with a world division of labor and a social force called capital but privately owned and controlled by a few.
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@sonofode902 Your problem is you start without nothing. No zero than what good is a one? Sure one can exist without a zero until you need the idea of a zero. I am happy with an equal sign so why do I need a god? Historically God seems to be a man made idea to use when no one understands something. Are Canada, the USA or Mexico communist countries in your idea of what a communist country is? Seriously don't at least some people believe those countries are already under communist control or close to it? I was hoping for the return of ferry service between Cuba and the US so I could visit affordably.
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@sonofode902 Anti Stalinist communists have been defending free speech in the US since 1928 as a principle unlike the two capitalist Parties who only defend free speech for their own partisan purposes or not at all. Maybe you would like to sign on to a petition defending the rights of prisoners to receive a weekly newspaper called TheMilitant.com to read on there free time in Florida prisons or does your idea of free speech apply to you and your God only?
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Janus was forcing court ordered child support. "His fight was not their fight." He and other capitalist justice system scab employees don't belong in the labor movement. Everyone knows that ballots for government office are secret and no union can compel its members to vote for any candidate. Bosses do not do bargaining unit work that's why her husband was written up.
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She said unions are not needed now. Well that may be true for the bosses and her husband. Unions are the best anti poverty program ever invented. In fact today they are needed more than any time since the great depression. A fighting union movement that can bring forth the needs of working people as a whole is the only thing that can turn the situation around.
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We are bad aren't we losing all respect for the property owners as our betters and the smug bourgeois professors like Sowell.
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@contractorvegas5384 Reagan signed, "The Mumford Act."
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@contractorvegas5384 That's why you can't trust either party to protect constitutional rights.
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@contractorvegas5384 Sorry I'm not really sure how or why Enfield, Ct got its name since the Enfield rifle I discover wasn't made by the British until after the Revolution..
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The worship of money is what corrupts. That's why any Democratic Republic comes under control of the stock exchange. Stalin reversed the communists course of Lenin and Trotsky.
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I suppose if they brought in Milton Freedman, Thomas Sowell, Bill Clinton, Trump and Marco Rubio they could provide a quick fix?
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@jgdecaro1 Unfortunately there were no railroads or rail road workers in biblical times. So the bible is completely irrelevant.
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@GM6.7 Cuts don't need to be made instead profits need to be sacrificed rather than companies being bailed out. cut the salvers and profits off the top first. Warren Buffet owner of BNSF brags about paying less taxes than his secretary. He drives a desk for a few billion a year. Everyone gets old including YOU John Henry.
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@comradeeverclear4063 Large numbers of people are NOT Christians and Christians themselves don't agree on even who or what their Gpd is. It's ideas are limited by the culture of the people who wrote the bible. That's why it isn't the answer to every question. Its why people waving Mao's little red book (quotes from Chairmen Mao)are no different than those who thump bibles and insist the answers to everything can be found in the bible. Christians are divided upon the meaning of the bible and how to interpreter it. The Pope had Galileo placed under house arrest for his arguments in favor of a heliocentric world vs an earth centered model.
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@comradeeverclear4063 The railroad changed the way prople think about and use time. Before the Railroad every place had its own time based upon where the sun was in the sky. With the coming of the railroad a new system of time was required and thats is we have two kinds of time local time and universal time. Local time is the same within a time zone where as Universal time is the same worldwide.
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@GM6.7 His issisable demands for maximizing profits and shareholder value are the reasons we have crisis of overproduction. More being produced than can be sold for a profit. His risk is limited to paper cuts and having to find a job.if he loses all his wealth. Which most of us couldn't spend in a lifetime. Let him sleep on the floor of a homeless shelter and eat cat food like many of the elderly. We aren't saving capitalism just so you can have a few privileges of being young and healthy. We aren't interested in saving a system that has become an obstacle to trade and production. Like I said earlier if capital could produce without labor than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. All Buffet does is place bets on profitability which is why many call their companies hedge funds. The try and bet on what will make the biggest profits. Then they use the state power to make sure that they can be compensated when they become too big to fail. They create massive piles of debt from upon which they demand even more. The workers produce the bosses manage and their system of profit maximization which requires shut downs and speed up is what needs to go. Capitalism fails because its based upon profit maximization for a wealth ruling class by any means. Just as slavery stood in the way of capitalism and the system of wage labor. Capitalism, profit maximization and private poverty of the ruling class stands in the way of the forces of production. It took the force of arms and revolution to get rid of chattel slavery and it will take the same from the working class to assert itself and rights to make a living over the do nothing idiots of finance capital.
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@phoenixrising4995 Antibiotics is a mere technical change no one thinks about it before having children. People think about how they will support and pay for them. Like I said you live on a farm than the economic unit is the family and another child means another hand to do the work as soon as one is old enough to work. If you a worker another child means more family expense without any more income. Capitalism seeks to pay the lowest wages for the longest hours. As machines replace labor the rate of profit falls and the capitalist seek to further cut wages. The capitalist is only interested in what his accountants tell him. He seek to run his business to maximize profits.
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@WilliamBTCWallace They've been beating the overpopulation drum since Malthus who predicted agriculture couldn't keep up with population.
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Hitler was supported by Germany's capitalist class.
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@jjkrayenhagen It never fails where they decided to get rid of something and then some economist comes in with supply and demand curves to prove how incentives can solve the problem. The libertarians just want a private tyranny which they pretty much have in the US today. The two parties are funded by corp donors whose K street lobbyist write the only bills that get passed. No one except the lobbyist knows what's in the bills because thing like tax cuts and deductions are cryptically written by describing help needed for specified industries in specified locations so even if you read the bill you would need to find out what firm was making that product in the area. They military is told what it needs to buy and what to pay for it just as the drug companies tell medicare how much to pay for drugs. Business doesn't want to pay any taxes and so everything is being funded by debt except even that is becoming unsustainable and everyone knows it but either ignores it or crys for cut to Social Security.
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I wonder how many liberal justices get support from liberals capitalists?
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They don't accept international drivers licenses to many drunk driving scammers.
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We said "Good Bye" to Burnie and his bro's when they said, "Hello Democratic Party"
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Bush was going to defeat terrorism in Afghanistan and only one Congress women vote no. Two point three trillion dollars later we have nothing to show for it but a 13 Billion dollar bill for 69,000 refugees. If the don't raise the debt for the rich to buy then they'd have to tax the rich and that can't be done either. Instead of feeding the Health Insurance and Big Pharma we could probably do better by educating more doctors for the same price. Of course than a doctor might have to live like a teacher instead of a prince. We could stop spending on NATO and foreign bases but that would not guarantee foreign investment.
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Brian Gann You will never get pregnant and it's not a baby its a fetus that requires the mother's body for life. Maybe you would like some fetus transplanted into your belly in a scientific breakthrough without any say in the procedure. It's already been done in Gorilla's. Step right up we've got a case where the mother has died but the fetus is still alive and you seem to be a good candidate for the procedure because your close by its an emergency and your a health male who is using up emergency room healthcare.
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Yet it was originally Romneycare. As Republican Governor of Massachusetts Romney and others came up with this idea of compulsory insurance like automobile insurance. You would be required to insure your body or face fines just as if you didn't pay your car insurance. The only problem was you can always junk your car but few wanted to junk their body. Nevertheless it was a bonanza for reinsurance companies. Finally an aspin for every headache which Ted Kennedy had..
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@jackccrofootjr7228 I write from experience not facts you read on the internet. Only the US intercepts people coming in from Mexico. Its easier to enter Mexico than Canada since Mexican Immigration just waves you into the country and they don't even ask what you name is. Sure I had to pay the toll on the bridge over the Rio Grande but that was it for entering Mexico from Texas. Now if I was going to use my vehicle in Mexico I'd get the all the necessary papers and insurance because I wouldn't want to be scammed by Mexican police corruption.
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j j 2021 Workers in Mexico and China are striking forcing the bosses to raise wages their also.
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No but how about a Right to Burp state?
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@jasonborne5724 That's right they are coming in to replace the cheap labor that can't afford to reproduce itself. That's one of the reason they are ending abortion for the poor also. The fertility rate in advanced capitalist societies is below population replacement. Without immigration or a major change in culture they will not have enough young to take care of the elderly.
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@johnnotrealname8168 The traitor Bernard Cord killed Maurice Bishop opening the door to the invasion by the US Imperialists.
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@scofah Help them win and do nothing but offer lip service like they have for the last 75 years or so.
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googlenazicompany5935 A defender of American Imperialism who can not help gushing with pride. LMAO
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Why not?
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@eliasjerrold3677 Ya let's wait and see what the evidence and witnesses say. Extraordinary claims require proof.
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Hellzyead Typical imperialist attitude which is why the imperialist refuse all compromises until defeated.
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Who is going toi pay for all these unwanted babies? When women come into emergency rooms after botched abortions and use underground abortion drugs will all the hypocrites be happy? After all this won't affect H Clinton and Fox and friends they'll get their abortion if not in some blue state than from the you can have an "abortion humiliation board" after presenting a lawyer who gives a nobleman's speech. .
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We wouldn't need bloody revolutions if the ruling class would submit to a show of hands instead of a show of arms.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Is American Conservatism "Left Wing" also Professor James Burnham was a one time Marxist. Authoritarian? What does that mean besides someone liberals don't like?
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@BlaineNay Sure capitalist liberal like Banker Joe Kennedy told FDR that "Hitler was some one you could do business with" as did the British Conservative Party leader Chamberlain announce "Peace in our time." after visiting Hitler. Who are these Progressives you are talking about? American Fascist like Father Coughlin, NO Social Democrat or Communist deputy voted for the Enabling Act all the capitalist parties voted with the NAZI Party for the Act. This gave Hitler Pictorial Power to rule by decree. The Communists had been expelled and 94 Social Democrats were either under arrest or in hiding.
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@giancarlamarinelli4910 Okay so why would Capitalist politician not like Hitler? Opposition to Hitler came from the working class and its leaders. Hitler never had a majority outside of the ruling capitalist class. He promised them both an Empire and a solution to problem of the communism.When has an Imperialist politician of any capitalist Empire NOT made those kind of promises? Sure England and America are "Democracies" at home and Dictatorships for the colonies.
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@giancarlamarinelli4910 The American Republican Party is the capitalist party that began its rule with the American Civil War and for years after.
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@giancarlamarinelli4910 My first advice is to stay away from labels and try to learn about the ideas involved instead. In general Conservative and Liberal were labels originally devoloped for the two parties in the English parliament Liberals represented the newly rising merchant and manufacturing class while the Conservatives the landowners. .Marx and Engles are considered the founders of the Communist movement and along with the Anarchists The First Workingmen's International. The Anarchists and Marx had disagreements over the need for a state after the revolution among other things. Eduward Burnstien contradicted Marx and said that capitalism was making things better and not worse as Marx had predicted they advocated slow reformism preparing for a over revolution. Lenin and others disagreed over that calling it revisionism saying they failed to take in what was happening to workers in the colonial world. Lenin also wanted a Party of activist worker Bolsheviks and leaders who were controlled by the members and split the Russian Party into two factions over the issue. Trotsky came ti Agree with Lenin on the Party issue and Lenin on the issue of the what kind of revolution the Russian Revolution would be.. Lenin became ill shortly after the civil war in 1924 but not before wanting Stalin out of his post as General Secretary. Trotsky also wanted him out but he last the vote and Stalin was able to use his post to consolidate a bureaucratic group. You can best read about all that in Socialism on Trial by James Cannon. At Pathfinder or Marxist internet Archive.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 NAZI's had a company union German Labor Front. they smashed strikes by Social Democratic and Communist workers. This is why German capitalist Parties and the bosses went along with the fascists. Hitler had the death penalty for German women who had abortions. Hitler rejected Marxism. Hitler wanted to make Germany into the 1000 year Reich as an Imperialist Empire that would take the place of the French and English whom he hated for the treaty of Versailles. His racial theories came from America. Henry Frod printed the International Jew an antisemitic rant. Hitler liked it so he translated it and reprinted it in German. Hitler can be summed up as German people unite you are the superior race of people cleanse the world of inferior races. Marx ends the communist manifesto with The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries unite.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 This ia BS argument made by Dinish D'Souza and others. Using the same type of sloppy scholarship and logic I can show that the Founder of American conservatism Bill Buckley ideas came from co founder of the Soviet Union Leon Trotsky. So Conservatism becomes communism after all. LMAO. The fact that Hitler railled against "Jewish Bolshevism" when ever possible some how seems to escape dishonest people like yourself. That is why liking Hitler to communism makes as much sense as linking Bill Buckley and Conservatism to communism via Professor James Burnham. But for a combination of no nothings and fools any kind of connection is enough to peddle a big lie. The whole meaning of the word left has little to do with American politics anymore since most of the so called left completely collapsed into the Democratic Party.
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Your original argument was about socialism once again you just use words as a way to slopply swear at who every you don't like. News flash communist are NOT progressives. In fact they are Democrats and Republicans parties of the ruling class. Henry Ford published the International Jew in his Detroit independent newspaper. Hitler had it translated into German and distributed though out Germany. Ford received a NAZI medal just before war broke out from the German ambassador.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Maybe you can buy a Ford :F-150 "Auschwitz Edition" to celebrate the friendship between Ford and Hitler.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Sowell and you would vote for Ford since he ran for President as both a Democrat and Republican in 1922. Hes one of your two party clowns which I have never voted for in any General election. Ford sold to the Soviets. "The capitalist will sell the rope to hsng them with." Lenin.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Your on the left with Henry Ford. Since the French left was originally anyone who wasn't a monarchists. So unless you want to claim your Canadian your on the left. Why do you insist on telling other people what the political views are? Don't you have any of your own? Democrat Wilson sent Socialist Party Presdential canidate Eugene Debs to prison. Wilson's chief cop AG Palmer started the fist Red Scare. FDR began the second Red Scare with the arrest of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters Union.
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The ideas of racial superiority came from American as NAZI defendants at the Nuremberg said they based the NAZI racial laws on those adopted by America for Africans. Hitler planned to create an Empire by doing what had been done to Native Americans to Jews ans Slavs whom he considered inferior people. .
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 You just a petti bourgeois fool who sits on the sidelines pretending he is a moral;y superior being. That's why you call yourself a skateboarder because you play the role of the clown who thinks he is cool.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Every ruling class has had its court jesters. American imperialism is in decline with leaders like Donald Trump and Joe Biden. What Marxist understand is that all culture rests upon the underlying productive forces. That the profit system has own natural contradictions that push it into crisis and decline. That the ruling class can't escape its own greed and it dependency for profits mean the exportation of the working class. As the class struggle heats up their can be no misddle ground between the two most important class in the modern world the capitalist and the proletariat. The capitalist are based in nation states which must compete in the world market for profit maximization. To win the battle of the world market the capitalist must implement fascism, war on the trade unions at home and Imperialist war abroad. The Imperialist nations began world war one and now the capitalist order with American Imperialism in the lead is coming to an end. Instead of Bushes "New World Order' where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle American Imperial capitalism has Biden's "New World Disorder". Defeated after 20 years of war in Afghanistan and $2.3 trillion dollars. An Imperialist war on the European Continent. Increasing hatred of two party politicians. And according to you we need to save capitalism because of the clowns like you produced by California? .
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 You still live in the fantasy world of California sun and old CHiPs police motorcycle series reruns.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Sorry charlie but you don't get to choose that's just an illusion you have come to believe. Under the government of Lenin and Trotsky Ukraine was an independent Soviet Republic. The Soviet Union never had investments in foreign nations which is a source of profits for the Imperialist ruling classes. The US imperialist didn't win the cold war on the contrary they just created addition Imperialist competition for markets and profits. Now they are involved in competition with Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. Like the rest of the capitalist world class struggle against the ruling classes is on the rise. Biden just narrowly averted a nationwide rail strike and only a few days ago rail boss greed caused a massive disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. .
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Why should I bother answering Imperialist propaganda. If the capitalist nations could avoid war why didn't they? Once war started what happens is on those who started it. Too bad really important inventors of skateboards and other kinds of toys like yourself lost. LMAO. .American Imperialist like Wilson were talking about how they went to war with the British Crown to defend Democracy while launching a witch hunt of labor, socialist and immigrants. They Democrats and Republicans are your capitalist parties. Parties of war and fascism. Henry Ford, Hitler, FDR and the Republicans are all capitalist politicians. You side with them on all the real issues don't you. They launch wars for defense of profits and you happily submit.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 Nothing can stop the truth about the Russian revolution from overcoming the imperialist, Social Democratic and Stalinist slanders. Hitler was defeated by the Soviet Union and the American Imperialist were defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and Afghanistan. The Stalinist were defeated in popular revolutions. The Cuban revolution shows what a worker and farmers government can accomplish. The workers in all the advanced capitalist countries are belong to mass trade unions. The capitalist are becoming more divided and gloomy in outlook. They can't escape the competition for markets and resources nor the growth of the productive forces that push against the outright stupidity of the ruling classes. The worlds working class has only become bigger and more confident. Internationalizing the struggle against the globalist bosses is coming up in all nations. Only Socialism and revolutionary nationalism for the neocolnial world can create peace and abolish nuclear weapons. Workers must take control of industry and abolish private property.
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@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler Musk is just another capitalist huckster seeking to make a quick buck from both investors and government.
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I wonder if Mueller isn't headed into possible Canadian and British Empire spies colluding to overthrow the Republican form government and returning the power of the British monarchy?
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This guy is just pushing his book for sale. The Clinton campaign had used poor computer/phone and internet security. Yet I have yet to hear how this stolen info affected the election. Instead all we hear is about the info being stolen. In the case of the watergate scandal one the burglars were traced back to the Nixons reelect the President campaign since he had been hired by the campaign as a security aid. Then checks and a money trail went back to the Committee to Reelect the President. As more information became available and the attempts to cover up had continued than more actors in higher places came to light. So far despite all the investigation triggered by FBI snoops alone nothing has shown neither the Trump campaign having sought to have informations stolen by Russian state actors, paid for such information or having received such information. Instead all we have seen nothing more than an intelligence community witch hunt. The few arrests and indictments that have been made have nothing to do with Trump campaign.
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Actually what you seeing is the decline of capitalism since the 2008 crisis. The capitalist hyenas are talking trade war and a fight over who gets to make the profits from the buying and selling of our labor.
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The FBI is and has always been a capitalist secret police force. Their job has always been to infiltrate, spy and disrupt anyone or organization that doesn't accept current ruling class policy from DC. Their own words and policies came to light when the Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI burglarized the FBI's Media, PA office. This began a scandal that unraveled the Cointelpro disruption programs exposed efforts to halt the rise of a Black Messiah and resulted in a lawsuit that won damages and a permanent injunction ending a 40 year old continuing investigation after the case filed in the Southern District of New York SWP V. Attorney General.
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Sure I'm not a graduate of the poison ivy league. The Supreme court, The Clintons, Bushes, Obama and Trump all are poison ivy league graduates. Trump won according to the constitution. The Democratic Party has had over 2 centuries to change that election method. Why all the outrage now? The big money was with Clinton. Her defeat provoked immediate outrage among 'brights' such as yourself. Their is nothing progressive about Democratic Party liberals including their man on the inside former secret police chief now special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Given the number of foreign elections that the US CIA has interfered with this charge of Russia interference is laughable.
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Democrats represent capitalist reformism in other words the seek to reform the system or at least get everybody to think that is what they represent. The 2008 crisis began with Bush in power that's what gave Obama two elections. This crisis is bigger and deeper than anyone in living memory. After ten years we are seeing an uptick so is it just the expected uptick after such a deep crisis or is it the actual minor changes made by Trump but given a big amount of press coverage? Trump announced his Tariffs on Aluminum and Steel to big fan fare but you weren't told about the thousands of companies large and small who are contesting it with waiver requests. The Tariffs would let the big Basic steel companies like US Steel, Norcor and ArcelorMittal raise prices without hiring anyone at all. Do you think GM and other companies want to pay more for steel?
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Democrats blame Trump and Trump blames Democrats.
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@roberto87678 The US capitalists don't look at it that way. Free healthcare comes out of profits as does education. They view federal tax money as their money. They run a federal deficit because they would rather lend money with a guaranteed return then paying a tax. Any government actions that doesn't involve paying for police violence against those protesting capitalist policy or military actions to protect their foreign investment is considered waste. To cover the true use of the Police and Military they talk of crime and threats to national security.
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kyle grant The motor fuel taxes pay for roads. So the trucking bosses pay the most except when they push it onto the backs of the independents. They like to talk about how they pay taxes as if there is some other way to pay for building roads.
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@samuelparker9882 If Kennedy and Johnson where such good Democrats why not invaded states like Mississippi and Alabama bringing democracy and voting rights to the Black People of those states instead of sending US Marines and the Army halfway around the world?
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@BillySnowball The US did not participate in the talks that lead to the partition of Vietnam. The election that was to decide the fate of the South never occurred.
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How to spot a lying consevative video wanting likes. At no point does the video maker show that Professor Wolf has lied. Instead he say if a government program fails those who supported will pay no price. Well when capitalist big business fails like in 2008 who demanded government bailouts but the biggest of banks. What price did Sowell pay for his support of George Bushes wars that cost 5 trillion dollars?
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@patricksweeney6334 Socialist Eugene Debs ran from the Federal Pen against the rotten Democrat Wilson who had promised NOT enter the war and jailed Debs under the Espionage Act. Debs received a million votes.
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@maxharvey165 They are creating "Trumped Up Charges" because Trump challenged sacred cows. Clinton used the FBI to fabricate the Russian interference hoax. Then you have the whole Jan 6th events which Congress already refused to convict. Nevertheless they insist on building a second case. Then you have the phoney Allan Brag prosecution. Along with the charges under the espionage act. At the end of the day you have nothing Hillary Clinton didn't do. This is why people who don't support the lessor evil theory are against you. Your just as evil as Trump and more so because your hypocrisy is on full display.
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@coopsnz1 That assumes that Australian bosses like you would raise prices and take a loss on market share. So as a boss would raise the price and then lose market share taking a hit on profits or would you take a hit on profits and keep your market share. Porabbly a temporary loss of profits would be better than taking a possible permeate loss of market share.
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@daveassanowicz186 AI is for people that don't have any of their own like the Elon Musk and the rest of the BIG TECH bosses.
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@tomonthego229 His due process of law rights under the 14th amendment are the very first of rights that are being violated.
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@ubroc The Liberal wichunt against Trump is lead by the capitalists who fear the workers who supported Trump instead of their choice of Hillary Clinton. These bosses care nothing about political rights but only their own bank accounts since they instinctively fear workers making their own political decisions without the required concern for Wall Streets hunger for international profits.
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@ubroc They specifically overruled Colorado's faulty due process in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
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@МирославаБерзина Allende did exactly what the Stalinists Chilean Communists Party wished. Allied with bourgeois liberals and put trust in bourgeois legality instead of the working class. The Popular Front Against Fascism theory was developed by Dimitrov and implemented by Stalinist Parties across the world resulting in fascist victories.
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They're educating her in prison now unfortunately she seems to be s slow learner.
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Nope it was going to colapse under Trump also.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 Haitian migrants who arrive in Cuba are not deported. The end result of both world wars was to leave the US untouched by war due to geography. Don't argue that "Socialism in One Country" is impossible since your beating Stalin's dead horse. That's their theory that you can build Socialism in one country first and everyone should focus on that as opposed to the actual class struggle in their country. This is why the American Communist Party were the most loyal strike breakers during World War 2. When the War ended they had the vision of shaking the monopolists hands only to be tossed in prison for 5 years stretches'. Their war time strike breaking left them with few friends in the working class.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 You missed Governor Wallace's (D) "Segregation Now Segregation Tomorrow and Segregation Forever." You want to divorce the capitalist from their rotten two party politicians. You have to close your eyes to all the rotten inventions that they created to use to defend their riches with war. It was just to much to listen to Nixon (R) condemn the four killed by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State. Nixon ran on a platform of "Peace with Honor" he ended his presidency telling us "That people have to know that their President wasn't a crook." You prove nothing but ignorance of American and world history by pointing at other countries.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 You already asked and I answered that question. We don't move to a special communist country because that is not how you advance the socialist revolution. What's is important is we tell the truth about world history and the class struggle. Good or Bad. That can be seen by reading our Press starting in 1928 with The Militant that is now available on line. Your basic agreement is you came from the Soviet Union and life was hard there but since I came here things are better for me. Some how the experience of a single Individual proves what Marx and others have said wrong. Since most of what has been written by Marx and his followers about economic trends pertains to groups and not individuals you might just as well say that the lottery winner proves we can all be lottery winners.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 No we talk about and participate in the class struggle and point a path forward. Most importantly we tell the truth good or bad. Now that you here do you recommend that the rest of the world come here to make American capitalism even greater? Some how I don't think that the American capitalist are very enthusiastic about more immigration. They spent 2.3 trillion dollars nation building in Afghanistan which resulted in millions of refugees and 100,000 dead and a collapsed puppet regime of the best people Yankee dollars could buy. All the hangers on to US Imperialism including the NATO allies were shocked when the US Imperialist withdrew without consulting them.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 Because life doesn't work that way for people who become revolutionaries. Its like asking Trotsky why did you let Stalin win the decisions of the politburo when you clearly had the loyalty of the Red Army. Trotsky responded that to do so would require agreements that would need to be kept and he had no desire to become a Bonaparte. I had a job as a radar antennae technician where I had learned some programing skills. I could have stayed but not without satisfying the DOD security cops. I had no desire to become a fink for a soft job even with all the benefits of education paid by the company.
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@investing4everyonevideos303 You spent your time siting in a chair on weekdays pushing buttons. Thinking what a smart guy you must be. You think I never washed dishes, shoveled silage or worked outside in the cold, heat and dark? Or worked overtime or came in when called on the phone during a snow storm. I count myself lucky to be alive considering some of the hazards on the jobs I've done. People like you think we all have some special sort of secret welfare funding that lets us spend all day doing nothing all our lives like you do. Well that's just not true. I work with electricity as my trade and most people are afraid of an open breaker box never mind working with live wires. I know how to test if a wire is hot using my bare fingers. I've worked in a rolling mill where red hot steel goes up in the air like ribbon candy and overhead cranes constantly move carrying slabs, coils or scrap. We work turns which we change hours every week. I've climbed utility poles with hooks and ladders using a bucket is child's play. The only thing a capitalist risks is his money we risk our lives everyday just to keep the lights on and the computer or phone connected. You know what the call the management in a mill "Pink Elephants."
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@xys007 Communists don't promise a paradise what we say is the working class needs to take power in a world wide socialist revolution. Only then can all the problems endemic to capitalism be taken on. The spread of the corona virus is the result of a return of capitalism in China. Had China been doing what Cuba does with healthcare with 9 doctors for every one thousand people instead of just one or like the US with just 2.3 per thousand that virus would have been much more containable. Wall Streets worry is the economic effect. Well what about the effect this will have on humanity across the world if the virus becomes containable?
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@aashrithreddy2917 The Cuban revolution continues making history. The early Soviet Union with the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky was not the bureaucratic nightmare that Stalin turned it into. A self described Bourgeois Student Ayn Rand received her University and advanced study at a Bolshevik university leaving at about the same time as when Lenin dies in 1924. She was obviously a supporter of the Whites in the civil war both politically and geographically but no one touched a hair on her head and she left legally for a country with no diplomatic relations and that had invaded the young Soviet Republic.
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@mathematicalgeek8657 Evidence that they were murdered for being Priests and not for actions they took for return of capitalism and the czar.. More violence in every Latin American country and the US itself against protesters. The British Empire wrote the book on military attacks and starvation of whole peoples. Its at the core of capitalism because you need to enforce the injustice of the labor marketplace to maintain profitably. As the workers though off the alienation caused by capitalism that works against bureaucracy along with education. Bureaucracy is only a symptom of poverty left over from capitalism. It would be like telling the American revolutionaries you can't do without a King and the landed aristocracy. . 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@mathematicalgeek8657 You need to have reason for violence you can't just call it a core value because if its a core value that it must be at the core of the human being or you must be able to explain where it comes from not just its a core value. The whole idea of value comes from economic thought. Marx pointed to the working of capitalist economy and the way human being interacts with nature and each other to draw his conclusions. Most defenders of capitalism have had to attack the materialist concepts to make an attack on his ideas and thinking. The most important are that somehow capital must be producing without labor. Well if that were true than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. If labor is the producer than capitalism can only be a way of organizing it. Now you have the problem of a world market and nation states. Now your back to the arguments of the second international. The development of a peaceful imperialism or the outbreak pf war over markets and colonies. Is globalism working with capitalism or is it destined to break down? Bush proclaimed a "New World Order: More like a New world disorder.
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@mathematicalgeek8657 Yes Marxist are atheists. I fail to see how making extra trouble for yourself by murdering priests gets extra popularity unless the priests are some how undermining you. Priest gave mass to some who were executed in Cuba and many left along with church participation the peter pan campaign. Although Castro initially identified the Church as being an obstacle to the revolution they changed that attitude as the Chruch remained some what neutral. Our Party has come out against attacks on Chruches in the name of abortion tights. I'm not interested in playing you numbers games especially since I lived though Vietnam when numbers computers and kill ratios meant victory. You always want to draw a line around capitalism in the advanced Democratic Imperialist capitalist countries to make your human rights arguments and ignore capitalists crimes like NAZI Germany and other fascists as having a lower number. The Black book had to make up numbers to get what it wanted for Cuba. Ignorance dies wonders Ya teaching the Peasants to read was definitely an attemp to keep people in the dark. Anymore ignorance you want to show, We are just to stupid to underhand how capitalism works and why it has to come to an end. Has their ever been a free market? Nope because markets came to be a place to trade and that in itself is why a policeman and a government came to be. Markets would otherwise become the target of thieves. Its a good case of idealist thinking though. If any country in the world has abolished private property and taken both healthcare and education out of the market its is Cuba and only a tiny minority want it back according to you they are too stupid unlike intellects like you who talk endlessly about the idealism and micro knowlegde contained in free markets something that is a completely made up notion. The latest example of the science and fetishism of capitalism is seen in the collapse of crpto currency. Supposedly a self regulating way to trade without a central bank. Too bad the computer mining of special numbers that fit a made up algorithm can't produce any real wealth. The problem isn't marxism its the creation of nation state capitalism and the inability of the worlds wealthy ruling classes to get along because they are just as stupid as well the intellects that follow in the free market capitalist party line of the exporting classes. Capitalism creates an ever smaller greedy ruling class that becomes too big to fail and demands a return regardless of what they invest in including government bonds. Idiots like Warren Buffet sit in a chair all day and demand rail workers be laided off and smaller train crews to maintain profits and return on investment. He required a bought and paid for Congress to halt a strike by rail workers.
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@mathematicalgeek8657 To bad you can't get all your capitalist friends on board with that free market nonsense. Those rail workers are carrying protest sings that say, "Railroad lives matter". You just stay in that university chair and we won't need to bother you. All you got to do protest the US Blockade of Cuba. We see then when the blockade is lifted won't we? No reason to keep it right? You guys talk a good game but I punched a libertarian once to stop him from continuing to bust up property. He said he was going to report me to the dean I said go ahead and you can explain your love of property. Declining rate of return on investment can't be hidden with central bank inflation to replace the old fashion wage cut either.
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@mathematicalgeek8657 Believe what ever you want its not like we haven't lost intellectuals like James Buchanan from the movement in the past. Seems to me their were a lot more Libertarians back right after 2008. Just a guess though. I lost my faith in academics to do much of anything in the political world long ago which is why I left to become a revolutionary. It is a good place for the debate of ideas though. I saw an estimate of 100 million early deaths caused by leaded gasoline. Which was lied about from the very beginning. Ypu've got this idea that the British Empire and NAZI Germant weren't REAL capitalism but American libertarians are LOL. Stalin is the one who developed the cult of personality. He embalmed Lenin's body against his wife's wishes he was the one time candidate for the Orthodox Priesthood. You always need to accuse us of what your system does and encourages like taking workers personal property. You always want to accuse us of being thieves when you got a government that does that backs up your right to fire us and throw us out of our homes because you got a piece of paper that says everything belongs to you.Then again capitalism with a government never really exsisted or it has yet to get rid of a government. And you talk about us as being religious idealist? No Buffet he not a greedy Bastard he's just trying to hold up falling profit rates with the help of elected officals. Better get Buffet with the libertarian program. .
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@mathematicalgeek8657 You realize I have actually received death threats and our Party HQ's have been attacked. How many attempts were organized by the US gov't on Fidel Castro's life and the US CIA attack on a Cubana flight 455 airliner killing all aboard. The use of individual terrorism has been argued against by Marx and Trotsky and remains at the core of our ideas despite what you think. We defend the rights of freedom of speech and thought even for those we disagree with, I've personally escorted anticommunist out of antiwar demonstrations to prevent them being attacked and giving the cops an excuse to break up the demonstration. Like Fidel Castro said the battle for socialism is first and fomost a battle of ideas. The middle class can not maintain a seperate ideological position which is why your libertarian ideas will not work. Capitalism entered a crisis of its own making in 2008 and their are no signs of recovery just as the crisis of 1929 was not able to result in recovery without FDR's war deal and the attack on the Trotskist's SWP Teamster union and the betrayal of the Stalinist's. Stalinism is divided and weak and the workers in the Imperialist nations all belong massive trade unions that have not been defeated. Nor have the trade unions disappeared in the Eastern Bloc countries. The Chinese workers have rebeled against Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Jack Ma gone under the radar as 996 went down to defeat. Trump and the American workers can't understand why the globalist in America have abandoned them for bigger profits elsewhere. You can talk free market to who ever you want and we will talk class struggle as the way to move forward and open the door to socialism.
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@mathematicalgeek8657 What does Bill gates need to own farmland for? We aren't interested in taking small farmers land. Small farmers got land with the Cuban revolution. Only capitalist farmers who employed labor saw their plots broken up. Collective farming was voluntary. Private property the property to exploit others personal property just loses its social character. I knew a libertarian who owned a factory he learned the facts of life when wanted a loan from the banker. Had to put up the factory building as collateral. he was disaponted as the banker didn't recognize what a moral person he was. Same with you you talk a good game and need to insist we are NAZIs and Stalinists otherwise you don't have a leg to stand on. After alll Leon Trotsky couldn't be right now could he? See your theory is we are driven by the same greed as Buffet. The problem is once the workers get hold of certain ideas it makes rough on the capitalist bosses. Sure they talked all day about how the workers couldn't rely on social Security but private pensions instead and then what happened the pension funds were robbed by the wall street profiteers and the politicians can't elimate Social Security without hitting the third rail. Of course none of this should happen because the bosses they aren't greedy but just moral libertarians who want to make a well deserved profit. Sure if only those who had next to nothing had paid the mortgages then the market would have collapsed and caused the crisis of 2008. Where was Professor Sowell when all that happened? Hiding out at the heritage foundation as Milton Freidman's economics of greed took its toll. How come he wasn't called to Congress by Rand Paul?
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@mathematicalgeek8657 What do we need to bother a professor of mathematics for? Last I heard we have an exemption for the federal campaign finance law because of past violent attacks and threats. Not to mention the ground breaking lawsuit againist the FBI where we convinced a federal judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter AG Griffin Bell in contempt of court. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. 40 years of spy tactics and black bag jobs all without a federal prosecution since the 1940's Smith "Gag" Act trial.
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@mathematicalgeek8657 Your a red herring! Are you going to leave that professor chair and start shouting at people like me about private property everytime you see me like those other libertarian assholes? Going to be part of a bosses strike like Ayn Rand's hero John Gault. How the hell am I suppose to know what you'll do or are capable of in the future. What you have is an over active imagination. You want to play up your victim hood before anything has even happened. You want to accuse me of lying okay discussion over professor jackass. .
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@mathematicalgeek8657 First thing the teach undergrad physics at MIT is a single number is completely meaning less. Libertarians ever do anything but talk? NAZI"s Political support came from big business. Just because they lost the war and changed their mind later on doesn't change history. That is a fact that can't be denied no matter how you slice. Anyone who reads the Communist Manifesto will understand that not all socialist are the same. Like the Bourgeois Socialist "...the bourgeois is a bourgeois — for the benefit of the working class...." I'm sure Republicans don't want to be accused of IRA prov bombings either. Stalin's time at the Tiblisi Orthodox seminary?
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@mathematicalgeek8657 How about that guy Aaron Schwartz was ha a libertarian or does he want to abolish private property?
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@mathematicalgeek8657 Religion, ideology, property, markets, and money are all social and cultural constructions of man. All subject to change depending on the productive forces upon which all cultural is based made. Never are they fixed in time or space for that matter. American capitalist culture is obsessed with private property. Thomas Sowell advocated for theft of a child from his parent. Is he still a libertarian or has he crossed the line in advocating theft of a child from his only living parent because he comes from a country libertarians don't approve of. Mayb the libertarians would like to play King Solomon also?
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@mathematicalgeek8657 That's the market allocating limited resources argument. Haven't we always discovered new resources to replace the old? Why is comstantly cutting labor time with machines and unskilled labor to drive profits in that industries direction and neglecting education and healthcare because they are overhead costs good? Its hard to market education to children because they aren't born with dollars in their hands now are they. Professor George Soros now how is wealth connected to producing anything but speculation on currency? Sowell talks about making people pay well we have the highest rate of incarceration in precentage and numbers of people in prison and society pays to keep the their as slaves doing forced labor many for being born propertyless. You say capitalist has raised more people out of poverty has it? Or has it created more debt? You don't accept it when a revolt puts us in power and you respond with civil war and invasion. How are you any differnt than the American slaveowners or Kings and Queens of the land. Did you pay the king of England for his land in America or the southerners the Value of their slaves? We shouldn't steal from the rich durring civil wars and the resulting aftermath. It would be nice to settle everything by a show of hands but you don't want that either you say you've got rights granted on paper and by God and the Indian had to promise to give you his land but now your all Martin Luther King like aren't you? .
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@samhain3824 Congress exceeded its authority in writing the act.
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@michaelmurray4097 Biden can drive his billionaire friends Warren Buffets Better Not Start a Family train at 70 mph with no sleep.
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@Tylerrrrrb What;'s stopping you from working on the railroad?
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@Tylerrrrrb Why not? You entitled ass too good for Railroad work?
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It is the same thing although sometimes corporatism is taken to mean a capitalist fascist dictatorship like Hitler or Generalissimo Franco. In general it means corporate or capitalist rule.
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@uploadinstuff Excellent job of self censorship by Petersen and Rubin never once did the use a dirty word that might evoke the need for censorship like Socialism or Communism despite the title.
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He speaks for Wall Street.
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@b.r.w5082 Human Rights became the new propaganda with the Jimmy Carter Regime trying to remove the stench of the genocidal war against Vietnam. Carter along with the UK knowing sold bombers to Indonesia for its genocidal war against East Timor. Carter also supported the Khmer Rouge genocide. Voting for continued recognition of the Khmer Rouge at the UN and helping them along with the Royal Military Dictatorship of Thailand.
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@john13992 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@shelleyzoe8254 The NEW TANG DYNASTY helped pay for what you just watched. They are a rival group of Chineses capitalists. Note how they say the solution is a free market that will lower prices. You don't believe bosses want to lower prices do you? They can't make money in the electrical racket anymore which is why they are investing in sure things like GameStock.
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@CARLOS GOMEZ Jan 6th is the Day the Sheep became afraid of the bleating of the Lambs.
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@CARLOS GOMEZ Tell the Democratic Imperialist Biden to End the Blockade of CUBA!!
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@dannygonzales7923 Tell the HI IQ Bourgeois Imperialist BIDEN to END the BLOCKADE of CUBA!!! Trailer Park Trash of West Virginia unite!!
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@SeattlePioneer They have given themselves special advantages over independents and third parties in elections. They are the ruling parties of the American Capitalist class despite an occasional Social Democrat like Sanders. Organizations of mostly office holders fiance by businessmen. This way no matter who is elected big business calls the tune.
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@SeattlePioneer Sure they are. That's why the FBI spent forty years "investigating" the Socialist Workers Party after obtaining Smith "gag" Act convictions in 1940. Lenin and Trotsky lead the second Socialist Revolution out of the Slaughter of the Imperialist war. Then 14 Imperialist Armies tried to drown it in blood including the US/UK. Your capitalist ruling class cares nothing about life after all it openly said its goals in Vietnam were measurable by the number of deaths that its military could inflict. .Fidel Castro came to power and you began plans to over though the Cuban revolution right away despite the popularity. How about the estimated 100 millions early deaths caused by leaded gasoline? The victims of the push button war against terrorism from the White house. You capitalist have always tastested human blood in their months and enjoy it.
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@jamesbranham2217 Cuba is NOT a Stalinist Dictatorship. In capitalism the bosses pay you a wage so you can come back the next pay period to make more profits. The profits in capitalism come from the unpaid labor of the production workers. The capitalist want to make us into debt slaves the national debt is just a way to turn taxes into profits for the owners of the national debt. Workers aren't forced into doing things taht are dangerous. Some still choose to be firefighters out of a sense of duty just as many do now. Burnie Sanders is NOT a Bolshivik. Read The Militant. newspaper. I can't answer all your questions in a short few words.
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@smittytyson Now we have the NEW bourgeois notion of context being used to apply law. So words are producing hurt feelings and we need to apply punishment in the context of how hurt the feelings become. Any more CONTEXTS we should use like the CONTEXT of defending private property above all else?
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@Not Thatname I have a right as a retiree freed of capitalist slavery by the past struggles of my class against capitalism to tell the truth about the capitalist system and how it works against us. We will convince Republican workers to leave their party if not for our party the Socialist Workers Party than for a new Labor Party without the Democratic or Republican Bosses. Only working class solidarity can solve our problems as workers and all those who want justice and freedom.
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@Ryooken Fact: Missiles were sold to Iran after the hostage crisis. Question: Who was responsible? Apparently no one since USMC Lt Col Oliver North's felony convictions were reversed on appeal. Conclusion: If high ranking government officials can make claim of acting in the best interests of US Imperialism (the interests of US foreign investment.) they will fly as free as birds regardless of US law and the US constitution. Why? Its a two Party capitalist dictatorship that acts in the best interests of capital. Think i'm wrong well explain how without the use of notions, platitudes and idealism. Cite facts and then draw conclusions. Don't draw the conclusions first to then try and fit the facts into a narrative.
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@Ryooken Things we are not aware of? Please continue with this line of thought so we may become more aware of the unaware. What secret facts does Millay have that we don't already have or are aware of?
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 China is a capitalist country with it's new capitalist class making foreign investments. That places them in the Imperialist category as Lenin did with the European Empires. The Communist Party is equivalent to the British labor party and those Socialist parties operating the capitalist state in the Nordic monarchies. For those who say capitalism brings freedom where is the freedom in Saudi Arabia with US bases inside the country?
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 Mexico had a one party state from 1927 to 2000. Do we call that Mexico's communist period? The CCP has always had some minor coalition partner parties. The Parties outlawed in the People's Republic of China include a number of other parties claiming to be communist founded after the death of Mao and more recently the police broke up a student study group on Mao's teachings. Mao also had the Chinese Trotskyist imprisoned after gaining state power. I'm not saying this proves anything except that the CCP monolithic pretense is not all that monolithic. The could easily get rid of their subservient coalition parties but they don't but they do however suppress obvious splits.
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 You can't just call a country capitalist socialist or communist without some way of differentiating what that means economically. No one in the Soviet Union called that communism until Khrushchev did before that Stalin called it socialism. The "Socialist" Social Democrats controlled some of the Western European countries for years on end after the end of the second world war. Sanders wants to call them "Socialist". All those against the Sanders reformist promises including some of the countries governors are saying hay no no no we aren't "Socialist".
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 "vision of the contradictions in capitalist society and of the inevitability of a future socialist and communist societies" That sounds like Social Democratic rhetoric to me like Norman Thomas. Thomas was an old leader of the Socialist Party of America during the Great Depression. He openly stated that one day you will go to sleep under capitalism and the next day you will awake to socialism. If socialism was inevitable we would need no class struggle and we would need no leaders for the class struggle.
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 "Marxism–Leninism reveals the universal laws governing the development of history of human society." Marx and Lenin would say something to the effect that class struggle is the motive force of history not babbling about discovering some universal laws. That's just more nonsense meant to explain or pretty up all the stupidity and crimes committed by the Stalinists.
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The Soviet Union never reached communism because it was never even able to abolish wage labor. Money wages were still being paid and commodities were still be sold in stores. It is nothing more than rhetorical inflation to call them anything more than socialist. China has stepped back into capitalism being carried out by a so called Communist Party. On the mainland alone the two big stock exchanges opened in 1990 have a total value of over 7 trillion dollars.
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 "Central planing vs “free” market. the 3rd Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee upheld the creed "Maintain the dominance of the public sector and strengthen the economic vitality of the State-owned economy."." Sure and 7 Trillion dollars in stock value just appeared like magic on those stock exchanges. You've never heard of politicians saying one thing and doing another? Talking peace and preparing for war? Capitalists don't want free markets they want to control markets. The "Free Market" in the US is nothing but political nonsense meant to coral in middle class voters. US Capitalist politicians of both parties talk about it since they can pull in lots of lemonade stand capitalist voters and discourage the workers from getting any ideas that the government might actually do something for us.
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 There is two reasons everything in the US isn't own and operated directly by the owners of Private Property. One is not possible to make a profit in all endeavors. Simple put without the ability to constantly replace labor with machines a branch of industry declines and so does the ability to profit. The second involves the workings of Bourgeois Democracy. The Bourgeois government must arbitrate contract law between different capitalist interests. With the beginning of the class conflict in the US the capitalists merely hired armed thugs form a privately owned detective agency to break strikes. They set up paid frame up courts for trials and death sentences with nothing more than a nod from a friendly governor. This was to great of an exposure for capitalist tyranny. So courts and local governments became the tools of capital to hide their despotism with bourgeois law, justice, police and elected authority. .
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 Stalin was the worst of all leaders of the October revolution. The best you can say about him is he wasn't responsible for everything that went wrong. His murder machine of the Great Purge from 1936 to 1938 did more to bloody the cause of Communism than one hundred Hitler's working day and night under flood lights could accomplish.
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@pamirbadakhshan9934 So how did the infallible Stalin leave the Soviet Union without more infallible leaders like himself to carry on? Yeltsin and Gorbachev were high up in the leadership. Why didn't they have the same infallibility? How many of the Popular Fronts Against Fascism DIDN'T ended with a fascist victory?
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@j.o.e2683 Capitalism is working well that's why we are preparing for nuclear war and making health insurance companies rich. Who wouldn't want to work at WalMart, Amazon and Tesla motors not to mention Apple and Microsoft. Everyone likes being equal while the rich 1% keep piling up a few extra pennies.
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Bringing in Republicans is like changing bosses at work it does nothing for those of us who work. We need a new labor party based in the trade unions.
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Those who run towards a title wave are the first to get dragged back out to sea when it ultimately recedes. .
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@bhough410 Typical Republican needs his Democratic Party buddies to hold his beer while he pisses himself over missiles in Cuba.
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@guilleport What does capitalism produce? It produces only for the making of profits in a market. It builds giant industries and then demands government guaranteed profits. The capitalist became an exploiting class divided into nation states fighting wars for profits against rivals. They set up capitalist class governments for arbitrating disputes within nations amongst themselves then they turning to fascism to block the trade unions while they produce weapons of war to defeat free market world trade rivals when trade wars turn into hot wars. Like the days of Kings and Queens of the land and tribal chieftains the days of their rule are coming to an end. Its the bean counter own accounting books that for tell their own crisis and the end of world capitalism. For the can't avoid the decline in the rate of profit as machines replace labor.
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How are your friends in Hamas doing? Are the having great time living it up as Billionaires who steal humanitarian aid to kill innocent people both Jews and Arabs as martyrs so they can live the high life of billionaries?
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The whole capitalist system needs to go. What we need is a revolution like the one Fidel Castro lead in Cuba. Viva Cuba Libre!!!
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Trump is not just the usual corrupt politician. He is a member of the ruling class himself. While they all agree on the need to keep capitalism they don't always agree with how to keep the system going. I anything some are angry for him paying to much attention to the working classes problems. We are only supposed to follow, vote for either party, and not get into politics ourselves. You can see with the last series of school workers strikes that that is beginning to change.
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@baconbitz7937 Ya Cuba should go back to the days when Batista was making Bosses and the Mafia rich. Back then the real President of Cuba was in the White House. Castro was making it tough for the Bosses by teaching the Peasants to read and stealing United Fruits Company Plantations breaking them up into land for landless peasants.
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@bverji No state or the federal government can outlaw unions. That would violate the first amendments "...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances..." The bosses parties can write all the unconstitutional laws they want. Like the Patriot Act they keep them in reserve for violating the people's rights when needed.
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@bverji The secret to union organizing is taking successful collective actions. Maybe you start with a few teachers going down to the school board, then more school boards and then just keep on building until you've got a statehouse full of teachers, other school workers and reachout to every local community. They key is building more and more actions like in West Virginia. I doubt the laws say no one can talk about their pay and conditions as a group or hold a mass meeting at the State Capital.
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@bverji Cost of living is variable depending on depending on state, city or county. I don't know why they passed those laws but I can bet the labor aristocracy is using them as an excuse to do nothing. Their way of operation is to avoid any struggle if possible in favor of getting out the vote for mostly Democrats.
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@bverji "Right to Work" involves contracts with dues check offs. If you live in a right to work state that's another excuse the labor aristocracy has for getting out the vote for Democrats and doing nothing.
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@bverji Private schools perform better because they get extra's. Like lower class size and different kinds of courses. Bill Gate's school had a computer when not even all elite Ivy League schools had them. Plus the students know that they are going somewhere. I don't think teachers should have to come up with school supplies. They should be able to have limits on class size and classes per day and year round pay. I'd link pay to that of a skilled tradesmen. This are just my ideas so they don't really need to be debated further unless you want to.
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@bverji You can have all the private schools you want as long as they meet public school curriculum standards and no public money is used in anyway to subsidise or pay for them.
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@bverji Look if the bosses can make a profit at something they will be falling all over themselves to get in on the ground floor. Profits are always found in manufacturing because you can cut cost with new machinery. The only problem there is as the investment rises and the labor time decreases the total labor available for exploitation also declines causing a general decrease in profit rates. \
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@bverji They compete for capital as money that's why profitability is important. So yes car builders compete with an oil refinery even though they sell completely different products. Certainly if private schools could produce profits by investment they'd quickly out do public schools. The capitalist think about how they can make money. They would only want the most profitable part of the education system those schools in the better off neighborhoods. They'd be cutting costs with lower wages and bigger classroom size putting off maintenance and cutting heat and cooling costs. How would they get paid? Charging families on a per student basis. Those who could not pay would be shipped off to babysitting class's or maybe the'd demand an Obamacare system charging you with paycheck taxes. Saying school is like car insurance. In rural areas they close schools as to expensive and in city schools they cut expenses to the bone. Hiring subs with nothing but HS education as teachers paying them minimum wage. I was once offered a subs job as a teacher in the Baltimore Public schools at minimum wage with 6 hours a day pay. I made more money driving a delivery truck. They couldn't understand why I'd rather drive a truck.
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@bverji You basic neoliberal theory of profit making public schools turned private comes down to this if we can fire teachers at will we can pay them less and we get better results. Once you've made teachers private employees all those special state labor laws about state employees evaporate. I can't think of a better way to teach teachers that they are the slaves of big business. Some how I'don't think thats what big business wants taught in the classroom.
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@bverji Sorry for being so dumb I just had this stupid Idea that when I bought "a piece of the rock" I actually owned some Kapital. If my school machery can turn out 12 grade students in 9th grade I can sell my education in a number of ways. I can charge for the additional three years at college tution level and a then student can transfer for their last year. This could save parents since at 19 they would have a college grad. I could advertise for students and charge tuition with loans put up by banks. I might have a sliding charge low at K and gradually raising the price after each grade level. Maybe I could get kickbacks for my educated 12th grade 15 year olds from colleges and universities if I was also producing better students. They could have an AA at 17. Maybe companies would want to come and give a talk for which I could charge them.
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@bverji One way or another they all need to move in new capital though profits not paid out as dividends, borrowing, additional offerings or selling off some sections and buying others. Capital in terms of machinery wears out or becomes technologically outdated. Lots of industries brought in robots to replace production labor so the capital to buy or make them had to come from somewhere. You give me the impression that you think that only tech offerings get and need new capital investment.
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@bverji I know enough that you must sell at above the cost of production to make a profit. Leaving out possible differences in shipping costs. I don't see how your private school can make profits and cost the same as public school unless you can either lower the actual cost of labor or increase the productivity of labor with some kind of machinery or technology. Every other input is going to be the same. Now the machinery route is ruled out for the time being unless you have some magic your not including. Your going to tell me that your Private school is going to get better outcomes and still pay a profit. How? I need something I can chew on not magical studies.
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@bverji So how did they save all that money? Catholic Schools and Church Schools often pay lower salaries and are church subsidized. People will pay to send their children there although they've wanted public money for at least the last 50 years. One reason that was rejected is because the southern whites wanted to set up private schools controlling admissions paid with vouchers and leave blacks with the public schools.
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@bverji You still haven't told me the secret to the savings. In any other kind a business I'd conclude you must have labor saving machinery or technique to get that kind of cost savings.
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@bverji Because what your saying doesn't make sense. I looked at the School district I graduated from 50 years ago. Two principals at each of three elementary schools. Two at the Middle school and Two at the High School and a Superintendent. So they add maybe three administrators at the elementary level. The added papa professionals. They raised hot lunch price 12 times what it was. Bus transportation was free now its a charge for less than 2 miles. It use to be done by a contractor now it's done by the district stored at the way oversized HS lot. They built a new elementary using the same plans from the last and shut down the oldest small one because of asbestos. The built a new middle school and demolished the old one. The added class rooms to the High School. I don't know what they spent on all this but I don't see any big 75% savings anywhere. Maybe they have a lot people sitting in easy chairs in Boston but adding three assistant principles while definitely losing one doesn't seem to be a big over bloated administration.They have department heads that are also teachers which hasn't changed. If they have spent a lot of money it's probably connected to the computerization. Every student in every class room is suppose to be able to connect and get high speed access. Plus they take out laptop insurance.
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@johnwelch615 Well I'd been banned from youtube with the election of the Imperialist Joe Bidden's election on Nov. 4th. Education can not turn a profit like a manufacturing company because you can't continually cut the price of production with new machinery and methods.
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@bverji You have presented no facts just huge numbers and wild speculation. No comparison and no explanation whatsoever nevertheless you claim to be so smart. Private schools like Bill Gates' Country Day school have tuition alone of about $30,000 and class size is small 14 - 18 students and they get to pick and choose students. Now you need only one teacher for those 14 -18 students but you have $420,000 to $540,000 to spend on a class. What's a public school teacher in Seattle make? A max of about $90,000 now if they had the funding of the private school they'd have 79% to 84% to spend beyond salary. What do they spend that extra 79% to 84% on? When Bill Gates was there they had a computer when schools like Dartmouth didn't. No doubt they have the best of everything and Bill Gates probably donates to the school. Also its a Day school not an overnight one.
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I don't know since the states aren't equal in population to begin with so dividing by 50 makes no sense.
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@johnwelch615 Human beings labor in groups using tools to feed cloth and take care of ourselves in general. We are social animals not male orangutans who swing from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit. No two children are the same and no one is a queen bee either. Need of children are different in what way school heating and A/C? Early education is very much the same because preparation for the division of labor takes place latter in life and need not be as one sided as it is now. Education as a lifetime activity and healthcare for all who are sick along with all the needs for a meaningful life can be made a reality if we organize ourselves to do that.
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@johnwelch615 Anyone who thinks the current government is capable of doing much of anything but being a force for capitalist state violence is a fool. We propose organizing into trade unions as workers power to replace capitalist greed control regulation and workers control of industry. A large protion of the populations is organized into profit making waste only insurance, banking and finance . Another waste of labor is in things involving war preparations and police protection of private property along with a creation of a growing population of unemployed. The capitalist are less and less able to use all the industrial capacity they have and have scrapped or idled a large amount of shipping capacity since 2008 and even more since 2011 as the continual decline in world trade and production occurs.
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@johnwelch615 You arguing a different need for children with different abilities not in different locations. The general cultural level may vary across the US especially between city and country but it is much higher than Africa and other places in the world were reading and writing is still not what it is in the advanced countries not to mention that you live in the most verbal of world cultures. They place where working people both need democracy and have the most power is not the Congress or Legislature or city hall but at work and with a union that becomes even more true if we can use it to represent our interests.
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@bverji Once again I'm accused of cherry picking now but you provide facts like "Most private schools" If the school was good enough for Gates why not all children. Why not just admit you worship capitalism, private property and the capitalist along with their methods. Of course people such as myself are a waste of a good education because I'm not making some moneybags rich with my knowledge. I couldn't write a sentence before the invention of the computer and spell check I can write now in addition to doing math and science. I spent most of my life in poverty because a selfish ruling class never forgives those who reject their privileges and hypocrisy. Why not just post your certified IQ score as proof of being a know it all. That way you won't have to keep reminding everyone how smart you are and how stupid I am.
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@johnwelch615 The unions are the only organizations that belong exclusively to the working class despite their conservative leadership. Whatever that leadership does it has to take into account what the membership wants because we pay the dues. Why this infatuation with education anyway? Is this very personally important to you for some reason?
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Certainly he could have woken up a judge and asked for a warrant. He of course probably knew he couldn't get one. He was hoping to get his way by intimidation and not law. Once he arrested her did he than do his draw? Because the argument was over access to the patient since he was already trained to do blood draws. My bet is like most cops violating our rights he hoped to accidently break the law due to police dumbness and then do his draw where most likely he would plant some evidence of the driver using coke or smack so the motor vehicle accident due in part to police chasing a suspect at over 100 miles per hour could be shifted to the semi driver.
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@MichaelHill-qc4yc Make the rich pay down to there gold chains and rollex watches. Stop borrowing money from them and paying them back with interest using our tax money. Make the bosses pay the overhead costs of capitalism for workers using the governments power to tax profits.
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@violajohn5159 The Nordic countries are examples of a capitalism weakened by WW2. The Soviet Union was an example of socialism eaten from the inside out by corruption which is a political disease that is endemic to capitalism. Today revolutionary Cuba is an example of what a real socialist revolution can accomplish. An end of the type of poverty seen even in Los Angeles, California and a people willing to everything on the line to help others. A country unlike the US that is not hold political prisoners for past grudges like the US still does for people from the civil rights and anti war struggles of the 1960's and 1970's.
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The problem is that the top NAZI's all scored high on IQ tests. They all were highly educated. So what does that say about the educated meritocracy?
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@alexnowicki286 Sure Trump is going to make everything here and create capitalism in one country. He's going to close all borders, halt all foreign trade and stop all tourism. Then he's going to build a big casino and hotel complex so he can run a fixed game.
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We need a new party independent of the boss class. A labor party based upon a fighting union movement.
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Socialism won't come about through the capitalist government reformation. Instead it will be through class struggle against the companies and their government. As we go into struggle we will change the way we look at each other and the whole world will stand up and cheer with the end of American Imperialism and the beginning of a new United Socialist States of America. In essence a Soviet America.
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@glenncordova4027 Ya they don't have a ruling class that offshored production to save a nickel on ever unit. Nor do they toss their working people out on the street and say see you later partner. Ya you idea of adapting is the same as Hillary Clintons green jobs for Coal miners. A promise with no intention of fulfilment.
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@glenncordova4027 Ya like our ruling class that offshored production to save a nickel on every unit and then left whole communities destitute. Or ruling class politicians who like Clinton who talk about putting a lots of coal miners and coal companies out of business with a phony promise of green energy jobs. Your idea of competition is a race to the bottom for everyone but yourself.
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What is required is a recognition of the right of Israel to exist and a defeat for the Hamas NAZI's.. Not these theories based upon a capitalist cost benefit analysis presented by the American Imperialist Professor Sowell. Israel has a right to exist as a nation regardless of the price it may be forced to pay or how many times the Jews have offered to retreat from land. Arabs have displaced more Jews from states they control than Israel has displaced Arabs. Defenders of Imperialist aggression like Sowell will be only allies of the Jews as long as their ruling class permits it.
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@herbroberts8483 Trump failed to Make America Great Again because capitalism and American Imperialism is a failed system. You can't fix your economic system because its failing of its own accord. It created the crisis of 2008 and it can't recover using the regular methods of playing with interest rates tax cuts and other measures. Now your thinking in terms of Imperialist war against you "free" market competition the Chinese."
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@herbroberts8483 Sanders votes for the Imperialist war budget that makes him a traitor to the working class. No the Stalinist don't want us because we are for class struggle not socialism in one country and murdering people who think the wrong thoughts. If I could put Ayn Rand on the witness stand she would say that she received a university education and advanced study, she was known bourgeois student, she was physically and ideologically on the white side of the civil war, she left legally at the time of Lenin death for the US a country with no diplomatic relations, that had invaded the Soviet Russian Republic and she was never physically mistreated or harmed by Soviet soldiers, police or officials.
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You can't have Democracy with a capitalist class whose class interests are diametrically opposed to the working class. The error of the Social Democracy and the Popular Fronts is the entry into the bourgeois government with a few posts for the Social Democrats that lead to the confusion that the capitalist state can be used by the workers.
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@LosBlancosInsider If they had jobs like years ago when you went to the Jobs service they would have someone to help instead of a cop and a social worker behind bullet proof glass. What they do have is can you work for less jobs.
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@John Smith If he actually brought back millions of jobs then he would have no problem meeting and glad handing all the newly hired workers like at those six new Steel Mills he boasted about. Companies who say they lack enough trained workers don't really lack workers what they want is more training programs so they can lower the price of labor.
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@John Smith He did? I always thought that capitalism runs by the invisible hand? Just where were those six new steel mills built? Connecticut add some more manufacturing jobs. I don't think that they came back from China or Mexico though. The government doesn't allow bids for building Nuclear submarines to be outsourced at least for the time being.
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@John Smithd Are you speaking as an aluminum worker or someone who lives in a community where aluminum is made? I can understand how everyone hopes what he says will come true. Have you given much thought to the Canadian workers who will lose their jobs? When I was a steelworker at Beth Steels Sparrows Point plant all we ever herd from the company was how imports were taking our jobs. I didn't stay despite the promises of sub pay and all the pension benefits for 30 and out. The mill was sold to Aceralor Mittal. A Luxembourg company. When it closed even those who only needed weeks for their 30 and out pay were denied. The last I heard the Giant L blast which we knick named the L ayoff Blast was torn down. Amazon has built a gigantic low wage warehouse on the old Sparrows Point Mills site. At one time 50,000 worked at the Point making coke, raw iron, steel, pipes, wires, plates, sheets, rails and building ships. It was the largest private industrial site in the Western hemisphere.
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@arfanul-haq7682 Hamas knew very well that this would happen. They bare total responsibility for the suffering of Palestinians.
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@sphsmith3400 No but the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was and he fled to Germany were he raised a Muslim Militia for Hitler's final solution.
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@arfanul-haq7682 Okay I get your another so call Muslim Scholar who calls himself a Doctor and is an expert at throwing insults.
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@KingKoo11 Ya we should believe you because after all Jews weren't driven out of all of the Muslim countries but Muslims they still live in Israel. I say you Muslims are the genocidal types. What i don't understand is if you want to commit suicide to get to heaven. Why do you want take everyone along with you?
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@arfanul-haq7682 Twenty percent of the population of Israel is Arab. And yes I can believe what I want because I'm not forced into accepting the infallibility of the Prophet and his word in the Quran. You can't get away with killing me for being an unbeliever or an apostate. Your insults speak louder more about you that anything else you have to say. Billionaires living it up in Qatar luxury talking about being the victims of colonialism. How stupid do you think we are Muslim Scholar?
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@Summernightsandneonlights You're correct they are wacky but so are the Republicans who became the blind followers of Trump. One group wants to erase all sexualy differeces the other wants wants to launch missiles into Mexico.
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Trump hopes to scare immigrants because of the profit needs of the employers for cheap temporary labor. To fight this and build union power the unions need to demand that an Amnesty be declared like under the Bush and Reagan administrations. .
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FedEx your next!
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Ya we could use a Trump dictatorship. That way everything could be making us great again.
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Here once again is the old Noam Chomsky who doesn't use unnecessary rhetoric because his middle class followers feelings might get hurt. Never uses the word Capitalist or Capitalism. It is usually the 'elite' however this time it is the 'donor class'.
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@jacobblack6707 So all we need to do is March on Washington and declare an interim President to replace Trump.
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US Investors want their gold mine back.
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https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article210820589.html I guess I as wrong Canadians want the gold mine and US investors want Oil.
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US Investors in the gold mine went to US federal court for a ruling against
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What do you call it when you use the same asset to create money in more than one place at the same time. Like when banks loan gold and silver deposits as certificates of deposit. You gave the bank $20 in gold they give you back a certificate saying it worth $20 and you agreed to let the bank loan what you left on deposit as long as the bank keeps a fractional reserve. The bank has two contracts now one says you've got $20 in gold the other lets a borrower have a certificate worth $15 while the bank keeps $20 in Gold. Of course as long as the certificates stay in circulation no one is the wiser. When you have a large number of separate banks they can also create private money with deposits and loans to each other. This is just one way money you think is connected to your work becomes private money accumulated in banks.
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@lordraydens Its the failure of global capitalism and NOT its success that is driving the working class actions against the capitalist elites. They can't escape the law of value, the declining rates of profit and the hunger for profits that drives them to war and us towards revolution.
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@MoneyGreen That along with collecting money for the banks and taxes for the government.
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Sowell has achieved his "liberation" thanks to big business and the capitalist elite who fund the Hoover Institution. Like George Bush said," I had to intervene in the "Free Market" to save the "Free Market". All the talk of capitalist bosses having a system that works for all goes out the window once the inevitable crisis hits and your too big too fail. Then the bosses socialise the losses in preparation for privatizing the next round of profits.
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@clarkd1955 Capitalism works towards monopoly and combination. The profits come from the unpaid labor of the production workers.
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Sowells solution sit back and do nothing as the capitalist system made him rich by becoming an educated defender of exploitation.
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Sorry but you can't out law ideas, stop them from entering, deport them or build a big wall to keep them out. Like Che Guevara said at his execution, "Shoot me coward. You are only killing a man."
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Libtard? We eat them for breakfast after we've had our fill of conservatives. Why would we want a corrupt Clinton Party or a half way socialist like Bernie Sanders. Nope its full on worker-bolshevik. We need to do what Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution did in Cuba. End boss control by creating a revolutionary movement that can overthrow the capitalist state.
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Hallz911 Go hide in your gated community bossman.
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Just a further evidence that Amy Goodman has gone over to support for the National Security State" in the "Get Trump" by any way you can movement.
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@tommyk6719 Look out you windows as the Rail Bosses send hazardous material over bad tracks with poor maintenance all for the biggest profits while paying the lowest wages.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Well you can explain how the problems that lead to the capitalist deciding to do what the did could be solved in otherways. They found themselves having to put rogue operations under control and that some kinds of activity could not produce profits and some things did not make sense to own privately or without a monopoly of ownership.
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@Ston247 Class struggle is the road to socialism. They workers will need to defend themselves from fascist attacks upon the trade unions, minorities, jews and political meetings.
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No because as show in the recent GM strike workers were fighting for equal wages and an end to the two tier contract and making temps into regular workers.
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@nal8503 No Government Regulations by the capitalist government are made to benefit capitalism as a whole so as to prevent greed from getting out of control. Name what particular regulation you are talking about because without a union at GM every worker there would be a temp.
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@nal8503 Okay so your argument is similar to the libertarian where governments are disconnected from the economic system. A large portion if not a majority of American politicians are part of the meritocracy educated at the elite universities and stepped in the theory and methods of finance capitalism. They belong to one of the two ruling parties who receive the biggest campaign contributions from business. Yet somehow they are getting overpaid and not properly performing their duties to an ideal capitalism or as Any Rand put it "Capitalism the Unknown Idea."
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@nal8503 So yes capitalist would like to pay only a wage that would sustain a worker till the next day. The price now set for that commodity results in the maximum profit. Health needs for a human being begin at birth and don't end until to death. The attitude of the capitalist of old can be easily understood in a conversation between a coal miner and his boss. Coal Miner, "Which costs the company more a dead mule or a dead miner?" Coal Boss, "A dead mule of course. We can always hire another miner. We would have to buy a mule." Today the coal bosses greed is restrained in many ways because of thing like the "Battle of Blair Mountain." and strikes by miners.
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@nal8503 No one is happy with the schools in the US. At best many could care less. Last year saw a teachers strike wave across about five states. Jobs in the company/state meritocracy are doled out based on based on education and college graduated from which is probably the only reason it's considered important. How much money a school district gets to spend is based upon property taxes. Those with higher incomes live in the same neighborhoods with zoning laws to keep out the riff raff. One reason school shootings happen in better off neighborhoods is their children don't have to pass through metal detectors before entering their school. Schools in the US still operate as if children are needed on farms that don't exist anymore. So a full school year is 180 school days with June, July and August now being the children's vacation time.
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@lonetree1941 A few can become owners of slum property to exploit the poorest of the working class.
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@captainchrisfishing Look end the blockade of Cuba that way ferry service can be restored and I can go there for the winter.
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@captainchrisfishing I remember George Wallace speaking and what he said. "Segregation Today", "Segregation Tomarra " Segregation Forever" Now we have come a long ways from then no thanks to either of the two parties.
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You just another Imperialist fool who wants bigger profits and more prestige.
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@ianallen2 People usually take baths or showers at home even in Saudi Arabia.
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@Conserpov Defeat for Russia in Ukraine! Down with the NATO Imperialist allaince!
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@travisjazzbo3490 This idea of accountability is a bunch of nonsense based in the false ideas that everything can be measured with money and capitalism doesn't produce a wealthy ruling class that becomes lees accountable by the natural workings of capitalism which works to send most wealth to the top regardless of success or failure of the underlying firms. That was the whole reason for setting up the credit default swap which paved the way for the crisis of 2008 that required government intervention to prevent massive business failure.
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@stevemonges Those refuges live in nice apartments unlike homeless in New York.
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@stevemonges Arabs didn't accept partition in 1948 so they went to war and lost just like today.
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@robertnicholls9917 This is why the REAL communist movement publishes the truth about world politics in The Militant newspaper.
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@Matt M England had also been a Repulic for a shirt period when the Parliament had named 59 commissioners to try King Charles I who was condemed to death in the English revolution. The restoration of the monarchy gave amnesty to all but the 59 Commissioners. Those who were already dead like Oliver Cromwell were executed posthumously while the living had to seek political asylum in the Dutch Republic Switzerland and New England.
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@phanx0m924 That was at one time an idea of the US Military. The problem however is the US is a capitalist Imperialist power in the era of Imperialist war and socialist revolution. The US can NOT transfer its way of development into the colonial world. World capitalism progressive era ended with the first Imperialist World War. The Russian revolution broke the weakest link in the Imperialist system.
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So you have a fetish for natural diamonds which have no industrial use since they can be much more cheaply manufactured?
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@peterellicott58 Capitalism divides people into the owners of Private Property (The property used to exploit others.) and those who must work for the owners of private property.
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@Randomusername988 The Arabs and Muslims both raided and control the trade routes between Europe and China via the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
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@jimc9596 No you are the one suffering from naivety. Trump will not make a blanket charge of political prisoners because they still remember Carter's political disaster called the mariel boatlift. He won't claim individually named prisoners because they don't want common criminals claiming political status that they will have to jail or deport latter.
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@jimc9596 People such as yourself don't see anything wrong with Washington's policies of blockade and regime change. You think of your government as the best in the world who can do no wrong and when a whole people object they must have guns pointed at their backs. After all who could object to a freshly made McDonald's hamburger and bottle of Coca Cola.
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@ElaineWood-f2t He can't because he is reserved for speeches to the Republican choir only. He as just as much a race hustler from the consevative Republicans.
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@MikeDrew312 It represents the Early Soviet Union and the workers and farmers alliance that was later destroyed in the Stalinist counterrevolution.
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Taco caT Maybe you should go to Honduras and teach them to "Speak English".
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Taco caT I thought you were an English teacher.
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Taco caT That's not what MIT thought in 1970. I had to build a computer with a spell check before I could do much writing.
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Socialism was already on Trial in 1940. It the actual Courtroom testimony of James Cannon in the First successful Smith "Gag" Act trial.
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@robertking3090 Make every job a union job.
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Brewer has been doing to much brewing and now she's drunk on power that she doesn't have. If your sick and tired go to bed or see a doctor.
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Tax the rich instead of borrowing money from them.
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@paulao7022 Bush started the "War on Terror" so he's just as rotten as any social democratic traitor to the working class.
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@paulao7022 You've got a whole bushel basket full. Corporate shills who promise to fix capitalism.
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@donnaeturner No and I don't see how Bill Gates losing money from his software installed on computers made in China costs me a dime. Gates knew the rules before he let his software be installed in China. Now he is crying for more profits from Chinese internal sales. You and the Tech giants should've thought about that before moving production and jobs out of the USA. I have no sympathy for you.
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@CommanderXED Here is an example of so called Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The US has been crowing for decades about how enlightened the Chinese rulers have become by adopting capitalism. Now the cost of capitalists system is coming due. The Chinese only have one doctor per thousand with the US having about 2.3 per 1,000. The big worry in Beijing and on Wall Street is the worlds economy not the worlds people. In Cuba they have 9 doctors for every 1000. The only reason that can't be done in China and the US is profits come first and life of the working class comes last.
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@osmarmayoral3996 Spin off from labs is a conspiracy theory besides China isn't the only country with such labs. The actions taken by these so called Socialism with Chinese characteristics officials has been despicable. The first Doctor to discover this was first ignored, then arrested and forced to confess. He is now a victim of the disease and dead. Mean while the central leadership has been one of worrying over mass protests against local do nothings These bureaucrat have been fired by Beijing while a new set of commanding idiots is put in place.
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@cindyl.3699 You have your gated communities and your HOA's when not just stay home order from Amazon and work from your computer. You are doing anything relevant anyway.
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I will condemned him with his own numbers 95 million out of the labor force. 11 million 'illegal aliens' do the math even if every single one of the 11 million were deported 84 million would still be out of the labor force. The whole reason for deportation instead of legalization is not to deport everyone but to drive down their wages even further and to use that as an additional club against the working class as a whole. To believe that monied interests will go against their own profit interest without a fight is completely ridiculous. The way forward is to organize and join unions and to fight back against capitalist austerity.
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Exactly!!! Your born. Only to die latter on.
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@shanehiggins3033 Is a dog not life also? How about we just all stop eating isn't that the ultimate solution for minds like yours. See how long you can live on water alone.
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@shanehiggins3033 You not Pro Life because you don't think through the whole consequences. Who's going to care of all theses babies no one wants? The world is filled with orphans as it is now. We don'r force anyone to take care of another person expect that's exactly what Pro Lifers want for fetuses. Once your born anyone can take care of you except we can't even make sure that happens for poor children now. All this does is create more unnecessary problems. Quite frankly I'm sick of hearing about the need to take responsibility when no one else does. It easy to go around grandstanding for fetus after all they can't express an opinion one way or another. That way you can pump up your chest claim you human and ask stupid questions like isn't a fetus alive. Of course its alive and so are the farm animals that we eat. You just go on a water diet and see how that works out. I here you might live for about 30 days.
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First Colony Britain took was Ireland. The population was decimated by a famine caused by British landlords and capitalist. The population of 1840 did not recover until the 21st century.
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@bazzingabomb Thank you for correcting me. I don't think Sowell is correct about the colonial world. The productivity of labor on farms still tends to be lower than that in the developed world nor does anyone give away jet engines or patents. Nor do you do other people a favor by coming in and demanding they grow crops for your market and leave the rest of their society at subsistence level. Fidel Castro showed what a former coloniai country can accomplish with Socialism despite the US Blockade.
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@bazzingabomb That's Sowell defending Western Imperialism like capitalist as the best thing for both parties involved. He worships at the alter of his teacher Milton Friedman and sits in a chair named after Freidman. For him everything can be explained by the theory of a free market abstraction and not the class struggle. You see if he had to use the class struggle as the true driver of human history then his capitalist friends would not allow him into their prestigious American conservative university think tank. So he often finds himself talking about markets like they were a fabulous way to make decisions and could exist without a government. . .
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@markgilrosales6366 Then why has world capitalism entered a period of crisis and decline. Why are the Imperialist nations coming into conflict over trade? Railroad bosses just had Congress shove a contract down their throats.
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@cnault3244 It becomes a child when your born that's why we issue birth certificates and not conception certificates.
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@conelord1984 What about the problems the market creates? Friedman is like a protestant preacher who practices his sermons on the faithfull. Unfortunately the boss don't follow the yellow brick road laid out by Friedman and Sowell. Insead they go to the government to solve their problems created by their own greed and drive for profits. The government is not the oppressor of capitalism but the defender. For without government and the central bank the chaos of capitalism would threaten the very foundation of the system itself. The hocus pocus of the so called free market whatever that is suppose to mean has crashed upon the rocks of 2008. No one ever again will be able to say capitalism can function without government controls on monetary policies at the enterprise level. Too many junk bonds had to be retired to the vaults of the federal reserve for the examination of future posterity.just like the cache of gold in the cellars of the federal reserve bank and fort knox.
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@coolioso808 Yes the declining and shrinking middle class desires to save itself from big capital which grinding it into the working class with by lower costs and replacing higher paid skilled with unskilled labor and more machinery.
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@coolioso808 The industrial workers are that class that will organize, lead and build a new government economic system and state power. Only those in the middle class who willing to though their lot in with the new class will be helpful in the that task.
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@coolioso808 No i'm not interested in some nut cases ideas of ancient astronauts, energy channels, and pseudolaw for banks. I prefer the real world not one made up by a fantasy.
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You don't think he works for free up at Stanford University Hoover Institute do you?
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Yes he sees George Bush as the patriot waging a great holy war for free markets and American capitalism.
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@LeKikoojap Even the capitalist realize that the patent system is getting in the way of doing business since it only favors those who can afford to file and research the patent data base. Then a patent must be defended in court. Anyone can file a patent application and as long as the examiner has no reason to reject it you will receive your patent.
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@italorossid Probably not since that is more of a scientific discover than a result of a scientific discovery. If you created a specific weaken virus to prevent a certain viral infection that you could patent. If you patent is too broad it will be struck down for that reason if it is too narrow it won't apply to competitors, Most of the TV patents were owned by RCA but when the US TV system was put in place the patents had to be shared among multiple companies. The examiners will reject the obvious like perpetual motion machines not the new design of an object to hold water for the purpose of drinking. A drug patent may last for twenty years and a company may try and modify or extend it by adding baking soda re patenting it as buffered for easy digestion. The creator of the ethernet standard sold a license to his patent for $1,000 after which you could build as many devices as you wanted. Compare that to Bill Gates wanting $20 to $135 for every copy of Windows OS and even more for the server version. .In the case of the software that was considered property like writing a book while some more specific algorithms for a certain purpose have been patented.
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@jonathanflores3256 Yang is a case of an old FORTRAN 77 "Continue" statement. it means continue on with no changes made.
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@jonathanflores3256 I'll look again but last time I looked I saw only a laundry list of problems. His solution looked like a big relabeling project for a new political correctness. He said on the Ben Shapiro Show he would end all welfare programs, cut Social Security by $1,OOO and the Freedom Benefit is not something to live on. That his plan will save tax dollars. With a 25% unemployment rate expect to be working for less than the minimum wage. Bosses will fire you not having a company Tattoo. If capitalism does this only a Socialist Revolution like the Cuban revolution can solve these capitalist austerity wars on the working class.
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@jonathanflores3256 Right and mysteriously wages will not drop with 25% unemployment. The whole goal of the capitalists is to pay you the lowest wage it is possible for you to live on. The only way to fight mass unemployment without a socialist revolution is with a sliding scale of wages and hours. In other words cut the workweek with no cut in pay while raising the overtime premium to maybe triple time. This was originally done in 1938 with the Fair Labor Standards act. By creating a full employment economy that reduces the natural competition for jobs in the way capitalism works. If private capitalism cannot create such an economy than the capitalist government should step in and create needed public works projects. If they still can't do it then our unions should move against the capitalists, their government and take political power away from such an incompetent bunch of fools. Putting a huge number of us on welfare will only further the divisions between the employed and unemployed driving all wages down to what will be the new minimum wage.
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@jonathanflores3256 Bill Gates started with a million dollar trust fund. If mass unemployment hits what kind of business do you plan to start with $1,000 a month? A thousand dollars a month is less than what a 40 hour minimum wage job pays now? You and others think he is a genus because you have forgotten how to do arithmetic.
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@jonathanflores3256 Watch "Shark Tank" notice that those who are following your advice almost always get rejected. A Boss in any job with a 25% unemployment rate is just going to allow you to set your work schedule? A thousand dollars a month won't cut it as a safety net. Yang makes that clear in the Ben Shapiro interview. This is just a cynical way to reduce future government expenditures once again made clear in the Ben Shapiro interview. The idea is to manage us while not interfering with Human Capitalism (capitalist greed and peragatives).
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@upstairs1307 No their is no plan Trump didn't have a secret one and neither does Biden. This is what a defeat for an Imperialist power looks like.
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@mynameisjeffy5716 Right so "...those who are ignorant and probably shouldn't be reproducing to begin with..." So should having babies be a way to gets some practice being smart and responsible? Are you sure your not the one who's ignorant and irresponsible. Do you have a problem understanding the results of an unwanted pregnancy? Getting an abortion even the abortion pill is much more problematic and costly than birth control to begin in.
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The Everglades goes to Trump and De Santis with another big victory for the clean water act.
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@paigejo24 The civil war was fought over slavery vs wage labor and capital. The next civil war / revolution will be fought between capital (private property) and labor (social property). All theses so called "leftist" will side with private property because that is their ultimate goal. Keeping private property by using these past marginalize groups to hide behind.
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Gingrich will propose a nation program of gated communities for the rich to defend against terrorism. He will have Afghanistan pay for it.
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The bosses take it out of your check
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@franklin9400 Right you bosses always talk about accountability as if we are nothing but numbers in your accounting books. How many time have you got a bailout or a fat government contract. You talk accountability till the cows go home but for you its always too big to fail.
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@tomdonahoe3539 Capitalism is creating its own problems. There can be no real Democracy with a capitalist class private profit and profit system. They will corrupt the government to make themselves even richer. It naturally corrupts any Democracy. Capitalism produces the centralized nation states whose wealthy bosses compete in a world market. They can not help but enter into decline as capital replaces labor the rise in capital value and the decline in the labor needed to produce works to lower the rate of profit by which capital defines success such that giant industries enter into decline.
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@bryanmachin3738 It's quit apparent it only took a few critics including one from the boss class itself to fracture the whole neoliberal project which had collapsed in 2008 due to the bosses greed. Now they talk of civil war, coup d eta and how they are the true product of Democracy. Their right to rule and the "smarts" who follow are all being questioned now.
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Give the two a Presidential medal for being easily fooled into thinking that capitalism has any economic or political stability.
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@golden.lights.twinkle2329 He went to the ER after passing out due to his brain swelling. Doctors are considering drilling a hole in his head to relieve the pressure due to the brain swelling.
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I believe you right. We couldn't do worse since they'd have to buy their votes.
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I was banned twice by You tube with never a reason given.
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Thomas Sowell is just a disciple of Milton Friedman he even sits in his Chair at Stanford University. His book Basic Economics is what you would call a hymn to capitalism and Free Markets. At the end of the day the only thing he proves is how foolish he is. His big claim to fame is his claim to have been a marxist who saw the light You can call him a marist if you want to voulgaris Marx's teachings. Go ahead chuck the labor theory of value in the trash for one so stupid only an intellectual could think it up. Trade can be beneficial to both parties and big risk can result in big rewards. Wow what Genius Sowell is!!!! I might want to trade something I don't need for something I do and some else might have something they don't need that I do. Big Risk can produce Big rewards. Anyone with a brain knows you usually want risk as little as possible to get the biggest rewards. Fidel says he risked the whole revolution to win the battle with South Africa in Angola. Well that was certain a big risk and it produced a big reward the defeat of the invincible white man in South Africa. What did the big banks and capitalist do when the crisis of 2008 hit? Did they reject the use of the central bank for waiting for everything to naturally reset? Like Friedman postulate for the fix after the Great Depression? No the headed straight to Washington for a bailout. The only thing Friedmans ideas in the old Soviet Union produced was a deep economic crisis which is why the Chinese didn't put everything up for sale like the neoliberals told them to.
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@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Basicly its propaganda since he can't even define economics. it'a little more than a collection of cherry picked facts meant to make himself look like a genius for collecting them. .
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@thefrenchareharlequins2743 What makes you think resources are scarce to begin with? Afterall hasn't humanity always found new ways to use what nature has already provided? The idea of scarcity is one promoted by the bourgeois as the twin excuse for its privileges' and poverty. Capitalism with its world money economy is something new in human history. In a matter of a few generations we have gone from crossing the oceans to landing on the moon. He insults you intelligence when he uses Babe Ruth as an example of exploitation and the janitor as someone who isn't because he can find another job and Ruth has only the skill of being a ball player. He quotes Milton Friedman when he insults John Lewis as the greatest oil salesman. Lewis lead the CIO industrial union movement which organized the basic industries of American capitalism. Lewis was a working miner with a 10 th grade education. Yet Lewis had the ear of Presidents and Congress.
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The Communist Course of Lenin and Trotsky clearly ended with the 6th 1928 Congress of the Communist International.
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@85bbenjaminfan I took the vaccine for the same reason Ron Paul did. I trust the science not the politicians. I've also had the small pox and polio vaccines. Getting any kind of surgery is probably more dangerous including cataract surgery and quarenting yourself will have little to no effect on you survivability. You can't do at home what they can in an hospital ICU. The purpose of any vaccine is to trick the immune system into reacting to a simular type of material creating antibodies that can then attack the virus as if you were previously infected. The people who should worry about vaccines are those with weak immune systems not strong ones. Since it takes time for the antibodies to build up and if your system doesn't create enough you can still be infected.
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@85bbenjaminfan If I wanted to worry about man made biologics affecting my health I worry about pollution caused by weed killers used to save money keeping railroad and electric power lines right of ways clear, landfill pollution and the scramble to build electric cars. Powering cars with rechargeable batteries doesn't change the need for energy to manufacture and power the cars.
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@yildendelta6761 So you want FDA assurances but are unhappy with the ones they gave you? Okay.
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@davidmajor1508 Go take a few items to sell down to the local park and see how long before the "Free Market" police demand ID and shut you down for not having a permit. If we had "free market" medicine you'd have surgeons trained in meat markets and opium would cure all your ills. Free market capitalism was when Paul Revere personally made pots and pans and farmers lived in sod houses. You live in a world market dominated by the Imperialist nations whose profit making companies fight for market share. Capitalist industry is coupled with banking capital which exercises control to assure monopoly prices and profit maximization. The purpose of capitalist government is to arbitrate disputes and assure the rights of the capitalist bosses come first despite which party is in power. Trump switched Parties 5 times and Hillary Clinton was a Republican Goldwater Girl who couldn't pass the DC Bar exam despite graduating from Yale Law.
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@joefyda9105 Don't drink the Kool Aid because it was made for a profit.
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@joefyda9105 Other countries have made vaccines and WHO currently approves 9 different ones. The "Bigger Picture" is almost everything is made for a profit and every year they make new influenza vaccines also. If they held up releasing the vaccine people would complain about foot dragging so someone isn't going to be unhappy especially people who live in the world of conspiracy theories. If you don't want the vaccine don't take it.
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@davidmajor1508 The general concept of free market capitalism is the era of handicrafts and local trade so sod houses built out west would reflect that wood was not available locally despite the railroad whereas New England by that time would already have textile mills reflecting industrial capitalism. Capitalism has never developed evenly across the world or with a single country especially a large one like the United States. New York City still has sidewalk fruit vendors along with the World Trade Center, Federal Reserve Bank and Wall Street. Where as most American cities don't have sidewalk fruit vendors or 100 story Financial buildings.
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@davidmajor1508 My point is what was called "free market" capitalism is long gone. Besides snickering what's you point history professor?
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@davidmajor1508 What's free about a market? Do you go shopping and haggle at the store over the price? The capitalist don't want competition when the sell only when they buy and those who have only their labor to sell are paid by the piece or hour. Capitalism works to replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines to drive down wages to the minimum wage the laborer needs to sustain himself. The only thing capital does is accumulate and demand a more in return than it started with regardless of success or failure. It becomes more and more parasitic as massive unpayable debt is created. It puts forward the promise to create wealth by investment. The promise of a free lunch with no work required. Go put your money into the gambling casino where the house always wins and the players go home with empty pockets. If it turns out your "smart" card counter they've got the legal (cops) and illegal (mafia) leg breakers for that also.
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@davidmajor1508 I tell you what you can explain what a free market is because the goal of every capitalist is profit. The idea that you can have capitalism without corporations or a government is a pipe dream. The whole reason for having corporations and stock markets is to raise investment capital to produce commodities. If capital was able to produce without labor than the laws of thermodynamics would be violated. Tools are created to save future labor time. To build a factory you need capital to build the machines and hire the workers to make the product before you can have any income from sales. The capitalist want everyone to feel a debt of gratitude to them. So they cultivate the idea that they geniuses who are saving mankind from all kinds of horrible fates. They know the workers need a certain income to spend on their needs to come back to work for the next pay period but why pay them a higher wage if you can convince them your letting them borrow against future work as a favor. Convince the workers they can live better in debt and now you have debt slaves who can lose their, credit card and card rating, home and automobile if the go on strike. Same with the national debt its a way for the capitalist to make money on debt instead of paying more taxes. If for any reason they can't find enough buyers for the national debt than the national banks buy the debt and sell it to the Federal Reserve that orders more money from the US Treasure that coins and prints money along with issuing the bonds. A nice little circle with financial interests having control over the currency along with the capitalist government.
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@davidmajor1508 Its people like you who go on endlessly about free markets and how markets are making decision and all kinds of other nonsensical attributable to what I figure amounts to nothing more than the right to buy and sell labor and property without limitations. Markets and trade have always been a source of conflict between individuals and groups requiring rules agreements and arbitrators over markets. A real human achievement isn't another market but the ability to make use of the environment without a market. It became so apparent that there was a need for roads to facilitate trade that the are created and paid for by government hiring contractors rather than letting a market for roads to develop. How are we going to solve all the problems with healthcare and education? Relying on more machines built by the financial geniuses? Or should we spend our resources on mass education to drive down the price of labor privilege for Engineers, Doctors, and Scientists who use their education to take economic advantage of others.
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@davidmajor1508 Your the one who introduced the term "free markets" and insist I don't know what they are yet you yourself have yet to enlighten us your definition. You want to bring in a hackneyed term and bash your opponents for not having the correct definition well then go ahead and give us your definition.
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@davidmajor1508 The capitalist are only interested in making industrial profits by replacing skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. Education and Health care are overhead costs to be minimized on the company books. Afterall the rich can buy all the healthcare, education and educated fools they need. The capitalist use their market position and their government to drive against wages and raise prices. Since in the past money value was tied to gold they had to announce unpopular wage cuts ti keep up declining profit rates. Now they just print more money to devalue the currency which allows prices to be raised and capital value to increase at the expense of the wage earner. The more the workers understand about economics the less the ability the profit makers have in fooling us with demands to cut back for the sake of company profit in times of capitalist crisis.
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@davidmajor1508 An educated working class is a threat to capitalist power and their ability to exploit us. It's why the educational system has been allowed to decline in the US. The bosses need order takers not thinkers. For the bosses education is best when teachers are paid less while healthcare is placed into the hands of a class of modern day princes called MD's. Billions are spent on war preparations and sales of weapons to some of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Millions languish as contract prison labor for extra profits exceeding the number of prisoners in China or under Stalin in the Soviet Union.
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The Chinese workers are already waging strikes and a student group was recently arrested for studying the works of Marx Lenin and Mao who then went to help the workers struggle.
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@stevenyuliagenadt9895 The German capitalist turned to Hitler to save their private property. His first acts were to take control of the German police and make the Communist Party of Germany illegal. In a few months he launched a blood purge of his NAZI party. The enabling act passed by the NAZI and German capitalist parties made parliament irrelevant. The Democratic Imperialist of France, the US/UK had no problems with Hitler until he started threatening them with Germany's military expansion. The Democratic Imperialist had no problem with Stalin as long as he was fighting Hitler. In fact they found him to be a convenient ally until NAZI Germany and Japan were defeated. Then within a few months the Cold War began. The Russian Bolshevik revolution was in 1917. The civil war ended by 1921. Stalin was a minor figure. He didn't get full control until he purged the party of all disent in the 1936 to 1938 Moscow Trials. That's about twenty years later not a few months later like Hitler. All the old Bolsheviks were purged after frame up trials and torture forced confessions. Regardless of past differences all were accused of Trotskyism. Anyone who had ever criticized Stalin even if they had helped him at some critical time was included in the Great Purge. The NKVD was given quotas for arrests much like American police handing out speeding tickets. Stalin's hands reached all the way to Mexico to murder his most voracious critic Leon Trotsky.
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@stonesibbett7857 If you were born on earth your not an alien.
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@bigdtravellers2287 In other words bring them in so the bosses can exploit them and send them home when the bosses are done taking the surplus value their labor created. Big business loves people with your ideas that serve as cover for driving down wages and working conditions. Instead of recognizing full human rights give them a special paper that says your only a temporary human for temporary work purposes only. .
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@bigdtravellers2287 Capitalism is world system and it creates its own problems. The advanced capitalist countries can no longer even sustain their own population without immigration. Countries like South Korea, Japan, and China which have no source of immigration are seeing aging populations. The same would be true for the US, Canada and Western Europe without immigration. The reason being is with capitalism we are paid a wage to sustain us to the next pay period not to reproduce a new generation. It's in the interest of the working class to have both equal political rights and social benefits. So we have Social Security and the next step is to have a payment for every child to lift the workers children out of poverty. Karl Marx saw this coming a long time ago when he noted the tendency of the capitalist to pay only the social minimum required to reproduce the social labor of the working class. That the natural tendency of capital is to impoverish the working class. After noting this tendency he asked what would prevent the workers from being paid less than what is needed to reproduce the next generation? Of course the class struggle comes into play and that is why socialism is the next step in the evolution of humanity. The nation state is to small of an economic organization. The capitalist are divided into nations while the workers have no nation in the same sense that the capitalist do. For us the nation is our language and the place we grew up. Their is nothing all that special about the borders drawn between nations anymore than states within a nation.
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@bigdtravellers2287 Law like a nation develops out of culture. All nations have laws that one is expected to abide by so to say we are a ""nation of laws" that must be adhered" to sounds strange either you think other nations don't have laws that one must adhere too or that your nation is only made up of laws. Culturally the United States is overwhelmingly Christian but that is not the only religion and Christianity is only a general term referring to a general religious belief system rather than a single specific religion. In order for people of different religions to get along in the United States laws and customs have developed to allow religious freedom. The Government: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
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Close the US Imperialist military bases.
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@AlexKS1992 Another sporter of Queen Hillary the First.
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Did some one from the Communist Party come in and explain their plans?
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@vonrock6862 Who wrote the books? When I was in High school the only bonafide communist pamphlet I could find in the local library was the Communist Manifesto. "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." Is that a clear enough plan?
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You should meet up for one last game of Kissy Poo.
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@larryfoster8820 The Cuban revolution is just the prelude to the Socialist revolution in the United States itself. Solidarity freed the Five Cuban hero's from US Prisons and it will end the blockade. Once the Imperialists realize they can't kill the revolution by starvation and military force the will change course and try ad kill the revolution with kindness.
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pattherealist Two world wars brought on by capitalist competition. US mainland territory free of any war destruction. Europe and Japan a smoldering pile of rubble. In the next world war if it happens ICBM's and Nuclear war will not leave the US mainland untouched. Still want to leave a bunch of greedy capitalist in charge?
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@kosttzan886 These "three wise men" are good at two basic things fighting for market share and getting the biggest return on investment.
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@erikkovacs3097 You are an ant corrupted by sugar.
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@elocore1702 Coal Miner, "Boss what costs the company more a dead miner or a dead mule?" Coal Boss, "The Mule of Course. We can always hire another miner. We have to buy mules."
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@dpol4at Karl Marx didn't spend his time being a celebrity like the Kardashians. He and Engels had to leave Germany because of Bismarck's anti Socialist laws. The spent time in the British Museum reading things like the reports of sea captains.
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@tompain2751 Some how the Belgians arriving in the Congo and making the natives smear themselves with latex from rubber tree as away to transport it to a central reception area doesn't sound like a better way to live than the previous tribal culture disrupted by the arrival of wealthy plantation owners.
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@elocore1702 My bet is that you have not invented anything because if you end up as an engineer working for some company all your ideas belong to the company and not you anyway. It's in the contract you sign with the company.
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Nick Smith Have you invented anything or not? Or are you just another blow hard for capitalism.
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@elocore1702 Are you also a blow hard or have you invented anything?
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I have the right to rent myself out to a bag of money. That's the sum total of rights guaranteed by capitalism.
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Nick Smith You know about economics do you? Do you know that Adam Smith first proposed the labor theory of value. Next time you go to get your car repaired ask them how they came up with the bill. Did they use supply and demand curves on graph paper or labor time from a flat rate book?
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@elocore1702 "lets also not forget that we have also invented" So what was it that you invented? Please refresh my memory?
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@elocore1702 So you have invented nothing but know everything. LMAO The first artificial satellite was put in orbit by the Soviet Union and the first man in space and to orbit the earth was a Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin. Do you have any idea how many technological advances were needed to do that?
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@elocore1702 Why don't go help the Saudis bring about capitalist democracy?
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@elocore1702 Still waiting to hear about what you invented. So now the story has changed its nothing compared to capitalism. After sputnik was heard round the world Congress was scared shitless and passed the Defense Education Act. Incentives was what brought down the Soviet Union along with Shock Therapy now it's going to be the USA's turn. Capitalism is failing across the world and that's what's creating mass protests. You need a new Neural network for what? Capitalist productivity has risen form 1973 to 2008 but it has left the working class behind. Keep talking about how all your dumb shit is going to take everyone's job and who will you sell all that garbage to?
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@elocore1702 I don't need to win argument with you because we would never agree to the same criteria. I guess you're not the inventor you claimed to be when you used that word "we". Negative interest rates in Europe and Japan where the capitalist hand themselves money from the central bank. Yup capitalism is working real well for the capitalists. There talking about another round of quantitative easing in Europe. That's where the central bank buys all the junk bonds for cash. I guess there is going to be a planning for a lot overtime at the Government Printing office again where they print those Benjamin Franklin Federal Reserve notes.
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@elocore1702 You didn't invent planes? I guess that lets you off the hook for the Boeing 737 Max problems. You man Juan Guidio chosen by VP Pence as President of Venezuela is a "Popular Will Party" guy. He is the US/UK and EU puppets failed coup candidate. "Popular Will" is by choice a member of the Socialist Second International. Just another case of Socialist in name only traitors like all those traitors running the Nordic countries. Back to Maduro he like Chavez before him has relied on using oil revenue to make the lives of the poor better instead of leading a socialist revolution to power like Fidel Castro. The rest of the economy is in private hands for which they are unhappy with the level of bribes being paid.
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@Prodigi50 How do you plan to what to produce and where to distribute it?
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@elocore1702 To bad "YOU CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH."
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@Prodigi50 The way cars are trucks are built today is that different factories make parts that go to the assembly plants. It's all coordinated such that everything arrives for just in time manufacturing. You've got to decide have many cars and light trucks to produce first before you can decide how many parts to produce. Once you've done that then you have to decide how many new machines and parts for the machines you will need to build for those plants. You've got to send parts to dealers or repair shops for repairs. You can't just blindly produce W number of engines at the engine plant, X number of Transmissions at the transmission plant, and Y number of axles, and Z number of fenders and body parts. You'd end up with even greater chaos in producing vehicles than we have with capitalism as it stands now. The capitalist say they don't centrally plan when actually the do plus they continually adjust production levels depending on need to profit by adding overtime, cutting back on hours, hiring more workers and laying us off. How are you going to replace that without centralized planning? The workers can decide how they want to do things at their workplace but productions levels and quotas have to be decided centrally. You have to start with what capitalism leaves us after the workers over through the capitalist states repressive power.
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@jason chalangary Bill Gates came from an upper class family and attended a private country day school. They had a computer when only a few research universities did. He launched Microsoft with a million dollar trust fund from a grandfather that was a successful banker. So you are wrong about at least one.
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@jason chalangary It's the logical actions of the actors within the framework of capitalism that creates the world crisis of capitalism today. You can not expect them not to act in a greedy fashion when they were raised on the pablum of American Capitalist greatness. The fear a financial crisis plunging them down into depths never before seen yet they have not the slightest clue of what to do about it but create more exchange of seeming better backed paper values.
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@yoojinkim5810 Gates is an entrepreneur his wealth came from microsoft's sucess in the marketplace. There is no reason to believe that without Bill Gates we wouldn't have a graphical user operating system or Office business software. A company that developed in the exact same way Microsoft did no. The other two are Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerate firm, executives and owners. I don't know why or how setting up a conglomerate of businesses would be something special except when you consider how much economic value they've been able to collect.
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@AmericanThoughtLeaders Don't you need to be doing some Yogi or Jumping Jacks?
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@analizbar Mao discredits himself with " New Democracy" and Stalin with his purges and murder of all opposition creating a shell of a Party made up of followers of an infallible leader Joe Stalin.
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Taking power away from state governments and giving it to women sounds even better.
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@fallfire8878 Its not a question of what is good or bad. Only slavery was possible in ancient society since we had not developed the means of production and the ideas necessary to build capitalism. To advance the rights and ability of the working class as a whole abortion need recognition as a women's right. This will help workers who want to have families to put up a united front against the bosses and advance the march of the working class to state power.
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@russelljordan7688 Sure your going to do social engineering just like the liberals and make everyone happy. Does it ever occur to you that someone may not want your "Christaion Charity"? Maybe they don't want tio spend 9 months carrying a pregancy to term?
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@russelljordan7688 Your the type of genius who can think his way into a circular argument he can't escape.
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@russelljordan7688 Communism is a movement not a new doctrine invented by universal reformers. It is the history of one class of victory and defeats with the other most important class in the world the capitalist class. History has worked for capitalism when the capitalist were in struggle and not allied with the landowners. History is working against the capitalist classes as they become more divided and break up into competing blocks of Imperialist nations. The world's capitalist classes are no further along today in solving the historical problems of Imperialism than when war broke out in 1914. Despite the popular overthrow of the Stalinist bureaucracy by popular revolution American Imperialism was unable to put together a consolidated world capitalist alliance. Instead new competition means only further decline and a New World Disorder. The working class has only become larger and more technically proficient and culturally aware. The capitalist and those phoney Chinese communists can't escape the declining rate of return on investment and the continual financial crises that undermine every recovery. How long can you fool the world's people into thinking that any paper currency is worth anything when left in the control of the capitalist exploiters.
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@russelljordan7688 We had abortion regulated by hospital abortion boards or state laws in the past and that proved unworkable then I don't see why that becomes an option now or how or why the a new morality has become possible. You argument is based upon making an embryo or fetus a person which it isn't true in the first place. Using your argument I could argue against military conscription or any kind of social obligation I don't like such as taxes or zoning laws. These ideas of absolute freedoms and rights originated with capitalism and were never intended for the masses of people but only the ruling capitalist class they have become somewhat extended but courts have found creative ways to limit them.
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@russelljordan7688 Sorry but we aren't going to hide are veiws or opinions just to suit a bunch of bourgeois Democrats who are the problem to begin with. You don't like what I have to say about your theories and your party of corrupt capitalist thieves than too bad. Take your Red baiting to Joe McCarty and your segregationist Democrats. People like Hillary Clinton are part of the problem after all she campaigned on abortion being rare and legal which is exactly what its is. Rare for the working class and legal for the capitalist class.
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The Threat to Democracy comes from the Democratic Party witch hunt against Donald Trump. Drop the frame up charges now.
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@simpleman4059 The system is in crisis and the only solution that both parties have is to make us pay for their bankrupt and rotten profit system.
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The first Soviet nuclear test was on Aug 29, 1949. So they did have 'the bomb' before McArthur began his war and his threats. Although run by corrupt and murderous bureaucrats the Soviet Union and China retained their planned economies until about 1991. Since their return to finance and industrial capitalism there is nothing progressive left to defend. North Korea, China and the Soviet Union unlike the US/UN never used a single heavy bomber during the whole war. Stalin gave orders to MIG 15 pilots not to fly south of land controlled by the ground forces. The MIG's were basically used against the bombers and fighters defending them. When a small and poor nation is being threatened by the most powerful military empire ever seen on earth that small nation deserves defense regardless of its government.
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No one wants Milton Freed man's shock therapy or Bill Clinton's approval of tanks blasting the in Supreme Soviet in Cuba. The American Imperialist can end their criminal blockade and campaign of economic sabotage.
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This is just a rehash of the old theory of social darwinism. If anything race mixing has increased not decreased while only a tiny minority has been rocketing into capitalist success.
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@PikeBishop65 I'll tell you what Das Kapital is available on line you can just show me where Marx is wrong in what he says and then tell me why. Do you use wars to defend capitalist investment like USMC General Smedley Butler says in "War is a Racket?" Is that something bankers and big business does like the General says?
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@PikeBishop65 Pol Pot was supported by Jimmy"Human Rights" Carter. The US supported Al Qaeda in Syria and Reagan armed the Taliban. Hitler was a product of German Capitalism as was Franco of Spain and Mussolini of Italy. 100,000,000 deaths due to the lies told about leaded gasoline. When you were waging your Imperialist war in Vietnam you claimed the body counts and kill ratios proved you were winning. Your Black book prints lies about Cuba since a Stalinist counter revolution never occurred. Since you could find no evidence of murder purge it had to be extrapolated. They assumed and lied like Marco Rubio does. The Quilt of Cuban Genocide had to be withdrawn because it had the names of living people and those who died of natural causes. Unlike in your colonies no one has ever disappeared in Cuba since the revolution. The Moscow frame up trials were exposed by the Dewey Commision while they were happening. You had no problem with Stalin as long as he was fighting you capitalist competition in NAZI Germany. You try and starve the people of every country where the government doesn't bend to the wishes of the US Imperialist investors and masters in Washington. You capitalism is nothing but "to big to fail" thievery. You don't have a moral leg to stand on.
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@PikeBishop65 Well Capitalist countries controlled the world before World War One. It was in the mist of your Imperialist War that the Soviet Union was born and it was the end of the second Imperialist slaughter that saw the Chineses revolution. You started the killing that lead to the Bolshevik victory. Stay out of Imperialist wars if you don't like communism.
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@mouwersor Communism is a movement. Does the book explain how the capitalist classes divided into nation states can resolve their differences peacefully and get past the Imperialist stage of history without devolving into nuclear war. Or is it just another theoretical diatribe against socialism. Does it explain why Marx, Lenin, Trotsky or Fidel Castro were wrong about capitalism, social democracy or Stalinism?
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@mouwersor They just finished wasting 2.3 trillion in Afghanistan and since that is national debt they will expect to get paid back. They crash the economy and then claim they are too big to fail. They claimed to have won the cold war but it seems they would rather go back to fighting those who have moved in the direction of capitalism and Imperialism. Whatever his idea is I don't think the capitalist are buying it. I think they are just blindly stumbling along chasing short term gains profits without considering any of the long term effects. That von Mises idea is nothing more than a rehash of Adam Smith's invisible hand theory. That the crisis continually get worse and they are headed towards nuclear war more so today than any other time in the past because they are talking about limited nuclear war, building low yield weapons and aren't even considering any halt to the new arms race. Despite all the railing against collectivism capitalism creates its own collective of capitalist profiteers who then Jettison liberalism for the promises the fascist make to save them and the private profit system. We have to convince the vast majority we are correct to make a socialist revolution you only have to convince a small group of profiteers who have all the capitalist institutions stacked in their favor.. You don't seem to be doing very well.
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@mouwersor Do you have any idea how many books, pamphlets and articles have been written by the people I've named? It's not like I've never heard or talked to people who claim to be from his school of economic thought. If you've read it and understand it than you should be able to explain it beyond my interpretation. America is the one country that can claim to be the most capitalist that was able to develop without the legacy of feudalism of the rest of the capitalist world. Yet it has a history of allying with the most reactionary elements against national independence. Pol Pot was used as an ally as a way to punish Vietnam for kicking you military dictators out of the country. By definition communists are always dictators and anyone who will work with the US business interests is a democrat. By definition the US is always on the side of a peace process no matter what that policy is. No dictator is too bloody and no terrorist is too savage for the US CIA to use in defense of its foreign policy. Bush said," No country has the right to harbor terrorist" No country besides the US that is.
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@mouwersor That's good now all you need to do is convince you fellow capitalist minority in government. See libertarianism sounds good on paper but you have no way to implement it since the natural workings of capitalism end up promoting its worst aspects as it has developed over time turning it into its opposite.. Communism is a movement of a class in struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist it is not a doctrine discovered by some universal reformer rather it is a historical movement of that struggle going on under our very eyes of both victories and defeats. The role of the communists is to point to the road forward.
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@manuelper Thank you for the complement Professor Mr. Poison Ivy league graduate boss.
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@bushelfoot Ya and the Bosses crying poverty again.
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Martin Balber You bosses just can't keep from getting more and more greedy which provokes the class struggle. Class struggle is the motive force of history. It is the American workers who will finally put the last Capitalist Imperialist Empire in its grave.
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@thesldsnk I'd love to see a Boss riding around in a bare galvanized sheet metal Lincoln or Cadillac.
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Martin Balber I didn't realize a GM strike was one step away from the second coming of Joe Stalin.
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Martin Balber I'm not looking for sympathy from Professors at Posion Ivy league elite universities like yourself.
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Martin Balber Ok Professor Blaber now you know there is a difference between Lenin and Stalin.
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Martin Balber Naturally they locate where they think they can make the biggest profits. They'd locate the plant in antarctica or the Amazon jungle if they could get lower wages to justify higher shipping, tariffs and have a working class willing to work and live there. Apparently you are the one who doesn't understand how capitalism works.
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@MAGA COUNTRY There is no such thing as an American job. Any job that can be done here can be done elsewhere with the exceptions like tropical fruit and mining. Consumers have almost no effect on capitalism because marketplace equality is the way goods are sold. Bill Gate will pay the same amount of money for a roll of toilet paper at WalMart that you, I and everyone else pays. Unions can change that because the profits come from out labor and the bosses can't just up the price to pay higher wages. Hardly irrelevant it's the unions who can actually change things not the election of legally and illegally corrupt two party politicians.
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@MAGA COUNTRY The capitalist don't want wages rising because they cut into profits. When wages do rise its most likely because profits are rising faster. They had a wage but not a price freeze during WW2 because they had so little unemployment due to the war production. Workers had to have ration books just to buy the basics of life.
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Organized labor will be a minority until the majority joins. You can start organizing now if you like. How long should we wait for your full employment economy? Until the ruling classes of the US and China decide to go to war over trade? Like FDR's War Deal? Or some other world war develops?
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@MAGA COUNTRY Great economy for who? In the next world war if it happens will be a nuclear war with ICBM's. It won't be a war where geography protects the lower 48. If the US isn't an Empire why does it have all these military commands like the Northern Command, African command, Southern Command, Central Command, ect?
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As I always say slander and sexual intigue makes good copy for a capitalist political science class. .
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Elon Musk "smart" because he's rich?
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@boki8197 Marx explained why capitalism goes into crisis and that one of the ways that the capitalist could escape the crisis was though the destruction of war. That's why the communist leadership fights against Imperialist wars of aggression. Marx explained that the class struggle either results in the reconstitution of society on a new basis or the resulting ruin of all classes involved. So if those who read Marx decide to go for Imperialist war and fascism or decide Marx was wrong is that Marx's fault? Mankind learned about the power in nuclear reactions. Is it Einsteins fault if we destroy ourselves with nuclear war and nuclear winter? Marx like all great thinkers was a messenger. Ignore the message at your own pearl.
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@michaelsteane9926 Then read "The Miliitant" published since 1928 and tell me which war of agreesion we supported.
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@michaelsteane9926 I didn't say we were pacifists.We are for self defense.. It why we support the right of Israel and Ukraine to exist and fight back.
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@unpotatoedsalmon I'm not a Biden or Trump supporter of tanks in Afghanistan or Tony Blairs New Labour "Imperialist" Party.
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@SockieTheSockPuppet Did we meet earlier you being a Sock puppet and all.
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@charlesiei6831 And your just a bum because you theory of human nature makes you one.
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The Republicans have idea of what to do either.
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@burleybater The capitalist need order takers not educated workers.
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@ChristianxDucatis The Cajun Navy shows that working people can only rely on themselves and not billionaire insurance companies and their government.
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@annepirate2427 I'm 72 years old and I remember the flood that followed the hurricane that hit in 1955 New England. We looked out the window and hoped our home would not be flooded.
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@nadogrl Only one Democratic Congressman vote NO on Republican Bushes war in Afghanistan. She was obviously in the wrong Party.
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I have a CT Drivers license that says NOT for federal identification. I am a US citizen born here but I refuse to indulge the idiots at DMV.
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So what should we do divide up to individual states with their own borders?Its not like anything can stop people from coming unless things get better where they live or we equalize to third world status which I'm sure all the CEO's would love since they wouldn't have to production for a 2 cent per piece savings. Who knows in few years everyone may want to move to China for a job.
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Someone needs to liberate Gaza from the NAZI like Hamas!!! If not Israel who? Why believe Hamas propaganda?
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Trump is the world policeman.
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@dustintacohands1107 US Imperialism wants to control all of the worlds oil. The US and other Imperialist partners want their business' to have a free hand in Venezuela.
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@shaunamcnally188 Anywhere the bosses go they are hit with unions and strike actions by workers from Mexico to China and South Korea.
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@gwho The FDR government began a wichunt against Marxism with the 1940 Smith "gag" Act trials of the leaders of Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party.
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Your just showing your own ignorance that the goal of the communists can be summed up as abolish private property the property used to exploit others.
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@nasreenfatima4085 Qatar is giving refuge to Hamas terrorist leaders give them up Qatar.
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Well the bosses tried to drive trucks though the picket lines of Minneapolis Teamsters local 544 in 1934 and they lost big time. Pompeo is nothing more than another capitalist politician who wants you to believe he's a good Boss. That the American Bosses care about the working class and not their profit sheets. Well they cheered when the Stalinist CCP went over to capitalism and now they can't say enough bad about the Chinese bosses. You can't trust a snake in the grass that is what the Pompous Pompeo is.
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Just more boss excuses for making everyone miserable to save an extra ten cents. Making things better by firing more people. Before 2008 they could get anybody to stay for minimum wage now the can get rid of enough of us fast enough.
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Sound like BOSS policy taking back hours to save on worthless promise of private heath care and vacations.
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Workers protect each other though solidarity not some Democratic Party government official with a law book. They give in when we expose their hypocrisy.
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@markmulvaney8937 This is like Vietnam in that it is a war of national liberation of a country under the boot of Great Russian Chauvinism. Putin is acting like the Czar. Putin and the Russian capitalist oligarchy like the US Imperialist and Australians are reactionary. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Defeat for Imperialism is victory for all of humanity.
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@Rawen1982 Part of the way Ukraine can defeat Russia is too treat Russian soldiers humanly to encourage surrender.
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@SeaJay_Oceans NATO is an Imperialist Military Alliance. Nothing it does is anything but reactionary. The UK/Canada/Australia/New Zeeland are monarchies. Defeat for Russia in Ukraine. These Imperialist wars must be answered with socialist revolution.
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@SeaJay_Oceans I've had four injections and I seriously doubt I'm at a greater risk of a heart attack.
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@SeaJay_Oceans Sorry I've only had three. It hasn't even been available for a little over a year.
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@RowanGontier The American Imperialist aren't exactly sure how to proceed. This is why they offered President Zalenskyy asylum and have told Poland and Germany not supply Ukraine with MIG jet aircraft. A quick defeat of Putin could be catastrophic for capitalist stability in Russia and Ukraine. Just as a quick victory for Putin would be in the interests of all the Imperialist powers. The longer it drags out the more disgusted the working class of all countries will become of this murder machine in Russia and all the other war machines in the Imperialist world,
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@LunaticTheCat The only people hurt by war are the workers and farmers. The capitalist will make their profits and live comfortably. The American Imperialist are elated by the destruction of the pipeline because it means big profits for them and their companies.
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Stalin order another purge of your organization we need less not more of you.
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This man believed that the US Labor Dept was under Communist control until he went to work there. He see Reds under his bed and believes that any political opponent must be a communist or a socialist in disguise. . .
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Cardboard casket We will bury you!!! Trotsky paper The Militant is still published plus we've been openly in Cuba and selling books by Trotsky in Cuba.
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@kwannp6141 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!! 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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The biggest problem in America is that we have two parties of legal and illegal corruption. The working people need to rebuild our unions and a new Party like the Socialist Workers Party that can take power from the two corrupt parties of capitalism. themilitant.com
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@saltybits9954 Capitalism destroys the family with its drive to pay the lowest wages, at the fastest pace for the longest hours to make the biggest profits. Bosses only want to pay just enough to get us back to work for the next payday. This is why workers can't have families because the bosses make family life impossible with the instability of the business cycle and the profit drive.
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Years ago you took out a three year loan to buy a new car now its six. So eight isn't really all that long. If anything its too short of a time with the cost of education it would probably be better to take out 15 year loans.
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@allena3430 About 2/3 of all students attend Public Universities usually under state control. The private schools must have something extra if they are going to charge higher fees. Since most privates are organized as nonprofits where is the "reduced operating costs" going to come from in either type of school. Some privates like Harvard are swimming in money, some have no tuition at all and some will cover students with loan and scholarship aid.
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Unlike the Cuban Party the CCP is much more like Stalin's because that is where its history comes from. So the use of frame up methods and intrigue are to be expected as scapegoats become targets for any kind of social discontent over past polices that occurs. The Party elite can't just announce to the Chinese workers and peasants it wants the power and prerogatives of the American Imperialists who couldn't tell the American workers they wanted Hitler's dream of a thousand year Reich. Unlike American politicians unabashed defense of capitalist exploitation and foreign Imperialist investment China'a Imperialism with Chinese Characteristics Party.finds itself adopting the thoughts and quotes of past leaders based upon past popularity instead of leading the world class struggle at home or abroad. instead of praising the ideal bourgeoisie entrepreneur in America as social leader. The ideal party leader now gets the praise worthy of a past feudal war lord.
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China has achieved great progress thanks to the revolution that drove out the Western Imperialist off the mainland and the Chinese Internationalist volunteers who drove the US Imperialist back down the Korean peninsula. Parties came into being with the English Parliamentary system and developed to represent the different classes in societies. Just what do you think the deficiency of the Soviet System was? After all Commissar of War and Naval Affairs Leon Trotsky had defeated 14 Imperialist Armies and a breathing period was now available despite the defeat of the revolution in Germany to build new Communist Parties to replace the politically bankrupt Social Democratic Parties of the Second International including the first workers party in China the CCP. You do realize yours is a American pragmatic defense of Xi and not one based in Marx's historical materialism.
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@frankmerriwell8339 They say China gives nothing away and wants market prices from poor countries people for big construction projects. That China sets up sweatshop in Africa and puts up sign work hard make company profit. If China is socialist why build more nuclear weapons? Why build aircraft carrier? Why do the say China has the second largest number of billionaires after the US? Do signs say 996 is tennet of Socialism? We here people asked to pay money to have apartment built and then project not finished that capitalist claim made mistake money gone building never finished. People protest capitalist thievery by bank and construction company. People in white shirt attack protest.
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@christinapaterno5585 No one should support Hamas in any way. It is a NAZI like thug group that seeks to exterminate the Jews.
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Why not just do away with clearances?
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That's not the way capitalism works. If they abolish public school the working classes children would receive no school at all. Unless workers band together to seek higher wages than the bosses just absorb any tax cut by raising prices.
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"Public Order" that the General Secretary speaks of is the dictatorship imposed upon the People of Gaza by the Hamas NAZI's. The Poet is a liar has not spent his whole life under occupation he was a librarian in residence at Harvard University.
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"Pro Birth" has no moral standing.
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@kalburgy2114 If the cops went into Sowell neighborhood and acted they the do in the city he'd be singing a different tune.
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Why don't you call out theses English Royals as Murderers. They are responsible for the thousands of Irish people killed and starved to death for the rights of English property owners.
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Without a constitutional amendment no state can leave.
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Your are probably referring to the motor voter act part of the federal help America vote act. It's all wound up in the REAL ID act and the Issuance of CDL's. Their is no reason to constantly to provide ID every time you turn around or have border patrol at places other than the border and ports of entry. Now nothing stands in the way of AG Sessions of prosecuting all these aliens you claim are voting and anyone assisting them in voter fraud. I once had a Maryland driver's license without a picture and we weren't swamped with crime. Most states are requiring you to show proof of citizenship before issuing a license. I refuse to do this on principle and so my license does not have a yellow star. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Notice the terminology used is all persons and persons not just citizens. So some of the constitution applies to people who aren't citizens. Plus it makes you a citizen if your born on American soil unless you are not subject to US jurisdiction like the children of diplomats. The constitution also says to provide for the general welfare. That fly's in the face of those who claim that taxes are unconstitutional when providing for the welfare of the American people. As far as being able to afford programs well productivity has been skyrocking since 1973 while wages have stagnated. The top Tax rate was 94% in the early 1960's now its 30%. Me smell big lie out of the swamp saying unaffordable. Their is also no need to build a huge social security trust fund either. Social Security tax needs only to take in what it spends not being a slush fund to pay for wars and other junk business subsidy programs.
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The constitution makes no distinction between private and personal property.This is where all the conflict originates. Nor does a non aggression pact do anything but justify finance and industrial capitalism. Neither can public or private charity or legal regulations of greed solve the class conflict permanently. That is merely a band aid approach. Capitalism, individual capitalists and national capitalist class' can not help but enter crisis and competition with each other that results in war and depression. The only way out is for the workers to take state power and with their organizations run the productive system based on organization and human solidarity. We have already seen the results of two world wars. A third world war will not treat humanity or the United States so kindly.
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Non Aggression principle was dreamed up by libertarians. To the best of my knowledge it is not enshrined in any of the founding documents of the United States. Since the constitution mentions the type of taxes allowed then obviously taxes can be collected. Including a maximum tax as a principle that would wipe out private property the property that is used to exploit others not personal property. The Constitution was written to both restrain the Federal government and enumerate its powers and the 10th amendment makes that clear. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that only citizens can vote. Instead it protects the rights of citizens to vote. Clearly women did not have the right to vote before the passage of the 19th Amendment yet some states allowed women to vote before the passage of the 19th amendment. The same applies to aliens any state can allow aliens to vote in state elections. Federal law not the Constitution prohibits aliens voting in federal elections. So the big bad federal government must take action against California but wait the other states could refuse to recognize Californians Representatives, Senators and Electoral College votes in the House and Senate because of how the Constitution was written. So writing laws interfering with how a state conducts its federal elections would be usurping Congressional power already recognized in how the Congress decides who is recognized as a Congressman, a Senator and if a States Electoral votes are valid. This would tantamount to handing Congressional power to the President and the Courts. Congress can not ignore its duties by handing power to the President and the courts.
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Its the US Blockade!! End the Blockade Now!!
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@sheckyfeinstein The last well know Presidential candidate who was convicted of violation the espionage act to run for office while sitting in a prison cell was Eugene Victor Debs of the Socialist Party. He received about a million votes. More than any Socialist or Communist candidate since.
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@mortyshallman5932 How about we take as many Russian Troops as surrender instead more war refugees down the road?
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@j01150126 One Black Democratic Congress women vote "No" to Bushes "Afghan war". That's right one. Sanders voted Yes. So much for you anti war Democratic Party Progressives. Vote Socialist Workers!!!
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@j01150126 Both parties are voting to spend more on new nuclear weapons and continue the biggest war budget in the world today by any country.
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How's things going over at Disneyland studios?
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@ericvictorbravo75 The working class needs its own party without the limousine liberals.
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@itsnando20 The fact that the poll workers asked her to cast a provisional ballot, that the vote was not counted because of a check somewhere shows that no one was injured by her casting a provisional vote that was not counted leaves one wondering about the sanity of these kind of judges sitting in the hall of Justice? What's next five years for wearing an upside down corona virus mask?
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King of the hobos is right something is up because he used a different board. Copper is a good conductor of electricity. You can not make copper into a magnet the same way you can make iron or the alloy of ALuminum NIckel and CObalt or the high density rare earth magnets. An electric current flowing in copper creates a magnetic field. Where as permeate magnets are created by getting the electrons in the atoms to line up and move in such a way to create a stationary magnetic field for observer.
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@MelissaR784 Sorry the Socialist Workers Party is not the CP USA.
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@mikearchibald744 The Bolshevik leadership of Lenin and Trotsky was revolutionary leadership. However a split developed after revolution between those who wanted to Continue the Communist Course of Lenin and those who became a new privileged bureaucracy that ened up being lead by Stalin. Leon Trotsky lead the left opposition and you can read about the revolution and how the revolution degenerated in the works of Leon Trotsky published by Pathfinder Press and the founding of the left opposition in "The Militant" published since 1928.
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@Br.soldier99 Bad for business? Milton Friedman credits world war two with ending the Great Depression? Sure it was bad for those who destroyed each other the British Empire and German who were the leading capitalist powers of the day but ruling classes based in nation states are greedy. The US held off from entering the first world war until it could play king maker. They never plan for a long and destructive war what they think will be over quickly isn't always the case. They need to export into foreign markets and the winner shows no sympathy for the loser. Today the American Imperialist are the hands down winner from World War two but they face the competition from Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Other capitalist powers are shifting trade and military alliances to advance heir own nation's interest. China's belt and road initiative intends to take Washington's sea trade routes out of the picture for trade with Europe.
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The Democratic Party is a capitalist party.
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Here comes Santa Claus . Here comes Santa Claus. Wouldn't you like a bone saw now? Here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus. Sulphuric acid is on the way! Would you just like the F-15s above, dropping those American made bombs on school children below so we all say what a happy and wondrous day brought to you by hot dogs and chevrolet.
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@PureNationalism13 Some industries like public transportation require more labor at different parts of the day then others.
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@danielgloverpiano7693 There was a movement for women's rights in the streets back then. Both Parties at first supported abortion rights. Instead of continueing the movement the women's rights leaders left the streets for the promises of the Democratic Party liberals. This lead to the defeat of the ERA and an end to an independent women's rights movement. Like the 70 year old promise of Universal Healthcare its something for do nothing liberals to talk about.
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@danielgloverpiano7693 Youtube is censoring you. We need our own Party a Labor Party based on a fighting trade union movement not these professional talk machines of both parties. Democrats and Republican all went to the same law schools and are financed by the same ruling capitalist class. Biden is as much of a problem as Trump is. Why waste money and resources on the Democrats? I don't want to belong to a company union why would i want to vote for a company man in city hall?
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Now you have the American imperialists spending 2.3 trillion in Afghanistan killing 100,000 and creating millions of refugees and the best politicians money can buy.geting out of dodge with bags of cash.
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@nafonieys4543 Hamas is NOT interested in a negociate peace. It is a NAZI like fascist organization for the murder of Jews.
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You are mixed up.
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@urbanentertainmentgodz Why even talk that mixed economy BS. All that is nonsense inverted by Bourgeois professors who needed a way to divorce economics and politics.
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@benheisen2135 Those are the kind of people who will join a fascist movement. Because ideology is not what is behind Fascism but the crisis of capitalism.
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This is the way capitalism works they move production to lower wage areas for bigger profits. The bosses can not escape crisis since the world market is limited and they all can't be winners.
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And the Republicans have a license to steal.
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@andred3299 The problem is capitalism itself. You can't keep paying do nothing investors. The whole way capitalism has developed is to create a scheme where industry and banks become too big to fail. Workers need to take control of industry and produce for human need and not for money and profits. They got rid of the gold standard so they could keep issuing wage cuts by inflating the value of property. They realize the whole thing is now getting out of control and want you to trust gold and silver instead of your own abilities to think and act in your own class interests. .
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@kaizokujimbei143 Anyone who thinks this means that entrance to elite universities will now be based upon merit have been taken for a ride. All this does is prohibit the direct use of an applicant's race.
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@RayCamacho-m2e The bosses control the government they have no intention of depriving themselves of cheap labor.
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The lesson to learn here is that the wealthy have no intention of obeying campaign finance laws. That both parties are just as corrupt as ever and the FBI maintains records of political ideology as a trusted political police force.
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D'Sousa is just another ideological Republican. Where as Joe Arpaio and David Clarke are actual criminals who need to be punished but never will unless there is a revolution before they die.
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Depends on what Amazon puts in its contract with the company and if it is enforceable. Usually for the contracting company to be considered a seperate company and not a company managed by in this case Amazon it has to have a certain amount of discretion in how it carries out its contract otherwise it's just a creature of Amazon.
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@AngryTuberF0rareason I get it we need more elections where the loser wins.
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Go back to your office Boss.
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@kevinjulia2852 Boss are the one who blacklist not unions you liar.
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@gregb6469 End the 60 year Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@nerose274 End the sixty years of the Imperialist blockade meat to punish the Cuban people for throwing out the US Dictatorship and taking the socialist road.. Sixty years of lies reveal in the US Stete deptarments secret declassified documents. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 LDM
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@nerose274 Most Cuban's like the revolution and everyone knows it. We saw all the demonstrations against the traitors and paid lackeys of the Yankee Imperialist. The opposition consists of "Presidential Scholars" like Yoani Sanchez who want to use artificial intelligence to run things because they lack any of their own. Just so many demoralized intellectual brats nursing grudges with dreams of Yankee dollars.
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@nerose274 Are you Cuban? You use English which is the language of North America not Cuba and Latin America which besides indigenous languages uses the Spanish and Portuguese languages closely related. Do you want to come here and help us put an end to capitalist injustice?
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@abdirahmanidris290 I suppose you can capitalism a "success" if you can explain why the most prosperous capitalist nations decided that a wars between them was the best way to decided how the world market should be redivided amongst them? World War 1 and World War 2. Capitalism came into the world covered from head to toe in blood and dirt. If Communism "always fails" then you'd have to explain why the movement grows so rapidly against the bourgeoisie whenever "capitalism fails". Capitalism "works" for much the same reason the house always wins in any gambling casino. Men invented gambling and games before they gained any understanding in the underlying laws of probability. Everyone plays their role in capitalist society regardless of understanding of how "it works" and where the ruling class is headed at any particular time in history. .
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@bigman7856 Trump is offering NO solutions his only goal is making more profits for his group of US Bosses period. He wants votes for himself and his foolish ideas like building half of an interstate hwy sideways for 2,000 miles. You might as well vote for Stalin but call it capitalism in one country. .Sure he will tell you about how hes going to just close off foreign trade and make everything here except you can't sell in the foreign market if you don't also buy.
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His is the kind that keeps on giving. That of an intellectual being bandied about by the class struggle looking for the same safe space as his bourgeois opponents. .
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@jordancarpenter4093 We don't need first strike capability. China and Russia can't defend against our missiles either. That's why no one has fired them off so far.
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@shuailiu7740 He didn't cut enough and all foreign military bases should be closed. Keane is just a tool of the military waste complex.
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@sep7658 Putin will be lucky if he can find some one to push a button.
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@jasonraczkowski6001 Yang is a Chinese Communist Party boss counting his billions of People's Money. Says the solution is simple just tell the workers you can continue to work but we don't promise to pay.
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@CyborgCowboyNinja Marx and Engle's put socialism and the labor movement on a scientific basis.
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@Zyrock It a basic indication of the failure of capitalist system. You have these problems because its a rigged game to start with.
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@geraldbennett7035 Sure they do their going to br moving down the street from your gated community into the public park.
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Repeal the Espionage Act.
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@CWRainwater All you accomplish by attacking China is to strengthen the CCP.
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@CWRainwater Their problem (CCP) is pretending to be a Communist party whose goal is Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Plus its not as easy to keep out news that can be critical as in the past. However the worst news is being created with in China itself. That is where the CCP is most vulnerable.
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@johnjames5842 Social Security has been their for my grandfather, father and me. All those private pension plans are frauds because you can't save for retirement rather the employed always have to pay for the unemployed. Only the capitalist can accumulate wealth for everyone else wealth is always temporary at best. The capitalist business cycle sees to that.
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Why hide behind a mask?
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@LanceHeadrick Bribery is a problem associated with capitalism. So what you're saying is that a US ally was bribed to violate US dictates? If Soleimani was on EU, Russian or Chinese soil. Would the US have targeted him in those countries? At best they could probably get him arrested on EU soil while Russia and China would have been untouchable. The UN Security council is a playground for big power politics. Horse trading goes along with resolutions such that the US gets this or that and the Chinese or Russians get something they want. Besides no one pays any attention to resolutions after about a week of a big show about them.
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@Kenji1685 No sitting President is going to tell you we are out to protect United Fruit banana plantations either.
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@Kenji1685 If a US President wanted to stop playing world policeman for US foreign investors he'd withdraw US troops from all foreign bases. That will not happen under a Trump presidency since he is committed to US capitalism and they love foreign investment that can be defended by US Marines and the US Army. They had Troops in Germany and Japan since the end of WW2 that's 1945. If you were 15 in 1945 that would make you 90 years old today.
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@barryb83110 The bottom line is capitalism is system of exploitation by the boss class.
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@barryb83110 Rail Boss Greed is the problem they want to cut more jobs because when your too big to fail and things go south and avoidable accidents happen you've got government on your side for another handout like the Con Rail Con job. The after the system has been recapitalized you talk about private efficiency and get a sell from the government portion for a song and dance ti restart the capitalist swindle process all over.
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@JohnSmith-yd5wq All this is a case of a Senator Grandstanding talking up her points in between questions.
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@litaknowes7294 You can bet she will have no problem voting for the military budget and more drone strikes to defend her foreign investments. Her concerns are those of the rich and keeping up the rate of profit by using police and military force to hold on to power for a corrupt and useless ruling class.
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This is the result of capita;list greed and they way back is to fight for higher wages and shorter hours with no cut in pay. Make every job a union job.
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@sotiriosdrokalos I can tell you the very day he decided his experience at the US Labor Dept proved Karl Marx wrong is the day he adopted the vulgarization of Marx's ideas.
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Those are basically greed regulation laws passed by the executive committee of the ruling class. Naturally they fail because they are placed under corp. control.
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless A President of the United States took an important state secret with him for 18 that he wasn't suppose to have. That's going to be a real interesting trial. Is it going to be too secret to tell anyone what it is?
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless It should be thrown out then om the grounds that anything can be routinely marked "Top Secret" without justification or review. For all you know it could be a bunch of secret decoder rings from a cheerios box. Its one thing for the government to hurl accusations of disloyalty against an ordinary citizen and force them from their job but now we are talking about a president. Do you want to launch a 1930's stile Stalinist witch hunt? What's next sending out the police to hunt down all of Donald Trump's lawyers and use obstruction of justice charges against anyone who questions these witch hunt tactics. All he had to do was raise a few questions about Queen Hillary and the whole liberal establishment went nuts.
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless Trump has the right to lawyer doesn't he? Wouldn't Congress have to write a law to control how a President can classify and declassify documents before he could be accused of not following such a law. Something like the War Powers Act? He hasn't been arrested yet either. So if it was such a simple case why didn't they just arrest him then and there? Obviously he must be a big threat because of what's in those documents but if that was true why is he still walking around and talking to the press. He cold be releasing the top secret number of decoder rings in the average cheerios box as we speak.
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless Like all those whistleblower prosecutions under Obama where the espionage act was used. Plugging leaks of the "Collateral murder video" and torture at CIA black sites. Sure if it looks bad and is bad mark it "Top Secret."
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless All smoke and no fire like the Russian collusion charges. Going to be a tough sell considering the lies the government has told in the past by making information classified like the "Collateral Murder" video. More than likely it will open a discussion on what the government has a right to hide and classify. Something that works against knee jerk war making. Just more evidence that these two parties are coming apart as they become less and less able to achieve anything substantial besides point fingers at each other. Trump became a threat for beginning the breaking up the New Deal coalition of Bourgeois liberals, labor and blacks.
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless His associates are being subjected to selective prosecution as way to get at him he's no more corrupt than any other capitalist. They all hide behind an army of accountants and lawyers since that's why the system always works for them. His crime was publically spilling the beans on the hypocrisy and corruption of the Clintons and Obama. No one is going to take your kind of logic seriously try using the BS on a child. The world capitalist system can not be fixed using the traditional methods of tax cuts, deficit spending and money printing. Humpty Dumpty is not going back together again.
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@ChairYogaForTheAgeless H Clinton was a Goldwater girl Trump change parties like socks. Every Democratic Senator and Sanders voted Yes on Bushes Afghan War. This is why that party isn't on our side. The Democratic "Imperialist " Party.
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@ThePhysics1234 As long as you can swear on a stack of bibles you did it in with the best interests of the American capitalist system at heart you will fly as free as a bird.
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@leonjohnson7224 The "real' Yang plan was revealed with Yang appearing on the Ben Shapiro show. Cutting the federal budget by ending all other programs with a program that can not sustain anyone. A gladiator in the Roman colosseum got a better deal. Dump Yang we don't need a starvation diet.
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@Astronautadelvoid Maybe if I hadn't been cheated out of my old age private pension money multiply times by different bosses with worthless boss promises I wouldn't hate liberatian asshoes. He wants to manage us like Hitler to keep bloated overpaid and pampers trained bosses in power.
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@kypow This is what defeat of an Imperialist power looks like.
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@MariaRamos-zy2rv the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
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Steve Jobs admitted that the initial capital to found Apple was made selling "blue boxes". Blue boxes were sold to defeat AT&T long distance toll charges. Although not caught that would be the crime of conspiracy to deprive a business of honest revenue. With Apple being founded with this capital that would be the crime of profiting from the proceeds of a crime. The most important rule in business is if you don't get caught it is not a crime.
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@toomanyhobbies2011 Their is absolutely no evidence he ever did anything but read Karl Marx.
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@spacefacts1681 That's because without unemployment the competition for jobs would decline as well while wages would rise cutting into Yang's dividends (profits).
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Petersen once again fails at giving any explanation as to why communism doesn't work. Saying all Marxists say is if only I were in charge or people like me I or we usher in the damn utopia and if not well Communism doesn't work so you be executed by your own. Except why is it that hasn't happened in Cuba? Then he goes on rambling diatribe about systems and serotonin in the brain and what not.
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@mediocreman2 Hamas is for Hamas. Just as the NAZI's in Germany were for the NAZI's. In fact Hamas and the NAZI'a are both connected ideologically and historically. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Jew hater going back to the 1920's. The original Palestinian Communist Party was made up of mostly Jews from the Soviet Union.
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@BA-ff3xq Sowell said vote for Trump because he'd be easier to impeach.
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@MelissaR784 Sowellism has become a cult with loyal worshippers.
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@Dane-o7q United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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@Dane-o7q Most don't enter illegally but on a tourist visa and then overstay. Mexicans can cross the border legally and have their child born here. The child automatically becomes a citizen.
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@jsoo67 The US is a signatory to International law including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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@wdd3141 His CIA armed Islamic terrorist in Afghanistan and Oliver North in the White house basement sold missiles to the Islamic Republic of Iran arming real enemies for the glory of defeating s mythical one the Soviet Union and Communism in Afghanistan and Central America.
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@ronmcmartin4513 They can't ignore things that working people do that affect politics like the recent strike by Auto workers. Just as the could not ignore the struggle of Black people against segregation and the protests against the bipartisan war in Vietnam. They have also had to legalize us from the Cold War witch hunt in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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Record profits mean record contracts!!!
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@mamabear71234 This is the death agony of capitalism.
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@DavidWilliams-qr5yj Social Security works for a simple reason those who work support those who don't. The problems that develop with capitalism are the result of the natural workings of the system itself. The workers are only paid a wage so long as the work and the capitalist accumulate wealth only so long as they can sell at a profit. The continue to accumlate wealth and demand a return on investment even the investment in itself produces nothing. Rather wealth is created by labor and their is never a shortage of labor. Rather an in abilty to match labor with capital begins to occur because of the natural tendency to overproduce which causes the capitalist to shut down production. Capitalism is the first system to have crisis not due to lack of savings but the overproduction of the system itself.
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@DavidWilliams-qr5yj You welcome to try an refute anything I say if you like. By using central bank created inflation the capitalist raise the money value of property at the expense of wages. This is how they replaced the old fashion wage cuts they use to issue when the industrial rate of profits being to naturally decline.
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@DavidWilliams-qr5yj Facts? Well you haven't presented any. Except to call me names and act like a spoiled brat.
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@alarrim29574 The bosses want the most out of us that is because we are the source of their profits. S they want us working the longest hours for the lowest wages.
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Thay is one of the reasons capitalism will come to an end.
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@jimpatriot6918 The working people need to take control of industry and run the economy based upon meeting human needs not profits. There is no need for wall street profiteers and private property. Whats wrong with revolutionary Cuba?
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@jimpatriot6918 That's a lor BS made up by the US Gov't about waiting for needed operations. Most problems with medical care in Cuba are the result of the US Blockaded of the island. Obviouslys if they've lasted 60 years despite the blockade and 30 without Soviet assistance they must know something that the people in Washington don't. The life span in the US is in decline while in Cuba its just about 1 year less than in the US. The US Gov't says you can't go their because we are trying to starve them out. Peuerto Rico is a US colony with all the benefits that provides and they have more Puerto Ricans on the mainland. Yet Puerto Rico is smaller in population but bigger in immigration to the US. So if Cuba is a failure America's Puerto Rico is even worse.
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@jimpatriot6918 They don't claim to be a utopia but they got rid of most of the social ills that come with capitalism. If they wanted to come here under the Cuban Adjustment act they needed to claim political persecution and if you lie on your application for germinate residency even your citizenship can be stripped from you. Who are you kidding you don't want more unskilled immigrants all you want are the educated because your no longer willing to pay the overhead costs of education just like healthcare. In fact your government hates the Cuban Healthcare and education system and tagets it in its propaganda and for dismantlement under its so called Cuban Democracy act.. People like Elon Musk buy their citizenship when they buy their green card. Like Ms Trump they get in under the Einstein rule for the educated or the business investor rule. The people being held with out trial or charges are at the US Guantanamo Naval Base.
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@royandrade2929 That was before the bosses decided to fire everyone to save money and then the crash of 2008 occurred. Capitalism working as intended making the do nothing rich richer and the working class poorer.
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@aliexsimth4980 If the Huawei executive had not been arrested the Canadian government would be issuing a standard protest in a diplomatic note and then forgetting who the guy was just as the American government would do.
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@alex19790822 This is more of a case where Canada seems to be looking for an excuse not to dismiss the US request for extradition on an alleged violation of US foreign policy law. Trudeau gets to be a national hero by making this guy into a martyr for Canada and sending the Huawei executive for trial by the international policeman located in Washington as any friend of democracy would do.
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@MrWhitmen1981 The problem is Imperialism. Capitalist nations ruling classes fighting for markets and profits.
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@Kitkat-986 The workers waged militant strikes. In Minneapolis the Teamsters had flying picket squads that stopped all the truck traffic in the city. In Flint, MI the Auto Workers took over a whole GM fisher body plant told the bosses to go home and fought off the cops with chevy door hinges.
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@Kitkat-986 Don't join then. Union membership is voluntary.
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@Kitkat-986 You know what I'd like a custom set of rules for myself also. People went to prison under the Smith Gsg Act in 1940 because they were leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters union and Socialist Workers Party. To the best knowledge the government never put anyone in jail for not paying union dues unlike paying taxes including the telephone tax that was passed specifically to pay for Vietnam. You want a state issued gov. licence you pay a fee and if you try and practice without one you'll find out the penalties can be harsh. See if you can get away with being a lawyer without a law degree and license. They lock people up for practicing medicine without a license. .
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@Kitkat-986 No see we don't agree on the free market theology. Because then you'd want to pay the lowest wages for the longest hours at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. As it is now workers can't afford to start a family and have children because you neo liberals have created a world of poverty economic crisis and insecurity for those without property. If capitalism can't pay the social wages to replace the current generation with a new one than the ruling class no longer has a right to rule. You've run everyone and everything into the ground with your ruling classes neoliberal supply and demand limited resource nonsense theories about everything.
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@Kitkat-986 Bosses compete for capital investment based upon rate of return. That's out of our control. You like to move as much labor into fly by night contracting and away from the actual industrial capital. Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. That's why "getting a skill" is not a real solution. The problem this also poses is the one of a declining rate of return on capital investment since labor is the source of profit while capital value rises and the labor time to produce goes down. These slumping profit rates in highly capitalised industries discourage profit driven needed investment. We can't fix a fact of life under capitalism. Second your politicians write these greed and not in my backyard regulations then enforce them with your cops. You don't want to spend any tax money building housing because it would interfere in the Real Estate Tycoons ability to profit. What was it 2.3 Trillion for that exercise in "Nation Building War" in Afghanistan. How many trillions do you plan on spending to maintain a nuclear posture? Milton Freedman and others like Thomas Sowell have been telling you what you want to believe about your system for years and now much like the lies told by the Stalinists the chickens have come home to roost. Instead of the "Ownership Society" you have a "Debtors Society" instead of instead of a rising tide lifting all boats the tide went out and beached all the small craft. Instead of a "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle you have a "New World Disorder" Where other players see a "rule based order" as a "fixed game". People like college degreed real estate lawyers and professional babysitters in social work have been crying about the pay of electricians and plumbers for since Genesis. Wages not keeping up with inflation is what happens when you disconnect the value of currency with either labor time or a commodity like gold that can be relatively stable in the labor cost of production. You have a system that all but lets you print free money for loans to the biggest banks in the country. So instead of issuing the old fashion wage cut you have the inflatable currency that raises the value of property vs wages.
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@Kitkat-986 When they build new machinery or set up a new assembly line its always done with the object of using less skill and less labor time to produce. The idea that they will hire more skilled workers overall just isn't true. They'd had backhoes for at least 50 years now machine operation like a backhoe is like driving a car you learn the basics and the rest is practice.They don't pay the backhoe operator ten times the wage because the wage payment is based upon the cost to reproduce the workers labor for the next pay period. The 10 guys you say would dig the same hole in the same time would each need to be paid the cost of their time to reproduce their labor for the pay period. The bosses pay you the wages to reproduce your labor power for the next pay period. They can make a profit by you creating more value than your wages paid. The backhoe contractor could not change more than the price the hand shoveler did. Over time the price he can change sinks towards the actual cost. Painting and plastering is a better example because the skill and time needed to pain with a brush and put plaster on lathe has been replaced with spray/roller and sheet rock. They got rid of lots of draftsmen, clerical workers telephone operators replacing them with computers. Lots of machine shop equipment is computer controlled. They have gotten rid of as many things that will need repair or regular replacement as possible. If they decide they need a lot people (labor shortage) with a certain skill for a new factory the bosses get the government to run a training program. The investors want the highest rate of profit (profits/capital invested). They invest both in fixed capital (machinery, tools) that depreciates over time and circulating capital (wages, material and rents) that returns directly after the product is sold.
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@Kitkat-986 Look I'm not going to argue with you You believe whatever you like. No a skilled worker is not worth several unskilled workers since like I said the bosses pay based upon the cost to reproduce your labor. When the productivity increase you wage no longer even follows. That was true from 1945 and ended in 1973. Since then almost all productivity gains go to the bosses. The Federal Reserve Bank Stats show that. The average backhoe operator makes $27.02/hr. You go ahead and see who you can get to dig holes 10 hours a day 6 days a week. If backhoe operator can do the work of ten. If they give you a machine that ups your productivity by 10 they aren't going to up your pay by 2 never mind 10. You don't believe me? Well you find out the hard way.
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The Stalinist use toi be able to sell out whole revolutions now they have to be content with selling themselves.
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Of course Boss Greed drives the economy for the bosses only.
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Did he ever explain how George Bush's "Ownership Society" ended with the crisis of 2008? How the greed of the bosses drives the capitalists into a crisis of their own making.
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There were those who voted for George McGovern and those who voted for the Real Socialists Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley. Its not unusual for a liberal Democrat to become a Republican or visa versa. Just ask Trump and Hillary Clinton. They were both at one time members of the other Party. The Clinton's attended Trump's last wedding.
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@Name-rl7lv They don't always work which one reason abortion is necessary.
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@DriveInFreak They will come up with some mumbo jumbo to explain themselves.
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Cross line into Boss land only.
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@deborahross9974 Unlikely for you to get killed by electric shock stepping out of a car into water or after an accident because you need to complete a circuit and the metal car body is connect to one side of the battery. If you hit a pole and wires come down on your car then you are at risk of electroshock since the car body sits on rubber tires and usually one side the electric power wires is at ground potential. Can lithium batteries catch fire? Yes and most fire departments don't have experience with lithium car battery fires. Plugging in the vehicle indoors or outdoors is supposed to be safe for the general public in non hazardous locations. Plugging in a portable charger in is more risky since it requires you to follow the general directions that come with the device and like a toaster or washer/dryer the metal blades are exposed. As always broken or frayed wiring should NOT be used.
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I wonder how many police criminals will be prosecuted for excessive force under Trump? None I guess since Trump himself said give them something extra before being placed in a squad car. Sure let's just forget about innocent until to proven guilty. Go ahead and beat a confessions out of suspects Chicago style with FBI help from Trump. After all most trials in court are already a sham. Why not add to 'judicial economy' by shooting first and asking questions later?
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Have any idea what its going to cost to build a wall in the middle of the Rio Grande? Or would you rather seed territory to Mexico?
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I actually live about 30 miles from the border and that's what they were talking about today on the radio. A lot of these real estate people don't want the wall in certain areas for a number of reasons. It's hard to sell luxury homes with a wall in the backyard or across the street. Also a golf course may be split in half. Even though they are Trump supporters and like walls over all. The river is not straight and costs depend on where you put the wall here instead of the Deserts in NM, AZ, and CA. What happen to homes on the wrong side of the wall? Also there is the National park at the Big Bend. Maybe you should keep it real instead of me. You can't just put it on the river bank either without flooding the Mexican side in the rainy season.
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That's What they said. Southeastern Texas is Tropical Texas with palm trees like Florida. Midwestern retirees come her for the winter. Called Winter Texans. We have new Interstates that aren't connected to the rest of the system. Texas is a population growth state.
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Texas is the size of France so if you grew up here or there the place has probably changed. I just reported what's been said. Unless you want to drive at 100 mph it's about 8 hours drive from Houston to Harlingen. You've got sugar cane and shopping malls. Nine or Ten bridges to Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley with another one in the planning. I see more border patrol driving around than troopers or local sheriffs down here.
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I even from a Republicans point of view building a wall a minimum of thirty feet high and six feet deep and twelve inches thick is going to be very expensive unless you compromise on areas. You talking about building the equivalent of three travel lanes of an interstate highway sideways. What type of soil determines what kind of base you need because you don't want to wake up someday and find out that the thing has fallen over. There are areas where the Rio Grande or tributaries have created canyons making crossing possible by rock climbers or trapeze artists to begin with. If the government builds the wall inland without holes or gates for landowners on the other side unlike the current areas then the owners will demand payment for the areas south of the wall. The whole area is going to see a boom for lawyers and federal judges arguing eminent domain cases. Real Estate will be exaggerating values of what might have been built there. I've read articles that say the cartels are already using horizontal pipeline drilling equipment for tunnels in San Diego so it may turn out to be cheaper to burrow under the Rio Grande then blow a hole in a wall with C4 and Dynamite. Building through populated areas close to the border could also result in Mexican teenagers going on a rock and bottle throwing binge at wall builders raising the cost of workmen comp. It might turn out that Trump planners could decide to move the wall and border north by connecting the Sarita and Falfurrias checkpoints then headin west just North of Laredo and get Mexico to buy the area South on easy credit terms paying for the rest of the wall making us Mexican citizens by treaty.
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John Sterling Get out a map!! Brownsville is in the most southeastern part of Texas. The whole US Mexico border is just under 2000 mile long. About 1200 miles is in Texas. River borders are always longer than they appear because rivers always have twists and bends because of the way rivers rise and fall with the seasons and cut into banks and drop silt. Just like a coast line the more accurate you measure a river's length the longer it becomes. Even a straight line border measured a hundred years ago has zigzags because of the accuracy of the instruments used to measure it.
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That's just another BIG lie the US does everything it can to try and prevent Cuba from getting any international trade whatsoever. Mario Rubio is the architect of sanctions that have only worsened under Trump and Biden. THe US dosen't give two shits about human rights. No other coumrty in the world has been treated like Cuba has by the United States. A sixty year blockade that almost every other country in the world condemns at the UN.
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US Troops invading another Latin American country would provoke a confrontation across Latin America. You not dealing with a tin horn dictator like Saddam Hussein.
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@mechinizer6911 Keep running on that tread mill to no where gusano.
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@mechinizer6911 Don't you just hate little commies like me beating your sorry ass in Vietnam.
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Sounds ok you want to fly a normal flag not put up a police emblem, but what if the cops show up and attack? Like say Ruby Ridge or Waco? Or say like 1934 in Minneapolis? They are known for overstepping their boundaries and making up excuses.
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@WarningStrangerDanger Time and the concept of time has changed. The British were the first to build clocks accurate enough such that could be carried in sea going vessels giving the British navy the ability to map the world. Newton's idea of time was that it passed at the same rate for all observers. Einstein changed the whole we we think about time incorporating it into space and passing at different rates depending the quantity of matter located nearby. Obviously time is extremely important for travel, transport and in everything we build or measure. The GPS system was originally built to be able to successful launch guided missiles from submarines and hit targets. GPS relies on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity in order to properly calculate location on the planet. The modern world would not be possible without clocks and the ability to measure time. I quess you never heard the phrase "Time is money." Time is intimately bound up with change and information. Ignore time at your own peril.
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@WarningStrangerDanger Maybe not but show me one that can either ignore time or not argue about time. Labor Tools Education Organization and Time are all central to human life on earth. Workers organize and join unions because we want a say over how work is done and our lives at work. The first unions were based on trades, then on industry, the next step is to build s labor party based upon the unions as a whole to battle the bosses in the political sphere of the government.
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Start a new abolish movement. Get rid of capitalism. No cooperation with the new fugitive immigrant slave act.
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@margareta9081 Stalin lead a counterrevolution after Lenin died. He destroyed Lenin's party and murdered the old Bolsheviks in show trials. Yeltsin lead the final betrayal with a self coup approved by Clinton. Capitalism came back to Russia but only after a deep economic downturn called shock therapy. Life expectance declined and Putin made himself the new Czar after Yeltsin death as his successor. .
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Havana, Cuba.
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Dwight Cook Now this is a reason to organizing a union in your workplace.
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Fascism is a counter revolutionary movement of thugs organized to defeat the Socialist Revolution.
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Fascism is the vomit expelled by a dying capitalism. .
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@stephtimms1776 Teachers become teachers because they want to teach. Parents need to reexamine what they have learned also such that the facts and truth can be taught. you need to make careful observations and then speak and listen also. Rereading the US Constitution is always a good place to start. Then remember this was wriiten by the middle class people of the time since the King and the Landowners in England were the rulers.
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@MarkProffitt So you were home schooled?
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Moose 1010 Libertarianism is idealism because they start with a bunch of nonsense like free market good and idolize people like Ayn Rand and company's books like "Capitalism the Unknown Ideal."
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Moose 1010 James Burnham along with William Buckley founded the American Conservative movement. Just like Mussolini Burnham was a socialist/communist at one time. Using your logic Conservatism is really a branch of Communism.
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@BaconNBeer The first world war was fought over colonial possessions. Because Socialist Eugene Debs was against an Imperialist slaughter the President (Woodrow Wilson) and Party (Democratic) who talked peace and democracy while getting ready for war and capitalist tyranny had Debs jailed as the US entered the slaughter for it own Imperialist goals. The Russian Bolsheviks signed the first peace treaty infuriating the Democratic Imperialists in the US/UK. The US/UK then launched an invasions of the new Soviet Republics.
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Moose 1010 Let's talk about what Hitler's policy produced. First Big Military contracts for the German capitalists. To revive them from death due to profit starvation. You never hear any capitalists complain about government contracts unless he isn't getting his "fair share" or his taxes are too high. A problem easily fixed with the sale of state backed bonds. Next what did the pauperized middle class get? Ah relief from the competition of the Jews in small business. The Intellectuals? Well with no more Jews to compete with they held onto their professorships over a literature cleansed by fire and the warmth of bad books burning. They got to produce the new Ideology of a Superior German, a man destined to rule all others by his genetic superiority. The breeding of more blond haired Aryans was a priority that ever SS man had the right and the pleasure of doing. Now for the farmer. He got a promise of future land cleansed with the blood of his and the sons of the German working class and made into a Greater Germany to the East. To the worker well he came last and his prize was a longer work week with no additional pay. His sons would be readied with uniforms and calisthenics for use as cannon fodder. He has lost his leaders to a senseless factional struggle between the Social Democrats and Communists. They were headed for the campa along with the Jews, the disabled and those considered "eaters" because human beings have to eat but NAZI ideology allowed for no such people. The One Thousand Years Reich had no place for those who could not make a good German businessman a profit. The unemployed were also stored for future use in the camps should the need for slaves to arise like for GM and Ford overseas operations.
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Moose 1010 Buckley himself praised Burnham and his "Management Revolution" James Burnham was a founding member of the Socialist Worker Party. So like I said Moose if you want to tar us with Mussolini. We can tar you with Burnham. Hitler used the words Socialist and Worker in his party name for their popularity. The Republican Party had a liberal wing until the conservatives pretty much took it over with the Reagan revolution as you guys call it. So quit trying to sneak out of it If Mussolini was communism than so is Buckley and YAF. I always thought you guys liked guilt by association anyhow? Just like Joe McCarthy. Is he a conservative also?
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@oleladyx5613 Wilson and FDR had Socialist jailed. The first and second Red scares began under Wilson and Truman. The Demopublicans (Democrats and Republicans) are one capitalist party with two factions.
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@mikenielsen8781 "Yes, it was a political and economic philosophy that appealed to early-20th-century illiterate peasants." And today you call us irredeemable and deplorables.
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@loganpe427 "Get out Judas!" Make me!! You and whose army?
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Moose 1010 hitherto an adverb meaning: so far But according to Heir Moose, Marx or the translator isn't using it properly but should have first dug up its other pre 13th century meaning if it had one. I wouldn't have used the word if I were writing or speaking today because it's too awkward. Heir Moose says Marx was a rabid anti-semite. Was he one of Heir Moose's first "self haters" also? I haven't the slightest idea of what your "Surprised Pikachu face" has to do with this. Have you been toking on the Hillsdale community "Bong Pipe" again?
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Maybe we should go read a short article at 'The Brennan Center for Justice" about the Nazi Party and industrialists. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis
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@loganpe427 "This country will not become communist! " Is that a preview of the next Donald Trump State of the Union address?
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@amandasusanne4657 Before 2008 you didn't need to repeat that mantra. (America will Never be a Socialist Country) In fact the NYT said Trump should not have brought up what was not debatable in a state of the union address. LOL.
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@mr dupont Are you related to the DuPont that was convicted of murder where the Delaware judge sentenced him to ten years probation saying that prison in this case would serve no purpose?
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@zose6289 You prove nothing except that some people change their loyalty. I'm sure the English and Canadians found Benedict Arnold to be a great hero and not a traitor also!!!
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@zose6289 You were educated by Stainist numbskulls of the "Socialism in NO Country" variety and now that makes you an expert at what? Anyone can read a book and answer repeat after me questions. You don't even have your facts straight. Mussolini never belonged to the Bolshevik Party, the Russian SDLP or Russian Communist Party or Communist Party of the Soviet Union. I've searched and only found that he supported the war after it started which is why Lenin and Trotsky would opposed him within the Socialist International and the Italian Socialist Party expelled him for that before the Italian Communist Party was even founded.
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@gregmcclelland3488 Hitler's socialism was a "socialism for the BIg Capitalist" This is why he had support from German Big Business. Just as the "Socialist Mussolini did." Or a modern French banker pretends to be a Socialist in a French Socialist party. Hitler like Henry Ford's anti Semitic "International Jew" so much he had it reprinted and old Henry got himself a NAZI medal just before WW 2 broke out in 1939.
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@ajknaup3530 Hitler could call the moon made of green cheese and promise everyone a new Volkswagen and it would not change the fact that big business was the power behind the throne. He promised to get rid of communists and trade unions which delighted big business. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis
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@ajknaup3530 It is necessary for a denial of history first by holocaust deniers and now those who deny that Germany capitalism was the motor behind German fascism. This lie is necessary to preclude the possibility that either of the two capitalist parties will join or become the US fascist party. A party that will use unconstitutional force and violence to keep themselves in power. The opposition to Hitler came not from the bourgeois conservative or liberal capitalist parties but the trade union Social Democratic and Communist Parties. The workers opposed the rise of Hitler as seen by the vote for the enabling act. Which got zero votes form the Social Democrats and no Communist votes since they had already been denied their seats. The Nazi's recived all the bougouis party votes that allowed Hitler to rule by decree. Joe Kennedy Sr "Hitler is someone you can do business with." Neville Chamberlain a British Tory "Peace in our time." Hitler only became a problem when the French and British Empires could be challenged by Germany. FDR had been preparing his WAR DEAL when Japan gave him the excuse he needed.
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@Ashigeru47 If conservatives wanted less government than they would actually take some action against increasing government intrusions rather than talk about tax cuts as their greatest sucess. Do we need to be all ID'd like cattle via the Federal Real ID Driver's license because terrorist attacked the world trade center? Why the drive to make pregnancy a matter for federal regulation by federal anti abortion laws. Capitalist Cops and Capitalist Judges will be the moral leaders in all matters involving sex since they been so good at waging a drug war. .
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@Ashigeru47 "Under Fascism, The State Controlled the businesses through regulation, legislation, and State Controlled Unions. The State didn't need to own the means of production, just Control it." That sounds like Hitler himself. That was the promise of Fascism to the Capitalist. It can be summed up as, "We won't take your property. You will still get your profits. We will save you from communism by getting your profit system running again." Sure the Fascist solved the "trade union problem" In Spain, Italy and Germany by making the bosses members of phoney company unions to advise the bosses in profit making. A fascist state is more expensive because secret policeman on every corner like a fed behind every mailbox along with paid finks is more expensive but physically stronger than a parliamentary democracy making unfulfilled promises of reform like a protestant church.
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@Ashigeru47 We don't set up an oppressor/oppressed narrative. Class society set those up starting with women and all kinds of slavery. Our goal is to wield the mightiest power ever contemplated against all the mirads of capitalist oppression a socialist revolution lead by the industrial working class. We aren't good government reformers or messengers of new gospel based in a touchy feely love in capitalism.
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@Ashigeru47 "You can't have a Fascist State without a powerful, centralized State." Given the US President along with a Congress controlled by two capitalist parties with two or three socialist traitors sit on top of the most powerful state power in human history. I'd say by your theory the fascist danger is from your parties and your government. Not some few thousands of us communist voters.
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@BaconNBeer No Because the black book is a frame job. Starting with WW1. There are 17 million deaths that can be laid at the door of capitalism and another 80 million with WW2. The original authors don't even agree with the numbers in the book. Since the authors have no figures for Cuba alone they make up those figures with estitate.. Plus IQ tests prove nothing all at. Those who were convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg scored above average including some who scored at genius level. The conservative/liberal German capitalist parties voted with the NAZI party to pass the enabling making the Reichstag into Hitler's personal rubber stamp allowing government by decree. I'm sure you will say not my conservative party. Before WW2. Russian Samizdat shows that the political prisoners in Stalin's camps were not work to you die of starvation affairs like the NAZI's. The prisoners often held demonstrations and refused to work for more than eight hour days.
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@amandasusanne4657 The Democratic Party is one of the two ruling capitalist class parties the fact that you have a few "socialist" anti Marx liberals shows what it isn't. A Leninist Communist Party. Hitler began by breaking up political meetings, trade union meetings and assaulting jews BEFORE being handed the reins of power by big business. Big business saw him as a promised savior. He would get rid of unions, the communists and the social democrats. He was APPOINTED not elected Chancellor of Germany by the WW1 German General now President Hindenburg. The next day the police were all required all wear swastika on their sleeve. The leaders of the German workers, the Social Democrats and Communists, were engaged in a senseless faction fight with each other that let Hitler walk into power virtually unopposed. At the end of the war the German SPD and KPD were still pointing fingers at each other over a border where each had initially outlawed the other along with the NAZI's. It would be laughable only if millions hadn't died in a European war that was completely preventable.
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@amandasusanne4657 To say that Fascism begins with Marxism is to say that Death begins with Life.
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@Ashigeru47 You're calling them "socialists" as part of a smear campaign against communism. They, Sanders and AOC say the are for a capitalism under regulatory control in other words a welfare state. The can be best described as saying, "Throw the workers a few bones so we can hold off the pitchforks." Our leaders say to the workers, "You can have anything your big enough to take."
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@Ashigeru47 The Democratic Party is filled with those who think capitalism needs some knob turning to adjust its rate of exploitation. The elected members are overwhelming trained in capitalist law as professional lawyers and financed by monied interests. They have a few Black and Brown faces and the Union officials have thrown some money their way. The union tops ended Gomperism since the anti communist Reagan a former and the only both union and US president broke and blacklists the Air traffic controllers and union for going on strike. Reagan a hero of small government "freedom loving" conservatives claimed capitalist law made them into Reagan revolution slaves.
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@gregmcclelland3488 Are you also a holocaust denier? It has become important to smear us with the Fascist label just as Hitler grabbed at the Socialist label to make himself look good. Marx once famously said, "If he is a Marxist. I am not." You are either a liar or ignorant or both. Given your ability to write I say your a liar of the worst kind alone.
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@Ashigeru47 No class society existed before Marx was born. Their were these people called Kings, Queens, and the landed aristocracy that benefited from a peasant workforce woking three days for the aristocrats, three days for themselves and resting on the seventh along with attending church.
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The "Frankfurt school" hot dog professors are revisions of Marx. At the end of the day their politics lead to failed efforts tp homogenize the capitalist system. A Latina, Black, Native American Gay, and Trans. CEO at J.P. Morgan doe nothing to end capitalist economic exploitation. Nor does the tear gas smell better when fired by a diverse police force.
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@amandasusanne4657 I'm surprised you haven't added modern American Conservatism into your silly red baiting message. Who along with Bill Buckley, who praised, the writer of the Management revolution the other founder of modern American Conservatism was James Burnham? Burnham was an American Trotskyist at one time. Certainly he adds red tinge to conservatism. If I were you I'd look under my bed for red easter bunnies tonight.
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Changing the color of Santa Claus's outfit from Red to Blue will obviously strike a blow for freedom over communism and "red" communist gift giving.
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@Ashigeru47 We aren't forcing our beliefs on anyone. People can join or leave our movement. The modern class struggle between the workers and capitalist began with coal mining and textile factories in England. What you don't like is that the class struggle has yielded fruits for the working class. That the capitalist and their supporters can't just do as they please like at the beginning of capitalism. If we paid no attention to our proletarian constituency we would not have had any sucess not that you care about what the proletariat actually thinks anyway. You can go on blathering about how bad social security is and how universal health care will send you to the poor house and other nonsense about how you earn you money from the Federal Reserve Bank and don't steal from us. Material reality is a cruel teacher and you are in for being learned either the easy or hard way.
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@Ashigeru47 I love hearing about how "Americans" have always been against your form of Marxism. Which "Americans" are those? Real Americans, Latin Americans, Cubans, Canadians, Native Americans, Mexicans, Chileans or just Americans in Litchfield County, Connecticut USA? You must be extremely knowledgeable to make such a broad statement about so many millions of people on two continents speaking dozens of languages.
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@Ashigeru47 I love hearing how everyone can be a Rockefeller or a Steve Jobs. Just Honest John's making a few pennies for the benefit of everyone else.
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@Ashigeru47 I never claimed their weren't class I just showed the were there without Marx. That class struggle also existed before Marx. The world is divided into classes and class society. You however believe in a world where a capitalist can do no wrong that he is just a highly paid self employed worker. A man who labors once every three months in a walk to the mailbox for an "earned" dividend check he walked to the mailbox for. The US government makes so many threats and has so many laws that they enforce in arbitrary ways it can only be called a dictatorship. Laws like the "trading with the enemy act" continuing to apply to Cuba but aren't enforced. The 1954 Communist Control Act makes the "Communist Party" illegal. Yet we have a Federal court ruling that enjoins the FBI from any further investigation of the Socialist Workers Party. Why was there a violent revolution in the 1776 English Colonies or a Civil War in 1860? You celebrate a bloody revolution every 4th of July. You lecture other on Human Rights when American Presidents claim a right to Police the World. Only a few months ago VP Pence nominated Juan Guaido for President of Venezuela then Trump and the EU elected him President of Venezuela. The problem for VP Pence, Trump and the EU is there nomination and election of Guido was seen as illegal in Venezuela despite the heavy voting turnout among EU leaders and US puppets. To be an absolute monarchy you need a right to be one. To be republic you can't have a monarch. To be a socialist republic you can't have a stock market and private property to be a capitalist you must own private property. That's why there are no capitalists in socialism. You of course already knew that. You just wanted some way claim to what amounts to the rights of a monarchy in a republic be taken into socialism.
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@Ashigeru47 "Under Socialism, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and many others wouldn't have been able to make themselves billionaires... Those men made others millionaires with their technologies..." We can do without a collection of thieves skimming off profits by with capitalist judges and court rulings. Nothing new in that statement one large thief often enables others in the process. No different in where organised crime branching out elsewhere into ways to ultimately engage in money laundering dirty money into clean capital. As the old don said , "The only difference in them and us is they have license to steal. The new capitalist in the Soviet Union and China took your advice into making themselves into capitalist thieves instead of just counterfeit communist.
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@Ashigeru47 The USA has the most powerful state ever seen in history. Even the slightest indiscretions can result in prison time. The stats show that it is the new Gulag state. More prisoners by both numbers and percentage than any other developed country. Conditions are getting worse not better. Like expectancy is going down and not up. Third world diseases of poverty are appearing among a growing homeless population.
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@Ashigeru47 A state is merely a way to enforce class relationships in and/or out of a country. "USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, the EU, Venezuela," . None of those states have anywhere near the Military Power of the USA. Any total count of US aircraft carriers, bombers, ready to deploy troops, nuclear weapons, nuclear submarines, foreign bases and now the first special force for space militarization reveal the truth of a monopolar capitalist world ultra super power armed to the teeth ready to deploy anywhere on earth.
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Outside of the DNC, Pelosi, Shimmer and other US ruling class figures the rest of the world is laughing at the Charge that Putin made Trump president.
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Outside of Pelosi's, Schumer's offices, the DNC and other US ruling class figures the rest of the world is laughing at the charge that Putin made Trump president.
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@BaconNBeer Only brainwashed Americans believe nonsense that everywhere outside of the last Texas ranch in 1895 is communist territory. Go and at least read the communist manifesto before you make yourself look even more foolish. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ When you done with that read Wage Labor and Capital. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ Then State and Revolution https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ Now if you find that to much well just read a little becasue it is a lot to digest.
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@Ashigeru47 You should really check your sources before writing. All able bodied US federal prisoners are required to work. I also wouldn't like to die in a Milwaukee gualag of dehydration or pay the taxes going out to those under America's toughest Sheriff who made Maricopa County into a liberal lawyers new gold rush or be one of Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge midnight squad torture victims. 'It's been 8 years since at least one victim was certified as a having a torture confession yet he is still waiting to be released. There is no leftist open border policy since no borders are open. Plus do not continue to call me a leftist because we have no alliance with your leftist democrats. Capitalism is the US system 99% of the world outside the US understands that. Capitalist austerity plans are the result of a declining profit system make them at you perl. We aren't signing on to policies to Make It a Great Depression Again.
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@Ashigeru47 Sure marxist playing roles in battles against capitalist injustice are making it hard for the bosses to make big profits for themselves. Cuba is training 10,000 foreign doctors at no direct cost to the students for the third world and underserved US areas while the US is planning for fewer doctors in the US system which requires a net number of immigrant doctors.
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@Ashigeru47 China has larger military now but China is also larger than the US. Unlike the US marines Chinese rubber rafts and paddle boats don't provide them with the will quick mobility nor does the past Soviet capability apply today. Why can't you just admit to being the American Chauvinists Imperialist you are? Your not fooling anyone but yourself. Quit the PC we are the good guys.
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@BaconNBeer Trump gave us a tax cut did he also give us inflation? I don't really see Trump as doing anything that a Democratic Party politician wouldn't do as far as economics. Kennedy also pushed for and got a tax cut passed. I'd rather have an increase in the minimum wage and more housing built. Fifty thousand homeless have been left behind in LA alone by a Democratic mayor and a Democratic state government. They say they have a billion dollars to build housing but claim their unable to spend it.
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@BaconNBeer I've never believed that Trump was elected by Putin nor do I take any prosecution of Clinton seriously. I think it was just rhetoric. Unless some kind of new info comes out this staged Impeachment is dead in the Senate.
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@PatriciaSantos-qt9lw If the NAZI's were anti capitalists why didn't they put the owners of I.G. Farben or the Krupp Steel family in prison or deport them? Every politician can tell lies so why should anyone believe the NAZI 25 point program anymore than a Democratic or Republican list of promises? The reason for lying like this is to defect the truth that when Democracy no longer produces the correct result then the capitalist ruling families turn to fascism. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis
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@PatriciaSantos-qt9lw The only thing you can say is what a great world traveler you are and how much you know about everything. Your insults are certain to gain a large following of fools who think insults are the best arguments. "Read a book." Well Professor now we see how you and Obama are so alike. Obama's solution to the problems of Black working people also was to "Open a book." You being such a radical thinker advise actually reading said book.
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@TheChosennn There never was a supposed "Jim Crow Act" Jim Crow was just the overall name that referred to state segregation laws. Karl Marx had actually written to Lincoln urging he make Death to Slavery the slogan of his second term as President. Republicans abandoned Blacks with the Hayes Tilden compromise to Southern Democrats. That wouldn't change until Earl Warren became Chief Justice and the 1954 school desegregation case. Warren was a liberal Republican who Conservative Republicans and Dixiecrats wanted impeached. Conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater the 1964 Presidential candidate voted against the 1964 Civil Rights act.
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@PatriciaSantos-qt9lw Looking for paradise? I suggest Vatican City. As an EU'er you can drive there. To bad the Imperialist trading bloc is breaking up with the UK leaving. UK workers don't want to be part of your EU paradise.
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At the end of WW2 the Western European capitalists had to make more concessions to the working class than the US because they had to compete with the Soviet bloc. Both France and Italy had mass Communist Parties because the partisan underground fighters were more than likely communists. They only thing Hitler accomplished was the destruction of industrial Europe. As far as Jew haters go the Jews are both the big bad communist or the big bad capitalists. The biggest compliment you can give a Jew hater is that he is ignorant because the Jews discovered that education is a power unto itself.
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Hamas represents NAZIsm. Its roots are with the Muslim brotherhood and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who raised a Muslim Militia for Hitler in Germany..
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She don't work for you but for the teachers. That's why is called a teachers union.
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@lightpropulsionguy Unions are voluntary organizations. The US Constitutions limits the federal government to only the powers enumerated in it. Political Parties are not mentioned or regulated by the US Constitution. The same should apply to unions since they are obviously political organizations. Churches are another example of an organization that the government is not allowed to medal in.
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@lightpropulsionguy The government needs to stay out of union business just like any other voluntary organization. Laws like The Railway "Slave Labor" Act, Taft-Hartley and Landrum Griffin need to be repealed or declared unconstitutional. A strike is protected first amendmendment activity. Government strike breaking violates contractual freedom. The unions need to form a labor Party without the bosses to take over the government from the capitalist bosses and donors of the two parties.
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@biruss It's not the managers we want to change but the capitalist system as a whole. To advance the strength, combattvity and self confidence of our class. What better way than to bring women in to men's industrial jobs with equal rights and equal pay. A boss is a boss regardless of color or sex.
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@biruss What's your point? Why do think women doing the same job as men shouldn't get equal pay?
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@biruss Oh so you like a slave like life that billionaires like Boss Warren Buffet provide on the Better Not Start a Family railroad? .Boses want the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. They want to pay on average just what it takes to get you back to work for the next pay period. This is why they want overtime and the ability to layoff without a guarantee of a job or income. The whole reason they pay overtime is because of the Sit Down strikes at GM that gave birth to the autoworkers union.
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@biruss Of course its more valuable to the bosses instead of hiring more workers, putting in an additional turn or shift they want ti lenghten the work day to makre bigger profits since they only need to pay you what takes for you to reproduce your labor for the next pay period anything you create beyond that goes to the bosses when they sell the product. .
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@biruss It's called capitalist exploitation. They want to have control of both the prices they charge and the wages they pay along with the control of credit with ihe central bank. The value of the dollar is not peged to either the value of gold or general labor time. Market Prices are set though use of monopoly market power, cartel agreements, business secrets and government regulations. This why Trump said it was a fixed game. Big companies all control the prices of basic industrial products from which all further custom production takes place. They have more names for companies than carter has pills that are under control of interlocking boards of directors. If there is any real competition it is at the level of things like barber shops and businesses employing a few hundred people at most and between different groups of bosses whose capital is invested in their nation state and the neo colonial world. The competition they want is for the dwindling number of jobs that pay for support of a family though to the next pay period. When they talk about the national debt thats money they invested to get a return instead of paying taxes. All the orginal owners of the big companies and banks the robber barons they died along time ago and now their posterity contols the system. They are all given a head start in life with the entrance into schools that prepare them to be the next generation of bosses of the govrnmnet and company. They like to take in a few scholarship students so their children then know what the working class people are like.
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They make the profits that go into management and stockholders hands. So cry me a river BOSS.
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@Alaskan-Armadillo End the US blockade!!1
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@Alaskan-Armadillo Unfortunately the Spanish revolution and Spanish Republic was defeated by the Fascist General Franco with Hitlers help and Stalin's NKVD murder machine on the Republican side. What do you mean by dictatorship? Because the very nature of the state with its monopoly on violence makes all states a dictatorship because if Cuba is a dictatorship and not a democracy then why isn't the US also a dictatorship instead of a democracy? Isn't Cuba a Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the US a Dictatorship of Capital ?
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@Alaskan-Armadillo So your an anarchist against all states?
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@reddemon6668 Our Party has published a paper since 1928 its available for all to read all they back tp 1928 on line at The Militant. We're an bunch of greedy union workers robing international bankers. LOL Poor babies like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos might have to live in a trailer park shop at Walmart and wear a belt to hold up their pants.
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@darlinee2911 Oil companies have what they need a crisi to raise prices and boost profits. Same with the bosses over at military industrial complex. War id business and business is good. Every bomb and every bullet is food, schooling and clothing taken from a child that has none.
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Liberal like Obama bowed before the Saudi Prince. Liberals have no problem with dictatorships as long as they tow the liberal Imperialist line of bigger profits for them.
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Capitalism is the problem.
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The split between the Right Social Democrats and Left Social Democrats was over support for WW1. The right opportunists signed up to support their own ruling class in the war. The left was opposed to the war and latter became most of the new Communist Parties and the Third 'Communist' International. This is where the term Social Democratic traitors originates. Social Democrats in Germany like Ebert sold out to German Capitalism for a chance to run the capitalist state.
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@Francesco Salvatore The German SPD deputies in the Reistag voted for war credits with the exception of Karl Liebknecht. This is one reason why they are called Socialist in name only, Social Democratic 'Patriots' and Social Democratic traitors. They were against a war by France not Germany. This is the same as the US saying they are against wars by Iran and North Korea while they fight wars everywhere else. Other than providing a 'safe space' for traitors to talk peace while waging war why do we need a dictatorship of the bourgeois "parliamentary system"? The SPD and KPD spent about 40 years pointing fingers at each other over a post WW2 border each claiming to be the "true socialist".
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@markfergerson2145 It's not difficult to understand that he began his intellectual career by reading Karl Marx. That he was labeled a Marxist at Harvard by the ruling class idiots who send their spoiled brats their. This was the era of the cold war when the flag was raised along with the supposed communist threat coming from a communist conspiracy to deny everyone's freedom. Sowell read Marx on his own and easily fell into the vulgar interpretations so common among those who look for a formula to solve problem rather than understanding the methods and approaches Marx proposed for understanding human development. Sowell came to the conclusion that all he needed to do after getting his education was to take his place as a marxist infiltrator of the US Gov't. He got a job at the US Dept of labor with the help of his professors only to discover their was no grand conspiracy to take over the US Gov;t at the department of labor. .
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@Human-Esq He's part of the ruling class intelegencia paid to sing the songs of the capitalist class. His book Basic Economics is a bedtime story written to assure its readers that the worlds neoliberal capitalist system is doing the lord's work with a so called price signaling and incentivization if only those pesky government and misunderstanding bosses of capitalism would follow Sowells mythical free market theology for the successful bosses all would be well in the land and a good nights sleep could be had by all.
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@Human-Esq I don't need your dollars for success or his excuses for capitalist exploitation. The class struggle continually makes inroads on the rights of private property. The rights of the bosses are continually limited by the the international struggle of the workers organizations from the trade union to the revolutionary workers party and the workers state power.
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@Human-Esq From the Communist Manifesto: In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour. In Communist society, accumulated labour is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer. In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at. By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying. But if selling and buying disappears, free selling and buying disappears also. This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other “brave words” of our bourgeois about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself. You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society. In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend. From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes. You must, therefore, confess that by “individual” you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible. Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.
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@Human-Esq Also from the manifesto: To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is therefore not only personal; it is a social power. When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the property of all members of society, personal property is not thereby transformed into social property. It is only the social character of the property that is changed. It loses its class character.
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@Human-Esq It remains abolished in Cuba and it will be abolished worldwide because the capitalist become a cyst on the productive forces. The first communist Revolution broke out in Paris in 1870 it lasted 70 days. The next broke out in 1917 Russia it lasted 70 years. The third broke out in 1959 Cuba and that one is still making history. An Era of Fascism followed the 1917 Russian revolution. Nevertheless the Soviet Workers Defeated NAZI Germany at great cost. Mao's peasant Army drove out the Imperialists and a whole new working class was created in China.
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@Human-Esq You want me out for the same reason you don't want anymore immigrants. Your capitalist system is failing worldwide and even people like Sowell are realizing that Bushes nation building exercise was a failure. Hows Bushes "New World Order" and his "Ownership Society" working out post 2008? Now your retreating inward you're hoping to save yourself by promoting capitalism in one country. In the past people like you and Sowell would talk about how they were bringing Democracy, Human Rights and Capitalism on the end of bayonets. You lost the cold war by convincing the Stalinist to adopted the neoliberalism of Fridenman and Sowell. Now after spending 5 trillion on twenty years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq you are singing a different tune. Now its look how good you have it hear and if you don't like it we will deport you like all the rest who we don't have any use for anymore.
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@Human-Esq Those people in China are catching up and the jealousy of the American Capitalist is setting in after all. Just like the British who saw Germany as a threat to British Imperialist power in the 20th Century. Now the American Imperialist sees China and Russia not as threats to his social system but as threats to his trading Empire. He cry's about how China is stealing his intellectual property and buying his farmland to raise pigs for the Chinese dinner table. Florida Governor DeSantis has passed his own new "Chinese Exclusion Act." to keep Chinese out of University Labs and from buying farmland.
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@michaelmurphy7177 He has not been able to get beyond their ideas which is why you can claim he is their equal. He has problems understanding the labor theory of value. Something even John Locke understood. He's mystified by money, trade and investment. Totally confused by the word economy which is why he thinks its seperate from politics and history. Thinks the world has always been ruled by money. Never understood the simplest ideas of Marx on the state.
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@DylanBarlow-o1l How does that justify the acts of the American capitalist ruling class?
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@TheGr0nch No such second amendment right to kill trespassers. The second amendment gives you the right to own a fire arm. It doesn't make murder legal.
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@holyhex6520 Eminent domain: From the 5th Amendment "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation” The Supreme court has decided that if a big company (Pfiser) promise a city (New London, CT) job creation your home can be taken with the promise of jobs being a public good. The land was taken and Pfizer? Well they decided to close shop in New London for bigger profits elsewhere. The only jobs created were those created by tax money paying for the demolition of the homes and a now empty Pfiser building with an 80% property tax break.
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@fuggleradventures5820 Tell the bosses to go hide in their gated communities
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Another capitalist too big to fail company.
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I have yet to read in the comments how Canadians got their universal healthcare? Apparently it came from God and the King like the rest of Canadian rights.
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@poppadoc5614 I like Marco Rubio's plan for free Internet for Cuba. To bad we can have Rubio communism here.
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Electric cable colors are always Green White Black and then Red. They don't make special cables for 240 volts with a red and no white for no neutral. So the white then becomes hot on 240 circuit. That looks like you installed an outlet with undersize gauge wire. Should be using #8 copper if you want to use a full 40 amps breaker in the panel.
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More BS to generate an excuse to invade.
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@sebastianliebmann6014 Repeal the Railway "Slave" Labor Act.
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@annem.parent8580 A vote for either of the two parties is wasted vote any how.
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@tome8373 You do realize they would do the exact same thing to you as the ATF under Clinton's AG at WACO.
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@tome8373 They will just hire a few more ex military. If you know for sure they have come to execute you then that would be the right choice otherwise you get the ability to scandalize them afterwards if you let them arrest you. You live to fight another day.
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You wanted Clinton who would have at least tried to her promise to get rid of coal miners. Why would we need her?
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@michelledavies2197 How do you figure that Trump is any more racist than the Clinton's?
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@Grssclub How about free internet from balloons in the US from South Dakota? What? That's communism!!
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@OPTIONALWATCH She is a former journalist.
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@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 "...not having to worry about money..." obviously she and your grandparents did. Capitalists may not want war but war wants them. Having a mattress full of cash won't save you from a German inflation, a civil war or world war. Education is always more valuable than any amount of cash. To get a cheap education you needed to live in a big city with a public library. Now you need little more than an internet connection and a cheap laptop.
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@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 I have been homeless and broke. You worry about eating and sleeping without being unmolested not money. Nor do I need the advice of a Jar Head. A Jar Head has to follow any order given including when to sleep and when to wake up. Capitalists need order takers not thinkers. That's why the Jar Head who remains a Jar Head is always successful. A Jar head does not retreat. Instead a march to take land in the rear is launched.
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@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 Capitalism is not a vegetable market or trading center. That goes back to the Babylonians or even earlier. Capitalism is marked by the Industrial revolution and manufacturing. The creation of a wage earning class that owns nothing and a capitalist class of factory owners along with the old landowners who own everything. When the old landowners stood in the way in England they executed King Charles after a civil war. in France the lopped of the heads of landowners and priests alike proclaiming Liberty Equality and Fraternity. In America the wealthy merchant colonist defeated the most power army in the world at the time. Later the put wealthy plantation slave owners out of business in a civil war abolishing chattel slavery.
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@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 Just as the Kings and Queens owners of the land paid the merchants for their own executions who also stole their property of slaves and serfs the capitalist creates the people who will abolish him and his private property of factories. mines, mills and stores.
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Jeannie Seibert Joe McCarthy's real enemy wasn't Reds or Protestant ministers but demon rum. Back then even the Scientist (Robert Oppenheimer) who lead the team to develop the bomb had his security clearance yanked. He was deemed to liberal to even be allowed to discuss not using the bomb to save the world from Reds.
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@creatorofgods1668 Right Putin should call General Keane or Biden for permission before he moves his military around in his country.
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Michelle Van Dine Well I guess the US didn't "win" the cold war after all. Capitalism can't bring peace to the world now can it?
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Michelle Van Dine Nuclear winter is a problem the winner can't avoid. A big enough nuclear exchange or success will put enough debre in the atmosphere to severely threaten all human life on the planet. So a win or even an exchange between secondary nuclear powers like India, China or Pakistan could send us back to the caves after millions die of starvation in the cities. This is why you hear war planners talking about a limited nuclear war with low yield weapons.
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Basicly the federal government can only do what is listed as federal responsibility in the Constitution. Most federal power comes from regulating interstate and foreign commerce. Since most medical care is carried out within states and not in interstate commerce then it is up to the states to regulate such care which is why the states issue Physicians license and not the federal government like FAA pilots licenses or radio transmission license. The tenth amendment is where the rest of the constitutionality of the right to privacy is found "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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The Democrats ARE a party of the EMPLOYERS.
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@masescranton9630 What he is talking about is gangs who go in and target high priced items like TV's at WalMart and take them out the door. Significant employee theft in retail is when management plays with sale items charging the full price but then after the customer has left changing the price to the sale price. Other theft is petty stuff like a can of soda or cigarette lighters done by the mentally challenged and firing people as time thieves for spending to much time on break or in the bathroom. If you get hired and are going to steal big you better do it early on because your going to get fired. The exception being store management scams. The workers have little opportunity to steal. Shoplifters are ignored by policy except by store police. No one wants to get injured over something not worth your life. So let them have the money or whatever they want.
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@onwilson2 Which you would probably not have without the collectivism of the labor movement and its NDP.
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@onwilson2 Capitalists like state or national debt because it allows them to make a profit off of taxes collected and for building roads and lighthouses that lower the costs of trade. The British liked it before the American revolution and so did Robert Morris the financier of the 1776 revolution. My bet is on the Canadian capitalist also liking it except when it comes to admitting they like the taxes needed to pay for it just like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. You have your social welfare programs for the same reason we have them in the US. The rise of a militant labor movement after the great depression and protests by the Black Workers and in Canada the Quebecois. CCF the predecessor to the NDP and Tommy Douglas had no role in Saskatchewan public hospital care. Eh?
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@onwilson2 Everyone expects violence to be involved in great social changes. History teaches that. King George didn't accept colonial votes and neither did the slaveholders accept the results of the 1860 election. When the American capitalist government doesn't like what looks like a loss at a ballot box they cancel the election if possible. As the did in Vietnam and Cuba. If the don't like who is in power than Regime change is on the table. And when a President even one who is obviously a capitalist himself like Trump who they dislike. They seek to nullify the election result. They also sought to put a military dictatorship in charge after Roosevelt was elected President. However the Marine Corps Major General S. Butler they choose for the job choose loyalty rather than power.
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@onwilson2 The Stalin Regime was the opposite than that of Lenin and Trotsky. You can see that in two places. At least one is in the story of Ayn Rand who is never jailed despite her beliefs and being in white controlled territory during the civil war. Her biggest represion was being kicked out of the university after Lenin's death and she is restored to her seat by international students or was that internationalist students? Those last three letters do make somewhat of a difference and if the Russia's were not internationalist why would they accept or be influenced by foreign students? Her father left the Pharmacy in St Petersburg during the civil war so the Bolsheviks should have left medicine go to waste unused? You can also find that Soviet Justice works at in the beginning years of Gulag Archipelago because the supposed victims are vindicated. Isn't that they way a justice system is suppose to work?
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@onwilson2 How about the first artificial satellite called Sputnik and the fist man, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, in space and first to orbit the planet. Scared the shit out of Congress.
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@onwilson2 You can't be debt free if you are a small country or even a larger one if you want to trade on the world market. Most of the old colonies have to borrow from the world bank or IMF. Their debt drives demands that they cut services to pay debts. They're in debt the same way workers are in debt to pay for cars and housing. They need things that they can't pay for in full. Your bashing them as irresponsible for the same reason workers are blamed for your housing crisis which turned into the worst recession in history. You whole system is the problem not workers who need to drive to work to make you a profit.
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@onwilson2 The Chinese capitalist also have had no problem investing in housing that can't be used because it isn't finished and money has dried up to pay for finishing it before it becomes useless and needs to be torn down. The Chinese Communist Party is no more communist or socialist then your Social Democratic Nordic countries. Don't believe me go watch "American Factory" on Netflix. The actually fit Lenin's definition of an Imperialist country.
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@onwilson2 You being the typical ignoramus who knows everything about communism while knowing nothing is going to find everything confusing.
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@Bad Dog The Capitalists outlawed secondary boycotts in their Taft Hartley act. We are the fighters for free speech. We have also been the most consistent fighters for free speech on both sides during the cold war boundaries. We can back that up because even today we still publish books on those very topics and the historical record in our newspaper TheMilitant.com and Pathfinderpress.com. Whether their left "Socialist Democrats" or extreme rightist like the Republican McCarthy we have battled both.
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@Bad Dog I can easily show that Ayn Rand suffered about zero repression in the early Soviet Union. its now claimed that is just a fluke. The only real beef she has is loss of her dad's pharmacy. Well when you lock the doors in St Petersburg and head for the White side of the civil war in Crimea do you expect that medicine to remain on the shelves in St Petersburg? At no time does she say that anyone laid so much as hand on her. She could not escape from the white side of the civil war by simple geography so obviously no one hurt her for being on the wrong side. She says she was purged like other "bourgeois students" but that decision was reversed by the protests of international students. That's a big difference form Stalin murdering thousands of loyal communists with the 1936 to 1938 purges as Kruschev admitted in his speech to the twenty Congress of the CPSU. The largest opposition to Stalin and his crimes did not come from the editors of New York Times or any bourgeois figure like FDR. It came first from inside the Soviet Union itself and marginally from within the new Communist Parties outside the Soviet Union.
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@Bad Dog The Soviet Union no longer exists for a number of reasons. The different nationalities were against Great Russian Chauvinism in Moscow. The history of the Oct. revolution was all falsified. Almost no one was even left form the revolutionary period and those who were had long ago given up on the revolution. Moscow decided to out compete the US in arms rather then actually support revolutions. The Stalinist monolith of socialism in one country became socialism in many countries meaning greater policy debate. The top bureaucrats wanted to live like capitalists. Milton Freedmen brought in the idea of make all the workers real socialist owners by giving them tradable stock in their companies. Then shock therapy to force sale of those shares to many new capitalist from the old party apparatus.
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@Bad Dog No new Communist party to replace the Stalinist Party. For China many of the Stalinist bureaucrats are the new capitalists. It's going to have problems because you don't just change or keep a party name to make a socialist revolution work. Let's say Bernie Sanders wins the next election and the Democrats now control Congress. They like Burnie so much the change their name to Democratic Socialists. How will that be different than a labor, socialist, or communist party winning the election to power in Europe?
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@Bad Dog Show where in the writings or speeches that Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Che or Fidel says ruling class or especially the communists will always be just and fair? Only someone like Stalin would say such a thing. Everyone else is worried about things not being just and fair for the workers and peasants.
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@Bad Dog Don't you have something better to criticize beyond how the English languages changes the type of word by use of suffixes? No Reaganism or McCarthyism, cannibalism or industrialism either?
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@randyweaver6543 When 30% of the world stock market wealth disappears I call that a crisis. We have battled for Democratic rights against both parties its the Democrats and Republicans that want suppression. Yesterday it was the Republican McCarthy the big cold war witch hunter. Today it's the "Socialist Democrats". FDR actually started the witch hunt Truman advanced it as did Eisenhower and Nixon. The class struggle forced them back as did a number of political trials. No dirty trick used by the FBI was off limits.
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@Bad Dog No ruling class has ever left the stage of history nonviolently. You don't like my answers or somehow I'm not giving the proper attention to your questions go elsewhere? See if others will endure your nonsense and idiotic conclusions. You are inside the most wealthy and most corrupt Empire that has ever existed and then say. "Well there's no way out." LMAO If you want a safe space, non violences and utopia I suggest Vatican City and a seat in the Basilica next to the Pope. You want promises well go vote for Trump, Clinton. Bush, Sanders, Reagan and company. The give you all the slick Willy answers you want and need. Everyone of them will promise to end corruption.
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@Bad Dog In fact I'm surprised you haven't brought up the Cuban "Forced Doctorization" program as reason for the Cuban revolutions failure.
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@Bad Dog Plenty of things including political ones like the English Commonwealth have failed on the first or second try. Do you have any idea how much religious violence the English have gone through that we escaped thanks to Thomas Jefferson's Ideas? The British and Canadians talk about their rights coming from GOD. Ours come from blood celebrated on the 4th of July and Memorial Day which started as a celebration of the defeat of the slavocracy.
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The English MP's still swear allegiance to the Queen despite votes that considered repealing and replacing it and proclaiming a republic.
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@Bad Dog The stalinist era is over the question today is there a capitasm to flee to not is their a socialist country to flee from? Did Mike Pence forget to tell you that his, the EU and OAS ministers of US colonies choice for President of Venezuela is another phoney "socialist" Juan Guidio of the Popular Will Party one of the recognized Second Socialist International Parties. Hay he will fit right in with those phoney French Socialist Bankers.
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@Bad Dog The US uses immigration from Cuba as a political football. They have restarted relations and now have change course and reduced Embassy staff forcing those who want legally enter the US to fly to the US Colombian Embassy first or to Mexico and appear at the US Border. The US doesn't want a return to ferry service between the two countries. The US no longer automatically grants Green Cards to Cuban citizens. You should ask the US Coast Guard what they do with people found on rafts in the Florida straits because they use to return them to Cuba only those who reached dry land were allowed admission.
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Are there national stock markets in China and Venezuela. The answer is yes in both cases. No capitalist country can function without them. Your move dim witt.
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@Bad Dog I use to answer your questions civilly I don't think I will bother to do than anymore.
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@Bad Dog It's good that she's from Guatemala she can go back and create another capitalist paradise in Guatemala that can convince people to stay instead of accumulating at the Mexican border. You don't hear any of those Miami cry babies doing anything but complaining either.
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@Bad Dog Don't you have a chairman of the board meeting or something constructive like calling your stock broker and buying Youboob stock?
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@wolvenwood You going to find a downward trend of support for either party as this coronavirus crisis unfolds.
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@kunz4164 The assumption here is that Taiwan's people want to be a colony of Washington..
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@kunz4164 Obviously this is a report reflecting the German Imperialist perspective of capitalism being "Democratic." Nancy Pelosi shows up for some fanfare and instead the people of Taiwan Reject the KMT historic party of the Rightest Dictator General Chang. Its a slap in the face to the US Imperialist who wish to keep up the artificial division of the Chinese people.
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@reecedeyoung6595 They are NOT recognized as a country at the UN nor are they recognized diplomatically outside of a few countries because they continue the fiction that they are the Republic of China. Why should their people look to the Western Imperialist for defense besides you warped view that everyone need to lie up behind the Democratic Imperialists. The American Imperialist were defeated in Korea and Vietnam why should Tiawan rely on the Imperialist USA for defense. .
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Soon the US will set up a Radio and TV Bolivar just like Radio and TV Marti. .
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Building a border wall and increasing deportations will do nothing but increase the size and expense of unproductive government. The country is rotting because of the failing profits system.
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@cb1623 He's a grad of military school and UPENN Wharton school of business he followed his father into the real estate racket in New York. His father took advantage of the FDR administrations policies to make a bundle in construction during the Great Depression. Trump organizations collected millions in gov. funds during his administration. Daily News reported Trump to advantage of a program for small business after 9/11 one of many times he took public funds. .
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@josephtaylor5909 A large group of the Boss class doesn't want Trump screwing things up for the rest of them. That's who the Democrats and the rest of the never Trumper Runos are. The see their foreign investments being threatened by Trump's foreign policy. He's riding the anti immigration tide the way George Wallace rode the anti Black pro segregation one.
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@northbreeze0198 Sure he wants to fix things for the rest of the bosses because their system is in a world wide crisis not seen since the Great Depression when Trump's dad made his millions off of government contracts.
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@MrSalserosdf The rest of the bosses always want to punish those who loss in the game of monopoly with a trip to prison. They are always exaggerating and telling lies about what they have for sale so why wouldn't they do the same when dealing with each other?
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@harmonicarchipelgo9351 No because the two parties write the tax code and appoint the judges of the courts that decide what the law is. So they just rename what ever they were doing to escape paying taces and then have the lawyers and politicians in thir pocket. The labor movement needs to demand the abolition of private property the property used to exploit others. The workers need not just unions but a labor party to fight for our rights and to abolish private property.
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@harmonicarchipelgo9351 Capitalism doesn't operate on theory rather the ruling capitalist bosses exercise control though ownership of private property. The property used to exploit others. Capitalist only want the areas of the economy that can produces profits the rest they want to put the government in charge of or want a special relationship where the losses are placed upon the backs of the working people and farmers while they take the gains in profits. The workers don't own what we produce now. The small farmers are put into a market situation where they must sell to monopoly food bosses who squeeze them to drive up the rate of profit. They problem for the bosses is the falling rate of profits when machines are used to replace labor. The profits go to the industry or firm which can cut the most labor time however the other sections see profits cut as the prices tend towards the cost of production. Because the invested value rises while the living labor exploited falls and the markets are saturated then they rate of profit must also fall. . .
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@WalterHildahl The capitalist politicians decide how much money to spend to defend the rights of the bosses to maximize profits above all else. Just because the capitalist system is failing doesn't mean there is a correct capitalist policy that can change that.
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Foundation for the Defense of Democrat Imperialism Democracy in name only Imperialist and predatory.
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The feminists say we should be able to control our bodies not men. That means we get to decide when and when not to have sex as a mutual decision and when and when not to have children.
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@SMichaelDeHart Stop using you Office of Foreign Asset Control to prevent international trade with Cuba. End the 60 year cruel blockade of the island. .
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@comeandtakeit1254 They can't help themselves because the system was set up to protect profit and capitalist trade alone. Maximizing profit for the few means maximizing misery for the most.
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@gamr4367 Their are basic contradictions in the economic science with capitalism that cause its problems. This causes the class divided system to enter crisis from which it can not escape.
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@gamr4367 Has nothing to do with skin color but the system of production. Before Plantation slavery their is no indication of anti black racism in the culture of Europe. The ideas always develop from the facts not the other way around. Culture develops out of the productive forces as do ideas. The idea of a flat earth is perfectly valid for a people who can only travel short distance and want to make primitive maps. It only became a problem when explaining the fact that large sailing ships appeared to sink at a distance from ports. The same was true of a earth centered universe it was perfectly good idea for people who made sundials it only became a problem when mapping the motion of the planets with the telescope. The same happened with Newton's ideas of motion. Facts started coming into conflict with Newtons laws. Those facts created Einstein's ideas as more correct. Without Einstein we would not have GPS today. Why? It wouldn't be accurate enough to use just Newton's ideas?. Yet Newton' ideas are still used today because they are fine for relatively short distances and low velocities.
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@bargainworlds The real target of capitalist government information bans is the working class.
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@frankmorris7751 Biden "the traitor" selling foreign policy to the wrong countries group of capitalist thieves. LMAO
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@Laury McKenna Republicans have no solutions because the problems stem from the capitalist system itself not the wrong party or adults running government as the executive committee of the capitalist ruling class. You can't fix it because you can cheat Karl Marx with a fiat currency. All capital profit rates by which capital measures success must decline as machines replace labor because the source of the profit is labor and the value of capital rises the labor needed to produces declines. Without an infinite market the whole system would come to a halt. So as you can see it is not capital that is producing but labor and the more labor is choked off to benefit capital the worse things will become. Any policy meant to appease the greed of he ruling class only worsens the situation for the working class.
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@guydavis825 That's is from the Soviet flag not the Chinese.
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@CT-yc4gd Can't fix capitalism because its based in creating profits and private property. Only by creating a labor party based in the trade unions and winning the battle of democracy can the workers take power away from the capitalist and begin the construction of socialism like the 1917 Russian Revolution and the 1959 Cuban revolution.
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@roseymalino9855 Sowell is just a propagandist for capitalist economics.
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Capitalism was able to survive the last century because of the destruction of the second world war and the betrayal of the Stalinist leadership in the Soviet Union.
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FiveBucksSaysYouWont Rick Perry the governor to important to care.
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@raiklaub975 The fetus has no rights a women needs respect. Your not a child until your born.
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@manuelcapdevila1272 Its a capitalist two party dictatorship unable to reform itself because it was created to protect property and trade alone.
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@Garylincoln789 Its just another BIG LIE being told by the US CIA and being doubled down now by the rest of the political liars in Washington.
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He begins with a number of problems and assumptions which are questionable in themselves first is that some ideologies are evil well isn't that a Christian idea? Some ideas are wrong and if start with the wrong ideas you will end up with an unforeseen result. Hitler spends his time arguing about racial superiority of the German people. Now today that idea is rejected as trash but when Hitler was doing so it was an idea quite prevalent among the capitalist ruling classes in America and Britain also. The British had an Empire that the colonial peoples had no votes in and the United States was a society where "Jim Crow" racism was law. The Western allies had imposed onerous terms upon Germany after the first world war demanding they be paid the cost of the war. These were the ruling capitalist classes of France, Britain and America speaking demanding Germany pay including with their milk cows. If the Weimar Republic proved anything it is that capitalism in one country does not work. It was too late in history for that Germany needed an Empire like Britain. France or the US or it would have to become part of the Soviet Union.
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How many Plea Bargains did you make and accept?
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It will continue because capitalism can not meet the needs of the workers and farmers. It's in a world wide crisis and this will produce the conditions that require a revolutionary transformation.
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One side cares nothing about the life of the women. The only want to maintaining the rights of men to control women's bodies.
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@tabbytheorcie6638 Your a Hillary Clinton Democratic Party drone. It's the refusal of the upper class women and snobs like you to do anything because they've always had abortion access with their money.
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@tabbytheorcie6638 That's Hillary Clinton's line who's hypocrisy is well known. Its the relance on the Democratic Party that has obstructed abortion rights. Abortion is a backup for other forms of contraception. It's a women's right not just for the upper class moralists who always had access to abortion while poor and working women died of botched abortions.
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The greed of the ruling capitalist ruling classes is what drove the first of the second world war. Churchill presided over the end of the British Empire and the shift to America as the worlds capitalism Imperial investors Empire.
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The old General and his Army of Northern Virginia is making their last stand throughout the South. He and his Army are retreating into the history books. May their crimes never be forgotten and bad deeds go unpunished.
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Horowitz has seen the bright lights of capitalism and wants his share of the spoils. He as corrupt those in the New Left who became Democrats.
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@joemahony4198 The bosses have no way to make industrial profits in some areas by constantly cutting labor time so they must place them in either a non profit organization or under government control.
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@DemonDog444 Trump was a New York liberal just as racists as the Clintons and the rest of the Democratic Party.
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The workers are the union. If they want to change how strike pay and unions dues are used it up to them.
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@dr.johnnyfever9194 They are senior leadership not management. Managers are capitalist dictators. Managers are unelected and appointed by boards of directors elected by the shareholders. They need no capitalist government investigation by the American Gestapo (FBI) either. Unions are a combination of direct democracy and representative democracy. You either directly elect the all the senior leadership or you directly vote on your contract. In the UMWA (coal miners) you do both.
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@dr.johnnyfever9194 No one can stop a maggot from worming his way into the dying flesh of capitalism. Once he becomes a fly he can easily be swatted down and taken out with the trash.
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The best anti poverty program is a trade union. 55 strong!!!
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"They elected a billionaire coal baron as governor." That same governor signed a bill giving all state workers a raise after a solid strike by teachers and school workers. Also they should institute a Rockefeller Tax on peeple like former US Democratic Party Senator Billionaire from West Virginia Jay Rockefeller.
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We don't need any ethnic cleansing.
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Sounds like China blustering against Pompeo. China Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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Why not go hide in a gated community with security guards?
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@vitalipopkhadze369 That's my advice if they are afraid they should go inside their luxury neighborhoods and hide out we can do without them.
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This is just conspiracy theory BS. Roe v. Wade never actually found a right to abortion. Instead it was a ruling that found abortion legal under certain conditions. Being poor ment you could be denied a federal medicaid abortion.
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@monotech20.14 CRT is a load of BS. It was invented by Black Bourgeois Law professors as a Black wash of capitalism. Puts the blame for racism on anything and anyone but the capitalist system which is where it belongs.
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@monotech20.14 Racism came with capitalism and Imperialism the only way to get rid of it is with revolutionary nationalism and world socialism. Racism is being destroyed in those struggles against the Imperialist capitalists system.
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@wenpm9714 It's Bourgeois Black wash because they refuse to name the problem the new capitalist system that had slavery grafted onto it. Instead they sing hymns to Bourgeois Democracy as the ultimate cultural achievement of man kind. It ignores that the revolution was lead by merchants and slaveowners and was a property owners government where only 6% of the population could vote.
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The do a survey asking if your a liberal or conservative and since most academics answer liberal. Than some British conservative immediately says well that liberal means socialist left liberal. Joe McCarthy has never left elements of consevative thought has he. Your still accusing you opposition of being secret communists only today its secret socialist.
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If the had to pick up the $100 bills as the "earned" them it would be hard work.
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@eurojay4847 Sure they are sending them to public schools in ghettos and they'll be going to community colleges while working at McDonald's or they will be applying for one of those prized potions as a worker in a trade like an electrician or pipe fitter. They'll be putting aside their money pay for school to drive a big rig. Yes their children will not start like Bill Gates with a million dollars trust fund and a private education from childhood to university. They'll start with nothing and become Billionaires. There born smarter than everyone else.
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Hamas is a NAZI like organization. It roots go back to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who allied with Hitler for the final solution. The Democratic Imperialist US/UK refused to take in Jewish Refugees both before and after the War. The Stalinist in Germany refused to close ranks with the Social Democrats and block the rise of Hitler. After the war Stalin had a veiled anti semitic campaign against cosmopolitans.
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@youngking4825 Clinton would have shut down the mines earlier as probably the only campaign promise she kept.
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Now that Trump has shut down the government this a great time for libertarians to show how a government could work without taxes. After all Taxation is theft.
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She works for a government company that has more immigrates without rights than citizens in its borders.
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@Legna1826 It was Biden who signed strike breaking legislation for bosses like Warren Buffet of the Better Not Start a Family Railroad.
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Once again using fascism as a political swear word. Like healthcare education does not lend itself to the ability to continually cut labor time with machines. Teachers going on strike is more common now despite anti strike laws. The number of private schools is small because with capitalism education is a privilege. The capitalist replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first. This is why the bosses see education as an overhead cost to be minimized and a drag on profits.
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@anthonyphillips2874 Just when did Comrade Thomas belong to the communist movement?
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And you'd want to be a Democrat if they could create "government supremacy" for you.
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@georgegonzalez2476 You don't need superior weapons to win a war just ask the people of Cuba, Vietnam or Afghanistan. Following the American or British Imperialist in weapons technology was lunacy along with Socialism in One Country, Peaceful Co existence and other Russian nationalist policies of the Stalinist. The best defense of the Soviet Union was always the extension of the world revolution not making allies with the Democratic Imperialists.
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IJŠƇĦͦ̚5ɜPƔNjƇάȥɓϋξ îπɛş\x91͈ǷǯƠɱ\ Fidel Castro never had a problem with enough educated people. Even today Cuba has some of the best bio technology in the world.
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IJŠƇĦͦ̚5ɜPƔNjƇάȥɓϋξ îπɛş\x91͈ǷǯƠɱ\ The only way to defend the Soviet Union was through advances of the world revolution. Stalin rejected that communist course for one of diplomacy, accommodation, peaceful coexistence and military competition with Democratic Imperialism. China fell into Mao's lap because of a bungling General Chang and Stalin insulted him. Tito became head of the revolution in Yugoslavia and Stalin tried to have him assassinated preferring to keep his promise to the British Imperialist Churchill.
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@МаксимАсеев1 Stalin became a criminal leading a murderous bureaucracy that destroyed Lenin's Party murdering thousands of loyal communist in the process. Stain's bumbling course delayed industrialization and also resulted in the defeats of a number of revolutions in China, Germany and most notedly Spain where the NKVD out right just murdered the revolutions leaders allowing the Fascist a cakewalk to power. Certainly Stalin provided zero help to Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Naturally the bureaucrats in Moscow and Peking should help. Gorbachev was the best student of Stalin writing the most slavish praise to the great leader. For success went to those who could write the most compliments of the greatest system ever devised for humankind by the greatest of all leaders Stalin. Stalin revised the thinking of Marx and Lenin back to the old theories of the bankrupt leaders of the second international. And just what did the leaders of the USSR who followed so slavishly in the Great Leaders footsteps do? The squander the wealth on trying to out do the imperialist powers in weapons. The demanded free market prices for surplus NAZI Era weapons that colonial liberation movement desperately wanted They advised all those who would listen in Latin America from taking the road of revolution opened by Fidel Castro into one of reliance on bourgeois liberals and bourgeois democracy. Socialism in one country became Socialism in a bloc of countries. Stalin had turned the communist International into a cheering squad for bourgeois liberals. Anyone who could not stomach the bureaucratic twists and turns was ousted from leadership marginalized deemed country revolutionary and replaced with those who say and anything the Great Leader commanded. And so that great leaders commanded the Communist Party of the USA to be the best strike breakers during the second imperialist war. For Stalin had lost all confidence in the working class of the world as only he and his most slavishly lieutenants were qualified to be the international leaders everyone else was sacrificed for the Iron will and infallibility of the greatest leader mankind had ever known.
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Black capitalism can not solve the Black working classes problems. That why both parties are failures.
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We have had this dumb of an executive since George III.
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@micheleparadis2808 Why not have a brass band play some marshall music so we can have a parade for Sowell and Freedman as some of the most shallow thinkers of the twentieth century. Ask yourself how true is the theory of limited resources. Now ask yourself when in the history of humankind we have not found new uses for what we already have on earth. So now if the limited resources theory is untrue hiw ture is the need to put everything in a market because of limited resources. See how easy it was to destroy those arguments.
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@TheByron130 Socialism is the only one really possible because the class struggle produces it along with the theory's to advance the struggle, The others are concoctions of ideas by universal remormers with no real way to create it.without the actions of the privileged intelligentsia which becomes in its majority reactionary without the advance of the class struggle of the proletarians.which advances first on a national and then an international baisus. .Formation into a class, party and then state.
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@TheByron130 We have the experience of the Cuban revolution with Che Guevara Economics and Politics in the transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. We want the workers to take control of the job and the unions to tell the bosses to open the books so the workers can see where and how the income is being taken in and then how it is being spent. In Cuba no one was told they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is they couldn't use their position to exploit others. Salaries of officials were reduced and those who wanted to leave were allowed to. The big homes of the property owners became the New Embassies.
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@TheByron130 That's the know nothing theory where prices reflect true production costs. If that was true the bosses wouldn't oppose opening their books. Bosses ran away because the Americans told them they'd be murdered. Just like Ayn Rand's dad who locked the door to leave for the white side of the civil war we aren't going let things go to waste when the bosses lock the doors and run away.
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@TheByron130 Your not really serious you just want yell theif. The poof that your ideas are garbage is what happened after the Soviet leaders took Milton Friedman's advice creating an even worse economic crisis.
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@TheByron130 That was before he invention of the Turing machine besides we don't need to keep track of every last detail. You problem is you can't keep prices from getting out of control when the reinvestment of profits shift from expanding production to driving up the value of fictitious capital until the value collapses. All you talk of price signalling is just so much hocus pocus disguised as science. .
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This is the bitter fruit of the middle class women's rights leader's moving the movement out of the streets and into the corrupt boardrooms of the Democratic Party. This is the same way they snatched defeat of the ERA out of the jaws of victory trusting the rot in the Democratic Party of promises and excuses not worth the paper they are written on.
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@aamirbasir5464 Why do bank robbers rob banks? That were the money is!!!
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@yugiohpokemon5285 Gates started with a million dollar trust fund. He bought the DOS system and the Windows/MAC GUI idea came from Xerox PARC.
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@yugiohpokemon5285 Are you sure about that because Bill Gates trust fund was from a grandfather who was a banker. Plus I don't buy into the theory that profits are just a fair wage for the capitalists 'work'. Going to the mailbox every three months for a dividend check is not work. Most workers are not paid until they start work not for the trip to work. A bad investment costs the capitalist his money. A dangerous work area can cost a worker his life. Money he donated to do what? Money to a church poor box? Plenty of capitalist treat their workers like shit and then make a donation to the United Fund or to fight the hunger their system creates. No amount of donations can solve capitalisms basic defects. The drive of the monopolists profit system to war and depression.
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@yugiohpokemon5285 After 2008 toxic assets (Junk Bonds) were turned into federal reserve notes (money) by the federal reserve bank with 'quantitative easing".
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@yugiohpokemon5285 I don't agree that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs were 'instrumental' in changing the world. Driving out the competition with monopoly business techniques does create anything expect monopoly profits. Current patient law discourages innovation and makes those with the biggest legal staff the winners. If I can invent a blue ant with generic engineering, claim it helps aerate the soil, buy a few plots of land, than wherever those blue ants wander I can claim a royalty because the grass in your front yard is better aerated. Which is exactly what Monsanto is doing to farmers in the MidWest who are using their own seeds that became cross pollinated from fields where Monsanto's sold farmers GMO seeds.
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@yugiohpokemon5285 Monopoly practices is what made Windows/Internet Explorer the King of the Internet. According to Bill Gates everyone needed a browser but not an Office Suite. He shafted IBM by getting them to buy licenses for IBM DOS while he sold an almost identical MS DOS to everyone else. He agreed to coodevople OS/2 with IBM while working on a new Windows NT. Does anyone even remember OS/2? His contracts with all the big manufacturers were such that if they agreed to pay to put Windows on every computer it would be less than putting it on only those computers where the customer wanted Windows. A price structure for windows favoring the large manufactures over smaller assemblers. Because of Microsoft's refusal to sell windows 95B to anyone but big manufactures a black market in Win 95B developed after which Microsoft began a campaign against black marketing of Windows.
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@yugiohpokemon5285 I built/altered a mouse to use in the left hand before anyone thought to put a software switch into the OS doing that. I didn't have access to the source code to do that either. Like big electronic companies don't just ignore patents by small companies or people who don't have money to hire patent lawyers in court.
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@kalburgy2114 That's a lot of bullshit. Bureaucratism is a disease that comes with capitalism and the awarding of privileges. If capitalist loved Fidel Castro so much why were they so intent on killing him? The problems of capitalism come from the system itself. You need micro managers watching everything and everyone because your system enters into a natural decline after primitive accumulation. They rate of industrial profits goes down into a long term decline as machines replace labor because the source of profits is our labor.
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@chuckrambo4401 Sowell held a Civil Service job after being a Marine draftee in Korea. What do you want to bet he used Veterans preference to get an extra 10 points and when he was a student he received GI Bill education benefits. Sowell lived though the end of Jim Crow segregation he is about the same age as MLK and 5 years younger than Malcolm X his total participation consisted of doing nothing whatsoever except to announce from his academic chair that the 1965 Civil Rights passage should have ended anymore actions by Blacks. Ths was the act pass by the liberal Southern Democrat Johnson and opposed by the Republican Conservative Goldwater. Malcolm X who said, Hitler did more for Blacks than liberals because Uncle Sam need Blacks to shoot Germans. Malcolm X who meet with Fidel Castro and said, "Now Cuba their is a revolution." Malcolm X who said, The Conservative he snarls at the Negro. While the White liberal ia s fox. Ronald Reagan who passed and signed gun control laws because Oakland Black Panthers followed police patrols while carrying arms for self defense. Robert F. Williams organized an NRA chapter to defend against Klan Violence. After the FBI initiated frame up charges he went to Cuba where he broadcast Radio Free Dixie. Reagan supported the South African racists in the Angolan civil war who were defeated by Cuba soldiers acting under the leadership of Fidel Castro that drove a dagger into the Racists Apartheid System. Mlk came out against the Vietnam war that Sowell said should have been won by the US. If anyone has directly betrayed Blacks its Sowell with slavish support of Neoliberalism. He's never lifted so much as finger to do anything but write criticism of others. The whole thrust of his so called scholarship is to justify capitalism and the bosses private property. . .
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@kennethjames4724 They are still preferences not based in so called merit. In fact they were cited as justifications for race based affirmative action. Sure some kind of aid was given to veterans going back to the revolutionary war. In fact Veterans camped out during the Great Depression in DC demanding early payment of promised bonuses. So as I said it was not strictly merit based decision of the employer. According to logic of the libertarians they were paid for their service now you can throw them away without obligation just like used up workers. That's okay we understand that people like Ayn Rand and Sowell are just hypocrites when it comes to themselves. Lecturing others to do as I say and not as I do.
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@kennethjames4724 Just like Ayn Rand condemning Social Security until it came time to apply for her old age benefits. Sowell was drafted into the Army not a volunteer. So in a very real sense Sowell was a military slave for Uncle Sams Imperialist war in Korea. When he was in DC he had a civil service job and took courses at Howard University as a student. Later as a Harvard student he took government money from the GI Bill. These are all facts as told by Sowell himself nothing made up about it. It is Sowell himself who claims to have been a Marxists in his youth. All I ask for is evidence of him ever being a Marxist outside of him being angry and reading the encyclopedia britannica. If that's all it takes it won't be long before you have a whole country of Sowell type Marxists. Affirmative action was also a benefit everyone for everyone who had faced past discrimination because of race had access too. It had its positive effects but it won't change the true source of every kind of oppression that comes from the capitalist class and its divide and conquer methods of political and economic rule.
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The the right has been chipping away at abortion rights with a bunch of unnecessary restrictions. According to these idiots women will get pregnant just so the can have an abortion at 8 months and 29 days. It means politicians will be entering into private decisions. Leaking information on plans for the government to enter into you private life. Now the whole charade has been exposed. Naturally the court wishes to present its decision as a mission accomplished without appeal. Now a great uproar is in the making as the anti women forces who want to keep watch in your bedroom are facing embarrassment. See no promises from the 9 ghouls in Black robes can be relied upon. The do what the richest of the people want the capitalists. From the very beginning attacks on Roe v Wade were launched first on poor and working class women with the hyde amendment.
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@alstclair His problem is as an economist he denies the first essential truth that labor produces all that is valuable. That economics is about our species and its historical development. We began as social animals using our hands for a multiplitude of tasks, a voice box for communication with sweat glands that lets us regulate our body temperature out running animals with fur coats and using fire to help us with digestion. That once those early groups of hunter gathers finished feeding the group they produced culture from which all science, art and even religion comes. ,
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@JohnT.4321 Capitalism can not be fixed t must be overthrown. Production for profit must be replaced with production for human needs. Abolish private property the property used to exploit others.
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@GreatLeviathen I though being a Peeping Tom was an offense?
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@GreatLeviathen What about using binoculars instead of being at the window?
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More insults from bosses like you.
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@joehayduk This is just an example of the HOT part of the cold war. A war that US planners would eventually lose despite all the crowing of Reagan and Thatcher to the contrary. The US lost without Troops marching over a Soviet Union and China defeated in WW3.
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@numeristatech The US did not get another two allies with the end of the cold war but two more Imperialist competitors. It did not get a pile of rubble and hungry people to restart primitive accumulation with. Like the end of WW2 in Europe with the floating of Marshall Plan loans. The world watched as the most corrupt the most politically bankrupt Stalinists' hacks conspired to become the new capitalists and state power. For sixty years the Stalinists' insisted they were building socialism. That they were not just a bunch corrupt and murderous bureaucrats, betrayers of Lenin and the great October revolution, is there any doubt about them now? Anyone think Putin or Xi Jinping are revolutionary leaders of the working class? Raise your hands please?
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Gota be a Canadian Immigrant no one else could be so stupid. God damn KKK is just cops in summertime uniforms. If you'd ever been to Mississippi you'd know that by age three.
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Always better to bring in a trained hyena like the bloodthirsty Sowell. A defender of military dictatorships as bastions of the free world.
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@hitreset0291 Bosses can't make big enough profits in the electrical racket anymore. They do better gambling on Wall street with Gamestock and bigger hedge funds. Don't worry though they all went to Cancun even if Ted Cruz had to come back. .
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@janettermach6189 Actually its the general problem of capitalism in decline when bigger profits can be made elsewhere, along with an anti planning attitude with worship of capitalist chaos caused by business secrets and ought right lies. Both parties are responsible or irresponsible depending on how you view them.
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@ReflectedMiles First let me say I am glad to hear from someone who actually is in the industry. My experience is connected to the ground transportation, HVAC and electronic/electrical industry. I and I'm sure others have seen things that go on that shouldn't which is why it is very easy to believe this is just another case of someone putting the dollar before safety or other concerns. The liberal media has its own axes to grind as can be seen in it's unending get Trump at all cost campaign. They had chief FBI hound dog Muller run an almost three year investigation which revealed no connections or collutions with Russia but they still refuse to drop that bone.
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@pneron2032 Right he supports thing like child labor because of the early opportunity it provides to become another Bill Gates and the unfairness of life.
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Put those cops in jail. Don't like death on the highway when speeding in your Chevy or Ford quit the force and get a job. Stop bitching fuckin' cop.
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@karltilgner5445 The government will bail out the banks and the people will suffer just like in the US.
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Reagan go home.
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@clintongriffin2077 His law won't go into effect util March at the ealiest he can send DPS Troopers to USCIS tomorrow just like you who can join the cops as USCIS.
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@surfersilver6610 All you wanted is to use them for investment purposes anyways. Go ask for another bailout while you at it.
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@deadlyta That is correct the state that special body of armed men serves only to manage the common affairs of the ruling class in our case the Capitalist ruling class Taking power away from unelected officials weakens them and strengthens us.
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@deadlyta You have the classic problems of the middle class small producer. On one hand you find yourself being ground down by big capital and its government on the other you see yourself as taking responsibility for the results of production that others aren't interested in. The reason the production workers feel alienated from the job is rthe way in which the bosses trear us. The bigger the company the more general the labor the greater the discipline becomes for the most petty of infractions. The bosses look at their accounting books and see that they profits have a tendency to decline and so that thir first action is to assume the workers are not doing thor job. In the past this eventually lead to strike provoking wage cuts. Not to mention the every 7 to ten year economic depressions. The last big crisis before the federal reserve bank was set up saw JP Morgan having to bailout his competitors just to keep the economy from shutting completely down. The federal reserve was set up precisely because the largest banks were now to small to intervene in the crisis in a really meaningful way.
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@Sunrayman123 Typical lawyers answer.
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Exactly they just finished spending 2.3 trillion on a 20 year war in Afghanistan.
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Sure you love the talk because he never used the dirt word in the title so you were spared the ringing in you ear of the word "Socialism." They did an excellent job of self censorship never using that bad word the bosses hate to hear "Socialism".
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@loturzelrestaurant I'm not sure how my comment ended up under yours. I have no objection to your comment in fact I have looked at "second thought."
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@complexaltruist The US Gov't signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was written in an effort to beat the Soviet Union by taking its educated people. It was not intended to be used by the victims of the US Empires foreign policy. Now with a world capitalism in decline millions roam the earth seeking entry into the centers of the advanced capitalist countries.
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@wakamoli8248 They want a system of illegal immigration so they can impose controls upon the immigrants and workers as a whole. Its a propaganda campaign by the capitalist class against the working class.
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You can't trust the FBI since all they are is the national secret police.
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Capitalist nations are all in crisis now because the different gangs of capitalist classes can't get along. Trump wants to wage trade war which is just a prelude to real war. The capitalist nations destroyed each other in two world wars. Greedy bosses fighting for market share. The long retreat by labor is over as every strike quickly becomes a political issue.
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@MountainGorillaTribe Obviously the foreign capitalist engaged in trade with the Soviet Union because they sought to make profits out of the deals. Fred Koch was an American Engineer who did not have the money to hire lawyers to defend his oil industry patents. He went to work in the Soviet Union and was paid enough for help with the oil industry to go back home sue big oil and found Koch industries.
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@josephdiaz339 The are just a part of the US counter revolutionary liars. They were so afraid of him they had him executed so it looked like he died in battle and then the hid the body because they were afraid it would become a shrine for the poor.
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@VicknairD Don't kid yourself the CCP is just about as responsible as Putin was for Trump. These are just a rival group of Chinese capitalists looking to make hay when the sun shines. The NEW TANG DYNASTY funds the Epic Times. The Epic Times the New American Thought leaders. Note how free markets are the proposed solution when that is the actual problem. Bosses can't make big enough profits making electricity which is why the system failed. They'd rather invest in Gamestock price manipulations and Wall st Gambling hedge funds.
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All this is a tacit admission that it can achieve nothing with the big guns of labor. The long retreat by labor is over and now what the working class does in its struggle with capital will become the new politics with the petty bourgeois left being left behind in the class struggle with capital. This is the time to be building new bolshevik parties of workers world wide.
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Only last week Rubio wanted the FBI to launch a witch hunt against Puentes de Amor.
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No it's not what the so called experts propose especially the American bourgeois professors who claim to be political scientists. Which is to clamp down on civil rights and unleash spy and so called intelligence agencies. Rather it is how working people and our leaders respond to the ongoing crais of worlds capitalism which is one of the reasons American Imperialism military power is in decline. Since Vietnam the American people no longer just line up behind every military adventure and even more so after the fiasco called the war on terror. In Israel the Hamas goal was pushed back and exposed the weakness of the terror groups political support in Israel and Gaza. How to build solidarity among workers both Jews and Arabs is key to moving against and defeating endless war and terror organizations.
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Voucher system is mean to cause a free for all school crisis and created an even worse caste system. It was proposed by Milton Friedman the architect of Shock Therapy for the Soviet Union. Same idea get everyone fighting so you can cut costs, get public money and property into private hands and raise prices even higher.
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People Like Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter who supported Pol Pot at the UN as a way to punish Vietnam and Ronald Reagan who supported the South African racists invasion of Angola.
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@Jay-ik1ge Ya he died unable to continue his revolutionary activity.
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@occupationallystrong1606 There is no mass labor upsurge at this time and these reformist liberals fear any ideas and thinking they can not control. These educated fools talk down to us as if we don't have the same brain structure as them.
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Do not worry more orange barrels will solve the problem.
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@johnslugger To bad you have to hire your slaves instead of working them to death for free like in the past. Why don't you just raise your wage rate? Can't make a profit? Well to bad? Where does it say a boss is guaranteed a profit?
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It appears that the book is just an academic thesis that is out of print with digital copies available.
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You have no say in how you tax money is spent unless you part of the one percent who pay voluntary taxes anyway.
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@davidvalensi8616 She looks brave alright standing their with an AR-15 in front of a flag. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Chairmen Mao. What did you say she knew about Mao?
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The original ally of Islamic terrorism was the Regan admiration which sold missiles to the Islamic Republic to arm the Contras in the US war against the workers and farmers of Nicaragua. The US government has never had a problem arming the cruelest of dictators if American foreign investors interests are threatened.
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@skylinefever What is needed is solidarity among all workers not more immigration police. No to deportations a jobs for all program building things working people need.
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@barbarza No it doesn't explain anything just talks a bunch of technological nonsense talk meant to confuse everything. The explanation of a sphere rotating on its axis tilted with respect to the plane of the orbit around the sun another sphere is the only shape that results in all the correct geometric measurements. Airplanes flying around the earth just like airplanes in the northern hemisphere can do so in less time then airplanes flying around the earth from cities on the equator.
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Those who killed Amud Abrey were just sentenced.
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How about the license plate that says "THE EMPIRE STATE" Where was the concern when WW1 was grinding up soldiers all so the Imperialist Nations could steal each other colonies? POL POT right the guy who the US/UK in the human rights Carter Regime kept him in his UN Seat and supported him demanding the Socialist Vietnam withdraw and not overthrow him.
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@charlesstevensEnki I think the court should order the "secret evidence" unusable unless it is declassified so we can all see what was involved.
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@eduardorodriguez1484 Nuclear documents? Like even North Korea can build a nuclear weapon. I think we have aright to know about things like why all the former nuclear weapons treaties that ended the cold war have been tossed out the window and the endless war strategy of the Pentagon. Human Intel services? Like the ones where the spy agencies create their own incidents to justify military attacks on foreign powers for the benefit of US Investors? How many informers did the FBI have in organizations at the Jan 6th events and what role did they play?
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@couragekarnga8735 It first appeared that the court had recognized abortion as a right. It was never secured because the ERA was defeated and the hyde amendment was passed. So it is now once again an issue up for debate since the Democratic Party liberals refused to do what they had previously promised. It is clearly a task that is in the interests of the working class and part of the general fight against capitalist decline and the assault on our rights as workers and our living standards.
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@yvanlachance8269 The easy course for the justices is to let Trump be thrown under the Bus for "mistakes." But to do so they undermine their own independence as an institution and its not necessarily clear that the Democrats will be satisfied with a ruling giving the executive more power in a case involving a defeated rival. Special Masters have been used in past cases where the government has made national security claims so their is no reason to believe them must rule against Trump.
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@pamjones8007 The government appealed the District court ruling to the 11th Circuit successfully that is why Trump can now appeal the issue to the Supreme court. What happens now is up to the Court.
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@pamjones8007 They decide WHAT a constitutional issue is not YOU!! This involves FEDERAL not state law. So original jurisdiction belongs to the US Supreme Court NOT a State Supreme Court they ultimately deiced ALL federal appeals including simple procedural ones. "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish ....The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States,and..."
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@jonathantaylor6926 The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amendments. No Congressional strike breaking. No using politicians to protect Rial Boss record profits.
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Its just like everything else they seek to pay the lowest wage for the greatest amount of work to ensure the greatest profit. You will notice that they never talk about how profitable these farms are for their owners. Why not put all those dividend "earners" and stockholders to work? Take away their profits and make them work.
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@JamesMaximum When you abolish private property then you've gone down the socialist road other wise you've just won a reform from the capitalist bosses. Private Property is the property used to exploit others rather than out right slavery the bosses become the owners of everything giving orders based upon maximizing profits for themselves. The profits come from the unpaid labor of the production workers. Its this privatization of the socially produced surplus that has such contradictory implications for production itself. Capitalism is the first system to suffer from crisis of overproduction. It also creates greedy ruling classes based in nation states who take the fight for profits onto the battlefield of world war. Markets create nothing other than to provide a place for exchange and state to arbitrate disputes among those who exchange either labor or commodities. The workers exchange their labor for a wage that must pay the cost to reproduce it for the next pay period while the bosses seek the longest hours and to pay he lowest wages such that the can sell the commodities produced for a profit. By replacing individual labor with machines and social labor the capitalist have enable a vastly superior way to produce over all past methods. All the old handicraft methods were put on trial by the cost of labor the wiiners were the loom, the steam engine and the modern factory methods.
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@JamesMaximum If markets or property could produce something useful a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Capitalist produce nothing. Since capital itself is insufficient. You put a pile of dollars in a bank vault for one hundred years come back and open it up and see the same pile. Wall Street consist of traders engaged in speculation hoping to beat the other guy in a game of musical chairs.. Stalin was a bureaucrat who was unable to think abstractly. Lenin was the first to call for his removal. Then Trotsky tried. Fidel Castro lead the Cuban revolution. Before the revolution peasants children had swollen bellies and many people had never seen a Doctor in their lives. Today Cuba has the highest percentage of Doctors in the world of any country. No one in Cuba has starved since the revolution despite US attempts to use its blockade of the country to force an overthrow of governmnet. Get rid f your cruel blockade Commissar of Naval and Military Affairs Leon Trotsky defeated the white counter revolution and 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. First ou went to War for Democracy allied with the CZAR. Then when the Bolsheviks did as promised and signed a seperate peace with Germany after the Armistice your then invaded the Soviet Union.
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@xx_jason_blaze_it_xxy1837 The profit goes to the company owners NOT the workers. The owners choose the management (the management doesn't chose the owners) to maximize profit. You don't need incentive's beyond the level of a skilled worker . You push back on labor privileged with education. Fidel Castro never had a problem with creating enough educated people. Nor did he have a problem with finding volunteers for international missions. Capitalism fails when it comes to education and health care because the capitalist view them as overhead expense and therefore to be minimized. As a small ruling class the capitalist seek to monopolize education and all culture for themselves. If you believe man is nothing more than an animal who needs a carrot in front of his head and an occasional sting of the lash you will never become a socialist or a communist. Once the working people recognize their own worth and act in their own class interest the bosses profit system is cooked. In order to drive profits their way the bosses must continually cut labor time with new machines they replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines first. This has the effect of raising capital value but cutting our labor which is the source of te profit such that the profit rate as the prices inevitably sink towards the cost of production must fall. The world doe not have infinite markets whlong with the falling rate of profit means capitalism must come to an end if profit is how you judge the need to produce. Once the industrial workers in an advanced capitalist nation gain control we will kill the market system with overproduction. .
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@goldierule1350 You need electricity to weld. Texas doesn't have any right now.
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@skylark9982 The US Constitution has no previsions for recall. So it can only possible apply to state government without constitutional amendment.
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I'm sure he was very reassuring to your American capitalist political and cultural identity. Mommy will tuck you in bed now and sleep tight because your national guard has one eye open.
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He is just someone they let into "the club" the problem is that neither party can do anything but act in the interests of wealthy Investors Empire. I've heard his economic ideas and the problem as he sees it that profitability is offshore and somehow it must be brought back. That has about a snowballs chance in hell of being possible without another world war. Why because profits always go to the bosses best able to exploit their market position against each other and labor.
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Ya well you may be lining up for food or see big rise in prices any time now.
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No he doesn't because he fails to say that a higher minimum wage means a shift in production away from luxury goods towards things workers need as a social class. People like him will pay higher prices for Lincoln Continentals and advertising budgets will get cut as waste as will talking heads like Strossel himself. His investments will yield lower rates as capitalism is unable to halt declining profit rates in industrial production. .
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Its a ruling by State Jueges on a Federal Question where they lack any original judicial power. No different than Abbott trying to gain power over immigration, naturalization and foreign policy with his states immigration law.
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@anna-tn8mg Typical BOSS sees every act against capitalist orthodoxy as Treason.
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Kim Jong Un doesn't have a lot of Nukes to waste so I'll bet if does uses them it will be on carrier groups and large bases first Guam, Subic Bay, Okinawa and Pearl Harbor. By China telling Kim they will not support a first strike they have told the US by default that they won't support a first strike by the US either. No doubt that another crisis is on its way and the media will start covering that and since they have choose that path it's unlikely Korea will be attacked for the time being.
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@OJB42 If economics were just trade offs we still be living like people 2000's years ago or when our species became the dominant human species. It precisely because we create culture after satisfying our animalistic needs though the use of social labor and began a process of creating a surplus for times when food was scarce for hunter gatherers that we began agriculture after which trade developed. Today you live in a world economy not a national or local one. Five hundred years ago the people of Europe had no knowledge of those who lived in North and South America and they had no Knowledge of the People of Europe Asia or Africa. The people of Australia were sitting on some of the richest deposits of iron in the world yet knew nothing about making iron tools.
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@OJB42 Sowell gets interview by one of the faithful and he just so into his attacks on enemies that the guy says of course we don't have needs and he doesn't even catch that. Yet all they talk about is how bright Sowell is. I guess Sowell the great economist never realised that people have needs. To busy defending his wealthy friends from any kind of criticism. .
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@OJB42 Yes you should since the picture represents the workers and farmers government of Lenin and Trotsky.
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@Limpass610 The point is this Sowell is a neoliberal and all his thinking is based upon Capitalism and Markets reflecting accumulated "intelligence" and they deny Marx's conclusions and theories laid out in Das Kapital that capitalism goes into crisis because of the natural way in which it develops. That capital must become more and more concentrated into fewer and fewer hands with the disciple more and more petty and tyrannical. Capitalism in fact creates great surplus value yet the surplus ends up being used to advance the interests of profits which is NOT synonymous with this neoliberal happy meal theory of capitalism that people like Sowell promote.
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@Limpass610 Because their are solutions that are being created by the ability to create surplus value. If there were no solutions only trade offs we would be still living like our nearest relatives the Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Orangutans. His book Basic Economics is little more than a bedtime story designed to assure the readers capitalism is working for their benefit except when evil governments or bosses not realising the long term folly get involved making decisions better left up to a mythical free market capitalism.
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@OJB42 You assuming capitalism arose though compromise and not bloody revolution. English history is one of civil war and execution of a monarch before the English merchants could impose the will of parliament over the King. Even then the still living of the 59 Commissionaires of the House of Commons who voted for the execution of King Charles had to go into exile or face either execution or life imprisonment. Some went to the New Haven colony. When England was a Republic it was called the English Commonwealth. The American revolutionary merchants would not make the same mistake as the English which was to have a King who could not be removed except by a civil war.
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@OJB42 More people were probably injured making the movie"Ten days that shook the World" than actually October Revolution. Maybe you should actually know something about history before you start shooting your mouth off. The problem with some one like Sowell being a critic of Stalin is Churchill and FDR sitting right next to him in pictures. Not to mention the war time propaganda movie "Why we Fight." That was shown in Movie theaters before TV.
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@OJB42 Lenin wanted Stalin out of his post as General Secretary just before his death in 1924. Trotsky then also began a faction fight would result in 1928 split of the Russian Party and the Communist International. Stalin was the murderer of Lenin Party not the continuator. All the old Bolsheviks except Lenin who died in 1924 and Stalin were framed up and Murdered in the 1936 to 38 Moscow tralis. Trotsky would be assassinated in Mexico City in his last exile by a Spanish Stalinist NKVD agent. Thousands of loyal Communists in the Soviet Union. hundreds in Spain and others world wide would be murdered by agents of the NKVD.
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@OJB42 Once again from the manifesto: The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer. They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism. When the Cuban Revolution occurred. An almost completely new leadership developed with the ideas of Communism that rejected those of Stalin, Mao and the second international. The leaders of the revolution for national independence came in conflict with Imperialism and their own capitalist class of collaborators and end up taking it on the path described in the manifesto, by Trotsky in the permanent revolution and Lenin in the April Theses. The Cuban's did not make the mistakes of Stalin and Mao. No forced collectivization or need to engage in purges of scapegoats for bureaucratic policies. Fidel spoke about how the Soviets never properly dealt with the injustices of the Stalin Era and how lucky they were not to have to rely on an ally 10,000 km away to defend themselves from an invasion. That they had to rely on their own strength and were able to prevent their party and cadre from becoming disconnected from the masses by privileges. Fidel and Che always saw and made internationalism part of the revolution and not something one talks about on the May day holiday as future goal. Is Cuba some kind of utopia? No but to say they have failed considering what they have accomplished in 60 years 20 without Soviet help and despite the blockade would be a sign of ignorance of what has been going on in not just the United States but the world as a whole. . .
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@davidm1149 If the ruling class though Sowell was so smart they'd have made him head of the Federal Reserve bank or given him a post with some actual power instead of merely part of the stable of bourgeois university professor and professional "think tank" fellows producing propaganda for capitalism.
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@AK-vx4dy In 1953 Stalin died. The Rosenbergs were executed. Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada barracks. The workers in the East Germany went on strike.
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Утюжить Украину — ломать влияние США! This is just another sign that the Democratic Imperialist did not win the cold war. That Bushes "New World Order" is rapidly become the New World Disorder" of world capitalism.
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Guy Fawkes-Day They gave the wrong title to the video. It should have been how Larry Elder's made good after the destruction of Jim Crow racism. Anyone remember who the Republicans put up for President in 1964? Conservative Barry Goldwater. The same Barry Goldwater who would vote against the 1964 civil rights act. Goldwater joined with the Dixiecrats hiding behind constitutional issues like states rights. Mr. Goldwater according to conservatives the Supreme court decides constitutional issues not Congress.
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@TheEcono Fascism never wins though its ideas rather it wins only though fascist violence. The bourgeois only turns towards fascism during a revolutionary situation when the workers fail to defend themselves from the growing fascist menace to the revolution. Fascist will be seen in BOTH capitalist parties not just the Republican's. That is an independent party of the working class based in the trade unions must be built. The long retreat by labor has ended. The fascist look to the white collar workers, the long term unemployed and small businessman ruined by big capital as the base for their movement. The workers movement must protest every fascist action and defend itself against the physical attacks that the fascist will inevitable carry out and political space to defend ideas must be held open. No confidence can be placed in the capitalists Democrat or Republican Parties.
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@joecombs7468 We have no social democratic illusions that we can use the capitalist government to take from you. On the contrary its is the trade union that is the elementary organ of struggle for the working class. From there the workers learn politics and can enter the political arena with a labor party. Class struggle is the motor of history and the road to socialism as fist pointed to by Marx and all the great revolutionaries since. Capitalism like slavery before it is a system of class oppression and the source of the profit and surplus value is our labor and your own accounting books prove that to be true.
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@joecombs7468 "I spent most of my 20s & 30s in other countries and when I was in my 20s I spent that decade on the front lines in the fight against communism." In Vietnam under the shower of Agent Orange?
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@joecombs7468 Do i need to play 20 questions?
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@kaliyuga14surfer88 Something like Che Guevara who told the drunken Bolivian Army Sargent Shoot Coward you only going to kill a man. Or the Rosenberg's who refused to give up names or confess before their execution.
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@alantse7464 In Cuba they are building a society based on human solidarity. In the US they are building a society where even a Billionaire can be President.
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@kainable8769 So you would be against air pollution by private industry?
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@hamilton7798 CRT is anti materialist and idealist in nature. It claims that ideas came fist and determine material rather than material determining ideas. Racism developed as an ideological justification for Black Plantation slavery that was grafted on to the new capitalist system in the US. It is not inherit in the white race. The first big blow came with the civil war that destroyed slavery in the US. This war produced Reconstruction governments that acted in the interests of all the toilers building the fist public schools and hospitals in the south. The old land owners saw this threat to their continued rule along with the capitalist government in Washington who abandoned the new freeman to the racist terror of the KKK and Red shirt gangs. The next big blow struck at both racism and the ideology came with the Black Rights movement of the 1950s to 1970's which destroyed Jim Crow segregation. Capitalism seeking to maximize profits always needs a divided working class to shore up declining profit rates.
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@LNVACVAC Why acuse us for what capitalism made possible in the first place. How about I accuse you of a crime you didn't commit? If we wanted "To set the world on fire." we would say so and be good at it. Unlike your lying two capitalist party hypocrites. Who say one thing while doing another.
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@LNVACVAC Ya like the ones created by the CCP which you idolize. Please explain how Jeff Bezo's made himself a billionaire and why he deserves even moire? What make you think its your enterprise and not mine? Hard to explain of course you can claim the big bad CCP is responsible for all the world problems. I saw the video you made. What is it this week is the CCP the big bad bogey man or the savior of humanity? How much were you paid for that propaganda film?
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@TIPSFIN Sounds to me you believe the Black Wash lies and the Hymm's to Bourgeois Democracy by privileged Black Bourgeois Professors who have a hard life sitting in those ruling class funded Professor's chairs writin' those Bourgeois Law books. Telling every one the story of what a hard lie his grandfather had and how he believes in America's founded on ideas and not an economic system. That some how whites are inherently racist and bougois justice is the highest level man can achieve because capitalist is just good because we eat pre sliced bread now.
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@republitarian484 Agree with Patton about what exactly?
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@republitarian484 Capitalism is based in nation states its not possible to arbitrate trade disputes amongst the capitalist powers to avoid Imperialist war. Each nations capitalist class in the end is much to greedy to do that. Of all the capitalist powers America was the most revolutionary in that it got rid of its feudalist past in two revolutions. Yet it outright refused any role in the league of nations, the end of world war two left it as the major industrial nation untouched by the destructive powers of capitalism. The best chance to create a world capitalism was squandered when Bush disregarded Nixon/Kissinger's advice to rebuild Russia with marshall plan y=type loans and bring Russia into NATO. So today you have not a New World Order but instead a New World Disorder. US Imperialist military power is no longer a decisive factor in any conflict and all the Imperialist powers of Europe are beginning to realize that.
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@testboga5991 CRT as described by the speaker is bourgeois professors seeking power and privilege for themselves.
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He was wrong from the very beginning when he was drinking the Republican ultra right Kool Aid nonsense of Senator Joe McCarthy that the US Government was being taken over by Communist. Not until he was hired by the US Labor Dept did he realise that was false. So this fool went to about 12 years of school served in the US Army, worked a few jobs including civil service and had 4 years of undergraduate school along with abut 2 years of graduate school before he realize Ultra Right Republican Senator McCarthy was a liar.
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@tenningale That's completely untrue. The workers are hit with all kinds of direct taxes from sales, state and local income, gas, utility, property, and social security. After all the current social security costs are paid the rest goes into the general fund to be spent as the government see's fit marked as paid by "the social security trust fund." It is nothing more than a slight of hand to make the workers pay additional costs beyond what the social security act funds with the payroll tax collected.
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@tenningale When federal tax cuts are enacted costs are then transferred to the states enabling "states rights" to plead poverty. All kinds of new state taxes have been added or increased. These state taxes are almost always regressive meaning they affect the workers more than the upper classes.
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@tenningale Why should I go to Cuba when I can bring the Cuban revolution here? The subject is tax cuts. My contentions is that cuts in the federal income taxes result in more state and local taxes and cuts in social services. Workers in private industry pay a private tax called profit. Those on state pensions are asked to take cuts while state bondholders are not asked for a cut in dividend payments. Workers were never supposed to pay any federal income tax to begin with. Roosevelt needed money for his War Deal plan and workers wages were attacked by lowering the exemption.
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@tenningale Since the life expectancy in the US declining I don't see things as getting better. We are promised at work that things are getting better just as we are promised by the two politicians that things are getting better. The reality of the world is we do all the making and the bosses do all the taking.
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@tenningale Yes the pie isn't fixed buts been growing and those at the top are getting the growth while everyone else's is on the same size as the past fixed pie of 1973 or worse.
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@tenningale Uber is just a new way to extract more value from workers, using contractor status to hide its paying subminimum wages and putting auto purchase, repair, gas, insurance, and telecom costs on the driver.
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@tenningale Quantitative Easing? Ya I'd like to be able to turn in bad toilet paper for Benjamin Franklin's picture printed on paper made of cotton and linen.
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@tenningale "...these jobs go to workers who can do it more cheaply. " Naturally bosses like you want cheaper labor to raise the slumping returns on industrial investment.
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@tenningale "...Formerly you made money through your labor..." Now you want to make us into industrial slaves like Hitler in Germany while you make money though our labor. Tell me something how to you plan to sell your products at a profit with no workers who can buy your cheap commodities?
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@tenningale "...It leads to better living standards as a whole,.." Is that why life expectancy in the US has been declining?
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@tenningale If I had to choose between Youtube and a longer life expectancy I'd choose to live. I don't get that choice though do I. Plus i'm sick of hearing about all the meaningless choices capitalism provides. A business must create profits not value. Example what's the value of nuclear submarine built by General Dynamics compared to a road, medical care or even a private cellphone tower? How about public transportation it creates value but not profits.
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@tenningale Like I said building a nuclear sub produces no value. It lacks any use except to threaten other countries and leaders that the American Capitalists don't like. Building roads and cell towers provides value for more economic activity transportation and communication to connect with production. The telecom companies only want to build out there neworks to the point where they calculate no additional profits can be made. This is why rural areas are left out of high speed internet and cell service. Without government intervention that won't change.
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@tenningale During the cold war each side claimed the other needed to defend itself from the othersides economy. So why keep building them? The government could buy other things like medical equipment and distribute it free of change to other countries as good will and still keep people at work. Instead everything is about controlling what other counties do and oil. If they don't follow the dictates of the IMF and World Bank than they have the US Marines for twisting your arm.
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BIG TECH wants to take free speech and we don't need BLOOMBERG PARTY. Tyranny is when bosses control both the wage and price. UNION YES!
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Capitalism and private property become obstacles to the productive forces. This is because education and healthcare don't produce profits. They are considered to be overhead costs to be minimized in the interest of profit rates.
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@toomanyhobbies2011 Private education is for the bosses of capitalism only. The mass public education under capitalism is meant to create another generation of low wage workers and soldiers to defend the bankers and bosses of American Imperialism.
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This is really nothing new but the typical liberals are soft on the bad guys approach. Sowell sits at the top of an elite University think tank Stanford University Heritage foundation from which he pronounces judgement.
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@nox5555 Capitalism working for the few while leaving the working majority behind. Investors and government officials grabbing and stealing everything possible. Free markets becoming empty markets.
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Wall Street crooks would like to get their hands on it instead.
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Why should the Chinese working people give in to the British Imperialist? The British Empire has been in decline for a long time now followed by the American Imperialists. You built factories and created a working class in China. Now you think you can just take it all back? That is just how stupid the capitalist are. They think everything depends on them and their money and markets. They forget that they destroyed the slave market when it got in the way of wage labor and capital. Now the proletariat will destroy the capital market because capitalism with its crisis gets in the way of world trade and production.
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@leapdrive Examples of Democracy like in the US where bosses buy the politicians of both Parties to defend the assets of Wall Street profiteers. Why would they want a system that creates a do nothing boss class hell bent on profit maximization. Why would they need a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Like every other working class they want way to make life better for themselves and their posterity not some fake promises of wealth created by money growing in a bank.
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@209Richsta A markets purpose is exchange it does not produce wealth in and of itself. That's right it is the greed of the ruling classes that drove world war one in alliances made to take each others colonies. "Why not use all our military power to deliver one crushing blow?" You may be a world wide Empire but world war three has never been fought because the Generals have never been able to convince the leadership that Nuclear war is winnable. People like me don't give a shit about your profits and your Investors Empire. You've made you bed and now your going to have to sleep in it.
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@209Richsta I never paid much attention to them because they are just a group of German professors. Where as the Socialist Workers Party had people who collaborated with Trotsky lead the Minneapolis General Strike, worked with Malcolm X and traveled to Cuba. Many in the "New Left" thought the could wipe the slate clean and just ignore all the differences from the past as if the same issues wouldn't re-arise in another form. In the end large numbers ended up in the Capitalist Democratic Party which is where the Stalinist and Social Democrats ended up after the 1940's. We call that Popular Frontism after the 1930's Popular Fronts Against Fascism that went down to defeat by the fascist forces in Spain Italy and France.
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@dwwolf4636 His is a new capitalist regime defending a new Chinese capitalism that seeks to gain markets and infulence world wide no different than Europe under the governments of the Social Democrats.
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@lsporter88 Capitalism with the drive to pay the lowest wages is what has destroyed the traditional family nor can not turn back the clock of history.
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@vg7985 Ya its always just accept the bosses latest greatest offer of give us more work with less workers because we need to make bigger profits to pay for campaign donations and wall street speculators. Too bad about the skin flint business owner who is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. They wanted to play the game now they can pay for the bankers greed.
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@aycc-nbh7289 A strike will stop the flow of profits into the bosses pocket books.
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@aycc-nbh7289 Its a class vs class thing. If the workers want to strike I'm behind them 100%. The Bosses like Warren Buffet are hiding behind bought and sold politicians of both parties in Congress. The railroads need to hire more workers and cut Bosses like Buffets pay. All Bosses like Buffet do is grab more for themselves.
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@aycc-nbh7289 We will cross that bridge when we come to it. Don't bring up the irrelevant as a defense to the unjust. If the bosses want to cry poverty than they can open their books to union inspection. The bosses are the ones who are getting something for nothing.
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@aycc-nbh7289 Hitlers plans to create an Empire were published in Mein Kampf. Its more likely that other workers will take strike action against the bosses who have been making record profits. If the bosses want to keep their system than they need to put people to work and stop acting like a bunch of cry babies. They are becoming too expensive for the rest of us.
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@aycc-nbh7289 The bosses have been making record profits and laying off thousands. They want to keep cutting crew sizes and lengthing trains. They want to ignore safety for bigger profits. They need to stop hiding behind the Congressmen who seats the buy with donations to both parties. Railroad bosses are know for telling the government what they want and getting their way despite which party is in office. .
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@aycc-nbh7289 At worst people will have to boil or treat water with bleach. Your exaggerating the whole thing. I can guarantee you this that if the capitalist are left in control of things than everything can only get worse. If the workers want to try protesting first that's fine but they've been already doing that. It's their whole worldwide system of trade and production that has been in an unprecedented crisis since 2008.
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Why don't you build a wall about that mansion you live in that gated neighborhood? Don't expect me to pay for it either.
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@SlaveNation1 Yes the lottery has a ticket with a multi billion dollar prize but you must "play to win".
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Abortion needs to be recognized as a women's right to plan her life and control her body.
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@Polit_Burro That is the history of the capitalist class organize into a nation state centralize power and then become hostile to every other capitalist class in the battle of the world market. Only by the working class taking state power and organizing all production and trade based upon human need can world three be prevented from going nuclear.
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@julianhermanubis6800 Small business needs capital since the lock down who do you think wants to take that risk? I have a 700 + credit score and I couldn't get an auto loan before the pandemic from Bank of America or at a community bank. I'm glad I don't need a new vehicle now.
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Of course with the bosses running things the family is broken by the drive to make the biggest profits. The work us at the fastest pace, for the longest hours at a pay just enough just enough to get us back to work for the next pa period. Their profits come from our unpaid labor. This is wh the BNSF is called the Better Not Start a Family railroad. Candice Owens got a big paday by suing a racist Democrat as a young person.
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@wonderlost2023 You still haven't realised that the capitalist lost the cold war because they were unable to turn it hot despite all of the provocations and military spending. Only the corput Stalinist leaders lead the final exit to neoliberalism. The workers in the East still belong to trade unions stand in the way of a return to the capitalism of Adam Smith or Adolf Hitler. .
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@RobinMcBeth Le Duc Tho of Vietnam refused to accept his with Henry Kissinger.
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This is standard operating procedure for the profit hungry Rail Bosses and their federal government stooges from both parties. Had this occurred outside a big city instead of a small town we would be counting bodies instead of pallets of donated water and cleaning supplies. For the Rail Bosses running two mile long trains with no caboose, maintenance cut to the bone and hazardous materials is just the cheapest way of transporting material on tracks near your home.
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When the US gov't talks Human Rights I know that's hypocrisy sounding. It became important after Vietnam when American Imperialism needed to 'spruce up the joint'. The height of the 2nd witch hunt was about 1952 with the Rosenberg trial and executions. The next battle for free speech, free association and freedom from endless investigations by government agencies and disruptions began about than. The legless veteran got his job at the VA back, an end to Smith act prosecutions, free speech at Berkeley. It took about fifteen years but HUAC closed down, Conitelpro was exposed and shut down, the Attorney generals list was dropped. These achievements were made by mostly ordinary people fighting back against government intrusions, and injustice not form the US military in Korea and Vietnam.
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"...our position..." no you mean "your position" don't include me with you and I hardly think you represent everyone in China and Russia either.
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"...killing the men who stole the secrets of the atom bomb was bad thing..." Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and executed for 'stealing the secrets of the Nuclear Bomb' by the US government. It isn't really clear what information was passed or if it did or didn't help the Soviets construct a 'bomb' but Soviet construction of the 'bomb' and mutually assured destruction played a major role in keeping the 'cold war' no more than lukewarm.
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The Syngman Rhee and General Park being democratically elected leaders? You got to be kidding. The French may have invented the word Coup d'etat but they South Koreans made it into a new way of government. They've only had six republics since 1948. Now if the Soviets didn't have nuclear weapons the US would have been much more likely to use them against China with MacArthur having a freer hand. US General Curtis Le May wanted to launch a full scale nuclear war with the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe over Cuba. Would Kennedy have done it if it weren't for mutually assured destruction? The Castro brothers and Che were not under some mythical orders from the Kremlin to organize a revolution in Cuba. Kennedy would later say those who make non violent revolution impossible make violent revolution possible. He mine as well convicted himself, Eisenhower and Truman for the Cuban Revolution. Historically before the Chinese Revolution the only thing Stalin provided was a lot of bad advice. You seem to think China and other people had no reasons to push out foreign imperialism as if they were getting some good deal out of the whole thing?
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The US government was very frightened by the Soviet Union especially after the Soviets put an artificial satellite in orbit. The put millions into science and engineering education during those cold war years.
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Yes the US got a lot of NAZI scientists and Vernier von Braun who made US rocket and space science possible. The US Congress passed the National Defense Education Act to increase the number of engineering and science university grads in response to a perceived science and engineering education gap with the Soviet Union.
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The US Imperialist started the war when US Troops arrived in Korea and took over from the Imperialist Japanese war criminals in 1945. Once reaching the headquarters of the Japanese Imperialist War criminals in Korea they announced a new General Order Japanese would no longer be the official language of Korea it was to be replaced by English. The new ruler would be US Army General MacArthur. Germany was the leader of the WW2 losing side. The Imperialist Japanese war criminals had occupied Korea and the US Imperialists wanted Korea for themselves. They talk of the greatness and wealth of the puppet state but they refuse to leave their military bases in the puppet state because it would collapse without them. Korea belongs to Koreans not the US Imperialist War criminals.
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The reason China didn't go very far with its Navy a half a Millennium ago was because unlike the English it did not build a factory system and use coal as the new slave. Under the older feudal system the slave had to be beaten and prevented from running away. Today the slave comes to work voluntarily seeking his pay at the end of the week while the master become richer beyond belief. If the slave becomes unmanageable the master finds more outside his door. No need to go to a slave market to buy labor of unknown quality. When your new slaves can be paid after they perform.
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If US didn't enter WW2 it's not clear exactly what would have happened. It might have taken Mao longer to defeat the Japanese and once that happened Kim il Sung and Ho chi Minh would un doubtedly been able to defeat the Japanese in Korea and Vietnam. Would the Soviet Union been able to defeat Hitler without the US Lend Lease program? If the answer was yes then the Red Army could have marched all the way across Germany. France, Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia had partisan fighters tied to the local communist parties who would have certainly taken power. I doubt that the British could have held out without US supplies and Germany would have certainly attacked US shipping to England. If Eisenhower had not launched D day when he did the Soviets could have taken all of Germany as they were the first ones to enter Berlin. If the Soviets lost then Hitler would have had all of Europe under his control for a number of years. A peace treaty would have been signed with Hitler because it is unlikely either side could invade either Europe or America at that point only a naval war could continue.
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Xu Alex I would count my chickens before they hatch. China has undergone a migration unheard of in human history. A huge working class created out of poor peasants exposed to marxism may not take kindly to corruption among the party elite and a Chinese stock market.
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The Soviet Union with its planned economy did not have the need to expand the way a capitalist economy does. They only declared war on Japan because of an agreement with Roosevelt to do so after the defeat of Germany. One should avoid to many if this than that arguments. Stalin as the representative of conservative bureaucrats and their theory of Socialism in one country mentality was destined to create problems with different states having revolutions without Stalin's permission. Officially the split with China was over Mao accusing Nikita Khrushchev of being a revisionist for Khrushchev's secret speech to the 20th Party Congress exposing and condemning the excesses of Stalin. Khrushchev criticized Stalin for imprisoning and executing loyal communists including the followers of Trotsky. Stalin's refusal to believe reports that NAZI Germany was launching an assault of the Soviet Union despite his non aggression pact. Stalin's interference in organizing an effective defense of the Soviet Union. Unofficially Mao probable felt he wasn't getting enough cooperation from the Soviet Union and decided to blame Khrushchev for that saying his revisionism made the Soviet Union a capitalist country.
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The roots of WW2 lie in the required reparations to be paid by Germany after WW1. Germany spent most of the post WW1 years in economic crisis with more than one failed socialist revolutions. Hitler rose to power while the idiot in Moscow prepared for his murderous purges and frame up trials. The largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union went down to defeat without so much as a punch being thrown. Going to far with if this than that in history starts requiring too many assumptions. The US was already providing England with non military resources and Roosevelt had secretly sent troops to help the British Empire in the far east with Japan and had imposed an oil embargo on Japan. Once the war in Europe began it was only a matter of time before the US would enter on Britain's side. The reason for waiting is that obviously by waiting you let the other sides bleed each other out and then swoop in for the sweets of war.
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Trump should deploy THAAD in the backyard of the White House.
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Why should the Chinese take orders from Washington. Oh that's right the US has a lot of power in their military. That's why they do so well against against all these terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Well if you back to the post WW2 era American Politicians were pointing fingers at each other for losing China. Well who did they lose it to? Oh I'm sure the US ambassador would have done much better job running China and saving those dozens of millions. Just like he did in Cuba by having Batista take over. It only cost 20,000 lives to get rid of Batista but people like you pine away for the 3,000 of the dictators best eye gougers, torturers, and bandits. Starting with the 1898 Spanish American war the purpose of the US military in foreign wars has been to win them for American Capital. In other words foreign investment and known outside of polite and gentile political correctness as US Imperialism. Harry Truman by engaging in the Korean Police Action made the US the gendarme of the world. The anti Imperialist league of 1898 which include Mark Twain predicted the end of the a Democratic Republic because of this policy. So today you see a Congress owned lock stock and barrel by campaign contributors. A presidential run by a man of wealth who wants to be a man of the people and Make America Great Again. Can he do it? Of course not because even if had good policies Congress would refuse to pass them.
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Every High School student in Massachusetts and most likely the rest of the country is required to take a year of US history. In this years time almost the whole year is contained in pre 20th century history. The last thing they usually talk about is the Spanish American war in which the present the war as one of liberating Spanish colonies. That of course was the beginning of the American Empire and anything said afterwords can quickly become controversial.
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@Tab See his interview with Ben Shapiro. The Freedom Dividend is meant to save money on benefits. Why does he call it a dividend? To fool you into believing dividends are good for you of course despite his claim it's meant to fool the rich into believing it's not a welfare benefit. His "Human Capitalism" like the "Crony Capitalism" It just his version of the rotting system of Capitalism that he wishes to save to satisfy his own greed. Make him president so he can sell influence like Bill Clinton after leaving office.
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@Tab If I was worried about "Stigma" I wouldn't have a hammer and cycle for my avatar. The middle class is worried about "stigma" because they like you are easily frightened by capitalists politicians. Nor are we interested in a better tasting "cough syrup" for getting us to swallow automation.
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@Zennofobic So because 116,000 people wanted to play the Yang lottery that means he should be the next president?
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@Tab One key difference between liberals, conservatives and communist like me is we use correct terms as much as possible instead of seeking to turn everything into a game of political correctness nor are we afraid of the Koch brothers or sucking up to George Soros.
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@Zennofobic Trump became President because he won the electoral college vote. Was Hillary Clinton going to save Humanity if she was elected? Somehow I don't remember her saying that. Will the next Democratic nominee campaign on a platform of saving Humanity?
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@Zennofobic Yang is another "Continue" statement in an old FORTRAN 77 computer program.
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Something like Sowell himself making a career out of attacking everyone and everything as the fault of Karl Marx.
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CIA and Ronald Reagan was supporting South Africa and Unita in the Angolan civil war. The Defeat of South Africa by the ex Sugar Cane slaves of Fidel Castro's rebel Army drove a nail into Apartheids coffin and the myth of the invincible white man.
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@Dbo_Sports It alls like was about is trade offs and no solutions we'd still be living like our nearest ancestors the Chimpanzee, Bonobo and the Orangutan. The fact is that increases in the productivity of labor are what makes solutions possible. It began with farming and the domestication of wold animals and plants for human purposes. That we are both part of nature and have continually found news ways to use natural resources. The idea that economics is characterised by limited resources and not enough to go around is an idea developed by the ruling class to describe its own opulence and insatiable consumption. Whats become unsustainable is the ruling class with its demands that everything produce a profit for them despite the natural tendency of profit rates to decline.
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@asm7406 You live in a fantasy world because you can't deal with reality.
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Jew hatred will rise the most in the supporters of Sowell as capitalism enters its crisis. The middle class is most likely to blame their Jewish competition for their losses.
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He's one of the biggest bullshitters ever born.
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Trump is just a maverick billionary capitalist. Most of his ideas are no different that the liberal capitalist, He changed parties like socks. Queen Hilary was one of his friends before the election.
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Obviously the SEC sees them as a rogue operations that could threaten the system as a whole.
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De link registration and licensing from immigration law since government will never stop "illegal immigration." Otherwise your underinsured drivers insurance rate will be higher.
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@orvil9223 Connecticut will issue a driver's license, registration and you can buy insurance without proof of citizenship. Instead of a yellow star my license says not for federal identification.
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Do you know why socialism is now on the agenda? It was the 2008 crisis caused by capitalist greed. When 30% of the total world financial worth evaporates into thin air. What do you expect? All your talk of free markets went up in smoke when "to big to fail" became the new law of the land.
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@Thomasfboyle Doing things like launching a literacy campaign to teach the peasants to read so they can't be fooled. When the Batista Regime was defeated the first thing the US Gov't wanted to know was how will you pay your debts. At no time were they offered a dime in economic aid unlike all the arms sales and aid they had earlier provided Batista. The US was unhappy from the very beginning of the revolution since they weren't going to reuse the old military and police forces of the dictatorship Instead the made good on the promise that they would punish them for the crimes they had committed like outright murder torture and terrorism. Even so the majority of these old forces had surrendered not wanting to fight anymore and they were told to go home while they found new productive jobs for them.
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@jonathangullett3143 Nixon resigned because Senator Rockefeller told him he didn't have the votes in the Senate to survive impeachment. Trump survived two impeachment trials. How many times do you want to put him on trial?
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@jonathangullett3143 We were the first to show that the 1936 to 1938 Moscow Trials were frame up trials by Joe Stalin. We still publish "The Case of Leon Trotsky"."The Report of the Dewey commission." We put the FBI on trial in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General and got Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell held in contempt of Court.
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@jonathangullett3143 We as a movement split in 1928 with Trotsky leading the Left opposition to Stalin in the Soviet Union and the Communist International. "The Militant" reflects our Parties views.
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@NogGonnaMakeIt No only those with the theory of private profit system creating democracy. All the hoopla of a US victory in the Cold war died with the Bush administrations NATO charge into Afganastan and on the cross of the 2008. crisis Too Big to Fail and a New World Disorder best descube the direction capitalism is going.
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Other than Congressmen no one else was interested in fighting for the US Military dictatorship in Vietnam. Sure should have sent the ARVN more hardware they could then sell to for a profit to "Charlie."
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He admitted to being wrong on Afghanistan and these endless wars.
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@bplahn39 The intel spy agencies are more likely to create paper trails on command.
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@Neimfeltrite Their is exactly NO EVIDENCE of that. Instead all the evidence points in just the opposite direction that the masses hate their bosses and the system. That neoliberalism is no longer enough to hold the masses in check. The Establishment Hates Trump because he exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of the liberal establishment institutions.
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@indonesiaamerica7050 Actual America is the ripest country for communism since so much is already monopolized by big business the workers just need to take a lot of the businesses over and establish a government to defend themselves from the fascist gangsters the ruling class will enable in their last gasp at keeping their private property they use to exploit others. In any conflict with big business your property rights are secondary as it is now. A big company comes to town and dictates what it will pay in taxes and what property it wants to take. The politicians can't suck up those campaign contributions fast enough.
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@indonesiaamerica7050 Indonesia is a country the Western Imperialist including the US/UK saved from communism by enabling a murder machine called the Army killing a few million people as communist sympathizers. Most of what you write is nonsense not worth the time of day. All a government agency has to do is decide you property would provide an alleged economic benefit to the community to take your property in eminent domain. Anything from Pfizer Pharma in New London, CT to Space X in Boca Chica,Tx.
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@indonesiaamerica7050 Who knows maybe your family was paid handsomely for a role in the Indonesian genocide. It's a myth that America has social mobility. Just why would the upper class like to lose it inherited position? Each economic crisis shrinks the middle class by taking the little capital they have. The only reason we have more millionaires is due to the federal reserve printing money like water. Afterall if the banks got back all the money they lend out the economy would freeze up. So they have no choice but to keep feeding the habit called making a profit lending out more and expecting even more to return. Everyone knows it's unsustainable but no one has the slightest solution that would not impact profits in an extremely negative fashion.
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Orban was an opportunist building a career first upon the false promises of neoliberalism. The neoliberals victory over Stalinism was limited to the Stalinist Regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Its victory was in fact shorter than the rule of Stalin himself. Trump's attack upon neo liberal figures like Romney, Bush and Arizona war hero John McCain show him to be in opposition to the traditional neoliberalism. Trump's palace revolt has destroyed neo liberalism along with its fake democracy. The cry's of "Get Trump" by the never Trumpers, liberals, petti bourgeois left and neo liberals show their own political bankruptcy.
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@toshsani I'm against forced vax and forced motherhood. Children should be wanted not an accident or sent to an orphanage to be raised like cattle.
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@chamberofprogress5025 The abortion case should have been decided base up on a women's equal rights.
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CEO's closed the factories for bigger profits and lower wages nothing will change until we begin to use our union power to wage a fight back otherwise unemployment will work to lower wages and the best social program isn't a hand out its a job at union wages.
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@AT-os6nb Authoritarian means it is done by authority or in other words by law.. If you really want to get at the meaning it means done by author. In other words writing.
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That's just a Friedman idea meant to create chaos followed by a school system based upon the parents ability to pay. Just like his ideas that produced Shock Therapy in the old Soviet Union. He told Gorbachev to announce that everything could be put up for sale. Hand out vouchers and then announce school choice everyone chooses the best schools without enough seats and then fighting breaks out. Next they announce the solution is for parents to pay extra for the better schools and privatise school ownership for investors like everything else who now set prices to make profits. .
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@Beauloqs He made one of the most important discoveries for Republican and Democrats alike. The 1960 US Labor Dept. was not under Communist Control. I'm surprised he doesn't get a nobel prize for it.
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@Cohen.the.Worrier Capitalism has done more to undermine the traditional marriage and family than any ideology could possible achieve. .
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@GrantCoppin-Brown They won one election in 2006 against a corrupt Fateh. After which the waged a war against all political opposition. Their political origins go back to the Muslim brotherhood, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Adolf Hitler. Like Hitler's NAZI party they won support though the use of gangsterism. Their leaders are Billionaires who live in Qatar luxury. They steal UN aid and care nothing about the people they rule over breaking stikes and imposing heavy taxes. They openly state that the refugees are the UN's problem. The main goal is the extermination of all the Jews as Proficized in the Koran and establishment of a New World Muslim Caliphate as proficized. Defeat of 80 nations by a Muslim Army coming from the East carrying Black Flags. No doubt the jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran which is the backker of Hamas terrorism and seeks to acquire nuclear weapons. .
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What if you look at a series of numbers as computer code data transmitted to you computer.
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Always attacking the unions while billionaires blast off rockets at government expense.
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@chetsenior7253 Build a labor party based upon the unions. Put workers in office throw the bosses out of government.
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@shivanj1 Obviously Blake Stone is a cop who wants more power. He'd just shoot you, say your a drug dealer and keep all your property. Dead men tell no tales.
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Breaking up big business does nothing for the working class. If it is done it's usually because Wall Street wants the most profitable parts of a business separated from the less profitable parts. Look at the history of the Telecom companies if you want to see how that works. AT&T had the long distance monopoly and as a holding company owned most of the local exchange carriers. When it was broken up most of the local exchange carriers would go bankrupt before or after merging. While AT&T would profit from new technologies making long distance cheaper. Most of the cable companies were originally small operations in rural areas but as demand for HBO in the home grew the market went into the cities and mergers and buyouts would create large telcom giants like Comcast and Charter. Even the manufacturing of cable TV equipment went to Mexico just before the big buildout would take place.
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@stringtheoryguitars4952 The liberals promise to fix what can't be done and that's end capitalist exploitation. That's only a task the working class can accomplish not the bourgeois reformers.
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@alstclair The CEO is trained and steeped in the rotten values of capitalism backstabbing lying and treachery. You don't get to the top by being Mr. Nice Guy.
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@gc1172 They are all almost going under at one time or another. That's because costs, capital, labor and profits get distributed unevenly across the world's capitalist private property economy. The whole system is interdependent but private ownership sets up barriers from where profits can be extracted. UPS could not function with public roads or the rest of capitalist industry for gasoline, diesel, trucks, ect.
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@chevyvanngoghandfriends They have every right to go on strike and demand more of the profits which come from their labor.
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@chevyvanngoghandfriends I hope they win and the billionaires are handed a defeat.
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@wanghao6767 Poland wouldn't do it without getting permission from the American Imperialist first.
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No deficit spending tax the rich down to the level of their recklessness and gold chains and let them go get a job!!
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@leecarina577 Taiwan is China. No US ARMS to support the ROC OR PRC.
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@iamahumanbeing3149 Trump has no control over any of those things. None of his or Bidens policies can do anything about the general crisis of world capitalism.
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Inflation is caused by bosses raising prices. They can do that because they can add money with the federal reserve bank. Deportations will NOT produce jobs or raise wages. Gas prices are controlled by the Energy bosses. The drill for more oil only if they see profits ahead.
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@iamahumanbeing3149 That's been a Republican claim ever since the Gas crisis of 1979. Once they let the price of domestic oil rise then they did more drilling. The only reason they would have for being oil independent would be to be able to conduct foreign policy using oil as a weapon. They borrow money from the same people who should be paying taxes . What they spend the money on is what makes a difference. They aren't spending it on things working people need. Cheap overseas labor does NOT steal jobs. Bosses seeking bigger profits move to lower wage areas. Prices do not go down when they move production elsewhere profits go up. Labor time to produce goes down when new factories are built. Capitalism goes into crisis when investing in expanding productions only fills markets with more goods that can't be sold at a profit so them investment drives up the value of fictitious capital until that collapses producing an economic crisis. Bosses layoff to prevent losses and then a crisis begins because workers can't buy back what can be produced. That is a regular feature of capitalism that only gets worse. The only way out of the Great Depression was the destruction of World War 2 followed then by the floating of Marshall plan loans and the betrayal of the Social Democratic and Stalinist labor leaders along with cold war arms production.
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@johntheherbalistg8756 Like Milton Friedman you preach reform to the capitalist bosses who ignore your teachings for the goal of maximizing profits from private property. Bosses exercise vast monopoly power with industrial methods and economy of scale. An ever larger governmental power becomes necessary to oversee everything in the interest of making bigger profits for incumbents. Capitalism works against healthcare and education for the workers because those are overhead expenses for the bosses to ne minimized. Only that which can be produced with industial methods that replace higher piad skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines are considered worthy of investment for profits.
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@johntheherbalistg8756 Most US Gov't regulatory power comes from the power to regulate interstate commerce. It then can be assumed that the states can regulate intrastate commerce.
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Those ups and downs of the market are caused by the inevitable shifting of profits being reinvested from expanding production to driving up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses producing an economic crisis. Ford GM and Chrysler are all in the too big to fail category.
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@ollikoskiniemi6221 Now you're right leaning conservative establishment? How RADICAL!!!
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@ollikoskiniemi6221 Sowell is just an establishment Republican like the Bushes, Reagan, Nixon and others. They only reason people think he is odd is because so many Black leaders are Democrats. Actually the first popularly elected Black Senator was a Republican from Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke. Earl Warren a California Republican was the Chief Justice that presided over the dismantling of Segregation. The ultra right wanted him impeached. Republican appointed Justices provided key votes in Roe v. Wade.
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@ollikoskiniemi6221 Look you can be whatever you want but my opinion of Sowell is he is an establishment Republican. Most of theses quotes of him prove nothing since economic is not that simple to begin with. I find it especially amusing that he so easily passes himself off aa a former "Marxist" and his followers eat that shit up.
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Like the minimum wage. It sets a floor for all wages. Some businesses on the verge of bankruptcy will go out of business most will raise their wage taking a cut in profits. If you stupid enough to go into the Ben Shapiro mud pie business than you will go out of business. So that kind of argument proves nothing. Will some raise prices well maybe but to do that would push business elsewhere. Will some add new labor saving machinery yes but that raises capital value with more investment but cuts labor time which is where the profit originates. so now you need a bigger market or you will end up with a lower profits to capital ratio. He says the original federal minimum wage law adversely affected Black teenagers but he fails to address how it affected them because the law did not cover work not in interstate commerce and a economic crisis occured at about the same time.
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@dms79 Stop breathing air and see how long you last!!!
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Right all our leaders are dictators and yours like Trudeau, Biden and Trump are great men of the people and Democrats.
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A real "brain" who blames everything on "government."
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"One of the main planks of Marxism, is the destruction of the Middle Classes!" that is a bald faced total lie. The pushing of the middle class down into the working class is the natural result of capitalist economic development. The middle class small businessman is replaced by larger businesses.The small business has a smaller ratio of capital to labor. The larger has a larger ratio of capital to labor. This larger productivity of labor makes it possible to sell at a lower price while still retaining a profit driving the small business out of business. The once proud professional man becomes a another laborer as a specialized engineer working for a huge manufacturing or engineering companies, a specialty medical doctor working as an insurance company contractor in a multi doctor practice. Combing, dividing and rationalizing production to increase profits is just the natural way that capitalism works.
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@gregpoulin8210 Like the lie put forward by the original poster?
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@robgvm Trump is now sanctioning them so I'm sure the middle class in Venezuela is happy with getting that kind of help. If the US can't just invade or organize a successful coup then they look to starving those countries that aren't making the US and local profit makers happy. Middle class people in the US heard about a toilet paper crisis in Venezuela are completely shocked. Same goes here they ran out and brought up as much as possible toilet paper when they heard of the coronavirus. Realizing that people lived without toilet paper is just shocking. You do realize a washcloth and water can do what you need to do without toilet paper.
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When capitaliam goes into crisis the Jews because they are a minority in every place they live except Israel now become a target for scoundrels who seek to blame them for the crisis. These ideas are quickly adopted by the fascist bandits. When the ruling capitalist class feels threatened by the Socialist revolution and the workers power it seeks to use these fascist bandits to save their system.
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Racism came with the new capitalist system as a justification for European capitalism becoming a world power. The roots of it Black plantation slavery were undercut in the US first by the American Revolution and later by the Civil War which destroyed chattel slavery without compensation to the owners for their property in slaves.
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@johnnyindiana1330 No sign that immigrants want to be scabs. Every time in history immigrant became some of the best union militants.
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@outkast40 Free trade policy is like free markets. Its a fraud because what it really means is division of the world market among the different countries boss classes. The bosses have a foreign policy. Workers need to have our own foreign policy.
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@kurtheidelbach A boss who can't make a profit deserves what the neo liberals promise is the saving grace of capitalism a sign in the window saying "Out of Business". We aren't interested in subsidizing losers in the battle for markets and profits.
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@farmerthatflies We don't win every battle or skirmish. It's been sixty years and they still haven't been able to reverse the Cuban revolution. They can move plants to different countries but they can't operate them without workers. We don't think small either so the logical step after the industrial trade union is the mass labor party with a workers foreign policy. If they want to close plants here then we can demand the use of government money to build something else like new schools or hospitals. Your going to think twice about moving to Mexico if you have to pay them the same wages. Just like you said you were going to move everything to the Jim Crow South to escape the unions. You do the same things were ever you go and produce the same opposition to your policies. You though you could run rough shod over those people in Cuba by installing that Dictator Batista and then pretending you were against Batista all along. Your lies and actions catch up with you and then you find out your not a necessary as you thought you were.
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@freedomisnotnegotiable Why don't you just take that finks job and shove it.
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@capnobvious2718 You problem is the naturally declining rates of industrial profits. This is why you want to constantly replace living labor to cut costs but the source of the profits is the living labor and with more machines in the end it only results in a greater investment and lower rates of profits by which you judge all success. Your system of private property unleashes the forces of social production that get out of your control and then you need to call upon the capitalist state as the ultimate defender of profits. Its only natural for the bosses to blame all the problems the create with commodity production on us and not themselves. The bosses want the control of the surplus value we create to make themselves fatter in every way possible. This is why they started the original arms race before World War one. It's why a USMC Major General Smedley Butler with two Congressional Medals of honor calledd himself a gangster for capitalism saying Al capone opperted only on three counties while he operated on three continents.
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@Humanity GalaticaLike Sailors we have one in every Truck Terminal.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 The fetus can't sign a contact but the mother can. Oh and at one time you needed parental permission to enlist before age 21.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 Seems to me the same politicians making the biggest noise about abortion are strangely and almost completely silent when it comes to war. Biden and the Republicans are rushing head long into Ukraine after a bipartisan 20 year long war in Afghanistan costing 2.3 Trillion, 100,000 lives and millions of internally displaced persons. .
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@poopdeckpappy2658 Remember all your doing is changing a law that doesn't mean people will follow it any more than the marijuana prohibition halted drug use. The best way to breed disrespect for authority is to write and enforce laws that people don't agree to. The law will not apply to the rich only the poor anyway you look at it. Afterall we look people up for murder because we are afraid of them Do you plan on investigating every pregnancy that doesn't come to term? Second guessing every doctor's decision? Chasing after abortion pills legal in one state but not another? Are they going to transported in sealed containers through prohibited states.?
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@poopdeckpappy2658 So far they done just about everything but send in Troops.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 I agree that its bad case law if they had decided that women had a right to abortion before birth than it would have been decided clearly as a women's right and choice. Instead it was decided based on a Doctors right to practice medicine and viability. Which set it up for endless argument as to details. .
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@poopdeckpappy2658 Government steps in to protect the rich and monopoly all the time. Plus what corp doesn't want a government contract. One one hand the like to feed at the public trough and on the other had they cry about paying taxes. People like Bill Gates like to talk endless about business yet microsoft did more to kill not just IBM and steal everyone else ideas but people went to jail for redistributing disks that they and Dell provide free of charge. For years a copy of Windows sold for About $135 dollars but the big manufactures bought it for $20 a copy. It was illegal to import Windows licenses from foreign countries even if microsoft was the foreign manufacturer.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 No guarantee that the fetus will even come to term. Plus we don't give anyone a "Right to Life" nor can you consent to be murdered either despite your enlistment contract. Do I have a right to nourishment at your expense for 9 months? I guess not that would be placing an undue burden on you. But somehow because a women consented to sex that means she has a 9 month implied contract. I wonder how many employers would agree to implied contracts of any term upon hire vs employees at will. When it comes to child birth and reproduction the mens role has always been minimal. If not even less so since the rise of capitalism. Now the most that can be expected from a man is monetary damages if he has any money that is. Free speech would be meaningless if you were prohibited from expressing it on paper as would the right to assemble if no common property existed. It becomes a right for the same reason you don't want an undue burden. A women need only take an abortion pill up till 11 weeks.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 I guess you've really been in that safety hammock too long. The cops show up late if at all in places like Flint, MI. No Marxists don't ignore human nature and the Cuban revolution is far from over. If human nature is fixed and the greedy alway make it to the top then nuclear war is inevitable because that is the only way to assure a greedy nations ruling class wins the battle of the marketplace. None of them intended WW1 either. Once greed takes over intentions mean nothing.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 Why do people like you always assume you are older and wiser? I'm retired at age 69. You think your gods gift to the world because you opened a "business" as if no else has a brain in there heads? Most likely you will close it also or it will close on your death. At the end of the day you will push up daisies. If I'd been born in Cuba I would have been encouraged to learn and think of others. Here your encouraged to look inward and be part of the dog eat dog world of the animal. I'd probably be a Doctor or at least have a good education instead of being told "All you want is to be a Doctor" Like that wasn't enough for a 19 year old student.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 Youtube is censoring you. Have you ever noticed that you don't marry with in the family either? Other than the Church what organizations does capitalism encourage besides businessman's clubs. They rather we not belong to unions but we do anyhow. The certainly don't like work stoppages. We do that also.
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@poopdeckpappy2658 I was totally banned by youtube twice once right after Bidens election. Now they seem to just censor any kind of debate I get into.
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@ianchandley The American and British Imperialists refused to accept Jews fleeing Hitler before the War and the victims of the camps needs were being ignored.
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@novakjovanovic7715 Being born bourgeoisie was NOT a crime in the early Soviet Union. Any Rand received both her university and advanced study under the Bolshevik governmnet.
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@albertcadgame8314 Canada can't close its doors to American made products and trade without shooting itself in the foot.. Trump will end up being overruled by Congress on his extreme ideas since they will interfere in the boss class profit making.
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Money buys all the justice necessary.
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Any real discussion of the cold war will beg the question of why all the military aggression and threats of Nuclear war in Korea and Vietnam. Why carpet bomb Korea and Vietnam for democracy and not Mississippi and Alabama.
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@jeffsmith6596 You what all these lies directed at Cuba are untrue. Second all the threats about using nuclear weapons only gave the real associates of Stalin more support. After all All they had to do is show US TV reports on plans to nuke the reds. Naturally if hear that US General MacArthur is considering nuking Chinese cities or Kennedy and Goldwater are debating about using nukes in Vietnam what would you think? That MLK is going to march on Moscow?
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@jeffsmith6596 (Respect free Speech) Every lie possible is told about Cuba. The US with its threats of nuclear war only prolonged Stalin's associates power. All they had to do was show US Firm and Video reports of General MacArthur considering nuclear strikes on Chinese cities and the Kennedy and Goldwater debate over using nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Kennedy so butt hurt about General Batista's loss in Cuba brought the world to the very brink of nuclear war. They say his advisers recommended he go ahead with nuclear war.
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@jeffreyyoungblood7438 They ended the SAC B-52 Bombers armed with nuclear weapons 24/7/365 flights along with K-135 tankers who over flew Canada right up to the arctic circle some time in the 1970's.
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@johnny5finger They made a "hard left turn" after the worst depression since the 1929 stock market crisis. You remember when rich people took the job, the car, the house along with the wife and kids. Gee the workers are unhappy! I wonder why?
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@Libertad-xi1ey Your idea of the left is the political reformer and SJW seeking to save capitalism with a few reforms and tweaks of the system which will leave them in control and profiting off the rule of the meritocratic and entrepreneur. Communism isn't going away despite the frame job where you make us responsible for our own murder by Joe Stalin.
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@Libertad-xi1ey (Respect Free Speech) "it is ironic that plenty of rich socialists who promote their leftist ideas have made their fortune under capitalism." Those are your next door neighbors. Not mine.
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@Libertad-xi1ey (Respect Free Speech) Your "leftists" are Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. We have no need for SJW's or those like Sanders who voted for the 2015 War appropriations. The Pope has visited Cuba while you can't so much as take a bible into US ally Saudi Arabia. All these lies about Cuba and excuses for the Prince. The reason of course is Cuba shows what is possible after a socialist revolution while Saudi Arabia shows that there is no connection between capitalism and democratic rights. Go ahead and visit Saudi Arabia. Bring a suitcase of bibles and plenty of cash to bribe your way past the Saudi customs police. Otherwise you may just lose your head upon entry into the oil rich capitalist paradise.
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@Libertad-xi1ey You sound like quick leaner so wouldn't you agree that the Republican party =evil right?
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@Libertad-xi1ey (Respect Free Speech) We just finished a free speech battle with the Indiana DOC for impounding our newspaper TheMilitant.com We won another free speech battle!!! Can we count on you the next time we have a similar problem?
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That is the johnny come lately argument of the Imperialist in the hopes that their own crimes will be forgotten. Like the prediction of Victory in Vietnam based upon kill ratios and body counts. Capitalism entered the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore.
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The Democrats were the other Party of Racism. They hide their racism behind closed doors. Democrats were the Party of the KKK. The sheets of the klan were the night time uniform of the cops.
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All i've got to say is if you need instructions on how to make a copy of your company computer in the cloud or on a new hard drive you can't be much of an engineer. You can go to a public library get an anonymous internet connection and send the whole thing to China lickity split. Now of course the FBI and CIA will start spying on public libraries again hoping to catch more spies.
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Lots of people just love getting pregnant so they can have an abortion.
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@mikeradu2010 Elon Musk came to Canada and then the US from a rich South African family. Trump current wife came here on an Einstein visa her special talent was having a body for photography. You have money you go to the head of the line with an entrepreneurs investors visa. You became middle class. LOL no one is working class in America because that would mean your a communist. Musk has big government contacts but he's not a welfare recipient. LOL. Welfare was long ago ended after being demonized by neoliberals. .
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Stalin had an opposition which consisted of the "Old Bolsheviks." His murder machine was directed against all who disagreed with his policies and methods.
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@Sleepy7666 like the American version it will be used against free speech.
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Qi QI Charity Bosses have expenses. The Bosses at the Bill and Militia Gates foundation don't use Chromebooks. The Bosses at the Ford Foundation don't drive a beat up Ford Pinto.
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@demiking1002 The defeat of the Spanish revolution was bond up in the refsal to abolish capitalism but instead to set up an unholy alliance of anarchists, stalinists and 'progressive bourgeois in a quote anti fascist alliance. The Stalinist took the point in assassinating any leaders they could not control.
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@demiking1002 The lesson of the Russian revolution is that the menshevik alliance with bourgeois liberals was wrong but an alliance between the industrial workers represented by the bolsheviks and the peasant farmers represented by the left Social Revolutionaries was able to defeat the vacillating Provisional government and move forward with the second socialist revolution after the Paris commune.
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@demiking1002 Hardly no ruling class in history has surrendered without first trying to defend itself using its state power. Trotsky's menshevik internationalist fused with Lenin's bolsheviks. The other Mensheviks lost the votes in the Soviets for setting up the revolutionary military committee and then walked out in protest.
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@Gobidragon Hides behind an anonymous screen name.
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@superoldgamesaturday3277 Congress has exceeded its authority. The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments.
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@lazertroll702 You can see that they have a giant secret police apparatus that goes into operation against anyone who they perceive as a threat to their policies and rule. Most recently the FBI's use against parents questioning school boards. Free market? That's a joke go down to the local public park and try selling something and see how long its is before the police show up, demand ID and shut you down. You pay the price the WalMart or whoever demands you don't argue over the price of vegetables like in a third world country. Free market is code for stock market nothing else.
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@lazertroll702 "Real capitalism" like the capitalism of 16 hour days with no unions, child labor picking slate out of coal on conveyor belts. When a dead mule cost the company more thhan a dead man because a boss could always hire another man where ss they had to buy mules. Ya real capitalism was just so much better. . .
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Vote Socialist Workers Party. We need a labor party based in the unions to fight back politically and unions in every work place.
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All you care about is cutting Boss costs. You want a system of low paid glorified babysitters.
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@patrickkeenan5603 You have NO control over that tax money deducted from your check. The bosses collect the taxes for their government and they decide how it will be spent. From city to town then state and federal government many projects and government expenditures are paid for by issuing bonds. Promises made to the wealthy and banks to pay back more than was borrowed. Government Bonds is just another capitalist scam where your taxes go to the rich because the government is too poor to pay for anything unless its another war or obviously bad investment but considered necessary. You know its a scam when the bosses start talking about how everyone is affected and appeal to your natural patriotism talking about how bad countries want your freedoms. When in reality it's the bosses who always want to shut us up.
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@patrickkeenan5603 Pay cuts for Government and nonprofit bosses.
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Thats because Washington just prints money on command of the biggest banks. By increasing the money supply they increase proprty values while crushing wages. The solution join unions and use the strike weapon against the bosses. Make evry job a union job and demnd that the government fud a real public works program building things we need instead handouts to the too big too fail.
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@citrustaco The cause is capitalism where bosses seek to maximize profits above all else.
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@jeffbguarino No because the owner of industry only produce for a profit so once the capital value rises and the labor need to produce goes down they just let the industry go into decline and demand bailouts. They demand profits for the value they already have. This is why they produce such economic chaos. If you like you can read Das Kapital where Marx explains how the logic of capitalism leads to its own decline. Capitalism is based in the nation state and theses greedy ruling class go to war over profits. Trump already initialed trade war with China. Biden is continuing the policy. The ruling classes always talk about how they are saving the nation. A friend gets food poisoning so now Cuba is condemned. Canadian business did me wrong once should I condemn the whole Canadian nation over one bad experience? For every three US Doctors who retire one is replaced by an immigrant.
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@Starfish2145 Regulations written by the bosses two parties are meant to defend profits not ha;t inflation. Only by organizing into unions amd an new independent labor party can change be made.
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@wrestlerx8494 The actual size of the propertied capitalist ruling class is small but it needs all these paid shills to explain how much its costing the bosses to keep you impoverished. The need to present poverty as an unsolvable problem based upon money. While the real reason we have ppverty is the bosses refuse to use all the industrial capcity because if they were to do so then the profit rates by which they measure success would go down. They talk all day about how then need an incentive before they get out of bed in the morning but the hang on to every penny like it is the last they will ever see.
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@smallestcat Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines.
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@SpartanNinjaViking They passed the fair labor standards act in the face of the sit down strike movement that began in 1938 at GM in Flint, MI. Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines.
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Yep he's one of the few who know how to play dumb to get the answer to prove his point until he asks the wrong person who laughs at the foolishness of neoliberalism.
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@masada2828 Capitalism has its own internal contradictions that drive it into war and depression.
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@ozu2647 Taxes for the ruling class are voluntary. Where ever capitalism first starts it needs to create a working class. In England the corn and enclosure laws created a working class out of peasants having loss their right to make a living on what had been communal land. Even today a small farming village in Thailand government sold the land to a big company that wanted the land for a rubber tree plantation. In came bulldozers and cops to just take that land. In the capitalist countries government and capitalism are tied together. Those area that can't make a profit are placed under control of the government.
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The Imperialist bankers are happy and the pay the piper in Washington and Puerto Prince
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Wages are set from the bottom up not the top or the middle down. What your wage is depends on a number of things. Time to train a replacement, hours worked, union membership, possible union membership, educational requirements, skill requirements, experience, the minimum wage in your area and cost of living in the area you work. The only way to push up the wages of those in the middle without an increase in the minimum wage is to join a union or change jobs.
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Congress passed the minimum wage law in 1938 as part of the fair labor standards act. They passed this law as a concession to the CIO industrial union movement. This was a movement of the working class as a whole. The tactics used included the mass picketing of thousands including the unemployed in front of plant gates. Sit down strikes where any disciplinary acts were countered with immeaded workstopages. Pitched battles took place between police and national guard troops against strikers and their supporters.
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I am against hazard pay because management will use that to ignore safety in favor of getting more work done. The'll be saying hurry up get that work done your getting hazard pay. The white collar workers don't usually want to join unions. Although I have heard of bank workers in Latin America going on strike. It's not unusual for them to be resentful of the wages made in the plant or in your case as a carpenter in the construction trade. Plus the bosses often claim they need to handle confidential company information and belonging to a union would compromise that. In the case of the 1934 truck drivers strike which became a general strike in minneapolis the secretaries sent copies to the union of intelligence concerning the bosses plans. The exception in the private sector being RailRoad clerks because almost everyone but the CEO belongs to a union on the railroad. The other exception is the government employees. The one group you don't want in the labor movement is the police and justice system employees. Like Mark Janus whose job was finding workers who didn't pay their child support so the could be sent to jail. Now that he won his supreme court case he has quit his professional scab job and is going to work for a private think tank a paid off Judas no doubt.
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The best you can do for the desk girl is to encourage her to become a carpenter or join a union.
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What no more union supervisors at the railroad? Everybody has a story about how they took a fare in a snowstorm from Logan in Boston to JFK in New York because of a blizzard or drove a truck from Baltimore City to Hartford during a snowstorm that became a blizzard. Or how they worked Easter and got time and one half on top of double time for a holiday on Sunday along with a shift bonus. My experience in construction involved only HVAC controls. Boilers controls is separate trade usually done by the mechanical contractor. My dad did get called out for a Titan missile problem in Long Island once. Imagine that a guy with just a journeymans electricians license brought in to figure out how to keep a weapon of mass destruction from getting a cold or heatstroke.
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@Astrochronic The two capitalist party system of government and world economics is in a world wide crisis caused by the greed of the ruling classes and the natural tendency of profit rates to decline. The bosses in the capitalist world no longer want to pay wages to support a family causing a population decline in countries including S Korea, Japan, China and without immigration the same would be true for the US, Canada and Germany.
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@andyt3233 We need to fire most of these generals and admiral for being idiots. We need to negotiate an end to ICBM's not build a star wars defense system. The 2nd amendment spells out what is necessary militia that is what is necessary to the security of a free state not a world wide military fighting for big business foreign investment.
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He died fighting imperialism in the Bolivian jungle not at Trump Plaza hotel.
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@ukbloke28 One can easy discover that women were originally brought into the workforce in massive numbers when Imperialist wars break out and young working class and farmers as men are sent off to die for the Imperialist nations offensive. Women become a source of labor when capitalism needs it due to temporary market conditions or think women are a cheaper or better suited to the jobs that require smaller hands like electronics assembly work.
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@ukbloke28 Socialist Feminism is about the special issues working women have in capitalist society at work and with the tasks in the home and childcare. Capitalist seek to only pay a wage for the reproduction of the laborers life to the next pay period to make the biggest profits. This is why they want us working the longest hours at the lowest wages and at the fastest pace. That is why they no longer want to pay a single wage to support a family. To increase private profits they want to push costs of family elsewhere. It's why they praised women who worked for less when the economic crisis of 1973 hit causing mass layoffs of industrial workers.
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@ukbloke28 There is economics behind the declining birth rate in the 'rich" Western Capitalist country certainly since 2008. Behind the "abortion debate" isn't the right to have an abortion as it is the right of young workers to form families have children with time off and have a sustainable income. Bosses like Warren Buffett are big supporters of abortion including donations to pay for them because they don't want to give workers time off for families along with paying wages to support a family. Rail Bosses like Buffet of the BNSF have been waging a long time war on the unions. Slashing jobs, cutting wages with inflation, increasing train size and using judges to decide what issues a strike can be called over.
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@TeranRealtor They always been citizens for over 100 years. This is just another attack on the working class by the bosses and billionaires whom Trump represents. Naturally a real estate shark like you would support Trump. It also has nothing to do with the military draft law. Why don't you go hide in your gated community.
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@logical-reasoning Since Oct 7th Thousands have been awoken to the threat of Islamic Jew hating Fascism. Defeat Hamas!! IDF free the people of Gaza from NAZI Hamas!!!
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Putin seeks to create a CZARist prison house of nations with a few rich capitalist and bankers controlling things from Moscow.
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It has nothing to do with charity of the bosses but the workers of the bosss system of profit. The success of the Boss is related to how much he can get away without getting caught the ability organize an army and enter the battle of the market place where alliances, treaties and laws were made to be broken and the winner is the General who can issue the most discharges to his industrial army. .
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@OneWildTurkey You think bosses are going to publicise their own methods. They have business secrets to protect. Bill Gates isn't a monopolist right? No he just conspired to create a software cartel so he couldn't be charged as a monopolist. You think he invested in Apple out of the kindness in his heart? What do you think the purpose of the Business Software Alliance Gates promoted was? He had people thrown in jail for copying free software and forgetting to remove the microsoft trademark. He pioneered the terms of service agreement where you get to tell the buyer what he can do with what was purchased after the sale because a patent, trademark or copyright is involved.
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@mr_pigman1013 You can bet that the Democratic Party bosses are not interested in equality of income. For the likes of Bill Clinton and Obama they are reaching out for another big pay from capitalist donors day laughing all the way to the bank.
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@angelshalo06 Wall St is making a bundle.
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@angelshalo06 Most people including Trump don't understand it but Wall Street is profit driven above all else for them shifting production to the Empire means capital formation and maxizing shareholder value. Trump came in cold not realizing that he was a traitor to the Golbalists. (Imperialist investors). Bill Gates is buying up all the famrland? Why because he knows you don't need a computer but you do need to eat.
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@michaelwareing3727 The Paris Commune lasted 70 days. The Soviet Union 70 years. Cuba is 64 and counting, All the fascist experiments in saving capitalism NAZI German, Chile's Pinochet and Franco's Spain have failed.
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@eddarby469 Capitalism ended it progressive era with World War one. The greedy ruling Imperialist capitalist nations can not peacefully settle trade and resource disputes they can only fight Imperialist wars. The capitalist system can not grow because as machines replace labor the rate of profit falls and then to prop up profit rates the capitalist must cut wages. They use to do this by issuing wage cuts which provoked strikes. Now they take Keynes advice and rob the working class with inflation created by a central bank. The only thing capitalism has for the working class is war and fascism. War to defend foreign investments and fascism at home to defeat the trade unions. The idea that the working class can buy out the capitalist is as assine as the idea that the slave could buy his freedom. A few slaves buying their freedom could not solve the problems the slave system was creating before the civil war. Capitalist Democrats are already launching a war on political rights. The living standards and the life span of workers in the United States is going down because of the profit system.
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@eddarby469 Sure and a few workers can get together replace Warren Buffet's Union Pacific railroad or maybe we can all be welders and roofers. Your's is a temporary solution for a few. It can not halt the decline of American Imperialism in the world today. Do you also suggest building a fall out shelter as the solution to nuclear war?
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@eddarby469 We all know how hard you Bourgeois professors work. Twenty hours a week with the rest of the time to do as you please.
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@Sorakeyblademaster37 You missing one very important point and that is Stalin had to murder thousands of loyal communists in both the Soviet union and later Spain before he could become a one man show. It was Trotsky that lead the communist movement despite being deported, outcast and murdered in Mexico City as a counter revolutionary. Also Fidel Castro and Cuba has never need to use the type of injustice meted out under Stalin or Mao. If communist were all the same than Cuba would be American Imperialism best ally inside of an implacable foe. What is happening in America is the unraveling of the capitalist two party system. Biden's bullshit about MAGA hats being semi fascist is just so much bull. If Trump was going to take over as dictator than he sure did a piss poor job. Trotsky was both co leader of the Russian revolution with Lenin and Stalin's most voracious critic. We exposed the Moscow frame up trials back in 1937. All this can be documented in both books and online at The Militant newspaper archive.
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@poptraxx418 The first Imperialist war to re divide the colonial world destruction produced the Russian Revolution. The second World war produced the next revolutionary victories. You need to say out of Imperialist wars started by capitalist profiteers if you don't like communism.
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@barrysherwin3297 Very good at beating around the bush and never using that dirty word that gets so many bosses hopping mad. "Socialism."
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@gabrielh8840 They are no rules in the naked class struggle.
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@agapp11able Kruschev was sitting next to Stalin during the War years and Gorbachev as a child wrote the most slavish complements of the greatest leader humanity ever had. The 1930's trails were frame up trials of the old Bolsheviks. If Hitler would have been more patient Stalin would have successfully purged the Red Army of all intellect and the Soviet Union would have easily been defeated. The best cadres who didn't die at the front died in the gulag. Stalin and his followers gave up on socialism and the working class for the promises of Democratic Imperialism and capitalist liberals world wide. This is why the Communist International was disbanded and at the end of the war the US Communist Party became the Communist Political Association and they talked of "shaking the hands of monopolists". According to Stalinist theory from that point forward the real revolutionaries are American Monopoly Capitalists along with the British imperialists.
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@agapp11able Stalin's idiocy lost the German revolution to the NAZI's becuase he first called the Social Democrats as Social fascists making the Social Democratic workers the enemy. Then the leaders of the German Communist Party deserted without so much as throwing a punch back at the fascists. They he began to accuse all of his opponents as fascists and agents of Hitler until he decided to sign a non aggression pact with the NAZI's. As Trotsky had said Stalin was incapable of abstract thought. Where in Marx or Lenin do they say the goal is to create a perfect example of communism as the road to socialism and not the class struggle. If that was the idea of "Socialism in one Country." than it was nothing more than idealist utopianism incompatible with revolutionary Marxism. It would have been better had Stalin remained in the Orthodox Priesthood since in the end religious thought was about the only type of thinking he was capable of.
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Stalin began the road back to capitalism and those who followed could only continue down that road. The only thing Marxist Leninist about the leadership was the international book printing projects of the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Naturally the American Imperialist wanted as weak a capitalism as possible in the former bloc and Soviet Union and Gorbachev and Yeltsin were only to happy to take the advice of Milton Freedman and Bill Clinton.
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@noop9k Well today the worlds most powerful military Empire is the American Imperialist Empire. The achilles heal of the American Imperialist Empire is the American working class which gains nothing from the Empires riches.
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@dasbubba841 That's a lot of horse shit. The America capitalist see to it that the workers pay the full world market price just like the prices paid for anything produced without union labor. The capitalist print dollars as a wage cutting measure that's the advantage of a fiat currency the bosses raise prices to capture more value and cry poverty when workers demand a wage increase. Right now the big banks are making super profits off the inflation by getting the federal reserve to raise the prime rate.
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@nooboftheyear7170 Stalin the bungling idiot need help so he turns to the Democratic Imperialist instead of the worlds working class and oppressed colonial peoples selling out their struggles for a few promises and trinkets from the Imperialists. Sure the American CP became a cheering squad for FDR as best strike breakers FDR could find. Then with the end of the war the Democratic Imperialist changed course and now the leaders of the CP were doing 5 years prison terms with no friends in the working class they had betrayed for the dumb shit Stalin in the Kremlin.
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@wes11bravo Democrats all but labeled him a Dictator. Just because they move politicians in and out of the white house doesn't make the US a Democracy. The two parties have a long history of putting up roadblocks to prevent the creation of a mass socialist/labor/communist party. Everything from refusing to seat our elected candidates, to throwing us in prison and using the law to crate a two party duopoly of ballot access.
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@dasbubba841 No Lets make it clear. American capitalist are the ones responsible for shutting down production and cutting wage value not foreign companies and workers. Wall st and profits is all capitalism is about. Workers need to take control of production and operating production based upon human need NOT profits.
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@dvwjr79 The only thing US Imperialist tariffs protect is "to big to fail" boss profits. That is nothing more than a simple fact. The working class wins nothing through collaboration with the boss class. Class struggle is the road to socialism, higher wages, healthcare and education for all.
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@matalostodos Now that Putin is building a new prisonhouse of nations as a CZAR your system is failing as it slips into a New World Disorder. ISIS is just another creature of US Imperialism who is a convenient punching bag when not serving the interests of US Imperialism in Syria. Too bad your unable to see past the end of your nose. You've got a President that senility is on display daily because a president doesn't really do anything but act as a capitalist God. Sri Lanka and China's banking crisis are just more problems for the system of exploitation. Like I said you have a New World Disorder and it's going to get worse before it gets better. You don't have the Stalinists to bail you out either.
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@msimon6808 You can't reach total equality because people aren't totally equal if you read Karl Marx you would understand that. The communist movement split in 1928 not over issues of total equality either. The Cuban revolution came along and Fidel Castro and Che Guevara never executed anyone for simple political opposition All those executed after the revolution committed serious crimes like murder, terrorism. tortue, drug running for profit and armed piracy. 100,000,000 died early deaths due to leaded gasoline. Over 30 million died during the Taiping Rebellion out of an Earths population of 1000 million. The population of Ireland still has not recovered from the enforced starvation of the Irish by the British landlords and capitalists who were building an Imperialist Empire. Saying communism failed to bring something we never promised (total equality) is like condemning a mfg for the inability to build an ESR free capacitor.
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@peacedreamerable Hamas is a NAZI like organization that came ti power by crushing its political opponents with political violence. It's roots are with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who sided with Hitler and organized a Muslim Croate fascist Militia. If Gaza is an open air prison than Hamas are the prison guards. Only the workers of all the nations of the middle east can bring peace though socialist revolution. Israel must be a refuge for the Jews.
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@widodoakrom3938 Its the nature of the ruling capitalist class and not human nature.
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@SuperCatacata Limited by capitalist who demand profits for everything done and action taken along with a constant waste of resources by the capitalist who seek to control markets and resources for the benefit of their nations class of profit makers though military means. $4.3 trillion dollars spent destroying the people of Afghanistan and Iraq by the American Imperialists. All you do s talk nonsense about limited resources when the real problem is the way capitalism works to create a tiny ruling classes who then go on to wage war to redivide the world amongst them. Giant industries are allowed to enter into decline because the capital value becomes too high vs the living labor exploited to small. All because of capitalism creating a crisis of overproduction which requires massive means of destruction to be enabled.
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@jeanpierre5941 Angela Davis is a one time Stalinist who has now retreated all they into the petti bourgeois.
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Sure and the Media always took the worst and promoted the worst of the left like this guy into leaders. Abbie Hoffman was given plenty of media coverage because he was jokester that was never serious about anything.
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@morganchandler5126 You want smaller gov. get rid of three letter regalatory agencies and replace them with workers control of industry.
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@morganchandler5126 No you want a chance to crow about how rich you've become as a capitalist boss.
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@officialclizz123 The first workers revolution was the 1870 Paris Commune it lasted 70 days. The next was the Russian Revolution of 1917 it lasted 70 years. The Cuban revolution of 1959 is still on going and making history.
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@officialclizz123 All you need to do is read the documents of the Communist movement starting with the manifesto. Then Lenin and Trotsky followed by Fidel Castro and Che. We've been publishing a paper here since 1928 The Militant. Revolution is always impossible until it becomes inevitable. The forces of the world socialist revolution are on the march. Capitalism creates both the people and the tools which will bring the revolutionary proletariat to power over the Bourgeois. You can not stop the flow of ideas and the fights for justice.
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She's a bourgeois news hypocrite. Qatar has 3 times the immigrants without rights than citizens.
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@no.picante As you can see you tube censors me.
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@greenbongos Yor full of Yankee lies. Camilo's plane disappeared over water. He arrested the traitor Huber Matos.
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@greenbongos Well than it should have either landed or crashed? Hard to hide a crashed plane same with one that landed. You realize planes don't have to fly in a straight line. Flying over water has he advantage that you can't be easily shot down without first seeing the possible source. There has been lots of speculation over the Kennedy assassination also that's why its called conspiracy theory. At the end of the day that all you have here also. Fidel was clearly leader of the 26th of July movement. No reason to believe your theories outside of your hatred for Fidel and communism.
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@greenbongos Batista had been defeated but the American Imperialist and their CIA had not given up. According to what I read the plane was flying at night. I know how it is. You just can accept that the plane was lost over water and now it means a big conspiracy must have taken place. Lots of people don't accept that Oswald acted alone but no one else has been shown to be responsible. I don't now where it went to and neither do you. Most likely it went down in water all you have is a hatred of Fidel and communism as your evidence.
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@distanceismyplastercast Billionaires like Rupert Murdoch.
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Republican Supreme Court Judges ratified Democratic Party Jim Crow seperate but equal laws after allowing the violent overthrow of Republican Reconstruction governments in the South after the Republican Government won the civil war.
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They've got a Brain Dead Judge on the case who is being assisted by a sign language interpreter.
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The basic assumptions made in the video are wrong. Mao doesn't represent Lenin and Marxist Leninism or Communism anymore than the German Social Democrats Edward Bernstein or Karl Kautsky represented Marxism or Marx's thinking. Of course that would require a better understand of world history, ideas and social development instead of just this Left vs Right and China vs America doctrinaire approach. The capitalist are after all the involuntary promoters of modern industry but does that mean they can also control it as private property using the methods of profit and loss?
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The most expensive war in terms of war dead in American history was the civil war. The dominance of the Northern and later American Industrialists was made possible by that war. Now Lincoln didn't have to wage that war. He could have acceded to succession and moved the Capital to Philadelphia or New York and allowed the end of the United States. The South could have kept slavery and grabbed up some of the West. Then California could have added the Oregon Territory and made itself an Independent nation. Al so that blood shed, something always found to be so horrible and completely unnesssay by the middle class, could be averted. So was the war worth it? If it was than arguing that blood shed in a communist revolution is wrong implies hypocrisy. England went through a revolution and became a republic. Then England went through monarchical restoration. Anyone think we should become a Dominion like Canada and make the English Monarch the ultimate authority?
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The Clinton News Network Makes Hypocrisy Great Again.
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@borodel619 I've looked at those patents and I've seen nothing about teleportation.
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@leeexton851 I looked though those patents and I saw nothing about anti gravity ships or a gravity wave emitter. It also has been reported that the Navy had to lean on the Patent office to accept their work. No doubt a rejection by the patent office might raise eyebrows about all the military spending. Also you can receive a patent as long as it is considered scientifically possible. You don't actually have to build a prototype.
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@leeexton851 Its off to an MIT Alum site for criticism.
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josh carrera Space force is just an escalation of the US Empire's power. It's whole purpose is to provide a method to reduce the need for ground troops with death from above.
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@randallabracadabra You can go ahead and build any of Tesla's ideas with or without any Green Lights or Red Lights. When you succeed don't keep the rest of us in the dark by shutting off the lights.
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@Mojojojo85757 Communist are internationalists. That being said I was born in the US so culturally I an American. My original intellectual love was math and science.
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@markscutti9682 Muller operates on the usual way the FBI builds a frame job. It's always good to send out investigators asking questions they already know the answers to. If you forget something bingo you just committed perjury. If that doesn't work why did you come forward earlier? Bingo now you just obstructed justice. You just became a lemon to squeeze. It's even juicier if sex can be brought into the frame job. Everyone knows few men can say NO and those who do will never be believed.
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@rhondabitler5474 Hillary Clinton was a self described Republican "Goldwater Girl". She spoke at her girls Finishing School Wellesley College graduation along with the first elected Black Senator Edward Brooke (R). Who Spoke spoke for quotas while Clinton opposed them. Bill Clinton rushed back during the campaign to execute a Black man who decided to save his jello for desert after his execution.
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@AK-km9qn The Clinton's are the ones who will go down in history as the ones who so eagerly abandoned children when slashing AFDC. Bill Clinton who rushed home during the campaign to execute a Black Man who saved his jello for post execution desert. Clinton and Trump who both supported the frame up of the Central Park five.
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Dj Luminol How about "Quantitative Easing for ALL" That way the Federal Reserve buys all you bad medical debt.
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@e-5ruben807 War mongers in the Democratic Party. Exactly.
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@usveteran9893 USMC Major General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a racket."
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@jasonlacroix6083 Capitalism is always focused on profits. The only reason its lasted as long as it has is the betrayal of the Stalinist and Social Democratic leaders of the labor movement, the destruction of two world wars and the introduction of fiat currency. It has just about exhausted itself and place in history.
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@colincraig5608 Its just another case of greedy bosses in different countries trying to cheat each other and make their workers pay the price.
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The problem fir these gentlemen is Leon Trotsky and Fidel Castro. Why does a small nation refuse to go back to capitalism and its leaders fail to abandon the revolution. The question is not if Socialism is possible and a society without a capitalist ruling class but why hasn't the revolution succeeded more broadly? You see capitalism in a state of world crisis not seen since the 1930's.
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@xX_Pokeman_Xx The problems in the Soviet Union began with the defeat of the German Socialist Revolution in 1923. That was because the leaders of the Russian Revolution never thought of the revolution initially as more than a holding action in the broader world revolution. They had won the civil war in 1921 but needed to reconstruct the economy since war communism the simple requisitioning of everything was not an acceptable method especially for those who had received cash payments for food production on the land before the war. The land reform had broken up the nobles estates and made land to the tiller possible But why would the peasant want to produce more than what he needed to survive and why would they now not band together or sell to the highest bidder and to try obtain higher prices by stifling production?
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@o2 McCarthy was a LIAR he was unable to ever prove a single state dept employee was a member of the Communist Party. He was useful in creating a climate of fear and destroying the lives of many who refused to bow down to the wichunt tactics being used by both parties. Eventually he went to far accusing the military officer corps of disloyalty. His tactics and methods were no different than those who followed Stalin or Hitler. Tell the biggest lies possible while promising to "Save the Nation" while making all those who disagree into criminals.
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@windellmcspindell3652 The reason for using Blacks as slaves was because it was to easy for the Irish to run away from their English masters in America. The English King James was an owner of the Royal Africa company that brought Black slaves to the English colonies in America. The Europeans all brought Black slaves to work as plantation labor in the New World because Native people ran away and as did other Europeans who were also used as slaves or indentured servants.
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@windellmcspindell3652 By Europeans I meant Europeans as a national grouping not individuals. Plus all early civilizations had slavery but not necessarily the buying and selling of people as slaves. Plus the grouping together of people subjected to special forms of oppression as a reaction to racism, sexism and great national chauvinism is progressive. The KKK white nationalists was and always will be reactionary to the core not so for Black nationalism with the goal of uniting to throw off racist oppression. The awakening of colonial people post WW2 was a great advance for humanity against the oppression of Imperialist colonial domination.
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@windellmcspindell3652 Roman slaves were acquired by war. They were not perpetual slaves through birth though. If you are unfamiliar with Black Nationalism? Well that's not my problem. I was born here dumbo. What should I do seek a transfer to somewhere where I don't speak the language? Some of us went to US public school not the country day school like Bill Gates. For someone with a college education you need to get out of the Ivory Tower now and again. Do some sluming into my kind of neighborhood.
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@windellmcspindell3652 I think my Grandfather could have applied for Irish citizenship. He died before my 18th birthday. I'm on the Trotsky side of the Stalin-Mao v. Trotsky divide. Stalin had thousands of left oppositionist murdered in the Soviet Union and hundreds in Spain. When Mao came to power left oppositionists were locked up or fled. Trotsky himself was murdered in Mexico on the NKVD's orders. This is where the most important battle between capital and labor will take place. Why would I want to miss that? I choose the symbol since it was the early symbol of the Soviet Union on the Soviet flag. China has four small stars to represent Mao's theory of the Bloc of four classes. Class four only came back after the return to Capitalist relations.
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You might also note that Malcolm X dropped 'skin' nationalism after his visit to Mecca and his meeting with caucasian revolutionaries in Algeria. Saying he was willing to work with all who wanted to rid the world of this rotten system. We still publish his speeches at PathfinderPress.com People like Farrakhan are not leading the struggle forward because a 'Black Capitalism" is not possible as the next historic stage. It's too late in history for 40 acres and a mule. If it was possible to give every Black family today 40 acres of land and a tractor then what? Black people in the US are overwhelmingly proletarian. They are overrepresented in the proletariat and are still subjected to special oppression by the capitalist state. Over and over in history Blacks since the days of slavery have shown a willingness to fight that oppression. More Malcolm X's are on there way and many will go through a period of national awakening. Its is important that we be there when they do to win them away from the dead ends of Mao's and Farrakhan's.
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@alejandrahauca7657 The population is in decline because of the natural workings of capitalism. Stalin prepared the way for the return of capitalism by murdering Lenin's party.
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@johnsimpson5471 When is Sowell going to poney up for the 5 trillion spent on the nation building wars in Iraq ans Afghanistan?
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His propaganda serve the ruling capitalist class.
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He repeats the lies told by Stalin about the loyalty to the Soviet Union by the Tartars and Volga Germans just like FDR who locked up Japanese Americans.
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@samjames995555 Twain also started the American anti Imperialist league.
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@bruscifer You don't need perfect people to make a revolution. Capitalism creates both the people and the reasons that will take the workers and farmers in the United States down the socialist road.
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@eshelly4205 The Commonwealth NOT the Colony of Wm Penn. Robert Owen is cited by Engles as a successful industrialist and natural leader of men who showed what was possible with the wealth generated by capital and Owen came to the conclusion that private property, religion and marriage as it was currently constituted stood in the way of advancement. Owenites founded New Harmony, IN. So as you can now see the idea of abolishing private property predates even Marx and Engels. They just put its abolition on a scientific basis.
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@eshelly4205 By establishing religious freedom it allowed religious differences to recend into the background. You'll find that God is not even mentioned in the Constitution but the no religious test shall ever be required to be an officer of the United States. I merely mention the carpenters craft union to point to the origin of the union coming along with the capitalism and the corporation before the development of the industrial union. The one of the first well know industrial union in America was the American Railway Union lead by Eugene Debs that lead the Pullman Strike. Debs was jailed and while in jail he read Karl Marx and became a socialist. Debs latter would run for President as a Socialist Party candidate and also for President from prison denouncing the rich man's war resulting in his imprisonment for violating the espionage Act by Wilson the Democrat who had promised not to go to war the same act that has been used to charge Donald Trump.
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@eshelly4205 You will also find that Thomas Paine the author of "Common Sense" also wrote "The Age of Reason" in which he argued against organized religion. As far as famer owning land the largest farm landowner in America is Bill Gates. All Gates does with the land is use it as a way to exploit the famers he rents or leases it to like a modern day feudal lord of the land. After all Gates knows the world doesn't need a new operating system certainly NOT windows but we do need to eat. England and Europe had plenty of religious wars so what makes you think religion holds anything together? People like Jefferson specifically wanted to keep religious zealots away from the common treasury.
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Just another case of one law for the wealthy (I knew it was illegal but did it anyway because so does everyone else) and another for the working class. Another hit smacking the FBI for its role as a political police force. I love it go ahead and do it some more show how corrupt you and your capitalist system are.
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@stefasaurus2476 How about they bring in Hamas Leaders from the middle east where they are hiding out. How about the military supporter of Hamas the Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran.
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No this is propaganda for big business. They benefit most by a low minimum wage. Bosses replace labor with machines because that's the way capitalism works. That happens in every industry where it is possible not just car washes. They use to have attendants pump gas. So called "Progressives" should stay out. They are unneeded. They should go unionize their own jobs. Capitalism has its own internal contradictions that drive it into war and depression.
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@dantesebastianespinolaorti4378 What's Venezuela have to do with the minimum wage in New York?
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@dantesebastianespinolaorti4378 Inflation of the Bolivar compared to the dollar is much worse in Venezuela.
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Ya the move on to a new company or government job that pays them even more. Old Congressmen who lose become corporate lobbyists. They all go to the elite universities where you are uninvited. Why? because you aren't a legacy admission or didn't get that special private education.
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@BlazedBob At the end of the day you'll go out as a piece of meteor dust.
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Like how the US Puppet Syngman Rhee ordered US Air force carpet bombing of his own people.
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@mitchellgarrett5124 Like every other business a Gates is in it for the money he wants a pace of every dollar that passes by his nose. He of course will claim I'm only taking a few pennies. These blood suckers insert themselves into everything sucking everything dry until a big business collapse occurs like 2008.
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Wendy Hankins Two Party Bosses say we build walls and make war!! No help for refugees or Victims of natural disasters. They just talk. Party Bosses say Evacuate. Your On Your Own! Fix you problems! Government Can't can't help! Insurance Company saya ACT OF GOD!!! WE NO PAY!!
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Who should we trust with guns? The cops and US Military or those who can purchase one legally. I don't trust the capitalist government but apparently this professor does because gun control doesn't apply to the government. The cops aren't going to disarm and neither is the national guard or federal military.
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@pbnjeffy1611 Publish a paper The Militant since 1928 as Trotsky followers in the US. Collaborated with Trotsky in Mexico. Lead the Minneapolis Teamsters and citywide General Strike. First Victims of FDR's Imperialist War Deal and the Smith "gag" Act although the governmnet bit off more than it could chew compared to how the were able to legally disrupt the Communist Party USA in the 1950's. In his last year Malcolm X would come and speak at Militant Labor Forums. Played a role in the anti Vietnam war and Abortion rights movements. Put the FBI on trial in Socialist Workers Party v, Attorney General resulting in a Federal judge holding the Attorney General of the United States in contempt of court. Ran Peter Camejo for President getting under 100,000 votes. Now the 2008 crisis created a lot of interest in socialism but has not yet created enough on going class struggle for a bolshevik party to intervene or a new mass labor party to come forward.
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@GMan-yv8cb Cancel National debt!!!
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@kennelson5096 They are going to hire a deaf mute Democrat a part of the President's commitment to the deaf mute community to do a translation for those who don't need to listen.
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@straightawaykid Arm sales yes trade no. Trade would only hurt the victims of the Saudi ruling class. A ruling class always eats first while its people last. Stopping arms sales and removing US troops from Saudi bases would send a clear message.
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@JesusSeesUs She's a Canadian who wants the king to take care of her.
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@michaelkahn8903 The capitalism politicians just want to cut costs so they can cut back on taxes for the boss class. The bosses could care less about education since they want order takers not thinkers. They want to monopolize all the thinking so the can control us through ignorance. They don't want us to know the truth about how big the profits are and how they spend them just to make them bigger and create inflation so that they can cut wages while the value of their property rises. The Capitalist two parties and their government is all set up to work against us.
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@michaelkahn8903 The boss classes most important product is us the men and women who will overthrow their state power in a revolution just like the early Russian and the Cuban revolution. We haved proved ourselves to be the makers of history as we made deep in roads on private property during the last great depression. Industrial Unions born in class struggle like the three citywide general Strikes and the CIO Autoworkers sit down strikes and social Insurance for all. The bosses have still not be able to reverse those gains.
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"The regime enriching itself before the people they are suppose to serve." Sounds like the US Congress and former US Presidents. We are in a new cold war with China who our CEO's sent jobs to so they could save 2 cents on a peice. People like Musk and Bezos want to move production off planet now. Then we can have a cold war with underground Martians.
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@KB-ke3fi End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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That's all this whole witchunt is about setting traps to get Trump for winning the 2016 election.
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@UncleMerlin Its the capitalist ruling class that does all the terrible things in its quest for bigger profits. Wall street is behind all this crap.
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He is just as much one of the people he complains about. He plays for the Republican team of bankers and bosses.
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@Toyota Corolla Corruption is a disease of capitalism. Cut off the power of the company stockholder at the knees. The workers should have the power to run the companies. That will end plant closure for more profits elsewhere, safety committees with the power to shut down unsafe operations, pollution problems will be solved locally instead of going to Washington bureaucrats.
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@MTknitter22 As long as you have capitalism you will have corruption both legal and illegal. Money talks and Bullshit walks.
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@snsm6730 The rise of the Titans of American capitalism in the late 1800's came with the administrative state. It became necessary to guarantee incumbency for the big owners of Basic Industry and Banking. To protect both their property and profits from the working class and small farmers. It keeps growing as it needs to defend capitalism from the masses of working people. By and through controlling capitalist greed they hope to keep their rotting capitalist system in power. Every week TheMilitant.com prints the truth about this world system and the working people who are fighting back against it across the world.
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The US CIA meddles in other countries politics by its very nature it makes cries form Democrats that Russians were responsible for their defeat just laughable. No FBI agent ever did a single day in jail for crimes like burglary committed in the course of disrupting my party's legal right to run candidates for President, State. and Federal office.
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If you learn anything from this than it should be to never enter into a conversation with the FBI. The only reason they ask questions is because they already know the answers.
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@troydaniel3030 I don't think you actually understand how law works in a bourgeois democracy. Congress passes all sorts of laws. The most important judge in any political trail is what the people believe. Obviously a large section of the American ruling class did not want Trump elected under any circumstances. The basic reason being he was not a tried and true politician and his appeal to the workers who had been hurt by the 2008 crisis which Obama had done nothing but lecture us on. The last thing they want is to raise our expectations in the mists of an economic crisis.
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@larrydugan1441 US penalize foriegn countries companies for trading with Cuba. End the blockade.
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@ludovicleprinceroyal8721 Just what is it that the capitalist provide the the workers don't make or build? Supposedly you interested in buying and selling are you not or do you want to conduct tests for ideological purity before sales? You trade with Saudi Arabia and China do you not? The communist movement buys materials and functions legally inside the United States despite many attempts to criminalize our party and trade union leaders. The policy towards Cuba is no different than trying to starve out strikers who present just demands and refusing all negotiations because you have labeled the strikers communist. You don't have to like us to trade or sign contracts with us.
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@surfboy344 No you are just repeating lies from Marco Rubio and the US Gov't propaganda outlet Radio and TV Marti. Path tp property is nonsense. US colony Puerto Rico's population is declining in actual numbers because all capitalist do is take for themselves. People of Ireland suffered under British Imperialism for years population was starved and went into decline because of British capitalist thieves and landlords. Only thing capitalist good for is more wars and misery. The Cuban revolution kicked out the US Imperialist masters and collaborators you cab not forget or forgive just like the British Imperialists, The British Imperialists had to be kicked out of their colonies before any real development could occur. .
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@katrachosps How about you just stop punishing whole peoples with sanctions and blockades everytime your Wall Street gangster government doesn't get its way.
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@waixingren4198 In other words China is becoming like the US?
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Facts do matter and capitalism can't escape its own logic based in the greed of the ruling classes. Imperialism is the highest stage of world capitalism and the only way out for humanity is world socialist revolution. All you need to do s go to American cities like Los Angeles and compare the living conditions of the poor in Los Angeles in tents and cars to those in Cuba and its obvious as to where they poor are doing better in Havana despite the US with its claims of world superiority.
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@guidototh6091 They discussed and overwhelmingly voted to approved their new Constitution. They elect their representatives to the Assembly of People's Power with a greater turnout than in the US. The rest of your charges are nothing more than lies told by US CIA supported Counter revolutionary terrorists based in Miami. The Pope went to Cuba and Catholics are not put in jail for being Catholics either. You can't name a political prisoner in Cuba because all they are is violent criminals. The violations of Human Rights in Cuba take place at the US Guantanamo Naval base. Their political discussion center around how to develop the country despite the US blockade. Their is no interest in giving everything to a few rich capitalist so they can exploit everyone else. No one is especially interested in the junk science economics promoted by US Bourgeois professors of business, political science and economics. The ones that call for the creation of a new capitalist ruling class of perpetual owners. People aren't easily fooled by your slogans of a free market means a free people and libertarian nonsense where capitalist bosses make all decisions based upon profits for them while government protects their ownership rights above all else. Everyone is tired of the US Propaganda outlet Radio and TV Mari.
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@guidototh6091 Your problem is they don't want a choice to return to the past of a US type party system where those who can tell the biggest lies and make the most fanatical promises exercise political power because they are a class of owners allied with US Big Business. Human Rights Watch is financed to the tune of 100 million by George Soros to make noise for the Liberal Billionaire. You don't like their system of justice because it puts actual criminals in prison. People who use protests as an excuse to destroy property and set cars on fire go to jail. George Soros made his wealth though financial manipulation. That's the kind of system he wants to save from a socialist revolution.
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@guidototh6091 Well I hearJimmy "Human Rights" Carter is still laughing after he ended up with criminals like "Scarface" instead of political prisoners. Sixty years of predicted failure what elses is new? Only 20 odd years ago the US Imperialists were bragging about having won the cold war now the two parties accuse each other of being pawns of Russia or China. Bushes "New World Order" died with the Crisis of 2008 and the Afghan withdrawal of 2021. Today you have the "New World Disorder" Biden giving speeches on how "Democracy is Not Dead" at the UN while he launches an assault on his bourgeois political opposition at home.
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@guidototh6091 I guess we finally have got to the key difference since I detest the US government that means I hate the USA and you are the bourgeois nationalist who knows best and loves capitalism. Naturally you bring up fascism because every US Bourgeois politician swears allegiance against fascism except when it comes to trade and diplomatic recognition. Then they are the supporters of the worst of the worst like Pinochet and Franco. Biden fist bumps the Saudi King instead of making him the international pariah he promised during election. The fascists always represent a capitalist class which is why the US capitalist have no problem with recognition. .
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Ops Blac The US faces its own political crisis. It's lost ever major political confrontation with Cuba. Its also been 30 years since the end of the Soviet bloc. The Imperialist world order is getting weaker not stronger. The US loses every UN General Assembly vote against the blockade at about 188 to 2. Cuban American's are turning against the blockade with Carlos Lazo leading Puentes de Amor.
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@abeldemota1851 North Korea is a small country that the US Imperialist leveled with a carpet bombing campaign. The US should take its Troops and Nukes and Leave the Korean Pennensla. Fidel is the leader of a revolution that has outlasted 11 US Presidents. Cuban Troops defeated racist South Africa with Fidel as the commander in Havana. Cuban dissidents have chosen their government like Yoani Sanchez who sit in Miami Professors chair as a Presidential Scholar. They are busy spreading rumors and playing the victim.
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@TWE_2000 How do you know the Taxi driver isn't the heart surgeon?
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@TWE_2000 Why does the heart surgeon need to make more money? Fidel Castro never had a problem with not enough Doctors like say the United States where one in every three Doctors has to be replaced with a immigrant. They have 10,000 foreign students in Havana training to be Doctors at no direct cost to the student and the have brigades of Doctors that serve in missions to the poor. Cuban Doctors halted Ebola in Africa. The US should End the Blockade of Cuba!!
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@TWE_2000 Give us a break from the US propaganda about the Doctors being slaves. LMAO. Last time Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter pulled that stunt with the criminals who crashed the Embassy demanding asylum all those who wanted ti leave collected at the embassy then Carter declared A "Human Rights" crisis in Cuba. Fidel opened the port of Mariel and invited all those who would sail from Miami to come and pick up who ever they wanted. That went on for a few months than the new free Cuban "Political Prisoners" got into all kinds of trouble in Florida because they were not use to capitalist injustice so the Governor declared an Emergency. Then Fidel said any Cuban could leave on a boat to help the Americans with the Emergency. So many boats left Cuba for the US that Carter sent in the US Coast Guard to seize boats reimpose the blockade and halt anymore immigration. No one except an idiot believes the one big prison story. The US Coast Guard turned back boats the left for Cuba after the latest provaction by a few hollering Freedom and waving US flags.
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@TWE_2000 The US swings its weight around with a blockade meant to starve the Cuban people into submission to Imperialist dictates from Washington. Ever country in the world except Israel votes against the arrogant Imperialist blockade that accuses Cuba of being a State sponsor of terror. Miami Cubans who recently tried to break the blockade were turned back by the US Coast Guard. So yes its a blockade.
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Trump is showing weakness by wanting a parade. This is why liberals are angry with him.
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@c.galindo9639 You need to come up with all these personal; sanders because you can argue against his ideas. Sowell attracts a cult of capitalist business yes men.
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@jimmyzhao2673 Except money isn't made of Gold and Sliver and kept in banks but money is created by central banks. Thatcher of course was referring ti King Charles who took the merchants money to go about the country destroying it so he could collect taxes. What should we do with capitalists who go around the world destroying it so they can make profits?
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@ltmund Marx only concluded capitalism prepares the world for socialism by creating the people who will be its grave diggers the industrial workers. Capitalism has done its job in creating us now it's up to us to take control of industry away from the bosses and establish a new form of production that is based in science with human relations that are based in solidarity instead of private profit.
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@GreenEyedRogue People such as yourself must wage a war of insults since you have no valid criticism of what Marx and Engels wrote.
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@c.galindo9639 Really? Why then does the Cuban revolution continue instead of them just throwing their lot in with capitalism and the USA since they are just 90 miles away? Why don't they fall for all the propaganda generated by the USA? Afterall they are only an island with a small population. Could be that capitalist culture in the US is just filled wth all kinds of lies told in the service of profits. Advertising is the most glaring examples of the lies needed to keep up the sales of products including many that become next to worthless to anyone after sale.
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@c.galindo9639 Like all capitalist they measure success in profits and that is why their system goes into crisis. They reinvest to expand production and when they can't invest in more production because of overproduction with markets filled with products but no buyer at the prices demanded they turn to driving up the speculative value of whatever they religiously believe always rises in value until the prices collapse and produce a self defeating economic crisis. Since the workers couldn't buy back all that could be produced the capitalist now begin the process of layoffs creating even less demand and more layoffs and evictions. That is how you system creates personal success and freedom by creating a life of misery for millions so that you can talk about how free that dollar bill in your pocket makes you.
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@c.galindo9639 "Capitalism actualy means more freedom for personal success." No it doesn't because the bosses always need someone to work for them and carry out their orders. Capitalism produces huge industrial amies to fight on the battlefield of the market whrre the general who issues the greatest number of discharges is the victor.
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@ltmund It's no differnt than the freedom that the slaveholder had. The 19th century slave owners success was based upon owning the labor power of other human beings and selling the product. The capitalist success is based upon the buying the labor power of other human beings and selling the product. Like always the best slave is one who thinks he is free. When the slave realized he was feeding the slave owner instead of the slave owner feeding him is when the slave quit being a slave. When the workers realise they feed the bosses instead of the bosses feeding them this is when capitalism comes to an end because then the workers realise their own humanity and self worth. This is when they realise the boss plays no special role that requires his control over mountains of private property but requires workers control over what it is workers have created the whole world system of production and trade. .
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@c.galindo9639 No because you just have this good and bad interpretation of Marx's thinking. The success of slavery was evident in the ancient world of Rome and Egypt. Yet those slave societies only achieved so much before going into decline being replaced with feudalism where a king ruled through allaince he made with others who owned land could contribute taxes and soldiers. The Empires of Rome and Egypt used slaves and sent out armies to capture more slaves to create their empires. With feudalism the peasants belonged to the land and the land belonged to a noble who entered into military alliances for self protection. Meanwhile a new middle class of people developed in the cities of Europe the men who carried on trade both near and far. Spanish and Portuguese began to eclipse anything the Romans did with the new shipbuilding technology sending out expeditions to concur foreign lands and use slaves t mine gold to make themselves rich. But it was the English Dutch and Swiss middle class that were the ones making themselves rich though trade and manufacture. They would constantly fight to overthrow the power of the monarchy in a class struggle. The world today is characterised by industrial production not independent bosses working in garages to become a Steve Jobs. For every Steve Jobs and Bill Gates their were thousands of engineers and millions of workers to make the modern communication industry possible. The only role Gates and Jobs played was that of wealth business tycoons fighting for market share. .
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@c.galindo9639 You have whatever dream you like but without capital and legal defense of your so called dream it will be taken and used by someone else like Bill Gates. If need be he will file for a competing patent and you will be in the same place Fred Koche was before he went to the Soviet Union to work as a Engineer. An inventor with no money or lagal traing to take on the big oil companies.
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@c.galindo9639 No what Stalin did was not done in Cuba which proves Trotsky correct and both Sowell and Stalin wrong. Sowell has been sitting with egg on his face since the crisis of 2008 and the Stalinist movement was defeated by the workers with popular revolutions in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union not capitalist bosses sending their armies in. In China the Stalinist were already on the capitalist road they accused the Soviets of being on. Friedman's theory of capitalism bringing freedom keeps crashing against walls of reality. The bosses only become more punitive and nore petty in their way in which they treat us. Their crisis ridden system becomes an obstacle to the forces of production itself.
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@c.galindo9639 Maybe you like to tell us what a success you've been and how well the bosses get along with each other? Once the backslapping and drinking is over its every boss for himself am i right?
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@c.galindo9639 Slavery was an advance when the previous use of war captives was for dinner. The problems with capitalism stem from a small ruling class unable to control production with the methods of profit and loss the long proof of that is in Das Kapital. Capitalism only works for a short time because the contradictions based with the workings of the profit system. Investment is merely they way in which capital organizes production. The problem s that not all investment is worthwhile to begin with. Only when it results in reducing labor time or expanding production does it increase the productive forces. When you invest in things that become a problem after then it becomes a negative like DDT, PCB's, leaded gasoline and nuclear weapons. So investing just for moneys sake doesn't always result in a good outcome. What's the point of opening more gold mines when Gold isn't used for money and kept it huge stashes in places like Fort Knox? . Capitalism also is the first system with the problem of overproduction of commodities for markets that can no longer yield back a profit. That along with driving up the price of fictitious capital when you can no longer expand production for profits causes economic crisis because the workers can no longer buy back all that can be produced You thn cut back on production and wages only worsening the crisis.creating situations like 2008. Then your find you need to bail yourselves out. You've been doing a lot of stupid things to maximize profits and its starting to catch up with you. Like overfilling cargo ships and not taking into account the mess that will need to be cleaned up in the middle of the ocean because that's goes on the books as a loss of the commodities only in insurance records with the clean up put off for to be paid for in the future.
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@c.galindo9639 The problem with government and administration is its done for the protits of the top bosses. After the Cuban revolution no one was told they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is they could use their position to exploit others and government officials had their pay cut. Those who left for higher pay in the US and other places were replaced with more people getting education. While the remain an underdeveloped they have been able to advance out of the misery that was Cuba before the revolution and in many ways they rival or exceed the United States and Europe.
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@beekeeper8474 Just because a train goes off the track doesn't prove the laws of motion wrong. Nor does it make the laws of motion into a new religion. Marx's ideas are based upon facts and careful observations. Those who corrupt or vugarize them do so at risk of their own folly. That is why differences of opinions developed in the the first, second, third and fourth internationals. In fact differences of opinion develop among all classes when their class interests aren't moving the general creation of surplus value in overall wealth forward. A careful reading of Marx shows it is not some fixed dogma Like that of religions expressed in novels like Ayn Rand's objectivism or Stalin's self serving theories of a bureautic cream that rose to sit upon the new workers state needing to both defend its privileges against the masses of workers and defend the workers state from military defeat by the foreign Imperialist powers. The theories that no longer apply either disappear or are replaced by better ones. like a flat earth or an earth centric world. The pope tried to halt Galileo's ideas of a heliocentric world just as Stalin, Hitler, and FDR tried to halt the ideas of Trotsky. Yet those are the ideas that broke down all the barriers erected and were confirmed by Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution.
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@beekeeper8474 The NAZI's pose a threat of terrorism against Jews. The best way to counter the NAZI threat is with mass counter mobilization and protest not handing powers to regulate speech and political association to the Capitalist State power. Just as liberals who want to toss aside constitutional protections in the haste to get Trump pose a threat to everyone's freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution. American fascism will not come dressed in the clothes of NAZI German but both the lies of a demagogue like Joe McCarthy and officials like Mayor Hauge of Jersey City who don't give a damn about rule of law and Constitutional rights. The NAZI built their movement in Germany though illegal acts of terrorism not by winning debates and elections. Only when the ruling class of German capitalist feared the loss of political power did they turn to the illegal gangsters Hitler had organized despite being initially subjected to severe punishment by the Wiemar Republic. The failure of the two German workers parties to close ranks and prent the rise of the NAZI political violence allowed their development as an illegal terrorist organization. .
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@beekeeper8474 You counter lies with truth not censorship. The ideas of the NAZI's and lies they tell are rendered powerless in the face of truth. As I have stated passing laws like the Smith "gag" Act to prevent a so called secret NAZI fourth column were instead used not against American Fascist or NAZI's but first Trotskist and Minneapolis Teamsters leaders who opposed Stalin yet this law was supported and the prosecution hailed by the Stalinist Communist Party and then after the war the same laws were turned against the Stalinists and the labor movement as a whole where only leaders who swore on a stack of bibles that they weren't communists or members of organizations on the Attorney generals list were recognized as legitimate labor leaders. Those who renounced communism were assumed to be guilty of know what it was and where required to pointed fingers at other suspects until anyone who had heard the names of communist or read books by Marxist was accused of being under control of communist witchcraft. .
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@beekeeper8474 No it doesn't people have as much choice of occupation in Cuba as anywhere else if not more so since education isn't skewed to those with families of higher incomes like in the United States. What you don't get is a the privileges conferred by education. Which is what the so called dissenters who are supported by the United States demand. They demand Western Salaries for demoralised intellectuals like themselves and when they don't get them they head for the United States or Western Europe. Some have returned and continue cries for reforms like putting everything under control of AI and ending anymore volunteer labor or the building of socialism. They are correctly seen as just out for themselves and so their ideas are rejected.
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@c.galindo9639 That is just a bunch of lies dreamed up by Bourgeais scholars like Sowell who aribute everything to Capitalist development.. China should be behind India instead of ahead of it if what you said had a grain of truth to it. Instead Chana remains ahead of India despite having India having at least 20 extra years of capitalist development. Even with all the errors of Mao capitalism in Democratic India was unable to pull ahead. The US refused to even trade with China until after it was defeated in Vietnam. So China couldn't have been developed with lend lease aid and help form capitalist countries like Sowell attributes the success of Soviet Unions economy.
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@c.galindo9639 If all a socialist revolution amounted to was expanding tyranny and denial of freedom then NAZI Germany's capitalism should have defeated the Soviet Union and the United States. Since that's exactly what they were. Despite all the actions of Stalin without the courage of the Soviet Workers and peasants who lost the greatest number of soldiers and civilians in the War Hitler's Regime may have won the war instead of the Soviet Union and Democratic Imperialism. The end of the war resulted in such weakening of Western Imperialism that the European Powers could not maintain their direct military colonial subjugation. American Imperialism the top dog after the war was unable to prevent the Chinese from defeating the Imperialist collaberors and Stalin was unable to deliver Yugoslavia to the British Imperialists.
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@DIE2dayORelse Sowell spent most of his career blaming Karl Marx socialism or communism for everything bad that happens in the 20th century. Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto in less than 175 years has been read and translated into just as many if not more languages than the bible and one of the top four works of literature in terms of numbers published
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@c.galindo9639 The greatest number of deaths in World War two were sustained by the Soviet civilians and soldiers. The Red Army reached Berlin before the Democratic Imperialists got to the Elbe river. Those are facts you can't deny. In the Far East Mao's Chinese Red Army defeated the Imperialists Japaneses and General Chang's nationalist murderers were forced into withdrawing to Taiwan which had been under Japanese control. American soldiers demanding to be sent home prevented the Imperialist from invading China and Churchill's defeat put the plans to use defeated NAZI Troops along with the Democratic Imperialists for another war against the Soviet Union ON HOLD.
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@IVIRnathanreilly "I don't have a boss Kim. I work for myself, is this possible if I live under your dream system of governance?" I've never heard of a capitalist boss who didn't "work for himself" then again so do bank robbers and prostitutes. All you told me is what you think you do not what you do. The slave owners of the southern states didn't think they could survive without slaves so they launched a civil war they worked for themselves also. Capitalist surviving without capitalism? Gee I guess you have to work like everyone else. Capitalism comes to an end as the workers realize their own self worth and put an end to the system of private property and profits for a few and replace it with a new system of planned production in the interests of the many.
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@IVIRnathanreilly Did I need to argue with someone who says fish can't swim? You say you don't have a boss because you believe yourself to be socially disconnected. You think of yourself as just another male orangutan swinging from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit. You've successfully escaped and ask why others don't want to follow you down the rabbit hole. Gee someone might make a decision that affects the male orangutan and that certainly can be allowed as it would mean war with the orangutans.
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@IVIRnathanreilly Gee the issue is Youtube censorship.
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@IVIRnathanreilly No you don't work for yourself the way a wild animal does because like it or not you part of the world economy and depend on the world's human culture.
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"Give men a pill, to prevent pregnancy?" Good idea now all you need to do is invent one. Let's make all birth control free and available along with scientific sex education in the public schools for children not yet at puberty. That would decrease the need but not eliminate the need for abortions. You can't give a fetus a right to life anymore than you can give a person with a kidney disease the right to a kidney from someone else's body. The feus belongs solely to the mother before birth. You only become part of the community after birth.
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Kingy B Year ago Mao called US paper tiger.
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@amraceway Orwell left the anti Stalinist communist movement to become a British Social Democrat working as a censor for the British Empire during WW2.
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@jebemtigolaz We have what dead people including Karl Marx wrote and said on paper.
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@charlesbarnard4667 It a shame you can argue any point but have to resort to your ignorance as an oldster for logic.
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@joemarz2264 I suppose only those who's purpose in life is to accumulate a huge bag of gold are not rabid dogs?
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Jake Shattuck Not really all that fun because Engels wrote about "Primitive Communism" in The Origins of Family, Private Property and the State. " ..but the transition to communism is only possible on a micro scale... " "No because socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, must take hold first in the most developed countries." Opening a Food Coop or going back to a farming culture of primitive communism is not a step towards socialism or communism.
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@donrutter6765 With in the Bill of Rights are the weapons to take down capitalism and the capitalist government.
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@amraceway It was a very tough time to be a Trotskyist as WW2 was approaching. The war fever was rising in the UK/US. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by Stalin's NKVD. FDR's AG Biddle arrested 18 leaders of the SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters and convicted them under the Smith Act. The Stalinist flipped back to supporting FDR along with what was left of the Socialist Party. The SWP lost almost 1/2 of the Party to those who now saw the Soviet Union as state capitalism not a degenerated workers state. James Burnham went all the way to becoming a founder of American Conservatism with William Buckley. You can read about that in TheMilitant.com and on Marxists.org in Trotsky's In Defense of Marxism and Jim Cannon's The Struggle for a Proletarian Party.
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@amraceway Cool Dude.
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Too bad the crisis of 2008 showed all that to be bull shit.
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@toomanyhobbies2011 From someone whose hobby seems to be a fascination with military weapons. Fidel Castro defeated the American Imperialist in Cuba despite their invasion plans and the South African Racist Army on the battlefield of the Angolan civil war. Forever ending the myth of the invincible White man in Africa.
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@jimmythebold589 More than likely Google spell check inserts the apostrophe. All this shows is what a privileged educated idiotic clown you are. Hitler had the support of the non Jewish educated people.
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@facehugger3 Jobs aren't coming back just because Trump wants to punish China and the rest of the world with tariffs. Its just another profits first for the American bosses policy.
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@EinKerl3554 Republicans didn't have the undemocratic rules put in place that the Democrats had to prevent another George McGovern campaign.
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@TheSmartLawyer Lawyers are smart they're connected.
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@ToOpen6seven Sowell is just an apologist for team Republican who betrayed Blacks long ago with the compromise of 1877 that ended reconstruction in the South and ushered in Segregation by the Democratic party of the old slaveowners..
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@mikemorris1760 He is about the same age as MLK and Malcolm X. To the best of anyone's knowledge and his own statements this gentleman never so much as carried a picket sign or participated in anything but Republican Conservative Establishment Party politics. Obviously he couldn't betray MLK because he had nothing to do with the Black rights movement other than being a intellectual sideline critic who is Black.
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Hitler was a Republican also. All the Social Democrats who were allowed to take their seats in the Reichstag vote against passing the enabling act that gave Hitler dictatorial power and none of the Communists were allowed to vote because Paul von Hindenburg the President of Germany issued the Reichstag Fire Act. This despite a famous trial were the Communist Party leaders were found "Not Guilty." Industrialist and former Chancellor the aristocrat von Papen were behind making Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Hitler would never have come to power without the machinations of the Industrialists and von Papen.
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The long retreat by labor is over as union strikes are on the rise. The working class will once again begin to put its stamp on history.
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Hamas is a NAZI like organization. Its leaders live in luxury in Qutar. Biden is a bourgeois politician. If he was a fascist The Hindustan Times rubbish journal would not appear in the US.
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@RCmack The is no way to improve anything by voting for a Democratic Party of Billionaire liberal capitalists as lessor evils. McGrath is a female Democratic "Imperialist War" Party candidate. She needs exactly zero votes "to win." Thats how many she should get form workers and anyone who wants an end to the endless Imperialist war government policy. McGrath is out to help herself and the Billionaire capitalist only. She deserves ever boo she gets.
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Obviously you've never read Karl Marx either.
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Why not call the pope and seek canonization?
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@JeanetteFaith He gave up any intellectual honesty long ago for a coat and tie along with a professors chair at elite universities.
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At least people would be employed creating and passing out the food. It could become a way of life and part of the trade union movement.
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You have to have some power to demand change.being unemployed, homeless and hungry leaves you virtually powerless. You need organization and the best type of organization for demanding that change is a union and a political party controlled by the unions not a party that represents the 'community'. You don't want the bosses in the union and you don't want to have the bosses in a party controlled by the unions.
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@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms According to UNICEF their are 153 million orphans in the world today. Sure and they are waiting for a reason like wanting only white babies or children under a certain age. Otherwise their wouldn't be kids who age out of the foster care system. You also have the problem of agencies that won't allow single parents or gays to adopt.
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@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms Not that its any of your business but all three of us were born as wanted children not mistakes due to forced pregnancy.
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@fauxque5057 Between a mirid of legal hurdles and fear of terrorism abortion is not available in 95% of counties in the US some US states have only one open clinic. Texas argued in the court that women could go to another state when challenged on restrictions and then passed a law allowing private bounty hunters to go after those who assist a women in getting ab abortion. Ted Cruz represents the extremist Republicans in his state Texas. It takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate to pass impeachment unlikely she will be impeached.
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@mafarmerga Under whose eye? Am I suppose to shake in my boots over the power of you god? How many eyes does he have or is hy a cyclops? Think I'm cringing at the thought of eternal damnation? Stalin studied to be an Orthodox priest at one time. He'd of probably made a better Prist than revolutionary considering his lack of ability to have an abstract thought.
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@maryjeanjones7569 I don't understand what you asking me?
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@maryjeanjones7569 The number of rainy days in a year? How many hot dogs I ear in a week? How many women have an abortions in their lifetime?
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When the court ruled on abortion it ruled what limits a state could put on abortion Like most Supreme court rulings it is based on the Constitution and the protections in the constitution to the people and the limits on federal government and the states. The federal government is limited to the powers enumerated within the Constitution the rest being left to the states and the people. Historically the court has seldom reversed itself. Rather it usually has cautiously and narrowly ruled by being more explicit.
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@aaronkamakaze2967 Planned Parenthood gets funding for other healthcare services besides abortion. The are not responsible for the foster care adoption system. Unwanted children age out of the foster care system as it is now. If you wish to present voluntary adoption as an option fine but that is not the same as telling someone they must carry a pregnancy to term. The fact that Planned Parenthood doesn't have a sign at the door saying voluntary adoption is an alternative to abortion proves nothing because if such a sign were placed you would still be yelling that it wasn't big enough in more languages wasn't properly presented by a counselor ect. If someone has a responsibility to explain about adoption services than that is the school system not planned parenthood. You wouldn't want the Church forced to explain contraception and abortion would you?
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@aaronkamakaze2967 Please explain how 2 million "want to adopt bit only 100,00 are available yet every year foster children age out of the system. After all Bill Clinton's "ending welfare as we know it" was so successful that more children live in poverty with less support than ever before. They can't even match up children with parents in the system now what makes you thing they will do better after more unwanted babies enter the world?
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@maryjeanjones7569 Abortion happens naturally in about one in three pregnancies. It's called a miscarriage. Laws can't prevent a miscarriage but the can prevent a doctor from performing an abortion. So instead desperate women will seek out abortion drugs not prescribed by a physician some will live and some will die. They will die for the same reason people are dying in the opioid crisis. The capitalist care only about themselves and like Hillary Clinton said abortion should be rare and legal. Rare for the poor and working class and safe and legal for the rich. You can write some more gun control laws and they won't stop criminals attaining access to guns. Basicly you can find faluts with everyone lock everyone up for something and turn the country into a gigantic prison. More prisoners means more cheap labor for telemarketers and other profit seeking companies.
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@consciouspresence5880 Pro Life nonsense laws since declared legal in some states have not proved they can save a single baby.
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The last thing the American ruling class wants is a revolution in Mexico.
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If a second revolution occurs in Mexico first it help the next one here.
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Class struggle with union power used against the bosses is the road to socialism not voting Demopublican.
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Yes Trump is going to lose those working class Teamster votes because you can't expect a capitalist candidate government and party to do something for us that will cut into profits. That's why we need to wage strikes and create a labor party of our own that can implement a workers foreign policy instead of one for the bosses. Amnesty for undocumented workers is the only currently winnable policy that will advance our class interests.
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Yes we are supporting our great ally Saudi Arabia. We will continue providing our great military ally with our highly valued military and great police support. We will keep providing all the new bone saws necessary. Bone saws made in our great bone saw factories and the all the necessary sulfuric acid from our magnificent chemical plants. Yes and for Christmas we plan to aid our Great Military Ally Saudi Arabia all the support necessary to seek the peaceful dissolution of their opposition.
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@simpleliving4703 The anti abortion movement was already successful in halting surgical abortions in most US counties. Now the problem is that most abortions are done with medicine. This will be much more difficult for the fake moralist of the anti abortion movement. Legal or illegal the flow of drugs has already been shown to be impossible to stop.
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@max2082 We need jobs at union wages not another way to save the capitalists on government overhead costs.
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In a Socialist planned economy we wouldn't have all these problems because organization would replace private capital moving to where the profits are. Education wouldn't end at age 18 but be part of people's life time. Increase in productivity wouldn't be a curse upon the working class but something we would celebrate. Half of our engineers and scientists work providing the military with new weapons. What if we sent building materials thousands of engineers, skilled workers, doctors, medical workers and teachers to patrs of the world where people still can't read and have to live in huts burning firewood?
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Ya Clinton wanted to train people to do 'other things' like what? How to use a pallet jack at Walmart or clean out the fryer over at McDonalds?
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Social Democracy is Vilvo bosses telling the UAW that if you strike we will run scabs in our Dublin, VA Truck plant. Its revival was only made possible by stalinist betrayal and the destruction of the world wars. Otherwise it is a toothless ideology of class collaboration and privilege for a few in the Imperialist centers of world capitalism that is evaporating as you read this.
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The best defense is a militia. Our military should understand that since we lost to militia's in Vietnam, Cuba and Afghanistan.
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Russ Ingram The NAZI's were on the verge of bankruptcy and were bailed out by big business. Big Business liked the NAZI's because they were strike breakers. NAZI's like alll fascist movements are enabled by political violense, attacks on Jews, unions and minorities. Hitler ended any internal opposition with the night of the long knives six months after taking power.
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@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Than corporations are socialist because they are joint dock companies and not individuals. That idea isn't of much value because modern production for the most part take place in factories and in many instances there is no direct relationship between any single individual worker and the factory. Many factories wouldn't be able run if a single worker owned a piece of the factory and said , "I'm sick and will stay home today." Creating useless concepts is the province of philosophers who solve the world when the point is to change it. .
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@JP-wx6uh You know what if that's your problem than you wont get anywhere. If you fear reading books, newspapers and pamphlets than their is little that can be done about that.
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@JP-wx6uh The US lost the cold war and the government eventually lost Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General forcing an end to general FBI spying and disruption tactics on political organizations. So their is no reason to be fearful. If anyone has been advancing political police type tactics and spying its been liberal Democrats with their "Get Trump" campaign and those who lined up for the patriot act and War in Afghanistan. Need I remind you that Sanders voted for that war.
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@JP-wx6uh The system can't help but provoke the workers into class struggle and that means a revitalized labor movement and from a union movement a new labor party independent of the two capitalist parties can be constructed.
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No to war with China take the war to the world's real enemy the US capitalists.
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@EverythingTechWithMustafa We are the only consistent anti Imperialist war party in the US just as Lenin's antiwar Bolshevik Party lead the fight against Imperialist war in the world at time we are the Party that does that in the world today because the US is the most powerful capitalist Empire not China. Everything points to the final defeat of capitalism taking place in the US and the only way that will happen is with the second Bolshevik Party built here by Trotsky the Socialist Worker Party.
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@jonathantaylor6926 We struck Westinghouse in 1976 and went back with a dollar an hour raise. I'm rooting for the Rail Workers not a bunch of Milton Freedman types who want to maximize profits above all else. Capitalist greed was the cause if 2008 and the effects of which have never been fully reversed. Build the unions build workers power.
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@jonathantaylor6926 I pushed a lawn mower as a child. Who do you think you talking to? "Why should someone who shows up and uses my equipment make the same as me." Why should they work for you in the first place? I quit jobs at the drop of the hat just to piss people like you off. Any fool can enter the landscaping racket. Fairness? We don't care about being "fair" to bosses like you in fact we think a boss who can't make a profit DESERVES to go out of business. Like Eastern Airlines. .
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@jonathantaylor6926 Quit you beefing no one cares about how great a business tycoon you think you are. You were born stark naked and when you die you'll be nothing but dust. Plenty of people don't want to waste their time trying to become the next Bill Gates. After all they hired all the smartest dumbies from MIT and Harvard to implement Milton Freedman's economic ideas at the Big New York Banks and nothing they did could prevent the crisis of 2008. All these fools care about is how many dollars they have in banks. The problem is all the ruling class does is place bets in a casino called Wall St. The do nothing to advance the forces of production which why capitalism just like the feudal system must come to an end. Its private property laws stand in the way when a crisis occurs. Their own accounting prove that. I know someone who actually owns a factory and was a libertarian. As soon as his business had problems he found out how much the bank loves him just like you will find out that no has any friends in business its all a war for profits against each other. Some have to learn the hard way and can't be taught anything. The logic of capitalism means if no one buys anything than nothing gets made. You can't just keep piling up profits and demanding more profits without choking off all economic activity. The profit comes from the unpaid labor of the production workers and the system can't be fixed just by reallocation of wealth. Production needs to be planned and the educational and cultural level of the working class needs to be raised such education and healthcare become rights for all. Instead of throwing people out of work we can send construction workers to the rest of the world.to help them raise the standard of living.
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@jonathantaylor6926 Just where can I read that quote from Lenin (his English Language works are available on line). The middle class has always been ground down when capitalism goes into crisis. Before central banking they had private banks that went bust with script that became worthless just before the great depression. And no what went wrong in the soviet Union was the rise of Stalin as a leader of a privileged bureaucracy. Lenin was the first to want him removed and when he died Trotsky tried to have him ousted. Hitler was a creature of German capitalism and his coming to power despite Germany having the largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union was Stalin and the Social Democrats fault and failure to lead the workers to power. Those who will go on strike on the railroad are workers not people to dumb to open landscaping rackets. .
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@jonathantaylor6926 Milton Freedman and all the rest of those who subscribe to capitalism call themselves free market advocates despite how monopolized they are. All the Big companies and the banks are intertwined along with the Central Bank. The federal Reserve is controlled by the same people who own wall street.They are classed based on the ownership of private property. The Soviet Union had no private property instead it was based upon central planning by a group who had made itself into a privileged caste not a new class since a class has a specific property relationship to the productive property. Stalin and what was left of the communist party after the murder purges owned nothing. Its privileges were based upon giving itself more and more incentives which pushed it back in the direction of capitalism.
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@jonathantaylor6926 The Federal Reserve act of`1913 created the Federal Reserve bank. It was created by the biggest financial interests as in an effort to prevent banking crisis. You can call it free market capitalism Like Ronald Aegean or Imperialism like Lenin but capitalism is what you have. It can't be "fixed" because its problems are caused by the root way in which the system is organized with private property, profits and markets. Banking capital became important because the production process goes though many steps from farm or the earth before reaching the end user. At each step trade and exchange of money occurs.
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@jonathantaylor6926 Your the one who oppose class struggle against the rail bosses. You the one who says free markets work. Your the one who has defended capitalism at every turn and has no solution other than to sit back and become a landscaping boss. Now suddenly you recognize that the federal reserve was set up to defend the capitalist ruling class. So you were dishonest the whole time in making your argument.
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@jonathantaylor6926 Class struggle is the road to socialism. A defeat of the greedy rail bosses will encourage other workers to fight back with the strike weapon. The landscaping slaves may decide they want better pay or conditions also.
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@jonathantaylor6926 We will get to the bankers in due time. Chairman Powell only gives orders to print bonds and money he doesn't do the actual printing. Slavery ended with the end of the slave market capitalism will end with the end of the capital market. Marx's observations are the lesson of human history. The road forward is paved by the class struggle not by complainers who sit on the sidelines with no path forward. Yours is the role of the philosopher who solves all problems by changing nothing. Get rid of the central bank you say just how are we suppose to do that? What do we replace it with? Do you have an answer besides DA YOUR A SLAVE and I'M A LANDSCAPING BOSS. Ha Ha Ha???? Of course not because you've read as much as I have and no one has any idea how to do that except us and even we understand that it is not something that can be done overnight. No one can just order the closing of the federal Reserve bank
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@jonathantaylor6926 We don't control the federal reserve. Besides you your self said that the super rich like it that way so you have no way to change that since the two parties do their bidding. Inflation favors property owners over wage earners. Why should they close down and stop printing money? We will build the labor movement and a new labor party to take state power away from the capitalist parties. We don't know exactly how things will go but we plan to establish a solid and predictable currency based upon labor time and use education to fight labor privilege. We also plan to take things out of the market so the need for a currency will decline. To fight inflation in the meantime we propose a sliding scale of wages and hours. Wage increases to match inflation.
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@jonathantaylor6926 That won't happen because the politic divide is based in classes not left right center ideology. Plus it won't "fix" capitalism. Its is merely a scheme proposed to save capitalism by placing the problems of the system on finance alone a not the profit and private property system itself. Financial panics occurred before the creation of the central bank and their is no reason to believe that leaving industry in private hands will prevent them. Nor is the idea of conservatives who say that a panic should be ridden out in bankruptcy courts. The solution remains for the working class to take control of production and planing to replacing market/profits as the way to run industry. Every fictitious capital market panic is caused by the operation of the fictitious capital market. Opening the books of the capitalist so the workers can see where money goes is also part of the revolution. No one in Cuba was told they could not be an administrator what they were told is they could no longer use their position to exploit others. Big companies are based in pooling capital just like all banks. Now a government has no incentive to inflate the money supply unless their is private property because inflation artificial raises property values in respect to wages. With no owners of capital its value becomes a use value not and not an exchange value.
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@jonathantaylor6926 People like Bill Gates the Windows monopolist stand in the way of innovation. China is moving ahead without intellectual property. Fidel Castro didn't get up everyday and smoke weed. The Cuban revolution shows Stalin's excesses were completely unnecessary. The new President of Cuba is a trained electrical engineer. If laziness were a problem bourgeois society would have gone to the dogs a long time ago. Cuba shows what's possible in just a small and poor country. Despite 60 years of blockade the US Imperialist are in no way near to reversing the revolution and the communist leadership in Cuba. What is played down in 1989 was the defeat of the Imperialist of South Africa in Angola bt Revolutionary Cuba. Instead the Imperialist became giddy thinking they had "Won the Cold War" and the "end of history had occurred". The came the "George Bushes" the men who were going to lead a "New World Order" defeating the "New Hitler" and "Terrorism." along with saving the "free market" by intervening in the "free market." A better question would be why is capitalism failing? Capitalism has to exhaust all its possibilities before it get's replaced. Its a world system and its been in overall decline since the beginning of World War one. The 1917 Bolshevik revolution was its first big defeat. Stalin was the leader not of victories after taking over from Lenin and Trotsky but defeats until his heirs were defeated in 1989 by popular revolutions. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism because the ruling capitalist classes are still tide to their nation states and they are unable to peacefully settle trade disputes among themselves on the world market. The working class has only become larger worldwide compared to all other classes and the New Chinese working class has already shown its ability to struggle. The quest for profits is what drove it to "globalism" in production while national independence in what were the colonial nations works against the financial centers of capitalism.
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@jonathantaylor6926 The friend of the capitalist paid for most innovation over the last century. (The US Gov't funded University connected labs.) Which someone like you would close down as a frivolous government overhead expense. The FBI rooted slander of communists being weed smokers isn't worth the time of day.
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@kickboxer2149 What work as an office boss pretending to be a worker? Naturally office bosses share in profits they aren't workers but bosses Paid to get us to work the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest rate and paid just enough to reproduce or labor for the next pay period for the biggest office boss profits.
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@markanthony3275 With capitalism that which can't produce private profits by industrial methods which can continually cut labor time is pushed upon the government or non profit organizations. The purpose of unions is to defend the rights of workers on the job. Those social workers like Mark Janus, Prison Guards and Cops who serve the capitalist state and the boss classes disciplinary interests should be kicked out of the labor movement if they try to join.
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@user-ze3sg6ix1u You don't know what he was doing before he joined a union. So he might have been working a low wage job so maybe it did double.
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@UnknownMoses Miltary is enjoying Washington cocktail party.
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@eileeneclark9011 This was the end of the Imperialist War after 3 trillion dollars spent assembling the best mercenaries money could buy. Millions turned into refugees thousands displaced all in the interest of the Imperialist Bankers and capitalist bosses.
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What the hell is a Yuden?
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@Kool-aid Watchdog Don't worry Rubio is planing on make it cheaper to use a tin can and string for nationwide calling.
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@chriskelley7979 So if the poor decide to just take from stores or pay a lower price the rich will just accept that?
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To drive profits their way bosses seek to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. The Capitalist drive for profits means they seek to pay the lowest wages, work you the longest hours and at the fastest pace.
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@BobDingus-bh3pd Nor does it mean the exaggeration of individual interests like the goal of trying to turn everything into individual private property when even the capitalist have and act with collective interests. Many corporations have multiple owners. Just as we have class and individual interest so do they. Their small group needs to keep their crisis wracked system from getting out of control which history shows them unable to do. The set up the Federal Reserve after a private banking crisis that required JP Morgan to bail others out. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned federally chartered Bank. The Paris commune was the first workers state. It was produced by the Franco Prussia war. It lasted about 70 days before the workers were slaughtered by counter revolutionary forces. The capitalist need an ever growing state to arbitrate every dispute and grievance in their favor. The favor of an ever shrinking minority. Their sole concern is profits as seen in accounting books. It's relatively easy to show that the profit is just surplus value produced by labor in an industrial company. The taxes collected by the capitalist for their government are also part of the system that recognizes that all things can not simple be turned into commodities and sold in a market. If your going to use the police and army its been decided that its much better to put a democratic facade on their actions. As for things like education and healthcare the capitalist view those not as something upon which humanity builds and creates for itself but things to be monopolized and minimized into the hands of a few since their are either an overhead cost or an indirect drag on profits though taxes. Then you have a combination of the bank, the landlord and the government all demanding that tribute be paid for housing and farmland regardless of income to them as if we were still serfs from the middle ages.
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@purplespeckledappleeater8738 "Their will be a Socialist revolution in the US before their is a counter revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro.
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@purplespeckledappleeater8738 None of the protests are calling for any kind of political change what they are protesting is the situation they find themselves in due to the actions of the American Imperialist Blockade and denial of credits that every other government gets from the rich nations when an economic crisis occurs. Cuban's are smart enough to understand the the US capitalist system is not transferable anymore than it was transferable to the old Soviet Union. All the Soviet workers gor from capitalism was shock therapy along with the Yeltsin dictatorship. The problems of the Stalin era were never properly addressed in the Soviet Union. Cuba did not make the same mistakes that were made by the regime of Joseph Stalin. The leaders of the Cuban revolution never carried out the crimes against innocent people that the Stalinists did so they never had the same problems in Cuba as Fidel stated in Cuba we made mistakes but we were lucky that we had to rely on our own strength and that of our people when facing Imperialism just 90 miles away. We could not rely on the arrival of Soviet tanks to defend the revolution so instead we had to be revolutionaries fighting for a just world, Cuba has friends that will come forward to defend Cuba from the injustice of the American Imperialist Empire. The capitalist they count on money, on armies, on bombs and terrorism but what they never can count on is the solidarity of the workers and farmers who struggle daily to make a living for ourselves.
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This is total bullshit capitalists are clearly in control with private property in almost every country. Their inability to extract themselves from their own crisis is what drives the coming world Socialists revolution.
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Yes Yes s defender of American Imperial exceptionalism who gushes with pride.
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"..Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open..." Hosea 13:15
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@williamwalker8107 Well do you blame the Chinese for inventing gunpowder also? Or Einstein for the nuclear weapon. Marx exposed the flaws in capitalism and the capitalist have never been happy since. The tendency of capital to accumulate in fewer and fewer hands. The long term tendency of profit rates to decline. The creation of industrial armies on the battlefield of production where victory goes to the general who can issue the greatest number of discharges.
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@TRUTHandLIGHT4809 So can do whatever I want at work?
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@supremecaffeine2633 You just going to tell me I'm wrong So why should I bother? Do you see a homeless population in Havana like in LA or any big city? Careful observation reveals that you don't see that in Cuba nor do you see a drug addition crisis. Now you can explain why the United States lags behind and developed a homeless population over the last fifty years along with an opiate crisis and Cuba didn't. Go ahead now and explain away. the empirical evidence.
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@supremecaffeine2633 But you can I suppose? I bet all you can do is talk about the morality of the system and how it is suppose to work rather than explain the very essence of what drives the capitalist system.and how it naturally tends towards combination and monopoly by a ever smaller ruling class of bosses who judge everything by the rate of profit and why over the long term this results in the decline in the rate of profit.for the giant industries capitalism creates. This declining rate of profit it what causes the system to go into decline not to mention the constant shift of investment from expanding production to driving up the value of fictious capital which can then only collapse in value causing an economic crisis. That because of this the capitalist seek to manage their system of exploitation with central bank intervention into the economy to prevent the crisis from getting out of cotrol. That he capitalist inevitable overproduce for markets that can't absorb the overproduction at the demanded rate of profit because the workers can't buy back all that can be produced so the capitalist halt production causing an ever greater crisis that feeds on itself. Then they must bail themselves out to get the system going and prepare for an even bigger crisis.
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@supremecaffeine2633 Ya you and your professors want to define capitalism in such a way that you need not take responsibility fir the workings of the system you hope by defining it in such away that you can absolve the bosses of the results of the greed and demand for the biggest profits despite the tendency of profit rates to decline as higher paid skilled labor is replaced by unskilled labor and machines. The greed of the bosses drives them to blame the workers for the crisis that their system creates due ti the greed for profits by any means possible.
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@supremecaffeine2633 I suppoe you think we act like you and your professors who only pay attention to us when big issues in the class struggle break out. We read your books and lisent to what your bosses say so that how we can understand how your system works. Workers don't have to read Marx to understand class injustice it's thrown in out faces everyday by the bosses own actions in defense of the profit system. You think we don't know you fire us to save on the promised extra benefits you bosses promise for hanging arround at your jobs. We know by the way you act and what you say that it's all about the money for the bosses. We know your full of BS.
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@supremecaffeine2633 Like I said you need to act like an intellectual parrot and tell me this isn't real capitalism because the bosses aren't doing what your theory says they should. Instead they ignore the moral teachings of Freedman and Sowell and going for the maximization of profit rates with help of their boss government. Yep that's the way to explain something cite the teaching of a scholar like Sowell who writes a new set of bible stories that praise the morality of the bosses and condemn the renagades every so often . After all Sowell is the one who discovered that Marxists hadn't infiltrated the US dept of labor like the witch hunters had taught him. Let's give him a round of applause for not talking like an extreme fascist nut case and liar like Joe McCarthy. He discovers that at the US dept, of labor that the bureaucrats were interested in saving their own skins instead of doing what he thought a Marxist government should.
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@supremecaffeine2633 Free market ya tell us another fantasy story about your so called free market you talk endlessly about. Nothing is free in a market and its always been a source of conflict in human history that's one reason why capitalism needs a state every transaction has to be supervised in one way or another to prevent fraud and misrepresentation which is rampant because of the drive for profit maximization. Advertising is just large scale half truths and exaggerations about products. How many times have the capitalist been caught in lies about their products like the use of lead in gasoline and the widespread use of ddt. How many places did the bosses poison the air and water for short term profit and then require the government to clean up the mess with the superfund?
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@sheliafarmer That is the way things are looking more each day. More cops at the border just means more hands outstretched for a bribe.
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@undrwatropium3724 Its the failure of capitalism and the lies told by the Milton Friedman and company about the capitalist system.
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@tigernotwoods914 The reason he is never mentioned is he did nothing at all except sit on the sidelines while living through the overthrow of Jim Crow racism. His total political adivice to Blacks can be summed up as go home we have overcome. Same with everything else his whole line of thought is that capitalism works and you need to get in on the action.
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@el valdo from De alba Workers need to join unions strike boss make bosses pay. Cut hours no Cut in pay. Bosses been stealing with inflation. Bosses went off Gold Standard so instead of wage cuts to save profits bosses raise prices to capture paper money printed by Boss Federal Revese Bank. Property value in paper dollars rises faster than wages. This is why workers must demand an escalator clause across all wage contracts including minimum wage and soc sec to prevent Boss robbery by inflation.
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The nation the has a sixty year Blockade against the people of Cuba. End the Blockade!!!
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No ceasefire on facsist Hamas!!! Free the Hostages so they can testify!!!
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This is the thinking of the ruling classes.
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@aznosu My opinion is you have draw some important conclusions cornering capitalism. However I think you are wrong concerning the solution. First off while the government holds elections every two years those two party candidates ideas revolve on what's best for US capitalism. Not on just a local, state or federal level but the international level also. I don't see why a capitalist government would limit CEO pay. It simply doesn't fit with their ideas of buying loyalty and incentives. Let's say for sake of argument they do. Now the major stockholders control who the CEO is. In some cases that is who the major stock is in others the CEO is a highly paid hired hand. This begs another question of why they would accept a lower rate of profit by paying for more workers or higher wages?
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@aznosu History shows "hybrid systems" to be failures. You can't power share with the capitalists. At the end of the day either we win or they win. That is the sober truth. One also needs to do more than recognize the origin of the "hybrid" myth. It is necessary to dispel such mythology. Capitalism grew out of feudalism in Europe. At the beginning as a system the merchants became hostile to the Feudal power. The took power in bloody revolutions like the French using the slogans Liberty, Fraternity and Equality. It was not drawn up by libertarian utopians at a lunchtime meeting of Mr. Nice guys who liked free markets and were non aggressive. That kind of myth of either a previous or future capitalism also needs to see the torch light of revolutionary marxism.
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Ya everyone should just accept the superiority of the White American Protestant capitalist culture and bow before them and the bosses that Sowell loves so much. We should all believe in Henry Ford the "wealth creator" who published "The International Jew" an anti semitic rant in Fords "Dearborn Independent" that was translated and published in German by Hitler.
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Get the money from the banking parasites.
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Russ Ingram The Stalinist never distinguished between the Social Democratic leaders and the Social Democratic workers. In February of 1917 the bolsheviks were still a minority but by their actions and ideas became the majority recruiting Trotsky and the menshevik internationalists taking leadership away from the menshevik traitors and the likes of Alexander Kerensky.
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@jimwerther Labor produces more than the cost to reproduce it for another pay period that is the secret to capital accumulation. This is why the bosses seek to get us to work the longest hours at the lowest wages and at the fastest rate.
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@jimwerther So I don't use the English of the American ruling class. As far as economics goes I can run rings around most of your so called scholars. Who aren't scholars at all but collections of different groups of fools arguing on how to keep capitalism going or pretending that it can just self regulate and fix its problems. The capitalist all crave what they can't have a world for their stable exploitation.
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Hardly we don't import that much Saudi oil to begin with. Making Saudi Arabia a pariah country like South Africa is certainly an option has the rest of the world has. How many foreign workers do you have in Saudi Arabia? Do you think they're is going to be supporters of the regime? The American working people value free speech and free press. That is why Trump is walking a tightrope on this issue. Most of us want to throw up after hearing this.
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US Dollars and Treasury bonds are mere paper or electrons in a computer. The tiny ruling classes in the US and Saudi Arabia are only powerful as long as the workers allow them to be. For the Saudi Arabia ruling class to create a currency crisis in dollars would be the same thing as cutting your own throats.
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Go ahead and open a Russian base. Then you will be under Russian control. Good Luck keeping those F-16E's and C-135 flying gas stations in the air with metric parts along with other US military hardware. The US ruling class wasn't and isn't afraid of Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khomeini, or Nicolás Maduro. Why should they fear the Saudi Prince? Pulling out investment? You don't really think they are going to let you actually remove any physical capital do you? That like causing a currency would only hasten your and their demise.
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They aren't going to attack with a war right now because the Saudi Arabia rulers provide one of the masks behind US power in the region. However they will have no problem with cutting their losses if necessary. That's why they have sent in the CIA Director to help them decide what to do. They had no problem with Saddam attacking the Iranian revolution but once he decide he was a power unto himself and took Kuwait his days were numbered. They told him in very real words surrender or die.
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They are not going to let you commit suicide and destroy everything like you threaten.
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When Italy entered world war one it entered on the side of the British Monarchy and Democratic Imperialists, the Russian Czar. the French Democratic Imperialist as did the American Imperialists. Those who remained Internationalist were Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Eugene Debs, Leon Trotsky Karl Liebknecht to name a few. Debs was put into prison by Wilson (D) who promised to stay out of the war. Debs got a million votes for President from prison. British Labor Party voted for war. Fascism what it is and how to fight is a book by Trotsky. .
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@rafalzbigniew9463 I put the flag on my profile in recognition of the Russian Revolution and the Early Soviet Union. "my country suffered much greater due to USSR than Nazism" You never suffered under NAZI'ism so what the hell do you know anyhow. What you want is someone to feel sorry for you and come save you. That's why you write a bunch of crazy stuff about "mothers eating their own babies."
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@rafalzbigniew9463 The Jews were sent to extermination camps in Poland. So maybe the some Poles had it easy under the NAZI's but the Jews in Poland didn't. Stalin may have been a bastard, murdered and deported people unjustly but he never gave speeches were he came out and demanded a whole people be exterminated. Many Poles were collaborators in the Jewish holocaust.
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@john2001plus This is because like Solzhenitsyn and the capitalist intellectuals they fumble about wondering how they and the ruling class that pays them and that they defend could possible be wrong. So the come up with truism like Man has forgotten God and they worship the capitalist entrepreneur as a new born genius. Pteresen is basically an infant when it comes to understanding anything Marx wrote. So he has gets all confused and says he wouldn't give the communist manifesto a passing grade or some such nonsense. He is constantly dreaming up his own reinterpretations of everything. It was written to be understood by ordinary people at the time not some 20th Century intellectual who looks for style and grammar when grading papers.
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No it fines foreign companies for doing business with Cuba and that's why foreign governments including NATO allies vote against it. It has waged a war of terrorism against the country with its CIA agents but only American amnesiac's have forgotten that.
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@glenncordova4027 Hand outs? like the 2.3 Trillion spent on the Afghan war? Collapse? Like the 2008 crisis? Dictatorship? Your only a step away from arresting Donald Trump who is the political opposition? Where do you live anyway in some Westchester county like enclave?
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@shauncameron8390 ""U S Department of the Treasury" Is a fake who is pretending to be a representative of the United States government.with a pirated official seal.
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@shauncameron8390 No he's a troll. Your a tankie.
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@koschmx It was the liberal FDR who launched the second Red scare and Smith "gag" Act prosecution against the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. It was Jim Cannon of the Early Communist Party who fought for the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.
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So has he dropped his globalist neoliberal free trade position?
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Ya and when the Democrats march on Washington and declare Nancy Pelosi President then what?
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@carsondenny1986 Not really because the state is a dictatorship of a ruling class over the other classes. The state arose in human society as a necessary feature to defend the creation of the surplus value by the first agricultural societies. The initial small size of the surplus is why the cleange into classes was like the division of labor a necessary feature.
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@pate6357 Thomas Sowell is like all your other intellectuals who produces nothing but Conservative Republican Capitalist Propaganda as a Fellow at the Stanford "Elite" University Hoover Institution of War and Revolution.
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@LearnCompositionOnline The problem for the capitalist is that as the workers become conscious of their own self worth they will no longer accept their exploitation by capital.
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@acc3650 Gover goes back to ancient peoples. Who do you think the Pharaoh in Egypt was? The capitalist created a government to regulate their common affairs. You teach us about government when you send out the cops and the army to break strikes.
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@gabrielchovan-spence4215 Why do you think all those workers like hearing Donald Trump talking about it being a rigged game and draining the Washington, Swamp?
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@gabrielchovan-spence4215 As you can see Youtube keeps censoring me. They can't stand anyone using their comments as place to debate.
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I hate this guy Roof but endorsing vigilante justice or even Roofs execution does nothing to get at the core injustice in the system most defendants face. Any arrest almost guarantees a loss of your job and a hole in your work record. Than there is the backlog of legal wrangling by lawyers , the judicial economy of plea bargaining and overcharging. and last but not least the judges who are supposed to be impartial giving speeches during sentencing. Who will be your first stop on appeal.
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@AIRFORCENONE Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter was the one who armed Pol Pot and supported him at the UN as a way to punish Vietnam for defeating the American Imperialist. A war which Sowell found to be a war of his liking critisings liberals for giving in to popular pressure. .
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I don't think all the Palestinians are that unreasonable. I looked at the Ask project videos and it appears that certain topics can't be discussed openly. Then again you a liberal who thinks there is a halfway solution to capitalism which is the same reason others think terrorism which is just liberalism with a bomb can change things.The whole system itself needs to be changed and that can only be done by working people themselves with mass actions, strikes, mass meetings abd mass insurrection against the capitalist state. A change of ministers no matter how that is done changes nothing. You think only the Palistininans need to change but you have yet to realise that you have to change with them and they can't change without out you.
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You mean like the billionaires?
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@patriotamerican3069 Unlike Canada immigration is a federal responsibility only. Once that Officer said, "In the state of Georgia...." Referring to her power in an Intentional matter. She violated article one section ten. "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation..."
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@mikepurdue7472 Have you considered a Brain transplant?
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The capitalist don't need thinkers they need more order takers and machine watchers. That is the way the profit system works.
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@zacharycalgher3978 Tell Congress no paid protection for Rail Boss profits. No strike breaking by Congress!!!
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I surprised you don't click your heels also. Maybe you should nominate them for the goody two shoes award.
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Your US dictator was overthrown in 1959. Viva Cuba Socialista!!!
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@richardsnyder893 After 9/11 Bush invaded Afghanistan in a twenty year war using the best Afghan politicians money can buy in an exercise of nation building only to be defeated by a bunch of rag tag Islamists.
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All this proves is that a DA can indict a ham sandwich.
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John Dewey Chaired "The Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials" The commission majority including Dewey found Trotsky not guilty of the crimes that Stalin accused the Trotsky and the old bolsheviks of committing hardly an apologist for Stalin's crimes.
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@Ese361 That's right the American World Capitalist Empire is coming to an end.
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@liubei3058 The idea of left and right came from the French Revolution when to make vote counting easier the Monarchist sat on the Right while the Republicans sat on the left. They were called Right Social Democrats because they favored their own Bourgeois class in the first Imperialist world war to redivide the worlds spoils among the Imperialist nations. Lenin like Eugene Debs opposed his own ruling classes war for profits. Democrat Wilson had Socialist Debs sent to prison for violation of the Espionage Act. Lenin also wrote about Left wing communism where some groups make more radical proposals to the workers mass movement without any hope of achieving the proposal at that particular time.
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@元首的青年 Come on over. You too can become cannon fodder for the next Imperialist War. Head to the Embassy and see if they let sign right up. If you don't get killed but only lose an arm or leg they give you an electric wheel chair to roam the streets in an American city.
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I get tired of hearing Chomsky drown on and on about how the US is a big monster that has never been defeated. They were defeated in in China and they spent the next 10 years complaining and pointing fingers at each other about how they lost China. In Korea because they didn't get what they wanted which was all of Korea. Fidel Castro kicked out their chosen dictator Batista where they brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. In Vietnam where they were clearly left after losing the desire of the soldiers to fight and a movement that would eventually push Nixon into resigning in disgrace for his enemies list and revealing US FBI secret police J Edgar Hoover' as a spymaster. There is every reason to be optimistic about defeating them.
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Socialism and history are NOT created by definitions in a dictionary. Since the meanings of words always change over time. Rather it is the result of the modern working class coming to power over the capitalist class on a world scale in the modern world since that hasn't happened yet we don't know exactly what t will look like.
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World capitalism became Imperialism capitalism's its highest stage with world war one. Now America the last Imperialist Empire is following all the European and Japanese Empires into decline.
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Capitalism come about in the nation state. Then it develops unevenly with competing capitalist investors who belong to national class that must take the battle for markets and resources to the world. Capitalism also creates us the industrial workers who with the small farmers will take away all your private property.
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@ericthompson3402 I chose it because the Stalinist of the Soviet Union like Putin and Yeltsin went back to the flag of CZAR and the white counterrevolution. It now represents the slogan of the Left Opposition and Trotsky "Back to Lenin not Forward with Stalin." Putin correctly blames Lenin for Ukrainian Independence.
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@swamp1foxva518 Nixon had used the secret police tactics of the FBI Gestapo on his loyal Democratic Party opponents. That opened the door to Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General that exposed 40 years of Hoover's secret police illegal disruption tactics against legitimate political activity of labor, black, socialist and communist party activists. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters Attorney General Griffin Bell was held in contempt of court by a federal judge in New York.
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@TheJoyfulEye You mean he switched names in the uniparty.
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@vincentsartain3061 I don't believe that Churchill was out for anything but saving his Empire and the same goes for the US. Only someone as foolish and idiotic as Joe Stalin would believe something as stupid as that. Why else would the Communist Parties sign on to the no strike pledge and be the best strikebreakers in the US? It took almost exactly a year after Germany's defeat for Churchill to announce the beginning of the cold war at the U of Missouri with Truman on the stage. The famous Iron Curtain speech.
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@johnc.8298 Lets not forget the newest reason is they went to these elite universities where they are now a meritocracy who rule based upon IQ.
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@rjvowels Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests. Rather it is ones sides history of both victories and defeats in the modern class struggle with the other important class in the modern world the capitalists. Socialist revolution is not inevitable defeat is also possible as in the rise of Stalinism and then the defeat in Germany flowing from the ultra left errors of the Stalinist in the class struggle. Then the swing to the right with the popular front ending in more defeats in France and Spain. The Moscow trials were the ultimate betrayal of a regime that had no possibility of self regeneration. It took until 1959 and the Cuban revolution before a genuine revival of the revolutionary movement would occur. The Cuban revolution continues to make history just like the early days of the Russian Revolution with the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky.
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@fin31337 In 1924 Lenin realized Stalin should be removed from his postilan as General Secretary because of his crudeness. He however died shortly afterwords. All knew from the great French revolution of the danger of bureaucracy but as mistakes were made it became clearer that Stalin was leading a self perpetuating privileged bureaucratic tendency feed by the mistakes especially in the countryside among the peasants. The bureaucracy began attacking the very theoretical truths of Bolshevism murdering all the old Bolsheviks in the 1936 to 1938 Moscow trials. A regime of central planners who are murders of the revolution can only move back to social differentiation with more and more privileges which can only move back to capitalism without a new revolutionary Marxist leadership developing to reverse that. Central planning is a technique not a principle. You can't plan everything centrally even if you wanted to.The commanding heights of the economy basic industry need central planing every barbershop does not. . .
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@fin31337 Well you can read the documents from when the arguments and events were taking place. Plus if you don't like my explanation which relies upon looking at human actions from their material interests then your end up looking at things in an idealist manner concluding with such simplistic theories like it doesn't work or it wasn't "real socialism" as if one can make things that aren't real or we are trying to build a perpetual motion machine. If you've got a better explanation I'd like to hear it. Something other than human nature as if human nature is fixed for all time and all places. What is possible in any society and the ideas of that society are determined by the level of material development and organization of the productive forces. It should be easier to advance beyond capitalism today because the productive forces are greater and the mistakes of the past are better understood. The last two most important revolutions of the 20 th century were the Russian and Cuba so it seems that we are overdue for another somewhere.
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@GregSmithFL I don't think the country will split because the Red/Blue divide is based in the two capitalist parties. The workers who vote for those parties now will desert them for a new labor party. Unlike Russia the number of farmers is small so they may join the labor party of have their own small party. I don't think we need to worry about invasions that just leaves some kind of military or fascist attacks. Amusing we get past all that without a civil war than the problems post (1917) 1924 the rise of a Stalinist bureaucracy should be avoidable since his rise was also connected to the destruction and poverty caused by the civil war.
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@bicqtran History is the teacher and already has provided the lessons if one is willing to use their mind and look at the facts.
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@jacobmosovich If Stalin hadn't built nuclear weapons when he did the US would have used them in the Korean war on Chinese cities and created a nuclear winter. Kennedy came close to accidentally setting off a second time when he couldn't except his lose his Cuban colony and when I say accidently I'm giving Kennedy more credit than he deserves.
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@griff3683 McCarthy's tactic was Red baiting much like Democrats race baiting. McCarthy was also a conspiracy theorist who relied on secret police reports from the FBI on anyone who could be connected "with the communist cause". He is said to have died of alcoholism at a gov't hospital. To much Johnny Walker "Red" I guess.
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@oldironsides3992 If its offering so much why is it deporting immigrants? Lots of people aren't that happy with the wars the US has offered. Like the families of 100,000 dead in Afghanistan and millions of refugees created. Costing 2.3 Trillion dollars all because Bush was leading the NATO Imperialist allaince in a war on terror with the false premise of having won the cold war.
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@oldironsides3992 Communism isn't a government but a movement. The only thing defeated was the Stalinist leadership of the Eastern bloc and the former Soviet Union. The US Imperialist played no role in that besides sit back and watch.
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@griff3683 "My goal is freedom." Well that's an admission you don't have freedom now. What kind of freedom do you want and how do you propose to get it? The laws of thermodynamics prevent the building of a perpetual motion machine and mankind's destiny is social labor. No one can live in survival mode all alone for very long. We just aren't like our cousins the male orangutan.
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@griff3683 I don't define it as Left v. Right because I don't support the reformist theories of the Stalinists and Social Democrats. I am against a popular front with bourgeois liberals.
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@anahealingmed2263 Maybe they are out to conquer the world doesn't mean its possible but ever capitalist empire has had that same ambition including the current top dog US Imperialism. The US is obviously in decline and China has grown at a tremendous rate out of the poverty it once had as the largest nation on earth. That is something good which the Imperialist never recognize because the are selfish bastards who think only of themselves. You don't avoid the problems of capitalism and Imperialism by using those methods and then calling it communism.
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@griff3683 Korea was a colony of Japan. The Japanese had already been defeated when the American Imperialist entered Korea after proposing to divide the country with Stalin at the 45 th parallel for evacuation of Japaneses forces. Once in the American Imperialist Troops have never left the country. Their crimes are covered up in US history books and for many years in South Korea because they'd expose the Imperialist hypocrisy. Using Japanese Troops against Koreans and massacring people on JeJu Island before Korean Veterans of the Chinese civil war came to the aid of their countrymen in the South. Like all Imperialist wars the enemy was the Korean people themselves. If you were in the North you were carpet bombed. If you were a refugee headed south you were massacred. If you were suspected of communism you were executed. The first Dictator chosen for the South was forced to flee for Coca Cola and sun in Hawaii after CIA extraction having mass protests ending his rule. In fact South Korea has had six Republics in 70 years more than Frances 5 in over 200 years. Each time mass protests forcing out another stooge of Imperialism.
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@griff3683 The UK is also monarchy and Empire without a constitution. Roosevelt was already at war with Japan for at least two reasons. Trade boycott and sending officers to train with the British Imperialist already at war with Japan. I'm not going to defend real atrocities committed by anyone. Stalin had a constitution and since he wasn't king he lead a republic. Your rights that were won in blood and written down on paper aren't just the result of a formality of government. The CZAR of 1917 was an absolute monarchy with more in common with Charles the first from the 1600's than England or Germany of the early 20th century. Yet he was part of the allied Crusade for Democracy.
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@ThumbsUpKitty I don't how many time I need to point this out but the Capitalist nations are responsible for world war one alone. The Russian revolution that brought down the CZAR was kicked off by striking women textile workers not another Paul Revere, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton or group of merchants. The majority of the merchant class, bankers and monarchy were all allied and supporters of CZARism, the world war and oppression. What you propose is a capitalist dictatorship since you already see a world controlled by property owners slipping away. Donald Trump would not need to "Make America Great Again" if US Imperialism won the cold war either.
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@griff3683 See that's the elemental difference right their you just believe they way the Pope believed the sun rotated around the earth despite evidence otherwise. The UK / British Empire was and has been a monarchy since the restoration after the English revolution that created the Commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector. It has no Constitution that lays out how government is to function. Instead it functions with an elected and unelected Parliament, King Queen and laws and tradition including class struggle guiding it. The English have been trying to get just the right mix of Democracy and unelected lords and king since the late 1600's. Outside of Ireland Scotland and Wales none of the colonies had any representation in Parliament. When the Irish voted to leave and set up their own state they were attacked by the British Army. .
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@griff3683 I'm trying to get at the truth of why and how things work or don't work. The economics, politics and groups that created the modern world. I want people to understand the rise and fall of Empires and the Soviet Union. When I went to school we never went beyond the start of world war one. Almost everything you learned in history beyond that came from word of mouth or the media TV and Radio. I had a short wave radio that let me at least listen to what other countries leaders were saying. Broadcasts during the cold war went in both directions. Nuclear war was taken much more seriously and I didn't start out as a communist either. For me war and peace in the world came first rather than economic inequality. If I thought a capitalist welfare state could avoid war I'd probably be happy with that. If we are going to have a nuclear war well it be for a damn good reason and if we aren't then why can't we get rid of the weapons world wide?
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@robert.m4676 Ya we need to go back to the good ole days of capitalism where the bosses paid us in company script instead of real money that could be spent at the company store only. 16 hour days, brake men on top of moving rail cars, child labor in textile and the coal industry, black lists of union men and yellow dog contracts. Those were the days when a Boss could really be a boss and didn't have to be like Donald Trump and pretend to be on our side.
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@Supernautiloid Korea is one country not two. The US had no right to divide Korea with Stalin and had no right to enter Korea and take over with its US military government replacing the Japanese Imperialist.
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@jaspermcminnis5538 If you looking for Utopia than look no further than the Catholic Church because no where does Marx, Lenin Trotsky or any other of the great Marxists promise utopia rather a better world in birth.
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We have inflation so then we give more interest to the banks. Great Plan.
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If the die their hair orange will it save their jobs?
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@johngreen3513 When did we get to debate Musk putting up thousands of satellites in low earth orbit? The Chinese have reserved the right to shoot them down if the violate their national security. Do you want to go to war to defend Musk's satellite profits?
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@johngreen3513 No but the original poster does. Musk put up those satellites for internet connections. Gave away service in Ukraine and now wants a big payday from Uncle Sam.
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@johngreen3513 No Musk offered and initially provided his service in Ukraine and the cost is not in the operation but the building and launching of the satellites. His system can't work without total global orbits. He promises to decommission them after five years by crashing them for burn up into the atmosphere. Sure Bill Gates does not like NOT getting a chuck of Chinese cash for every computer sold with windows in China. Any kind of spy technology the Chinese have the US already does. If war comes the US won't hesitate to use it against those who oppose war. The capitalist profit system becomes nothing but a big suck on value to capitalists who demand back more than they put in for doing absolutely nothing much more than existing. The best workers can hope for is that they reinvest to expand production. However they only do that when they see profits in a market ahead of production. They present themselves with the inalienable right to own and invest as they see fit. The problem their system has is that profits go to the industry and firms that can best replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines such that the real rate of profit by which all capitalist measure success declines as machines replace labor and prices naturally slump towards the cost of production. If their system could avoid war and fascism than capitalism would end when profit rates appproached zero since the reason to invest would end.. They view healthcare and education as overhead costs to be minimized. Why spend money on a sick worker when another can be hired? While war preparations always come first to defend the profit system from those who lack the confidence in the decisions of Wall Street investors. To avoid issuing wage cuts and provoking strikes they took the advice of the British Economist Keynes to rob the working class with state deficits and central bank generated inflation. The whole system is built around the promise to wealthy investors of a free lunch. Capital itself produces nothing since a perpetual motion machine is impossible When they can't find new products and markets for investment they drive up the value of fictitious capital only for it to collapse in periodic economic crisis. Unlike the working class the capitalist owners are divided into Imperialist nations that invest in the world market who will go to war over the defense of their nations profits and property no matter where in the world they are threatened. .
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Musk and Gates want to harness the power of Artificial intelligence since they lack any of their own.
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What will they propose more wine and cheese parties and a bigger subsidy for military contractors and big business. Sure they're going to close the federal reserve and we are all going to carry gold and silver coins in our pockets. Yes the Republican have great ideas to bad they're for the 16th century.
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This only furthers the belief that these "Progressives" are fake as they rely on the same capitalist institutions they claim to be fighting against. The fact that they are calling them "Double Agents" shows the very bankruptcy of the "Progressives" who have adopted conspiracy theory terminology. The lobbyist like the capitalist politician says give me money and may the best financed win. Laughing all the way to the bank. Since at the end of the day it's all about the money and getting into a bigger fight over nothing.
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j a "learn to code?" When someone does agree with me. I introduce them to TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com
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j a Sorry but I was just mocking this "learn to code" answer to all employment problems. If they actually needed more trained coders they'd be offering apprenticeships like the use to do with electricians and carpenters. They still provide a limited number of apprenticeships for trades but there limited to the young and politically connected. Just passing the entrance exam and being enthusiastic is not enough.
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They can't hide what the federal revese doesn't print.
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kissmyaxe531 Gee I thought you were just an AI bot.
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kissmyaxe531 I'm not a reborn Lester Maddox. Wantin his axe kissed.
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@Irishhound Socialism is not long term welfare but the reordering of production under workers control of industrial production with planing. The capitalist already plan many aspects of production they however plan production based upon profits for themselves as opposed to the needs of everyone else.
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@milesobrien2694 Trotsky's Red Army defeating 14 Imperialist armys including the US/UK was a great victory for all of humanity. What Hitler did to the Jews in the name of Empire was no diifferent than what the UK did to the Irish with the 1840 famine and the rise of the Empire.
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@milesobrien2694 The British were on the rise as a major capitalist power. They would go on to create an Empire on which the sun never set. .
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@milesobrien2694 The Soviet Union underwent a counterrevolution lead by Joseph Stalin. It was not that it just accidentally became corrupt. He lead a group who became a corrupt privileged layer headed back to capitalism. Stalin was not the one who wanted to continue the communist course of the revolution and in order to keep himself and others like him in power they needed to carry out the destruction of Lenin Party. That was what the 1930's Moscow Trials of the Old Bolsheviks was all about.
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@tarajoyce3598 Vote in legislatures who have done what? Why should I vote for people in the two corporate parties? Those parties are structured so the big donors make all the important decisions. The only thing the Democrats produce ia a lot of talk and no action.
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@tarajoyce3598 I only see four/five sentences on my end did you write a lot more? Capitalism is the dominate world economic system. It is a very chaotic system because those who control most of it start and stop production based upon what the see in their corporate accounting books as a profit. That's what they in almost every country on earth.
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@berational1 The government employees everyone except those who choose an independent profession and those who work in cooperatives. Those who want to leave are welcome to do so by legal means no exit permit from Cuba is required. Millions will find out this winter how well all the promises of capitalist Green Energy powering the planet will keep them warm in the Centers of World Capitalism itself.
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@ReflectedMiles Russia is ruled by Putin banking oligarchs not Stalinist or even Social Democrats. The favorable trade ended with Gorbachev. Putin is interested in recreating the CZAR's Prison house of nations. Not Lenin's Soviet Union of freely associated Socialist Republics. He blames Lenin for Ukrainian independence. Maybe you should go look at the slums in Haiti or Santa Domingo. How many foreign students do they have training to be Doctors and medical brigades are they sending to the poor countries. Fidel has passed away and Raul has retired. End your blockade and we will see what a free socialist people can accomplish.
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@ReflectedMiles What Cuba gain by giving every ones home to a bank so a mortgage can be collected? Or playing games by giving workers shares in their enterprise so managers could buy them up and fire everyone to lower wages and create shock therapy like in Russia on the advice of people like Jeffery Sachs and Milton Friedman. N one in Cuba is as stupid as you think the are. People like Milton Freedman and the maximizing profits crazies are why you had the 2008 crisis and why the world crisis of capitalist trade and exchange continues today. Let me know when you think that you've outsmarted Karl Marx and Engle's analysis in Das Kapital or Lenin in Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. Think you can escape the Imperialist era of war and revolution without Socialist revolution and national independence for the colonial nations?
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@ReflectedMiles "Put it in a non-Marxist, voluntary, Christian setting like the Hutterites" They became refugees from the United States and moved to Canada as conscientious objectors during the first Imperialist war. Not really the same as the Bolshevik slogans of turn the guns around and defeat your own ruling class, No annexations and an immediate armistice. Eugene Debs went to jail as did the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party in 1940. Nothing says yu can't have communal farming and small scale manufacture but that isn't going to work for the majority because we can't buy the railroads and basic industry from the capitalist anymore than the slaves could free themselves by purchasing their freedom. A change in what class rules the productive forces must take place,.
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The natural workings of capitalism lead to the creation of a tiny ruling capitalist classes of bosses and us a property less working class. Capitalism arisise in nation states that go to war over the world market. This is why you live in an era of war and revolution. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Capital produces nothing it merely ac-ululates and demands a return on investment. Class struggle leads first to trade unions than a workers state.
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@Diana-yn2ho Everyone knows that the goal of the US Gov't is to starve the Cuban people into submission. Take the advice of the American imperialist and they will be happy to reimpose capitalism with shock therapy like the did in Russia, They'll be glad to give you what capitalism promises which is nothing. They are looking for the demoralized intellectuals who can spread lies and create violent attacks upon innocent people. They want those who will surrender their dignity for Yankee dollars.
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@Diana-yn2ho The revolution gave land to those who wanted ro work it by taking it away from big landowners like those American companies who owned Cuban land so you don't know what you are talking about. They never practiced forced collectivizaton. In the US small farmers are constantly driven out of business by capital;ist farmers, charged rents by the likes of Bill Gates, must pay up front for fertilizer and seeds and middlemen who take the lions share of the value produced. Thanks to capitalism the people of the world face nuclear war over which group of wealthy investors control the colonial world. Living standards in the US stagnated in 1973 and now they are declining. Capitalist policies liberal or conservative are responsible for whats going on in the US NOT Karl Marx or Valdimir Lenin. . Most of the computer technology was developed in the elite universities for use in the cold war. If private entrepreneurs did anything it was to grab what ever the could and act as gate keepers demanding to be paid for creating monopolies. All they do is use their ability to buy and manipulate markets to make themselves rich. They have fools like you convinced they are genius because the can count in base 2.
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@Diana-yn2ho I don't care how many countries you visit if you don't understand how capitalism works you will never see anything wrong with it. The only reason they don't issue wage cuts anymore is because they can use a central bank to inflate the money supply which drives up the monetary value of property while they hold down wages to supposedly prevent inflation They've been playing this trick since 1973. They lie through their teeth saying that money grows in a bank and other nonsense. The only thing capital does is accumulate and demand more than they started with.
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@Mauricio Fonacier Look at US cities and you see people living outdoors in tents constantly harassed by the police. This is the result of the private profit system. Where the needs of the capitalist bosses always come first. Where their are no checks or balance on the power of the capitalists outside of the trade unions.
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@Ann-fj5py That is just a lot of US Imperialist propaganda made up for the consumption of US petti bourgeois intellectuals with no confidence in the working class. Those who can't leave capitalism behind because they themselves benefit fomr the system they claim they can fix with reformist methods. Those who need confirmation of their petti bourgeois dispair in the face of big capital.
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@GustavoEmmanueldeangolasilva Wny should we listen to a conspiracy theory of history much like Hitler's and the protocols of Zion. Where bankers and Communists conspire to control the world. Trotsky was removed by the British in Halifax placed in a concentration camp with Germans on hs way to St Petersburg Russia. He was Chairman of the 1905 Soviet before he ever set foot in New York. All Sutton is is a mothpeice for the inrtellegnce services making up lies as needed.
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@jude999 They are a small country whose people understand they can't get rich quick by adopting capitalism. The neoliberal reforms in Russia had to be imposed by a dictatorship begun by Yeltsin when he called out the army to fire on the Supreme Soviet. You can see how market reforms sent the economy into a tailspin as greed took over how things were done. This is because they never properly dealt with the problems that were created during the Stalin Era and the reliance on capitalist methods of incentivisation for the administration of the economy. How else would you explain people supposedly being communists so easily fooled into bringing back capitalism.
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@steeldriver5338 Since 1973 all the new productivity has been going into the bosses pockets.
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@anneflynn9614 Bosses want us working the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace. Its the same way with education as it is with the water works or roads. They see government costs as cutting into profits and they want them minimized unless they are getting a subsidy or tax break.
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@pin65371 Who say that cheap skate Elon Musk can't have his operations unionized? Build all the robots to take jobs and then you just under cut your own profit rates. You only see a temporary rise in total profit because capitalism undercuts itself. When machines replace living labor which is the source of the profit than the rate profit which is the boss measure of success must ultimate decline in the long term. Your invested fix capital rises but the living labor needed to produce falls. The only reason you get away with rising prices is your banker friends at the federal reserve. The devalue currency to make property values rise and then demand that wages be held down. Inflation replaces the bosses old fashion strike provoking wage cut.
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@ITFDAVE Sowell discovers that the ruling class has its own ideas and speech that justify its rule. Those with little to no faith in capitalism don't play the lottery either.
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@robertothayer5123 World capitalism is in its worst crisis since 1929. It can't be fixed. FDR couldn't do it with his New Deal only the War Deal ended the Great Depression.
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@AbuYoshi-yf4co Behind this is the crisis of the world capitalist system. Capitalism was born in the nation state and now borders have become a problem especially for the profit needs of the ruling classes in the advanced capitalist world.
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@cathayachang2896 What if we have another Socialist Revolution in Europe instead?
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The print money to feed the banks who then feed the companies that can now raise prices mean while wages are held down. Workers are made into a debt slaves so the bosses can become rich with bigger profits.
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No the vote was never counted. You must of spent time in "Club Fed" like the watergate gang.
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@robertromero8692 Rand got her whole university education in the Soviet Union. She constantly called Social Security immoral until it was time to get hers.
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@xDDufiosy The problem in the Soviet Union the counter revolution bureaucrats. They began giving themselves more and more incentives with more and more excuses. Here the capitalists say this is fine as long as we do it.
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@RobertR3750 Women were prohibited from attending the University before the October (Bolshevik) Revolution. She didn't escape and she didn't leave as quick as she could either. The Democratic Imperialists (UK/US) had no problem with Stalin until after their competitor Hitler was beaten by Stalin's Red Army. Taxes which pay for Imperialist wars are fine but someone who works all their life or becomes disabled is suppose to survive on saved wages or through a private pension swindle scheme. You have no problem tossing people into the street out of their home when undergoing a swidlers investment scheme crash where people get thrown out of their jobs.
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@RobertR3750 You wouldn't know what the word morality meant without an enlarged dictionary and even then you have to get a special needs translator to help with the concept.
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@robertromero8692 "Germany's economy under Hitler was a form of socialism, not capitalism." Hitler's 'socialism' was one for the big capitalists. A bourgeois socialism like but not the same as that described by Karl Marx in the Communist manifesto. A capitalist socialism organized for war which would expand the Master Race Control of the world for a Thousand Year Reich. Finally the German Bourgeois would have a solution to its crisis. War contracts for profits, concentrations camps for habitual complainers, the final solution for the Jews competing with the middle class Germans, new conquered territory for farmers and military conscription for the young unemployed workers.
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You know next to nothing about Russian history. If she didn't like Kerensky why not admire Admiral Kornilov who was preparing to shut down all this revolutionary nonsense with bullets. Kornilov would be too discredited as a butcher for the likes of Rand. All the Bourgeois socialists could get behind Kerensky because of his being a socialist in name only just like other Social Democratic Traitors such as Ebert in Germany. His Provisional government was the State Duma that the Czar permitted before the February 1917 revolution only without the Czar. The Cadet Party also had a leader in the Provisional government so why not admire a Bourgeois gentleman who's name has all but been forgotten? She and her dad ran away to the white side and found themselves stuck on the Crimean peninsula. Why didn't the badass blood thirty bolsheviks just put her up against the wall then? They return to Petrograd and wonder why the Bolsheviks didn't just wait out the closed for business sign on dads pharmacy during the civil war? Maybe the Bolsheviks should have called Walgreens instead? Why ask for, receive and use an exit visa if you need to escape? J Edgar Hoover had been running the first Red Scare after WW1 such that Russian communist, socialist and anarchists were being deported. She just waltzes into the US Embassy and they just give her a visa no questions asked?
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@Jax YT It's going to seem like that because we like Leon Trotsky supported the underlying economic planning without political support for bureaucracy. Eastern Europe came under Soviet control with the end of WW2 Stalin had no option but to Sovietize Eastern Europe or face what would become NATO on the borders of the Soviet Union. Stalin had agreed to let the British have control of Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia. His regime refused aid to each instead trying to sabotage those revolutions. Greece ended up being under a Royal Dictatorship and Yugoslavia's Tito being in conflict with Moscow. Albania siding with China in its conflict with Moscow. It was only about 6 months after WW2 that the cold war began with Churchill's Iron curtain speech. With Imperialism the capitalists export capital to foreign countries for even greater profits and then defend their foreign investments with military force. In the case of the Soviet Union its economy did not produce private profit and there was no foreign private property to defend. Actions taken in East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia were done to keep the privileged bureaucracy in power. One reason that became no longer possible was the bureaucracy policy to Russify all of its military left it with no more non Russian speaking Troops to use in Eastern Europe which was also Russiafied. It was a case of a bad policy producing sucess.
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@robertromero8692 Hitler was never elected but was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President General Hindenburg. Hitler was no more Socialist than FDR. Both organized capitalism for war. Just like the American capitalist they liked those big government war contracts. Nationalize enterprises were privatised. IG Farben and Deutsche Bank were big contributors to the NAZI Party. Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft represented German Industrialist. Pol Pot was supported by US/UK in the United Nations and given aid and comfort through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand by the US "Human Rights" Carter Regime giving millions to the Genocidal Maniacs .
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@Jax YT Depends on how you want to define Imperialism. If all want to do is define it as war without looking at the underlying economics then it is Imperialism whenever a war breaks out. That leaves other questions unanswered like the war's economic origins. Starting with the Spanish American war every war entered into by the United States has been a war for Democracy or so we were told by the two Party politicians. During WW1 Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs was Jailed for opposition. A Red Scare followed the war. Just before WW2 Leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters Union were jailed.Two weeks of TheMilitant.com were confiscated from the US mail and trial testimony is in a Pamflet "Socialism on Trial." The Korean War Included another Red Scare that went beyond just the Stalinist encompassing anyone suspected of disloyalty such that if you were by somebody suspected than obviously you knew somebody else since if you listened to the Red Hunters their were Feds behind every mailbox and a Red under every bed. The Vietnam War saw the FBI set up Cointelpro using government power to harass critics. The war ended with a President so discredited that he resigned.
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@Jax YT I think you missing the point here Stalin didn't give away just a few countries to the British. He and his factions were responsible for defeats of revolutions in Germany, France, Spain, and China before WW2. Plus Stalin can be blamed for everything any more than Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Jeff Davis or Julius Cesar.
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@robertromero8692 That's the end of me discussing anything with a nutcase.
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@Jax YT Okay you believe in defending private property over nationality. Now you have removed the fig leaf of Democracy from anything American capitalism does. Because now any kind of regime that defends private property is justified like Saudi Arabia.
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@Jax YT Look I'm not here for brownie points in creating proofs. If wish to ignore economics that's up to you.
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Sure Let's here them denounce the measures in the Communist Manifesto that the capitalist had to implement. A graduated income tax, the centralization of credit in a national bank, free education for children in Public Schools, and abolition of children's factory labor.
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@hope4me847 They think like McCarthy that we are infiltrating their government and organizations. They don't understand the how the power of ideas works they can't just suppress ideas because they themselves express them all the time and put them in competition with each other just as they put all kinds of methods and commodities in competition with each other.
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@jswift4163 Why not bring in General Sowell. Give him lots of Nuclear Weapons Aircraft carriers and Missiles 800 foiegn military bases along with some CIA installed dictators and terrorist to support against the communists and what could possible go wrong?
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Who's laws? Their laws! Who's laws? Their Laws! They write laws for themselves and big business. Why should we care if they become unenforceable? They aren't our laws! The are capitalist laws!
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Their is no people of our country there is the billionaire bosses and then there is the rest of us. There is their rotten and murderous cops and then there is the rest of us. There is the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation paid off SJW's like Ashley Judd and then there is the rest of us. So who are you? A paid off lackey like Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia or do you stand with the striking state workers?
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There are already plenty of cops to arrest real criminals and laws that make real criminal conduct illegal on both sides of the border with extradition to the country where the real crime was committed. Maybe someone like you would want to have checkpoints at all states borders? That way those who engage in interstate flight to avoid production could be more readily arrested. In fact why not go all NAZI Germany and have police checkpoints anywhere at anytime. Don't worry though you've made your monthly payment to the "police union" haven't you?
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The fact is that before Roe v. Wade Women had abortions but they were a combination of legal and illegal procedures. In some areas doctors gave them to women on the QT. It was also a mafia racket business like gambling and drugs. Some went to Japan, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Hawaii or Mexico for legal abortions. Many died in back allies or in motel rooms by either self induced abortions or abortions carried out by criminals. Better contraception methods have reduced by not eliminated the need for abortions because no means of contraception is 100% effective for all women.
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@mineben256 Sure and just like the war on drugs and other needless Imperialist wars like Vietnam, Korea and Iraq it will fail after killing, destroying and injuring hundreds of thousands of real human lives needlessly. We will have a successful world socialist revolution including in the US. The only questions is how many lives will it cost to get rid of your rotten profit taking system.
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@mineben256 The war on drugs was actually a response to the fact that GI's in Vietnam were taking drugs because of the alienation caused by a war that many realized was senseless. Nixon was alarmed by the spreading drug use and ordered that no GI could be sent home without being drug free first. We aren't bringing in a New World Order via a secret conspiracy. All of our ideas, history and plans are openly available in both our books and Newspaper. TheMiitant.com and Pathfinderpress.com We want to convince the vast majority that we are correct not organize a secret coup plot. We are against starting any civil war. As long as we are allowed our constitutional rights we will restrain ourselves to peaceful protest, dialogue and contesting in elections. We are not a group of cheerleaders for Democratic Party politicians either.
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@denverbroncos4 Okay your judgement is against abortion. When do you think you might need to decide if you need an abortion? I knew a man who had a family of 5 including his wife and was a church goer. He was definitely against abortion until he got one of his employees pregnant. Then he wanted to know if there was a way he could get his employee to have an abortion. I told him it doesn't work that way.
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@Brandon-kx6ru Every child born should be a wanted child. Women are not all the same some can take these hormonal birth control drugs and some can't. Why should we have to go before a judge to get permission to seek medical assistance? Women seeking an abortion are not criminals. When was the last time a fetus said a word or answered a question or sought a court hearing from inside women body. Maybe you can get one of these anti abortion judges to hold court inside a uterus. After under your theories what better place to get down to the nitty gritty.
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@mineben256 While others may have abandon liberal discourse we have continually come out against trying to shut down campus debate. We don't think Trump is a fascist like Hitler because for one reason his supporters at rallies aren't engaging in attacks of political violence. Many are working people drawn by his promise to make deals and fix the economy as an outsider not his racial or immigration.policies.
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This is a link to TheMilitant.com and Pathfinderpress.com The first issue was published in 1928 by supporters of Leon Trotsky and the International left opposition in the Communist Party of America. While not fully indexed all issues are available online including the brief name changes to the New Militant and The Socialist Appeal in the 1930's.
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@mineben256 https://www.history.com/news/drug-use-in-vietnam History Channel Drug use in Vietnam.
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@Jack Stucki If you think capitalism brings freedom like Freedman than you either haven't bought stock in Saudi Aramco or been to Saudi Arabia.
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@CG-vn8iy Whose Friedman?
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@theodorebear6714 You don't need a bump stock for anything but being a showoff or a war. If you think they're so valuable but to stupid to hide them and advertise them like your doing now than you deserve to go to jail for being to stupid for your own good.
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Why does it cost so much less to produce a 100 kv battery compared to the 35 kv battery? On a per Kv basis?
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Sorry the battery for EV 35 is 5.3 after taking off 10 for vehicle production and for EV 100 17.3 after taking off 10 for vehicle production. So slightly more CO2 on average created to make the larger car battery. Battery should be rated in Kwh kilowatt hours not Kv kilovolts. My mistake also.
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Stop the provocations now! US out of Korea! Let the Korean people reunify under their own terms. The US Imperialist Troops came in to evacuate the defeated Japanese Imperialist war criminals and have been their 72 years now.
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Yes the cops save the health insurance profiteers and capitalist government part of the cost of the crisis created by a system that can do nothing but prepare for war after creating economic depression. You can see the how the warmongers of the economic titat's of world capitalism the US and China are preparing for a new world war with each other. A Bosses war for markets, cheap labor and cheap resources.
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gIf you need a figure head you can make one out of plaster of paris its way cheaper than keeping professional clowns paid huge sums from the treasury. The real fear for the old feudal absolutist monarchist is the inability to be both a capitalist and monacharlist at the same time. If you release freedom to slowly you will be overthrown by your own people who have gotten a taste of freedom. If there is no freedom whatsoever than you can find yourself in the role played by the Shah of Iran. A internal explosion that can only end in your removal or death.
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If the women of Saudi want to lead Saudi they will need to take that power by force if necessary.
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Bosses chasing bigger profits closed down Detroit.
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Race remains an issue because of unequal outcomes in terms of criminal justice and economics as a start. Talking about it should help solve the issues as a first step. Recognizing everyone as people and then ignoring unequal outcomes is just like sticking your head in the sand after seeing a difficult road ahead.
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Why unequal outcomes? Part of the reason is like you said people with money get treated differently by the justice system. Economically the Black community as a whole is still in more poverty than other races. If it's like the claim many make that small business accounts for many jobs. Well that requires investment capital which while lots of Black people are in the middle class now they still don't have the property that the other races have. If you start a small business than who are you going to hire first? People you don't know or people in your family and friends. Now my family has changed, I bet others have also and it has nothing to do with liberalism or radicalism. It's just the change of culture in general.
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Did I claim that people just walking down the street are arrested? I'm not that familiar with stop and frisk. But having used a vehicle as part of my job I know that police had broad powers to stop you if they want to. I think the most foolish one was, "You almost went the wrong way up the (freeway) ramp." Does almost count? Anyway I do know he thought I was drinking and driving. He probably thought that because I was at a Pizza parlor which served beer (He was across the street and pretended to be going the other way.) and since I didn't know the area I was slowing at intersections before finally going left. After a lot of questioning including him insisting I had been drinking (which was not true at all) he said well I guess I don't have to write you a ticket.
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You're not going to like my answer to the economic one so I will make it quick and simple, "Abolish Private Property and Class struggle".
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It's not a design question because he refused outright not because he couldn't create a certain design. Plus there is no reason to believe a same sex wedding cake is significantly different than an opposite sex wedding cake. If he was a composer and asked to write a special hymn for the wedding or paint a mural then obviously artistic expression and inspiration is involved. He was given an out when at mediation he was asked to have a worker without his beliefs to make the same sex wedding cakes or contract out gay wedding cakes. He refused both compromises making it into a case where his religious beliefs as expressed by his company outweigh the religious beliefs of customers.
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@Name-cz5jj "Once all of those Chinese/Indians/whatever develop their own skills, America is going to be in some serious trouble." There you have the obvious problem of capitalism in the world market. Over capacity the ability to produce more than can be sold at a profit. This is why the working classes of all nations need to take the power to produce out of the hands of the capitalist profiteers. Trade war can only lead to real war. The absurdity of the ability to overproduce leading to the mass destruction world war.
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@auselesscorpse4645 Lets say I have a skill and get laid off can I expect my next employer to pay the same as the last even though the new job doesn't require my old skill? What if I have a skill but no one wants that particular skill. Do I get hired before someone elses with no skill even though my new employer will be unlikely to ever need my skill?
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@auselesscorpse4645 That sounds like the days of the sweatshop before the Unions in basic industries. You probably talking about 1933 before the 3 citywide General Strikes in San Francisco, Minneapolis and Akron, Ohio.
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I Love heating the upper and middle class talking about personal responsibility. The whole purpose of setting up a corporation is to AVOID personal responsibility.
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@robr2303 These people will talk until they become blue in the face about the need for incentives. The reason they want incentives is two fold. First they don't want to be in a job where one of them bosses the rest of us around. No one likes being yelled at but unable to yell back without being fired or having your job threatened. They also will tell you what genus's that the entrepreneurs are. They fact that they have a declining ability to use use all the productive capacity they have now argues against any genus and the need for more profits instead of less. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TCU#0
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Singing hymn's for American Imperialism that capitalist bosses love to hear.
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It is a refection of the dog eat dog capitalist system where healthcare for workers is a business overhead expense to be minimized and a drag on profit rates.
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@noobsito Like what? That Bush should of let the whole thing just cave in? LMAO You point of view is simple Karl Marx and Das Kapital must be wrong. After all your just simple shop keepers making a few pennies in profit. Not mounds of capital demanding a profit due to your exsistance..
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@noobsito Right as soon as Pinochet took power milk prices went up so middlemen were raking in more profits. Once Hitler came into office the German economy improved for business also. They "bad people" Socialist and Communists were sent to concentration camps to be murdered and then Hitler launched a war economy and France, Britain the US also began preparing for war. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Capitalism is based in the nation state and the only way for it to continue is on a march towards world war and fascism (war on the trade unions). . ,
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@noobsito "fascism is not capitalist" The propertied capitalist class turns to military methods and fascist gangster to save themselves and private property when the socials revolution is on the horizon. As Leon Trotsky observed, "Fascism would have been a Russian word had the Bolsheviks not taken power when they did." Once its done its basic job of murder to becomes too expensive a Regime. Which is why the capitalist then revert back to bourgeois democratic methods of control. It is not a different social system rather just a different method of capitalist class rule. Just as Rome chose a dictator in times of war and a democratic Senate in times of peace.
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@noobsito The Russian revolution began with the Textile strikes by women textile workers not the bourgeois who were aligned with the CZAR because of property. This would be a revolution made by and lead by the working class and a workers republic. The Soviets were workers councils and the Provisional government with former minister of war Kerensky had done nothing but shell anyway. Plus you've got the election time line wrong. Mussolini came to power with Black shirt gangsters attacking Peasants and murdering elected Social Democratic mayors. Appeals to the king and bourgeois forces went unheard precisely because of class interests. Class determines the type of state and hostility. Not some abstract concern for Republican government. US/UK were among the 14 Imperialist powers invaded the new Soviet Republic and supported the counterrevolution. The US government never has problems recognizing dictatorships and human rights violators as long as they maintain capitalist property relationships. As long as Stalin was fighting their Imperialist competition Hitler the US/UK had no problem with Stalin. Diplomatic relations with Fascist Italy were never severed until 1941. Hitler's government was quickly recognized as was Franco's in Spain and Pinochet. The US refused any relations with the Bolshvk governmnet until 1933 and with China until 1973. and with Cuba for almost 60 years.
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@noobsito Isn't that a pessimistic view of things if you believe human nature to be fixed. We may not have survived the missile crisis. Kennedy had everything ready for nuclear war all it took was a final command. At the last moment he announced "Victory would be ashes in our mouths." Generals like Curtis LeMay wanted him to push the button. All because they lost their colony Cuba when Fidel lead a revolution that ousted the dictator they armed and installed General Batista. Kennedy at first worried about violating the Geneva convention on using destruction of food crops as a weapon until informed the British had done it in Burma would also okay the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
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@iche9373 The US did NOT win the cold war. The Stalinist were not socialist but a roadblock to socialist revolutions. They were overthrown in popular revolutions. If you don't understand that then you are someone who mistakes a bureaucratic leadership of the labor movemnet for a revolutionary one. Leon Trotsky understood this and if you read the revolution betrayed so will you. But no you won't do that because you'd rather going on ad nausium about the greatness of American Democracy and liberalism. How America can't possible be anything but a great power with a meritocracy educated in the finest universities. That Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk are gifts to humanity and so on.
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@iche9373 People like yourself never starved under British Liberal Imperialism in Ireland or Burma either. No American Indians were killed to make way for where settlers under America capitalism either. After all America is a Liberal Democracy things like murdering Blacks never happened right? Gee what would the world do without smart liberals like yourself. Oh by the way anyone die of lead posining due to leaded gasoline?
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@iche9373 American Imperialism is based upon military force to defend foreign investment. Your Army and Navy are the unellected world's policemen with 800 military bases. Trumen declared Korea to be an American "Police Action". Just like your police murdered strikers during the great depression. George HW Bush declared a "New World Order" in 1/11/1991. Where the rule of Law replaced the rule of the Jungle as he launched the first gulf war. Why does America try and starve the Cuban people into submission? Every country in the world votes against your Imperialist blockade. You said you won the cold war and wanted capitalism in Russia and China and now instead you have completion for your world Imperialist Empire. Lenin's words ring out just as true today as they did in 1916 When he wrote Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@iche9373 Cuba wants the US out of its Base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba why don't the American Imperialist leave Cuban territory if American Imperialism is voluntary? NATO is an allincae of Imperialists that just finished destroy the lives of millions in Afghanistan. It is good for capitalist bosses like you though.
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@iche9373 You think American workers have rights because of liberal capitalism and not class struggle. The United States has had some of the most violent labor battles in history. Workers shot down with machine guns while in tents. Tanks firing in the streets of Detroit. We had a civil war to end slavery. Liberalism came form England and the English Liberal Party. When Trotsky was forced out of the Soviet Union he ended up in Mexico. That is where I where we get our communism from NOT Stalin. Capitalism produces class struggle especially when it goes into crisis like it has in the world today. The capitalist though out liberal methods of rule for fascism because they fear the class struggle of the workers. The workers will have a chance to overthrow capitalist rule before that happens. Now you are correct each country and natin must decide for itself but to think that American Imperialist soldiers are not capable of war crimes like they carried out in Korea, Vietnam and everywhere else is ludicrous.
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@iche9373 Just when do you think the US STOPPED being an Imperialist Power? It still holds the island of Puerto Rico refusing decolonization and refuses to give up the base at Guantanamo bay. Just becuase it has the European Imperialists, NATO and some UN resolution doesn't De Imperialize it anymore than the Brisish giving votes to workers de capitalized Britain..Every country in the world votes against its blockade of Cuba except Israel. Does it have any effect those UN votes? No because the US is an Imperialist power that believes it can just defy the rest of the world whenever its Imperial interests are at stake. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and the US is the has been the top dog since the end of WW2. Just because a few fools like you think they are providing you with protection doesn't mean they won't hesitate to bomb your country if its Imperialist investors decide it needs to be.done.
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@iche9373 I don't have to tell anyone to destroy the American Empire and quote "Unipolar world". The Empire is in decline like the British before it. Internally and externally. World capitalism is in a crisis of trade and production. Like the Titantic soon it will be every boss class for themself. American capitalist liberals have no choice but to turn to the method of fascism at home and Imperialist war abroad. Only the destruction of Imperialist war was able to save liberal capitalism of the Democratic Imperialist in the 20th century.
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@iche9373 Liberalism is just the ideological justification for capitalism first developed by the Liberal party in England and latter copied by America. The American capitalist will never allow the adoption of Social Democracy like post war Western Europe. They don't have the motive or the profits to do so. Their goal is profit maximization and they will increasing come into conflict with the working class in the United States as the conditions of life decline within the United States itself. Only a last minute law by Congress prevented a legal nationwide strike by the rail workers in the United States. Your idea of socialism leaves the ruling capitalist class in charge and ignores the teachings of Karl Marx for those of the revisionist like Edward Burnstein who said capitalism could continue without entering into Imperialist war. Its our movement in the United States that has forced open the limits of debate in the United States as it is the in the interests of the working class to have the right to fully hear and discuss communist ideas. The right to revolution in the United States is contained in the founding documents of the republic. You will see in our Bill of Rights and the constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and extended voting rights. The ability of the Imperialist to wage war is limited by the working people who hate to fight battles for regimes run by dictators. If your ruling class wants to fight its own people they are not going to get a ready go ahead from Washington like during the cold war. Many are disgusted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Capitalist liberals aren't getting a whole lot of support for war with China or Russia and their "authoritarian" capitalism. To many have the experence of the liberal capitalist tyranny on the job to believe everything they are told.
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@hristiyanhristov2480 The majority of the German capitalist class and its politicians are Christians. Sure some NAZI's might have qualified as Jews under the NAZI racial laws but the NAZI's and Hitler were out to build a German Empire like the British and American Empires.Hitler admired Henry Ford and reprinted Ford's antisementic diatribe the International Jew in German. Unlike the way the bolshivik governmnet was treated by the american capitalist the NAZI's got diplomatic recondition from FDR anf the UK without a hippocup.
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@hyzercreek Hitler fits into the category of Reactionary Socialism like Feudal "Christian" Socialism, Petty Bourgeois Socialism and German or True Socialism Marx wrote about in the Communist Manifesto. The Russian word "Soviet" means council or assemble. Reactionary means opposed to change. Hitler's goal was to create a German Empire and take over the world. Just as the Anglo Saxon's had. The German capitalists turned to Hitler and put him in power to prevent a socialist revolution in Germany. Without support from big business Hitler's party would have gone bankrupt. Hitler's racism and nationalism appealed to the German middle class and those who had become long term unemployed. His methods used them as a battering ram of political violence against the Jews, Social Democrats and Communists.
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@scottabc72 The unions need to form a labor party to take power from the bosses two parties government.
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@abigailpixler8512 In Vermont prisoners vote by mail and its 100% legal. Her vote was never counted. So why the hash sentence? Plus basicly the poll workers told he she could cast a provisional ballot.
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So how come he isn't locked up in the cellars of the Federal Reserve or Fort Knox?
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@ififif2022 The American Imperialist buy the Cuban political dissidents just like they buy the Democrats and Republicans to do what their CEO and Banker bosses want.
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@ififif2022 Right now the Imperialist are calculating how much mileage they can get out of this and how the player can be best used to advance their campaign of lies. This is why the press has been left in the dark. Lawyers from both parties will desend like vultures upon the family. They will have multiple opinions on what to do and how things should be done. This is because the Imperialist must make themselves look like they hold the moral high ground while being the biggest hypocrites.
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Like the American capitalism the real wrath of the justice system falls heaviest on the poor or working class. This kind of justice is meant to send a message that we can jail you arbitrary for any reason we please.
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Liberty in Cuba means living free of US Imperialist Domination.
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@SlenderHime Communism is a movement it is based in facts and the history of the modern class struggle between the two most important classes the Proletariat and the Capitalist. One of both victory and defeat not one of bankrupt doctrine taught by holy priests like bourgeois theories of capitalist superiority and other ideological blather about "Capitalism bringing freedom" or "Capitalism being self regulating."
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Another case of "Patriots" attacking free speech not covered by the first amendment. Congress can make no law but your boss can. Sure don't like what someone says call their boss so you can get them fired.
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@rlud304 They've got these idiots they hire as professors who say there are no solutions.
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@SeverSTL Canada is calling and Hudson Bay is a nice place for your winter vacation. Plenty of beavers to hunt for American Survivalists.
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Kent Horvath Sure and the real capitalism is just waiting in the wings and will come out and save the day with free markets and a non aggression principle. Markets are and always will be a source of violence because behind every "free market" there stands a policeman and a military officer. Capitalism is based in Nation States and those nation states can't avoid competition in the world market. Where at least one group can seek beat out the other using war to win the battle over national markets.
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Kent Horvath What's it like to live in a protected bubble within a gated community? Like all these fools at Hillsdale.
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Kent Horvath I'm already old and the only thing I regret is not being able to do more to hasten the socialist revolution. I don't need religion for a crutch and excuse to do nothing. Capitalism is based in strongly centralized nation states. They can't escape capitalist class competition and eventual warfare between each other. The internal workings of capitalism constantly push it towards monopoly as investment moves from industry to paper values and lead it to depression and war. Trump as already announced trade war with China.
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@maxtabmann6701 Capitalism is unstable it produces crisis because investors turn away from investment in new machinery and more production because of falling profit rates associated with automation. Investment in paper values eventually leads to a collapse of those values triggering a crisis of overproduction. Capitalist club together into national groupings.That leads to fights over the world market first with trade war and than world war. It doesn't matter how much the capitalists say they don't want war because war wants them. With production organized for private profit than there is no way outside of world socialist revolution to prevent WW3 from creating a overwhelmingly dead planet. Communism is a stateless society and it requires world socialism first. Anyone telling you the've already seen communism as envisioned by Marx is a liar. All we have seen is just an inkling of what's possible. The basic problem with Stalinism is that it pushed out the best elements of the original bolshevik party and later murdered them to benefit a privileged know it all bureaucracy. A capitalist wants monopoly to escape competition, seeking to set monopoly prices for a greater rate of profit. Even a mismanaged socialist economy produces no profits and has no competitions for markets consequently there is no need to set monopoly prices for a bigger profit by limiting production. Capitalism gave us nations states and a world market. Socialism will create a world without nations in the capitalist sense and replace the sales of commodities in a world market with production for human need. Not only can we reduce the required work day and week but the required worktime in a lifetime.
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@maxtabmann6701 So your just an ages long ago discredited Social Darwinists. The American capitalist were quite fond of the idea as was Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately the Aryan Superman lost to the slavic Soviets. The problem for the capitalist is always going to be the class that is diametrically opposed to them the industrial workers. The bosses can't do without our labor and they can't therefore do without us. We however can do without them. That is what frightens the bosses the most about socialism. A working class that understands that administration is a skill and not a talent passed out with god's glory at the end of a "Posion" Ivy League four year diploma. .
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This is what they want work the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits.
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@theodorejay1046 It was just the beginning of tearing away of fake face of Bourgeois Democracy. Nixon had used the methods of a dictatorship to win reelection. Both parties used the FBI to compile lists of political enemies and like Senator McCarthy of the 1950's he went to far with his thinking that the Democrats had been taken over by communists. Using the CIA as spies who broke into the offices of the loyal opposition in the Democratic Party was too much. That kind of activity was suppose to be limited to Blacks, communists, socialists and labor by J Edgar Hoover's FBI. This enabled us to launch legal campaign for political rights in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@aguyfromnothere This shows how parasitic capitalism is. If GameStop went bankrupt the only people hurt would be the workers while seculatiors aways go away with a bundle.
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@voxpopuval Now your seeing additional results of capitalism "cold war victory." This is George Bushes "New World Order." and his "Ownership Society." You can thank Cater, Regan, Bush 1 and 2, and Clinton for the creation of Islamic terrorism and the victory over a mythical enemy Communism for the creation of real ones like Islamic terrorism and Putin who waves the flag of the Russian czar and the counterrevolution. .
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Trump and Clinton our your's not ours.
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@portiaakukedzi8437 Read, "War is a Racket" by USMC Major General Smedley Butler a self described "gangster for capitalism".
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@abelphilosophy4835 In the state of Texas Judges are interviewed on TV saying they are going to fine and jail those not following police orders or doing anything without approval. The Governor has used the crisis as reason to order doctors not to do abortions.
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This bill should have been poposed and passed years ago.
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@urbugnmetoday3183 Cops are the thugs attacking pickets.
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The Imperialist war mongers cut their losses and ran. After 2 trillion dollars buying the best mercenaries in a poor country destroying it in the name of the free world, human rights and democracy. The hypocrisy of the American capitalist is astounding. The Imperialist have no shame what so ever.
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Ricardo Gonzalez It shows that a new Party is needed.
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it easy to see why this idea that censoring bad ideas just backfires. One need to only look all the venom released in the comments down below.
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@gigicat7043 Our Constitution and Bill of rights is written in the blood of our founders who as farmers and merchant colonist defeated the power of a tyrannical English King and the civil war amendment\ts are written in the blood of Black, White and Immigrant solders who defeated an attempt to divide the country into slave and free states. To para phase Thomas Paine it is the Constitution of our people and not the constitution of the government that keeps us free.
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@cek0792 I like how you think that no one can talk about something if they are the wrong nationality. Anymore gems of thought from that big brain of yours?
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@gerstmanndavid Do you think that has anything to do with FBI poison pen letters to M.L. KIng urging him to commit suicide. Or Reagan ordering out 800 Riot police with shotguns who killed one student and sent 128 people to the hospital. Then declaring a state of emergency all over a proposed parking lot at UC Berkeley?
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They've already brought the 'bad hombre' El Chapo to the US. A Mexican jail wasn't good enough for his 'Bad Hombre'. The needed him to increase the terrorist treat level. So they closed the Brooklyn bridge just to transport this 'Bad Hombre' to court. They are planing on bringing in a big flock of stool pigeons. Captured by an FBI going on international bird hunts using Mueller brand bread crumbs.
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@Leithenator Strossels ideas for teachers are education is best when teachers are paid less. Pay cuts for MSM talking heads.
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@michaelslife2473 They're workers too why shouldn't they have the right to negotiate their terms of employment?
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@michaelslife2473 Voters don't have power when you have the two party system of big donor chosen candidates. That's the way government works despite the theory. Besides education can't be a profitable activity under capitalism anway. No way to cut labor costs with new machinery and production methods to drive profits to educational activity.
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@michaelslife2473 No like I said in order to make a profit you have to sell above production costs and that levels off without new machinery to replace labor. It's the same reason public transit lost its profitability. (You can't cut the bus drivers route time.) When a private owner can't make a profit they shut down. Look at the universities only a few are private and they rely mostly on donations and endowments only a very few show a profit like Harvard because they get so many donations. MIT runs labs so it makes money that way but most don't.
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@michaelslife2473 That's the basic solution the capitalist have to everything. Work for less so we we keep up our profitability.
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@michaelslife2473 Look you can't set up a school system like a free standing company because education just isn't profitable. For it to have any chance of working you'd have to pay parents more money for their labor and you'd have parents who either couldn't afford education so the kids would have no structured activity or they'd hire babysitting service as it would be cheaper. Teenagers would either have to work or spend their time unstructured. In fact ruling class economists are already talking about what a waste education is. The'd rather save the money. If production costs level off it leaves no profit and then the capitalist would decapitalize the business. In order for capitalism to work best they must constantly reinvest their capital in expanding production but the workers can't buy back all we produce so it inevitable goes into a crisis. Everytime they invest in new machery the raise the capital value but decrease the labor time needed to produce so now the profits will eventually fall unless they can sell more in the marketplace or cut the price of labor. In the world was infinite capitalism could go on forever but what happens is markets become saturated and then they stop reinvesting because they see no more profits in expanding production. That brings on an economic crisis.
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@michaelslife2473 If I was capable of writing a book I might be able to at least propose an answer to that question.
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Certainly you want to encourage creativity and exploration by the young and make that part of lifetime activity. Language and math are usually considered the necessary skills.
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@lesleyvivien2876 Well you tell me why Sowell's and Milton Friedman's prophecies of an exuberant capitalism winning the cold war and going on to create as Bush said an ownership society and a New World Order instead resulted in the crisis of 2008 and the defeat of "Nation building" in Afghanistan. Why Sowell supported Donald Trump as being easier to impeach? Now Sowell talks about how his theories might be useful in the future. As Marx observed every ruling class in history begins to lose confidence in itself when its methods begin to fail. Sowell having worshiped at the altar of free markets finds himself in Milton Friedman's position after the stock market crash. The Friedman who had been a new deal liberal and admitted that Capitalism was only restated with the second world war. The revisionist Friedman who said the best policy would have been to do nothing. LMAO. Go ahead sit back and do nothing while we teach the workers how to win victories in the class struggle. Relying on their own power and organization and not the capitalist or their state power.
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@skidmoda Capitalism not borders are the problem.
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@keithbell9348 Ok its time for the union firing squad. Aim those 1861 Springfields strait at the Boss and if anyone gets in the way fire anyhow.
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As Malcolm X explained it's either the ballot or the bullet. Kennedy himself said those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
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@RS-rj5sh South Vietnam was a creature of the Imperialist Powers with the Geneva Peace conference in 1954. The Vietnamese freedom fighters were cheated out of their victory at the peace conference with the betrayal of Moscow and Beijing.
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@haroldgodwinson832 Well than why the need for Trump to do anything about the coronavirus pandemic? Should he just step aside and let the free market do its job? Why have gov't collect taxes to pay for roads when trumpikes companies could be both profiting and routinely going bankrupt with empty toll booths. Think about the increased efficiency when work stops on private turnpikes that can't pay their maintenance costs and bankruptcy courts intervene.
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@haroldgodwinson832 The real test of any kind of political economy is in a state of war. Stalin's Soviet Union defeated Capitalist Germany. If the capitalist were against wealth destruction than they wouldn't have gone to war with each other. Starting with WW1. With the end of world war two the British and French Empires were finished. Mao would throw out all the foreign Imperialists and defeated General Chang who was backed by the US. The US lost wars in Korea and Vietnam. A new communist leadership came forth in Cuba defeating the US with a minimal loss of life only 90 miles away. The cold war ended without a US Military victory over China and the Russian Federation. Instead they are the US's new Imperialist competition. Capitalism has not been able to end the class struggle despite wishful thinking about the "End of History" in 1991. The counterfeit communists in China and Russia along with Mao's and Stalin's theories of Socialism in one Country, New Democracy, the Popular Front against Fascism don't have the support of a Stalinist Regime. When new revolutionary leaderships develop the Stainists won't have the power to confuse and sell them out that they had prior to 1991. Nor will the Imperialist have the ability to advance their interests through these sellouts like the Nixon/Kissinger did at the end of the Vietnam.
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@haroldgodwinson832 Lend Lease went from the US to the UK and Soviet Union. The UK got 3 times what the Soviets did. One of the founders of the American Conservative movement was a former Trotskyist James Burnham. Bill Buckley had nothing but praise for Burnham. Using your thinking methods Conservatism is also a branch of Communism.
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@haroldgodwinson832 "How Big Business bailed out the NAZI's" So the liberals at the Brennan center are really communists also? https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis
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@haroldgodwinson832 Concentration camps for the EATERS. Everyone who couldn't fit into a designated place in NAZI Germany was sent to the concentration camps. Fascism isn't the same as ordinary capitalist parties. it has a thug component. They are used first and foremost against the communists and then any organizations that could be a source of political opposition. The Italian fascists started with murdering elected Social Democratic Mayors in Italy. We have had American Fascists. The KKK, the Silvershirts, American NAZI's. Mein Kampf is about German nationalism, anti internationalism and anti Marxism and remember the Social Democrats were still claiming to be Marxists at the time.
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@haroldgodwinson832 Hitler's words from Mein Kampf on The Trade Union Problem. "The movement and the nation can derive advantage from a National Socialist trade unionist organization only if the latter be so thoroughly inspired by National Socialist ideas that it runs no danger of falling into step behind the Marxist movement. For a National Socialist Trades Union which would consider itself only as a competitor against the Marxist unions would be worse than none. It must declare war against the Marxist Trades Union, not only as an organization but, above all, as an idea. It must declare itself hostile to the idea of class and class warfare and, in place of this, it must declare itself as the defender of the various occupational and professional interests of the German people."
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@haroldgodwinson832 No evidence that trade unions were to be prohibited from the writings of Marx, Engles, Lenin, Trotsky, or Fidel Castro. Despite all the lies told not a single innocent person has ever been executed in Cuba since the revolution. No not 1000, Not 100, Not 10, Not 1. None and you can not find a single case of a George Floyd in Revolutionary Cuba unlike in the US and Brazil were Black and Working Class life is snuffed out with police impunity. A US Ally Saudi Arabia murders a US Journalist in its Turkish Embassy and the US President issues an apology for the Royal family saying how good it is that they are buying US Weapons and creating jobs. Well Why not go for bigger bone saw and sulfuric acid contracts? In fact why not ship them direct to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC from the White House Basement like Oliver North.
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@haroldgodwinson832 Well why did the so called Quilt of Cuban Genocide disappear? Was it too cold in Jersey? Or was it because the people on it died of natural causes or were still alive? I have challenged others so far I have one claim concerning an incident where the Peruvian Embassy in Cuba was taken over by heavily armed men. The challenger claimed it couldn't be true because of access controls on weapons. But the article was carried uncritically by the AP as heavily armed men. Another claimed the American Comandante Morgan was unjustly executed yet he admitted to arming rebels in the Escambray mountains after the revolution. Another claimed Alpha 66. They are a US sponsored terror group in Miami.
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@ancientmaverick13 Basically this guy is wrong. People lived in collective societies not trading societies at the beginning of our species. No one had a fire going where a guy with a deer just dropped by. It makes no sense to begin with because why start a fire unless you first need heat or to cook. Hunting was done first in groups so as to chase the animal around util heat stroke took over. Our bodies are made to be natural marathon runners with sweat glands for heat loss. We don't get heat stroke as long as we are well hydrated. We sweat and the water on our skin evaporates taking away the heat produced by the bodies energy needs. Animals with fur may be able to out sprint us but not out run us because they lack sweat glands. .
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@IRGhost0 If all a bank has is auto loans, mortgages, and middle class depositors then a small bank failure will have little impact. A bank failure for a other business accounts will create financial chaos. Money for wages, for purchases, and from sales just disappears.
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@IRGhost0 No the solution is to have a planned economy and eliminating private profit driven chaos.
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@IRGhost0 Every major conflict with Cuba has been a loss for the US. Want to see the most backward US Imperialist dominated country in the Western Hemisphere? Haiti. Cuba takes in Haitian refugees that arrive on their shores. For the US refugees are a big problem despite the size of the country. The US capitalist have about 35% percent of the productive capacity sitting still in empty factory building and railroad spurs filled with Diesel Electric engines yet they have no jobs.
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@IRGhost0 Well they invest in making things sold to end users. Like LED's and hotel spaces for recreation. That enables them to get around trade barriers created by the US. The also have a Pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing Industry. A Cuban drug for lung cancer is undergoing clinical trials in the US.
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@xD4RKxRYU Enlightened does she have any solution for China? I guess not since she just ran away? Now that she's here she's worried and having nightmares after feeling safe and secure. Him I guess she was living in a "safe space.".. Well I'm sure she can help us here because she ran away from China!
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@xD4RKxRYU I use it to symbolize the early Russian Revolution. If capitalism was able to escape Imperialism as it highest stage and world war one than their never would have been a Russian revolution. Now you claim to have won the cold war but you were unable to prevent or solve the economic crisis of 2008. Putin having set up a pusedo capitalism with a KGB style regime has now gone to war with Ukraine which only furthers Lenin's theory that Imperialism is the highest stage and Imperialism means conflict among the developed capitalist nations for markets and resources. Capitalism is naturally exploitive and the greedy capitalist classes can't stay out of war with each other and that's not even counting the decline in the rate of profit which means even if capitalism could avoid war it would come to an end as machines replace labor because of the resulting fall in the rate of profit.
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@hleigh7201 Jealousy of what? Your Bourgeois University degree in Ben Shapiro mud pie economics. You bit coin foolishness? Tell me something do you think you could get me in for a tour of the cellars of the New York Federal Reserve Bank where your keeping the largest stash of the worlds gold?
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@joebp91 You don't get to socialism by voting for a Party of Liberals and Billionaires capitalists. The Democrats have an exactly zero constructive ideas about anything. What did Obama do to fix the roads beside issuing orange barrel contracts. Who got help out by the sand in the carburetor program? How many families can now afford college because Obama said "Open a Book Sometime". Or where a Liberal Boss calls in to say he isn't shutting down so he is saving jobs with Obama then saying my program to save jobs works and the numbers show it. The really stupid people are voting for Democratic Party Liberals.
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@JayBee-se8ou With Socialism no one owns the means of production its the workers who control it. With capitalism if you produce to much than the capitalist can sell at a profit he shuts production and stops paying you. You now apply for unemployment and start looking for jobs in other words "Your on your own." With socialism you have open central planing instead of planning for profits done by individual companies with the associated boom and bust cycle. You plan on time for education throughout the working class so you can better you cultural skill level and instead of the old incentives of piece rate connected to production you can add time of with pay and more equatable wages. The biggest difference is people don't get left behind because socialism includes cultural change in the way working people people see themselves as actors and doers rather than being treated as the people who work for us. You can get rid of a lot of bureaucracy because things like safety and pollution are now under control of the people who work and their community. You can ask for scientific advice from a University but you are the end maker of your own decisions and as the cultural level rises many things that are clear anti social to begin with don't receive any support. Are you going to vote to close the plant and move production elsewhere with no plan whatsoever ahead of time like the bosses do today? The workers at the flint water department must of known about the lead pipes with capitalism they aren't listened to and to many experts were thinking about costs such that they let things deteriore with no plan to replace the pipes that they should had years ago.
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@JayBee-se8ou I write today because I'm not afraid of insults from upper class know it alls. Twenty million Red Army soldiers died to get rid of Hitler which is why you don't speak German today. My ability to please an English teacher or professor like yourself is not the issue. Why should I answer any questions posed by someone who begins with a superior attitude with your claims that I must of been educated in Russia which is why my English is so bad? It couldn't possible be the fault of a capitalist school system in the United States could it? Sure in the US everyone gets to attend a neighborhood school system funded by the neighborhood. It's just that some neighborhoods are more equal than others right? Since you are such a superior writer give yourself a Pulitzer Prize just like the capitalists give themselves money. They traded in all their bad paper (Junk bonds) for good paper (Federal Reserve Notes) and called it quantitative easing. I used the word 'us' once. It is a confusing word which is why I usually don't usually use it. 'us' meaning a group is often mixed up with US meaning the United States. Instead of 'us' I should have used capitalists or the upper class. We are the ones who actually do jobs like cable guy, dishwasher, taxi driver, bus driver, retail worker, and electronics tech and I have actually done all those jobs so we includes my co workers. I'm sure an expert in the English language like you Professor Jay Bee will be able to pick apart everything I have written
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@JayBee-se8ou Sure that's how capitalism works. Bomb anyone who will not bend a knee to Uncle Sam. It started with the Spanish American war and continues today. Modern capitalism has replaced the strike inducing wage cuts with Central Bank inflation generated by playing with the number of dollars bills in the banks. The capitalist don't earn their money with voluntary transactions. The steal it by use of police and military violence aided by propaganda and a fiat currency. A fifty dollar gold piece is worth about $1700.00 today. Silver was removed from the Quarter and Dime because the silver became worth more than the face value. Even the copper in a penny became worth more than a penny such that the are now all pennies are aluminum coated with copper.
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Who did the banks sell all their toxic assets to? The Federal Reserve bank of course. They traded in worthless paper for magnetic strips on a hard drive or federal reserve notes. As long as no bank gets greedy or bankrupt those paper values will remain locked in a bank vault. However capitalist greed and economics guarantee that once those notes start getting spent an inflation will begin with no end in sight.
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Communism takes what the working class has built in a revolution that abolishes private property the property used to exploit others. Communism is a movement of the working class that began shortly after our birth form the beginnings of Industrial capitalism.
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@JayBee-se8ou According to that youtube video it was taken just about when Milton Friedman came in to advise the old counterrevolutionary bureaucracy on what to do next. Where a "Real Socialism" could be created by issuing the workers saleable shares in their enterprises. Then they creating shock therapy such that those most corrupt exparty members could become the new capitalists buying up shares from those who just wanted to eat.
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@JayBee-se8ou Professor Jay Bee you'll find out how good capitalism works when an inflation like that in Venezuela or post WW1 Germany breaks out. You man in Caracas Juan Guaido of the "Popular Will Party" is allied with the Second Socialist International. A group of Socialist in name only traitors.
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@JayBee-se8ou Professor Jay Bee obviously the best slave is the one who thinks he is free. Without an upper crust or labor lieutenants of capitalism as Socialist Eugene Debs called them capitalism would be all that much weaker. The upper crust serves as the transmission belt for capitalist ideology. That's what's behind your taunting me "to get a job."
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@JayBee-se8ou No doubt a New Jerusalem is just a few days or months ahead with either Trump, another Republican or a new 'socialist' Democrat leading the charge for bigger profits and a few more crumbs for the working class or so they promise.
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@JayBee-se8ou "If you steal a dollar from me, there is still only one dollar. The math is simple." That might be considered true back when a dollar was made of silver or with a $50.00 gold piece. The math is no longer that simple. The reason being is the value of the dollar is determined only by the payment of US Federal state and local taxes for which only dollars are accepted as payment. The whole purpose of the Federal Reserve bank is to have a monopoly over the money used in all economic transactions with in the US. By law it belongs to all the nationally chartered banks. It sets both the reserve all the National Banks must have and the overnight interest rates between banks borrowing money from each other. It also provides a window where banks may borrow directly at a higher interest rate than the overnight rate. The Federal Reserve after a slight of hand using Treasury bonds basically orders the GPO to print or the Mint to coin money on demand. When it lends money at positive interest rates that means it must get back more money than it lent in the first place. The EU and Japan have already faced this problem and begun lending at negative interest rates. This raises a brand new problem of how to make a profit when your investment declines in monetary value as free money, money you don't have to pay back at a negative interest rate, is added to the economy.
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@JayBee-se8ou People like you open up a lemonade stand and then propose that the real solution to everyones problems is opening up more lemonade stands or calling an investment banker. You only believe your income is solely determined by you actions as an individual. Capitalist politicians always talk about how hard work produces wealth. This is of course a big lie that must be eaten as good coin. Those who work the hardest are the agricultural workers who face the worst conditions and are the lowest paid. People who you ignore like the gas station attendant who lost his job to the auto pay at the pump. For you they are non persons who don't deserve the time of day. Another justification revolves around chance. A chance to be a small boss. A chance to be thrown in jail. A chance to be a Billionaire and a chance to be homeless. Of course the down side receives little discussion. Yes capitalism provides chance just like in a casino and the lottery tax. They have a mathematical science for chance and risk. It's called probability something most likely out of the English Professors realm of knowledge.
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@thegeneralist7527 Cut off the US upper class at the knees. Nationalize them down to the nails in their boots.
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Cut the military budget and use the surplus to build housing.
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This is nothing more than a pack of lies by a Neo NAZI Jew hater like the old Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was a support of Hitler and organized a Muslim Militia for the final solution.
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@eugenetswong Capitalism can only produce profits from industrial production for a few bosses and bankers. Health care and education for workers are overhead costs to minimized in the interests of maximum private profits for the bosses and investors.
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@albertchurchill4845 It makes advanced medical care care available only for those who can pay. Countries like the United States rely on third world education systems for about one third of their doctors as it is now. Profits and luxuries for the bosses come before healthcare and education in the capitalist world.
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@brusso456 They are paid shills of the capitalist bosses.
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@Hunterchuck Class struggle is the road to socilaism.
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They had the best Afghan politicians money could buy.
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Police hiding behind masks arrest 40 people at night and confiscate a few weapons and a thousands dollars? This is no doubt some kind of roundup of a new government opposition with the gang reason cooked up to justify it. A couple of dummies with cans of beer wearing bandanas and a guy meeting in graveyard. Are you really serious?
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@boris001000 The rugged individual is just another American myth like the cowboy and American Dream. Those who moved west circled the wagons every night.
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Where do Marx or Lenin promote this idea of a superior race? The idea of building Socialism in one country was only theorize by Bukharin in 1928 and rejected by Trotsky with Lenin being already dead. Hitler came to power in 1933 with help of President General Hindenburg and the Conservative Capitalist parties. The Communist and Social Democtats represented the industrial workers while the Nazi found followers among the middles class being pauperised by the capitalist system. Stalin's basis was in a rising group of privileged officials while Hitler's Party was created to save the same social class of people being crushed between capital and labor. This is why you see so many similarities between the two. The Russian Oct revolution began with votes first among the bolshevik leaders then the St Petersburg Soviets. All power to the Soviets was the Bolshevik slogan. Hitler's was give me the power of dictatorship from the Reichstag after the fire denying all the communist and some Social Democrats their seats. Hitler tried and failed to get a conviction of the Communist leaders for the fire. Hitler got only votes of the capitalist parties for him and for his dictatorship. He came to power based upon thuggery, lies and deceit. Despite all the talk of free markets you see that the capitalist world adopted Keynes ideas. The only difference between Keynes and the neoliberals is how much should be left in private hands and how much should be managed by the state in the interest of other investors like those who own the central banks national debt. Stalin and his leading gangsters did not see the real threat that Hitler and fascism posed. Stalin was hoping to find liberal allies to save him and his regime. He feared the Spanish revolution and Trotsky more than Hitler. Instead the Stalinist originally thought Hitler was just leading another group of opportunistic politicians. They called the Social Democrats Social Fascists. Now the word fascist has become little more than a swear word.
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The Anti-Simp Chronicles What evidence do you have of Sowell being a Marxists?
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@jasonsabourin2275 No Sowell ignores facts in favor of idealism like most Bourgeois intellects. Insists that ideas in the heads of Black people placed by Marxists or Liberal thinkers destroyed the Black family rather than the change of the traditional family of the sharecropper which was an economic unit into one where the industrial worker is the basic economic unit and the up and down nature of the business cycle destroying the families of the last hired and first fired lowest paid workers of all colors. Naturally the idea that you don't need a family unit develops to explain the reality and not the idea creating the reality. Ending welfare as we know it by Clinton only increased the number of family breakups along with the 2008 crisis. Just as racism was developed to explain why Black people were in chains despite the new capitalist system. The system of Black plantation slavery was grafted on to capitalism because of the labor shortage for help on the plantation and the ability of whites to run away to the city like Ben Franklin did and Native people to move further inland. So having a Black skin was just a way to better control plantation labor until the plantation owners themselves became an obstacle to national development and the new wage labor system. They capitalist then destroyed slavery in a bloody civil war only to reinstate a system of racial caste by destroying the Reconstruction governments in the interests of private property and a two tired economic system to hold down the wages of all workers. That system of Jim Crow segregation was destroyed by the black peoples fight for the right to be treated as equal human beings of equal worth. American capitalism can't do without lower wage rates for different groups and so racist ideology although it has been dealt great blows by a civil war and Black freedom struggle can only die with the end of capitalist exploitation in the United States itself. Capitalism creates the division and racism is the ideology for ruling class justification of abuse of Black and others who refuse to bend to the ruling class mandates. Make no mistake that the middle class heaping blame on to Caucasian workers for a system that gives them privilege is just another type of capitalist bigotry. The middle class runs the capitalist system as the bosses and its certainly more responsible for what ever racial problems are developing than a working class that is much less racists than any time in past history. . .
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US Imperialist spend 3 trillion dollars creating millions of refugees and another elitist Newt Gingrich cry's that hes not a loser.
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That would be nice if only the capitalists didn't send fascist bands to defeat the trade unions.
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@anthonypeterson5618 We need to follow the Cuban Road to Socialism in America.
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@alandavis9644 Now you've reached the gospel of neoliberalism according to Capitalism's Savior Milton Friedman and one of his disciples Thomas Sowell. Neoliberal shock therapy coming to a country like yours. Open wide and swallow it's good for you.
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@mark5862 The capitalist can't avoid the crisis' their system creates. Bush was going to build a "New World Order" where rule of law replaced the rule of the jungle. He was going to create an Ownership Society. He was going to defeat an Axis of Evil of Cuba, N Korea, Iran and Iraq. He and your four other presidents only succeeded in spending 5 trillion dollars and create more refugees. The exercise in nation building in Afghanistan was just another fiasco for capitalist government. Even your closest Imperialist allies vote against your cruel blockade of Cuba at the UN.
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@WSW0424 Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with holy priests that implement it. The first workers state was the Paris Commune that lasted 70 days before being crushed militarily in a bloody counterrevolution. The next was the Russian Revolution. Lenin declared victory after 71 days. Leon Trotsky lead the Red Army to defeat 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK and when the German revolution failed Lenin vowed to tear Imperialism limb from limb to free the colonial slaves and the Bolsheviks held the Congress of the Peoples of the East New communist parties were organized in the colonies that never had social democratic parties. Today you see a UN the result of the of the inability of the Imperialist nations to militarily dominate the colonial world. The communist leadership in Havana has neither been defeated nor been transformed by a Stalinist counterrevolution. We defeated you political police in a victory for all working people when a capitalist judge was forced to issue an injunction against your FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@newyorkfan16 Slavery is almost non existant in the modern world. The US stopped being a net exporter in 1973 that doesn't mean all exports stopped. The workers standard of living also stopped rising with productivity. The US is a center of world capitalism and even the world centers are being shaken up as the crisis of trade and production continues. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism as the ruling class wil march todards war a fascism to save themsleves from the coming revolutions.
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@jnagarya519 Its a class divided society and that has more to do with ideas and attitudes than anything elses. That's why their s no typical boomers or Gen X or anyone else. The year 1973 will go down as a major political and economic tirning point in American history. The war in Vietnam ended and so did the dollars value in gold along with the end of wages rising with productivity. This marked the beginning of the end of the cold war along with another defeat for American Imperialism.
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@inmjoh The people who work in Chinese factories are workers who are paid a wage otherwise they would not leave the countryside for the city. Slaver and wage labor are not the same thing. The places were slavery still goes on are few and far between. Its just become much to easy to run away for slavery to be a viable way to conduct business. If you count people inside of prisons as slaves then the United States has the biggest slave population.
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@jnagarya519 All those things were a result of a protest movement outside of the two party setup that was changeling the scared cows of the cold war and American capitalism.
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@jnagarya519 The war was began by Kennedy along with Johnson both Democrats along with the vote on the lie about the Gulf of Tonkin voted for bi partisan. Both are pro war pro capitalist and pro Imperialist parties despite the lies told by their politicians. Their job was to try and bottle up everything to a debate between the two parties who are bought and sold by the capitalists. Kennedy brought the world to brink of nuclear war because Fidel Castro lead a revolution over throwing a US backed dictatorship in Cuba. Many politicians including Nixon ran as peace canidates. Some wanted to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Only the Socialist Workers Party candidates were for immeadate withdrawal of all Troops and an End to the Draft. GIs in Vietnam refused to fight. Black GI's protested the war and the racism of the brass. Liberals were all pro war until they realized they had lost and wanted to avoid more costs economically and politically. The reason for the end of the gold standard was the failure of the war and butter policy of the two parties. Kennedy okayed the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam in an effort to strave them into submission just like the 60 year US blockade of Cuba.
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@jnagarya519 They started firing at night after claiming to be hit. The navy reported back Johnson went forward with the resolution. They checked the ship the next day and found one unaccounted for dent. They reported back to Johnson and he just laughed because he got what he wanted. You supported the Democrats who were the Party of George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey.all pro war until the realized they had lost. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter he supported and armed Pol Pot and support him at the UN as a way to punish Vietnam. You know god damn well that people like myself had nothing to do with assholes like "Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin." What do you think you got some damn monopoly on you tube now? The Democrats have always been a Pro imperialist War Party. Starting with Wilson, FDR and Truman. All cold war antilabor witchunters like the Kennedy brothers. No differene between the parties.
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@inmjoh ILO was founded by the Worlds Imperialist powers after WW1 not really interested in what they or an NGO foundation.has to say. People who constantly focus on other nations and ignore there own ruling class are just so many hypocrites.
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@inmjoh My experience with peolpe like you is you have a dishonest agenda and I''m not interested in feeding into it and don't write asking me what I'm talking about. If you need the definitions of words you can seek them elsewhere. Imperialism is capitalist investment in foreign nations for extra profits defended by military force.
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@YiddishDancingClown Me and College Republicans who like Ben Shapiro would probably denounce you for being an antisemitic.
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@Attmay The European Imperialist decided they would like to fight with each other destoying their idunstry leaving the US untouched due to geography. That is how American Imperialism became top dog. Europe and Japan were left in smoldering ruins. America became defacto head of what was left of the British Empire and Latin America.
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@Attmay Imperialism is foreign investment backed up by military force to defend it. Truth is always revolutionary my friend and the truth must be told. Cuba soldiers went to Angola to defeat a South African invasion and the defeat of the invisible "White Mans" apartheid system was a great victory for human kind. The role of the US Imperialist was the same as usually to support Aparthied South Africa and its war aims in Angola. That is why Mandela went to Cuba first to thank Fidel Castro and NOT Ronald Reagan who was spewing that nonsense of Milton Freedman about Free markets.
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@inmjoh Only one has 800 foreign military bases and says it fights police actions and only a few have nuclear subs armed with nuclear milsses only a few have aircraft carriers and only a few have dones and have a space force preparing to rain death from space. Yes America is an imperialist nation ever since Mark Twain joined the anti Imperialist league. Why don't you stop using the tactics of a Stalin where you try and rewrite history and deny your crimes. USMC General Smedley Butler Wrote War is a Racket where he called himself a gangster for capitalism.
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@inmjoh Its an English word used by a number of English authors including Hobbs and Mark Twain. Obviously you need to be able to win a war as a foreign power your going to need to be military power. The US military plans to win not lose wars as do those who invade other sovereign nations the fact that its no longer that easy for an Imperialist powers to win doesn't mean that they have given up. The Imperialist didn't win the cold war rather the Stalinist regimes collapsed because their leadership was counter revolutionary and unreformable. The most corrupt quickly signed on to the ideas of the American Imperialist rushing for the privileges that capitalism would promise. Of course the Milton Freedman slogan of a free people with free markets is nothing more than a bad joke in Eastern Europe as American capitalist turn then into debt slaves and Putin seeks to reestablish the power of a now clearly capitalist Stalinism blaming Lenin for the independence of Ukraine..
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@inmjoh You can"t? He had thousands of loyal communist executed in both the Soviet Union and Spain. He had whole groups of political prisoners who volunteered to fight in the world war executed. None of that crap went on in Cuba because if it had the US would have invaded and taken over quickly. So you can explain how Cuba has no private property and you have to blockade them. You tried every trick the US CIA and the rest of your rotten politicians can think up and its failed in every confrontation. Everything is catching up on all your lies about capitalism and democracy and you losing all the support you once had. Only a few fools believe that self serving Milton Freedman nonsense about a free market creating a free people. Everyone sees how you mistreat the people of Cuba for you oil Price who has never held a national election and murdered a US journalist in his Embassy.
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@inmjoh An organization of Cuban counter revolutionaries, former US Gov't officials, Cuban business executives and relatives still licking their wounds after the defeat at Giron. The counter revolutionaries also produced a quilt of genocide that had to be withdrawn after it was shown it had the names of people who died of natural causes and people still living. The executive director has relatives that fought as CIA mercenaries and was educated in Human Rights under the Pinochet dictatorship and was a former VP at Chase Manhatten bank.
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@inmjoh No one denies that criminals were executed after the revolution. These are people who engaged in torture and murders not people who had just fought as soldiers. The revolutionaries had promised the Cuban people that justice would come to those who had committed crimes under the dictatorship. No one executed his ever been show to be innocent of the serious crimes charged. Had they not been punished than it would have allowed the US an excuse to restore order if street justice were allowed to take place instead. Nevertheless most of the former police and military were amnestied and put into productive work or left for the United States. Those who were captured after the US CIA invasion were traded back to the US for medicine. No one was tortured for information although spies among the fighters were shot.
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@inmjoh I don't care about your quotes taken out of context. No one who was sent to the wall was ever shown to be innocent of the serious crimes charged and all received informal trial and Che reviewed the evidence against those convicted at La Cabana. They got more of a trail than they gave any of their victims. So just admit you believe all the lies made up and told by the the United States Gov't and their Cuban collaborators and we will be done with.the argument. So don't bother continuing since all you interested in is provocation. .You put up you quote and cited your Bib Business human rights NGO so we are finished Get it. .
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@inmjoh Hold on the moral superiority BS anyone who has read the bible would conclude God himself is a genocidal maniac. Hoasea 13:16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”[a]
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@inmjoh Ever think that given Stalin's training the Tiblisi Orthodox seminary that maybe he was overtaken by a belief he had become a God and was doing the Lords work?
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@inmjoh Your right they didn't get the kind of "fair trial" you would get if you had money with a defense lawyer and all the time that would take. The got summary trails and Che reviewed the evidence. Did American bourgeois justice prevent the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham on junk science despite appeals and a bourgeois state machine? Lets go back to 1959 in the United States were civil rights activists murdered by white policeman and freed by all white juries? You have yet to name a single innocent person that has been executed in Cuba that can be verified independently outside of US Gov't and Cuban counter revolutionary sources. You keep up this phony crap about ideology because you can't ague with the actual ideas or the context in which a decision was made. Why don't go back to the civil war and condemn Lincoln also with your pumped up chest on your moral crusade. Twenty thousand died to get rid of a US installed and armed dictator doing the bidding of those who bought up a country with Yankee dollars. But all you want to talk about is how some actual criminals who did what you claim we do were executed.
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@marklewonczyk5079 You don't pay in and than get paid back out like a pension scheme. The way social security works is that it is a pay as you go system and it has always has worked that way those who work pay for those who don't. .Ir only collected taxes for a few years before it started paying out old age benefits. The private pension and 401k is a bogus promise based in the stock market speculation. I was promised multiple pensions and the one that I actually qualified for disapeared. Social security was their for me and my family since it was enacted. Inflation kills any savings and private pension you try to build not to mention the inevitable recessions or a devastating illness. Everyone who has paid in has almost always received more when paid out. If social Security isn't working than capitalism itself is failing. You pay half and your employer pays half for a total of 15.3% not 1/3 of you paycheck
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They don't tax you on the SS money they pay out unless you have more income. All your doing is repeating the same old lies told by capitalist politicians like Reagan and Clinton taking about how they couldn't afford a better retirement and healthcare but had these phony private investment and worthless health insurance plans.
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@Diabolus_Musica Was Saddam Hussein the "New Hitler" as G W Bush claimed? Or was he just another US armed dictator who had gotten out of control?
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@sten260 The debt is owned to the bosses who should be paying taxes instead of getting tax money to pay off loans.
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@ellierivera5519 More cops can not stop the misery that drug addiction causes. Nor can he stop the decline of American capitalism.
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@OptimusPrinceps_Augustus You can thanK the US/UK who armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN. He got support from "Jimmy "Human" Carter who wanted to punish Vietnam for defeating the American Imperialist Empire. Carter also gave the Chinese Stalinist the Okay to invade Vietnam. The US maintains its International war on terror torture facility at Gunatanamo Bay Cuba. Remember the hypocrite Bush who said the A "New World Order" where the rule of law replaced the rule of the jungle. Now what you have is Joe Biden's "New World Disorder."
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@nunnayrbznz3576 This is a case of grandstanding politicians pandering for votes by claiming to be Pro Life when really they are the "Give Birth or Die" movement. They care nothing about the women and families involved because the laws recognize the rights of money above all else. No rich women will ever go without the necessary care in America.
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@Michael-sq5gn The British ruling class is for the British ruling class. Now they can't use free trade and devalue the pound against the euro.
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@bozimmerman Wages stopped following productivity in 1973. All the new wealth produced by increases in productivity has gone to the bosses.
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@noskalborg723 Union! Union! Union! Abolish private property the property used to exploit others!!!
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@noskalborg723 I see once again YouTube is sending out the censors so no more making fun of people and saying silly things because everything must be taken serious. Now Hello Mommy You Tube Censor. Tell the BIG TECH censors that this is NOT Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany!!! FREE SPEECH FOR ALL.
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@noskalborg723 You mean like the British New "Imperialist" Labor Party of Tony Blair? Who sent tanks to Bush war in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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@noskalborg723 You going to have some kind of global government because we only have one planet and we all have to get along just like we do nationally and locally the world is to interconnected for every nation to be independent like in the past. Nobody wants some rogue nation firing off nuclear weapons. You can't expect other peoples to respect your rights if you don't respect theirs. No nation is independent in trade and production. This is not 1945 where the United States was the only large industrial nation basically untouched by two world wars.
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Typical boss concern about remaining wealthy.
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@hungusthefungus3461 The hurt the working class and the poor who are the people with a stake in ending Imperialist war. Capitalist exploitation gives the capitalist nations a motive for war as an investment in defeating their market competition. .
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@unclejim1528 Sure I bet Poland is flourishing do they even make ships in Gdansk anymore? How much are you going to spend on buy arms from the US to defend from Putin?
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@unclejim1528 Twenty thousand worked at Gdansk. Real smart following the American Imperialist back to capitalism as now Putin is threatening war in his effort to rebuild the CZARist Empire. Potato soup will taste a lot better than hot lead and iron. They only thing I can say is some need to learn the hard way how Gorbachev's Pepsi became Putin's lead and Iron.
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Show me where the Free Market is?
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@daniellucia7331 So when you order a cake he asks you what the cake is for before making it?
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@lmm8960 It is NOT Jack Phillips who is in court but a fictitious person called Masterpiece Cake Shops LLC. Do you want to give religious rights to companies? If you want to order a car from a dealer do you want him to refuse to sell based upon its use to transport people to divorce court as a taxi?
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@Kit-Ballou3664 We don't need a coalition with the boss parties but a labor party based in the unions.
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No that's completely wrong. They came in for a wedding cake not a catering service. His claim is that by providing a custom cake he would be forced into compelled speech. Assuming it was a catering service then how does the food differ? Is their specifically gay food involved? I don't think so. They asked for a wedding cake not a gay wedding cake. If I go to a Jewish Deli on St Patrick's day, ask for a corn beef sandwich and it's on the menu do they get to refuse service? I don't think so. If I come in to his shop and tell him I want a custom cake for an atheist wedding does he get to refuse service because we will be committing sin?
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I looked at the beginning of the papers of the State, and the two sides involved I saw nothing about a catering service involved. You're probably looking at the friend of the court briefs or a question raised by the justices at oral arguments. The Deli could refuse to provide the sandwich by saying we don't make custom sandwiches. Just as McDonald's might refuse to make a 1/2 cheezburger. However at Burger King with them advertising having it your way I should be able to order a 1/2 cheeseburger at the whole cheeseburger price assuming they have a knife to cut it with. Could the Klan have a Black catering service provide food for their party? In general the courts have refused reverse discrimination cases. Plus the Klan of today is a pirah organization. If it got out that they were having a party of any kind they'd be swamped with picketers and protesters. The results of opening a religious exemption in public accommodation laws will be much worse than the possible use by the Klan or others might make of it. Their should be an exemption for artists but then you need to define art. When a painter copies a master's piece like Rembrandt that's skill but not art. When you write a novel that's art but the actual physical book or electronic copy is not except for possibly the front cover picture and the printing font. Now if you get a custom wedding cake based on pictures in a book that's not art but skill. Now if you ask for a message that won't fit on your cake well the cake baker can not do things the physical world prohibits. But changing Jane to John doesn't require artistic inspiration but an established skill. If you demand a NEW frosting picture of two men than as a custom cake baker you can refuse that as requiring the baker to have artistic skills.
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That's the problem in a nutshell. If they rule in his favor based on religion alone then they open the door to letting any religious hate group sympathizing CEO through the door. The second problem is if the rule that he is an artist then they have to define art. But should they define art and it being protected by the first amendment does speech that is also not art get protected elsewhere or do those who oppose free speech get to define it though artistic ability.
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Troy Goldberg This couple sought to purchase a wedding cake from a business open to the public not a church or a supplier of goods to a single sect. The couple did not advertise a request for bids to make the cake. Where he could have argued he wasn't interested in bidding. Was it a business that employed no labor outside of family where the owner could argue he could not do the job because of religious belief. It was a business in now way that I can see was any different than Ford Motor Company. The anti semite Henry Ford who Adolf Hitler admired was known for his discriminatory employment of Jews. It has taken many battles by the working people to end discriminatory practices by employers and the bosses in general. So the nine robbed robbers of ruling class justice gave this guy an individual pass for the time being. According to the nine robbers decision on the Supreme court this is a one time thing.
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@ElkaPME I asked a guy from Germany about it and he said after the wall came down nothing changed. He said he was drinking bear with his friends and it was a big tado about nothing.
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@ElkaPME You haven't read them so what do you know anyhow. Your just a parrot who repeats whatever she hears. Elka want a cracker?
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@jimspencer3072 Capitalism in decline.
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@jimspencer3072 I has nothing to do with proper democracy. Capitalism enters into natural decline as machines replace labor and then the rate of profit must go down as the total investment increases and the labor exploited stays the same or goes down. So even if the capitalist were able to keep from breaking up into nation states and fighting wars which is how they originated then the whole world system would stop when further investment could no longer produce more profits.
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@jimspencer3072 Capitalism with its free lunch for do nothing investors is unsustainable. You can't cheat Karl Marx by printing central bank dollars.
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@memer7987 As the last Rapist in Afghanistan Trump was going to do a slow pullout. Where as Democratic rape uses a quick pullout technique. 3 Trillion dollars spent creating carnange and millions of refugees and internal displaced persons.
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@njg26.gustav12 Father of the tax credit give away to Profit Hungry Energy bosses.
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@Anna-vl8qc Probably doing just as well as they are with everything else like immigration and the drug war opiate crisis. You realize that most abortions are accomplished by pill and nothing prevents them being prescribed on line by a doctor in another state and then filled by mail order with a forwarding address from a legal state. Or crossing the Mexican border for a pll also used for stomach ulcers? If you think that you have accomplished anything but making yourselves look like idiots than you are sadly mistaken. The Starr County DA had to drop the abortion murder indictment without comment and the people of Kansas just voted down a state constitutional amendment giving the state legislature the power to regulate abortion. It works how? by Texas Republicans grandstanding for crowds of supporters? All that has to happen now is for a women to die needlessly because politicians know better than physicians on how to practice medicine and you be tagged as the Pro Death movement.
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@512Squared All that Ayn Rand collectivist hog wash is just that a new religion for the capitalist bosses.
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This man needs to be put on trial for aggressive war and imprisoned.
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@randomconsumer4494 No one except store police are allowed to get involved with shoplifters or cash drawer thieves by company policy. It's to dangerous to interfere with deperatos. Instead we are taught to be helpful since that can actually defuse a situation. You never know if someone is armed.
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@loanokaharbor8303 Because he wants to talk about gangs who come into stores and take out high priced items not somebody stealing lipstick.
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@jmwjag My bet is they make their money on pharmaceuticals not soap. You go their for aspirin or prescription and buy some candy. Who goes to CVS to buy soap? A bar of soap from India or China probably costs them 5 cents at the port of Los Angeles.
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@sunshynff It can't be done because it would violate the laws of thermodynamics. In other words it would be a perpetual motion machine.
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@sunshynff The first law says you can't build a perpetual motion machine. The second says it's even worse than that. Yes you can get back energy from motion like what a simple pendulum does but the pendulum eventually stops moving. Just the flexing of the tires as they turn uses energy. The idea with electric vehicles is to use the electric motor as a generator when you need to slow down and capture the energy not put on another alternator. Diesel Electric locomotives use the electric motors in the trucks for dynamic braking although they usually waste the energy in a resistor bank.
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Your are soft in the head.
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End the Blockade of Cuba!!
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@relicpathfinder2800 Putin blames Lenin for Ukraine so back to Lenin not forward with Stalin as Comrade Trotsky said.
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The success of neoliberalism is the result of betrayal of the Social Democratic and Stalinist leaderships and failure to lead a successful revolutionary fight against capitalism. Instead these leaders either directly cooperated with the ruling classes or sought detente and peaceful co existence with Imperialism. Only Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution would continue down a socialist road.
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@dierealejonschemel Capitalism working the way the bosses want it to. Raising prices and cutting wages by using inflation of the money supply.
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@marilynmonheaux Any increase in productivity only increases the power of the production workers.
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The police are doing their usual thing of following general order number one. "Do what we tell you to do."
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@carlosramos5256 Agreed this video is chock full of lies starting with the nonsense about Fidel ruling with an Iron fist and being responsible for bringing the world to the Brink of Nuclear War.
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Pete fromtheIsland Every American President would be doing something similar to what Trump is doing because they don't make decisions all alone. Congress would quickly impeach him if he exceeded what is an allowable difference of opinion. Obama the man of peace? What a joke that was. Using his commander in Chief hat to murder American citizens abroad instead capturing them for trial. Raising auto company prices and profits with the sand in the carburetor green earth program. Bosses using the 2008 crisis to make things worse for those left with a job. Making good manners a central theme of his presidency.
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I love listening to Malcolm X and I'm caucasian. So what's your point? You like listening to non violent civil disobedience promoters because they are no real threat to the capitalist system?
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@bueler4950 Can Strossel say PATRIOT ACT?
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@natalier6201 Why don't you pass a law to arrest men for masterbaiting then?
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Pure Blood Its about capitalism and it will go in the coming socialist revolution.
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@Robbedem The capitalist are driven by the need to profit and that's why they let every industry to either go into decline or replace it with another one. Hundreds of railroad miles have been abandoned and replaced with trucking because capitalist can make profits on trucks and building highways while getting government to pay for all the roads and bridges with a tax on diesel and gas. They then let the highway system decline because they want to cut taxes and invest in new ways to cut costs which is the road to bigger profits. They have decided that Elon Musk is a genius at making profits so they just finished sending up a rocket and star ship into space and it blew up. They then cheered because Musk says he needs to break things first. So while the destroy the earth in the interests of profits they promise to go elsewhere to do more of the same only better.
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@jeffreysnyder290 That's why we say the workers need to take control of industry with our unions and run it for human needs and create a labor party to take government out of capitalist hands.
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@Petesworkshop2225 Socialism is about the victory of the proletariat over the capitalist class in the modern world. It's about the class struggle and the road to victory of the producers over the exploiters. .
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@jtadeyemi We are a heirs to all the past revolutions. Including the English and American. One of the charges brought by the 59 commissioners against King Charles was that he was going about the country destroying it in wars for taxes. How long should we put up with the Imperialist nations ruling classes waging attacks and wars on other nations and people for the sake of profits? You think we are just going to take order from you and your rotten politicians because they give them? The problem isn't within the productive people the ones who go to work and kept everything running during the Covid lockdown. The problems lie within the capitalist system and the greed of the order givers. The very working of capitalism cause it to go into decline and crisis. No situation becomes too hopeless for the bosses as long as they can steal someone elses market or drive a rival out of business. It can only lead to two things without a socialist revolution one is Imperialist war and the other is fascism. The revival of capitalism in Russia is now bearing it's truely rotten fruit in Ukraine. What do the "peace loving" capitalist of Europe do but vote up bigger arms budgets. Out of the Franco Prussia War came the Paris Commune. Out of the First Imperialist war came the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics. After the second Imperialist World War your rotten Imperialist Politician were pointing fingers at each other saying "Who Lost China." Do you have the slightest idea how many people died in China starting with the Taiping Rebelllion trying to get rid of the evils of feudalism, Imperialism and warlordism? You pompus ass?
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@Dennis-nc3vw Capitalism can't escape economic crisis caused by the greed for profits. It can't escape its very nature which is the exploitation of land labor and resources for the profits of a national ruling classes which will turn to war to defend their group of greedy bosses ir their worldwide system of exploitation and Imperialist profits.
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Jay James Bezmenov was a Stalinist Educated idiot. If he was right why did the Soviet Union come down?
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Right send out the secret police to arrest everyone because they know who the traitors are.
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@fazole Once it was clear the Khmer Rouge were the brutes the US/UK made them an ally. The Green New Deal is based in the lie that that FDR's New Deal ended the great depression and not FDR's war deal and the endless military spending that would follow. Once world capitalism sinks into a big enough crisis the only way out for capitalism is World War. The successors in Mao's CCP became the New Billionaires in the CCP. The CCP is just about as Communist as the Nordic countries Social Democrats are socialist.
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@danmckenzie1818 Like others in the ruling class you fear loss of property. The communist manifesto still sends shivers up the spine of the privileged and the ruling classes.
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@EzekielsCall It would be just terrible to move the seat of World Government from Washington, DC to the seat of the Empire in New York City. Oh the tears that would be shed such a move would make. The two parties fighting each other by attempting to take free speech away from each other means only an organized working class can defend and protect the right to free speech. No one else is going to do it for us.
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The decline of the educational system is just another indicator of the failure of modern capitalism to meet the needs of the vast majority of humanity.
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Freedom to be Warren Buffet and demand government intervention to prevent a rail strike.
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No, Masterpiece cakeshop would either have a baker without his views do the same sex wedding cakes or have an outside contractor do the work. He decided to shut down his wedding cake business possibly to avoid fines and damages since he hasn't won at any of his appeals so far.
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The decisions made by the court are also affected by what is gong on in society overall. Plus all the federal court judges are all appointed by the president nor is this a Democratic Party only issue there are also Log Cabin Republicans. Despite rhetoric coming from the White House a number of issues that conservatives expected to win have been lost. Judge Roy Moore was clearly a conservative religious rights advocate. Yet he became a problem instead of an asset for both parties. Mooer lost what should have been a slam dunk election. The immigrant in California, an example for Trump's anti immigrant campaign, was suppose to be routinely convicted and sentenced to life for murder was found guilty on firearms charges only.
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@glike2 A communist democracy is what the next American revolution will be about.
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@jbsc97 Yang is just another Tammany Hall Democrat on steroids. Instead of just buying precinct bosses he wants to buy the whole electorate.
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@darkzeroprojects4245 Life is improving for the do nothing investor class like John Stossel.
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Typical BOSS. Dumb as rocks.
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Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and ozing dirt from every pore. Since 1917 the only question has been how many more of us will it drag with it into the grave.
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@jassykat If he wanted to kill off the opposition like a real dictator he have troops and police in the streets beating down his opposition like the US ally in Saudi Arabia. Guido's army is probably training at Fort Benning, Georgia or at some other US base as we speak. The longer this guy travels around visiting US puppets the stupider he will look.
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@VitaminDeeeeee American Imperialism is everyone's problem including the workers and farmers of America.
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Pompeo the pompous.
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@FEMBT-yb8rh McCarthy biggest enemy was Johnny Walker "Red". He lost his struggle with the "Red'" at Walter Reed.
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Eben Ramos Imperialist. The definition used by Lenin is a country with a capitalist class that takes capital and invests it in foreign countries for profit. So yes the China would qualify.
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Delphinium Flower Typical thoughts of a genius. BAD MAN wear rug on head. Say BAD Prayer. Me lose money in stock market.
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EPLURiBusUNUM Before they could leave the farm. Farm productivity had to rise. Now that millions of poor peasants are now workers that just make the working class all that much stronger. The capitalist are greedy. Their greed can't help to create class struggle. Just remember you need us but we don't need you. We are a class of people who produce everything while you do nothing. Steve Jobs who you worship began his business career as an industrial thief. He build and sold blue boxes to defraud AT&T of their long distance toll charges.
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@chadasonmcgraw Like most bosses you can talk about much with us without bringing up bodily functions as a way to explain everything.
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@juanpaul1030 Companies won't stop because to maximize profits which is the goal of every capitalist who wants to stay in business it is necessary to minimize wages and maximize the hours of labor in a pay period. This is why Karl Marx said the workers should inscribe on their banners abolish the wages system. As machines replace labor the total investment rises but the labor exploited declines meaning that the rate of profit also declines. So even if capitalism could avoid all its other problems it would have to eventually come to an end when the invested capital becomes so large and the labor so little that no more profits could be made to be reinvested.
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@juanpaul1030 I don't think you understand how the system works the investors don't care until they are faced with opposing class power like a union that goes on strike. A small business should also be able to pay a union wage since if it really is a business and not some charity case it has to be doing something economically worth while. The more capital intensive a business becomes than the rate of profit naturally tends to fall which is why they speed up those still left working in many industries. Its why whole sectors of the economy are allowed to decline. Plus they suck out value with things like government bonds with guaranteed pay back out of taxes. So that 2.3 trillion spent in Afghanistan is coming out of our hides. They all talk about how much they hate taxes unless its a sweet cost plus government contract. Plus we pay the cost of defense of US corp foreign investment with the military budget. The system reaches a point where it can't continue in a normal manner. The class struggle provokes the ruling class into a desire to end Democratic methods and replace them with naked state power. Its either world socialism with revolutionary nationalism for the poor nations or its nuclear war between the rich.
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@juanpaul1030 They go by what their accounting books tell them until faced with a strike. All the economic theories that have a progressive capitalism continuing for ever require that capital or machines be actually producing value not just saving labor time. If you could build a perpetual motion machine you could have an everlasting capitalism. Otherwise its just another system of exploitation that is based in nation states with foreign investments that fractures along national lines and goes to war over who controls the world. Geography saved the United States from the world wars but it can't save us from nuclear war. The US broke the nuclear forces treaty that was signed at the end of the cold war so now its back to an arms race over world domination.
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@Bigdave203 The union leadership has basically sat on its hands since Reagan broke the Air traffic control workers strike. All that is beginning to change now Rail Workers are preparing for a major show down with the Bosses. Amazon warehouse are voting. Can you remember a nationwide rail strike on the class one railroads? One craft has already turned down the Biden agreement.
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@yolacintia Bosses went on to the next victims of the profit drive in Mexico. Your husband was just another boss. Owners are paid for doing nothing but investing. Bosses are only intereeted in maximizing profits for themselves. To maximize prfits the seek to pay the lowest wages and make us work the longest hours. Only by joining unions and striking can the workers get the bosses to part with the profits that they accumulate.
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@trollinu7494 Classes have s property relationship. Capitalism is based in private property in the means of production. The privledged Soviet Bureaucrats were NOT a new class but a privledged caste within the working class. The had no special property rights other than parasitism on the planned economy.. They were a conservative caste that took the Russian revolution back to capitalism. LGBT is a minority group whose oppression is related to that of the patriarchy. Since LGBT people can easily hide their identify the don't face the same economic oppression women and national minorities do.
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@trollinu7494 The working class has as much chance of buying its way to socialism as the slaves had of buying their freedom from slavery. Government oppresses the working class because its a capitalist government owned lock stock and barrel by the capitalist who donate to both capitalist parties. Just as it took a party independent of the slave owners (Republicans) to abolish slavery it will take a labor party independent of the capitalist to abolish private property. You need private property to be a capitalist property that allows you to exploit others. The capitalist aren't rich because they are smart but smart because they are rich. They seek to monopolize and control all the jobs that require extra education. Their system always replaces higher paid and union skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor and machines. Just as healthcare for workers is an overhead expense to be minimized the same becomes true for education. If socialism would only fail on its own than you wouldn't need to launch invasions, plot coups, engage in blockades and sanctions of those people who have overthrown capitalist rule. You have tried to starve out the people of Cuba for over sixty years now such that every country but Israel votes against your blockade at the UN.
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@jfangm We don't care what your business is the purpose of any system of economy from hunter gatherers, to ancient Egypt and Roman with its slaves is meet human needs. Private property and money are just things ideas and concepts. Feudalism was abolished because the nobility got in the way of the mechants and the rise of the new capitalist system. Just as the now ruling caitalist class and its ideas are becoming an obstilce to human progress with the greed of the worlds nations ruling classes. You have to go because you becoming just like King Chales who was beheaded because he was going around England fighting wars for taxes, Now you have been doing the same thing going around the world fighting wars for profits. You love you dollar Bill and you machine and numbers to much which can be summed up as bitcoin. Cryptocurrency is the ultimate idiocy of the ruling class. A worship of the ledger book the trade, secret (crpto) and the computer as the mining machine for a rare special number.
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@jfangm When you replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines you also raise the capital value but cut the living labor needed to produce from which the profit is derived resulting in a declining rate of profit from which all capitalist judge success. You can't help but put your sleeves out of business because you only sell in a market if you expect a profit so you inevitable overproduce because of profit hunger yet then create an economic crisis because of the way your system of exploitation works since we can't buy back all that we produce. Commodities flood markets without buyers. So you order cuts in production which only further the crisis. Only the destruction of commodities or sell off at below the cost of production can than revive the market. Since theses crisis become only worse because of you greed you start thinking you can fix your problem by using Imperialist War against your world market rivals. You dream of past glory and respect only to find yourselves mocked and hated. The people who need a profit are the owners of private property which is why we say the workers must take contol of industry and operate industry for the needs of the community instead a bunch of fools chasing numbers and profits. After all we know the federal Reserve bank is privately owned and controlled by the nations ruling class so they can keep themselves making profits despite continuing economic crisis. The bosses want to control everything just to make themselves Kings and Queens of the dollar.
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@jfangm That is the goal of the capitalist. However they don't control all the factors of production anymore than any previous ruling class did. The most import product of capitalism is us the industrial working class who live to work and work to live. The capitalist exercise their control though social conventions, a state power and ownership of private property, the property that is used for the exploitation.and creation of the profit and accumulation of capital by the owners of capital.
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@jfangm With capitalism you also have the creation of the joint stock company as the fictitious person who is the owner of the company held in common by shares of voting stock.
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@jfangm If we were expendable would you have done things like launch two red scares and signed union contracts with the CIO movement. Would we be publishing a book called "Socialism on Trial" with the actual defendant's testimony about the famous frame job of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters by FDR's FBI. Railroaders risk our lives like all workers when we go to work. Then want to take days off and run trains with workers at both ends of a train. Warren Buffet risks paper cuts, losing his money and then having to do an honest days work.
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@jfangm And because capitalism focus on money making it neglects healthcare, on the job safety and education. The capitalist view those as overhead costs that interfere with profit maximization. Henry Ford needed a market for cars but decided it would be best if the government built the roads. Sure the capitalist wants to be where he can grab some money passing though his hands. He likes to privatise the profit while socializing the losses and the capital expenditure. Ford could not sell cars without a tremendous public investment in roads.
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@jfangm Owners are no more necessary than English Kings. The King controlled a military so he could both protect and make war for the purposes of tax collections. The English merchants executed him for taking their money and going about the country and destroying it for taxes. You've become just like the king who was blinded by the desire for money. You've gone around the world investing to make money and then using war to defend profits. You become an obstacle to life on earth itself with your demands for profit and ownership of everything. You've built nuclear weapons to threaten rivals and talk endlessly about Democracy everywhere except in the United States itself.
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@jfangm Yours are the ideas of the Milton Freedman who sent you marching right into the crisis of 2008. Capitalism brings out the worst of human traits and makes them into ideals. The problem for the capitalist is they keep losing in the battle of ideas but winning in the scramble for money. The hucksters like Edison get promoted over the humble like Westinghouse. The capitalist respect for the right to life can be found in the decision to go to war in 1914. A big but phoney fight for Democracy right from the get go. In fact it was nothing more than a battle between Empires over how the world should be divided up. Today the American Capitalist have established a world wide Empire that is in decline. Hucksterism and self promotion is why people think Edison invented the light bulb, Bill Gates the computer, and Elon Musk the lithium battery. Capitalist liberty can best be understood when you count the prisoners taken in the war on drugs. .Those who told lies to the FDA were given monopoly power to create millions of addicts and then kept both their freedom and their billions in profits. The addict he has to somehow say away from the drug that relieves his misery while a whole industry is built around supposedly providing help by industrial methods and prisons with more drugs. That is the kind of justice and rights to property your system defends. You said it your self a company needs only to turn a profit. But the reality is everything is judged in the short term THE RATE of PROFIT and Capital's ability to retain property long after the industry enters its inevitable decline as capital replaces labor and profits tank. This is how you become too big to fail. Since you can no longer just shut the door and turn the lights out. Freeman's ideas became worthless in 2008. You could have shut the doors at the banks and the computer would have only shut the everything down when the numbers went negative. Meanwhile you could have spent years in federal bankruptcy court for longer than you actually did.
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@gokilokis The crisis of 2008 was a crisis created by the capitalist bosses acting on their self interests.
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The Progressive came from the Republican Party. The same Party who after victory in the civil war abandoned blacks and Republican Reconstruction governments to Democratic Party KKK and Red Shirt organized counter revolutionary terror.
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@Rat-Builder Right both parties are doing so well with the coronavirus. Afterall Rush Limbaugh Medal of Freedom winner said it was just another Get Trump scam. by using the CCP as late as March 13 to combat nothing but a common cold virus. The Chinese were supposedly laughing at us. Now Congress is passing "Trump Socialism". Since they have had the dickens scared out of them.
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Robert Slackware No Congress spent its time in its fake impeachment activity and people like you and Tump Medal of Freedom Winner Rush Limbaugh was calling it just a cold virus. I'm in Red State Texas I haven't seen toilet paper for 3 weeks now are the orders issued from Republican Gov Gregg Abbott fake? So you're still calling this a cold virus hoax. I'm wondering if people like those with the screen name Slackware aren't playing with their pud.
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Robert Slackware State, Local, and Federal gov't is completely worthless. They come on TV and tell you to make you own mask and stay home. If you don't the say the cops are giving you a $1,000 dollar ticket.
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Robert Slackware Childern belong in school not making money for some big bag of cash.
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Robert Slackware If I can steal the bosses big bag of cash before I'm 25 and not get caught yes I will be better off in capitalist society.
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Robert Slackware Obviously the Democrats are the capitalist social reformers. Vote for Bernie Sanders and he'll make Billionaires pay their fair share. Like what? Let's set a maximum income tax and a 100% tax on capitals gains made by corporations because they aren't people who need an incentive.
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Robert Slackware We were talking about child labor. No I think you want to make a billion dollar business shoveling horse manure online. If you feel your child is old enough to cut the neighbors lawn on the weekend that's not the same as letting him take a job for some sweatshop boss in a factory. I've seen the White House and it's too big to cut a lawn that size in a reasonable time by a child. I graduated at age 17 from HS and worked in a factory with saws, nail guns and a fork lift. My uncle was the forman and I wasn't allowed to work with any of the saws, nail guns or the fork lift. That was before OSHA.
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Robert Slackware You do see the avatar I chose. I put it there so people see that I'm not a Democrat or Republican. If the kid who mowed Trumps lawn didn't mow the lawn would he be starved and beaten to death? We've had a federal law prohibiting child labor since 1938 how many cases of children being starved and beaten to death have occurred since because they were blocked from working by the 1938 law or other child labor laws?
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@michaelvol8922 The answer is right there in TheMilitant.com newspaper. To rebuild the unions and organize a new labor party.
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@Anne O'NymousYou mean the 30% legacy admissions in the "Poison" Ivy schools like Harvard. There all part of the capitalist elite who were born to rule. That Ivy League degree proves it. Just as Trump who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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@anthonyhenry9383 Obviously no one wants the cops or FBI at the door except the strikebreaker Reagan and the rest of the ruling class (including the Democrats) who call on them for defense of private property. No one wants the US Marines or National Guard on the street corners like in Berkley when Reagan sent in the National Guard to fix the mess he created by when he sent the Cops to People's Park in Berkeley with shotguns killing one and blinding a second person against the wishes of the UC Berkeley president.
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@Bruno Pereira I am not Stalinist nor have I engaged in Mass murder or voted for mass murderers like a long series of US Presidents from both parties in the 20th Century. We don't preach we are merely the living tacticians of mass class struggle. Communism is a movement that starts with facts and proceeds to draw conclusions from those facts be they triumphs or defeats. Those like Stalin and Mao created new religions out of Marx and Lenin making themselves into living gods with cults of personality. Having political cults of personalities was first pioneered by the English merchants and Feudal landowners who restored the power of the monarchy and the peerage ending the 1649 English Republic or Commonwealth.
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@Bruno Pereira When the American Imperialist want a war they start with a big propaganda campaign because they've always had trouble getting the American People as a whole to sign on to foreign wars starting with the Imperialist Spanish American war in 1898. They don't create poverty except when they are actually attacking another country or they announces sanctions where they act to twist the arms of 3rd party countries to go along with their economic attacks. They also have no problem with any kind of military, economic or political attack no matter how heinous or unjust that kind of arrack it is if its Good for American Big Business then It's automatically good for both parties.
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@Bruno Pereira If the US were to lead a successful global agreement to destroy all nuclear weapons then the 2.1 trillion earmarked for new atomic weapons could be put to work creating things that are economically useful not just here but in the whole world. The US Imperialist won't do that because they need the nuclear threat to maintain world military domination. They need that to guarantee US capitalisms rights in foreign countries. That's why they need 800 foreign Military Bases and a World Military Command structure. One in which oligarchies are more than too happy to join for the access to military weapons to suppress their own people that such agreements provide.
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@Bruno Pereira It's traject that you think that dead people are funny. I wonder how funny you would think being a peasant or worker drafted into the CZAR's army would be? Do you think a lot of young people in the US thought going to Vietnam as a grunt was a barrel of laughs?
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@Bruno Pereira How hilarious JImmy "Human Rights" Carter must of been when he ordered his UN ambassador to vote for Pol Pot keeping his UN seat.
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@Bruno Pereira Well if your with us on ending interventionist actions we are happy to have your support on that issue.
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@Bruno Pereira Trump and Mike Pompeo don't laugh at Cuba now though do they? The murder of a single black man by the police sets off protests by hundreds of all races in the US and beyond and you say there is no class struggle? You guys actually have more in common with the so called Democratic Socialist who also want a reform of capitalism. You say elections are important but your party thinks a fat guy doing a striptease is important? I guess you got a little bit infected with Cultural Marxism. The US government is attacking small business as not essential in its method of fighting the coronavirus. If you're Jeff Bezos does Bezos want to negotiate with Bezos' own government or a real union of Bezos' workers? A wage increase is much easier to deal with because a union will want things like safety and work rules that are much more costly to the billionaire class. If you can't speed us up!!! You can't slow us down either!!!
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@Bruno Pereira For supporting the workers in their class struggle we plead guilty and you can make the most of that as Anti American Anti Business or Anti whatever you like.
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@Bruno Pereira "..Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia laugh at you..." Maybe they laugh at me but no one in the White House has laughed at Cuba since 1959. In 1928 the Stalinists said, "We had three generals without an army." Well today we have many more "Generals" then the CPUSA and the Stalinist don't have an army outside of North Korea.
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i don't know where you get the idea I accused you of racism unless you have a guilty consensens. Most likely you think I'm a supporter of cultural marxism and these Professional SJW's with their 501c organizations who are winning the revolution one food coop member at a time. LMAO
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@tonipernar8745 It comes about by mass movements demanding change.
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@tonipernar8745 They may start that way but the will both broaden out and become more focused. That is the lesson of that last big radicalization of the 1960's. Black working people brought others like young people of all colors into their fight changing a whole generation in the process. The battles against colonialism result in a major defeats for US Imperialism in both Cuba and Vietnam. Fidel Castro gave a big microphone called Radio Free Dixie heard across the East Coast to black rights fighter Robert F. Williams. The FBI who had planned to frame and jail Williams in their campaign to prevent the rise of a Black Messiah failed.
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@BrainRottVFX Why is it that so many of you think that the capitalist politicians of both parties sifted by elections and campaign donations in the most powerful capitalist empire in human history would not "..kown(s) how business works?" They all know how business works. They just don't know how to save capitalism from its own self destruction and its own demise.
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@machinist7230 And you of course as a machinist want a wage cut to support your bosses profit margin. A rise in the minimum wage helps boost all wages. It will not boost skilled wages above a profit level since if that was to happen all skilled contract work would stop.
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@stanwolenski9541 "How does Business work?" Pay the lowest wages and charge the highest prices. Keep incumbents in the market and prevent anyone else from entering with licenses. Go for more of those cost plus government contracts. Get some special tax breaks. I know I must have missed something haven't I?
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@machinist7230 It helps boost all wages which are set from the bottom up. The argument that the bosses can just automate or raise prices or close down is wrong because automation has its costs for new investment and raising prices if possible would already been done. Some on the edge of failure will close anyway. Those already earning $15 /hr will be encouraged to ask for a raise not become resentful of others. Why is it you don't take your own advice and remove your nose out of other people's wages. The class struggle ultimately decides the question of wages anyway not voting Democrat. Clubbing together for better conditions and wages is a step forward against the bosses and towards a fighting union movement that takes all workers into the struggle against almost 50 years of no wage growth compared to productivity.
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@stanwolenski9541 I understand that some people enter small business with hopes and dreams of doing something good but unfortunately the good guy always loses.
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@pierdolio Trump supporters were calling the whole thing a "Get Trump Hoax" right up to March. It just accidently fits into his anti immigration and protectionist trade war policies. Trump and Biden will run for the title of dumbest guy ever born.
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@pierdolio Trump proves that even the mentally challenged can graduate from an Ivy League business school, become a billionaire and President of the United States. Horatio Algers lives in Donald Trump. If Biden wins he will show how even alzheimer's need not stand in the way of Presidential greatness.
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@pierdolio Sure he has done some things that go against what the establishment politicians desired and made things better in some ways and if Biden is elected he will probably also do a few things. Just as Bush passed Medicare D. They will also respond to a certain amount disciplined mass pressure and we will get a negative response when real riots and looting break out. Overall though they can only go so far because each party accepts that private property and capitalism is the only way things can be done.
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@pierdolio Considering we have more prisoners both numerically and percentage wise than any other country yes we need change. My party TheMilitant.com the Socialist Workers Party will get my vote. Our Party says we need to rely on our own abilities to bring about change and not a White Knight or the bosses to make things better.
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greg mccarter Inflation is caused by bosses raising prices. They raise prices to capture more value from our labor with the banks lending more money they get from the federal reserve which creates money out of thin air by a trade of bonds and cash both printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and electronic money. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank that pays its owners dividends. You can buy a share at a minimum price of $10,000 set by law. Inflation makes wages worth less and property worth more. Boss propaganda blames workers wages for rising prices. Just like the theory that boss respond by directly cutting jobs when the minimum wage goes up. They can't do that unless they want to cut their nose to spite their face. If they cut jobs work won't get done and they won't make a profit form our labor. If they raise prices they risk losing business to other bosses. If they replace labor with machines that costs them more investment and the reduction in labor time cuts into profits unless they can expand sales with increased production. Its not that easy for them to deal with a wage increase and still maintain the rate of profit. They measure sucess as a profit rate. Profits rates are profit's, what's left over after all the costs have been paid, divided by the capital value of the company.
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You also love being told what you want to hear.
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Lies. Counter revolutionaries were locked up for trying to defeat the revolutionary government. Those executed had committed crimes durring the Batista era and their were no plans for multiple parties or multiparty elections. Those are CIA made up lies sold by the US Gov't. They did not want a party system where those who can tell the most outrageous lies are elected to office like in the US system.
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You need to stop pretending you never pulled your prick.
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@islandtime5643 Obviously they want him off the ballot because they are afraid he will be reelected.
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@bobahop1232 You've been in charge with your failed neoliberal ideas for about 50 years now. It's time to rebuild the union movement and take back the ground lost to neoliberalism and move forward with a Communist Program like that first outlined by Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, VI Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Sure everyone goes because the Imperialist say a gun is pointed at their backs. Huber Matos is both a traitor and liar just like you. "Cuban's could travel anywhere if they had the money." LMAO what's new? You have the Yankee dollar and you can buy whatever the Yankee Imperialists have. "Fidel sold every cow on the island to foreign countries." You don't really expect anyone to believe something as stupid as that? Marco Rubio has job for you filling a balloon with hot air. He promises to out do the Communists with free internet from a balloon. No free internet in the US but Rubio said he's going to bring free internet to Cuba. The Imperialist make promises they have no intention of keeping. They take a fool like you make a few promises and then your hooked on their nonsense. Everyone knows the poor do not get their needs meet in Cuba before the revolution. Their children had distended bellies full of parasites. The land owners beat the peasants like dogs. Blacks faced discrimination and segregation just like in the US. Women sold their bodies outside casinos. It was a capitalist paradise for the rich. Yankee sailors pissed on Jose Marti statues. The revolution changed all that.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 You will achieve nothing tearing the country apart based upon a campaign of lies from US politicians. The Cuban revolution has already achieved freedoms that even people in the United States don't have. Like free education though the University level and a Doctors care for the sick and elderly with no charge for that care. These are things that the US government targets the Cuban people for achieving. They wish to hide and destroy what the revolution has done in Cuba so that they can come in and gobble up more for the richest Americans. That is what capitalism is about protecting the wealth and power of a few rich capitalist business owners at everyone else's expense. The right to perpetually own, trade and sell. Where all decisions are made based upon profits for the business owners and then the owners control the government though politicians who are hired on to tell the biggest lies and make the best empty promises. That was the Cuban system before Batista.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Prison is NOT the next step and you know it. Prison is the next step for those who threw stones, set cars on fire and attacked police stations. Richard Alarcon debated the Miami Cuban American National Foundation Rep on Spanish language TV. Yoani Sanchez became a darling of western media until she became old news since she was unsuccessful at provoking any kind of unjustified repressive response. You've left so how are you any different than the others? Just what is a legitimate owner? Is it like a legitimate hedge fund manager? The Agrarian reform act broke up the big estates including Fidel's families. Big Gates is buying up lots of farmland is he also one of your legitimate owners? I'll remind you that a revolution is not a strong arm bank robbery as you would like to portray it as such. The American Imperialist never offered the new government a dime worth of aid but they had spent plenty for arms to Batista. They began planning their campaign to overthrow the new government within less than 18 months. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886] necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Originally Trump was going to Continue Obama's policy but then according to Marco Rubio he is the one who made Trunp's Cuba policy. Putting Cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism and tightening the blockade. Rubio who was born here demanded an FBI witch hunt of Bridges of Love founded by Cuban born American citizen Iraq war Veteran Carlos Lazo. Lazo has called Rubio's bluff asking for a debate on Cuba policy.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 What you want is a return to capitalism and private property. What does Marx say in the communist manifesto? The goal of the communists can be summed up as abolish private property the property used to exploit others. Cuba does not have a stock market or Gambling casinos. Quit lying about dictatorship the Cuban people over overwhelmingly vote for the new 2019 Constitution. You want to US Imperialism in action look next door at Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cuban police do not shoot down 15 year old children leaving a store. They do not fire dissenters from their state jobs. Yoani Sanchez had to request permission to leave her white collar job. She lives in Miami now as a University "Presidential Scholar". Accoeding to her hope lies in Cuban Professional's who work for the state wanting Western salaries. just like you the educated who want privileges are the hope for the counterrevolution.
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@JohnnyPhillips-uo5fg That's the capitalist cesspool.
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@antoniod NSA is a national agency for spies. The Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI released documents that would eventually lead to clearly showing how the FBI was mobilized against even peaceful critics of the capitalist government. Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General ended the open ended investigation of the Party, the Young Socialist Alliance and Party supporters.
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@pugdad2555 The real evolving threat from the "terrorist" enemy now is anyone with a grievance with the government, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Democratic Party Capitalist Liberals claim a monopoly on justice.
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The American police force has always been a place for the 'KKK since the Klan was a component of the Democratic Party North ans South
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dominic k Sure but isn't it interesting an American is a leader of the Free Tibet movement who never set foot in Tibet. Even better the leader of the Tibetan government in exile is an American citizen with a Harvard Education born in India. Although some point out he can't know where he was really born because no one remembers where they were born. A naturalized US citizen takes this oath. It seems to me he has violated his oath. With a Trump in office will this guy be denaturalized? "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
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Communist Guy In the 1928 they Stalinist said you are just 3 generals without an Army. Well who doesn't have an army now? The slogan of the Left Opposition was always "Back to Lenin." Left or Right everyone murdered in the Great Purge of 1936 to 1938 was accused of Trotskyism Trotsky's publishers is PathfinderPress.com and his paper TheMilitant.com
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@eduardhermesanschau9590 Capitalism comes to an end as the workers become ever more confident of their role industrial production. Ours is the truly revolutionary class in modern society. All the other classes decline and are deposited by the natural workings of capitalist at our level of the modern wage working class. The middle class and even some of the ruling capitalist will desert the sinking ship of world finance capitalism as the sing a last hooray for a system that not only created the greatest amount of wealth in human history but also the men and women who will more and more admistrate things instead of people as the world revolution comes to a country like yours. For it was Trotsky and later Fidel Castro who would lead the communist movemnet after the death of Lenin into the 21st Century. The most urgent task now is to build worker bolshevik parties that can lead the masses across the bridge to the workers government and state and begin the socialist reconstruction of society on a truly human basis.
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@MichaelAChristian1 We need a labor party not the Democrats.
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@darylfoster7944 They thing Sowell and his band of US Economic fools like Milton Friedman did is prepare the crisis of 2008.
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@darylfoster7944 Liberals promise food if you shut up and Conservative promise the freedom to talk if you will go without eating. Neither side want to discuss why the world system of capitalism is failing and what can be done to change it. When Reagan was in office he couldn't do enough boasting about American capitalism and its victory over communism. Bush was going to create a "New World Order" where the rule of law replaced the rule of the jungle.
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@biddibee3526 That is true in the schools meant for the working class that have become little more than indoctrination centers for a life spent in service of unwavering loyalty to the ruling capitalist financial elite. Who's system of production and trade has entered in decline as the chasing of profit maximization has created massive amounts of debt that requires repayment by even more.
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One day he's praising the elite capitalist Elon Musk for building electric cars the next day he's blasting electric cars. They could build nuclear power plants but they'd rather build nuclear weapons. They could do a lot of things except capitalism requires profits from monopoly markets to keep up the rate of return on investment. Does it take a genius to understand that if the price of energy goes down so do the profits of the energy bosses. Theirs is no free market all that was Reagan propaganda. The only thing a free market accomplished in the former Soviet Union was economic turmoil followed by the creation an entrenched oligarchy like the two capitalist party United States.
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@giseleschreyer336 This is just a case of a supporter of American Imperialist Aggression Sowell promoting up his cost benefit analysis theories of Justice. You notice for Sowell what is required is to live under a state. Nor a discussion of how to achieve peace among people with different cultures. Instead Sowell proposes military and police force until a correct decision can be made by palestinians at a voting box. The only thing he correct about is getting rid of Hamas.
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@Ms-up1qx The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act RIGHT TO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE YOU DON"T CARE IF WOMEN DIE
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The Shah was a bloody dictator installed to protect the Oil Profits. Now the counter revolutionary dictator Khomeini regime is beginning to crack under protest that refuse to end.
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@geoffhart Maybe you would like to read "Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the transition to Socialism" by Carlos Tablada then?
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@geoffhart Capitalism can not avoid going into economic crisis and it produces greedy ruling classes which bring their competition into the world market using war as the method of solving disputes. In other words in 1914 with the outbreak of world war one capitalism was finished as a progressive system of production. The capitalist countries of the UK (British Empire) and German (German Empire) destroyed themselves in two world wars. Today the American Imperialist are in decline as the faces the competition from the Chinese regime of Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Men have walked the earth for 50,000 years. Agriculture began about 12,000 years ago capitalism about 500 years ago. World capitalism merely set the stage for world socialism. Capitalism has given humanity a world culture and created the industrial working class. People who own nothing but create everything. The essence of human life is to labor in common to create food, shelter and clothing after which we create culture.
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They got a picket lines up in Tennessee Mississippi and Texas.
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@jonc6157 Think what? All the economic theories and MIT physics and Math genuineness at the Banks couldn't stop 2008 without a massive bailout of banking capital. All capital does is accumulate and demand a return. It just goes to show capitalist economics Nobel prize winners are nothing more than junk scientists The Soviet Union was born out of an anti Imperialist war movement Leon Trotsky's red army defeat 14 Imperialist armies including the UK/UK. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@WhoamI20233 What do you know about communism except what you University eggheads and talking heads say on TV. TYou don't read our boooks or know much of anything about us but we read your books and we watch your tv and we know what your about,. You think we are all stupid because you have an Empire State building and build atom bomb. You talk endlessly about free markets and how GREAT you are how your willing to sell the same thing to anyone at the same price because you are such honest businessmen.that you are a democracy and let people decide for themselves. But the reality is you need to starve whole nation to get your way. You want to bring in a Yankee dollar to other countries give it to someone and then claim everything belongs to you. Then when a dictator gets kicked out you cry like a little baby who loses his rattle.
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@WhoamI20233 Its a multinational 60 year blockade imposed unilaterally by the US on Cuba condemned at the UN by every other nation but Israel. Its sole purpose is to starve the Cuban people into submission because of Fidel Castro though out your Dictator in a popular revolution and you can't stand that they don't want the country to be run by your banks and capitalist bosses. Your own secret declassified documents prove that. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@Nick-fg4dq He is the typical fraud who knows just enough classical economics to appear smart while defend capitalist greed and exploitation at almost every twist and turn. Ther main contribution is to criticise the capitalist for adopting the wrong state policies as if they can control their actions without interfering with the bosses greed and drive to maximize profits. For capitalism functions the way it does because of the greed of the bosses and the profit drive which produces a constant shift in investment between expanding production and driving up the value of fictious capital until it collapses. .
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@MarekDohojda Like his mentor Milton Friedman he makes private property into a fetish along with markets as if the best ideas since sliced bread. Sowell like Friedman was riding high in the saddle until the crisis of 2008 lead to the defeat of George Bush and the rise of one Sowells arch villains Obama. Since 2016 saw Donald Trump clean out the Republican Party of the traditional Conservative he became a Trump supporter only because he thought he would be easier to impeach than Hillary Clinton.
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What we need is a "Wrong to Scab" country.
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Give Muller the Boot.
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The US had no anti Imperialist policy it had its own Imperialist policy where it took over from other Imperialist powers its share of their booty from them when possible. It failed in its invasion of Korea when the Chinese volunteers came to the aid of Korea. It was nearly driven into the sea.
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@Juan-qu4oj Read the pamphlet. "War is a Racket" by USMC Major General Smedley Butler. The US Empire is based upon collaborators who allow unregulated US foreign investment. In both case the a civil war is not one country invading another. The US Gov't never recognized its own opposition in its civil war. The communist were leading a nationalist independence movement.
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@MoCsomeone You have to have a workers state after the revolution to defend the gains from the capitalist states and fascist bandits. Lenin is most noted for his concept of a disciplined party of worker bolsheviks, his analysis of Imperialism, and his ideas of national self determination for the colonial nations.
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@JH-qy7zw Jobs at union wages fur all who want to work. Workers control of industry. An escalator clause in every union contract to fight inflation. Down with Putin NATO and Democratic /imperialism. NO F 35's for Germany. No nuclear weapons for Japan. .
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El Cactuar Thanks Professor We were all hopelessly confused.
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LibertarianGalt Professor James Burnham left the Communist (Trotskyist) movement to become a conservative. Some wars are worth the fight like the one which defeated the slavocracy in the American Civil War. Which crushed slavery with a mighting blow creating a South more radical than the North for a short period of time. The Republicans betrayed Blacks and the Radical Republican governments in the South to Democratic Party violence with the compromise of 1877. The Franco Prussian war was launched by Emperor Napoleon the III. Marx must of realised just as Lenin did that a capitalist government with socialist ministers waging a war of plunder deserves no support or peace. Afterall in 1871 the Paris Commune was declared. The third Republic which you find so "peachie keen" would crush the Commune and continue French Imperial colonialism. Or the one which is being waged by the Jews against Hamas. Hams is a capitalist NAZI like Party of thugs and Jew haters making themselves rich off of UN Aid and sympathy for refugees that they care less about. It and its billionaire leaders and thugs deserve what the get. If they want peace then they can give up their hostages and surrender their criminala for trial and renounce their plans for the final solution of the Jews. . We called the Vietnam Peace movemnet the antiwar movement because we were for the Victory of the Vietnamese people over the Imperialist Power of the capitalist United States. The same reason we favor the Victory of Ukraine over Putin despite his hypocrisy about wanting to recreate the Soviet Union under Stalin since he clearly blames Lenin for Ukraine in the first place.
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LibertarianGalt What's your point because you aren't the first to cite Galt (John Galt) someone who invents a perpetual motion machine. Maybe you should add it to you denial of the value of human labor including intellectual labor in creating value. If the object of the bank is to place more capital into circulation than why would you want to collect it back as interest? After all isn't that what the German and Japanese are doing now with the zero interest rates? The last time I checked the first and second law of thermodynamics remain unbroken. Meaning John Galt's machine is unbuildable.
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LibertarianGalt You didn't answer my question. Where does the profit of the businessman/corporation come from?
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@arianGalt I might be the British merchant who buys opium from India and sells it in China now do you think the Chinese Emperor has the right to tell me to stop my opium sales? The British crown fought wars to sell Opium in China. Now do you why the Chinese hate the British Merchant and call him an Imperialist? Why all this free market we just giving customer what they want is a big bunch of bullshit for other people.
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@JorgeCruz-mi5gc Its capitalism creation of us the industrial working class that makes socialism possible. We are the people who work together to create everything. My father flew in a tin can over the South Pacific durring world war two. The capitalist era has been coming to an end since World war one. Jews like the Chinese have a culture that goes back thousands of years. Communism is internationalist in nature. Even though Hitler died after Lenin he lost the battle to create a new fascist Empire and instead the colonial people would make a break from Western Imperialism following world war two. Lenin vowed to tear Imperialism limb from limb and that's what happened with a United Nations of over two hundred sovereign nations. Its been about 80 years since the end of WW2. The American capitalist no longer have the economic power and military might to maintain the Imperialist Empire that followed the British Empire which saw its set set in 1945. American Imperialist power is financial the most parasitic of all capital. .
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@xchen3079 As a single event and given the size of the world's population. All done in the name of the brother of Jesus Christ with an invention made possible by capitalism. I presented as much evidence as the video did, Plus the capitalist era has not ended and the American Imperialist were talking about using nuclear weapons on Chinese cities during the Imperialist assault on the Korean people They've only became interested in "human rights".after losing their Imperialist war on Vietnam. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's and the UK first new ally was Pol Pot. .
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@Shaymuhs Abbott sent Texas Rangers, the Nation Guard with Tanks after getting the go ahead from Mexico they invaded an Island in the Rio Grande. Texas DPS had to call a Border Patrol unit for a single shooter at Uvalde. Not enough training. I your have any used training pants send them in to Texas DPS.
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@entrthedragon Whatever they do it ends up costing them money they don't want to spend. If you think other countries have nothing to do with you. Well they don't think that way instead those are just places to make more profits usually at a higher rate of return. So them becoming unstable becomes a threat to their Empire of rich investors. That's why workers need their own foreign policy independent of the bosses.
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The Sun goes around the earth just as much as the earth goes around the sun until Galileo made careful observations with his telescope that showed the Sun to be at the center of rotation by what are the planets including earth.
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Tell me what do corporate stockholders produce besides demands for more profits, higher share prices and bigger dividend checks? That's right they produce absolutely nothing for their ill gotten gains. In fact they are biggest entitled cry babies ever born on this planet.
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@Hello-zf5lq Your asking the fox to guard the henhouse.
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What makes him rich is his defense of capitalism.
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Its a new Chinese exclusion Act @act1439
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Lets see first give Black men a government job like Sowell had in Washington before going to Harvard. Then give him a money to go to school like Sowell got under the GI Bill. Of course he wlll need Professors shepherding him all the way. Once he finishes Grad School Residence than you use you connections in Washington to get him hired ar the DOL back in DC. Did i miss anything?
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@markmutschlechner2227 The basic problem with health in the US is that it is declining as measured by life expectancy. So why is it that this is happening? Well like all the other political problems discussed it is connected to a failing world economic system. Those with the money to pay don't want to pay and those without the money to pay can't afford to pay. You can expect this to continue until those without the money to pay can make those with the money to pay actually pay. It's what Karl Marx called the class struggle not be confused with electing Democrats.
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@rigging1377 Exactly where the money is going is no doubt a secret like every other capitalist business secret. You can bet on all kinds of administrators raking in big salaries to sit at a desk all day twirling a pencil. Private insurance companies taking a cut of every dollar that passes through their hands, drug company patents leading to sky high drug prices and banks financing all kinds of things all at a handsome profit.
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@norms3913 Sending in Military slaves to save cost to Texas Republican big company oil billionaires who are locking out refinery workers in Beaumont area. .
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@MyName-pl7zn Busting the teachers union and a demand to create a voucher system so parents and students can fight for the crumbs that will be left in the public education system. Along with a national test for ideological purity of thought. Nothing more than the fake promises of capitalist reform. Any real educational reform has to start with the abolition of tuition to all university education. There must be jobs for all who want to work at union scale.
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@marcvictoria1414 We need to rebuild the unions into organizations to fight back against the bosses. Then fight the bosses politically with a new party based in the unions without any bosses.
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@maximusmiles8435 We need a stronger and bigger union movement to make the bosses like the fat man Pompeo pay. We need to organize some big strikes to exercise union power.
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Soweell wants to have a boss private property hell hole. A situation where the bosses make all the decisions because they own everything. A capitalist free market utopia where they set both the prices you pay at the grocery store and the wages your paid for the work you do.
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The very first question is due process. Actions by the state against someone behind their back without having a hearing first where they can be heard is a violation of the due process clause of14th amendmendments. .
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It's a privilege to get a band aid in the US so what's your point?
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Hal Jordan Democrat or Republican you live in a system where even a billonary can be president.
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@yusufcagowayne1990 Capitalism breaks up families because hiring a single worker is cheaper than hiring a worker with a family. Sure Trump was going to Make America Great Again. Instead we have the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression after the 1929 stock market crash. Thirty Eight million thrown out of their jobs. Who are now on the Obamacare No Health Insurance Layoff Plan. Just like in 2008 the bosses will use this crisis to drive down wages and increase labor discipline.
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The purpose of the law is to criminalize any and all disent. Just like the American law.
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@peterwebb8732 Fidel Castro has had women in combat since the revolution. "Marianas in Combat"by Brigadier General Tete Puebla
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@peterwebb8732 The United States decided to postpone its invasion plans indefinitely and the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces along with the MPLA in Angola defeated the combined forces of US White Mercenaries, US Armed UNITA and Apartheid South Africa another US Imperialist ally. The United States found itself sitting with its racist ally South Africa at the UN when the New York Accords were signed recognizing the Independence of Namibia and the MPLA government while Cuban negotiators sat on the other side. .
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Government and Rail Bosses are on the same side. Profit maximization for Wall Street comes first. Workers and the unions need to take control of on the job safety.
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Paul Ronco Democrats only want to use abortion as a wedge issue for reelection.
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@JIP411 He gets a trail and is presumed innocent until proven otherwise like everyone else. People like you are idiots like Bill Gates and Trump who had everything given to them on a silver platter and grabbed as much as possible for themselves.
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@galebush1004 CRT is anti Marxist because it puts ideas first and not the economic system with the ideas of the ruling class arising out of that system. The US was founded on capitalism with slavery grafted on to it. Bourgeois Democracy and Racism are the ruling ideas of the capitalist and the slavocracy. Slavery got in the way of the rising capitalist class and so they destroyed it in a civil war.
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Any danger posed by a fascist pirah group like the KKK comes not from them eating or ordering cake but their actual actions. They'd have a hard time getting anyone to bake them a cake you describe and they are not covered in any direct manner by public accommodation law. Most of today's Klan are policemen who wear different 'off duty' uniforms.
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@GODCONVOYPRIME You watch Bill Buckley debate Fred Halstead the Socialist Worker Party candidate for President. Our candidates love to debate the Democrats and Republicans. We publisn a newpaper and books "The Militant" has been published since 1928 and is availbe online.
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He was offered as a compromise to have other employees bake the wedding cake for same sex couples or contract out the wedding cakes for same sex couples. Both options of which he refused. Instead he decided to make a federal case out of it.
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No church is forced into marrying anyone in the US. It's some Churches and their members that are making a stink about this because marriage under the law now means that same sex marriage partners get equal rights in the civil area like inheritance, adoption and other areas that are secular in nature. The see and fear that religion is losing its hold on people so they are looking for ways to keep themselves entrenched in civic life.
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Look people in Europe once believed that the earth was flat and the sun circled the earth. I'm not going to try and argue that the big bang theory is right because I don't have the education to do that. It is relatively easy to argue against many things in the book of Genesis. How did people get the idea that the earth was round or at least curved? Well ships leaving port that heading out straight from port seemed to get not just smaller but also to sink.
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Every atom in existence at the time of the big bang is wrong. Because that doesn't allow for fission and fusion in nuclear reactors, the sun and nuclear bombs.
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@estebanlara3702 The profits flow to those who can replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor so as the capital value rises the amount of labor in the product declines resulting in a decline in the profit rate from which all capital measures success. Since prices always slump towards the cost of production over time. To fool Karl Marx (Marx was dead by then) the capitalist created a central bank with government spending deficits and devlaue the currency by doing this the capitalist have been able to keep up what appear to be rising profits but are really the result of inflation of a fiat currency which continues to decline in real value. By inflating the currency you rob the working class without the need for the strike provoking wage cut. Property values rise and you can blame inflation on the workers just demands for a wage that rises with productivity.
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@colico14 As the majority begins to understand why the capitalist do the things they do and why their government works the way it does than you will see that impossibility of capitalism and a capitalist government "working for the people." As the working class throws off the self image created by capitalism of ignorance and worthlessness we become more aware of our own self worth and ability to create realy plentiful world for all human beings without the need of a wealthy ruling class of order givers. Whose only goal and purpose is profit maximization above all else.
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Profit hungry bosses move operations elsewhere. The blackmail you and if you agree to a wage cut they move anyway.
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@joanhuffman2166 The IRS collects you money at the point of a gun as you libertarian's love to say. The unions collect dues voluntarily. You don't have to join or go to meetings. No one has ever gone to jail for not paying union dues unlike taxes.
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@CowPalace1 They routinely classify documents and he routinely declassified them. The whole thing screams FBI frame job like the Russian election interference hoax. For all you know the classified documents could refer to secret decoded rings in Cheerios boxes because that's the level at which the government classifies things along with things like the "Collateral Murder" video and torture at CIA black sites. You haven't even arrested Trump yet but your calling him a criminal? Violation of the Presidential records act do not come with criminal penalties attached
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@Jim-de4dj Taiwan (The Republic of China) doesn't get recognition because it maintains a fiction that it is the true government of China. It does not have a seat at the UN.
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Law is based upon the needs of the class that holds power. For capitalism most of the law is all written to protect the rights of private property the property used to exploit others.
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The ruling class already has a monopolies on everything as it stands now.
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They are called convenience stores and they are monopolized into large corp like Circle K usually connected to the oil and gasoline company bosses.
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You don't think they tell the low level CIA agent what the top knows? Missiles could hit the US from inside the Soviet Union which is one reason Kennedy wasn't as upset with the missiles in Cuba as publicly stated. The arms race was insanity and the major nuclear powers are now entering into a new arms race. Reagan was spending like a drunken sailor right up to the end. He was talking about having a first strike capability.
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@darenzy Ya those anti NATO ralies weren't covered by US Media.
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@@davegreen7169 What they did was buy it up at about 23 dollars an ounce and then it was now in the possession of the Treasury/Federal Reserve bank and the Gold Certificates were eventually replaced by Federal Reserve Notes. A slight change in the words on the paper money. After the War the price was set at 32 an ounce for world trade until France wanted Gold for 1973 dollars which is when Nixon slammed the 32 dollar an ounce window shut "temporarily" and made private ownership for speculation legal again. They also stopped printing Silver Certificates at some point and took the silver out of circulating coins in the early 1960's..
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It's happening in states where the police are afraid of losing all credibility.
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@Minecraftizawsom Exactly that is why we need our own Party TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com
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@xxGamerX-cc2ho Collectivism BAD unless its the collectivism of the joint stock company. The real original sin lies in human collective labor. So all you anti collectivists should move into the jungle and join the male orangutans swinging from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit. That way you can be the true individuals you claim to be and stop annoying the rests of us with BS like the "good capitalists" non aggression principle.
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@Minute6080 Trump was a New York Liberal Democrat but the Republican's agreed to let him run for President because they knew he couldn't win.
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That's the way the cops work in Haiti. In return for protecting the rich and their bosses they get to steal anything that doesn't belong to them.
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@stephencarter7266 He only world class because he is supported by the American Imperialist Empires investor class. His basic role is deny the truth of Karl Marx's critique of capitalism. He spent a life time defending capitalist trade and production as portrayed by the neoliberals as the only way in which to organize economics. The absurdity of neo liberalism came to the front with the multiply crisis that ended with them having egg all over their faces with the crisis of 2008. From that point forward the actions of the state to defend the biggest investors and the too big too fail bankers became clear to all.
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Sound like you have plenty of resources but few friends?
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@PhilAndersonOutside DeSantis the racist who just passed s new Chinese Exclusion Act in Florida.
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@edwardst-pierre1020 "we now need to make the right decision to make it a better future." You can't make that decision as an individual because becoming a Larry Elder the corporate lawyer or Candice Owens the Wall streeter is an individual economic solution limited to a few. The number of those upper class jobs is limited if for no other reason than the division of labor. Candice Owens and Larry Elder can't build their own Buick's on the assembly line and still be part of the upper class. If your were to ask them if they could do that what could they say? A. You crazy! B. I've got an education! C. Are you stupid? D. Why should I? E. I decided not to?
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@edwardst-pierre1020 The fact that they have broken though those color lines breaks down white supremacy but it can't be a solution for the masses of Black people unless you believe in Black superiority and creation of a Black only ruling and upper class of a top 10% ruling over the caucasian majority.
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Republicans and Democrats can't even keep the lights on in Texas and Republicans are all in charge with their own states rights grid. Conservatives like Ted Cruz went on vacation.
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@peterharris4386 Tell me something just when did he say what the cause was? You think all those debt contracts have no owners?
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@peterharris4386 Of course not he has to talk and then pretend like he doesn't know. just like the cause of inflation The root cause of inflation is bosses raising prices. Wages haven't gone up because bosses wanting more profits refuse to raise them and our union officers have refused to lead a fight back.
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@carlfrye1566 Its just a change from a felony to a misdemeanor. Cruz has this guy totally confused. Can't understand why Cruz won't ask him about gang thefts but concentrates on shoplifting. Like they are going to send the Feds after a stolen lipstick.
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@warprecautions631 Wilson had Socialist Eugene Debs imprisoned. Debs ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket from prison and won a million votes.
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As a man do you want to make a decision to get prostate surgery? Naturally its hard idiot especially since you've got a bunch of clowns yelling abortion is murder outside clinics.
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@ashleypurdy5105 Like I said isn't it convenient that you make charges and conclusions without any sources. Your two party politicians are all like George Washington who admits to chopping down a cherry tree. They would never yell about baby killers just to win an election?
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First off you all but accuse the women of not going to a real OB/GYN. Then you explain what a real OB/GYN would do. You then rant on about abortion clinics which was never even relevant unless the women chose to go to a clinic to have the abortion done. Then you avoid the whole problem raised in the video by siting a single situation that occurred over 50 years ago. Its nice to know that you are both an OB/GYN and a legal expert anything else you want to tell us? By the way if its as simple as you say why doesn't the State Attorney General explain why the laws is both necessary and clear? I get though you are just so much smarter than the rest of us.
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@ashleypurdy5105 How come it disappeared? Was it a risk to national security?
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Excellent idea add the sale more arms.and spare parts for military. Then we would have real data on how long F-15's and KC-135 tankers are usable without spare parts and routine maintenance.
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@aycc-nbh7289 By the time the Billionaires decide to push the button we will have had the chance to disconnect the whole nuclears arms system.
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@scottski02 You neoliberal two party politicians were self congratulating themselves for the cold war victory communist theory just over thirty years ago. Now instead of George Bushes with his victory parade, his "New World Order" and his "Ownership Society". You ruling class like the rest of the capitalist ruling classes lunches from one crisis to the next playing a game of wack a mole which each new policy only creates another problem.
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@TheDNAGroup Since the US is in no position to invade Cuba they use the blockade to try and starve the Cuban people into submission.
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Hitler was never elected to anything. The NAZI Party was bank rolled by big business for their pro business strike breaking and political violence. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of All Germany by President General Hindenburg. The Reichstag's fire indecent was the excuse used to round up all 81 Communists and 26 of the 120 Social Democrats deputies detaining them in Nazi-controlled camps. Only then was Hitler's NAZI Party able to pass the Enabling act with the help of other capitalist parties. All of the remaining Social Democrats voted NO "
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@austinbosh7402 How about James Burnham he was a hard core member and a founder of the Socialist Workers Party. Later on he became a founder of the modern Conservative movement with James Buckley. So are conservatives really underground communists?
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@THATMOFODIRT That claim of Fidel Castro being a Billionaire is based upon his position as leader of the Cuban revolution. Unlike other billionaire dictators he doesn't have off shore bank accounts nor do they want their people to read and write. A real example of a Billionaire dictatorship pretending to be a democracy is what's left of the British Empire. The Queen is the ultimate authority in England, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Just in case you should forget that you will see pictures of a crown on police cars and almost anything to do with government. The prosecutor speaks in the name of the Crown the MP's swear allegiance to the Crown. The Queen's wealth must be measured in the trillions of Pounds Sterling. Yet you hear not a peep about her wealth and her dictatorships by US Democrats and Republicans. As Thomas Paine once remarked, "...the King need not speak when an act of parliament will do..."
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@austinbosh7402 The US is the most tyrannical and powerful Empire in Human history. What other country has nuclear weapons at the ready, 800 foreign military bases, a military command structure ready for war anywhere in the world, the most advanced weapon systems, and now is the first to announce the creation of a space force to fight war from space. Why all the so called democratic hatred against Cuba and not even the slightest of sanctions taken against Saudi Arabia for the outright murder of a Washington Post journalist?
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@austinbosh7402 That is why you should judge Bernie Sanders on what he says and not what he might have been or said in the past. I not going to vote for him because to do so means to endorse the Democratic Party. A party which has two billionaires as primary candidates. Why try and reform what is already no good? We need a new party not the election of a single renegade who has forgotten the meaning of the word socialism.
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@austinbosh7402 Who used carpet bombing, napalm, agent orange and cluster bombs dropped from heavy bombers in Vietnam while the north never had a single heavy bomber in the air. Kennedy ordered a military coup against his own puppets the Diem Brothers. The were murdered in South Vietnam. As long as you vote for one of the two good housekeeping approved capitalist stooges elections mean nothing.
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@livefree316 "...Freedom is a gift of GOD ..." which is why you will vote Canadian. The freedom we have is written in the blood of a revolutionary and civil war. The change form a Democratic Republic to a tyrannical Imperialist Empire began with the Spanish American war. All wars since, including the Spanish American war, have been fought to advance the interests of the American Capitalists foreign investment. To pull off these charades requires lies from the President himself and repression from the US government against ant-war forces.
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@austinbosh7402 "Countries have been waging wars for centuries even before the United States was a thing." So that's the best justification you can up with to defend the Empire? Others did bad shit so its ok for us to do more.
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@austinbosh7402 I only call the United States an Empire because the state of New York calls itself the "Empire State". New York even brags about it being the Empire State when you cross from Connecticut into New York on I 95 never mind all the other signs at New York state borders which say "Welcome to the Empire State" Even the states licence plates say "Empire State." So tell me who is the monarch the Governor of New York or the President of the United States?
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@austinbosh7402 The US currently has a system that can not treat all. If universal health care were enacted a inmeade shortage of medical personnel would occur as the formerly uninsured or underinsured seek help for their medical problems. As soon as you able if in the ambulance or at the emergency room the first thing you must show is your insurance card. The problem of triage occurs because the system is strained to the capacity now. The number of Doctors trained in the US is limited by the AMA and the rest come as immigrants that are allowed in by the CBP as permanent residents. If you are a Doctor are you going to seek work in a foreign country whose immigration laws are so arbitrary that taking a job in New York for work done in another country will be used as a reason for deportation and 30 years of exclusion.
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@austinbosh7402 (Respect Free Speech) If we aren't an Empire why have an Empire State building? You're the fool who said the US was not an Empire because an Empire needs a monarch. Boston has a Prudential building so I suppose Massachusetts should call itself the Prudential State? They two parties can't stop calling New York the Empire State without creating a big whoha. I sneaked into South Boston inside of a Bag of Potatoes from the Emerald Isle. CBP and ICE got their 30 pieces of silver which is all they and the rest of the cops want. Everyone who won't move in lock step must be an immigrant and ever immigrant must be watched to find out if the hold any Bank of UnAmerica views.
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@austinbosh7402 I didn't tell anyone to call a building the Empire State building but it just might have something to do with the Wall Street stock exchange and the biggest banks in the world being located in New York City. The world's largest cache of gold is not in Fort Knox but in the cellars of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Now who governs the country the voters or the biggest banks and industrial companies by use of campaign funds for corrupt two party politicians. The Republicans have the Billionaire Trump and the Democrats have the Billionaire's Steyer and Bloomberg. Seems like the Billionaires are unhappy since they are directly entering the Presidential elections.
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@austinbosh7402 Here's a list of the Empires military command structure just in case a colony gets out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces.
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@austinbosh7402 (Respect Free Speech) Every past Empire has collapsed wither it be the Roman, British, French or Russian. The reason every capitalist/feudal Empire has ended is because the costs of Empire become unsustainable. The hopes of the American capitalists is that in some way the US is exceptional which prevents the ruling class from undermining themselves with their own rotten policies.
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William Loudermilk No the civil war was the last well know progressive act by the American capitalists. It extended the Bill of Rights from just a restriction on Federal Power into a restriction on state power also. It abolished slavery and defined natural citizenship from just unwritten English common law into constitutional law.
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@austinbosh7402 You think that they would just put out their battle plans online? If they do draw up a battle plan do you think they use a countries real name?
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@austinbosh7402 They had no where near the wealth and isolation of today's ruling class. No railroads, no telegraphs, and no cotton gin. They did have leisure time to read. Franklin was a printer's apprentice. Setting type requires you to read in mirror images for proofreading. No wonder he worked out to be an educated man even though his formal schooling end at age 10. Thomas Paine was never a successful business man yet his ideas and writings like "Common Sense" provided the justification for independence from England while Paine died later as a pauper. "They were educated men who knew what they were doing." For the most part they were working upon theories of government taken from the European era of enlightenment. The had the English Commonwealth and Dutch Republic as examples. Lots people at the time did not think they "knew want they were doing" hence the migration of Loyalist to Canada along with the need to "educate' the Crown (King and parliament) with musket balls.
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@silverltc2729 The US Constitution is secular no mention of god and the original has the NO RELIGIOUS TEST clause and the first amendment ericts a wall between Church and State. You have no proof your parachute will open. it's like coin flipping at best no connection exists between flipping the coin and the possible outcome. Jefferson knew the dangers posed by fire brads. Organized religion creates way more problems than it solves.
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@silverltc2729 Anarcho capitalist you've got to be joking. I suppose were all going to be independent contractors to Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Your "Daddy Government of the Empire", the US Military and Police. are going to do a disappearing act. Is everyone going to be on all the boards of directors also or it just for sons and daughter of the rich? We want to get rid of the capitalist government in a revolutionary inserection. What's your idea? Everyone opening up a lemonade stand. See we have a way through class struggle to get where we are going. You just have some unworkable utopian ideals. Capitalism is what you have and you can't reform it. Come back when you get tired of playing ring around the rosie.
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@silverltc2729 I really like your market signals made by brokers jumping up and down at the stock market. After the revolution we will make a movie to show how idiotic the past system of capitalism was where crazy people controlled the lives of others by jumping up and down giving hand signals..
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@silverltc2729 Philosophers solve the world the point is to change it. Karl Marx. Cuba is a small island considering all the problems they've had with the Empire to the North they've done exceptionally well despite according to you standing in line for eggs. There were lines in the US and ration cards during WW2. Do you remember the last gas rationing?
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@silverltc2729 "I don't know why you guys keep saying its my government because I certainly don't vote for it." I have to obey the laws if I want to stay out of jail and even Ayn Rand took here Social Security check.
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@silverltc2729 "Karl Marx is related to the Rothchild family." Are you now planning to go down the anti semitic route? Don't let put words in your mouth now.
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Nothing like Cherry picking to make the Imperialist side look good. Nice to know that you think that we are nothing more than a bunch of drunks.
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Stalin faced a communist opposition organized around Trotsky. He lead a counter revolution that murdered most of the old Bolsheviks who had joined the Party before the revolution. .
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End the US Blockade!!!
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Basically its a case of the capitalist government being unprepared to do anything except issue an order to evacuate and urge people to buy insurance at market rates. Of course once the government declares a disaster the first thing the insurance companies say is it an act of God and we don't have to pay. Meanwhile the population suffers while the bosses still get to keep their property and count their profits. In fact Bush refused aid from Socialist Cuba because the local people wouldn't understand Oil Man Bushes hatred of communism.
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This is total BS Trump paid a lawyer the lawyer was the one who plead guilty to a crime.
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Inside the United States no one can agree about much of anything. Once outside you're definitely either an American or in Canada from the States. Canadians always like to point out that their also Americans that why they say oh you're from the States. Until you act as if they're just from another one of our states then the loudly protest that they're Canadians. Go figure?
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Yankie Doodle The "New Deal" became the "War Deal". Kennedy the son of a millionaire made a career out of attacking the Teamsters Union and Jimmy Hoffa. Obviously private health insurance isn't good enough that's why LBJ signed the Medicare Medicaid social security amendments.
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Brian Belk The bosses are now the supposed victims of their banking brothers? Just like the libertarian utopia of a non aggression capitalist where the bosses are oppressed by their own state? Yes the boss are so responsible which is why the set up the limited liability corporation as a fictitious person too hide behind.
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Dojocho You need a trip to Star Bucks ask for some religious fruit cake and coffee.
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Brian Belk Directly form the Christian Bible King James Version Hosea 13:16 "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+13&version=KJV
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Brian Belk You want to claim that the Bible isn't what it says it is and that capitalism has been hijacked by other Greedy capitalists. Capitalism triumphed over feudalism in Europe and slavery in America in bloody civil wars. There never was a non aggression principle capitalism and their never will be. Its a class system that can't survive without at overgrowing centralized nation state power. The American nation state world empire is exactly that. A centralized capitalist nation state with an matched world military power abroad with a military and police dictatorship at home.
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Brian Belk Wrong again. Attacks on right to free speech are blow to the working class. We aren't part of the so called "Progressive Left" Those are your Democratic Party ruling class friends. https://www.themilitant.com/2015/7946/794605.html We don't have a paper the size of the Sunday New York Times. We cover actions taken by working people against capitalist injustice as a first priority. We don't need to be perfect beings to fight back against capitalist injustice. You seem to be more interested in not doing anything and tearing down those who do. If I though technology was going to solve everything at the very least I.d have a degree from MIT. Instead of spending most of my life at the poverty level.
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@highlander918 No its my real name. My Dad was reading the book named Kim when I was born.
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Brian Belk STOP TRYING TO SMEAR ME AS A DEMOCRAT. Alyson Kennedy (no relation to JFK) is our candidate for President.
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Brian Belk The Democrats want to steal our votes. That's why the New York Times ran an editorial in the last election urging anyone thinking about voting for us to vote for Clinton. Does the pamphlet titled "The Clinton's Anti Working Class Record" sound Pro Democratic Party? Your just making an ass of yourself. You have nothing positive to propose so you spend your time trying to smear me as a Democrat. After all the last libertarian convention had a guy dancing in his underpants as an online video. Take a look at that avitar does it look like a donkey? Dumb ass?
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No she is just seeking a big pay out based upon so called corruption. The capitalist system is based upon corruption legal and illegal.
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@ripvanwinkle2002 The Cuban's built the first sugar harvesting machines in the world. Cuban Doctors went to Africa and halted Ebola. Cuban Doctors treated the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. The Latin American School of Medicine has 10,000 foreign students studying at no direct cost to the student. Cuba Scientists developed a vaccine to halt the progress of lung cancer. Cuban Scientists developed vaccines for Coronavirus. Now you can tell me about the achievements made by those Latin American countries that have remained within the American Imperialist system of greedy captains of American industry. Maybe you'd like to recount all the scientific advances made under the US backed dictatorships like in Brazil and Chile. Tell us about the success of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress? How about all the military training and arms you provided the region? .
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@ripvanwinkle2002 Look you can brag about your Doctors all you want but the lifespan in the United States has actually gone down in recent years and for every three US Doctor who retire an Immigrant is required to replace him or her. The US Government would not be trying to interfere with the Cuban medical assistance program if it was ineffective.
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@ripvanwinkle2002 Maybe you'd like to brag about the Human Rights training they gave to a Chase Manhattan Bank VP in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship?
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@deborahdean8867 Yours is the attitude of the middle class who think they are "making it" under capitalism because they sold their souls to the bosses for a promise and middle class lifestyle. Bill Gates never had an original idea he didn't steal for himself and microsoft. He know's you don't need another operating system but food which is why he is buying up US farm land after his "Green Revolution" failed in India. Sure talk it up about the importance of the restaurant business that Bosses government closed down as "non essential". You know what? The best slave is one who thinks he is free like you. You ruling class invested 2.3 trillion dollars on a "nation building" war in Afghanistan. You educating nothing but fools and idiots at your elite universities. You got a President and senators who probably forgot how to ties their own shoes. Don't worry though your a Democracy and Wall St lobbyist write laws and make policy you just need to raise your hand for the FBI approved policy at the school board meeting. .
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@viverasschweiz Not much different than Stalin calling for self criticism.
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@HdaTyp3R Its capitalism that fails everytime. Without government funded public housing being built than the lowest wage worker's will be expected to live in housing not fit for human habitation.
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@steviesevieria1868 Both parties are funded by the wealthy so why would you expect them to do anything that would cost them money. Their goal is to convince you nothing can be done. That's Kennedy the bankers son who said, "Ask not what your government can do for you but ask what you can do for your government." When Democrats are out of office they blame Republicans and when their in office they say they lack the Democratic Party agreement needed to get it done.
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@noelbartley1084 They put Eugene Debs in Jail and it didn't stop him from getting a million votes as the Socialist Candidate.
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@juliam4100 The ruling ideas are those of the ruling class in any epic. In the US the ruling ideas are those of capitalism as expressed in all the Universities business, economic and political science schools. It was Stalin who would put together a group of privileged officials who lead the Soviet Union back to capitalism while accuse the Left opposition of doing that. Who would be the leaders of revolutionary defeats in China, Germany, France and Spain. Stalin the one time candidate for the Orthodox Priesthood who would turn the Marx and Lenin into Gods to be worshiped like himself.
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His CIA armed the Islamic terrorist in Afghanistan and Oliver North sold missiles to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He armed a real enemy only to claim victory over a mythical one
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@nicoled3562 You will even happier when the Socialist Workers Party elects its first candidate. VOTE SOCIALIST WORKERS!!! TheMilitant.com
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@murp9388 I'd say set a maximum income.
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@wrathchild7218 i'm not going to rewrite Das Kapital for you online. Nor am I going to read or rewrite Che Guevara Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism. Since you such a Doctor of Philosophy you can read them yourself. I know how your type functions with demanding definitions and then saying the definitions and the arguments don't match. That's what you want so you can present yourself as real smart. Technically any time a government collect money it is a tax. If government pays everyone and no one is paid above the level of a skilled worker then they don't collect an income tax. The wages are collected back at state stores for some of the needs some are fulfilled though ration books, while others are fulfilled through voluntary labor and they are NOT commodities by the Marxist definition of commodity production. Now since the end of favorable trade with the Socialist Block they have had to change to the use of dollars in trade and all the problems od a small nation engaging in world trade and using tourism as a source of foreign exchange. .
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@Kitkat23670 The current generation always pays for the next generations education. The discoveries and accumulated wealth and culture are passed down to the next generation. from the current generation. That is the way education works. It isn't a commodity manufactured in a factory to then be sold ar a profit. Anytime education takes place both the teachers and the students can not use that time to be producing what is required to meet their needs. Education does not create surplus value directly the way labor can but education can raise the skill quality and productivity of labor, Because capital seeks to maximize industrial profits it neglects education of the working class. It does this because it constantly seeks to increase productivity with new machinery that replaces higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. This results in the long term tendency of the rate of profit to decline because the source of profit is living labor while the value of the fixed capital is congealed labor. The rate of profit is how the capitalist judges his success.
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@og-up4rt You don't live in Cuba anymore than Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz do. You came here because you could no longer exploit others and you wanted the promises of the easy life of the bosses in United States. You hope to get Rich like Bezos and be a billionaire instead you'll end up like Yoani Sanchez wanting Western Salaries for the demoralised intellectuals.
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@Smokin129 If I move to Cuba how effectively will I be in the campaign for the end of the Blockade? Not to mention that I'm fluent in English only. Maybe you should Read: The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals ; Author: Trotsky, Leon
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@og-up4rt Your the proof that Cuban Socialism can do without you.
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@mkay1957 Whats you proof for that? Just more speculation by Sowell. After all Republicans have occupied the White House and the Controlled Congress just as much as Democrats. Are you going to tell me you Republicans don't like jucy defense and NASA cost plus contracts for their state bosses. You got so many Military bases in the South they are talking about building a New Interstate Highway from Georgia to Texas just to link them up. Everyone knows you spend like drunken sailors on defense while pinching pennies on everything else's.
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@129 The end of the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control interference with international trade and the hypocritical designation of Cuba as state sponsor of terror. Hamas has offices in Qatar why not designate Qatar as sponsors of state terror?
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@harmony923 This is a man who spent his whole ;life crusading for neoliberal capitalism with the ideas of American Republican Conservatives not Trump who was really a New York Liberal who switched parties and began the questioning Washington sacred cows. .
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@malighos That's a lot of Bull shit you still have to do your job to get paid. You bosses like to tel these BS stories while having sex with the help and getting drunk.
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@The00Dude The CCP has officially rejected Lenin and Putin blames Lenin for Ukraine.
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The heads of Big Government are always taking about how they are making it smaller.
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@larryspiller6633 I shop their all the time next time I go in I'll ask them if they have a free market.
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@redtobertshateshandles One need not kiss the Blarney Stone to be persuasive.
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@funkymunky7935 That is merely the way capitalism develops. We don't advocare for a return to horse drawn carriages or nails made by blacksmiths. Capitalist have to sell in a market back to the workers who produce the comedities and means of life along with the small farmers. All of industry is interdependent and every basic industry is depended on the others. Production is carried out socially while profits are extracted privately. Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and lower paid unskilled labor. to drive profits their way. Capitalism is the first system to develop the crisis of overproduction for markets that can not absorb all that can be produced. This causes the profits to stop flowing and the capitalist to halt production further the crisis when the workers can't buy back what they use to produce.When the capitalist run out of markets for more production the shift to driving up the value of fictitious capital like bonds, stocks or mortgage contacts until the price collapses causing panic in the financial sector. This is what lead to the Establishment of the Federal Reserve to be the lender of last resort since JP Morgan didn't want the sole responsibility. The capitalist are a class who pass on their wealth the same as kings. Stalin and his gangsters were not an economic class who could pass on wealth to posterity. . .
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@funkymunky7935 Authoritarian is a meaningless term developed by intellectuals who like to call each other names its original meaning is by the author or by the book. Big government is also another propaganda term that means nothing except as a way for capitalist politicians to throw mud at each other. The biggest and most powerful government in the world is the US government hands down certainly since the end of World War 2.
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@RonaldBurton-ue6yk Corporations have the power to hire and fire limited by the capitalist government which serves to manage the common affairs of the capitalist class. The other role of government is to carry on those activities which can't produce profits like private industry by cutting labor time. Government regulation are implemented to punish those who become a public embarrassment to the bosses and their greed for profits. With the election of the FDR it became necessary to present the system as reformable though regulation with a New Deal. In the end only the war deal was able to return profitability and provide world capitalism with a new lease on life along with the betrayal of the world revolution by the Social Democratic and Stalinist Labor leaderships whose popular fronts against fascism paved the way for the fascist era in Europe. .
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Right and when the next Democrat gets into office boots will be doing basic at Camp Martin Luther King.
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@elburko9453 His idea is to cancel Social Security for a welfare benefit (UBI) to cut costs because Seniors and the disabled are living to well and need to share to protect profits.
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There's a lack of sectional differences compared to 1860 and even 1960.
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Capitalism with the drive to pay the lowest wages to make the biggest profits along with its boom and bust cycle is what has destroyed the workers family. That's why the Rail Workers call Boss Warren Buffets BNSF railroad the Better Not Start a Family railroad. The bosses want us working the longest hours at the lowest pay at the fastest rate. They only want to pay what they need to get you to come back to work for the next pay period. They talk about how everything is too expensive from school baseball diamonds to library books. Of course the real reason they want lower taxes is so they can put more in their pockets and junk bonds in Federal Reserve bank vaults. The profit system is failing because you can keep giving yourself more for doing nothing but lending out money. Its called the long term natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline. It means that the rate of profit by which the bosses judge success comes to an end. Greed and the need for profits drives the bosses to build giant industries and vast infrastructure only to let it go into decline because the bookkeepers report a declining ability to profit. Profit and market hungry bosses are always on the prowl looking fo the way to defeat their market rivals.
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@someoneelse3456 He had to go into hiding after the crisis of 2008. When George Bush said "I had to intervene in the free market to save the free market" it was not a good time to be talking about free markets being the best thing since sliced bread.
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Hitler was elected the same way the King of England is. He was never elected to any post in the German government rather he was appointed Chancellor of Germany by Persident General Hindenburg. His party never had a majority in the Reichstag either.
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@s.muller8688 Its a class society and for it to remain so the class in power needs to pass on its wealth. It doesn't to pass on education only the right to own while buying and selling at prices it chooses.
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@carlac9026 New levels of deceit and corruption in capitalist society.
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Luxury Bosses make bigger profits because luxury is a fetish that can be sold like trinkets the Dutch bought Manhattan with. Bosses naturally don't want to pay for education because it would cut into profits. If they are faced with having to pay a higher wage they can raise prices and lose customers or cut other expenses like advertising, boss bonuses or profits themselves. They make their decisions based upon maximizing profits for themselves come hell or high water. A higher minimum wage means those workers will be able to spend more on things they need. This results in a shift in production away from luxury goods to workers necessities. As far as hiring and training goes capitalism always works to replace higher skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Capitalist supervisors are paid to get the longest hours at the fastest pace at the lowest wage in a pay period from those they watch for a living. The fact that they system itself enter into crisis and can't match all the labor available with the capital equipment is due to the natural tendency of long term profit rates to decline.
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@Andy-Christian All your doing is making excuses for the bosses. They can't afford this and they can't afford that but they can afford CEO pay and who knows what else they are hiding in their budget. Bonus for bosses, stock buybacks, advertising, and diversity training, WalMart has money to buy new computer systems to replace people and they can cut the pay of other bosses and plans to buy or invest. They can cut their trips to Las Vegas and donations to their foundations. We aren't interested in subsidising bosses who can't make a profit with low wages. They run everything based upon profits, Their profit system is coming to an end because of the declining rate of industrial profit. That's why we say the workers can't accept this close everything down because we can't make a profit. They wasted 5 trillion dollars destroying Iraq and Afghanistan. You want to die and sacrifice for them and their profit system that's your decision but don't expect me to follow.
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@Andy-Christian Why do you want a bunch of slaves washing cars to begin with? Seems to me that's a luxury service and if it gets replaced by automatic car washing that's a good thing. We don't want jobs that are just those of digging a hole and filling it up again. Same with the neoliberal argument that John Lewis made coal expensive compared to oil. Does it not make more sense to burn oil and gas than coal? Is not oil drilling and extraction safer than coal mining. Coal will probably always be needed to make raw steel. We want a system where people can change jobs without economic hardship. We don't want this business where people are thrown out of work, ignored, and treated like dirt on a shoe.
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@Andy-Christian Does the boss guarantee a life time JOB either? From a sensible point of view and not one based upon a boss making a profit than on the job training fulls two functions it creates value as the worker trains and he isn't put in the position of being told he didn't get the right training or some other reasoning after he spent both time and money on outside of work education. The bosses want all the choke points in the economy so they can extract profits. The want the all the gains and make us take all the losses.
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@Andy-Christian If the bosses can no longer afford to hire personal servants like pool boys, landscapers and other kinds of luxuries that's just too bad. If the can't afford to build the next missile defense system or keep up with their nuclear weapons posture I'm not going to shed any tears.
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@irenetv1776 This is s personal story of Larry and his Dad almost nothing about the civil rights movement.
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@queensaladini6731 No retreat in the face of the reactionaries. No common ground with the capitalist state and the Church. Fight to have abortion declared as part of equal rights for all women. No Judge interference in the rights of young women. Complete and comprehensive sex education before puberty. Take all healthcare out of the market and make it a right for all people across the planet. End the global "gag" rules. Tell the Church and capitalist state to put a sock in it.
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@karenh2737 Right because some group of nobodies makes a prediction its time to let loose the Secret Police force. How do we know that the FBI isn't behind the call for violence? All I saw was a few women carrying dolls with the hands taped together. Somehow that doesn't look intimidating to me.
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@jonnip7225 Using body parts for what exactly?
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This is the result of US support for middle east dictatorships.
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Destiny tran CCP total control LOL If anything they are becoming weaker. Workers striking. Hong Kong big sustained protest. General Chang? A deserter eating well on a small island. Provided sanctuary by American Imperialist Nuclear Weapons Shield. Mao put too many stars on Chinese Flag should have removed the one for National Bourgeois lead by deserter Chang. Mao lead a Long March for China's dignity. Kicking out Western and Japanese Imperialist smashing the landlord and warlord collaborators. Mao will be remembered for helping Korean people almost driving the US Imperialist takeover from Japanese Imperialists into the sea of Japan. Then sending Chinese volunteers into the fight to drive the all the world's Imperialist forces back from Yalu river. All done despite Imperialist threats to use nuclear weapons on Chinese Cities and creating a nuclear no man's line at the Yalu river. The Imperialist war crimes are uncountable carpet bombing, napalming civilians, bombing dams, mascaring refugees. American Imperialist General MacArthur said to his conscripts, "What are you afraid of Chinese Laundryman?" Laundryman kick him in the pants. American Truman become frightened of Laundryman fire General MacArthur.
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@BlueRidgeBlackRedneck That would contradict the interests of the American Imperialist capitalist class. They want other countries people to bear the overhead costs of education and healthcare. Afterall what they want is bigger profits so they can buy more luxury goods and send up rockets for their planned landing on Mars. The only education they desire is that which gives them more praise for being better at being monopolists and geniuses at grabbing market share leading the world to a New Jerusalem.
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@YoutubeGuru-h1w Foreign companies can bring in all the managers they like.
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@YoutubeGuru-h1w US companies with foreign operations can bring in foreign managers with one year into the US for Green Cards also. So basically open border legal immigration is for the bosses.
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@YoutubeGuru-h1w Its like everything in America if you've got money you can do anything that a lawyer can find a way around the law to make it legal for you.
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@VincentConti-m5j Most of the world operates on the profit system and that system comes to an end because it produces an ever smaller ruling classes based in nation states fighting for profits and resources in a world market along with the tendency of the rate of profit by which success is judged to decline.
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@Butterfly-tg3oz She's for family values like legal drug use and the right to sell sex and the product of your body children to those who can pay.
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@oldmadenewcreations Its NOT you child or your decision. You can't be forced into giving blood or a kidney but you would be happy to force others? Any medical procedure and pregnancy carries risk. If Pro Life politicians weren't just grandstanding for votes why don't the come up with better ways to support children and families. They' be figuring out how to deliver medical care instead of playing amateur physician who writes and votes on laws to satisfy his need to pander for votes. Sure who can be against a politician who is Pro life. Who can be against a baby picture on a billboard. Now forty politicians say that's not what the law means well where is the State Attorney General and the Chief executive officer the Governor? When its election time they can't kiss enough babies and pose for photo ops but when they are needed they act like Congress on Jan 6th. They go into hiding.hoping the storm will blow over because after all when disaster hits they are the first to tell you, "Your on your own." while they fly away to safety in that state police chopper you paid for.
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They take power because the NDP refuses to chart a independent working class path forward prefering to side with the woke Liberal "Strikebreaking" Boss Party.
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@borysnijinski331 That's untrue as both the liberals and conservatives represent the ruling capitalist class of Canada. Canadian nationalism is based upon being a colony of Britain until the British went broke after world war one. The British abandoned Canada in 1931. Outside of healthcare and education almost all of Canada is for profit. Canadian healthcare is NOT universal either those who are in the wrong province or from another country are subjected to problems receiving services.
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She is exactly where she belongs. A cowardly criminal who organized the murder of a nine year old child deserves to be reminded of what coward she is every day of her stinking life.
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@alantse7464 They can't provide help in the US. We have had a crisis of empty store shelves of milk, bread, toilet tissue and paper towels. They are giving out crazy orders. To get a test you must go to a test center but to you need a doctors note to get a test but the doctors say don't come to the doctors office but call on the phone but if you call you call you still can't get a paper.
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@alantse7464 Trump can't keep his promises in the US so what makes you think any promises he makes to foreign countries will come through? Only a few weeks ago his Medal of Freedom winner Rush Limbaugh was saying this was just a common cold virus being used to Bash Trump. Now Trump is saying everything will be back to normal by Easter Sunday.
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@alantse7464 Don't ask questions. You don't want answers too!!!
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We don't sign those pledges either. Its directed against revolutionaries like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.
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RED PILL PORTAL The purpose of the "Space Force" is to advance the Interests of American Imperialism not some kind of "globalism". To much power is attributed to the worlds capitalist secret police forces. Naturally this kind of thinking results in the wrong conclusion where the saving the US Empire's "American nation" become necessary as it is some sort of benevolent force and not the most important part of Empire that needs to be destroyed in a socialist revolution.
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Hayden R. (Respect Free Speech) More lies because the communist movement operates in a completely open and legal manner. You might try heaping those slurs and manner of operation on the Stalinist CPUSA. They however have had an ever declining membership and can no longer to afford to publish a weekly paper. The movement tied to the Socialist Workers Party has both a weekly paper TheMilitant.com and publisher Pathfinderpress.com We will recruit workers from both Parties because the working people are looking for answers not trying to pick who is the worst candidate and voting against the other.
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@leifc.6045 We don't control the printing of money that's under control of the Federal Reserve Bank. They will not redeem any gold or silver certificate except to accept them for the same value as Federal Reserve Notes. A bipartisan decision. The last time the US dollar was connected to a precious metal ended when President Nixon closed the $35 an ounce of foreign exchange window. Once again we are not responsible for decisions made by the two ruling parties.
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They can vote for whoever they want and the can almost always vote on either the contract or the leadership directly. Once every year they can vote the union itself either in or out.
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@maryjeanjones7569 You already have a ruling class and an educated aristocracy and Robert Reich is one of them. They can't fix capitalism because it is rooted in the need to make profits for the ruling class. Its own logic of profit maximization leads it into a blind alley.
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We introduced Minneapolis communism in 1934. Striking Teamsters battled the cops and special deputies with bats and pipes in hand to hand combat.
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@LivingEmpoweredToday FDR made the FBI into a political police agency.
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@andreabrown4541 FDR made the FBI into an anti labor political force.
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The Cuban revolution shows what workers and farmers can acomplish when the state power is in their hands instead of the capitalist state or a bureaucratic monstrosity of the Stalinists type.
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@tula1433 Capitalism doing what it does best sucking up everything into a massive toilet.
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@lisashapiro4714 These libertarians want to create empires of private property.
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@debrasrnek4223 Its just capitalism working the its should. Creating luxury out of poverty.
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I guess they will have to cut management bonus, stock buybacks and shareholder profits.
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@Bebe-or9nw Those are the "rubber pants" "managers in training". They run a round and act crazy because they are all sucking up for that big bonus check along with the promises and pay the tops get.
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@TheWinterShadow Screw phone and other shit it can be lived without if necessary.
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@Infiltrator_ US gov't isn't fighting for any ones freedoms except for those of Big Business, Wall Street and Madison Ave. They collected every last penny from the Treaty of Versailles. Marshall plan money made US Companies rich.
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Black-pill-rising. The Stalinist have always been the allies of both conservative and liberals starting with Stalin, the liberal FDR and the Conservative Churchill. I can find you a picture of the BIG THREE at the Yalta conference. The Moscow trials were in 1936 to 1938 and the war didn't start until 1939. The world already knew of Stalin's crimes especially in the US and Britain. The honeymoon ended after the defeat of NAZI Germany and Japan. Churchill gave the Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, MO with Truman sitting on the stage in May 1946 about a year after the defeat of NAZI Germany.
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Black-pill-rising. The capitalist are an exploiting class just as slave owners and fuedal land owners were. The capitalist have created the industrial working class and we are the truly revolutionary social class. We aren't tied to the land like the peasants. We can organize and go on strike by the thousand and millions. We are the true producers and creators. No machine has been built that can operate in perpetual motion and no machine no matter how cleverly construed can reproduce itself. All machine are built by labor and operated by labor. The capitalist profit originates not from thin air but like all surplus value from capitalist production from the difference in the price paid for labor and the price charged for the labor in the product. Trade no matter how beneficial to both parties produces nothing. The capitalist by seeking bigger profits invest in new machines to cut future labor time in production. By doing this they both raise the capital value and lower the surplus value produced in labor time this causes the rate of profit by which the capitalist measures success to decline. For the capitalist to keep up his profits he must now find new markets but the world is finite not infinite and the capitalist will not sell if he can not turn a profit. This was noticed first by the classical economists but later explained by Marx as the result of new machinery. So if the capitalist can not keep his workers working and new machines keep lowering the profit rate he looks at his accounting books and says I need to make the fewer workers work harder and for lower wages. That is why capitalism creates class struggle.
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Black-pill-rising. US Imperialist wars for Democracy have been so much more brutal in their methods. The used carpet bombing in Vietnam and Korea. The use of Agent Orange as a biological weapon to create hunger with birth defects caused by dioxin okayed by the war criminal Kennedy. You keep talking about 'communist regimes" when Stalin had to murder all of Lenin's closest comrades from the Oct 1917 Politburo with the Moscow Trials. Do you think one becomes a communist like the way you become a Democrat or Republican? That one need's to just sign a paper and that's it? We have to argue ideas all the time. We have to show we are correct not just say we are correct. Socialism at its core is a struggle of ideas and methods. If you don't understand how a capitalist economy works that how can you talk about or criticized it. You don't think Stalin and his privileged bureaucrats just came down from heaven and developed out of an innate defect in man do you?
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@tammyrogers9129 Christians admit in a backhanded way that God is not real since belief in Christs requires faith and faith is not the same as being able to prove something. Now lets assume God exists and made man in his image but then is it just as likely that man invented God and idealized him in man's image. So you can not prove God's existence and their is no time real time line in the bible for the predictions in the book of revelations and instead one is forced too muddle about and make various interpretations that are vague and very often meaningless. Thomas Paine did a much better job than I can in demolishing the believes of organized religion in the "Age of Reason." written before the birth of Karl Marx. Paine also wrote "Common Sense." about the English Parliament and King. Next time you here the phrase use "common sense" they are repeating then name of one of the founding political pamphlets of the American Republic.
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Have your neoliberal friends explained why the wages of goods producing workers stopped following productivity for workers in the US starting in 1973. Or the declining use of Industrial capacity beginning with the first date of statistics in 1968? What was the problem not enough neoliberal policy liberating markets? You can find those stats at the US Federal Reserve St Lewis. Northeaster Railroads had to be bailed out with ConnRail and then sold back for song and dance to the productive and profitable boss who cut jobs and wages. A crew size went from 5 to 2 or 3 in fifty years. Longer trains with the BNSF nicknamed the Better Not Start a Family RailRoad. Biden with his Emergency board and a vote by Congress to prevent a strike.
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user-lb8ju6vm9p The bosses drive to automate has the problem of a declining rate of profit by which the bosses judge success. The accountants are the ones who deliver the bad news. "Boss our capital value rises with every new machine we buy but our total labor from which we derive our profits keeps going down." "We cut labor costs and our machines break down." "We pay to have them fixed and we lose our profit." "Boss what do you want?" "To ask for another bailout or subsidy." Call treasury and have them print more money.
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That's why you want control of women's reproductive function. Men want to decided who has a baby.
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Nice to know all you educated Fascist's have heard the rally cry.
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Like your going to go down to the barrio and ask guys to show you their tats. LOL LOL
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@davelawson4827 Come over to Texas just bring your own bread, milk, paper towels, and toilet paper. We would want you thinking that anything is free in a Red State.
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Pushing responsibility on to individual men is not the way to solve the problems working people face anymore than making individual women responsible for children.
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Republicans traitors to the Slaves they liberated.
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@chrsyates I read the part on the crisis theory with the declining rate of profits overtime. Sowell seems not to believe it but unable to refute it. Friedman and Hayek got together for a meeting of the "Veterans of the Wars of the 19th century." In post world war II Europe. Apparently Hayek is even crazier than Friedman advocating multiple currency rather than one currency for national monetary policy. Neo liberalism only got taken seriously with the crisis following the defeat of US Imperialism in Vietnam. The last true neoliberal President was George Bush. The crisis of 2008 resulted with the end of the neoliberal era. Obama being the first Social Democrat and Trump a rightest populist. Biden may be President but he is no leader rather he is an actor to fill a void while others behind the scenes make all the real decisions.
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@User-54631 That's all the ruling class has for us now, school, prison and low paying factory job. If your a good boy they let you be a pool boy or maid.
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@JonROlsen Abolish private property.
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@JonROlsen Power in the US lies in the hands of the capitalist ruling class. They determine who you can vote for and how the government was organized. Just as the landowners and kings determined how they would rule. Capitalism creates class struggle by its own natural workings. Its greed that drives them and their actions. They can't help but drive the system into decline because of the underlying way the capitalist market economy is organized. Its really just a new system of slavery where they rent the slave by the hour instead of owning us outright. That's what makes capitalism and wage labor more efficient for industrial production instead of the slavery or serfdom. When the slave is no longer needed he gets a pink slip. If the capitalist bought and sold us it would be to complicated to buy and sell people when changes in the market or technology changed. They would have to feed the slave from their own pocket when ever a business downturn occurred. They wouldn't be able to quickly fire and replace someone.
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As a US Senator why doesn't he have access?
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They know how to use monopoly power to make profits. The see money spent on education as profits better put into their wallets.
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@jonathanrichter4256 The monopoly bosses of the billionaire class run government.
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@SyndicateOperative The ruling class thinks its necessary when it isn't. What do you think we need you for you do nothing but cause problems for the rest of us. We want to take control of industry and oppertate for human needs instead of profits for a ruling class. We want take control away from a bunch of profit hungry idiots. .
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@philsmith2444 Sowell says Blacks should have stopped matching in 1965. He is about the same age as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. He however never so much as held a picket sign or did a damn thing to advance the fight of Black working people to overthrow Jim Crow. The only thing Marxist about him was the belief in the Ultra Right Republican Senator Joe McCarthy lies about the Communist Party taking over the US Government. When he got a cushy job at the US Labor Dept. they set his ass straight on that bullshit. Blacks fought for affirmative action as a way to make up for past discrimination as a form of reparations. They gained support from other working people and the trade unions. That is different than the fighting over who gets to have the privileged managerial positions in the shrinking middle class. The Capitalist class is overwhelmingly White Protestant and Anglo Saxon. Because as the product of capitalism it is a hereditary class that gets only smaller in proportion its general characteristics will not change.
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@True_Heretic No one want a Bill Clinton - George Bush - Vladimir Putin in Cuba. except for a few corrupt US paid disedents.
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@dalegribble1560 The American world capitalist empire is in decline the question is what will replace it. In the past the only way for the capitalist to solve their problems was with war and fascism. The capitalist can't get it right because their system like that of land and war lords is no longer necessary and is becoming an obstacle to human development world wide.
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@kavinwilliams2920 The British were for the interest of the British Imperialist only. They refused to allow Jews into Britain after the NAZI came to power just the same as the American Imperialists. Hamas is a creation of the Muslim brotherhood who saved the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem an organizers of pogroms in the Mandate before the State of Isreal. He was a Landlord's son in the Ottoman Army than an Ally of the British Imperialist and finally an ally of Hitler. He had nothing to do with the anti colonial struggle and everything to do with being a collaborator of all the coloial powers at one time or another. Hamas is a NAZI like organization supported by the Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran which seeks to obtain nucflear weapons.
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@Attmay Its the failure of the system of profit maximazation above all else. Its the failure of capitalism and all thise who do the dirty business for big business.
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@juliaevergreen9192 Basically this is the result of the natural workings of capitalism along with the class collaborationist leadership of the Social Democrats and Stalinists. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and the US Imperialist Empire is coming to an end.
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He like the rest of those in Black robes represents Wall St.
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@jorgenjorgensen2739 We still live in the era of Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism expect war, fascism and revolution.
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Tax the rich instead of borrowing money from them.
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@SarahSmith-yz7fd The law of capitalism is simple use private property to make as much money as possible. You can have capitalism or socialism but you can not have both for any long term period of time.
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@Migger_29 The same rotten and corrupt police that the politicians hire. The roots of the FBI lie in the entry of the Democratic Imperialist Wilson into the World war. J. Edgar was a long time political policeman charged with attacking labor socialist communists and preventing a 1920 May Day Bolshevik take over of America. Hoover's G men were required to send the director a birthday card ever May 4th.
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@sparkysparkiness66 Like I said above Communism is a movement it proceeds from facts not a doctrine like inside Hitler's Mein Kampf or Stalin's development of a religion using Lenin as a Christ figure (Problems of Leninism). Stalin himself originally trained for the priesthood. Wilson (D) had Socialist Eugene Debs sent to federal prison for opposing the "Master Classes War" where he ran a campaign for President on the SP ticket winning over one million votes. As Debs said, "I'm a Bolshevik from my head to my toe." FDR had 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters sent to Prison for once again opposition to Imperialist war. We are the only constantly anti war party. The libertarians also have a doctrine that they propose. They talk endlessly about creating a free market system reducing government and freeing the creativity of men with free markets. We don't have an elected Ron Paul. Bernie Sanders was close until he gave up on creating a new party and went head long into the Democratic Party. We see the Trade Unions as a way forward and a new party free of the elite capitalist a Labor Party based in a new fighting union movement.
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@sparkysparkiness66 The anarchists tried that and they were massacred by the fascists in Spain.
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@salazam You can read Mein Kampf and discover that it is anti Marx. Hitler admired the anti semitic Henry Ford. Lenin and Trotsky were the two leaders of the Russian revolution Trotsky (Bronstein) was an ethnic Jew as was Marx and almost half of the 1917 Bolshevik politburo. That is why Hitler railed against Jewish Bolshevism.
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@sparkysparkiness66 Here's The Capitalist Myth about the Cuban revolution. No one knows the name of a single person unjustly executed after the Cuban Revolution Yet everyone knows that Che and Fidel were "Mass Murderers".
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@sparkysparkiness66 Ban all gun control. Can I then own an artillery piece with nuclear rounds? No Social Security? So the old, sick and disabled should just die on the side of the road like the Irish in the potato famine? Nearly 60 % of US Bank notes are abroad do you want to send 60% of Fort Knox abroad when you bring back the gold standard? Schools only for those who have parents who can pay or home school or who is going to pay the public school tax? What are you going to do with all the industrial monopolies? Is everyone going to shop in little neighborhood stores and own their rail freight car and open backyard gardens and smelt iron? How are you going to prevent big money from re-corrupting everything?
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Democratic Socialist like Bernie Sanders are incapable of leading any struggle what so ever. Their role is to buy time for the bosses by being a vote catching apparatus for the big bosses of the Democratic Party. Their biggest nightmare is that Trump will call them commies which is why the love the Kingdom and no doubt the King of Sweden so much. He is the shining example of European Social Democratic class collaboration. Socialism name. Capitalism in deed. One might as well raise slogans like LONG LIVE THE VOLVO BOSSES and STOP the HEADACHE FREE ASPIRINS FOR ALL.
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@electrical5 Actually fascism is a result of a middle class movement turned into a frenzy by the decaying corpse of finance capitalism and directed against working class in struggle who's leaders refuse to organize and defend against it. The European Fascists in Italy, Germany and Spain could have been defeated had the workers been mobilized instead of confidence being placed in the capitalist state and binding the workers hand and foot to the progressive capitalists for defense.
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Is Steel and Electrical Heavy enough for you? Or climbing a pole for AT&T or Charter? What do you do for a living besides make a fool of yourself?
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I here they need a guy to toss Ceasar Salads at the local State U for the professors. VENI VIDI VICI.
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My childhood neighbors were Italian brickies. I never worked long enough anywhere to vest as I'm retired now on soc sec. My dad did his electricians apprenticeship on the RR. Didn't i meet you on youtube before I seem to remember a stone mason asking that question before?
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If you don't like being a mason try something else. I made the biggest real wage of my life at Beth Steel it was also the absolutely worst place to ever work, you changed turns every week, it was a big place and about 1 guy a month died in an industrial accident. The air was polluted with sulfur and whatever else is a steel by product such that cancer was a big issue and of course everyday was a role of the dice for getting killed by something stupid happening but I still miss it and it's the people you work with on any job and after work that is where the fun in life is. I wish I was young again and could do it all over again. I only really learned to write recently.
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@sparkysparkiness66 Professor James Burnham was first a supporter of Leon Trotsky and later a founder of the modern US conservative movement with Bill Buckley does that make conservatism a branch of communism?
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@sparkysparkiness66 The British Labor Party and Swedish social democrats have all run capitalist states for the bosses. Read Hitlers Mein Kampf if you want to find out what he was about. His goal was to unify Germany and then create a German Empire much like the American and British capitalists. That is in no way the same as Marx Engels and Lenin whose goal was the overthrow of capitalism, the creation of a workers state and then a socialist international world. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and the next stage of human development is socialism. Fascism is a counter revolutionary movement that the bosses turn to when they see the end of capitalist rule. .
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@turinthalion8784 And what happened after Lenin and Trotsky came to power in the Soviet Russia but 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK invaded to support the white counterrevolution. Trotsky's Red Army defeated all of them at a terrible cost. It is the Imperialist intervention along with the abject poverty that enabled Stalin to lead a bureaucratic counter revolution.
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@turinthalion8784 Bondage? Why do you think the capitalist call something a bond? The Red Army fought against those who went to the armed defense of the property holders. Ayn Rand lived though the whole thing despite being a self described Bourgeois student who received a free University Education courtesy of the Bolshevik revolution. Why don't you Imperialist stay out of wars to begin with? You capitalists are just too greedy though aren't you? The Cuban revolution never had a French thermidor or Stalinist counter revolution. .
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@turinthalion8784 You don't really understand economics do you. For people like you money is the allowance mom and dad gave you to spend and has nothing to do with labor. Professors such as yourself have already been liberated and see a revolution as a threat to their comfortable Bourgeois University chairs.
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@bandit6272 National Socialism is just another form of capitalism. Hitler wanted an Empire like the British. The capitalist turn to fascism when the are threatened with revolution. Hitler wanted a thousand year Reich and FDR wanted an American century. It was competition between Imperialist powers. German Imperialism lead by Hitler and British Imperialism lead by Churchill. Hitler wanted to unite the German People and then to build an Empire like the British. Private Property was kept in tact by Hitler that's why Joe Kennedy the banker said, "Hitler was someone you could do business with." Henry Ford received a NAZI medal from the German ambassador. The antisemitic racist Nuremberg laws were copied from the US Segregation laws. The NAZI party was more like the US Democratic and Republican Parties than a Socialist or Communist Party.
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@miniaturejayhawk8702 The modern American conservative movement was founded by Professor James Burn-ham and William F; Buckley. Butham wrote "the managerial Revolution." Where he proposed mangers to be a new class. Others have also claimed the Soviet Union to be administered by a new class of made up of managers. The view of Trotsky and other was that the Soviet Union was a degenerated workers state run by a caste of privileged labor aristocrats bur acts not as a new class. Like the Capitalist who's ownership of private property and industry would lead to them overthrowing the power of the landed aristocracy and abolishing serfdom and creating a working class. Fascist reject the trade union struggle and makes destruction of the workers trade unions its key goal. Fascism always comes to power with the support of the propertied classes. Its goal can always be seen in its creation of extralegal gangsters who act to shut down political space. The goal of the fascist is to capture the capitalist state machinery to impose the will of the propertied rulers over the revolutionary workers and fame in a most brutal way.
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@edrichlouw Policies and the Communist program were NOT carried out in the way that they were done when Lenin and Trotsky were the leaders. Instead things were done in a dishonest and the hap hazard way of the bureaucracy. Not to mention the return to the Menshivik two stage theory of revolution. Their is a right and wrong way of doing things and proceeding. Stalin was the "Great Leader of Defeats" of the Communist International in 1928 China, 1933 Germany, Spain and France. Lenin was the first to call for the removal of Stalin from his post as General Secratray. Lenin died and then Trotsky also tried to have him removed.
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@themageofspace5516 Gay rights only becomes a problem when you start down the road of crazy. You can NOT think your way into being the opposite sex. Sex is determined by biology unlike nation or culture which is socially constructed. Marxism is historical materialism NOT idealism. The reason for the Marxist women's liberation program is to allow women to fully participate in society. Gays are a minority to begin with and although historically scorned unlike race or sex your sexual orientation can be easily hidden. I'm against this rush to allow children to transition. Because your talking about doing the impossible. A boy or girl can NOT be biologically made into the opposite. It's a physical impossibility. If you ask me that's child abuse just as reprehensible as cutting off the balls of young men to create tennors for a church choir.
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@Blundabus1337 I'm sure it was great for General Franco and the landowners and big business.
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@George Gershwin Fascism is the consolidation of capitalist counter revolution against a workers and farmers revolution. In a communist revolution the workers and farmers become the workers state to suppress the capitalist counterrevolution. Fascism hides in the background building itself among the middle class and capitalist state powers like the KKK, police and prison guards did in the USA launching terror attacks on the labor, jews, national minorities and small farmers. They are always supra national that's why they choose national words and national symbols. The orgin of Stalinism is in the poverty and the exhustion of the revolutionary forces in Russia despite winning the civil war. A splt in the Party began just before Lenin died . On side came to represent a rising bureaucratic caste while the others would be defeated in murder purges by Stalin.
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@cl5619 Real fascism always reverts to Bourgeois Democracy because it is too expensive for the bosses as a form of control over time. The real danger of a major fascist victory comes from the ability to use nuclear weapons in another world war which would end human life as we know it on the planet.
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@derekwest4245 No because you can not buy firearms beyond semi automatic rifles or hand guns without some kind of special permit from the ATF. You can buy a tank but you can't have the gun activated. The law is written so it requires a tax stamp but they don't sell the stamps like postage stamps. The price of the stamp might be two hundred dollars but they won't sell you the stamp. The drug laws are also like that. They keep a government monopoly on that because they don't want rogue actors creating private armies. If you rich and you want to play with a real tank you go talk to a politician and get them to put you in touch with the Army or National Guard and they arrange for you to visit or see how training is done or whatever.
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@derekwest4245 No they aren't going to let some wacky Billionaire have one because if he used it there would be a big political repercussions if something bad happened.. Like I said they don't some wako having a private army. You can believe what you want but that's my opinion.
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@derekwest4245 I'm not going down the rabbit hole with you their are NOT any socialist states in the United States. The only thing parading around with arms without justification is going to prove is how quickly the Feds can infiltrate and set you up for arrest and prosecution. The most of the actual small arms mfgs are located in the CT river valley because that was the location of the Springfield Armory. So Senator "small ball" is NOT going to bite the hand that feeds him. It's nothing but a lot of electioneering talk. You can go hunting in the New England States thier just isn't a lot of open land like in the South or West. RI has 3 counties, CT 6 and TX 250.
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@derekwest4245 I'm working against the population? No I'm trying to keep you out of jail because you've got a hot head but you go ahead and find out how much political activity you can carry out behind prison walls. What if you said it isn't real capitalism? What if I said I won the Presidential Election like Trump and Clinton? (I'd have to make an argument to what would be assumed to be common knowledge.)
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@derekwest4245 The Two Party system is suppose to work in such away swinging back and forth on issues as to defend the interests of the capitalists as a whole and appear Democratic. That means punishing those considered rogue actors. Ronald Reagan had no problem signing the Mumford Act. Federal gun control got rolling during the 1930's. The next big push came after the Assassinations in the 1960's. I was in Texas when state law was changed and afterwords stores all put up signs forbidding carrying firearms in stores. So in essence nothing changed but the legal wording. Instead of having to abide by a state law directly now they posted signs telling you essentially the same thing. A similar thing occurred with abortion. Surgical abortion was already unavailable in about 95 % of the counties in the US. Medical Abortion only requires a pill and so that will be much more difficult to control. How the courts are going to deal with that has yet to be decided.
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@bubbaliburtee8657 You'll see REAL fascism in America with US flag waving heavily armed bigots wearing uniforms engaging in cowardly terrorist attacks on workers, Jews, and Blacks. They are the vomit a dying capitalism expels on its deathbed. The workers will always have the ability to defeat them with the revolution itself and on the road to it.
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Trump's plan bust teachers unions, set up a test for ideological purity and cut costs with a vucher system that will only cover part of the cost of education.
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No Democratic centralism applies to the Leninist party only. The Party Congress or Convention makes its decisions for the coming period on a national level for the party as a whole. The Central committee or national committee is elected by the Congress it meets between Congresses and the Political committee directs the day to day activity. This began as a fight over the control of the Russian Social Democratic Parties editorial board in 1904. Lenin split the Party into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions over this issue.
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@Archedgar Like most of my political opponents you have nothing but slanders for wisdom.
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The Mensheviks are the modern day Social Democrats or Socialists like Burnie Sanders and the British Labor Party. A cult of personality one of the characteristics of Stalinism. The Trotskyists did survive the attempt by the Stalinist to wipe us out by murder. The Stalinist movement began unraveling with the death of Stalin in 1953. Mao sided with Stalin despite the defeat of the 1928 Chinese revolution. The CCP has adopted capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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@ramonlijauco7563 Menshevism survives as western Social Democracy.
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@ramonlijauco7563 The Militant published since 1928 is the paper of the Socialist Workers Party and The left opposition to Stalin in the United States.
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@100percentSNAFU Sure and if you take Switzerland with all its banks its probably one of the richest but that doesn't mean its divided up equally. Capitalism stops and starts because the bosses are always overproducing for markets that can't buy back all that can be produced. They judge everything on profit and can't help driving up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses. They become fearful of their own productivity because they fear economic collapse and the demands of the working class. It can't help but get worse when the top capitalist economist say anything can take on value. Naturally the system leads to more and more gambling by idiots seeking to win at the stock market.
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@lindacarroll10 The birth rate has dropped below replacement. You can enter Mexico past the border officials without showing the inside of a US Passport.
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@pureambiance69 Ya everyone is going to Bank of UNAmerica on Thursdays.
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@temidayojaphet2901 Taiwan (Republic of China) maintains a cold war fiction that it is the government of China.
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@MisertheWizer Bill Gates is buying farm land because he knows you need to eat and not another version of Windows.
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@DaBlaccGhost As long as you have two capitalist parties with the big donners making the decisions than the declining rates of profit in industrial production will cut off any new capital investment in these giant industries. This is why infrastructure is allowed to go into decline as profit taking and investment in the latest scam takes place.
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@Wilhuf1 That is why we need to abolish private property.
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@Ninjaeule97 Friedman actually said a dictatorship like pinochet's was actually necessary to save capitalism. Like all the bourgeois economist whenever the workers are moving to take control from the capitalist class they respond by advising the bosses to drop the democratic pretense and move to direct dictatorship and a fascist massacre of the workers leadership. Which is what happened in Chile. Had the workers been properly prepared for section of military leaderships inevitable coup attempt they could have been defeated by the rank and file soldiers themselves. For a whole nation to enter the socialist road the workers must first defeat the capitalist in their own nation first.
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@charlesvanderhoog7056 Defeat for Russian Troops in Ukraine. No to NATO and Democratic Imperialism. Like Trotsky said, "Back to Lenin", socialism and national self determination.
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Sowell knows about the long term tendency of the rate of profit to decline. What do the bosses do when the profits stop flowing? hint: (the close down and demand bailouts)
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@christophersansone2755 Why don't you just put guards around your gated community.. You always want someone else to do your dirty work and protect your property.
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@PoetofHateSpeech Ya his grave was danced upon in his capital city by his arch Enemies the Soviet Red Army.
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Clinton received four times the campaign contributions that Trump had. Go ahead and lie to us about how Clinton was the candidate of the working class and not big business? Clinton would have done it for the price of a contribution to the Clinton Foundation.
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Cuba would reject Trump and Ryan which is why the US government either liberal or conservative has lost every confrontation with the Cuban revolution. Kennedy lost at Playa Giron and Reagan at Cuito Cuanavale.
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The Imperialist nations are more divided than ever. The US imperialists are in decline both internally and externally.
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@viktorviktor9631 Like any other two party capitalist politician he will be glad to make a promise that will do nothing to halt the decline of Capitalism.
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All he does boast about himself about he's going to do this and that by wheeling and dealing. Then he lets his followers get hung out to dry. I'm going to be with you at the capital he says. Then he goes back to the white house to watch TV.
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@clearblue3079 Why do liberals like you want police in the bedroom and doctors office?
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@clearblue3079 Bullshit on leftist government Nixon/Ford were in office till 76. Republican majority Supreme court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973. Clinton ended AFDC. You want more children born into poverty than you should have them.
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@smallestcat Workers have to organize unions and take the government away from the bosses with a labor party.
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@米空軍パイロット The two capitalist parties are only interested in making the bosses more profitable.
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@米空軍パイロット The bosses want to have control of the price. your wage and use the central bank to create inflation to rob us while property values rise. All so they can get paid more back than they put in.
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@johndeaux3703 Mine as well open up all those empty hotel rooms and apts. The bosses can always put in for another bailout anyway like with Covid.
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@tracymarquez6875 The fear the prophecy of the Communists who say capitalism based upon national borders is too narrow a way for organization of a world economy. If they close the border it could create a pressure cooker effect in foreign countries resulting in revolutions. They find themselves in a situation they have never faced before except at the time before the two world wars. If they close the border they create a crisis in Mexico and add to the political and economic crisis elsewhere. For the ruling class its a matter of where and how can we best deal with this crisis.
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@KipKabudski The have big signs on our side of the border that say bring a gun into Mexico 10 years in jail. You bring any kind of firearm or ammunition into Canada and it will probably get taken and they will send you back. A guy who took a gun into Mexico and turned around on their side had get the US Embassy to get him out.
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@dexterspeights3484 It's not as easy ss closing a gate because political considerations are involved. A small country without the role the United States plays in international trade and politics can much more easily change its foreign policy.
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Republicans have nothing but a lot of nonsense like their Democratic collages.
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@jamesharvey838 Republican Party Boss Abbott using military slaves to protect oil company profits.
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Very little about Marx and Engels ideas.
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@RM-xr8lq Liberty Vault keeping your money locked up is what this sit is about. What would capitalist liberty be about if a swindle was not involved.
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Jan 6th the day the Sheep became afraid of the cry's of the lambs.
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Deljohn V. Lumongsod The US Troops need to come home!! Korea for Korean's.
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The continued decline of British Imperial capitalism. Without right wing votes then what? An outright dictatorships?
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Cool Story obviously your still being overpaid.
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@theflash1425 Okay Professor am I going to have to write "Your is the possessive." on the blackboard 100 times?
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The profit comes from the exploitation of the production workers. Inflation is caused by profit hungry bosses and central banks inflating the supply of money.. Since the government is doing the investing why pay exorbitant profit rates to investors? Cut out the do nothing investor.
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Ya that's real nice of those Professors to recognize the janitor. In real life most of them could care less.
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@cjones29hd You have money and you get in under entrepreneur category by investing at least $10,000 and employing 10 Americans.
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You were always an anti communist capitalist liberal like Pelosi and Biden.
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Bla222 "... ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States..." Article 6 clause 3. US Constitution.
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Bla222 I see you want a Salem witch hunt? Err? I am really not understanding what your babbling about?
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The seeds of fascism are in both parties because its a disease of a capitalism in crisis its the vomit being upchucked by a dying capitalism. .
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@calebkoivisto5524 Texas Party Boss Abbott sending in Military slaves to work for Texas oil Billionaires and Imperialist Biden's government.
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This is the rise of reactionary cold war liberals going on witch hunts. Spies are now everywhere and only those who donate to the Clinton foundation are loyal to the nation.
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So you believe the President General Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon to be communist? Nixon who began his career red baiting his liberal Democrat incumbent as a communist? How about Republican Senator Joe McCarthy? Now for the Liberal Democrats. Truman(D) who started the Korean war, Kennedy (D) who OKed the Bay of Pigs invasion, who brought the world to the Brink of Nuclear war and Johnson (D) who escalated Vietnam. Seems like they're are all on the same side.
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@Don-md6wn The FBI is known for placing confidential informants in organizations for purposes of entrapment, committing violence and disruption of legitimate political activity.
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@seasonofthewatchers1010 Bosses blaming other Bosses. This is why we need unions and workers control of industry.
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@billstonesmith9231 The capitalists are all nationally minded in the end they break up into rival groups of competitors launching Imperialist war to steal what their competition has. They did that twice in the 20th Century as the Democratic Imperialists who launched two world wars. There system goes into crisis as the arrange a better way to steal using market manipulations rather than expanding production and now feeding themselves fiat currency at low or negative interest rates to fill up bank vaults with what will be a worthless fiat currency.
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@Gobidragon While hiding behind an an anonymous screen name. LOL
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@pariah_carey Blah! Blah! Blah! If its neo Marxism than its NOT Marxism. The first act of any Marxist is to lay bare the workings of the capitalist system of exploitation. The Supreme court like all courts looks for ways around constitutional rights for working people when making decisions. The whole system of justice and the Democratic republic itself are corrupted by Wall street money. When workers goes to court you need a lawyer first as a translator because they don't even speak the same language as a worker does. Second they can hire the best lawyer money can buy who comes to court and can quote thousands of pages of court decisions most of which no one but a professional lawyer has ever heard of. You however get an overworked public defender at best and his first act is to see what kind of plea bargain he can get you. If your on trial for you life you get a lawyer they has been drinking at the bar across from the courthouse and usually fills out real estate forms or practices estate law another professional swindle.
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@nickilachappell3705 I write what's true. When you own the two parties and the politicians who campaign against each other you can say, "May the best man win." because both are in your pocket. A plurality vote for NO President in the last election. Did you see Congress swearing NO President in?
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@jamesgreen9954 I think he will pick the next judge from ether another US circuit court or US district court that Republicans voted for.
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@jamesgreen9954 Biden is essentially a conservative. An everybody can agree on type of candidate. Why does he want to go beyond the identity politics on a court nomination? Of over 100 Supreme Court Judges, 2 have been Black and 5 women. Lower court nominations usually sail through with bipartisan support and what kind of issue before a lower court would create a problem that Sanders or "the squad" would object to? Supreme Court nominees almost always come from the lower federal courts and Harvard or Yale law school. It's an easy win for Biden because it's the wrong hill for Republicans to make a lot of noise about since Neil Gorsuch went though with less than 60 votes.
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@josephcebelinski2070 If capitalism was working Trump would need to MAGA.
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@caro350 I agree with you that the Democrats are just as corrupt that's why I don't vote for either party.
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@BRockIITWi First capitalism didn't pull anyone out of poverty. It always initially worsens conditions for the majority. To create a working class in England peasants needed to be thrown off the land with the corn and enclosure laws. It's the resulting class struggle that has the effect of reducing poverty and taking advantage of the lower cost of production. Capitalism arose in the wealthy countries first creating a capitalist class in each one. They began to need to conquer the rest of the world for their markets, resources and cheap labor because as capitalism developed the ability to produce more than the home market could consume happened. Elaborating on the work of Hobbs. Lenin wrote Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism in 1916. The world was divided up than the market competition became expressed as Imperialist world war to redivided the colonies. For capitalism to work best for the workers than capital must be reinvested into expanding production but the capitalist only expand production when they see a new market but the world is not infinite so capital then is invested to raise the value of capital in other words creating fictitious capital value which can than only collapse into an economic depression. The American Imperialist lost the cold war and now you are once again seeing the competition for markets and resources heat up between the Imperialist powers and the Stalinist wannabee capitalist regimes.
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@roosterboy7357 Why should I leave? Shouldn't Democrats and Republicans leave fir the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
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@randomgraham4302 Why don't you take close your Imperialist military bases in Korea and Yankee go home?
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@roosterboy7357 No we are going to overthrow your capitalist ruling class in America.
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You can do nothing about the border because years of two capitalist party foreign policy injustice creaed the problems. This is the fruit of supporting and arming dictatorships world wide.
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@n.c.newsaccountability734 I knew leadership exercised a lot of power I just never realized it was concentrated into 8 people.
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@Flergenbergen Democracy? One's a billionaire Real Estate Tycoon the other is a puppet of Billionaire Donors.
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@ashikagaProdDesign Soros makes his payoffs from the Bank of UnAmerica.
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Donald Trump The rightest spend their time talking about how many guns and bullets they have. They think that a civil war will be broiling between the Conservative Capitalists vs. Liberal Capitalists.
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@aj3910 They are once again morning the failure of Bush police's. "Afghanistan" and "Saving the Free Market" More historic defeats for US Imperialism.
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@aj3910 Why should I run away like a coward. I'm not afraid of a few drone strikes because as capitalism declines further it will produce class struggle and the American capitalist will have no problem using their "War for Democracy" methods at home. You're already afraid of becoming collateral damage. You hope that by my leaving that the war drive will go away. To save the capitalist system the bosses have no choice but to move towards war and fascism.
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@aj3910 I'm not either but I've studied the past and the ideas and thinking of people like Marx, Lenin and Trotsky and I'm not going to close my eyes and say nothing especially since I'm 69 years young and want the young to have a future other than WW3.
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@aj3910 One thing socialism is not is more foreign wars like Afghanistan where Sanders vote yes. Lenin and Eugene Debs would have voted no. Working people and the middle class are beginning to realize no help is coming from Washington or the big capitalists like the banks.
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@aj3910 Well then their is no point in having a federal government if it can provide no help and capitalism can't take the place of government either. It can't provide education or healthcare because as far as the capitalist are concerned they can buy all they need and workers are disposable. Nor can it create either by production of machines. Capitalism works for the capitalists only as does their government. Its only a government for the rich and your not invited so stop voting for their chumps and giving them respectability.
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@aj3910 The capitalist themselves had to fight a civil war with the slaveholders and socialism has NOT failed everywhere it has been implemented. Capitalism is unable to solve its problems because its based in nation states yet as a system it functions in a world market. You may not want war but war wants you because capitalism is based in making profits for ruling classes and competition drives them towards fascism and Imperialist war. To paraphrase Thomas Paine its is not the constitution of United States that makes the people of United States free rather it is the constitution of the people of the United States. Its isn't going to make much difference if you live in a tent or mansion if a war between the big powers breaks out. One reason is no one remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki like they did during the Cuban missile crisis when both sides starred into the abyss. More and more countries have missile they can fire at each other even if they don't have nuclear weapons. Then you have the Major powers building more not less including hypersonic missiles and low and variable yield nuclear weapons. The fact that China, Russia and the US are even talking about war with each other should be enough to wake everyone up. Talk of limited war over Ukraine or Taiwan should be condemned as madness. No one ever expects a war to be anything but limited yet it seldom turns out that way. .
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@aj3910 I read, watch the news and think about things. Like at Marxists Internet Archines and The Militant newspaper both are on line resources.
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Nixon came on TV to announce to the American people that he was "Not a crook." Just like the earlier "Checkers Speech". The use of Gestapo FBI and CIA secret police tactics reserved for antiwar critics and communists against his loyal Democratic Party opposition is what eventually brought down his presidency. Since then Democratic Party liberals have been trying to put a new pretty face on the ugly one of US Imperialism.
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@_ashmason007 You don't really belive capitalism can last that long do you? China can not escape the problems inherit in the Imperialist way of life by calling it Socialism with Chinese characteristics. You don't escape the problems of capitalism by putting a so called communist party in charge.
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@_ashmason007 Its the educated middle class that identifies most with the promise of a meritocracy created by capitalism. At the same time the spread of world culture and ideas undermines all the promise of a capitalism in world crisis. For those left behind in the dog eat dog scramble called capitalism are not without culture or intelligence.
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@superbeast4287 With capitalism a Republic is always corrupted by the stock exchange.
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@ewutrygetsense9851 They basicly do this to get past the internal immigration checkpoints North of Laredo, Tx. Supposedly every Tractor Trailer goes though a dog snuff for migrants inside trucks.
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@heavenknight18 Capitalism is based in nation states. As socialism wins victories in nation states it will need to recognize self determination for each nation state. Capitalist can't help but end up with more capacity that can't produce profits from the home market alone. That's why the end up in trade wars which lead to world wars. You get to socialism through the class struggle not by electing democrats or dreaming up ideal societies with ideal social structures. Their is nothing magic about the centralization decentralization either. It makes sense to build most things in factories. It also makes sense to make steel in giant integrated mills but recycle in smaller facilities.
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@codeinecowboy8607 Capitalism is driven by greed and greed is what will bring it down. Greed drives the capitalist countries into trade war and then real war. The US ruling class can't escape its decline as its world system fails.
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@codeinecowboy8607 That's not how the system works. They print more money to lend out by the banks so the companies can raise prices and then when you want a wage increase they say no. Then strikes will occur and they'll say that wages are the cause of inflation. Then if that's not bad enough you have the problem of speculation. That's when they convince people with even a little bit of money to invest in sure things like back in 2008 when everyone was buying homes. Well the latest sure thing is Tesla motors. It's valued at 3 trillion dollars but sales and production are miniscule compared to all the other manufactures. Who's values are at most one third of Teslas. I'm wondering how long before that stock value crashes.
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@gnosisdespirit The Federal Reserve is the bank of US Banking Capital and world capitalism.system's of reserve currency.
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@jeffwalker1322 Both parties are controlled by the capitalists. They need others to blame for the systems failure so they are on a binge of calling each other names. Patriotism and Christian values can't change anything. They want you dreaming about pie in the sky when you die in church while they use your patriotic thinking to send the young off to die for the profits of big business in wars with other peoples. Capitalism never worked for the working class everything we have came from fighting back against capitalist greed. With capitalism one class does all the work and owns nothing while the boss class does nothing but owns everything. Capitalism doesn't give it a system of a few takers pitted against everyone else.
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@marcusonesimus3400 How does Sowell pay a price for any of his stupid ideas like fighting the war in Vietnam till victory.
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@marcusonesimus3400 I really don't care about you new "smart" intellectual theories of capitalist market reform by moral preaching to the bosses.. Communist expansionism? No what you mean to say is every time a people or a an area comes under workers control an Army is required to put down the revolution starting with the Paris Commune of 1870. The Russian revolution was attacked by 14 Imperialist armies because it was a threat to the war plans of both sides in the first Imperialist war to redivide the world among the Imperialist masters. The United States has been an Imperialist power since it took Spain's colonies. Mao lead a revolution in China and the US didn't have the troops that would fight at the time so it "lost China" and a big scandal developed in the State dept with Republican Senator McCarthy raising charges of disloyalty and communist infiltration of the Unuted States government. Your capitalist politicians began a witch hunt because you lost China to the Chinese. In Yugoslavia Tito came to power without Stalin permission and in violation of an agreement he made with the British. Vietnam. America never really had a chance. Oh how horrible that the people of Vietnam decide their fate without the permission of the smart intellectuals of the American University. If only they were they allowed to do missionary work they could convince the natives and make them into a Puerto Rico. You lost your chance to go to Vietnam and "Teach Democracy Studies Class" While US troops held M 16's on the peasants. Communist Totalitarianism Another beloved yet meaningless term invented by intellectuals to explain things while explaining nothing. Mass murder? Death while going to Church?
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@earlysda Its is just the natural workings of the capitalism spreed across the world.
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@earlysda Swedish bosses are hoping to save themselves from war with the NATO allaince. Unfortunately bosses in Turkey and Hungry are holding up the Swedish bosses entry Washington is twisting arms hoping to enlarge the Imperialist allaince while demand greater European arms investment. Bush's "New World Order" has become capitalisms "New World Disorder" as it becomes every nations boss class for themselves.
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The purpose to fighting the case is so the baker is sanctioned for his act. The baker can then decide what he wants to do. It much like Lester Maddox refusing to serve Black customers at his restaurant.
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@filipvanek6272 Waiting for what? A new GI Joe dressed as the traitor Comandante Morgan?
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@russmiller7284 You mean like Leon Trotsky who was murdered Mexico on Stalin's orders? At least I'm not a mouthpiece for big business like Sowell and the rest of the profit maximizing ruling class fools like Milton Friedman, Geoge H W Bush and Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter. I'm sure you've got the necessary good table manners needed to be another RHINO.
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@russmiller7284 I made a mistake. Your problem is simple your shit don't stink.
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@hawcubites You don't fight Hamas by becoming Hamas at home. Hamas is a NAZI like organization that rules over the people of Gaza with disdain. It says the refugees are the UN's problem and it murdered its political opposion Fateh which was also corrupt. Its leaders live in Qatar luxury as billionaires who steal UN Aid and crush the working people of Gaza wih heavy taxes. Therir policy can best be described as endless war and Martyrs for the profit spelled with an f.
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Rashad Mohamad Mike "Six" Pence was an actor twice the value of a Three Penny Oprah.
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@JSErwine Exactly we need a new party based in the Unions. To lead a fight back against the capitalist politically while we fight back against the bosses with workers union power. We need to fight for contracts with an escalator clause to keep up with inflation and fewer hours with the same pay to create jobs for all. Tax the bosses down to their golden chains no taxes on labor cancel the national debt we shouldn't be paying taxes to the lenders who should have been paying the taxes.
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@JSErwine Look what do you suggest Voting Green or Libertarian? You don't want to join the Socialist Workers Party than why not join a union and start labor party we can all join? You are afraid of losing the vote like the Menshivik's in Oct 1917 St Perterburg Soviet. Small businessman has to sell to workers or BIG business or borrow Capital from the Bank. How does Walmart, Amazon and the Banks treat them? Do they give you respect and dignity? Or are they just in it for the money? They are too big to fail how about you? Are you too big to fail also? Do you think they can print their way out of Das Kapital? You realize they lost the Cold War because the Stalinist were defeated by the popular masses and workers power like the Gdansk Ship yard workers. Imperialism has not gained an inch. Instead the NATO Imperialist allaince is breaking apart.
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Eight years of hopey changey so what did we get from that?
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Yellow Freight bosses were eat for breakfast by others on Wall street.
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What you mean they are thinking of leaving the glorious USA?
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@meganschwartz260 We will know things are back to normal when Trump U reopens.
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@meganschwartz260 It's part of a new Alex Jones theory from Sandy Hook to Chinatown.
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@albertmooney2628 That is capitalist dogma since capitalism was born with the nation state. The workers have no nation in the way the capitalists define it. In any Imperialist war the workers interest is opposite that of the ruling capitalist class. We say defeat for American Imperialism in any war it fights.
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@wotwot6868 The government goes into debt. Guess what who makes the loans and gets the interest? Capitalists who should be paying taxes instead make loans for promises for future tax money going into their pockets.
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@wotwot6868 Better to have a few coops in Spain than an Anarchist Spanish Republic. Go back to Spanish history before the Fascist Dictator Franco.
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@TH-rj4ds You buddy Thomas Sowell wrote his undergraduate theses on Das Kapital. In fact Sowell spent most of his academic life trying to pin the workings of government on socialism. When Sowell was an intellectual Marxist some one who just reads Marx he though that when his professors got him a Big Job at the US Dept of Labor because he believed the same thing as US Republican Senator Joe McCarthy did that the US Gov't was being taken over by communist That he was going to get in on the action becoming the next Stalin, no doubt, instead his professors had played him like a fiddle. .
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@TH-rj4ds Chinese scientist developed artificial insulin in the People's Republic of China. The first man in space was Soviet.
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@arnoldinho7217 Ya it was all an elaborate fake according to conspiracy theorist.
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Fight back against capitalist decay of the cities. Hire us back at union wages.
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@matthylkema2717 If you just hand out money landlords and merchants will just take it back. You need to create jobs doing things that are useful. You want better healthcare train more Doctors. If business can't create jobs than government should. Tax the rich instead of borrowing from them.
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Tell these rotten apple cops, corrupt politician's and sky pilots to take a hike. You have no moral authority to call anyone murders when your responsible for so many unnecessary deaths just to line your bank accounts.
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@LadyTruth7 What is it they were pushing for?
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His is good at repeating slanders by others as facts and attacking boogiemen like cosmic justice. Apparently cosmic justice is something another professor invented that Sowell found as basic threat to his neoliberalism. .
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@alexleibovici4834 He slandered and trivialized John L Lewis head of the CIO industrial union movemnet and the American Coal minarets union the UMWA. As the worlds greatests oil salesman. Repeating his mentor Milton Freidman statement.
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@alexleibovici4834 Sowell like Freidman is little more than a clown who entertains the bosses with his theories of an everlasting capitalism.
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@alexleibovici4834 You wanted an explanation now you got one. It not my fault you have not read what Sowell wrote.
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@alexleibovici4834 Sowell was easily impressed by Bourgeois intellectuals who worship the ground the bourgeois walk upon. A well paid lackey of the bosses.Singing the tune of the Republican Party that betrayed Blacks with the compromise of 1877 and a series of Republican Supreme Court rulings making Segregation the law of the land with seperate but unequal the mantra of the two party system.
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Just look at the success of the neo liberalism that got going in 1973. Wage stagnation and more broken families despite Bill Clinton "ending Welfare as we know it." Then the crisis of 2008. The only fact that's been confined is the one that capitalism has entered a world crisis not seen since the great depression.
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@memdaletpey Lenin's Red Terror was a justified response to white terror.
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@warrioroflight6872 You admit you don't know. Well they actually released political prisoners at the beginning of the Oct. revolution. Black Hundreds gangs were organizing pogroms. They did what they thought was necessary just as Lincoln did in the civil war and Grant after the civil war. The Union Army held trials of confederates by military commission no jury needed. Congress gave Grant the power to declare marshall law. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was passed to deal with this real counterrevolution. The Southern Reconstruction governments were popular having built the first public schools in the South except for the former land owning slave owners and under attack from secret organization of political gangsters like the KKK and the Red Shirts. The decision by both parties to withdraw Federal Troops early set the stage for one hundred years of segregation, denial of Black voting rights and anti Black terror. England went through this with the civil wars before and after the execution of King Charles. Those still living commissioners who had voted for the execution of the King were either executed, given life sentences or had to go into foreign exile after restoration. The Monarchists went so far as to dig up Cromwell's body and hang it from a Gallows. They had a revolution in 1905 and the Czar went back on his promises. Lenin was shot by a terrorist and Trotsky was the target of a bomb blast. They didn't just arbitrarily murder people nor was rape or torture being used or condonded as weapons by the leaders. The terror was directed at people who actually committed crimes. They called it terror because they called things by their true names as it was meant to terrorize opponents of the revolution out of using terrorism. In the case of the Czar the soldiers requested permission to execute him because they were in danger of being over run and did not want him to be used a symbol to rally political support around.
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@warrioroflight6872 Since my first response was censored. I'll make a second one. As I said it was a justified response I did NOT say not an equal one. Your the one who decided that justified means equal without knowing anything about the Russian civil war. Instead you cite what armies do as not pretty. Was the American Revolution and Civil War justified or just a case of conflict that wasn't pretty? Maybe if more slave owners and traders had been shot for their crimes instead of being amnestied by Congress Blacks would not have had to struggle for over 100 years to get the promises of the 14th and 15th Amendments?
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@feldweible Both Parties cheat and the biggest victims are the voters, independents and third parties. The Demopublican's usually give themselves automatic ballot status.
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Chris King Fight back against BIG TECH censorship tell them this isn't Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union. What do they have to fear from the free exchange of ideas and the truth.
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@douglasjacobs882 It was hard for me to live a socialist life hounded by agents of the American secret police called the FBI. Eventually we turned the tables on them in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. It was FDR who started the second Red Scare with the Smith "gag" Act and the prosecution of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. The actual trial testimony of Jim Cannon is printed in the pamphlet "Socialism on Trial".
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@johnnynick3621 See your problem is you still in the infantile stage of economic thought. Are these hundreds of communes self sufficient or do they rely on trade and the world market like everyone else? There are the previous forms of economic organization like the communes you propose but those have been already replaced no one is proposing that as a replacement of capitalism and modern industry except a few infantiles. The problem for capitalism is the long term trend of the rate of profit to decline. It means that the very success of the system despite its up and downs caused by the business cycles undermines it. Capitalism is a world system. Less than 20 years in ago in 2008 capitalism faced it worst crisis since the great depression. Prior to world war one they said well everyone is doing so well with capitalism no one would think of going to war. And then what happened? A war broke out among the richest and most prosperous nations of the world to redivide the spoils among the ruling class hyenas of capitalism.
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@douglasjacobs882 Sowell is one of the anointed. He gets a big paycheck to sit out in the Milton Freedman chair at Stanford University's Hoover Institute.
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@douglasjacobs882 You attack me for being a socialist because you can't refute my argument on why workers families are being broken up by the greed of the neoliberal capitalist bosses.
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@douglasjacobs882 Your definition of success is obviously climbing up the social ladder like Sowell. Poor Sowell where would he without the successful donating their do nothing but go to the mailbox profits to fund his long running university professors career and now as Senior fellow in the Milton Freedman chair at the Stanford University Hoover Institute. Sowell admits he took the job because it doesn't involve teaching just doing whatever he pleases. Sowell was first chosen at about age 24 for an undergrad seat at Harvard after taking a few courses at Howard University a High SAT score and references from professors as a civil servant. Of course it was a time when Blacks were fighting against segregation. Sowell in the private sector? LMAO. They would have immediately tagged him as an affirmative action graduate. He get fewer opportunities than Clarence Thomas did upon graduation from Yale law. The joke in the "private sector is we have to retrain all of the Economics and Business school post graduates into real would economics were supply and demand curves don't determine prices. People like him serve one purpose to defend the capitalist private profit system from all critics. Private industry don't need an ideological propagandist. That is the job of the Professor who educates the capitalist politicians. They want those who know how to maximize profits which means giving the orders to hire and fire based upon profitability. Chavez has been dead for some time now. Nevertheless the US CIA tried to have him removed via Coup d' Eta and then used sanctions against Venezuela. Like always when you "successful bosses" are losing your ill gotten profits you resort murder plots, invasions, blockade and terrorism to keep you in the success chair. You love playing the victim when your the real criminal. If the greedy bosses of Russia, France, England and Germany had not plotted to take each other colonies in World War one then it would not have opened the door to the Russian revolution when it did.
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@douglasjacobs882 Presenting Where socialism works means to simple present that with a real communist leadership the working class can make gains by making ruthless inroads on private property. This was seen when the Communist League of America by fusing with the Minneapolis Teamsters took a small craft trade and turned it into a powerful industrial union. Capitalist seek to pay the lowest wages work us the longest hours and at the fastest pace to maximize profits. Since the time we work to produce the value needed to pay our wage to make it through to the next pay period is less than the total value of the production. Now the bosses seeking to pay that lowest wage don't want to pay the extra costs of a family and the reproduction of children instead wanting to shift that burden onto government taxes. Yet even then they don't want that tax burden on them because that also eats into profits. The capitalist can not maintain a long running average production because the workers can not buy back all that can be produced meaning the system comes to periodic crisis where production halts and bosses demand that workers sacrifice for their crisis ridden system which is marked by mass layoffs need to boost the falling rates of profits. Your system by its very nature tears wage workers families apart with its periodic and worsening crisis. The farm family had the advantage of being a relatively long term economic unit where more children once the reached about age six could help on the farm where as workers children become a burden on the family until they can be employed in the money economy. Then of course you want to start them off at the lowest wages that they will accept. So now it has become ordinary for children to live in the parents home because wages have stagnated for the last 50 years while productivity and profits have soared for the bosses.
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@mariocaponera7918 That is the essential problem for capitalist production. The markets are already saturated and any new business must be able to produce a greater return on investment if it is to gain new investment and grow. Yet capitalism by its very nature tends toward the falling rates of profit caused by the capitalists rising capital value and the reduction of living labor needed to produce when machines are used to replace living labor. These declining profit rates lead the capitalist to cry poverty and seek higher profit rates through speculation in fictitious capital and wage cuts. But today rather than issue strike causing wage cuts the capitalist has the banker increase the money supply to drive down real wages while the value of property in money value rises. Now he can raise prices to capture more surplus value. This is why the capitalist falsely cries that inflation hurts all and is caused by wage growth and not the bankers and bosses greed caused by orchestrating the central banks money supply. Property values then rise while wages are held back.
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@douglasjacobs882 A Thomas Sowell lives in Corord, Ca its an elitist neighborhood. He's a Senior Fellow at Stanford U Hoover Institution. You can get much more elite than that. He and his elite neighbors don't live in trailer parks and campgrounds like me on a Social Security check. If he so against Social Security and Medicare why doesn't he refuse his benefits? He's like Ayn Rand all talk except when it comes for himself.
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@douglasjacobs882 Obviously you another one of the elite intellectuals that you and Sowell complain so much about. Your whole neo liberal economic theory can be summed up as supply and demand, marginal value and profit justified as the result of being a good gambler. Next you going to tell me that labor has nothing to do with prices and how everything is subjective. LMAO
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@douglasjacobs882 Everyone one knows that elitist like you and Sowell stay away from our neighborhoods as being too dangerous. Sowell himself complains about the dangers in New York. You and him though stones while living in glass houses. We are under constant suspicion of being criminals you think were all using drugs and shooting guns.
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@douglasjacobs882 Your all wrapped up in neoliberal intellectualism. I can argue till I'm blue in the face and I won't change your mind. We don't need ex neoliberal intellectuals in the communist movement. Maybe the liberals have a place for you. Workers understand equal pay for equal work because the bosses don't give a break on the labor bill based upon how long the workers has been at his job. So all that nonsense about needing five years experience to do most jobs is a pile of BS. A neo liberal like you would never get hired for the work I do because you'd be full of excuses and playing with yourself instead of being able to do a job.
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@richardfreeman8458 Some of the problem we have is because we use different definitions for things. Governments aren't separate from the economic system. The elected politicians, unelected bureaucrats, military officer corps and corporate management are all "brites" educated in the elite American universities. Yes we've had a problem with corruption within the labor, socialist/communist movement but that's been a problem with the leadership not the masses willingness to struggle when the need arises. The idea is not to have a few educated to wield power but to make the affairs of state so transparent than even a cook can explain the affairs of state. I've seen how class struggle changes society and the people who struggle. I have no love for Stalin or Bernie Sanders "Democratic Socialist" Sweden. There is a reason the US Gov't doesn't want you visiting Cuba and keeps up a cruel blockade.
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@lastswordfighter Did any of those other countries you mention as supporting evidence have revolutions with a slogan of "No taxation without representation?" I don'r get asked my citizenship status at the checkout counter before they add on the tax now do I? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. If some one isn't here legally why do they collect the tax?
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@lastswordfighter Collecting taxes from people you say are here illegally and then deporting them without returning the taxes collected sounds like a corrupt practice to me. "No taxation without representation." unless the government is taking it from people who they deport. Making promises that you have no intention of keeping is the "American way." Bring them in so Texas Republican Big farmers can exploit them then call La Migra on Pay Day becauses they need slaves for labor.
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The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act Bringing botched abortions to a motel nearby. PRO LIFE YOU NAMES A LIE WOMEN DON"T HAVE TO DIE!!!
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@bondwin7025 Walter Williams the newly freed slave who "owns himself" now.
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@pditzel5601 Anymore capitalist neoliberal propaganda you want taught in the schools. The ideas and methods of the neo liberals around the world lead directly to the crisis of 2008 and the decline of world capitalism. Just as the old fashions capitalist liberals of Europe brought on the first World War. While Sowell talks up capitalism, the right to profits and condemns the bosses own governments he has no solution to the problems capitalism and the love of money have created. He wants you to believe your position in the market is futile and only the bosses system of prices and trade can run an economy because he fails in crediting the workers for the actual production of both profits and commodities. In his view all is well because profits and price determine production which is the theme ad nauseum. I guess he forgot the government paid and financed most of the Interstate Hwy system and that AT&T was granted a monopoly for Interstate telephone service. That Russia, China and Easter Europe would still be like colonial Africa and Latin America if they had not created state monopoly enterprises to industrialize.
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@@guido4231 People like yourself are really out to lunch. Their is much more freely available smut on the internet than in any school library. As far as Sowell and his economic theories they all went into the trash can with the crisis of 2008. When push came to shove the bosses chose to have themselves bailed out by their government.
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@robertbeck8670 Actually I think this is a speech is for white conservatives who need confirmation that they too can sing "We shall overcome". The focus is all on me "Larry Elder."
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The result of greedy capitalist bankers and bosses two party system of Imperialist exploitation. .
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That's because the liberation of the working class is the task of that class alone. Basically it's the world capitalist as a whole that isn't working. Cut throat competition is the rule for small business while too big too fail is the one for big business. Working class people don't have the time and the money to go to a restaurant or bar.
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@DaveyBooBoo The long retreat by labor is over as class struggle breaks out.
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@-Swamp_Donkey- What you have is the natural result of capitalism. Its NOT an error or mistake that can be fixed within the confines of the capitalist system of private profit and private property. You can't turn back the clock of history to early capitalism and expect different results.
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@preasail Nothing more than a plan to bust the teachers unions and introduce ideological conformity in the name of preventing it. Along with a plan to create for profit private schools that will have tuition and let public education further deteriorate by creating a voucher system. Just like the end of public housing was accomplished by vouchers creating homelessness now children will go without school when vouchers don't cover the costs.
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@0r30-d2c You should read your bible as God is the first one who okayed genocide of the Canaanites in war. Capitalism works? Capitalism arose out of feudalism. It been in its highest stage Imperialism that began its own destruction with world war one. Your right though capitalism does work for the rich and those who sell their soul to the highest bidder. It's just making everyone else miserable. Get lost pinko? What are you some kind of racist? People with a pink skin aren't good enough for you?
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@WildBikerBill Does it now? So why should the bosses be able to control both the price of the product and the wage along with the control of the financing from the central bank. Don't tell me that they earned it because they don't. The just generate the profits out of the unpaid labor of the workers. Afterall trade and risk don't produce anything but are just another cost. Any personal finance the bosses put in was paid back or supplemented a long time ago None of the original robber barons are still alive yet their offspring are still raking in the corporate profits, Money is generated by the Central bank as numbers in accounts or paper bills and a few non precious metal coins. Even the copper in the penny became worth more than a penny.
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@johnwolf2829 Not necessarily it more than likely would have only created chaos. Long term goal of the NAZI's was to murder all the Jews in the Ukraine and give the farmland to ethnic Germans. However the Army and the SS did not necessarily see eye on how to administer occupied territory.
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@Ronald Cook So much for this self serving twaddle about how much capitalism is doing for everyone. Marx and Lenin would be obscure personalities were it not for World War one. And when the February revolution began when women textile workers began voting with their feat a big jail break began as all the exiled revolutionaries came back to Russia.
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@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 The most productive system has also has the power to be the most destructive. My advce to greedy capitalist everywhere is to stay out of war. I know its impossible for you though because you must make war to win the battle of the world market place.
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Yes the Democrats have lots of fools like Ralph Bunch who smoked a big cigar as Malcolm X said fire on one end fool on the other.
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Grandstanding for dollars and votes.
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Shows how real capitalism can be nothing more than thieves engaging in fraudulent practices for monetary gain.
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@johnflo-grif2639 Why don't you just build a wall around you property and stay home?
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@doords The origin of all profits in capitalism is the unpaid labor of the production workers. The banks are only a storehouse of capital they do nothing productive in and of themselves to produces the interest they collect and payout. They invest and make loans only because they see profits ahead. Finance capital is the most parasitic of all capitals since it does nothing but demand a return on investment.
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@ScorpionXII Worker, "Boss they have Socialism in Sweden." Boss, 'No they have capitalism." Worker, "Boss they have universal Healthcare." Boss, "That's Socialism!"
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@200131356 For the capitalist and their politicians it's a question of how much it will cost in profits and what will the workers accept as universal. They don't like the idea of questioning the health insurance scam by a call for universal access which can only be achieved by taxing wealth and cutting the cost of a medical education without exceeding the boundaries of capitalism itself.
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@EvilNeuro Its used against those who disagree with ruling class policy.
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Keep up the conspiracy movement stuff Alex Jones needs help.
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@donm9637 Probably used to buy expensive screwdrivers.
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@jackob9658 It could be that they are accounting for future expenses incurred but not paid out. Like VA costs or weapon systems bought but not currently used or expected to be operable for ten or more years like ships and planes. Maybe they bought stuff with treasury issuing bonds for payments for long time in service items like new ships or planes. Congress may have authorize a weapons program but only accounted for two years in service because items involving a standing army must be authorized every two years.
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When capitalism goes into crisis the poor and the workers always pay the biggest price. The bosses and bankers are protected by the governments state power. Capitalism is a protection racket for the bosses.
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America is a capitalist dictatorship. The capitalist give all the orders that make them the dictators. You can have capitalism without dictatorship.
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Of course she's being ignored. She isn't a Billion dollar campaign donor. If she was the Judge would be issuing multiple apologies and the would be sending her as out as amabassador to Saudi Arabia for sulfuric acid and bone saw contracts. Along with tryouts for the Headless Horseman.
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The lie through their teeth about FDR's New Deal to save capitalism. In the end the only way to save it was the War Deal. The young become cannon fodder and the workers were ordered not to strike. Income tax deductions were cut making workers now pay income tax. Patriot campaigns were waged to sell government war bonds. Then if that wasn't enough they had the ration book limiting all kinds of buying including food.
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Cops are racist by definition. No matter what you color is if you're a cop you're a racist. You belong in jail for doing everything you claim the criminals did. Go get a job instead of bitchin'. Put the blue gangsters under arrest. Throw them in jail and throw away the key.
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LOL
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@colinyoung3685 The Imperialist nations went into World War One to redivided the world amongst themselves. If being against Imperialist War makes me immoral than let the insult be welcomed. The Soviet Red Army lead by Leon Trotsky fought off 14 Imperialist army invaders including the US/UK.
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@colinyoung3685 Come back when you have some real knowledge. Putin is not even a stalinist communist party member.
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@colinyoung3685 Your someone who plays a game of I'm the perfect Mr. Good Guy who never commits a sin and blames everyone else. You have no concern for the life of real human being involved the mother. Who made you Superman with the power to right all wrongs?
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@tylercampbell6365 They have no solution because its related to the decline and crisis of world capitalism and America as the last capitalist Empire.
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@michaelnantell Obviously the bosses want a cheap labor policy bring them in when needed send them back when we don't.
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@WarmongerYT You were irresponsible and got into a car accident therefore we should deny you any medical care. You had a choice not to exceed the speed limit but did so anyway. The skid marks show your guilt. We have left you to die at the scene of the accident. Anything wrong with that scenario?
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Since Sowell favors capitalism he favors overcentralization. This is why we are for workers control of industry. Sowells problem is he makes thing into fetishes. He can't possible let go of his love for markets and the same goes for his love of the entrepreneurial capitalist. .
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@chrisporter9397 I've been a member of hotel workers, teamsters, electrical workers, steelworkers and communication workers unions. Our party has published a paper since 1928. The Militant available online.
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@ryan.1990 Does the Cuban revolution of 1959 sound like 1923.
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@ryan.1990 Segregation ended in Cuba "a shit hole country" with the victory of Fidel Castro's rebel army in 1959. Before the United States "A paradise on earth country" with its "separate but equal" Not "separate but unequal" society lead by President John Kennedy. Where the passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act would end Jim Crow segregation. Radio Free Dixie was broadcast from Havana by Host Robert F. Williams. I should look up what someone said? You mean I should look for something I can use to pin the racist label on someone rather than look at what the person or people have done like Nelson Mandela who lead the fight to overturn White minority rule in South Africa another one of your "paradise on earth countries" and on his first trip out of the country after imprisonment went to Cuba to thank Fidel Castro and the Cuban people for all they had done for Africa. Cuban Volunteer Revolutionary Armed Forces shed their blood in Angola to defeat white American mercenaries, UNITA backed by Ronald Reagan whose racist language will get you banned on Youtube for just repeating it along with his "free world" ally Racist Apartheid South Africa. The statement about gays isn't worth the time of day. .
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@chrisporter9397 Markets that exist? A market is nothing more than a place to make an exchange or the act of exchange. It doesn't exist independently of human interaction. It does not think. have intelligence or create anything of value nor is it guided by invisible hands. As John Locke observed labor transforms nature. Just like first and second laws of thermodynamics markets at best are an equal exchange but it gets even worse because they impose a cost in labor time. Your friend Professor Sowell is always tryring to hide this truth with his theories of exchange where both sides benefit and great risk can produce great reward. As if gambling were able to produce something in and of itself.
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@chrisporter9397 Unmatched efficiency and growth with capitalism also means unlimited powers of destruction to defend the capitalist system of private profits of the few against the many. The competition for markets and resources becomes the driver of war and economic crisis as overproduction for markets that no longer can absorb all that can be produced for a profit causes the capitalist to halt production in a crisis that feeds on itself by throwing the workers out of a job to save on wages paid. Your assumption that capitalist only invest to expand production is wrong since when they can't expand production they drive up the value of ""sure things" though speculation whose value later collapses. This has been a problem since the dutch Tulip bulb crisis of the 1600's caused an economic crisis. Capitalism has the problem of not being capable of self regulation by a few bosses in control of production in nation states. .
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@chrisporter9397 Sure you would love to limit the debate to the "free market" capitalism that Adam Smith wrote about in the Wealth of Nations published in 1776. You and others would love to talk about how the small boss is the base of capitalism and as if capitalist market competition didn't lead to giant industrial monopoly. banking capital's importance and all the interconnections between industry and government in a world system of trade and production. In other words you want to debate about something that no longer exists.
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@chrisporter9397 No because once again all your proposals ignore why free market capitalism developed the way it did and instead propose that their a way back to a capitalism without regulation that the capitalist implemented. Our proposals is to replace capitalist professional regulation is workers control of industry and government. You take out the profit motive when you take away the control of industry away from the capitalist bosses by abolishing private property. The Democratic and Republican Parties are NOT reformable and instead organizations of the capitalist class. The problem with centralization and capitalism is the declining rate of profit in industries which can no longer cut costs threw cutting labor time and therefore need to cut wages.
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@chrisporter9397 That's NOT true because what policy to apply in the countryside was one of the disagreements that arose after the death of Lenin in 1924. Nor are the terms mixed economy and command economy anthing but new propaganda terms. The so called mixed economy ignores that it is commanded by capitalists seeking profits in and out of government. While the modern industrial economies of the Soviet Union and China were created without a class of profit seeking capitalist. Their error in policy made in in Soviet Union after Lenin's death were those of bureaucratic officials lead by Stalin who had become contemptuous of the workers much like the so called socialist intellectuals in the United States who saw Trump as a new Fascist leader not a Bourgeois politician directly acknowledging the pain felt by working people from the crisis of 2008 and fifty years of no economic gains. . Pol Pot was an ally of Jimmy "Human Right" Carter with both arms and support at the UN. So raising him shows how little you know about history and why the American Imperialist make the decisions they did with China in the 1970's. He became a welcome way to punish Vietnam for defeating American Imperialism It was Socialist Vietnam that drove Pol Pot from power and Carter that wanted to prevent that from happening. Cuba never carried out forced collectivization after the land reform that gave title to of the land to peasants who wanted to work ir. Lastly leaves the question of wages being generated by professionals. Wage are not generated like say electricity is rather labor transforms nature. That comes from John Locke. The salaries of western professionals are made possible by overpaying them to assure loyalty to the capitalist system. Money wages are just a way to assure that the slave returns to one or another of his masters. As i said earlier wages are NOT what labor generates but value measured in labor time and labor power or usefulness.
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@chrisporter9397 Pol Pot was an ally of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter used to punish Vietnam for defeating the Imperialist war makers and mad bombers.
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Of course Stalin lied bit monopolie companies use internal labor time to create the price. They don't sell everything back and forth to generate the price.
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@MegaJacko4 If the want children. I know plenty of truck drivers.
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At the end of the day what did the trial prove? Recklessly handling of a firearm. Normally a misdemeanor charge. Yet they are talking about wanting more than 15 years. Rest assured this will come back to haunt more than one other Black family when someone picks up a firearm and the gun discharges accidentally killing someone. Like the case of García Zárate.
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He joined the Party of Capitalism because he became a political opportunists.
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Just addtion evedence that capitalism doesn't work as advertised.
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@sabejreid2072 The very beginning statement is utterly ridiculous. A $50 smart phone supposedly means one can not be oppressed. The cell phone has become so ubiquitous that they illegally circulate inside prisons. Fifty dollars will not even come close to buying a $50 gold piece. Cuba has a higher literacy rate than the US.
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@Xanderbelle How come you do all this with the "Great writers of the past." but don't do it with the Marxists?
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@PlaidPenguinGaming If he's so smart why'd he name a daughter after Mikhail Gorbachev the last Stalinist leader of the Soviet Union? He's just another intelectual who sways about in the winds caused by the underlying class struggle.
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@PriyamChauhan-bc6tp As Marx stated the goal of the communists is to abolish private property the property used to exploit others. The Cuban revolution shows what can be accomplished where a true communist leadership is acting in the internationalist manner required. No need to engage in suppression of capitalist ideas since they will be rejected by the great majority having confidence in leaders who have always told the truth no matter how good or bad it was. This is something that capitalist politicians can never do because maintenance of their system requires telling lies and half truths about themselves and the workings if their system. Fidel Castro never had a problem creating enough educated people out of those willing to stand and defend the revolution. When the revolution came to power no one was told they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is that they couldn't use their position to exploit others.
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@NIcholasparker88 For the American Imperialists Cuba is a problem. They are unable to convince them that capitalism has anything to offer but oppression and poverty. A sixty year blockade of the Island like an attempt to starve out strikers has not been effective. Cuba has friends that will not abandon them in time of need. Protest the blockade on the last Sunday of every month. .
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It is precisely because people do care about journalists and that it is by western journalists that the Saudi regime has become known for its oppression of women. That the killing of a journalist by the Saudi government has raised such a storm. In fact they were more than stupid to kill him right in a consulate instead of doing it secretly or in Saudi Arabia where they could deny culpability. The man also had a US green card which makes him a United States national. Trump can not ignore the pleas made by other US journalists. The paper he worked for is one of the most well known and influential papers in the United States. It is owned by an anti Trump billionaire who will use this against Trump if he does not follow up with a most rigorous course of investigation and that will assure that someone is held accountable. Now that the Saudi leadership has arrested 18 top officials the eyes of the world are now looking at how Saudi justice will function. Those who think they are headed for the executionary will want to talk and the journalists will want to interview them. The truth is already coming out and the more the world learns both inside and outside Saudi Arabia the weaker the kingdom and its police state becomes.
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@joemahony4198 Sowell works for the capitalist government as an intern and decides top US government officials aren't revolutionary. LMAO this has to be a joke par excellence. In 1960 the US government was still enforcing its McCarthyite Presidential witch hunt regulations demanding the signing of loyalty oaths.
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@garrettwight1027 Sure after the capitalist tear up the world with world war. In 1917 the Russian Bolsheviks take the poorest and most backward Empire in Europe and make it into the second workers state after the Paris commune. The defeat the monarchy and capitalist forces along with 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK.
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@MASON_99 Enjoy your trip to the afterlife.
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@chrissaltuci888 Notice how because they are working suddenly the become "educated worker" rather than Mexican trash.
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The best planning agency for the working class is a union and a new political party.
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@SnarkierThan-U-R Where's Nancy Pelosi?
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GM needs more time to lose more money.
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@bobbymounts I hate these capitalists and any money they lose makes me happy because I know they are going to have to look up form their ledgers and spreadsheets and acknowledge us as human beings instead just cogs in a set wheels and robots to produce profits for them.
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@bobbymounts They tell the News that they lost a billion dollars and workers lost 600 million. Now do those figures tell you something? It tell's me the could double payroll expense and still come away with a profit. What would be the cost of shutting down plants and building new ones elsewhere? Even worse what would be the cost of creating a sit down movement like in the 1937 Battle of bulls run that created the UAW? The workers will not easily give in to a strike breakers movement and many people feel the way I do about the bosses even if they think that Trump or some democrat can ride in on a white horse and fix everything.
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@bobbymounts By going on strike they are going down the road of class struggle not expecting that voting for another white horsemen will save them. No one can really predict what a market will do. This is one reason why capitalism is so chaotic. No one I know likes buying a new car or truck. They start with the MSRP and then you end up with all kinds of so called incentives and purchasing costs plus the game of the salesman who can't negotiate so he goes to the manager and of course the vehicle doesn't really sell for the MSRP to begin with. Now you want certain advertised options but hay sorry we don't have them within a thousands of miles. Ok build me a new one. How do we know you won't go and buy another brand before we get new one. Now imagine being on the UAW negotiations team and the bosses wanting to sell you another one hundred page contract.
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@attsealevel The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem a big landowners son began Pogroms before the State of Israel was founded. He worked with Hitler on the final solution. At the end of the war the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood another Fascist organization worked with him on more pogroms against Jews in Arab countries regardless of what they though of Zionism. He became head of the recationary Arab league an organization of reactionary Muslim states who called for a worldwide extermination of all Jews. The Brotherhood members are the founders of the Jew hating organization Hamas. Hamas leaders are billionaires living Qatar luxury. The oppertate Hamas as a way ti steal UN Aid and make money off the backs of workers and farmers out of taxes they collect. The best way to drive them is organizing Martys for the Profit spelled with a F. The care lees about he misery they create saying the refugees are the UN's problem.
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@ShonMardani Maybe a military genuis like you should sign up for the Army?
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@ShonMardani Well you certainly lack the brains.
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@nic_cage Hasmas is a fascist organization. Free the Hostages so they can testify!!!
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@christinel.9742 This is the result of the class colaeration of the Swedish "Social Democratic" Imperialists. Leading the workers to accept crumbs from the bosses tables and standing by doing nothing ss the Imperists robbed the colonial nations.
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@user-sq9ec1fz7o His book basic economics where he defines Economics as economizing.
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Daniel von Strangle "von Strangle" That's you nickname in the Police Squad room right?
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You don't think he includes himself do you? You don't hear him singing the praise of bosses capitalist system from a home in the ghetto either. He's got plenty of criticism all right but says their are no solutions only trade offs. So is a solution a trade off or is trade off a solution. Sure we are all suppose to sit back and let smart people like him and the owners of private property make all the decisions because they pay a price right? Except they don't and never will as long as capitalism is in existence. They will try and make us pay for all the problems they and their system cause.
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@michaelpayne8102 Why don't you put out some more propaganda about how Great American capitalism is so you can get some more immigrants to come work in your low wage jobs? Bosses have the money why shouldn't they pay all the taxes? After all bosses do most of the tax collecting as it is now. They serve as the tax collector at the supermarket, the gas station and from your paycheck.
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@michaelpayne8102 It American capitalism because the bosses are always divided by nation state. The greedy bosses went to war over markets colonies and resources in 1914. The bosses greed drive them into war to redivide the world markets and resources among themselves. In 1916 Lenin wrote, "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." Nothing has changed about that. The greed of the capitalist bosses guarantees that. You have no way to set up a long term World Capitalist Government to put your greed and trade arbitration disputes under control. Instead you set up institutions to guarantee incumbent Imperialist nations companies markets and cheap labor in the colonial world. They enforce neoliberalism in the less developed world. The Cuba revolution continues. Cuba shows what a living Socialist Revolution can achieve. We've had a legal movement in the United States since the end of the Palmer Raids in the 1920's. The Communist League of America fused with workers in the Minneapolis Teamsters union beating the bosses Citizens Alliance in the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934. Our leaders meet with exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico. Comrade Farrell Dobbs was General Organizer of the Teamster Union. We lead the Central States over the road campaign. The bosses knew that we stood in the way of entry into the Second Imperialist slaughter. So the liberal FDR used Dan Tobin and the Stalinist cheering crowd for FDR to launch the second witch hunt in 1940. A political trial using the Smith "gag" Act was launched. Eighteen leaders of the Socialist Workers Party were sent to prison for 18 months by a jury that urged leniency. It resulted in the trial testimony being published as Socialism on Trial.
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@Shawn-ge2ew It's the Imperialist arrogance of US bosses and bankers.
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@jacksfavorite4808 Racism came with the new capitalist system its material roots will be destroyed in the coming socialist revolution.
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@thomasemcdonald1 LOL I like how he answered that question about MLK with his civil disobedience and Malcolm X with the Militants. "Of course King was right." Malcolm X hated the Democratic Party and phony white liberals. LMAO
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The Koch brothers father trained "Bolshevik Engineers" in 1929 to 1932 since American capitalists had bankrupted him with law suites. He is said to have been deeply affected by the Stalinist Moscow trials.
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@annacolleen wesson etters "Anyone can buy US Treasury Bonds." So what? The capitalist buy most of them because the have capital and the working class doesn't. With capitalism in theory anyone can buy anything doesn't mean that the working class can. Freedom to buy and sell is the only freedom the capitalist want protected.
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@charlesfrank7854 What? You want to close the Federal Reserve? Without a fiat currency the capitalist would lose the ability to hold up profit rates by inflating the money supply. The one percent would be turned into suffering rabble.
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Do you like paying for ruling class wars?
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@mikecain6947 Read "War is a Rackett." by USMC Major General Smedley Butler. Professor Sowell believed and I assume still does believe the US could win in Vietnam.
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Singapore has to operate as a capitalist dictatorship otherwise the Maids, Chafures, Gardeners, Cleaners, and Pool Boys could easily outvote all the Trash left over from the days of the British Empire with its goal of civilizing the natives.
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@harshitmadan6449 Private Property is social construct. A middle class does not prove there is no ruling class in fact it proves just the opposite. When the bourgeois defeated the Feudal Kings and Lords the made new revolutionary laws to promote themselves. Some inherit their property without making any contribution whatsoever. Did Steve Jobs "contribute the "IPhone" or is it essence just a computer connected to a dial up modem over a mobile phone miniaturized? You can watch inventors plead with capital on Shark Tank. The invention itself is unimportant what the return on investment and how serious a promoter the inventor is.
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@harshitmadan6449 Outside of sports figures hard physical work never produces capitalist riches. What does is master business manipulations. Bill Gates started with a million dollar trust fund. He is a well known for his monopolistic methods to crush all competition. Steve Jobs sold blue boxes to defraud the telephone company of toll calls. Joe Kennedy Sr. was an inside trader. John D. Rockefeller was a master at multiple pricing, secret rebate transportation schemes and set up the first trust/holding company.
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The ruling class of the US, Canada and the UK closed their doors to the European Jews both before durring and AFTER the World War. This left thousands in the NAZI death camps both durring the war and after the war as displaced persons. The Democratic Imperialist ruling classes can not be relied upon to protect the Jews from the fascist gangsters that will be used as a club against the labor movement. Only the working people of the middle east can find a solution to the needs of both the Jews and others in the region. The 1917 Russian revolution shows the way forward with the recognition of both national independence and socialism.
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@Rondo Loggins This is another part of the US Imperialist two party capitalist bankers and bosses attack on working people for the bosses profit drive.
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@usa4ever1776 A large part of the left is struck in the ideas of the Stalinist's and Social Democrats popular frontism of the 1930's even if the don't realize it along with idealism instead of materialism which is another part of the US petti bourgeois leftism like CRT and the denial of two sex's in favor of artificial equality. Then you also have all this nonsense of political correctness in speech. They end up sounding like some nutcase that has to bring their personal identity, wokism and idenity politics into everything. Where everything is about hurt feelings.
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People like Sowell are just pampered by Stanford University and don't get enough exposure because the ruling class is short on cash this month.
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@ronaldmitchell3665 He is guy the bring in with a big title to say the obvious. The rich are rich because they are rich and so forth.
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@lAcid Rainl Not all but they become a class just like the feudal lords of the land. They get entrance to all the elite institutions because they get special pampering at private schools and tutors that the ordinary working class family can't afford. They are called legacy admissions. The US has never been a meritocracy. If Steve Jobs had been caught selling blue boxes he would have been in trouble with the feds and gone to prison like those who Microsoft sent away.
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@cek0792 When classes stop existing then I'll stop until then you cry all day about you unfree market nonsense and howl at the moon about collectivism.
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@cek0792 I don't own any land. Why not ask Bill Gates for charity he's leading a green revolution last I heard buying up farm land in the US.
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Retired Warrior that's not what the VA says on their website "After the war, benefits for Civil War Veterans were restricted to those Veterans who had fought on the Union side" Also check out the 14th Amendment that you must not remember but nevertheless less swore to uphold and defend. [....But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void....] no confederate veteran every received a dimes worth of VA care.
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Sowell is a clown no one will surrender if he assumes that he will be tortured and abused by his captors. Instead they will fight to the death.
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@patriciaingraldi4719 Sowell is the typical Republican conservative who blames BIG government for everything despite his party holding the presidency during the 2008 crisis. The capitalist system itself being the problem is something these so called economist will never accept because they spend most of their lives singing the prises of big business and capitalism for a pot of porage at the elite universities.
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@jamesboyd1378 You might say he's a Republican gang banger!!!
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@Fantom6400 Nothing like your 60 year campaign of lies from Radio and TV Marti paid for with US tax dollars.
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@sweettea9960 The FBI is nothing but a domestic secret police agency for the capitalists.
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The roots of Jew hatred lie in the capitalist system itself Jews as a culture probably understand capitalism better than any other. Whenever capitalism enters an economic crisis the Jews are inevitable blamed by the ruling class. With the rise of capitalism in western Europe came Jew hatred. The Russian Czar beame the promoter of anti Jewish pogroms.
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Reagan in his campaign against communism is he one who funded Islamic terror.
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@thomastolbert6184 Right he wanted to pass the Arabic numerals act to phase out the use of Roman numerals.
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@anonymoussource5344 The only thing his wall and deportations will do is increase unproductive government expenses. Tariffs on Chinese or foreign goods will raise US prices and increase US boss profits.
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@dr.lyleevans6915 I'm so glad we have a Doctor entering the discussion. Wealth inequality has always been a trait of capitalism. It has nothing to do with which of the two parties is in power. The Democrats hold most big city governments because of the "Tammy Hall" like patronage systems.
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jay dowd I guess you've never held a job more than one or two jobs before otherwise you'd understand that your money wage isn't everything.
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@IIBloodXLustII The US does everything possible to defeat the Cuban revolution. This has always been US policy. The US claims the right to decide what it wants for Cuba. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499
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@IIBloodXLustII The US Blockade is condemned by nearly every other country in the world. End your blockade and then no one can claim the US International blockade is an unjust act of war. The Soviet Union is long gone so why do you need to keep beating a dead horse? The US demands that Cuba end its free medical care and free education system as a gesture. The US government has shown its complete inability to meet the needs of its people for healthcare during the pandemic. Yet it writes laws on how the Cuban people should govern themselves. It just the sort of thing to be expected by a capitalist imperialist empire. Don't cross the bosses in Washington and New York City or you'll get the Cuban treatment. No one wants your help but an end to the unjust international blockade. Even the US population knows that without international trade the US would enter into another disaster. If International trade was cut off to the US tomorrow morning than the number of deaths due to just lack of medene bought in the world market would claim thousands of lives. You would not even be able to manufacture cars without foreign parts. Nor does the US manufacture a significant number of electronic parts to run its industrial robots.
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@IIBloodXLustII USSR failed because the Stalinist bureaucracy got control after the Moscow frame up trials of the Old Bolsheviks in 1938. If capitalism is such a great way of doing things why treat the Cuban people like the enemy and why blockade the country using the US Empires might against not just US companies and citizens but also those of third countries. Why are US Citizens prohibited from going and spending money there? Why is Cuba slandered as a state sponsor of terrorism which makes every world banking activity a challenge? US Treasury fines third party companies like Siemens for doing business with Cuba. You and the rest of the US ruling class aren't afraid of socialism failing but success. Trump expressed this by promising not to let the country become socialist.
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@IIBloodXLustII The US rulers are so afraid of socialism they accuse eachother of being socialists or communists.
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@warthunder9155 Am i suppose to be afraid of the bombs bursting in air?
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@lovesrain8042 Shows how the bosses throw overboard even those who are the most loyal servants to save a buck.
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zengadounga4141 Nakba when the Arab nations told the palestinian Arabs by radio broadcast to evacuate for a couple of weeks while they invaded to destroy the State of Israel.
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Teachers have college degrees and pass exams for certification.
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Ya instead of a tyranny of majority we get a tyranny of a minority. Why not hold elections where trees get 3/5 of a vote also?
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His election and polices won't halt the crisis of world capitalism anymore than Bidens did. A promise to hire more immigration cops will only increase the number of idiots on patrol.
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@bobthebuilder4683 It was a Republican dominated court that wrote Roe v. Wade. The ruling came on the heels of other rulings that recognized women as being politically equal to men. There was a mass movement of young people demanding an end to the war, equal rights for women and Black people demanding redress of the lasting effects of segregation.
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Those CEO's tell Biden what to do not the other way around. Unions need to break with the Democrats and organize a labor party without the bosses.
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@geobot9k Then you want to become a socialist cadre. You can start by reading The Militant and ordering books from Pathfinder Press.
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@snazzynasty1493 It came out of the depression by producing for war which destroyed its market competition. Capitalism is based in nation states when the competition for markets and resources on the world market becomes to great than war breaks out to decide the battle of the world market place. Capitalism can not help but run out of markets faster than it can create new ones because of its success at replacing labor with machines. Capitalism can not escape the Imperialist stage because to do so would require the ability to sell all the overproduction capitalist nations produce. Each of the capitalist nations ruling classes is much to greedy to just allow others to win the battle of the world market so they break up into ever shifting trading blocks and military alliances.
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@AbuHajarAlBugatti It should be you personally as the first next time.
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This is the power of a socialist revolution lead by Fidel Castro and made by the Cuban workers and peasant farmers.
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I live in CT it's mostly all blue. It has the highest average income and pays in more federal taxes than it gets back. Its both highly industrialised and unionized. The people doing the least work who get paid the most live in Fairfield county. They aren't homeless but live in mansions and travel back and forth to New York City on commuter trains as stock brokers, traders and hedge fund managers.
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These statements by Sowell are full of lies. Vietnam was never two countries it was the Imperialist powers who created this fraudulent nation of South Vietnam just as they created two Koreas and two Chinas. There was never a need to Nuclear bomb Japan. Israel was created by Jews. The Imperialist played a contradictory role in that whole situation. The British were for the British not wanting Jewish refugees in Britain and wanting both Jewish and Arab support against Germany. The US didn't want more Jewish refugee immigration either. Where were the Jews supposed to go? Stalin began a veiled campaign against them with his anti cosmopolitan campaign and Doctors plot. His hatred for Trotsky (Bronstein) was no doubt also a reason. The disdain of the Stalinist Bureaucracy for non Russian nationalities was on full display post war not to even mention that Stalinist policy that allowed the NAZI's to cake walk into power while the largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union basicly stood by on Stalin's orders to wait for a mass uprising after the NAZI's took power that never came. They Arab fascist who supported Hitler also launching pogroms in the Muslim nations. This is why the Muslim nations are Jew free. The people who have an interest in peace are the working people both Arab and Jew not Israeli or Arab capitalist politicians welding state power or the American Imperialist whom Sowell looks for moral guidance. Israel has a right to exist and at least some of the Arabs now recognize that. The billionaire leaders of Hamas though are the ones who live in Qatarian luxury having stolen UN aid it what might be called a Martyrs for the Profit with an F campaign. .
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Work hard and you to can look down your nose at everyone else.
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@michaeladkins6 Let them all get on a spaceship and leave for mars we don't need them here.
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@michaeladkins6 Let them all get on a Musk spaceship and leave for Mars.
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@jasonk8775 You can't fix World or American capitalism though government regulation because all that is window dressing on exploitation. No policy by Roosevelt did anything to solve the world crisis with the exception of the his 1940 War Deal. Only by going to war were they able to get full employment and get mass production restarted. That is why capitalism has outlived its usefulness since now is a destructive system with the United States as the last billionaire Investors Empire.
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@上原恵太郎 Pragmatism is an America philosophy it is basically a vulgar way of looking at things were you are short sighted and think you just need to do "what works." Marx looked over the whole of Human history when he came to the conclusions he did. For to be a Marxist you must understand that you live in a world economy not a national one. Capitalism developed in nation states before conquering the world. Imperialism, foreign investment backed up by military force, is the highest stage of capitalism. Deng Xiaoping can not escape the economic problems of capitalism by giving it a different name. You can't escape the world market competition and the drive to maximize profits. Which along with the tendency of profits to decline leads to class struggle and the drive towards Imperialist war and fascism (war on the trade unions). Marx's most important discovery is that the class struggle is the motive force in history. The cleavage into classes was a necessary development in the human being as being able to create and maintain a surplus is what has driven us forward. With the development of modern industry and the world market a new class came on to the stage of history the modern industrial working class. We have already began the digging of the grave of capitalism just as the capitalist dug the grave of feudalism.
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@上原恵太郎 Like I said "Do what works," is the American national philosophy. What its actual origins are outside of Europe I don't really now. But in the heat of class struggle all kinds of old notions and practices die an often quick and painless death.
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Like it or not only Congress can cut spending. Trump knows this since he wants to overturn a law Congress wrote about this issue back when Nixon was President and was reaffirmed when Regan tried to get a line item veto. Apparently he now thinks he can use the court as a legislature.
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@Primechild01 Its merely grandstanding by capitalist politicians who have no intention of enforcing the law. Its only real target is workers fighting for higher wages.
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Why would the capitalist do that?
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@DausDaus1 A privately held corp is under no obligation to reveal its finances to the public.
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@comentedonakeyboard What do expect under capitalism. Naturally when everything is up for sale and the worship of money drives the social system corruption legal and illegal will rule the day. The capitalist get the government that they deserve the best money can buy.
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@etchalaco9971 Progressivism is dead. It was nothing more than ideas to save capitalism from itself. You've got to think like Karl Marx now abolish private property the property to expolit others and workers control of industry. Build a labor movement to abolish the wage labor and capital system itself.
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@etchalaco9971 Only the labor movement can take up and bring about change for working people in those ares. Democratic Party capitalist liberals have exhausted themselves with the election of Obama. They only thing they are capable of now is making promises they have no intention of keeping. The workers need to go into struggle on the job with the trade unions and build a new labor party independent of the capitalist Democrats. Debt forgiveness? Big deal the Democrats didn't want more bank failures was the reason for that bill. It was either bailout the banks with the debt forgiveness bill or take a risk of setting off more financial chaos.
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Fight to raise wages make the greedy CEO's pay.
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James Registe Social Democracy, a welfare state, can't succeed in the long run because it can't solve the basic contradictions of capitalism in the world market. World War I was fought by the capitalist Imperialist nations over the colonies. WW2 was fought to destroy the Soviet Union and decide who would control the rest of the world. The Soviet Union defeated NAZI Germany. The US/UK opened a second front to contain Communism in Europe and defeated their opposition Japan while China had a revolution defeating the Japanese.
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Now capitalism has returned to the old Soviet Union and China. This has created more capitalist powers in the fight for markets and cheap labor. This competition is already heating up as can be seen in the beginning of trade war with China by the US/EU/UK and the desertion of the UK from the EU Imperialist trading bloc. China's belt and road initiative will cut out the trip across two oceans and the US mainland back and forth to the EU.
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Michael Murphy The dollar is not directly connected to a barrel of crude so what makes you think that crude oil has anything to do with the value of the dollar? Like other currency it just sits there and most of us hope it doesn't go into free fall inflation. Trump is talking about a zero federal reserve interest rate like the Euro. Supposedly only for new capital investment not finance schemes.
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@kevingreenwell494 That's not the same as the gold standard though. Plus my understanding was Nixon's decision being linked to that of France wanting gold for dollars. It is the reserve currency but the Euro and Chinese Renminbi are becoming close seconds since Bretton Woods pegging system has been replaced with a floating value one.
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malcolm caden If it was a failure you wouldn't get so upset. The problem for you is capitalism is failing and Cuba proves that revolution is both possible and necessary. It's not the possibility of failure but success that is driving the US ruling class nuts. The New York Times has already conceded that Cuban's will do better during the pandemic than the US. So they have to talk about the price of freedom you get with capitalist healthcare like the choice to die if you can't pay. Reuters has run an article about how Cuba Punches Above its Weight Class in the pandemic referring to the international aid by Cuban Doctors helping over 40 countries.
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malcolm caden I picked it as the symbol of the early Soviet Union and the left opposition that wanted to continue Lenin policies as opposed to those of Stalin and the counterrevolutionary bureaucracy. The Democratic Imperialist US/UK couldn't say enough good things about Stalin as long as he was fighting their foe NAZI Germany. Here's a picture of the BIG THREE https://www.history.com/.image/c_fit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTczMTc4NTAzNTAyNTA1Nzc4/big-three-stalin-roosevelt-churchill-gettyimages-615313038.jpg
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malcolm caden Here's another with Harry Truman, Churchill and Stalin all holding hands because they like each other so much. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/JTD8BY/potsdam-conference-july-august-1945-from-left-joseph-stalin-harry-JTD8BY.jpg
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malcolm caden That's because you don't live in a Bourgeois Democracy like we have in the US. You still live under a monarchical tyranny like the Canadians. Thomas Paine debunked the English monarchy and parliament long ago in a pamphlet called "Common Sense". Do they let you read pamphlets like that? Your country is still experimenting with a mix of Monarchical Tyranny and Bourgeois Democracy. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/works/common-sense/index.htm
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Trump did NOT get a hearing under the 14th Amendment before the state took its action.
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@nadia0701 He left out the full text. AMENDMENT XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests rather it is a historical movement of both victories and defeats of one class the proletariat in struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist. The natural workings of capitalism produce both wage laborers and capitalist along with the class struggle between the wage laborers and capitalist. Once capitalism entered the Imperialist era it reached its highest stage Imperialism. World capitalism where the Imperialist capitalist nations investors rule over the colonial and semi colonial world. The unrestrained competition for markets and resources could only mean one thing among the Imperialist nations world war to redivide the booty of among the capitalist nations.
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The real problem is that capitalism can not stay out of crisis no matter what the policy is pursued. Its fundamentally flawed by the pursuit of profits and the natural tendencies of profit rates to decline. It can but help but go into one crisis after another.
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@willyreeves319 Don't you need to use the word Socialism if your going to talk about it being absurd?
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@soulcapitalist6204 The most absurd of all things is cryptocurrency which Petersen saw no problem with just a few weeks earlier. Only the money fetishism of capitalism would find the mining of special numbers by use of computer (the machine) algorithm and electricity to be creating something of worth.
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@SwfanredLotr Nothing but US Imperialist propaganda.
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@quinnholloway5400 Ya Fidel executed a few Batista era murderers while the Kennedy began the war in Vietnam that would take the lives of millions of people along with 50,000 GI's but the liberals in the US are all shining examples of Democracy while Fidel the Revolutionary is a butcher. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter armed and support Pol Pot at the UN as a way to punish Vietnam.
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johnc1315 The Vance story on Netflix will pull in lots of working class votes.
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@FairsleyDifference Equal Opportunity and Equal outcome. Like when a Young Bill Gates could easily pay his speeding tickets with just a few hundred dollars while everyone else was basically soaked for speeding tickets. Someone had to tell Bill he could not continue spending his money that way.
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Vox Daze Alex Jones has a interview for you to attend.
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JP McCray Your right about one thing I'm not a broken down oldster. The title of the video was the Civil Rights Movement. The correct title would have been, "Larry Elders dad and the personal rise of Larry Elders as a lawyer/talk radio host." At the very end we find out that the movement should have followed Booker T. Washington who had given up the struggle against segregation at a time when segregation was getting worse. A time when Republicans had abandon Blacks. Where Republican Supreme court nominees would vote for separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1898. His was to forget segregation and instead rely on self improvement and education alone.
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@wolvenwood Just another long standing idiotic claim about the Russian Revolution in 1917. You might as well claim that the American revolution was really promoted by George the third because the British would need an ally in WW1.
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@wolvenwood Nope Dem's controlled all of the governments in the South and all thoses state had segregation laws. That's how they got the derisive name Dixiecrats. A movement developed out of two party control. That's why it was called a movement. As the protests over segregation began the protesters began to lose their fear of the policeman's club and the jail. Others organized against KKK violence shooting back at the KKK night riders. The KKK itself was an arm of the Democratic Party.
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@wolvenwood I am 67 but you are definitely an oldster as your cynical politics revolve around the two parties and lies about the role they played. Malcolm X was certainly no Democrat or Republican. Cointelpro was a two party FBI secret police operation. to prevent the rise of a "Black Messiah" as FBI documents show.
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Vox Daze Sure anytime the workers struggle for a better life that results in a victory that's called "entitlement". Everytime the bosses get a bonus or bigger profits that called "well earned income."
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Vox Daze I guess you friend "Caldwell" was working with a pre civil war copy of the constitution.
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@Dalonghair The cost of living in the US is different depending on where you live plus as you get older how you pay for health care and health insurance is important. I will take things apart and fix them including fixing the computer I am now writing to you on. Living in a big city is much more expensive than living out in a rural area. If I didn't have the skills I do I would probably have to live in housing for the elderly instead of having a truck and camp trailer. I spend most of the day working on projects from fixing bathroom door hinges to the automatic brownout over voltage detector and delay on circuit.
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@Dalonghair Plus there are more problems connected to capitalism besides just the simple wage labor exploitation relationship. That is the origin of the others like racial and sex discrimination, environmental destruction, the labor aristocracy, small wars, world wars and the approximately every ten year economic crisis's.
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@aaronlandry3934 It doesn't make a difference how well your doing if nuclear war is launched.
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@Dalonghair Is it all worth the work if it is destroyed in a nuclear war?
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@Dalonghair The capitalist control the state and those things are all part of capitalism because the help with the profit rate. Discrimination has always helped keep the workers divided so as to make strike action less effective or a failure. It's cheaper to toss the waste products of any production process that can't be sold into a land dumping area, the air or nearby river. WW1 and WW2 had capitalist competition behind the outbreak of war and the destruction caused. The big winner was the US bosses because their industries were untouched by war. Korea and Vietnam were wars to defend US Imperialism and world capitalism. The labor aristocracy is used against us wither it's Joe Stalin or Jimmy Hoffa Sr. the labor aristocrats are corrupted by capitalism. China is a capitalist country like Sweden. Once they got rid of a corrupt socialism and embraced capitalism you could be more happy about it. Not enough praise could lavished upon the new and even more corrupt Chinese capitalists of the Chinese Communist Party for being so pragmatic in adopting the only truly humane system.
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@CGoffgrid Its a matter of the class struggle on one side is Bezos and other American capitalists along with their apologists. One the other is just about everyone else. Without private property and a police force to defend management's right to fire he could not impose the labor discipline required to make the profits he does.
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@CGoffgrid Your brain washed. I suggest you start up another Union Pacific railroad company. See if you can beat the competition. Even better start another Amazon we all want to see how big business crushes you in the cradle.
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@Dalonghair Even Stalin treated his political prisoners better than the State of Alabama at the time.
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@Dalonghair The small businessman's opportunity consists in the right to be crushed by big business monopoly and the bankruptcy court. Anyone remember Word Perfect, Lotus Notes, and Netscape Navigator? All crushed by Microsoft. Go look at the early years of Computer Shopper thousands of small computer businesses 99% have disappeared. Anyone remeber the gas station mechanic? Capitalism always moves towards monopoly not greater opportunity.
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@aaronlandry3934 Jesse James should also have the right to keep his well earned money. Same with the Mafia's numbers games. How dare the state take their business with the State lotteries!!! Loan Sharking. What? Who said you can compete with Bank of America? Amazon we will help you sell your stuff. When we see that it sells well we will source it elsewhere so we make the profit while you enjoy a trip out of business. Most of you teenagers who believe all the nonsense promises of capitalism will find it is all just hype.
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@Dalonghair "But the only system that guarantees that chance for everyone is capitalism." Sure we all can afford a one dollar lottery ticket. Or play the rigged game at the casino.
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@dmannevada5981 Now that Humpty Dumpty (The world capitalist system) was broken with the CoronaVirus pandemic it is going to be all but impossible to put it back together again with capitalist methods. Sure blame China the country and Communist Party you couldn't shower with enough praise for going capitalist only a few years ago. Since Vietnam you won't get the American workers to just sign on to a war so US Steel can sell manhole covers in South Korea.
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@aaronlandry3934 I don't live out in your middle class neighborhood where the kids are the radicals and the adults worry about Jesse James getting away with some bankers money. Minimum wage was passed during the 1938 recession by the capitalist government seeking to slow the CIO industrial union movement. Sweden has a union membership density of 67% not the 10% in the US. The bosses like you screaming about the minimum wage is a hint that it must be good. Almost anything the bosses don't like must be good because of the completely diametrically opposed interest between labor and capital.
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@Dalonghair The US Supreme court in 1970 ruled the State of Alabama could no longer whip its convicts on the chain gangs. Alabama still never pays it prisoners for their labor and two meals a day is all the nourishment provided by the state. Torture carried by Stalin's faction occurred in the prisons not in the streets. We have and published Samizdat that circulated in the Soviet Union before 1991. The political prisoners in the camps marched back and forth to their work and often carried protest banners. With the end of the Soviet Union also came large scale exaggeration because that will sell books and newspapers not the mundane actions carried out by the Stalinist officials.
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@Dalonghair Why don't you get a haircut. Why didn't the Democratic Imperialist not just fight Hitler and Stalin at the same time? How come Roosevelt and Churchill posed for pictures with Stalin during WW2? Why did top US Amy Generals lavish so much praise on Soviet Union in a 1943 US Army propaganda film? The Moscow Trials of the Old Bolsheviks occured in 1936 to 1938. A panel of American Intellectuals lead by John Dewey all looked at the evidence in the trials and found them to be frame ups before WW2.. FDR and Churchill saw nothing wrong with Hitler until he became a threat to their version of Imperialism. I suppose you think the Democratic Imperialists would make a good jury with which to put Stalin on trial? When Churchill first heard of the Bengal famine he asked why isn't Ghandi dead yet? That sounds like mass murder to me. Truman ordered the first and second and only use of nuclear weapons on human beings that sounds like mass murder also. So you want war criminals to put Stalin on trial? Stalin's dead and so is Mao. China and the Soviet Union have converted to capitalism. So who's fault was the 2008 crisis and now this 2020 crisis? I don't and have never voted for either party. Why don't you step up and take responsibility? Tell us how capitalism isn't perfect and how Trump isn't a real capitalist along with other propaganda.
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@Dalonghair As long as we are on the topic of Korea where did Truman and Stalin get the right to divide Korea? With Germany's defeat in 1945 Truman and Stalin meet at Potsdam where Stalin kept his promise to declare war on Japan after Germany's defeat. Truman pointed at a map and proposed that the peninsula be divided at the 38th parallel for the sole purpose of accepting the surrender of Japanese Troops. Fast forward 75 years later and US Troops are still in South Korea. In 1949 the Soviet Union exploded their first nuclear device. So why didn't the blood thirsty Stalin use his heavy bombers and nuclear weapons in Korea? Truman had to fire MacArthur because he wanted to use neclear weapons on Chinese cities and create a ring of radioactive cobalt along the Yalu river form the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea.
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@aaronlandry3934 Two days after the surrender of Japan MacArthur few into the military HQ of Japan in Korea and changed the official language from Japanese to English. Japanese Troops under Gov. Gen. Abe Nobuyuki. were used to put down mass protests and the Korea's People's Republic founded with the defeat of Japan after 40 years of anti colonial struggle. Korea like The Philippines, Puerto Rico Cuba and Vietnam are not US territory they aren't states, they don't elect Congressmen, Senators or the President. You don't run experiments on other countries unless your a Hitler. Plus some people won't take a penny to sell out their national identity to a foreign country like the the United States or the Japanese capitalist collaborators. Some nations like to make their own decisions without being told what to do by the US Ambassador. The US committed war crimes in Korea. The 8th Army HQ ordered the killing of civilian refugees. They deliberately bombed the dams in the last days of the war in the north something they called and got convictions as a war crime when the NAZI did that to the Dutch. The first South Korean Puppet Syngman Rhee had to be saved by a CIA special flight to Hawaii. This is where your "Korean Democrat" spent the rest of his rotten life. South Korea went through a series of six republics until the last they were all just different forms of military dictatorships in and out of power.
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@aaronlandry3934 Syngman Rhee spent his pre presidential life before and during WW2 camped out in Washington and being ignored until 1945. They held an old Alabama type election where only the capitalist and landlords could vote. Once Rhee won he had his loser murdered as a victory celebration.
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@aaronlandry3934 Now that the bosses have created 35 million unemployed in the US alone will see how happy this makes the workers. The corona virus excuse can only last so long.
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@aaronlandry3934 Puerto Rico comes up every year at the UN by the committee for declonialization. A significant part of the population wants out of its colonial status. Just like Cuba and The Philippines did. Fidel Castro told Uncle Sam to take a hike and Washington's been crying like baby ever since.
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@aaronlandry3934 Yep the end of globalization and the new depression brings with it the break up the capitalist international regulatory agencies like the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. You're headed into the direction of every capitalist ruling class for themselves. While life expectancy is rising in Cuba surpassing the US in the US it is falling. Now the US accuses Cuba of using doctors as slaves in what is called a communist forced Doctorization plan. Thirty Five million people are happy with the new no health insurance layoff plan.
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@dmannevada5981 Capitalism offers the world nothing but new are every larger crisis of overproduction (the ability to produce more than can be sold at a profit) along with enforced poverty and war which can only escalate into a final solution of nuclear winter. Starting with Obama the US is planing on a 1.2 Trillion dollar program to build new nuclear weapons. They plan to spend 22 billion on 9 Virginia class submarines. Yet even a modicum minimum of health care is to much expensive.
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@dmannevada5981 Free market is a total contradiction in terms. First nothing is free in a "Free Market." Second one side owns everything and also controls the police and military while the other owns nothing. So naturally the rich like a "free market". They can buy whatever they want. While the rest of us must struggle daily and keep our fingers crossed that another avoidable disaster does strike. I'm sure you think the new 35 million No Healthcare Insurance Layoff Plan is real popular.
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@dmannevada5981 The "Free Market" is a myth just like those in the bible. I do the shopping and my wife makes up the list. I don't usually even look at the prices. Do you go around shopping at multiple store for your weekly groceries? At best you might have a special store for milk and bread. You pay that price wherever it is. You do not hagle or compare except for big purchases.
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@dmannevada5981 Oh Gee your all crying like babies I paid uncle sam for years and now he pays me. That's why I get to throw stones at liberatian dumb asses like Stossel and Ayn Rand. Rand spent years talking about how immoral social security was and had no problem collecting her old age checks. I'd like to see you Stossel and Nevada take pledge to never to rely on a bailout, a subsidy, social security, medicare/medicaid, own any stock in a company with government contracts, or a government issued license. TV stations are government licensed monopolies to which Stossel owes his whole career. Constantly wining about his tax dollars which he has no control over.
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@dmannevada5981 Stossel the entitled little bitch from Princeton. Wining all the way to the bank complaining about others not earning their money like the entitled little bitch he is. His first TV job would not have been possible without a government licensed TV station. At least his brother does something worthwhile by being a physician. As far as he goes he's just a paid propaganda master. At least I'm honest and upfront not a little bitch that cry's about the government that he owes his whole career to.
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@Dalonghair I suck at shopping how so oh wise one? I suppose you go to Olive Garden and Starbucks for coffee or you order online because you're afraid of the corona virus or maybe you call GrubHub. I save on all kinds of costs because I know how to fix and make things.
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@Dalonghair That's the libertarian theory though. Originally RCA held all the TV patents. Somehow they took RCA'a patents away from them. In order for the TV system to work across TV manufactures of both receivers and transmitters certain standards were set in place and government control was necessary to choose the standards. The over the air standards were set in the late 1940's with channels 1 to 13 they withdrew channel 1 and later added 14 to 83 in about 1954 added color capability around 1960 and stereo sound. Took back channels 70 to 83. No more standards changes until Digital over the air TV. They could have allowed only RCA to broadcast TV with any standards they liked. For years Europe had different standard in every country such that no one could listen to another countries TV. For years the TV manufactures didn't want to include the UHF channels 14 to 83. So you had to buy an extra converter. Many of UHF TV stations went out of business and the Dumont network closed. When they required UHF capability eventually new non ABC, CBS, NBC independents came on line adding more networks. With HBO cable TV moved from motels and rural areas to cities. Cable had much better pictures because noise (snow or confetti) was reduced by a strong clean signal. Digital techniques are why you get such good picture on over the air TV. They also no longer need to space channels apart in the same cities. The FCC has completed the repack with only RF channels 2 through 36 available for actual broadcast. Thirty Seven is reserved for listening for space aliens and the rest are for cellphones.
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@Dalonghair No, I use to be a licensed Master TV technician but licenses only show that people already in the profession or trade have given you an exam and you have either been a through a university, school or apprenticeship. Once your in no one is going to take that license away except for something extremely wrong. Their plenty of Doctors who have no business prescribing an aspirin never mind anything else. They treat their patients differently depending on what kind of insurance you have. You're dollar signs in their eyes and they get paid regardless if the operation is a success or failure. Their underlings always exaggerate how great that doctor is at their trade. They deny that the do some of the rotten things they do.
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@Dalonghair Still in all years ago they said a TV transmitter license was a license to print money. Of course if you didn't have a Network (ABC, CBS, NBC) affiliation and you were in a small city you couldn't do well at all.
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@Your_mom736 Companies only seek to maximize profits for the bosses that's how capitalism works paying those who own the company for being the owners. The owners do nothing but accumulate profits that are created by the production workers. Only when they invest in expanding production can the workers make gains. However expanding production always results in the tendency to overproduce for markets that can not absorb all that cam be produced at a profit resulting in investment into fictitious capital driving up the speculative value until it collapse producing an economic crisis.
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@justaguy427 Reagan was such a big military spender he signed a military appropriations bill that was completely off budget. It was used as lie in the cold war with the Soviets.
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@aburden8580 No rebuild the unions and workers power on the job than in the community with a labor party without the liberals. Don't need liberals anymore than we need Bezos and Musk. Organize to abolish private property the property used to exploit others. Set up a government like the one the workers and farmers have in Cuba. Make education free for all who want to learn and use education to drive down labor privilege. After all if 19 million people in Cuba can educated 10,000 foreign medical students at no cost to the student think what a socialist America could do. All we need to do is take control of production away from a tiny group of profiteers.
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@brianlacroix822 Communism is a movement not a socially engineered empirical experiment conducted in one country for the benefit of all. its ideas are based in the material conditions of the earth, human history and the class struggle. Naked capitalism of the 19th century has been rejected in all the advanced capitalist countries including the United States. Thatcher and Reagan proclaimed victory and end to history with the end of the Soviet union in 1992. Of course that Triumph soon went sour first in 2000 with the dot com crisis, then the 2008 with Bush intervening in the free market to save the free market. Then the COVID crisis. Can you name a country that isn't in a political or economic crisis caused by the anarchy of the capitalist system. A place where capitalism is moving forward rather than stuck at production levels lower than 2008. Election of Trump, Brexit and now war in Ukraine show how its failing. You didn't win the cold war instead you just created more problems for yourself and more instability. You weaker vs a vs all your competitors. Driven by a reactionary Muslim sect from Afghanistan. Now Germany is rearming for war in Central and Eastern Europe. When a US President has to tell the UN Democracy is not dead then something is up.
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@brianlacroix822 Youtube is censoring you.. Capitalism developed in nation states and the capitalist classes in those nations states although they have the same class interest they don't have the same national interests in the world market where they must compete which is what drives them towards protectionism, Imperialist war and fascism. Capitalism is by nature exploitive and everyone know that there is no honor among thieves. Marx and Lenin would be obscure philosophers if the European Empires had been able to avoid World War I. One of the charges against King Charles was he was going about the country destroying it in interests of tax collection. Next time your politicians vote for endless war they should remember the execution of King Charles and the revolutionary English Commonwealth. You spent 2.3 Trillion in Afghanistan killing 100,000 and creating millions of internal displaced persons.My opinion is your all just to greedy to avoid more wars and revolutions. .
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That is the result of capitalist greed.
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Caused by two capitalist party dictatorship in DC.
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@clinttorres2508 Where was Trumps 737? When it was needed?
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@jasondesselles9168 War in the Era of Imperialism is the most intense form of class conflict.
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We just have to have "freedom rides" for abortion.
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Matt manning Cry baby. Wah! Wah! The commies are scary mommy. Mommy Mommy please make the commies go away.
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The only job where you don't know if you will return home? Like nobody else ever dies on the job. In fact a number of other jobs are rated more dangerous. Largest number of police are killed in traffic accidents making Ford, GM and Chrysler the biggest cop killers. How many cops aren't buckling up? How many cops just drive along throwing the lights on and off as they cross every intersection?
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@Avogadros_number This action was taken without Trump getting a hearing which is why it violates his due process rights along with those of the Republican Party to choose its candidates any way it sees fit..
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@darrell3975 The liberal Democrats have decided who the criminal is now all they need is to find a charge.
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@pgknippel Another frame job being engineered by the nations "BEST"
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@AwkballOddward Lots of US voters in Russia watching Trumps Putin paid for Russian campaign videos.
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@cynjhern End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@Endurator Islamic nations are weak because like Hitler's and Stalin's regime they require brute force over the working class to maintain control. That's why Muslim clerics are becoming hated in majority Muslim nations like Iran. Shria laws are laws of reactionaries injustice.
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@Endurator Sure and it's also a fundamentalist one that seeks to take state power to impose itself on everyone else. Do you want religious police arresting women and girls for improper wearing of hijab? Maybe after you decide to become Muslim you change mind? That's apostasy to be punished by death. Stealing? Do you want a lot of amputees to support after you punish thieves?
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@cdrone4066 How about we stop wasting things because its more profitable to do so, how about we stop kidding ourselves that a few know it alls in Washington and in Wall street board rooms should be running things based on profits for investors who do nothing.
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You mean white guys aren't able to go around with hard ons?
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@patriotamerican3069 No, This is the result making local police into deputy immigration officers when that is a federal not a state responsibility.
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Who counts pennies when the New York banks demand a pound of flesh.
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I am proud to have Kim Jong un as a brother. Long live the DPRK!! Down with the Imperialists!!
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It's overseas investment that the US military protects. What Wall Street wants Wall Street gets.
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We have entered an era of endless war. The underlying economics of capitalist profit motive guarantee more not less wars.
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Stop the censorship at Fox News YouTube.
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Biden bringing them in for the Texas sugarcane harvest going to save on diesel and use machinate just like the good ole days before Fidel Castro turned the slaves into Doctors. .
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@jakeweberzwier8655 He died in the Bolivian jungle on the front lines of the battle against Imperialism. Just like so any other fallen comrades in Cuba and Vietnam.
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@junior.von.claire Once again we are seeing the rise of antisemitism because of the economic decline of world capitalism. TheMilitant.com is already speaking out against this.
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Should be on the lookout for Canadians sneaking in Canadian Tires as spares. Ah!
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Strossel just wants to pay no taxes and replace school with child labor. That way he thinks he can make more money on his investments. He likes a free market where the bosses control both the wage and the product price. After all that way he can get the most back on his investment for being an "owner".
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The title of the video is a total "lie." n fact most of the video concerns CZARist Russian NOT the Soviet Union or a supposed Socialist cover up.
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@kaoskronostyche9939 Where in the writings of Marx or Lenin did we promise to employ only the politically correct engineers or administrators after the revolution? All the original bolshevik leaders knew theirs was a holding action against a capitalist world that was both hostile and more developed. He lays the framework for the argument that "intellectuals falsely credit Socialist planning for the success of the Soviet Union". Should they attribute it to capitalist planning or no planing instead? Maybe a better question would be why did the American capitalist provide the Soviet Union so much help if they hate socialism so much? He's always talking about "intellectuals" and trying to smear actual communists as liberals. He was all upset when Fidel Castro demanded the return of Elon Gonzalez. He just couldn't contain his Imperialist arrogance then accusing Fidel of holding a sword of damocles over the families head. His basic argument is that capitalist culture is superior and the only thing wrong is intellectuals using government against entrepreneurs genius. He seems to forget that he's one these privileged intellectuals that he so bitterly complains about and that ever since the end of graduate school he's been an advocate for capitalism, free markets and private property. He says once the civil rights act was passed Blacks should have gone home.
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The problem lies in the capitalist system since the goal of the bosses is to pay the lowest wages and make the biggest profits. The result is that wages are allowed to fall to a level below that required to replace the current generation. Fidel Castro never had a problem with women creating a new generation and educated people.
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@kirkc4696 No its about having the best politicain's money can buy. Wall street has what they want your just not seeing things from their perspective. Bigger profits for the elite is what it all about.
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@dylldobaggins4594 They all been educated in the theories of Milton Freidman and others on how maximization of profits is the best way of doing everything. The problem is that money does grow in a bank and you can't print your way back into prosperity. They decided that they can make more money elsewhere so they spread capitalism to the rest of the world but at the end of the day they care only about accumulating more wealth. A world system can not possible work where everyone can make products and sell them and make tremendous wealth for themselves. You end up with ruling classes that then want to wage wars over who gets to sell what where.
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@@abigmonkeyforme He hasn't got an explanation because they don't. Has nothing to do with North Korea either. Its a problem they have no solution to. The last time they were in this big an economic crisis was the great depression. The only way they were able to get out of that was to go to war and destroy most of the industrial capacity of the world and restart priitive accumulation. Now that the world has be rebuilt and industrialized they back into the same problems they had before WW1 and WW2. A crisis of overproduction. A crisis where they have too much capacity for production and not enough buyers. This why they are crying about China and talking about launching a new cold war to contain China and Russia despite their decision to adopt capitalism. They took the place of the British Empire and are in decline because of the natural tendency of profits to decline. .
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@anthonyphillips2874 What facts does Sowell present that he was ever a Marxist? Did he ever carry a picket sign? Did he ever even talk to an actual Marxist?
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Sure bring in thousands of teachers to testify before Congress.
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@stormyweather9917 That's what you would do. Correct?
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@karinaiglesias4337 Compared to the US Cuban police treated last years protesters with kid gloves. In the US the police are often dressed in soldiers uniforms with bullet proof vests and armed with automatic rifles when protests are expected.. With the end of the Iraq war the US began a process of giving surplus armored vehicles to local police for use as SWAT and riot control.I have friends who were in Cuba before Giron and participated in the US Fair Play for Cuba. committee. I was 10 years old during the missile crisis. We use to practice for a nuclear attack by getting under our desks at school.
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@karinaiglesias4337 What makes you think you don't already think like a socialist? With socialism the working people organize things to meet their social needs. So if you have a problem or idea don't you go to see the neighborhood representative to the assembly of peoples power? With capitalism things are organized to make profits for the owners of capital. Now the world has been in a transition from capitalism to socialism since the Russian Revolution of 1917. With Socialism the State defends state property and the country from invasions by capitalist nations. With capitalism the state defends private property and arbitrates deputes between property owners. In an Imperialist country with foreign investments the army serves a defender of the investments. .That's a simple explanation reality is more complex. .
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@karinaiglesias4337 Well you've done the first part by abolishing private property and setting up a workers state to defend state property. We haven't gotten that far yet. You have Carlos Tablada "Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism" So you have the daily problems of life, the blockade and how to organize your economy into an ever changing world economy. Once the Blockade ends and ferry boats can take cars over you won't have any problem getting people to come from the US.
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No word in the answer? I think you saying my ideas are irrelevant to the current situation. We been getting biased reports like this video for 60 years now. Qatar is a country where the majority who live their aren't citizens. Do you think Al Jazzera reports on why it has so many immigrants without citizenship rights?
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@Edilio A If corruption was a big problem like you claim then US would have taken over already. Capitalism=Corruption They be just like any other US colony then.
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@Edilio A The Cuban people overwhelmingly voted for the new constitution without anyone being intimidated so how is it a dictatorship? It hasn't been replaced because its opponents lack ant kind of just cause. The United States would love to be able to send in Troops to restore order, good government and private property. You could become another Puerto Rico if that's what you want. The US Congress would make all decisions for you and the Cuban's in Miami like the Puerto Rican's in New York would have more say in your government than the whole Cuban nation because at least they can vote in a federal election. .
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@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul Yup he will probably spend the rest of his life making custom shoes for the capitalist elite. The rest of us will be wearing manufactured shoes made in a factory. The elite will be talking endless about how they saved this poor man from the horrors of communism.
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@MrHitman246 Trump will ask Congress to admit Venezuela as the 51st state next week.
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I'm sure most of Latin America Latin America liked their old US imposed dictators also. Nancy Pelosi will have a protest march in Washington where she will declare Trump a dictator for shutting down the Government ask for the support from the joint chiefs and declare herself the legitimate President. US Constitution you say? Sorry didn't work right because Hillary Clinton should have been elected. Kim Jong Un of North Korea says he immediately recognizes new government and will end sanctions on the US if Trump surrenders at Embassy. Promise safe passage and political asylum in North Korea. North Korean Embassy will remain open. Ambassador refuse to leave because Nancy Pelosi says it's Ok to stay.
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Why don't you just lock down you gated community.
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It was a provisional vote so her vote never counted. They specifically made it provisional so the could determine if she qualified. She didn't realize she was signing a ready made confession and they gave her no miranda warning.
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@robertkubrick3738 No such thing as a Right To Scab state.
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Get rid of the lottery sin tax. When bosses control both the wage and price that's Tyranny. UNION YES!
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@albertawheat6832 This is really an advertisement for capitalism, God and faith in gold and silver.
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@albertawheat6832 Its the death agony of capitalism itself. They created us the industrial working class and it is up to us to take everything away from them and run society on a socialist basis with workers control of industry. Most of these bankers and CEO's have never put in an honest days work in their lives.
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@Kunfucious577 The capitalist state is not what we want but rather to build a new state of our own. We will replace capitalist regulations with workers control of industry rather then government greed control regulations. This is a fallacy pushed by both pro big government liberals and pro small government conservatives that the capitalist government can act in the interests of the working class. Capitalist government doesn't work no matter which party is on control because its not suppose to work for us but them. It gets bigger and bigger as it attempts to regulate the class struggle. Government is not neutral in the class struggle because a government represents a ruling class.
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@WilderMilan Your a big cry baby People like you never question the real bosses of capitalism. Instead you cry for more privileges like all the rest of the so called dissenters like Yonai Sanchez. You idea of being Cuban is to go to the US get a Green Card and US citizenship.
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Except everyone knows theses are bald face lies.
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@chrisleonard827 Che died as a guerrilla fighter in the Bolivian Jungle not in a bed at Trump tower. He and a group of All Black Cuban comrades went to Africa to fight previously. the Cuban revolution ended segregation upon victory in 1959 before the US did in 1964. He died before the GAY Stonewall rebellion in 1968. That's history and facts not the crap from that women's mouth.
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@chrisleonard827 Che Guevara faces is on the Cuban 3 peso bank note for the same reason George Washington is on the dollar bill. Class struggle is the motor of history and without it the human animal would still be running around picking berries and scavenging for food like the other animals. If all history did is repeat as fools like you believe than their would be no history to begin with.
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@chrisleonard827 I suppose I should sit around and contemplate my naval and make some ahoo noises or consult a swami?
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@rafalzbigniew9463 Hitler was put in place by the assistance of German Conservative Capitalist politicians. Just because he didn't want the Bourgeois Democracy that you free marketeers worship doesn't mean he wasn't put n power by the capitalists who feared a revolution coming from either the Communists or Social Democtats. When capitalism is organized for war the government orders war production contracts with cost plus guarantees. Western capitalists in France, the UK and America made Germany pay for the War with the unfair treaty of Versailles. Even Milk cows were taken from German farmers who were accused of the first world war guilt. If anyone is reasonable for the rise of Hitler its the Western Allies whose onerous treaty terms combined with depression ruined an otherwise advanced capitalist country.
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@SKEMT Don't the states need to pass laws on haircuts also?
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Break up NATO it is nothing but a military allaince of Imperialist powers. Support Ukrainians fight against the Russian invasion. End sanctions on Russia they only hurt the Russian people not the Putin oligarchy.
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People like you are fair game for the cops.
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@cyrilkarpenko691 Civil forfeiture where cops take you money and property because they are cops.
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They hired some new engineers who are going to try rubbing to sticks together.
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@star_1_man214 God in Hosea 13:16 KJV sets a very poor example.
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@star_1_man214 The problem with religion is it is as you say man made. Instead of starting with facts religion starts with God and then finds facts and miracles to make God with those particular facts found fit inside a religion. My point is to show that the Christian and Jewish God are no better than Islam based upon what is written. One needs to junk religion and start the way Karl Marx did with material facts and then proceeding to make general conclusions based upon those facts. If your general conclusions give the wrong answer because of new facts than you must go back and alter your general conclusions in some way. This is the way modern science proceeds.
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@star_1_man214 Like I said Marx put politics and economics on a materialist basis. That's why we start with facts instead of religious dogma like Christianity. You assume that Marxism Leninism is the same as Stalinism. Nothing can be further from the truth. You've listened to a few slanders and accepted them as truth. There was a whole communist left opposition in the Soviet Union to Stalin and the bureaucracy. When the Moscow Trials began in 1936 that was almost 20 years after the 1917 revolution. The defendants were all charged with Trotskyism and being agents of Hitler.
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@star_1_man214 You think that Marx had s single failed idea? LMAO Which one was it? LOL
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@star_1_man214 I thought you were the expert? Shouldn't you be telling me what's wrong? I don't have to show anyone that an idea is beneficial only true. Are Newton's laws of motion beneficial? Knowing what they are might be good for an artillery company but bad for those being shelled. Now if the artillery company shells approach the speed of light than Newton's laws break down and we need Einstein's relativity to get an accurate estimate as to where the shells will fall. Plus most of Marx's writings are available online at Marxists.org . It's not like they are only available in the musty area's of old university libraries and Party bookstores.
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@star_1_man214 Cuba and the early Soviet Union. Leadership as you point out is a problem. However the workings of capitalism preclude buying off all the leaders nor can capitalism out regulate greed. To answer the question can you do your job without a boss? Well I've worked night shift and yes less probably gets done with only one foreman compared to all the department foreman during the day? Part of that depends on what the job is. You don't want to be the guy blamed when any kind of production or continuous process shuts down. I don't know what your business was or why you needed to constantly chase after everyone? I've had jobs where I see my boss once a day. Taxi Driver, Telecom tech and others were they sit at their desk and come by to just check in on how the work is going. I had some where we started at 12 midnight and went home at 7 AM before he even came to work. He only lived a mile away and was always telling us to call him if we had a problem. We never called him because if we did have a problem it couldn't be solved until the next day anyway.
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Their are crisis that capitalism can't solve like world trade competition, the tendency towards monopoly, the shift from industrial investment to fictitious capital brought on by a tendence for the rate of return on investment in industrial capital to decline. The problem of a finite world with an end to cheap labor and resources. The inability of the workers to buy all that we can produce.
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@star_1_man214 The capitalist risks his money the driver risks his life on the job. What were the original ideas Bill Gates had besides those which enabled microsoft to go for big profits and drive competitors form the field. Tomorrow morning we could replace Windows with Linux and MS Office with Open office or with Google Chrome. We want control of the surplus value such that it can be used for us instead of against us.
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@star_1_man214 "Companies need to realize the benefits of good-will to customers and workers instead of only worshiping profit!" This is where we part ways because there is no material reason for that to happen other than for some short term reform meant to make capitalism look good. Once a reform is granted the next day the hammer and chisel of the capitalist system returns to take that away.
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@star_1_man214 Trump can only do what the Congress and the federal bureaucracy allow him to do. No more and no less. The same goes for Bernie Sanders or any leader riding on a white horse. To many American's believe that changing parties is somehow different than changing shoes. We believe that the single man at the top has the strictest control over those below. That our 'leaders' are 99% to 100% percent correct with the full backing of the people. While Mao or Stalin are 99% to 100% wrong and have nothing but mostly armed robots keeping them in power. Many believe we have successfully detached the engine of economics from the politics of the caboose.
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@star_1_man214 In past labor history Jimmy Hoffa went to the Republicans after dealing with the Kennedy brothers in the 1950's . John L. Lewis went to the Republican candidate after finding out FDR had bugged him. When Reagan broke the PATCO strike (a union that had supported Reagan) that sent most if not all of them to the Democrats.
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@star_1_man214 That's not totally true. Goldwater a Conservative Republican in 1964 ran against LBJ and as a Senator voted AGAINST the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Chief Justice Earl Warren formerly a liberal Republican was one of the first "Activist Judges". He presided over the dismantling of all the legal theories of Jim Crow. For this a campaign against him was waged by Dixiecrats, and conservatives of the John Birch Society demanding that Congress Impeach Earl Warren.
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@star_1_man214 "All unions, lobbyists, politicians that don't listen to the will of their constituents and judges that have no accountability should be deemed illegal!" So what does that mean? Who's going to make that decision? How are they going to do that? We gone for over 200 years without an official language so why do we need one now? We have our own newspaper TheMilitant.com and run candidates against the two parties.
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@star_1_man214 I don't know how many times I have to repeat that we are neither Democrats or Republican and both are parties of the ruling rich. Many bosses give to both parties that way they can't lose. Companies are run based upon profits not because they want to create happy workers or customers. Unions do work at that is where we begin along with a labor party independent of the two capitalist parties.
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@star_1_man214 If capitalism raises people out of poverty why do the bosses move to countries where then can pay lower wages? Their goal is to make the biggest profits possible not raising living standards. In England where capitalism began the working class was created by throwing poor peasants off the land with the enclosure laws and doing the same in Ireland so to create a people who owned nothing and traded the labor for food and life in the slums. The Irish emigrated to the slums of London and Manchester. All these extra peasants in Europe were turned into workers in the US and later Black sharecroppers were thrown off the land and moved North to the industrial cites in the North.
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@star_1_man214 You keep talking about how unions and socialism never works but in fact they do when the workers are in control of the unions. The Cuban people refuse to turn their country over to a bunch parasites at the New York banks. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded in the carpenters union hall. We don't care about a companies profits. We don't need sweatshops who can't make a profit. You'll find out that those Chinese and Mexican workers also fight back with the strike and protest. .
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@star_1_man214 The world is only so big and wherever they go the workers fight back for the same reason workers do the same thing here. We don't want or need to work for less because even as capitalism is in decline here the bosses can't use the full production capacity so why do they need more profits? They'll only invest in schemes which create financial bubbles which will deflate and produce more misery. In 1967 they were using 88% today its 77%
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@star_1_man214 The capitalist own the government and why would their own government bite the hand that feeds it? Sure you like to return to the days with no workmen comp, no social security, and no strikes that a judge couldn't rule illegal. The days of child labor and machine gunning down strikers in Ludlow, CO. The days when bosses could fire at will and pay in company script usable only at the company store instead of real money. You can forget about going back to the days when the capitalist robber barons could do whatever they please. Because the plutocrats are a very tiny minority of super wealthy that can hire big mouthpieces. When the workers put the fear of god in them they will retreat just like any other conscript army. .
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@star_1_man214 The capitalism of the late 19th century is not the same as the capitalism of the 21st. They write all theses regulations to keep greed under control and maintain incubancy. They'd much rather have government OSHA inspectors than union safety committees with the power to shut down unsafe conditions. They don't want you building cheaper diesel engines that emit lots of black smoke as a way to let the market decided the questions of air pollution. They'd rather have EPA than workers councils deciding questions about pollution and the environment. Capitalism always moves towards monopoly because of economies of scale, cut throat competition for markets, and investment capital moving in the direction of the biggest ROI at the lowest risk. . .
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@star_1_man214 You have no way to get to your capitalist utopia even if it were possible. We have the class struggle and facts from which we can draw conclusions good or bad and proceed from there. You're going to do what? Build a Libertarian Party of Ron Paul' Republican's? Promising once you get a majority of all these libertarians everything will then work out into nirvana? Forced employment by unions? What is that supposed to mean? On occasions unions hire a lawyer. They don't force lawyers to work and if anything they hire too many lawyers. They also hire staff and Business agents. Once again no one is forced to work for the union.
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@star_1_man214 I don't have the capital to experience both sides equally like the owners or professors. "It was very hard to get employees too work 40 hours!" I worked six years in a low paying no union retail job. I never took an unapproved day off. Before the great recession they couldn't get people to stay. After the great recession they came up with more and more nitpicking reasons to fire you. I quit twice and could have returned twice also. People come in and buy stuff they don't care nor can the do anything about how a company treats you. If they don't buy there then they buy at WalMart. Capitalism left to its own devices drives down wages. They use to issue very unpopular wage cuts. Now they use the Federal Reserve to 'manage" crisis and inflation takes the place of wage cuts.
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@star_1_man214 We don't need more people opening up lemonade stands or low wage construction companies and then demanding a cut in the minimum wage or overturning the Davis Bacon act so they can compete. The capitalist have been using less as less of their productive capacity so why do they need bigger profits? Are you going to stuff all those extra profits into a mattress? The only way working people can have any real say at work is by organizing into groups and then unions. The capitalist is interested in the bottom line only and next quarters projected profits. Their is always someone outside the door looking for a job. You need to convince the employed that the unemployed are not workers. That's the reasoning behind all the attacks on immigrants, welfare mothers, people of color and deplorable workers in general.
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@star_1_man214 We'd like to have a system with no taxes on the workers and all the taxes on the employers also. That's not going to happen anytime soon. If anything the tax burden shits towards the workers and away from the capitalists. The government says it has a massive debt. Well who has been lending that money to the government and is getting tax dollars to pay it off with interest? The same people who should be paying taxes. The richest people in the world. I don't know anyone who buys savings bonds never mind Treasury bills and Treasury bonds.
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@star_1_man214 You concern over how much union officials are paid and therefore dues is duly noted. Just one question though. When has Wall Street or the Wall Street Journal ever been concerned about a company over profiting at the workers expense?
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@star_1_man214 xyz
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@star_1_man214 I'm going to end this for the same reason that this is not a video about the Civil Rights movement. Instead its a story about Larry and his dad's personal experiences with racism. I'm not interested in discussing your personal problems and your family.
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The real achievements of the Communist movement in America involve the role we played in creating the mass trade unions, the overthrow of Jim Crow segregation, the creation of social wages for those unable to work, the fights waged for democratic rights and against Imperialist wars.
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@CyberRabid. Like any other legal action deportation is a legal process. American Imperialism has created its own problems that it can not solve since capitalism is a way of life for the rich at the expense of everyone else. Capitalism promises a free lunch for investors who do nothing. A system that glorifies and enables the greediest of all as Empire builders is unsustainable.
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@CyberRabid. It's difficult to write laws against publishing books, newspapers and political meetings. In fact we put the FBI on Trial in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. We got a Federal judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's AG Griffin Bell in contempt of court.
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@Plainsburner The only prosperity for the working class with capitalism is created by the class struggle against the capitalist. When the bosses are talking property rights what that means is the right to use scabs protected by police and military force. The right to breakup picket lines and jail strikers. The foreign policy of the Imperialist nations is one that uses military force to defend the rights to own the property located in foreign nations. This is why the US Imperialist can neither forgive nor forget that the Cuban people made a socialist revolution right under their nose kicking out foreign control of the country.
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@Plainsburner Europe is where capitalism with property rights began and it lead to Imperialist war and destruction out of the ashes came Soviet Russia which even under Stalin grew faster and defeated Capitalist NAZI Germany in wars. The reason the US was able to out distance Europe was it entered the two Imperialist world wars after both sides had already done major damage. The People's Republic of China has grown faster than any other country in history because it has adopted state planning along with controlled capitalism with no guaranteed property rights. The only thing capital is capable of is accumulating. It can't escape its natural tendency to decline as skilled labor is replaced with cheaper unskilled labor and machines and labor is replaced with machines. The machines can only save future labor time they can't produce anything by themselves. This process inevitable leads to rising capital value and lower profits on per piece production since labor is the source of the profit meaning the rate of profit by which capital measures success must also decline. So even if capital were to invest perfectly in only expanding production not creating fictitious capital eventually capitalism would come to an end as the profits went to zero.
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@Plainsburner I'm a worker I've participated in making and repairing plenty of things in my life time. So what is your point? That i'd need the capitalist tools or his orders to produce? One of the first actions of a socialist revolution is to raise the cultural and educational level of the masses of working people so they can't be fooled. To open all accounting books and end all business secrecy. Replacing production for profit with production for human needs with workers control of industry. Retool the Imperialist war industries for human needs and to draw in all the unemployed into productive work. To create construction, educational and medical brigades to help the poor nations of the earth with solidarity not a demand for a return on investment.
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@youcanstickit Repeal the Railway "Slave" Labor Act. Tell the bosses come to the table No Strikebreaking by Congress or the President.
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If he really knew what he was doing they'd make him Chairman of the Federal Reserve instead of an obscure Republican ideologue. .
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@jakefastf Of course why else would I have a hammer and sickle our Newspaper is "The Militant." Making a group of workers Illegal is creating a pariah class.
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@docilenation101 Trump can talk all he wants because he is only one guy in the White house. He has "the swamp" not to mention Congress and the Courts to deal with. If he goes beyond what the rest of them are willing to agree with they won't hesitate to impeach him for real.
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@javaally1203 Borders were created in the capitalist era by the rising capitalist class in nation states. They use the borders for the purposes of controling trade. Without a workers foreign policy that will remain true no matter what the immigration policy is. If they can't get cheap labor here they move the plants to the other side of the border as it is now so all your doing is entering into protectionism with them. Sure more workers puts a downward pressure on wages but capitalism always enters a crisis every ten years or so which does that. I don't care about Burnie he's a social democrat who voted for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They want illegal immigration because it gives them a way to create a class of illegal workers.
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@78flossy Capitalism is about making profits for the ruling class not education healthcare or housing for the working class. There system goes into crisis caused by the shift from making profits used to expand production until it becomes more profitable to drive up the value of fictitious capital which produces an economic crisis. These crisis only get worse until their become no way to solve the crisis outside of war between the different ruling classes. Capitalism already produced world war one and two do you want to give them another chance?
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@ItsOlDino Wages are related directly to production. Salaries are paid for management and administration. Profits are what's left over after expenses like wages, salaries and other production input costs are paid and the product is sold in a market. The profits come from the unpaid value that our labor produces. The cost of labor is the social cost of the worker who has to reproduce his labor for the next pay period. The bosses seek to work us the longest hours at the lowest wages and the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. The reinvest the profits to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines to drive profits in their direction. When the run out of ways to invest profits in expanding the production of commodities for markets that become bloated with overproduction they turn to investing to drive up the value of fictitious capital which gets way overvalued until it then collapses causing an economic crisis. An economic crisis occurs when the bosses can't make more profits and they begin layoffs of workers who can no longer buy what the use to produce. Workers are now evicted from homes because rents and mortgages can't be paid when jobs are not available at the old wages because bosses always seek to take advantage of a crisis by paying lower wages.
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@jonathancole5179 Put up a wall turn everyone back or don't it's not going make anything better here. They are coming here because of the economic crisis capitalism has created in their own countries for the promises of American capitalism. They heard all that propaganda about America leading a free world and how capitalism was the solution to all problems and now they are coming here. What did you expect? They here Trump is going to Make America Great Again and even more pack their bags for the trip.
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@andylipsco9783 I'm 71 years old what do expect? What do going to do with the empty buildings? Use them as example of how "capitalism allocates scarce resources" efficiently? That's what your business professors claim. Taxpayers ya the bosses collect the taxes before we get our paycheck and then they collect them at the store after which the capitalist bosses in the government decide how scrooge like they can be. Plenty of money for the military and big banks that end up underwater. Golden Parachutes for the bosses while homeless shelters for the rest of us. They are already talking about a slow moving train wreck caused by over building and financing office buildings. I guess those office buildings turned out to be full of a lot of dead wood for the bosses. Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin all got their advice from Milton Friedman. Don't you remember claiming victory in the cold war? Friedman created an economic crisis called shock therapy to bring back capitalism in Russia. Now you getting the economic crisis that capitalism produces. Sky rocketing profits for the bosses followed by a crash.
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@andylipsco9783 How long before you "go Waco" like Timothy McVeigh? Can we expect to you go all second amendment at the grocery store?
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@andyirons7162 A quick look at his youtube page shows he's headed down the second amendment rabbit hole. With Ronald Reagan as his hero and the NRA becoming traitors. Calling me some who wants others to pay for everything. A whole video about a magnetic holster. Talking about survivalism, worrying about 12 dead marines, talking about doing anything for his kids and living in his car. How long do you think it will take before he loses touch decides he needs to go out and prevent an invasion at the border?
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@Legoman775 What's closing the border going to do? How tight to you want to close it? Do you want to shut down all international trade and travel? Trump was going to fix everything last time? He had four years to close it. You want a closed border call your home owners Assn and have them tell the guard to stop letting people come in.
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@MikeMyers-th1rk Lets go back to 1989. Did Reagan succeed in building a Star Wars defense? How about his friends in Angola? The South African racists, Unita and the mercenaries? Defeated by Cuban Troops at Cuito Cuanavale. How did selling those missiles to Iran and support for the Taliban against the Soviets work out. Gorbachev is out now you've got the Putin and the oligarchy waging a two year war in central Europe and the reactionary Islamist Iran waging a war in the middle east. Do you remember Bushes "Ownership Society" of homeowners and Bush "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle defeating an axis of evil. Do you call the crisis of 2008 another victory? Cuba is still 90 miles away and undefeated. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics is having a stock market crash as I write.
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@Account-jn7xu You began using deportations against foreign born communist, socialists, anarchists and labor radicals. Those were the Palmer Raids following the 1917 Russian Revolution in 1919 and 1920 when AG Palmer was afraid of a 1920 May Day bolshevik uprising like in Soviet Russia. FDR refused entry to a ship load of Jews from Europe in 1939. After WW2 The US proposed the Universal Declaration oh Human Rights. Now you wish you didn't? Anyone who enters is guaranteed some kind of legal process. Everyone is allowed to seek asylum in another country. All under a Declaration the US wrote for its own propaganda purposes.
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@WoKEWoRLdMAdNess Wrong well just how wrong am I? Wrong that the Soviet Union accepted a whole ship load, 249, sent back to Soviet Russia called the "Soviet Ark" by the US Press. Lenin is said t have spoken with the Anarchist Goldman who was an anarchist political opponent of a workers state. You wrote anti socialist laws accused us of the same thing you accuse Trump of under the same witch hunt laws you used against Trump,.The espionage act and refused to seat elected Socialist Congressmen Victor Berger under the clause three of the 14th Amendment. You and amnestied almost all the Confederates in 1872 since then three people have been hit with section three Berger an official in Az who was a trespasser at Jan 6th and Trump.
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@Account-jn7xu Will they get less profits? On cars produced in Mexico yes but now they will raise the price of all cars sold in the US since they own the production facilities on both sides of the border. They have extra capacity in building automobiles so they can shift production of say GM and Ford Pickups towards the US or Mexico if they choose by adding or subtracting manufacturing time in the week. When they sell themselves parts across the border how carefully do you think customs looks into those prices? You'd pay a lot more for a car if you had to buy the parts and self assemble.
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@Beholder505 You don't have any control over taxes in the first place. The bosses collect the taxes for the government at store and out of your check before you see any of it in the first place. Its only a waste of money which is why the rest of the ruling class doesn't want to pay for it. Bosses don't pay based upon immigration status. They don't want full employment because that would cut into profits. So it makes no difference if the open or close the border to us. If you don't immigrants in your neighborhood go and hire a guard and put up a fence.that way you can hide out in your safe space.
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@Gesus111 A large section of the ruling class fears he won't do what is in the best interests of the American Empire. His questioning of Imperialist foreign policy has them upset because Bourgeois foreign policy is NOT something they want to debate about.
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This is the natural result of capitalism and the end of capitalist development.
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@gibbsey9579 They problem od course is that capitalism goes into crisis and then it can't be fixed with the usual methods. Sowell comes out of hiding then he gives the usual answer. It works fine until it doesn't if only people paid the unavoidable mortgages. If only we could go hat in hand for a bailout like the big banks.
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@caesarismisorder8295 The capitalist government needs to stay out of the negotiating process.
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Steve Jobs got the seed money to start Apple by selling '"Blue Boxes" made by him and his partner. The illegal "Blue Box" was used to rip off Ma Bell's expensive long distance tariffs at the time. Had he not quit while ahead he could of very well been wearing a federal "Orange Jump" along with a number instead of a name for a couple of years instead of getting rich using others talents. .
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What breaks up families is bosses realizing that they only need to pay for a single worker and not a family. Then there was the three general strikes of 1934 lead by different factions of the Communist Party. All broke new ground for the working class. The raised hope for millions decimated by the capitalist greed of the 1929 Wall Street crash. The UAW one of the most militant unions of the CIO took over plants, expelled foreman and bombarded the cops with the chevy door hinge.
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@ibberman US Imperialism is doing such a good job at nation building in the Western hemisphere. Bill Gatea, Trump and Soros have theirs that's all that matters right? You won the cold war didn't you? What's the problem capitalism not working?
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A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
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@julianpetkov8320 LMAO.
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This is a made up LIE being told by the US Gov't.
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@corredor305 Bushes "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces rule of the 'jungle is capiatalisms "New World Disorder? As American Imperialism did not win the cold war but instead has enered an economic crisis starting with 2008. End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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SantiagoDeTortillas Every year the whole world votes against the US Blockade so if it has no effect why does every country with the exception of the US and Israel in the world vote against it at the UN? Obviously US NATO allies like Canada, the UK, France, Germany don't cast meaningless foreign policy votes. The US 60 year blockade is meant to punish the Cuban people for tossing out their dictator Batista.499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@mathoskualawa9000 Plenty of Protests in the Capitalist world. Those are people who really suffer under capitalism. The end of favorable trade relations with the Eastern bloc countries ended in 1990 and the US Blockade was tightened even more.
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@lindawade9647 Like any capitalist army its made of poor peasants and workers children asked to die for a corrupt officer corps and the upper classes benefit. it's wiped into shape with brutality and fear of its commanders its moral quickly disintegrates under any real pressure. The British long ago realized a conscript army is best used against different religious and ethnic nationalities and not against its own people. Eventially even their Army would fight for Britain in multinational and religious india. The British successfully used Irish Troops every where but in Ireland. The lost their first colony Ireland at the end of WW1. The lost the rest of the Empire with the end of WW2.
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@adoe2305 I think of him as a joke some one who is a clown and doesn't even realize it. He always pretends to be surprised when he gets an answer i expect already. Put him and Michael Moore together and you got a Mutt and Jeff comedy team.
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What "marxist" organization did he ever belong to? You social democrats want him. You can have him.
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@wheel-man5319 Because administration and management are just skills that can be acquired without paying the wealth of a Russian CZAR to the practitioners..
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@axidhaus like what would you buy with $100 grand in today's money? Capitalist's make their money through exploiting labor not being the labor and buying a few tools. They get rich though monopoly business tactics. $100 grand won't buy you a new Tractor for use as a tractor trailer. Administration and management are skills the teach in college along with calculations. .
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@notuxnobux Now we make fun of Swedes who think that they have achieved perfection. Volvo trucks proves Swedish bosses are profit hungry bosses. They threatened to run scabs in Dublin, VA.
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@TTFN55 Just another right wing bug a boo theory where everything would work without government spending any money.
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He assures the doubtful that capitalism and markets are the solution to everything along with private property ownership.
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No CRT is teaching the lie that the US was founded on ideas (Democracy and White Supremacy) and not an economic system of capitalism with slavery grafted on to it.
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When the bosses and banks have all the money and everything goes automation who will buy the products?
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Well right now the UAW is screwing the right people lazy sons a bitches stockholders.
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@kevinward7498 He speaks to ua as the great liberator of humanity showing us how we can build a better world.
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@rangerista3933 That was a symbol conceived of by Trotsky as the revolutionary alliance between the Workers and Farmers with a bright future as symbolized by the star. Why do you think American capitalist are so significantly better than their NAZI's counter parts? Henry Ford published "The International Jew" which was translated and republished by Hitler. Hitler modeled anti Jewish Nuremberg laws on US Segregation seperate but equal laws. FDR opened up concentration camps for Japanese American citizens. FDR refused asylum to a ship load of Jews. J Edgar Hoover ran a Gestapo. Joe Kennedy reported back that Hitler was someone you could do business with. Stalin and Hitler had the Communist Left opposition murdered. FDR put the left communist opposition in Prison. Eisenhower had communist executed during "peacetime". Twenty million Soviet Soldiers died to rid the world of Hitler's Regime. Less than half a million Americans died. Hitler launched missiles at London civilians and the allies firebombed Dresden and Tokyo. The Japanese used biological warfare on the Chinese and the US used nuclear weapons on the Japaneses. The British Imperialist Churchill ruled India as a dictator. When India's bengal province was having a famine Churchill asked is Ghandi dead yet? Just tell us what Stalin or Mao did that the Western Imperialist didn't do in their haste to become rich. Stalin or Mao every launch the carpet bombing of the small nations like the US did in Korea or Vietnam? Did they ever drop nuclear weapons on people? Seems like you got a lot to answer for before you start this talk of US and UK morality over Hitler and the Soviet Union. If Stalin and Hitler were equal why didn't they gang up on you instead of being mortal enemies.
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@rangerista3933 The British Imperialist easily out do anyone else for war crimes and unnecessary famines.
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@FRN2013 Jobs Iphone. Just a 3 way marriage between a digital cellphone, the internet and a computer all made possible by Moore's law.
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Bosses capitalist system in crisis. Too big too fail wants bailout.
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@TROLLBUSTER12 Repeal the Railway "slave" Labor Act. No strike breaking by Congress or the President.
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Basicly this is an advertisement.
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He needs to buy a wet noodle so he can beat himself evernight for being non Anglo saxon.
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The workers are in a class conflict with the capitalist class. It's the capitalist profit system that is in a world wide crisis caused by its own natural workings.
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His idea is to cancel social security for welfare. We need to rebuild the unions and fight back not new welfare schemes.
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@supkoopertttt8777 The American Imperialist make no permanent friends. The American Stalinist's found that out with the end of WW2.
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@supkoopertttt8777 I don't need English lessons from a snob.
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US Supreme Court has already said otherwise.
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@starventure Wages are going up in Mexico and China.
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Do us all a favor and self checkout.
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Keeping that coal from the end user is not what the bosses expected. This here is a real action of class struggle.
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@annetteavery4930 Best social program for crime is a job at a union wage and with union conditions. Stop the give away to the wealthy bond holders make them pay taxes instead of borrowing their money.
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@christarpley6861 Nothing can be done at the border because it's just part of the result of failed US capitalist two party foreign policy of supporting dictatorships world wide for cheap labor.
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@gunsrfun378 No I'm 68 years old. I object to conservative red baiting as the Communist movement split in 1928 and as a former Princeton professor of political science she should know that not all "Marxist" agree, and that anyone can call themselves a Marxists also. I'm sure she wouldn't like to be labeled a fascist either. I also object to liberal hypocrisy and the encouragement of rioting and property destruction by anyone including Black Democrats. The US Constitution guarantees the right to peaceable assemble for redress of grievances also. Protesting the governments refusal to investigate and punish those who violate the 4th amendment rights right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, is a not a crime but a serious matter not to be taken lightly. I doubt the good professor would want her home broken into by police in the middle of the night by those who had perjured themselves to a judge to obtain a search warrant.
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@botchii3059 The Soviet Union put the first artificial satellite into space. Scared the shit out of American capitalists.
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@DC-wg1cr Your joking right? I guess you missed how those wildfires in California were caused by PG&E mismanagement. Saving a buck on maintenance so investors could make big profits with little to no risk. Last I heard they shut down causing mega losses.
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@DC-wg1cr Try as you may you can't regulate greed out of capitalism.
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What did people use in California before the Camp Fire? Electricity.
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The problem is the capitalist private property system itself. The struggle to replace it will come from the exploited production workers not the capitalist government instituting reforms.
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@mikehallman6129 March in the streets to defend abortion rights.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful There is no plan. Al that is is conspiracy theory. Plus she already showed her loyalty working in the Bush Administration. The national banks want some type of guarantees before they hand out capital to all the small business who were bankrupted by the lock down. No one wants to pay market rate for loans that have little secrurity to back them. Banks don't want the collateral from another crisis since they can't sell anything their is no market for. Nor does anyone want to go to work for wages that won't pay them to more than what the got on UI during the pandemic. The real capitalist not the small businessman running a restaurant or Barroom aren't sure what to do they are driven by the profit quest which is working but at least some of them also realize its not working for the working class. That is what is driving the two party division. One group thinks more tax cuts will solve the problem while the other wants more spending and higher taxes. Who do you think decides now who gets a loan? You think it is some kind of "fair" process because of "free markets". You really aren't that naive are you?
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@EmptyMirrorMindful When was the last time you tried to borrow money? I've got a 700+ credit rating I couldn't get a 20K secured auto loan from either Bank Of America or a Community Bank before Covid. The only way these small buinesses will get loans is if either the government makes or guarantees them. In 2003 I borrowed 10K at about 5% on my signature alone.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful The medical system has a lot of faults. You want an unregulated capitalist medicene system you be treated by Doctors who learned their trade as meat packers and drugs made out of milkweed and opium. A Doctor can already prescribe any drug approved by the FDA for any medical purpose. That doesn't mean he is allowed to act recklessly and proscribe Trumps idea of what is a medicine for covid. But hey Robitussin can cure cancer right? If a Doctor just gave you what you wanted he wouldn't need an education and you'd be suing him for mal practice. Most American Doctors specialize and rely on the Drug companies who get FDA approval for advice on what to prescribe.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful Sure that's a nice theory. Just like all this BS about free markets bringing freedom. How long do you think the small businessmen will be willing to wait for approval? No one is putting money in these community banks at .05 % interest so they are dependent on the big banks for a discount rate to make loans. Its the Banks that want the guarantees not the small businesses or me. The Federal Reserve is owned by the Nationally Chartered Banks. Every capitalist financial crisis results in fewer but bigger banks as the biggest eat up the smallest. plus she is if anything a Stalinist who are opposed not to capitalism but revolutionary socialism. Stalin had 1000's of loyal communist murdered in the Soviet Union and !00's in Spain. He had Trotsky murdered in Mexico City.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful What will bring about the end of capitalism is not proof of socialism working but capitalism destroying itself. This is what has been happening in the world since 1914. The capitalist nations have been fighting each other for markets, colonies and cheap labor. The Russian revolution was the response to Imperialism. The English merchants and traders got tired of paying taxes to King Charles who was going about the country fighting useless wars destroying wealth for power and prestige. The American workers will tire of paying for a class of foreign investors who destroy the world just so they can keep a profits measured in paper money and electrons following into bank vaults.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful Do you think you live under self rule today when big companies and the rich get to determine almost all of who you get to vote for as two party candidates? Do you think people are being oppressed in Cuba? I'd like to know just who it is that wasn't gulity of the serious crimes they were charged with. Socialist aren't MLK and Ghandi who just wait to be assassinated. We are for self defense not proving that we can be killed by gangsters and terrorists. If capitalism and free markets are such a source of freedom why don't the wealth middle east countries who were under the influence of France, England and now the US have western democracies with free speech norms? Why did the US support the most brutal dictatorships as bulwarks against communism and use body counts to measure victory in Vietnam? Stalin was corrected by the 1989 popular revolutions. On paper we have more rights than Canadian's but they seem to have a much less violent state and society.
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@Sojourner_40 Most of the two party politicians have never even belonged to a union. FDR said he was the capitalist best friend. Burning down cities has nothing to do with Socialism or Marxism. Just point out where a well known Marxist ever said, "We should burn down cities." The Stalinist's are the ones who oppose free speech. I don't vote for capitalist two party politicians. If I could put Ayn Rand on the witness stand she would have to testify she was a self admitted and known bourgeois student who got her university degree because the Bolsheviks opened them to women students and also receive did advanced study before leaving legally for the US a country that had fought against the Red Army and been defeated that had no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in Lenin's time. Liberals are NOT Marxists either.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful What do you think the split between the Menshiviks and Bolsheviks was all about? Liberals in the media with university educations aren't being fooled they want to save capitalism along with the opportunists and reformist in the labor movement. Their attacks are aimed at shutting up opposition to their policies.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful Sure you want to set the definition so you ca talk about capitalism superiority. Well you lost the cold war because you were unable to defeat the Stalinist militarily who instead were defeated internally by popular revolutions. Now the world's Imperialist powers are even more divided and the capitalist world is in an ongoing decline and economic crisis since 2008. After 20 years and 2.3 trillion dollars the worlds most powerful Imperialist Empire was run out of Afghanistan by nothing more than small arms and IED's by a rag tag army of reactionary Islamist's. The French just held an election where only about 30% of the electorate bothered to vote. In the US the two party system is under continual preasure. The Modi Regime was just forced to back down in its attack on farmers by massive year long protests. In China a new independent labor movement and big new working class has show its power in strikes that made gains for workers. Mean while Socialist Cuba stands up to Imperialist threats and a cruel 60 year Blockade just 90 miles from the Empire. The recent plan by the supporters of US Imperialism to have demonstrations on Nov 15 fizzed as admitted by the NYT. Cuba sticks like bone in the Imperialist throat at the UN and around the world where almost every country including US allies votes against the blockade. If capitalism was so much better they wouldn't need to blockade the country after all trade should lead to freedom according to capitalist ideologues. In Cuba the workers and farmers are the government not big capitalist bankers and bosses like in the US. For the US Empire to remain a world power it must be able to militarily defend foreign investment and profits. The poor of the world are the victims of a system that puts capitalist profit ahead of human needs and what happen to Charles the fist who was convicted of having the fever of tyrants going about the country destroying things with tax money will also be the fate of Americans Imperialist Empire for the working people are feed up with paying taxes to destroy the world at the wim of the Washington war makers. .
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@EmptyMirrorMindful I get an even bigger kick out of people who can only say that I don't know the facts. I present mostly facts that are then un refutable. Then people like you come along and say I'm lacking in your type of real knowledge and truth.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful Lets make you an English peer back before the English revolution and you can say to the commons well where has their ever been a country where wars were unnecessary for a king to retain his power and collect his taxes. King Charles was convicted of making unnecessary wars destroying the country for his tax money. All you need to do is explain how the American Imperialist can collect the profits from their foreign investments without using military force and destruction to keep the profits rolling in.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful I don't have to prove anything to you. No one needs your permission to engage in the class struggle either. You lost he cold war because the Stalinist had been taking the Soviet Union back to capitalism under Stalin and the only group that was defeated were the Stalinist by popular revolutions. Reagan was reduced to making a big noise. At the same time his reps signed the death warrant for South African apartheid with revolutionary Cuba in the New York accords ending the war in Angola. For capitalism to win it must create a stable world system which is not possible due to competition between the national capitalist ruling classes for foreign markets in the Imperialist era. It's either socialism and national self determination or its World War 3.
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@EmptyMirrorMindful Why should I? All you want to do is talk about how you can become another "pink elephant" who lives in Jersey with capitalist opportunity and mentoring. You can see how the Right treats working class traitors like Omarava. No matter how much she denies being a communists she will always be tagged as one.
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@knowlesbetter2925 Its a witch hunt directed at anyone who oppose the capitalist ruling classes policy even if they are a capitalist like Donald Trump. His sin was to raise questions about the profit driven foreign policy and Clinton's hypocrisy. .
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We are already building trade union support for the fight against Jew Hatred like those of Hamas and the holocaust denying Iranian regime in Iran that wants to build a nuclear weapon.
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@ninja12lawbreaker In the end it changes nothing since capitalism always functions this way. Naturally the rich are avoiding taxes with the help of the banks why do you think the pay for the campaigns of the politicians. Sure they punish rogue actors once in a while to make the system to appear to be based in justice. When it's really a system for iust them not Just us.
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@johnrakthai Sowell has been campaigning against Blacks or anyone else doing anything but voting Republican for 60 years now. .It goes along with his no solutions only trade offs theory. Of course if his theories were true than Conservative Republicans not a Southern Democrat from Texas would have presided over the passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. What put an end to Jim Crow was not votes but massive protests against it from the March on Washington, the Selma,bus boycott and the sit ins at lunch counters. .
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@johnrakthai Nice to know your just another Uniparty Rino like Sowell.
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@johnrakthai Sowell has is own version of political correctness where only Republican companies and the bosses who run them are capable of anything correct. Sowells theories will never explain how Jim Crow came to an end or why the end of the cold war didn't usher in bright and shiny democracies that the neoliberals predict in the countries who adopt capitalism. Classical liberalism ended with the British banking crisis and the guns of 1914. Neoliberalism passed its prime in with 9/11 and the crisis of 2008.
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@johnrakthai Profits are the results of exploitation since they are not connected to the labor of the bosses. A capitalist can work sixty hours or no hours and his profits or losses are independent of the time he puts in as a manager so his profits can not be wages which are dependent on labor. To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion.
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From the point of the class that exploits us the capitalist class of good for nothing billionaire bosses. The same ones who spent 2.3 trillion destroying Afghanistan.
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@syourke3 So? When we run candidates for office we don't worry about 5 o'clock shadow like the American Professors of so called political science. Marx and Engels are credited for founding the communist movement not for running popularity contests.
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@janstan8407 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@ifefalope2788 Sowell never debates anyone preferring instead to launch attacks for the security of the Bourgeois professors chair.
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@DionPaterson Listening to a fool who thinks he can raise a valid criticism against Karl Marx when he doesn't understand in the least the teachings of Karl Marx instead preferring to adopt the typical consevative mud slinging against liberals by calling the communists.
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Democrats realize a wall around Congress is more cost effective.
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@rachelaguirre9283 Yes Hamas "Indigenous Billionaires" launching a genocidal Pogrom from the safe space of Qatar!!! No different than the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an ally of Hitler and raised a Muslim militia for the final solution.
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The title to this video should be retitled "One big lie." Instead of "What Socialist will never tell you about the Soviet Economy." The Speaker spends most of his time talking about the CZARIST Russian Empire and little to nothing about the Soviet Economy. Since Lenin and Trotsky never denied the situation they faced as the most backward nation in Europe.
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@nancycrisman7496 Don't be fooled this is just a video posted by a group funded by rival Chinese Capitalists The NEW TANG DYNASTY. Note how the proposed solution is a free market which is promising lower prices. You don't buy crap as stupid as that do you? Electrical, Gas and Oil production doesn't get them big enough profits which is why they don't invest. They make more money gambling with Wall St hedge funds and other easy steals like the Federal Reserve bank.
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@nancycrisman7496 At the end of a day a Chinese capitalist is just as greedy as an American one. Gates is the guy crying about all his loss of intellectual property to China because they won't pay him $20 for every copy of Windows. Spys at universities. All they have to do is buy books and read English. You some kind of crazy women waving a flag like Joe Biden and his "Let a thousand flags wave" inauguration. Believe what you want but conspiracy theory only makes for good novels. The real world isn't the Manchurian candidate. A capitalist only cares about getting the biggest return on investment. They live in New Jersey and Connecticut or China. If the lights going out in Texas doesn't directly affect them. If it does then they get on a plane like Ted Cruz and go for a vacation in Mexico or they go skiing. Its a minor inconvenience for them. They have professional managers who make most of the decisions and they live and work here in the US not China. Ted Cruz and Gov Abbot are examples.
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@nancycrisman7496 American Thought leaders are connected to the Epoch Times and the are financed by the New Tang Dynasty Television and connected with an exercise and religious group the Falun Gong. A Chinese American capitalist guy named John Tang is at the center of the thing.
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@nancycrisman7496 Any electrician who didn't sleep through apprenticeship class can tell you what's wrong with the Texas electric system. You need no fancy Harvard Degree like Ted Cruz.
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Stossel is a BIG BUSINESS Stooge.
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@paulyisgoingagainstthegrai2952 The libertarian idea that small business is the solution is utopian. In the end it ends up playing back into the hands of big business and well street profiteers. Plenty of political demagogues are against Big Business including people from Trump to Hugo Chavez.
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@paulyisgoingagainstthegrai2952 All big business's are set up as corporations because of the many advantages of incorporation over individual proprietorship.
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@ericaespinosa4030 Want to lead a coup in your country for fun and profit? Call 1 800 Mike Pence for US ruling class support.
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I hope ICE gets run out of town.
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@royallanjeffries6307 The way forward is with a fighting union movement.
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@TM-173 That's is the way capitalism works. It's all about "too big to fail" now with guaranteed boss profits.
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Reagan was reckless spender giving aid to gangsters in Central America and Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan. He dreamed of a first strike nuclear capability with a star wars defense.
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The make what the rest of us should be making with a union shop.
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Like we don't have a two party capitalist dictatorship as it is now. The Soviet Soldiers of Trotsky's Red Army elected the non commissioned officers and then the commissioned officers were under Bolshevik political control of the Army commissars so that the plans would be carried out without sabotage to defend the revolution from the 14 Imperialist nations that invaded including the US/UK.
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Increased wages mean an end ti record profits for do nothing bosses.
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@alt_wespe The so called Democratic Imperialist Britain, the US and France have fought the most wars.
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@philcollins2546 Why should we pay for other countries war efforts. We should be sending economic solidarity instead.
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@V01DIORE Last time I check we get paid by the hour not by the child. If the rich want servants let them have more children. Nothing stopping Trump's wives and consorts from getting pregnant is there?
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@joshyang7226 I think actual a sympton of a failing capitalist sytem.
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@freedomworks3976 Getting all the socialist to leave so the workers have no leaders to fight the capitalist system. Sounds like the CZAR sending everyone to Siberia. The American capitalist use to need immigrants because so many went west to be free peasant farmers. Now they don't know if they want immigrants or don't want immigrants.
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@freedomworks3976 Labor produces all value. The capitalist is the one who demands a free lunch. You don't earn anything by investing. The only purpose money serves in capitalism is as an accounting system. A system that becomes crisis ridden as the goal is to produces the biggest profits and pay the lowest wages. Capitalism is a crisis ridden system that is based in nation states but operates in a world market. The Imperialist national ruling classes are to greedy to ever share production on a world scale. What that means is war by the ruling classes to maximize profits for their group of capitalist nations.
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@kev9617 The capitalist constantly push up the value of fictitious capital demanding more from the fewer workers that are hired after the last round of layoffs and crisis. They want what is not possible to constantly get more from less production labor after they bring in new machines to drive profits in their direction for markets that are already saturated with product that has no buyers. They end up creating unpayable debts until another crash occurs.
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@mattharv24 We need a NEW Party.
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Most of what is going on in the world today can be explained by understanding what communism is and what it is not and the simplistic ideas of Petersen. Like those of man being in struggle between good and evil which explains nothing along with his reliance upon religious texts like the bible to do his thinking for him. Petersen is quite frankly is Stalin-a-phobe. Some one he attributes everything bad in the 20th Century as an out growth of misguided intellectuals like himself. Like most Anglo Saxon Parliamentarian types one needs only make feudalism a bit more democratic. The cutting off of King Charles head was just a bit to radical. Yet anyone looking at the second world war can easily find out that the Democratic Imperialist FDR and Churchill were allied with Stalin and wanted Stalin to fight their capitalist competition and Imperialist enemy NAZI Germany. There was no military victory over communism by the Imperialist powers rather the Stalinist's surrendered economically and politically with Stalin's heirs Gorbachev and Yeltsin leading the way back to capitalism just as Leon Trotsky had said Stalin's bureaucracy would.
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Worshiping the Golden calf again are you?
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@hotbello0071 Why stop with Petersen and not praise the rest of your innovative "success stories" like PCB's, DDT and leaded gasoline along with free markets ideas like the Great Depression, Shock Therapy and the Crisis of 2008. I here Musk is saving you a seat on his spaceship to Mars once he can get it off the free lunch pad for government contractors.
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@hughjohns9110 Capitalist government of four presidents from both parties had 5 trillion dollars for use in making Imperialist wars in its exercise in nation building and defending the investments and profits of the bosses but now it has nothing for the workers who sons and daughter die for the Imperialist war machine. As far as the capitalist are concerned the workers supply labor at a price that is just that to get us to come back for another pay period. Why should they lose their profits to workers healthcare when they can hire another worker?
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@coolioso808 Why stop their should a campaign to canonize a Christ like savior of capitalism who comes down from heaven like Sowell get underway before he becomes completely forgotten or despised like all the others?
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@coolioso808 Plenty of statues were erected to Confederate civil war heros also. The rising tide floats all boats theory ended in 2008 when the tide went out and left the small boats inexplicable stranded. But ya I can see Sowell's wealthy upper class California community of bi racial liberals in Concord building a monument to a new Savior they will probably put up a statue of Obama and Hillary Clinton in Wellesley MA also. Afterall you going to need all the saviors you can find.
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The US is an Imperialist investors Empire it fears Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. These Capitalist nations all have wealthy ruling classes with their own national interests in the fight for profits in the world market. The capitalist where ever they are based fear the working class as seen in their attacks upon living standards, trade wars and real wars.
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@luchalerae7687 The US needs to end its blockade and withdraw it Troops from the Korea.
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Look a guy providing the hall or chairs or some other material for a gay wedding could refuse under that doctrine. He refused to provide service saying his company did not provide bake goods for gay weddings.
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I hope that people go to Muslim bakeries and if they bake cakes for weddings ask to buy one and then after the agree to make one of your liking just mention that the cake is for a friends gay wedding.
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Government does not recognize religious belief. It is prohibited from favoring a religion or preventing the free exercise their of. Buying and selling wedding cakes are commercial transactions not religious ones. He stated that his company did not sell wedding cakes for same sex marriages. His claim now is that by selling the cake he would be endorsing the wedding. The only thing he is doing is making a cake for which he will be paid at the time of the transaction. Most weddings involve gifts so could companies refuse to sell any commodity because it would be given as a gift in a same sex union? His religious freedom and his speech ends once the transaction has been made. No one can seriously believe he is endorsing the wedding by baking a cake.
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The baker wasn't asked about his religious belief he was asked about a wedding cake to which he responded his company policy was not to sell baked goods for same sex marriage.
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"He is participating in and therefore supporting the act in which he does not agree with." No he is selling a wedding cake which will be eaten after the wedding. Under that theory any merchant that sells a product used in a gay wedding could refuse to sell and merchants supplying gifts could also refuse to sell to customers. Outside of himself and friends no one seriously believes he is endorsing gay marriage by selling a wedding cake. Also the notion that free markets are the best thing since sliced bread is wrong. They don't solve problems but usually make them. Otherwise their would be no need for laws and regulations.
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No one is saying he can't have values the question is as a corporation does he have the right to refuse service on religious grounds? If the court says yes then that will rip a big hole in public accommodation law. All kinds of religious doctrine will now be used as a way to refuse service. He has lost every appeal so far but because each inferior appellate court has decided to look at it and the Supreme court has also decided to look at it some sort of more serious look is going to be taken.
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I don't see how eating or not eating animals is a religious belief. In my time catholics could not eat meat on Friday so the school always served a hot lunch usually with fish instead of chicken, beef or pork. I could see Hindu parents wanting a non beef meal being served.
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The couple is not asking a Hindu restaurant to make a hamburgers. They asked a custom wedding cake baker to make them a custom wedding cake. He refused outright. His defense is that Jesus told him not to bake custom wedding cakes for gays.
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Maybe you should explain the difference? Let us in on Sex 101 for Numbskulls at Harvard. You lost all your mileage based on me not being a true blue American like you so now I am chronic liar? If anyone is a chronic liar (lawyer) it's you.
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At the end of the day he will never be required to personally make a gay wedding cake but if he is ruled against he won't be making wedding cakes for sale to anyone as Masterpiece cakeshop once did. Unless he decides to change his mind or moves out of Colorado. Who knows the Pope might hire as chief wedding cake baker for Vatican City.
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Yes as a communist I am a small, medium and large business persecutor. He has a choice operate under public accommodation law or go out of business. Crying about not being able to practice discrimination by claiming Jesus as the excuse doesn't buy me any sympathy. According to capitalist business theory some one else will fill the marketplace anyhow. Unless he is being given support from Alliance Defending Freedom he seems to be doing just fine despite the TV poverty and cry baby acts
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@itgetter9 I want to belong to a union that fights back instead of being told to keep your head down, some mumbo jumbo about past loses at arbitration, a promise to hire a lawyer and how I might get arrested.
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Its seems this is just more technology to detect minor infractions. Money to go after vaporers but not enough for paper, pencils, and school musical instruments. This needs to go along with red light cameras and drunk driving roadblocks.
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@denisecoolledge8406 He doing well when campaigning against the CCP takeover in Florida.
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@moonbentley7412 I can't help but laugh at you fools who think they are 'getting ahead' because you've been able to grab a littler wealth. LOL LOL LOL easily fooled and bought off with trinkets. At least the Indian's who sold Manhattan had no idea how capitalism works but you guys claim to know everything.
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@DrDangerPuppy Trump is considered to be a traitor to the rest of the capitalist class. He had no idea how corrupt they really are.
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@jenniferhouse1939 Its not some foreign power that is attacking the national government that requires its defense like in the war of 1812 but the threat has become the national government itself. Those three letter agencies are never changing only the people at the top get rotated in and out. When Trump came into office he was suppose to thank the secret police for their outstanding work not get mad about being spied upon. Like legal corruption spies and frame jobs are part of the way a minority of bankers and bosses keeps things under control. When the system isn't working through ordinary methods of bribery, propaganda and deception than the more secret and criminal methods come into play. The pillow guy thinks he has a right to express his views to state legislatures on voting security quickly finds himself confronted by FBI intimidation tactics worthy of a movie thriller and has his phone seized. That was all it took to scare all his business associates and interfere in his ability to communicate.
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The problem for capitalism is the class struggle is on the rise against a declining world capitalism.
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@PrincepratapsinghRawat-cw5em Capitalism creates it own gravediggers the industrial working class. Communism is the scientific movement of that class. Stalin represented a break not a continuation of Marx and Lenin. Stalin carried out the murder of Lenin's party.
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Sure this is the message you love to gear. The fact that you've been broadcasting it around the world and no one believes it is your own fault.
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@etchalaco9971 Both the Russian and Cuban revolution show that the workers need not be an absolute majority to take power and lead a revolution against the Bourgeois both nationally and internationally. Both those revolutions show that it is not the lack of the workers ability to fight and struggle but of constructing a revolutionary leadership before the crisis comes that will give the revolution the possibility of victory.
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@etchalaco9971 It was the rightest German Social Democrats who began rising Marx into a harmless social reformer and denying the ractionary nature of their own ruling class such that when war came they had already voted for war credits for their own ruling class. This is what Lenin fought against along with Trotsky who joined him. It was also Lenin who realised that the national aspirations of the colonial and semi colonial people lead in a revolution nationalist and therefore socialist direction. That comes from the fact that Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Any struggles for national independence against the Imperialist powers lead towards the socialist revolution.
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@etchalaco9971 Sure it does just look what Fidel Castro has accomplished in healthcare and education. Where ever those Cuban doctors go they are ambassadors for socialist revolution. Do you have any idea how many working people dream of their children becoming Doctors or Engineers? Education is one of the biggest ways that capitalism is perpetuated. Breaking the ruling class monopoly on education is one of the things that will help bring down the capitalist ruling classes.
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@Jack Sparrow They say cut back!!! We say fight back!!!
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@jojosewist8921 I don't want Trumps money or free stuff. I want to be able to buy bread and milk at the store. I mean I thought this was Texas not Venezuela.
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Racism came with the new capitalist system in Europe it will die in the coming world socialist revolution. It began as a justification of black plantation slavery.
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They need to raise John Stossels tax.
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@RobinHerzig If that's true what are they doing in the party of money? If they aren't taking corporate money why are in the same party?
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@RobinHerzig Just an excuse to lead the workers behind the Democratic "Capitalist" Party machine until you become indistinguishable from Clinton, Obama, Carter, and Biden. Your marching your way into oblivion. Next thing you know you'll be voting for their wars in exchange for some petty reform. Just like Sanders who began as an anti Imperialist until he became "too important" to lose that Senate seat. Next thing you know you'll be telling us about the "Socialist Kingdom of Sweden" and the Good safety record of the Volvo bosses who threaten to run scabs at the Dublin , VA Truck plant.
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What this shows is the arrogance that Judges have for the working class. We are just the guy who mows the Golf Course so they can hit a few balls after a hard four minutes on the bench.
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@donaldcampbell7755 The only thing more ridiculous than Joe McCarthy accusing the Army and State Dept being infiltrated by communists is Sowell's claim that the US Labor Dept operations convinced him Marx was wrong. Obviously he missed Marx's teaching on the state and its not like the question of the state wasn't in the news at this time since the Cuba revolution was going on in 1960 and the US Gov't hostility to the revolution was on full display while he was at U Chicago listening to Milton Freedman. As early as the Manifesto Marx states that the workers can't readily use the state in their interests. Then later in writing on the Paris commune he commends the Communards on building a new State and then if you still don't understand Marx on the State you have State and Revolution by Lenin. A refutation of the reformists and revisionist views on the state.
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@donaldcampbell7755 As far as Professor Peterson goes he appears to be a mass of contradictions. He names his daughter after the last Stalinist leader of the Soviet Union. He appears to have no inkling about the economic workings of capitalism. Talking about the productivity of Elon Musk and not understanding cryptocurrency as flawed as any other currency if not more so. He seems to finally realize that Post Modernist aren't necessarily the inheritors of Marx's ideas.
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@fukmbabe2786 Amy Goodman gone over to the side of the "Nation Security" dictatorship.
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@seanfraid2675 The FBI and the Intelligence agencies are "The Enemy". The whole "Russian connection" Steele dossier is now in doubt as indictment of the sourse come down. Once again lying to the FBI is one of the charges. If you don't talk you can't lie.
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@richardstrongismokecigarsa7215 You want us to do more work in less time so you can take home bigger profits.
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@richardstrongismokecigarsa7215 My bet is the next recession will be taking down a lot of Ben Shapiro Mud Pie manufacturers. In business the big fish eats the small fry. WalMart ate up others the way a Cannibal eats human flesh.
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Sure and Alex Jones will report on the latest George Soros communist conspiracy to takeover the UN and make the US into a colony of Cuba and Raul Castro. LOL
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@xvsupremacy7190 Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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@seeker406 He and his group of goons were told they were unwelcome by march organizers. March organizers have a right to exclude those they feel don't convey a marches message. That is in effect the protection of free speech not a violation. The US Supreme court correctly ruled that a South Boston St Patrick's day parade committee did not have to include a gay pride contingent. The far right is more interested in having boxing matches than debates. Tommy Robinson's political activity shows that and that was most likely why he was excluded.
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@seeker406 He's been a long time ultra righest. We are quite familiar with the way fascist organizations work. They look for reasons to launch physical assaults. It appears he began his activism with an drunken assault on an undercover cop. Spending time in jail which is probably where they recruited him to the fascist movement. He gets arrested for assaulting one of his own followers. He gets arrested for a fight between football fans. The fascists are also known for involvement with the police intelligence agencies. Who knows what or why that he gets arrested now maybe he wants the attention. How does a high ranking cop know where he is and mobilizes 50 cops to arrest him with a journalist looking on. People who are provocateurs often raise more questions than they answer. We had similar problems with Stalinists and ultra lefts like Antifa. You have someone like the Polish anti communist show up with a sign and then you have to escort him away to the cops because some Stalinists want to throw a few punches at him which would just give the cops a reason to break up the demonstration.
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@mdosen2 No state can require a public employee to pay union dues since the Janus Supreme court ruling. Before the ruling the state could only require you pay either dues or money in lue of dues.
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@mdosen2 If anything the union has to be more responsive to the members if it wants to collect dues so it can negotiate contacts which are local in nature and get the ears of politicians. Most of the union officials became Democrats after Reagan broke the Air Traffic Controllers strike. Ironically the Air Traffic Controllers Union officials had supported Reagan's election. Reagan is the only President to have been a union member. .
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@mdosen2 It's the same reason everything elese has been allowed ti go into decline. Why educate workers when all you need is people who will follow orders? The logic of capitalism is to invest in new machines to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and new machines to drive profits to your company or branch of industry. The long term problem with that is that as the value of capital rises than the amount of labor which creates the profit goes down. Now because over time prices sink towards the cost of production. What happens is the rate of profit by which all capital judges success also falls. This is why giant industries go into decline. It no longer is profitable to invest in expanding production.
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@Mellow4202 And if everyone sat in front of a computer all day nothing would get done. Your obviously proposing something that makes no sense. If the capitalist were as smart as you claim they would have entered a world crisis of trade and production. The problems lie in the foundation of the system itself and not with a ruling class that lacks education in its own methods. Capturing revenue streams is no different than pirates operating on the high seas capturing gold headed for Europe. .
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@TweetQuilts Cruz is hoping to make some political point that this flat foot can't understand.
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Derek B The Frankfurt school makes great hot dogs.
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@francis87589 The book "Brave New World" was more of a criticism of the US Automaker Henry Ford. Where workers became adjuncts to machines. Ford had this idea that he would control all of his workers both on and off the job.
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@brettb9194 The way to socialism is through the class struggle.
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Dander Spat Going down the old JBS route of conspiracy where General Eisenhower was a commie in the White House. The real problem for the Birchers and their New American magazine is the "Reds" have convinced everyone else that the JBS is just an irrelevant bunch of rich right wing conspiracy fanatics like Alex Jones.
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Dander Spat No you claim that "American History is now American History according to Marx". I don't believe you made that comment to be complimentary. Since you don't like whatever is written in history books it has to be a communist conspiracy. Leftist has become a very broad term including ruling class politicians like the Clintons. I don't include myself in the term leftists for a number of reasons. One being is that liberals are no closer to becoming Marxists than conservatives. The capitalist system is the problem we face not the difference between a George Sores vs. a Charles Koch. Some want to take the workers into the Democratic Party swamp we want to take the workers out of the swamp not bring more in like the Bernie Bros.
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Dander Spat What makes you think we can't win elections? We are a legal party and engage in legal activities. TheMilitant.com There is a whole history of our movement since 1928 in those pages. We don't call our self's leftists because that would mean supporting the capitalist Democratic Party like Burnie Bros., the DSA and other advocates of reforming capitalism. If you don't want a total reorganization of society on a basis of the needs of the working class than we don't want you vote.
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Dander Spat DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) a group who have little in common other than a desire to capture the Democratic Party and swear off Democratic Centralism. Democratic Centralism: A way of organizing a Socialist Party. Democratic in making its decisions and Centralized in carrying them out. Instead of an all inclusive party of any kind of socialists from Fabians to Marxists or a Stalinist Communists Party who's leaders were chosen by Stalin in Moscow to meet the diplomatic needs of the political degenerating and economically privileged Soviet bureaucracy. Burnie Bros. A nick name for those working for the election of Bernie Sanders. TheMilitant.com Online version of The Militant newspaper. A Socialist Newsweekly Published in the Interest of the Working People. Began in 1928 by the supporters of Leon Trotsky (The Left Opposition) vs. Stalin in the Communist Party of America.
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@residentone475 If Trump was a NAZI we'd be an underground organization breaking out of concentration camps and waging a guerrilla war. The two ruling parties like to throw around the words socialism and fascism as political swear words. The biggest communist victory over churchmen morals was condom sales to minors, the birth control pill, and the right to safe and legal abortion. Nothing like Sunday morning dorm sex to replace early morning calls for sexual restraint at the Chapel.
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You'll never get a Beaura of Peace because it mean that US foreign investment would go unprotected by the War (Defense) department. Poor countries would declare bankruptcy and organize their economies outside of what is best for US Business profit making operations abroad.
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Capitalist dictatorship no real concern for anyone's health. Giving orders and changing policies to advance the interest of profit. In Cuba the Doctor comes to you home. In America we have to search for doctors. They vaccine roll out was a complete shit show. TV was telling everyone all kinds of nonsense. Hospitals were lying to people who called. Telling you to call back the next day to disconnected numbers. Internet solutions never worked correctly. Vaccine was suppose to be given out without preference to previous customers of pharmacies, doctors or clinics. More effort was put into correct car parking than meeting the needs of disabled or elderly patients. Medicine for profit that is just an overhead cost of the bosses and their government will never keep the working class healthy. Profits will come first and its cheaper to bury a dead worker as a cost to the family and hire a new one than provide health care to workers by the bosses which goes on the books as an overhead cost.
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@xDDufiosy A declining in life expectancy is not a good sign nor is a prison population and incarceration rate larger than the old Soviet Gulags either.
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@dylian_ ."..capitalism was made so people earn their money,..." After the cost of productions and the sales of commodity produced is done just what does the capitalist due to make his profit? Let take the example of the stock owers dividend check that comes in the mail every 3 months. Does walking back and forth to the mailbox or direct deposit qualify as earning your money? How about the days when workers were paid not in real money but company script that could only be spent by workers in a company store and used to pay rent in a company owned home in a company owned town.
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@dylian_ You still have answered me on what this equality is? "The investor contributes money into society to then get money back." Without continually adding money like with the federal reserve and quantitative easing the investors would end up with all the money. About every ten years or so this problem occurs. You can't get back more money than what is put in. This is also a reason for creating debt. Red ink for the debtor and black ink for the creditor without the need for any additional real money being put into the pool except for the debtor who must so how come up with more money from outside the original pool or someone else's in the pool.
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@dylian_ Thomas Paine long ago explained what is wrong with the "Westminster System". Yet the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand keep it. Control made possible by hereditary politicians and their appointees was scraped by the Rump Parliament creating the English Commonwealth about 350 years ago. The restoration was just as rotten then as it is now. The Queen is the massive entity in the Commonwealth of Nations and as Paine pointed out the King need not speak when an act of parliament will do. You can't even celebrate the beheading of Charles the first today because it would insult the monarchy.
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Section one article ten basically makes foreign policy a federal matter. Prevents states from creating paper money. It also prohibits state bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, bankruptcy law, and titles of nobility.
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@dylian_ There are massive entities that keep increasing their control through technology. As an example the US and Canada electronically share info on all kinds of criminal records and when you last crossed the border. Not possible before instantaneous database storage and acquisition. A US court martial for adultery will show up on a Canadian CBP officers computer at the customs booth promoting a secondary inspection. Not to mention all kinds of data available for scrutiny by employers demanding the right to know everything about you, before and after hiring along with the right to discharge at will anytime the see fit.
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@dylian_ Your MP's still take an oath to the Queen. Ours take an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States from all enemies both foreign and domestic.
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@dylian_ "..anyone gets out stuff that they put in. .." That doesn't happen otherwise there would be no bankruptcy or business failure. The US Constitution of 1789 specifically recognizes bankruptcy as a matter for the federal courts.
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@dylian_ The 10th Amendment (not article 10) is often cited as the one giving states rights. The thing here though is since the civil war the doctrine of incorporation (from the 14th amendment) means that the states can not exceed constitutional limits placed on federal power but not state or individual liberties. Example one: Before the civil war the first amendment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." only constrained Congress not individual states. If Massachusetts wanted to give extra power or privileges to Puritans and Pennsylvania to Quakers the first amendment only limited Congressional power not state power. Example two: States can all make all there own motor vehicle laws and enter into interstate compacts to recognize each others drivers licenses. However the Federal government has the specific right to regulate interstate commerce such that Congress can write uniform laws concerning drivers licenses for vehicles being used in Interstate commerce. States can make those laws tougher but not weaker because the right to control motor vehicle operation lies first with a state.
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@dylian_ The federal power to regulate interstate commerce is cited over and over again as the basis for what's often called federal overreach. For years the only extra thing needed to cross a state line with a commercial vehicle was a doctor's issued medical card. Now you need a commercial driver's license with a bunch of letters for class of vehicle, endorsements and restrictions. The only thing you can say here is they have yet to use up all the letters in the alphabet for endorsements and restrictions.
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@dylian_ Not really because almost any business can be found to engage in interstate commerce and than be regulated as such. Since 9/11 all kinds of federal power grabbing has been increased on the grounds of fighting terrorism and than needing to know everything about you. Anywhere you go you have the feeling of being watched by private security cameras as soon as you get out of your vehicle. The police have all these automatic licence plate readers so if you see one in the rear mirror it just another case of being monitored. A camera can catch you running a red light and send you a traffic ticket in the mail.
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@dylian_ I don't like being watched all the time as if I am going to commit a crime at any moment. Most of these people complain about "safe spaces" so how is this surveillance not "safe space". Capitalism is about keeping the workers under control for the benefit of the capitalists. I don't trust the cops and the bosses justice. Their whole system is a mockery of justice and freedom.
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@dylian_ What some other country is doing doesn't make right to do it here. Protests tollorated not welcome. Beijing hopes Hong Kong will fizzle out. Our enemy isn't Chinese workers but our own ruling class.
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@dylian_ Two party capitalist government serves as the executive committee of the capitalist ruling class. The capitalist aren't the victims of their corrupt two party politicians rather they are the controllers. They pay the pipers therefore they pick the tune.
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@dylian_ Unlike US political propaganda neither the Oct. Revolution or the Cuban revolution were one party or one organization affairs. Nor does the Cuban Communist Party put up slates or campaign for candidates to the National Assembly of People's Power. Other parties are financed by Washington or Miami exiles and as such have little influence on the island.
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@ondolite3789 Sowell is the representative of neoliberalism.where maximizing profits and shareholder value is the greatest gift one can give to mankind. He worships the trinity of the dollar, the ledgerbook and the machine.
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@ondolite3789 He does see capitalist culture as superior but not in the same way as the hard core racists like the Southern Democrats.
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@ondolite3789 I don't remember them using the word although they were virulent anti communists and pro private property. Maddox owned a restaurant. Segregation was by law in the South and in the North where Blacks were less numerous it was often by custom called de facto segregation. Both Parties were firmly pro Capitalist. The Kennedy brothers made a name for themselves by grilling Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa in Congressional hearings. Kennedy launched the US CIA mercenary invasion of Cuba. Johnson (D) escalated the war in Vietnam.
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@ondolite3789 Democrats like the Republicans are both capitalist parties. Before the first world war the marxists did not clearly see how nationalism related to capitalism. It was Lenin and the Russian bolsheviks who most clearly understood that the war was reactionary battle to redivide the world among the capitalist powers. A fight over markets and resources that would create two kinds of nationalism the reactionary nationalism of the Imperialist nations and the revolutionary nationalism of those people under the economic thumb of the imperialist nations. When the 1919 Revolution in Germany failed the Bolsheviks turned to freedom for the colonial peoples and organized the 1920 Congress of the peoples of the East in Baku. Lenin also declared war on "Great Russian Chauvinism". A struggle over all the key questions of Marxism would break out in the Russian Party and then the Communist International itself. Trotsky would be exiled to Mexico and here he would discuss Black nationalism with the leaders of the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike. This why the Socialist Workers Party and not the Stalinist or Social Democrats were able to see Malcolm X as a rising leaders of not just Black people but all working people. His speeches are still published and books about him can be found at Pathfinder Press. Just like you Malcolm X said he was neither a Democrat or Republican. As far back as Eugene Debs the marxist have taught that the workers need their own party
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@chadmarx7718 With the death of Lenin in 1924 disputes broke out in the Russian Party. One reason being the defeat of the 1923 revolution in German. Lenin saw this coming and he was the first to call for Stalin's removal from his post as General Secretary saying he was rude had too much power and wasn't sure he'd always use it wisely.
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The main aim of the fascists is always to shut down all free speech even if that means losing it themselves. Do not easily be fooled into passing anti fascist laws or thinking the police will protect you from them. Only huge protests by all those wanting political debate, democracy and who reject racism even if they don't really understand all the fine points will drive them back under the rocks they hide under.
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We have the experience of government writing special laws against free speech for German NAZI's before WW2. It was called the Smith 'gag' Act. The first people arrested were actually NAZI's and they were found not guilty. The next people were Trotskyists members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Teamster's Union. The actual trial transcript of Party Leader James Cannon was and still is published in, "Socialism on Trial". A large protest by union locals nationwide was organized. The comrades did 18 months in prison. The Communist Party USA hailed the convictions as necessary for the war effort. They spent the whole war being the best strikebreakers money or should I say Stalin could buy. At the end of the war they announced the permeate victory of the Soviet Union and an end to the class struggle. During the 1950's the Communist Party being rightly hated by most of the working class had the same law now used against them with long sentences of five years. They claimed about 100,000 members in 1949 and by the time of the Cuban revolution turned back the second red scare the had maybe a 1,000 members. Now we aren't going to provide lawyers for the fascists if they need them the capitalist will provide them. If the set up a table and try recruiting people for murder by using the words you said they'll be arrested for murder solicitation which is already illegal. If you're interested in more on that subject I suggest Fascism What It Is and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky. Mostly there are already enough laws to arrest Fascist for their actions and no new ones are needed. Remember they only got 500 people for the biggest national action in decades and the counter protest around the country way out numbered them.
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@summernaleDunningKruger When capitalism enters crisis elements of the ruling class jettison free speech in an effort to save capitalist political rule.
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@matthewdoran3448 The UK like Canada does not have a Constitution such that a gun law or anti free speech law can be repelled or enacted by Parliament. Attacks on protections from arbitrary government power don't involve only one freedom or proceed in a straight line. .UK Gun law like Canada's is not a total ban.
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@matthewdoran3448 It doesn't have a Constitution that set up government and places restrictions on it. Instead it has a patchwork of laws passed by parliament and traditions limiting the Kings and perrages power. The UK is know for gradualism tansfomomg form monarchy to Democracy after having restored the monarchy.
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@matthewdoran3448 Our history is different which is why we have a constitution and you don't. You are still a monarchy with a parliament where in modern times the King usually keeps his mouth shut and your rights are subject to the whims of the current parliament and the next election.. We are a Constitutional Republic our rights apply to almost all people before our laws because our rights are written in the blood of martyrs in a revolution, a bloody civil war and the struggles of women, Blacks and labor. You had a revolution and counterrevolution after London Merchants in parliament ordered the execution of King Charles I and the declaration of the English Republic. Restoration brought back allmost the evils of monarchism. Our founders did NOT set up a new Kingdom despite those who wanted to declare George Washington the New King because he won the battle of Yorktown. . .
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Pure Mrax Canada is part of the United States under a crown government set up by the British Empire in London.
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@InfoNathan Who do you think your talking too? Some dumbie in a classroom somewhere? People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates become rich because they are clever thieves. The government works for them. What you describing is capitalism where government protects them and everything the capitalist are able to steal from us by labor exploitation. We are robbed by central bank created inflation because people think money has value when it doesn't. Its just a way to steal our labor power and give it to the rich.
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@InfoNathan Gates was a destroyer of small business if that's what you think is a solution to monopoly. The electronics industry is a world wide low wage industry including the engineers jobs. The government itself will be too big to fail. Gates and Jobs used business secrets and monopoly tactics to set themselves up in choke points to make themselves rich. They don't do anybody any favors. There goals were and are profit and market share maximization by any means necessary.
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Sounds just like both parties to me. What's the difference a corporate Democrat or Republican.
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@uhhbaseddepartment2914 Good By Louis XVI. Hello to the Guillotine.
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@joebloe7253 "Democrats AND Republicans know this. And they ALL ignore it, because NEITHER of them really wanna fix the problem." That can't fix a problem that lies within the operation of the world capitalist system itself.
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@joebloe7253 Refugees are leaving countries where the effects of 2008 are even greater. Sure if there are no jobs here then people will not come. The way capitalism works is people are constantly being fired and hired. So there will always be jobs here. The capitalists as a class always want to pay the lowest wage. They also control congress and the rest of the government so why would they pass a law to lower profits and then enforce it? Think about that question. Once you can understand the answer you will understand why it won't happen and if it does it will only amount to a few show trials. You might also want to think about who is an illegal immigrant? The laws are written such that only workers and the poor are or can become illegal. Lots of people can enter on tourist or other halfway visa's like H1B and H2A. Ms Trump eventually got a green card on an 'Einstein Visa".
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@joebloe7253 We should focus on what advances the interests of our class. Not what advances the interests of the capitalist class. We need to rebuild our unions into a movement that can reverse the carnage caused by the capitalist crisis. The border open or closed is not our problem nor can we do much about it since we don't have government power. Our problem is organizing all workers not checking IDs or determining immigration status. You can see that the Yellow Vests in France are making a difference because Macron French "President of the Rich" is now addressing some of the problems faced by the French workers and has the support of 70% of the French people. See TheMilitant.com
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I'd like to prosecute many of my past employers but I don't delude myself into thinking it is possible. I don't want you to believe but to think and look at all sides of a question.
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@joebloe7253 You see the difference between me and you is you think the workers should rely upon the bosses government and the judges, cops and jailers who work for them. We propose that the working people act in their own self interest create their own organizations and take on the capitalists and their government. You propose reliance upon the good capitalists (who don't hire illegals) as opposed to bad capitalists (who hire illegals). I say they are both no good. They all benefit from lower wages, busting unions and unemployment.
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Your proposals all assume a 'good government' will save us from what is wrong by hiring more cops and building more jails. It's a simplistic bureaucratic solution that has never worked for working people in the past and will not now either. Its the dream of the privileged who hope to find a way to reform the system without any serious struggle. People who are foolish enough to think the cops work for them and not the capitalist ruling class.
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It's the Communist League of America that helped lead the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters General Strike that opened the road for the CIO industrial trade union movement. A general strike that gave hope to millions during the Great Depression. This was all accomplished by working people on their own without any help from the capitalist government. In fact Roosevelt did all that he could to stop it (CIO) because it was costing the bosses millions in profits.
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@joebloe7253 Since I'm retired and on Social Security I work for Trump. I am a known communists. Anymore questions?
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@joebloe7253 Like I've said elsewhere your solutions involve relying on the cops and government to solve our problems, setting up a police state w/e verify, and not relying on our own collective strength as working people. If that's what you believe go join Border Patrol because we won't miss or need you anymore than the union movement needs scabs. Hitler also wanted to force conversations by burning books.
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@joebloe7253 My original Social Security card said for social security and tax purposes only. It was never to be used for a national ID card. Once it became a national ID card it then became valuable. Now the names and numbers are stolen and where can a they be found? In every job application you fill out. So now frauds can steal the data by merely posing as employers seeking applications for jobs that don't exist and from there it is possible to create a second ID. Util recently certain SS# were associated with certain areas making it all that more easy to find and obtain a date of birth and a birth certificate. E verify can only check Names and SS# numbers and date of birth. Of course it could easily be expanded to include jobs where employers Soc Sec tax was collected and place of birth. That is a 1984 world where every mistake is recorded and checked by the employers. Government of the employers will then decide who works at what job and who doesn't. It will not create a system where you have a right to work but a system where you have the right to be a slave under the employers iron heel.
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@joebloe7253 I guess you have run out of any worthwhile arguments to justify the E Verify police state program. Instead of whining about immigrants. Why not go out and find a job? I know it's not easy maybe you should try temp work first from there maybe a regular hours job. Their is nothing wrong with washing dishes and cleaning the bathroom at the retail store. I've done it and so can you. I been a driver and any kind of driver almost always makes more than minimum wage. Get some experience and play your cards right and some company will give you free CDL training. Never drink and drive or use drugs as a driver.
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The US needs to end it 60 year long Blockade of Cuba. Its own colony in the Caribbean Puerto Rico operating under its laws and economic system has seen negative population growth.
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@T30-z5w Blockade began with Kennedy administration and the was tightened with the Helms Burton act. It is multinational in effect because those foreign businesses doing trade with Cuba are subjected to US fines. This is why the whole world including NATO allies votes against the blockade at the UN with only a few abstentions and a No from the US and Israel. I'm sure all those New York stock brokers and hedge fund managers living in New Jersey mansion on private roads with huge flower gardens are working hard at the stock market swindle. As far as incentives goes don't waste my time with nonsense about pretend to pay and pretend to work. An attitude like that would of course never infect a too big to fail management culture? Capitalist are interested in enriching themselves only and it leads to a declining rate of return on investment as machines replace labor leading to calls for bailout and too big to fail. Who was in charge of wasting 2.3 trillion on the war in Afghanistan? Create a world currency that you can inflate at will such that property values rise while wages decline. Rather than the old fashion wage cuts rob the working class with inflation. Your whole world system of exploitation is in decline and you haven't the slightest idea of what to do about it.
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@missf4681 Castro did not just take over he came to power as a result of a popular revolution that placed the cuban workers and peasants in charge.. That of course couldn't be true Fidel must of had string attached to everyone and everything from which he pulled back and forth from Havana Sure they almost starved just like everything else that almost happened but didn't. Like Yoani Sanchez who writes about what it would be like to be a political prisoner. Too bad they weren't Irish peasants under British capitalism and landlords than they could have died on the side of the road or taken a ghost ship to another country. Then Cuba could then be going into a population decline like Puerto Rico and what Ireland experienced for over one hundred years of British Imperial rule. . .
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@missf4681 Those are made up lies no one was executed for disagreements otherwise their names would have been published in the mainstream media. Nor is their proof of torture either unlike the actions of prison authorities in the USA. All you have is just so many lies published by counter revolutionary terrorists with an axe to grind. Mao and Stalin are different issues and none of the Imperialist powers can say that they have clean hands either. The USA was the first and only power to use nuclear weapons on people.
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@missf4681 Too bad you were caught in a lie unable to show that what you said about the Cuban revolution was true. Would you like a tootsie roll now? Sure I'll plead guilty to reading books and meeting people who have been to Cuba and those who collaborated with Leon Trotsky while he was in his second exile from Ukraine where he was born and the Soviet Union were he lead the Soviet Red Army to victory over 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK. .
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@nocensorship8092 Sowell whole purpose is to discourage any class struggle as hopeless.
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@smartyyoung7319 The welfare state is the last truly capitalists state. It is indicative of a capitalism that is no longer feed by his slave but must now feed his slave. It is indicative of a capitalism who's ruling class is no longer fit to rule.
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@pete-ex7qt Obviously neither party cares about anyone but the billionaire ruling class. Zuckerburg, Musk and Bezos.
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@koreyb Its not about justice but class struggle. Trump committed a mortal sin by appealing directly to the deplorable, ungrateful, irredeemable and unmanageable. No capitalist politician is ever supposed to acknowledge our existence. He is being marched by Republican guards towards a Democratic Party Hell hole.
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It maybe the world leader in so called renewables I seriously doubt that green energy is going to do away with fossil fuels. It would make more sense to move towards natural gas and nuclear power.
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I'm glad she spoke up.
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You must of went to a remote college isolated from the Vietnam War.
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@fintan9218 As far as Musk is concerned anyone not on board with his visions for humanity as an interplanetor species that will do capitalism correctly on mars must be against him and American capitalism which automatically makes them a communist.
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The Clinton administration changed the way COLA was calculated. That's why Soc Sec hasn't risen the way it should.
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The unions officials gave the Labuor Party to Tony Blair who then said you run the unions and we will run the government. Black people like the colonial people were not put to sleep with the post war capitalist expansion and the Stalinist and Social Democratic labor aristocrats sit on your hands approach.
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Why go to college and listen to idiots like Professor Cornel West at Harvard when you can read Marx, Lenin and others on the internet. West and friends will be shitting their pants come the revolution. In the case of West he can't think in the box never mind in or out of the trailer park. It's to far from the simple mind of the well off and educated with the proper manners of a Professor. His idea of revolution is opening up new schools for proper edicate and raising more monuments to great thinkers like himself.
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Stalin was part of the gang of corrupt and privileged bureaucrats that hijacked the Soviet Union. Had Hitler been able to abstain from breaking the Stalin-Hitler Pact for a few extra months or Stalin be able to complete his purge of Red Army officers earlier German Troops would have marched all the way to Vladivostok.
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If they had chocolate bars and cigarettes like American troops it would have been mass prostitution. Naturally whatever the number was it became bigger with the cold war.
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Stalin At the end of WW2 Your CPUSA via the Daily World announced the end of class struggle and permanent victory of the Soviet Union. Go back to the grave. The maggots are hungry and need something to eat.
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@jameseverett4976 Confilts driven by the failures of world capitalism and the conflicts it causes.
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@1133saginaw Why wasn't it used against Democratic Senators who were Klan members in the 20 Century?
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@1133saginaw What do you call the civil war where the slave trader Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was responsible for the Massacre of US Colored Troop at Fort Pillow and responsible for the post war Klan violence as the first Grand Wizard that section 3 was written for?
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When you can't argue with a mans ideas attack him personally. Sowell has made a career out of attributing everything wrong with someone who died in the 19th century.
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The Socialist Workers Party is the working class party. TheMilitant.com
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@mancavedecorations8158 exactly.
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The capitalist don't see it that way. Money in workers pockets is money that could go into their million dollar trust funds like Bill Gates got from his banker grandfather, buy a new yacht, or finance the next war against innocent people
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@garryrichardson4572 Sowell is a neoliberal supporter of capitalism whose scholarship was rewarded by his patriotic friend George Bush. According to the neoliberals bosses chasing profits would produce a heaven on earth. George Bush announced an "Ownership Society". Bill Clinton "Ended Welfare as We Know it" another one of Sowell "finds" as the source of family break ups. Bush went so far as to proclaim a "New World Order" where the rule of law would replace the rule of the jungle. An axis of evil was working against America. A holy crusade was launched against terrorism by those Bush had Armed as CIA director. "No nation had the right to engage in terrorism." said Bush. No nation except the United State and its CIA that is. It all crashed and burned with the crisis of 2008.
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@bensoncezeanyaso9892 He spews out a reactionary program which only becomes dangerous when they try and implement it. Only cowards throw stones at women in pits just like the anti Black lynch mobs. Once they get a taste of their own medicine they change their tune. The rebellion against Islamism is seen in places like the Islamic Republic of Iran and even Saudi Arabia itself.
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@Ditka-89 Marx attributes the capitalist private profit to the unpaid labor of the workers and the maximization of profit leading to the maximization of exploitation.
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Ya Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the Yale law school class just ahead of him.
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Of course the US Imperialists have nothing to do with imposing sanctions in an effort to strangle the country.
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(President) Governor Reagan was government and he order the CHP and Berkeley police to "use whatever method they choose against the protesters". These were his own words. They chose to use shotguns against unarmed protesters, killed one student and sent 128 people to the hospital. Reagan acting as government then ordered a 15 day National Guard takeover of the City of Berkley. Reagan was government all over a UC Berkeley parcel of land being either a People's Park or parking lot. From Big Yellow Taxi "They Paved Paradise and put up a parking lot." Reagan "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." "Run for your lives!!! Its Reagan and his shotgunners again".
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@grampsradio Sewell being a Marxist? No evidence besides his say so. He never belonged to a trade union nor did he engaged in any political activity until AFTER deserting Marx as a graduate student. He's a liar also there was never two nations of Vietnam, China or Korea. They were sole creatures of the Imperialist powers during or after civil wars. The Jews became the modern nation of Israle as a result of pogroms in Europe and the Muslim nations. Whenever there is an economic crisis they have been the first ones the rulers blame.
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@sb9272 Except that Hamas billionaires live in Qatar luxury. Sowell never heard of a billionaire he couldn't find an excuse to defend.
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What makes you think they don't already have those rights?
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@joycegayden44 Trump paved the way for Biden to leave. It was a fools errand based in the lie that US Imperialism had won the cold war and was now stronger and not weaker. The Afghan Army and Police collapsed because Imperialism (foreign investment) can not build a nation based on the massive corruption of a small group of fools.
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You already have the biggest prison population in the world.
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This could be just the Democrats po pooing the President but I heard Foxconn has 1.3 million workers in China. That the deal is only for an initial 3,000 workers with the possibility of adding 10,000. While Foxconn doesn't manufacture desktop computers you can buy all the parts except the software from them and assemble your own. While having a large industrial base is necessary to produce all kinds of modern commodities it is the natural workings of capitalism that drive it across all national boundaries in the quest for cheap labor and new markets.
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We once had a large commercial computer and computer chip manufacturing structure in Digital Equipment Corp in Maynard, Massachusetts. However most of the electronics manufacturing moved to 'greener pastures' Like Nogales, Mexico and the China because higher profits with cheaper labor was available elsewhere.
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@Patchuchan Not being able to get into a FoxConn Plant what makes you think that? Outside of military, specialty and government electronics what do they still build here? The greater the number of items to be made in a given time the more automated and the greater the division of labor you can use in the manufacturing the process. My understanding is Foxconn does mostly assembly meaning chips and parts are made elsewhere.
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UAW CIO Sit Down.
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@DUKE-REBUKEM Yet he ignores the simple historical facts that the rich care nothing about the poor until faced with a revolutionary revolt of some kind. The 59 commissionaires of the house of commons voted for the execution of King Charles which the King eventually agreed to. An English Republic was declared and a civil war ensued.
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@mrdannyd4799 End the US Blockade of Cuba!
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@VMan29397 Its not a quarantine as Kennedy called it.
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@laurie-annlabrecque8580 That's horrible.
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@Ziggy_Moonglow Except men can't produce children no matter how hard they work and women can do most jobs men do nowadays and many do. Including work in coal mines, steel mills, and work as electricians and plumbers. What do you want more profit for boss? Bigger houses for Bill Gates & Co. Why? Do you think like a tradesman instead of an industrial worker? Where you guys fight over which contractor and who's union installs the water pump? Talk about your partnership with the bosses until the boss pink slips you for the union bench. Ya you guys are the real labor statesmen. Give you guys an extra 10 cents and you operating the company for the betterment of boss comfort. Worrying about the laborer picking his nose on company time. Talking about how much more educated you are compared to all the minimum wage riff raff. How education can make the worker rich.
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@ThisIsEffy My mom always said where rubbers when it raining.
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@EcoMouseChannel You need to procreate? So are you planning to become a Genuine Mormon? You've created this corona virus problem because you don't deserve to rule the world anymore. Your to stupid with all your college degrees to do anything but chase after gold and federal reserve notes.
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@EcoMouseChannel That's the core mind set of the capitalist how can I beat the compition and shore up the rate of profit from eventual decline. You system is wracked by crisis after crisis caused by overproduction. The inability to sell all you can make at a profit. Capitalism and the capitalist state is based in the nation state yet you must sell in a world market where the competition becomes ever fearce. With no way to regulate greed your will always turn to world war to save your nation state. Capitalism was the cause of World War One and World War Two. Only the working class of all nations can take power, change the world, get rid of private property and go down the world socialist road. Allowing the American ruling class with all its college brainwashed idiots to continue can only lead to trade war and world war fought with nuclear weapons.
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@EcoMouseChannel Capitalism ends the workers dream of a family because it costs less to hire a single worker than his whole family. The American Dream can be best symbolized by Black Jack. The game is rigged so the house always wins. If you count cards and make a bundle that way you will be banned from all the casinos. Its the same in business the bosses fight each other for contracts and bigger profits. You keep wanting to define socialism in terms of capitalism because you can't think out of the businessman's box. I don't have to convince you because I write so I can convince others.
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@gg_rider The Department of the treasure is responsible for the manufacture of all circulating money. The Federal Reserve Bank plays the role of a lender that creates money for sale at the prime rate to the biggest US Federally chartered banks. The Federal Reserve is privately owned with a board of directors appointed by the US President for 10 year terms.
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@bbell8144 Class struggle is the raod to socialism. Use the trade union to fight boss tyranny.
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Of course not. Why would they tell the truth when lies are more convenient. The executed Guevara without trial and pretended he was killed in battle. They build up a sob story for Batista's thugs who murdered and tortured with impunity including removing eyeballs. Of course nothing is ever said about the 20,000 lives it cost to remove the Washington Green lighted dictator Batista. Everything concerns why the thugs and tortures were tried and sentenced to death instead of being welcomed into another Washington type of corrupt democracy kneeling before Emperor Kennedy the first.
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@theguardians3923 Do you want to give the sourse of you quote? I can to seem to find it anywhere and I suspect you or others made it up, mistranslated or took it out of context. What competence? The stupidity of Kennedy, the CIA and his generals? Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter left with egg on his face after he had to jail his Cuban Political Prisoners like the Scarface characters in the movie of the same name? Reagan who's ally South Africa was defeated by Cuban Troops at Cuito Cuanavale in Angola? The failure to buy Elian Gonzalez and his family? What kind of competence are we talking about here?
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Thousands leaving communist countries like Mexico? Why not open your doors and let them in? Why should I give you anything? We favor class struggle. You want something from me you have to try and take it. You need more whiskey like "Tail Gunner" Senator Joe McCarthy. The capitalist negotiates best after having a drink.
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Mexican immigration just waves people in and usually doesn't even bother looking at passports or stamping them.
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Keep repeating that mantra (Legal immigration and illegal immigration are two different things Legal immigration and illegal immigration are two different things. Legal immigration and illegal immigration are two different things.) sooner or later someone will hear you.
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@joebloe7253 The more money you have more legal your immigration status becomes. "PROSECUTE EMPLOYERS who hire illegal immigrants." So they can appeal and walk away with a $10 fine while sending out the cops saying, "Papers, Papers, Papers please."? They only way to reverse the carnage caused by caused by 2008 is to organize into a fighting union movement. No white hatted hero is going to ride to the rescue. Any and every political policy must be judged as does it unite the working people or does it divide us. You can't build a union movement based upon witch hunting other workers for immigration status. The cops are controlled by the capitalist government and thieves do not put each other in jail. The only time the capitalist government sends one of their own to jail is when they do something really egregious. Like the Ponzi scheme guy who stole billions of dollars from investors or when they are putting on show trials like the Russia investigation. They have enough laws to arrest anyone they want to now. You and me included. They don't need more laws. We need to organize and fight back like the Yellow Vests in France.
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@Aaron-yl2of When was Prince Mohamed bin Salman last elected? He of course is providing the bodies for the US was in Yemen. He knew nothing about how a journalist was murdered in his Embassy. LOL LOL LOL
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The natural way capitalism works is to concentrate wealth into the hands of a ruling class. The wage worker is paid to reproduce his labor power. While his labor power produces more wealth than he is paid to reproduce his labor power. The natural workings of capitalism have seen it take over the world and now enter into a period of decline as the ruling classes seek to defend their profit system which itself has entered into decline due to the natural tendency of the rate of industrial profits to decline. To try and fool the world and themselves the capitalist replaced a gold based monetary system with fiat currency.
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@VABE81030 Economics is no way as simple as Sowell and the liberals would have you believe. The break up of the Black family can be laid directly at the altar of industrial capitalism. The sharecropper is a family farmer arrangement. The industrial workers are hired for their labor only the family is optional. Your wage is only meant to provide you enough income to come back to work for the next pay period.
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@jarhead1199 Economics always trump ideas among human beings because the ideas follow from the material reality and not the other way around. Sowell says that the idea that one no longer needed to have a family unit dove the end of the traditional Black family and not the end of the traditional Black family creating the idea. Ideas always undergo change when new facts come to life. The earth being flat is fine for people who don't travel far because even today a small area of a globe can be approximated by a flat area. The same can be said about a earth based center of the universe. That works fine for people who use sundials it only became a problem when mapping the planets in motion with the telescope. Material facts drive the changes in ideas the ideas don't change the facts. If it wasn't the change from being farmers to industrial worker than give me an argument that isn't based in a notion or idealist thinking like a Pope or other moralist thinker. Its not love that drives the capitalist but the love of money.
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@jarhead1199 If your working class family was broken up by the economic crisis of 2008 how long are you going to beat yourself up about it before you begin blaming the capitalist system, the capitalist government and the greed of the bosses themselves? They were in charge of everything they won the cold war or so they said and everything was going fine until suddenly it wasn't.
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@nicholasselke5214 More people also means more workers. It the bosses and their government which prints more money so that the value of our labor declines while the value of property rises.
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What are you talking about? People are in jail for burning cars not for having a brain. You idea of Socialism is to give everything back everything to the capitalist. like the Volvo Bosses.
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@baekwatolo Biden had no problem meeting with the Saudi leader he promised to make an international pariah.
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You mean your government of swamp dwellers.
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That's right but the reason this has got the attention it has is by the baker playing the innocent victim. Because his business is small he demands an exception based on his 'work' and has been playing that up. But really he is a boss and only actually made some wedding cakes as a worker. The easiest way to sort this out is to make him either get an employee to make the 'gay' wedding cakes or contract them out to other bakeries. Now do you really believe he wants to put up a sign that says go to XYZ Bakery if you want to buy a wedding cakes for same sex weddings.
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The Domestic product is determined by money or exchange value instead of labor time, general skill and quality of goods produced. That is just one reason you can't measure everything in terms of money or exchange value. You also have capital goods being sold on the world market which aren't part of the domestic product.
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@AAAAAA-tj1nq Heywood's the businessman's death isn't justifiable rather he no doubt believed he was untouchable as a foreigner who was involved in intentional financial crime with a Chinese official.
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No one has to be a "Marxist" least of all in a bourgeois university. Your always looking for an excuse to fire us because you are frightened of our ideas.
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India doesn't sell any cars in the US.
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He just wants to present the crimes of American Imperialism as justified.
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@georgesprat9697 Racism came with the New Capitalist system in America it will be defeated by the world socialist revolution over Imperialism and US Imperialism specifically.
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If AI takes out all the jobs who will have money to buy? This is why we need to get going on organizing to be the bosses to the punch. We will demand a reduction in the working day with no reduction in pay.
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SantiagoDeTortillas The revolution was made with All American Arms taken from the Tyrant Batista. Fidel rode in to Havana on an American made Sherman Tank. It was only after the 1959 victory that Cuba obtained Soviet Arms since the United States had an arms embargo on the country once they realized Batista could not win. The invaders at Playa Giron were confronted with a combination of Soviet and American Armor.
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@zvilender247 The Jews need a homeland because when capitalism goes into crisis the Jews as a minority are always blamed for the crisis.
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@lilliansmith8444 We are still here and defeated the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. See "The Militant".
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@valentinius62 It was a cruel war being waged by the American Imperialist ruling class for defense of the Capitalist Profiteers Empire.
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Want to get a high paying job with plenty of benefits just dial. 1-800 Mike Pence
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You just want an excuse to take it out and wave it arround.
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Sure they'd love to get you to put money into the stock market but if you are paid wages once you signed up to a plan like this your wages would still be subjected to inflation and than when another recession comes it would be stolen by Wall Street crooks just like pension plans durring the crisis of 2008. Social Security is really a pay as you go social wage insurance program for disabled and elderly workers.
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@westcoastpolo8886 They hire them to do what though? Build more tanks and guns to prop up the Empire or do stock buybacks to drive up the value of capital. They only expand production when they see more profits ahead otherwise the use it to drive up the value of capital or invest in thing they buy we don't need like more weapons or private jets.
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@westcoastpolo8886 They only hire when they see profits in the future. Otherwise they use it to drive up the value of property since fiat currency loses value.
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That sounds real good. Until you ask who gets send in after him? Mike Pence.
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Read "Socialism on Trial" the Smith "gag" Act trial of James Cannon.
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Fascist movements always arise in a revolutionary crisis as the vomit expelled from a dying capitalism. They are terrorist in a nature and do not come to power in elections built upon physical attacks upon the workers, jews, national minorities and political meetings. If Trump was a fascist within the Republican Party he would have settled political disputes with gangsterism like the way Pat Buchanan tried and failed at. Democratic Imperialist like Reich are angry because Trump has criticized them and their right to rule in the interests of the biggest profits for the bosses. Call the liberals like Reich bad names like stupid results in their crying to the teacher and demanding punishment.
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Because GM owns the politicians of both parties and you have no say over how tax money is spent anyhow.
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Its not exponential when you consider that the rate of profit must decline as machines replace labor. The whole idea here is to convince you that you can get something for nothing in the stock market.
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@abdirahmanidris290 Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Capitalism is responsible for the two world wars and will be responsible for a third nuclear war without world socialist revolution. Capitalism creates its own grave diggers in the working class which is stronger and larger than any time in history. All that is needed is a communist leadership like that of Lenin and Trotsky or Fidel and Che to bring us to powe somewhere else in the world.
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@InternetMoneyPE China capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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How about free internet in the US? Oh No! "That's Communism."
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He swam right into the Republican establishment.
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Patrick LOL How she ever pass 1st grade?
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@Barskor1 Capitalism a type of social economic organization just as European feudalism was and the Roman Empire slave system before it. Each of these systems had a way of governing people since they are all class systems. Before capitalism farming was alway the major occupation. Hitler was anti marxist and anti Jewish Bolshevism you'd can find that out by reading Mein Kampf. He liked to talk about how Germany was stabbed in the back by government and lost WW1 because of it. Does that sound familiar?
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@pedropradacarciofi2517 How do I change what someone has already said? You don't like "Whataboutism?" Okay go live in the world of snow white and the seven dwarfs. That way everything is simple and you can get a good night's sleep.
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@pedropradacarciofi2517 You do a good job of being totally irrelevant to any and all facts all by yourself.
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@tomasv8732 Haven't got the slightest clue as to what your talking about either. I'm not a magician and I can't change what other people say after the fact.
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@tomasv8732 Right when the capitalist Imperial state power acts in the interest of BIG CAPITAL all the libertarians and the little ones cry "No Real Capitalism. We are all just street vendor's selling onions and tomatoes. Those are big bad collectivist."
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I don't know the full history of every national group within either the boundaries of the Russian Empire or Soviet Union. You haven't even named your country. I do know and am convinced the Soviet Union of 1924 and the Soviet Union after the 1936 Moscow Trials were two different places. Free Market capitalism gave way to Monopoly capitalism a long time ago such that Central Banks and Big Industry have control over economic life and not push car vendors in underdeveloped countries. When capital countries companies trade on the world market they want to be paid in their own currency, US Dollars, Euros or Chinese People's money. They simply don't trust the other central banks since money is not connected to either labor time or precious metal like gold or silver.
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@tomasv8732 You really are brainwashed to say Central Banks have nothing to do with capitalism. Where do you think money comes from? Explain how capitalism works without paper or electronic money? You can still buy silver and gold coins from the US Mint but you will pay a price way above face value. Do they still use Gold and Silver coins in Lithuania?
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@tomasv8732 Right small capitalist are robbed by the banks but big industry, big private banks, central banks and top government officials are all tied together. A few people play with bitcoin or speculate in foreign currency and some use barter but all those are exceptions to the general rules by which capitalism works. When you get your car fixed they diagnose and give an estimate based upon what is wrong. The price is determined by labor time in a flat rate book, labor price and cost of materials. The don't consult a "free market' whatever that's supposed to be nor do they draw supply and demand curves. The same is true for manufacturing. Now once the price has been determined they may try for a higher or go for a lower price based upon market conditions but that's where they start. Then all the costs including overhead must come out of sales and sales must exceed costs including taxes before a profit can be declared. An investor looks at the price or value of the stock tries to guess at what the future profit will be and then divides total profit for a given period by total fixed investment to determine profitability. The guessing part that's called risk. Investor wants to minimize risk while maximizing profit. Now that's for a general business. You also have wall street securities these are made out of other stocks to create mutual funds which have an array of stocks such that the should give an investor a steady return by spreading risk over the economy as a whole. This is the entryway into the area of fictitious capital the most predatory area because it is an area where profits are suppose to keep coming regardless of profit or loss in the underlying securities. This is the area that was behind the 2008 crisis because you really can't get something for nothing. If capitalism was just lots of small businesses and not this whole layer of capital that has become more and more disconnected with underlying value it could continue on forever but that is not what it is anymore. Issac Newton set the value of the pound in gold back in the 1600's it kept that value right until the British Banking crisis of 1914.
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@tomasv8732 We had what the libertarians talk about endlessly in the early year of the American Republic and after the civil war. No central bank, no federal income tax, no federal regulations, the government would mint money for you if you had a gold or silver mine small or large and small local banks that would even issue their own paper currency. The majority of people lived on small farms. You could come here with pennies in you pocket go through immigration get a job earn a wage move west a stake a claim to 160 acres of free land. Now today there's more college students than farmers. You can drive down an Interstate highway in Ohio and see corn for as far the eye can see. Thirty percent of our food comes from California now. They talk about how their going to replace everyone with artificial intelligence. Trucks are cars are going to drive themselves.
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@fuck So we can expect libertarians to vote down foreign military appropriations in the Congress and demand the US leave NATO? When can we expect the US Imperialist to leave the naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba?
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@corerlt That's true but they have all had Social Democratic governments of a capitalist country at one time or another. The capitalists of those countries have had to allow the labor movement to run the capitalist state for them. Since they never actually carry forward a socialist program of workers control of industry and abolishing private property they are voted back out of office since they don't actually change anything.
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@leesmith6792 Socialism is NOT Imperial capitalism with a Social Democratic government. Cuba is an example of Socialism since they abolished private property without a Stalinist counter revolution. Nor was the revolution lead by a corrupted Stalinist Party.
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@austindarrenor Obviously you don't watch the news. There was a big difference in the way the Cuban police treated anti government demonstrations than other Latin American countries and the United States. Arrests were made and people sent to jail for destruction of property. You didn't see police dressed as soldiers or soldiers being used, tear gas being fired off and people being beaten like dogs. They don't torture prisoners and engineer frame up trials like in the United States. The US Secretary of Homeland Security has openly stated people with personal grievances are now part of an evolving terrorist threat. The Bourgeois politician and Former President Donald Trump is being framed for violation of National Security laws. Capitalism is in decline in the leading Imperialist nation and you're seeing the Bourgeois begin to dispense with its long standing Bourgeois Democratic methods of control. Bourgeois Democratic methods are something that capitalism can only afford during good economic times. Capitalism needs the freedom to be too big to fail not free political dissent.
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@PolinGuira Sowell is worshiped by American conservatives because he claims without proof to have been a Marxists and is Black. To best of my knowledge he never participated in any organizations besides the US Army, and the Western Union before he became a college student and Bourgeois professor He is best know for announcing victory in the Civil rights struggle from his professors chair.
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@freshorganichandcuppedfart4935 He the spokesman for the BIG Capitalist and the US Democratic Imperialist. .
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Communism is about abolishing private property not sharing the wealth equitable.
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@laurie-annlabrecque8580 No tax dollars for war or payment of war debt. Abortion is a women right to plan and control her life.
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@Chatty-zj3wb As long as we have capitalism then bosses should pay into a fund to educate Doctors for free and pay for all medical equipment out of profits and surplus value. No spending on Imperialist wars and cancel government war debts as bad investment and you can write it off as red ink.
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@laurie-annlabrecque8580 The US has to import Doctors educated in the third world where their people are exploited by the banks backed up by military threats. Cuba a poor country with a Socialist system educates doctors beyond the needs of there population and has a lower infant death rate than the US. That is possible because they had a revolution. Abortion is medical care. Without more Doctors medical care can't improve.
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If it was a truthful 'civil rights' class then they would teach that the KKK were just cops in their night time uniforms. Instead of teaching fairy tales about how nonviolence won out. The truth is self defence and shots fired at night riding cops in their night time KKK uniforms was the way rights were won. Rights were taken not given away by Johnson and company.
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@MissTotos Right To Life Your Names a Lie you don't care if women die.
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@Ralphel Beverly RIGHT TO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE!!! YOU DON"T CARE IF WOMEN DIE!!!
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@panga_latrice Down with the Anti Abortion Pro Death movement. Overturn and Repeal the 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act.
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@Give Peace A Chance I care that's who. You not for peace why do you lie about that. Your for war and this is a war on women like your war on drugs, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Your for murdering real people everyday. I don't want nobody feeling bad for me I'm trying to wake people up to the truth. This law will overwhelming take down young women. You don't care though do you? Their all hoes anyway right? When you get your secretary pregnant you'll begging her to get an abortion so you can avoid the rest of your women getting out of control and divorcing you. When a girl goes missing from the choir because she had an back alley abortion you will talk about how it was Gods will and not yours. Fucking hypocrate.
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@darkroses3479 Give me a call when conservatives decide another person has a right their body for 9 months. I bet John Roberts can't wait to take in a homeless immigrant sent up from Texas by Governor Abbott into his Washington suburban home.
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@aras75aka Social Democracy and Stalinism where the dominate political forces among the workers following world war two. Both leaderships have shown themselves to be inadequate in solving the workers problems. So that is why people are going back to the original ideas of Marx, Engle's and Lenin. They are rediscovering Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
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@ryanhodgson1879 I don't see the executives of Walmart selling bananas to customers either. Without the policeman and the might of the military the capitalist could not operate their world wide system of the plundering of labor and natural resources.
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@KeirnothVT When the government confiscates the income of drug dealers is that not the actions of the capitalist government against rogue actors in the market? Or do you define Socialism as anytime a trader has his money taken by government action. Maybe you prefer capitalist gangsterism like Hatti. Why not just set up a company to rob banks?
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@ryanhodgson1879 That is a totally ridiculous definition. Without a state power and court system to enforce written contacts capitalism would have never gotten off the ground. We'd still be living like people in the most remote areas of the world in tribes of hunter gathers. They are probably the only one who still live without any kind of trade or the use of money.
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@ryanhodgson1879 Denmark like England and Canada are still a monarchy. Its a situation where the capitalist are in bed with the royal family and allow just enough Democracy to maintain social stability. They nave the same problems every developed and developing capitalist country has economic crisis brought on by the workings of the capitalist system itself.
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@skipper7152 The value of the words in the US Constitution lies in the struggles it took to put down those basic rights and ideas on paper and the continuous fight to defend and expand them.. The only real contradictory part involves the right to private property and the current interpretation of that right going beyond just personal property. I doubt Sowell has the slightest idea of what he would change or put in since I've never heard him complain about it. They've spent a lot of time complaining about regulatory agencies with no solution other than get rid of them and give power back but then the question becomes give power to whom? Since there purpose is only to rein in renegades and guarantee profits to incumbents in the areas they regulate it is a solution without a good replacement as far as the bosses are concerned. .
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@richkestrel7416 No the so called liberty amendments as you describe them would accomplish nothing except add to the confusion about the source of the real problem which is the small class of capitalists boss property owners, their money power and everything being done or required to protect them and advance their goal of private profit.
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Muller is heading nothing more than a witch hunt. Unlike the watergate investigation no one committed a crime that needed further investigation. Instead a big campaign made from the vacuum of space and Hillary Clinton supporters claiming her loss was connected to Russian Hackers and collision with the Trump campaign. They have yet to bring in Alex Jones, 9/11 conspiracy believers and the Grassy Knoll people for the real truth.
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@chrissingletary2876 The reason is quite simple capitalism creates a wealthy ruling class that is in no mood to give up its national privilege. The bourgeois of the less developed want the business and markets of the more developed. In the end it is the working classes of all nations that pays the price for bourgeois nationalism like that of the Fascist Hamas or Fascist Germany or Italy. The theat doesn't come from the cultural revival but bourgeois privilege and bourgeois right. The rights of the exploiters to private property with the state and bureaucracy that go along with it. The cultural revival is an awakening in the masses of their own self worth and desires for revolutionary change.
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@chrissingletary2876 They don't have that problem in Cuba because they didn't allow a ruling elite to develop. The middle class becomes the servants of big capital as the system develops. You can't expect a tiger to trim its own claws. You can't reform capitalism because its not in the class interests of the capitalist. You have to crush their state power including the bureaucracy and recreate a new state just as the workers did in the Paris Commune, the early Soviet Union and revolutionary Cuba. If your theories were true capitalism would have not needed war to restart after the Great Depression. How many chances do you want to give them? The English merchants gave the monarchy two and then decided as long as the second King remained silent monarchy was the best form of government. Those who voted for the execution for King Charles had to go into exile or were killed after the King was defeated militarily for the second tim. The short lived English Republic was the form of government in between. Why do you want to keep a bunch idiots who chase profits around and use civil wars and revolutions to remove them when they don't listen? One of the charges against King Charles was that he was going about the country destroying it for the sake of taxes. Do you want to trust a bunch of idiots who go around the world waging wars for profits? Without a political revolution the Stalinist became a new capitalist class just as Trotsky had said would happen without a political revolution.
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@eugene7518 Bragg is a tool of the elite and the capitalist bosses. They want to shut down debate and stop the unraveling of their rotten capitalist Party.
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@dutArkham Why did Sowell base his whole life on him then?
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@dutArkham Sowell is a glorifier of markets and denies that the profit is the result of exploitation of the working class. He talks of markets distributing scarce resources without ever explaining which resources are scarce which have alternative uses or what the different alternatives are in terms of use. He denies the labor and use theory of value in favor of the sloppy thinking of subjective value. He total ignores surplus value for the sloppy theory of profits as surplus. He tells you trade can be beneficial to both parties not a zero sum game with out telling you why its not zero sum when measured by exchange value just more of his sloppy thinking along with the bigger risk producing a bigger reward. Well I understand probability and gambling doesn't actual produce anything either. Their is of course a reason for this kind of sloppiness and that is his need to glorify capitalism. To hide the true relationships while pretending to explain them.
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@dutArkham A. One needs to make a corrected evaluation of the situation. Modern Science denies the existence of a special reference frame. What most people see at a first glance is not necessarily true on closer examination. The decision to put a man on the moon was made without knowing if it could be done it could have been halted when the first apllo crew died on the launch pad.. Certainly a change as big as required for socialism isn't going to be easily accomplished. Nor did Marx or anyone else think that they could see so far in the future that they could avoid all mistakes. Making money you aren't actually serious are you? Money isn't made by a business that's the government's central banks job. The owner of Ford Motor company Henry Ford has been dead for many years now. The same goes for many other big business.the original robber barons and financiers are all dead. They can't make a claim of being the original owner. They are no more right to their wealth than a King Charles who claimed divine rights when brought before the high court of justice and refused to make a plea based on lack of jurisdiction of the people over a sovereign. . The theory of the modern capitalist economist is where credit default swaps work like derivatives in calculus providing value despite which way the market moves is as false as those who try and argue that trade or risk is the source of profit. Paltrow distribution a small portion of society having most the wealth well why would that not be true with capitalism? Malthus argued that agricultural productivity only increased arithmetically while population did geometrically and then came to the conclusion that we were limited in population that kind of pedso science has been trumpeted for years.
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@godknightomega I line of blood separates US from the Stalinist begining in 1928. Stalin had all the original leaders of the bolshevik revolution except Leinin who died in 1924 and himself murdered in frame up trials held from 1936 to 1938. The counterfeits of Stalinism and the most corrupt became the new capitalist leaders in the Eastern Europe, the old Soviet Union and China. Now the bosses of the big nation states with capitalist relations have the same problems that lead to world war one.
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@godknightomega Maybe you'd like to explain how so many people died in the Taiping Rebellion back in 1860. Between the followers of the brother of Jesus Christ and the Qing dynasty? .
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US Imperialism after spending 3 trillion dollars assembling the best mercenary forces money can buy cuts its losses and withdraws. The "War on Terror" really a terror war on the people of Afghanistan has been a disaster for the working people of Afghanistan thousands displaced millions turned into refugees all for the benefit of Bankers and capitalist Bosses has finally ended with a defeat for the Imperialist by a rag tag bunch of reactionary Islamist. NATO Allies Junior Partners of the US Imperialist are complaining about lack of consultation and loss of Imperial prestige.
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Trump is just as corrupt as the rest of them and has no solution other than saying follow me because I'm waving a big flag.
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Republicans can't even keep the lights on in Texas.
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US always wins? Like the last time they went to war with Kim Jung Un's grandfather or the win in Vietnam?
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I call it a defeat when the US Military had to leave Vietnam without a Puppet government firmly in place in the South. You can call it what you want. Like strategic victory or the more Nixonesque 'Peace with Honor' or 'Winning the Peace'. The Generals told Nixon they would need more Troops for Vietnam and more Troops at home to put down 'civil disorder'..
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@gorthorki That is true about the petti bourgeois seeking equality of privilege. The initial battle for equal rights for education by the Black petti bourgeois in a courtroom set off what would become a mass proletarian battle against racism, war, and sexism that is still reverberating today. The fact that the workers are not following in the struggle for a deserve police force, military and management is not a sign of racism or sexism but class consciousnesses. A realization that when the tear gas is fired the color of the Police chief or cop doesn't change the smell.
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@RebeccaOre Ya your seeing how well capitalism works now. The ruling class is beginning to fear the working class which is why Trump is promising that the US will never be socialist.
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@Mr22thou The problem with Reich's arguments are rooted in the assumptions of a capitalist system and capitalist class being self reformable that can escape crisis caused by the long term tendency of profit rates to decline and the breakup into warring national trade war blocs that set the stage for real war and even World War.. The liberal Reich just like the Conservative Sowell are all advocates of the so called marginal theory of value. This leads them to same conclusion of the bosses being controlled in their greed though moral arguments and monetary policies. Sowell argues for bosses big and small to be responsible and use government only for defense of property. While Reich argues for bosses using more control though their government to save themselves and their crisis ridden system. .
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@Anonymous_world5000 It was another defeat for the Imperialist powers after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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@Spodogo What your realizing is that the neoliberal propaganda is no longer enough to hold the masses in check. That Trump let the Cat out of the Bag and Humpty dumpty won't go back together again.
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@uditthapa6716 Capitalism paying wages only to get you to come back for the next week.
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 @KASLtja Capitalist Bosses seek to pay the lowest wages to make the biggest profits.
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@danieltitus26 Well ya but emotional damage is not really quantifiable. If I see a NAZI or CSA flag I feel uncomfortable. The Smith 'gag' Act was passed on the ruse of being a law to stop a NAZI third column in the US. Instead it first victims were the leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters Union and Socialist Workers Party. During the McCarthy era it was used over and over again to send members of the Communist Party away for 5 year jail terms.
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@wasabininja3494 This talk of mob rule is used to justify the class system of capitalist rule. We are not supposed to be as "smart" as those who are elected as part of the capitalist meritocracy. Their right to rule is based upon an Ivy league education. These types would like a system that elects second place politicians or prevents the workers choosing someone other than a ruling class approved meritocrat. The talk of a return of literacy requirements and property ownership as ways to keep "the mob" from gaining control. Democracy is always a threat to the rich and powerful.
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@wasabininja3494 Complete nonsense with the usual attack on workers social wage as being a handout not something won in the class struggle of the 1930's. A Democracy is where voting is used to make decisions. The rich can affect those decisions with their ideological justifications and using money to affect the elections to democratic representative bodies. A republic is simply a government without a king nothing more nothing less.
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@wasabininja3494 The capitalist seek to reduce wages to what is only necessary to return to work the next day which is why workers need the capitalist government to guarantee workers income and health for those injured on or off the job and those who reach an age where they can no longer work like the young. In fact capitalism breaks up families because the capitalist would rather pay for just a single worker than to have to pay for a family.
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@wasabininja3494 Saying that workers rely on "Daddy Government" is just another insult like irredeemable and deplorable. Your suggestion no doubt is that we should rely on the bosses good will who go in and out of bankruptcy which comes with the end of promised benefits like company paid healthcare and pensions. Sure those taxes would make the rich and the upper class richer which is all they care about while spouting nonsense about personal responsibility. Something they have ways of avoiding by use of the limited liability joint stock company, capitalist law and bankruptcy court.
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@wasabininja3494 We know how much the rich hate local government when it will costs them more money and how much they love big government when it comes to interfering in one's personal sex life like having an abortion or gay marriage. How much they love a big military to defend their foreign investment. This space force is just another case of loving big government. Those new contracts for space weapons will feed the capitalist warmongers big business like Boeing, General Dynamics and Space X (Tesla motors).
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@wasabininja3494 I get it now you one of these nut cases like the sovereign citizens who thinks he can ignore the political economic system to death. Taxes won't be abolished under capitalism because money is necessary to pay for commodities used in the state sector. A social wage means things like education, workman's comp, healthcare, unemployment insurance, social security, TANF, aid to the blind and disabled. These are paid out of tax money because the employers can force down wages to the point of just enough to survive to the next day. The employers view tax money as their money. You of course think that he has at least an individualist way around the system if only you could be responsible. Go ahead and take a wheelbarrow of tools out to the Nevada desert and see just how long you last without a connection to the world market. Don't like Nevada then go south to one of the Latin American countries where you can use your skill to survive in the jungle or maybe go to a remote area in the rocky mountains or Canada. You can talk all day about your anarchism because you have no possible way to implement it. Oh Ya we should all believe this nonsenses about how the charter setting up the DC government ment a new national government was installed.
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The class interests of the capitalist come first when capitalist parties control the government.
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@annsheridan12 Henry Ford was admired by Adolf Hitler and published "The International Jew." an anti semitic rant serialized in his paper "The Dearborn Independent". Hitler translated it into German. Jew played a major role in the Russian revolution and Hitler heaped score upon Jewish Bolshevism. A part of history conveniently forgotten by American scholars such as Sowell.
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"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." Twin capitalist party exaggeration nothing more nor less. Their is no border crisis and no white supremacy problem. I'm really tired of the same old tried two party rhetoric.
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@JohnSmith-bs9ym Capitalism requires the protection of private property by police and military violence. The road to socialism is paved by the class struggle. Build the Trade Unions and support the strike with solidarity.
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@countlessbathory1485 The Capitalists national Imperialist greed is responsible for the two world wars which were Imperialist slaughters organized first by the Imperialist nations. Stalin was no more a Communist than Republicans are for Repubics. Class struggle is why the working class has what it does the capitalist give nothing without a fight. I don't own any private property which I can use to exploit others like the monopolists. We have a right to strike and block the entrance of strikebreakers. Your only goal is to pay the lowest wage and impose the most oppressive conditions to make the biggest profits and even then a lot of what you do with the profit is to drive up the value of fictitious capital which can only collapse creating the next economic crisis. Then when a crisis occurs your to big to fail companies demand wage cuts and government bailouts. Bankruptcy reorganization is just another way to make the workers pay for your profit crisis and the decades long decline in the rate of profits. A private army of fascist goons is what the capitalist find as cheaper when their property is threatened by socialist revolution. Hitler's NAZI's were the saviors of German capitalism.
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@countlessbathory1485 First the "not real socialism" is well documented as the split in the Communist Party of America in 1928 with the Trotsky's supporters forming the Communist League of America. Kotkin is merely a bourgois Professor. Trotsky was co leader of the Revolution with Lenin. Everyone with a brain knows Hitler was anti Marx and anti Bolshevik. Doesn't make a difference what Hitler would rant about he was appointed Chancellor of German by General Hindenburg on adive of von Pipen and all the capitalist deputies voted for the enabling act giving Hitler dicitoral powers. The German bosses wanted Hitler to destroy the trade unions and organize production for the ambitions of Imperialist war. Private property was untouched and profits secured. All you and your bourgois professors want is to define capitalism out of its crimes including those of the class collaborationists Social Democrats and Stalinist leaders for whom capitalism is considered progressive. Capitalism developed in nation states and it is characterised in the Imperialist stage by the private ownership of big capital monopoly in production and banking capital with foreign investments and then super profits extracted with the help of imperialist military force. When capitalism enters a revolutionary crisis the owners then turn to fascist gangsters and a Fascist government of the gangsters. Marxist theories are all public so to say fascism is based in marxism is merely to say the fascists see their system as a way to achieve the goal of their bosses. One might just as well accuse American conservatism of being a branch of Marxism since James Burnham was an ex communists co founder. A fascist coup d eta is not the same as a though going social revolution which the coup d eta is meant to behead. Capitalist exploitation doesn't occur at the point of sale rather it occurs when the capitalist uses his power as an employer to enforce his profit maximization goals upon his production workers. The workers are paid the lowest wage and work the longest hours at the fastest pace to achieve the biggest profits. Only by banding together in trade unions can the workers fight back against this exploitation.
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@m.s.9158 Actually Montgomery touts itself as the BirthPlace of the Confederacy because it was the capital of the Confederacy before Virginia joined secession and Richmond, VA became the new slavocracies capital. They still raise cotton in the fields along US 80 between Selma and Montgomery.
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@luispericchi9347 US riot police and national guard use tear gas all the time.
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The Democratic Imperialist leadership call anyone they don't like a dictator because their own governments are in a continuous state of flux caused by the instability of the world market.
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How much investment is Amazon willing to lose by closing down its warehouse.
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@kutiek9699 Fight back against the billionaire class. Make Unions Great Again!
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@thebigm4 These workers are fighting back against Boss greed and they way the company treats them. This will do more to defend the working class against inflation than anything Trump can do.
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How's your Buddy Senator Bob Menendez doing. I hear he took one to many gold bars as a bribe? Any truth to that?
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@juliusebola9389 I love hearing how much conservatives favor personal responsibility when the whole purpose of setting up a corporation is to avoid personal responsibility.
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@juliusebola9389 If no one ever had a different idea or opinion in a political party it would indicate a dead party.
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Do the log cabin Republicans have closets in side the log cabin?
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I have no love for the perpetrators of this heinous act but by law It happened on Saudi soil according to international law. Trump needs to close the military bases in Saudi Arabia and end arms sales anyway. Anyone who loses their job should get full pay and the arms plants should be retooled to make things that are useful and meet human needs.
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@connorkeefe2483 The root of the word authoritarianism is author implying rule by written word. So another useless term invented by intellectuals as a smear term. Political compass another invention of petti bourgeois intellectuals more confusing than left right political correctness.
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@paulsmart4672 Like it or not Stalin and the bureaucrats paid themselves a wage or salary they did not own the means of production. With the end of the Warsaw Pact nations and the Soviet Union the bureaucrats with advice from western politicians and businessmen transformed themselves into the new capitalists with shock therapy. A similar course was carried out in China were the bureaucrats maintained their Party organization.
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@paulsmart4672 It was still a different system. Stalin and the bureaucrats feared the original leaders of the revolution after Lenin died. That's why they falsified history and tried the wipe out the left opposition and any opposition what so ever. The were weak not strong which is why they were easily defeated by mass protest in about 50 years.
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@claesvanoldenphatt9972 The Soviet Union was a transitional society with a Communist Party that was destroyed by Stalin in the 1930's purges.
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@bobbymounts They are fighting back against corporate greed which is more than what you are doing. The day that GM management gets what a skilled worker does is the day i will listen to management complaints about workers being overpaid. If you so underpaid why don't you join a union and fight back. Probably you just a little boss somewhere who is jealous because he can't ass kiss his way to a bigger paycheck.
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@bobbymounts Business unionist like you are always getting in the way of any advancement with your constant worrying about company profits and being fair to the company. I've belonged to six different local unions in the transportation, steel and electrical industries. I'd rather find a new job than let a company man business unionist take credit for saving my job.
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GM workers want an end to the two tiered wage scale. A union with one guy making three dollars an hour less for installing the right headlight than the guy installing the left headlight has to end if the union is to survive. Business unionism has had ten years to solve that problem so now a strike has become the way to solve these type of problems.
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I know what they teach in those business unionism schools. How you guys are Labor Statesman who's good manners save jobs from being eliminated and the dues base from erosion. In 1954 at the Merger of the AFL and CIO thirty percent of workers in the US belonged to unions. The Labor Tops said organizing would bring in more. Today thanks to business unionism 8% now belong to unions.
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@jaemoon3593 The unions should remain separate from the capitalist government. Any kind of corruption problems should be handled by the union membership not the corrupt government and its political police agencies like the FBI. It's no accident that these charges were raised at contract time. Let them go investigate GM managment for being in on one of the biggest profit scams of legal corruption in history.
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@brians7181 That's the result of capitalism. A big profit low wage policy. The Saclar family became billionaries with the sale of oxy. In fact when the realized that the opiate crisis was booming they diversified into treatment of the crisis they initiated. Now they, their lawyers and the capitalist politicians are arguing over how much of their wealth they should be allowed to keep.
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@brians7181 First that 100 million includes a clearly made up figure for Cuba such that it brings up all the other claims into question. Second China has gone capitalist which your types have been gloating over for years. The bureaucratic bungling in China can only we compared to that in the US . Whatever China does in general is not good enough for those living in the Greatest Country on Earth anyway. In this case the US is doing much better at its bungling. The Chinese are already distributing anti virals including one invented in Cuba. In the US VP Pence comes on TV to announce plans. Cuba is prepared for the outbreak with antivirals while Pence is still trying to get Google to set up a web site of symptoms. The Cuban medical system is based in the neighborhood with one doctor per 150 people. The US system is based in insurance company profits where about 1/3 of the population forgoes medical treatmnt as to expensive. In Cuba no one will be left behind because of the neighborhood medical system. While the US builds its society of rich playboys and billionaire Presidential candidates. Cuba is building a society based in human solidarity. The typical US response to disaster is to unleash the cops, call out the national guard like Governor Cuomo has done and for the police chief to announce 'Your on Your Own". They've already announced a hierarchy of treatment in the US. Cops first then National Guard, Bankers and Big Phama bosses and workers last.
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F-35B LIGHTNING II fighter jet. #BlueLivesMatter Take a trip to Obama, Trump and Bush's favorite Kingdom. Saudi Arabia. Sell some bones saws and sulfuric acid. While you at it bring in a suitcase full of bibles. Enjoy the wonderful accommodations provided by the religious police. Just don't get to excited and lose your head over the holy world of the keeper of the two holy mosques.
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Lee and the Confederate statues are coming down because they are part of a racist cult of division that enabled Jim Crow. Dixiecrat Democrats who were directly responsible for Jim Crow were enabled by Republican inaction. Nixon a Republican brought the old Dixiecrats into the Republican Party. The Republicans want to throw off that image while the Democrats want to tar and feather them with it. Of course NAZI sympathizers are talking shit about Jews and giving confusing history lessons. Chants of "Blood and Soil" by Neo-NAZI 's and Chants of the "Jews have our Jobs!" Are clearly those of fascists. Not Libertarians or Republican Conservatives.
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I am already a communist. We don't turn back. Nor do we go around pretending to be tough by choosing names like Annihilate. That of course is the rights politics of threats and violence. Nothing really theoretical because you have only a theory of power based upon oppression.
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US government is elected by big money that makes it a capitalist government. Its purpose is to defend capitalist property rights. Who's going to buy a war? Ring Ring "Hi, This is General Powell." "This is Rex Tillerson over at Exxon." General Powell "Ok, what can I do for you?" Rex Tillerson "Saddam Hussein won't give me a good price on oil can you do an Iraqi war for me?" General Powell "Just a minute. That will be 10,000,000,000 dollars." Tellerson, "Do you take Mastercard?"
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ReeseL4D You assume that socialism means a state operated enterprise. What is most important is what property forms does the state defend. A state consists mainly of a police force and military. If it defends a stock market and a private industry it is a capitalist state. If it defends national economic planning without private ownership of industry then it is a workers state. The transition of one to the other is called a revolution. The old capitalist state can't just be reused because the old professional police force has most likely committed crimes to keep the capitalists in power and the officer coups can usually be expected to be unreliable for the same reason. That's why a new state must be built because the revolution can't easily just take over the old apparatus.
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I gave you a Marxist definition of a state not an English dictionary definition. You're talking about how the state is managed. A capitalist state can be managed by bourgeois democracy like the US which is a republic or a limited monarchy like the UK or Canada, an absolute monarchy like Saudi Arabia, or a dictatorship like Franco or Hitler. A workers state can be democratic like the early Soviet Union or Cuba or it can be be corrupt and lose democracy like the latter Soviet Union or China. A corrupt workers state is unstable it must either undergo a political revolution or return to capitalism. This was essentially Trotsky's explanation of what went on in the Soviet Union. In the US both parties are capitalist parties because they both defend capitalism and their candidates for office are overwhelming lawyers, other members of the middle class and members of the ruling capitalist class. The candidates and two parties rely on campaign donations from the wealthy for most offices. He who pays the piper plays the tune.
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The US has a system which encourages a two party electoral system since offices are winner take all. Workers never set up the two parties as historically the Republicans were founded by the wealthy Northern Industrialist just before the civil war and the Democrats were originally a southern party founded by Jefferson which became a capitalist party after the civil war. Normally elections are such that control oscillates back and forth between the two parties. The last election was different more people entered the process and the Republicans selected Trump despite the officials objections and Sanders was handed a defeat through undemocratic rules and wrangling in the Democratic party. Clinton was defeated despite her raising 4 times what Trump had. This resulted in immediate anger in the ruling class because they same workers who had chosen Obama now choose Trump because of his appeals to them. A large section of the ruling class is unhappy having an untested politician in the white house and has been behind an anybody but Trump movement. This is what happens when a candidate who is a member of the ruling class that they don't like gets elected can you imagine what would happen if the Socialist Workers Party candidate gets elected?
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Reesel4D If you believe what is most important is the state and not the political economics of a society than that is a non Marxist view. The state is determined by the needs of the ruling class (capitalist, feudal, slavocracy or workers) not the other way around. If you want to convict me of being a Marxist well then I plead guilty. The first part of a socialist revolution is when the workers gain political power. The next part is to nationalize and abolish private ownership of Industrial property. In the Cuban revolution no one was told they couldn't continue as an administrator. What they were told is they could no longer use their position to exploit others. The Cuban revolution also broke up the old plantations and made land available to all who wanted to work it. So far every socialist revolution after the workers gain political power has then faced counterrevolutionary violence from both internal and external enemies. If the workers and small farmers through their revolutionary party and governmental organization are to retain and hold power they have had to destroy the old state power, establish a new state power and create a revolutionary armed forces to defend the revolutionary power from external invasion. Will all socialist revolutions go on to become bureaucratic nightmares and then go back to capitalism because the rich run the world? The Cuban's have already answered that question and like Fidel said there will be a revolution in the United States before there will be a counter revolution in Cuba.
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The United States has had two revolutions. The first overthrew British colonial rule and established a national federal republican state. The second constitution of 1789 with its first ten amendments (Bill of Rights) also left intact slavery within individual states and the Bill of Rights was deemed binding upon the Federal government only before the civil war. The second revolution (the civil war 1861-1865) abolished slavery and added the civil war amendments that made slavery illegal (except as punishment for a crime), guaranteed voting rights for the former slaves, established due process of law for all under US jurisdiction, and made anyone born here and under US jurisdiction automatically citizens. Now all those rights look very good on paper but someone has always had to fight to keep those rights intact against a government that would like to ride roughshod over them. The alien and sedition act, the criminal syndicalism laws, the palmer raids, the smith (gag) act, the communist control act, the conitel programs, the attorney generals list and more are examples of government thought control laws and suppression of free speech and association. Now the battle between Stalin and Trotsky may have seemed irrelevant in the last years of the Eastern Bloc and China but the American Trotskyists have been much more relevant in the United States. Our political continuity goes back to before WW1 and the founding of the 2nd International. We have never had to go underground due to death squads, stalinism or fascism like the colonial world and Europe. While the Stalinist dominated the radicalization of the 1930's we pulled off the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 which opened the road to creating the Teamster's Union the largest union in the United States today. Starting with the Cuban revolution and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee the Stalinists have never been able to keep us (Socialist Workers Party) out of any significant struggle in the United States. The days when they could raise and pass motions to eject the counter revolutionary Trotskyists and expel their members for talking to us are long gone. Today our movement publishes books on a wide range of subjects and a weekly newspaper. While the CPUSA is limited to a web page and recruitment based on nostalgia history rewritten to make themselves look good.
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If anyone has revised Marxism Leninism it was Stalin. Trotsky with his permanent revolution and Lenin with his April theis said that the capitalist class no longer had a component that was revolutionary. This is important. After the defeat the working class suffered in Germany having received the advice to battle the Social Democratic workers as social fascists that resulted with the Fascist taking power in 1934. Stalin's next advice was to form blocs with the patriotic bourgeois forces to prevent the rise of fascism. This was called Popular Frontism. It served up the workers in France and Spain to fascism and the same happened in Indonesia and Chile in 9/11/1973. Georgi Dimitrov was the author of the popular front. It makes the requirement to keep 'patriotic bourgeois' forces within the front a political necessity so it then serves up the revolutionary workers to a frightened bourgeois that turns to fascism for its class survival. The first Chinese revolution was also a victim of this strategy and the only reason the second one was successful was General Chiang Kai-shek refusal to join despite American advice otherwise.
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Go away we don't need people from the Spanish inquisition of the Fascist Generalissimo Franco. Go get some more wine and drink yourself into a stupor. That way you always do the best negotiating.
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@Googlesucks Investing money into pensions is the wrong way to look at the economy as workers. We get paid for what we produce the elderly and disabled need to be paid out of that that is produced. Money does not grow in a bank or on Wall Street. They call pension money dumb money because its invested blindly while the growth takes place among insiders and financial crisis guarantee losses for the dumb investor. Let Wall Street take the losses we should never accept wage cuts or pay cuts to save bankers mismanagement.
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@jonc6157 Why not admit that the US capitalist system is unworkable? That all that happens is the rich get more and the rest are being pushed into crushing poverty.
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@herbertpetrillo485 This guy is no CEO but some flat foot who Cruz has totally confused.
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If he wants to sell cakes to only the morally pure he should move his business into the Church basement selling to members of his church only.
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Apparently he refused a lesbian couple cup cakes for their anniversary but would supply them for a wedding of dogs.
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Can you operate from the moon?
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Capitalism is breaking up families. When the bosses only pay enough to support a single worker that breaks up families. The best program to fight poverty is a job at union wages. Plus AFDC has been cut and replaced by TANF so the narrative that welfare is causing these problems is wrong.
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@radiation2184 Be careful you don't get killed in a secret US military bio hazard experiment.
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@user-br3fk8dx8o I don't have anything to lose you do.
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@radiation2184 So you wipe yourself with our shit! LOL
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@declanmoore75 When you tell people they have to work without pay that is slave labor. Its called Peonage and its illegal.
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@declanmoore75 A few weeks ago Congress and Trump were having a lovers spat over building the wall. Trump decided he'd 'shut down the government ' because he wasn't getting his way by refusing to sign for new appropriations while telling 'essential workers like Air Traffic controllers to report to work despite them not being paid.
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@Rattus-Norvegicus Information about what?
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@Rattus-Norvegicus I've always found that crawling around under a car or truck or working in the engine compartment is a good way to get dirty along with opening up a desktop computer power supply. If that's not getting you dirty enough than try crawling around underneath a mobile home.
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@Rattus-Norvegicus You can always get your self a job in a print shop there's always a lot ink in the air.
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@Rattus-Norvegicus Time for talk is not over. You can not proceed without unity. In the US we can proceed by organizing strikes and protests. The labor movement proceeds in a defensive manner not in an ultra-left or terroristic manner. All legal means of change must be exhausted before one can justify any organized mass violence. As Malcolm X put it it is "...the ballot or the bullet..." If you want to learn about how to make a revolution I suggest TheMilitant.com and Pathfinderpress.com No revolution without revolutionary theory.
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@guilhermefreire8093 The history of the labor movement and capitalism in the US is different than Europe. Unlike most of the European countries we've never had a revolutionary situation that posed the question of power. The Social Democrats, Stalinists and labor officials have never built a mass working class party. Instead they content themselves with supporting the Democratic Party candidates and trying to take over the corrupt Democratic party. Only the Socialist Workers Party consistently runs candidates for President and in other elections while participating in the class struggle and pointing a way forward from the crisis of capitalism. TheMilitant.com
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@commenterofreason3478 You understanding capitalism is minimal at best. Describing the steps needed to be a successful lemonade stand owner and how workers can quit shows how really shallow your economic thinking is. Sure you can quit for a better paying job but only if one is available and the boss hires you. Not a single gun has been confiscated from anyone in any state. Kavanaugh was never on trial. At worst he faced not being given Congressional approval as a Supreme court justice which would mean he would have to go back to being a lower court Federal Judge. Nick Sandmann was never on trail either. He is suing the Washington Post newspaper. He claims defamation of character. The Post no doubt will cite the First Amendment as a defense. You babbling about what amounts to suffering from "The white mans burden" is just laughable. The problem isn't Muslims it is people like you who think Muslims are the problem. If your such an astute European political analysis then you should understand that Venezuela is just an example of what's headed for the Social Democratic Nordic countries. Plus the Yellow Vests are protesting "Marcon President of the Rich."
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They forget to wave the American flag though this excellent work of propaganda. .
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(President) Governor Reagan ordered the CHP and Berkeley police to "use whatever method they choose against the protesters". These were his own words. Riot police with Shotguns open fire on unarmed protesters. One student killed 128 people sent to the hospitals. Reagan declares a state of emergency and orders out the national guard. All of this over building a new parking lot at UC Berkeley.
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Jan 6 th was the day the Sheep became afraid of the cry's of the lambs.
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Capitalism doing God's work.
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@ToOpen6seven Capitalism is always based in nation states which compete in a world market that is where capitalism's biggest weakness lies it can't share markets with other groups of bosses. The bosses can not avoid economic nationalism which spells defeat for the ruling classes of all nations and victory for the international proletariat.
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@kalebpiper8107 Who defines a true Christian? That was what the Protestant reformation was all about. The Protestants came to the conclusion that they had to interpret the bible for themselves. This is why anyone can start a Protestant sect. Plus even Catholics may have abortions for ectopic pregnancy. Many American Christians including Catholics simple ignore the prohibition if they choose to. Even more ignore the Catholic teaching on the use of artificial birth control. Most early abortion are done with the abortion pill making prohibition even more difficult. Is the Shia, the Sunni, Sufi or American Black Muslims the true Muslim? What if some of the Muslim scholars decide that your quibbling walls should be facing Pertras instead of Mecca? A new survey of early quibbling walls shows them facing Petras instead of Mecca. Could Petras in Jordan be the actual birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad? Is the circling of the Kaaba an ancient Pagan fertility right and is the kissing a Black stone in a silver case idolatry? Only Muslims sanction the killing of Apostates based upon the Quoran. .
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@gosiazachoszcz1367 So i'm an entitled person because the American revolution and civil war put down rights on paper? Should I line up to kiss Republican or Democrat Wilson's ass for setting up J Edgar Hoover's FBI Secret police? Who put Socialist Eugene Debs in Prison? Or maybe the great fireside chatter FDR for the Smith :gag" Act that started the second which hunt with the jailing of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. Republican Nixon got caught in a scandal called watergate and by the time it was over a capitalist federal judge in New York had Democrat Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell found in contempt for refusing to turn over FBI secret police informer files that detailed a forty year war on political rights. A groundbreaking case they made headline in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. I have shown you that war and destruction by the rich capitalist countries results in socialist revolution but somehow that doesn't show capitalism as an economic failure. You just totally ignorant about communism because you only listen to those who berate us. A whole opposition to Stalin arrose i n 1928 but my guess is you have no idea who Trotsky was, his theories or what role he played. You declared yourselfs victors in the cold war with the final betrayal of the Stalinist in 1989 but Cuba refuses to cry Uncle and throw in the towel. Then in 2008 US Bankers go to Congress with the news of a banking crisis that threatens to take down the whole worlds economy. US General tells Chinese PLA Commander we will tell you if we are going to attack. Of course all your "smart ones" Democrats and Republicans from the elite American universities would never provoke or start a nuclear war? Their just building more nuclear weapons so they can put them on display at county fairs.. Don't you want to tell me about how much you know about communism now? Do you want to explain how Elon Musk is a victim? After all didn't he recently cry that his daughter went communist? All you see is bright lights coca cola signs and are easily fooled by capitalist media.
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@OpenNaNoorPls No Iran is not like all the other Muslim countries. It is a capitalist country where a reactionary religious cult of Islamists murdered its way to power after the overthrow of the hated Shah who was installed by the American Imperialist in return for part of the British oil concession. Chile is a capitalist country that emerged from a military dictatorship. back to bougois democracy. I don't know much about Armenia except that the Turks launched a genocide at about the time of world war one. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was an ally of Adolf Hitler and a promoter of the final solution for the Jews. He raised Muslim Militia for Hitler. Just like Hamas which is a Neo NAZI organization.
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@yaredmussie4086 Republican's abandoned the Southern Republican Reconstruction Governments and ratified the Democrat Party passed Segregation laws.
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@elzoog Northern Liberal Democrats were in the same party as Southern Dixiecrats. Republicans were still a Northern sectional party with both liberals (Nelson Rockefeller) and conservatives (Ronald Reagan). Watching the 1968 Democratic Party convention was a trip in itself. Inside the convention hall a certain amount of chaos was going on with people holding up banners. Outside the cops weren't making any arrests but going on a rampage of bashing anyones head without a blue helmet including national TV reporters on live TV.
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@Crezelltree4261 I remember where I was and who told me President President Kennedy had been killed. I remember going under our desks as a preparation for a nuclear war. Compared to our parents childhood in the Great Depression we were spooled. I'm not sure if I remember the missile crisis but we did think Kennedy's death and North East Blackout might mean nuclear war. What do you think I should remember? We were not a middle class "Leave to Beaver" family. My mom and dad really loudly yelled at each other and us. I would get a quarter if I took out the garbage.
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@Crezelltree4261 I wasn't there for the shouts of "Baby Killer" unless you talking about the Pro Birth movement. i can't tell you first hand what was said at Port Huron or much about anything pre 1970 as first hand info. I was in the PCPJ office in Cambridge when Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden came by neither paid any attention to me. I had a chemistry professor as my freshman advisor. He had a poster of a Bank of America office in flames. Other than having a wine and cheese party and approving my next terms class choices I don't remember him saying a word about anything political. I do remember Professor Phillip Morrison speaking at an antiwar rally. My question is if he has 'seen the light' why did it take so long and why should we believe so now? At one point I read "The Revolution Betrayed" by Leon Trotsky and it was a much better explanation of what went wrong in the Soviet Union than any other popular explanation or history. '
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@pmcguinness3041 it my own expression and the minerals and water in a human body don't amount to much more than somewhere around a $1.50 in value if you had to purchase them. Its meant to be sarcastic.
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"As an immigrant from the former "wonderful" Soviet Union, I have been watching how the cultural marxism penetrated the mainstream to the point that like, under Soviets, now you cannot speak up." That's part of the problem in that you are a watcher not a doer. This is not Stalin's Russia where you could be grabbed up off the street to meet the NKVD's quota of counter revolutionaries arrested like the American police meeting speeding ticket quotas. .
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@zyklon562 This is a US propaganda piece by Cuban Archivo an organization of butt hurt losers who are relatives of the CIA paid mercenaries invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Their director is a former Chase Manhattan Bank VP educated under the Pinochet Dictatorship.
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He and his whole agency needs to be fired and the J Egar Hoover building destroyed as a national insult to Democracy.
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@jasonandersen5975 I seem to remember a certain George Bush in a classroom when 9/11 happened.
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@jasonandersen5975 Also Reagan's remark to Nixon about African UN delegates not comfortable with wearing shoes.
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@MoeDoe1 That maybe true but you live in a society where the truth can be stretched, hidden and twisted as long as it serve the interest of big business. They lied about the safety of leaded gasoline form day one. It took 52 years before it was brought under control and its still being used in small aircraft.
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@MoeDoe1 True enough but if Zimmerman had been anyone else but a night watchmen in a gated community he'd have been arrested at the scene as a dangerous individual. Like the Menendez brothers the cops go slow when your upper class or a friend (since they don't have many) and at the scene of a crime with a smoking gun nearby.
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@grahamfinlayson-fife73 Sure he was he lived in a gated community and his wife was convicted of lying at the bail hearing about being indigent. He comes from the Virginia DC Metro area one of the richest areas in the country with family connections at the Pentagon.
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@rickmorty7284 They already decided. Now you turn. Give Trump another bite at the apple. He says the election was stolen from him. Why not hold another election for him if you like elections so much.
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@MRGoods89 Sowell is just another preacher for the neo liberal capitalist bosses. Of course if you speak up its the boss way or the highway. What Sowell has in common with the liberals is love of the bosses and rights of private property to exploit the rest of us.
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@kaitlynkarol4600 Jobs for all who want to work. Workers control of industry. No to layoffs. Rebuild the union movement.
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@megakaren2160 Are you sure because four Canadian dollars only buys about three US dollars on our side of the border?
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@megakaren2160 I thought you were Canadian because you said the company HQ was located in Canada. Since you work in the US the company being located in Canada has nothing to do with your wage.
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@megakaren2160 Why would Magna Bosses from Canada pay your more? More than likely Magna bosses pay a higher money wage but are making up for it in some other way. Like fewer health benefits, a cheaper retirement plan or with high turnover that saves on benefits. The bosses know what the cost of living is in your area is and that's how the base their wage rate. They know what other bosses in the area pay also since they get together in Boss organizations and talk about their businesses.
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@economicfusion6065 The private pension was the bosses idea. Social Security or more correctly a social insurance or a social wage is the way for the workers to protect their standard of living in their lifetime not putting money in a pension scheme like an IRA or private pension dependent on the stock market and length of service.
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@bradh7472 Losing billions. LMAO Who are the losing billions to? Its Musk and all the liberals who keep raising this climate change stink as an excuse for every problem. The problem is the tendency of the rate of profit to decline over long terms in capitalist industry and you can only hide that so much with inflation. The fixed capital value rises as machines replace living labor in production resulting in the tendency of the profit rate to decline in the long term because our labor is the source of profits.
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@garymillerjr4452 They can chose to strike and demand a union contract also. The bosses only want verbal contracts when it suits them otherwise the have all kinds of written contractual requirements between each other. They have a whole system of contractual law.
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Its starts with lies so its man purpose is nothing more than British Imperialist propaganda.
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@tonycatman Our class was born in the coal mines and textile mills of England. We have been marching to power in our own name ever since. When you see class struggle you see Russian Bolshevism.
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@tonycatman Look at China. Thousands of poor chinese peasants who are the new industrial workers. Our Party ran a coal miner Alyson Kennedy for president. The UAW just finished a strike at GM. This is no time for pessimism but optimism. The ruling parties are in crisis's not seen in living memory.
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@dmay3391 There is an underlying difference between Fascism and Stalinism. Fascism as a state is what a capitalist class turns to when it sees its own end threatened by a revolution. Stalin's rise to power was based in the needs of a developing bureaucratic layer seeking to enrich itself at the expense of the masses and the world socialist revolution. His height of power was probably in the Great Purges just before the start of WW2 in the 1936 to 1938 timeline.
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@dmay3391 Khrushchev said he had to be kept out of WW2 war decisions and convinced to let Marshall Zhukov run the war. He dissolved the Communist International during the war as a favor to Churchill and FDR. The end of the war saw revolutions in China and Yugoslavia that he couldn't control and that broke the back of the Stalinist monolith even if the US refused to recognize that until Nixon came around as US President at the end of the Vietnam war.
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@dmay3391 Khrushchev, Stalin's first stable successor in 1956 three years after Stalin's death in 1953 gave a speech where he admitted to many of Stalin's crimes including the Cult of Personality. https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm
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I love this kind of thing because now I can argue that government doesn't follow its own laws when dealing with the wealthy. Ever better they expose the FBI as a political police force.
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@uncannyvalley2350 If the politician want get the law involved then if I was a physician with one of those cases I'd be getting the governor, judges and lawyer out of bed or wherever and down to the Emergency room ASAP.. Send them an uber driver who can ring a doorbell and blow a horn.
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@loriolson1143 Now we will debate and see who can better practice medicine medical doctors or state legislatures. How to best support children and life. The need to educate more Doctors and the delivery of medical services.
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Yes there is nothing quit like the neoliberal gospel of Sowell and Friedman. "Shock Therapy" coming to a county like yours. You don't know what you missing until you pay the price for the decisions of the executive committee of the ruling class.
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Maybe so. Then again why do American Universities divide up Economics. Political Science and Business into separate departments?
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@Fahrenheit4051 Typical conservative sends his kids to the elite private schools and then on to the elite universities where they are legacy admissions. You kids education is tooo expensive but he has plenty to spend on his at the elite academies and country day schools with 1 to 5 teacher to student ratios.
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@Ford Fairlane It's like the usual FBI frame job they start with a criminal and then begin to investigate. It turns the whole concept of justice on its head. Supposedly the police investigate crime not deciding who is a criminal and then building a frame job.
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@FluffyHarmlessKitten Congress knows better they say much about travel costs otherwise you'd wonder why the need for some many trips to the best vacation spots for foreign policy reasons.
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The opposition is all based in Miami and most are paid agents of the United States or US bankers. End the US Blockade of Cuba!! Close the US Guantanamo Naval base, Prison and Torture Center.
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@I say shotgun, you say wedding [TFM] Both capitalist parties are in a crisis caused by the natural workings of capitalism. The US did not win the cold war although it has been acting as if it did.
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@SwoleTown Hitler built a cadre of thugs by launching physical attacks upon the trade unions, Jews, and Marxists. His source of social support came from the pauperized middle classes. The ruling capitalist class handed power to him to save them selves from a working class socialist revolution class whose Stalinist and Social Democratic leadership refused to close ranks and lead.
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@youtubecommenter2 As a Boozgeois Professor and fellow of the Hoover Institute Sowell is paid lackey of the American Bourgeois. His job is to defend capitalism from all critics. He rejects John Lockes, Adam Smith's and Karl Marx's theories of labor value for the modern bourgeois nonsense of subjective value and profit marginalism. Like Milton Freedman his theories of world capitalism that can maintain stability, piece and produce democracy have been shown to be nothing but the defense of the profit motive, commodity fetishism and markets as the most valuable inventions in human history. Let us know when and how Sowell plans to market air and sunlight such that the bosses can do so without government intervention and only the need to profit?
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So Sowell has backhandedly admitted that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and Communism was do to the success of the Russian Revolution and the failure of Western capitalism.
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@OliveOliver-uf6po Unlike Cuba the Israeli government does nothing in healthcare for other people and countries. Nor does Israel suffer under a cruel blockade by the US government that interferes with the purchase of medicine and healthcare products. Obviously from what you state a Doctors care is still a commodity that you must purchase as an Israeli citizen otherwise there would be no need for having a medical rat race called competition.
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@redacted428 Just like Hitler called Relativity "Jewish Science". Since gunpowder was invented by th Chineses why don't swear off from firing guns?
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@absboodoo It was the only way the Stalinist leadership of the Soviet Union could possible take. The most corrupt elements became the new capitalist oligarchy. Now Putin the old Secret police spy wants to be a new CZAR. When Lenin and Trotsky government was in power the Soviet Union was a federation of Socialist states with recognition of the rights for national minority culture with in them. Stalin reversed the Communist course of Lenin and Trotsky and destroyed the original party during with the Moscow Trials of the 1930's and the senseless murder purges that followed.
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BOSSES have already done plenty. Closing plants and moving for cheap labor elsewhere. Busting unions another 'good' action just like a BOSS who hungers for higher profits and bigger markets. If fact since 1973 BOSSES have been doing such good work that wages have been stagnant while productivity has skyrocketed. Now are you sure that you want to step it and fechet? http://www.thestand.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ss-productivity-earnings.jpg
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Hillary and Bill Clinton are personal friends of Trump they went to his last wedding. My candidate for President was Alyson Kennedy a former coal miner and candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. Now don't you have a sales motivational meeting to attend? Or maybe one titled Restarting and Relocating: Career Advice for Downsized Middle Managers.
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Donald Trump University of Pennsylvania, The Clintons, The Bushes, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh Yale, and Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Ruth Ginsburg, John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Neil Gorsuch, Elena Kagan Harvard. Years ago the would have been called "The Best and The Brightest" today we call them idiots.
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She had policies that would have helped who? We had 8 years of hope and change already.
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We have had a third party come out and permanently replace one of the other two. They were a new class party of wealthy industrialist called the National Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln was there 2nd Presidential candidate. The workers do not need access to bourgeois courts in order to fight back and win. You need only look at what the school workers were able to achieve in West Virginia. The were able to strike and win because they organized both socially and politically. All possible within a deep red state with Republican Governor and Republican legislature, no strike laws and right to work laws.
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Every deep political and economic crisis in the past has produced at least one third party. However those crisis were resolved, capitalism was able to continue and those parties were either crushed or reduced in influence.
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@kevinnguyen8631 RIGHT TO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE!!! YOU DON"T CARE IF WOMEN DIE!!
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@Miloshevits You lack any compassion for women forced to give birth to unwanted children as evidenced by the coarseness of the bourgeois propaganda you promote and as such aren't worth the time of day . You brain and body will be more valuable as lawn crabgrass fertilizer as your body, brain and your bourgeois ideology die off in the death agony of the last capitalist Empire.
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Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 The capitalist police are there to defend the capitalist's private property rights. You can not just change their name or duties and expect something different out of them. We need a revolution like the one Fidel Castro lead over sixty years ago. Protests against cop brutality can get them jailed but only a revolution can open the doors to solving humanity deepest and most pressing problems.
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Quit the lies about the happy days of the FDR boss dictatorship.
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Interesting report on the Imperialism with Chinese Characteristics Party. Naturally corruption flourishes when you adopt capitalist methods. The idealism of Youth, revival of the international class struggle and the honestly of Lenin are threats to the new cynical Chinese National Bourgeois and its Maoist collaborators. The workers of all nations marvel at what China's workers and peasants of both hand and mind have accomplished in such a short time.
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The Doctors aren't going to jail because politicians write NAZI like laws.
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Your ClickBait so what do you expect?
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van wray Sure as if capitalists don't act like canibales eating each other after forcing the other guy into bankruptcy court. Even the Judge gets some blood by accessing court fees and fines while the major creditors dine on the carcass of a profit losing company. MMM TASTY
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Tim de Freitas the Australian dollar like the Canadian dollar is not equal to the US dollar on the world market. You will pay more Australian dollars than American dollars for anything bought on the world market.
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Its a crisis of world capitalism and the capitalist classes divided into nation states.
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@bobbafett1849 Trump built and owned a gambling casino that went broke. Then he puts him self out as some big wheeler dealer . The man can't even win at a fixed game.
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@randall1959 When a birth control method fails then what? Plus some birth control methods might very well be classified as abortions if the egg fails to implant because of the method.
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@randall1959 The Korea people are the victims of Japanese and American Imperialism. You think we will just sit back while take our rights with you brutal cops and bourgeois court system. I'm from the generation that drove a President from the white house and forced an end to an unjust Imperialist war in Vietnam. We forced back your FBI secret police in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General and got Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's AG declared in contempt of federal court in New York City.
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He wrong and this just put all his coverage of the stand off up for review.
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@loafoffloof3420 Well then why are their no records of these brave souls being unjustly executed. No one believes those lies except US professors paid with government money to make those findings. Their are no independent sources with any credibility for the charges that Cuba was or is some Stalinist hell hole with a backbiting privledged bureaucracy as the state power. Those people executed were criminals no different than the NAZI party types in Germany at the end of WW2.
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Trump go ahead do it.
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@charlessmith6412 In the Saudi war on the people of Yemen. Saudi's provide the pilot bodies while the US does the training, supplies the planes, and bombs marked MADE IN USA. In return the Saudi's have long term sulphuric acid and bone saw contracts.
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@derekhieb7458 R\ The liberal capitalist class is itself an ideological fringe group. Since only it believes it has the right to rule based upon its economic status and "smartness" alone.
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@ga6589 Congress can pass a simple law making abortion a women's right in all 50 states and the court would have no authority to strike it down since they only found it wasn't in the constitution not that Congress couldn't declare it a right much like the minimum wage or any other social act.
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@socaltrojan286 Government isn't going to let him own hand grenades or even fireworks in some jurisdictions as it is now. If they were to apply originalism doctrine to firearms they'd be able to take away everything with a rifled barrel that wasn't loaded like a musket with powder and a ball.
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@GB-gf3dm Youtube is censoring you. Capitalism is failing of its own accord. Afterall capitalism brought on World War 1. It can't continue because profits naturally decline as machines replace labor and the never ending greed of the national ruling classes class drives them into imperialist war because they have no way to arbitrate trade disputes like the do within nation states. Capitalism works best when profits are reinvested to expand production and worst when used to drive up the value of fictitious capital. The post world war 2 expansion that made American Imperialism the top dog began ending with the 1970's crisis brought in by the Vietnam war spending and the end of the gold standard.
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@tlcservisesfbtm2271 Yes civilization may very well survive capitalist greed. Putin's army has proved to be a paper tiger unable to do much precisely because he was NOT fighting fascism. Soros himself is nothing more than another financial gambler of the American Empire. Nord Stream 2 would have cost the American Imperialist loses in middle east gas and oiil profits. Western sanctions only hurt ordinary people not Soros or Russian oligarchs. They wealthy ride out all crisis short of revolutionary ones. Did you hear him say a word about the American Imperialist NATO fiasco in Afghanistan? We will be paying wealthy bond holders back the 2.3 trillion spent on that war. The fact ordinary Ukrainians fight back have done so well has all the capitalist powers worried. A protracted war only further weakens the Imperialist rulers. This is why they are all cranking up military spending and their people will pay for their rulers crisis and fears. A huge flow of weapons into Ukraine may do nothing but become white elephants like the 50 Billion left in Afghanistan or the helicopters left in Vietnam. Proving nothing but the wastefulness of capitalist greed.
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@notarealAlbanian Stalin agreed to carve up Poland with Hitler and couldn't believe that Hitler would break his word and invade. After the ultra left policy were Social Democrats were social fascists he swung wildly right with the antifascists' popular front with bourgeois liberals. The American CP became the best strikebreakers for Democratic Imperialism durring the war. With the end of the war the Democratic Imperialist quickly turned on the CP strikebreakers sending them to prison. Stalin basically was a class collaborationist selling out the working class in other countries with the hope that the Democratic Imperialist would allow peaceful co existence.
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@MickyD2025 Marxist theory is about the of social forces and class in society. Stalin and Trotsky came to represent contending forces after the revolution and the period that followed one a conservative one lead by Stalin that was tired of the revolutionary perspective of Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders. and Trotsky who wanted to continue the communist course and perspective of Marx and Lenin of world revolution. Bukharin wrote and Stalin signed on to the theory of building socialism in one country. Stalin was a bureaucrat with a crude interpretation of Marx whose followers would end up seeking advice from Milton Freedman on how to remake the Soviet Economy. The cynical Friedman basically told them you need to turn everything into a giant tag sale and issue saleable share of industry to make the workers true owners and open the market to foreign goods and capitalist investment. Industries were shut down as the economy collapsed and the workers sold their shares to new capitalist oligarchs who imported cheap foreign goods and purchased state industries for a song and a dance. Afterwards the cynical Friedman said well its not a "real capitalism with "Democracy" but a crony capitalism.
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@MickyD2025 Well we are further along than Das Kapital because we have the real experience of both the Russian and Cuban revolution. A number of books are published by Pathfinder Press. The Stalinists found themselves falsifying history spreading all kinds of vicious lies about any and all of their political opponents.
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@Bredafromdejungule You seem to forget that when the Red army was at the Gates of Warsaw after the revolution that Stalin disobey orders to move his troops up. Stalin had to suppress his own pamphlet "On the National Question." Because it didn't fit with the Russification policy adopted along with Socialism in One country. He had whole nationalities labeled as criminals and traitors deported and sent off to the GULAG. Much like Mao and other Stalinist fools you think pollical power grows out of the barrel of a gun. We have to be beaten with a club in order to accept your idea of Socialism.
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Many states put more money into the federal government then they get back.
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Secession has never been recognized as legal by any President or the Supreme court. The only way to leave is by constitutional amendment or by force of arms. The supreme court ruled that Texas did not have the right to leave after the civil war. You want to leave? Leave at your own peril.
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@Tank50us The capitalist government, the executive committee of the ruling class, has to punish renegade capitalist whose actions create public condemnation. The capitalist are always driven by short term profits. When a miner asked a coal boss, "Which cost the company more a dead mule or a dead miner?" The boss replied, "A dead mule of course. We have to buy mukes. We can always hire another miner."
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@dmkelley1 It's the bosses government that sees to it that the bosses collect the taxes for the bosses government. Only a portion of the tax collected will possible be returned to you and if tomorrow morning the bosses stopped collecting the taxes for their government what makes you think they would just give that money to you? They only pay what they think you need to get your to return for the next period. Your expected to live paycheck to paycheck making profits for them. When the bosses market gets saturated he says sorry partner but i'm going to free you so you can find other work.
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@teok117 When you are rich you can afford to waste a few toilets. While losing a job may be a catastrophe for you the rich merely write off a few broken toilets on the accountants balance sheet.
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@ethanbills1008 Now you talking like Alex Jones a right wing American Imperialist conspiracy theorist. Are you going to shoot up a Pizza parlor also? Wher Cheese Pizza order stands for Child porn.
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Do you call your sister a cackling hen?
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@joshx022 Your sisters?
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I think the whole Russian affair was bogus from the beginning. I put no credence in anything the FBI says. If Trump does get impeached it will probably be around asking the Ukrainian President for a favor and later bringing in Biden's name into the discussion. The Democrats can easily throw Biden under the bus if it means getting Trump.
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@lovesupreme1 CRT is a hynm to bougoies Democracy sung by Bougoies professors at Harvard Law.. These are basicly Blind people paid to write about what they can't see.For them race is a never ending problem that they have yet to define outside of skin color.
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@Loosie_fur The bible is an ancient text it makes no mention of people an inferior color despite it being about a place that was a crossroads of people of different colors. . The Black African Plantation slavery of the New World and America was grafted on to the new capitalist system from Europe. it began as a justification for Black slavery. When the Southern slavocracy got in the way of the nations developing capitalist system the Northern Industrialists destroyed slavery in a bloody civil war which had armed 190.000 US Colored Troops and sailors. This initial blow against exploitation was followed by the betrayal of Blacks by Republicans who were no longer willing to pay to defend blacks from violence that came from the old plantation landowners.
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Of course because dictators like Suharto and Pinochet were put in power by the US CIA.
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@peterm7593 Trump is becoming more irrelevant by the day. First he promised to Make America Great Again now hes promising to Save America. It recently came out he wanted to fire missiles into Mexico.
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@arus2980 Lots of people are disgusted with both parties. Plus both parties are divided internally. Republican's are either all for or all against Trump. While Democrats are divided between the Clinton-Biden-Pelosi and Sanders-AOC- Warren. Neither Party can reverse the decline of world capitalism and the decline of the leading role of American Imperialism.
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@tomkunich7654 US productivity v wages has been stagnate since 1973. America needs a raise. https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTuo.jpg A capitalist that can make a profit deserves to go out of business. If there is not enough work either provide free education for useful purposes, proved government union wage infrastructure jobs or cut hours with no cut in pay. As long as their is a penny for overpaid CEO's, dividends and stock buybacks then their is money for a wage increase.
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@chris borkes To bad that is wrong unless you want to claim that the total comes to millions when you include all the union officialdom. https://www.unionfacts.com/employees/AFL-CIO
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@chris borkes I assume that property taxes are local and pay for local things like schools streetlights and roads. Like Fairfield county CT you have all those stock brokers to push up all prices including taxes and school costs.
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@Matt Olivier What do you call Trump forcing air controllers to work while he and the Democrats fight over what kind of border wall and border security needed? If I was a controller I'd be talking strike right now. Lets not forget all the workers doing government contract work and how merry a Christmas they've had due to your rotten system. The libertarians have a chance to show how their ideas would work but they've all gone away probably to watch fat guys like James Weeks do strip teases.
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@GamingTV Corporations way outspend the unions since they represent only about 8% of workers in the private sector and about 10% in the public sector. Of that 10% some like cops and prison guards don't even belong in the labor movement. There has only been only one president that even belonged to the union. That was Ronald Reagan President of the Screen Actors guild who was part of the 1950's witch hunt for reds in every sphere of American life. The only way possible way that the unions can sink an election cycle is to have influence beyond their current membership.
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@GamingTV Reagan who had the support of the Air Traffic Controllers union (PATCO) broke their strike and blacklisted them from being controllers. After that most of the union tops went almost all Democrat. So my guess is very few supported the two Bush Presidencies. Trump is smarter than most since he goes directly to the members or local officials while ignoring the tops.
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@thefreeman8791 The only thing that proves is possible collusion between the company and the union. The only legal way a union can seek to fire someone is for refusal to pay dues in a non right to work state where those not wishing to pay dues must pay a union agency fee. Now if Republican workers are seeking to de-unionize the ship yard they will rightly face opposition because even a union with corrupt leaders can be turned around into a fighting instrument of the working class.
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@sanchocloset5987 Public transit was originally privately owned. But capitalism has a problem when it can't keep cutting labor time with new machines the profits in an economy tend to flow towards those firms and industries where total labor time to produce goes down. Leaving other areas to slump towards the cost of production or even go negative. So public transit ends up being subsidized because the bond holders of the rolling stock have to be paid back with interest.
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@darthnatas953 What do you think Wall Street has done and Insurance companies have done? They replaced all the clerks with computers to cut all their costs. Like the telephone company all they are is a small shell of themselves. If they went home the only thing that would happen is the computer programs would shut things down when ballances went negative. Wall street is nothing more than a gambling facility where bets are placed according to what the gamblers think. One purpose of government is to see to it that the gambling facility stays open and the owners get to make a profit. The whole purpose of government becomes dependent on the rights of the gambling winners who want to fix the game with self promotion and propaganda.
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The US has a similar system it works by a combination of local tax funded public schools and private schools. Meant to serve the needs of the ruling class families.
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@two2truths They seek to pay the lowest wages and work you the longest hours to maximize the profits. Healthcare and education are overhead expenses that the seek to minimize. Preparation for war in defense of the foreign investment is not to be questioned.
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How Dare You Disrespect My Sexdoll There are no rights for "taxpayers". Congress and the states get the ability to make and collect taxes period. Most of us pay taxes that should come from the wealthy and corporations. Instead they buy state and federal bonds so they can make a profit out of government expenditures. So while your caught in the debate over higher taxes or fewer social services their getting paid from government guaranteed bonds with tax money. No one talks about cutting bond payments because that's an off limits debate. Just as a maximum income tax is. Why a single person should control the wealth created by millions and a class of people should be making all decisions based upon what gets them a bigger return on investment rather than what meets the needs the other billions of people is beyond stupid.
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Bad for who Prue's? The bosses of course. Those costs for capitalism failure during the great depression lost bosses profits. Social Security bad for the bosses elderly should seek boss charity living in shacks made of scrap instead right? Medicare bad for the bosses when you get sick you should die so the bosses can pay less tax and get more profits.
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FDR and his administration did everything they could to take back what was won on the picket line and put it back into the bosses profits. FDR and those who followed did and do everything they can to strangle the unions with lots of legal red tape. So called mediators whose main purpose was always to get the union's demands lowered and strikes ended before a contract was negotiated and signed by the chief boss in charge. Back then returning to work before a contract was signed ment no contract at all.
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The workers owe nothing to the federal debt. That is just away for the capitalist bond holders to profit from tax collection. The important thing is not how much the tax is but who pays. As long as we have capitalism all taxes should come out of profits not workers wages. A maximum personal income should be established with a 100% tax on every dollar above that.
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Cuba and your job is to disprove it.Who is it that the caused such fear in the US ruling class during the 20th century? Communism, the Soviet Union, China and Cuba. Who scares them today? Once aging Russia, China. with Cuba they keep predicting a miracle is coming to end the revolution. Even though Russia and China are now capitalist powers. France, Britain and Germany where the 19th Century enemies. The Czar was defeated by Japan and the least developed of all the Empires in Europe. China was under control of Britain, Japan, the US and France. Turn on the TV and see who both Trump and the Liberals see as being the biggest headaches. Powers that would ordinary be third rate without the development laid out by communist central planning. The have no fear of India or Brazil. The masses in China and the Soviet bloc had some experience with socialism and that is what the US rulers fear most.
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The Antonio Maceo brigade is an example of Cuban Americans that support the Cuban government. Of course something like that can't be allowed or admitted to even exist most of the time so one of its founders was assassinated just in case others are thinking about joining. US policy towards Cuba has always been one of wanting control of Cuba and since 1959 the US government finds no crime to heinous to engage in. There is no conspiracy involved. Using the Alabama National Guard planes with Cuban markings to bomb the Island was considered perfectly ok. As was the mid air bombing of civilian airliner Cubana flight 455. If the contras are voting Republican maybe Kennedy was being to liberal because he didn't unleash nuclear war during the so called missile crisis as most of his military advisors advocated. Better Dead than Red? Obama resumes relations and now a new charge has been made that Cuba is responsible for secret weapons used to attack diplomats. Unfortunately no scientific basis can be found for the supposed attacks. That doesn't stop Senator Mario Rubio for testifying to his own committee and declaring Cuba guilty. So who believes in conspiracy now?
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What would have happened if Cuba had repainted its planes with US markings and bombed Miami? Or bombed a civilian airliner? People like you always have two standards one for US policy and another for everyone one else. North Korea can't be allowed to have Nuclear weapons but it is unthinkable for the US to have give up any of its nuclear weapons. After all the US is protecting democracies like Saudi Arabia from Iran.
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Capitalism is what breaks up families. It's impossible for the system to use all the available labor. How would they be able to keep the price of labor down without lots of unemployed workers ready the employed workers job? They'd need an excuse like WW2 to get the workers to accept wages and price control with big profits. The capitalist also realize that they only need to hire a worker not his whole family. So this pushes the cost of children onto single women which the government pays to raise the children. It is certainly not a conspiracy because that is exactly what has happened. The capitalist doesn't like paying taxes so now they want even the women and children out of subsidized housing and pushed into the street. People like Mark Janus also serve the system by putting workers in jail because of non payment of child support. The best way to reverse this trend would be with jobs. Of course the capitalist say whatever that is it can't compete with us and we refuse to pay anymore taxes and we can't take on anymore debt. So they cook up the workfare program where they require work so they can cut payments and you work for some low wage job where a capitalist like the fast food cheapskates gets subsidize.
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The basic contradiction with capitalism is the wage labor v. profits. Value is produced with workers interacting with machines or tools. The value is then divided between the wage laborer and capitalist. THe wage laborer must be able to work and reproduce his labor to get his means of survival. The capitalist doesn't have to work and to increase his profits he can expand production, drive down wages, invest in fictitious capital or create schemes for robbing his fellow capitalists. Of those only expanding production does anything good for the workers and that is plagued with the problem of new machinery increasing changing the ratio of capital to labor in products creating a decline in the rate of industrial profit that shifts capital to the other ways to profit. Very few people can work in industry their whole lives without getting sick. hurt or getting to old to do a job. The capitalist can't guarantee jobs in good times because of the continual change in production methods and competition with other capitalists. That is why some of the profit goes to pay these costs as a social wage because unlike in the early days of capitalism workers can not return to family farms.
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So its okay for the US to send bombers painted with Cuban markings to drop bombs on Cuba. To cowardly to send their planes with US markings. Oh that's right you pick and choose which methods are ok and which are just to ugly. They very point is that Cuba and the US are sovereign nations. As you point out US would go crazy if Miami was bombed by Cuban planes with US markings. The same thing would happen if a US passenger plane was blown up in the sky. But since it's being done by cowards on orders of the White House that's okay?
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Well I went looking for a part time summer job at the jobs service and was told I need to fill out online applications or how they had a list form the local paper. Lot of help considering all the so called jobs available and that the office was moved into a smaller office above a high school. The thing is those job figures are bogus since they have changed how the jobless are counted. The actual number of people holding jobs compared to those in their peak earnings years is lower and counting the underemployed as employed and not counting those who have given up makes the job figures look better. Yes there has been an uptick in hiring, it only took 10 years. .
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Working hard like being insulted by a charity boss at a soup kitchen where your minimum wage 20 hour a week dishwashing ability is deemed to be lacking in ambition? What should I do lick the plates clean? I have plenty of ability and education for lots of jobs. I'm told things like my MIT Alum ID is a fake or this job requires someone who doesn't talk to other employees. I walked into a bosses office one day only to hear me being described as someone who knows more than he should.
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Government is still controlled by big business just look at who pays for these Democratic and Republican politicians campaigns. We need to rebuild our unions and organize a new party of our own like the Socialist Workers Party, themilitant.com
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@eddieryals2147 Put in a call to the Republican governor and Republican legislature of West Virginia and ask them why they agreed to all five demands of the school workers!
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Trump and the Democrats are having a lovers spat over their stupid border wall and electronic monitoring. Closing the government down as if punishing government employees will solve their stupidity problem. Trump wants to build family jails which are nothing more than concentration camps. This is capitalism in decline doing more and more stupid things to save their system of extracting value only to waste it. These people educated in the elite Universities are as useless as tits on a bull. Leading Don Quote charges against windmills will no doubt be the next solution.
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Going to the jobs service is now wrong? Well when there are no jobs to send you to that is a problem. Years ago you went to the service and they had something you might like to do or was similar to what you previously did. You weren't guaranteed a job just an interview. Employers who were just playing games were removed from the list if they weren't willing to provide interviews. Now with the internet its basically a black hole system to see what wages will be accepted for what job. According to a company I formally worked for they have every job in the company up for filling. Companies over hire and then fire whoever they don't like during the training period. You need a simple change a reasonable accommodation sorry we don't need to do that. Even then they just say we don't need you right now to cowardly to say the extra ink on a label is to expensive.
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@stephj9378 Sowell has never disliked an American Imperialist war with the possible except the one he actually fought in at his time of service. He's got an excuse and reasoning behind everyone no matter how costly and wasteful of people and property. He no problem with accepting a Humanities prize from none other than the bloody George Bush.
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We need a healthcare system not insurance plans. If you human you get treatment. That's the only ID you need.
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It not free anymore than public roads are. Does the government take out pothole insurance? How about public schools? Is education free for your children? The real problem is how to pay for it. Tax is not a word businessmen like to hear. The productive private sector always has to pay for the other costs because some things can't be sold at a profit. College education is expensive but you don't see the Ivy League listed on the stock market. So should we have a crazy quilt of ways to pay depending upon fault (VA, Workman's comp), age, disability, and employment? Naturally a cost paid by individuals or families is rationing at a price point that you can not pay. How many people will be at the doctors seeking extra treatment? If you were giving out candy bars people would hoard them if there was a limited number and they could sell them on a black market. Sure some people might try and get ahold of narcotics or a drug that cold be sold for big money elsewhere.
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The US has a crazy system even when you are eligible for medicare sometimes you are charged sometimes your not and no way to know what the charge will be until you receive the bill. Some states provide more services than others sometimes you are eligible sometimes you aren't. Usually once you pay that its good luck with getting a refund. Don't pay and you can forget about getting any credit. I'm glad I'm old and don't have children. Oh yes and then you can give away you medicare to a private insurer so then they have a different system of payments and Doctors who will treat you. Medicare sends out statements of charges letting you know why you and they and others paid and tells you this is not a bill but to be on the lookout for overbilling and fraud.
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That's another thing medicare premiums are deducted out of your social security check and depending on the state the state may pay your premium to social security and if your name was misspelled it could take three years to get it straightened out because the state keep telling you it will becoming and social security will tell you it's not our problem.
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The 14th Amendment was passed after the civil war in 1870. Clause 3 was written to deal with the real situation of the Reconstruction Era. Congress also voted to give President Grant the ability to declare Marshall Law. Thousands of people were arrested. The founder of the first KKK was Confederate General Bedford Forrest a rich slave trader who had mercilessly massacred US Colored Troops at Fort Pillow. Nevertheless the counterrevolutionary violence by former slave owners continued. Congress amnestied 150,000 Confederate in 1872 but Both Parties betrayed Blacks in 1877 when federal troops were pulled out of the South and the murderous violence of Jim Crow began destroying the newly created state governments of Reconstruction. The civil war was a real insurrection and rebellion by slave owners. This is the Democrats a capitalist party losing confidence in its ability tp defeat a popular rival by popular vote. If this ruling is allowed to stand then nothing but sham elections will follow. Judges will rule that any disturbance after a political rally is an insurrection and those who spoke are insurrectionists. Only those with a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval will be on the ballot. Anyones words at a Rally can and will be used as proof of insurrectionism when any kind of disturbance occurs afterwords. The BIG winners wil be .....THE POLITICALLY CORRECT!!!!
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@morganclare4704 He' the epitome of the posturing Bourgeois intellectual who can always find a few facts to support their current notions.
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What they aren't telling you is that US private insurance only pays for dialysis and a transplant once you done with that you are usually bankrupted you automatically go on Social Security disability and then medicare becomes your insurance. By then the private insurer is off the hook and long gone.
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@shinzoruck7050 Your blinded by bright lights and streets made of gold.
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@shinzoruck7050 New York is where the Russian Marxist Trotsky was an exile before leading the Soviet Red Army to victory with Lenin in 1917. Trotsky was the advisor of the American communists when he was exiled in Mexico. This is one of the few countries in the world where the communist movement was not forced underground by a Stalinist or Fascist murder machine. American Imperialism is in a crisis of its own making. Just as the workers built powerful industrial trade unions in the 1930's and Black people over though Jim Crow racism in a powerful social movement so too we will break the power of the capitalist government in a powerful socialist revolution just like the one lead by Fidel Castro in 1959 Cuba.
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@vandagill1209 You can bet that border patrol has plenty of water, food and electrolyte.
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Cadet Bone Spurs What they need to do is put border patrol behind prison walls.
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@FRAG OUT,FIRE IN THE HOLE! How much are we spending to provide them with that training?
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@stevemann3611 Like his campaigning to save America this is a totally fake crusade created by Trump wrapping himself in the flag and citing the founding fathers as if he was one of them. Bust the teachers union as the first step to furthering the cost cutting measures of the bosses. Than a voucher system so that what is left of the public education system can be fought over. For Trump education begins with indoctrination in the ideas and methods of the capitalist class as only those deserving of consideration. Anyone who questions the goals of profit maximization and boss intelligence is surely to be suspected of having communist tendencies.
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@@johannesc9660 I think Generals should get red buckets are raise money for the military by ringing bells.
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@Gabriel Torres American segregationists said they would not desegregate their school system after the 1954 Supreme court decision and have white childern sit next to black childern. School buses were lit on fire. The President had Federalize the State National Guard just so 8 Black children could have school in Little Rock, AK Alabama governor George Wallace said Segragaton today, Segregation tomorrow, Segregation forever. In 2008 America elects the first Black President.
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Put yourself under arrest.
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@chuckkady7282 Party Boss Abbott protecting Big Growers from Hungry Refugees. Party Boss Abbott did nothing but talk when lights went off in Texas. Party Bosses only uses National Guard Slaves to protect property. No help for hurricane victims. Party Bosses say Evacuate Your on Your Own Government cant help. Insurance company say ACT OF GOD WE NO PAY!!
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@chuckkady7282 Break with Parties of the Bosses of Capitalism! Build the trade unions!!! and A labor party!!! To fight the bosses politically in their government!!
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@chuckkady7282 Facts are facts and ideas are ideas only you bosses think you own an idea and buy a head. Athens was a Democracy of slaveholders yous was founded by businessmen and it a Bosses government despite Democracy. Russian method is a boss yelling about he doesn't have time. National Guard Military slaves are mobilized to protect poverty do the same furring distaste. Party Boss Abbot calls out guard to protect capitalist farmers land. But during Blackout when workers home were destroyed by ice and water damage Party Boss Abbott did nothing but talk. Your on your own we will investigate are typical artificial flavoring promises. of the Capitalist Bosses. .The Republic of Cuba is the first free territory in the hemisphere.
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@chuckkady7282 Guess you didn't watch the whole part and hear the last question.
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@ioim1985 Call Governor Abbott and fight to pass the Texas well armed fetus act.
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@jwvvvv The goal of the communist is to abolish private property which will inevitably end the exploitation of the working class by capital. Instead of the workers being chained to create capital the workers activity which produces a surplus goes to expands the life of the workers. Instead of being crushed by capitalist society the working class springs the entire capitalist system into the air. Abolishing every kind of exploitation of man by man and creating the new communist man and women. The volunteer laborer who gives according to ability and receives according to need. A better world is not only possible but also necessary to sustain human life.
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@Yesica1993 Yes soceity will go to the dogs because everyone will become like Bill Gates and spend 9 million on Jet fuel in a year so ha can save the planet. Gates of course is buying up farmland because he wants to get a tractor and plow about a million acres of land because he wants to be know as a hard worker who earns evey penny.
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Rail bosses are maximizing profits by demanding the most work at the lowest wages and the longest hours.
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@williamhague2768 Railroad is run into the ground because the bosses seek to maximize profits despite the falling rate of profit caused by replacing labor with capital. That's is why capitalism comes to an end. It becomes nothing more than the accumulation of capital which demands a return on investment. For if capital could produce than the building of a perpetual motion machine would be possible.
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@williamhague2768 You can argue what you like but my opinion is backed up by empirical evidence. I don't tell businesses to maximize profits and shareholder value but they do it in order to compete for investment. Milton Freedman says that's what they should do also. A business that tries going against the grain on that issue will end up out of business unless it has some kind of special reason for existence. Supposedly it is done within a legal framework but what is a legal framework in capitalist societal but the use of the state to settle all disputes involving private property in the favor of private property. The right to strike is protected by the 14th and 1st amendments to the Federal Constitution. Congress has no right to interfere in union activity or to order strikers back to work after a strike has been called.
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You don't believe that King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette lost their heads because there was plenty of cake to go around.
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So of course the most important freedom is waving a flag and singing a song. If only things were so simple. Don't sing out of tune or let the flag touch the ground other wise fire off a semi auto.
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Of course they are because it is completely unworkable, unjust and just as successful as the war on drugs.
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There is no real difference between the two parties. Just because the government can do something and have it ruled constitutional doesn't mean it should be doing it.
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I want to opt out of being tracked how do I do that?
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Republicans say the respect the constitution but Trump wanted ball players fired for taking a knee. derp derp
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It makes no sense to have a constitution with only a first or second amendment either?
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Technical he didn't violate the constitution just the spirit of free speech and expression. He went beyond just saying he disagreed saying he wanted them fired for taking a knee. You realize that during the late 1950's Robert F. Williams NAACP had a Black NRA chapter in Monroe, NC of about 50 or 60 Black Veterans. An excellent example of using the 2nd to protect the 1st. Derp Derp
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Public policy and law for which class one day learn the difference? All laws written by capitalist politicians serve capitalist interests. It part of the way bourgeois democracy works. Every right is up for grabs except free trade and private property. When we do win something they like to pretend they gave it to us.
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The executive order is nothing more than one which can be used if the capitalist government goes into a crisis mode and needs to take direct control of manufacturing like during WW2. Back then the war production board controlled manufacturing. What it does is make all bosses follow orders for production should any dispute occur between different companies for war time full mobilization. All new auto manufacturing stopped during WW2 and steel pennies instead of copper were made in 1943. Profits continued unabated and wages were held down by a phoney wage price control board that did little about rising prices and everything about holding down the wages of industrial workers. Worker and farmers had rationing imposed upon them in all kinds of things from gasoline, rubber tires and butter. There was no opposition to war production by any big company. Auto bosses like GM's Alfred Sloan were ecstatic about fulfilling lucrative government contracts even though it meant no new cars until the end of the war. Chevy dealers directed by GM created the Victory Service League for dealers and car owners selling war bonds and collecting scrap metal and rubber.
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Historically the first rights to go are free speech and assembly. Like the Smith 'gag' Act in 1938. Passed originally to halt NAZI fifth column. The NAZI's went free and then the Government used it against the Minneapolis Teamsters local 574 and Socialist Workers party. The were convicted in a famous political trial with it published as 'Socialism on Trial". The rotten Stalinist CPUSA apaluded FDR's liberal AG for a conviction that the jury recommended leancacy. They did 18 months at Sandstone University. After the war the CPUSAers were given 5 year stretches during the second red scare. Jimmy Kutcher the legless Veteran fought against his firing by the VA and won back pay after touring the country and speaking at union halls. The recent marches for gun control are an attack on the workers rights to own arms. There is no immediate need for rifles but when the class struggle heats up the cops and rightest goon squads will come armed to the teeth.
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Another example of rights under attack in the early republic was the alien and sedition act. The same thing goes with the Patriot act. Yes other rights have been under attack in the past like Congress using its power to call up witnesses to investigate communism where if you didn't talk you were guilty of Contempt of Congress despite the 5th Amendment. It was a shared where everyone called was guilty and needed to point fingers or go directly to jail. Even Protestant Ministers were under investigation. The biggest confiscation of property was the civil war. The government has sized union strike HQ during the Minneapolis General Strike.
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The usual boss response say the wrong thing and you come under suspicion. Bosses don't want workers who can think they want blind order takers who won't upset the system. Boss Trump saying those taking a knee is should be fired is just the normal way things work. On my way to the break room one day I heard a fink reporting me for "knowing things I shouldn't know."
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Just for those who think otherwise I don't vote Republicrat.
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@Dennis The Red Menace Obviously because the Imperialist nations wanted to continue the exploitation of the colonial people.
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@savingferris8279 Capital produce nothing. Prove that wrong. Trade produces nothing Prove that wrong. Labor produces everything by transforming nature. Since capital and trade produce nothing why should capitalist and traders deserve more than the laborers? Please explain that inside of claiming you own money. Can you use a million paper Confederate dollars at the store? Keynes advised the British Capitalist how to rob the workers with inflation by using a central bank and Nixon said we all Kensian's now after freeing the dollar from it chains of gold. .Why don't we give you all the money and see if you can spend a paper dollar without government guns backing it up.
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Keeping a dumbie in the White House assures a defeat for the elite.
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Stop the provocations now! US out of Korea! Let the Korean people reunify under their own terms. The US Imperialist Troops came in to evacuate the defeated Japanese Imperialist war criminals and have been their 72 years now.
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He died on the front lines in the fight against Imperialism.
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@simpleman4059 We are slaves to capitalism and a capitalist class. The Federal Reserve is just one part of the profit system.
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@johncarapinha5600 Really? It's seems to you want to prove how strong the US Empire is and that it has defeated communism. The problem with that theory is if we were defeated you wouldn't want to debate me.
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Guns N Glory What Blood? You're the one who choose the name "Guns N Glory". It seems to me you're the one looking for glory by using gun violence.
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Guns N Glory I guess you a Canadian or a Brit who thinks his rights come from God. Where's all the tears for the 20,000 lives it cost to get rid of Batista? All the US cared about was a reintegration of Batista's police torture experts. That was the meaning of the Miami Pact which was rejected by the 26st of July movement. All those torture experts received public trials that meet WW2 war crimes standards. You know doubt would like to live next to a former policeman who was an eyegouger or maybe you'd rather have Jon Burge of the Chicago "Midnight Crew."
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Guns N Glory Obviously if your rights came from god than all you would have needed to win the revolutionary and civil war would be to go to church and say prayers. I guess that's what the teaching in High School today.
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@Take_The_Ride Most of you have no idea what Marxism is about because all you do is live in an echo chamber repeating what some else says. You have read nothing by Marx or any other Marxist or maybe you read the communist manifesto once. Outside of the United States socialism is very popular despite having no clear definition. Many countries have mass socialist and/or communist parties including those in Western Europe.
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@hebe4073 Naturally he can't because he's just a mouthpiece for the greedy American Imperialist businessman.
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Graig Simmonette Taxes are voluntary for the rich like Jeff Bezos while cops murdered a Black man Eric Gardner over a couple of cigarette tax dollars ignoring his pleas for breath.
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Graig Simmonette Why should the rich pay taxes when they can get a guaranteed return on government bonds?
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@jimmayors2315 Thys' right Congress has exceeded its authority the right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendment.
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@satanicconservative1855 Explain Brianna Taylor.
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@andersonrolon810 Nothing more than thieves robbing each other.
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I here that banks are keeping a special fund just for those who need money.
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@warrioroflight6872 The fact that Sowell made a career out of writing on Marx shows his influence. .
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Jaime Garcia If the strikers make a big break through on the two tier contract and temps than Toyota, Tesla and VW are next. You see that smog in Beijing it aint coming here. You can move over there. Oh don't forget you gas mask.
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The FBI is a national secret police agency.
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@k0lpA They want to use secret evidence. Trump is asking only that a special master review them. I say open the secret documents so we can ALL see what is being hidden.
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You have it backwards. Trump and Congress don't control GM. GM controls Trump and Congress.
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@steelzmb4262 Thank him for what? For being the first former union president to be elected US President who fired all the striking PATCO workers? He ought to be remembered as the biggest scab to ever infect the labor movement with Bill Clinton running as a close second.
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@nisoshahabibzadeh Wall street sees record profits so they say everything is fine in the gated community so why are you complaining?
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Karl Marx was a mass murderer. Can we have the name of at least one person Marx condemned to death? The English Landlords and Capitalist were just so kind to the Irish that people starved to death on the side of the road, forced to migrate on Ghost ships nicknamed that because many were known to be not seaworthy but sailed for the insurance money and the population went into decline for over one hundred years but Karl Marx was a mass murderer. Sure people who write books are just killing us with their ideas. Just which books does Ptersen want purged from the library and just who should make that decision? This man who claims to know so much goes down to the level of just another fear monger.
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@evilestmonkeey Munch hausen by proxy isn't that a case of German Americans eating donuts at bed time instead of with coffee in the morning?
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Once again Thomas Sowell TV fails to show cause as to how and why same sex marriage caused the break up of traditional marriage. Ordinarily they'd be talking about how same sex marriage operated in the underground but it does fit the need to divert attention from the ravages of dog eat dog capitalism on the life of workers by the bosses. So they talk as if gays never existed. They wouldn't need to use Judiciary as a legislature if the held free and fair elections instead of the two parties monopoly controlled by the big donors.
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@Chuck-i3u It was great when Arbenz was fighting the American banana plantation owners.
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@enrico4818 USAF committed war crimes that it charged and convicted the NAZI's of in Korea including the bombing of Dikes. They dropped so many bombs that nothng over two stories high was left standing. Macarthur wanted to use nukes on Chinese cities and came back to the US to publicly campaign for that. That is why Truman relieved him from duty after making a careful review on Presidential power over the military. He would later say his plan was to create a necklace of Radioactive cobalt at the Yalu river. The Rosenbergs were murdered in a revenge killing for the loss of American lives in Korea. It was an Imperialist war from the day Macarthur set foot on Korean soil after the defeat of Japan and the signing of surrender on the American
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Poor women have been losing the right to an abortion since the Hyde amendment. This will open the door to outlawing contraception next and reversing all kinds of other women's rights the courts have found in the US Constitution under the equal protection clause. .
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@CC-qb6pf They just finished bring up a women on murder charges for having an abortion in Starr County Texas. Women are already crossing the border to Mexico to buy a drug labeled for ulcer treatment for use as a medical abortion. Women will be going to emergency rooms with injuries from botched abortions. A market will develop for underground abortions and the sale of drugs for abortions. Cops will get a new source of corruption income.
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@cynthiawadeson8843 The Congress serve as the trial court of a sitting President if a crime is alleged. That is the reason for the impeachment procedure outlined in the constitution. .
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@cynthiawadeson8843 A Federal District Judge Harry Claiborne was tried, convicted and served a sentence before being impeached. So while a President might claim immunity from prosecutions while in office due to his duties maybe not so after his term expires or after an impeachment and conviction while in office. Who outside of Congress would have the authority to issue an arrest warrant for a sitting President?
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No you are wrong.
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The problem with demanding freedom in Cuba is the police don't come to take your freedom like the police in the capitalist countries
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@enisafelic3976 Like all Neo NAZI military groups Hamas speaks in one language only. That of death and destruction along with complete and utter disdain for those they rule over and those they seek to destroy outside their national borders. The NAZI always cried that Germany was denied the land that should be theirs,
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@HelenaMikas The Israeli government is Bourgeois Democratic which like the US under segregation allows labor rights and some rights to the Palestinian minority. The government of Gaza is a Bourgeois Neo Fascist police state. That makes to no pretense at granting any Democratic rights. When the two go to war which would you support the one which allows working people both Jews and Arabs some rights or one which murders all it political opposition. Hamas gangsters are doing no one any good except it leaders who live in luxury in Qatar. It engaged in this Jew hating Pogrom because it is fascist in nature. It wants to create more martyrs to gain more international aid for its Islamic Crusade ti create a world Caliphate to rule a Jew free world. Hitler was also going to create a 1,000 year Reich a greatest German and a Jew free world. Please explain to me what is progressive about the Hamas leadership and that of the Jew hating holocaust denying Iranian Islamic Republic that wants nuclear weapons. If the working people of Iran fail to overthrow the Islamic Republic and it gains a nuclear weapons then what?
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@johnnyindiana1330 No sign that immigrants want to be scabs.
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It's a GET TRUMP ruling class action. That is aimed against working people. Just like FDR's launching a 1940 which hunt against the Minneapolis Teamsters and leaders of The Socialist Workers Party.
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Its basically that the Imperialist need someone to blame for the failure of their system of exploration.
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@turquoiseturquoiseturquois1174 What's wrong with having fun?
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She is part of the Demopublican elite.
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@edwardr5051 Yes he sings the songs of neoliberalism which every capitalist loves to hear. He worships at the altar of private property, capitalism and the American way just like Superman. Everything can be explained by a supply and demand charts. Markets doing the lord's work of distributing resources in the most efficient way billions to the rich and powerful and crumbs to the working class.. Of course when the markets need regulation or a bailout who are you going to call? Ghostbusters? Its a system that can only lead to the twin evils of Imperialist war abroad and fascism or war on the trade unions at home.
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The problem is that Bill Gates and others don't have any intelligence of their own. This is why the bosses talk about the need for artificial intelligence.
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@gagamba9198 Capitalism developed the nation state. The developed capitalist nations must sell to the rest of the world. This world market competition leads to war in the battle of the market place. The capitalist state become the guarantee of profits.
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Keep your cash hidden with just some in your wallet. If they take your car report it stolen.
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@michaelutech4786 Brexit and Trump are rebellions against the capitalist establishment lead by disgruntled members of the ruling class.
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@anderander5662 Its nothing more than a two party shell game where liberals promise a few carrots while conservatives carry a stick where the whole purpose is defending a system that works only to make the rich richer at the expense of everyone one else. Capitalist only need to hire workers not a whole family. Blacks served the role of being the last hired and the first fired. Hillary Clinton was a "Goldwater Girl.".
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@mensrea1251 Sowell is little more than a simpleton of bourgeois economics where private property is the best thing since sliced bread and supply and demand explains everything but government.
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@pills4bill Being gay is NOT the same as being Black. Gays have hid in plain sight for hundreds of years. Black people can NOT hide from their skin color. Nor were gays subjected to the level of brutality and discrimination that Black Americans faced in the United States during segregation.
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@AnimNero Bosses are going to "fix" capitalism for the working class.
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@k.umquat8604 We struck Westinghouse in 1976 at over 29 plants and I got the biggest raise in my lifetime $1 an hour. Strike when the bosses need us the most. Don't worry about being fair to the boss class.
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@duncangriffiths4399 "I've come to realize ... this party is too intellectually and morally corrupt to be reformed." And so those in the Conservative Party who were the reformers of the rotten system will now set up a new capitalist party of legal corruption. Cutting costs for the ruling class in every sphere of political economy all to save a bankrupt system of economics that doesn't work for anyone but the Canadian capitalist bosses.
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@ikeremo Right CCP running Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics is what we say. Since the National Bourgeois run away to Taiwan CCP makes some of themselves into National Bourgeois that way they can have a full bloc of four not just three classes. Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel and Che all see the Bourgeois as a reactionary class not the CCP, Mao and Stalin though. That's why you go around quoting Lincoln but not Bush. Bourgeois is no longer a revolutionary class but a reactionary one in the world today. The Republican Party of Lincoln is not the same Republican Party of Bush or Trump. It ended its revolutionary role with the betrayal of the popular Southern reconstruction governments to the reactionary gangs of the Democratic Party KKK and red shirts. It ratified the segregation laws and the Chinese exclusion act with its control of the Supreme court.
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John Forbes Karl Marx the man behind the curtain. Making things tough on profiteers. Using capitalist law against the capitalist. The criminal who puts capitalism on trial. Look there he goes diving the limo for the capitalist sitting in the back seat.
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Not everything is a gigantic conspiracy.
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@Mitjitsu No it wasn't Bosses like Henry Ford who were racist to the very core. Hitler translated and republished "The International Jew." published by Fords paper the dearborn independent. The minimum wage law was passed after the Great Sit Down Strikes by the UAW at GM. Bosses in South Africa were behind the Apartheid including Ronald Reagan. If companies like Amazon are raising wages without a union its because like Henry Ford they can no longer get the work done with the social conditions they impose. Bosses line up together as a class punishing only renegades when absolutely necessary. That's why Trump is under fire and an occasional Boss goes to jail.
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@Cjnw The only place crypto is headed is into the toilet like the credit default swaps. You can't turn a record of trades into value by mining meaningless special numbers.
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@Mitjitsu Sure along comes some cockroach boss who wants to hire at lower wages so he can make himself bigger profits in the market. In trucking the Teamsters under Trotskyist leadership took in workers who owned their own Truck but not cockroaches owners of two or more trucks seeking a lower wage rate. You want to be a boss go play by their rules then.
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@Max Wylde Strosell and you don't like them because it cuts into profits period.
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@Max Wylde Capitalists don't break laws because they make them. The capitalist state grows as the need to regulate greed does. When e union official becomes corrupt its because the bosses got to his soul bought him off and than thew him away like an old pair of socks.
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@Max Wylde Because the Union officials may think like the capitalists especially those at the top who see themselves as labor statesmen in the union business but their income comes from dues not the sale of commodities. The workers can remove them from their posts the only way to remove the bosses is with a socialist revolution like the one Fidel Castro lead in Cuba. The capitalist state is the result of the irreconcilable nature of the two most important classes, the class struggle between them, the capitalist class and the working class. So any talk of "union thugs" is just propaganda. Henry Ford hired Harry Bennett a former boxer to head security at Ford. Bennett's skill was that of a professional company thug. Any talking at the River Rouge plant was punished by immediate dismissal. The bosses will always claim property rights supersede any other rights in the US Constitution. They've already gutted the Eminent Domain clause giving big company bosses rights to take your home as long as their rotten politicians give the okay to "help the community."
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@Max Wylde The union leaders are all elected either directly or indirectly and all contracts are either directly voted on or indirectly voted on. 99% of the time it's the employers who are the first to bring in violence using private cops, public cops, state police, national guard and federal troops. Bosses got authorization from judges to break strikes until the passage of the National Labor Relation act which temporarily ended picketing injunctions since they were being ignored anyway. In Pennsylvania they had the hated Iron and Coal Police backed by state law and paid for directly by the Iron and Coal companies. Time and time again cops fired first on unarmed strikers using pistols and shotguns.
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@Max Wylde You have some axe to grind against unions. Capitalism can only bring war and depression. It has no way out of the nation state and the competition enabled by the world market. The era of globalization is ending and an era of competing groups of capitalist nations is rising. As it continues it will move from trade war toward real war and if left to its own devices world war. The US Mainland won't be saved by geography as in the two preceding world wars. ICBMs guarantee that while Trump's Space Force can not prevent that.
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@Max Wylde Capitalism was responsible for WW1 and WW2 and it killed 100 million people in those wars alone. Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore. All the non aggression principle talk about laissez faire capitalism sio just so much bullshit. It was never true when capitalism was born and the increasing size of state is due to the increasing need to suppress the class struggle. When the capitalist move production from the US or other countries where capitalism began they return to the old conditions of poverty wages, dangerous operations and destruction of the environment because that produces the biggest profits. You of course are the arbiter of all truth and belong to none of the oligaries you name. You no doubt believe you are superior because you read Animal Farm. The biggest of all differences of all trade unions and a Leninist party is the bosses are not allowed to be members. All those other organizations often have bosses as members and leaders and if they don't have no obstacle to boss membership or leadership. Now if wish to be a petti bourgeois critic and cynic well that's your choice. The writer of both Animal Farm and 1984 left the Trotskyist movement for Democratic Imperialism working for the British Empire's censorship department. Maybe he was writing about himself?
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@Max Wylde The Soviet Union was a result of WW1 not the cause. The NAZI's were financed by German big business's I.G. Farben and Krupp Steel. The NAZI's provided strike breaking service for German businessmen. The few workers in The NAZI Party who though Hitler would help them were quickly executed in the night of the long knives.
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I have credibility because I present facts that anyone can check. You have nothing but anti communism based in fear of Stalinism with its lies and historical rewrites. You'd like to paint me and others with that wide brush. Trotsky left a whole historical record against Stalinism. We are the real winners of the cold war because without those Stalinist Regimes in Moscow and Beijing you have nothing to either complain about or use against the world revolution. The've gone capitalist making them your problem now.
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@Max Wylde Do I need to argue with a committed monarchist when I have Thomas Paine who can argue for me? "Common Sense" It's a short pamphlet that sold 100,000 copies during the run up to the American Revolution. After the revolution 1,000s of loyalist left for parts elsewhere including what would become Canada, the West Indies and England. Is a "True Guild" like "True Capitalism"?https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/works/common-sense/index.htm
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Did the Bolsheviks tell the CZAR to go to war? The CZAR and the capitalist liberals made their choices and we made ours. CZAR and capitalist liberals lost. Go ahead and shed some tears for the CZAR and Russian capitalist liberals because I won't.
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My advice to capitalist everywhere is if you don't want a revolution say out of wars. We don't play fair like Bernie Sanders and his promises to make billionaires pay their fare share. Being the unscrupulous thieves we are we'll take the whole shebang.
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@Max Wylde History is full of malcontents. I like Thomas Paine but I understand that Canadians and other monarchists don't. Paine was also a founder of the first antislavery society in Philadelphia and did an excellent job on organized religion in "Age of Reason." another prop for capitalism like monarchy.
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@BoqPrecision You are right the Imperialist jackals have treated the Arab peoples in a most vicious way. Mainly because they want all the oil wealth for themselves. The question is not how badly you have been treated but what can you do about it. If you take up the revolutionary ideas of Cuba the US's closest and biggest adversity than you can defeat them. Fidel Castro pulled off a socialist revolution under their very nose which continues today. If you remained mired in the past looking for the correct Islam to solve your problems than you are just returning to the story in the Koran about the victory pulled off despite overwhelming numbers. A movement based upon the needs of the workers and small farmers can win because any pro Imperialists who get in the way will be easily swept aside. You will gain the support of workers and farmers everywhere including those of us who live inside of the beasts belly.
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@gunzogunzo6959 Obama went to Saudi Arabia and bowed to the Prince or King during the Obama administration.
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@MrSulfor It was a militia alright they needed Soleimani to remind them to bring the C-4 usually used for IED's.
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@Tim Mill Good Idea Trump can pull out of Korea and open his own DMZ at the Mexican border. The Troops can then enjoy nightly marshmallow roasting and coffee drinking while camping out on the 2000 mile border.
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Kelly Ann Seems to me the Chinese eat lots of soy and that maybe why the won the battle of Chosin Reservoir where the US Marines weren't retreating but advancing it a differnt direction. ( towards a sea pickup point.)
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@BlackPanther-vk5ew Some Black Panther you are trusting someone (Trump) in the white power structure. At least the old Panthers claimed to be anti Imperialist. You however are drawn right in with a few greenbacks promised. Of course most of that money will be siphoned off to pay Uncle Toms. Maybe you should change that screen name to Black Kitten. You got some growing up to do.
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@BlackPanther-vk5ew Black Panther originated in Lowndes county, Alabama. Later Bobbie Seale and Huey Newton would found the Black Panther Party for self defense in Oakland. The Party would spread across the country. It became a special target of J. Edgar Hoover's Cointelpro FBI dirty tricks squad. Many of its members were framed up for long prison terms some of whom were only released recently. Fred Hampton leader of the Illinois chapter was assassinated by Chicago Police with FBI help while sleeping in his bed. Armed members would trail police cars in Oakland to see to it that those arrested were not beaten by the police. Other advocates of Black self defense included Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams and Deacons for self defense. The Party also operated some self help programs including the free breakfast program for young students. Later on it changed from being somewhat socialist to advocating for Black Capitalism. That's an important part of Black history. I'm not a Democrat or Republican and neither was Malcolm X but if calling me a racist makes you happy go for it.
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There are those born with mutations. This one has a dick and balls on top and a brain between the legs.
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@The13thRonin The capitalist have no easy solution to the border problem. If they close the border that creates its own set of problems down the road. It's the same with the European Union. Creation of problems in one part of the world affects the rest of the world because of the modern world has created enough wealth for the poor to travel out of their condition of poverty. The capitalist in search of bigger profits moved lots of production to the rest world because they wanted 19th Century conditions for labor. Instead they created more workers and a more internationalist working class.
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@norbertk5400 Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and breakup the NATO Imperialist alliance.
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@erth2man The policies of Ronald Reagan who sent arm to dictatorships and terrorists in Central America is coming back to haunt us.
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@erth2man He broke the air traffic controllers strike. He should stayed in Hollywood making cowboy movies. He insisted he favored smaller government while engaging in the most reckless spending on arms. He was the one who signed gun control legislation in CA despite all his talk about the right to own a firearms. He talked about he was for free speech after firing Angela Davis from her University professors job for being a communist (stalinist). He claimed no knowledge of the illegal operation of Oliver North from the white house basement. He was nothing more than a defender of capitalism and the neoliberal ideology at all costs. He supported the whites only South African regime giving arms to its supporters in the Angolan civil war. He sent Troops to invade Grenada. He was your typical capitalist warrior talking peace while waging wars to protect American imperialist profiteers. The neo liberals all talk about cost except when it comes to Imperialist war for profits. Than no regime is too bloody or criminal as long as it allows American capitalist to invest.
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@texan996 Sure it has your probably one of the Republican farmers who hires immigrants and calls Border Patrol on pay day.
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@torablack Its another Democratic Party lead witch hunt.
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And just what truth have we been getting from the Pro Lifers? Billboards with pictures of babies on them? Politicians who vote for endless war and a bigger military Grandstanding for Life. The unborn can't complain or vote against them if the die before birth that can now be blamed on Doctors as an attempted abortion and if the are born well then they become completely irrelevant because they don't make campaign contributions. The unborn don't vote, the can't protest, and don't complain. They are a politicians ideal constituency.
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@bryanrodriquez92 Communism is a movement. It's the working class struggle going on right in front of our eyes. We start with facts and procede from their. The communists are merely those who best undrstand the goals and direction of the movement as it fights for state power with the only other important class in the modern world the capitalist class.
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@jajajajajajajajaja867 A child like you repeating self congratulatory propaganda isn't worth the time of day.
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@stevec9972 Nothing that is except the workings of the property owners system that guarantees incumbency. You are no doubt the child of a property owner. The owners are always willing to throw few crumbs out to those willing to do the dirty work of capitalism like USMC Major General Smedley Butler a self described gangster for capitalism. Or Steve Jobs and his engineer friend who got their start up capital by selling illegal black boxes and those willing to follow orders no matter how much they stink are also rewarded. Those who helped the early apple got a paycheck while Jobs and his buddy became the owners when incorporation took place. Gates started with a million dollar trust fund. I can't solve all you problems either. I not as stupid as people who think they know everything because they read a book and mommy and daddy told them such..
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@jajajajajajajajaja867 Do you think it was bad choices that caused world war one and resulted in the victory of the Soviet Union over 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK? Think it was bad choice that lead to the victory of the Soviet Union and China over the capitalist Imperialist fascist allaince of Germany Japan and Italy at the end of World War two? Think it was bad choices that lead to victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959 over the United States and the defeat in Vietnam? A government of property owners is protecting my rights? Give me a break. No one is evicted from their home in Cuba because homes are not used as a source of profit for property owners. The homes of the big property owners in Cuba became the foreign embassies. They don't have homeless or beggars in Cuba because they are organized to make life better for all instead a just a few property owners. We use the power of the trade unions to protect our rights because the bosses have learned how costly it is to fire us.
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@aoeu256 Sure George Bush was talking "Ownership Society" were everyone was going to be able to buy a home until they created an economic crisis.
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@Rivershield Culture is created in free time after basic needs are meet and passed on to the members of different groups. Since the creation of nation states and world trade a world culture has been created. The national cultures of the bourgeois have given way to a World Literature as the Bourgeois is the promoter of modern industry and world trade it can't help but advance the internationalization of the working class. The borders that were created for trade protectionism and regulation of commerce have become to confining to a world based in modern industry and world trade.
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If the KKK and the White Citizens Councils hadn't put up so many monuments and created a cult of Confederate hero's they would be coming down today.
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@miguelgameiro8063 Sowell says the capitalist do not exploit the working class but he never actually explains where the profits come. Instead he beats around the bush with statements about how trade can be beneficial to both parties and big risks can result in big gains. As if trade and gambling produced something in itself. Him and Friedman play a game of pretend where the capitalism of 1776 that Adam Smith wrote about is the same as the capitalism of today. Thar the bosses just need to learn some of his theories are realize they must become the guardians of his new moral lessons. Don't engage in trade war despite you greed for profits and make sure the government is doing everything possible to help the bosses maximize shareholder value and profits with the law that they of course pay to have written for themselves.
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@1texasminer When the Diem brothers who were the puppets of Kennedy's Ambassador Lodge became a liability they were murdered in a military coup establishing a Military dictatorship which world be defended directly by US Combat troops when Johnson sent in the Marines in 1965 for ten years. US Defense of a Military dictatorship the US had established is what Sowell and you are defending with this fiction of an independent South Vietnam. They Geneva accords in 1954 required an election in the South which the US managed to quash since it knew Ho Chi Minn would win hands down. This was why they created this fiction of an independent South Vietnam with collaborators of the hated French and Japanese Imperialist rulers. When the collaborators didn't follow orders they were murdered for more reliable military brutes. .
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@1texasminer I don't care where you wife was from their was never such a nation as South Vietnam or South Korea or two Germany's they were and are all creatures of the cold war. As was the so called "Republic of China." Taiwan was under Japanese Imperial Control and the defeated Army of General Chang evaluated China for that island. The US Navy sails through the Strait of Taiwan as a show of military force. Its indigenous people are neither Han Chinese or Japanese. For 22 years a fiction was created at the UN that Taiwan was really the government of China at US insistence.
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@1texasminer Just as their would be NO Canada without first the British Empire insisting on retaining part of British North American with loyalist settlers and second British forces arriving in Canada after the American civil war to see to it that British Imperial interests were protected by creating a government dependent on London. Since the Spanish American war American foreign policy has been one of defending the American foreign investment over the national rights of foreign peoples. That's the only real explanation of why the US foreign policy has this any dictatorship is better than a communism one skew. Since US Bosses are only concerned with making money and the biggest profits can only be made with the cooperation of the military in foreign nations. .
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@1texasminer South Vietnam had no special ideology either the people had different religions at most some being Catholic like the French and other Buddhist. The people who were content with he Dictatorship were obviously the Big Landowners who had supported Diem and would lose out in any real land reform.
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@bartdoo5757 While ignoring the workings of capitalism that destroy the workers families by the ever worsening business cycle of boom and bust for the wage earner and the drive to make the biggest profits by paying the lowest wages and working us the longest hours such that they only need to pay on average for the workers to return for another pay period. A worker with a family is more expensive for the bosses than workers without a family. If older workers can be replaced with new immigrants what need do the bosses then have to pay for a new generation? This is a question that should be asked of Rail Bosses like Warren Buffett who runs the Better Not Start a Family railroad. He wants workers to show up whenever the bosses call under threat of dischage backed up by the Slave Labor Railway Labor Act that gives capitalist judges the power to decide if a strike is legal.
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@bartdoo5757 Higher wage workers can't be replaced overning but in the long term higher paid skilled workers and their skills are the first to be replaced by new labor savings techniques. Bosses know what the cost of rent and groceries are for an average family in any area and the first thing to happen after the 2008 crisis was for the low wage retail bosses to take advantage of the new numbers of unemployed to get rid of those who were no longer quitting for better wages elsewhere to save on the promises of vacation and medical insurance for long term employees.
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@bartdoo5757 Some trades have entirely disappeared like the auto mechanic at the gas station for example and the printer who set type What's left of other jobs not need on site like draftsmen is to send the work to India or China .
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@bartdoo5757 You're the one babbling nonsense taught by the Professors defending the profit system who point to the less likely outcome as the most likely outcome. The bosses make their cold blooded decisions based upon the calculation of what yields the highest rate of profit. Once you realize that's what they do you'll understand why they make he decisions they do. They want you spending your wages because if you aren't that must mean your being overpaid which means you might decide to quit no come in on time or not take your job seriously.
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@Triumph2024. Everyone with a brain at the time knew that Democratic Party machine politician Mayor Daily was a racist bigot of the same caliber as racist Democrat George Wallace of Alabama who stood in the School house door until Federal Marshalls acted and said "Segregation Today, Segregation Tommorra', Segregation Forever." Sowell remarks at the time were those of another house ** on display for the entertainment of a white Republican audience. Who though the remark funny until a Southern Republican pointed out that a similar order had resulted in the deaths of five people in Georgia. .Just another case of Detective Sergeant Sowell's "Just the facts mama." . "
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@tinacooper4531 Hollywood liberals are going to be open up the spare bedrooms
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The real problem is lack of faith in capitalism and Sowell's free market fetish. How do you convince Blacks that the ruling class isn't a ruling class but a meritocracy? How do you train the next generation of the ruling class and can it be made into looking like the rest of the population.
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End the US Blockade!!!
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@rafaelbarrera3601 Sowell was a free market conservative Republican that went own on the mat after Trump took over the Republican Party bringing back 19th century mercantilism making his ideas totally irrelevant.
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Why waste your time?
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@cookielover32297 I knew a very Black man with blue eyes. I had an uncle white as snow with a black peoples hair on his head.
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@alexstone6403 The US can end its blockade when ever it wants and save the embarrassment at the UN when almost every other country in the world votes against the US. The US has never recognized Cuba as an independent nation worthy of respect. The only difference is Instead the Platt amendment of 1901 is now the Cuban Democracy act. The US says it has the right to decide what Cubans choose for their nations policy, government and also refuses to return the stolen Guantanamo naval base.
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@paccawacca4069 The capitalist are also a collectivist class that develops class interests. The began world war one fighting to take each others markets and resources. They desire to collect profits by use of private property rights. It's a capitalist government otherwise they wouldn't be dnong the work of tax collecting. The bosses collect the tax for their government at the store and workplace.
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Sowell said elect Trump because he would be easier to impeach.
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Why not just call this another film on the white man's burdern in the modern world and how the British Imperialists combined with the US military are going to make us all rich gentleman along with the good deeds of the Royal family.
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@richardiv-thelionking8853 All kinds of petty bosses are showing their true strikes when they come out against the rail road workers.
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@8a12a05 After a fake attack like the Gulf of Tonkin the justified a million man Army in Vietnam. You can't trust either party. Down with Imperialism!!
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@bjhcvuaerpigfy He's practicing for next weeks Sunday school class.
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@bjhcvuaerpigfy First it is not a child it is a fetus that is developing within her body. We have decided to use birth control and safe abortion to control our reproduction rather than rely on the infanticide, religious condemnation and unsafe abortion methods of the past. There is nothing moral about forced birth or interfering with legitimate care in order to satisfy people who have no direct interest in the health of the mother. After all the mothers life must come first in almost any situation where the interests of her life and the developing fetus may not coincide. Reducing late term abortions to only those necessary for medical reasons may very well be or seem to be an admiral goal but it will not be achieved by writing laws that have no basis in any reality. The anti abortionists have only one word they want used NO. Past abortions bans were unworkable for legal and moral reasons. There is no reason to believe new ones will work any better. or achieve anything that the proponents claim. The proof is in the inability to find the scandals needed to prove the assertions made. Instead yelling about saving the lives of unborn babies is about all they can do. It would be the height of folly to outlaw abortion at the moment of conception and therefore outlaw hormonal and IUD birth control as a result. Since preventing implantation of a fertilized egg is no more moral or important then preventing the waste of semen and unfertilized eggs. Such a ban would fulfill a regious need to attach the concept of a soul with a person only. No one can prove in any scientific manner the existence of a soul to begin with. it is purely a religious belief only. .
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@bjhcvuaerpigfy We had abortion prohibition before and all it did is send women to the hospital after having illegal ones or put burdens on people who weren't responsible. So are you going to investigate every miscarriage and make birth control illegal to satisfy some moral creed? People going to jail for having a miscarriage? Are we going to force families who already have 2 or 3 children to take on a fourth and let's say we actually did save all the fetus claimed who is going to take care of all them? This is nothing more than an idealistic moral crusade that has nothing to do with actual living and breathing human beings but instead elevates the fetuses status to something it is not an independent living human being. The feus itself will be denied medical care for fear of causing a miscarriage and therefore an abortion. Your going to have the unscrupulous claiming rape for an abortion and are you prepared to send women to prison in one state for doing what is perfectly legal in another. Every time a pregnant women enters a hospital bleeding are you going to call the cops to report a possible attempted abortion? Since prosecutors in some counties are not going to bring charges regardless of the law they hope that the busybodies who get into everyone else's business will bring charges of aiding an abortion directly to a judge for a civil forfeiture payday..
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@chrisdrippe You want to reduce abortions than build baby centers for teenage mothers in high schools, build family care centers with birth control and pregnancy services available for free and build child care centers along with more schools so children go year round and mothers who need help with children can get it. How are we going to pay? We are going to stop building military waste projects and feeding the war machine.
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@bjhcvuaerpigfy My comments are not directed personally at anyone. I'm merely expressing my ideas. After all why shouldn't we have year round school and 24/7 childcare available? Why should all the burden be placed on individual families and mothers. If a teenager wants ti have her baby why should she be shunned and forced to give up her education? My beef is with the social engineers who want to force everything by passing laws hiring more cops, building more jails and prisons. Whats wrong with taking a positive and caring approach? You know as well as I do the rich will have their politicians screaming we can't afford it. Well I'm tired of hearing what we can't afford how government can't do anything good because maybe we just can't afford this crazy system anymore. Well if government can't do it maybe we should start thinking about how we can do it with theses Washington two party politicians. Put together our own organizations.
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Arrest and prosucute the terrorist. End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@Central Texan ONB The had the guns out ready to fire on nothing but a suspicion. They treat the Black community as if it were a war zone. Civilian aren't threats cops playing lone ranger are.
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@Central Texan ONB So like Sowell, who cites his training for the Korea War "police" action, the cops are NOT an occupying military force needed for pacification like those sent to die in Korean. Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars??? Is that is why you think the cops were justified in pulling their guns. The only real difference than is that the cops are all military "lifers." Ding "their job" at home.
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@Central Texan ONB If they are having too many problems than maybe its time to quit and find another job? You usually follow a car before pulling it over and then you run the plates so know something about it You have the option to call for back up and ask the driver and or passengers to exit the vehicle using your sound system. You make assumptions sometimes that are completely wrong. First assumption he was dangerous enough to warrant pulling you side arm second was when someone yelled gun and third when the officer fell back.
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@capslockcapable1719 His being a Marine has nothing to do with this. The Black community is NOT a war zone that needs to be occupied by Marines. You took an oath to defend the constitution not go off on an adventure following orders.
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@scottireland5414 The US Gov't was founded by merchants and slave owners to protect their property not citizens. A government is set up to protect the property of the ruling class that is all it can do.
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The problem is that money doesn't grow but only capital value does. The capitalist pages social wages that are just enough to pay your social expenses and keep you at work. Old age and disability for the wage earner is sentence of poverty without a Social Security pay as you go program.
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@ericmadsen7470 That's because the two parties are controlled by the bosses who are beginning to fear the workers in a class struggle against the capitalist investors Empire.
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Bill Clinton committed perjury.
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@imankhandaker6103 Sowell is now going against his own globalist neoliberalism by promoting Trump's trade war with China.
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@pc2555 You didn't defeat Marxism or Communism in 1989. All you defeated was Stalinism. You don't have the unchecked ability to intervene militarily since Vietnam and Afghanistan and you don't have the ability to use the old Soviet or Chinese leaderships like at the end of the Vietnam war. A revolution with new leaders is going to break out and it's not going to be easy to contain.
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@pc2555 Your going to be getting another capitalist economic lesson coming up very soon. German and Japan already have negative interest rates. Trump is pushing for them now in the hopes of warding off another 2008. It means free money for the club but I guess you've already got your invitation.
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@pc2555 The Great Depression of 1929 followed the defeat of 1928 Defeat of the Left Opposition by Stalin and the Era of Fascism until the World war and the Defeat of Fascism in 1945 along with the death of Stalin in 1953 and the victory of the Cuban revolution of 1959. As world movement we are in a much better position without the hard core Stalinist gangsters.
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GPS system isn't even that reliable yet and you want to send out trucks without drivers?
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@johnnyindiana1330 Find the nearest lake and go for a swim.
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This is something you'd expect in 1984, the Gulag Archipelago or crime and punishment. She was asked by poll workers to vote on that provisional ballot. Since the vote was never counted where is the crime? This is the way law operates where the only victim of the crime is the accused themselves?
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The communist movement split in 1928 after the death of Lenin in 1924. This is when the reversal of the gains of the Great October Revolution began. The red terror under Lenin began after the white terror and with the victory in the civil war in 1921 prisoners began to be released again just as the had when the Oct revolution occurred. General Kaldin was in 1917 released only to lead a white army attacking the new Soviet government. Ayn Rand also get her university education and advanced study under the early bolshevik regime. If all you doing in fact is body counts rather than looking why people died in revolutions, wars and famines. You not really looking at the whole picture. That's why Israel comes under criticism. The Arabs overall have higher body counts in conflicts with the Jews. Way more Germans died of American and British bullets. If it was just a matter of body counts Islam would easily defeat the Jews since there are so many more Muslims. The liberal Democracy ignored the plight of the Jews before the War FDR turned back a ship full of Jew while the Trotskyist used their influence in the labor movement to demand asylum. When the German American Bund rallied once again the the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Party organized a picket of the supporters of German Fascism.
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@shauncameron8390 Sure Castro is responsible for everything right? You didn't run away because you were afraid of Batita and later afraid of the coming US invasion?
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@overviewthem Capitalism promises a free lunch to wealthy investors but that not's suppose to be idealism? See communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests rather the history of victories and defeats of the proletariat in the struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist class.
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@overviewthem Predictions of an easy military defeat began almost as soon as the victory over Batista. Its been 60+ years and not only did Fidel Castro's rebel Army defeat Barits and a US organized invasion but he racist regime in South Africa on the battlefield of Angola twice puncturing the myth of white superiority paving the way for an independent Namibia and a non racial South Africa.
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They don't like to decided cases that set a precedent for law breaking. I doubt that the want bosses running to the courts for relief after every strike. That's the whole reason they set up the NLRB in the first place. They may kick it back to the state court since that seems to be the Courts thinking in cases not directly involving a federal question. This is a case that will be tried in the press a lot depends on how well the bosses can play the victim and how well the workers can get out their story as to why the took the actions they did. The bosses always have the advantage in the courtroom which is why stikes take place in the first place. If we could get justice from a capitalist court we wouldn't need to strike in the first place. .
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@freddypizza3832 Because the final battle between labor and capital will take place in a capitalist country most likely where I was born in the USA. Why would I want to move somewhere else? The American ruling class has tried to keep us out and refused to even allow Trotsky's dead body who was murdered in Mexico into the country never mind comrades from other countries. For years Trotskist's form Canada were not allowed to cross the border and Earnest Mandel from Europe was not allowed in. We aren't even legally allowed to retire to Cuba because of the blockade.
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Go ahead and leave but then you won't be able to go around bragging about how you the leader of the "free world."
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The guest is full of it. It's a matter of bosses letting everything go to hell because its more cost effective to wait until things go to hell in a handbasket. Then they will hold hearings pointing fingers at anyone but the Energy Bosses who are refusing to reinvest because they aren't getting big enough profits. You don't believe they are going to lower taxes or prices do you?
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@ebayerr Ask yourself why they had to do that. They refuse to invest in either expansion of the Texas grid by syncing it to either the Eastern or Western interconnect and as long as it like that huge rotating equipment or massive DC to AC inverters are required to do any interconnection not a simpler and cheaper wire and cable interconnect. The only other solution is to have excess fossil fuel generating capacity or huge DC battery storage capacity. Texas is the largest state producer of wind energy. Another solution for emergency generation would be to equip all cars with a combination of slightly larger alternators and inverters and/or use of the car battery in electric cars as a stored energy source. None of this is rocket science it's just a matter of bigger profits can be made by investing elsewhere like in financial get rich stock market manipulation (Gamestop) or capitalist banks feeding their vault's with cheap zero interest rate fiat currency from the central bank.
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Wage increases for production workers always come first out of profits. Since wages are set from the bottom up not the top down. The bosses only hire production workers if they can make a profit from our labor. Salaried are an overhead cost and bonuses come from end of year profits.
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What does the video have to do with the title?
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@tanshihus1 The copper in the penny became worth more than the penny.
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@tanshihus1 The cost of copper wire is determined by the ability to gouge the buyers by copper mining cartels does. US companies are angry because China got copper mining rights in Afghanistan. Using a central bank to inflate the money supply and rob the working class with inflation is why penny is no longer made with copper. Unlike Gold which has a limited supply copper prices went up and down for 30 years between .$50 and $1.50 from 1970 to 2000. The copper bosses see in green energy the need for more electricity as the opportunity to make even greater profits.
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Keep drinking the Kool Aid.
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@tomwade9381 World capitalism is failing and the US Imperialist are at a loss as to what to do about it.
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@RIbigDave All this free market stuff is a bunch of nonsense. Surrogacy is the sale of human beings.
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Trump held his own "Free election" for President of Venezuela among Western Imperialist allies.
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Keep your religion out of the government. Quir preaching a bunch of nonsense.
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I'm sure they provide you all the comfort you need to get by in that next day at the office fiddling with a pen and pencil.
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You need coal to make steel from Iron ore. Plus Obama had 8 years. In his first two he had a majority Democratic Congress. They could have passed single payer healthcare then but just like Clinton he had his excuses. The best anti poverty program is a militant Trade Union movement like the 55 strong West Virginia school workers.
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@orangefield2308 With the paper standard you can hide the problem posed by Karl Marx in Chapter one of Das Kapital the declining rate of return on investments that requires wage cuts to boost profit rates. You cut the value of the wage by cutting the value of the dollar the medium of exchange instead of cutting the exchange value directly. This way property value can appear to rise as you continually add numerical value and wages can be pushed down since now you put the blame for rising prices on the needs of the working class to maintain its living standard and trying to better its conditions of labor. The unions and government spending on social programs become the political crusade of the capitalist who demonize capitalist government as the root cause of all things evil and not the capitalist government being the cause with its defense of the capitalist profit system.
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@orangefield2308 Have you solved your world's capitalist system since Lenin wrote, "Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism?" Have you made it beyond the Imperialist stage? The fight for markets and resources by different capitalist nations? Your the ones who worry about the label on the can. All you know about communism is what others have told you. The only thing you know is what has been regurgitated in Bourgeois Universities as the ultimate reasoning and micro examinations of words. Where the proof of light says the blind man. At least the blind know what to look for. The American capitalist looks out his window at One World Trade Center over at the New York federal reserve bank and says where's the proof we produce nothing by watering the biggest cache of gold in the cellars of the New York Federal Reserve?
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@orangefield2308 Well with what the US did in Korea why would you expect love? All the American capitalist and their government have ever wanted in Korea is control and domination. They came in taking over form the Japanese Imperialist with an agreement from Joe Stalin that he had no right to make in which Korea would be divided for the purpose of evacuating Japanese Troops. Soviet Troops entered the North for a short period and left but the US was setting itself up as the new colonial power. Recognizing only the collaborators of the Japanese and putting down legitimate protest using their troops, collaborator and the hated Japanese Imperialist troops. They engaged in the tactics of massacre, lies cover ups and paid collaborators. Who were going to help the Korean people? The UN? Sweden, the Swiss, the French or General Chang?
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@orangefield2308 Your Imperialist military powers including US/UK were defeated in Soviet Russia after 1917 by Trotsky's Red Army. The German Imperialist were defeated by the Red Army in 1945. The Japanese Imperialist in China by Mao's PLA 1945. The French Imperialist at Dien Ben Phu 1954 by Vietminh and the US imperialist driven out in 1975 The US/UK/French at about the line drawn on the map when Truman asked Stalin to agree to division which Stalin had no right to agree to. In Cuba 1959 with all American made weapons by the 26th of July movement and in 72 hours at Giron. Cuba defeated South Africa at Cutio Cunavale. You don't win wars for capitalism you lose wars with your Imperialist big stick world policeman tactics. The capitalist can't win wars because they themselves don't want to take that kind of risk and the armies the build have no 'shin the game" as you like to say. The workers and farmers get nothing by protecting the bankers and companies overseas profits except death and destruction. Just where an how many wars has any capitalist power since 1917.
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@orangefield2308 He killed Lenin's Party and all of the 1917 Politburo after Frame up trials and in 1940 Trotsky 1st Soviet Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs in Mexico and hundred's of communists in Spain also. So what else is new? That was exposed by the Dewey omission . "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials" in 1937. Fidel Castro and Che defeated General Batista Armed by USA ride into Habana on Freedom Caravan in US built jeeps and though the city of Santa Clara on US built tanks to the cheers of thousands after they have defeated an Army 10 times the size of the forces in the Siesta Madre who's troops laid down their arms in a surrender tired of a dictators orders to murder their own people.
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@orangefield2308 Read Karl Marx workers win a battle with the Bourgeois only to be broken by completion when returning to work. The fruit is not in an single battle but the ever rising consciousness and organization of the proletariat. The revolution in Cuba has educated 1000's of revolutionary proletarian internationalist doctors, engineers and construction workers who travel the earth bring hope and help with a hand of solidarity to millions. Your Republican revolutionary party joined the slaveholders in crushing the revolutionary governments of the south after the civil war. Then your government lead by the Republican McKinney became another Imperialist Power after taking Spain's colonies of Puerto Rico, Cuba, The Philippines and Guam. Your's is a government of reactionary thieves who have out lived their place in history. Keep watering that gold and see how long it takes to grow in the cellars of the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
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@lorenheard2561 Now maybe you can explain what he is talking about?
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@jerrybrickley2115 When does Conservatives or Liberals cross the line form thought to political violence? Like Pat Buchanan taking over the Reform Party. Or Barry Goldwater talking about lobbing a Nuke into the mens room at the Kremlin? How many assassination attempts were made by the US CIA on Fidel Castro's life? What about Kennedy-Lodge decision to foment a military coup against the Diem brothers in South Vietnam?
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@jerrybrickley2115 Well once again YouTube has decided to censor me.
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@ScottCleve33 You didn't need an ID or proof of citizenship to vote in the past why now? Nor were ballots printed with names of who you could vote for on them.
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@ScottCleve33 I remember registering, being asked my name, and being crossed off the list last time I voted. No ID required to register or vote. Maybe that's the way they do it in your state. Some states required property ownership, poll taxes and literacy tests. This is just another show me you ID law. Guess what I look like the picture on my ID. I purposely do not give my passport to DMV so now they give me a DL that says NOT for Federal ID and told me I can't enter Federal buildings. I only need to go to the Post Office and Social Security and they don't require ID to enter. If you have money you can buy your US citizenship like Elon Musk.
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General Batista canceled the 1952 election and made himself President of Cuba establishing a corrupt dictatorship. After a legal challenge to the dictatorship by Fidel Castro they attacked the Moncada Army barracks on the 26th of July 1953. The US armed and supported the Batista dictatorship. Twenty thousand died in the revolution to drive the dictator from power.
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Your not a man and can't think like one. Why should we all have vasectomies? Its not like calling in a plumber to close a valve you know. You can use birth control but no birth control besides sterilization is 100 percent effective. Even vasectomies can sometimes grow back together. Birth control first and then abortion as a backup.
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@jaywill868 Fidel Castro's Rebel Army defeat Apartheid South Africa driving a stake into white supremacy and Apartheid South Africa. Elon Musk is just having nightmares.
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@dynamixstudios9920 That's why the should be going there since they're so so so good at 'Creating jobs and Income" here in the US. If it wasn't for the billionaires the earth would stop turning and the sun wouldn't shine.
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@dynamixstudios9920 I wish I to got in early on that Obama Era Quantitative Easing too where you trade "toilet paper grade" junk bonds for brand new Benjamin Franklin Pictures on special paper at the Federal Reserve Banks.
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@shauncameron8390 First of all it makes no difference how five people vote in an election. The number of times 5 votes make a difference in an election has got to be astronomical except for when the state of Florida had its hanging chad system. You don't think Bill Gates is investing in anything that would challenge his right to a big pot of gold do you?
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@philiprose7942 Well than give them documents so they can come out of the shadows and fight. If your going to lose hours why don't you tell the bosses that they can go to hell and shut the whole plant down, join the UAW or another union and make the same demand as the UAW? Instead of crying about losing hours?
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@sway696 The only doomed in China is a return to the western economics of finance capitalism ala Milton Friedman and company.
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This shows what a shallow thinker this man actually is. In his whole list of source material I do NOT see the names Marx, Engles, Lenin, Trotsky, Castro or Guevara. Nor do I see the names James Cannon, Eugene Debs, or Farrell Dobbs. What he has is a list mostly of people who wrote ABOUT communists or communism and not much else. Want to read the real deal see The Militant newspaper.
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@ladyd8339 I have read the indictment it has two problems all crimes charged claimed "falsification of business" records occurred over 5 years ago. A second unnamed crime is required for the all the charges.
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The host could open the door randomly and reveal the prize but obviously unless the host said he would play for the contestant than it wouldn't be a win for the contestant.
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@Stubbari The host doesn't have to know which door has the car because if he opens the door with the car the contestant loses.
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@max5250 No the host only needs to open a door. If the prize is behind the door the host opens the rules of the game can make the contestant a winner or loser. If the host opens the door with a goat then the contestant knows that his first decision gave him one in three odds of winning and now he has a one in two chance of winning if he makes a new decision. Since he already tried door one and lost and the game does not reshuffle the prizes he would have a better chance at winning by picking the other door. It's not what the host knows that is important but the fact that the game does not reshuffle the prizes and the door opening if the prize was initially behind it on the first round. It actually depends on the rules of the game and how the host imparts the information.
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@max5250 Okay so Monty Hall always knows the answer and never opens the door with the car? Does he also always play the game the same way? Does he ever let the contestant win on the first round or does he always go to a second round? We assume he doesn't reshuffle the car. If you can't win on the first round than why would that decision affect the second?
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@max5250 So you agree that the first round and the goat revelation has no effect on the chances of winning in the second round and therefore it makes no difference which door you pick in the second round. Which just the opposite of what she said. Her statement of switching doors only makes sense if you can sometimes win in a one round game.
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@max5250 But if the player had zero chance of winning on the first round so only her second choice matters and she has just a 50% chance of winning no matter what door she picks if she can't win on the first round choice. The odds she picked the correct door on the first round are 33% but since she can't win on the first round only the choice made in the second round matters. Where picking either door left gives odds of 50/50. Her odds of wining improved when Monty Hall opened the door with the goat not when she made a second choice. She must make a second choice but it has nothing to do with the first since she couldn't win the first time around.
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@max5250 No Let's make a diagram with 3 doors ABC i'll put the car behind door C since the game is symmetrical it makes no difference which door I put it behind. So I start with ABC ABC ABC ABC for Doors. I pick a door symbolized by lower case. aBC AbC ABc now Monte Hall removes a goat (bad door). aC bC Ac or Bc now if don't change I have won 50% of the tme. Ac Bc aC or bC now if I do change I have won 50 % of the time. So unless Monte Hall is limited in which goat he can remove I don't see how you odds improve beyond 50/50. Is there any reason to believe door C is any better than door A or B? Or is it only better because I told you the car was behind it to begin with?
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@max5250 Okay i finally see where my mistake is. Even though he could create 12 situations he never creates more than 9 as far as the player is concerned.
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He and the rest of the neocons are the ones who created the crisis of 2008 and then want to blame Obama rather than take credit. They will talk till the end of the day about how free markets mean a free people and all sorts of nonsense as defenders of a failed system of production.
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@Rocky-b9d More than once Canadian Provinces and even national Premiers considered becoming states. After both world wars when Britain was bankrupt and durring multiple crisis when Quebec considered independence.
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@Rocky-b9d Don't you have a Prime minister or Primer of each province along with a governor General and lieutenant governor generals? You were a Dominion of the British Empire and when world war one occurred The English Parliament mobiled the Canadian military for world war one? Canada was first populated by French Quebec Royalist, Black ex slaves who the British promised freedom to in exchange for serving in the British Army against the American revolution, and those families in America who remained loyal to King George. If Quebec became its own country instead of just a nation in the Canadian federation what then? An East and West Canada? They use to say the border was undefended and only a birth certificate was required to cross. Now you need clearance from the FBI/RCMP a special drivers license or passport for ID. Those who submit to a federal police interview and pay a tax get a special Nexus card for expedited crossing,
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@rs7656 Only a few years after the revolution british forces had to hang the leaders of a Republican uprising in Canada. After the Civil War in the US once again Britain had to send troops to hang on to its colony in British North America. Canada and Newfoundland/Labrador were slowly released as the British Empire went into decline. American politicians have long thought it was only a matter of time before trade with make the Canadian federation into America States much like Texas which signed a Treaty of annexation to become anywhere from one to five states.
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@rs7656 The English merchants in Parliament ordered the execution of King Charles I and declared a Republic because he was going about the country destroying it for taxes.
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@heatherheimbueger1275 Trump proposal is directed to the Canadian Billionaire class.
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Right the laws defending the rights of private property of the capitalist class allow them to control all the markets in the interest of making themselves even richer at the expense of the working class.
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@silverwitch1 Tell Biden to end the Cuban Blockade and close all foreign military bases.
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AhmadRizalMohdSalleh Hamas leaders are billionaires who care about their dollars not the ordinary Palestinians. Hamas NAZI's control the GAZA. Israeli soldiers will try and free them from the NAZI Hamas!.
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@uncaboat2399 “There are no solutions; only trade offs.” This is the theory of an ever lasting capitalism. Its a denial of the historical process and the proven real material resluts of the class struggle in America itself.
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@acornsucks2111 Pompeo is just anther advocate for endless war and more nukes.
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That is just Thatcher recalling the actions of the King Charles who took the merchants money to wage war in the country for taxes. He was executed for doing that. Never the less they put the King's son back on the thrown despite the King's son losing a second civil war. Not much compares to the stupidity of the English ruling class. The owners of English gold and silver in the Bank of London died a long time ago.
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@mikeguilmette776 You can't have a democracy among different classes.
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@mikeguilmette776 Classes have different class interests that conflict with each other. The mostly northern merchants could not agree on many things with the Southern Slave Owners. The Merchants were an economic class that was rising in economic importance while the slave owner's became a historically obsolete obstacle to the new system of wage labor and capital. What allowed for unity for a period of time was their common ownership of property. The same as that between the Feudal Landowners and the English merchants before and after the English civil wars. The Southern Slave Owners were also property owners and that is why the Northern Republican Industrialist eventually dropped their opposition to Democratic Party rule in the South. What makes the capitalist a revolutionary class is their involuntary promotion of modern industry and the creation of the world market. What makes them a problem is their own success. Their system is unstable because it is still based in exploitation and they resort to war and military methods to defend themselves against the newly rising working class and with each other on a national basis. . .
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Right he's only sitting at an elite capitalist think tank at an American University he probably faces at most slipping on a banana peel by some college prankster. A real fearless leader.
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What do you call the FBI's secret police program called the Cointelpro program.
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@johnnybrave7443 Vietnam was viciously attacked by the US Imperialists who tried to bomb them back into the stone age. Any freedoms we have here are because of a revolutionary war of independence, a civil war and those who have fought against the Imperialists wars starting with Mark Twain. India: Where the Brits left their tradition of religious wars which you just can't end can you? Try moving to Saudi Arabia and enjoy the comfortable close shaves provided by the religious police for non believers. Have you thanked Here Majesty the Queen for allowing India Dominion status?
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The last civilian puppets in S Vietnam were the Diem bros. The were overthrown in a CIA military coup ordered by Kennedy in 1963. What follow was a US Military dictatorship until overthrown in 1975 after the US had been forced out. So no dumb shit it wasn't a Democracy the US wanted in Vietnam but a military dictatorship.
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@johnnybrave7443 You in India remember? So you don't know squat about US politics or history. Your an expert on communism in the US because you listen to Voice of America bull shit and other dumb shit like Thomas Sowell who became an expert because he read an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica about Karl Marx. .
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@johnnybrave7443 China and the Chinese Communist Party is no more communist than Sweden is socialist. South Korea had a series of dictatorships and six republics before sending it's last president to prison for capitalist corruption. South Vietnam's military dictatorship fought for democracy just like the English Queen of Canada guarantees democracy in Canada. Only fools and defenders of capitalist exploitation believe such nonsense.
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@johnnybrave7443 VOA is prohibited from broadcasting within the US since Congress funds it and it's considered to be propaganda. Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General is why we are a legal party in the US. Go order a corn beef sandwich in Old Delhi and tell us about all the religious freedom there is in India.
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@johnnybrave7443 Mao was a communist. That's what one would conclude after reading Mao's New Democracy. He was a communist not is a communist. Mao wanted capitalism and General Chang as part of his government. The four small stars on the Chinese flag represent the bloc of four classes.
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@johnnybrave7443 Yep you have the Indian freedom of not to see a doctor without money. An Indian diet of declining caloric intake. Don't sing a protest song or your going to jail under the usually sedition and terrorism laws. The Indian Supreme court turned back a "surveillance state law". If the Indian government as bad as China then they just haven't been able to follow the leading Chinese Communist Capitalists. Don't criticize the cops unless you like living in an Indian jail cell.
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@johnnybrave7443 You've got money and that's what makes you brave. You get whatever you want from the Indian government because its your government. It's bought and paid for by people like you. What you should really be saying is thank god I'm not an "untouchable" in the caste system.
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@johnnybrave7443 Why don't you clean up your own mess instead of trying to position yourself as a lesser evil? In Cuba they are building a society based on human solidarity not like India where the New Viceroys are all Indian. The reason that Cuba out does India in all most all stats is because they had a socialist revolution unlike India where the British left after the end of WW2 because of colonial nationalism. After all the British had just finished starving about a million or so people in the needless 1943 Bengal Famine.
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@johnnybrave7443 The US wages a criminal blockade of Cuba which India votes against. Still without medical equipment Cuba ranks just a year behind the US in life expectancy. India is more like North Korea in many ways. The US blockades them also. What's India's excuse? India is still behind China. Caloric intake is going down in India and people don't have access to electricity. You don't see children begging people dressed in western clothing for food in Cuba like India.
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54321Truth You are only so much trash headed for the dumpster and then the landfill. You are the puke that capitalism can't digest. A joke that isn't funny. You ideas are wrong and for this reason you shall march off the end of a flat earth into a grave which you have prepared for yourself.
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No doubt he entered a not guilty plea and then took a plea bargain. The plea bargain has replaced the right to a trial by jury with the right to have a plea bargain. As long as you have capitalism you will have this kind of political corruption. Both parties campaigns are paid for by the wealthy because that is who they serve. If you want to vote for an honest working class party then Vote Socialist Workers Party. In the meantime they way to fight poverty the best and only proven way is with a militant Union and Union movement.
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I don't like campaign finance laws because they essentially say we are to stupid to make up our minds about who to vote for. I wouldn't vote for D'Sousa if he promised me a month of ice cream sundaes. I think if he and Koch brothers bought a 24/7 week of political ad's before the election it wouldn't sway me in the least. In fact it would clue me in as to who not to vote for. Second the so called justice system is fraudulent to begin with. It'd just a big scam to make money for lazy judges lawyers and a whole host of other people involved in useless activity, while punishing the working class for being themselves.
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"These laws are necessary in any system where you do not want a plutocracy like we have now." You do realize you're conducting yourself. Plus Trump was elected despite Clinton having four times the campaign funds.
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"Jane's Revenge"like Hillary Clinton is doing NOTHING ro advance women's rights.
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@dustinarroyo8005 A hedge fund can not do anything besides suck up value for its owners.
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@ritab-c492 That from a man who was a bipartisan leader of the witch hunt against communism.
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@mikehannan8932 Orwell left Communist movement lead by Leon Trotsky for Democratic Imperialism and died before Stalin in 1953 and the break up of the Stalinist monolith that began with the 1956 Khrushchev revelation's and the disputes with Yugoslavia and Beijing. Fidel Castro came along and lead the Cuban revolution which rejected murder purges and Stalin's socialism in one country for solidarity and revolution as necessary to the historical process..
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@KalbroneognobpOgnobp Bull Shit
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@commentsedited Their were no fixed borders before the development of capitalism in Western Europe. Empires were for as far as an Emperor could maka military alliances and collect taxes for his Empire with soldiers as the enforcers of the will of the Emperor. Only recently in the 20th Century has everything in the world been divided up and borders created. Even as recently as a couple of months ago on a remote section of the Rio Grande neither side was sure which side of the border Fronton Island was on.
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When you play a game an umpire is needed to determine fairness. The class struggle rises and falls as negotiations go on and truces are made and later broken. One side must ultimately win or both will go to ruin.
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me huss I have been against US Imperialism since Vietnam. By International Law Embassy's are off limits from violent attacks. The Iraqi government has a responsibility by International law to protect Embassies from attacks. Instead they gave a green light to the US Embassy attack in the Green zone by the pro Iran militia. These militia pretending to be protestors went as far as breaking down Embassy walls. A Militia leader greeted Salimi at the airport and was in his limousine when the missile hit. Do you expect anyone to believe Salimani landed at the airport by coincidence?
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The resukt of the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington.
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Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE The Times is run by Bourgeois Imperialist hypocrites. It supports every Imperialist conflict because the ruling classes marmalade comes from foreign investment.
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Jack London So finally you admit to being a dumbass. There is hope for you yet.
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They understand that to keep their ill gotten gains at everyone else's expense requires cunning and deceit. They know quite well that they as the top dogs of the world American Capitalist Empire it looks better if they don't always win.
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@kangoracco The government is merely the executive committee of the ruling capitalist class. Trump committed Treason for questioning their policies and hypocrisy. The two party system failed to keep him off the ballot so now the are using criminal charges in efforts to prevent him from getting reelected. He is considered a rogue actor causing unnecessary problems by giving voice to workers demands against the bosses.
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Because most of what he says is circular logic or extreme examples meant to prove another one of his ridiculous oversimplifications. He's all about making himself look smart by pointing at obvious flaws and repeating the nonsense of others about economics starting with the Garden of Eden as if that was ever is a serous attempt at explaining economics since the enlightenment. Anyone with half a brain understands we don't live in the garden of eden unless you realize that in a sense we do because we both live in the natural world and are part of it. That our species has always had to engage in social labor to make a life for ourselves and ever since we became agricultural we began producing surpluses of food. This of course is totally left out of this scholars thinking. Instead he proceeds directly to not enough to go around and scarce resources having alternative uses. Culture a topic which this scholar write so much about was what we first produced in our free time. So why doesn't he say this? Because it would then result in the questioning of all his love of markets and money. Once sacred cows are questioned than the whole theory of the free market being the provider comes under suspension.
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@odietamo9376 Much apologies for not meeting your bourgeois standards for use of the English language. The crappy public school I went to got me a slot at MIT before they dumbed down the SAT. English Sea captains reported back on finding people who lived without trade or money. You can still find isolated groups of people who are hunter gatherers living without using land for agriculture. Agriculture is what enables half of the human population to live in cities. It's the accumulation of culture and a surplus of production that makes the modern world possible. The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
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It makes no difference who the US president is.
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@exposingliars9824 You don't know if he is a Muslim or even what kind of Muslim do you? You however are busy exposing lair's? Do engage in farcical behavior as comedy? Because Trump is his own man he has the ability to move around unlike most of Congress who must worship the big money contributors. As a big capitalist he can not and will not embark on a road of independent working class political action. Nor does his racism and other odious believes have any real traction in the working class. Think of him more like a lawyer as a hired gun by the unions. Like the lawyer he can't do anything more than we ourselves have already won. It may appear that way but that is the way it is supposed to work. Give with one hand and take with the other.
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Spends the most om healthcare gets the worst results. Spends the most on education gets the worst results. Has seen the greatest transfer of wealth to the top. Capitalism working the way it should be expected to. Education and healthcare are just overhead expenses to be minimized so as to boost the falling rate of profits by which success is judged under capitalism. Trumps plan blame the teachers and bust their unions for a system that works only for the billionaire class like him. Centralize the capitalist propaganda taught in the schools from Washington, DC. Declare Marxism to be a religion and then declare a great ideological religious crusade. Just another round about attack on free speech and the right to hold minority political views. For those who do not believe in Trump as the great Savior of America and mankind must be brought to heel just like Hillary Clinton proposed to do to black children falsely accused.
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@swesleyc7 That's you whole problem putting everything up for sale and in a market for the highest bidder.
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@shortsign The bosses control all the factors of production except for union labor. They control the government, the banks, the money printing and the prices of housing, electricity, food and water. Naturally its stacked against us.
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@Lord_Volkner Its just a ploy to get votes for Democrats as they pretend to be friends of labor.
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@YouTubehatesconservativespeech Abortion is a women's right to control and plan her life. Let man get pregnant and carry babies instead.
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Property taxes originated in colonial America.
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A dystopian wet dream of capitalist bosses.
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"What lies ahead for the Republican Party?" Which lies doe the Republican Party like the most? Which party can do a better job of selling more lies?
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The world capitalist crisis means the ruling classes must drive in the direction od fascism at home to defeat the trade unions and war abroad to defeat their world market competition.
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@scottparmenter5783 Congress had its chance to impeach Trump and failed.
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@digaddog6099 Political Parties arise as the defender of classes in nations. The National Republican arose as a capitalist party independent of the slave owners. The Northern Democrats then represented those willing to compromise with the Slave owners. The Southern Democrats then became a slave owners secessionist only party.
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Do you think China should send Troops to Mexico go to war with the US, take half the country and then stay involved for 72 years? It's time to end the US acting like the world's policeman and dominate Empire.
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@joelsmith3797 Hoover was at the center of the Palmer raids unleashed by Wilson (D) who had promised not to enter world war one. Eugene Debs of the Socialist Party ran against him from his federal prison cell and recived a million votes. In 1940 FDR sent Hoovers spies to enforce the Smith "gag" Act against the Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Union. This result in the famous trial testimony of Jim Cannon in "Socialism on Trial" Stll published and sold today. Because of our support for Trotsky the Communist Party said we should be locked and we were falsely slandered as being fascists. The CP would find themselves doing five year stretches once the honeymoon with Stalin, Churchill and FDR was over and the cold war began. This is why we oppose the witch hunt against Trump. It not Trump that they are after but those who voted against liberal hypocrisy. The Militant is our paper availble on line.
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Economics Explained? No just some guy talking a lot of bullshit to sound real smart and advertise brilliant.
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@m.r.2718 "You people.. would it be okay if I took your computer? "The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to administration officials." That' the Wall Street Journal. Has Trump Made America Great Again for you? As long as the Imperailist have food on their table the US Marines can solve any other problem for them.
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This is just more evidence of the failure of the US Imperialist system.
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@Texasguy316 Region as an important part of American life is in decline.
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@Brandon She won her seat the same way Trump did legally. Unlike Trump she doesn't require about 100 people to go anywhere. Soy milk is why the US lost China and 1/2 of Korea.
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@icarus6651 The weakness lies in capitalism and its long term tendency of profit rates to decline. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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We have free speech in the United States because the labor and communist movement has fought for and defined it.
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@UnknownMoses Trump teeing off on Golf Course Trump and De Santos working on draining a big swamp Northwest of Miami for a new Theme Park called how to get rich while sitting on your ass. Going to runa a Clean Water Act Campaign.
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How about if I put up signs like Bring all Troops Home. Jail killer Cops, and Amnesty for all Immigrant workers. How long before the reasonable HOA police would come to my door?
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As to refugees. No we can't take in everybody certainly at this time. We can't have a Canadian like border (that includes airports and seaports) because of the the inequality among nations. Nor can we tell the Judge we didn't see the stop sign as a reason for running it. It certainly makes no sense to invite refugees and then say don't work (in other words no work permit) we are going to give you assistance because we have high unemployment. Does it make any sense that one person has to do a forced overtime week of seventy hours while others can't get a forty hour week. These are problems that are built in to finance capitalism itself. No social welfare program can fix it. The only way to end these problems for good is to embark on a revolutionary road like the one taken by the Cuban People over fifty years ago. It is not a welfare state it is a revolutionary internationalist state.
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We are not responsible for the 'problems in the middle east' as I said elsewhere It's like telling the judge I rear ended the car ahead because I didn't see him. The world economy runs on oil and the middle east has lots from Libya to Iran. With Saudi Arabia having the world's largest proven reserves. The supposed reason for arming the Saudi's is to fight Islamic terror. So we are fighting external Islamic terrorism by supporting internal Islamic terrorism. I believe we are beyond the middle ages Crusades or at least I hope so. Saudi Arabia has large oil refineries and a petrochemical industry. Who do you think works in those plants? Do you think they close down for Friday prayers? Alls they need is just a little taste of freedom a realization that the army can shoot down everybody in the streets and you'll see that King running for his life. He'll want come here claiming political asylum and people like me will say don't let him in he's a monster.
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Obviously Trudeau's bourgeois politics are an insult to the memory of Fidel.
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@broccolin Its a complete cover up of the reactionary role paid by the NATO Democratic Imperialists.
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@cosmicdownload2025 The idea is to gut social security and save money with UBI. Seniors and the Disabled are living to well for Yang.
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LOL
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You didn't need to be that smart to realize that the US Government wasn't coming under Communist control like ultra right Republican Senator McCarthy.claimed and Sowell believed.
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@Jace T I wouldn't want to be sleeping in a tesla when its hits a Tractor Trailer and cuts the drivers head off.
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@wowfmomf6126 Racism came with capitalism and it will die in a socialist revolution.
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@gaiustacitus4242 If the were to teach economics they would have to justify the profit which they can't.
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Jeannie Seibert I think he forgot to mention J.Edgar Hoover and his Cointelpro program. The FBI was founded as a secret policy agencies rooting out foreign ideas and immigrants in the first Red Scare. Why would Heir Muller be any different?
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@ronald3836 The work of the capitalist consists of maximizing profits above all else. Its precisely because of this it creates an ever smaller ruling class and a mass of working class people who operate specialized machines which replaced specialized labor because to drive profits their way capitalist must replace skilled labor with machines and cheaper unskilled labor. The rising capital value while the source of profit our labor results in a declining rate of industrial profits. Traditionally the capitalist handed out strike provoking wage cuts by now the do the same thing by deflating the value of the fiat currency with central bank generated inflation to hold down wages while the value of property and commodities is allowed to rise.
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You sound like Douglas MacArthur. Truman had to relieve him for not seeing the bigger picture. MacArthur came close to losing his whole army at Chosin reservoir. Do you really want to roll the dice again?
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The Republican's get votes because the Democratic Party liberals have nothing positive and can only point fingers at what is wrong and stupid about Republicans. Walker will get votes for the same reason Trump did. People are sick of liberal lectures and promises that deliver an empty plate at the dinner table. Lots of people figure if its the difference between a smart huckster working for the elite and a dumb ball player well why not give the ball player a chance?
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My guess is this was not a directly union called strike but one that occurred after the bosses were playing hardball and refused to sign a new contract. Something provoked the workers to do what the did and the bosses want to make the union pay since otherwise this would have been settled with a new contract.
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@jsphblw That is the company's story. The sixteen drivers don't have millions of dollars to pay for the damages the company is asking for.
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What about the more free countries?
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@bigtobacco1098 If I only tell you what you want to hear is that telling the whole truth?
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@alfredosenalle9284 No such thing as a "communist country" a workers state or states anywhere in the world will face hostility from the capitalist world. If laziness and lack of ambition were a problem capitalist society it would have failed long ago. I can guarantee you that won't have an abundant life if war breaks out between the nuclear armed powers. You really don't understand Marx or Marxism if you think small minority of people just set up a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Like it's some kind of play time for those who were the latest Che T shirt. I can guide you with books to read if your serious but I've had a really long time to think about all these things and I may pass away before the next revolution. I have little doubt we will see a big change in the world because all the world relationships set up after WW2 are no longer true. Bushes "New World Order" has become Biden's "New World Disorder.".
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@the_styler1 The US supported and green lighted the Batista dictatorship until it realised it was close to collapse. Then the began ploting how they would continue their intervention and control of the Cuban political situation. The launched a secret US CIA trained mercenary invasion. The sent in Alabama national guard bombers and lied about that for years. US CIA agents bombed Cubana airliner 455. They refuse to leave their base at Guantanamo Bay. Their agents planted bombs at tourist hotels. They passed the Cuban Democracy Act where they pretend to know how the Cuban people should govern themselves. They fund and opporeate Radio and TV Marti where they pretend to speak for the Cuban people. They fund all the political dissenters in Cuba because they have no base that is planted in any real injustice besides the problems they cause with their cruel blockade and demands that the decide how the Cuban people should live, work and govern themselves. The were able to take advantage of the situation that they have admitted in their secret documnets that they have always wanted to create. Go see the records of the US State Dept Office of the Historian. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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@VMan29397 Its a blockade imposed by Kennedy and never lifted. Cuba is blockaded under the trading with the enemies act. Its also on the list of state sponsors of terror despite being a victim of US CIA terrorism. The US CIA downed a cuban commercial aircraft Cubana flight 455 with a bomb. The admitted terrorist were given shelter by George Bush who said "no nation has the right to harbor terrorists" no nation except the USA that is. They died of old age in Miami. . .
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@djgroopz4952 The Government of New Zealand controls imports by means of customs law and tariffs as does every country. Exports are less rigorously controlled since every boss wants to sell his overproduction on the world market. The difference is the United States is opposed to the revolutionary government of Cuba because they kicked out the US Companies who had corrupted the Cuban government for their own purposes. The Cuban people were unwilling to accept the rule of a few wealthy property owners who collaborated with US Big Business. So Bosses government in Washington then declared a blockade of Cuba declaring the right to inspect all ships going in and out of the island. The Cuban government is blockaded from the world market by use of the banking and commercial laws of the United States extraterritorially.
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The bosses drive to maximize profits is what causes the break up of the workers family.
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@tregrenos8615 He is grandstanding for votes.
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@user-ConnorKaroThompson Google is basically just another capitalist monopoly. The bosses only want to virtue signal. They don't want any real debate because their interests are those of a tiny ruling class of wealth bosses. The Stalinist and Social Democrats are once again lining up with the bosses for a few crumbs from the bosses tables.
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@erikkovacs3097 Well why do the most successful treat us the worst? I've worked for a "growing company" and conditions have just gotten worse and I was their 6 years. Of course they always say things are going to get better just like you but things get worse. They don't want anyone to work for more than a year now because it costs them health insurance. No one starts at anything above minimum wage. All you need to do is look the price of gold over time and compare it to wages since 1944 you see everything you just said is wrong. Wages stooped following productivity in 1973. Grows wealth? Only grows when you can make a profit but that comes to an end in industry as machines reduce labor time and capital value grows because then the rate of profit must decline since the profit comes from our labor. That's when you start making investments to drive up the price of fictitious capital value which then must collapse. Then to get things going again you must now keep adding money by the central banks because you insist that capital produces value. You've built a whole house of cards on fictitious capital such that your all afraid of the next coming collapse. Mountain of debt contacts and still buying up lots of worthless junk bonds to keep in Federal reserve vaults. Called quantitative easing. Refusal to raise the minimum wage. Now the federal reserve is making direct loans to companies because the private banks are afraid of taking a loss. Ya you system is working just great but sure Bezos is going into space where he says all the dirty energy production will go. Sure and I believe in the tooth fairy also.
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@erikkovacs3097 Capitalism is coming to an end because of its own logic. Just like feudalism had the seeds inside to produced capitalism. Capitalism has the seeds to produce socialism. But just like the end of feudalism becoming capitalism. It won't happen automatically. Feudalism came to an end when the ruling class became an obstacle to development. That's what the enlightenment and people like Thomas Paine figured out. Plus the property that John Locke talked about was not the same as Capital. Marx also looked over the whole history of human development and if you think your that smart or someone has successfully answered him well I've never read anything that wasn't just a lot of fables, lies, or personal feelings. Much like your writings. Sure maybe I'm not exactly correct but you are way off base. Did you ask for proof that a rocket could go to the moon before we built it? I can lead a horse to water but I can't make you drink. Growing wealth? Wealth for who? More ficticios capital? Absolutely correct! The system is set to maximize profit above all else Friedman justifies that. I and Marx have already show, along with empirical evidence if you care to research the classical economists, that profit must decline in industrial production as machines replace labor since the source of profit is our labor.
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@erikkovacs3097 Middle Class you mean those professor at Yale and Harvard and all the Government flunkies along with the media liars and the Non profit Philanthropic bosses. All the superstructure that consumes while producing nothing. The capitalist will give them the boot when they think they aren't getting their money's worth out of them. The rest of the middle class is driven into the working class. The independent boss now works as a company man for a bigger operation. The big like Walmart and Amazon battle withe each other and strong arm for better terms or take over their suppliers. Business is war and War is good.
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@born2bbald12 I understand how capitalism works. Your own accounting books prove everything Karl Marx wrote correct. Entitled well at 69 years old I receive a Soc Sec check that you capitalist want to take away to store as profit in a bank account somewhere. Debt is just another way for the capitalist to exploit the worker. He demands to be paid even more in the future the same way in which he exploits us. In some businesses the capitalist is paid before the workers are and in others they are paid after the workers is but the goal and success of the capitalist depends on always being paid more. The goal is maximizing profits and so maximizing exploitation. How to maximize profits well pay the lowest wage and charge the highest prices. Use monopoly tactics to beat the competition. Use government to advance an agenda to defend the rights of capital over labor. Keep people voting for the same people fighting for power and prestige in two parties of thieves.
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@born2bbald12 You want a foundation for my claims well read Karl Marx for yourself instead of asking me or someone else to explain everything to you like a child who can't do anything for himself. You lack any ability other than to point fingers and make noises like a child who wants a cookie but hasn't got the vocabulary to say baby wants a cookie.
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@born2bbald12 is a failed brain!!!
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@born2bbald12 I'm not interested in debating nonsense.
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@born2bbald12 In fact why don't we start with that you explain why people think the earth goes around the sun and how they discovered that instead of just accepting the common sense that the sun goes around the earth. I'll play the pope and you have to convince me otherwise.
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@lacha608 The capitalist gets rich by use of capital and number theory. It works much like a gambling casino. Gamblers take most of the risk Casino takes the least. Gambler goes home with empty pockets. Casino puts money in the bank. If you play black jack a new and better number theory was discovered that you can use to beat the casino so the casino made card counting illegal. Casino's have pictures, and names of known card counters to keep them out of the Casinos instead of getting rid of the Black Jack game. Same reason capitalist will never get rid of capitalism it makes them rich no how much better socialism could work for the majority.
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@born2bbald12 Like I said you don't yet have the cultural level to explain even the why some of the simplest common sense notions are wrong so why would you understand anything I say. At least explain why the earth is not flat without telling me its round or why a 16 th century mariner common sense would tell him to sail away from vision of the shore wouldn't get him hopelessly lost? If I tell you the capitalist doesn't work to earn his money but makes it by ownership and number theory are you going to understand enough about numbers to follow the argument or are you going to tell me I'm wrong and he earns his money?
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@VMan29397 Hey lets talk about Qatar the home of Al Jazeera and Hamas billionaires living it up in luxury. A country and regime put in place by the British Imperialists. Where Tony Blair was the Leader of the New "British Imperialist" Labour Party. I here they use the American skunk cabbage as the "New British Imperialst Labour" symbol.
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So have the "escaped" the dreaded "uncouth" and "deplorable" working class Hilary Clinton hated so much?
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@falecialogan1717 Billionaires like Musk getting Space X contracts for space craft that blowup after leaving the launch pads.
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@falecialogan1717 If people decide to come across that border en mass like they have been doing after Trumps failed border wall and remain in Mexico policy what do think anyone is going to do? Because anything the government does is going to end up costing money. Trump isn't going to do mass deportations because no one in Congress is going to seriously vote pay for something as stupid as that. You think the military is going close down the border and inspect every tractor trailer coming across? Abbot tried that and then the grocery bosses screamed about what it was costing them for ruined produce. I can't so much as bring packaged food made in the US from a Mexican Wal Mart across the border but all kinds of produce comes across daily.
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@annsaunders5768 Sure record profits for the bosses while the workers chidden are placed in orphanages.
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@cdub4693 Both parties are nothing more than corperate shills.
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@cdub4693 It just beyond boss imagination that their are those who don't accept the boss system of profit maximization as the best thing since sliced bread.
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@明智吾郎-e4b Just because the American ruling class is steeped in the ideology of capitalism from Bourgeois Universities doesn't solve the problems that not just Marxist economist have pointed at. The tendency of profit rates to decline. The use of a dollar that is continuously devalued by running printing presses. A huge national debt that could reach levels of unpayable along with consumer debt. The stagnation of the wages of the working class for almost 50 years now. A costly technological military that can not do anything but destroy countries and then withdraw in defeat. Anyone with a brain has to wonder how banks can keep handing out dollars and expect to get back even more when the world's economy has slumped off unable to recover back to 2008 levels.
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Ask Marx and he'd tell you Capitalism is just a stage in human history that was born in the belly of feudalism just as socialism is born in the workings of capitalism with the class struggle between the two most important class. The proletariat and the capitalist.
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@whiskybooze If he raise bail than he needs a bigger jail and more taxes to pay for it. The bail bondman than loses out on a swell racket also. If one judge is setting bail low another is setting it high.
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So you are now on the Republican plantation with the carpetbaggers.
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@ironeagle4274 Labor is the source of all value. The role of the capitalists and their government become reactionary when they must enter competition of the world market. In order to preserve capitalist rule at home they must go down the road of fascism, war on the trade unions and Internationally the competition for markets creates trade war which proceeds Imperialist war. This is the direction the US ruling class is taking.
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@ironeagle4274 Workers are the source of goods and services. Capitalism is focused on industrial profits for the owners using markets as the means of distribution. The logic of the profits system leads to its own contradictions as it develops. Declining rates of profit, war and Imperialism are also products of the capitalist era of human history. Capitalism not only is the most productive system but also creates the most destructive in terms of war. Nuclear destruction of life on earth only became possible with capitalism.
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@ironeagle4274 The US government made capitalism possible. Owners risk money workers risk their lives on the battlefield and in the mines, mills and factories. Production is monopolized into the hands of a few profit makers. Workers need to take control of industry and run it for human needs instead of profits. Take education and healthcare out of the market and make them rights for life.
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@g_o_d_esigns Bible reading is a waste of time. Your not going to get pie in the sky when you die.
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@ArshadKhan-ys9ey The cops can do no wrong in the US.
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@GQ-jv9uw The ruling class is always uncertain in how to proceed when playing a game of wack a mole.
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@josephenglish4496 Sounds like a solution changing the uniforms of border patrol will certainly scare away migrates from surrendering.
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@josephenglish4496 US Constitution makes foreign policy and naturalization a federal responsibility. That's why before Border Patrol the US Amy was responsible. Supreme court ruled against a similar Arizona show me your papers law for that reason already. Abbott already tried that and they told him the guard could only stand around and watch. He had the Guard and DPS successfully invade an island in the Rio Grande after calling Mexico for assurances no bad guys were on the Mexican side.
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So we all need heart surgery. LOL
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Just what kind of freedom do you have in your country?
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Congress and the rest of he politicians are.
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@_Solaris The same corp. profit hungry bosses run the government into the ground as too expensive for them and their big profit low wages government policies.
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Uber and Lyft are just newer exploiters of labor. Divers pay all the costs of actual transportation including the data used to communicate with the company.
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In Connecticut Taxi and Limo drivers are required to pass DOT medical exams and carry a DOT medical card. Uber and Lyft are exempt? I don't know why because we are told that anyone carrying passengers for hire needs to have both a CT State Police and FBI criminal history check and DOT medical exam so a passenger endorsement of F can be put on your licence.
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Most big cities adopted a medallion law to give the incumbents a closed market. Once when the market was closed than taxi operating companies could buy up medallions and raise prices which were also set by the government intervention to make profits.
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Uber's profits are probably being reinvested in new areas and other countries to beat out the competition like Lyft.
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Most of what I read here is blustering nonsense. The thing that is important is what working people do not a phoney "Democratic Socialist" or a Conservative Supreme court. Our power is in the strike and protest. Just look at how the recent West Virginia school workers strike turned out. The won all five demands as the Republican Governor and Republican legislature signed a bill into law. It was both illegal to strike and also a right to work state.
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His thoeries are those of American Imperialism and accounting book justice.
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@esense9602 Trump held his own election for President of Venezuela among Western Imperialist nations and Juan Guido won by a landslide.
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It is the result of the American capitalist system. Other capitalist countries have rebounded and revolutionary Cuba has surpassed the US in life expectancy despite an economic blockade and few material resource. This is because they took healthcare out of the market while healthcare remains a profit driven business in the US.
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Workers need our own foreign policy and our own party.
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Stossel is BIg Business Stooge. UNION YES!
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@johncrocker4209 UAW On Strike. "Record profits mean a record contract."
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@ivaninnokenti614 Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter armed Pol Pot as a way to punish Vietnam. Trump speaks from long experience he would have done a slow withdraw as a better technique used in Imperialist Rape.
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@melelconquistador Capital only produces commodities to be sold in a market for a profits. Once the workers produce more that can be sold for a profit the bosses shut down production to wait for rise in demand. The biggest problem with capitalism is the workers can never buy back all that they can produce leading to economic crisis of overproduction.
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@GenerationX1984 All capital does is accumulate and demand more because it exists. Private property becomes an obstacle to the development of the productive forces.
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She tells them what they want to here (undocumented) workers are (secretly) slaves to a third party (cartels) but she can't and they can't be bothered to show any evidence of her claims. (Instead she waves a magic wand against bourgeois economists) that they are slaves to the (drug crime) cartels. Its another savior fighting off the devil and conspiracy complex. Donald Trump the savior and Big bad drug lords the devil. What's really going on is the natural workings of the profit system. Capital always moves from high wage ares to low wage areas. That's why Industry moved from the Industrial North to the agricultural South. From USA to Mexico and China. Naturally the capitalist government was full on board with this policy. The working class can only make a difference when we organize against the bosses in unions. Once we get moving in a new fighting union movement than we will need our own political party. We don't need these capitalist parties Democrat or Republican who work for the profit system.
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Black's in the confederate army? All but totally untrue with the possible exception of few black freemen as officers in the Louisiana State Militia. If Blacks did anything for the CSA it was cooking, cleaning, laundry and digging trenches. Lee's white troops complained about digging trenches as that was a slaves work. Slaves or Ex Slaves did not stand armed shoulder to shoulder with Whites Troops in either army. One hundred and ninety thousand US Colored Troops served their country.
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Well we have a legal system that is suppose to see to it that we have equality before the law, freedom, justice and we are protected from government tyranny. I don't like the system and lawyers either but without being able to replace it what do you suggest? If this man was a Preacher for the wedding he would of had every right to refuse on grounds of religious freedom. They asked for a wedding cake he said, "I don't do gay." Now he claims to be an artist and couldn't have the proper artistic inspiration due to his religion. So the court most likely is going to decide if he is an artist or just another cake baker.
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Yes and Christians are the majority in prison. So does that make them political prisoners also? If you choose to go into business you have to abide by the law. The wedding has already finished when the cake is eaten usually at the reception hall. He isn't facilitating the marriage he's just engaging in post marital discrimination. Does he believe he will go to hell if he sells any cake to gay couples? I guess not since when he appeared for conciliation he offered a nondescript cake.
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@jaklinhyde They come by the Mexican border or by plane only a few idiots come by boat. Haitian's come by boat. DF
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@lornelz Their is no restrictions on debate. What you mean is why won't the Cuban government allow a few people to become the private owners of property. The Cuban people have voted and overwhelming support their government and constitution. Discussions concerning how to create opportunity for all not how to give away state property to a few corrupt officials. You problem is it isn't possible for you to believe its possible to function as a democracy without private property. Democracy with private property is also dictatorship over the majority who don't own private property. That makes the US and Western Europe dictatorships.
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@lornelz Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were not born in Cuba and are NOT Cubans but Americans. The Socialist Workers Party candidates for President don't get to debate Biden and Trump either. The Volvo bosses threatened to run scabs in the Dublin VA truck plant the last time the UAW contract was up. Sweden just vote to join the NATO military Imperialist alliance. You see Diaz-Canal out and about meeting with the Cuban people not hiding out in the White house. He recently meet with a person whose frustrations went viral on the internet and he has meet with Cuban American Carlos Lazo. Why don't you go blow up one of the balloons for Marco Rubios free Cuban internet? End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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@lornelz Their is no private property in Cuba. Np one is evicted from their home or fired from their job and told you're on your own. They don't have homeless sleeping on floors of shelters while apartments go empty. I've crossed the foot bridge to Mexico and the first thing you see before you even reach Mexican customs is Mexican child beggars holding up plastic bottles on sticks begging for coins.
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VOA is Washington propaganda station just like Radio Marti. As of Jan 5, 2020 the new head of the national assembly is not Juan Guido. So Guido supporters quit the national assemble and declare themselves to be the national assemble. Guido was nominated by US VP Pence as the new head of a Venezuelan colonial government elected by Trump, the UK and EU along with other colonial puppet regimes. US is NOT sending food or medicine it is sanctioning the country. Trying to stave the people into regime change with Juan Guido as the new Venezuelan colonial governor who was voted out of his head of the real national assembly.
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@michaelwoodsmccausland5633 We get the Party LIne the CCP is responsible for everything now that Trump is gone when Putin was the bad guy.
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@michaelwoodsmccausland5633 Basically it a case of Boss irresponsibility. They can't make big enough profits without letting everything go to hell before reinvesting. Don't believe this crap about bosses wanting to lower prices. When has anybody's electric bill gone down. What they want is the same thing the always want bigger profits, higher prices for an even worse service. One group of bosses is mad about another group getting a bigger subsidy.
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@douglaskriever6904 Texas is Republican and this is an example of how they run things it has little to do with the other Party because ERCOT is a Texas only entity and Texas has been overwhelming Republican for a long time.
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@dmay3391 Kennedy is a Democrat his picture is on the US fifty cent piece. He was just another Democratic and Republican Party politician. His CIA (Criminals in Action) lost their invasion at Playa Giron. Under the leadership of Fidel Castro they were defeated in 72 hours. Farrell Dobbs was the SWP's candidate for President in 1960. See the Oct 31, 1960 Issue of TheMilitant.com for verification.
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Its the consequences of profit maximization. Milton Freedman's ideas. Cut all social services in order to boost profits. George Soro's is part of the problem.
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@E Hill That's what he says just before he sends out the bill.
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@godschildyes A point not in contention. Little to zero confidence in Religious Doctors. Religion doesn't make up for science.
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@alexgladstein5136 Capitalism rebuilding after the capitalist nations spent the first half of the 20th century in destructive wars over control of markets and resources. Naturally a resort to outright war is one way to win the battle of the market place and assure monopoly rights.
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@billpugh58 The fifth amendment protects you from from a police forced confession also. It requires the government to prove you guilty rather than you prove yourself innocent.
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Are you talking about when the US bombed the country and was arming the Batista dictatorship? The 20,000 who died to get rid of him? Or are you just parroting lies from Washington?
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A large portion of the US population spoke German as a first language until the Imperialist world war one. Then there was a big racist campaign against the 'Hun'. With big speak English signs implying everyone who spoke any language other than English was an enemy plotting against the first "War for Democracy". Wilson was President a Democrat who was born in Virginia had the KKK on horseback at his inauguration parade.
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fynes leigh So you are basically a believer in predestination. That man lacks free will and can only choose what has already been predetermined? That may be a comforting thought but that doesn't make it true. If it is true it leaves the believer with the comfort of knowing he couldn't do anything about what happens in the future. If false though it then begs the question of what choices one should make in life and why. If the second is chosen it couldn't affect the first anyway unless the second is true.
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fynes leigh I'll be sure to keep a bowl of water nearby should your horse need a drink.
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@baph0met No today you live in a world of nominal National Independence for the colonial people. A world of independent nation states as envisioned by Lenin and the Russian bolsheviks. A world where the Cuban revolution lives on despite the size of Cuba and that of the Imperialist monster 90 miles away a paper tiger as the Chineses say.
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This is the result of the two party capitalist dictatorship in DC.
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Why not hold the ruling capitalist class accountable for their shortcomings? Afterall capitalism is what is breaking up families.
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@williamferland3829 "some states will not make carve outs for rape and incest." Sure give more power to corrupt politicians to bring charges and play like "I'm a moral crusader." for reelection. Abortions won't end. They will become illegal and women will end up in emergency rooms and abortion drugs will become another underground item for sale.
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@PC-tc5je Bidenomics was such a roaring successful propaganda effort that Trump got elected. .The long retreat by labor is over so expect more strikes and protests.
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@TylerSmith-fm3bz If politicians were pro life they would be spending more money on building homes and paying for medical care instead entering a new arms race and shipping arms to dictatorships around the world.
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@VascoRamosSilva No this is the direction that world capitalism must take. Capitalism is based in the nation state and completion on the world makets leads to the ultimate compaction among the ruling classes the imperialist war for profits.
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@venetoxyt8332 How long do you want to wait for the ruling classes to decide a war with Russia might be a better short term solution.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn This is the battlefield of capitalist nations market forces expanding into the battlefield of capitalist nation military forces. It has nothing to do with election democracy or authoritarianism and everything to do with who gets energy markets Russia out of Ukraine, US out of Europe and cancel NATO. .
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@giovincomaz2175 We aren't going down the road of a non Marxist socialism like where Hitler's National Socialism was real socialism or Pol Pot was real communism. Nor are we going to take the lies invented by the US Government and exiles about a genocide in Cuba for anything but made up propaganda. Pol Pot was supported and armed by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter. Mao was an admitted follower of Stalin and although Tito came to dislike Stalin he too came from that tradition. Fidel Castro did not. So are you stil LoLing? The problem now is that the foolishness of any argument you make has to ignore actual ideology. One needs only read the communist manifesto to dismiss non Marxist socialism. Interesting that Marx saw German or True Socialism as reactionary before Adolf Hitler's birth.
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@giovincomaz2175 The US Imperialist saw victory in Vietnam based upon body counts and kill ratios. Once defeated Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter began his Human Rights Campaign against the Soviet Union and Cuba supporting Pol Pot and urging China to invade Vietnam. Do you read in your American history books that Carter was a supporter of the Cambodian Genocide? That he and the UK supported Pol Pot at the UN and armed him though the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand? I bet you don't instead you think of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter as a humanitarian who builds homes for the homeless..
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@wisdomyaw03 Abolish private property and workers control of industry take everything away from the do nothing investors and overpaid CEO's and top bankers and boss families including the rotten CCP.
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What they are doing is provoking class struggle. Liberals call that reactionar because capitalism and their privileges are coming into question. They've become WOKE Imperialist investors.
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Black women on the down low?
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@GusthoffBurgerberg Jews are always blamed by the ruling class when capitalism naturally enters into crisis. It rises among other middle class layers which are being crushed by capitalism when it goes into crisis. That was the source of most of the mass support for Hitler and the NAZI's.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@thepianist7084 Go to Pathfinder Press for more literature and speeches by Malcolm X and other working class leaders.
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@imankhandaker6103 So has Sowell dropped his globalist neoliberal free trade position?
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@bissonlouise9061 Sowell is an Establishment Republican Professor. He is committed to the bosses of the billionaires capitalist system.
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@derekbaker777 Capital produces nothing it merely accumulates. Tax the rich down to their gold chains the need an incentive to work not play. Money doesn't grow in a bank. Make them pay taxes instead of borrowing money from them and then paying them back with more taxes.
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@mitchgray5610 Capitalism is creating huge numbers of refuges roaming the earth. You confuse accumulation with production. Small scale production was replaced by capitalist industrial production, then the domination of monopoly capitalism. and now the highest stage of world capitalism Imperialism. Trump/Biden makes no difference capitalism can only destroy more with competition in the world market. You can't fix it with Trump's tariffs and protectionism. World socialism and national self determination is the only way to have world peace. Imperialism lost the cold war. Popular struggles destroyed the Stalinist Monolith not NATO Troops with the US Flag over Moscow and Peking. US Gov't is more isolated than ever. All of the world votes against the 60 year US blockade of Socialist Cuba. Including US Imperialist NATO allies Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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Workers will adopt the best ideas that help win the class struggle. In this coming struggle they will realize that capitalism can not be fixed but must be replaced by working class rule on the road to world socialism..
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@salamnoma1812 The Iranian President was a Jew hating butcher of political prisoners.
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@seanmcdonald5859 Incompetence at the highest level of the US Gov't doesn't breed confidence among the masses of people. Making the whole thing into a political football didn't help.
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@MrWonderful09 Its an international blockade imposed unilaterally by Washington and condemned by over 180 countries at the UN. US imposes fines on foreign companies when they violate US laws involving Cuba. They essentially say to foreign companies either trade with the US or Cuba. The US actions are criminal acts of war. .
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@randallwalkerdiaz1002 The American Imperialist think they can buy whole nation's with their dollar investment and when the investment goes bad they send in the US Marines to defend their property rights. The Batista dictatorship was green lighted and armed by the US Gov't and gave US companies what ever they wanted in exchange for dollars. Fidel lead a popular revolution that though out a hated and brutal US dictator. Business collaborators with the dictator demand that the US Imperialist launch an invasion to put them back in power because private property is just property acquired to exploit others. They want a return to a system where private banker profits and bosses profits come first. A system where the bosses set the wage and the price at the grocery store. Where the bank owns your home and you pay for education and healthcare because with capitalism the source of the profit is the unpaid labor of the worker and all decisions are based upon maximizing profits for the ruling class. A system where the profit creates the homeless and the unemployed with the lowest wages and the biggest profits for a few bankers and bosses. .
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@randallwalkerdiaz1002 This is the real reason for the blockade straight from the mouths of the declassified US state deptment records. US Imperialist government themselves. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 LDM Source: Department of State, Central Files, 737.00/4–660. Secret. Drafted by Mallory.↩ Rubottom initialed the “yes” space provided on the source text.↩
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The create private property in Cuba ans America by taking land for the Native peoples for pomises they obtained after waging war on them. They create private property by paying the workers lees than the value of their labor. Those with private property create more of it for themselves by taking advantage of ownership of property to begin with. This how the rich become rich without working but merely taking advantage of people who own nothing to make everything for them. They create us a property less wage earning class that must work to survive and survive to work. They do nothing but stand with their hands out with a state power to protect their rights to own, buy and sell.
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It seems to me that the court can confirm his choice as an individual artist working for Masterpeace Cake Shops and his obligation as a corporation to serve all patrons. He either has an employee without his views work on same sex wedding cakes or contracts out all same sex wedding cakes. To keep him from individually being targeted the court can order all bake shops to post signs saying, "This Bakeshop does not discriminate in the making of same sex wedding cakes and it will either make those cakes or contract out those cakes."
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@shnibby12 The capitalist have used government to their advantage since the founding of the American Republic. They broke the power of the slave owners with the civil war financed by the inflation tax generated by printing greenbacks. The always wanted a central bank and finally got with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act. That way they can generate inflation without having to use of wage cuts to keep up the rate of profits which naturally declines over time.,
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@shnibby12 The richest of the American capitalists financed the American Revolution. They set up the American government of property owners to do their bidding. Hamilton wanted both a national debt and a Central bank. Lincoln a capitalist lawyer financed the civil war to break the power of the slave owners by printing greenbacks as an inflation tax. They finally got what they wanted with the Federal Reserve Act. Now instead of giving out wage cuts they print dollars to cut wages and make property value rise.
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@kopph8tr693 Feudalism and Slavery also "worked". In fact Capitalism was working so well that in 1914 they decided it was time to steal each other colonies. That's the problem. The capitalist billionaires are greedy and not everyone can have a seat for the game of musical chairs they play. So war becomes the way to settle free market disputes.
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@MrRobo199 You mean as long as they buy their citizenship papers.
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@kopph8tr693 Every time I write a reply to you it gets censored.
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@kopph8tr693 Market economy? With each ruling class organizing a race to the bottom for even bigger profits.
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@hansfrazier42 The only way to change things is for the working class to begin the fight back against capitalism. Like the workers at Black Jewel are doing today. Socialist revolution is ‘historical mission of modern proletariat’. We are the special product of capitalism. The industrial workers. The class that makes everything but owns nothing. Once the majority of workers come to realize that reforms do not suffice to meet our needs and satisfy our aspirations — and the ruling class bares its teeth in reaction and retaliation — we will have no recourse but to rise in rebellion. We will create a new society remodeled from top to bottom.
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@republicansthatdidntvotefo1605 It's corruption legal and illegal that keeps them going. It doesn't matter who wins an election when they fund the candidates of both parties.
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@SacredCASHcow Yes the English have claimed their Culture and language superior while Norman Conquest actually brought French words of a Romantic language into a Germanic Grammar. The English would later impose their language on the Scotch, Welch and Irish. Blacks who were brought here as slaves were for the most part stripped of their culture from Africa.
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@charles5a This is the problem the bosses face they are having trouble find a workforce willing to be exploited like slaves to make them billionaire profits.
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The US Imperialist can neither forget nor forgive the Cuban people for making the first Socialist revolution in the hemisphere.
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@thisgirlchris To make the biggest profits the bosses seek to pay the lowest wages with the longest hours at the fastest pace.
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@thisgirlchris Its all about making the biggest profits and controlling the markets to advance their profitability.
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@crsy3 Your assumption is that consumption by the elite is justified by their place in the capitalist system and that they are not both overconsuming and mismanaging the resources they control. Marx's real ideas concern the production of value and surplus value. Every system beginning with slavery produced a surplus. Capitalism now produces the biggest surplus on a world scale but that surplus is mismanaged by competing capitalist elite divided by nation state.
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@alexxx4434 The capitalist elite require a privledged managerial class to defend their profit rates. Those profit rates go into natural decline as capital replaces labor in the production process. The other main contradiction is world market being fought over by national capitalist classes.
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Todd Down If this than that. A planned economy without private property doesn't have the need for international expansion and lead to competition between different national capitalist classes for markets and cheap resources. Not only did the Stalin regime have no economic need to expand they actually sold out revolutions in hopes of a detente with the Imperialist hyenas. Nor am I going to bother responding to whatever you think is the believable number of people murdered by Stalin. The Stalinist purge was directed at loyal communist dissenters not former capitalists. If anything Stalin brought in former menshevik opportunists because of their pliability and patronage value.
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Todd Down Lenin wanted Stalin out of his position as General Secretary. He died before being able to open a fight to have him removed. Capitalism came into the world ossining blood and dirt from every pore. You have a lot of nerve to call us Bloody but ignore where capitalism first came to power in England. The crimes of the British Empire are well known. From Ireland to India and China. There was no Soviet Union before the British banking crisis and the Imperialist meat grinder called world war one.
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@user-fz7nt5ge3o End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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The US Imperialists have been exploiting Haiti for years. This is why the Democratic "Imperialist" Party must go.
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The journalists of all nations are quite rightly angry about this killing and that is one reason the story refuse to leave the news without a punishment of a heinous and cruel absolute monarchy. it is not easy for a tyrant who has been exposed to just hide and hope everything will just go back to the way things were at this point. Saudi Arabia has no free press but it can't help not to have an underground press. Circulation of treasonous articles is no doubt taking place.
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Think its another communist plot?
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legobuilder 369 Six innings without a run batted in? Sounds like she's going for a shutout.
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@christopherdraper5815 I remember when TV's were made out of vacuum tubes, a six transistor japanese radio was a big deal and you needed an operator to call long distance. We actually got along without the internet or digital cell phones.
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@christopherdraper5815 If the McDonald's employee gets a living wage why would a doctor need to be paid any more than a living wage? Our goal isn't to move to Cuba but to carry the revolution right here into the US. Our goal is to convince the American workers that they can run society without a capitalist meritocracy.
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My Cousin is an in the closet gay conservative anti abortionist and she adopted 4 children including 3 black children. I have much more respect for her than all these "GIVE BIRTH OR DIE" clowns that have adopted ZERO but are the leaders of the GIVE BIRTH OR DIE movement.
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@christopherdraper5815 "Giving chances" is the way capitalism works. In its pure form it is insurance. Mostly it''s presented as a you all had the chance to become a Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or Rockefeller. When the truth is that the game was fixed from the beginning and only those who start with a pot of gold and are good at using BlackJack card counting type methods are the 'winners'.
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@christopherdraper5815 In Cuba they educate Doctors for Cuba and the poor countries world wide without any exorbitant tuition fees. Communism failed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for precisely the reasons you say are necessary. Giving more and greater privileges to party officials, technocrats and the educated. The same is going to happen here because the workers and farmers will tire of being asked for more sacrifice just so the upper class can live in those big mansions with mega swimming pools that you think are so necessary. The motivation for becoming a doctor will be to save lives increase life expectancy and make the world better. The motivation to be an engineer or scientist will be to advance production and reduce labor time for everyone not just themselves and a few owners of everything. Anyone who thinks man is just an animal that needs to a carrot dangled in front of him and an occasional whipping will never be a socialist or understand socialism.
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@christopherdraper5815 By taxpayers wallets you mean the rich taxpayers wallets because your corrupt two party politicians are constantly coming up with new ways to shift the tax burden to the poor and working class. For the rich tax paying is voluntary as can easily be seen when big companies pay no taxes at all. They bought those politicians so the can save a bundle. The chief reason for the military and police is to defend the Imperial Empire and its wealthy investors profit system. The profits and the tax paying come out of the exploitation of the working class. The national and state debt is owned by rich investors and the rich investors receive the principal and interest on that debt. The federal reserve bank is used to create inflation so that capital becomes more valuable while creating poverty for millions worldwide.
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@christopherdraper5815 The rich shield themselves from taxes with accountants and lawyers if anyone goes to jail it's the lawyers and accountants. Any tax they pay is voluntary because they control the writing of tax laws through their legally and illegally corrupt politicians. You call the sales tax system fair and equal because Bill Gates pays the same sales tax on toilet tissue that I do. The lottery is another type of tax which is overwhelming paid by the poor and working class who hope for a big win. The rich don't pay because they have already won the game and make up a tiny minority anyway. Let's not forget all the property tax giveaways made by cities and town for the privilege of hosting a big companies plant or office building in the name of job creation and keeping jobs where they are. We pay for murder all the time it's called war and the US Empire spends plenty on it all over the world. Young working people pay with life, limb and empty promises of education just so companies as diverse as United Fruit and Exxon can rake in big profits. Your real goal is to create more poor people so your system can use them to lower the wages of all workers. To push women out of the workforce periodically and unexpectedly keeping their wages lower than men as another way to boost profits and profit rates.
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No women has to die just so a false and fake morality can be pushed on poor and working women.
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@chrisjaxon7052 Not everyone wants to prepare for the Priesthood or become a nun.
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I'd rather have happy children using contraception and having sex than unhappy ones using drugs.
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@belindamiller6349 Rebuild the unions and make the bosses pay for their own profit crisis.
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The US Imperialist refuse to end the criminal blockade of the island.
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Capitalism creates a ruling class of rich billionaires with only one goal of getting richer by whatever means necessary.
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@johnnyindiana1330 No sign that Mexicans want to be scabs for the bosses. Every sign that they want to fight the bosses in Mexico.
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@roughhabit9085 A Democratic Republic is quickly undermined by the corruption made possible by capitalist financial interests. The road to Socialism requires the organization of the proletariat into a party to win the battle of democracy.
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@ntw_Trker The capitalist can't avoid decline as their profit system naturally works in such a way for profit rates to decline giving them no choice but to attack the productive working classes. The profits are just unpaid wages.
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Why are you so fixated on sex crimes?
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@richardque4952 All you need to do is look at our ruling class of Democrats and Republicans included Sanders, the squad and AOC. One entire corrupt bunch of parasites. These libertarians are no better. You can't have libertarianism without banks and currency. The road to socialism is workers control of industry. Trade Unions for control at work and a labor party based in the unions for the community.
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@kennycyrus7731 That is the sum of the total difference between her and Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Everyone is free to sell themselves to the owners of capital. That is what her free n=makes sre all about. You freedom as a slave to the ownership class.
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@consistentbass She be funded by drug lords, casinos and brothel owners.
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@consistentbass She's completely bonkers. She'd turn everything into more sex and drugs with rock and roll than it already is. She's a clown for simple minded idiots. Like the followers of John Stossel who live the sheltered lives of no nothing suburban housewives. .
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@Jizzlewobbwtfcus I suppose he has never made a stupid remark and been corrected by a fellow Republican. Like the time he praised Mayor Daily for issuing a "Shoot to Kill" order to the cops that killed no one in a riot. Only to be corrected afterwords by a fellow Georgia Republican who stated that Governor Lester Maddox issued a similar order to the National Guard that killed five people. Sowell your favorite clown had the wind taken out of his sails. Its all joke, fun and games for the learned Professor Sowell until he finds himself in a pickle.
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@luck3yp0rk93 Have I made mistakes? Yes but I'm not playing these look how smart I am compared to everyone else games either. The fact that a lot of intellectuals are frauds refects on people like Sowell as much as his anointed neighbors down the university hall or in his middle class neighborhood. They all think they are smarter because they seldom work with their hands except to use a pencil or pen. Then they end up calling on people like me to fix something to get them out of a jam in someway. The appreciate you for about five minutes then it's back to business as usual.
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@johnkeck The title is Thomas Sowell on how marriage was destroyed in America? Instead all we here is him talking about the need to vote and the Constitution. The Constitution does not even have the word marriage or a synonym for the word marriage in it. I already gave you an example of Sowell's absurdity. Another is Sowells conclusion that the increase of STDs is caused by sex education in schools. The moon circulates every 28 days does that mean it causes women to have their periods also? Is it coincidence or are two linked in some way? If so than how? Sowell says the minimum wage is bad for workers. Of course if Sowell he doesn't work for a wage but gets a piece of the rent collection like the rest of the meritocracy. Sowell concludes that the working class is NOT exploited by the capitalist.
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@johnkeck He also serves up this happy meal theory of capitalism and markets distributing scarce resources as if he proved that there is some early limit on resources before the earth slows and the sun runs out of nuclear fuel or that markets don't produce conflict in themselves. He bases his theories not on facts from history but on a conclusions that human life is unchanging and capitalism magically works like sliced bread. Gorbachev took the scientific advice of the American neoliberals and held a big tag sale resulting in a severe crisis which was termed shock therapy which had about the same results as shock therapy did on mental patients doing nothing but setting them back. Bush was pushing ahead with his ownership society and now clowns like Sowell say the micromanagers got everything wrong. Talking about how the wrong people are paying prices and other non sense like not setting the right down payments and if only people paid their mortgage being the real cause and not the greed of the bosses and their unworkable crisis ridden profit system itself.
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The problem with capitalism is you run out of cheap labor and new markets.
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My Silverado is not a Mexican edition like the crew cab's. We need to help workers in other countries raise their standard of living. That's the only way to deal with the way the world is divided now.
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@bushelfoot Well than why do you even bother posting if "We don't need to do anything..." You happy with the way things are so then you need to do nothing except convince others to do nothing which I guess is you point.
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T J B You also have to ask who really owns the suppliers. The reason they use suppliers instead of the Henry Ford model of a vertical monopoly for Iron ore and coal to River Rouge, and then to final assemble and sales to a independent dealer. Is so they can shift profits around to get the greatest overall return on investment. Its something like Walmart there are only so many buyers so the can strong arm suppliers or at least that's what they want you to think.
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@1Lyricalbeauty The biggest thing that will send workers across a picket line is hunger. To counter that without a strike fund can be to set up a common kitchen at union headquarters to feed the strikers and their families with donations form other unions and union supporters.
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@uforferdetnilsson2595 Sowell is beyond the level of the Bourgeois Professor as a fellow at the Stanford Hoover Institute he produces only what he chooses since as he stated he took the position because it required no teaching load. I survive off a Social Security check and live in a camp trailer. He gets a big pay from Stanford travels the world enjoying the good life with his Jet set friends. He thinks others are jealous of him because of hos success. After all who wouldn't want to fly around the world with a lot of vapid and boring intellectuals trained at Harvard and Yale.
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@uforferdetnilsson2595 He is long winded like most intellectuals and his attempt at explaining Basic Economics is a complete waste of time. You want to learn the basic economics of capitalism read Wage Labor and Capital or Value Price and Profit. His ideas come from those who wish to deny that a class struggle is taking place in favor of markets and people making micro decisions that are summed up like a calculus function to yield just the right answer. This of course is no different than the ideas of Black Bourgeois Professor at Harvard who sees racism as the summation of microaggressions. Most of his economic analysis from "facts" leaves out other things that are going on at the same time or facts that are inconvenient to his sweeping generalities.
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@uforferdetnilsson2595 Sowell write a whole book on what Marx or Engles did with a pamflet.
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@uforferdetnilsson2595 Sowell writes a book about a quest for "Cosmic Justice". So who is it that lead this Quest of Cosmic justice? Cosmetic Companies, Cosmopolitans, Astronomers? What it amounts to is another one of Sowells arguments for a cost benefit analysis this time to be applied to justice. It never dawns on this fool that some of his favorite projects would fail this test like continuing the War in Vietnam, nation building in Iraq, Afghanistan, shot to kill law enforcement or using nuclear weapons on Japan.
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@Monarch_Prime Capitalist media use Socialism as a swear word.
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@Monarch_Prime Because it is stupid it's like calling an orange a tomato. Hay Republicans are fascists does that help the discussion also? .
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@Monarch_Prime Ah so you're like Joe Stalin a guy who sits in the center so he can't lose a vote and needs no real opinion. They Demopublicans are both the same because the goal of both is a continuing capitalist profit system.
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@revcanon5744 Well than you aren't familiar with the various debates and arguments that went on inside and outside of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The Republicans and Democrats have one key agreement. That capitalism, private property and the private profit system are not up for debate. Instead they argue about things like how to pay for healthcare, what limits to place upon unions and the minimum wage. For revolutionaries our politics start with the world and the class struggle. It's the class struggle that leads to a socialist revolution not electing more Democrats. Though an every expanding and successful class struggle not only do working people take control of society with workers control of industry but we change ourselves in the process.
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@revcanon5744 Go ahaed and meet your maker sky pilot.
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They teach nothing but the worship of the bosses and their government central bank monetary policies.
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Ayn Rand who constantly talked about the immorality of Social Security until it came time to get her check.
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@bigblockstang9368 Inflation is caused by the capitalist attempt to print their way out the crisis caused by the inability of the workers to buy back all that can be produced. The success of the capitalist at making profits always results in a crisis when overproduction occurs and businesses go bankrupt because the previous success becomes failure when markets inevitable dry up. It's called the business cycle.
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@curtanschuetz3434 You can't fix capitalism.
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@richardcranium3579 We say a capitalist who can't make a profit deserves to go out of business.
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@richardcranium3579 Sparks are distributed sequentially and need to be timed properly. You can check how well the system is working by using an oscilloscope made for the purpose of checking the spark while the engine is running. Since you don't understand much about how things change you see capitalism as fixed in place. Which is why you think I would take out the spark plugs. To bad your just a middle class brat who thinks he knows everything.
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@richardcranium3579 No DF capitalism always works to replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines not the other way around. That's been the whole history of capitalism. With the end of WW2 they decided to create the perminate Imperialist war economy rather than go back to depression like conditions. They can raise prices because they ended the connection of gold with currency. That way the don't need to issue periodic wage cuts because of the tendency of profit rates to decline. Instead they can rob the working class with inflation and when the unions demanded higher rates they claimed labor costs were causing inflation.
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@GunMeat Sorry to hear your a victim of Alzheimer's disease.
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Immigration is a capitalist policy of hypocrisy they want low paid labor but don't want to pay any social benefits. There policy is to drive down not just the price of immigrant labor but all labor to create a pirah class of worker.
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@juliostevens9480 Washington does not care about a few Cubans in Miami. They are unhappy because their dictator General Batista was defeated and they were unsuccessful in restoring the old corrupt ruling class many who were taking it easy in Miami from getting back in power. The US Imperialist operate their Empire with a combination of military force, threats and national capitalist collaborators. Since the 60 year hard line policy is a failure they are considering that maybe some kindness will increase their world stature vis a vis Cuba. They are probably getting tired of getting only a single vote from Israel in favor of the blockade at the UN. It does little to advance their hypocrisy as the leader of the free world and a human rights champion.
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Those anti government Cubans who complain about dictatorship want the free market to give them the pay and privileges of Western intellectuals without having to pay for their education. Dissident Yoani Sanchez, who once was going to be smelling the ink of a free press room, settled down to be a Miami University "Presidential Scholar" where she talks about how she has to work at her website and hopes that by breeding discontent with state salaries in Cuba that Cuba will become "free". Of course the western free press and internet are only as free as the corporate owners will permit it to be. Sanchez no longer a Darling of the Western Press owners is now just another Youtuber and promoter of capitalism.
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@bradraymond5925 The original constitution left the determination of who could vote in federal elections up to the states qualifications for the largest legislative body. Additional amendments have guaranteed additional persons rights but not said who can be barred from voting as that has been left up to Congress and the States.
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@KCJAM1 Ah poooor baby any relation to Heir Mueller of the FBI and did you have an Uncle Adolf who died of underground suicided while Red Army Troops danced in victory above.
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@chrispollard6568 At one time many states required payment of a poll tax for voting the 24th Amendment abolished any type of tax payment requirement for voting in federal elections.
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That is a protest against the arbitrary Stalinist police methods of Mao against any dissent.
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In the modern era it falls upon the working class to uphold Constitutional rights because the capitalist government only uphold the rights of private property meaning Industrial and Commercial property not homeowners, farms or personal property.
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@edwin2600 Exactly conservative claims its ideology that is destroying the family while the liberals claim its women who are seeking liberation that are responsible. The reality is it is the capitalist economic system that has destroyed traditional families and made women's liberation possible. Economic downturns caused by the natural workings of the capitalist system break up the workers families along with the lower wages that follow that prevent new family formation. By creating a female proletariat capitalism only increases the strength of its grave diggers.
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@joanhuffman2166 The capitalist manufacturer makes a bigger profit on a new tractor and none at all on a rebuilt "Long Block." Same goes for the powertrain on trucks and automobiles you can not buy a New Engine, Long Block, Transmission or Rear end. Third party rebuilds and parts only.
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Yand is an old FORTRAN 77 "Continue" statement. Human Capitalism continues while Starvation Capitalism sets in.
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@michaelsalmon9832 Legalizing homosexuality is one thing. Some rights belong to biological women only. The reason being is you can think your way int being the opposite sex.
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The natural workings of capitalism produce an ever larger working class and an ever smaller and wealthier capitalist class. One class owns everything while doing nothing while the other class owns nothing while doing everything.
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@TheGeenat You don't really understand the origins of racism was in the new capitalist system with slavery grafted on to it and how and why it has been weakened over the course of the last 200 years first by the American Revolution and then the Civil War followed by the anti colonial revolution began by the Lenin and the Bolsheviks when they vowed to tear apart Imperialism limb by limb. The defeat of Hitler by the Soviet Union and US Black Troops and the Defeat of Imperial Japan by Mao and the Chineses Revolution. The defeat of American Imperialism in Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Army who defeated the invincible white man of the South African Army in the Angolan civil war. Driving a dagger through the heart of South African Apartheid. Each time a colonial or racist state power has been defeated by war it drove the ideas of racial superiority in to the dumpster for worthless ideas and theories. The coming Socialist Revolution will undercut the materialist basis for all that is left of them.
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@CrazyManwich The only people the bosses Liberal and Conservative are for helping is themselves with their big profits low wages policies.
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@@SourcesWatch Poor is the label that the bosses put on those who seek alms like the beggars in feudal marketplaces. The workers are able to improve their conditions of life though solidarity in actions taken against the capitalists. This is a struggle going on daily before our very eyes. It begins when workers come together to discuss their conditions of life and the role the bosses play in how they live their lives at work and in capitalist society as a whole. As every injustice can be traced back to the system of capitalist profit and loss and the failure of that system to advance the ultimate goal of humanity to advance the productive forces to advance the surplus of production to the benefit of the producers.
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@eaglechick9494 Maybe you can collect a US Empire tax from Sweden just like getting Mexico to pay for a wall.
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@eaglechick9494 Actually who ever is buying the stuff in the US is paying the tax. Its like a sales tax. I worked for a retail company which sold stuff in different states with different sales taxes. New Hampshire has Zero sales tax and Connecticut over 6%. The price's were the same in all states only the tax rate changed. So it is not the Mexicans who are paying the tax but those Americans who buy from Mexico.
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@cynthiarowley3221 When socialism breaks out the USA and the other Imperialist nations immediately go for some kind assault, crackdown or war against us. When they can't maintain power through bourgeois democracy they will resort to fascist gangsters. For the first time since the great depression they are once again beginning to fear the working class in the USA. This is why Trump is alarmed. "Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country." Donald Trump. "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." Karl Marx
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@Robert David Only the capitalists get to 'keep' money otherwise it just passes through your hands.
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@Robert David No we oppose votes for AOC because we don't see a reason to reform capitalism or either of its two parties. A vote for AOC is a vote against socialism and a vote of confidence in reformism. During the transitional stage of socialism a number of things leave the market and money serves to distribute that which can't be taken out of the market. It no longer plays the role of an invisible hand allocating resources. Decisions and statistics are made openly without business secrets and investor manipulations for profits. Resources are allocated to areas of the economy where they are need most by collective and transparent decisions. Telling me I have a so called freedom to advance from a maid to a butler or a chance to be a Bill Gates is no freedom at all. I have the freedom to buy lotto tickets, become a drunk, a shoe shine boy, a drug addict and a felon in a revolving prison door. Those aren't freedoms but the tyranny of capitalist class rule.
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Slavic Soldier Sweden and the other Nordic countries operate in a Social Democratic manner. They play games that are considered the best ways to mediate between the capitalists and labor. The big capitalist still own the most of the means of production. That's why they aren't considered to be in a transitional stage to socialism or socialism. In Cuba there is no wealthy Cuban capitalist ruling class earning dividends, a stock market for placing bets and private banking. The Cuban state remains in the hands of the revolutionary Cuban working class. Their is no vast gulf in income like you see in the capitalist countries or even in the old Soviet bloc. That's why the are in the transitional stage even though their people are on average are poorer than Norway's. Depending on the country some especially the poorer countries may go down the socialist road first because of the way the class struggle develops and capitalist crisis hits them first. While the capitalist countries being further advanced in development may go down the socialist road latter.
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@Robert David I've watched "The lives of the Rich and Famous." They are under no compulsion to work, they live in mansions but somehow they 'earned the right to live like kings and be waited on by every one else but a welfare mother is cheating everybody. Do you really think everyone is that dumb?
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Oh and I've been down to the Texas Workforce commission they don't have any jobs to send you out to interview for they have a cop, a worker behind bullet proof glass to hand out checks and a bunch of computers so you can put in some black hole applications.
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Slavic Soldier That's not the question the first question is why does their need to be a wealthy ruling class the 'Ship of Fools' as Tucker Carlson called them to begin with? The obvious answer is they're doesn't. None of these capitalist politicians of either party Obama, the Bushes, Clinton's, Shapiro serve any purpose but to defend a system in decline. These so called 'brights' and 'Internet wises' like Bezo's, Gates, Zucherberg are just so many parasites dragging everything down so they can pretend to be gods gift to the world.
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Erich Weiler Most foreign trade is done in dollars so if you money is in a US bank and the US gov't has said that money is not yours to spend than you can't use it.
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Slavic Soldier Bezo's say Amazon will build new HQ and expects everyone to give all kinds of tax breaks just to get his 2nd HQ built there. Finally New York said no. Trump says Bezo's is getting a big break from the USPS because of his big shipping business. That he said was a bad deal.
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I don't agree that you should get a big salary because you are a CEO of a big company or that you should get all kinds of extra privileges because you the son or daughter of Bezo's or Gates.
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Erich Weiler As Fidel Castro said, "No one was told that they couldn't be an administrator. What they were told is that they could no longer use their position to exploit others." You don't need a 400: 1 pay ratio to operate a company. Plus paying people for owning is what has created a ruling class with different interests than the rest of us. If this is what you want then either you lack self confidence or are like the Clinton supporters who want to "get ahead". Economics is not a single sized pie that just gets divided up with a real socialism you can redirect resources away from waste like a huge military budget, endless war, building a wall, Bezo's planned trip to Mars and Elon Musk putting his red Tesla auto into space with a rocket. How is it that the Cato Institute a Libertarian group supported by the Koch brothers says we spend four time the money on health care than the rest of the developed nations and get the worst result? I say someone must be skimming off the cream somehow. Why not just take the current revenue stream and redirect it into a system of better management. After all companies claim a right to private property not the right to a revenue stream.
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Erich Weiler As capitalism developed it sold products first in local markets but they always needed to sell more that what they paid their workers otherwise they could not make a profit. Once they developed into larger and larger firms they sold in whole national markets, productivity rose and they needed to sell their surplus value not paid to the workers or consumed by themselves into international markets. The basic problem for capitalism as a world system is the markets are like the earth itself not infinite but finite. So now the competition for markets and resources in the colonial countries lead to WW1 meaning an end to capitalism's ability to just create but now it developed the need to destroy its foreign competition.
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At the end of WW1 the US's position rose because unlike industrial Europe it entered late in the war and did not suffer from any kind of destruction or a massively imposed debt that Germany was forced to agree to. The League of Nations was suppose to arbitrate future colonial and trade disputes. It basically failed because from the very beginning because Germany was saddled with an unplayable debt.
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You can think about foreign trade this way each company in the industrialized nations wants to be paid in its own national currency to pay it's workers, expenses, taxes and record its profits. So to trade the banks set up currency exchange. At the end of WW2 the Breton Woods agreements made the US dollar the worlds reserve currency from which all other countries outside of Eastern Europe, China and the USSR which would then be pegged to at a fixed ratio with gold trading at $35 an ounce. Now ask yourself a number of questions about who gets the better bargain the guy holding paper in terms of dollars and treasury bonds or the guy with the cheap industrial and consumer goods. Also is it the country which sells raw materials or the one who sells manufactured products that can rake in a bigger profit margin and who gets to sell what and where on the world market and why?
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Here is my most important observation we are in a world, not just in a nation, where is it possible to produce more than can be sold at a profit while millions live in abject poverty and ruling national capitalist classes are once again beginning to fight over markets. This fundamental problem can not be resolved by either the US Congress or the United Nations the way things are currently structured. That is because people are divided in to nations and ruled by national ruling classes. Only a restructured world on a socialist basis can solve this problem.
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Erich Weiler Am I for an end to global trade. No! Quit the BS saying that we want a return to feudalism or a feudal type of system or regulated capitalism. I'm for recognizing it and am arguing that leaving it in the hands of capitalists well meaning or not will just end up with them them making a fight over global trade into a new world war to once again to redivide markets. Maybe you don't like that argument being based on past history which is why you say I just cut and paste. You just basically said capitalist have rights to revenue streams. So you might as just as well have said that the capitalist have rights to everything that they can claim. I say they don't have or need anymore rights to own property with which they use to make profits. You property rights end when they exceed property for personal use. No one will want or need a mansion for the simple reason that if they can't hire the staff to keep it clean what would be the purpose to having one? Only under capitalism would a black women be prosecuted for trying to steal an education for her children from a better off school district.
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@Justin Peterson You are one of those well heeled defenders of US and World capitalism. Who thinks himself better than all those who can't afford to play jet setter. You think of us a a herd of animals who produce for your pleasure. Naturally you prefer capitalism how else could the jet setters afford to fly to far away places. How cultured you claim to be when all it amounts to is nothing more than pure snobbery.
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Erich Weiler You and @Justin Peterson falling all over each other to see who can claim to be the biggest defender of capitalism. I'll side with the French Yellow Vests who say, "Macron, President of the Rich."
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@WestIndianAK The US executes political terrorist like Timothy McVeigh. The Cuban people ratified the last socialist constitution by over 90%. Their is no censorship of libraries or books so the idea that no one knows anything about capitalism is wrong. The US has been broadcasting a campaign of lies from Radio and TV Marti for years.
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@henrykstopikowski5379 Now your changing the issue to one of happiness. Something you have even less ability to measure. Still Canada is not on the US list of state sponsors of terror, subjected to international economic warfare and having ships calling at Canadian ports blacklisted from US ports for 6 months. Canada, the UK, AUS and NZ all vote against the US Blockade at the UN along with about 190 other countries. .
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@felipenachmanowicz9393 If you were NOT caught crossing illegally their is no way to prove you crossed illegally. The government wants a system where you constantly have to prove you are legal instead of having to prove you did something illegal. This way the bosses can pick and choose who they hire and fire based upon police records.
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@christopherhammond3664 American politics has always been rough and tumble it's gotten worse since the 2008 crisis. If your afraid of name calling then you should stay out.
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Ritter is a disgraced US Intelligence Agency Spy. Nothing he says should be considered anything but a pack of lies and half truths told for self agradimrent or profit.
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He can't halt the decline in the power of the American Empire anymore than Biden could.
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Close all those foreign bases. Cut back on the federal standing army to be no bigger than the largest of the state militias. Disarm and scrap all those nuclear subs.
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@addisonwelsh I could have said, "National Guard" who are under control of the state governors but I used state militias which was the old name and to make it understandable to those who aren't from the United States. "National Guard" and "Federal Troops" sounds the same which it isn't making it confusing for those who don't understand the difference.
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Get rid of the nuclear weapons! Close the foreign military bases! End the endless war! A new union movement is what's needed that fights for the social rights of all working people! No to no strike clauses. Get rid of forced overtime. Make every job a union job!
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First you should not vote for either party. They are both full of corrupt lawyers and other middle class people. If you want to vote you should vote for the Socialist Workers Party candidates or be part of a new movement of labor that runs candidates and builds a labor party. Trying to reform a corrupt party is a useless task when you can think of what can be done with the same energy used to build a new party. It takes more than votes to change things it take a movement and anyone who tells you all that is needed is a few votes is leading you astray.
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If West Virginia wants to cry poor let them seek help from the guy who is making everything wonderful again President Trump or issue a coal company tax. In fact I heard that Governor Justice, himself a coal company owner, hasn't paid his own taxes. Someone like you shouldn't reproduce because you'd just add dumbbell genes anyhow. If the government needs money well just restore the maximum rate to 94% or male it a 100% rate which is where it should be to begin with. You get a maximum income period.
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@usncorpsman7966 Continual conspiracy theory nonsense. The first two amendments give us a right to revolution. Calls for terrorism will only feed back to attacks on the second amendment. If you can't be disciplined enough to hold your whiskey and stay out of physical fights with your partner do you really want someone like that next to you in any militia?
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@oldladyfish Its the way the system works. Its makes no difference which of the two parties are in power or how many people the lock up. The number of people locked up or under state supervision now exceeds even the worst years of the Stalin regime. Capitalism no longer works for anyone but a few one percenter's. They provide the option of having more or less of your neighbors being locked up after the system fails them. It's a system that puts all responsibility for social problems on the individual person. If you lose you job go find a new one, if your sick than expect a big bill and to be fleeced by crooked Dr's., if a natural disaster happens your on your own, don't expect any help from the government because they've got other priorities like spending 2.3 trillion on the war in Afghanistan.
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I 'm from New England and the few farms in my small town are all gone now except for one self picking strawberry farm. All kinds of agriculture is gone from New England from Dairy farms to Apple orchards. The same goes for all the union shops that once had so many workers the road was blocked when they ended work for the day. Mostly middle class people live there now. All the new homes are big. The Democrats have controlled the Southern New England States because the old Yankee Republicans were ousted by ethnic voters and labor in the cities. Jet Engine mfg remains big in Connecticut at Pratt & Whitney and GE in Massachusetts plus lots of sub contractors. Computer Mfg disappeared along with most textiles. They have moved work for lower wages elsewhere and replaced lots of labor with new machines. That is the natural way capitalism works. They have no loyalty to any one group of workers. When wages get to high for light industry its the first to move elsewhere. The US makes more steel today than any time in history but most is produced with much lower wages than the union wages that were paid in the big mills. I made the about the same rate as an unskilled mill hand at Beth Steel in Sparrows Point, Md in 1976 as minimum wage today. They closed and bulldozed the whole complex replacing it with an Amazon warehouse. They made steel and ships there for over one hundred years.
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@oldladyfish Well I'm wrong on more than anytime in history since the highest time was 2008. Plus China isn't even on the radar for steel imports. Brazil, Mexico and Canada are the biggest exporters to the US market. China is not even on the radar except at number 5 for the products you mention.
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Gaza biggest concentration camp and Hamas are the NAZI like guards.
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@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy You too can become Jeff Bezo's create a capitalism empire exploiting your working class slaves for pennies on the dollar and then fly into space for a carnival ride. Become part of an Empire destined to collapse as unsustainable exploitation of land water and labor is the basis of capitalism.
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@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy The origin of the capitalist profit is the unpaid labor of the worker. The bosses own accounting books prove that. He pays one price for labor and then charges a higher price when he sells the product.
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@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy Once you've worked in the real world of capitalist industry you''ll understand what I'm talking about but since you don't obviously yours are the opinions of the petty bourgeois college student or a middle class professional who has himself a libertarian view of everything. The capitalist who makes a trip to the mailbox every 3 months for the dividend check does no work unless its totally voluntary. They sent their children to the elite universities and mingle in a few from the working class just so the have some idea of what we are like.
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I care and it only takes a few to begin a revolution. You need to understand what is going on how and what forces you can build and make real change happen. The people with both the power and the reason for change are the working people. We are not the owners but we are the producers. Every item you see in a store has passed through our hands and machines we build, fix and run. That's where real power is not some jerk in Congress or a lazy boss sleeping in the office. We need to rebuild our unions and not just here but around the world. We need our own party free of the bosses to challenge them politically. Than real change can start to happen not just so many empty promises. " We built this city on Rock and Roll!" with our hands, brains, and tools.
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Look capitalist from any country lose the profits made by the workers in a factory when it is shut down with a strike. Maybe they can move production elsewhere and then maybe they can't but thats just another reason to build a real International union movement. As long as we play by the bosses rules regarding strikes and grievances we will keep losing. Let's say the workers shut down the GM Truck Plant in the US. What keeps them from adding a shift in Mexico moving them across the border and undercutting the strike here? You don't really believe the government won't come up with a reason (National Security AT&T need new trucks) to allow them across the border temporarily without a tariff? That's why our real allies are other workers and not some Patriotic US Boss. It is possible to go on strike and win as the recent West Virginia school workers strike did in a red state with right to work laws and a Republican governor and a majority of Republicans in the statehouse. In fact the rank and file insisted in remaining on strike until a bill was passed meeting all five demands. Since I don't know the details in your fathers case I can't speak to that.
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Volkswagen and Toyota build vehicles here because it more profitable to build them here than in Japan or Germany and ship them here. Plus the cost to disassemble and reassemble a plant elsewhere is not a trivial cost nor is building another plant elsewhere cheap or a guarantee they won't have a strike there. If a strike hits a foreign manufacture in the US you won't be worrying about the picket line being attacked by German or Japanese police or troops. In fact you will find that the cops and national guard for that state will be the first problem outside of negotiating with the company management.
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A lot of past teachers strikes have failed because they only involved one district and did not reach out to the community and school workers as whole. That and the sending of a whole contingent to Charleston and refusing to end the strike without a bill passed in the legislature is what made this strike both different and a win. The original AFL unions were called Internationals because they included both US and Canadian workers. I don't have any specific plans or ideas other than to say we need more International solidarity and cooperation. I no nothing about what's in the TPP and just a little about NAFTA. Mexican workers have an Union Federation as do many other countries.
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I recently heard of the Chinese Labour bulletin it reports on strikes in China. http://www.clb.org.hk/
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@zxcbbnm7552 OU ou OU ou OU ou non aggression principle. Mashed bananas.
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@CorvusCorax. Miner win their pay. Coal Bosses must pay. https://themilitant.com/2019/11/02/blackjewel-miners-encampment-protest-wins-back-pay/
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@saesungchang6451 The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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@davidregi7571 "Chinese have a philosophy that too much democracy is bad." Sounds like Stalin's and Hitler's idea. So I guess your a believer in the US Meritocracy. "Most people are stupid." Most people are told the are stupid. Democracy was fine until Trump was elected. In fact bourgeois democracy is always fine until the wrong candidate gets elected.
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@kathystoneburner4947 Its a government and two parties that works for the capitalist elite only.
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Do you want to give General Sowell a military command, ICBM's and some Nuclear weapons?
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@woff1959 I hardly think the CZAR or the Kerensky government had anything to offer the masses of people in the CZARist prison house of nations. Nor were the western Imperialist doing anything for China. The French revolution came to an end with Napoleon and the 59 Commissioners of the house of commons were never pardoned either. Oliver Cromwell's body was dug up and hung posthumously. Certainly something that would shock middle class Anglo Saxons today. .
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@woff1959 Kerensky didn't overthrow the CZAR. The women textiles workers set off a general strike that forced the CZAR to abdicate. He was negotiating away the results of the revolution to General Kornolov. The Bolsheviks had the majority in the Soviets. Had the Bolsheviks not taken power when they did Trotsky said. "Fascism would have had a Russian name." The new government abolished the peasants rents on land to the land owners. Made the workers masters of the factories and began peace negotiations with Germany. For these actions they were rewarded by an invasion of 14 Imperialist nations including the Democratic Imperialist US/UK along with a civil war and white terror.
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@lknanml In the so called insurrection only one shot was fired by a capital police officer killing a Trump supporter. Of the 535 voting senators and Pence not one came out to talk with the protestors that Trump had also abandoned despite his promise to be with you. That's why I say it was the Day the Sheep became afraid of the cry's of the lambs.
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@CARLOS GOMEZ Wasting time calling names like El Esupido!
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Union are one worker one vote. Company is based on the rights of owners one share of voting stock one vote. The capitalist only want the area of the economy which can produce profits and want everything else done and paid for by others. This is why Henry Ford wanted to build and sell cars but have the government build roads. The bosses want the cost of scientific advancement born by the government at the Universities and then privatize what is produced because the profit comes for the labor of the production workers and not the smarts of the boss class.
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Canada can not escape the continuing crisis of world capitalism.
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Lil Queerdoe Amy Goodman has joined the Democratic Liberals on the "National Security" Frame Job RailRoad Tump.
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@ihcterra4625 The A bomb secrets have been declassified for decades now.
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@luisaymerich9675 We the working people of the world must fight against Imperialist investors foreign wars they do nothing for us just make others rich while our children die defending a profits system of a few oligarchs. My eyes were opened by the injustice I saw in America. The killing of four anti war protesters at Kent state University in 1970. It sparked a national student strike across the nation. We talked to everyone but especially the GI's who were asked to die for the corrupt capitalist system. They began to agree with us and were tried of fighting a rich mans war. GI's thew the medals they earned at the US capitol in a protest. They began marching with us the protesters. Democratic Persident Johnson said he would not run and Republican Nixon was forced to resign amid a secret police watergate scandal. .
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@luisaymerich9675 Ukraine was recognized as one of the fifteen Republics within the original Soviet Union and at the funding of the UN in 1945 where it has always had a seat. The olny way to force an end to the war is with an international protest campaign against the invasion since this can build the antiwar forces against the Imperialist and capitalist exploiters of all nations and prevent a futher widening of the war.. As communists we are internationalist who favor the closest cooperation of all the workers and farmers in the world of all nations and that can only work by recognizing the legitimate national aspirations of workers and farmers. By recognizing the right to create an independent nation we undercut the bourgeois nationalist in the oppressed nations by doing so.
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If Gaza was occupied by Israel than it would need to invade it would already be their. Hamas is a NAZI like organization that took over GAZA
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@Whatshisname346 Capitalism is based in capitalist nation states which must compete in a world market. This competition leads to trade war and then real war. The richest capitalist nations destroyed themselves in World Wars One and Two leaving only the United States untouched by wars destruction. Now the United States and its Investors Empire is in decline. The natural tendency of profit rates to fall has caught up with the capitalist mode of production. They can only keep fooling themselves for so long with Central bank generated inflation as a way to cut wages and to keep the profits flowing.
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@JohnMorgan-lc2ip Philosophers solve the world the point however is to change it Karl Marx.
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@mattbarker1411 Alverez confirms that the crisis of capitalism in the Imperialist stage has once again deepened and reached into the world centers of the capitalist Empires.
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@Jack Sprat Karl Marx was a mass murder. Can we have the name of just one person Karl Marx murdered? Just which books does Petersen want purged from the libraires?
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@Jack Sprat Petersen doesn't make a lot of sense. Psychologists often refer clients to psychiatrists for medications sometimes suggesting certain ones. I don't claim to be a psychologist or Physician. Gorbachev rose through the Soviet bureaucracy beginning with writing the most slavish praise of the Great Leader Stalin. Petersen named his daughter after Gorbachev.
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@Jack Sprat It's somewhat similar in the US psychologists do not write scripts or involuntarily commit people for psychiatric care only a medical doctor or doctors can do that. Police can only detain someone for a medical psychiatric examination arrest requires commission of a crime. Professor Peterson would NOT have a prescription pad unless he had a license to practice medicine. A license to practice psychology is NOT a license to practice medicine.
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@Jack Sprat Canadian law is different you don't have a bill of right that limits government rather you have a government that limits rights to those that are reasonable. So maybe you don't have the distinction between being arrested and detained.
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@Jack Sprat Maybe in Canada it is an important distinction here. Police can detain a person or persons while conducting an investigation. An arrest occurs when after an investigation by police they have determined a crime has been committed and the wish to move forward with prosecution. The detention is suppose to be reasonable for purposes of law. So Joe Appio was found to be acting unreasonable by holding a Mexican national with a valid passport for twenty four hours at a traffic stop in an effort to determine if the said person had legally entered the country.
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@christinefigari9805 Dog have heartbeat!!! Dog need right to life!! Go protest at dog pound!! No to dog executions!!! Save the stray dog!!!
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@christinefigari9805 Christine do you need help getting pregnant?
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@TheWhoopass88 The NYT is just as responsible as the rest of the liberal promise establishment. All you get is lip service from liberals who promise and then use Republicans as the excuse not to do anything.
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@cowboycurtis2229 Let me know when a Fetus can answer a question. Second shouldn't the male members of the court recuse themselves as they have an interest in passing on their genes through reproduction.
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@uio890138 Would you like me to tell no beer because you might get drunk and kill someone with an automobile? Do you like the one size fits all way of doing things?
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@uio890138 Not at all. You just haven't a way to refute it. Yours is an idealistic argument that doesn't take the whole problem into consideration. Would you say slavery was wrong in ancient society? Afterall would have gotten to the wage labor system without slavery first? Tell me how that would have been possible? Maybe we can eliminate the need for wars and soldiers someday and maybe a medical technology will come along and we can eliminate 99.9999999999% of all abortions but we haven't yet achieved that possibility. Now you have to deal with the facts and possibilities as they present themselves today no matter how much you like or don't like the results. Write a law against abortions and you will get injured women coming into the Emergency room with self induced or botched illegal abortions. That's what happens in countries were its illegal now and it will start happening here again like it or not. You still have very severe laws against marijuana did it stop marijuana smoking? Or did it just add a lot more costs, more misery and provide a gateway to more dangerous illegal drugs? Why not go back to alcohol prohibition while we are at it? I enjoy a cold beer as much as anyone else.
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@REV-mu5tu With illegal abortion women will be entering the emergency room with injuries from botched illegal abortions and you can read bible verses like."Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." to your congregation of moral hypocrisy.
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The bosses collect the taxes for the government from our pay check and at the store we never see that money people like you talk about endlessly.
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Seems like another liberal "equal opportunity" attack on free speech. If I get a call from someone who needs money and I tell them (an adult over 18) go rob a bank does that make me an accessory to bank robbery if their stupid enough to go do it?
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@CoyleTools Capitalism with it boom and bust economic cycle is the problem.
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@loublev5098 Trump just another lying capitalist politician. Bidenomics a total disaster.
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@helenegan1079 Just more slanders and bullshit.
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@coryebeling535 It cost 20,000 lives to get rid of the US puppet dictator Batista. US propaganda never mentions that. The trials meet the same standards as that of the NAZI's after WW2. Batista's police and war criminals, who removed eyes and left bodies hanging on lamp posts, received trials their victims never received. They were carried out to prevent mob actions which would have given the US a pretext to invade.
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@rogerpayne2714 Like most liberals, social democrats and stalinists you find it impossible to cut the tie with Democratic Imperialism. No real revolutionary has such a fear. People die in real revolutions because the real revolutionaries have no choice other than to defend the revolution from counter revolutionaries. George Washington could have remained home on his plantation and Abraham Lincoln could have continued as a wealthy RailRoad lawyer. Both became revolutionary leaders. What would be your advice have been? Stay home because we can't risk anyone getting killed?
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@tateharrigan8061 With the end of WW2 the US Imperialists were drunk with power. The defeat of Hitlers 1000 year Reich meant an American century.
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@youremybiggestfan Ted Ed Half truths not worth spreading.
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@GIRTHQUAK3 This whole video is done in the format of a trial. Something Che never received before being executed. Just like elections. When the Imperialist think the can't risk a trail. They simply don't have one.
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This man can't do anything but gush with self serving propaganda for his own tribe of Republican capitalist Bosses.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 America was once a colony of the British Imperialists. It went on to become the leading Imperialist power. Is that what you want for China? China under the CCP has its first foreign military base in Sri Lanka and now has an aircraft carrier. Meanwhile Britian is facing a major economic crisis. The American capitalist are unhappy about how China has become an economic power in the world market. Mean while a true socialist revolution continues to make history only 90 miles from the US in Cuba. Mao and Stalin never really understood Marx or Lenin. Instead they and their followers treated their books like religious documents. In Cuba they did not go down the road of forced collectivization or doing things bureaucratically. They talk and discuss things among their people instead of issuing orders and then making mistakes until they approach a disaster. Fidel admits they made errors but they never did the kind of things Stain did. Stalin murdered all of the original politburo except Lenin and himself who died of natural causes. One of the first defeats was the 1928 Chinese revolution which Trotsky wrote about along with Harold Isaacs although Isaacs went over to the Imperialist later on and rewrote his book.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 What do you mean no democracy in Cuba? They elect their parliament of peoples power. They just finished discussing and voting on their new family code.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@xunqianbaidu6917 Cuba has no private property unlike China. We see how the white shirt police in China beat people who protest bank theft. We hear how China workers go on strike. The latest was a strike against Foxcom mfg for apple on the mainland owned by bosses from Taiwan. So the workers must fight capitalist in China.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 Parties are an Anglo-American invention George Washington was against creating them. They have historically represented classes landowners, capitalists and workers. They don't have a second Party in Cuba because they did not have the problems that would lead to the need for a second party. Not all the parliamentary members are party members either nor does the party propose candidates like in the old Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In the US many districts are considered safe for one party or the other. Plus the difference in the two parties is only one of degree since both represent the capitalist. They give campaign donations to both and it is hard to get ballot status for a third party or independent candidate since the laws in the US favor the ballot status for the two capitalist parties.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 Canadian Professor Arnold August wrote a book on Cuba and its elections.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 If not Anglo American than where? What kind opinion do you think they have? A return to the Private property system of the past where everything was owned by either the Americans or 3% of the Cuban population? They may disagree on how things are run and that's where they go to speak with their representatives who are accessible and pay attention to the problems they have. It not like in the US where the boss at work makes the decisions and you have no say. No one gets evicted from their home or told we have no work for you go look for a job. Ordinary Cubans have access to the President. In the US the President is not accessible as they once were at the beginning if the Republic.
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@xunqianbaidu6917 Nope ideas about Democracy originated in ancient Greece. Ideas get transferred between cultures engaged in trade. It is possible for ideas to arise separately but it is uncommon. The American (English colonies) revolution encouraged rebellions by the colonists against Spain, France and Portugal in the Americas. They even wrote similar initial constitutions. Parties in Europe are also based in classes. Socialist, Labor and Communist are the workers Parties the others are based around land owners/monarchists/religion/capitalist. Now the British Labor party has completely gone over to capitalism as have many of the Social Democrats to nothing but office holders like the Amercan capitalist. The Democrats were once the Southern slave holders party and the Republicans were the rising Nprthern Capitalists who created their party just before the civil war. .
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@xunqianbaidu6917 You want a different economic system because it isn't working in China instead some have way more than others and others suffer. They can't solve those problems because you've adopted the methods of capitalism which is basically unjust. Cuba has problems but they are smart and educated enough to understand that their are no quick fixes like you recommend. They had capitalism with private ownership multiply parties and police protection for private property owners no one wants to work under those conditions. So those who want to be the bosses of that kind of system leave for the US and then they cry about dictatorship because no one wants to be their slave in Cuba. Th fact that they can't find any volunteers to be propertyless workers is why capitalism can't just come back voluntarily. .At the end of the Soviet Union the American Imperialists came in and told everyone they could become rich by following their private property methods. Of course a few did and the rest were left out.
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@mappingshaman5280 The population of Cuba has grown since 1959 Puerto Rico a much smaller island colont of the US his much more of its population moved to the US . Yes they left for the US for economic reasons not because the were necessarily bourgeois because the bourgeois left much earlier on. So that shows American capitalism is a failure and NOT Socialism. Almost 1.6 million Puerto Rican's born in Puerto Rico live in the US out of a population of 3.2 million. Nw are you counting Ted Cruse and Marco Rubo as Cuban because they weren't even born on the island if you count anyone who claims t be Puerto Rican than most Puerto Ricans live in the US. Not Puerto Rico. So Cuba is doing well compared to the American Colony of Puerto Rico. No one calls Puerto Rico an American Dictatorship that people are feeling to the United states from though do they. Every year the UN holds hearing on de Colonization of Puerto Rco.
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@benjamingray2071 Yep exactly the same way Western Capitalism became rich.
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@bigswampy6073 I seem to remember talk radio saying it was a bad flu meant to "Get Trump.".
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Hamas is totally responsible for this if Israel wanted to genocide Gaza they would NOT allow civilians to leave. Hamas is a NAZI like organization. Its only goal is the genocidal murder of Jews.
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Public schools were basically the solution of what to do without child labor. Democratic Socialists are basically liberals who are no longer fighting the cold war.
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@tino6846 No one calls an American Presidents dictators because they pasted a law to require they step down after 8 years.
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@acertiger591 We still live in the Imperialist stage of capitalism its highest. War, fascism and revolution are all part of it.
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@dindi6986 Climb to where?
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@GaryR55 Capitalism creates its own grave diggers the modern working class.
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Capitalist government not giving you a bog enough bailot boss?
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@musicaddict4214 I don't expect any quick coverts. Here's access to our newspaper TheMilitant.com and pamphlets and books at PathfinderPress.com
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Stupidity Kills The had to end the shutdown because the CIA contractors weren't getting the necessary cash for the bribery needed.
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@toetz All these MEGA companies drove out the small business and community pharmacist store. They've had a war on drugs and now we have a bigger prison population than even the Stalin Regime.
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@coryburns9161 Workers need to take control of industry and farmers need to have all their debts canceled. Those who work the land need to be the owners not bankers or Bill Gates. Gates know he and his kind can only pull the wool over everyones eyes for so long that's why he is buying up farm land he knows we need to eat not another version of windows.
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@connorperrett9559 The same arguement can be made for slavery. Afterall if the slve or srf dies he has to be replaced capitalism creates a working class and has unemployment as a main feature such that the worker is free to be fired or hired to sell his labor for a wage. The workers need to take control of industry and create an allaince with the small farmers. The Cuban revolution gave land to peasnts so they could work and nationalized industry under workers control. Fidel Castro proved in practice what Trotsky had theorized. Cuba has never had a problem creating enough educated people such that they have the highest ratio of medical doctors in the population in the world today.
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@musicalADD_theband Okay so capitalism is nothing more than legal counterfeiting? Making your own money like Bit coin. Please tell us the origin of the profit or even better explain why Musk is worth so much on paper.
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@oldyellerschannel4676 How's that my problem? Your the ones with the ivy league education. Your the genius's who talked about "winning the cold war" and ushering in a "New World Order." You had all these so called intellectuals eating out of your hands like a bunch of sheep. Then the crisis of greed took the wind out of your neoliberal sails in 2008. Now your in a situation with few friends and no ready made solution to the crisis of world capitalism.
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@yort-r9t Its all about money for you. Can think outside the box of money can you?
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Sowell is just another "smart" who puts forward common sense nations as a solution to everything. It is important for the bosses to put forward a concept of an unchanging pie with your piece only being fixed by free market (of course the market must be free despite the effort of the bosses to set both wages and all other prices) a matter of how you spend you wage.
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The new dictatorship of Yeltsin with approval of Bill Clinton was required to push market reforms down everyone's throat.
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Does Sowell count himself once or twice since he has degrees from both Harvard and Columbia.
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@anthonythekaekara8731 I find him to be a strange individual. You don't really think he was a Marxist though do you?
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@anthonythekaekara8731 According to what I've heard him say he did his undergraduate thesis on Das Kapital. Even I haven't read all three volumes. Every Marxist I know understands that the workers can't just readily use the capitalist state for purposes of socialism and that capitalism with its markets and placing of a money value on all human relationships is naturally corrupt. Discovering that at the US DOL should be a no brainer.
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We need to join unions of both documented and undocumented.
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Trynany for the wealth works good for the wealthy or so they think until a real revolution comes knocking on their door.
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Not really since he admitted his party does the same thing.
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The 1940 Smith "gag" Act prosecutions of the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters.
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The workers need to take control of industry and abolish private property the property used to exploit others. The investors and hedge funds play no role other than to suck up value and create misery. Those who want to farm and ranch for a living should not be turned into debt slaves for greedy bankers who sit in an office all day reading the wall street journal. Most of these people can't tell you which end of a spark plug the wire goes on yet they are the ones who run everything by the numbers they see in ledger books. The sit on a lump of capital value and say look I need more. You can't keep giving the ultra rich a bigger payday just because they demand more. They control the market, the control the government and they control the central bank. Naturally when a small group controls everything than they are going to make all the prices work in their favor. The farmers need to band together in coops, the workers in unions and build a labor party to take government and central bank control away from the corporate elite and Wall Street profiteers. The time for regulation is long gone you can't expect greed to regulate itself an entirely new system must be created.
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What is the evidence that a "Free Market" has ever existed?
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"The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society." That's Karl Marx describing the welfare state in the Communist Manifesto.
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Trump is full of it. His actions show a ruling class that is deeply divided and floundering about looking for anyway to save itself.
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Sowell said elect Trump because he'd be easier to impeach.
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Truman and Stalin had no right to agree to carve up Korea. It was Truman who proposed the division to Stalin.
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@davidl5119 They need workers to buy their products.
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@johnappleseed8146 The problem is this is only a Boss vow meant to stave off protests when hours are cut during the Black Friday to Christmas time.
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@Cymbaline713 Social Security is not a Ponzi investment scheme like central bank generated inflation but a social wages pay as you go program those who work pay for those who can't because of age or disability. Private pension plans go bankrupt when a crisis hits the stock market like 2008 then an inevitable bailout is required. Of course the bosses always get themselves bailed out while workers are told they need to accept pay cuts.
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@chrisconsorte7893 The key to understanding economics is that the workers labor produce surplus value. We produce on average more than it costs to sustain us. The bosses only want to pay us what we need to come back and work the next week. They want us working the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace. We live paycheck to paycheck. Social Security pays for when you can't work because of age or disability. It's your social wage or wage insurance. It doesn't go into a piggy bank and grow like magic either.
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@Teri_B. Let en stay in those Luxury hotels might as well make use of them for something other than palaces for the rich on out of town business.
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@paulchen4447 That is totally ridiculous the KMT and the American Imperialists were decisively defeated in 1949 and again during the Korean War. It would be the equivalent to saying the English Canadian's still maintain a hold on the United States. Despite being defeated in 1776 and 1812.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ If they were fighting an ideological war they would of been circulating leaflets, pamphlets, and books. Instead they were committing war crimes and setting up concentration camps called strategic hamlets. Kennedy became unhappy with his elected puppet Diem so he had the ARVN overthrown and murder him in a Military coup. A man arrested on suspicion of being a VC was executed on TV by an ARVN General shooting him in the head. Every night the news was reported in kill ratio and total numbers killed. ABC, CBS and NBC are not communist news agencies dumbo.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ Go back and sell your nonsense at the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami. ARVN had more helicopters than any other country in the world except the US. Democrats started WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Republicans ended Korea and Vietnam. You could give the ARVN whatever they wanted and they would sell it.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ You write lies based upon what you think people will believe.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ At age 18 I had a high lotter draft number in 1970. So no real material reason to be anti war nor did I know anyone who was a communist before college. I could go further but last time I did that I was accused of "Stolen Valor" My political opinion changed with Kent State in May 1970. Maybe some people went to demonstrations because it was "cool" or their girlfriend wanted to but being an actual activist in college could only make things worse for you.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ Do communist transistors and wire work differently than capitalist ones? At best the only thing an internet provider can easily do is see the IP addresses you want to connect with. They know what your address is since you are buying their service and they are issuing your an IP address. Having a VPN connection means the provider can only see what your VPN address is and they already know your address. They can't actually break your encrypted messages without either a huge amount of luck, a huge amount of computer time or breaking into your or your message receivers computer.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ I think the problem of implementing universal health care is not a bigger tax burden or resource problem but a lack of trained healthcare workers from doctors to nurses aids. If been incorrectly diagnosed as having a heart attack twice and eye surgery that was a failure. When a nurse practitioner recommended I have prostate biopsy I said, "no." When asked why I said, "I wasn't going to spend the rest of my life with a bag on my ankle."
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ "I think universal health will target and burden the working class taxpayers." That statement right there shows you already have a better understanding than the Bernie Bros. "The wealthy and multinational corporations in this country will start paying their fair share of taxes. We are going to end austerity for working families, and provide some austerity for large, multinational corporations." From Burnie's webpage. Notice the word "fair". That's the key loophole word because it isn't defined. Rhetorically it sound good but who knows what it will actually mean. Sure Bunie goes on with more rhetoric but they are also good sounding but undefined. My tax would be based upon the income of highest paid tradesman anything above that level would be taxed at 100%. That would be at least more well defined. It takes a four year apprenticeship to be journeyman along with once a week of night school for theory.
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JOHN B. RAMIREZ You have a number of ideas now but who do you submit them to for consideration or implantation?
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Diablo in Wehrmacht German for Devil in the Army. If you are a lineman in IBEW 66 as you claim you need to check your gloves for pin holes often. Safety first!!! Make sure to report any incidents to the union where a boss refers to you as a 'pole monkey'. We don't want members getting their feelings hurt. As I said earlier a scab is a terrible thing to waste.
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@coolioso808 We need unions to take on the bosses at work and labor party to take on the bosses government.
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@coolioso808 The problem with universal basic income is it doesn't address the problems of profit maximization by longer hours at the same wage and it is really just the restitution of a social welfare scheme meant to save capitalism. Their is no reason for the bosses to hand out welfare without a struggle. Why would someone want to work 80 hours if the could work no hours for sustance? Knowledge is power only if the workers can take and use it to advance their class interests. The ruling capitalist class only cares if its social position is threatened. This is why Lenin proposed creating a party of activists instead of trade union secretaries who could explain how every injustice is related to the capitalist system of private property. To lead battles to advance the interests of the most oppressed against the system to meet both the immediate needs and put power into the hands of the producers. This is how the most successful revolutions were lead. Today the Cuban revolution reaches our with medical solidarity and political support of those fighting against the Imperialist system.
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@coolioso808 A company local,national or international of any size can only succeed by profit maximization at the expense of the workers. The profit comes from our unpaid production labor. That is the laws of capitalism and private property. A strike by the production workers cuts off the source of profits.
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@coolioso808 See The Militant for info on the rail workers strike perpetration's.
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@jackrobinson9403 We still live in the Imperialist era of war, fascism and revolution. The fight to keep and defend the Democratic rights of a Democratic Republic falls upon the working class and the trade unions not the stock exchange which becomes totally reactionary.
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@richardrubin1763 Liberal Democratic Imperialists like H Clinton and Obama are no solution to the working classes problems.
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@StageWatcher We've shot ourselves in the foot before with DDT and leaded gasoline so I'd rather know more than less.
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@dancing4bears The numbers don't really mean anything besides that it affected huge numbers of people who lived in cities where leaded gasoline was burned as a motor fuel. You'd have to ask a medical scientist and statistician to explain the actual impact. Its is generally thought that any exposure to lead has a negative impact on human and biological health. So in general the practice has been to try to contain and limit its use. Lead car batteries are recycled, and no leaded gasoline except in Aviation fuel.
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@Da__goat The profit drive of the greedy capitalist bosses leads to a working class struggle against them and their crisis ridden profit system. The first actions the workers take is to take to using union power against the bosses. The bosses respond by calling on their capitalist government to intervene against the workers. Then the workers union leaders will begin to take up the task of creating a new labor party independent of the bosses to win the battle of democracy in the government. Organization is the fruit of strikes and protests against the capitalist bosses and their system and the real road to a socialist world system without the greedy capitalist bosses.
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@Mister_Whiskers Many rich people are buying dual citizenship as it is now.
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@Mister_Whiskers No thanks Walt Disney. .
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@Mister_Whiskers I'll pass Walt Disney.
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@jeremyrangel8138 The advantage of being rich is you can be what Marx called a "Bourgeois Socialist". A "Bourgeois who is a Bourgeois" for the benefit of the working class.
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Don't worry "Trump Socialism" is passing with both parties now.
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@judewarner1536 In the struggle with feudalism in Europe and Slavery in America Marx supported capital. But in the class struggle between labor and capital Marx would support labor. Marx lived in a period where capitalism was still expanding and conquering the world from feudal society the Chineses Emperor and the Russian Czar were still absolutists. The British were still conquering in the name of the King even though theoretically they were a capitalist nation.
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@countlessbathory1485 If it weren't for 2008 than you'd have a point. To bad all those elite minds in DC can'y put humpty dumpty capitalism back together again. The so called advantage is its chaos? Then they wonder why people think liberals just as nuts as these conservatives.
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@countlessbathory1485 It shook capitalism to its very core and maybe you have recovered but for a lot people it was a life changing disaster. I built my first computer in 1989.
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@countlessbathory1485 Capitalism has reached a dead end much like in 1914 with the British banking crisis or the 1929 stock market crash. Those times the system was saved by war but also saw the Soviet Union as a result of WW1 and the end of colonialism as a result of WW2. You can look at economic indicators like productivity v. wages and you can see that from 1945 to 1973 the followed each other. Since 1973 wages have basically staganted. You can look at industrial capacity utilization. It has declined from about 89% in 1967 to about 60% today. The unemployed are undercounted and the way the are counted has changed to further undercount with each recession. When I started work we didn't use credit cards and cash business was much more prevalent. Now so much is with credit cards now that small business are much tighter with cash and taxes. People use to pump gas for a living, a man came by and delivered milk or bread. A kid bagged groceries for you and sometimes put them in the car for you. Now Walmart wants you to bag and ring up all your groceries or wait in a long line. Cars are more reliable so hundreds of mechanics jobs disappeared.
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@countlessbathory1485 The only thing the Austrian school of economics saw was how you could restart liberal capitalism without planning because of so much destruction caused by WW2. There is no reason for the workers to accept that their fate has to be tied to the success of Wall street gamblers.
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@countlessbathory1485 Hayek was the one writing in 1945 about the revival of capitalism. The basic problem for the libertarians is they have no way to get to their utopia unless everyone agrees with them 100% of the time. The economic workings of capitalism work to reduce the number and areas for small business not increase them and their is no unlimited need for capitalist engineers. The really big changes in economics in my lifetime were end of colonialism and industrialization of the third world, world fiat currency, end of cold war and the shattering of Stalinism, 2008 and the next to zero or negative central bank interest rate. None of those events point towards a return to classical 19th century American capitalism with its limited federal government, no central bank, gold standard, and undeveloped internal lands and resources.
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@countlessbathory1485 Capitalism is business so why wouldn't it be best for it? It has raised living standards but it has also allowed a small privileged group that believes it's a meritocracy with a right to rule based upon inheritance of wealth to make all the important decisions. I don't worship at the altar of the small business man. Government but what kind of government is it? A government based in making everything the best for the owners and rights of the big capitalist. An economic crisis happens then along comes a Trump and Sanders with the elites going bonkers.
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@countlessbathory1485 Capitalism can't work well in economic areas that can't continually cut labor costs with machines. Areas like education, public transport and not to even mention the need for greed regulation in the rest of the "free enterprise" economy. Even the stock market racketeers are untrusted since the 1930's the SEC has been the greed regulator by the biggest insider of the time Joe Kennedy. Like Trump he knew the system from the inside.
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@countlessbathory1485 Teachers don't usually work with machines so you can speed them up like with a faster assembly line. Private schools cost more and have smaller class size otherwise the government would never have built public schools they'd appeared out of thin air like the automobile and telephone. They have never built the land grant universities and other public schools after the civil war if education could be organized on a for profit basis. You can build a cheaper transit bus with new machines cutting labor time but the time it takes for a bus or subway route to run doesn't change. Profits flow to the those firms and industries that can best cut labor time in production. You must invest your profit though and that increases capital value but the cut in labor time works against total profits if you can increase market size. The rate of return on investment also tends to decline with the bigger capital to labor ratio.
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@arthurv.utterback3217 War is the result of Imperialist greed for profits and two capitalist party dictatorship in Washington DC.
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Economics isn't a fixed pie to be divided up. Twenty percent of US manufacturing capacity is going unused because the bosses can't keep up monopoly prices and hold down labor costs without unemployment. The problem isn't immigrants coming here from Mexico or Companies moving work to Mexico for lower labor costs. It's the capitalist system itself. The Mexican workers need our solidarity so they can raise their wages especially when the strike against US companies. Immigrant workers no matter how they got here need equal rights not deportation.
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@flyrobin133 The secrets and the lies are being told by the two capitalist party politicians controlled by the big donors. .
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@JCPRuckus The answer is a socialist revolution like the 1959 revolution in Cuba lead by Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement.
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@jeffery allen That's also why you can't get to socialism by using only the capitalist methods of monetary incentives. Those who think that the Capitalist won the cold war are wrong. The US's Reagan and UK's Thatcher were left with claiming a success that they had nothing to do with. The Eastern European workers took down the privileged labor aristocracy but they didn't have a new political party to take the planned economy and reorganized it. Instead things just decayed back into capitalism with some help from Milton Freeman and the ultimately drunk and corrupt Boris Yeltsin
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@jeffery allen Well no life isn't a zero sum game. 50,000 years ago our ancestors were living in the African Savanna. We covered the world even though we lost contact with each other. Its only been about 500 years since Asia Europe and Africa knew about North and South America.
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@jeffery allen They may be finite but they are also recyclable. We are all hit with the coronavirus this is going to create a major change for the whole world. I don't what that will be but I can feel it my bones. Before we go we leave something behind just what that is most of us will never know. A few days earlier I had a 135 bpm resting heart rate. Well I was back home later that night and I'm still here. How long? Who knows? I worry about my wife and what will happen to her once I'm gone.
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@LaminarSound The reason the state has to keep getting bigger with capitalism is to control greed and blunt the class struggle. The underly irreconcilable conflict of class interests caused the rise of the regulator state. Why? because the workers can not be trusted to protect their own rights and safety both on and off the job. If the working people get these powers whats to stop us from taking over the whole shebang?
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@LaminarSound "Jobs coming back with a demand and incentive for them." Sure let's just keep playing the game where to get more job promises we giveaway everything else away. The capitalist are always looking for a demand before they do anything and they like all kinds of incentives even better. Tell us just how many incentives do these slave driving capitalist need? After all with everything owned by limited liability corporations why should act responsibly?
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@Melissa-bw6ok You no doubt watch American soap operas since that was an American for profit name for daily TV drama sponsored by laundry soap companies because most for profit TV comes from our side of the border. Most of you live with 100 miles of our border. Britain abandoned you as a colony back in 1931. Canadian nationalism is based upon holding on to Quebec, being pro British and anti American. Its hard to see you as a nation and not bickering provinces with no coherent national foreign policy.
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American propaganda leader. US brings democracy with support to dictators and carpet bombing by US Air force.
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Very true we HATE the master class. Record profits mean record contracts.
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@VidkunQL Sowell proves nothing except that he doesn't pay for the 5 trillion both parties spent on the nation building was in Iraq and Afghanistan
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History teaches that the working class will have an opportunity to make a revolution before the real fascists can take power.
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@bevwatson6082 You should sit down with your dad and write down his experiences then work it up into a book and self publish it.
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@rocketrockstar8171 Trump made the mistake of paying attention to those who do the work instead of the rest of the ruling class.
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Lake of money to be made building new machines and more to be made in repairing those already produced Why declining rate of return on industrial investment Then you have the old boy network. Nothing really new here same is going on throughout the capitalist market.
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@DakessianHMadat It shows that the economic theory of a free market self regulating is wrong. If it was self regulating this guy wouldn't need to go to the FTA. This is why Marx says economic classes develop. They become inbred and oppose change that would disrupt incumbent business. Which comes back to the fact that unless a new method can obtain fiance that the inbred will oppose it. Few will fund the disrupter because the incumbent could quickly adopt the new method with only a small amount of software development cost. The Koche fortune was based in intelectual property. The big oil companies stole it from Fred Koche believing he could never finance his legal claims. After all he was an engineer not a fellow capitalist. Fred went to the Soviet Union for work and teaching in the oil industry he left with the money to finance his legal challenge and won his case. By hiring someone with no knowledge of the disrupter and merely instructing them to make operation transparent you avoid any charges of infringement on intelectual property. Isn't bourgeois intelectual property law granting monopolies terrific at advancing science and the arts? Once you have a monopoly why let others in? The first argument the incumbent will make is that the software both source and machine code is intelectual property and any change made without permission is a violation of the terms of the software licensing agreement. You buy a license to use without any guaranteed purpose or use and your licensing agreement assures that you changing it is not permitted. Buy Microsoft Visual Studio and you will discover using it to create a word processor is not permitted. Guess why?
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Increase in wages mean cuts for the stock market and boss pay.
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@predragmilovanovic1082 Now you live in the US instead of the Yeltsin/Putin neoliberal capitalist dictatorship imposed by coup de eta..
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EightFrancs It has different meanings depending on who you ask.
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Actually considering his postion on Imperialist Wars. I call him the National Embezzler.
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This is just part of the continuing crisis caused by the failure of capitalism.
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The capitalist and their two parties have no intention of ending capitalism. Workers have power as the productive class. Women who are isolated and confined to the home don't have the kind of power that we the industrial workers do. The more women who enter the workplace and the industrial unions the more power that we both have.
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@justgivemethetruth I have better things to do then be put to sleep by books written liberal college professors.
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@scottkimball9169 The biggest threat to the United States comes from our own ruling class with its thirst for profits and world domination.
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No such thing as a nonunion state pick lines are up in Arlington, TX and Jackson, MS
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The key word though is underneath and it wouldn't explain the arctic ice melting.
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@ThomasSt40 Musk is a white South African who naturally equates all evils with communism. Afterall Fidel Castro's Rebel Army beat the South Africa's Army at Cuito Cuanavale. It drove a stake into white supremacy from which the South African Apartheid State never recovered.
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@JenniH-mj8vh If they taught everyone how capitalism works it would lower the value of the bosses education. After All that was exactly the goal Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had in mind when writing Das Kapital to strip bare the workings of capitalism and capitalist society. To get at the heart of the problems faced by the early classical economists Adam Smith and Ricardo. Afterall the neoliberals like Sowell and Friedman postuale the need for private property for everything but can't show why that didn't or can't happen. Why would a capitalist like Henry Ford call for public road building and not private roads? What causes economic crisis and why do big companies require bailouts? Marx drew a number of conclusions about capitalism none of which in its later stage are very complementary. The concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands with a tendency of long term profit rates to decline. That capital was a social force in and of itself. That private property would become an obstacle to increasing production because the capitalist seek only to profit and the bigger and more productive industry becomes the lower the rate of profit sinks.
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@lbautista2261 News media gets a first amendment pass. Trump might do best if he sued for malicious prosecution.
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@paulespinoza974 Abortion is medical care not murder.
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@paulespinoza974 Your the one who claims a prolonged murder is occurring before a child is even born. Murder is the unlawful taking of a human life You have to be born before the state can even call you a person. Facts aren't changed by new naming conventions. Just because you call a fetus an unborn child doesn't change the facts that a fetus doesn't survive on its own. I'm sick and tired of people changing the meanings of words for political propaganda purposes. Pro life means absolutely nothing because no one is Anti Life. As does the right to Choose. Choose what? I'm for the right to a safe and legal abortion not some abstract right to choose because than the question is to choose what. Now we are having a necessary debate on why women need a right to a safe and legal abortion instead of this BS about choice and life. The politicians of both parties like to fame things as meaninglessly as possible taht way they can't be wrong.
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@paulespinoza974 I'm not interested in theology. That's right fetus isn't a living human being. Soctus didn't rule that a fetus was a living human being only that it found no right to an abortion in the US Constitution. If a fetus were ruled to be a human being it would lose any legal right to sustenance from the mothers body. Since the law is clear that no one has the right to anybody else's blood or tissue even in emergency situations where ones life is minimally threatened. The foundation for anti abortion laws sits on the very shaky foundation of regulation of medical care.
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@paulespinoza974 God isn't mentioned in the US Constitution but religion is and The Constitution has the No religious test clause is. ....no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States..." So Theology is totally irrelevant since you can't test anyone who is a public official on it. The government was meant to serve mans purposes not Gods or any particular theological theory despite whatever particular religious views someone might or might not have had. People like Jefferson did not want to get bogged down in a lot of theological debates. The fact that they belonged to so many different religious sects is exactly why they had no choice but to push theology to the side when developing a system of self governance. Thomas Paine author of "Common Sense" also wrote "The Age of Reason" Where he specifically argued against all organized religion.
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@paulespinoza974 Great you say away from the word "we" obviously because you might otherwise be accused of being one of "them." Religion is just so much hogwash dreamed up by past ruling classes to justify themselves which is why it began dying under the impact of the bourgeois relations of production. Religion like all culture was invented in Man's spare time. .After the Protestant reformation which arrived with the new capitalist system holy dogma was replaced by new interpretations of meaning of the bible and biblical events.
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Is Sowell a flight instructor also?
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 So your saying Farinas never struck a co worker? You obviously understand zero about economics. So I'm not going to even bother with that. When they adopt Peristroka and Glastnost like what your friend Farinas wanted then we will see people on the street trying to sell everything they own just to buy a scrap of bread and the development of mafia type gangsters killing at will, all kinds of sell off of state property to corrupted officials mentally ill wandering the streets and dangerous drugs of course will also be for sale. Then you can truely say you have capitalist Freedom and Democracy. That is what Gorbachev and Bill Clinton sold the Soviet people. But the Pizza Hut commercials told a different story. Gorbachev couldn't eat enough along with the Pepsi everyone was going to live happily ever after. So no the idea that the police are holding people back and they are starving is just so much bullshit. Of course the US has made it clear that is what it wants from the blockade. hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 No like I said you fail to understand economics. No country is "self sufficient" .You can't build Socialism in one country and Cuba has not adopted private property where housing belongs to banks or created a stock market. Nor is a privileged bureaucracy that fights to restore capitalist methods developed. Those seeking privileges are leaving for the USA. A minority like you want to return to capitalism. You look to capitalist liberals and finance to solve Cuba's problems and not the power of the organized workers and farmers themselves. You fail to understand how capitalism is choking off production on a world scale. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. If your such a smart one than you can explain how capital produces a god dam thing? You think that largest in the world cache of gold sitting in the bottom of the New York federal reserve bank is what keeps American imperialism as top dog or do you think its the production of millions of human beings and a world empire of military force unmatched in human history.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Energy is the backbone of the modern economy. Cuba has no oil, gas, nuclear or coal. Cuba is on the US list of state sponsors of terror which makes all kinds of international banking transactions difficult. To drive profits in their direction the capitalist use new machines to replace higher paid skilled and union labor with lower paid and less skilled labor. Because value comes from our labor as the capital value rise the labor needed to produce falls so as the price falls towards the cost of production the rate of return on investment by which all capital measures success also falls. All capital does is accumulate and demand a return on investment. Cuba has population of about 20 million in a world of 9 billion. 1/3 of all food eaten in the US comes from California. The small farmer is continually driven out of business. Here they continually push out dollars that create a continuous inflation to counter the need for the old fashion wage cut. Prices and the dollar value of property continues to rise while wages stagnate. They have also deliberately run an international trade deficit since 1973. The same year they closed the federal reserve banks intentional gold trade at $35 an ounce (Temporarily). They continually devalue the dollar to force other countries to do the same so they can sell here. They say this helps with capital formation. So yes I need to understand more about international trade. But economics of capitalism is driven not by supply and demand but the goal of profit maximization.expressed by rising shareholder value or the payout of dividends. The Wall street hedge fund manager is little more than an agent for a betting parlor. They hired lots Math and Physics grads from MIT to sent up derivatives which which were suppose to earn money dispute the back and form of profit and loss across all markets This is what eventually produced the crisis of 2008 from which world trade has yet to actually recover in real terms.
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The capitalist love a monopoly when selling and love free markets prices when purchasing. The hate paying a tax but love a bailout government contracts and subsidies. The Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned with the Chairman and Board of Governors appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. "We are on our own." See that is where people like you think like the real bureaucrat with your demands for safety nets and all kinds of measures that you think will provide shelter from the necessity of world revolution. You fail to recognize that the most import creation of the Cuban revolution was international solidarity in addition to national independence. A real communist leadership knows both when and how to advance as well as retreat with its hands on the pulse of the workers struggle and needs. The bureaucrats in Moscow and Peking have like the pre WW1 right Social Democrats shown themselves to be completely incompetent. You demand what Stalin and his followers could never provide shelter behind national boundaries from the ongoing world class struggle with the creation of socialism in one country. .
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 The American ruling class proves its love for Hypocrisy with its de classified Secret state dept memos on any number of foreign policy issues. US Marine corps Major General Smedley Butler revealed the truth in "War is a Racket." Its available online. The Imperialist Powers began world war one not Marx or Engles or Lenin or Trotsky or Eugene Debs. All the left Social Democrats denounced the slaughter. Many of the rightest reversed their position after the slaughter began. Trotsky was in New York and left for Russia. Lenin in Zurich and left for Russia. Debs was thrown into prison for opposition to the rich mans war. He received over one million votes. That war and the revolutions that have followed mark the death agony of capitalism and the end of any progress capitalism can bring the world. I lived though the cold war those B 52 bombers with nuclear weapons on board flew over our home on an alternate flight path. I gave very careful thought before deciding which side had my interests at heart. All the neo liberal Keynesian economist prediction have proved utterly bankrupt. Capitalism is still nothing but modern slavery with a ruling class that outlived any use fullness it once had in the ability to advance the productive forces of humanity but now only seeks to use the means of production to defend its system of exploitation though Imperialist war and fascism. .The slander that Carlos Lazo is doing Bridges of Love for free trips to Cuba shows the depth of your hatred for working people. He must be doing it for personal gain. After all to aid a group of strikers with anything is treason to private property and the bosses. Marco Rubio promised free internet from balloons maybe you should go blow up a campaign balloon for Rubin. He's a hater like you. You can join any number of renegades that promote the class struggle as hopeless cause of dreamers who interfere with the bosses scientific wisdom. Don't expect me to follow.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Fidel brought the dictator to court and by doing so exhausted all legal means of governmental change since the Cuban Supreme court could not remove him and the American Imperialist found him to be a pliable tool for their world Empire arming him to the teeth. Cuba and Cuban's had little to no hope of being anything but a place for the backbreaking work of sugarcane slaves, a playground for the wealthy Americans wanting what their puritanical morality prohibited them at home plenty of sex for sale and gambling casinos. The revolution brought things that can't be bought dignity and respect for dark skinned colonial and semi colonial people. It built schools and the campaign of the pencils taught the peasants to read and write. Mr Lazo is an American citizen now he has a right to campaign with a flag in Miami if that what he wants just as the exiles have the right to make fools of themselves and burn a flag. Most of us got tried a long time ago of sore losers coming here and then demanding we go put them back in power with US Marines. Cuban exiles use to try and break up meetings with physical assaults. We are well known for preventing thugs from breaking up meetings with a combination of self defense and legal tactics. The problem for you and the rest of the counter revolutionaries is like Fidel said about Giron."the had a good plan what they lacked is a just cause."Instead you need to magnify ever grievances a thousand times over and jump on every bandwagon where possible wrong doing can be alleged without proof. Since you've got an axe to grind then any charge can be leveled and when it is proven to by a hoax or wrong well you just move on to new ones. The quilt of Genocide disappeared after it was shown to contain the names of living and those who had died of natural causes. Does it stop Ben Shapiro from saying Fidel and Che murdered thousands after the revolution? If he was a blood thirtsy dictator than he would have murdered the captured exiles after Giron instead of sending them back to the US so they could try again. . Yo u say you need more parties but you don't organize one because what would it be about? I tend to think all this talk about dictatorship and fear is the result of listening to to much US propaganda. I've been to Mexico and the first thing I noticed was soldiers with rifles in a pick up truck with one standing behind the cab rifle pointing forward. I've seen plenty of video footage taken in Cuba and you seldom see a policeman. Same with the bullshit about not being able to talk to tourists. It was Lenin and Trotsky who taught us that the national aspirations of the colonial slaves would be a revolution force that lead towards socialism and not capitalism. That bourgeois forces would be too weak to carry out a national revolution and set up the centralized bourgeois democratic state that could compete in the world market. That only a workers and farmers government could carry out the tasks normally associated with the bourgeois revolution of England and America. Imperialism had ruled that out since the colonies were only appendages to the markets in the Imperialist world and among the Imperialist nations war had broken out to redivide not increase the world market.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Cuban's today live as long as we do and infant mortality is lower than the US. Fidel did not use the methods of terrorist bombing against the population that is just another ought right lie. The de classified state dept memo reports that Castro has overwhelming support at least 50% and no effective political opposition. You obviously don't need to repress an ineffective opposition. These were the witch hunt years in American politics when anyone who couldn't name the names of communists to the Congressional witch hunt committees traveling the country must be a fellow traveler and therefore imprisoned or fired from their job. Everyone who wanted a job involving government contracts, a job with the government or student loan was asked to sign an oath swearing that they were not a member of the communist party or a subversive organization on the attorney generals list. The American Stalinist had few friends in the labor movement because they had acted as strike breakers for the capitalist during the war and now the capitalist would launch a Stalin like ideological purge of them for the benefit of America that would be based on the secret testimony of FBI finks. Batista was running that type of police force operation also. So when the traitor Huber Matos decided he would begin a red scare also well 20 years is what he got instead. The American ex commandant Morgan was shot for arming terrorists. So their is your political opposition an American who was going to lead an armed rebellion against communism and someone who was going to start a political purge for his own benefit at best or the US CIA at worst. At the end of the day the United States trains an invasion force and lands them. It's plan is to invade, size land declare a provisional government and call for a US Forces to aid in defeat a communist dictatorship. They are defeated in 72 hours and US warships off the coast of Cuba take back those who are able to retreat. The US provided air support with Alabama National Guard bombers painted in Cuban colors bombing the island and Cuba denounces US Imperialist aggression and violation of the UN Charter by the United States at the UN.. .
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Their average lifespan is about the same as those who live in the USA. I live in an advanced capitalist country that was not destroyed by the first and second Imperialist wars. Don't lecture me about depleting resources as if Cuba was some sort of Jewel under the Batista dictatorship. The US Imperialist exposed the truth in their declassified papers.that Fidel was a popular leader and that communism was spading fast and that the US must create hardship desperation and loss of wages to facility his overthrow. The US armed Batista and he was their lackey in Cuba. He gave the American companies anything they wanted. Why don't you just say you are a pacifist who surrenders in the face of injustice. Who reserves his criticism for those who are fighting back rather than aiming his fire at those who are responsible and letting those who get in the way take the heat. It's the American Imperialist who invaded the new Soviet Republic not the other way around. Its the American Imperialist who maintain an Empire of private investors with 800 foreign military bases. They built the first nuclear weapons and used them on people and continue the production of even more today. They who kept pushing the confrontation in Cuba. Fidel who went to the masses of Cuban workers and farmers for support not a bunch of bourgeois Cubans who were afraid of their own shadow. Those who fought and died for Cuba's freedom where those who made the biggest gains from the revolution. Those who want a profit and a comfortable lifestyle make their seperate peace with the Imperialists. They went to Miami to open business and compete. The capitalist can not solve any of the problem they create anymore than the Kings and Queens of the feudal system could save themselves by intermarriage. Those who believe in the superiority of the industrial profit system are simple fools who can't understand their own accounting books.
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@ursusalincardososuarez4286 Huber Matos was no different than General Benedict Arnold who went over to the British in the American war of Independence.
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@jeannebrandon318 World capitalism has created its own problems and the US is at the center of most of the problems. People come here because capitalism is a failed system but the American capitalist insist it is working. So people leave their countries hoping for a better economic situation here. If capitalism worked the way the capitalist claim than any country with capitalism should be easily able to absob immigrants. The fact that it doesn't is connected to the way capitalism works. The bosses seek to pay the lowest wages and charge the highest prices. The move production to from one country to another depending on where the can pay the lowest manufacturing labor and shipping costs. They face rebellion in the colonies and rebellion in the Imperialist nations.
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Good bring back all the troops and let other countries decide what they want. End the blockade of Cuba Now!!!
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@gtarater1000 Do you have the slightest idea of how many tractor trailers and rail cars cross each day?
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@SK-hs4fp Thank you for the information I got called a dirty Muslim for that a number of times even though I've never been a Muslim.
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@pembebulut2781 The denonce the Jew haters of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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A revolution that crushes the power of the capitalist class will be able to move down the socialist road like Cuba.
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Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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@DxV04 I find the idea of a Muslim takeover of the US laughable. Something that can only be compared to the irrational fear of Soviet Invasion of the US durring the cold war.
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@diegojines-us9pc It depends on if its a party decision or one by the state. The party is an unincorporated political organization the state is NOT. The state is bound by the limits imposed by the 14th Amendments due process clause.
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@Mr.Anderson-y2j Stop putting everything in markets. Get rid of private property the property used to exploit others.
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@marianlucas2947 The Constriction sets up an elected centralized federal government and guarantees the states right to a republican form of government which means a government without a king. The original government was set up by slave and bourgeois property owners to defend their class interests. A conflict of class interests broke out causing the civil war. The capitalist property owners won the civil but now their system of private profit and investment is holding back Social Development just like the Monarchy of feudalism did. Anew class of wage workers was created by the capitalist who have opposing class interests.
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You better go back and listen again. They cut hours and 'Vow" to raise wages after the holidays when they don't need us. They're going to raise the wage of everyone they fire.
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@justinmw24 We don't more sweat shops. Go Union!!!
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@morbidbushido We have to create a State if for no other reason than defense against a Capitalist states invasion. Leon Trotsky lead the Red Army to defeat 14 Imperilaist Armies including the US/UK. Our state is a workers state a whole people in arms.
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When Bosses control both prices and wages that's BOSS TYRANNY!!! UNION YES!
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@andrewnelson3681 Its only one of the most read and translated works of literature in world history.
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@rdean150 Thieves seeking profit where ever it can be found.
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@rdean150 Theives seeking profit where ever it can be found.
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@sparksmcgee6641 Right if they had company pensions like in the US the wouldn't be worth the paper they are written on. In the US they promise private company pensions and then they either don't pay, because they closed up, moved away, the plan went bankrupt, inflation makes it worthless or you can't qualify. That's why with Social Security the bosses can weasel out of paying for your retirement.
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Hey Hey Judge Jeanine how many plea bargains did you accept Today?
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@seanbailey7761 Trump was much more of a nutcase then anyone realized. A member of his administration revealed that he wanted to fire missiles into Mexico against drug cartels. When pointed out that it would be illegal he said we could say we didn't do it.
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@beatleographer_10-51 She's all wax and no rubber.
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@bigeffinowl We need to organize a labor party or you can vote for the Socialist Workers Party that wants to organize a labor party. Running away to Canada does nothing to advance the class struggle for socialism. We don't need to vote for Sanders and AOC who are becoming traitors to the working class by their refusal to abandon the two parties of capitalist dictatorship. The capitalist can have a peaceful revolution at the ballot box or face a massive rebellion without it.
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@ismaelsantos5378 Bolshevik Russia extended the vote to women before the US did.
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@w.reidripley1968 The American federal system of government is based upon the English parliament of landowners and commons. States and Senators based upon land Representatives based on population. Until recent one man one vote court rulings state senators were also based upon land. Only Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and only Louisiana retains French customs in their governmental organizations and law. In the case of the CZAR's Russian Empire you had many different nationalities and language groups in a prison house of nations. The Soviet Union was NOT intended to be a nation but a federation of socialist states with autonomous regions for areas of different nations and customs. If the revolution in Germany had succeeded Lenin would have moved to Berlin.
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@rjlovell1 Yes if only the bosses didn't live in the mansions of CT and NJ. If only they didn't need to hire people to do every household chore. If only they could contain their greed and not come into conflict with each other and the workers they employee. If only the could escape creating a bureaucracy and state power ti arbitrate everything in their favor. If only capitalism worked the way the neoliberals say it should.
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@w.reidripley1968 The Soviet Union was never intended to be a nation rather a federation of Socialist Republics. Had the German Bolsheviks take power in 1923 then the Soviet Power of Lenin and Trotsky world have moved to Berlin. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia would also have gone socialist.
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The US Military has not decisively won a major military confrontation since the end of WW2. Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and now Afghanistan.
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@austindiver9267 You got capitalism in Hungary and Poland so what's to complain about?
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JJ Murphy The US Congress knew because now an insider trading scandal is erupting. Having a phoney Impeachment trial instead of preparing here and helping China.
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Capitalism has no use for an educated working class because capital and machines replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor.
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@Andreas-gh6is "The US is getting over populated and we are no longer an industrial power that requires low skilled labor like we did 100 years ago." This is the mantra of the business millionaire billionaire crowd that thinks it is producing value and not overconsuming and mismanaging it. People who fool themselves into believing that running printing presses and computers is creating something without labor.
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@ds29912 No such thing as natural law. Capitalism is the worst offender because its unnecessary.
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@GQ-jv9uw You have yet to realize your capitalist methods do not always produce the results you want. This is George Bush's "New World Order". You are his "Ownership Society."
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@heavenlyvoice-f2c We already have the worst criminals in the world their called politicians and CEO's and are in DC and NYC. As far as disease go you think tourists are disease free? Do they send you to a Doctor for a physical at customs? At best they look at papers which can be phoneyed up. COVID was worse than it should have been because rich people prepare for war not disease. The figure they can always buy all the health care they need but the need us to fight their wars.
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Maybe Trump will win and maybe he will lose I don't really give a flying F.
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@umungus518 Of course it can't be fixed by establishing private schools since then it just becomes schools only for those who can afford it and those who accept the current ruling class ideology. You can't fix education without taking on capitalism and the dog eat dog competition for jobs and beginning the right to have a human life. It takes a revolution like 1959 Cuba.
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@DadSavesAmerica LMAO Every time a dispute breaks out amongst the liberal and consevative factions bourgeois they cry' "Marxism." Most of these educated clowns have never even read any of the writings of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, VI Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro or Che Guevara never mind all the debates and disagreements they had with others calling themselves Marxists. According to them ideas are poisonous one must not open the pandora s box called a book or pamphlet with the wrong ideas.
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@squirehaggard4749 Selling sweatshirts with meaningless political slogans is a typical activity of so called Democratic (Capitalist) Socialists. Socialist in name only Capitalist in deed always supporters of the Kingdom of Sweden. Let's have a "political revolution" with King Burnie and wave "Drive Volvo it's made in Democratic Socialist Sweden!" signs. Since Bunie lost he wants us to be art of the Joe Biden's "Wear a Blue Mask "and "Let a Thousand Flags Wave" government.
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@michaelsalmon9832 You really don't yet understand Marx if you think socialism can be lead by the DSA who vote Democrat
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@calderarecords Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are also "rich and white".The Obama's are "Rich and Black" Mostly this is a grab for one Party rule. The rich Democrats.
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@pnfposse123kbabi6 Women held accountable how? Burned at the stake by religious bigots for having a miscarriage?
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@JM-qn3tf 59 Commissioners of the house of Commons found King Charles gulity of treason for the fever of Tyrants. They voted guilty and the king was beheaded. He raised taxes to go around destroying the country much like the US Imperialist have been doing for a century now. Cancel the national debt. We need a trial of the Imperialist leader of capitalism.
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@freepilot7732 Reagan' idea of common ground was sending in armed cops to take over a dirt lot "People Park" UC Berkley from communists and dirty hippies. Cops who killed one and set off a police riot and national guard invasion of the City of Berkley. Ex Cuban Sugar canne slaves rode Soviet Tanks into Cuito Cunavale, Angola. Defeating Reagan's White South African allies. That shows their was no US win of the cold war. Mendela came to Cuba to thank Fidel and The Cuban people for all they did for Africa before a meeting at Reagan's Imperialist Plaice.
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@Raven135 Ya he was real good at explain Iran Contra and Lt Col Oliver North selling misles to Iran to buy arms for Nicarguanan contra's.
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@wm6558 One of the founders of American Conservatism with Bill Buckley Professor James Burnham was a Trotskyist Communist.
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Hillary Clinton said she won the election and Donald Trump knows it. She and the Democrats concocted a story about how Russian interference caused her to lose. Democrats are now getting a taste of their own hypocrisy.
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They can't legally deprive the baby but they may be able to legally deprive the mom.
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Let the business owners leave we don't need them anyhow. Same with the middle class. They already have to many privileges.
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@jillcooper6371 Dog has a heartbeat GIVE THE DOG A RIGHT TO LIFE!!! Plus save the STRAY DOG!!! No executions at the dog pound!!!
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@jillcooper6371 You need to have more babies. Do you need help finding a natural sperm donor?
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@jillcooper6371 We don't live dream we make dream. We brought communism to America back before Eugene Debs. See Debs he was a Bolshevik from head to toe he just couldn't leave all the Social Democratic reformists behind. Trotsky he was a Russian living in New York City before the February revolution. Leon Trotsky Soviet Commissar of Army and Naval Affairs was the organizer of the Red Army victory over 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. .
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@rae7564 The reason for the marriage contract is so men can own women's bodies and pass on property to the male offspring.
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@jillcooper6371 How about you show up for an extremely sensitive test method to see if your actually alive before you get automatically placed in a coffin. You realize Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the US. That they train 10,000 foriegn Doctors at no direct cost to the student. That they have the highest Doctor to patient ratio in the world. That thousands of Cuban Doctors serve in medical aid missions. That communism works and Imperialism doesn't.
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@mdez3706 Sorry I missed the quotes at first so actual it was Biden making the Threats.
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@mdez3706 No that was a mistake for someone quoting Biden as "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay" After which a drone killed innocent civilians loading water jugs. The coffin thing is technological sarcasm. Since all these crazies keep talking about abortion being murder.
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@FinnyThePorg The US can not train enough Doctors so for every Medical Prince who retires one has to be replaced with an immigrant. Capitalism works to cut skilled labor and replace it with unskilled labor and machines. Since another worker can always be hired the capitalist view healthcare like education as an overhead cost to be minimized.
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Tell Biden to end the Blockade of Cuba!!
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@alanhonlunli You've got that right he wants to end Social Security also another welfare promises with UBI.
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Well if they knew the group they'd arrest them.
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@drannoc100 Capitalism is in a crisis caused by the capitalist greed. It's a system where corruption both legal and illegal is how it operates. You can't regulate greed out of the system.
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That's another load of bullcrap.
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You don't understand Cuban communism is the biggest threat to America Today because its a failed system.
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@Von-nolimit Abolish Private Property.
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@Von-nolimit Capitalism produces a wealth ruling classes in nation states that must compete in a world market for profits once they reach a certain conquest of markets there is nothing left for them to do but go to war with each other over who controls those markets and resources. The bosses wars for profits are just as reactionary as the English Kings wars for taxes. One of the charges leveled against the English King Charles was that he was going about the country fighting wars for taxes. The Eglish revolution and the execution of King Charles produced the Commonwealth that was later defeated by the Restorationists, landlord monarchists wars. None of the surviving 59 commissioners who signed the death warrant for the King was pardoned and they had to become political exiles fleeing to the Dutch Republic, Switzerland and New England.
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@daniangoodman-jones3931 The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism. All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property. The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence. Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily. Or do you mean the modern bourgeois private property? But does wage-labour create any property for the labourer? Not a bit. It creates capital, i.e., that kind of property which exploits wage-labour, and which cannot increase except upon condition of begetting a new supply of wage-labour for fresh exploitation. Property, in its present form, is based on the antagonism of capital and wage labour. Let us examine both sides of this antagonism. To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is therefore not only personal; it is a social power. When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the property of all members of society, personal property is not thereby transformed into social property. It is only the social character of the property that is changed. It loses its class character.
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@JellyWhopper Like Professor Petersen you haven't got a clue do you?
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@kevinbraden798 Although possible its never been done by Congress with a conviction expect with federal judges.
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Yang is a FORTRAN 77 "Continue" statement. Continue on with no changes.
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@AshikJonathan March on Washington Declare Trump a dictator nominate an intern President and seek recognition from Cuba, North Korea and Iran.
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@simpleman4059 The next question should be who writes their paychecks?
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Why not make healthcare a human right and pay for it like roads and education.
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death to socialism Is Finland not a capitalist country? Why would the capitalist NOT want to shift the tax burden to the working class. Only a fool believes the Social Democratic lie that capitalism can become socialism by changing the name of everything. The Social Democrats say let me run the capitalist state for the capitalist and I will give you socialism presto chango.
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death to socialism The Social Democrats and Stalinist agree that capitalism can be made to work for the benefit of all. They tell the workers you need to share costs with the capitalist. I argued about this win another Finn he tells me that capital produces. I told him wealth can only be generated by labor he insists otherwise. What do you think and why.
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A society that follows Milton Freedman's advice will end up with a few rich bosses at the top and everyone else's at the bottom. When sacrifice for boss profits you give back to the rich and that stays with the rich it doesn't magically come back. Not to mention the rob us by printing money so they can raise prices faster than wages.
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@williamshockley7692 I don't need to answer someone who plays a game where he pretends to be a famous physicist. William Shockley. inventor of the transistor. Go open the Wiliam Shockley Smart Gym and Policeman's Workout Club.
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@williamshockley7692 No I won't take a frauds money. Workers build what the middle class engineers invent. The Koche family would not be rich had Fred Koche not been paid by the Soviet Union for his help with the Soviet Oil industry. Oil companies stole Fed Koche's patent thinking he would never be able to mount the legal defense because of the funds needed. He went to the Soviet Union in the early 1930's and got paid for help with the Soviet oil industry which made it possible to sue the oil companies all the way to the Supreme Court. They say he respected the young engineers idea's and was deeply disturbed when they became the victims of Stalin's purges.
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@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 And all you've done is your own epic self own as a chavanitic imperialist professor.
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We don't let the capitalist decide how the workers should proceed to a socialist revolution.
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The capitalist are creating both the people the means and the reasons to organize society in a new way the industrial workers who create the surplus value that makes the capitalist rich along with the inability of them to successful maintain and expand the creation of surplus value that brings their system of production for the profit of a class of greedy investors to an end. Not all human activities can be put into the market of industrial production without creating a working class of general culture. It's our class that will create the new comrade engineer and comrade scientist the comrade administrator who works for the same wages as the others in the organization. As Fidel stated it was Che Guevara who saw this most clearly that new society produces the new man who works for not just for himself but others in solidarity that you can't just measure everything with the old methods of profit and loss that it is necessary to speak for others who can speak for themselves? Who speaks at the UN for the child without a crust of bread? Who speaks for those who suffer under the brutality of the banker who orders the military invasion to save his capital from nationalization?
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@wattsrecords1734 I don't understand what you mean???
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@scorpion-fs7pg Actually No. Griswold v. Connecticut which overturned CT little comstock act wasn't decided until 1965 and Eisenstadt v. Baird which overturned the limiting of birth control devices to married women only wasn't decided until 1972 about a year before Roe v. Wade in 1973
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Ekaterina H OOOh another potential patent for the psychaitrist. You seem to be suffering from commiefobia.
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@dubvideos If you just follow the science than you have to conserve sperm because it also is life. If you look at morals as meeting the material needs of the working class then you come up with what even the Bible has which is that life begins with first breath because that is the clear dividing line between independent life and the beginning's of new life. Before science people believed in many cultures that men planted seed in women that the grew until it was ready for life much like plants in the ground which like I said is in the story of the creation of Adam. As God gave him life when he blew air into his nostrils.
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@Gambit22003 They were formed in the womb, where God clearly states He knew us even before then. Well then you must protect all sperm since they must first pass though the womb to reach the egg. Going to send out the cops to arrest male masturbators? Otherwise that sperm that God knew was the one to fertilize the egg was murdered. This is why theory's based in moral ideas and not material reality and human needs can lead to the wrong action. No one needs to conserve sperm or every pregnancy over the women's life. And their is no need for police enforced morality in 99% of all medical decisions. Since cops and lawyers are not anywhere close to the level of a competent medical Doctor..We have a shortage of Doctors but no shortage of cops and lawyers many of who should be fired and a get a productive job elsewhere. .
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@Madanth0ny Why should animals have rights? Give dog a right to life and sentence people for dog murder? Second while grandstanding politicians call for the rights ofa fetus that has questionable viability they can't guarantee an 18 year olds "Right to Life" from death in their next Imperialist war.
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@gaguy1967 That's why viability shouldn't be a factor. Their is no reason that religious values should be forced upon everyone else. Pregnancy and termination of pregnancy artificial and natural should be like any other medical procedure up to the good sense and agreement of the patient and Doctor.
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@jillionairess I agree for the most part we don't need more laws. What is going on is attacks upon materialist philosophy. This is especially true around questions of women's rights, Race and nationality are culturally determined while sex is genetic. You can't cut and paste your way to the other sex.
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@anonymous-vy8lz Hamas is just another Neo NAZI organization that has taken control of Gaza and is launching Jew hating pogroms. People of Gaza will suffer just as Germans did under Hitler but what choice has Hamas the Military Government of Gaza given Israel? Stop shooting so we can regroup and do it all over again?
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@maximilianomadrigal6661 I prefer the Cuban System with the highest doctor to patient system in the world.
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@yourboysgottem202 As long as we have capitalism healthcare will be just another commodity that is bought and sold in a market place. Maybe its paid for with taxes. Maybe it's paid for by the individual or some combination their of. If insurance companies are in charge of healthcare they will always seek to maximize the profit like any other business. To prevent excessive fraud the government steps in for greed control. However because the government itself consists in politicians who need campaign funds the insurance companies are only to happy to make a donation. Few are willing to bite the hand that feeds them. The drug and medical apparatus business is quite profitable. However for business as a whole medical costs come out of profits. Like when the Coal Miner asked the Coal Boss which costs the company more a dead man or a dead mule. The Coal Boss replied a dead mule of course. We can always hire another man. We have to buy mules. As for taxes not all are equal here either. The wealth like to portray themselves as taxpayers because the like they sympathy that gets them. They of course can afford to pay those taxes without having to take on debt or make choices between seeing the doctor or going without some other basic need. They also think of tax money as their money to spend for what they want like the US Military's 800 foriegn bases protecting their foreign investments. The US government either taxes or goes into debt. If taxes don't provide enough revenue than they print up bonds. These bonds are seldom talked about because mostly those with money who should have been paying taxes don't pay taxes but buy bonds for a guaranteed profit when the 30 year bond matures. Another buyer of bonds is the Federal Reserve bank. At the beginning of the week the bureau of printing and engraving prints the bonds that will go to the US Treasury at the end of the week they will print Federal Reserve Bank notes (US Money) for the Federal Reserve Bank. So the Federal Reserve Banks now can now buy 30 year US Treasury Bonds in a paper swap with the US Treasury getting those Federal Reserve notes. Since the development of the computer a lot of money never actually appears as paper but as a record in a US national bank or Federal Reserve computer.
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@yourboysgottem202 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=f09 Like most in the business class they are also steeped in the idealogy that free market capitalism is the best way of doing things when they attened their univeristy.
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@macioluko9484 Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist because he's afraid of being called a commie. You don't lead a socialist revolution by joining the Democratic "capitalist" Party.
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@jaypee11 Nicolai Tesla died as a pauper living in a hotel. His papers were confiscated by the American secret police (FBI).
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@debbieburgess2207 The Chinese company BVD already produces more cheap eclectic cars for sale than Tesla showing the ability to produce electric cars has nothing to do with Musk being a genius.but the technological capability of the human society. We could easily build the ancient pyramids today but no one knows exactly how it was done in ancient times.
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@jaypee11 You do need to be under the influence of money and someone who knows little about the history of the communist movemnet. Naturally the billionaires are against us because like the slaveholders in early America their way of life would end.
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National "I smell a frame job". Security.
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@mainenative5928 Just you typical boss who hates unions.
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Did he bring a single case against the bakers? No because he believes in "Free Markets" where the bosses rule through their ownership of capital and a corrupt government.
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Also if you watch the Steve Crowder video he confesses that a number of Muslim bakers agreed to his request.
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Well sure Fox News is more than happy to interview Muslim Clerics who use speech to all but declare war to make Fox News's point. If Muslims were united in driving out the infidel they could quickly create a Muslim only area stretching from Morocco in North West Africa to Pakistan in the western Asia after which they could get countries in eastern Asia like Indonesia and Bangladesh. Other than the crazed terrorists the most conservative of Muslims and Islamic ideology is the Saudi ruling class with their Wahabism. Just 3% of Saudi's in a country with a 30% non muslim population.
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Its not necessary to debate and answer fascist gentlemen who view war and genocide as the final solution.
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What ever ruling decided in this instance will apply in a similar manner to all 'Muslim' Bakers. Plus this baker has not said he will not bake cakes for Muslim, Atheist or Jewish weddings only same sex weddings. He chose to shut down his wedding cake business rather than risk fines and penalties imposed if he loses. So far he has lost every appeal.
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@qanommonsense2753 Answering the words of an obvious racist is not worth the verbiage required.
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@leifc.6045 If they're secret how do you know about them? If they develop policies in secret than the secret ends when the start implementing them. If you've been so indoctrinated and brainwashed into being a slave how did you escape, why haven't you been captured, had you posts removed and sent to a reeducation camp?
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@Rob-sf4xy Yang's plan is to throw a meatless bone to the unemployed for the coming job crisis caused by automation. You and your family will be living on a sidewalk eating McD's while he sells post Presidency influence like the Clinton's. Silicon Valley will have their choice of special cuisines at new Olive Gardens sleeping in new comfortably beds.
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@estebanbareiro1270 I give Yang an F in math. His VFA that was suppose to create 100,000 jobs has 30 full time employees and claims to have created less than 4,000 jobs
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@estebanbareiro1270 Automation (New Machinery) is part of the way capitalism works. Those branches of industry and companies which can cut labor costs with new machinery see additional profits headed their way because the cost of production drops first while it takes time for that to show up in a lower sales price. Replacing Truck drivers with self driving trucks is still a long ways away. The bosses can't run a train with a single driver without unnecessary accidents what makes you think they can do so with a no truck driver? Let's say tomorrow morning they could launch a self driving tuck. They can't replace or modify all the trucks like making a windows overnight software change. Which they can't even do now because of possible new bugs to the biggest customers.
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@Adam-gy3tw Yangs proposal is meant to cut the social costs of capitalism. His so called "Human Capitalism" consists of nothing other than changing the way the BLS collects and analyzes statistics. The BLS doesn't run corporate America so why should that make any difference? He calls his proposal a freedom dividend for the propaganda value. The capitalist push everything they can't make a profit on to either the government or private charity as it is now. So how could being an "owner" in the US government make you a profit to be paid like a dividend? He says he's returning government to the American people well since the end of reconstruction after the civil has the government been anything but a tool of the rich capitalists? So what is he returning us too?
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The last Democrat to tinker with the Social Security act of 1935 was Bill Clinton. His new TANF which was suppose to move you from welfare to work and end "welfare as we know" killed one of the Black Women at its signing a few years later when she couldn't pay for her medicine which would have been previously covered by medicare.
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@he-mansuncle7661 The co founder of American Conservatism Professor James Burnham was a Communist at one time.
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@he-mansuncle7661 The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer. They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism.
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Nixon was a criminal who along with Johnson should have been prosecuted. No Declaration of war was ever made violating the US constitution.
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@MegaSammy70 The real abstract question on the table is how does a majority lose a right to a minority. The Democratic Party could have settled this issue long ago but didn't and why should they AOC and Chelsea Clinton's abortion access remains unfettered and why not use abortion as a wedge issue? Pro Life has nothing to lose because the unborn don't vote or even cry and once born they can be conveniently forgotten if they or the woman dies in child birth or from a bothed abortion that can be chalked up to the mothers and doctors fault. Mean while you pose as a savior of babies by sloganeering and putting up pictures of babies all across the country to prove how caring you really are. . .
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Who lends the money so that the state can be in debt? Its the very people who should be paying taxes.
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JJ Murphy Trump can hold his own election to be President of China with the voters being the rulers of the UK/Canada/Australia and the EU. Just like Juan Guaido.
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Nat The most important thing Mao did was to kick out the Western and Japanese Imperialist and to smash the landlord and warlord collaborators. Mao will be remembered as leading a "Long March" to dignity. If General Chang is not forgotten he will be remembered as a coward who retreated under the safe umbrella of American nuclear weapons to a small island.
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Nat You can't prove anything you said about me because it's all false including my sex. Like all fascist gentlemen you find Jews to be you biggest scagoat. Of the seven members of Lenin's Politburo in 1917 four were of Jewish origin. This is why Hitler screamed about Jewish Bolshevism. After Hitler committed suicide Stalin's Red Army soldiers danced above his bunker. In West Virginia before a newborn learns to say moma and papa he or she learns to say 'No Contract!! No Work!!!" That's what we are about. Just like the Minneapolis General Strike in 1934 that punched through the bosses Citizens Alliance.
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Nat Ah a Latina not using Natia just like me not using Kimball or Kimbo. I love reading things like "History will Absolve Me." by Fidel Castro, "Che's "diaries"". "Red Zone" Cuba and the Battle against Ebola in West Africa. "Our History is Still Being Written" Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution. It is a source of inspiration that the people on a small island would step up to the plate and hit so many home runs out of the park.
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Nat I'm not into putting a whole people in two continents down based on nationality. (Guide to the perfect Latin American Idiot) You want to be a self hater that's up to you.
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Nat Obviously they are "smart" because they have the comfortable chairs of University Professors financed by others who have been "smart" enough to "go for the gold". It's been endorsed by the Wall Street Journal. Who could argue that the editors of the Journal aren't elite University Grads from places like Trump's UPenn and the Clintons Yale law. The fact that Ms. Clinton couldn't pass the DC Bar exam shouldn't be held against her or Trump's secretive Income Tax return along with the closing of the for Profit Trump University. If only Trump had being given the task of reading Karl Marx he would have better understood that in any industry you need to continual slash labor time and cost neither of which are possible in education compared to building automobiles.
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@ojlbrickwork8092 Trump "Socialism" just passed Congress and was signed by Trump. It a promise to make everybody happy which is no different than Obama promises. It starts with a $500,000 loans as long as you keep all your employees you don't have to pay it back. Than we are all getting about $1,000 to make us happy for a month. More UI will be passed out this time including 1099 workers.
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@picdubois4620 The Bosses are General officers who win the battle of the market place by the number of discharges issued.
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@picdubois4620 Profits including bonuses are the unpaid wages of the workers.
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Canadians have a Queen so why not King Justin Trudeau?
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@saikou1490 The big profits are in moving huge amounts of freight not a few passengers who would obstruct freight movements.
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Of course this is the oppoinin of the ruling class. They of course shoved though the neoliberal policies beginning with their capitalist crisis back in 1973. What's going on it the greed of the ruling classes and the natural tendency of profit rates to decline. Along with gambling in investment get rich quick schemes like bitcoin and the token mania. Once again they are dividing up into military alliances to fight with each other over markets and resources. In 1916 Lenin wrote, "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." Just as true in 1916 during the First Imperialist War to redivide the world among profit hungry ruling classes as today. .
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@notthatdonald1385 They can't do that without laying the political groundwork as to why they can't use their billions in profits for the investment.They would face public hearings where the railroad workers would demand to be heard though their unions. The unions would question the reductions in crew sizes and the running of longer trains with no crew members in the rear.
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@Bunnahabhain18 Rand with her theories lead the bosses into the crisis of 2008. Why is it that those who ascribe to the libertarian paradise don't move into the jungle and become self sufficient like the male Orangutan. They could swing from tree to tree proclaiming how smart they are by building a perpetual motion machine like John Galt.
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@Bunnahabhain18 Yep not enough true believers in the true superiority of the capitalist bosses. Even Musk is crying about losing his daughter to communism. Keep telling yourselves that you've got paper work, college degrees and computers that say your better than everybody elses. Tell us how you don't need a brain anymore because you've got artificial intellegence.
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The Imperailist have miscalculated in the past. They past they can not be trusted.
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@cantrait7311 Fight back in the broadest political coalition possible to defend the right to read and think. No to cultural cleansing.
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Just More US CIA propaganda like the fake "Sonic Weapons." and the 20,000 Cuban Troops that no one saw in Venezuela. Class hostility by the American capitalist class drives anti Cuba policy. The US CIA shot down a Cuban civilian airliner and secretly bombed Cuban soil. The unwanted foriegn base on Cuban soil is the US Prison, torture center and Military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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@zhaoxiaoying9894 That is nothing more than conspiracy theory. The world does not run on hidden political conspiracies since they always come to light. The capitalist ruling classes in the west will become antidemocratic as their rule is challenged by the working class in trade union struggles in the centers of world capitalism itself.
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@zhaoxiaoying9894 No Marxism is based in economic and historical facts. Its the Stalinist and Social Democrats who have twisted words into pretzels to support there revisionist theories. Stalin had to murder all the original members of the 1917 politburo and Mao had to imprison the Chinese Trotskyists. To this day the Chinese Communist Party has to hide to truth about the 1927 Chinese revolution. The European Social Democrats insist that Marx was wrong that capitalism can solve the working classes problems and it naturally can be reformed into socialism.
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Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution and Lenin's April Thesis converge. Stalin's, Mao's, and the Social Democrats of a progressive national bourgeois class despite Imperialism also align.
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@gjnezat No one wants to wear the bloody face of a murderous dictator like Pinochet. The man who ordered the bombing of the Chilean Presidential Place who made a mockery of democracy. Go ahead and put his face on a shirt and wear it among all you ruling capitalist class friends liberal, conservative and the fascist minded. The'll love you along with a bunch of middle class fools.
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@xoutsideraspakavinatigo2650 we will be prepared for any ruling class violnse ahead of time. The capitalist class is always to small to do its own dirty work.
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@xoutsideraspakavinatigo2650 Stalin died in 1953 and his theories and followers stand discredited.
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@xoutsideraspakavinatigo2650 You big brained NATO Imperialists couldn't even defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan after 20 years of nation building. All you accomplished is to destroy a poor country killing over 100,000 and creating millions of refugees. All because you falsely believed the US Imperialists had won the cold war. That you could now rule the world for American capitalism unimpeded. Even during the cold war you found it necessary to call in a high school dropout and journeyman electrician to fix a Titian missile in Long Island. Because all the "rocket scientists" were stumped.
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@xoutsideraspakavinatigo2650 Capitalist England and Europe were ahead of the US before the civil war. Karl Marx wrote Lincoln urging him to make death to slavery the slogan of his second term. The Republicans betrayed Blacks and the new popular southern reconstruction government in the south in 1877 with the Hayes Tilden compromise. The same year as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 that left the capitalist frightened of a Paris Commune in America.
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@xoutsideraspakavinatigo2650 When the revolution came to power in Cuba no one was told they could be an administrator, Doctor or Engineer instead they were told they could no longer use their positions to exploit others. The doors were open to those who wanted to leave and the revolution educated new Doctors, Engineers and Administrators to do the jobs of those who left. Capital creates nothing it can only accumulate and demand a return on investment. The best the workers can hope for is the reinvestment of capital to expand production. The capitalist only do this when they see a profit ahead. The drive to replace labor with machines to boost profits only leads to a declining rate of return on investment. Capitalism developed in nation states and those states may settle trade disputes within the state with government arbitration but this is not possible for the capitalist on an world scale as they can only settle trade disputes among nations by using Imperialist wars since they are unable to put together any International organization that does not reflect the basic predatory nature of capitalism and the uneven development of world capitalism. . .
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@xoutsideraspakavinatigo2650 We can out vote you at the ballot box and if you install a dictator we will overthrow him in a revolution. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos aren't rich because they are smart either they are monopolists. You can't help being greedy and that's what will be you classes downfall. You just finished asking why you shouldn't be as greedy as possible and we say okay be greedy and make everyone else miserable like you have been. Our class naturally clubs together and fights back with work stoppages. Once enough of the working class understands politics and economics your business secrets, elite universities and special schools knowledge hording is finished. That's the secret to communist revolution the rise of the cultural level of the working class works against labor privileged. Once real education for all becomes true the smart monopoly capitalist becomes an acronym. That's why you find Cuba so frightening all those sons and daughters of sugar cane slaves becoming Doctors. Must really hurt your feelings.
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@Ophelia_Pain They have to get ready for the Grizzly Bear release.
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@H43339 Conservationists want Biden to release 200 Grizzly Bears so humans care learn to live in peacefully co existence with Grizzly Bears.
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@paulinekenefick2215 Down with Putin NATO and Democratic Imperialism. Use union power to fight inflation. Workers control of industry.
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@Tangarisu Build solidarity with Ukraine aid for refugees not NATO.
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@onlythewise1 Tax the rich to pay the oil companies,
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@stockey Just like the US Imperialist wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan its a disaster for working people in Ukraine.
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@dai19721 I don't care what country you live in you are affected by what happens to the dollar because of its use in world trade and the manufacturing output of the United States into the rest of the world. .
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@judyives1832 The NATO Imperialist alliance is a group of war makers also. For defeat of Russian Troops on Ukraine and no support for Democratic Imperialism.
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@Jucuaram503 The bosses risk nothing but profits they made from our labor. We risk life and limb making things using our labor they risk a paper loss and paper cuts. A dime doesn't even contain silver anymore. Capital produces nothing without labor otherwise the laws of thermodynamics would be broken. We pay our leaders salaries out of dues and that's none of your business. They corrupt everything in the interest of bigger profits.
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I saw no traffic so obviously this was just an excuse to stop him. This the way cops work find a reason to stop someone and then escalate.
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@snooperslooth2795 It's in a crisis of world proportions. It has no way out except though foreign war and fascist gangsterism to defeat the trade unions.
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Banks create free money all the time.
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@onlyicedasshole This is Fox News BS designed to make you think we had actually had any real defense against mutually assured destruction. The cold war is over and obviously capitalist countries can't get along either.
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@onlyicedasshole You are a real capitalist who sits at a bank and lords it over people like you who run small businesses and on occasion need a loan. You can have people running small business and still have major industries nationalized under workers control. You don't need state control of every nook and cranny of the economy. If the workers have access to the books than they can't be cheated by administrators. The Cuban economy functions something like this and on occasion they do catch cheaters piling up money.
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@onlyicedasshole The problem for people like you is on one hand you have employees who you need to keep happy yet need to get work out of and on the other hand have to deal with big companies who would just as soon squash you like a bug if they see you as a threat or try and cheat you out of you contract money. My father ended up in that situation because he was basically first pushed out of his union job on the railroad into a non union construction job and then out of that into being a small contractor since he had little other choice in the matter if he wanted to keep his family together. He had to stop work on jobs to encourage partial payments and nobody else in the business is really your friend.
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@onlyicedasshole So people come to you looking for solutions to problems? If you invent something you have to have the machines to build a prototype don't you? Then you need to convince somebody that its worth manufacturing. People usually underestimate me. Then if I'm working somewhere if some company man gets involved its usually the end for me no matter how good I am at my job or what my past work record for the company is. Like at Westinghouse where the government was making a big deal about a security clearance and my actual supervisor didn't want me to quit asking me to forget about socialism. I'm too old now so I'm happy altering and living in my camp trailer.
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@onlyicedasshole Technically its a totally different world. I remember thinking an 8 pin IC counting chip was a big deal. When passwords were printed not starred and you needed a machine shop to prototype anything. Computer memory was built out of magnetic beads with wire winding and TV's used vacuum tubes. Long distance calls were made to relatives on holidays only because of the expense. A computer was a huge machine used by big companies and the space program. Dartmouth bragged that MIT had installed a computer for them my thought was why go there when you can go see the guys who did the installation.
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@jordancarpenter4093 The US remains the most heavily armed military power on the planet along with 800 foriegn military bases. None of that military hardware is much good when it comes to keeping small countries in line which are willing to put up a serious defense. About all it is capable of is destroying other countries not conquering them. The end of the cold war was a loss for capitalism since as you can see the capitalist are more divided not united. The capitalism of China and Russia could not be brought into the Imperialist allaince and now the US is even losing its influence within the NATO allaince. Behind all the saber rattling is the economic problems of capitalism that requires foreign markets to sell the overproduction from the advanced capitalist nations. The world crisis of 2008 has still not been overcome with production and trade still lower than 2008 levels.
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@michaelclark1481 You don't want to work in a clean room wearing a space suit its considered one of the worst jobs in electronics outside of looking cool because of the problems with taking a break and eating lunch. Plus the scraped a lot of ships for the iron when the pandemic cut down trade.
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@jay2neak The Jews have been the most persecuted minority in history. Nothing excuses the rape and murder of civilians or the destruction of a whole nation of people.
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Look you don't get to open fire everytime the cops do something wrong. That's why the put the first amendment first and not second.
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@gadsden472 It was made possible with a pen. Common Sense by Thomas Paine. All you'll end up doing is getting arrested like Tim McVeigh because of stupidity. McVeigh whose "Revolution" ended when he gave up his appeals ending up strapped on a gurney with a needle in his arm.
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@gadsden472 You still have the court system, protesting, voting and if you don't like either party you can join a third one or a start your own. No they don't have the right to use excessive force but what would you do? Go down with a gun in your lap and play gunslinger at the OK coral? You be wiped out in minutes not even hours and nothing would change but a blip on the news about a terrorist attacking border patrol. In fact it would make things worse because the government would claim we need even heavier arms and more vigilance.
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@ralphholiman7401 (Respect Free Speech) The second amendment has been successfully used when a workers defense guard was organized and drilled in Minneapolis in response to the wannabe Hitler William Palley and his Sliver Shirts. Palley invited by the Bosses Citizens Alliance left the Twin Cities without a shot fired. Robert F. Williams (Author of Negros with Guns) a NAACP leader had a NRA Charter. The Klan found out how convincing a high velocity piece of hot lead can be. The Deacons for Defense was another example.
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@f430ferrari5 Bosses seek to institute layoffs with automation for a profit bonanza.
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@lamontpearce170 Bosses just want to cut jobs and put all the extra profits from new productivity in their pockets.
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@kennethpereyda5707 Bosses only seek to work us the longest hours, at the fastest pace, for the lowest wages. New Industries always pay lower wages. They seek to cut labor time while keeping prices high to make bigger and more profits. Without a monopoly than prices always fall towards the cost of production.
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The fact is Sowell is a professional seat warmer.
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@mirkobrutti5097 Marx held a law degree ran a newspaper, was a founder of the communist movement and spent much of his life as a political refugee forced to flee the continent of Europe for London. Sowell began his career as a civil servant then financed his education with the GI bill and back to getting a civil servants job at DOL after recommendations fom his professors once his degree was confirmed he has spent the rest of his life as a bourgeois professor and a Senior Fellow at an Elite University think tank living with the anointed in Concord, CA..
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@mirkobrutti5097 Ran a newspaper and founded a movement that is recognized world wide. Even Sowell found it necessary to read Das Kapital. Like all opponents social reformers and many revisionists he came to the conclusion that Marx was wrong. That the working class is NOT exploited. Yet it is clear from his own writing he is unable to refute the tendency of the rate of profit to decline over the long term. Here he finds himself doing the typical hand waving looking for excuses and using awkward reasoning to prove this fundamental conclusion wrong or to side step it in some way.
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@mirkobrutti5097 Other peoples money LOL as if the working class is suppose to save it way into the ruling class. Only fools like Thatcher talk of other people's money as if she could get control of all the gold and silver like the King once tried to do.
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@cheryleaston6820 Just how safe is sex anyway? Is it as safe going to work for the Rail, Coal or Steel Bosses with a Safety First sign. I call working in a rail yard a good day never mind night when you you go home with two feet. I drive a truck you know how many voluntary manslaughter raps I've beat after taking out company loading dock jumpers? I've got a reputation to maintain not a schedule to maintain. How does something that can't live on its own get a right to life? I don't why so many Russian forman jump off loading docks maybe you can explain that?
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Build union power with a labor party to take on the bosses in the capitalist government.
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@MelissaR784 Well many people will disagree with you the Red terror under Lenin was justified by the terror unleashed by the white counter revolutionaries with the end of the civil that was no longer necessary and prisoners were being released but at the same time disputes broke out in the Party itself and Stalin would end up becoming the Bonaparte of the Russian revolution if you were to compare his rise to that of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French revolution. Stain would go on to murder all the original leaders of the Oct revolution except himself and Lenin who died in 1924 but not without wanting Stalin removed from his post as General secretary. Nor am I willing to go down this millions killed road without you telling me why they died and how it was related to communism. Millions died in religious wars also. The Taiping Rebellion saw a significant part of the worlds population die in front of firing squads that were operated like factory shift work. An estimated 80 million combatants or civilians died in just the six years of World war two. An estimate 25 million being Soviets soldiers or civilians. . . .
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@petervan333 Like it or Not Mao is the one who kicked out the Imperialist powers not Imperial Japan. The US were the ones who offered to dived Korea with Stalin in a deal he had no right to accept they installed their Dictator Syngman Rhee and who murdered his non communist opposition in his victory celebration. The American Imperialist were the ones who supported the murderous General Chang who like Rhee had to be overthrown in a popular revolution. The American Imperialist always talk Democracy except when they fight Imperalist wars then they act against those who question the motives using the same police state methods as any other dictatorship. The American Imperialist vowed ti bomb Vietnam back into the stone age just like they did in Korea. Notice how they never have a problem with granting immediate recognition to ever Fascist dictatorship. It's only because they fear communism the same way they fear the workers in the industrial trade unions. Like Joe Kennedy said Hitler is some one you can do business with. They extended recognition to Mussolini, Hitler and Franco with out skipping a heartbeat but it was over ten years before they recognized the Soviet Union and 20 before they recognized China and 40 for Cuba. That's because The Soviet Union and China had revolutions that did away with private property and with Cuba they never had forced collectivization or purges of intellectuals or party leadership. .All they do is make false accusations against Cuba and try and prevent the rest of the world with trading with them. They call Cuba a supporter of state terrorism when the US CIA are the ones responsible for the bombing of Cubana flight 455. Cuba has never sent out assassination squads against political opponents in Miami but the US CIA made over 600 Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro's life.
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@petervan333 'The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes." The beginning of the chapter one of the Communist Manifesto. .Yours is a racist non materialist .view of history based in the supposed differences in the morality of nations.
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@petervan333 Instead of seeing the clash of class forces determining history you really upon the theory of the great man of the people like all the bourgeois and Stalinist thinkers. The nation state is you key to history because the bourgeois age his been one of the dividing up the world for trade by the nation state with a centralized government. People like you are myopic unable see beyond their own national narrowness. The foolish of you understanding of communism is to think it is based upon the discovery of some universal reformer. The birth of humanity began with labor as the hands are shaped by need for fine motor control and voice box for social communication , cooking to help digest food and our ancient ancestors spent time creating culture art science math and religion after meeting our animalistic needs, The need for a sable source of food drove the change to agriculture the raising and care of animals and plants as a source of food and cloths with the savings of a surplus for times of little food. About half of he domesticated plants we eat fir food were breed for human use by the people of North and South America.
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@MelissaR784 I'm not much of a reader of novels. I find political arguments, math and science along with accounts of real life much more interesting. Have you read The Draft Program of Communist International A criticism of fundamentals, by Trotsky Ten days that Shook the World by John Reed, The Revolution Betrayed, by Trotsky From Lenin to Stalin. by Victor Serge Samizdat Voices of the Soviet Opposition. Socialism on Trial: The testimony of James Cannon . In Defense of Marxism by Trotsky? I'm also familiar with most of the arguments against Marx the theories of the Anarchists, the Social Democrats, the Stalinist including Mao and the defenders of capitalism. .
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@petervan333 As I said yours is a religious view you have a bunch of notions about how things work that explains nothing. We just keep fighting until only one ethnicity is left? Leave your brilliant "men of the mind" in charge and nuclear war is what you get. Henry Ford was the publisher of your "ethnic struggle" journal "The International Jew" translated in German by Hitler a friend of your "men of the mind". I shouldn't criticise though because I'm just useful idiot to bosses like you as a laborer. Mr Ayn Rand.
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@petervan333 The reactionary capitalist ruling classes will carry on "ethnic struggle" to become the supreme boss class of the planet and they have no problem with using whatever means of war necessary including nuclear war because they have no problem sharing ideology "ideas" as long as they are not "foreign" to their class interests. The boss class they never inherit their wealth and position like English King Charles whom Parliament voted to execute on charges of treason which included going about the country destroying it for profits? The Imperialist boss class would never go around the world and destroy it for profit now though would they? They are just engaged in "ethnic struggle" doing the lord's work of driving history forward now aren't they?
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@LaFonteCheVi How do you know that petervan333 is a teenager?
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@ivanbluetarski9071 Which state are you talking about? Have you spoken to the any of the dead people form capitalist states?
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@ivanbluetarski9071 Communism puts food on my table capitalist want to take it away.
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@MelissaR784 Alexander Schozinitisin was a Major in the Red Army during the 2nd world war. He became a problem for Stalin when he criticised the orders from the Red Army Command to halt outside of Warsaw just 20 kilometers away while the Jews in Warsaw Ghetto erupted in rebellion. Once again Stalin showed his true counterrevolutionary colors.
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@silidusandoy7821 Almost all the books I mentioned are available online at Marxist Internet Archive. It stopped at the border for the same reason that the trade unions in the United States went into decline. The leaders became consevative officials living lives much better than the workers they were representing whether that be in a trade union in a capitalist country like the United States or in a Soviet (Soviet means council in Russian). The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Communist International had adopted the non Marxist theory of building Socialism in One Country in 1928 because of supposed long term capitalist stability. In the United States the Bosses organized the McCarthy whichunt that began in 1940 with the Smith "gag" Act prosecution of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. Once NAZI Germany and Japan were defeated the US/UK no longer had a need for Stalin's regime so they began the cold war with a Red Scare. Unlike the earlier Red Scare of the 1920's which was equal opportunity one against anarchists, communist and Socialist. This one was directed against the Stalinist Communist Party directly and indirectly anyone who could be smeared as a communist party support. Unions had to certify there weren't any communists in their leadership down to the shop steward level. Loyalty oaths replaced the old yellow dog contracts that had been declared illegal.. Congressional which hunt committees traveled the country issuing subpoenas demanding that witness name the names of communist they knew. It was effective because the top leaders of the unions either aquested, launched raids against Stalinist lead unions or eventually declared themselves not to be communist party members. Stalinist union policy was a sectarian one and unpopular with the workers because of Communist Party strike breaking during the war years. Politicians of both parties like the Kennedy brothers and Richard Nixon made careers out of the politics of the witch hunt. In the Soviet Union Stalin began using similar tactics against Trotsky certainly after Lenin death in 1924 but Stalin had to go to much further extremes, His opposition had lead a revolution, endured the hardships of civil war, czarist prison, political exile and was much bigger. The Moscow frame up and show trials of 1936 to 1938 were made possible by manufactured evidence, torture and promises not to kill the defendant's family.
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@charly7937 I going to let you in on a BIG secret a Swastika has no real meaning outside of having been chosen a symbol of the NAZI party. Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" didn't kill anyone either. Of course you and Professor Petersen aren't interested in anything but flaunting their own personal moral superiority and that of the Christian religion. .Religion of course has always played a big role in wars and deaths from the earliest days of civilization even today Islam is the state religion of the most reactionary of capitalist countries. Islam was the religion of the Arab supporters of Hitler starting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was responsible for the 1941 pogrom of the Baghdad Jews while eight miles away the British Army stood by and did nothing.
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@bigguy7353 Logical fallacies please explain further because I try my best to draw conclusions based upon facts and careful observations.
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@badart3204 The nation state is the fundamental basis for capitalism. Nations had no borders before capitalism and instead rural life was the norm for most people different languages and language groups developed different cultures. The key change occurred when people went from living lives of an animalistic existence of hunting and gathering tribes to agriculture. Agriculture was made necessary by the times of food shortages and agriculture the tending and domesticating of plants and animals laid the basis for the class society where different tasks would be taken up different d a division of labor between men and women and a change in the family stature would also occur. They key feature today is not the division into nation was different ideas and cultures but the creation and interdependence of nations in world trade and the class struggle going on in nations and between nations. The ideas are being adopted and shared between cultures . A language developed by a small group living on the British isles is now a world language spoken by millions of people because of the development of capitalism and world trade. The number a national groups and borders recognized by each other has increased. The power of the nations which first developed with capitalism has decreased because the power and strength of the working class has increased The United States the most powerful Empire in human history since the end of world war two has soldiers who stopped fighting in 1945 and again during the Vietnam war. It's ability to wage war is limited by the working class with in the Empire itself. In less than 200 years the Communist Manifesto has become one of the top 10 works of literature to be translated and read by people on the planet today. The era of fascism came to an end when the Soviet workers at great cost to themselves defeated NAZI Germany.in 1945.
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@badart3204 The most powerful nation state on Earth United States see no need for or requires a king, a state religion or discrimination based upon race or national origin. I'm sure the Islamic terrorist think that their hadiff will come true and a Dajjar will come down before a Mahdi's coming and a Muslim Army marching from the East with Black flags will defeat 80 nations. I however don't believe in fantasy like you do!!
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@badart3204 Hitler's Mein Kampf was all about "national struggle" he committed suicide shortly before Red Army soldiers danced in his capital city.
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@badart3204 You problem is you think kings and capitalist always know what's right for the continuation of their rule. They don't. Then all you do is the typical crybaby screaming about communism and how bad you had it under Soviet Rule and your hope for a King Hitler like Pope to come save you. Stalin died in 1953 and all though he and Hitler wiped out most of the Trotskyists in Europe and Asia. That didn't happen in North America. Stalin and the gross injustices his regime meted out were exposed and scandalized by the Trotskyist. Truth is revolutionary and it wins battles over lies in the end.
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@ricmorpheus2025 No American Imperialism did that they were the ones who did carpet bombing of both countries and Pol Pot he has armed and supported at the UN by Jimmy "Human Right" Carter and the British Imperialist. Capitalism is responsible for the two world wars that destroyed most of the industrial world.
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@rafaelacosta5724 If all you read is the communist manifesto than you've read nothing produced since 1848 and the beginning if the communist movement. We aren't a doctrine with holy books like a religion where one is involved in worship. Nor do we have a host of engineering formulas to create a new society.
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@bluemarlin8138 That's a lie the Revolution created independent Republics in a federation it was Stalin who reversed that policy.
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@thedog5k This one is just another cynical anti union Republican boss who wanted Trump elected because he said he'd be easier to impeach. He cites half truths to make his points and often defeats people who haven't got a clue and who are no smarter then he was when he claimed ti be a marxist who thought he was going to become a Communist leader by getting a job at the US Labor Dept. His professor played him like a fiddle when they got this so called Marxist a job at the US Labor Dept during the wiichunt years. When you were required to sign a loyalty oath to get a job that you weren't a member of the Communist Party or an organization on the Attorney General's list. He found out that ultra right Republican Senator McCarthy's claims that the Government had been infiltrated by Communists were nothing more than lies. To hide his embarrassment hes always claiming Marxist Liberals and Communist are behind all things he doesn't like.
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@doomersnek3878 Why don't I start a commune? Is a commune going to convince the bosses that their profit system has no future? The profit system aoise out of poverty. It creates an ever smaller hereditary class of capitalist bosses whose world system becomes more and nore crisis ridden because of the disconnect between producing profits for a few and a life for the producers of the means of life itself. Setting up a small commune will only elite ridicule from the bosses it can't possibly be self sufficient since world trade and production is the way modern life is organized. Each industry depends on others. Even the largest countries are not self sufficient.
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@johnnotrealname8168 Pensions are referred to as dumb money on Wall St and were the first to be attacked by the bankers during the crisis of 2008 That's why the wage insurance social security plan needs to be raised and expanded.
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@ttacking_you Patents are a prop for monopoly capitalism. Its Democrats that are attacking political rights the working people need to discuss politics. They promote lies like MAGA Republicans being semi fascist.
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You don't create socialism in one country only. The struggle for socialism is an international struggle and Cuba can not advance all alone.
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@shauncameron8390 In about 400 years capitalism swept across the world creating the bourgeois epic the same will happen as socialist revolutions sweep across the world replacing capitalism just as capitalism replaced feudal society.Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism since capitalism was born in the nation state and created rival national capitalist state who must compete in a world maket. The new weapon of the proletarian struggle is human solidarity. Solidarity in working class struggle solidarity against war and fascism solidarity against the decline of world capitalism.
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@rickmorty7284 They decided they wanted socialism and they have a constitution that was overwhelming approved in a vote and the have an elected assemble of peoples power. Its not my place to tell Cubans how to do things. Your opinion doesn't count. Their is more evidence that the US is a dictatorship of private property owners than their is of the Cuban government being a dictatorship despite the campaign of lies from Washington and the two US capitalist parties. The communist party is a big party but it doesn't choose candidates for the non partisan elections. People are nominated with a short biography and voting turnout is high with no electioneering. The only real political opposition is that being generated by the US Imperialists. Their is no need to have vote to satisfy Washington or anyone outside of the Cuban people themselves certainly not Marco Rubio who has never set foot on Cuban soil or Ted Cruz who was born in Canada. .
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The only thing Biden has done is come on TV.
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@finance485 What the slogan at the bank and finance company? "We do nothing and get paid anyhow."
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@paulbradshaw4511 This is the Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and break up the NATO Imperialist allaince.
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World Capitalism has entered a crisis it can not escape.
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@vjamesg100 Trump can not reverse the problems of world capitalism with a border wall and protectionist trade policies. He has exposed problems which the ruling capitalist class has no solution for.
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@GrantM.-gx2kn Another attempt by liberals to produce a politically correct and acceptable culture.
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Adoption not Abortion. Kool! Now how many Priests, Nuns, and Brothers have adopted Children? EXACTLY ZERO. To busy having a relationship with Jesus to take care of a child. Plenty of time to harass women entering clinics and giving sermons on how abortion violates Gods law along with other nonsense. Really they are a Pro Birth movement only. Give Birth or Die is their real slogan because if women are forced back into having illegal abortions women will die.
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Lizzie Allen Our slogan is every child a wanted child. Your the ones who want a system of GiVE BIRTH OR DIE. You want 65 Million orphans raised in dormitories. No doubt once they reach age 18 to be used as cheap labor or cannon fodder for your Empires Imperailist was. You want a system like that in Ireland where right on up to the 1990's 'loose women' and orphans were exploited in Catholic and Protestant Laundries. The "Sisters of Charity" lost money in a stock market gamble so the sold off some land. Their 155 people in mass graves were found. People who had been listed buried but had no names in the Church Records and of the 155 bodies only records for about 133 were found. Not to mention the testimony of those who were the victims of the nuns. Those sent to the laundries included those who were impregnated by family members and priests others accused of being prostitutes or Jezabels whose crime was getting old and be the temptress of married men.
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Lizzie Allen You know what those numbers would roughly rise as a percentage so it would make absolutely no difference. The biggest increase would be the size of the orphanages. You aren't adopting all the available children now so why would all of the sudden there be an big change in the number or percentage adopted? Those of us living at the bottom of the economic ladder are trying to keep our heads above water as it is now. So if anything the adoption rates would fall by pushing more people into the ranks of the unemployed. American capitalism has announced to the world that it can take anymore immigrants as it is now. The real thing that would increase is the misery of the poor and working class who this ban is directed at. The rich and middle class will always have access because of their ability to travel. Even the chief Catholic Moralists have to engage in mental gymnastics so that it is possible for a women to abort an ectopic pregnancy and allow the use of vaccines sourced from fetal tissue. Ectopic pregnancy is about 1 in 50 to 1 in 100 pregnancies.
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Like Afghanistan this was caused by Imperialist greed.
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@AQuietNight Working is not a crime especially since you produce more than what you are paid. The problem is the bosses refuse to hire without seeing an acceptable profit rate ahead. The let industry and infrastructure decline because of the tendency of profits to decline as machine replace and cut labor time.
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@AQuietNight You don't need profit to have an economy work. Profit is surplus given to owners after all other expense are paid including salaries. As bosses replace labor with new machines to save labor time the need for labor the sourse of profit goes down and the capital value rises so as the price falls towards the cost of production than the rate of profit must go down. The capitalist all measure success by profit rate. Now the reason you don't see falling prices is central bank generated inflation. Kenynes advised the British capitalist to rob the workers by going off the gold standard. FDR and Nixon did the same. Now as they add money by making loans from the central bank they say that wages are causing inflation and stop asking for a wage increase but bosses raise price to capture more value and so the value of property rises faster than wages making it possible to shore up falling profit rates because the value of the wage declines as time goes by.
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@AQuietNight Job should be a right not privilegie. Boss is the enemy not foreign workers who are exploited here or in other countries. We say bosses who get paid for doing nothing don't deserve any more than a welfare precipitant. Let them go sign up for PA. .
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@AQuietNight Imperialist lost the cold war. Stalinist leadership defeated not the working class. Working class stronger and larger more internationalist than ever before. Imperialist becoming weaker and more divided. World market failure is putting capitalism on trial. World peace only possible with socialism and national self determination.
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@AQuietNight No just a new way to issue wage cuts to keep up the falling rate of profit. Capital keeps demanding a return on the accumulation of past surplus value. For the present to pay for the past. Capitalist still demanding to be paid for the civil war debt not to mention all the debts accumulated Imperialist wars. Capitalist wanted war for profit you should pay not us. Cancel all Imperialist war debt payments. Not a dime in interest or principal on the 2.3 Trillion spent on the Afgan war. Put it on your books as red ink. You say capitalism works because you can take a loss. Well now's the time to step up to the plate and tske a big loss.
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She wants a system such that no one ever rejects a hated Hillary Clinton again. She's a black women who can't possibly be a traitor to blacks and women or the working class. Benedict Arnold's are born at every Poison Ivy League university graduation.
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Might as well let them take over empty hotel rooms and apt buildings the rich own for investment purposes anyway.
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@InstantGiblets Why does the owner need a home he doesn't live in? Why doesn't the owner just live in his own house what he need all these other houses for anyway? He's only interested in the market value anyway and only by their being a shortage can he boost market value. What the market value of something everyone can have? You don't do any upkeep on property unless the tenants complain as it is now. You use central bank generated inflation to make property values raise and wages fall. So all the ownership of other people's homes is just another way for bankers and bosses to make profits.
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If they didn't know they were terrorists and murders When Ice checked them in how will they find them after they are here? Are the cops going to use magic wand like TSA at check points?
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@codycast Workers don't have capital. That's the reason for going on strike.
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@RonaldBurton-ue6yk Sowell stops his criticism when it comes to bi partisan ruling class policy. You won't hear him defend the rights of colonial nations and small nations against the Imperialist ones. That's no accident as it comes from Sowell's uncritical attitude towards capitalism. Every Imperialist war that the US has entered into was justified according to Sowell. From the Spanish American to the assault on Afghanistan. According to a clown like Sowell the profits and property of foreign investors must come first even if he never comes right out and says that.
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@danielswierczynski2001 No he represents Bank of America.
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Sure in Yang's Brave New World there will be the ultra rich like him, Ben Shapiro and Jeff Sachs and everyone else on the dole at subsistence wages.
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@bigz5262 The business cycle is caused by the natural workings of capitalism each crisis prepares the way for an even bigger one. All theses 3 letter agencies and central banks are the capitalists efforts to maintain the system and avoid economic and financial collapse.
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You don't get to use the excuse of 'running a business' by which you mean a limited liability corporation to do whatever you please.
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Public Accommodation law overrides that. They put those signs up so they can ask disorderly people to leave without having to cite a reason.
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The rights corporations have are not the same as individuals.
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@johnbrennan2028 He sold missiles to Iran out of the white house basement while Reagan was doing a Joe Biden routine of senility.
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@dopaminedreams1122 Stalin died in 1953 but with the end of the war the Stalinist monolith began to break up. Yugoslavia and China had Stalinist leaders of revolutions who would not just accept Stalin's orders to capitulate to the the ruling clique in Moscow and sell out to the Capitalist world for the sake of the Soviet Union.
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@Nunyabusiness1331 What do you want anyhow half the country hold the other half in chains. We've already got more people in prison than the worst years of the Stalin regime.
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@tapperjames48 As long as you have a system where some have all and other are denied you'll have crime. The shortages necessary for the markets system to "work" guarantee that.
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@secretbassrigs The Chinese love Stalin so a China bot would have no criticism of the Great Leader and friend of Mao the Great Helmsman. China is capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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@xomox5316 Thats always a problem for a ruling class when someone gets enough education to challenge their mythology.
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@moosedoggy1631 There is no such thing as an illegal person under American law because the US Constitution guarantees all persons ".. due process of law.." In the 5th and 14th Amendments.
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Our class will come forward and abolish private property in the coming socialist revolution which has already began destroying the capitalist foundation of racism.
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A real McDonalds happy meal story.
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I think we could use an amendment abolishing the use of property for purposes of economic exploitation.
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About what?
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@jameslay1489 You see what happens when your like Jordan Peterson or Donald Trump and you stray too far from the bourgeois reservation. Petersen had his confirmation to be a school of Divinity fellow at Cambridge canceled and had his clinical psychologist license placed under review. Trump has been put under a microscope for technical law violations.
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@alexleibovici4834 Sowell is a fellow at an elite American "think tank" the Stanford University Hoover Institute for War and Resolution. Funded by some of America's richest capitalist families. He is Not required to do anything including teaching for his fellowship. Sowell mostly parrots Milton Freedman in economics and politics.
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@Kalimdor199Menegroth The fascist General Pinochet shows what capitalism has in store for the working class totrue, murder, no freedom and misery. Sure the bosses they saved themselves just like Hitler, Franco and Mussolini saved capitalism. Yeltsin took Friedman's ideas and produced a deep economic crisis after a military self coup. After which Friedman said it wasn't a real capitalism but a crony capitalism. The fact is your running out of ideas which is why Trump has proposed so many crazy ones. Like high tariffs which Freidman always wagged his finger at the bosses about. The only way the capitalist have been able to stay in power is with brute military force and fascist gangsterism as a tactic to defeat a working class revolution in a revolutionary situation. The capitalist nations began fighting and destroying each other with world war one.
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@wanderbread4217 Yep capitalism is saving the day by the Chinese Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Yes the could safe enough good about China for returning to capitalism and depritoriing health. In Cuba they have 9 doctors per 1000. In China its about one and the US its about 2.3. They idea of developing a free vaccine was quickly quashed by Big Pharma only those who those who pay can live.
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@spacecoyote6646 The original disease is capitalism. If you old its time to buy some burial insurance so you body doesn't end up costing your relatives cremation fees. We need a "Cremation For All " bill. What do you bet all those burial insurance adds on the CW or what ever stop advertising.
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@Hally199 Sure let's start growing bananas in Florida and buying all our exports.
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@akiramenai4973 Great Idea now we will send you over as an ARMY of ONE.
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@akiramenai4973 Really? One out of every three people is Chinese. You fighting them on their homeland. At the end of the day what means victory? So other than getting a lot of people killed and creating smoldering rubble what do you think you will accomplish? Remember they may not have a lot but at least some nukes to cause lots of damage.
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Unlikely that she knows anything important whatsoever. The is nothing more than Mueller as the next James Bond continuing his witch hunt. Trump is presumed guilty and now they just need to build a case out of whatever can be found to support the allegations. Attractive Russian women in DC talking to the NRA how much better can you get for another frame up charge under the registration of foreign agents act.
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I don't subscribe to the politics as conspiracy theory. She is good looking and probably has a Russian accent do you really believe any of those Washington bigwigs of eiheir party wouldn't find her intriguing? This current problem has probably developed from Mueller watching to many old James Bond movies.
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@lamontebryan5071 Remember CVS sells drugs do you want to stand between a junkie and a bottle of OXY or a few Tylenol number 3's?
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@markme4 They can't solve the periodic crisis of capitalism because its a system of exploitation which enters periodic crisis of overproduction. The ruling class always tries to unload their crisis on the backs of the working class in its efforts to defend the declining rates of profit.
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McNamara had a computer program that predicted victory in Vietnam based upon kill ratios and body counts.
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@TheBakuganmaster99 Hitler banned Einstein's relativity as Jewish science. Since Hitler and the NAZI's didn't undrstand what the scientists were talking about the proceeded as if he had said nothing. They were working on a heavy water experiment when a bombing run in Norway destroyed their facility.
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@Relativecalm2 Animal farm was an allegory for the Russian Revolution.
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You missed the part where the libertain's raise the idea of property rights above all others and to be defended at all costs as the source of all rights and no interference allowed. .
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@west_park7993 The Garland & Wren Alcatraz Express VIA Framingham now leaving the secure boarding area.
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@eriktronstad8063 Lieberman is a tried old horse and has been from Connecticut.
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@Patrick Tremblay AI can easily be ignored. They are realizing what Marx said about the natural tendency of profits to decline as machines replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. This is a process that only makes the unskilled workers more powerful as the cultural level to do work becomes equalavanent and the ruling class becomes only smaller and tries to monopolize all of the intellectual labor under its systems methods of exploitation. This is why they are raising the cry to defend intellectual property because they want to demand ownership of every thought you have. The scientist and the engineer has been reduced to the level of the worker and now they are losing the battle of ideas since it becomes more and more difficult to defend the rule of private property.
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Their is every reason to believe the profit bonanza driven by computer controlled automation is coming to an end as the size of silicon devices is limited by the physical laws of the universe. By eliminating the skilled jobs first as machines replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines the capitalist have set themselves up for failure. This is anther reason why China is still growing and the US has gone into decline with capitalist methods. The same problems the US has will afflict China as the go down the capitalist road. Just as the British lost their Empire nothing keeps the US from losing to China in another war over who can be more profitable. The British though they could beat Germany and in the end lost out to the US and the Soviet Union. As the US rose so did the colonial slaves who defeated the Western Imperialist around the world.
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@ShaneHill-mu4yi McCarthy lied though his teeth. He claimed to have the names of 200 Communist at the State Dept and never was able to name a single one or prove a single state dept employee to be a communist.
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@anthrax2413 FDR began the wich hunt in 1940 with the Smith "gag"Act trial of the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters.
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@anthrax2413 He was censured by a vote of 67-22. One of only 8 in Senate history.
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Texas Republican Party Boss Abbott sending in Military Slaves of Texas National Guard to do work for Texas oil billionaires and Party Boss Biden's Imperialist government. National Guard do nothing for workers who are victims of hurricane disasters. Build fence to protect vegetable growers profits from hungry victims of Haiti's Imperialist masters at US New York Banks and stock market. .
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Janus' job was enforcing court ordered child support which means throwing workers in jail. He and others like him don't belong in the labor movement. If AFSCME had not taken this type of scab into a bargaining unit he would have never had the standing to bring suit. This should be a lesson to AFSCME and the rest of the labor movement to lick out prison guards and other capitalist justice system employees.
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In 1934 The Communist League of America would lead a series of Teamster truck driver and inside workers strikes including the Minneapolis General Strike. They defeated the open shop citizens alliance that would make Minneapolis a union town and open the road to the Central States over the road drives campaign. These were hard fought battles with hand to hand combat of strikers vs cops and special deputies. themilitant.com See books if you want to read the Teamsters Central States Organizers Farrell Dobbs account of the battles.
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In the places where capitalism developed first like England and America the unions developed before the Socialist and Communist parties. In the countries where capitalism started to developed later the political parties developed first and then the parties.
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Given that union membership has declined from 30% to about 6% and the official Communist Party (which no longer has a benefactor in Moscow) was made up of has bins. who have died off. One might wonder where all the talk of socialism and communism is coming from? It has absolutely nothing to professors or Democrats in general instead it is emanating from the 2008 recession and capitalism failure to recover in any meaningful way. This has created a radicalized working class in the very heart of modern capitalism the USA. The workers are looking for answers as to why they have been robbed of their jobs and standard of living. As Karl Marx said, "...capitalism creates its own grave diggers..." Does anyone here need a free coffin?
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@squalltheonly Have any proof besides the made up lies of the US Imperialist that Che or Fidel were murders like Mario Rubio and other two party liars say? Any of these so called victims have names that can be confirmed in the quote "free press" or is it like Clinton losing because of Russian interference and Trump claims of election fraud?
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@squalltheonly I demand evidence and the Miami crowd and the US CIA can't provide any. When the so called dissidents announced their "Cuban Quilt of Genocide" they were confronted with the truth that the names on the quilt were either those of people who died of natural causes or still living. The quilt was withdrawn and hasn't been seen since. Marco Rubio just launched a tirade of claims that the communist regime was arresting and murdering dissenters after the protest organized by pro US forces in Cuba last July..Once again no names of innocent victims are to be found. Then it always an excuse like they are smart tortures who leave no marks or the makey a remark or claim about Cuba that may have some truth to it but a soon as you bring up the blockade they launch into an anti communist tirade. This what Kennedy's own state department said about Fidel. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct.
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@pertuk The Cuban revolution made possible Cuban medical solidarity educating Doctors and providing medical care not just to Cuban's but the poor and neglected of the world It cost 20,000 lives to defeat Made In USA dictator Batista. But we are all murders and human garbage while your leaders are the ones who carpet bomb whole nations and cities. Who built and used nuclear weapons on people and Agent Orange. They of course are all great leaders of the free world.who can do no wrong.
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@SpeedRunLabbo Anderson Cooper is actually an heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. Trump, Cooper, Carlson, Shapiro and Soros are all belong to the same families of crooks having a falling out among thieves. Much like mafia dons with license to steal.
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He represents Wall St just like both parties do.
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He leaves out the inconvenient facts that the Progressives came from the Republican Party the same Party that won the civil war and abandoned Popular Republican Reconstruction governments to Democratic Party Red Shirt and KKK terrorism.
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The rate of profit with capitalism continues to go into decline.
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@ron88303 Unlike the too big too fail there is no reason to believe Social Security will go bankrupt. The real rate of profit declines as machines replace labor according to the bosses calculations. This is why they inflate the value of the currency and create a national debt with the central bank. Since about 1973 all the new productivity has gone to the bosses. Their system goes in and out of crisis as trade war becomes the order of the day for ruling classes in each nation seeking to win the battle of the world market. This why they destroyed the industrial capacity of the world with two world wars in the twentieth century. The workers must take control of production and distribution out of the hands of the greedy bosses.
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@ron88303 I'm being censored.
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@shittyopinions You can spend all day dreaming about the stateless libertarian fantasy world but it is a totally utopian world because it fails to see that states defend ruling classes. They are not class free groups sitting astride classes. That only once the working class gains the majority of state power in the world will the nation state capitalist system be crushed. Only capitalist nation states need a huge military and police force to defend their brand of the profit system to keep the workers and poor of the world under the thumb of the profiteers.
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@shittyopinions I assume those who use the term Statist subscribe to some sort of philosophy where states stand above classes unlike the Marx and Lenin who's teaching is that states defend classes and in particular the ruling class. Most of those people today are capitalist libertarians. They also made up a group of intellectuals leaving the communist movement for the safety of democratic Imperialism just prior to the US entering the second world Imperailist slaughter. Statism is similar to the theory of totalitarianism where Hitler and Hitlerism and Stalin and Stalinism were exactly the same. People as different as Noam Chomsky and And Rand are those who like this theory of a state being bad folks with no class allegiance. Most of the enlisted ranks in the military are the sons and daughters of the working class and will side with a socialist revolution. The officer corps will probably become divided. We let people write their own ticket first so if your a Nazi-cop nice to know you and goodbye.
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Congress and the states have so many laws on the books and are writing more because that's what professional legislatures do. It was man who invented God to explain the most important aspects of Human life in the form of stories. Since no scientist has come up a way to empirically prove god exists why would a natural law flow from a non existent entity? You accuse me of division when everyone knows one of the most popular ways to divide people in a meaningless way is with religion. Thomas Jefferson warned against religious firebrands and that's why we have a first amendment.
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Actually not see the law does not protect bad manners and making insult cakes. I'd of course make them for you but insist on getting paid in advance. I wouldn't want to guarantee the ugliness involved.
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LOL you mean a public boss.
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@John James Capitalism is failing.
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Raytheon makes war profits for billionaires destroying other nations and producing high priced arms. Teachers unions are up against the capitalist bosses in government.
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@timhallas4275 The ruling by the court would change nothing in this situation since Coca-Cola a company headquartered in Atlanta Georgia is a private company that can spend its profits as it sees fit. Just as it will change nothing for the 30% who are legacy admission to Harvard or any other university. Discrimination based upon tuition and housing costs will NOT change.
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@timhallas4275 Obviously a "SMART" like you thinks it all about checking boxes. The biggest error most people who have never attended college make is to think the world is governed by what you know NOT who you know regardless of your ethnicity.
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@williamrogers1219 When boss run the government they can never find money to education and healthcare but trip all over themselves to be the first to pay for the round of the arms race. The Bosses see no need fir healthcare for workers since unlike the mules in coal mines they only need to hie another workers not buy a mule. Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. This is why the see no need for educated workers but only order taking industrial slaves.
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@christiandruan DMV acts no different than the WalMart Bosses. It not a question of private vs public but capitalist vs workers control. As long as the government is executive committee of the capitalist boss class they will act with impunity towards our class. You can bet that the middle class Doctor waits hand and foot upon the CEO and the big bosses of capitalism.
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@BOBDOBALINA-1234 Its works well in Cuba because the workers actually control what their government and leaders do. Capitalist can not allow workers control because it interferes with the accumulation of private property and profits. So they seek to use paid experts who end up doing everything in the interest of profits and the private property the ruling class owns. The have no choice but to create a giant administrative state divorced from the workers to control everything to shore up the declining profit rates and a military industrial complex to impose bosses control on the rest of the world.
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@BOBDOBALINA-1234 That quote come from the Imperialist hypocrite Churchill who used the word Democracy not Capitalism. Of course the millions who lived in the British Colonies had no say in the British Parliament. While the US Gov't has voided the Bill of Rights when it fells it needs to like both Wilson and FDR did to their socialist opponents on the even of both world wars.
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@BOBDOBALINA-1234 So what? They are subject to the Blockade and they don't have any shortage of educated people which is why they aren't paid like princes in the developed world. The US can't even train enough Doctors to replace those who retire. Did you see beggars like when you cross into Mexico and Drug addicts shooting up in parks and homeless people living in tents like in LA? All you've shown is that trade is unequal between the developed world and the former colones. No significant part of the population wants to become like Hati or other third world colonies of the United States and big business. Its like the bosses trying to convince the industrial working class in the developed world including the US that the be better off without the industrial unions. The majority was never even convinced that the Soviet Union should be dissolved. Only those seeking to get rich quick and Stalinist bureaucracy were convicted of Milton Friedman's garbage theories. You can see the result of neo liberalism in the world today. The workers in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union still belong to trade unions. Putin wants to be a new CZAR and blames Lenin for Ukraine. The only reason capitalism received a new lease on life was the destruction of the two would wars and the betrayal of the Stalinists and Social Democratic leaderships.
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@BOBDOBALINA-1234 Their can be no democracy in capitalist class society that has any real meaning for the majority. The Democracy that capitalism initiated was when the merchants were fighting with the landed Aristocracy in Europe and America and Slave owners in America. As long as a majority are convinced that capitalism can be reformed than the politicians of capitalist reformation will rule with little opposition. A vote of no confidence was the result of the last election in France when only 30% of the electorate turned out. A large part of the population in the United States especially among the working class correctly senses that the government system is rigged against them.
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Thinking no just someone reading off a long and boring list of statistics without any explanation of them.
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@unclejim1528 Why don't you just end the bolcaked and stop refusing entry of ships which dock at Cuban ports for 6 months.
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@reddemon6668 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@reddemon6668 The Cuban people govern themselves the US government treats them the way the would treat strikers in any industry. Capitalism is failing on an international scale now so the predatory and exploitative ruling classes are becoming more divided militaristic and to defend their profits they will go down the twin roads of fascism at home and Imperialist war abroad and against their rivals. They of course will demand sacrifices to defend their democracy and their profit privileges. What is Democracy in Capitalism but the choice of who will do the exploitation? In place of sacrifice the communist call for solidarity against the Imperialist ruling classes. During Fidel's life he taught them all the lessons Trotsky drew from the fight with the Stalinist bureaucracy right under the very nose of the Soviet Bureaucracy just as he lead a Socialist revolution under the very nose of the American Imperialists.
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@reddemon6668 What's the excuse for turning Detroit and Baltimore into waste lands? Closing factories and creating more and more homeless while the rich invest in empty apartments? China's development? Lets assume the capitalist of all nations could agree not to destroy each other with Imperialist war. You would still have the problem of declining profit rates and without an infinite world to invest in everything would halt once the profit rate went to zero. Your own mathematics would defeat you.
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@reddemon6668 They get bombarded with capitalist propaganda all the time just like we do in the US. There is no limitations on books or education in Cuba and no secret privileges. The problem for the capitalist is they can't buy enough weak intellectuals who can refute the truth about capitalism. Trotsky was the last of the old Bolsheviks to be rehabilitated just before the end of the Soviet Union. After Trotsky's murder we were isolated a small minority those not murdered by Stalin were murdered by Hitler in Europe. Now with capitalism in crisis everywhere you want to blame us? LMAO You want to save capitalism? Well seems simple enough to me you stay out of wars and stop taking all the new wealth for your selves. The English merchants had king Charles head cut among the charges against the king was he was going about the country destroying it for taxes, Does that at all sound like the US endless wars upon the world for the profits of American bankers and bosses?
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@reddemon6668 I have plenty experience living under capitalist rule you ruined my High School graduation with your murder of 4 students at Kent State. My father was the steward and taught the electricians apprenticeship class on the railroad. My socialist education is both from the Socialist Workers Party its paper The Militant and books published by Pathfinder Press.and my experience in the class struggle going on under our very eyes. The communist party is NOT the provider of the people. That would be a lie intended to take credit for the action of the working people themselves. Cuba is a small nation where the working people control the economy without the private property and the labor privilege like in the capitalist world. We live in a world economy and to believe that you can construct socialism in one county is false as the belief that capitalism can work only in one country. Capitalist trade wars are the source of real war. The workers must construct their own state to defend themselves from the counter revolution at home and from Imperialist invasion. You did NOT win the cold war rather the workers in the East just reentered politics and the Stalinist Aristocracy of labor was defeated. It's American capitalist propaganda that claims that their rule is based upon being smart and democratic. One needs only to have observed the two parties in their action since the crisis of 2008 to see that Democracy goes out the window when the wrong candidate is elected. Each party claims that policy changes can fix the problems capitalism has that also is false. Capitalism is driven by the greed of the ruling class and its demands of profitability. The profits always go to those who can best cut labor time in the firm or industry at the same time the capital value rises and since the origin of the profit is in labor than the rate of profit must fall by which all capitalist judge success.
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@reddemon6668 At the end of the day the only freedom capitalism defends is the freedom to trade. The right to own and get a return on invested capital becomes the responsibility of capitalist state power and that is what fascism is all about economically. Its the too big to fail and the national debt. History teaches that before the fascist bandits are given free hands the workers will have the opportunity to take control away from the bosses and defeat the fascist gangsters with both a party of their own and the trade unions.
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@reddemon6668 Your Imperialist government spent 2.3 trillion dollars destroying the people of Afghanistan. 100,000 Dead and millions of Refugees. All for a war against terrorist that the US created in its cold war against the Soviet Union. What kind of life will we have after the Atomic weapons are used? This is why we will need to exercise our right to revolution against the US Imperialist government. Fidel the Lawyer brought Batista to court and when the Supreme court could not remove the dictator that was when the right to revolution began in Cuba. Armed struggle was the only way and those most willing to fight were the workers and peasants. The Russian Bolshevik were the Party most clearly against the Imperialist War. They said turn the guns around fight your own ruling class. You think I was fooled by McGovern who tried to shut down the use of phones in his campaign HQ to stop the antiwar message. Both of your Parties are for Imperialist wars. Our constitution gives us the right to revolution in the first and second amendments. Trade Union s to struggle against the capitalist in the work place and a labor party for the community. All while building the communist movement.
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@reddemon6668 We fought your FBI spies and got a federal judge ti hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell held in contempt of court. Carter who armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN to punish Vietnam. We have Plenty of books about the Cuban revolution by Cuban revolutionaries. The capitalist government must always lie to get the workers to support its Imperialist wars. The Capitalist nations began both world wars each produced more 'communist revolutions". Most communist revolutions after the Russian were lost due to the misleadership in the Kremlin. Stalin NKVD murdered the Spanish revolution just as Stalin murdered Lenin's Party. We fight for dignity and the right to have meaningful work. Capitalism produces the crisis that are sources of revolution. Your Parties are frightened of our ideas since you can't counter them. You want everyone to forget the history of capitalism itself. That it came into the world dripping and oozing blood and dirt from every pore. That the British capitalist deliberately stared the Irish peasants to produce beef and grain for the English market. We tell the workers that they must take control of the job and safety that housing and jobs and medical care can be made into a human rights for all people. The capitalist view education and medical care as overhead expense to be minimized both at the company and by government. They tell the workers don't worry we have insurance and regulations that our lawyers will protect in our courts of law. Well like your elected government the other more permeate parts (the deep state) are just as reactionary and pro capitalist profit. You forget that some of us were good students in your public schools and got to meet your children at the elite institutions. So we know quit well what a bunch of spoiled brats the system produces. Capitalism promises a free lunch for investment in a market. That is all that you do is make promises you never intention keeping.
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@reddemon6668 I put anti Blockade signs on my Chevy Sllverado and drove it in an anti blockade caravan. So if you can't tell if I'm one person or an office full of people how would using the word we make any difference? I don't like giving out lots of personal information because I don't want some nut job showing up at the trailer. I use we to indicate that it is not just me who thinks that. You haven't been able to explain how capitalism is going to solve the Cuban peoples problems. You do remember Milton Freeman who theorize that capitalism would bring democracy to the old Soviet Union and the Eastern Europe. They just had to swallow the bitter pill of shock therapy and let a new group of wealthy Democratic Businessmen take over with multi party elections to make some regulations of markets. Why don't the you like multiparty elections here? Why the laws to favor just two parties? You don't think anyone is buying that load of BS since 2008. See history does make a difference and you still can't show that the profit system isn't exploitation. The origin of the profit comes from the unpaid labor of the production workers. Capital only accumulates and demands a return on investment. If capital could produce than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Capital at best is just the accumulation of tools and methods to save future labor time.
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@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Sure and US Republican Senator from Florida Marco Rubio has promised free internet for Cuba. All the Cuban people have to do is blow up balloons for Rubio. o
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@JessieJane. You'll cave like most Democrats who vote for the lessor evil.
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@JessieJane. The way I figure it Manchin has to vote for a reduced or simular Biden "Build Back Better Plan" otherwise the Democrats can't claim to be governing in the Congressional Elections. Manchin will then be praised as being so understanding and reasonable making him a candidate for being the Democratic Presidential nominee. Plus what makes you think EV's or Carbon Tax credits have anything to do with reducing pollution. Tesla motors has to be one of the biggest scams in history.
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@imo9868 When was the last time you were on Alex Jones show?
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Microsoft with its relentless campaign to sell software has driven thousands of small business out of business. They only care about the bottom line.
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@Lboog789 The natural workings of the capitalist system cause recession. They can't sell all that can be produced so they then issue layoffs which only results in a downward spiral until until they once again "fix'" the system with bailouts.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!
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@highmileagehusband1915 Ya she was such a voice for the 100,000 dead and the millions turned into refugees in the 2.3 billion dollar Afghanistan war. She cares about her rich class of do nothing bankers and bosses only. If they need an abortion money talks.
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@PolarExpress_11-10 Capitalist exploitation makes it impossible for the working class to reproduce itself in the advanced capitalist countries which now rely on immigration to be the next generation of workers.
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@fredschnerbert1238 Remember that song, "They're coming to America?" or the sign in Trump's New York City harbor? "Give us you're tired your poor your hungry?" This is just more of the fallout of the world capitalist crisis of Trade and Production.
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Hes just another corp boob for capitalism.
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@enterpassword3313 That it's class justice they lose their money are we lose our lives. Sowell says, "Big Risk Big Reward" Well Big Risk Big Loss also. There was no need to run Amtck Train at 50 mph at night though an area where the signals were down for maintenance (dark signal territory.) Just like running these extra long trains with hazardous materials and no caboose like in East Palestine, Ohio. They save on labor time because they decided it's now cheaper to take the insurance loss.
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@enterpassword3313 For him safety is merely a cost issue. All his work is based upon his foolish neoliberalism. You look at the very beginning of his book "Basic Economics" and he has this basic problem of defining an economy so he starts with The Garden of Eden because everything is provided in abundance he says and then goes on to about how that is not an economy because every is provided in abundance and now goes on about scarcity which he says characterises a real economy. Well you can't have abundance if you don't have scarcity or vica versa. So he can't even define what will be a basic contention of his throughout his lifetime. Once he's got you mystified and convinced you don't live in the garden of Eden it's off to the races. The truth is we live in the natural world are limited or confined only by it and we create culture. As human beings we are social animals who labor with our hands that are shaped by the need to labor as much as the use of labor. Our voice box is made for communication. Economy is about fulfilling our basic needs and the use of culture to do so. Those small groups of hunter gatherers had to fulfill their basic needs of eating, drinking, clothing and shelter first before they could produce culture. The change to agriculture with its surpluses of food production is what began the explosive growth of culture. (science art and even religion.) This idea of scarcity is one every ruling class has used to defend itself.
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@enterpassword3313 When the bosses roll the dice in their wall street casino while others die for profits. The workers are the ones who take the risk and they should be the ones who decide NOT some profit hungry boss doing a cost benefit analysis. You do insane things like world war one and we end up with the results. You decided profits weren't good enough here so you decided to de industrialized here and move elsewhere. Its because the profit system itself is a mathematical failure.
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@enterpassword3313 You can't "own" a risk the risk is always either social or individual and very often both. You like to privatise the gain and socialise the losses. Take in big flood insurance premiums and have the government declare an emergency or act of God to escape the payment. It's your not in my backyard but fine in someone else's mentality.
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@J Idowu Nice to know that you have reached the economic understanding attained by the citizens of the Roman Empire using salt and coins as money. Did the have movable type back then so a scholar such as yourself could impart your economic wisdom?
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@stephenmartin5766 You will be impacted by the class struggle one way or another because capitalism can't help but have economic recessions, depressions and wars no matter how much you love your job. No matter what Trump or the conservatives of both parties call it. We already have a social democratic regime in the US just like the Nordic Counties Regimes. Bernie Sanders wants more Social Democracy the Conservatives want less. World Stalinism at its very center, the Moscow regime in the Soviet Union, collapsed because any kind of workers democracy ended with the 1936 to 1938 Great Purge trials of the old Bolsheviks. Something else also happened no longer can the Stalinist pose as communists with their rotten methods and backward thinking. You don't get to socialism by shutting working people up, carrying out a socialism in one country policy or giving greater and more privileges to party officials.
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@J Idowu Why is it that people such as yourself feel the need to lecture socialist about money and simple trade? I live in the US, I've had more than one job, do the grocery shopping, fix what I can to save the cost of the maytag repairman. Yet somehow people such as yourself feel the need to lecture about money, barter, trade and theft. I also ran a paper route when I was about 14 to 16 years old. I have never taken a college course on business or economics. One only needs to read and be able to do simple arithmetic to gain a simple insight as to how a business works in " Introduction to Karl Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital" By Fredrick Engles. You only need to google it and read it for free. Its about 25 paragraphs long.
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@luigidaniele6613 and Skylancer727 Basically when you reach Jeff Bezo's level taxes are voluntary. You hire Accountants, Lawyers, and Lobbyist to get what you feel you should pay in taxes. To do this you use all kinds of creative accounting methods like I was paid for doing this job but I'm a philanthropist so I shouldn't pay taxes because government is evil. These guys have a legal way to make and use as many loopholes as needed.
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@luigidaniele6613 "it's part of the tax system not a loophole." Exactly the bosses write themselves the tax laws they want because they buy the politicians loyalty with campaign contributions. It is what's called legal corruption. You don't have to be a genius to realize what's going on.
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@1bc003 Who will fill the boxes without the box fillers?
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Show me where and how Marx, Engles, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara acted like corrupt businessmen. You problem is capitalism has turned you into a cynic who fears any kind of fight with the corrupt businessmen. You think Cuba is educating doctors for the foreign exchange? A corrupt businessman can not believe otherwise so in order to clamp down on the corruption and deny profits to competitors that corrupt businessman secretary of state Pompao says they will deny visa's to all Cuban doctors. This is just another example of something that is unexplainable to those who drink the Kool aide.
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@dswarriors Taxing is not a solution because what Peter gives to Paul goes back to Paul again. For corporations taxes are voluntary anyway. If you want to slow automation short of a socialist revolution. Where you build what is needed instead of what is profitable. Then you must strike at profits because then that slows investment in new machinery. You do that with unions willing to fight for higher wages. The capitalist can't simply raise prices which is why they fight so hard against any wage increases.
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As far as automation goes a fundamental law of capitalism is profits flow to those companies and branches of industry that can cut labor time and cut wages. They must keep cutting labor time or wages otherwise prices will on average drop to production costs with no profits. The reason that few companies cut wages they way the did years ago is inflation does the dirty work. With the introduction of the Central bank by playing with interest rates and making talk about inflation a self fulfilling prophecy occurs. Bosses raising prices means real wages are cut through inflation. Every boss tells his workers we are raising the price to give you a raise. (Anytime you hear a boss talking about giving you anything hold onto your wallet). Next thing you know the grocery store prices just went up. You boss then blames it on other companies not doing well and lazy union workers. The reality is all the capitalists as a class are responsible for the way the system works and robs us everyday.
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@dswarriors Here's my argument as to why the federal income tax is voluntary assessment. The Federal Income tax began with the 16th Amendment than the tax was enacted. To get the 16th amendment passed when its use was not for any federal social welfare and incomes of less than $4,000 went untaxed the rich and the corporations must have wanted it just like the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. How else could they have gotten the supermajority to pass the 16th amendment? Fast forward today most of us realize that the Congress, Courts and President do the bidding of campaign donors. Actually it's always been this way at least for sometime since the civil war. Lobbyist bring in their request for tax breaks. But if the tax law said hay give GE a break with this rule everyone would see that. So instead they create a rule for companies making jet engines for America in Massachusetts or if they want to give the same tax break to Pratt and Whitney they say Massachusetts and Connecticut. Many times they make it in a single county and state that way it often makes it even more obscure to anyone who doesn't know who owns what in that particular county. Manufacture of say water pumps helping America with fresher water. It helps if you can say somehow your helping the country with some particular problem. No one in Congress is going to get up and denonce Jet Engine manufacturers or water pump makers for fresher water.
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@felixu-mh2mx Unless the Amazon workers are on strike boycotting serves no purpose since exploration takes place at the point of production not when you buy something. You end up in the belief that some bosses are better than others when the are all responsible for the workings of capitalism. Even when the workers win a union victory it is just a temporary victory as the system once again begins the inevitable competition for jobs which once again drives down wages.
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@wynnhorton1208 If you start a Nike boycott without the Nike's workers onboard then all the company will do is say these people are attacking our company and we will have to fire you if we lose business. Fascism has a specific definition. It's a movement of a middle class suffering from the crisis of capitalism that also attracts declassed elements like the long term unemployed and petty criminals. The begin by using political violence against any kind of opposition especially meetings like those of the unions and the workers parties. The ruling class usually rejects them unless the fear their loss to a socialist revolution. That's why Hitler was jailed after the "Beer Hall Putsch" but later handed power by Paul von Hindenburg.
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@wynnhorton1208 Yours is the predicament of the small businessman on one hand you have a payroll to meet and on the other you can find that the banks are unsympathetic when you need a loan. Then there is always the possibility that the market will change somehow and put you out of business. While things may be going well or Okay when a crisis hits you are placed into a vice by the very system you think is good.
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@categories5066 You new law will kill real women who have abnormal pregnancies because capitalist politicians have made themselves Medical Doctors. Yours is a "GIVE BIRTH OR DIE" proto fascist movement.
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@Marcusaurelius913 UNION YES!! Break with the rotten Democrats and build a Labor Party without the bosses.
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@funveeable The unions belong to the workers. no members no dues no union. They asked a coal boss what cost the company more a dead man or a dead mule the boss said a dead mule of course we can always hire another man. The workers don't want a union leaders that can't wage a battle.
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@654Crossman I'm sure the truckers love all the BOSS talk about driver less trucks and longer hours of service. This is a class struggle. Workers against capitalist bosses and their politicians.
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The way forward is class struggle. Rebuilding the unions.
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Capitalism can not keep the workers employed without sacrificing the rate of profit. Capitalism is the first system to suffer from periodic crisis caused by overproduction. Where more is produced than can be sold in a market for a profit. Only though over throw of the profit system and establishing socialism over capitalism world wide can humanity progress.
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@zarach9459 The capitalist lost the cold war since all that happened is they now have more capitalist competition for themselves. As one can see the American capitalist are beginning to once again fear the working class. They've been unable to defeat the continuing Cuban revolution. They have entered a crisis of world trade and production which they have no way out of.but though Imperialist war and fascism (war on the trade unions)..Without the treachery of the Stalinist and the Social Democrats the Imperialist will have to face new revolutions without a leadership willing to sell out and murder the revolutionaries.
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The Clinton's both were guests at Trump's wedding. Karl Marx said the the Bourgeois take great pleasure in seducing each others wives. Bill and the Donald both being 'ladies' men you don't think a little swaperoo goes on?
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Congress and the employers want to build a two way pipeline for immigration. When they need workers for cheap labor or to cut labor costs they want immigrants. When they don't need them they want to send them home and let the other country pay the social cost of unemployment. If they had to pay higher wages for labor in agriculture they would be inventing more machines to do the work to cut labor costs that way.
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The so called plan is a mixture of truth and conspiracy theory. First culture is determined by 'surprise' culture. Not racial characteristics. You can come to America from any other nation and unless you are singled out on a racial basis your children will be American in culture and even those who are or were subjected to racial segregation are much more American today in culture than Africans who speak a variety of languages or Latin Americans who often don't speak English although English has been adopted by people across the globe as a world language which comes with a mix of British and American culture. The European ruling classes have gone to war with each other twice they aren't keen on doing it again for the simple reason is they want to make profits not create another world war like the last two which brought on devastation and anti capitalist revolution. That's the reason for setting up the EU not the actions of a secret society.
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@Toodyslexicforyou What free market? No capitalist like the competition found in a market he like to have the ability to set prices higher than the cost of production. The natural tendency in a market is for prices to fall towards the cost of production but because of central banks continually loaning out currency bosses can raise prices faster than wages eliminating the need to issue wage cuts to keep up the falling rates of profit. Free markets are just a buzz words those who favor capitalist exploitation like to use. To emphasize the freedom of the class of bourgeois owners can exercise that requires the slavery of the wage earners. It's the freedom of the boss to hire and fire. The right to put a price tag on every human relationship. .
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Free market capitalism was a time before monopoly, finance capital, imperialism and the world market domination by big businesses. It's just code words used by political advocates of capitalism that have become totally meaningless. Ronald Reagan was the biggest taliker about free markets. The same head of the US Imperialist governments world miliary Empire who was always talking about small government and tearing down walls. Neoliberalism crashed upon the rocks of 2008.
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@LingLing-ou6nt Actually we want control of the whole economy not just a bunch of $100 printing presses which is now under control of the capitalist government. Its the greed of the rich which is why all kinds of stupid things are happening. The rich don't contribute anything positive why should they be allowed to run everything.
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@mgbgt7156 That is basic nonsense which was used as the excuse by both Stalinists and Social Democrats for not building a mass party of the working class but instead joining up with the Democrats like Democratic Socialist AOC and Bernie Sanders have done.
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Let the illegal citizens vote!!!
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No Jive Did you take an Agent Orange shower in Vietnam?
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@Markus Patients They didn't have photo ID in the past so were all past elections fraudulent? Gov' ID is just a way of keeping track of everyone in a brave new world. Along with computer technology it's now possible to hound people for a life time over the most minor of transgressions. Photo ID was began by Polaroid corp. It was a way to make it cheap and easy for cops to keep track of who you were. Introduced in drivers licenses and for the internal passports used during the South Africa Apartheid regime.
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@HavianEla Hitler was a Republican also,
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This is just a usual $108 million defense contactor sale for profit. If it were serious it would be a $51 Billion dollar gift like what's going to Ukraine. China has to condemn sale to what amounts to a Chineses Canada.
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@GregRosenbaum-j5j The bosses world profit system is in a state of constant crisis. They keep throwing people people out of work when demand goes down and then those who have been thrown out they can not buy back what can be produced without them pushing out bailouts and more credit to restart production.
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@Larry-d3i Ya right and Trump he was going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. Washington armed dictatorships and gangsters in central America. Did you think the chickens wouldn't come home too roost?
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Who was responsible for the first world war? A Serbian national Anarchist killed Austria Hungry's Archduke Ferdinand. The Austrians declare war and go into push the Serbs. The French promise to help the Sobs with independence. Then all the secret treaties bring in the rest of the capitalist world who have made agreements to carve up each other. Wilson the Democratic promises to stray out to get elected.
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@bomberharris1943 Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. It took the destruction of most of the induvial world before nuclear weapons used on Japan signaled a temporary long pause in the matter. Now your seeing a rerun of the early 20th century. Instead of a declining British Empire vs Germany a declining American Empire is on full display. A fear of China now grips the capitalist world.
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Manuel Delacroix The US was the old Imperialist Power that took The Philippines from Spain. The biggest threat to every nations sovereignty is The United States and its ruling Capitalist class.
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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
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Why doesn't Hamas build up its government in normal buildings? When you go to war you aren't suppose to use churches hospitals and mosques for combatants. You aren't supposed to use ambulances for transport of military leadership.
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Why do we need a politician from a Florida swamp?
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@jimmclaughlin6629 Churchill who once rose in Parliament to demand Bolshevism be strangled in it cradle sat next to Joe Stalin for the duration of WW2. With the end of the War the honeymoon with Stalin was over the cold war was launched the British Empire collapsed while the American Imperialist became the last capitalist Empire. Fidel Castro then defeated the American Empire in its own backyard.
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@BonnienClydeMiller It hasn't been ruled out because this is still Imperialism the highest stage of capitaism.
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Was separate but equal make believe also?
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All one has to do is read either Wage Labor and Capital or Value Price and Profit to see that Marx and Engels understand capitalism much more than idiots like Any Rand who wrote fantasy novels. Das Kapital is about how capitalism will develop.
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@freesk8 You don't get to socialism using the dull tools and methods of capitalism. You take things out of the market and use the working peoples own organization to solve our problems. Fidel Castro never had a problem producing enough educated people despite the relative poverty and backwardness. Von Misses proves nothing. He like other bourgeois economist is a simpleton to wants to reduce everything to the problem of money. The problem in the Soviet Union was the rise of a counter revolutionary bureaucratic caste that came from both the relative backwardness and the early defeat of the German Revolution that was made possible by the reformist Social Democrats. Stalin was the leader of counter revolutionary defeats starting with China in 1928 Germany in 1933 and France and Spain in 1939. After the war he tried but failed to keep up his class collaborationist course trying to keep his promises to Churchill in Yugoslavia and Greece and Truman in Korea. The year of his death 1953 also market a turning point shift in the world class struggle. Fidel Castro began the Cuban revolution, The Rosenberg's were executed. The Korea war went cold and the workers in the German Soviet Zone went on strike. The two main contradictions of capitalist development remain. Greedy ruling classes divided by nation state fight for profits in the world market with trade war leading to real war and the long term tendency of profit rates to decline as machines replace labor. The first results in endless wars the second provokes trade union struggle on a national level. The problem for capitalism is the ruling classes become too small to control the means of production not that the means of production are too complicated for the working class too control. You can see that in the United States that capitalism got rid of training in the occupations of skilled labor from the public school system because the capitalist don't need educated workers but order takers. Their is a whole ten percent of the population engaged in regulating capitalism for the big capitalist trying to keep it from getting out of control.
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End the US Blockade!!
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@Triumph2024. Japan was already defeated and seeking surrender terms when Truman ordered the use of nuclear weapons. Sowell insiste the bombing was necessary. Sowell still insists on the fiction of South Vietnam as a seperate nation and not an Imperialist puppet state created by the Western Imperialist powers at the Geneva peace conference with the agreement of China and the Soviet Union. His purpose is to paint the Actions of the American Imperialist government as one that engages in just actions to defend itself and not one motivated by defense of Greedy investors seeking to maximized the profits for foreign investment by use of military force as USMC Major General Smedley Butler explained in his essay "War is a Racket." . .
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@jasonjohnson6344 Like on how the bourgeois advances the division of labor to cut the cost of skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor until the laborer becomes a universal machine operators and tender acting like the machines he works with. Capitalism has no need for more skilled labor when a machine and unskilled labor will advance the cause of profits.
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@jasonjohnson6344 Lets see now he wants school choice were parents all get vouchers so the can send their children to the best schools so what happens then is the parents all choose the best schools which now don't have enough seats. Now parents are fighting over who gets to go tp which school and in comes the free marketeer with a solution either tests to send all the best students to the best schools or money for those wishing to pay more for better education. The best schools continue getting the most money and tests can be circumvented by private tutoring. Basically no matter what you do the higher your income with capitalism the better chance you can give your offspring. That's why education under capitalism reproduces the relations of production. The only solutions proposed by Sowell and others like him is to cut costs and increase competition as the solution to every problem. This is because they believe that accumulation which they like to avoid talking about is fine as long as it's going into private hands which they see as those best able to decide what to do with it. They mock John L Lewis as the greatest oil salesman because he only had a tenth grade education but was someone Presidents had to listen too. His leadership of the CIO industrial union movement costs the bosses dearly in profits in basic industries like automobile, steel, rubber and electrical. FDR also had his Lewis phone tapped.
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@SireJaxs So now what? Your a skin nationalist? Malcolm X told the truth about both parties. It would be one thing IF he was talking about giving Black parents in majority white school districts choice but it is quite another when everyone gets it. It depend on how you want to deal the effects of past discrimination. If you want to improve schools as a whole school choice is not going to work for the reasons I gave. If you want to deal with the past effects of discrimination you can either have your own better funded schools or change the access for Blacks to the schools or some combination of the two. If you just want to have a "free for all" in public education with a capitalist system then give everyone vouchers. Now if you can't understand that and want to insist I don't understand what genius Sowell is and how I''m putting "a homie" down okay some have to learn the hard way.
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@richardcranium3579 Malcolm X is an example of the kind of uncompromising leader the Black American working class will produce for the coming Socialist Revolution. The communist movement is voluntary the goal is to create a cadre who can explain the affairs of state and how every injustice is related to the capitalist system of trade and production. Not a party of trade union secretaries but one of worker bolsheviks who understand how every argument that is made about politics is an economic one with implications for the workers and small farmers.
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@naejimba He goes about disproving Marx and many critics by never actually debating the critic or theory but instead by taking generalizations some may have gleaned from their general understanding of the critic or Marx to then go on and counter the theory or idea by picking a special case. It's like saying gravity makes things fall to the earth and then pointing to the ability to throw a ball go up in the air as disprove of gravity. So he points to two things happening at the same time and then insists they must be connected. Like the decline of the two parent Black family and the rise of the welfare state. So he says this has gotten worse since the end of slavery and then concludes its the welfare states fault since both occurred and are increasing at roughly the same time. What he leaves out is that Blacks were subjected to all kinds of restrictions on getting hold of property after the civil war. That becoming industrial workers and the change from rural family life of a sharecropper's family where the whole family shares in the labor and the results of the sale of a crop at harvest time was not the same as being paid a weekly wage that only paid for you to reproduce your labor for another pay period along with the ups and downs of the market affecting employment. After Clinton's welfare reform even more families of all colors were broken up. So was it the welfare state or the natural workings of capitalism where the bosses seeking to make the biggest profits seek to pay the lowest wages and work the production workers the longest hours in a pay period. Obviously a worker with a family has more expenses in a city than one who lives on the land in the countryside where the whole family can easily work together. So is it the liberal rejection of religious values and a deliberate policy of helping that was doing the opposite? Or is it just the underlying way in which capitalism works for the creation of profits?
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@naejimba Sowell claims to have read Das Kapital. So if you read that you would understand that it was Marx's and Engels attempt to explain the where and why capitalism does the things it does assuming that the goal of the capitalist is to make profits and because they are competition with each other than the goal becomes to make the biggest profits to win the battle of the marketplace. That each industry is in competition with each other for an overall rate of profit. Of course if you think the goal of the capitalists as a group and most of those individual capitalists is something elses then you would come to different conclusions. Sowell has spent most of his life trying to disprove the conclusions of Marx and even when he claims to have been a Marxists his own conclusions show he never had anything but a crude understanding. Mao's policy of killing pests only shows that Mao had poor understanding of the relationship between life in the food chain most likely due to the simple understanding that sparrows eat grain. Mao and others made other mistakes like setting up small scale iron production because Lenin had said modern industry depends on coal steel and electricity. Now had his followers been not so eager to please him they might have stopped the killing of the sparrows when the realised that it was causing the problem. The first scientist to synthesize insulin were Chinese. Places in Africa still suffer from locust plagues. They are of course written off since there is no political hay to be made by capitalist politicians in the developed world talking about what is happening in their former colonies unless it can be blamed upon a rival like China, Russia, or Iran. In the case of the use of fuel in an engine to power the automobile it could be powered by diesel or gasoline. The manufacturing of gasoline engines would be cheaper but the fuel required more careful preparation with the biggest problem being pre detonation. It was discovered that a tetraethylene lead would raise the octane level of gasoline. Now despite the dangers in lead it was promoted and lied about from the very beginning. It is estimated to have caused more premature deaths than any other pollutant in human history. Today the same effect is created by using ethyl alcohol with a solvent in gasoline.
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@naejimba I haven't shown causation? Well If capitalism worked like the neoliberals claim they wouldn't get into these un winable wars. The neoliberals are smart enough to understand they need to say out of trade wars because they lead to real wars but are unable to understand that the motives of the capitalist are the same as the warriors of one group who want what the other group of humans have.
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There is no security issue. This is what happens when you let cops play ICE or Border Patrol under 287g. The only thing something like this does it make the country look like middle east dictatorship. CBC is a National Canadian TV and Radio network turning a speeding ticket into an international incident is going to drive Canadians away from coming her as tourists and make the country look like it's run by officer Barney Fife after consulting with Gomer Pyle.
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Take the plunge join working class read "The Militant" and get in touch with the Communist League.
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@malibudolphin3109 They are the ones who began the Franco Prussian war and drown the Paris commune in blood. They are the ones who began world war 1 and 14 Imperialist Armies invaded the new Soviet Republics. The liberal Kennedy assaulted Cuba with repainted Alabama national guard bombers and trained armed mercenaries for a fake liberation of Cuba. When ever they lose they launch attacks upon workers and farmers revolting against their rotten lying politicians like Dinesh D'Souza. D'Souza supporter of Ronald Reagan who sought to obtain first strike capability in the cold war. Reagan the boss who fired the air traffic controllers. Reagan who continued arming Islamic terrorists like Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter in Afghanistan. Carter armed Pol Pot and supported him at the UN. Reagan who armed the White minority racists government in South Africa for their intervention in the Angolan civil war. Reagan who played the role of an idiot in the Iran Contra affair. D'Souza who says Trump won and made a film that proves what a jackass he really is. He then released a book 2000 mules that had to be recalled for errors. It doesn't name names for the simple reason is it lacks any real proof of any conspiracy to create votes by liberal or petty bourgeois leftist groups. Instead its a smoke and mirrors campaign of lies meant put Trump back in the white house.
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@malibudolphin3109 Its long been known that the Stalinists falsified history. That before Lenin died he wanted Stalin out of his post as General Secretary fearing he had too much power in his hands and would not always use it wisely. It was Trotsky who became the leader of those who wished to continue the Communist course of Lenin both in the Russian Party and the Communist International. As far as Democrats go they are just the twin party of capitalism who had Eugene Debs jailed for opposing the bosses Imperialist world war One. "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials" Chaired by John Dewey Exposed the truth about all the lies told at the Moscow Trials long before D'Sousa was even born. Despite all D'Souza's talk about how Mussilini and other deserted Marx. He forgets that the co founder of American Conservatism Professor James Burnham was a Deserter of the great communist revolutionary Trotsky when the going got tough with the rotten liberals like FDR. FDR who was the first to use the Smith "gag" Act against 18 leaders of the Minneapolis General Strike and the Socialist Workers Party. The same party thar put the FBI on trial in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. That later had Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's AG Grffen Bell held in contempt of court by a Capitalist Federal Judge.
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@malibudolphin3109 The greedy capitalist nations went to war in 1914 to take each others colonies. Out of that carnage rose the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Bolshevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky's Red Army defeating 14 Imperialist invaders including the US/UK.
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@Liberty-Jamie NAZI's are the German version like the KKK being the All American version.
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Pete fromtheIsland Trump is the US President not the world president. He should close the foreign bases in Saudi Arabia and stop sales of arms and military supplies to Saudi Arabia as US proxies in the Yemeni war.
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Pete fromtheIsland So What? Apple has sweatshops around the world also. So does the rest of the US ruling class. Do you think the Clinton's or liberal ruling class owners don't have their fingers in sweet but dirty pies. You can see that he doesn't act totally on his own if he did they'd of had him impeached and tossed out of the white house by now. Jeff Bezos rag the Washington Post is anti Trump. You know the Bezo's who runs the Amazon sweatshops.'
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Pete fromtheIsland What do you expect form a system of legal and illegal corruption? Congress can make itself heard when ever it wants. Pelosi can scream and Bezo's will print if that's what Bezo's wants.
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Political Grandstanding the ATF has offices in Jefferson City are they closed?
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@truckerenoch8824 Any rights given by "GOD" can be easily taken away by "GOD". Supreme Court Justice Antony Scalia openly stated he would prefer the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms over the US Bill of rights. Go read the Charter. It has references to God whereas the US constitution has none. It has "reasonable limits". where as the US Bill of rights has none. The writer of "Common Sense" blasting the English monarchy and Parliamentary collision did the same to organized Religion in the "Age of Reason". His name? Thomas Paine.
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@truckerenoch8824 Show me where in the US constitution that God is even mentioned. It is clear from reading the "no religious test" clause and the first amendment that god and religion were to be held at arm's length form government. Jefferson and Paine may have believed in God but they also knew of the dangers "Religious Frire brands" presented.
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harrylongbaugh1 If your rights came from god you'd still be in church waiting for them. Screw intelligent people. They're already a big problem as CEO's and two party politicians. The writer of "Common Sense" Thomas Paine also wrote "The Age of Reason". Here he blasted organized religion especially Christianity taking apart the Christian beliefs piece by piece. You don't have the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness other wise you could not be put in jail or murdered with impunity by use of death penalty nor could aliens be deported. This was a rhetorical argument from John Locke meant to embarrass the English Parliament and those familiar with English law. "Wherefore, laying aside all national pride and prejudice in favour of modes and forms, the plain truth is, that IT IS WHOLLY OWING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE, AND NOT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT, that the crown is not as oppressive in England as in Turkey." Thomas Paine in Common Sense This is where your rights come from not God. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/index.htm
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harrylongbaugh1 I see that by either ignorance, design or propaganda you have gone for the charge of Brainwashing. You seek to close down political space to discuss ideas just like the Stalinist only you prefer to close off discussion in favor of the two capitalist parties.
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harrylongbaugh1 God is not mentioned in the Constitution however religion is. It clearly states that "...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States..." England had been using religious tests which is why this clause was inserted into the original 1789 constitution. The Bill of Rights was written and passed later 1791 setting up "the wall" between Church and State. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.."
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@Enoughsenoughnomas Robert F. Williams got a NRA charter which he effectively used to defended his community from KKK violence. The bosses and the police will always have the right to own arms. Any law written to take those rights away will be directed at the working class.
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@Enoughsenoughnomas What is mind boggling isn't the oppression that Black African's faced in the US it is the refusal to accept that oppression and fight back despite the odds against them. If there had been no slave revolts no runaway slaves there would have been no civil war and the North would have never needed to make 190,000 black men into soldiers with rifles and say, "Go kill your masters with gunpowder and lead."
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@Enoughsenoughnomas This guy starts off wrong to begin with. The oldest living constitution is that of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts not the United States. Plus organized religion was under siege with Thomas Jefferson warning about firebrands and Thomas Paine taking Christianity apart piece by piece in the Age of Reason. You don't think any of these liberals talk much about that nevermind these conservatives. It's no accident that God was left out of the constitution and religion was pushed away at arm's length.
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@johnlyn1 The US Constitution was set up by the ruling class of protect owners to protect property. Governments are set up to protect the type of property of a particular epic of human history. They change depending on the needs of the ruling class.
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@rentiap The laws of America came form England and in England at the time only property owners could vote and the same was true before and after the revolution. Evet ry colony and later state required property ownership to vote and the original US constitution defers to the states for determining who can be electors. Universal suffrage if you can call it that only cam about in a piece meal fashion though changes in state laws and constitutional amendments some times expanding and other times restricting the right to vote. Ourselves meaning property owners and our posterity meaning heirs. Set up by property owners to protect the rights of property owners and their inheritance. Set up to allow states to coin money which the King forbade. Money needs to circulate to have commerce. The King wanted all money kept in England forbidding its import and coinage in the colonies. Like Margret Thatcher he feared running out of money.
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@truckerenoch8824 God isn't mentioned in the constition but relgion is and it says. "..no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” So if you can't test an officer of the United States on religion what makes you can test anyone else? Do all religions even require a God? Rights coming from God is a religious theory.
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@rentiap The southern slaveholders wanted to divide the country they were getting in the way of the countries development by insisting upon maintaining the slave system in conflict with the wage labor system. Refusing to leave the stage of history they were defeated in a bloody civil war which destroyed their property in slaves without compensation. The new Reconstruction governments in the South were popular among the toilers of all colors however the old landowners alling with the carpetbaggers organized a counter revolution using KKK and Red Shirt violence. The National Republican Party abandoned the newly freedmen to private profits and cheaper government. A capitalist system of two tiered labor value benefiting capitalists only to be destroyed by a Black rights movement lead by Black working people.
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@rentiap The United States is a fiction though its isn't a person nor is it a corporation with owners either. It is a government of property owners. Just as Athens or Rome was a government of slave owners. So your theory falls flat because the government is the supreme power of the United States, people in and citizens of the United States and any United States corporations including ones owned by the United States itself are inferior to it. The government exists in your mind like everyone else's mind because of its property and the people who make it up. It is really that simple.
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@rentiap I have done a quick read of your petition. I think the basic problem is the belief that you can argue you why out of a situation by presenting a legal argument with words. The reason it can be done that way is because ideas and words are developed to explain facts and needs of human beings first. A longer view of human history along with the realization of all the changes we have gone though may change you thinking on all kinds of things just as it has done on all the rest of us. Human beings started in a small groups much like other animals. First as groups of hunter gathers. We all must eat, have clothing and shelter before our groups can survive. We use tools and labor to make life possible. Once we do that then we can create culture. Art, Science, language, math and even religion. We have also been creating a surplus and with the surplus we've created the forces of production of future labor saving tools. What has been going on for 100's of generations has been accelerating in the last few centuries to the era of a world culture and a world system of production and trade. The forces of production are such that the ideas of only a couple of centuries ago are already being shown wrong by the facts that are known today such that people have yet to catch up in the thinking passed down over past centuries. Some of which is still true some of which is wrong and some of which needs alteration. Only a few hundred years ago it was common sense that the earth was flat and the Sun rotated around it and we were the center of the universe. Its still common sense today and still would be true if we could only travel a short distances in a relative long time, used sundials and counted time in days not micro seconds and billions of years and could not look out into the sky with a telescope made of glass lens.
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@rentiap People like Washington Jefferson and Adams were considered wealthy men of the time. Yet it would take them days if not weeks to go from Massachusetts to Georgia. While you or I can drive or fly that whole distance in an hours and we are just ordinary Americans. They had personal libraries that cost a small fortune we have the internet that allows us to search and read from a library thousands of times larger.
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@rentiap After a long argument which is difficult to understand and which includes valid grievances you say you that you aren't a person but a man. Now if you go to court and make this argument a Judge will merely say for purpose of these court proceedings I will define you the man as a person. You will be shut down because they will not accept you arguments as valid reasoning. You won't be able to argue you way out of a traffic ticket based upon past bad or improper actions of George Washington, King George, Congress, the State of California and wrong interpretation of the Northwest Ordnance, Articles of Confederation and words United States that lead to you being defined as a person and not a man when driving a car. The judge will just dismiss those arguments are irrelevant to the meaning of the word person for the purposes of this court.
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@rentiap Explain what you mean then because I read it and that's my interpretation of it. I don't need to call the SPLC or get piad to gain an understanding of what your saying. You do realize that words and ideas change overtime and nothing is set in stone. If what you saying is true you should be able to use different words and examples to convey the same meaning. In Italian they say open and close the light. While in English we say turn the light on and off. The judge would say your a natural person because I don't think you are a computer program with artificial intelligence writing back and forth to me. Of course if you were computer program than you might have an owner than I would be guessing who or what entity owned you. Squid 12? I'm not an MD so can tell much about it except its used for blocking blood vessels in the brain. Barbosa is a Spanish word for beard. Good of us all? Not sure what that's suppose to mean since it is sentence lacking a subject.
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@rentiap Lay off on the insults Ram. I go by the evidence not notions like you. If your not a natural person than give me some evidence to prove otherwise. Anyone can play word games. You say . "I am simply a Living, breathing, flesh, bone and blood sentient man created in the image of my creators." So you look like you mom and dad anymore kindergarten lessons you want to provide?
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@rentiap I care not to read mubo jumbo definitions so please translate for us less educated in the fine table manners of your legal experts.
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@rentiap The RAMs horns are hard. The use of words denoting a process don't necessarily produce what the process is called. The naturalization produces citizens from non citizens a subset of persons. Where as natural persons are those who are not fictitious. The legal reason for developing the concept of the ficticios person was to give joint stock companies rights to own property like natural persons. The joint stock company owners have limited liability as natural persons who own the fictitious one. The ficticios person is the slave of the owners. Now you may go to court and argue for the freedom of the fictitious person and see how far that gets you.
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@rentiap Great now go explain all that to SPLC and the Judge next time you drive a car as a Sovereign citizen. II'm sick of listening to a US Constitutional and Bourgeois legal scholars like you and yes i can use google translate so to help you my native language is ancient pig Latin.
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@rentiap Not speaking you lanuage then? Bow Wow Bow Wow Wuff Wuff Bow Wow Wuff Wuff. Bow Wow
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@rentiap Your interested in teaching lessons in semantics like the brilliant minds of Bourgeois lawyers! What do you care about suffering your not suffering are you? You had something to eat and are under a roof tonite aren't you? Your not sleeping under the bridge in Del Rio,TX are you?
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@rentiap No I am saying your frame of reference determines what you see. The earth appears to be in motion from a train and the train in motion from the earth. The ruling class see itself as good because its in power and getting rich and it loves to here everything that confirms that its system is working. Bad news from the colonies causes chaos in Rome. A debate unfolds do we shot the general or the messenger obviously theirs no defect in the Roman system itself?.
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@jmstouter6572 God or gods and his or their wisdom serves a the catch all explanation for everything human beings don't understand. You aren't advancing any new ideas whatsoever just a rehash of the old going back centuries. An individual avoiding an outcome does not necessarily mean a group of individuals can. Your ability to do what you please in life is limited by the material conditions of life.
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@goldierule1350 They were so busy building a wall they forgot about the need for electricity and now they need plumbers for busted pipes.
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@georgegeorge6887 I'll tell you this. First the video is made with support of the CCP's capitalist rivals THE NEW TANG DYNASTY. The bosses aren't making a big enough profit in the electrical racket to warrant investing in extra generating capacity, an AC interconnect or keeping gas and oil fields operational. It's more cost effective to let everything go to hell in a handbasket. Now you don't believe that bull about bosses wanting lower prices with a free market? No boss wants a free market unless it's you selling your labor or a farmer selling his crop to a big middleman. Then they want a free market prices. What they want is bigger subsidies from their rivals and monopoly power in the marketplace. When was the last time your electric bill went down? This guy takes you for a chump period.
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@robertabell9182 Right nothing like waving a flag and patriotism to gain votes and boost sales. Like Joe Biden's "Let a Thousand Flags Wave Inauguration." Sure Dewey, Cheatem and Howe was the Harvard and Yale law firm representing Democratic and Republican Party capitalists working hand in glove with spineless capitalist judges to spend the least and get the biggest return in investment. . ,
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@quintrankid8045 It still cost you in labor time to make it just as Ben Shapiro's mud pies do. Whither you can get any exchange value for it depends on the market. What is the cost of labor time but the cost of the laborer who must reproduce his labor power for the next pay period. If i come to work and the mill is broke down it still cost me to show up and wait around while management decides what to do. Just because your mill broke down doesn't change the fact that I have to eat, drink and sleep. Those are the laborers costs. How skilled the painter is determines how fast he can produce paintings along with his ability to work in general.
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@quintrankid8045 Where did the money come from? Did it fall from trees? Or is it just numbers spit out of a computer? Gold and Silver in the ground? Money was invented as a medium of exchange. It has to be recognised by both parties to a transaction as having value. The defeat of the South in the civil war made their paper money worthless but not the silver coins they minted. The original paper money was issued as receipts for gold or silver on deposit in a bank. Anyone who runs a business knows that labor cost and application is the most controllable of all expenses. Your investing in three things capital equipment, materials and wages in anticipation of sales in a market. Unless you intend to cheat your workers you need to pay a total wage in a pay period that will get them to return for the next pay period. Assuming its a full time production job the bosses want us for the longest hours at the lowest wages at the quickest pace to make the biggest profits from the surplus value our labor produces after that which is needed to reproduce our labor.
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@quintrankid8045 American money is issued by a combined actions of the US Treasury which sells bonds to pay for debts incurred and money loaned out by the Federal Reserve Bank at the prime rate to the national banks. The federal reserve also bought up junk bonds in a process called quantitative easing to bailout banks who had taken on bad debt. Now all the original Robber Barons are dead as are most of the people who mined the gold sitting in Fort Knox and the cellars of the New York Federal Reserve. When a company issues stock or the transit authority tokens that is also a form of money since it can be used in trade. For the capitalist system to "work" trading or buying and selling must always be going on. This is why banks became the center of business activity including the need for a central bank. It becomes necessary to manage every last detail to exert ever greater control and enforce ever more petty rules to extract and keep up the rates of profit for industries without more markets to expand into. The government must more and more take on the role of settling all the disputes created over what can and can not be subsidised or taxed or untaxed and what must and must not be regulated in where the interests of private profit, big capital and incumbents always come first with corruption and monopoly just being a way to conduct business not yet found to be illegal. .
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@quintrankid8045 Water and food have value and people existed before money was invented by people. A chimpanzee knows what to do with a banana and water he need lessons from a man who labors to know what to do with money. "Labor transforms nature." John Locke. Now the modern bourgeois has been trying to escape that very basic idea to justify and to mystify value and profit. This is why Sowell says trade is not a zero sum but can be beneficial to both parties and big risks can produce big rewards. He is like you trying to get around that the basis of human life is social labor to make life possible for a social group. It is unnatural for us to stray very far or for very long away from other people. Our hands are shaped by the complex tasks that hunting, gathering, fishing and fire making required. Our voice box for communication. Our eyes for observation. Cooking to help with digestion of food. We are part of the natural world and governed by its laws. It might be nice to build John Gaults perpetual motion machine but so far the laws of the universe for reasons we don't understand preclude it. It was the reports of English sea captains who wrote about how people who lived in other parts of the world in a more primitive way without the use of money, marriage and hereditary property like the cultural practices of the Europeans. Culture is only created after out animalistic needs are meet.
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@quintrankid8045 I'm fairly certain that when one or more workers tries to keep the results of his collective labor the police will be called. Or in the case of Bill Gates when he had charges pressed for theft of intellectual property for coping software that was promoted as being free the only charge that stuck was the coping of a Microsoft logo. No sympathy from Microsoft the big promoter of everything innovative and good though the guy still went to prison.. I'd like to be able to legally work on my car without the threat of eviction. I don't know where you live just being allowed to work is a problem. Companies want to monopolize everything and control your access to parts and the ability to repair everything you own. They have all kinds of laws and license requirements to keep everything under monopoly control.
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@quintrankid8045 Like I said people engaged in socal labor for centuries without money and if the distaste for labor has become a problem it is the capitalist with their constant demands for more work at the same or lower cost. They disconnected money from the value of gold because they had overspent on the Vietnam War and wanted to make the rest of the world pay. France wanted gold for dollars and Nixon said no provoking the inflationary economic crisis that followed. All that flowed out of the months of Sowell and Friedman was how government social spending and not the endless war spending and preparations for war for which not a peep was heard from either Sowell or Friedman, was the problem.
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@jaykelly9543 The working class has no nation. The bosses seek to divide the world up for profits for themselves at the expense of the workers of the world.
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Capitalist myth Government is inefficient like with the schools and Public transportation. No because capitalism only works well when you can continuously cut the cost of production by replacing labor with machines. You cant teach a person faster by having the teacher use new machines so that's why education can't make profits. The same with public transit you can change the time it takes to run a bus route. You can print more books quicker with newer printing presses and make buses faster with robotic machinery. The capitalist want only the profitable section of the economy and want us to pay for the rest out of taxes on wages.
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Then what?
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@mmedrano21 I never believed that the US Labor Dept was a hotbed of Communist posed for an imminent takeover. Liberal professor played a practical joke on him when they got him a position at the US Labor Dept after leaving the University of Chicago.
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That's really good that your kids all have good manners and all. But isn't that what political correctness is all about? Having extremely good manners? If all we needed was good middle class manners that their would be no need for the class struggle.
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In my lifetime the height of class struggle on the world scale was about 1968. Tet offensive, Che in Bolivia, Soviet Troops in Czechoslovakia, French Students and workers push out President Charles De Gaulle, MLK murder results Ghetto Rebellion across the US, Anti Vietnam war protests across the world. Class struggle breaks out with or without leadership. It may involve just a few protesters or it may start in one country and spread across borders involving millions of people. (Arab Spring)
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Hypocrisy at it's best. Nothing like the Patriot Act or Smith "gag" Act would ever be used to interfere with civil liberties and free speech.
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@jessl1934 Marxism is philosophically historical materialism. What that means is we see material as the source of ideas. Sex is determined by biology. You can not change you sex after you have been conceived. No surgery or hormone treatment can do that. All males have at least one Y chromosome in all their cells and all females have no Y chromosomes in all their cells. No one in history has ever been knowingly born with both type of cells nor does science support such a possibility.
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@jessl1934 Learn to read before you write. Our brains model material reality. That is he source of ideas. You can't even invent a fiction without it having some source in material reality.
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@jessl1934 Well my reading says it makes sense because I used the word in. Nevertheless I came from a "bad neighborhood" where people don't speak the "King's English." People invented God to explain things they did not understand.at the time . Even the definition of God has changed overtime such that all believers and different cultures do not agree. Human beings are characterized by our use of labor to make a life for our species and the accumulation of a surplus. We make tools to save future labor time. We spread across the world but lost touch with each other until about 600 years ago with the development of ships which could cross the ocean and rediscovered the rest of the world. Marx developed many of his ideas about human history by studding the reports of sea captains in the British museum. Many of the ideas now associated only with Marx in US Bourgeois economics actually were theorized earlier by John Locke and Adam Smith. Since Keynes advised the British capitalist to devalue the pound as a way to cheat the working class with inflation rather than used the old fashion wage cuts. The American capitalist have followed in the British footsteps with Nixon finally totally disconnecting the dollar from the value of gold.
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@honestaussie5064 Seems to me from what I read elsewhere the controversy is around biology and how the sex of a human being is determined.
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@jessl1934 Females don't have a Y do they. Both means the ones with a Y and the ones with no Y chromosome. All a persons cells with a nucleus reflect that basic biological difference. Your cells either have at least one Y or no Y's. Some people are born with double Y's.
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@jessl1934 Its simple either a cell with a nucleus has a Y or it doesn't. You don't bother with the X because males usually have one and females two. If the original fertilized egg has at least one Y it sets of a process early on to create a male individual. Sometimes the process gets interpreted for other reasons but it always gets started by a Y chromosome. I researched this earlier with someone who insisted you could be both male and female if a genetic birth defect happened. The closest abnormality I could find to that was people who had testicles tissue with some ovarian secretions because the process creating a male had been interrupted. Most individuals born with genetic sex abnormalities are infertile. So the problem usually caused by a recessive gene that got passed on from both parents since people with these disorders usual can not have offspring. So its much like the gene for blue eyes but having blue eyes has no effect on your ability to survive and procreate. People with blue eyes need to get a gene from each parent that does not trigger the process to create the normal brown color of melanin in the iris.
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@jessl1934 I haven't read everything ever written by someone who claims to be a Marxists. Since I long ago rejected Stalin for Trotsky I don't read a lot of Mao. If the Maoists are opposed to Book worship why did the wave the great helmsman's little red book arround durring the cultural revolution? I spent enough time explaining the role of the Y chromosome if you want to believe otherwise that's on you.
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@donnaeturner He has to quote Lao Tzu to sound cool. Notice he still wears a regulation haircut.
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@AleadaA Look I don't trust the any kind of stalinist leader. Be it Mao, Stalin, Kruschev, Gus Hall or Angela Davis. The cheapest government for capitalism is a bourgeois democratic one. For us the way to present our ideas is most easily done with a legal movement and keeping the doors open for the widest discussion of ideas and proposals along with the ability to call legal strikes and peaceful protests. The Russian Party was also able to operate underground despite the Czar's secret police and censors. There is nothing that wets the appetite for literature than that which is published illegally.
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By the time it became a daily the Communist movement had already split with the Left opposition Communist league of America founding The Militant in New York.
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Make believe fairness was "Separate but Equal."
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@Cloud-zb8lw The knew at 5 am she was sick. By their own admission they know how dangerous dehydration and not being to hold anything down in a desert climate is. If it was a Border Patrol Agent a medical helicopter would have been dispatched immediately. They said they had no way to get her to help faster. An ambulance could have been dispatched and meet the bus halfway cutting the travel time in half.
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@sheilaolfieway1885 That has nothing to do with the facts. Border Patrol knew of the dangers by their own admission. At 5AM they knew she was sick and did not call a Doctor for Medical advice. They have convicted themselves with their own words.
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martin joseph The took charge of 163 people at the Antelope Wells Port of Entry. Once the took charge of them than they also took the responsibility for their well being also. The locked them in a garage. This was a little girl. Over and over they have stressed the danger. Yet took no precautions whatsoever. They were 90 miles form help so did they send a medical team to the Port of Entry at 10PM? The biggest thing they did was get a signature on a document. So they could cover their ass. They knew she was sick at 5AM before the Bus left. Did they call for Medical help then? No. Did they take her out for separate transport? No. Did they arrange to meet the paramedics halfway? NO. Who knows what a doctor would have said? Maybe ginger ale? Maybe gatorade? Transport in a prison bus? Probably not. Would you have not called a Doctor if it was you child who was ill after being in the desert and vomiting with an hour and half trip to any medical care?
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@jamesc.e.s.4551 Stalin reversed the revolution heading back to capitalism that never happened in Cuba. The Cuban revolution continues making history and the working class in Eastern Europe and Russia never voted for Milton Friedman Shock therapy.
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@KiTheMC PathfinderPress.com
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@OfMiceAndMegabytes Computer repair? With a two hundred dollar computer who can make any money repairing one? Trades are always having new stuff cut installation and repair time.
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@456myer Since the US birth rate is below replacement someone will need to take care of you in your old age.
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@hendo136 You tell what orange man good accomplished. I will give credit for talking with Kim and N. Korea and beginning the end of the Afghan war. None of the basic economic problems have been addressed because most of the economic theories developed in US Universities are junk science based upon facts that are false.
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@user-mw6jo7ql1c Conservative Republican Nixon took the advice of the John Keynes to use a Central Bank's control of the money supply to rob the workers with inflation instead of issuing wage cuts. That's why he shut down the $35 an once gold supply price. This is why today the dollars "floats" as the world's reserve currency and the capitalist keep the robbery going with control of taxes, regulation, interest rates and government expenditures. Do you know the price of gold today? Inflation makes wages worth less and property worth more. This why Nixon said, "We are all Keynesian now."
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@robertgriffin3406 I say read Karl Marx. V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Che Guevara and show us where the thinking is wrong. I like facts and evidence. Not a finger pointing and noise making. Just because you have the world biggest store of gold in the New York Federal Reserve Bank's cellars doesn't mean money grows in a Bank. We want to know how to water gold to make the money grow?
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@hendo136 If you understood economics and politics I would have to explain everything to you. What makes you think a single country can be communist in the first place? An disagreement devolved between Engels and Bernstein do you know what that was about? Do you think Ms. Thatcher was right when she said the capitalist had won the cold war and that this was the end of history? My option is you still have solved the problems of 1914 never mind those that resulted in 1917 and 1959.
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@hendo136 By modern period you mean about 5 years during Trump's reign. You had an economic crisis every 5 to 10 years since about 1877 and you tell me your in a modern era? Trump is one man who plays King for 4 years while the deep state runs the government with slight changes in policy. He bragged about building a wall the size of two lanes of an Interstate highway built sideways for 2,000 miles with Mexico picking up the tab. He said he would make America Great Again like he was the Wizard of Oz. He played to the crowd telling people what they wanted to hear and what the ruling rich didn't. He left office with egg on his face leaving the rest of the world ruling classes in despair. He was a great figure for Rome now all you have to do is convince all the plebs, slaves and the colonials. .
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@hendo136 Did you win the cold war? Not if peace and stability if that is what you crave most. Obviously you've lost and set yourself back in history unable to avoid decline despite victory. Rushing into China for a bigger profit margn's only to show your True Blue colors of Profits First American workers last. Trump himself was a Party oscillator who switched Parties 5 times. Hillary Clinton Goldwater Girl Finnishing School Grad and Yale law who married the man with the broken zipper. She couldn't Pass the DC Bar exam. I never agreed with Trump on much but to demonize him and to see him trashed over and over by the media and the Democrats was a lesson in hypocrisy not even the Greeks who invented the word could imagine.
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Emperor Reagan was the "genius" who funded the Taliban. Who let Osama bin Laden set up Al Quida training camps. Who staged 9/11. Giving the bipartisan Imperialist Bush and Obama reason for a 20 year war in Afghanistan cost 2.3 trillion and 100,000 lives and creating millions of internally displaced refugees.
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As long as you have capitalism you will have Jeff Bezos or others like him.
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Have to disagree. The three general strikes in 1934 (Minneapolis, Akron and San Francisco) lead by different factions of the communist party opened the road to the CIO labor movement and resulted in the passage of the 1935 Social Security Act. Minneapolis communism did work.The bosses and their Citizens Alliance were defeated with a crushing blow. After the strike not a truck, taxi or bosses limoscene moved without a Teamster behind the wheel and this included inside wearhouse men also. It's one of the reasons why the Teamsters today are the largest union in the AFL-CIO. I mixed up the 1934 Toledo General Strike with the 1936 Akron General Strike.
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Obviously the unions are the means to which the workers can fight the class struggle. A workers (Communist) state is a transitory government needed to defeat the capitalist state. The leaders of the Toledo General Strike (American Workers Party) and the Minneapolis General strike (Communist League of America) would go on to form the Socialist Workers Party while the leaders of San Francisco General Strike (Communist Party of America) had already become Stalin's representatives in the US going through all the twists and turns required to defend Stalin and his counterrevolutionary policies. At one point they became the Communist Political Association announcing the end of the class struggle with a unanimous vote only a few months later they purged their Moscow Chosen leader Earl Browder for a better one William Z. Foster and became the Communist Party USA.
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The Stalinist's lied through their teeth. While talking socialism they were always preparing to take the country back to capitalism. The most corrupt became the new capitalist in the East. The trade unions remain in tact and for that reason the popular revolutions were a defeat for Imperialism and its collaborators the Stalinist counter revolutionaries. .
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@michaeloxlong Giving more and more privilege's to officials can only lead back to capitalism. Nazism was the result of the failure of the German revolution it was brought about when the capitalist conservatives turned to Hitler's thugs as a way to save German capitalism. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President General Hindenburg after negotiations with von Papen and NAZI party officials were given command of the police. Next the Reichstag with all its Communist and many Social Democratic deputies denied their seats with all the capitalist parties and NAZI's voting for the enabling act giving Hitler the power to rule by decree. Hitler is real capitalism the industrialist saved their property and their profits only to lose the war to the Soviet Red Army.
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@schizoidman7916 We still live in the Imperialist stage of capitalism since US Imperialism was unable to win the cold war. Maybe you don't like or want war and fascism but that's the ultimate goal of the national capitalist ruling classes fighting for markets and profits. They have no other way to arbitrate international trade disputes.
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Sowell spent a lifetime blaming Karl Marx, liberals, socialist and communists for all the world's problems. Sowell is just another "know it all" American bourgeois intellectual.
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@danielpye7738 His party the Republican along with the Democrats decided to liberate the dollar from the value of Gold and use inflation to rob the working class instead of wage cuts. This is the only solution that the Capitalist have other than war for restarting their profit system after they overproduce for markets that can't absorb all that can be produced and still keep up th rate of profit. When they can no longer make more profit from expanding production they invest in driving up the value of fictitious capital which can then only collapse. These are self defeating actions because when the workers can no longer buy back what they produce the bosses order layoffs to save on wage cost which now means the purchasing power of the workers goes down this is why they need to bail themselves out in these crisis and blame high wages as the problem. .
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@imgoldenspyder9409 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Maybe if they had turned the whole of South East Asia into a wasteland the could have bulit a massive Disneyland with a gigantic parking lot along with airfields also.
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@TeaParty1776 Marx says that the class struggle is the motive force of history. After all the merchants and trades were not the ones who had political power in the past either they became a ruling class pushing out the old landed aristocracy. Man's mind reflects material and ideas develop out of material reality. For after man has drunk, eaten, clothed and shelter ourselves then we have created culture science art and religion all made possible by leisure time. We are social animals who have always labored together to use tools and fire to cook. We began as hunter gathers. Then advanced to agriculture.
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@TeaParty1776 Foucus on what? Science proceeds from careful observation and focus is what a lens is used for you adjust the focal length. I do my best thinking when I let mind wander and play with ideas. Why would I want to focus on anything? Where do you think Sowell got most of his ldeas from? He read Das Kapital or se he claims. Its hard to argue with us because we are materialist not idealist nor has Hiltler simple taken Marx and replaced Race for class. Class is a constrict directly connect to economics it comes from the reality of the interaction between people need to drink feed, cloth, and shelter ourselves. Race is a social construct associated with skin color and place of origin in the modern world. Racism was non existent before the European's developed capitalism. The capitalist developed racism to explain their success in the conquering the world with their superiority to build things by using the methods of the factory, love of money and division of labor. Their has never been a free market since markets were always a source of conflict when trading. When Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay he fired his cannon and then asked do you want to trade? Capitalism was established with force of arms not voluntarily. The whole idea of a free market is abstract and idealistic. The most ridiculous of ideas is that the market actually knows something that people don't make decisions but markets do.
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@TeaParty1776 So you a true believer in the bible I suppose God does nothing bad in the bible like what is written in Hosea 13:16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open. You realize Stalin was a one time student at the Tbilisi Orthodox seminary. He of course wouldn't get any bad ideas from reading the bible. Any Rand received her education at a University that was closed to women before the Bolshevik revolution. She and her dad left to go behind the white counter revolutionary lines in the civil war. She was a self describe Bourgeois Student who left at about the time of Lenin death legally for a country that had no diplomatic relations and had invaded the Soviet Union along with 13 Imperialist Armies. Yes the US/UK invaded the Soviet Union and was defeated By Trotsky's Red Army. Rand the anti collectivist cashed that social security check my bet is so will you thanks the the class struggle of the 1930's.
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@TeaParty1776 Let me know when Rand can explain why British Merchants sold opium to the Chinese despite the Emperor opposing the sale and then the British along with the Americans waged a war to defend their opium trade if it wasn't for capitalist greed an the willingness to use military power to defend their profitable businesses. You always need to insult us calling us alcoholics, addict, street thieves, prostitutes and alcoholics. As if no one in your ruling class never did any of those things. In fact capitalist scientist invented all the opium based drugs. The Sackler family made billions on drugs by lying about the dangers of their concoctions. You invented and used the most horrible mass methods of death in war poison gas, explosive bombs, biological weapons and the nuclear bomb. You minds are glued on making a profit by any means possible. You want to own everything declaring its yours and only you can decide what to do with it. You took land from the Native American's by force and say that you are for free markets and non aggression. You buy politicians of both parties to do want you say and call that democracy. You say you don't need a state but your the most well armed nation with 800 foriegn bases and building more nuclear bombs to maintain the posture of your Empires Imperialist investor class.
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@TeaParty1776 You have no idea who you are talking to do you? Fidel Castro never had a problem creating Medical Doctors and Engineers out of Sugar Cane slaves. The Soviet Scientist created the first Tokamak. They put the first artificial satellite in orbit. When they ran out of company engineers to fix a Titan missile they called on my dad a railroad electrician with an 11 grade education to fix it. So see i come from a family of rocket scientists. LMAO
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@TeaParty1776 Its the morality of capitalism that says allow the rich to run the world because they are doing the right thing by becoming rich. Do nothing but follow their orders because their is no other way to do things. Capitalism is based in free competition and that competition leads to Imperialist war but we should just let them run things because they know what they are doing. The rich would never gang up against each other or us because they are all producing with independent minds not the labor of millions of working people. Working class solidarity develops in opposition to that and that is what produces change. This is why our class is always in conflict with yours and will continue to be in conflict until victory or death.
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@TeaParty1776 I see the civil rights reply last. The Republican Party began the betrayal of Blacks with the Hayes Tilden compromise. According to Alfred P. Sloan a GM exec a divided market produces more profits so why would the same not be true for a divided labor market? The Republican Party allowed the Democrats control of the South even though the controlled the national government and supreme court right up to the election of Wilson. All this talk of government being independent of class is just that talk. The owner of private property have had the last say on everything since the founding of the republic. Segregation laws were increasingly becoming unenforceable as Blacks became more aware of the collective power and joined the mass industrial trade unions. Trotsky in Mexico helped educate us on the power of the colonial and semi colonial nations aspirations in the battle for socialism. The goal of every nations capitalist class is to set up a nation with a central government to defend itself. In the Imperialist era those who dominate these less developed nations don't allow these national aspirations their full expression. We could hardly call ourselves revolutionaries if we did not support these aspiration up to and including their own state as a way to undercut the power of the reactionary bourgeois of all nations. .
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@TeaParty1776 Nice to know I hear she has an institute and use to hang out with our ruling classes central bankers. Any truth to the statement she cashed her social security old age checks despite being morally opposed the crime of tax theft?
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@TeaParty1776 According to GM Exec Alfred E. Sloan by dividing the car market between luxury and ordinary the cost to add the luxury items makes for overall higher profits on sales of the luxury model. You might have a point if the capitalist themselves did act collectively as a class and/or nation. The ownership of slaves and serfdom became an obstacle to the development of the productive forces. If the ownership of private property becomes an obstacle to the productive forces then it too will be abolished.
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@TeaParty1776 What are you talking about now? You call yourself the tea party didn't you take private property and throw it in Boston Harbor?
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A problem has developed where things said in the thread aren't posting in order,
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@TeaParty1776 A problem has developed in the thread where things aren't posting properly possible due to you tube or video poster censorship.
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@TeaParty1776 Sounds like what the US Government has been doing to Cuba for 60+ years with its Blockade. Trying to crush the revolution and control everything from the Banks in New York and the Government in Washington. In fact is that what the US has become an Empire like the British. They executed the King in England and had a Republic but the King's son came back in a counter revolution. That is why the set up a Republic because they already had the experience of the counter revolution in England.
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@TeaParty1776 Its already been abolished in Cuba.
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@TeaParty1776 You think that hasn't been happenung? Look at the statistics for industrial production capacity usage in the United States kept by the federal reserve? You think when the capitalist launch wars that isn't part of the economic problems caused by the end of the productive and primitive accumulation phase of capitalism? Assuming the capitalist aren't defeated in economics and politics and can organize an Army to defeat us why does the class struggle continue? If 1991 was the "End of History" then why have you not learned your lessons? You sent all kinds of free market economic advisers to Russia and instead of nice friendly relations you have an Imperialist war taking place in Central Europe. Putin thinking he can reconstitute the USSR and blaming Lenin for Ukrainian independence. The CCP which is just Capitalism with Chinese Characteritics has become both your biggest trading partner and competition.
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@TeaParty1776 Mining the moon another pipe dream of people like Bezos and Musk. You can't even keep the air traffic in the air and people on a train that was suppose take 10 hours took 37 hours. it took 2 years to build the CT turnpike they can't build a ten mile bypass in Texas in less than 10 years though nothing but farm land. With about 5 years construction time. The people running things are complete idiots focused on short term profits. You have another popular revolution brewing in Iran once the top blows off what are you going to do than? No Saddam Hussein to serve your interests.and launch poison gas attacks. The only thing you minds are focused on is money, capital and profits. You have fights breaking out in Congress now that hasn't happened since the civil war. Reports are that of the English People 30 % believe the whole war on terror is bullshit. The Republicans are talking in Congress about a need to hold hearings on all the intelligence agencies. The Chinese may overthrow them in a political revolution and create a Cuba in China.
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@TeaParty1776 I was born a man and will stay that way. Named after a famous spy by a father with a sense of humor. Transitioning is an attack by the rational mind on the materialist concept of nature. Its one where ideas can supersede reality through the concentration of the rational mind until it becomes irrational. Much your belive that what went wrong in Eastern Europe and The US was the difference in Christian views of the bible. Keep your eye on Iran as Islamic republic heads for the trash bin of history.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec Liberals have been lying though their teeth about capitalism and now you wonder why you have the problems you do.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec The university professors are in this along with the scientists and engineers because capitalism replaces higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor. Your allowed to tell the big lie because that's how advertising works. The only way out is more free speech to raise the educational level of the working people and make a socialist revolution like Fidel Castro did in Cuba. We don't need officially approved speech like in the old Soviet Union. Bad ideas will die a natural death when people can see reality and understand the explanations. Thomas Jefferson was probably one of the first certainly the first American to realize this. That's why we have a first amendment. People will abandon the Democratic Party as soon as a big enough alternative party based in labor arises.
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Obviously your the result of dumbing down.
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albert mojica, jr. amjmetaltomotown Fox forgot to censor the picture with the revolutionary 26th of July movement flag. End the blockade of Cuba.
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@melrose9252 Maybe you should go down with a master lock and see if thar works.
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@danielscotti9471 Their could always be a plce for him on the Insanity Show.
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@f-86zoomer37 China invaded Vietnam as a favor to Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter. Carter who armed Pol Pot.
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@bq856 The Taliban are ideologically reactionary so I don't expect anything good to come from them anymore than Hamas, Prince Saud or the Iranian Ayatollah.
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Western civilization is responsible for Jew Hatred. The US/UK FDR and Churchill refused to accept Jewish refugees from NAZI terror both before and after the war. Germany is part of western culture and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem allied himself with Hitler forming a Muslim Croate Militia. Because the Jews have been the scapegoat victims of every economic crisis Israel must be a refuge for the Jews. Hitler came to power because Stalin and the German Communist Party refused to close ranks with the Social Democrats and allowed Hitler to come to power with the support of the German capitalists. .
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@karlagarcia1851 The cops get a reputation that they deserve of being a bunch of goons who protect the rich capitalist bosses.
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Twenty years of war with Bush, Obama and Trump unable to win and Hanity talks about how we just "Cut and Run." How many more coffins and wheelchairs were your and Fox news willing to buy Sean?
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@amyrenee1361 In a year from now the who;e thing will become all that more confusing. Consequences? LMAO like what 6 months in Club Fed and a $1000 fine?
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Once you cross from the working class and its needs and into the petty bourgeois than identity politics begins to loses its progressive character. In other words what difference does it make what color or sex your boss or the policeman is? Of course a Black policeman out of uniform will still be a victim of the racist justice system and police. The Black petty bourgeois began the struggle against Jim Crow racism but it was Black workers who successfully fought Jim Crow racism in industries like Steel which produced the 1974 Consent decree and the USWA v. Brian Weber decision which upheld an affirmative action agreement in a United Steelworkers of America contract with Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. The Women and Black workers who fought their way into previous excluded trades and industries are a historic gain for the working class as a whole. Today's concepts of microaggressions, those that intrude on personal lives like demanding equal dating , that make a Black Lesbian person automatically a progressive leader by virtue of identity and bad manners campaigns have nothing to do with Marxism or Socialism. Instead they seek to elevate halting of bad manners, the breaking of glass ceilings and having a politically correct personal life as a revolutionary goal. This and the insults they have for workers who are caucasian only divide the working class instead of creating the revolutionary working class unity needed to over through capitalism itself.
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Sure the way WalMart and Amazon are pitching in we can't go wrong.
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@MrTodayistheday Abolish Private Property advised Marx to the working class. Take control into your own hands and run things without concern for the profits of the bosses.
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@henrybarnes2678 It a case of the criminals blaming the victims. The bosses decide to cut jobs with new machinery and to move production elsewhere for bigger profits while handing out a megar alms bag to those who had their lives and livelihoods destroyed. Now you have the meritocracy seat warmers like Sowell talking about how the giving out of alms caused this problem and not capitalism causing the problem with the quest for the biggest profits by driving down the wages and lengthening the hours of the working class with central bank generated inflation. .
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@joec5544g Bosses need artificial intelligence because they have none of their own. What do you think is going to happen when we force another immigration amnesty on you? Immigration in the end always works against the bosses plans to split the working class. Workers in Mexico and China have the same kind of problems with the capitalist bosses and they have already shown their willingness to fight back. Immigrants far from becoming scabs will become some of the best fighters against the bosses.
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The problems with gun death are associated with the dog eat dog nature of American capitalism. School shooters are often despondent at the life they see a head of them. Armed robberies are also associated with people rejected by the system.
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Getting "Owned" one this guy is not shy about is being an "owner" I guess he thinks if he accumulates enough knowledge that will make him rich alone and make the accumulation of capital unnecessary.
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@Kurtlane NAZI are the German version of Fascism a counter revolutionary terrorist gangster movement that appeals that appeals to the middle class that is being crushed by the crisis of capitalism. It must be countered by mass mobilization of the workers and the trade unions which are the target of the fascist gangsters.
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@Julia-Richter Its used as a political swear word in American culture. The NAZI's are national fascist movement specific to Germany. Laws passed outside of Germany against the NAZI threat are almost always anti German and anti Democratic having nothing to do with halting fascism and instead used as a way to attack the trade unions and build support for Bourgeois nationalism. .
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@oneofmany1087 That is nothing but the new Czarist Putin slanders. Putin who blames Lenin for Ukraine.
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Sowell does the marketing of the neo liberalism of Milton Friedman. Where capitalist bosses ownership of private property is the best way for everything to be done. It is a theory where everything including your labor can be assigned an exact value in an ideal free market and governments job is to create ideal markets and defend property rights and everything else will work like magic. The problem of course is capitalism never started out that way to begin with and in fact it keeps needing a larger state because the ruling class is greedy and declining profit rates and protection of markets requires a state to defend the wealthy ruling class that can only become larger unless the workers intervene and take control of production away from a few profiteers whose only goal is more for themselves and to hell with everyone else.
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@asquare9316 The capitalist seek to mystify things to deceive us for bigger profits and more sales which is why they have advertising and politicians telling half truths.
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@petervanderveen2340 Capitalism doesn't work they way it is claimed by the bourgeois economists and their own accounting books prove that.
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@mikewilliams7218 What does she do lead the ladies gardening club?
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@mikewilliams7218 I know enough about farming and small business that an adult family member can't take time off to play governor for a few years unless its a big operation. All the farm families in my home town are gone with the exception of the one running a number of other businesses.
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Young Turks is really turning out the Jew Haters with this video. Soon you be invited to Speak to the American version of the Hitler Youth.
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@swesleyc7 Money at work is the biggest fraud on the planet. You invest it so it gets counted more than once because it is in circulation back and forth between banks in addition to paying for new expansion of industry. What happens when the markets become full of products that can't be sold at an acceptable profit? Of course you stop expanding production now your profits go to driving up the value of fictitious capital. In 1929 the stock market was booming until suddenly banks could not pay their depositors. A similar thing happened in 2008 when no one could pay the outrageous mortgage contacts. Next thing you 2 trillion dollars in fictitious capital value disappeared. It happens precisely because money doesn't "work". Only people do. To be a capitalist is to occupy a social position that allows the accumulation of surplus value produced by labor. Naturally the capitalist doesn't have real money silver and gold he has paperwork that says he ow this and he owns that and then his friends decide how much he is worth based on what they would pay in exchange. Of coutse if he goes bankrupt the brig him to bankruptsy cuort where the creditors feast upon whats left of the corpse.Afterall the corp is a fictious person.
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@MrTodayistheday The elephant in the room is the wealthy bosses of capitalism who have no solution to their ongoing crisis of profitability but to put it on our backs. You neo liberals couldn't get welfare cuts pushed through by Reagan so you called on Clinton to do the dirty work of creating misery via neoliberalism. . You talk piously about role models and merit while you cheat and gamble your way to wealth where the house always wins at the stock market. The bosses call for respect will sitting on a pile of profits and unused resources.
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@BingChilingEnjoyer Bosses can't just pass on higher wages which is why the fight so hard against paying higher wages. Instead bosses have to deal with lower profit rates.
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Inflation is caused by adding money to the money supply which is not connected to any fixed commodity like when it was connected to gold from 1849 to 1933. during those years a ten dollar gold piece was worth ten dollars in paper money. In 1934 all of the monetary gold in the US was bought up by the US Treasury at $20.67 an once. Today the price of gold is $1737.42 an ounce. The Federal Reserve bank adds money by a paper swap with the US Treasury for Treasury bonds. Money is continually added by the national debt (paper swap), quantitative easing (buying up junk bonds) and by the Federal Reserve Prime rate and Reserve requirements of the nationally chartered banks. Inflation increases the value of property (what the capitalist own) and decreases the value of wages (what workers are paid).
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@lynnettesteiner2148 These are polices to drive women out of public life no different than what the Taliban does.
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The Imperialists always need some local brute like Diem to stay in power. When he wouldn't follow the orders of Ambassador Lodge he was removed in a coup.
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@ct-gt2dt Jews are always blamed for economic crisis that capitalism creates. Hitler decried Jewish bolshevism. Hamas blames Jews for the French and Russian revolutions along with the first and second world war.
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That's right!!! DOWN with the US Blockade of Cuba and the pompous Pompeo.
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Why don't you go raise your military defense money at your Mosque?
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Ya they're just going to put billion dollar assemble plants on sets of wheels and pull um down interstates with Orange Barrels and wide load signs across the border into Mexico if a bridge doesn't collapse in the way there.
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Keep the propaganda coming sooner or later somebodies going to believe it.
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Joseph Lovett What? And make your life easy? No way!!!
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@benanders4412 Actually no because we are actually serious communists unlike whats left of the stalinist Communist Party USA. It makes no difference which of the capitalist parties wins the election. What's important is what the working people do. These mass protests of police brutality are genuine not something dreamed up at DNC HQ. The police act with impunity such that for every George Floyd millions have the experience of a taking a plea bargain for a six month sentence or a jury trial for 30 years. The drug war has created millions of nonviolent pot smokers into felons rejected for even a low wage retail jobs. Both parties have competed for the title of who could get toughest on crime. As Malcolm X once said the chickens have come home to roost.
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@benanders4412 "Nothing has changed the last million years." So says the 'World Traveler" who travels by airplane not on foot, horse or in Noah's arc." It's just survival of the fittest". No its the ability to survive to reproduce. Otherwise their would be no biodiversity. Much to many weaklings for survival of the fittest to be true. "Humans are no better than animals really." Animals only have some of humans greatest survival advantages. Dogs can hunt in packs, communicate, and have feelings. Plants are the source of all food. The squirrel plants oak trees, eats and store acorns as food. "Those who value their lives shouldn't get in my way." So says the paper tiger who's bark is worse than his bite. A lone wolf lacks the advantages of the pack or the heard. His only advantage is possible survival during a food shortage. The biggest advantage humans have is the ability to labor together and transform nature. Your's are the views of the Professional Cynic who suffers from a lack of self confidence and seeks to convert others into his philosophy of despair. A philosophy well tuned for those who are genetically blind despite having their eyes wide open.
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@benanders4412 Would you like us to build you an island where you can try out all your new theories of how to best to exploit each other?
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@benanders4412 Suit yourself. We aren't going to force feed you. Pick up arms against us before or after the revolution well we know how to deal with fascists thugs.
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@benanders4412 I haven't forced ideology on anyone. Only fools believe in forced education. Like I can force you to read a book. (LOL) Its the supreme court that decided you home can be taken for the public good of big company job promises. See Keko v. New London and your friend Paul Ryan also made a deal to take land from homeowners for the promise of 13,000 jobs from Foxconn. Elon Musk is busy forcing out elderly homeowners in Boca Chica, Texas for his trip to mars. You can go ahead and believe all the lies and promises of the two parties and see what kind swell deals they have for you. Its your metaphysical philosophy that is taking you in circles.
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@benanders4412 You think we are going to sit back while fascist assault us? Ya the bosses brought in their "silver shirt" fascists into 1930's Minneapolis. We sent them packing without firing a single shoot. We mass picked them and we set up a workers defense guard with rifles that drilled in a public park by a full blooded Native American. Sacred them all the way back to North Carolina. Teamsters Local 544 said you send us Hitler and we will take good care of him also.
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@benanders4412 Ya well I knew the people who did. Plus it's written down in a series of books by Farrel Dobbs. We have been the publisher of Leon Trotsky since 1928. Including "The Stalin School of Falsification" at PathfinderPress.com or online at marxists.org In 1940 Stalin had Trotsky murdered by the NKVD in Mexico. Alexander Kerensky died peacefully in his New York bed. There is a line of blood between the Stalinist's and us. Believe what you want but we aren't cutting any slack for the Stalinists or Social Democrats. Plus the online achieves of TheMilitant.com begin in 1928. We don't have to hide our past like the CPUSA and its Peoples World, Daily World or Daily Worker.
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@benanders4412 Working everyday for 15 years in a European country without taking a single day off? You must be one in a million because outside of a farmer who does that? As a European you build a home in the region where the US government fought and lost a 20 year war against communism. LMAO. What was wrong with Canada, the US or Mexico? Or if you like jungle so much what about Costa Rica. If you're so worried about being robbed why not stuff that money into your mattress instead of a bank account? So you lived for 15 years as a Monk and are now frightened of college student commies? Your money is in a bank or invested. No one needs to go out into the jungle looking for a stash of Ben Franklin's, Stock certificates, bonds or land deeds. What you really need is gold not regular money that loses its value over time. Of course if it gets out that you have a gold stash in South East Asia you won't need to worry about commies making you equal when an average criminal gang can do that.
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@benanders4412 If you've found your utopia why worry about what goes on elsewhere? Unless of course you have investments and bank accounts to worry about? You make little to no sense to me. Go ahead and self isolate because its highly unlikely that the SJW's will come looking for you or your fiat currency. Its much more likely that a government property tax collector comes to pay you a visit or that the bank willing hands over your money to a tax collector. Buy yourself gold and spend your time sitting in a rocking chair on the porch with a 10 gauge watching out for the government tax collector.
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The first witch hunt was started by the Democrat Wilson who promised to stay out of world war one than decided to enter the Imperialist slaughter. This is when the Hoover's FBI the American Secret Police was founded. Labor Anarchists, Socialist and Communist were rounded up for Deportation to the Soviet Union. Eugene Debs was imprisoned under the espionage act. Debs received one million votes as the Socialist candidate for President. The second with hunt was begun by FDR with the trial of the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters in 1940.
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It fits the fire the cop aganda.
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@marcellogenesi6390 The MSM in America lie though their teeth for the US Imperialist bosses. They spent 3 trillion dollars destroying one of the poorest countries in the world. Cuba show the socialist road forward. Viva Fidel!!!
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A trained intellectual puppet of big business and Imperialist arrogance. Vietnam was one nation not two like Arabs and Jews. The US was acting like the previous Imperialist powers that had occupied Vietnam. The US wrote the Japanese Constitution and stipulated it could only have a small defense force. The US has 800 foreign military bases from which to defend its business mans empire. He argues against things that no one ever proposed except himself and targets that are simple to attack like the pacifism of the clergy while not mentioning clergy that argued God is on our side. The atomic bombing of Japan was debated among top military brass and even then one opposed it. If Sowell was such a brilliant leader he be one instead of a professor throwing stones in a glass house for fifty years.
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@OwaedamuShinderu-vk5zm Heroes of the honest people along with the workers and farmers.
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@OwaedamuShinderu-vk5zm Your a Japanese nut case. Who has a strange fascist like fascination with death. Probably a left over from the era of the Japanese War criminal.
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They voted against Obama, Biden and Harris because of the dismal economic performance of the Democratic Party.
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@xyz574 How do you know who a "ProLife" Women is and why do you need to force her into pregnancy?
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@rosedalinevaletine6931 Sure there is because the author of the original idea said required. Like line up and be implanted or else. "She is simply saving a life." You think I'm a "simpleton" like you who doesn't know what required means?
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@xyz574 You really don't have a clue about who I am. The Militant is our paper not the Church Militant. I saved more lives by fight back against the US Imperialist war in Vietnam. Both parties were handed a crushing defeat. The right to abortion will be decided in the class struggle between contending social forces not in the Supreme court or legislature. Part of the womens liberation and family policy first developed by the Russian Bolsheviks. You see Cuban women trained in their own units to fight in defense of the revolution. Some of the most selfless fighters of the Cuban revolution were women who wore the olive green of the Rebel Army. The same will be true of the women who are industrial workers as the working class is made of natural fighters not timid Protestant ministers. I'm sure MTG waves by by and gives hubby a kiss on his way to bosses paradise at the office.
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@xyz574 The Democrats and Republican also legalized segregation as separate but equal. You see that legal segregation laws was overthrown by a Mass Proletarian movement of Black people who just began ignoring the law despite the policeman's clubs. Write you women hating laws at your own peril.
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@mikewilliams6025 Aperntly the poster thinks Pro Lifers had to live up to their supposed ideals about life they would have second thoughts. You won't stop abortions by passing a new law or yelling abortion is murder. At the end of the day you will only prove your a hypocritical idealist who has head head up his ass.
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@TrumpCantRead Sowell needs to champion his ignorance as proof of knowledge. If human life was governed solely by trade offs and not the accumulation of surplus value beginning with agriculture we'd still living like our closest animal relatives the chimpanzee, the bonobo and the Orangutan. This like the source of the profit needs to be hidden to protect the rights of private property and trade as the highest form of human social development. To replace John Locke who said, "labor transforms nature." Sowell talks about trade possible being beneficial to both parties and big risks producing big rewards. Wasn't it the bosses who wanted private pensions and the Socialist who wanted Social wages of Social Security. And which system failed in 2008? Wasn't it the bosses who wanted leaded gasoline, DDT and PCB's? And wasn't the protest of the medical scientists and the working class that put an end to the bosses cheap solutions that threaten to bring human life itself to and end. Who polluted water, land and air because it was cheaper to throw industrial waste out the window?
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@Hogger280 The joy of Sowell's neoliberalism came up short when the crisis of 2008 hit.
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@clerpington_the_fifth Does he ever explain how banks and government create money?
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China invading Taiwan is like the US invading Canada. More likely the US would want to invade Taiwan to interfere with Chinese trade with Taiwan.
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@jamesclark1019 As Malcolm X observed, :Hitler did more for Blacks than either of the two parties because Uncle Sam needed to arm Black men to kill white Germans. Thar is what destroyed the myth of white superiority among Blacks just like Fidel Castro Troops that defeated Racist South Africa in Angola. .
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@summertyme5748 A problem arises because you are trying to teach what is essentially a lie. LBJ represents one of the two political factions of the capitalist ruling class. Their exploitation of labor is the biggest divide and NOT color. The interests of capitalist lie in dividing and conquering markets for themselves wither that be the automobile market or the labor market.. Solidarity among workers is what makes economic gains for our class not petty divisions. This is why leaders like Malcolm X saw create unity first among Black's and not unity with white liberals as the way forward. King called for peace as the condition for equality where as Malcolm X called for equality as a condition for peace.
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@jane8773 And when a women is denied a legal and safe abortion because "she was irresponsible" you want to teach her responsibility by forcing her to give birth or seek an illegal abortion. Next time you get in a car accident because you were irresponsible should we leave you to die at the side of the road?
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@earlysda World capitalism is in its biggest crisis since the great depression hope you having a good time laughing at yourself and capitalist bosses inability to reverse their crisis. Unfortunately for the bosses they don't have the big Social Democratic or Stalinist leadership to help them with their crisis opening the door to building new revolutionary Leninist Parties to defeat the bosses on a country by country basis. The long retreat by labor is over and now the bosses face class struggle in the advanced capitalist world as the crisis of capitalist rule unfolds. Capitalism craves stability which it is unable to produce. War and revolution are the politics of the Imperialist investors era.
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@earlysda Pravda means truth in Russian and that is what it printed up until the takeover by Stalin and the Bureaucracy. Lenin's widow didn't want his body embalmed that was another one of Stalin ideas. Of course the tearing down of statues was fine when it was done in the former Soviet Union but bad when later done to racist Confederate Civil War Generals. Tell me something were the Imperialist enjoying a good belly laugh when the Cuban Revolution lead by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara came to power just 150 Km from the US State of Florida? Didn't the Imperialist have a problem called a nissle crisis that had them pissing their pants?
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@Waitingformarty The Jews do not normally seek converts. The Muslims have problems with their beliefs about the prophet Muhammad around the "Satanic Verses" in the Koran. Just like the Christians did which required the Council of Nicea to determine which books were Gospel.
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@jaygatsby2790 That is just an old insult of the Irish immigrant workers who raised pigs in their London flats to supplement their wages.
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@ivandobias7741 It is the crisis of capitalist development and Imperialism that is truning the world into a sea of refugees. Only revolutionary socialist governments can solve these problems with workers control of industry.
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@gorkyd7912 The capitalist create their own grave diggers the industrial working class.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru I won't argue that capitalism doesn't gives chances including the right to become a millionaire by purchasing a lottery ticket. If you're happy with just a chance in life than you will never be a socialist.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru Apple was started from the profits made from the sale of "blue boxes" whose purpose was to defraud AT&T of long distance toll charges. The key business lesson there is it's always legal if you don't get caught.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru "You have a huge poverty mindset." No I'm not a psychopathic CEO like the deceased Steve Jobs. There are 607 Billionaires in the US and millions of garages. Having a garage on your home has nothing to do with making you a billionaire anymore than indoor plumbing or a green lawn. Since you can argue against the truth than I must have a "poverty mindset". Finance capitalism is all about placing bets and beating the house. A banker making a loan is placing a bet that he will get back more money then he lent out. The insurance company is another risk taker and bet maker. If either the banker or insurance company bet wrong then a crisis like 2008 happens. The industrial capitalist is also another bet maker. He bets that the products he produces will yield him profits after paying to manufacturing them.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru "You can start a business, and grow it from the ground up." Business isn't about planting a seed and watering it daily. It's about cutthroat competition and beating the competition with anything you can get away with. It's not about a couple of pre teen girls running a lemonade stand and doing curtsies for the customers in the summertime.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru Look why do you find it necessary to make personal attacks? I'm not an office worker and you know nothing about me as a worker either so why am I mediocre? Can you give me an estimate on buying an electrician's license like those SAT scores?
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru America is a class system and just because a few make it into the top from the middle doesn't change that. No one wants to admit to that because it means we don't live in a democracy but instead a capitalist plutocracy. This why two party politicians alway talk about your need to get ahead and opportunities. By get ahead they mean beat your neighbor to the table for the high rollers. By opportunity they mean look we gave you a chance in school so don't expect anything else without additional payment.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru An electrician's license is like a college degree actually it means little besides you got a chance to take some tests that you passed. I could pass the "final exam" but i wouldn't be allowed to take it because I don't have the necessary work records. I've seen the way a city inspector "fixes" problems by replacement instead of troubleshooting. If you replace enough things eventually it will get fixed.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru College has everything to do with climbing the social ladder. An admission officer at MIT had falsified her education and been promoted for years with glowing reviews. When she was found out they wanted not just her job but criminal charges of fraud. So how much for that electricians license again?
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru They need a business that makes profits. Value is something entirely different. Value is something labor creats. Profits are the surplus value after the all the costs of production are paid. If you business can't produce profits you headed out of business. Banks and Insurance companies although highly profitable are consumers of value not makers of value.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru For the capability to make a profit an industrial capitalist must only pay a wage that the worker needs to come back for the next pay period. For the capitalist to then make a profit he must sell at a price higher than the cost of production in the marketplace. Where can he most easily cut the cost of production? By cutting the workers wages. This is the process that sets up the class struggle between the workers and the capitalists.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru Yes we are quite familiar with being ordered around as if we were machines. My experience is the bosses mostly sit at their desks or go to meetings and come by to find out if your doing your job once or twice a day. The last thing you want to have happen is a breakdown during a continuous process. This will send the bosses into an overload condition. You don't want to get blamed for the breakdown and you don't want to get blamed if you can get things fixed as fast as they want. In the steel industry they get to declare an Emergency and white hats appear all over the mill like the invisible hand suddenly making itself visible.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru Insurance companies are only needed where private property is involved. The only real service they provide is as statical accountants. The banks are necessary only as far as statistics are need on wages paid and commodities sold. The company administration while serving as the lash with incentives is paid for loyalty to the major stockholders and not nearly as irreplaceable or underpaid as claimed.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru Not at all. My bosses once said, "We use to have to do everything in retail right. Today we call those companies out of business." The controlling factor is always profit, rates of profits and risk of capital.
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@GGGGGG-xd8ru You don't need "Health Insurance" anymore than you need to take out road insurance plans to build roads and fix potholes. "...you never know what will happen to you.." That's because you prefer a chance to be rich rather than a socialist society. Do you need to pay a mortgage or rent for years for a home already built?
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You think machines can produce without labor? All you have to do is build a machine that violates the 1 st law of thermodynamics. Show me how capital can do anything but accumulate and demand a return on investment and then only one last problem for Imperialist nations to arbitrate disputes on the world market without getting into wars. Think you can do that? Because if you can do that then you can save capitalism form itself. If not well than just maybe we can have a discusion becuse our ideas go beyond the capitalist way of doing things to those of us the produces ourselves acting together in solidarity.
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@jamesfields2916 This is the result of American capitalist success. Bosses stealing more for themselves and profits for Wall street coming first. Workers need to fight back with union power and strikes. .
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The man's an idiot for thinking that capitalism can solve any of its problems within some kind of dream world of ideal free markets created by a "small government". The size and scope of the government grows under capitalism with the need to arbitrate every market dispute in the favor of private property too keep capitalist greed from growing completely out of control.
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@deidresmith1187 Why not read Marx's Communist Manifesto, Socialism Utopia and Scientific by Engles, Imperialism is the highest stage of Capitalism by Lenin, The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky, Socialism on Trial by James Cannon, The Case of the Legless Veteran by James Kutcher The Clintons Anti Working Class Record by Jack Barnes.
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Tyranny is when bosses control both the wage and price. UNION YES!
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@videogames3383 Why don't the wannabee scabs want to take Mary Barra's job? She makes way more than a worker on the assembly line.
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Jaime Garcia Professor El Squirol The workers didn't tell GM to make foreign investments. GM just like VW in Mexico knew they would have to abide by Mexican law. GM's or VW's problems in Mexico are GM's or VW's problem. American CEO's have a much bigger waistline than the President of the UAW or head of the AFL-CIO. GM with think twice before making the reckless moves you suggest. They lost the battle of "Bulls Run" back in 1937. The Chevy door hinge was a fearsome weapon in the hands of the "sit down" strikers. It struck fear into cops everywhere. The unemployed were organized to demand jobs and relief. Congress passed the first fair labor standards act of 1938. Making time and half pay for over 40 hours a week, ending child labor in industry, and setting a minimum wage as the law of the land. All those things were made possible by those sit down strikers at GM and other militant strikes including sitdowns by rubber (Tires) workers along with that fearsome weapon the chevy door hinge.
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Jaime Garcia "Now, if I make some money from this.." Now you admit to wishing to make money off of writing for the Bosses. I properly wrote before you are el esquilo, a coyote or a gusano. Your 'homeboy' is the gangsters of MS-13, the Nicaraguan contra, and the Cuban gusano.
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@robertkubrick3738 Actually the mind of this "Dirty Commie" thought of Porn and Hollywood. Then again a rubber might help the Boss who seeks Bankruptcy "Protection" from the screwing he will get from the Judge and the Major Creditors leaving him with just a barrel and suspenders after they're done taking everything he has.
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@Carol-wo3jo The man worship at the American Republican bourgeois altar of private property markets and profits.
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@normanflint8757 Fidel lead a revolution overthrowing a US backed dictatorship and opening the socialist road in the America's. Trudeau leads a bourgeois Canadian parliament.
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Trump and Biden have nothing to do with gas prices since that under oil boss control. Inflation via the Central Bank monetary policy is the way wage cuts are issued to the working class by the capitalist class such that property values rise faster than wages.
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@combatvolta Ys it was great political prisoners tortured. Police shooting down unarmed protesters peasants beaten by land owners, brothels for US sailors, casinos for gambling and children being murdered.
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I think the problem has been clearly identified as not enough access to jobs that can support a family. As to people in jail I think at the very least it's time to end the marijuana prohibition and make all nonviolent drug crimes erasable from public records no matter how many times you fail. I don't see why it's necessary to bash socialism and taxes every time a government program doesn't work as expected. He says he wants to bring people together to solve these problems yet why is it that some will appear only at secret meetings? He seems to have had success in a Florida prison so what's stopping more success stories elsewhere?
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This how the begin every Radio Havana Cuba broadcast. This is Radio Havana Cuba broadcasting form Havana, Cuba free territory in the Americas!
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Gee it turns out that liberal and conservative billionaires all work together and aren't part of the so called resistance.
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@jacobshort6528 The road to socialism is paved with the class struggle not voting machines.
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The whole theory of setting aside money is wrong since the federal reserve always adds money to the money supply. You don't need to save money you need to spend it on things that are useful for human life on earth.
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@believeroflight9888 The Muslim nation expelled the Jews from their land. Gaza had its own Hamas administration and decided it wanted war not peace. Hamas is a NAZI like organization. It steals UN Aid to build rockets to attack Israel.
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@Composer19691 Of course only things that can produce a profit by continuously cutting labor time are worthy of private ownership. Everything else is pushed upon government which serves as the manager and limiter of those activities since taxes are a drag on profits The common affairs of the capitalist are carried out under government supervision. Take a look at that money in your pocket does it say legal tender for all debts public or private. Does it not say United States of America or does it say play money by parker brothers makers of the monopoly game.
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@Perroden End the US Blockade of the Island.
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@vageeshdevanathan Gloria Alverez the women in the video.
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@nio804 Capitalism is driven by profit maximization which results in capital becoming nothing but a giant cyst on production. Demands for profit result in economic crisis, All capital does is accumulate and demand a return on investment. For if capital could produce than a perpetual motion machine would be possible.
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@Psychedeli_Jelli Society is class divided the ruling capitalist class monopolizes science and the arts to its own benefit. The dominate ideas of any epic are the ideas of the ruling class.
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They work for less money that's why.
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@danielmota1095 Mexican's work for less because they have not become as unionized and still have lower social costs. Like all companies GM seeks to lower costs such that profits rise. The basic problem for the capitalists is a declining rate of return on investment. The reason this happens is as you replace labor with machines to cut labor costs the value of the amount of capital required rises but since the profit is extracted form labor time or piece rate then the rate of return falls.
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@TeaParty1776 Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests. It starts with facts and proceed from there. Its one classes history in the modern class struggle of victory and defeats between the working class and the capitalist class.
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@TeaParty1776 Facts like the profit and surplus value coming from our unpaid labor are supported by the bosses own accounting books. Unpaid labor made the chattel slave owner rich. All you do is throw around words to make yourself sound smart but can't explain a thing just level charges against Marx. Rand is a Bourgeois romantic writing novels to propagandize for the rights and justice of bourgeois exploitation. .
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@AnAmericanPatriot1555 Nothing can be done about the border because capitalism created the problem in the first place. They insisted on arming dictatorships because they wanted cheap labor. Now the results of that policy are coming to America and Europe.
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@jeschinstad We need to take the means of production from the tiny ruling capitalist class and re organize society on a real socialist basis. There is no way that they will just relinquish inheritance. That's just way too utopian of an idea. We the working people need to come together in solidarity and take power from these billion dollar idiots reorganizing society from top to bottom. This guy Yang is no more than a programing "continue" statement for the ruling capitalist class.
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@avatarmezzy2980 I listened to about 30 minutes into the lecture. At about 2o minutes in it is clear that this is nothing but a way to further pauperise the unemployed by creating this so called all encompassing freedom benefit. The purpose is to save the capitalists and their government tax money. That's the only reason Shapiro doesn't go batshit with the usual taxation is theft and unions are collectivists thugs and so on. You can't have both capitalism and socialism because that is an extremely unstable situation. Lots of people think that their can be some kind of compromise. Just like the colonists problems with King George III and Chattel Slavery in the South. It took a revolution to rid the country of monachal idiocy and second revolution to do away with slavery. It will take a third to get rid of the Wall Street poker players and Washington's worldwide military dictatorship. Another one of our proposals is to have voluntary health care and construction brigades go to the poorer countries and help them build instead of more wars and catering to microsoft because Bill Gates isn't getting a $20 bill for every computer sold in China. One Third of humanity doesn't have electric lights. Cuba is doing this now and the reason they can do that and no other country in the world can is they had a revolution that made the working people of Cuba masters of their own destiny. That's the kind of revolution we are about. Not some new way to keep capitalism and these rich clowns in power. It costs about the same amount of resources for an unskilled worker to go to work each day as a highly skilled Doctor.
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@jeschinstad I've never told anyone to abandon peace or face war against the United States. That is the US capitalist ruling class speaking through their executive committees of the Democratic and Republican Parties. I don't belong to either Party and have never voted for them in a General Election since I first became of age to vote. After the Cuban revolution no one was told they couldn't be an administrator. What they were told is the could no longer use their position to exploit others. My wife and I are retired now and live in small camper about 3 by 8 meters. If the two of us can live for 15 years in small city apartments without a car. I think Gates can live without his mansion and thirteen garages.
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@jeschinstad My Party, The Socialist Workers Party, runs in general elections against the two capitalist parties. TheMilitant.com After the revolution no one will inherit private property, the property used to exploit others, while personal property will lose its social character.
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@jan_phd Actually it was John Adams the "Federalist" who used the Unconstitutional alien and sedition acts to shut down Democratic Party newspapers. FDR was the first to use the Smith "gag" Act.
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@jan_phd Jefferson and Monroe founded the Democratic-Republican Party in opposition to the Federalists after Washington's Presidency. The Northern merchants and Bankers like Hamilton were Federalists while those opposed to a strong Federal Government were Anti Federalists. The Anti Federalists are responsible for the Bill of Rights because they didn't trust Federalist promises. Jefferson also proposed an Ordnance to the Continental Congress that would have banned slavery in the territories (the future states of TN, AL and MS that failed by one vote that should have been cast by a sick congressman from NJ..
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More like the National Enquirer of Capitalist theory.
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@jimwerther Nixon came on TV to tell us all "Your President is not a crook." Why would anyone think that of him afer the Checkers speech when he was VP.
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@MaestroAlvis Unions came into being when workers decided it was necessary to have permanent organizations that could be used against the bosses when the need arrises. They are defensive organizations which make use of soildarity to battle dog eat dog capitalist competition in the workplace. .
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@lisachavez2981 He has a skill people will pay to see that is why he is a humble man who deserves respect. He's not a Socialist "Bourgeois" Democrat. Which is something we can all respect. A man who can actually do and accomplish something besides running their mouth 24/7 is how we should all seek to practice in our stile of life and work. . .
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@Swan616 No he just seems to be not all that political with the exception of not falling for lots of nonsense that the media moguls of capitalism spew. Like CNN and Fox. opposite sides of the same coin.
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@slr7628 I'm 2012
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No they decide how much quality is needed to seek expected maximization of profit. No one wants to buy a car where the wheels fall off next week. So how long is the expected life of wheels on a car or more importantly will a car make it past the warranty period without needing a repair?
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What fuels the crime wave is profit maximization policies on Wall street. Capitalism fuels violence since it depends on the police to enforce private property laws.
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@DEUS-VULT Communism is the historical movement of the proletariat in struggle of victories and defeats with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist. Capitalism abolished chattel slavery and the slave market. In favor of wage labor and capital markets. Communism will abolish the capital markets and wage labor and make the proletariat the ruling class. Th role of the Party is to create the working class cadre who can explain how every injustice and oppression is related to the capitalist system of trade and production. To make the affairs of state so transparent that even a simple cook can explain the affairs of state.
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We need a labor Party based on the trade unions.
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@plcc07777 The cops will be investigating miscarriages as possible abortions. An underground back alley abortions will return killing many young women. We had a fifty year war on drugs brought to you by the same politicians who now say they can legislate their pro life morality. The correct name for this new law is The 2019 Alabama Women's Body Control and Death Penalty Act. Women will once again die of botched abortions done in cheap motels by criminals who will say "That bleeding is normal honey."
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@carnthecorby It's the mistake that the class struggle ended with the end of the cold war. That communism was represented by a bunch of Stalinist bureaucrats. That what Lenin had said as the title to his 1916 work "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism" was untrue.Russian Imperialist desires will be defeated by the Ukrainian People and Russian working people and working people protesting throughout the world just like American Imperialism was defeated in Vietnam.
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@eddyvideostar We don't care about you bosses and your inheritance of your class position. The bosses run the government, banks and the companies. Its a rgged system where the bosses want to control all the prices and wages to guarantee profits for the too big to fail companies.
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RED PILL PORTAL Globalism is not real. What is real is US Imperialism and its allied partners.
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@memorymedia6188 There is no global government. The big powers in the world today are first the US Empire who's power declines as it European and Asian allies do. It's endless wars have been neither winnable nor sustainable. Second is China because of its populations size, big economy and small nuclear arsenal. Third is Russia because it too has some military muscle and holds a nuclear arsenal about the same size as the US Arsenal.
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@memorymedia6188 The old communist parties haven't been international since Stalin dissolved the Communist International at the request of Churchill and FDR if not earlier when their leadership collapsed in Germany with the appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany.
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James Wilson No such thing as an "American" worker,. We are just workers. Like workers everywhere capitalism creates their own grave diggers. That's $1.90 is a lie. The minimum wage in Mexico is $5.10 While the minimum border wage is $8.79 higher than the minimum wage $7.25 in Texas and $7.50 in New Mexico Those are dollar conversion from pesos. Plus items made or grown in Mexico are often less than the same purchased in US while gasoline and imported items cost more.
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@casperimprovedintransition8002 The have him on camera so he just buys his way out of the charges with big donor money? Do the use special fire alarms in Congress to open doors? Not Red ones labeled fire? Maybe he can say something like he pulled the alarm because he wanted a fireman to break down a door for him after all he was going to miss a vote and we all know how serious politicians take votes. .
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@twistedpixel756 Ya well I don't like be lied to and the original media release did not include the stuff where the let people come in the door and escorted the guy in the head dress around the building like royalty. The FBI hasn't come clean either they are known for using informants as provocateurs and there is the guy that was mysteriously excused from questioning and dropped from the list of defendants. They had one of their CI's in the car used by the thugs that killed the three civil rights workers. How can you be trespassing when your walking past cops at the door the cops were all armed the only person killed violently was Ashley Babbet. They lied about the death of the police officer continuously and knowingly.
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@casperimprovedintransition8002 Ya well I was an MIT student shot in the back with a tear gas grenade by the riot cops who illegally came on the MIT campus during a Vietnam antiwar protest and I never got a nickle. People like you need to wake up because those who can't fight for the freedom of others will never be able to fight for their own.
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@Blgtn43 People come here because we have a foreign policy that favors dictatorships. We need a working class foreign policy. If the bosses have to pay union wages in foriegn countries than fewer workers will be coming here for a job and if we organize workers without regard to immigration status then we can actually push wages up. Otherwise they are always going to play the game of bring the immigrants in to lower wages and throw them out when a unemployment hits. The government and the border guards like the cops don't work for but against us. The cops can't stop the drug epidemic because this rotten dog eat dog system breeds despair and desperation.
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@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj It's part of the two capitalist party attacks on the rights and living standards of the working class.
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It is time to go back and read "Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism." by V.I. Lenin.
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Bankruptcy is part of the coal business just like in the construction industry.
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Charles McCarron Americans not part of the rich oligarchy and their followers instinctively know the government is no good. The problem is no one can agree on what to do about it.
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@charlesmcnamara9623 So your another Spartacist league "Class Warrior" battling carpal tunnel syndrome? What if the Kurds decided to call it the Republic of Kurdistan or the Socialist Republic of Kurdistan or some other similar name or do they need to use that name in order to meet your standard requirements for revolutionary names and rhetoric?
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@sabejreid2072 January 6th was the day The Sheep became afraid of the cry's of the lambs.
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@ChicagoTurtle1 Did he make enough politically correct phrases for a promotion to faculty department head?
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@ChicagoTurtle1 The man oozes political correctness and throws peebles from an Ivory Tower. As a professor he can probably claim to have read thousands of books but lacks any kind of understanding of what real fascism is. No fascist has ever been elected to power not Mussolini, not Franco, not Pinochet, and not Hitler. There supporters include either the military and police or they have a paramilitary gangsters dressed in uniforms under control of "il Duce" or "Der Fuhrer" that will physical assault anyone deemed as an political opponent. Do you see any paramilitaires at Trump rallies?
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Get rid of HiB replace it with an unlimited Green Card. Amnesty for undocumented workers.
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The court merely ruled their is no constitutional right to an abortion its didn't say you can have one or decide to strike down the 1906 Food and Drug Act.
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@mikew764 That was the past court ruling since it never actually ruled on the right to have one but instead created a complex ruling involving Doctors rights and viability. By kicking the abortion issue out of the court it put women's, family's and children's rights back in the framework of the class struggle.
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The bosses are always crying poverty and demanding more for their crisis ridden race to the bottom system.
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He spent 15 years giving profits to the company and paying his medical insurance and this is how the American capitalists treat him.
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@vincentnord5914 Pence will be made head of the Abortion Vice Sqad.
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Social Credit system sounds like the 14 Intelligence agencies saying Russia interfered.
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Basicly Janus and his bargaining unit should have never been part of the AFL-CIO to begin with he belonged in the Police Blue Gangsters Union.
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Hamas is a NAZI like organization. So why should their be a ceasefire on Hamas?
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@layzah1374 The Muslim Grand Mufti of Jerusalem became an ally of Adolf Hitler raised a Muslim Militia for the final solution. The Muslims drove Jews out of all the countries thay took control of after the Imperialist were too weak to exercise control. So why is it the Jews don't send suicide bombers to get back they land Muslims stole from them? They actually lost more territory than they gained in Israel and 20 percent of the Israeli population is Arab. So tell me who did the ethnic cleansing of Bagdad and Yemen of Jews? Why is it all the Muslim countries became Jew Free but Jews let Arabs stay? Seems to me the Muslims do the ethnic cleansing and then accuse the Jews of committing their crime. After all Arab land oweners sold land to the Jews and then told the peasants that Jews were stealing the Land. Just like Hamas the Arab leaders went laughing all the way to the bank. All the Arab worker, farmer or shopkeeper is to Hamas Billionaires in Qatar are is martyrs to be sacrificed for more sympathy aid that can be stolen from the UN. .
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@ozifasco3191 The Muslim Grand Mufti of Jerusalem became an ally of Adolf Hitler raised a Muslim Militia for the final solution. The Muslims drove Jews out of all the countries thay took control of after the Imperialist were too weak to exercise control. So why is it the Jews don't send suicide bombers to get back they land Muslims stole from them? They actually lost more territory than they gained in Israel and 20 percent of the Israeli population is Arab. So tell me who did the ethnic cleansing of Bagdad and Yemen of Jews? Why is it all the Muslim countries became Jew Free but Jews let Arabs stay? Seems to me the Muslims do the ethnic cleansing and then accuse the Jews of committing their crime. After all Arab land oweners sold land to the Jews and then told the peasants that Jews were stealing the Land. Just like Hamas the Arab leaders went laughing all the way to the bank. All the Arab worker, farmer or shopkeeper is to Hamas Billionaires in Qatar are is martyrs to be sacrificed for more sympathy aid that can be stolen from the UN. .
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@peanut71968 Sowell "saw the light" after service under the capitalist liberals at the labor dept. If Sowell was a Marxist in the early 1960's he missed out on the Cuban revolution and Lenin's State and Revolution. Lenin reiterates Marx's teaching on the State as being a class institution and not one that stands above classes. Sowell claims his work at the labor dept gave him the evidence that Marx was wrong. Why anyone who read Marx and especially Lenin's State and revolution would think that liberalism is the path to socialism is beyond me. Only the social reformers not Marxist Leninist revolutionaries believe that kind of non sense.
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Nicholas Taylor This is the result of capitalism returning to China. The decision to return to capitalism also resulted to the decisions to prioritised engineering over Healthcare. Now we are paying the price of capitalist for profit healthcare.
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@bruceleroyalty "No Health Insurance Company Left Behind."
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Nicholas Taylor First just because its universal doesn't mean you have to accept it. Jehovah's witness don't have to have blood transfusions.The have 10,000 foreign medical students in the Latin America School of Medicine in Havana now all at no direct cost to the student. In the US the average loan after finishing Med school is $100,000. Those in Cuba will have no loan after graduating. They have 9 Doctors in Cuba for every 1000 people. In China they have 1 per thousand and in the US its 2.3 per thousand. The problem isn't getting students to study its students having to pay with non dischargeable loans and the AMA setting limits on Doctors trained in the US. The US also relies on other countries for training doctors (immigration) to fill the needs of those who can pay for medical care. The could pass "Medicare for All "tomorrow morning. The problem wouldn't be paying the Doctors and staff. It would be the lack of Doctors, hospitals and staff to treat everyone who doesn't go to the Doctor for fear of costs, fear of incompetent doctors and inability to pay.. The just finished convicting a money bag Doctor here for giving treatments for fake illnesses. Now the lawyers are advertising for patients. The insurance companies they of course will get the lion's share of the money bag and the rest will fight it out for the crumbs left after the lawyers get paid.
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Nicholas Taylor No I do not believe you are a communist. If you were a communist you'd understand that the final objective is a Revolutionary victory in the United States since the US Gov't is the sworn enemy of humanity itself. Ifs Imperialist foreign policy can be summed up as capitalist dictatorships defended by US Marine Bayonets in one hand and Nuclear weapons in the other.
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Maybe you should watch, "The revolution will not be televised." To see how the USA works with local capitalists.
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Hiding behind a cowardly screen name of "Please Don't Tell". Mama goin' to give you a spanking?
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You should be fired for wasting everyone's time and air pollution for idling a vehicle while under a bridge.
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The best anti poverty program is a union job. That is what we should be doing. Making every job a union job. Organizing and striking when necessary. Raise the minimum wage despite all the cries of poverty by sweatshop bosses like WalMart and McDonalds.
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The consumer didn't ruin whole industries. It's the drive for bigger profits by paying lower wages while keeping prices the same. It is the same reason that older machines are replaced with newer ones that require less or lower skilled labor and labor costs. Now if GM moved a plant from Detroit, MI to Shreveport, LA Should we all go on a buy Michigan campaign?
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No because policy only changes slowly between administrations. Reagan prepared the way for welfare reform and the first attack on the Social Security Act of 1934 however Bill Clinton signed TANF to replace AFDC, a disaster for all poor families,.into law. Ms Clinton holding secret meetings and said healthcare reform was impossible because the right wing was to strong. Ms. Clinton campaigned as a defender of Children's rights who just happened to be out of town when her husband signed the new TANF law. She said, "Abortion should be legal and rare.' Which is exactly what it is .Legal but for women outside of the big citie's is is unavailable. Women with money, the ability to travel or hire lawyers will always be able to procure abortions just like before Roe v Wade. However those without will have to become mothers or go to the back alley.
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And what do liberals propose? Anything of substance? No what they propose is singing songs in Congress. "Na Na Na Hey Hey Good Bye." Who is being childish now? Business owners use bankruptcy laws to stay in business not to lose their capital. Its just part of the business game. Trump is estimated to be worth 3 Billion.
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"Business owners use bankruptcy laws to avoid paying their creditors which is basically theft and embezzlement." Capitalism is full of corruption legal and illegal nothing really new. "This 'liberal' proposes a massive stroke that leaves Trump a vegetable.." Like I said other than a changing of the guard to make liberals happy nothing new. Favors for Putin? Like ending the Syrian war? Of course for liberals owning stock in defense contractors that is bad. ."..sooner or later the law catches up with people..." I seem to remember at least two presidents that broke laws (Clinton (D) and Nixon (R) who never did a day in jail. "...The banks won't lend to him ever again..." I tend to doubt that. Many US Bankers will be happy with the Trump administration and gladly lend if the see profits ahead.
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Nope it is caused by the natural workings of capitalism. Trump and Clinton are yours. Your politicians rewrote the equal time rule so only your parties would get equal time on radio and TV. Same thing for ballot status Democrat or Republican usually no signature petitions required anyone else almost always has to get signatures. Although Trump is part of it, it is a fixed game. If your family had money and power you could avoid the Vietnam war draft in a number of ways. Joining the National Guard, Homosexuality, Student Deferment, Medical Deferment, Psychological Deferment, Government Job, and Defense Contractor Job.
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The successful development of capitalism began first in Europe out of the middle class of merchants, artisans and small manufactures. It operates in such a way that it produces its own contradictions. The profit comes out of the production and sale of commodities where labor power is bought for one price and sold for a higher price on the market in the form of the commodity. The division of labor is such that just to produce a pencil requires basic industries including steel, rubber, and coal or oil. The pencil is made of graphite from coal or oil and wood from trees paint which requires a pigment and vehicle usually an oil product and a rubber eraser made from oil or latex. To make and package the pencil requires a machinery powered by electricity. Just to get the electricity to the factory requires a whole host of materials. The capitalist reinvest their profit into areas that produce more profits. However since adding new machinery doesn't always result in higher profit to investment ratios he is driven to drive up the price of paper values instead. This eventually will result in recessions or depressions because the actual law of value will come into play resulting in the disappearance of what started as real capital that was changed into fictitious capital. The profit drive and competition within individual countries results in monopoly capitalism where only a few or a single firm has control of certain markets. Industrial Capital and Finance capital work in such a way that as individual firms sell their products, from one to another, finance capital sees that each are paid usually within 30 days. This is what ties Industrial and Finance Capital together. Another contradiction within the capitalist system is that the capitalist classes of every country seek the foreign markets and labor of other countries. This why trade wars are fought and often lead to real war like WW1 and WW2. A total waste of labor and resources is seen in the vast sums spent for US foreign military bases and by standing armies of capitalist countries the world over. For capitalism to keep going it always requires more cheap labor and new markets. The world is only so big. So while globalization is good as long as it keeps developing the underdeveloped world it too comes to a halt because of the declining rate of return on investment in industrial capital. These processes caused the deep world wide recession of 2008 not a case of bad regulation.
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I think CS is right all the Democrats want is to play partisan politics without any real action on their part. National debt goes up and down based on which economist you ask some say its good or other say it's bad. Tax pays the debt but the debt belongs to those who own the most and should be paying the biggest taxes. The biggest worry is that states will become like Puerto Rico where the debt became unpayable, disaster stuck and bonds went from triple A to junk status. They still haven't even been able to turn on the lights in Puerto Rico. The reality is bonds are just paper values supposedly backup by government and like paper money and are subject to a change in value. Ask yourself what can government sell if it can't pay a debt? Roads and Highways? Government buildings? School busses? They could mortgage everything and promise to pay it back but wouldn't that be what the problem is in the first place? In other words refinancing?
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I object to liberals who kept quite as long as Obama was in office but are now on an anybody but Trump bandwagon. They operate on basis if Trump is for it we are against it. Trump with Korea. First he was going to start a nuclear war now he's a tool of a Russian Kim Jung Un. This whole Russia interference as a reason that Trump won smacks of cold war hysteria especially when you accept the word of US spy agencies. Some liberals rightly complained about the Patriot act. Now they will accept whatever Mueller does or says about Trump. How long has Mueller been investigating now? Other catching a few people in lies (Which is why you should never answer FBI questions).as usual they've found a story about sex they think they can use. They sent ML King a letter urging him to kill himself or be exposed as having love affairs outside of marriage. Those people deserve no credibility at all. They pick people on political enemies list and than search for a crime they can pin on them or a sexual relationship that they can use to disrupt someone's personal life. Did you know that Hillary Clinton was on the WalMart board of directors? Obama promised to close Torture camp X-Ray. Trump says he wants to expand it. Obama started the biggest deportation effort ever known.did any liberals say much of anything about that? Almost total silence. Trump is a new Hitler? No because Hitler had his own goon squad called stormtroopers. Who has control over the Berkley "No Hate" goon squad?
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Actually I'm a Socialist Workers Party supporter. I trust neither party including Trump. See themilitant.com
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@victorsago He will just begin doing what others did to him.
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This guy is obviously a pompous upper class British asshole maybe even part of the Peerage. There are many areas in which he has stretched the truth to a breaking point or engaged in repeating lies. Let's forget all that. Soldiers who kill or die in warfare as I'm sure this asshole will agree.are not murders. Otherwise the cheerio empire would have to admit the country was run by cutthroats, pirates and murders done in the name of King and country. The problem is after all his British "scholarship' he didn't come up with the name a single person who was murdered. In fact he admits through own omission that Guevara was murdered by a the Bolivian State without a trial upon order form the Bolivian President that wanted to pretend he was killed in battle. That sounds much more like murder to me. If Che had not distracted them by saying he was worth more alive then dead and talking to the school teacher he would have died in battle. Since he was now captured his blood would now be on their hands. A trial would have been a costly exercise since the defendant would be able to say at least a few words. Even on the brink of death Che managed to defeat the enemy. .
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@louannramirez4278 I wonder how many lies and cover up stories are being told about American Presidents in history classes? Arms were sold by Col. Oliver North to the Islamic Republic of Iran right out of the White house basement. Kennedy okayed the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter supported Pol Pot in Cambodia with arms and at the UN. Reagan the so called small government proponent sought first strike capability with Star wars against the Soviet Union. Bush began the Bailout of the "too big too fail".
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@teresacorley7874 Much like recording Trump for being a pussy grabber.
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@teresacorley7874 Like Trump being recoded as a P...grabber. And Clinton calling us deplorables.
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@leannemo7382 Reagan was a big spender. He sold Arms out of the white house basement to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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@roadstar2504 Fascism at its core seeks to cut off al political discourse. The fascists never come to power through elections like right wing bourgeois politicians but by use of political violence.
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@michaeldurrant8446 Every fascist movement begins with physical attacks on "enemies" and political opponents. It's at the very core of fascism.
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@libertyfive7241 Your full of shit no boss is s socialist unless he's a National Socialist like Hitler. Which is probably your goal.
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@libertyfive7241 Long live the 1919 Hungarian revolution down with the monarchy and the Habsburg scum. The arch Duke got what he deserved.
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This is an example of liberal exclusion. Those who aren't politically correct are excluded from the process.
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@nicholaiginovaef4861 After the revolution what should we do with the greedy bankers and bosses of Wall Street? Build them an artificial island where they can come up with new ways to exploit each other.
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This like the war itself is the result of US Imperialist two capitalist parties drive to save their rotten world capitalist profit system.
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@randal_gibbons The REAL human rights violation in Cuba take place at the US Torture faculty in Guantanamo Bay where prisoners are held for life without trial
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@rroadmap The capitalist realise they don't need workers who can think but only those who can take orders. That's why they let the school system go into decline. The need for order takers only accelerator with capitalism because higher paid skilled labor is allways being replaced with unskilled labor and machines.
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You don't want them having Black Schools with equal funding, You don't want them in your schools, You don't want to have Black teachers in your schools. You don't want them talking Black. Is there anything you're willing to let them have for a Black identity or do you think you have some God given right to just grind them into the dust as if they never existed.
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@Hexadeci The sole purpose of a bourgeois education is to educate the children of the bourgeois in the theories of bourgeois society. To reproduce a class of order givers whose goal is profit maximization.and acquisition of more private property.
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@jerrybell1766 Sowell wants to privatize education for boss efficiency.
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@gussampson5029 Capitalism replaces skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines first the bosses don't see need for educated workers. Most of their education isn't worth a damn. Its training to act like a machine. to take orders and hand out the privileged jobs to a few who can pay and have the connections at the admissions office. Cuba has no problem creating educated people they can do it because theve had a revolution where the working people are in charge of the wealth and resources of their country. They discus how to solve their problems not who gets the money.
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@gussampson5029 You only interested in cutting your tax rrate so you can buy more government bonds.
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I wonder how well she would have thrived under the Chinese exclusion act?
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@sr2291 The decision to end segregation in law was bipartisan made in the wake of world war two, the refusal of Black men from the army to accept the old indiginites and the rebellions of the colonial peoples against European colonialism. Liberals in both parties played the role of soft cops while Conservatives were the hard cops. Goldwater opposed the 1965 Civil Rights act because he needed the hard core racist vote if he was to win the next Presidential election.
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@Chadhogan111 How were the British working class soldiers in Europe doing anything but protecting the imperial interests of a king and the bankers who entered a crisis? Churchill rose in Parliament and demanded that Bolshevism be strangled in its cradle launching an invasion of the Soviet Republic with the US.
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@Alexandra-fz7lk Christian Bishops meeting at the First Council of Nicaea decided what books should be in the bible. You can't prove many things in the bible instead you have to take these men's word for it. In other words to believe in God requires faith because you can't do any kind of experiment to show god exists. Even then the bible says very little about things that were unknown at the time of Christ. It is basically a bunch of stories written down in books and then proclaimed as holy books written by god. The problem is men wrote theses books and they themselves are fail-able which is what the bible says about man in the first place. . Where as with scientific theories I can make very good predictions about many things such that I can use them to build things that I can then put to use. The electronic digital computer was dreamed up in men's heads using theories before the first one was even built. When an Engineer builds something he uses science and math to make predictions on paper before any kind of construction begins.
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@Alexandra-fz7lk Christianity began as Catholicism and then began to split up with disagreements over the meanings of the holy book the bible and its translations into modern languages.
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@delorestaylor8114 Repeal the Railway "slave" Labor Act. No strikebreaking by Congress or the President.
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@Lord_Volkner Libertarians have a cookie for you as an incentive.
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Its the natural workings of capitalism seeking to maximize profits that destroy that workers families and create both male homelessness and single mother female welfare families. The boom and bust cycle caused by the bosses own greed only furthers this problem.
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One thing Australian is not is a Republic. You even voted down the idea of being a Republic. So why would you want to support a Republican?
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@imo9868 There's you man Trump who promised to Make America(n Imperialism) Great Again. Blasting his friends the capitalist Democrats. Remember Trump switched parties 5 times.
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@jgalt308 The nature of man is that we are part of nature and we labor together as social animals to meet our needs with our hands and use our voice box to communicate with each other along with our bodies which are made to be natural marathon runners. After we have meet our needs to eat, have shelter, clothes and drink we create culture science, art and religion. We have also been creating a surplus which we leave to future generations along with culture. Money is just a medium of exchange invented by the ancient Sumerians. Its has taken many forms over time. Today lots of money is nothing but numbers in computers. The fact that think like Thatcher that socialism is about spending other people's money shows you have about zero understanding about how production takes place in the first place. Of course you wouldn't be alone because the modern bourgeois economist rejects John Locke and Adam Smith when it comes to labor being the source of value. Instead they think it is paradoxical that water sells for so little and a diamond so much but man would trade a diamond for water in the desert if his life depended on it. So they talk about abstractions like marginal value and play the scientist with graphs and mathematical calculations. This lead them to the credit default swap which was suppose to make them rich despite how the value of industrial stocks in the market moved. One of the grievances of the New England colonist was they were not allowed to import money because the King insisted it all be kept close to him in London. The King had been executed by the English Puritan revolution and the English Commonwealth declared. So this is when the Pine tree Shilling was minted in Massachusetts. The king sons was put back on the throne and all were amnestied except those 59 Commissioners of the House of Commons who signed the Death Warrant for the King. Ten were caught and executed, Cromwell had already died so his dead body was dug up and posthumously executed. The others went into exile in the Dutch Republic and Swiss Confederation along with the New England colonies. So before the revolutions to escape the Kings edict the Colonists of Massachusetts Bay minted pine tree shillings secretly with dates of the Englilsh Commonwealth. Of course why was the King executed he first took mechants money then promised to pay it back and went about the country destroying it for taxes. Now what do you think we should do to a ruling class that uses taxes to go around the world destroying it to make profits?
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@ExPwner You've got yourselves convinced that capital must be producing value without labor and you can set prices as you please. This is why you allowed the credit default swap and now the block chain mining worthless special numbers swindle. You had yourselves convinced that the value of homes always rose. You were making money hand over fist thinking you'd died and gone to heaven until you drove the exchange value way above the labor value and the law of value took it down. Isn't it a bitch that all that paper value just disappeared. Just like the Dutch Tulip crisis of the 17th century. You've entered the era of the negative interest rate because trade doesn't produce real value. You've got junk bonds stored safely stored away in Federal Reserve vaults.
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@ExPwner We all know the theory of the bankrupt neoliberals put everything up for sale in markets with a price tag on them and have unlimited private property rights defended by government then all will turn out fine like sliced bread before being wrapped up and those who make bad decisions will be punished by the market. Then of course for those who argue that this leads to a dystopia because of capitalist greed and that market decisions are determined by naked economic power Neo liberals then scold the capitalist class for not making the moral decisions but ones based upon short term profits for their small group of wealthy investor owners. You may have divorced gold from money but you can't divorce capitalism from money, wages and capital monetary value. Capitalism introduced competition in to the market with modern industry not the use of spears to hunt animals.
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Ah the poor baby Hitler lost to the Marxist Soviet power what a tragedy.
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You mean Adolf Hitler of course.
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Hardly he couldn't get along with his peers in the Party and had them all shot. His only real skill was promoting compliant young people whom he could control. A really good leaders enjoys the confidence of those around him. His death shows is telling in that those around him feared rasher than respected him.
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@allboxing9851 What does that have to do with Stalin as a leader?
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Brittan's wealth was built on the exploitation of the working class and sales of overproduction to its colonies. Britain had to battle other to become king of the heap before world war one when British policy was to contain a rising German Imperialism. After two world wars Britain and German became vassals of the American investors Empire.
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That's because this fools explanations from day one are short sighted like all the decisions made by the capitalists and their government.
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@Novelera05 "Government should create the condition so the people can prosper." That's why we have the most Billionaires now. Government takes tax money from the workers to make the guaranteed payments to wealthy government bond holders. Why make the rich pay taxes when the rich can make loans and we can pay them back like buying cars and houses only with taxes.
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@frozenkilt If she's a communist than I'm a capitalist.
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She has already been tested out in the George Bush administration.
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Clinton is a well know lying American capitalist politician. Using her to defend Hamas terrorism is a non starter. The big picture is Hamas began this latest war and it doesn't have the support of the people of Gaza or the West Bank. Its a NAZI like organizations that rules Gaza with an iron fist. It says the refugees are the UN's problem. Its leaders live in Qatar luxury. Its goal is Martyrs for the Profit spelled with an F.
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@fieldflower7916 I here that India has also come out for the legitimate government.
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@victorhopper6774 Capitalism has destroyed the Black family because of the change from sharecropper where the family was the basic production unit to the industrial worker where a greedy boss need only hire a single worker not a whole family.
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@victorhopper6774 Sharecropping replaced slavery. The family farmer is an economic unit. Capitalism or wage labor is a new kind of class society. Welfare did not destroy the Black family capitalist greed did. Bill Clinton "Ended Welfare as We Know it." Now even more workers families of all colors are "broken" families.
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@victorhopper6774 We will replace the dictatorship of capital with the dictatorship of the proletariat. The rules (laws) written for the capitalist will be replaced by new rules (iaws) by the proletariat. Instead of the capitalist dictating to the proletariat. The proletariat will dictate to the capitalist.
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@victorhopper6774 Capitalsm is a new system of wage slavery where the surplus value and profit come from the unpaid labor of the workers. The bosses own accounting books prove that. Professor Sowell is like all bourgeois professors a paid stooge of the capitalist class.
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@deplorablewhiteman3628 The part where you cross at an official port of entry. Which is a proper and legal way to cross a border. Maybe you live in Kansas. So it is much like coming up to a toll both on the Kansas turnpike. You come up to the port of Entry and Speak with the Border Patrol officer instead of going down the toll road to serfdom.
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@pkt976 The whole area is a desert. Antelope Wells is a Port of Entry. They crossed there although from a technical viewpoint the Antelope Wells Port of Entry closed at 4PM with a sign saying go to Columbus, NM when closed. Given that Trump decided to close the San Ysidro Port of Entry (The busiest Port on the Mexican Border) without notice no one can really be sure if a Port of Entry will be open or closed until they get there anyway. There are three Ports of Entry in New Mexico. There are eight checkpoints. They CBP would much rather harass people at the checkpoints than actual be at the border. Lordsburg is about sixty miles air miles or 90 road miles away and has about 50 plus agents assigned along with a CBP air force. Antelope wells has four agents and no air force. Pictures of the old Antelope Wells show a station about the size of an old gas station. Pictures today show a large station such that the number of buildings may exceed the number of agents assigned.
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@pkt976 I think what actually happened is they crossed those WW2 tank traps and Border Patrol invited them to stay in there newly built mostly empty garage.
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@pkt976 Maybe they should put up No Trespassing Signs? Elon Musk could provide solar panels and lithium batteries for a green border wall?
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Devious Toe The Europeans come in by plane as tourists. Like the Canadian's most of them aren't under the same economic pressure the Central Americans' are under. They must also pass Border Patrol inspection at the airport before entry which is unavoidable. The need to buy a round trip ticket back to the EU and not arouse suspicion that they are coming to work here either.
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The ruling class families have the option of doing nothing. Are the Kardashian's contributing anything? How about the royal family in the UK. The news media seldom reports on them because they know that saying the wrong thing can be a career ender. If society were to go to the dogs because of laziness by the ruling class it would have collapsed a long time ago.
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There is a problem with that theory is because if it was true we would see pictures of people and police on the streets with automatic weapons in Cuba not police with ordinary hand guns. If Cuba was like Eastern Europe with its corrupt bureaucrats it would have fallen a long time ago. Economic pressure from the US consumer society would have defeated the revolution a long time ago. The bureaucrats would be sneaking in stuff for themselves and everyone would know it. It would only be a short time from there that they would then be making workers 'true owners' by giving everyone saleable shares in enterprises which the sly would then buy up and make themselves into a new capitalist class. Just like in the Soviet Union with the help of Chicago economist Milton Friedman. In order to pull that off in the Soviet Union he had to 'act fast'. Once you have a society with people in relatively similar income brackets you can appeal to their human instincts of solidarity. In capitalist society you don't usually see that outside of the labor movement. It takes a revolution to create and sustain that. The working people will change the way we think about each other and how we will go about things. Look at the recent disasters in Florida and Houston where basically everyone is told. "Your on your own." Eight nursing home patients die only a short distance from a hospital because they had no power for airconditioning. How can something like that happen? In Cuba they plan ahead for these type of events so the elderly, sick and pregnant women are all accounted for, no one is forgotten and left behind. The lineman are sent to the areas they expect the most damage ahead of time. Even then they send volunteers to help other nations in the Caribbean.
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@lionsareus My argument isn't that the ruling classes contribute an absolute zero it is just close to an absolute zero and when you take into account the problems they continue to create we would all be doing better without them controlling governments, the social wealth and society in general.
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@jshepard152 That'd another thing about capitalism the continually talk about how free you are but at work you must do as they say otherwise you are fired. So must of your life is being dictated to you.
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@martymcfly88mph35 The capitalist finding a declining rate of return in industrial profit invests in fictitious capital seeing big profits in these area's he drives up the price until he realizes it is overvalued. The law of value hits like a MF. A panic ensues in one area and then more areas of investment. Tens, hundreds, thousands, millions and billions of dollars of value vanish into thin air.
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@MrBlue11900 People had ideas before capitalism and they have more ideas after. Why? because with the end of the profit motive comes the end of all the economic distortions caused by a small ruling class chasing profits for profits sake. Saying that economic planning can't work is probably one of the stupidest things ever said. All the big companies do internal planning and use just in time manufacturing. Their problems revolve around their goal (profits) and competition for markets limited by the size of the planet. If capitalism where to go along it merry way then the banks would own everything having collected all their debts with no one having anything but empty pockets and nothing to put up for collateral. We'd be all wearing the classic Charlie Chaplin cloths of an empty beer barrel held up by suspenders.
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@MrBlue11900 If its failed why do so many people need to chime in? Do you think you could get a big discussion going where the topic of turning the country back over to the English monarchy where the US becoming another Canada? Obviously most people would laugh. Why? because that possibility slowly ended a long time ago. The reason that socialism and communism don't die is because the class antagonisms haven't. Both the capitalist and some of our own leaders have tried to end the class struggle but none have succeeded. It continues because neither side has had the decisive victory. The capitalist only need to control the medium of exchange and state. If they can burn down their competition in another war like WW2 without incinerating themselves than they can breathe life into the system for maybe another 20 to 100 years before the same thing that happened in 2008 occurs again. We however need to build a leadership that can take us across the bridge from capitalism to socialism. I figure at least another 10 to 20 years from now. I also don't think I will live that much longer.
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@dawidaleksanderwitkowski7455 Hamas is a NAZI like organization that murdered all political opponents in a civil war after the first and only election in 2006.
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@menopassini9348 Mean while capitalist industry moved to low wage areas creating misery for those left behind by boss profit hunger.
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The set the price and you can be that this just gives them an excuse to raise them even higher.
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What kind of help are Democrats providing besides lip service and slogans?
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You don't want healthcare just keep a note in your pocket saying I refuse all medical aid to keep me alive.
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@anneflynn9614 The capitalist system breaks up families by seeking to pay only the wages for a worker to reproduce his labor for the next pay period. Then the system also goes though the natural boom bust cycle of economic crisis.
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These guys don't work 20 hour days that what they would like out of their workers though. How long before a capitalist would lose his ability to make a simple decision would it take if he worked 20 hour days. He'd be saying yes when he meant no up when he meant down. They don't open and close the stock market for twenty hours out of 24. They keep the standard bankers hour of 9:30AM-4PM.
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You have to at least be able to get an Ivy league education or have a ton of money to get into the financial sector. Irs all about financial manipulation and trying to get away with insider information obtained legally.
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Maybe I should have said elite college education and she must have had a very high grade point average otherwise you would not be using the term "very bright." Unless they are speed freaks they aren't putting in 20 hour days. Part of it depends on the business and what the small business owners role is in it. If you can't manage your time well then that business is going down the tubes. The first employee is usually your spouse and then close relatives because their loyalty is less questionable. If your micromanaging everything, worrying about every detail and using up every valuable minute of your time than my verdict is your going to be one of those who creates the high rate of failures for new business.
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Ok let's go with this does she have the usual credentials required? What are the actual skills required to work on Wall Street? What do they actually do besides hollar buy and sell on on two phones all day? I suppose they have to read things like the Wall Street Journal and have some idea which stocks are rising and which are falling and who is in the market to buy this or that especially government contracts or big ticket items like jet aircraft. My bet is that the big firms have all kinds of specialists in every kind of bond or paper contract salable.
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Its class struggle going on. A battle by the Israeli workers to defend their national rights to exist as a people vs the reactionary Hamas NAZI like billionaires support by the Jew Hating Islamic Republic of Iran' oil billionares.
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@davout5775 Good luck with because capitalist care more about profits than democracy which is why the wage war to begin with. It's the desires of the American capitalist ruling class to control trade and production after World War two and NOT Democracy that drove US cold war foreign policy.
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Ah so you carry your documents to the beach, grocery store and country club. You know what they say American Express don't leave home without it! or forget to take them with you. You picture looks like one of those space aliens. Wouldn't want to profile you as an illegal alien who snuck past the US Border Patrol stationed 100 miles up and away on a space station. It's part of the Keep America Smart Again with a new Trump NASA martian initiative. Probably just somebody hiding behind a 'scary' mask.
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@sodacan1415 The goal of the communist can be summed up as Abolish private property. The property used to exploit others.
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If they can't own it they will destroy it.
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@nats50 When oil is refined it is better to use a certain mix of heavy crude and light crude to get the most efficiency out of the refinery. That's why oil must be traded instead of only being used in one country. Lots of oil in North America is now profitable in the tar sands of North Dakota and Canada. Most of the refiners in US are in the original oil rich states of Texas and California. New ways of extracting more from old wells and offshore add to US reserves. The most of the worlds biggest oil companies are US owned.
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@reggie2334able Congress has exceeded its authority the right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments.
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@GrandTheftChris The is the result of natural workings of the capitalist system based in Nation states. Competition for markets and resources leads to the ultimate completion or war. Nothing is cheaper and more renewable for the ruling propertied class than the young unemployed soldier and munitions.
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@frankzavala7139 False. I'm sure if Hillary Clinton has a march and declares herself interim President that Trump would get all bent out of shape.
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Right US is bringing 'Democracy oil company profits don't play any role'. This is why we are building walls and more nuclear submarines. George W. Bush said Saddam Hussein was a new Hitler. Hitler lasted for 6 years in a world war. Hussein with his so called weapons of mass destruction lasted 6 weeks.
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The US used napalm and carpet bombing in both Korea and Vietnam. They knowingly ordered the commission of war crimes in Korea from 8th Army HQ and Air force command. Operation Express was reported as a major victory in Vietnam until the Brass realized they were reporting on a civilian massacre. The US has the largest number of prisoners numerically and percentage wise. Trump wants the building of family jails for immigrants also called concentration camps. The US has no moral standing to accuse anyone else of human rights abuse. According to you Trump was elected leader of the "Free World" and that gives him the right to play world policeman. The French President Macron is called the President of the Rich by the Yellow vests. The British are probably preparing for another internal religious civil war
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Hussein was a monster but even bigger ones live in Washington. Hussein used chemical weapons during his US supported war with Iran. Did either the UK/US do anything then but provide him with more weapons after Reagan took him off the list of countries supporting terrorism?
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@blazinglight8025 How can you call coming up to a port of entry and requesting asylum an illegal crossing? Should they have chartered a plan to Washington and requested asylum directly from Trump?
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@jameylane9196 Her father denies that they did not eat or drink while crossing Mexico. They keep talking about the dangers. Yet they had 163 people locked up in a garage and took absolutely no precautions other than get signatures on papers in English saying they were healthy. They sent a single prison bus to take them to a bigger jail. On its second trip which was delayed for an hour in a reason yet to be explained. Before leaving they knew she was vomiting which can help dehydrate someone who has been in desert conditions. Did they do anything then? No they continued with business as usual transporting a child on a prison bus.
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"Left Wing Communism An Infantile Disorder" was the title of a pamphlet by Lenin not "Liberalism an infantile disorder". Stalin and the CPUSA were the ones to put faith in liberal Democrats. .
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No that hasn't happened yet. The workers don't need the capitalist gov.to help to organize we just need the government to stay out of the union. The workers haven't taken over the factories or held sit down strikes like at GM in 1938. That's when the capitalist begin to get really scared. We aren't yet even at the mass strike level.
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@jonathanbuzzard1376 Proving that Israel is not committing genocide. Hamas Billionaires have a racket stealing UN aid and building more missiles and headquarters under schools hospitals and Mosques to cause more death in an effort to gain more sympathy for themselves. They care nothing about the refugees they create instead saying they are the UN's problem.
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Afterall you all work from home and order from amazon anyway. Don't you already have a guard at the gated community entrance?
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Campaign for the Wanted Child free pregnancy services, free contraception and abortion services, a child parent allowance, make adoption easier and free 24/7 childcare for workers.
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@kaekuda The give out Poly Sci degree for sing hymns to the capitalist bosses who are the on the University board of directors.
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@stuckinthemud4352 Obviously neither is true with capitalism. Bill Gates had a head start at everything in life from his educational opportunity along with a million dollar trust fund. His high school had computer access when not even all the ivys did.
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@sandersbruh4474 George Bushes "New World Order" is Joe Biden's "New World Disorder." As a supporter of American Capitalism Sowell is still a mystic with his talk of "Human Capital" as the intangible. The Soviet Union was never suppose to be a country and in fact "Socialism in One Country" the theory proposed by Bukharin with Stalin signature was opposed by Trotsky from the very beginning. Those who wanted to continue the revolutionary teachings of Marx and Lenin went with Trotsky and then Fidel Castro came along and showed that the thing Stalin and the Stalinist bureaucracy did were totally unnecessary. It was Lenin who called for the national independence of the colonial peoples and Trotsky who predicted that the world war would shift the political forces in favor of the United States and the colonial peoples.
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A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself. To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
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@kleomenis456 Your on the wrong website if your looking for a job.
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@MichaelMiller-xj1ti Like me you can't spell that well but U S and I be a coded message for help and solidarity from a United States Imperialist Invasion. Like the one carried out by 14 Imperialist Armies defeated by Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs Leon Trotsky and by Fidel Castro in 72 hours at what the Yankees call the "Bay of Pigs".
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@rafalzbigniew9463 Al the promises of capitalist liberal democracy are evaporating in front of your eyes. All you have to do is like around Europe to see that once again capitalism's failure is producing pre revolutionary situations. The greed of the Imperialist bosses drove the first and second world wars. France, Britain and Russia have nuclear arms. Enjoy your Poland while you can because without a European socialist revolution war is coming for you and your family.
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@VajrahahaShunyata The Margret Thatcher and British Empire of course never stole anything. In fact the British merchants have been obsessed with theft since King Charles took a merchants sliver and promised to pay it back with a note and interest. If you remember British history they executed King Charles for that along with destroying the country in wars for taxes.
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@gustavo042 No it doesn't Marxist are materialists.
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The US does not want to be caught supporting a bloody Saudi dictatorship. it makes for a bad image both internally and externally. Trump has been announcing lots of sanctions against countries with supposedly bad behavior. Now the question will arise why not Saudi Arabia. Trump had his Muslim ban now at least some of his supports will ask why not Saudi Arabia?
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@stephenchristinamoncrief1802 Cost of production is based in labor time. Profits are based in which producers are able to pay lower wages. Plus all crude is not the same very often refiners require a mix for best efficiency. This whole incident has put a spotlight on the different capitalist governments interest on display. Erdewan is himself no friend of free speech in Turkey. The Saudi's cruel war on Yemen is nothing more than a dispute between Saudi Royals with the US providing the ammunition to beat back the reactionary government in Iran and its sponsor the Russian Federation. It is basically a dispute among savages who are making the Yemeni people pay with starvation.
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@jonathanshumpert9549 One thing that was forget that is the establishment of a Muslim Calafate to rule a Jew free world.
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@seekingabsolution1907 Look Stalin was able to get people to follow him and do what he wanted. You don't think he crushed dessent all on his own do you? As General Secretary that gave him the power to put in place people who were loyal to him. He had to be able to crush or neutralize all opposition in both the Party and in the Communist International. He knew what Trotsky was writing about him was true which is why the big slander campaign was necessary along with the murder of oppositionist and revolutionaries in Spain was necessary. He needed to present himself as the true disciple of a Christ like Lenin. He was training for the Orthodox Priesthood as a youth do you think he didn't understand how the Priests used the mythology of Christ to maintain their power over the Peasants? Why do you think he had Lenin's body embalmed and put on display? You let Stalin off to easy with this use of terminology like totalitarian and authoritarian because your using his kind of tactics which is to call people bad names as the way to dismiss them.
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@daviddub Does the Pro Life position protect the soldier from death?
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@daviddub The same Imperialist war political hypocrites that write laws claim that a fetus has a right to life but that somehow women doesn't own her own body. The right to own property is in the constitution if you don't own your own person than you are a slave to someone else. The Constitution originally excluded women, slaves and indians. A fetus is not an independent living being that is why it has no rights because it has yet to be born. The women has a right to medical care including the termination of a pregnancy. .
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@daviddub When can I have something to save my life from your living body WITHOUT your permission? Say a kidney or blood? Certainly it would be okay for the government to require you to give blood for the next war right? Your already required to give your life under the selective service act as a male 18 year old in the US.
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@daviddub I don't? Why not? How UNChristian off you. Lets say I'm your brother who has a drug problem and needs a new kidney. Do I just go to the Doctors and say hay I've got a brother who has a kidney that will match go take it from him because the one I got from my sister failed after my last drug episode? The problem is NOT when is it is voluntary no one has a problem then. Its when people such as yourself want to make decisions for others. What makes you the moral one? If a fetus was just a little child and a women came into a Doctors office saying she didn't want to keep the pregnancy the Doctor would just induce labor and call it a day. That however would be considered an abortion in most instances where the fetus did not survive. The first rule in medicine is do no harm so its not always easy to know what that means. Tell the women she can't have one because she needs to be responsible? Well than maybe she goes to the Veterinarian gets some pills for dog ulcers and induces labor. Maybe she successfully aborts or maybe she dies of blood loss and her other kids no longer have a mother. But people like you know everything ahead of time and can write laws to practice medicine. .
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Marilyn Willett The "unborn" hasn't been born which is the whole point. Lets see what God does to those who don't believe. Hosea 13:16 "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." I'm sure you can dream up an excuse for God after akk you guys are good at making words into pretzels.
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These are people just repeating the lies told by Hamas and the Iranian Holocaust denying regime!!!
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That's why they try to keep a boss like him out of politics. It's like listening to Donald Trump you never know what he will say or do next. They have to have interpreters for Trump to explain what he means. I've worked for some crazy ones. I would argue with the dispatcher over sweeping my bus time by the end of the week the 'fat man' would come out of the front office, fire me on Friday afternoon and then on Monday at 5am I'd receive a call can you come back to work this morning? Then another week just the same as the last.
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Farrell Dobbs formerly a republican and a coal truck delivery driver helper one of the leaders of the Minneapolis General strike would disagree with you and so will I as a former member of Teamsters Local 496. I meet both Dobbs and Jimmy Hoffa Sr and I will tell you Dobbs knew what he was talking about.
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The day will come when drivers are tried of that and leave all your trucks on the side of the road and demand cabs to take them home.
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@blindiris22 That was a law passed solely for the purpose of grandstanding by capitalist Democratic Party politicians. If he signed a loyalty oath then they'd try to enforce Illinois law upon him.
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Why take unnecessary pills regardless of color?
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@grawss Bill Clinton signed the first attack on the social security act ending AFDC which was known as mothers aid in 1935. He replaced it with TANF saying it would lead from a lifetime of welfare to a job. It was proclaimed as a welfare to work program.. Now there are more broken families of all colors not fewer. The Johnson era added Medicaid and Medicare. Doesn't it bother you that back in the 1950's their wasn't the large homeless population their is today? Starting with Kennedy they changed the way the unemployed are counted is such that it appears that recovery has fixed the approx. 10 year business cycle of an increasing the percentage of the unemployed.
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@grawss The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Signed by Bill Clinton. Ironic because the whole reason for setting up a corporation big or small is to AVOID personal responsibility for the shareholders. Of the two Black women at the signing of the bill by Bill Clinton Lillie Harden is died because she no longer qualified for Medicaid to pay for the medicine she needed . You should be proud because you really needed those tax cuts and bigger profits to stave off bankruptcy and Lillie kids no longer had a mother. She is someone who you don't have the time of day for. To busy counting ever penny of profits.
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Thjey and the US Gov't are the problem not the solution.
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@jozefmak984 No I think he was unprepared for what he found precisely because he wasn't a tested two party politician. The utter bankruptcy of Democratic Party liberalism was on full display throughout his presidency.
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@stephaniecarrow4898 Fascism always includes a movement of made up of crazed petti bourgeois and criminal elements. The workers must organize defense guards to defend themselves from the fascists bands of thugs.
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Maybe you need to take a bath in the Rio Grande.
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@nobodynever7884 I liked the 26th of July movement flag in the pictures.
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Liberals like Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter supported Pol Pot. The liberal Truman's CIA install the Dictatorship of Syngman Rhee. In fact during the cold war the liberals nevers found a dictatorship that was too bloody to support in other drive against communism. From Franco in Spain, tu the Shah of Iran the Batista Dictatorship and Pinochet in Chile.
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@dekippiesip Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Their is nothing special about a business owner anyone can learn how profits are made by reading Karl Marx. Value Price and Profit, Wage Labor and Capital or Das Kapital. What the capitalist can't do is maintain their social system system of wage labor exploitation.
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@joemarshall4226 I don't know any CEO's personally but did meet a few of the offspring. They fit the stereotype of being entitled playboys pampered from day one. Anyone who thinks they put in long hours or sleep in their factories like Elon Musk and pay themselves $1 year salaries is being taken for a fool. Sure I've seen white hats go nuts and they are always on call at the behest of the higher ups. That's their choice. Many want to climb the ladder some just end up in that position because they think they as individuals can change things. I've also had boss who said he was as useless as tits on a Bull. Some spend all their time worrying day and night about what will happen to the world without them. It's their system that is responsible for the economic crisis and wars of the 20th century. You leave them in charge and what makes you think you'll get a different outcome. They can't avoid doing the things they do because in the end they are driven by greed and profits. They can not avoid the creation of economic crisis because their drive for profits and their need to make us pay for their crisis. If you read Enges he already speaks about the early Utopian Socialist. In Socialism Utopian and Scientific. .Volume three of Das Kapital points to problem of the declining rate of profits caused by the drive to cut skilled labor time with new machines and unskilled labor. Lenin pointed to Imperialism as the highest stage of Capitalism and at the opportunism of the German Social Democracy. Lenin died and then a battle broke out once again over many of the same issues that divided the Second International in the Third International. It was Trotsky who carried that fight forward against Stalin and his bureaucrats.
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@fubokuen Sure I'm a product of your rotting capitalist system that is an implacable foe of its greedy bosses, its cowardly intellectuals, military war mongers and those who will cheat and lie to get to the top.
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@fubokuen Capitalism is an unstable crisis racked system that create its own gravediggers.
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@laughinggiraffe9176 They had to have a military defense. Kennedy told Khrushchev we can destroy you ten times over Kruschev told him we only need destroy you once. It was a mistake to get baited into the arms race. The Stalinist lacked a revolutionary perspective outside of their own borders. Stalin deliberately intervened to defeat the Spanish Revolution of 1939. He also tried to defeat the Yugoslav revolution and succeeded in defeating the Greek revolution to keep his promise to Churchill. Bankers create money by the process of writing contracts. Because they only have to hold a fractional reserve they can put more money into circulation then the gold they have on deposit. The first fiat currency in the United States was the civil War Greenback."No one forces you to take out a loan to bey something you can afford." No one needs to own more than they can use either. Capitalist want us taking out loans and buying on credit so they can make a bigger profit and use us as debt slaves. That's why they want us to buy homes and cars with mortgage contracts.
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@Krack2805 Border Patrol processes those who cross at other than a port of entry then releases them for bus rides into the interior with a court date somewhere. Gov Abbott pays for the bus rides.
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The question of who produces is of course totally ignored. Nor is tendency of profit rates to decline. As far as mercantilism goes that is the direction American Imperialism took. Forget about local production in favor of capital formation at the biggest banks and companies in the world. The fact is the bosses have NOT escaped Imperialist mercantile competition. All Keynes did is to advise the British bosses to rob the working class with inflation instead of the old fashion wage cut.
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@deliciaford4343 Capitalist following its own logic. As machines reduce labor time capital value goes up and profit rates must decline as labor is the source of the profit. This is why capitalism must come to an end without class struggle.
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@cosettecopperfield8397 Back the strikers at Warrior Met Coal and NABISCO.
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@johncarapinha5600 Sure all these Christian crack pots including the Catholic Church want no birth control and no sex education whatsoever.
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@jimeagle1155 Would you rather have them engaging in real crimes instead?
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@jimeagle1155 A flat earth might also be more convenient for long distance communication. What your seeing is the result of the combined and uneven development that capitalism produces.
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@jimeagle1155 I just realize that your mostly just wasting your time worrying about the border crisis. They made drugs illegal and then increased the penalties and gave the cops more power so how did that work out? Karl Marx wrote about capitalism and exposed what its problems were and why they only become worse but the ruling class insists we are wrong. Okay the monarchies who represented the landlords tried intermarriage were and still are given chances to reform. The English executed one for going about the country and destroying it for taxes and declared a Republic the the King's son caused another civil war and lost but the Parliament restored the Kings son even though the kings son lost the second civil war. Those who had signed the death warrant for the King had to go into exile. The Capitalists are already responsible for two world wars for profits and private property do you want to give them another chance with a third?
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@ireneduarte1744 You'd be happier if they turned to crime instead?
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@nickshowman1181 If we have another 2008 its going to be because of a financial collapse brought on by the workings of the capitalist system. The system doesn't end at border either. You can shout globalist all you want but you can't solve international problems in one nation. If think you putting up walls, sending out more cops, deportations and building more jails is going to solve the problem that only shows how short sighted and stupid you really are. if your like most middle class educated Americans you understanding of economics is that of a child in a high chair making demands for a cookie..
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@nickshowman1181 Capitalism is economic warfare with every boss class for themselves. Capitalism created the nation state yet the nation state is to small an organization for a world economy. The bosses create borders to control trade with in that border. Outside of the border capitalism generates open warfare over trade.
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You'll find out what China has that all market competition is unfair.
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@doyourownresearch7297 No boss want a new comer taking away his business. Its the same on the world market. The industrial capitalist counties don't want new companies in Africa Asia and Latin America taking their markets they are already all screaming about China do you think they want more or less world market competition? The fight over colonies and markets has already lead to two world wars.
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@doyourownresearch7297 Biggest income goes to the biggest owners of capital like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos. Their property values are guaranteed to rise as the Federal Reserve adds money to cut wages with inflation by raising interests to make for bigger profits and higher unemployment.
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@sameersheriff7078 That because capitalism is a qualitatively unfair system to begin with. The most oppressed sectors of the working have shown their ability to fight so the ruling class had to change course and allow Blacks into positions of power. Obama got to President because as lawyer he was trained to talk out of both sides of his mouth he rose because he took what they gave and in return he did what was required of him.
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@sandyjuntunen4088 Since capitalism develops unevenly it has created nations that did not exist and swolled up others whole. The Soviet Union unlike the United States was never intended to be one nation. The United States did everything to destroy the native American nations while creating itself out of immigrants with Blacks slaves becoming a secondary national culture. You see this in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada also. France considered its oversees Empire to be part of France. When the Bolsheviks lost the revolution in German they turn towards revolutionary nationalism and freedom for the colonial slaves. The Imperialist began the first world war and Imperialism was broken at its weakest link CZARist Russia. Now the revolutionary nationalism of the oppressed nations would be used against the Imperialist masters in the advanced capitalist world. As the second world war approached Trotsky foresaw the shift in forces in favor of both the United States and the colonial people. The UN is where the victors of world war two hashed out their differnce in the Security council while the rest of the worlds nations were permitted to long on from the General Assembly and pass symbolic resolutions.
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Call up the Pentagon and see if the have any job openings for you.
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@Aaron.Thomas Grandstanding baby kissing politicians need to stay out of people's personal lives.
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@user-fs7dv3bq2v Capitalism internal workings lead to crisis after crisis each worse than the last. There own greed leads them into a dead end. This guy sold whole foods to Amazon. Workers control of industry not bosses controlling a market and a telling everybody what wage they will pay and what price we pay. Use collective union bargaining against boss greed. Wages have been stagnant since 1973 while bosses have been getting all the gains of increased productivity. They have been using the Central Bank to rob us blind.
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Sowell carefully picks and chooses his facts. He starts with this free market nonsense and limited resources. What makes you think resources are limited? If we just scurried about eating and reproducing like the rest of the animals then that might make sense. But we keep discovering new uses for natural resources and new ways to use them. The only reason you can have a free market is because you have a government that protests trade. Then he goes on endlessly about how well this free market system works except when the government intervenes which is what the traders in the free market always demand. Marx saw though this long ago when he said the only freedom that capitalism defends in the end is the freedom to trade. His whole supply and demand theory is constantly upset by human activity. .
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Sowell loves ignoring facts when it suits his purpose. Painting a picture of all his opponents ganging up on him from all directions. Pumping up his chest for another argument with his bankrupt University Liberal colleagues across the hall.
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@msparr01 So their rise in social status proves you have beat the system? They may be wise but will they survive dog eat dog capitalism?
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@DT-hy6px The division is based in class. One class works while the other doesn't.
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@mikelovetere4719 I tend to doubt you can write a law that taxes everyone but Democrats. Lots of people are registered Democrats so how do they escape taxes that the rest of us have to pay for the same reason?
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@mikelovetere4719 If Democrats are for the poor, isn't it in their best interests to keep us poor? What makes you think they are for the poor to begin with? The best anti poverty program is a union job at union wages.
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@ICBMCatcher Sowell lives in an upper middle class neighborhood isolated form the working class but not the liberals which are all his Bedford, CA neighbors. His theories are those of a bougoies simpleton on economics not much different than those of Adam Smith or Ricardo. For him everything is about free markets distributing scarce resources and government disturbing an ideal free market. For him class struggle plays no role as he sees bourgeois equality as the best of all worlds. .
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Its unlikely that Sowell would have gotten a seat at Harvard had he not been discovered by Howard U. in his mid 20's after being to Korea in the US Army. Although not unheard of most of the Elite Universities do NOT take older students who are Army Veterans and only a limited number of transfer students.
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@kyriss12 They have the same attitude as Hillary Clinton.
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@oblivionsa7973 Sowell is characteristic of the "New Homeboy" attitude by conservative upper middle class Blacks who said that Jessie Jackson should have stopped marching with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and gone home. Ths was also a time in history that included a struggle against colonialism and Western Imperialism. China had driven out Western and Japanese Imperialist powers and Cuba had liberated itself from the yoke of American sugar interests, bankers and neo colonial domination.
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The bosses government only uses tariffs to protect their big companies profits. They play no role in protecting wages, jobs or quality.
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@fortheloveoftheocean5400 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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The US has sought to blockade Cuba and bring about desperation, hunger and overthrow of government since the very beginning of the revolution. "..every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government..."
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@gregb6469 In every country the police and army out gun the population. Yes them not wanting to be the 51st state and an independent country has a lot to do with it. You think the Cuban workers don't know about shock therapy (economic corruption and the return to capitalism) and what went on the Soviet Union? The blockade is an act of war and the US gets away with it because it is the biggest military power in the world today. We need regime change here not in Cuba.
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@gregb6469 The embargo hasn't worked because the Cuban people are united in their desire and quest for self determination. A small country with a population the size of New York City facing off against the most powerful Empire the world has ever seen just 90 miles away is quite an accomplishment. The US has tried every dirty trick immangeable an exile's invasion, Radio and TV Marti propaganda, special immigration status, multinational blockade, terror attacks and assassinations everything but a direct US military invasion of the island. Every Cuban receives basic military training in preparation for a war of the entire people.
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@Dennis-nc3vw Mike Pence Declared Juan Guaido winner of an election held for President of Venezuela among US puppet regimes and US European allies. The Biden regime will be maintaining this fiction as a bipartisan elitist establishment foreign policy. Trump lawyers have named Cuba and the late Hugo Chavez as responsible for a stolen US election leaving the President of many flags Biden in charge.
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@azoz-so5qr Wage increases come out of boss profits first that's why they fight so hard against unions. Bosses who can't make a profit are headed to bankruptcy court anyhow. If US Steel and GE are so worried over skinflint bosses going to bankruptcy court than they can refinance them.
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The real cheats are those who get their dividend checks direct deposit and when companies use profits for stock buy back schemes. With capitalism the best the workers can hope for is reinvestment into more production. When the use their profits to invest in schemes to increase paper values (fictitious capital) because of the natural decline of the rate of return on industrial investment watch out because a deflationary bubble is what comes next.
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DJexs Society doesn't need 'hard working individuals' like you who want to lead a race to the bottom. The workers pay dues not the bosses. Set up shop and we have a right to organize your workers into a union and bargain with you. What makes you think you deserve to lord it over everyone else? Your a hard working individual all right. Your really no different than a mafia don who wants to make a profit at the expense of your workers. A mafia don who wants to knee cap the union organizers.
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@Thekingoffungus That's the part of capitalism that Marx called fictitious capital its value is just on paper. As capitalism developed they kept replacing labor with machines because by cutting labor costs profits could rise. How ever as capital replaces labor the capital value rises faster than profits which must come from living labor sine capital is dead labor that has already been exploited and paid for. This results in a declining rate of return on investment. The rate of return on investment is what drives capitalist investment. So the capitalist started investing in these paper values which can only collapse.
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@Scornfull Don't you need to put on your blue hat and leave class early to get to your hall monitoring post for the next period.
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@markgilrosales6366 The workers risk their health and safety on the job the boss risks nothing but his capital. If he loses it than he can go get a job!!! The profits are just the unpaid labor of the workers. Capital can produce nothing. All it does is accumulate and at best enable the reduction in overall production time. Even then the capitalist seeks to keep the price and the rate of profits up despite the reduction in the labor time to produce which lowers cost of production. So the capitalist once issued wage cuts in addition to layoffs now they issue more fiat currency as a way to cut wages along with wage cuts, bailouts of too big to fail industry and layoffs when investment in fictitious capital values inevitable collapses.
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@jcman240 The free market doesn't pay. The wages and prices are both set by the bosses in a quote free market which is nothing more than capitalist market tyranny. Bosses claim ownership of industry built by millions of people because they hold paper that says so. Then they use their control of government through corruption to keep themselves rich and in power.
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@sanniepstein4835 Didn't you here Biden say he was a capitalist? How do you the the big banks and Wall street would operate without government and bailouts. You spend to much time listening to paid defenders like Stossel pretending to be hurt by Big Government when they are actual just the other party not currently in power. Different groups fight over what is the best policy for the bosses government. Fiat currency paid for the civil war. .
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@sanniepstein4835 The workers need to defend themselves against the ravages of capitalism. They heed to organize into unions and a labor party indepenent of the capitalist parties to take governmental powers.
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@Tetragrammaton22 They just had to pull out of Afghanistan after twenty years in defeat.
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Sowell himself used the GI Bill to help pay for his education.and held two DC civil service jobs while a student.
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@jessicaalvarez2314 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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All that this will accomplish is to create a new war on immigrants more cops, prisons and jails. Refugees are coming here because the world capitalist system lead by bosses in NY and DC is failing. Like all bankrupt bosses Trump solution is to lock the doors and wait for a better day or maybe he find another buyer because that the only thing they are capable of wheeling and dealing along with placing bets on the stock market or at the casino. Trumps own casino went bankrupt which only shows he can't even win at a fixed game.
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@larrymixer144 The US needs to sign a peace treaty and withdraw its troops from the South.
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it's been a practice to define things such that we can talk about them. If you want to believe everything is a communist conspiracy that's your choice. The people who want to control language are called censors. They engage in censorship. Like Youtube and Big Tech.
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@albertchurchill4845 We use the word capitalism to refer to a kind of economy where the use of money as exchange value is the primary way in which people meet their need to eat drink, cloth themselves and have shelter. In modern human society production of goods and service is carried out in a system of factory production farming and mining of minerals that involves every nation on earth. It takes millions of human beings working to make modern life possible.
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@iqry11 This is the result of the ruling classes own greed and desires to live forever.
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@albertchurchill4845 World capitalism is in crisis and everybody knows it. The capitalist bosses are based in nation states that go to war over the profits from the world market.
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@nillejoslin That's socialism as a transaction to an economy without commodity production without the use of money. Socialism is also characterised by the use of voluntary labor in addition to wages. Since 1917 the workers have held state power somewhere in the world first the Soviet Union, then the expansion of the Soviet type state into Eastern Europe, China and Vietnam. Almost whole new communist movement lead by Fidel Castro then lead the Cuban revolution which is still making history. Your mixing up the name of the Party with the social system.
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Trotsky's "Fascism What it is and how to fight it." makes much more sense.
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Build a wall around Trump Tower and lock it from the outside.
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@grzlbr Sowell solution is to sit in a chair and pronounce his achievements as an ideological defender of the capitalist bosses system of profits and capital accumulation.
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@bobkinney2430 Healthcare like education with capitalism is an overhead cost for the bosses something to be minimized for profit maximization. Afterall the bosses can alwys hire another coal miner they have to buy mules.
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@user-uh9hm3ir8l Sure things are great that's why 50,000 are living in tents and under tarps in LA with they sit on a billion dollars to build homes. They use their own regulations as an excuse to sit on their hands. Everyone should ask Trump to send some FEMA trailers to LA.
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@user-uh9hm3ir8l You don't have any control over what the government does with money to begin with unless your a lobbyist or CEO. Are you going to hire someone who comes in with dirty clothes, lacking a shower and no place to get a good night's sleep? Your going to tell them to go elsewhere and they aren't you problem. Am I right? You play the game of go get a job but we aren't hiring today.
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@user-uh9hm3ir8l Sure I get to vote for a choice of two people already bought off by two Party campaign money who usually get automatic ballot status while third parties must gather signatures.
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@user-uh9hm3ir8l I always get the impression you need to give economically correct answers without out appearing to be either to stupid or to smart. It helps if your able to play the friend who is the best of followers. If they need a lot of people all at once they are usually less picky.
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Why don't you libertarians stop demanding government contracts? Go raise you defense money from voluntary contributions instead of taxes.
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I thought I recognized you from your picture Lavrentiy Beria. The proper American English words are Guard, Prison Guard or Jail Guard. They don't like being called Guards but CO or Correctional Officer.or by their rank. In England a Guard is railway breakmen. In the US a security guard is someone who is usually paid a low wage wears a uniform and badge. He or She sits at Museum's, at employer entrances and shopping malls. Also derogatory referred to as a Mall Cop or Rent a Cop. Something like calling you a Secret Policeman who rapes a fresh woman nightly.
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@DustGamezX Those countries have or had Social Democratic traitors running the capitalist state. The fact that they have Kings and Queens shows they still haven't been able to leave the yoke of monarchy and cult of personality behind. Calling them socialist is a bad joke.
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@janeayre96 Hoffa endorsed Nixon. The bankers son's the Kennedy brothers had waged a war on the Teamsters and Hoffa. We need our own party.
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@janeayre96 Hoffa also went Republican because of the bankers sons the Kennedy brothers waged a consant attack on the Teamsters.
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The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amendments. Congress needs to back off. .
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@Brenda-in8bd This is probably one of the most idiotic election interference cases. Supposedly Trump pays off those who would tell lies for the benefit of Hillary Clinton. The National Inquirer pays for stories it didn't print. Stormy Daniels was in negotiations for another tell all story and takes Michael Cohen's offer. She sues Trump and the Court rules she must pay attorney fees to Trump in a total loss for her accusations of slander. She didn't realise she should have quit while ahead with $130,000 now she's been ordered to pay $300,000.
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@Vearru They never talk about what it was like for the majority when Batista and the US Bosses were in charge of everything. Peasants who never saw a Doctor and the city full of brothels for American sailors. More people have left Puerto Rico than Cuba despite its smaller population.
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@Stinoco Lenin's widow didn't want his body put on display. Nor do you see pictures of Fidel everywhere in Cuba. You see dead America presidents on dollar bills and coins and the Plaza de Revolution has outlines of Che and Camilo who are considered hero's of the revolution. Canada has had a picture of the living monarch on all its money. Washington has a monument as does Lincoln.
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His idea of being on the left was to read Karl Marx and then get a degree in economics and go to grad school. He was convinced that Communists were taking over the US Labor dept and when his professors got him a job there they had played the young student for a fool.
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@carpelunam Bosses do the screwing though. The use their money to try and control everything. They control the price. at the grocery store, the rent or mortgage contract price, the politicians who write the laws, the central banks supply of money and the want to dictate how much they pay in wages also.
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@backwoodsoutlaw5977 Your giving me indigestion. Civil war was fought over the institution of slavery worth 4 billion dollars see the Mississippi articles of secession. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp
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@SouthernSkeptic Nope the Mississippi document of secession shows that slavery was the real cause of secession and any other issues were minor. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp
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The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was an ally of Hitler and the final solution.
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So what most people born on islands are stuck also. People like your self always need to have some one in charge.
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They hire based upon profit alone. For every 'small' business there is big business making money though all kinds of ways. Insurance, loans, and silent partners. All these people skim off the so-called small business. This boss cuts hours because he can. Most likely his business consist of selling his ability to talk a lot of BS like he is doing here. Probably what they call a motivational speaker for all those small business that are just fed up.
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You must overthrow the whole capitalist system otherwise it will be just another MBS in power.
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@jameseverett4976 Capital produces nothing. All it does is accumulate and demand a return on investment. Its based on a free lunch for do nothing investors. It's an unsustainable system. Banks need to keep lending and the government needs to keep printing money otherwise the whole system would collapse. It can't avoid entering into decline and the capitalists are divided into nation states but they compete in the world market. This can only lead a march towards Imperialist War and Fascisms. Only Socialism and National self determination for the poor nations can solve theses problems.
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In Fallujah, Iraq US Soldiers patrol in armored personnel carriers carrying M16's. In Charlottesville, VA State Police protecting Klan from peaceful protestors use the same gear as US Army does in Fallujah, Iraq. The week before the Unite the Right rally.
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The US needs to withdraw its Troops.
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@turnthitchcock8432 The full truth has not come out in public about January 6th including the role played by FBI confidential informants who act as provocateurs.
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The Establishment is behind the Democratic Party. Biden and Pelosi are ancient war horses of the Imperialist Capitalist Empire. The US doesn't care about Democracy its all about bigger profits for do nothing investors who collude with hedge fund bosses in plots to rob each other blind in a betting game where the house is the federal Reserve bank printing monopoly money. You lost the war when you realized you were spending yourself into a world economic and world crisis. Just like you fools did in afghanistan. You never learn because you think a war for Democracy means fight for a few big company CEO's. You idea of human rights is cutting off ears, taking scalps, and helo rides. The Americalley Division. A massacre a day keeps the shrink away.
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@virginiagillespie4610 Read "The Militant" and Vote Socialist Workers Party!!!
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@christre79 Trump can do nothing because he is just another lying capitalist politician now.
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@andyeighttre I give you some advice we don't want your money or your personal property. The goal of the communist can be summed up as abolish private property.
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@bdan6954 This guy wants to testify about gangs who steal pharmaceuticals or break into safes not a lipstick at the cosmetic counter.
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@TommyC-nj2rt The genius of Marx is understanding and explaining why capitalism creates a world of nations in a crisis ridden system destined to produce ever greater crisis. The first communist revolution occurred in 1870 Paris when the Franco Prussian war was raging. The next occurred when World War 1 was being fought among the most wealthy capitalist countries. Lenin and Trotsky lead a workers revolution in Russia that came close to victory over capitalism from Vladivostok in the East where the invading American Imperialist troops were stationed to Berlin. The Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw when Stalin did not do as commanded and refused to move in a rear flanking action to a forward position. The Spartacist set up a revolutionary government in Part of Germany and another Soviet government was set up in Hungary. .
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@LowValueMan Communism is a movemnet whose goal is defeat of the capitalist classes of all countries with the socialist revolution. It isn't the success of capitalism but it failures, it's wars, its march towards fascism and economic crisis that has put the socialist revolution on the agenda. The crisis caused by the Franco Prussian War lead to the Paris commune of Marx's day. The crisis caused by the first World War a War to redivide the world among hyena's of the Imperialist powers of capitalism lead to the the Russian Revolution of 1917. This is what opened the door to the workers state power and freed the colonial slaves from the direct control of the Imperialist colonial masters. A door that the capitalist world has been unable to shut since following the defeat of NAZI Germany and the rise of the Chinese people who drove the western Imperialist powers out of China. Then the Cuban revolution of 1959 saw Fidel Castro and the people from nowhere as they were described in the US Congressional reports stand up on a small island and challenge the world's most powerful Empire just 90 miles away. .For if there is one thing that the Imperialist can not forgive or forget it is a people on a small island demanding their rights to develop their nation as they see fit and to make their own choices.
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@emergenthub305 The problem with reforming capitalism is the class and national division, the need to export to keep up full employment and the long term tendency of profit rates to decline. All these problems point to the establishment of the capitalist method of production being based upon to narrow a ground. Capitalism produces ever greater crisis due to this way of managing production. This is why Marx concluded that capitalism can not just be reformed but ultimately must be totally replaced.
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@rowdybroomstick6394 Cryptocurrency is a scam from day one. If you believe that computer programs generate value by finding special numbers with no special value than a fool and his money are easily parted.
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@arthurwagar88 Wall Street calls pension money dumb money and when investors take a loss they like to play up things like how it was pension money and money invested by grandma and grandpa for retirement. Of course pension money goes to professional gamblers who take a cut before you get the advice which may be good or bad. The derivative was supposed to solve all the problems associated with market instability because see Karl Marx had to be wrong and Capital must be actually creating something and not just accumulating and demanding a return on investment. Physics and Math Grads from Elite Universities including MIT were hired by New York banks to put this into practice and that of course lead to 2008 where Bush had to announce he was intervening in the free market to save the free market.
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@Steven-nl7wd Bosses lose their shirt in a con game. LMAO.
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Dershowitz is nothing like the Klan. The Klan was a Democratic Party political murder organization that killed Blacks, Jews, Communists, and Labor that was very much like Hitler's NAZI storm troopers.
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@GC-EXTREME The crisis of 2008 heralded the end of the US Imperialist Empire. World capitalism has entered a crisis from which it can not recover without war and fascism. The only thing that saved the Imperialist system in the 20th Century was the two world wars and the Stalinist betrayal of the world revolution. History has swept the Stalinist to the side and now the workers must face the crisis of capitalism by building a new revolutionary leadership like that of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara that opened the western hemisphere revolutionary change . .
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@natureandbirdsounds1427 It is Congresses job to Impeach and convict officers and judges of the United States for treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Democratic Socialists basically Social Democrats who are afraid of being called a commie.
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@xbman1 VOA is a US gov't propaganda outlet.
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Anything written by Leon Trotsky was banned in Stalin's time and in China when Mao was in power except for the top leadership. Trotsky was murdered by the NKVD and many of his writings are available in English at Pathfinder Press. The Smith "gag" Act was passed by Congress and signed by FDR with its first victims being the American Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters union. The American Communist Party supported these actions by FDR only to have their leaders jailed under the same Smith Act with the end of the second world war and the beginning of the cold war.
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Interesting that you ask for popcorn. Do you expect to have the socialists to feel sorry for you and give you popcorn? We promise a total revolutionary reorganization in the way society is organized not a bag of popcorn for those who wish to sit back watch and do nothing.
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RIGHT TO LIFE YOUR NAMES A LIE YOU DON"T CARE IF WOMEN DIE
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@G00GleIsACr33p Mexican bosses face strikes and united union action just across the border in Matamoros, Mexico. Where ever the bosses go they create more workers whose class interests is opposed to them and the profit system.
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@snowflakemelter1172 They already take in Haitian immigrants who come by boat. Unlike the United States which no longer wants legal immigrants but only illegal ones so they can sift through them for the ones who can save the bosses on education and training costs. .
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@@crassgop You were NOT even born during the time of Lenin and Trotsky.
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@t1n4444 The government is a long ways from proving anything despite the "national security" scare tactic.
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@t1n4444 They've used to "ongoing investigation" excuse for purposes of running political disruption operations of government opponents in the past. Using the FBI as a political police force to enforce though crime legislation and using informants to encourage and engage in illegal acts from which to obtain indictments and convictions. THe FBI provided the intelligence for the Chicago Police assassination of Fred Hampton. Kennedy engaged in a campaign of lies and deceit including nuclear war brinkmanship rather than admit the legitimacy of Fidel Castro's revolution and government know by high ranking State Dept officials and documented in declassified files..
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@t1n4444 Never mind historical stuff? Just when was the FBI purged of its gestapo officers? Espionage? If Trump runs from President from a prison cell after espionage charges he won't be the first one to do so since Eugene Debs got a million votes on the Socialist Party ticker while sitting in a federal prison cell convicted of violating thought control provisions of the Espionage act.
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@t1n4444 Your a political amnesic.
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@valeriedemello1794 Ya I'm sure the Secret Service stands down for burglars. LOL. Lets see the evidence because cops have lied to judges before as in obtaining the Briana Taylor warrant. Nor has the ex President been charged. So far all I see is lots of smoke but no fire.
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@calibean7736 That's not possible because the world capitalist system is in its death agony of decline. As machines replace labor then the capital value rises but the labor need to produce goes down which is the source of all profits meaning the overall rate of profit by which capital judges all success must decline.
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@swampt.6898 The problem with that argument is he's the President not a nine to five bureaucrat at say the USDA.
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@mimsyborogove3906 I don't have to like or agree with the man or his statements to see that the attack upon him is motivated by Democratic Party partisan hypocrisy. The Bill of Rights was put into the US Constition at the insistance of New England small farmers who wanted guarantees that a strong central government would not act use the type of methods like the King in London did in his quest to stamp out all opposition to the crown. .I myself was investigated as a national security risk and I didn't like it one bit. It is beyond ridiculous that a former Persident of the United States who was twice acquitted by the senate after Impeachment be just dragged about with some phoney national security excuse. The government uses that national security and nuclear secrets charge as way to silence dissent from any kind of government war policy. They stamp something secret send us the bill and never have to reveal what or why they did it.
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@mimsyborogove3906 Historically the FBI was founded as a political police force and its sorride history is one of being just that. Has Trump done anything any other departing President did? If those "classified papers" were so important to national security how is it they were they lost for 18 months? The government routinely stamps papers classified and never has to declassify them. In Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General AG Griffin Bell refused to provide FBI informer files citing "National Security" A federal judge disagreed and held Bell in contempt. The files revealed classified break-ins and dirty tricks as FBI methods used to silvence legitimate political speech. .
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@mimsyborogove3906 The charges were political in nature abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. No Republican Congressman voted for the House charges.
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@mimsyborogove3906 Inciting to Riot is a well known government frame charge used against speakers at political events. You must actual show that Trump urged a violent attack much like Democratic Congressmen and BLM activists did after George Floyds death. You can't have one set of rules of conduct for yourself and another for everyone else.
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@mimsyborogove3906 J Edgar Hoover began the Bureau of investigation iand the first post World War One Red Scare known as the Palmer Raids. AG Palmer predicted a Bolshevik revolution on May 1st 1920. A round up and deportation of labor, socialists communist and anarchists began. The second Red scare began in 1940 by FDR against the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party with the infamous Smith "Gag" Act for opposing entry into the second Imperialist slaughter. Each Red scare was started by Democratic "Liberal" Presidents and carried out by Hoover and company. The execution of the Rosenbergs was a frame job par excellence. No "atomic secrets" were ever passed and although Julis was technical guilty of acting as a spy his wife was also executed despite known innocence. Since the passage of the espionage act the act has been used against those who oppose Washington's entry into Imperialist foreign wars. This is to be expected since the Bolshevik government of Lenin and Trotsky propeased am immediate armistice based upon no annexations of territory. Anyone questioning the war path in Washington immediately has their loyalty questioned. Government classifies what ever is to dirty to let out for the public to know about. Only recently was the formula for a 1916 secret ink declassified. What did Trump have secret nuclear decoder rings from a Cheerios box?
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@mimsyborogove3906 I don't have a stake in maintaining the respectability of a secret police agency. Now you bring up ordinary charges of theft. So how does that square with violation of the espionage act? I doubt that any modern President does their own packing so you'll need to show more than simple possession to infer theft. The man isn't required to be an angel and most establishment politicians insisted he could not be President from the very beginning. Clinton insisted that Putin was responsible for her loss and anyone against her was an agent of Russia including Trump and other minor candidates for President. I don't just accept what I'm told by the Justice department and Democrats like Biden. Nor do I accept the smartness of Bourgeois Professors and lawyers like Obama. You have all these "Nobel Prize" winning economist who's only discovery is that Karl Marx was wrong. Now they are going to be parading these fools before Congress to give them advice and not one of the will have the slightest idea of what to do besides spend more or less and raise or lower interest rates or taxes.
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@CiriOfcentra-eq4kq Sowell denies that the profit comes from the exploitation of the production workers. Like all bourgeois economist since Marx they must deny this essential truth along with John Locke who said labor transforms nature. Insead the must point to the ridiculous like Ben Shapiro's Mud Pie manufacturing or make claims about trade and risk being producers of value like Sowell with his talk of trade being beneficial to both parties and great risks producing great rewards. The Bourgeois economist must stand to the side and pretend to be neutral observer since obviously where your social status is in the capitalist system has an effect in how you view the system. No different than Einstein's concept of no special reference frame in physics. .
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@jaredcrenshaw7665 Its the Soviet not Chinese. Nevertheless Democratic India with an extra 25 years of capitalist development and trade is still behind China. Not to mention all the early deaths in India because of the lack of Medical care. Yep capitalism doing the Lord's work with its magic free markets alright. Maybe you can explain how it is that books are banned in the Islamic capitalist countries of the middle east with plenty of billionaires but not in Cuba?
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@jaredcrenshaw7665 Marxism and Fascism are obviously completely hostile as one can see from history. The Fascist came to power after defeating revolutions In Italy, Germany, Spain and France. They formed the anti Comintern Alliance with Japan during the era of Fascism following the victory of the Russian revolution until the victory of the Soviet Union over NAZI Germany and Democratic Imperialism over Italy, France and Japan brought that era to an end. Spain and Portugal would remain Fascist next to liberal Democracy with Portugal in the NATO Imperialist alliance until the 1970's when popular revolutions would overturn the dictatorships. Greece and Turkey NATO allies would also go to war with each other.
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@genericnamehere7602 LOL No he decided that the US Dept of Labor was ripe for a Communist takeover so his liberal professors got him his dream job only to be disappointed when he realized they played him for a fool.
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@Apistevist Like the theory of the flat earth. Simple and useful for approximation like many theories. .
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@Apistevist Flat earth is a good approximation for a small area. My point is Sowell often looks at things and sees trees but not a forest. He starts with markets being the best way to distribute limited resources. When have resources been limited? Have we not always found new ways to use what we already have? He likes to mystify value. John Locke Labor transforms nature. Only trade offs are possible. Well if that were true and we weren't accumulating a surplus since the beginning of agriculture we still be living as hunter gatherers. Trade is not a zero sum but can be beneficial to both. Okay are we talking use value or labor value? Big risks can produce big rewards. Does gambling produce anything? Lots of things were discovered accidentally no question about it. For him everything can be measured in monetary value and because the bourgeois measure everything in cash value their goal of accumulation is always good because if they fail they lose value. Of course this has the problem of the crisis of 2008 were monetary value was created that then disappeared. According to the professor this was caused by people taking out mortgages they couldn't pay. The fact that the hedge funds were biding up the value of homes and contacts until the prices collapsed resulting in an economic crisis had nothing to do with it. Big risk producing big fail.
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@jaredcrenshaw7665 The only thing Sowell proves from his experience at the US Labor Dept is his own vulgarization of Marx's ideas. Lenin takes this up in State and Revolution. This the sort of thinking as vugalization of Marx's ideas is taken up in the last chapter.
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@bigtobacco1098 As your friend Sowell would ask compared to what? How many early deaths caused by the lies told about tobacco smoking? World War two ended in 1945 because the American and British Imperialists could not convince their armies to keep fighting in either Europe of the far East. The Imperialists send their soldiers to die for their profits and private property in other nations.
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@jamisojo Yes you take your marketing of everything to the extreme and that's exactly where it breaks down. Naturally you like markets since you can set the price of the commodity and the price of the labor needed to produce the commodity and to prevent the price from naturally falling towards the cost of production you have your friends at the Federal Reserve issue more low cost money. If anyone is promoting people doing as little as possible it's those who are seeking more investors in schemes to create value out of nothing much like a magician. The whole idea surrounding the derivative was that profits were always being created it just that sometime they were in a market where production was expanding and at other times it was in markets where prices are rising. This of course is exactly what produces economic crisis. Markets become saturated because of the tendency to overproduce which then shifts investment into fictitious capital; driving up paper values until they collapse when the realization sets in that they are priced way to high.
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@Efrenlm10 Chomsky's solution is basically he doesn't have one because all he does is talk and complain. At the end of the day he not much different than Sowell except that Sowell lones capitalism where as Chomsky finds term like capitalism and capitalist class unhelpful preferring instead to complain about elites.
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@emcemc7506 Ms. Clinton was in charge of setting up of a national health system during her husbands rein. She held meetings behind closed doors and ditched the effort saying the "Right Wing is too Strong." Medicare for All has become a slogan. What does it really mean? Current Medicare requires a monthly premium of about $125 per person and copays with medicare usually paying 80%. Medicare Advantage doesn't pay for every thing either. You can hand you medicare over to a private insurer and then you will find out fewer doctors will accept payments but you will get extra coverage. Medicaid is a patchwork of conflicting coverage and eligibility that varies from state to state.
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@emcemc7506 The Democrats were the ruling racist party in the South. The Democratic Party in the North within the liberal city of Boston was behind the racist attacks launched against "forced Busing". Still having problems of keeping up? Well Joe Biden was also against forced bussing and admitted it saying so was everybody else. Everyone else who mattered in the Democratic Party that is, was behind the racist mobs in Boston and the burning of Busses in Louisville. .
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@Derek No doubt he is because people like yourself are either bought off or lack the self confidence needed to see outside of the capitalist two party system. The media propaganda is ramping up for another meaningless choice between two party candidates.
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The second Red Scare was began by FDR with the Smith "gag" Act trial and conviction of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters Union. Trotskyists who had opposed entry into the Second Imperialist war.
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@KB-ke3fi The boss system is failing on a world scale. It began taking a nose dive in 2008. They can't get it to restart because the people who would need to buy the products don't have the money to buy them. Hence stagnation. Bosses with more money than they know what to do with. Industrial plant sitting idle and they say the workers are overpaid. Only class struggle can begin to reverse the situation.
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@DeathToCapitalists Just as inside America its every boss for himself outside of America its every boss class for themselves. Capitalism in the Imperialist stage is the also the driver of war and socialist revolution.
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Liberal Democrats like Joe Kennedy Sr. were chummy with Hitler after all Joe "the Wall Street Banker" Kennedy reported back to FDR that Hitler was someone you can do business with.
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@TheEarthStoodStill Capitalism Great until world war one. Ever since then you've faced a crisis of confidence. Those who don't believe in the goodness of the hard working capitalist bosses making life better for everyone else by using greed as a driving force. Those who reject the divine rights of gold, money and the Yankee dollar. .
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@kevinodom2918 Bosses can't move a factory without workers. Plus they can't move that fast. We have stop giving into Boss blackmail. Plus we need to help workers to raise wages in the poor countries by opposing military aid to those countries especially the dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.
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@erikkovacs3097 Free market capitalism ended a long time ago with the domination of the big banks and the federal reserve system. One side the capitalists has the power to set the price of commodities. Our economic power is in combination into trade unions and a labor party independent from the two boss parties to challenge the capitalists politically. .
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@whatevergoesforme5129 Capitalist prefer the corrupt union or the ones lead by leaders who can't win a strike. They didn't like Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544. That why the bosses concocted a frame job with the Smith "gag" Act. Capital produces nothing why shouldn't a former capitalist work for a wage? As Farrell Dobbs said, "You can have anything your big enough to take." No reason to abusive if it wasn't a dog eat dog system based in competition. A system based in continually raising the cultural level of the working class and cooperation will allow an increase in the forces of production because capitalism is working against that now.
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@whatevergoesforme5129 Corruption comes from capitalism as the system runs on the logic of greed. The labor aristocrats are the corrupt like the Social Democrats and the Stalinist. People who's ideas and method Lenin and later Trotsky argued against. Just ask all the neo liberals from wall street "Greed is Good." You can as MR nice guy but that is not the way you "get ahead". Business is war and War is good. A single shoemaker if their is even such a trade even left (capital replaces higher paid labor with machines and lower paid labor first) is a worker with his own tools. Once he owns a shoe factory he isn't. Modern business requires the services of banks who are the most parasitic of all capitals. Their demands for profit drive the small into their direction or else. Its eat or be eaten for the small business and every 7 to 10 years a feeding frenzy takes place. Why because of the crisis of overproduction, the ability to produce more than can be sold at a profit, takes place. Whole industries stop operating, workers are thrown out of work and out of their homes. The bosses announce they are going bankrupt and need to cut wages. Sound familiar? It should it keeps happening and it keeps getting worse. So how was it solved in the past well WW1 and WW2. The destruction of capital to restart primitive capital accumulation. Each crisis can only end when enough capital has been destroyed. Of course no individual capitalist or capitalist class want to lose the war for markets.
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@8:05p It places the blame for racism on peolpe with a white skin rather than the culture of he people who developed the new capitalist system.
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@somexp12 Malcolm X came out against both liberals and conservatives. He called a capitalist a blood sucker and invited Fidel Castro to the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
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@JonSmith-xh2jf Sounds like you!! Tell me how you worked hard in a coal mine as a child to support your family. Instead of the rest of the society paying for everything when you were a child?
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@mescko Our leaders like Fidel Castro defeated Kennedy without having to fire a shot at an American soldier only your paid mercenaries, bombers and spy planes. Leon Trotsky's Red Army defeated 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. The Soviet Union defeated Hitler and the Chinese forced the evacuation of General Chang off the mainland.
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@shauncameron8390 The Castro family estate was broken up by the revolutions land reform decree.
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Ya like when the Democrats try and silence Trump?
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voting for either of the the two capitalist parties is the problem.
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Congress will do nothing to stop Trump. We created a Republic so we wouldn't have to execute a king.
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@roadtoscratch3481 Yes with Sowell leading the neo liberal thought of the American capitalist class what could possible go wrong?
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You are Arabs who live in what was called Palestine. The Arabs kicked the Jews out of the Arab countries and took their land. You have to stay and live with the Jews now or go somewhere else. What do you need land for anyhow? Are you a farmer?
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Who are you kidding you were part of the British Empire. An Imperialist capitalist empire.
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@andrzejnadgirl2029 A capitalist can much more easily become a worker than a worker a capitalist. The higher they rise the bigger the fall. You think we are all just a bunch of dummies' that daddy hires to run your factories. We do all the jobs that result in production from machine operators, to assemblers and repairs. All the bosses do is watch us work and collect the money.
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According to Mac Donald it's a crime to sit outside sitting on your step at one in the morning in a Black "High Crime Area" but you can bet if the cops arrested her for being outside at 1 in the morning it would be an entirely different story.
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@stevenscott2136 Bosses raise prices to get more income. Its capitalism that fails every time.
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@heroliner6550 Capitalism is a system where the capitalist eat each other like cannibals. That's why they become richer and richer and fewer and fewer.
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@heroliner6550 Is charity going to prevent the next depression and war?
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@TheIndependentCuss An unholy alliance of the petty bourgeois left and liberals is attacking culture to create political correctness.
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@godssara6758 Most of the capitalist world destroyed itself in two world wars.
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@Max Wylde Of course I can't be trusted. I'm an unabashed communist not a Bernie Sanders with his promise to make Billionaires pay their fair share. Their is no fairness in the class struggle. The workers can have anything their big enough to take and I think they should do just that.
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@Max Wylde I sleep well knowing that victory is ahead.
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@Max Wylde I no longer respond to people who start with personal insults. You want to live your life cowering in fear of a hell that's up to you.
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This is the Capitalist Democratic Party.
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The Mexican and Chinese brothers are already struggling to raise their wages. The capitalists are already looking for cheaper labor elsewhere. However the world is finite in size and capitalism can not continue on without new markets and cheap labor.
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@ADtopcaste When capitalist enters into crisis the first ones to blame are the educators in bourgeois ideas. Obviously they aren't singing the proper songs of praise to the bosses.
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@Klaatu2Too John Dewey chaired the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials." Your an early victim of the neoliberal idiocy of people like Professor Thomas Sowell. It's nothing more than a revived fairy tale were all things bad can be laid at the door of the "Progressive movement and Socialism." The Progressives were actually a split from the Republicans. Sowell has nothing but praise for George Bush as a good man and a patriot. The neo liberals all had their day in Sun with Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush II. Their project crashed and burned with the crisis of 2008 and now everything is Obama's, FDR's and Progressives fault. They need someone to blame for the failure of the world capitalist system itself. The neo liberals idea of education is that you don't need one. Free Market theology says markets are the solution to every problem possible along with the private ownership of everything. So sit back and wait while greedy bosses do whatever they want for a Yankee dollar because Milton Friedman is once again wagging his finger at himself.
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@yort-r9t New Harmony, Indiana was set up as an example of utopian socialism or communism by Textile manufacture Robert Owen the same Robert Owen given favorable mentioned by Engles in Socialism Utopian and Scientific.
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@lanalorenz6785 President Trump=President Macron President of the Rich.
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Big donners control the two political parties not the unions. The unions need to form a political party to defend workers political rights.
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@crowbar_the_skull The bosses pay one price for our labor and then turn around and sell it for a higher price.
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@crowbar_the_skull Most bosses are bisexual they buy sex because they don't have the time for seduction.. George Bush is financing a cure for Erectile dysfunction.
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@kevinkiso4579 Cops need to back off from doing Hitlerite like stops.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Sure let the bosses talk each other to death.
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@celtoroma4013 Must be nice to have access to special stores while the rest of us haven't seen toilet paper for three weeks now. Is this Venezuela or should I go check with CBP because I thought this was South Texas?
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@joaquinrosello8898 There will be a revolution in the United States before a counter revolution in Cuba!!! Fidel Castro!
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@kickass7104 Cuba doesn't need anyone's nukes to defend their revolution. Cuba has fiends among the world's working people because of their solidarity with those fighting for justice and a better world. The American Imperialist do NOT invade for fear of the firestrom it would set off against the American Imperialists investors military Empire.
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Thanks to wall street were becoming a third world country.
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@ififif2022 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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The education system serves the rich that's why economics and political science is completely corrupted to serve the rich.
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Big talk SCAB. if people went on strike were you work you'd be the first to crawl under the wire begging for your job.
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@larahshrieber1370 GM has lost a billion workers have lost 600 million. GM needs to lose more. Ya the bosses are real humanitarians that's why the come up with more and more reasons to fire people since their 2008 crisis. Before 2008 they couldn't keep people in Retail Jobs. Now they fire everyone with some rule before a year runs out and have to pay health insurance. In retail now WalMart is the leader in paid holidays. You work. You get paid. Before Radio Shack went under they had job fairs where they told everyone we guarantee you minimum wage. Quit a job for AT&T and they tell you we fire one out of every ten we hire at the end of training regardless after you start work. Ask for a reasonable accommodation and your out the door. No driving a cab with one eye but Uber is exempt and I drive a truck with a 25 ft Travel Trailer form CT to TX with no accidents. How do they fix roads? Orange Barrel contracts and safety zones when the can't fix the potholes.
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@larahshrieber1370 They hire you as the boss of the dipstick department.
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@larahshrieber1370 Trucks are a big part of the market and Ford, CHEVY/GMC and RAM outsell the others (Toyota Nissen) because they just don't have what truck buyers want options not extra aftermarket junk you can hang on later. Toyota will sell you a truck with a tow rating but no tow package.
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The cheered when the Stalinist CCP brought back capitalism now that they have Imperialist competition and are losing those big profits they want Imperialist war.
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Build the trade unions and a labor party.
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Should you just say, "Beam me up Scotty."?
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John Wright Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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@alan4sure Sure and then Europe will be at the mercy of the American Imperialists. It the worlds capitalism system that needs to be overthrown. The ruling capitalist classes of nation states care only about their profits. Their idea of the renewable resource is the working class and the soldier.
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Half the country ought to go on strike.
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The US has put Juan Guido's name on the Venezuelan governments US bank accounts. One hundred billion here and another hundred billion there and soon your talking real money.
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Sure lets hire more idiots with law degrees they will solve all problems.
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Fascism is the vomit expelled by a dying capitalism.
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@ria.Magistra.Vitae- Fastest always attack the workers in the trade unions they are characterised by the organization of thugs. The KKK is a fascist organization other America fascist included Mayor Hague of Jersey City, Pat Buchanan who used thugs to take over the Reform Party, William Dudley Pelley Silver shirts. .The Klan was a component of the Democratic Party nationwide the Party of the old slave owners became the capitalist opposition party. Both Parties agreed to segregation and KKK violence after the civil war when Reconstruction and Blacks were abandoned by the Republican Party of Northern capitalism. Klan was always attacking blacks, trade unions, jews, communist and socialist. Henry Ford was a employer who used thugs and published "The International Jew". He received the "Order of the German Eagle." from Hitler's Ambassador Just before the War. Ford is the only American mentioned favorable by Hitler in Mein Kampf.
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@-Historia.Magistra.Vitae- Im being censored.
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@-Historia.Magistra.Vitae- The capitalist turn to the fascist gangsters and political violence to save their crisis ridden system from the socialist revolution.
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@chindit6784 Nazism is a form of fascism that was particular to Germany and the defeat of the German Socialist revolution in the early 20th century. .
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@-Historia.Magistra.Vitae- The capitalist turned to fascism to save themselves from the end of capitalism just as the slaveholders in the United States of America rebelled against the rising wage labor and capital system taking over United States of America.
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@AmericanThoughtLeaders You guys are all connected to China right. How many people died during the Taiping Rebellion that ended 1865? Was it somewhere like 20,000,000 to 100,000,000. They didn't die of hunger like in Mao's Great Leap Forward either. I remember reading that the fire squads couldn't keep up with all the necessary kills.
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No because then they'd just call the cops for a removal. Plus they live with others of their class nearby so they could not expect any help from the neighbors. The union rail workers aren't going to be driving over their brother coal miners any time soon.
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@creatorofgods1668 Just who and how will they benefit from the move?
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I like Hokey to but its geeting warm again time to put ICE where it belongs in the frezzer
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@56jklove They grow big and then they rate of profit goes down and then they need to use monopoly tactics to keep up the rate of profit. Each group of capitalist is in competition to try are raise profit rates. This is why they seek to drive down the cost of labor by working us the longest hours at the fastest rate and at the lowest wages. They seek to pay just enough to get you back for the next pay period. They want to control the price of labor the price of the commodity and money in circulation. Our labor produces a surplus which is the origin of both the profit and the taxes that that the bosses collect to fund the government. The bosses want to control what the government spends money on because they see taxes as money that could be going in their pockets.
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The supreme court and the 14th Amendment say otherwise.
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Mr. JOKER Two Party bosses of capitalism do nothing for the working class.
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@ififif2022 The US blockade is a crime against the Cuban people much like the British Imperialist starvation of Ireland.
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@chaosXP3RT The US Imperialist came into Korea and attacked the Korean People after the defeat of the Japanese Imperialist who had occupied Korea not the other way around. The Imperialist carpet bombed Korea just like the always bomb and destroy small countries in the name of Democracy. Just like when they bombed Cuba using Alabama National Guard bomber with US pilots repainted in Cuban colors. If anyone wants to kill you its the US Imperialist in Washington DC.
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@89guines The US began its blockade in 1960'. Then it passed its Helms Burton Act named after the Segregationist Senator Jesse Helms further tightening it. It was only partially lifted by Obama's executive action and after protests by farmers in the US. Trump and Biden have tightened the blockade. Biden having scraped his campaign promise to end the blockade. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@musicaquecalma4134 Those things were all made possible by the rectification process.
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@chuckkady7282 So guess the "early democracy lacks any basis?" Couldn't it have been that only a few were elected or maybe it was the strongest or those who got the toughest around themselves? Or maybe they respected the oldest? The one who told the best stories?
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@Diabolical05 They didn't forsee a rise of the tiny super wealthy capitalist class that would corrupt everything imaginable. Any angles in government died before election.
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@Diabolical05 They assign a price to everything and every human relationship.
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@Diabolical05 No everything didn't have a price. Of course if you want to call only capitalism civilization than your right. The Roman empire had slaves did they pay them money time wages? Did they at least pay piece rate wages? If the did than what would make them slaves? You should at least think before you write.
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@Rat_8868 We publish a paper "The Militant" and books by revolutionary authors at Pathfinder Press. Workers of the World Unite you have nothing to lose but your chains. What kind of Social Democrat are you?
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@ANILDEAD2011 What explaination except that he didn't do anyhtng but take a long time going in circles.
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@BondJames-vz5wk The Islamist are the ones who are responsible for ethinc cleansing. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Jew Hater before the State of Israel was founded. He began lauching pogroms in rhe 1920's and was given amnesty by the British. He went to Hiler's Germany were he worked on the final solution.
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@guineapiglady2841 Reagan was BIG military spender. He wanted first strike capability against the Soviets with "Star Wars". He broke the Air Traffic Controllers strike using military slaves. He funded the Taliban in Afghanistan as a way to wage war against the Soviet Union. His flunky Col. Oliver North working in the White House basement sold missiles to the Islamic Republic of Iran to fund the murderous contras in Nicaragua. His ally the White South African apartheid regime was defeat by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba in Angola driving a stake though the myth of the invincible White Man in Africa.
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Each generation should be able to live better than the past because of the accumulation of a surplus of production not the enslavement of others. Slavery was a step forward only because it meant he development of agriculture over hunter gatherers who engaged in cannibalism when food was scarce. Better to be a slave than eaten. Becoming a renter is NOT a solution. Those Wall Street profits are unpaid wages.
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@dylantyt6654 What they charge today are sin taxes. Instead of making big companies and banks pay the government pays them and you get a sin tax or sales tax or some other kind of tax that neglects the income of big corp and the supper rich elite.
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Do the Swiss tell the story of why the mathematician Euler spent his life in St Petersburg instead of Switzerland. How about how the starving American engineer Fred Koch had his invention stolen by big oil and went to the Soviet Union to earn the cash to hire attorneys to fight big oil and become a billionaire himself?
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DemocracyvsTheocracy Why not make the clown president than you can have a Whitehouse in the White House.
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One thing missing here is the increasing inability of the working class to reproduce itself and instead the requirement of either immigrants or an increasingly older workforce.
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@jamesberry3230 If you answer yiou own question then what do you want fro me? Does America want more Immigrants or Western Europe? I though Donald Trump didn't want anymore? Why in 1939 did FDR and Churchill send a ship load of Jewish Refugees from Europe back to Europe? Why did FDR decide to the throw the Communist opponents of Stalin in prison and what was the reason for outlawing the Communist Party with the 1954 Communist Control Act? Why execute two communists during peacetime? Why did FDR and Churchill pose for pictures with Joe Stalin? I hope you can answer my questions because I see no need to answer those you've already answered. What would you like me to do argue about the number?
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@BGTuyau Well i guess you and Sowell think like Joe McCarthy that the US labor department is under Communist control.
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Clowns like Sowell and Friedman think that they can resurrect the capitalism of the 19th Century because the whole history of the 20th century was marked by a capitalism nothing like that described in 1776 by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations. The most important events of the 20th Century were the Russian and Cuban revolutions.
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He is an example of liberal boss education in America. Like all education in capitalism costs are to be minimized by paying teachers the lowest salaries though busting their unions. Than creating a voucher system so what ever is left can be fought over by parents and students. A national test for ideological purity to insure indoctrination by claiming to prevent it.
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@1stTnetix Capitalism works to replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines.
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@krystiankowalski7335 Pinochet like Franco was a murderer. When the capitalist fear the loss of private property they turn to fascist gangster's like Hitler and Franco.
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@@CMLAFLAMME Basic immigration law is civil not criminal law. Otherwise the standard of proof would be much higher and the government would find deportation much more difficult.
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Did you notice he Red and Black flag of the 26th of July movement.
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And everyday you keep repeating that montara you send more workers with feelings in our direction. The size of your circle keeps getting even smaller while ours keeps getting bigger.
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@smd5093 Most come here legally and then overstay a visa.
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@Zeuswashington Send back who you admit you don't know who they are so who are you sending back? Maybe you should question Biden release of Grizzly bears so we can learn peaceful coexistence with Grizzlys? What do you want do send out the police to check everyone's papers? Washing politicians created the problem when they insisted on attacking workers and farmers in the third world because they wanted bigger profits. All your free markets neoliberal policies created these economic problems. Now you me to join up with up with more of their stupid ideas?
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How Dare You Disrespect My Sexdoll Relgious nonsence the bible plays no role in the class struggle other than to make things confusing.
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Ricky The Bosses sign union contracts all the time that doesn't make them anything other than bosses. Most of that "factored in" money would be "factored out" with the "Charter Swindle Schools" system. Bosses would just fire teachers before eligibility for retirement. Why is that we ALL don't have great retirement and healthcare? Maybe you'd like to explain why my father was fired from his job of over 10 years while I was a student at MIT because I already know the names of the paid CIA spy at MIT and his helper? Are you also connected with the US government?
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@Tryagain563 Its about busting teachers unions, abolishing tenure, creating a voucher system that will only cover part of the cost of education and asuring ideological purity by a national testing. All those who criticize profit maximization policy and boss decisions will be tarred and feathered as anti American communists.
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Vote him out? Who the hell can you vote in? Another Bill Clinton?
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@thepolkster46 When Democrats held governmental power they did abosultely nothing significantly different. Bill Clinton bragged about ending Welfare as we know it. Obama bailed out the too big too fail as the results of the crisis 2008 and now Biden is doing the same thing absolutely nothing. Wealthy donors control both parties.
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@kaycee4357 The biggest money maker involved is the Catholic Church. Plus if your worried about costs than an abortion is cheaper than childbirth and whatever the tax cost of up to 18 years of foster care is. Want to save money on welfare and unwanted babies than scientifically correct sex education before puberty and freely available birth control and abortion services. That's not what you really want though is it. No you want to bitch about taxes like your the only one who has ever paid a tax and like you really get some choice in the matter which you don't.
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@valstewart6661 I knew when the second plane hit the towers we were going to go to war and it wouldn't be pretty. 2.3 Trillion dollars later and unless you big on revenge killing we have absolutely nothing to show for it. These two parties are completely worthless.
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@S0me0ne353 "Socialism on Trial" was the court transcript of the first Smith "gag" Act trial by FDR. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General put the FBI secret police on trial and resulted Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell being held in contempt of court.
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@tom2659 Sounds more like its about college students who are spoiled brats. What does that have to do with say "The Militant" newspaper or the Socialist Workers Party?
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@river9055 End the Blockade!!
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@jeffnpatricia We just finished giving them 2.3 trillion for Afghanistan and now they want more? A clean sweep of Generals would make more sense not additional expensive toys to destabilize mutually assured destruction.
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@이이-n4z8y The true record of the American and British Imperialist is they refused entry to Jews from Europe who were fleaing the NAZI's before the war.
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@이이-n4z8y Because like all the Imperialist including the NAZI's they are all just out for themselves and their profits, private property and their capitalist class.
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So what are you "doing right"?
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@isiaharellano3789 I just wondering what you think capitalism is doing right? If your worried about hurt feelings than politics definitely the wrong area. Maybe early childhood development would be a good place for you.
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When you leave billionaires in charge of railroads you get East Palestine, Ohio. Everything gets judged by profits for billionaires. The only incentive the billionaire's and capitalist have is to corrupt everything in the battle for markets and profits. To fight against the inevitable decline in the rate of industrial profits. To demand bigger profits despite rising capital value and less labor used in production. Its is greed that drives the capitalist into a crisis of his own creation.
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Trump had stop building the wall after Mexico wouldn't pay. Him and De Santis are going to build a new golf course after draining that big swamp in Florida northwest of Miami. Haitian going to come work for Trump and De Santis using machetes going to be just like the ole days before Fidel Castro gave those big plantation owners the boot. .
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@handsomezack2054 Why not get a union job and become part of the struggle against capitalism. Become part of the communist movement rather than pine away about imbeciles?
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@brandonpacheco9713 Certainly I understand what bourgeois law is about. Defending private property and arbitrating disputes among property owners. If your so smart than you explain what it is all about. Ancient Athens was a democracy for its slave owners only. The American Democracy was founded with voting rights for the property owners only less than six percent of the population could vote at the time of the 1st Revolution as laws requiring property ownership to vote were in force. The same with England at the time the electorate in the Commons were limited to the owners of wealth. Universal male suffrage would not come until later. CRT is a theory that racism can be done away with without changing the economic system of capitalism.Its says that people like you and me are too dumb and the ruling class is a meritocracy not a class that arose in scancity and now when the productive forces have out grown there methods of profit maximization and capital accumulation seeks to maintain its rule through war and austerity. Racism has always been part of the justification for American Bourgeois rule first for the plantation slave system than for segregation, two tired wages and American's investors entry into colonialism with the taking of Spain's last colonies. Its socialism and national liberation of the colonial peoples that strikes at the ideology of racism by undercutting it economic foundation not books written by Harvard Bourgeois law professors on how to best mange capitalist property disputes. .The American civil war saw the arming of 190,000 ex Black slaves as US Colored Troops. The massive protest movement of Black workers and framers overthrow Jim Crow laws with massive protest that included armed defense of Black communities from KKK gangsters allied with the capitalist police force.
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@Cryo837 The jury got the Rittebhouse case correct based upon self defense. The jury correctly found the 3 murders of Ahmaud Arbery guilty. I have yet to see the evidence in the Darrel Brooks case so I will reserve judgement. What matters is evidence, the law and the right to a fair trial and the ability to put on a defense by the accused. Many people are becoming disgusted with the two parties and the MSM represntatives of the two parties. I'm sick of people posing to be victims of either white or black racism when in most cases the are part of a privileged elite that desires sympathy for problems that have little to nothing to do with them. .
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@sarad2376 How about the the 1950 Internal Security Act and the 1954 Communist Control Act for starters? McCarthy sat on the Senate Internal Security Committee. The Smith "gag" Act was also used during the 1950's. The House Un American Activities Committee also was part of the witch hunt era. Student loans were made under the National Defense Education Act required a signature that the applicant was not a member of the Communist Party. I signed one of those in 1970. The Taft Hartley Act required all union officials from the shop stewards on up to sign loyalty oaths if the union wanted recognition under the Wagner Act. Although we are the communist movement the Stalinist were the majority faction and took the name Communist Party with them. So are movement calls itself the Socialist Workers Party.
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@pixi2209 Stalin had all of the 1917 members of the Politburo executed or assassinated as agents of a plot by Hitler and Trotsky except for himself and Lenin who died earlier of natural causes.
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@pattyrobin58 So Trump exploits millions. He doesn't employ anyone unless he can make a profit out of their labor.
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@mahirkhan3231 Sanctions are just another means of war. They are economic warfare waged by the Imperialist nations. They only further encourage war as a means to decide economic questions.
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@noel7777noel Like war itself it is the working class that will pay. Only the war against the capitalist exploiters by the workers and oppressed colonial or semicolonial nations is a just war. For the rich war is just another kind of investment just like sanctions Nothing more than one group of exploiters seeking advantage over another. .
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@noel7777noel The capitalist have to make a profit on the coach seats or chevy's also otherwise they'd be overcapitalized which would mean a lower rate of return on investment. Actually the idea of building luxury models first is Elon Musk's idea for Tesla. That way you have proof of concept to show to the investors needed to build more and cheaper cars. He still plans to make a profit on the cheaper models just not as much per vehicle.
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The US constitution does not explicitly prohibit non citizens from voting. The US Constitution does not prohibit you from burning US flags either.
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@GR-pm2yc The Constitution says a President must be a natural born citizen. It is currently legal for some aliens to own or import a firearm in the US. For whatever reason neither the founders or the states saw a reason to explicitly ban aliens from voting before the late ans early 20th century. Nor did they have photo ID either.
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@Rorschach313 Sowell theories like Milton Freidmans died in the crisis of 2008.
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@2fiafisdoafw34 Bourgeois professors are all you have. A bunch of professional clowns who entertain the fools whose social position as investors makes them think they are an irreplaceable ruling class. Many will get on a Space X starship for a one way trip and a new start on Mars.
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@sirlancegeo Although the bosses are clearly playing the victim in this case the union officials refused to put forward a defense of the workers actions instead this became a case about where this issue would first be heard in state court or before the NLRB. The union officials often view the NLRB as a "neutral body" and a gift to them from their gods in the Democratic Party,. In reality the NLRB is just another part of the capitalist state and if the bosses don't like its decisions they can then bring them before other state and federal courts. The Supreme court has decided that the bosses may also use the state courts first if the bosses claim its not an issue covered by the act as another way to further tie up the workers organizations with red tape when it comes to going on strike.
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If it was a stash house why not search after delivery of postal packages in the day rather than after midnite? After all why would the criminals leave drugs coming by mail for sale at the stash house? You can't sell what isn't made available. Second once you start banging down the door why wasn't officer number 3 announcing Police! Search! Warrant! over a megaphone instead of firing wildly into the home after the gunfire began? No knock warrants where police don't have to announce their presence or using just a hard to hear voice while breaking down a door should be declared unconstitutional. Once they start banging down a door like in the video there is no good reason not to be using the same megaphones they use to announce protest gatherings are illegal assembles. Police in standatd police uniforms should be serving serving warrants not plain cloth's officers wearing vests used by rent a cops for traffic control.
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@Starmanhistory An Imperialist patriot representing the goals of the American capitalist who are losing the battle in the world market and want young workers to fight in the battle for bigger ruling class profits. They want the workers to sacrifice to make them rich. They want your childern to die in the next war to make them the world leaders in profitability.
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@user-kf2lp3mz9s They got picket lines up in Arlington, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi.
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Sowell knows well the tricks needed to advance the interests of the bosses. Talk trash about things workers need and never fail to praise a patriotic boss using tax dollar for the next war.
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American society is structured around capitalism and the ideology of the society flows from its economic structure. Racist ideology developed around by the new capitalist system to first defend and explain Black plantation slavery and later Jim Crow Segregation. The first big blow against racism came with the civil war because slavery in the United States was obstructing capitalist development of the nation. The next would be stuck by the anti colonial movement following the Second Imperialist war which in the United States was lead by Black working people and people like Malcolm X. WOKE capitalism is a scramble to head off what will become a united labor and world revolutionary movement against US Imperialism. WOKEness is completely fake because you can't take exploitation out of the capitalist system.
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Henry ford considered running for President as the candidate of both party
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@BDavis-kc7fb Its not what you know but who you know that decides what your station in life will be an American class society.
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@HarryReeves-gs8su The billionaires on both sides of the border prefer billionaire healthcare. A American Doctor is A Canadian Prince.
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@giovanni-ed7zq Healthcare isn't free it comes out of the local, nations and worlds economy in one way or another.
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@ChromatiXWasTaken The poor sectors of the working class already get what amounts to free healthcare. Like everywhere else with capitalism you only get what you can pay for one way or another. Its called medicaid and medicare.
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@giovanni-ed7zq Trump is just a preview of what the Canadian ruling class also has in mind. Every ruling class is looking for ways to boost profits and Social Democratic Healthcare is not off the table. In the midst of the fire disaster in California and Floods in North Carolina Trump promises to cancel FEMA and leave it up to the states.
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@giovanni-ed7zq After the pandemic they had to write off a lot of those bills as bad debt. So who lost more those who didn't have insurance to begin with or the hospitals who had a lot of bad debt? My bet is that healthcare in Canada his declined since the pandemic just like everything else. You got an opioid crisis and "MAID". A water crisis in Calgary, AB like Jackson, MS. Abandoned farms and small towns on both sides of the border in the western prairie.
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First America is a republic not a limited monarchy like England, Canada, Australia and New Zeeland. The richest Americans control the government though legal and illegal corruption. The government works only for those who buy the politicians. The problem with the rest of the English speaking world is they have yet to realize the King need not speak when an act of Parliament will do.
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Sowell just gave Hamas the high ground when he brought up the US Imperialist role in Vietnam and the atomic bombing of Japan.
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@honeylynswartz7995 So was Fidel Castro who must be a record holder for CIA inspired assassination attempts. Who picked up were and revitalized the communist movement ignoring the foolishness of the Stalinist and in doing so confirming Trotsky's theories. Rational thinking? Oh Ya Ayn Rand the rational mind of the industrialist being the only person born with a brain. Who goes though epic trials of rational thought inventing machines that violate the laws of themodynamics. Yes we all should become biblical scholars of Ayn Rand thought expressed in novels so we can organize a new religion for property owners according to Rand think.
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@ThrowAway-t3m All the great thinkers based their ideas on careful observations of the natural world. That is the same way in which Marx proceeded. Marx's ideas are based in the observation of capitalist development in the different nations of Europe along with the reports from English sea captains in the British Museum of far away lands and peoples. He did not pull his ideas from the narrow thinking of those who do a quick look at things and declare "all is well." That is the mistake of the "Flat Earthers" The earth appears flat with merely changes in elevation until you need to explain the motion of the sun and sinking of ships effect as ships sail away from their port. The same with the earth centric view of the universe it wasn't until the telescope was invented and the ability to make careful observations of the planets that Galileo proposed a Sun centered solar system.
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One day he likes Gorbachev the next is about Solzenitzyn. He's foolish enough to think bitcoin is producing wealth with computer nubmer miners for numbers that have no intrinsic use or value in the world outside of the worship of money and trade by the fetishism of capitalist money value.
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@khareef9004 This is the time to rebuild the trade unions and fight for higher wages. if automation becomes a problem than fight for a shorter work week with no cut in pay. Orgabize a New labor party independent of the capitalist parites to fight the capitalist in the political arena.
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@jish55 UBI as proposed by Yang is meant to save on state expenditures and abolish social security. We don't win anything without class struggle. The solution to automation is a sliding scale of wages and hours. Not enough work? Cut hours with no cut in pay to spread the work around. Index wages and benefits to inflation. Build the labor movement to fight back.
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@DeLambada That is exactly why it can only be a capitalist welfare benefit as proposed by Yang and others. It can't get at the true cause of unemployment which is the capitalist profit system itself because the whole goal of UBI as proposed by Yang is to change Social Security into a welfare benefit and thereby save on state expenditures. This is why some conservatives like it the same way they liked Clinton "Ending welfare as we know it." Clinton did what Reagan couldn't. Now Yang proposes this UBI not as a guarantee but as a way to get rid of Social Security as part of the workers Social Wage and make it into limited welfare benefit something that stands in the way of making more capitalist profits. Like all capitalist Democratic Party proposals it is anti working class. If not enough work is a problem caused by automation than lets reduce the work week with no cut in pay to spread the work around. That of course would cut into profits because the profit comes from the unpaid labor of the worker. Inflation is another ill related to capitalism but once again by demanding an indexing of wages and benefits to inflation that puts the capitalist on the defensive because now wage values rise with and not without property values. Only through class struggle and not reliance on capitalist schemes to save capitalism and money can we move forward. The capitalist can avoid the declining rate of return on investment and he can't avoid his own greed that drives him and his class to demand more profits for less.production. .
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@Money_Fox Strikes and strike organization are just the beginning of workers taking control of industry away from the do nothing boss class. .Workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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The 'Silent Majority' couldn't save Nixon's presidency either. They have to allow a peaceful protest if the don't want a fight between cops and young people. They don't need advice from Jan Brewer either she is nothing more than a washed up has been corrupt politician.
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Teachers unions need to leave the Democratic Party. Teachers are like all trade unionists they are part of their profession. Otherwise everything will be just done to save money on education costs. People like lawyers who have major privilegie along with news cementers have a some nerve accusing teachers of caring only about the bottom line like the CEO's, big bosses and bankers. Teachers will need unions to protect academic freedom.
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Pompeo is just another advocate for endless war and more spending on nukes.
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@saxx9088 The working people need to take collective power over industry and all parts of society. A few old Social Democrats dogs barking for more table scraps will not solve the even bigger crisis' capitalism is going to lead the world into.
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@ZenoDovahkiin Fascism develops as a political organization that gains ground in physical attacks on political meetings, strikes, and Jewish small businessman. It gets financed as a force to save a failing capitlaism.
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Capitalism coming to an end because of its own contradictions. The greedy ruling class is beginning to fear the natural workings of its own system. It will have to pay for all the lies it has been telling everyone for the last 50 years. Lie number one is that the neoliberals have been promoting Democracy and not war and destruction. Both Parties are responsible for this. Four trillion dollars spent on the war'a in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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@DrFunk-rk6yl That's going to just turn into a BS promise. They want to keep you around for cheap and then fire you just before you can take the vacation.
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Actually Sowell was a federal civil servant before then. The capitalist government is the executive committee of the ruling class. So I guess either Sowell didn't understand Marx or Sowell is a lying about Marx's ideas.
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Hes a psychopath for the psychopaths
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@yolyprog2561 Sandrs wants a Socialist Kingdom run by the Volvo bosses which is what Sweden is.
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Underestimating you enemy is stupid. If he was an airhead Congress Democrats and Republicans would have removed him by now.
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I have no illusions in Trump you are most likely a Hillary Clinton airhead who worships at the church of the Democratic Party.
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Trump is a demagogic bourgeois politician. "Deep State doesn't control anything they are always controlled by the current President Democrat or Republican not the other way around. I am not jumping on the anyone but Trump Democratic Party bandwagon. You want to follow the Democrats into the swamp don't expect me to follow. My party the Socialist Workers Party ran Alyson Kennedy for President. We don't withdraw our candidates in favor of Democrats like the so called Communist Party USA or abstain in favor Democrats like most other left groups. Nor are we like the Trade Union officials who urge votes for Democrats as a solution instead of strikes and protests.
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Why is it that a large portion of the US Billionaire class is against Trump? He was not a tested politician with election experience like Clinton and she had 4 times the campaign money to spend compared to Trump. However that reason is going away as he has gained that experience in office and from his cabinet. His tax cuts have also been popular with the Billionaire class. The second reason was unlike Clinton he actually paid attention to the 'carnage' suffered by the working class after the great recession. Something no bourgeois politician is supposed to do under any circumstance. They aren't against Trump as much as they are against us. That's why Clinton said we were deplorable and irredeemable. This continues on with insults saying we are anti immigrat, hillbillies, racists, sexisits, clinging to bibles and guns. Actually the working class is becoming just the opposite.
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i'm not the one hiding behind a phoney screen name and pretending to be a plague on both houses 'non Democrat'. Trump from the viewpoint of both the ruling class and bourgeois justice has proceeded quite well as evidenced by the silence on the part of the Democratic party. What matters most is what the Saudi working people do not what Trump, MSB or the "Deep State" does. Whatever decision Trump, MSB and the Congress make will be one in which what is best for continued Imperialist domination of the region.That may be with MSB or without MSB but to expect real change only the Saudi people make that come true.
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Monday morning quarterbacking. By Sowell.
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@mynonameyt Like all bourgeois economists he is always a Monday morning quarterback who can tell you what's wrong after it happens. He claims to be a former "Marxist" but no one ever asks him any hard questions like doesn't the declining rate of profit mean that capitalism must come to an end or doesn't overproduction by industry caused by the inability of the workers to buy back all that can be produced lead to a crisis of overproduction? As long as no one asks embarrassing questions like isn't the government connected to the capitalist by the two parties campaign donations and their university educations by professors like him who say economics can be divorced from politics. Or isn't the break up of the family unit related to the way workers are paid as individuals. While families must buy everything they need. Family farmers all work on the farm as a unit and then sell the crop a harvest time. Where as a worker must hold a job despite the ups and downs of market conditions then professors like him can pretend to be geniuses. When they say the bosses take a risk when they invest ask them who takes a greater risk the rail workers working in the hump yard or Warren Buffet in the office reading the Wall street journal.
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@mynonameyt For Marxist middle class can have two meanings the original middle class where the small manufactures and traders who were under the thumb of the Kings and Lords of the Land. The more modern definition is those who own a small business that they must work at to administer and manage only a few production workers or people with special university education like lawyers, engineers, doctors and professors. Its is not unusual for some workers to have side businesses for weekends or for other family members. Or a self employed business where they are a worker who owns his own tools. Since private property implies property that can be used for the exploitation of others. Being the manager of a small business is not the same as being a banker or CEO in charge of millions in capital.
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@mynonameyt Fireman are workers but their job is to save lives and property. If your an actual capitalist than the majority of your income comes from property ownership not labor or administration. At best the capitalist invests in expanding production by investing in new machinery for production to be sold in a market. At worst he invests in things that have negative social implications but result in bigger profits. Or he invests in driving up the value of fictitious capital only to have it collapse. Like teachers the fireman is an government overhead cost not a source of profit like the production workers in industry. While the American workers have constructed permanent trade and industrial unions they have yet to construct a mass labor party as a class. So far the class struggle has not intensified to that level like in many other countries. Marx teaches that no system of production comes to an end until it has exhausted all its possibilities and then either both classes go down into destruction or the new class carries through a revolutionary transformation of society from top to bottom. One of the first capitalist revolutions occurred in England however the hesitation of the new class resulted in a counter revolution and restoration of the King. The American traders and businessmen did not make the same mistake. They carried through as best as possible a very though going anti fuedal revolution. Even slavery came under question with the founding of the Antislavery society in Philadelphia that included Thom as Paine. Only a tie vote prevented the passage of an ordnance proposed by Jefferson that would have limited slavery from the territories that became AL, MS and TN. The current trade union leaderships refusal to fight will be evential overcome since capitalism can not escape the current crisis it has entered. The only way the Great Depression was solved was though war that shifted the center of world capitalism to the US while all the European Empires went into decline with the Stalinist unable to lead new revolutions in industrial Europe.
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@mynonameyt I don't get a chance to debate the "Good Professor". Since I've already read many or parts of the works of Trotsky, Lenin, Marx, and Engels. He doesn't impress me. Only American Conservatives seem to be impressed by his simplistic libertarian answers to everything. He did his grad work with Milton Freedman the same guy who postulates that capitalism works best by maximizing profits or shareholder value. That capitalism leads to Democracy not Dictatorship. It's the drive to maximize profits above all else that leads the capitalist to provoke class struggle. .Cuba is way more democratic than any of its neighbors or US friend Saudi Arabia.
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@mynonameyt Marxists don't have beliefs in the religious sense. Rather our ideas have developed overtime in the class struggle between labor and capital itself.
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@mynonameyt They have freedom of speech and religion in Cuba. If someone winds up in trouble for political reasons its for taking foreign money to spread lies. Foreigners can't come into the country and organize an opposition to the Cuban government. Neither the Cuban people or the government will put up with that. No on wants the system of private property with landlords and banks owning homes and work places. People can have an independent profession or take in tourists to their homes for income or even operate a small restaurant. They have elections to the Parliament of peoples power. One or more candidates are nominated by people in the neighborhoods. Voting is voluntary, secret and all the ballots are counted and no electioneering takes place only a summary of the persons acomplishments is posted at the polling place. We also have a long history of fighting for free speech in the US going back to the FDR administration beginning of the which hunt use if the Smith "gag" Act. The Stalinist applauded FDR only to find themselves with few friends in the labor movement after being the best strike breakers during the war years. Then with the end of the war instead of shaking the hands of monoplists they found themselves doing 5 year stretches in the federal Pen. We've run plenty of articles on free speech and religion in our paper The Militant.
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@mynonameyt Look when I was in my twenties once in a while someone would say go back to Russia as if that proved something. What does telling me go live in Cuba tell me? We aren't NAZI who are trying to build a superior race nation. It would makes sense to tell a NAZI to go back to Germany. But the end of the Communist manifesto says "...The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!" Does it say move to a paradise and create communism? After the English Counter revolution that ended the English Commonwealth those who voted for the Execution of King Charles did NOT receive amnesty but fled for their lives to other European republics and New England. Oliver Cromwell's dead body was dug up and posthumously executed. This where the names of some of the States came from. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The Commonwealth of Virginia and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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No ceasefire on NAZI Hamas who are an organization that was set up by the Muslim Brotherhood. When teachers went on strike for back pay in Gaza they were fired and replaced with Hamas supporters.
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@jgunner280 No one really can tell you what it is except Rand and all she did was write novel and lecture on her personal moral philosophy that was world saving though capitalism. But of course you have to explain why that's any different than any other religious philosophy based upon a set of rules. She talks about rational minds as if everyone sees everything the same despite what they do or how they make a living. The capitalist like the landlord and the King sees things one way while the workers and peasants see things differently.
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Trump should pull out the troops from Saudi bases but Democrats don't care that's why they aren't talking. Its much better to just moralize so you can later claim to different than the Republicans for the next two party shell game elections.
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@moses0686 The native peoples did not have the capability of waging professional wars because they did not have the agricultural surplus to feed soldiers for people who mostly practiced hunting and gathering to do that. They didn't have slavery for the same reason because they had not yet progressed that far. Only with the arrival of the Spanish did horses and ponies become tools of the natives peoples of North and South America. .The great Aztec and Inca Empires were in South and Central America.
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@lisettbonilla613 Washington made the US independent of the British Empire. Lincoln overturned slavery and took the property of the slave owners without compensation. The first schools for slaves were opened in the south. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fought a guerilla war to make Cuba independent of the United States. Some of the first actions of the revolution were to teach the peasants to read, to create medical clinics in the countryside and make the peasants owners of land instead of large landowners. The US still refuses to return the Guantanamo naval base. At the Latin American school of medicine in Havana they are training 10,000 foreign medical students at no direct cost to the students. In the US the government trains foreign soldiers at no cost direct cost to the student.
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@gingerbread7778 The Japanese Empire with or without an invasion or more conventional bombing was finished. They are a nation of islands without a Navy to protect their colonial Empire for trade in natural resources and oil the wheels of Japanese industry would grind to a halt. Truman dropped those bombs not to cynically save lives but to show his soon to be former ally Stalin a new sheriff was in town.
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@gingerbread7778 You're a racists which is why you believe what you do. The scientists urged that a demonstration of the bomb be provided to the Japanese before actually using the bomb on people. Truman rejected that course of action. The capitalist find the old feudal fossils of the Kings and Queens as props for their rule. This why there remains Kings, Queens, Princes and Emperors. Next time you want to talk of cults of personality by Mao and Stalin remember where they got that idea from.
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@gingerbread7778 I think you could make some good American capitalist racist propaganda for the FDR regimes "War Deal". Calling the Japanese fanatics as if the US Marine corps doesn't want to project the same image? During Vietnam we were told that the Vietnamese didn't value life which was why so many were willing to die and that they were controlled by evil communists. For you American culture is supreme. I bet you also buy into the myth the American Troops defeated Hitler and not Stalin's Red Army. You like to talk about the 1930's famine in the Soviet Union. but either don't know or never head of the completely avoidable Bengal famine in British India. You know the one where your hero Churchill asked, "Why isn't Gandhi dead yet?"
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@gingerbread7778 Japan PAID repetitions to a number of countries after WW2. The US PAID reparations to Japanese American citizens whose families were sent to US concentration camps during WW2. j
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Ludd Zarko Got the names of those innocent people? Those trials were held in front of the international press and none of them were "innocent". So instead the US big business media cried that the trials weren't done according to their wishes like the ones in the South were white policeman sat at their trials laughing and joking because they knew an all White jury would never convict them of murder but free them for doing a good job as murderers. The criminals got military war crimes trials that meet the international standards of Nuremberg.
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@dannyoneil5058 The Japanese had a large Navy before WW2 by the end of the war they had lost it. The built one of the largest battleships in history bigger than anything the US had because US battleships were limited in width so they could cross the old Panama canal.
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@lisettbonilla613 The US wanted destroy the revolution by creating hunger as early as June 6, 1960. Ever since that has always been the policy. Their declassified State Department memo shows that to be true. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@lisettbonilla613 The price structure is different in Cuba than the US.
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@dannyoneil5058 Life expectancy has been continually rising in Cuba with it close to European and North Americans That attests to a working healthcare system.
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@dannyoneil5058 US Navy has no Doctors at Guantanamo Bay? Surely they must have a Pharmacist mate at Gitmo or are they contracting the work out?
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@dannyoneil5058 Not making any sense. You need to rewrite what you wrote.
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@lisettbonilla613 Do they tell you to come back when you have insurance? My cousin filed for malpractice. You need a lawyer and the lawyer must convince a board of Doctors that they was malpractice. She never saw a dime. The lawyer made lots of promise though just like two party politicians. Do they say they can't help with emergency eye surgery when the are planning for a party? Are they like US Doctors that do extra C sections so you can give birth in the day time? Can you go to a pain clinic and become an addict for the right price?
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@lisettbonilla613 US Companies refuse to sell them medical supplies because the US government wants to inflict desperation and hunger on the Cuban people right?
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@lisettbonilla613 Why would I forget about Russia and China? They are capitalist countries now right? A small group of thieves at the top run them now just like in the US.
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You see the problem for the US Capitalists has always been that communism might work not that it doesn't work.
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Russia and China are powerful countries the US can't just push them around. They have not just large economies but a big armies and nuclear weapons. There only Cuba's friends because of past alliances and they also know Cuba's independence irritates the US Administrations.
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@lisettbonilla613 Their independent of the United States. In other words the US Ambassador doesn't run the country like when General Batista was in power. At the end of WW2 1945 the US was the most militarily and economically powerful country in the world. If US businessmen did get their way they called on Washington for help. So if a country like Iran wasn't doing what they wanted they would send in the CIA or US Marines to overthrow the government and put someone they liked in power. Kennedy was unhappy with his civilian puppet in Vietnam Diem so he greenlighted a military coup and the Diem brothers were murdered in an armored troop transport and that was the last civilian government in South Vietnam. They next election had two ARVN Generals running each accused the other of stealing votes so the started a short war with each other that the US had to halt by making one President and the other Vice President. That was the last election in South Vietnam.
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Its is a re write of history to absolve the Social Democrats and Stalinist Communist Party leadership in Germany who refused to unite the working class until it was too late.
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@Danny Timms Fascism develops as a political movement caused by the capitalist crisis that feeds on the resentment and despair of a pauperized middle class. Its leaders goal is to shut down all political debate, destroy the trade unions, and scapegoat jews and minorities. It is counterrevolutionary and given support by the big capitalist as the last resort to halting the workers revolution. Saying it is "Left wing" because Capitalist Democrats favor increased capitalist government and corporate control only shows you don't understand Marx's teaching on the state or what a party is. The Democrats are a party of those who want to "make government work for the people", "have the rich pay there fair share" and so forth in other words a party of capitalist reformists. A government or more correctly a state is an organization for class rule not an organization that stands above classes. The workers can not just take the old capitalist state and then make use it as an instrument of proletarian rule.
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@ksanghue5340 Bosses seek profits and so they seek to pay us the lowest wages, work us the longest hours at the fastest rate. Workers need to fight against cutbacks and have our own party to take on the government politically. World capitalism is in crisis caused by falling profit rates and competition for world market domination.
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@Oligarch Executor Your right Horwitz was trained in the Stalinist school of falsification and he has never forget their methods. He and his popular front friends the Democrats who were once in love are just one of two parties Jockeying for power and prestige. FDR (the liberal) Churchill (the Conservative) and Stalin (The fake communist who murdered the party of Lenin) were having a love feast and tea party called the Yalta Conference. Where they discussed re division of the world after the Defeat of Germany and Japan. .
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@dnlchoc6830 Congress has exceeded its authority by imposing a settlement The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amendment.
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Should never have gone into Afghanistan to begin with. Reagan Bush Clinton money went to all those Islamic terror groups to fight the Soviets.
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@VABE81030 So now you're a "WOKE" liberal conservative.
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The Soviet Union was NOT founded as a nation.
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@polarmouse3943 Just as the privileged layers of the European Social Democracy revised the teachings of Marx so to would the new privileged layer in the New Soviet Republics under the leadership of Stalin would revise the teachings of Marx and Lenin back to the bankrupt theories of the Second International. That is why the opponents of Stalin would raise the slogan Back to Lenin and not Forward with Stalin. Stalin would become the executioner of Lenin's Party as almost all the old Bolsheviks and Lenin's General Staff at the time of the revolution would die in the 1936 to 1938 frame up trials. A defense of Trotsky by the American comrades began before any of them had meet him in 1928 with The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals which had accidently fallen into their hands at the 6 th Congress of the Communist International in Moscow. .
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How many Plea Bargains did get and accept?
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@Jebus Hypocristos As if the Democrats are in some way better.
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@wendylady69 Cortez is the way backwards. Backwards into the Democratic Party. She belongs to DSA. DSA on organization that claims a big membership yet it can't even run a candidate outside of the Democratic Party. DSA an organization whose only principle is to take an oath swearing off Democratic Centralism.
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@Jebus Hypocristos First for the time being neither party openly wants fascist like the KKK. However in the past the KKK was an arm of the Democratic Party. Fascists are a movement which always includes anti labor thugs whose purpose and only principle is to shut down political discussion space by the use of violence. The ruling class only looks to them when the class struggle heats up. Otherwise they just as well send them to jail after they commit terrorist acts. Trump is not a fascist and the Republican party is not a fascist party any more than the Democrats are. If you need Democratic Party Saints to save you then you might as well look to the Pope for guidance since he has many real saints to provide you a path to heaven.
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@GottaWannaDance I understand the two party one party shell game. That's why I vote Socialist Workers Party.
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@tomross350 Russian Revolution? What is it you want to talk about? Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Ukrainian Jew. The leader of the Russian Revolution along with Lenin. He was the People's Commissar of the Red Army and lead the successful victory of the Bolsheviks during the civil war.
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@kennethmarshall306 Well if you understand that politics and economics drive each other and that the US government's actions are always actions as the executive committee of the ruling American capitalist class then you at least have something to go on assuming you can get the actual facts of what's happening from the corporate media in the first place.
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@JosiahK555 Petersen is a cold warrior and a Stalin-a-phobe.
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@celesasheldon6931 Diversity was invented by Sowells neighbors and the intellectuals he pals around with. Just like him many claim to be ex Marxists. Sowell says their are no solutions only trade off because for him capitalism is the best thing since sliced bread. The liberals are much more crafty they realize that you can't say "Let them eat cake" like Marie Antoinette that you have to set up a government system of alms for those the capitalist system has no use for. Those who cannot serve the needs of private profit are to be condemned as lazy, deplorable and worthless. They are pushed aside left with nothing to call their own as less than human while the rich dance in fine cloths live in nice homes and preach charty along with the mantra of not in my back yard. Remember these are Sowells neighbors he speaks of who when not having charity balls and fund raising for politicians are the bosses of American capitalism.
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Campaign for the Wanted Child free pregnancy services, free contraception and abortion services, a child parent allowance, make adoption easier and free 24/7 childcare for workers.
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@SzTz100 That is another lie being told by the pro Hamas group. Israel does not have the aircraft needed for carpet bombing like the US B1 , B2 or B52.
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@prodigalpriest Really actually its an indictment if the American capitalist ruling class and its partners the Social Democrats and the Stalinists.
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@alwaysfreedom9354 Given your screen name you must have enjoyed it.
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@alwaysfreedom9354 Obviously you spent every waking hour being free.
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@alwaysfreedom9354 So your in the drug business? Personally my drug of choice is the caffeine in Pepsi Zero Sugar.
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Why? So the government can conduct a purge of the universities like Hitler or Stalin?
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@jameseverett4976 Sure liberals want to go after Trump's tax returns to set a president of going after tax returns of anyone who runs for office that they don't like, Then only those who satisfy the tax police will be able to run for office. Everyone knows that the tax laws are written to make the workers pay while the bosses have a whole armies of lawyers for purposes of dodging taxes.
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@WhizzingFish12 Hillsdale is a college for middle class toddlers. You don't know what it's about because you are afraid of words and ideas. This is why you think whole nations and ideologies are evil. Why not talk about purges? FDR began the second anti communist witch hunt with the Smith "gag" Act trial of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters union. Senator Joe McCarthy lead a government purge of communists from the jobs with J.Edgar Hoover's Secret Police. Now go wash your hands and stop claiming virginity.
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@bucketboy12345 No I live in a trailer Park. Now get me a bucket of water boy!!
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@nplit5993 A couple of Bad apples who always go free and are supported by the supposed Good Apples.
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Its the story of one of the greatest revolutionaries to ever live.
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@musicaquecalma4134 Why haven't you gone and blown up a balloon for Marco Rubio for the free internet he promised Cuba? The hot air hypocrisy is thick. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@musicaquecalma4134 I don't have to be Cuban or live in Cuba to recognize the lies and hypocrisy by the US Gov't and Cubans like Marco Rubio and the rest of "the haters" in Miami. You only have to live on the planet and to be able to read and think to understand who the criminals on the island of Cuba are and they occupy the US Guantanamo Naval Base
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@musicaquecalma4134 Do you think there is no class struggle history in the United States that capitalism just peacefully proceeds and provides an ever rising standard of living? I was ten years old during the missile crisis. We were told to prepare for nuclear war. We practiced going under our desks at school in case the missiles struck. Kennedy never told us the truth about the crisis. That state department memo was kept secret from the American people for years. This was also the end of the what's called segregation a period in American history where people Black people were denied the same rights as whites by either custom or law. We saw Black people beaten like dogs on TV for peaceful protests. Once again we were lied to we were told that Blacks were happy and that it was all a communist plot against our freedom. When Martin Luther King was shot whole Black ghetto areas in American cities erupted in rebellion. They talk a good game about individual rights, a rule of law and freedoms but the reality is their rights and freedoms are enshrined in law as the owners of private property and those with the property have the rights and those without well we just have to struggle as best we can to defend our rights guaranteed in he US Constitution from being taken away by the capitalist government. Having plenty to eat and a bed to sleep in isn't much good if nuclear war breaks out. There were of course unscrupulous entrepreneurs who took advantage of the cold war to build bomb shelters for those who could afford them along with government signs on buildings for civil defense bomb shelters.
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@musicaquecalma4134 No I don't think Fidel was a hypocrite he did the best he could as the leader of a small country. None of what worst acts of the bureaucracy that were done in the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin by Stalin in the name of socialism went on in Cuba. No continuous murder purge of all who ever held a difference of opinion. No creation of a slavish cult of personality. One leader isn't respectable for everyone else's mistakes either. Cuban Troops defeating racist South Africa destroyed the myth of white superiority across the world. This bothered Henry Kissinger and Ronald Reagan no end. Aid from the Soviet Union ended with Gorbachev's resignation and passage of the US Cuban Democracy act (Helms Burton Act) tightening the blockade and laying out the United States plan for a post Castro Cuba. Really nothing more than the height of Imperialist arrogance named for Jesse Helms an old time Segregationist Senator.
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@musicaquecalma4134 Large number of people are already upset with their governments. You have to have something positive to strive for or defend you can learn from the past but can't change it Capitalism develops a government bureaucracy to arbitrate every dispute because the system creates a smaller and economically wealthy ruling class who must regulate their own greed to prevent a breakdown of the system. The root of socialist bureaucracy is always poverty and a small and inexperienced working class or in the Imperialist countries the .privileges awarded to the labor aristocracy and the better paid workers. Maybe no one wants to talk about it but those things happened I did mix up Jesse Helms with Strom Thurmond. Civil Rights marches were beaten by police when crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Al. Kennedy knew missiles from the Soviet Union could hit the US from Soviet bases. Some politicians said "Better Dead than Red. ' US SAC Bomber left US bases to overfly Canada to the borders of Soviet Union from the 1950's to the 1970's . In the air 24/7/365. We lived near a US B 52 Strategic Air Command base.
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@musicaquecalma4134 The basic problem of the libertarians is capitalism never worked they way they claimed it could and they have no way to reach their utopia of unlimited ownership of private property without a government enforcing the rights of private property. For them government in the abstract is the problem as if it could raise itself above class relationships and not be corrupted by unlimited unearned wealth. The road to socialism is paved by the class struggle and workers control of industry.
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@musicaquecalma4134 We have a small movement in the US who have a reputation for telling the truth good or bad about the world class struggle. We publish a paper "The Militant' and books since 1928 when Jimm Cannon returned from the Soviet Union with news about Leon Trotsky and the political dispute with Stalin that had broken out after the death of Lenin. Sure blame Fidel after all he's dead and can't defend himself. You saw the secret memo what makes you think that anything has changed in 60 years? You can research the US laws themselves and research the foreign companies that have been fined by the US. Nothing can be legally exported to Cuba without a special license issued by the US Treasury Office of Asset control. They've had trouble opening a bank account for diplomatic purposes in New York because of laws that designate Cuba a state sponsor of terror. Why don't you buy a tractor and see if you can float it across the Florida straits without being turned back by the US Coast guard.?
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@musicaquecalma4134 Your dazzled by bright lights, stories of sugar plum fairies and the promises of Santa Claus.
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You need to be fired.
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@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 You have yet to prove you have saved a single life with your grandstanding politicians who write laws that are idiotic. All you prove is that you are another Cesar who can play to a crowd. You no smarter than Hilary Clinton in fact just as dumb.
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@rejectsatanism4617 The rich are rich because of private property which is why these bike helmets are being passed out free to them.
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@DarkRockslizer No because along came Fidel Castro and showed that you could work towards socialism with a workers state using planned development without creating a privledged and counter revolutionary bureaucracy that would return to capitalism. The people who want to bring back unbridled capitalism in Cuba are a small minority of paid lackeys of the United States CIA and intellectuals seeking privileges. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara like Lenin and Trotsky before them show what can be accomplished when a revolutionary Marxist leadership is at the head of a workers state. You are of course completely unacquainted with the actual history of the Russian revolution preferring capitalist propaganda which undergoes revision depending on the needs of the American ruling class at the time. The theory of :"Socialism in one Country" was written by Bukharan signed on to by Stalin and adopted by the 6th Congress of the Comintern but not without the The Draft Program of The Communist International: A Criticism of Fundementals by Trotsky appearing either.
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@plp91 The communist movement publishes a newspaper "The Militant" and books and pamphlets by Pathfinder Press. My current home doesn't include a basement.
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@paladinsix9285 Fidel Castro who told the court of US Dictator Batista 'Condemn me! It does not matter! History will absolve me!" lead a revolutionary people to defeat the American Imperialist Empire.
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@SmaRT_lizard_TV All of industry and banking in the United States including the Federal Reserve bank is privately owned by a small ruling class which operates everything for the maximization of private profit. Companies compete to drive each other out of business to see who can maximize profits or stockholder value. Factories are closed and workers are told go look for a job elsewhere. Wages stopped following productivity in 1973. At about the same time Nixon announced the temporary end of the gold standard. Instead of receiving wage raises workers were advanced credit cards. The Soviet leadership mismanaged the surplus (profit) by using methods of capitalism like incentives as a way to direct the economy instead of relying upon the ability of the workers to solve the problems. Instead of promoting Socialist world revolution they promoted Socialism in one country as if one could have a friendly competition with Imperialism. Then they also sought sought to compete in military hardware like the number and power of atom bombs. This began as far back as 1928 with the disagreement over Bukharin's theory of Socialism in one country as endorsed by Stalin and countered by Trotsky in "A Draft criticism of the Communist International" A criticism of fundamentals. The Soviet economy was openly planned and managed by the state where as the capitalist economy is closed to management by the private owners. The purpose of the capitalist state becomes the defense of private property of the owners. The capitalist use the state to manage things like the central bank, to subsidize unprofitable but necessary activity and the military defense of the world profit system.
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@benjaminmyers5299 Your the one detached with your property is theft slogan. That is a non Marxist idea.
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@dobermanowner7246 The article was about how making sleeping in public a crime was a legitimate government action.
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How are unions destructive? Unions are voluntary organizations of workers who negotiate wages and conditions with the employers.
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Plastic Jesus go back on the dashboard.
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Rail workers must take control of on the job safety.
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@Diabolical05 A capitalist who can't make a profit deserves to go out of business. Karl Marx. Capitalists say "TAXES BAD" That's why Jeff Bezos doesn't pay any while a Black man is placed in a choke hold and killed over 59 cents or whatever in cigarette taxes.
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@Diabolical05 You want to deny that Eric Garner was placed into a choke hold over the cigarette tax? That his pleas for help were ignored and he died? That Amazon had a zero Federal income tax liability? Go ahead keep denying reality. Even one of you fellow 1 percenters Tucker Carlson see's the revolutionary writings on the wall. He didn't call them a "Ship of Fools" because he thinks their wise men. Your headed down the road of Louis the XVI. Instead of "..Let them Eat Cake..." You say, "Let them become Billionaires".
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@Aussie Pom Chinese workers are already striking which shows they are not a docile group as Western propaganda portrays.
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Healthcare and education don't make profits like industrial production because you can't easily replace the skilled labir involved with new machines and unskilled labor. Of course the real solution is to raise the general education of the working claas that however is blocked by the capitalist who work to maximize profits only by use of private property. After all an educated working class will not accept its position as inferior to the bosses so the bosses always try to monopolize education for their offspring and demand loyalty from the educated. . .
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Crimson Dragon Chairman Mao toasted the Imperialist Nixon while bombs rained on Vietnam. Deng Xiaoping made a deal with rotten Imperialist Jimmy "Human wrongs" Carter. Deng pushish Vietnam with war for "Human Wrongs" Imperials criminal Carter. Mao and Deng collaborators with the US Imperialist counter revolutionary war criminals. .
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Republican's are the do nothing and everything will work out for the best party.
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@peaceleader7315 Pol Pot was armed and supported by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter as a way to punish Vietnam.
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@troythedeconstructionist1382 Look anyone can read what you wrote in your Youtube channel and come to the conclusion that our full of yourself along with a lot of BS. The French intellectuals could never deal with their own betrayal of socialism so they had to come up with a whole bunch of excuses for the twin failures of Social Democracy and Stalinism.
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@troythedeconstructionist1382 It's obviously a reminder of the Russian Oct. Revolution of 1917 and the worldwide significance of that event. There are those who do not forget that it was the Russian Bolsheviks who first called for a peace with no annexations. That Lenin lead the anti war faction in the Second "Socialist" International and that Eugene Debs agreed with him. Debs was thrown in prison by the former anti war candidate of the Democratic Party Wilson. Debs received a million votes for President. Leon Trotsky lead the Red Army against the CZARist counterrevolution and 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. American John Reed who wrote "Ten Days that Shook the World" recommended by Lenin and later suppressed by Stalin was buried in a place of honor at the Kremlin wall.
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Increasing wages always hurts the bosses because then the workers expect more as profits go down while prices slump while towards the cost of production. If the Central Banks were constantly creating more money the whole world economy would collapse. They need inflation to rob us of our wages.
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@jimmilne5549 That is not directly in the constitution as far as I know. It is probably in International Treaties signed by the United States though. What has yet to come out is where and why they were held for so many hours at the port of entry and why if they only had a single bus how come all the vans Border Patrol has weren't used and why if border security is so important they had plenty of money for a Medai Show sending troops out to play with concertina wire but not enough to transport asylum seekers.
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@jimmilne5549 The kept this hushed up for a week and other reports say the crossed at Antelope Wells. They claim they only had one Bus but everyone knows they have plenty of people transport vans. They also have got a gap in their story because Google shows travel time to be 90 minutes which what they claim is the time yet the bus left at 10 pm for Antelope Wells making the round trip loading and unloading in an hour and travelin in 3 meaning no more than 4 hours time it should have been heading back at 2pm and arrived at 3:30 AM so why did it take 3 hours instead of 2 hours to return at 6:30? Also why wasn't emergency help meet enroute remember the bus had a radio and you don't think they send a bus load of people with only a CBP driver? Their had to be at least one or more CBP on board. The child was already sick before they left at 5 AM. If none of the CPB was trained in First Aid they should have called to meet EMT's enroute. People who live in the desert know how dangerous dehydration can be in a climate with very low humidity. You can sweat without feeling it and become dehydrated without out even knowing it.
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"On December 6, 2018 at 9:15 PM, a seven-year-old female juvenile Guatemalan was apprehended with her father for illegal entry with a group of 163 illegal aliens approximately a half mile west of the Antelope Wells Port of Entry at the Bounds Forward Operating Base (Bounds FOB). There were four Border Patrol Agents on scene at the time. Upon apprehension, the Border Patrol Agent conducted an initial screening, which consists of an interview and observation of the detainee to identify any health or safety problems to ensure that they receive necessary medical care. The initial screening revealed no evidence of health issues. Additionally, the father claimed that the child was in good health as indicated on the Form I779. Due to the extreme remote nature of the location, while awaiting transport to the nearest Border Patrol station, the aliens were held inside the Sally Port of the Antelope Wells Port of Entry and had access to food, water and restrooms. At 10:00 PM, an MCI Transport Bus left the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station route to the Bounds FOB. The Lordsburg Border Patrol Station is approximately 94 miles away from the FOB Bounds. Due to the remoteness of this area, vehicle transport between locations takes between two to three hours. Around 12:20 am on December 7, the MCI Transport Bus transported the first group to the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station. Because Unaccompanied Alien Children are a priority, UACs were on the first transport to the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station. The MCI Transport Bus returned at 4:00 AM to the Bounds FOB. At 4:30 AM, the second group of aliens including the child and her father was loaded onto the MCI Transport Bus. Just prior to departure, at 5:00 AM, the father first advised the agent that the child was sick and vomiting while on the bus. At this time, the Agents notified the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station to prepare to receive the child and provide emergency medical care. Due to the remoteness of the area, meeting emergency medical personnel in Lordsburg was the best means to provide the child with emergency care. Shortly before 6:30 AM, the bus arrived at the Sally Port of the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station and the father advised that the child was not breathing. A Border Patrol Emergency Medical Technician began to provide medical care and revived the child twice. It was determined at this time that she had a temperature of 105.7 degrees. Hidalgo County EMS arrived and began providing care at 6:40 AM. A decision was made to transport to the nearest trauma center, Providence Children’s Hospital in El Paso, Texas. Air Ambulance departed LOB with the child at 7:45 AM, she arrived at the Providence Children’s Hospital in El Paso at 8:50 AM and immediately received additional emergency medical care. Her father was transported by USBP via a government vehicle to the hospital. At 11:00 AM December 7, LOB was notified juvenile went into cardiac arrest again and was subsequently revived. LOB learned that the CT scan revealed brain swelling. She was breathing by machine and diagnosed with liver failure. She died at 12:35 AM on December 8 with her father on scene. The Guatemalan government was notified immediately and is working with the El Paso Sector leadership."
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@josephozturk3288 The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments. Congess needs to back off.
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Did you like the 2.3 trillion spent in Afghanistan because Sowell did.
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"The capitalist will sell us the rope to hang them with." Lenin We understand capitalist greed. We read your books and we know where your weaknesses are in your profits system. You can't escape from the structure of the nation state and the need to sell in the world market. We are an international class which practices solidarity while you are only small groups of greedy bosses who buy and sell in markets for profits divided into nation states.
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How about if Sowell can prove that UN Blue hats did stand by while Patrice Lumumba was murdered in the former Belgian Congo. Maybe he can explain the benefits to being a human slave to King Leopold and the latex rubber industry.
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@florinmoldovanu Well at least you still have the shopping malls. In the US the old industrial areas have been abandoned for lower wage areas in the South or Mexico. They are building Walmarts in Mexico and closing them in the US. Abandoned shopping malls are a regular feature of the landscape.
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@panzerofthelake506 Wages stopped following productivity in 1973 in the US. The popular revolutions against Stalinism began with the workers in the Gdansk shipyard. That shipyard like the Beth Steel shipyard and Basic Steel complex in Sparrows Point, MD was closed down. Boris Yeltsin the ex communist fired on the Supreme Soviet to push though market reforms to implement a shock therapy economic crisis to bring back capitalism. The most corrupt of the Stalinists are the ones who benefited the most from the return of capitalism. The only ones thriving with capitalism are the bosses and their hangers on.
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Go ahead and watch and enjoy the work of a bougois scholar who made a career for himself by attacking political opponents with half truths and conclusion drawn from the reactionaries need to defend modern capitalism from any serous criticism. Sowell will tell you everything is the government's fault on one hand yet has had to admit it was not controlled by communist as he once had hoped for. In fact his whole clams to being Marxist stem from, reading the encyclopedia, his belief that ultra right Joe Mccarthy was correct in his lies that the US government was being taken over by Communists and his job at the US Labor Dept. where he discovered that it wasn't being operated by communists. .
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@paulstrathern4309 Let's here it for censorship by the Thomas Sowell Gems channel. Hows the censor bot working protecting the sensitive feelings of the channel.
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@johncarapinha5600 Minneapolis in 1934.
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@johncarapinha5600 The leaders had the communism as in The Communist League of America. As comrade Dobbs said, "You can have anything your big enough to take."
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@johncarapinha5600 The "Bulls" gunned down unarmed strikers. The capitalist threw everything they had a the strikers, the cops, the special deputies, an American fascist and the National Guard. When force wouldn't work the tried to cheat the strikers out of victory with FDR's mediators. Yet they still lost. Minneapolis communism put food on the strikers table and gave hope to millions of workers across the country. This also began the Teamsters Central States over the road organizing drive.
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@gaoxiaen1 The original purpose of the NATO Imperialist alliance was preparation for a war to roll back communism and make Washington the Supreme Imperialist world power. The American Imperialist thought the won the cold war when Eastern European and Soviet politicians facing popular revolutions collaborated with them to return capitalism to the East. Now the workers of the world are realizing that capitalism organized along Imperialist and national lines can not solve the crisis of overproduction in world trade.
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@Joker-no1uh The Chinese drove out the western Imperialist and set up the Peoples Republic. The Imperialists are weaker and more divided than any time in history. Capitalism is coming to an end as people across the world protest the conditions capitalism imposes on them. Cuba shows what a state where the workers and farmers hold state power can accomplish. Education and healthcare in a small but poor country that rival Europe and the United States.
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@Joker-no1uh Cuba failed how so? It still has a Communist Petty and Socialist government. No private banks or private industry. Why don't the Imperialist end their 60 year blockade if they think socialism is a failure? All the Imperialist do is try and strangle other countries to get their way. The world votes against the US blockade. China's problems are connected to capitalism like private banking and construction. CCP had to denounce Jack Ma and 996 which it had pretended to be a tenement of socialism. Capitalism fails for the simple reason that it becomes nothing but a system of exploitation where a return on investment is demanded. If capital could produce than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Instead it becomes to big too fail which is must happen as machines replace labor then the return on investment must naturally decline. The capitalist own books for tell the failure of the system. Capitalism makes education and healthcare into committees sold as overhead expenses. Because slavery got in the way of human advancement capitalism destroyed the slave market This is why the proletariat must destroy the education, healthcare and capital markets. .
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@Joker-no1uh The only thing failed in Cuba is the US Policy of blockade. The US became an Imperialist nation when it took Spain's last colonies. It maintains its Empire for Bankers and Bosses with 800 foreign Military bases. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and the US is the worlds last and biggest Imperialist Empire. It spent 2.3 trillion on a war in Afghanistan walked away with nothing but the best politicians money could buy who took the money and ran. Instead of Bushes "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the Jingle you have a "New World Disorder" as capitalist production and trade has remained stagnant since 2008 new reaching those levels since.
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@Joker-no1uh Sure the collaborators with Imperialism want US troops to protect them since they can't get their own people to do it. The US maintains bases in Cuba despite 60 years of the Cuban Revolution demanding they leave. US troops are in bases in Italy, Germany. Korea and Japan since 1945. Like the British Empire they don't leave unless kicked out like in the Soviet Union, China, N Korea, Afghanastan and Vietnam.
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@Joker-no1uh They've faced mass protest before and they will face them again because they are only their to protect American Imperialist investors profits. Just Like NATO which has been facing protests in Europe. NATO is merely an alliance of Imperialist thieves against the rest of the world. Used for cover when attacking countries not following the Imperialist policies.
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@Joker-no1uh That is why Trump wanted Europe to pay more and also why the US withdrew in defeat in Afghanistan. Imperialism is expensive but the cost is placed on government not the private investors. It was also one of the reasons for ending Vietnam. War has both an economic and political cost. Capitalism develops the world unevenly and in nation states with the nation state the capitalist fight with the workers and farmers and settle disputes among themselves with a national state to arbitrate disputes. Outside in the world market they can't help but break up into competing trade blocks that must fight wars to settle world trade disputes. The collapse of the Stalinist bureaucracy did not indicate a victory for world capitalism because they were unable to integrate Russia and China into a world market of a peaceful capitalist coexistence. Instead they just gave themselves more competition for profits. So as Trotsky once said you may not want war but war wants you.
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@Joker-no1uh Sperry Rand lost a Supreme Court Case where they claimed to be the inventor of the digital computer. What kind of Phone or Computer do you use? Most kinds starting IBM batch processing and a phone without a dial.
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@Golden108 The vote was never counted. This is an example of how the ruling class treats those who aren't living in disneyland castles. You expect something like this in CZARist Russia or NAZI Germany.
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Dwight Cook You're a SCABBY S of a B.
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What proof can you provide that Sowell ever so much as carried a picket sign or spoke publicly in favor of class struggle or communism?
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@angelapagano5235 Jim Cramer over at CNBC thinks the UAW strike is relevant he even called UAW President Shawn Fawn a "Trotsky".
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@mra.4466 Bosses are only interested in profits. They want us working the longest hours at the lowest pay and the fastest rate in a pay period to make the biggest profits. They buy labor by the pay period and seek to pay only what it costs to get us to come back for the next pay period. Naturally it costs more if you have a family and want to have family time. But the Bosses don't care that's why they call the greedy Boss Warren Buffets railroad the BNSF the Better Not Start a Family Railroad.
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@tomcat8662 If the lowest paid get a raise they buy more of the things workers need creating more jobs and work.
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@tomcat8662 We aren't interested on boosting sagging profit rates. Sorry Boss the days of paying you for debt taken in at the time of the civil war are coming to an end. Your number crunching dummies in accounting are only telling you what we already know that the rate of profit declines over the long run as machines replace labor. All the BS theory behind the credit default swap is nonsense. Value is NOT subjective. You want to cut the cost of government and boost real value pull out of the military waste business close down those 800 foreign military bases. You won't do it though because yours is a world wide Empire. What was the total cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan about 5 trillion dollars? Your like the English King Charles that parliament executed for making war for the sake of taxes only you make war for the sake of profits.
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Trump could have flown in his in his Boeing 737 instead of leaving on the ground.
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@paulpicquigny4494 The bankruptcy of the neo liberalism of the consevative Milton Friedman came to a jarring end with the crisis of 2008. A world capitalism in crisis is not going to have the friends it did in the post war period of growth for the western imperialist economies. You all though you won the cold war when all that happened was that the Stalinist revealed themselves to be liars and cheats just like the Imperialist ruling classes. Bush was talking about a "New World Order" where neo liberal hypocrisy ruled the day. Turns out that four Presidents of both parties did nothing but waste 5 trillion dollars on wars that did nothing but destroy the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. You throw people out of work and then wonder why you need a bailout? Marx stipped capitalism bare in Das Kapital and showed that it could only lead to economic crisis and war. That is all that worlds capitalist ruling classes are capable of. The greed that drives them in the end leads to the twin evils of fascism at home and Imperialist war abroad. The workers will have their say before this is over with. History already proves that. We are well over do for another socialist revolution somewhere in the world today much like the Russian and Cuban of the last century.
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@TheGreatRepeller Climate change has become an excuse for the problems caused by the decline of the world capitalist system. I have no confidence in Democratic Imperialist governments or the petty bougois left to accomplish anything.
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@jb-vb8un Democrats are NOT communists. Cuba got rid of Segregation in 1959. Republicans betrayed Blacks in 1877 with the Hayes Tilden compromise opening the way for segregation and seperate but UNequal. The same year that federal troops were required to put down the Great Railroad strike produced by wage cuts. . The volunteer soldiers of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces sons and daughters of Cuban sugar cane slaves defeated the pro Imperialist UNITA and Apartheid South Africa Army. A defeat the drove a dagger into the myth of the invincible white man.
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@jb-vb8un Everyone knows that segregation was a national problem not just in the Jim Crow south and that both parties supported it Plessy vs Ferguson. the KKK was both a North and South Democratic party organization. .
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@johnjaso385 So at the end of the civil war a trade off was made by Republicans to get Democratic Party support by withdrawing Federal Troops from the South because it was too expensive to defend the newly Black slaves from KKK and Red shirt terror. Why do you ask Sowell about that fact?
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@johnjaso385 I'm not allowed to respond furher as I've been censored now.
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@anitaparker9715 They spent you tax money bu hu hu.
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@Andrew Ski You realize of course these are middle class Haitian's who fled the earthquake that the US has provided no relief for and now the are learning the bitter lessons of how the Imperialist treat junior partners. You see the natural workings of capitalism create its own enemies. Imperialism super profits extracted by military force are creating whole nations of deserters.
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@sophiabrown9423 Trump was never going to build a two lane interstate highway for 2000 miles sideways and get Mexico to pay for it. This is the result of the failure of the world capitalist system and its crisis of trade and production. Greedy bosses have made their bed and now don't want to pay.
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@eduardoromero2374 Trump would have done what exactly? Gone down to the Republican golf course on the border and hit a few rounds? He has no solutions besides building walls. Now all he needs to do is build a wall around Trump tower or where ever since he only needs to protect himself. Trump will sit back waiting for people to call for a new King to replace King Joe Biden. What if Trump dies than what? Trump leave any plans or ideas?
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Couldn't get the votes from the Democratic and Republican Party Bosses
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@juanalmos1959 You mean the Cuban American foundation that bankrolled terror attacks.
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@juanalmos1959 Its actually a violation of US law for private military organizations to train on US Soil for the purposes of attacking foreign nations. Of course it doesn't apply to the US CIA. These people have no support on the island expect from the US Embassy. When captured they go to prison. These people are just cowardly terrorist. They have no support because they lack a just cause.
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FlatMonkeyman No your a "monkeyman."
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@reedraikes7471 If you take a salary than you pay a tax on it but if you own company property like stocks and bonds you go to the bank. Now you ask the banker for a loan you don't pay tax on money you take out as a loan. You give your friend the banker some stock to hold as collateral on the loan. A year goes by and now inflation and stock buybacks have increased the value of your stock so the banker has no problem rolling over your loan because the interest on the loan is less than the rise in the value of the stock. This is how the super rich are able to finance a lifestyle of the rich and famous without the problem of paying taxes on income. Since then never earn income instead they are just debtors who own lots of property according to their income tax returns. They don't pay a capital gains tax because technically the property is never sold instead its just the basis for personal loans.
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@616Haggard What kind of restrictions are placed upon Universities accepting Federal student aid?
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@616Haggard I have no problem with Christian colleges choosing their students any way they like as long as they don't take local, state or government aid. Once you take aid then you should then be scrutinised to meet a demographic standard. Tax money should not be used to advance any particular group or religion. So far no one to my knowledge has sued Harvard with a 30% alumnae acceptance rate yet there are always these claims that some caucasian student should have had the seat of a minority student.
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@bobcorso6357 I don't vote Demopublican never have never will. I believe Clinton argued against quotas while Senator Brooke argued for them at her graduation speech. It's the 1964 civil rights act title VI that outlaws federal funds spent on organizations that engage in discriminatory practices. Passed when Johnson was President. I see no problem with that do you?
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@bimmer4011 I didn't realize we were talking about religion in general other wise I would have used the word religious. By the way don't Christians come in all colors and races? You could try and accuse me of being Pro Christian which almost by definition all Christians are otherwise if your religious wouldn't you choose another religion or maybe a universal religion which many religious sects already claim to be.
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@bimmer4011 If it's meaningless why do you insist on continuing to use it in a meaninglessly way? You thought you were going to get me on that one right? I support Citizens United because I don't trust Democrats and Republicans trying to monopolize debate with phoney claims of fairness. They'd like to do what the Canadians now do with these fake election commissioners who demand the right to interfere in different parties nomination processes so they can decide who can be nominated and who was and can be paid what.
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@bimmer4011 We aren't like union officials who negotiate our rights away for an empty promise.
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@bigbapester Christianity is a world religion. The one thing they have in common is belief in Christ. It's practiced by people of all different colors on every continent and by many people of all kinds of different nationalities. As a religion ifs followers have all kinds of disagreements on everything such that some groups claim to be the only true Christians.
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@Oscarphone I don't foster ignorance. I didn't vote to make creationism into science in a number of states. The supreme court threw that out of schools as religion. One the first things the Cuban revolution did was teach the peasants to read. Warren is one of your capitalist politicians ask her about whatever racial characteristics you think are necessary for you to vote for or against her. So you want vouchers? Everybody gets a voucher to go to whatever school they want? Sounds good to me so who doesn't like that? You realize the money can't be spent at religious schools because of the first amendment.
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@Oscarphone Schools that can pick and choose who they want as students are going to appear better at educating students. Why don't we all just have the best schools like Bill Gates Country Day School? Sure you don't want tax money used to pay for schools because that would be another way to guarantee a more hardened class and caste structure. At the top Bill Gates's children with money being no object would still be at the Country Day school. Next would be religious schools paid with church sponsorship and tuition. There would be no schools for workers children. Instead the bosses would revive child labor as an industrial school where the next generation can learn how to take orders and do as your told. They would be learning how not to lose you arm or leg in a machine by example.
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@Hebo Sabe A conservative who can't even spell the word bitch? They should move up you up to Secretary of Edyuokaton. (Education).
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I wouldn't worry no way will the American capitalist ever abolish the police. I wouldn't be surprised though if they got a new name and pink shirts to wear. Something like when they eventually renamed the War Department the Defense Department.
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@lionsroar9811 So now the Lions club is getting into the act. Is that the roar heard round the world by pussycats? Get you master to buy you some meow mix.
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@acw2237 The communist say Control Nuclear Weapons Not Guns. Viva Fidel!!
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@arthurmorgan7398 The Bolsheviks demanded that the provisional government call for an immediate elections to a constituent assemble which the members of the provision government refused until after the July days armed protests which resulted in the false accusations of the Bolshevik leaders having organized the protests. Trotsky was jailed and Lenin forced into hiding. Kerensky ordered Trotsky's release when he faced an attempted counterrevolution. It was now clear that Kerensky could not be trusted and with General Kornilov marching on St Petersburg to drown the revolution in Blood the Bolsheviks acted with the support of the St Petersburg Soviet (All power to the Soviets) to sending Red Guards to arrest Kerensky ahead of the meeting of the All Russian Soviet. Later Trotsky would write had they not acted when the did then the revolution would have surely been drowned in blood. A minority walked out and Trotsky mocked them say march into the dust bin of history. .
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You probably got a lot of nice things for being a deserter. Than again maybe you haven't got the slightest idea as to what you are talking about. Some of us had our lives ruined by that war and the only thing this guy talks about how he was such an idiot. Fifty thousand GI's lost their lives others returned as broken men yet all he does is a smear job against all the honest people who marched against the war and who wanted the GI's brought home. The had to draft soldiers because the pay and conditions were lousy to say the least. They didn't have a no good job economy that would generate volunteers. There was no Democracy in Mississippi and Alabama never mind the later years of racist mobs in Boston. So why would a Black or Chicano Soldier believe he was fighting for Democracy thousands of miles away.
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Sowell is basically another idiot who arributes everything to capitalism. The fact that he claim's a vulgarization of Marx proves Marx wrong just shows what kind of idiots American Universities produce. They give medals for telling them what they like to hear.
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@R14-m4z Just what sort of sanctions do the "Hard Heads" like Sowell suffer? Sowell the supporter of US Imperialist Wars and outrages like the atomic bombing of Japan and the murder camping of aggression in Vietnam.
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@QBert904 The number of orphan's adopted by Catholic Priests? Exactly zero. The reason the Church wants more orphans is to work in their laundries. The capitalist want orphans to fill the ranks of soldiers for cannon fodder and the sweatshops with low wage workers. Cuba show revolution is both possible and necessary along with no need for a murderous bureaucracy.
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@jamesheyworth4370 That's because what you are witnessing is NOT Marxism but Popular Frontism. An unholy coalition of liberals, Stalinist's and Social Democrats. Liberals along with those who are socialist in name only. The struggle for socialism is ultimately a struggle for ideas and you can't have that struggle with vigorous debate with an opposition. Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution showed their was never a need to do the things Stalin or Mao did. The ideas and predictions of Leon Trotsky were born out in the 1991 end of the Soviet Union. All the problems of political suffocation of the masses economic and national questions came to a head suddenly resulting in the end of the Stalinist monolith. The American Imperialists acting on the false premise that they had won the cold war and communism was dead charged forward into Iraq war 1 & 2,, Afghanistan along with the economic crisis of 2000 and 2008 World capitalism has entered a crisis of monumental proportions and the American liberal ruling class is less sure of itself despite the past Democratic Republican methods of the American Bourgeois. With partisan bickering at the commanding heights of American capitalism that opens political space to do things like rebuild the trade unions and debate things like workers control of industry, war, nuclear weapons and how to build socialism.
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@jasonarmstrong1229 It not a meritocracy if that's what you think. Most of SCOTUS are educated at Harvard or Yale like Hillary Clinton who failed the DC Bar Exam. They are part of the executive committee of the capitalist ruling class in Black robes. Picked for their loyalty to the American Republican Bourgeois class rule.
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@jasonarmstrong1229 Republican Bourgeois as opposed to Monarchists like the other Anglo Saxon countries.
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The US two party stooge democracy threatens the world with the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world. They have 69 Nuclear submarines with 60% located in the pacific ocean. The American capitalists are gangsters with a made in America license to steal. They buy burger king stock because the always demand to "Have it there way!" They give their police gangsters whose gang colors are blue and brown a vacation after they engage in a successful on video murder of a black man. They enter hospitals violate their own rules and demanded blood from a patient who was unconscious after motor vehicle police chases kills their suspect and burned an innocent victim. A nurse is arrested and then roughed up. The cop is given a desk job as a reward for his crime.
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For the American government two party stooge democracy! No crime is too big, No lie is too great, when their dollar is at stake!!!
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@greggrogers6289 The NAZI's appeal to the middle class Germans. Jews have been blamed for every capitalist crisis in Europe. Sowell gets his reputation for being an elite intelectual who gives out the consevative line of do nothing and the free market will fix and take care of everyting like capitalism has done for me.
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@greggrogers6289 How does capitalism work without human interference? He spews only that which makes capitalism look good because he has already read Karl Marx so he claims and just emphasis whatever good can be said without going any further and down plays the class struggle. Liberals can't fix the system either for all the reasons first pointed to by Karl Marx and latter Lenin who just revived Marx and with Trotsky began a new course of human history. Now you may not like communism and trade unions but we are here to stay neither Hitler or Stalin succeeded in wiping us out and Fidel Castro revived the revolutionary heart once again. You only think you won the cold war and that communism is on the way out. Your a long ways from Bushes "New World Order" when you thought all problems were going to be solved with Soviet cooperation. You do't have the sellouts of world Stalinism to help put down rebellion in the Empire. Instead you've got more not less competition in the market places amongst capitalist thieves.
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@MartinMartinm You don't create socialism in one country that is the way capitalism started and then created a world market The first world war was driven by the competition of Imperialist nations fighting over colonies and markets. The Russian revolution was begun by female textile workers and the Bolsheviks had fought against the Imperialist war and were invaded by 14 Imperialist nations including the US/UK. The Trotsky being connected to Wall st just like Lenin being an agent of Germany is nothing more than a fantastic frame job by the intelligence agencies. Just because the German and Japanese capitalist lost the war doesn't mean they didn't choose the methods of fascism to defend capitalism from communism. Stalin was the leader of the all the defeats of the communist movement. China 1928, Germany 1933, France and Spain 1939. He had Trotsky murdered in Mexico. Fidel Castro lead a new communist movement that developed in Cuba that began the revival of revolutionary Marxism because the outbreak of the second world war would shift the leadership of the Imperialist world to America. Trotsky's books and American Trotskyist were never barred from Cuba. Gorbachev was the best pupil of Stalin. American Trotskyist's were jailed in the United States for opposing the Imperialist slaughter. Stalin's CP appluaded the actions of the US Imperialist and they were the best strike breakers durring the war. They talked of shaking the hands of the monopolists until they launched the cold war then they threw them inprison for ten year yerm because they had no friends in the labor movement and were the victims of the witchchunt two were executed as "Atomic spies".
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@devorahacts What in hell is the difference between a Progressive and a liberal in the modern American political landscape? A liberal who sides with Bernie Sanders or does Bernie Sanders side with Liberals?
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bastiat That proves nothing since they hate Black people because the are an inferior to the Aryan race.
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@MartinMartinm Both parties crusaded against constitutional rights beginning with FDR and the passage of the Smith "gag" Act supposedly aimed at fascists. Then the Republican Taft Harlley Act.. Truman loyalty program and the Attorney generals list of subversive organizations. Republican Joe McCarthy he was a lead witchunter in the Senate.
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bastiat Keep cranking that jack in the box handle for propaganda. Next thing you going to tell me is that anyone I accuse of racism he wasn't a real capitalist who didn't believe in a free market like you. Racism came with the rise of world capitalism. It will be destroyed for all intents and purposes in the coming World Socialist revolution.
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@jtfernandes Professor James Burnham was an actual Marxist who was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. We lost him do to the political pressure of the coming world war eventually he ended up with Bill Buckley founding the American Conservative movement. As far as I know he has just read Marx and never participated in any kind of Black rights, labor or Socialist organization. Its always easier for the middle class elements to find their way back into the business or university world.
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@robertseavor4304 Capitalism seeks to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. For the bosses don't need workers who can think they need replaceable labor that is only paid a wage necessary to get them to return to work the next week. This is why they prefer single men and capitalism tends to break up families since bosses prefer to pay a single worker and not for a whole the family. Health care and education are overhead expenses for the bosses who seek to minimize them to boost profit rates and prefer to be monopolize education and healthcare for themselves. Immigration provides cheap labor and along with abortion cuts the expense of pregnancy from the government budget pushing the cost onto the third worlds government and workers where they seek to have abortion outlawed. What we need ti do is organize unions of all workers and demand 24/7 childcare for working women along with a labor party. They also seek to create a priah class of workers made of immigrants, those who are fired and those convicted of crimes for extra exploitation. .
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I don't think what that women said to him is right. "All you do is manage the best you can." I don't accept that either. Reagan's administration was not a touchy feely Libertarian Republican administration either. Before Reagan was even elected President as California governor Reagan ordered the CHP and Berkeley police to "use whatever method they choose against the protesters". These were his own words. At "People's Park" On May 15 Reagan began his success story when 800 riot police moved in using shotguns on unarmed protesters 1 student was killed and 128 people were admitted to local hospitals. Reagan then declared a state of emergency ordering out the National Guard into the city of Berkley for two weeks. Groups of over 4 people were arrested. Things like that earned him the fascist title.
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@MasterVideoStudios Sorry I'm not going to take the bait Master.
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@MasterVideoStudios Actually it makes a very important point. Bourgeois democracy and trials are only for the bourgeois. An important point for all revolutionist to understand. .
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@MasterVideoStudios Well then "...shoot coward because you're only killing a man..." Che Only cowards have to send secret messages to order an execution and then have to tell the executionary shot from the neck down because we want it to look like he died in battle. A conscript army uses a blank to absolve guilt. A revolutionary army uses no blanks so that it is understood to be a collective decision. In the case of Che a drunken Sargent was the executionary.
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@MasterVideoStudios Head back to Pig Sty Number one. There you can work on polishing your badge.
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@MasterVideoStudios Go back to your YOUBOOB studio and make your capitalist propagada nonsense.
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@MasterVideoStudios To bad you gusano's were defeated at Giron and South African racists supported by Reagan at Cuito Cuanavale by the Cuban Rebel Army.
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The Democrats are a capitalist party of big donors just like the Republicans. What we need is fighting trade unions and a labor party based in the unions.
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@Георг-л5л You country? well which country do you own? the American Imperialist and their collaborators are headed for the ash can of history.
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Don't worry the'll be testing it out on American India tribes for proof of concept.
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Ya watch out you don't get named for a hit squad attack.
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He is thanking those who elected him. Forty other US Puppets all support by the US AID dolling out aid with eyedroppers.
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@garrettwight1027 The US is the most centralized and powerful military empire in history.
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@garrettwight1027 The US is the most centralized and powerful military empire in history.
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@jcplays1749 Truth is always a defense to free speech. Since FDR America has had a political police force called the FBI that has served two party rule.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with Marxism and everything to do with maintaining capitalism. Many of these things are actually attacks upon the materialist conception of the world. The goal of course is to homogenize the middle class layers so as to better control the traditionally more rebellious people with in the working class those who are immigrants and non European. The ruling capitalist class itself is historically overwhelmingly White Anglo Saxon Protestant their wealth and family ties have been determined by the past history of capitalism. That is not going to be changed by homogenizing the more privledged layers. Marx points to capitalism creating it own grave diggers the industrial working class precisely because he understands the underling workings of the capitalist system, human history, why this leads to crisis, and who and how it can be changed. It can't be done by the some kind of fake reform like DEI. The fact that some of these people claim to be "trained Marxist" or following in Marx's footsteps shows their own ignorance or disagreement with the actual Marxist movement and the rich history that goes with it. .
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@jimsilvey5432 The Cuban revolution proves we don't need to make Engineer's, Doctor's and Chemists into worldly princes like Bezos, Musk and Gates. You shrek in horror at a Taxi Driver making as much or more than an MD. Yet does not the Taxi Driver have the same living costs? The creation of labor privilege in capitalism is not accidental the system requires it. Who would sing the praise of the big bosses of capitalism if there were no middle class? From the Bourgeois University come the ideas that we aren't ruled by wealth but a meritocracy of "Brites" who know everything. One of the biggest frauds currently in progress is that the Electric Vehicle will solve the pollution problem. Just as the plastic bottle of spring water solved the decline of the public water supply.
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Today there is no different social systems of Slavery vs industrial and finance capitalism nor is there some big cultural differences. Jim Crow is also gone. So other than crying about some incidental political differences between North and South their is no reason to break up.
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@82fdny97 No you don't understand surplus value. We began creating it since we began to understand the need for it when we realised the need for a store of food in times of need. The creation of a surplus has been the goal of every great civilization not the realization of scarcity for when have we not found more uses of what is already exists in nature. The pessimistic capitalist ruling class is the ones who see scarcity in the midst of plenty The reasoning being is their profit system is not a true measure of human potential. Instead it is crisis ridden because of the greed of the ruling classes who halt production when ever the profits stop flowing. The whole reason the profits stop flowing is the constant shift back and forth between using them to expand production and using the to spectuale on a riise in capital value. Since they can't stop overproducing for markets that become saturated at the prices need o turn a profit the halt production only deeping the crisis which is cased becaue the workers can not buy back all that is produced and the rising capital value begins to ciolapse as production stops. This leds to only a few solutions like either destroying capital so primitve accumulation a can begin again or write offs on paper and restarting production by foating more debt. That just prepares the system for an even greater crisis.
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@LibertyOverDeath-27 Of course because people like you have everything handed to them on a silver platter.
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@OtayBuckwheat Why have they not been offered the vaccine? These are middle class people who fled the earthquake after the US Imperialist provided no aid now the are coming across the border and the Capitalist dictatorship is in a crisis. This is how capitalist waste on war and denail of humanitarian aid are creating the conditions that will lead to a revolution in the United States itself. The world wide profit drive is creating worldwide conditions of misery now only a whole new revolutionary International needs to be constructed. The Cuban people are leading the way with medical teams of Doctors made out of the old slaves of the sugar plantations.
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Karl Marx took the guess work out of the workings of capitalism and you can't deny the truth that capital produces nothing trade nothing and that labor produces everything. Maximization of profit produces maximization of misery. Cuba leads the way with Doctors and a vaccine vaccine without a patent requirement. Human beings are communist in nature not competitive. That capitalism with it maximization of competition leads to war and conflict. The only just war is a war against the exploiters of labor. A revolutionary war against capitalism itself The two party capitalist dictatorship like that of General Batista must be driven from power by a revolution.
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@RealWorldGames The Liberal lead which hunt like the anti communist whichunts of world war one and two which were also started by the Liberals in the Democratic Party are aimed at the workers who are in the labor movemnet and moves to replace Democratic Discussion and Debate with hysterical political charges invented by the intelligence agencies. The goal is NOT the defense of Democracy but the defense of political decisions based upon the needs of a profit system in a world wide crisis.
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@WeylandLabs The might make it big into a Walmart or Amazon sorting facility.
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That's why we need unions and a labor party independent of the Boss parties.
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@howard49 The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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@pangterence9796 Trade war comes before real war. Chinese capitalists now have foreign trade in Asia that was once US Bosses Trade. This is nothing more than another battle between bosses over profits. Workers have no interest in their battle for profits at home or abroad.
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@Vitobandito434 A centrist in two capitalist party system is still a supporter of capitalist politicians.
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The Democrats went right along with Bush passing the patriot act and launching the war in Afghanistan and now this Democratic "Imperialist" Party hypocrite Blumenthal says we should be outraged. Yes we should be outraged with him and the rest of these lying hypocrites of both parties.
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Ya clowns like Goldwater and General Curtis LeMay wanted to do Nuclear War with the Soviet Union. They said Kennedy should have pushed the button.
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First impression: Ugliest thing I've ever seen.
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@GaryCameron You see a certain didn't fall but the Stalinist leadership collapsed as the masses realized they'd been sold a counterfeit communism. You talked a lot of horseshit about the end of history and Bush gave his 'New World Order" speech and then what? South African Apartheid is defeated by Cuban soldiers under the command of Fidel Castro. The crisis of 2008 results in the intervention in the so called free market that for years you said worked perfectly fine. You spent 20 years and 2.3 trillion dollars only to be defeated by those you said were the enemies of Democracy. A whole scandal is unraveling on your use of secret police methods by the FBI against Donald Trump and his supporters.
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@silverback7675 That right you upper middle class snob I'm just trash that lives in trailer parks.
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@silverback7675 Why don't you libertarian "Silver Backs" follow the male orangutan into the jungle swing from tree to tree eating the low hanging fruit? Human beings are social animals we live in groups and always have labored together to make a life for ourselves. The right to private property began as a right to tell others you can not come on or use this land. It began as the tyranny of landowners and then became the tyranny of the factory owners. Its a claim that requires the force of a state to maintain. For if the capitalist could not get propertyless debt slaves to work in the factories he could not make a profit. He wants the longest hours at the lowest wages. He seeks to maintain his profit system by telling lies about his motivations for doing all the rotten and corrupt things he does just to maintain a few captains of industry in power and with luxury. He fights against the trade union with a state to declare the strike illegal and he orders invasions of whole counries that reject capitalism. He claims to be saving democracy when all he cares about is his mound of capital.For him everyting has price he puts a tag on to sell in a market which he need police to defend against those who might be hungry or destitute.
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@Heavy Metal Pulp Nope because capitalism works to yield the highest profits to those who can best exploit the most labor and resources It works to reward the most ruthless businessman those who care for nothing but the biggest profits. For capitalism to continue endlessly it would have to have infinite markets. Otherwise as capital replace labor the capital value rises and the labor needed to produce goes down since the origin of the profit is labor than the rate of profit must decline and approach zero. So by seeking to succeed capitalism guarantees failure since machine can only reduce labor time otherwise the building of a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Regulated capitalism in the US and advanced capitalist countries is what we had post ww2 and that has shown itself to be a failure as capitalism can't self regulate the greed of the ruling class.
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@johnhoney5089 Communism is a movement not a new doctrine of social reform with its holy priests. It is the history of one class the proletariat in struggle with the other most important class in history the capitalist class of victories and defeats. The class struggle goes on under our very eyes. Since the Imperialist war of 1914 our class has held state power somewhere in the world and we have powerful trade unions in all the advanced capitalist countries. The flame of world revolution burns brightly only 90 miles from the shore of the most powerful Empire in Human history.
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@buckaroobonzai2909 It is just the natural economic forces of capitalism at work. The bosses prefer single males since you only need be paid what is necessary to get you to come back to work the next day or pay period. A single women who gets pregnant or has children has the need to take time off from work and the bosses are profit maximizes not excuse .takers Why pay for a family directly when you can push that cost onto the government. Single women are less likely to want children if they have to care for them themselves so abortion become the cheapest way to handle that problem for women who hold jobs to support themselves.Where is the next generation of workers going to come from ou say? Well that what immigration is for if the bosses need workers here let other countries pay the costs of maternity and early education. If you want to understand capitalism you have to think like greedy bosses do. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a do gooder propaganda organization. Advanicing the ideas that Gates is a well paid genius and not a ruthless business tycoon.
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@buckaroobonzai2909 I also haven't got the slightest idea of what your talking about but I'm sure it makes sense to you. Are the trees threatening to join a union and go on strike or march on Wall street or are they just plants like you?
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@aminormaximum2446 Hippies were just a part of a youth rebellion against capitalism demands for confomity. All that is happening is the end of the world capitalist system caused by the natural working of the system and the class struggle it is producing.
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@cyborgchicken3502 That's not true since he left behind the nucleus of a second Bolshevik party in the US (Socialist Workers Party) that overtook the Stalinist CP and Fidel Castro along with Che Guevara lead the Cuban revolution that did NOT take a course of Stalinist murder purges and continues today. .
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@GeorgeGwiazda Sorry you phoney. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and organizer of the Red Army victory. The new Soviet government was the first to make abortion both legal and free as one the rights of the working class and working women.
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The Bosses don't have duel sales systems anymore. Lester Maddox use to sell Black people egg sandwiches out of the back door of his cafeteria. Now you can't have that kind of operation anymore. This has nothing to do with affirmative action and everything to do with increasing racial animosity. Which is the real purpose. Thirty percent of Harvard admissions are legacy admissions but no one ever challenges that because that has about zero chance in a court challenge.
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@gund89123 They run giveaways to the bosses.
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Maybe you should put the capitalist 'Baker' on next years Christmas list with fellow capitalists like 'computer programmers' Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
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If there are 12 bottles of beer in a case how many new cases should be brought to Christian Bible Study to get everyone drunk? Is the outcome fairly obvious or difficult to calculate? Anyone know who had the key to the communion wine cabinet last?
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Onesth not mock the mockers of the mock Project Mockingbird be thou fall into the kingdom of Sodom and Gomorrah everlasting.
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The man is hailed as a Genus for discovering the US Dept of Labor wasn't taken over by Communist officials.
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@mush_room_cloud If your looking for lazy bums look no further than those ruling class bumbs getting checks in the mailbox every three months for doing absolutely nothing but walking to the mailbox every three months.
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@Lone Star Patriot Notice the screen name. Boys we got a real patriot here. Not a Sam Houston though he's a rebel traitor who wears battle of Bulls Run bandana from running away after tryin' to be a gentleman special deputy for scabs in 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters General strike.
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@justval4958 Just so many Pro Imperialist collaborators still licking their wounds from 60 years ago. Waiting for instructions from the US CIA on where to place the next bomb.
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@apreviousseagle836 His idea of innovations is new restrictions on software terms of use so he can make bigger profits.
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@jaybrooks965 The need to put orange barrels at the border first.
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@iswitchedsidesforthiscat The New York Times put out a picture of a protest containing one of the Cuban Five Hero's and marked it as anti government.
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Rip Cord US Col Oliver North sold missiles to Iran.
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End the US blockade!!!
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Paul Ronco Pro life have any success in halting wars?
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Monday morning quarterbacking at its finest.
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@christophea8771 When capitalism always fails then they turn to the NAZI thugs.
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@christophea8771 Communism is a movement it split Internationally in 1928 with Trotsky leading the left opposition that wanted to continue the polices of Lenin. Capitalism failed in 1929. Stalin's policies are why the revolution's failed in China 1927, Germany 1933, Spain 1936 and France in 1938. Capitalism has to fail because of the decline in the rate of industrial profit as capital value rises and labor needed to produce goes down as machines replace labor so does the rate of profit by which the capitalist judge all success. So in order to drive profit his way the capitalist must invest in new machinery and that means his success brings on his own downfall. Now when he can't make more profits by expanding production because of a saturated world market he invests in fictitious capital paper values driving up prices such that they become overvalued and then collapse bring upon ever greater financial crisis that cause breakdowns of the whole world system of trade and production. .
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@christophea8771 Libertad from what and to what? You think that they can pull off another Milton Friedman deal where the make the workers the "real owners" with salable shares of state property and then introduce shock therapy so the most corrupt and rotten bureaucrats can buy them and be the new capitalist like in the old Soviet Union. Fidel fought against bureaucratism and sectarianism. They don't have that kind of government in Cuba. That kind of rot came from Stalin and all who went along with him like the Chinese CCP.
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@h.a.l.3980 China calls its system socialism with Chinese Charateristics but they can't escape the natural workings of capitalism that generate a decline in profit rates and class struggle either. The Chinese revolution was crippled from the beginning by the Stalinist sect that lead it. The Cuban revolution was lead by Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement the Stalinist PSP only joined in later and Fidel and Che always fought against beaurcratism and a privileged grouping as the way to advance toward socialism. The were horrified by Mao's Cultural Revolution in China and asked aloud how was it that Socialism came to be threatened within Czechoslovakia in 1968 from the Party itself. Che asked why were the Czechs sitting on a cache of munitions from the NAZI era demanding to be paid by liberation movements. When the US cut sales to Batista Tito offered to sell arms to the dictator this was discovered after the revolution. So the relations with the rest of the Bloc countries were not always in agreement.
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@28ebdh3udnav They aren't feed up with communism since they don't have communism to begin with that was Khrushchev who claimed the Soviet Union had reached communism. End the blockade!! and restore real diplomatic relations instead of basically closing the US Embassy. Allow all American's to travel to Cuba without restrictions. Allow immigration directly from Cuba instead of turning it into a political football. Allow remittances to be made to family members.
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@christophea8771 We don't have the liberty to use the internet I have to pay and I've been censored also. You can't sell just things here without permits either. We can say lots of things here because we waged fight for free speech with the government lots of times. I knew it you live in the US and want to kick me out because you can't stand the criticism. Just where do you write from you dad's Desk chair who's a boss with a big salery. Strutting around like a peacock telling everyone what to do. You probably live in a gated community hiding out from people who do all the work for you.
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The man is shill for the capitalist elite.
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@metallica1fan1 You are a liar.
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@savoirfaire3330 They all swim in the same swamp and no man like Trump can do a thing about it because he's part of the problem.
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The cops always say the did not have enough training. Their not supposed to have firearms inside a correction facility because the prisoners can take them away from them. There not dealing with Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris. Shooting this man is clearly excessive force. They practice going in and grabbing someone that's noncompliant in a cell.
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@Classwarvet Oppressive states keep you from leaving. East Germany collapsed a long time ago now you don't want immigrants coming into the Imperialist nations. You talk of needing to build a wall because capitalism doesn't work for the masses of people as if you could survive without foreign trade. The bosses only hire if they can make a profit and because those who work can not buy back all that can be produced capitalism becomes the first system to fail due to overproduction of commodities . Capitalism can not use all the productive capacity and the stats kept by the Federal Reserve bank bear that out. The use of productive capacity has been in decline since stats began being kept in 1968.
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@g40471 Sure we constantly hear Trump congratulating himself on doing a good job. Where everything is great and wonderful. Out in the real world away from New York, LA and Washington the shelves are empty of bread and milk. So far we can still buy enough food to eat. Toilet paper, paper towels and bleach have completely disappeared.
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@bosatsu76 He's no differnt than Trump they are all going to promise to fix the system just to save their rotten necks.
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@reasonerenlightened2456 But in the modern Imperialist system the big capitalist are overwhelming distributed among the developed nations while the poor nations have only a few of the big capitalist. Then you have the governments who as actors intervene on the side of the capitalist politically for economic advantage such that they further distort the free market view of only production and distribution with two economic actors the capitalist and the workers. They idea that you can make the system work by playing with the numbers to get the desired result is one that was developed by bourgeois economist seeking to get around the class struggle view of the organization of production. Like the renegade "Marxist" Sowell who sees government standing above class.
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@reasonerenlightened2456 No they don't they need only serve the interests of the ruling economic class. Modern capitalist government is an overhead cost of production not a provider of anything but military and police protection of private property followed by what the capitalist deem necessary social costs that can't be directly meet by private property and the profit system.
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@reasonerenlightened2456 A government of the majority the workers and farmers.
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@larrydugan1441 Liar!! Pants on fire!!!
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@larrydugan1441 In the capitalist world private companies engage in trade. They want to be paid in their local currency when it comes to international trade. This is where the international banking system comes in. Trade with different companies in different countries must pass though this system of wire transfers (electronic payments). The US Government enforces it blockade though this system and the records of transactions the banks must keep. Its laws are extra territorial such that banks in Europe must agree to what those in the US want and when they violate the sanction rules fines are imposed and collected from the European bankers despite the trades having noting directly to do with bilateral trade between the US and Cuba. So even a German Company as big as Siemens and the Swiss bank Credit Suisse have had to pay theses fines. Now in the capitalist world a company taking a bigger risk wants to make a bigger profit such that any company doing business with Cuba wants to be paid extra to compensate for the added risk if they are willing to do business at all.
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@larrydugan1441 You did notice that credit and debit cards can't be used in Cuba.
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@larrydugan1441 I see that my main post about the workings of the international banking system was censored by YouTube so I won't be posting again
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@larrydugan1441 Maybe you should try explaining why the advanced capitalist countries can't reproduce their own populations while Billionaires take joy rides into space?
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@larrydugan1441 Maybe you can come up with a way to save American capitalism from itself.
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@larrydugan1441 What social programs? Your politicians gutted all of them for the sake of shareholder value and to punish the lazy. We call the best social program a trade union with the ability use workers power to punish the bosses. We also propose a labor party based upon the trade unions to defeat your two party billionaires political monopoly.
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Their is a class hostility involved. They were frightened by the Paris Commune such that when the 1877 Great Railway strike occurred they thought it was another Paris Commune in the making. The American capitalist had already proceeded down the Imperialist road with the Spanish American war and the seizure of the Hawaiian Islands especially Pearl Harbor a great natural harbor for a naval power in the Pacific.
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@bbb8997 People like Sowell only get a platform because of capitalist media, bougoies universities and big money conservatives. His basic role is to talk about capitalism revolutionary past and try and convince others that it automatically works for everyone and doesn't turn into its opposite after it initial success. Neo liberals like Sowell and the founder Milton Friedman talk about how they can get back to 19th century capitalism if only the bosses would do as they say and not be blinded by their own greed.
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@devinelivelive3713 Owens received a payday for racist harrassment by a Democratic Party Mayors son when in High School.
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@Spark_Iskra_z_Polski NAZIsm is a fascist type of capitalist state. As Trotsky said if we had failed fascism would have had a Russian name. The Bolshevik party of Lenin and Trotsky was not the same party after Stalin's murder purges of the old bolsheviks from 1936 to 1938.
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@davidflash603 Our US history book in 1968 stopped with World War one. What every you write post WW1 you can't avoid communism because the October revolution of 1917 came at the end of WW1. If all you do is write down history as a series of events unconnected with each other than you would not have the problems of the 20th century world and US history.
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Gary McMichael That would surly make it easier for the capitalist meritocracy to rule by cutting down on any reading by the working classes children. What a wonderful world of Disney that would be for the owners like Gates, Koch, Musk, Trump and the rest of the billionaire class.
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Gary McMichael You right the meritocracy doesn't seek to RULE it already does. Nevertheless the US constitution has all the rights needed to make a legal socialist revolution. The capitalist will try to void any election that results or might result in their loss of power. That's whats behind the Trump must go at any cost.
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Hamas dug up water pipes and used them to make rockets. Why don't you ask them? While your at maybe you should ask why are Hamas billionaires living it up in Qatar?
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@cats2226 What evidence do you have that Sowell was ever a Marxist?
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@jarhead1199 Well than his missed Marx's teaching on the State and if he was confused about it he should of read State and Revolution by Lenin and if you don't understand Imperialism you should first read USMC Major General Smedley Butler on Interventionism and Imperialism the Highest stage of Capitalism by Lenin. He is the kind of Marxist that Marx would famously say if he is a Marxist than I am not. The state is the product of the ruling class in any epic and a defender of its property relationships. A capitalist state can only defend capitalism. It can't magically become socialist. The proletariat must build a new state like the one built by the Paris commune or Lenin and Trotsky's Bolsheviks or Fidel Castro's 26 th of July movement.
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@kromyzal238 The US Imperialist have always been fascinated with body counts. In Vietnam Democratic Imperialist cold war liberals like McNamara predicted victory by kill ratios and body counts calculated by the latest computer technology. When the US Imperialist lost then Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter came on the scene urging Deng Xiaoping to join him in supporting Pol Pot the genocidal maniac as a way for the US Imperialist to continue their punishment of Vietnam for having the audacity to demand national self determination. The US Imperialist hypocrisy would astound even the Greeks who invented the word. The US Imperialist Reagan wanted Cuba out of Africa so his ally the Racist South African's would lose their colony South West Africa a former colony of the German Imperialist sized after WW1 by the British Imperialist and later the South African Imperialists.
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Another disaster for the workers brought to you by the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington DC.
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@Luciano Becchio Where the proof that Che slaughter thousands of innocents? America is the most powerful capitalist Empire on earth adding in the European Imperialist, Japan, and the Taiping Rebellion some estimates put the Taiping rebellion at 100 million alone. Capitalist ideology killed an awful lot of people and if you count by percentage of the earths population at the time like inflation not actual numbers capitalism is the clear winner for premature deaths.
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@Luciano Becchio That looks like an Italian name to me. The place where fascism began. If you don't want me including the US in capitalist crimes than I want out of China because it was clearly lead by the Stalinists and anything done by Stalin post 1936 when the Moscow trials began. My guess is you live in some country like Switzerland or Denmark where you can play the moral hand of the Swiss Banker, having Danish Morality or whatever.
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Sure the Swiss were neutral during WW2 but that did stop them from accepting the gold deposits taken from the teeth of NAZI concentration camp victims.
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@Luciano Becchio First that's only a statement. It's too easy for a revolutionary in an actual war to have sympathy for those he must kill. Every army trains their soldiers to kill and hatred plays a role in that and the success of the revolutionary war depends on that. It doesn't prove he killed thousands of innocents. Both Fidel and Che were very insistent on treating captured soldiers humanly. A soldier who thinks he will be mistreated by his enemy will fight to the death. Batista had a 50,000 man army even the American CIA world factbook has only a total of 3,000 executions after the revolutionary victory. Amnesty International has a total of less than 300 death sentences post 1959 to somewhere around 1980. The Black Book of Communism made up a number of 17,000. They couldn't find enough evidence so they decided to make an estimate based on believability. When the first spy within the guerilla columb was found Che volunteered to be the executionary. You aren't much of an army if you don't shoot spies.
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If you don't want refugees than stop arming Saudi Arabia in it war with Yemen.
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Don't listen to Moore.
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Karl Marx the original homeless man. The worker who lost his job and was kicked out by the banker.
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@NRIautos Because capitalislism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines first. The long term tendency overall is for the rate of profit to decline. The reason why is the profit comes form the living labor in the production goes down while the congealed labor in the fixed capital rises. This one of the reasons that even if the capitalist could become an International class their system would still go into decline because for the capitalist to keep making profits he must both keep cutting overall labor time and skill to drive profits his way yet by doing so he cuts back on the very source of profits labor. This in itself along with the ever increasing crisis caused by the competition between ruling classes that leads to war is also why capitalism and capitalist methods like those used by the Stalinist in China tend to slow the continued advance of society because capitalism would require unlimited markets, labor and resources to continue forever. The world and its markets are only so big which is why capitalist methods can only take humanity so far.
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@thegallantsaint2034 Those are the economic conclusions of Karl Marx, VI Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg also. When Karl Marx came to the conclusion he thought it needed more study or that the capitalist could resort to war to get around the problem. The cause of world war one is laid out in Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism by Lenin building upon the work of Hobbs. The rise of fascism came with the death of Lenin and the defeat of the Left Opposition lead by Trotsky. In the end fascism was defeated by the Soviet workers and Segregation that came from the defeat of the Southern Reconstruction governments was also defeated. Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Armed forces defeat the South African Apartheid Army at Cuito Cuanavale, Angola leading to the defeat of Apartheid in South Africa.
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@thegallantsaint2034 Marx never gave us nor anyone else all the answers as to how the class struggle would proceed after the revolution. He wrote about the civil war in France where the Paris commune had been established and lasted for 70 days. Capitalism came onto the world covered in blood and oozing dirt from every pore why wouldn't societies still under the domination of the landowners go though a lot of violence. The British were in control of India right up till 1945 and the it became Democratic India. Now India had at least an extra 20 years as Democratic India 1949 to 1972. Yet it is still behind China. I suppose no one suffered because of European colonialism or because of Imperialism foreign investment. No one died in wars of mass death before Marx I suppose? Like it or not 1/3 of the world entered the industrial era under a leadership claiming to be communist. China obviously entered without help from the United States since the were completely excluded from trade for 20 years. You've tried to blockade Cuba for 60 years and they still have a communist leadership that never needed to launch purges. Only demoralized intellectuals and the United States ruling class want a return to capitalism in Cuba. You broadcast all kinds of propaganda Radio Marti and talk nonsense about them and yet you make no headway despite it being 30 years since the end of the Soviet Union.
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@thegallantsaint2034 I'm sure you think you've come down from heaven to save us as a gallant Saint but i do not believe that.
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@thegallantsaint2034 All the capitalist powers had colonies and Mark Twain was the founder of the Anti Imperialist league. USMC Major General Smedley Butler wrote, "War is a racket." were he admitted to being a "Gangster for capitalism" operating on three continents. Bourgeois person freedom means freedom to buy and sell. Putting a price tag on all human relationships and freedom for the owners of private property . Yes that is the very freedom we have every intention of doing away with because your freedom means the slavery of millions. Bezos and Musk were booking tickets to space until they had their tickets punched by the recent working class strikes. Why don't you trying booking a ticket to mars like Musk proposes as a second chance for capitalism. Musk is so frightened by communism that he began accusing his daughter teachers of turning her into a communist. Dictatorship is just a swear word you use to describe any group you have a political disagreement with. The bolsheviks opposed the first Imperialist war to redivide the world amongst the Imperialist powers. They called for and end to the war with no animations or reparations. Even though the American Imperialist came out as top dog following world war two they've been in decline ever since. .You are the involuntary promoter of industry and you accuse all those who oppose you to be opposed to industry which you place into competition to see who can make the biggest profits by organizing the largest of industrial armies to enter the battle of the market place where the winning commander is the one who can issue the greatest number of discharges from his industrial army. .
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Sowell is just another capitalist economics cherry picker for the bosses.
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@tompain2751 What was correct his fear of immigrants who arrive on a schedule? What did people do before the cops had computer tracking and photo ID? How many of the 9/11 hijackers didn't have photo ID? Any reason to believe photo ID stops any real crime?
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@tompain2751 I don't even bother to cast a protest vote anymore. I'm for a real democracy where you actually know you neighbor and that's how you vote. You don't need an ID except when you don't trust the government, your neighbor or election process to begin with. So go ahead and waste you time voting Demopublican show ID to prove your not a criminal as if your vote makes a difference. The richest Americans will get their spending bill created and passed by a bunch of sheep.
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Why don't you buy one of the advertisement T shirts? Sure he's a national treasure all right just like the gold in fort know. Put him on sale to the highest bidder.
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@ondolite3789 The capitalist can't escape the crisis of production trade their system produces. They can NOT solve their problems outside of a march towards fascism, war on the trade unions, and Imperialist investors foreign wars for profits.
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You forget that it was the Imperialist Empires that began world war one and not the Russian bolsheviks. Where does stalinism take you? Back to the future of capitalism. What good are "successful nations" that destroy each other in wars over markets and resources? Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin took the advice of Bill Clinton and Milton Freedamn. Is that your idea of success? Or spending 2.3 trillion on "nation building" in Afghanistan? You can't build socialism or communism in one country alone. That's a utopian idea just like building seperate capitalist nations without ruling classes going to war over the world market.
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@henrykstopikowski5379 The foreign policy goals of the US government when seeking regme are always those of using food as a weapon and producing hunger among foreign populations whose governments pursue a path deemed unacceptable to American banks and foreign investors. .
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@melodym9119 There going to bring in a Heavy Duty Army Crane from Ft Detrick MD for a Craneyotomy. Fauci isn't sure what he'll find inside yet.
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"An elite private school for conservatives that she use to nanny for." There you go its the education for liberal ruling class elites. .
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@Just J In charge of "Our Banks" I didn't know you were related to people like CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Foxes Tucker Carlson. I don't have much in the bank but I'm moving towards cash.
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The collapse of neoliberalism of Sowell and company is just amazing.
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@sakatababa They left out the part where Stalin destroys Lenin's Party with purges and replaced it with one of massive deceit, lies, falsification of history and surrender to the class enemy. Gorbachev was nothing more than the best pupil of Stalin. He and Yeltsin could get enough ideas from Bill Clinton and Milton Freedman.
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By doing what? Electing a fool with an R after their name for and puppet show called the US Congress.
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He subscribes to the mystification of value by denying the labor theory for one of mystification of capital, trade and markets. All he does to try and contradict Marx is to look for ways to try and mystify the meanings of generalizations and tendencies. Like his mentor Milton Friedman he can't give any credit to the union or labor movement. So he finds himself having to mock John L Lewis as the greatest oil salesman. Lewis was a man with a tenth grade education that had worked in a coal mine yet had the ear of Presidents and lead the CIO industrial trade unions.
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@booster-b3568 I've read some of his writings like the Communist Manifesto. It's not a novel like what Solzhenitsyn produced. Seems to me World war one was started by Austria Hungary declaring war on Serbia in 1914. The CZAR and his family got what they deserved wouldn't you agree? The Provisional Government of Kerensky was collaborating with those who wanted to destroy the revolution and bring back the CZAR like what happened in 1905. It's easy for you to sit in front of a computer and talk. Have you ever seen the pictures taken of the Japanese victims of the atomic bomb? I'm not interested in Sowell's gossip hounds character assassination biography. Solzhenitsyn was six years old when Lenin died. He was 20 when Trotsky was exiled. He was in his thirties and a Major in the Red Army fighting the NAZI's in Europe when he ended up in trouble.
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@booster-b3568 I knew about the camps and the Stalin Era before the publication of the Gulag so it wasn't a shock. The story in the early years has the red cell being punished for the suicide death of the Water Works Engineer and another instance ware a man who is to be shot unjustly is set free by the soldiers. That sounds like a working justice system not the one that came into being sometime after Lenin death in 1924 and Stalin's next to complete takeover in 1928. I know quite well that a section of the American military and government were just looking for the right time to launch a nuclear war. They talked about openly and probably when Kennedy gave his speech saying nuclear war would mean ashes in our mouths they came to realise at least until the Reagan era that a first strike would not work out that well. I don't believe for a second that the American Communist party was ever in a position to launch any kind of takeover or coup. That whole Red Scare was just an excuse to clamp down on civil liberties, labor and blacks. If and when there is a revolution in this country it will because the ruling capitalist class can no longer solve the problems it creates.
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@booster-b3568 I'm 71 years old.
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@bubbaloaf5373 They give the peace prize to war criminals like Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama. Trump put off withdrawal til after the election. Had he won he'd want one too.
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@brentshowers741 Going to jail for a vote that was never counted shows what Judges think about those who don't live next to them in a gated community. .
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@brentshowers741 I vote a straight ticket Socialist Workers Party when I can. TheMilitant.com is the oldest continuously published socialist newspaper in the US.
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@southern04man I'm the Red here think I'm afraid of some boss who calls himself Southern Formen? You about as useless as tits on a bull.
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@TangoBlues Hamas was founded by a long time Islamic Fascist organization the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Jew hater the old Grand Mufit of Jerusalem began pogroms on the Jews bavk in the 1920's before the state of Israel was even founded.
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@markconley5730 The responsibility fpr their deaths lie with Hamas. You want to go over there wave a white flag and talk with Hamas fine but they kill all opposition to their goal of Jew extermination also,
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@deniselee5518 In Cuba their building a society based in Human solidarity. In the US you have a society where even billionaires can be president.
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This is going to be turned into a reason to stop every male person of Latino descent on the basis of being a possibly member of MS-13.
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The sought Soviet assistance after the US invasion because Bernie Sanders and the Swedish "Socialist" didn't offer any help. Kennedy came close to setting off nuclear war which his Generals advised as the correct course of action.
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@lisap.31 By hammering away at Imperialist war we keep the capitalist trapped within national borders.
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Where's the actual crime since the vote was never counted. If here name was Dinesh D'souza she be getting a Presidential pardon after serving a half hour in a Texas Port s Potty.
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She probably got into an argument with dad and the name calling began. Now Musk is convinced Karl Marx is to blame. He probably still has nightmares from when Fidel Castro's Army defeated white South African Troops at Cuito Cuanavale. Puncturing the myth of white capitalist superiority. .
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Great idea send those sneaky wiretapping FBI spies to your neighborhood.
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Getting rid of two tier pay scales is the goal of the Strike at the Big three Automakers.
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@andro7862 Lol the old KMT was defeated on Taiwan. General Chiang showed his fascist colors when his KMT began the 1928 Shanghai Massacre of Communist in the KMT.
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@morganhillfightclub2996 LMAO LMAO!!!!
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Clinton is all washed up as just another corrupt Democrat.
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All the most horrible weapons of war the machine gun, poison gas, aerial bombardment, agent orange and nuclear weapons were invented in the capitalist countries. Leaded gasoline pushed by the car and oil companies was responsible for over 100,000,000 early deaths. DDT was a capitalist invention as were fluorocarbons that threatened the ozone layer.
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What's "The Donald" going to do have a temper tantrum?
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The Progressive Party of the Progressive Era was founded by Republicans. Walker served under President Grant so he also was a Republican but these "facts" are inconvenient for Sowell who wants to smear those who don't agree with him as racists. Nor does Sowell mention Henry Ford who published the "International Jew"and was awarded a medal by Hitler.
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@bigtobacco1098 No if that was true bosses wouldn't be complaining about wage hikes.
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@bigtobacco1098 Your a big tobacco boss so cough cough cough. Bosses would pass out wage hikes like candy if that was true. Not only do they compete with what they sell but they must compete to yield the highest returns of investment or increasing shareholder value if they want to remain in business. So McDonalds bosses must also compete with GM, Ford, big pharma and high tech. The underlying law of capitalism is bosses must fight for profits.
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@bigtobacco1098 Food processing is the capitalist choke point for McDonalds bosses. The cows and potatoes have to be processed in meat packing and vegetable processing. Henry Ford use to mine his own iron and coal to make everything in the cars he sold right up to the dealers. Today the auto, steel and aluminum bosses share in the profits from basic industry. The biggest profits are where monopoly prices can be set. McDonalds drove out the small mom and pop hamburger joint with burger cooking production cooking by machine and microwaving.
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Social Security isn't an investment fund with a pot of money at the end of the rainbow.
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@joelbeaver1093 Cuban's have a government that represents them. When the need firearms its to fight US aggression. Pompeo, Reagan, Kennedy, Clinton, and Trump they represents or are the rich. Their profit system is in crisis.
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Send them up for a relaxing stay at Trump Tower.
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@michaelwright8896 The basic problem lies in the natural class hostility between the workers and the capitalist inside the nation state. As Marx stated the workers must first win the battle for Democracy and settle accounts with their own Bourgeois. .
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This is the product of the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington DC.
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@robertstrong6639 Democratic Party liberals are the biggest threat to Constitutional Rights with their "National Security" scare tactics and their "Get Trump" anyway possible movement. They are using the same tactics as Hitler and Stalin. Judge only issued a needless warent as Trump has yet to be charged.
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@Laliesposito578 A legal abortion is safer than bringing a baby to term. A fetus has no right since it is dependent on the women's body. There are plenty of orphans to be adopted and Catholic Priests have adopted exactly zero. Women need abortion to plan the thier lives and decided when and when not to have a child. Its is their right alone not the fathers, not the church and not the governments.
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@kucingcat8687 The bosses can not escape the crisis their system produces. It is capitalism that produces the men and women who will overthrow the power of the capitalist class of bosses and bankers.
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It was a property owners government from the very beginning so if you owned a business or property as a Congressman, Senator or President you had a business or plantation to return to.
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@Spido68_the_spectator The bosses always seek to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hours in a pay period and at the fastest rate. Over time they will always seek to move production from higher wage areas to lower wage areas. New industries always come without a union allowing the bosses to pay lees everytime a major shift in how industrial production takes place allowing for bigger profits in new industries or old industries with new technologies. .
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TheMilitant.com
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@DamePiglet What evidence is there that Sowell was ever a Marxists? Besides his say so?
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Bob Bobby What facts? Jones makes them up as he goes. Bio weapon what the hell good is an uncontrollable bio weapon? If you want to play Russian Roulette a revolver and a single round will do the trick. You don't to do research on virus' to do that.
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Bob Bobby So what businessmen think the control everything. What else is new? They are too divided to make any real and lasting world economic agreements because the have both national, class and individual interests. They are too greedy to ever come close to agreeing on everything. More so today than at any time in living history. It the Imperialist investors wanted to take control of the whole world they should have at the very least brought the Chinese and Russians on board with the end of the Cold War. Instead they though that they had a free hand to now do as they please. That was in 1990 before all the subsequent economic crisis and failed US/NATO Imperialists endless wars.
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Bob Bobby Whatever the idea is its going to fail because world capitalism works based upon the accumulation of profits and its the profit system that can't be fixed by the capitalist because they are too greedy to give up their private property. It will have too be taken from them instead. Imperialism is the highest stage of Capitalism and its outlived its historical time period as it is now.
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@eddyvideostar The production workers produce the actual value while the profits are result of unpaid wages for the surplus value produced by the production workers. This is why capitalism always produces class struggle between labor and capital. The bigger and more powerful capital becomes so also does the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline. So to do the bosses become ever more petty more cruel and more condescending to the workers. This is why the workers struggle becomes one for justice in every sphere of society. For no sooner than do you bring home that wage until you are set upon by al manner of bill collectors, rent gougers, grocery bosses and tax collectors.
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Ah you Generals are all alike so handsome and dashing.
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@200x-v4k Hitler built a cadre of thugs that what were used to attack Jews, trade unions, socialist and communists. Trump is New York liberal who was able to take over the Republican Party by making direct appeals to the working class something no American capitalist politician is ever suppose to do.
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@gussampson5029 He's supported every American Imperialist War since Vietnam. No different than living under Obama's "mistaken" drone attacks.
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@johncollins7062 He totally missed the boat because his theories are based on an ever glorious American Capitalism creating a "New World Order" that Bush so desperately wanted. Instead they are facing the worst economic crisis since the great depression and no one is buying the shining city on the hill story anymore.
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@FreeSpeech-z6j Last time the US closed down itself with tariffs it helped provoke the Great Depression and stock market crash that affected the world capitalist system world wide.
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@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 "Philosophers solve the world the point is to change it." Karl Marx.
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@AndrewFreeman-jv5xm More wars in human history have been fought over religion than anything else. Climate change is real just look at the shrinking polar ice cap and retreating glaciers. What to do about it not very clear because any change to human industrial activity that sends it backwards could spell disaster for human life on the planet.
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@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 If it was a proven failure than you would not see the return of the trade unions as means of class struggle in the United States itself. The Cuban people would have given up on the dream of national independence and socialism. After all the mightiest capitalist Empire the United States is only 90 miles away. The capitalist gave up on winning the cold war with just a military policy after Vietnam military defeat proved disastrous. This is why they announced the human rights propaganda offensive. The only defeat for communism was that of the fake leaders of the Soviet Union and China.
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@suprlite Actually we started doing better after the Cuban revolution, the trade union movemnet of the 1930's and the Russian Revolution. Anytime our class wins a big victory we all do better. Sure when they cut taxes a temporary economic upturn is possible and the same when a shortage of workers occurs. But we only make gains when we struggle together against the bosses capitalist system. They won't cut taxes to zero without taking away things that can't make a profit on. Their government of two parties is setup to protect their profits and property. The Democrats in CA are responsible for high taxes high prices and crumbling public services resulting in wildfires. In Texas it is the Republicans who do nothing to prepare for the coming hurricanes, who've allowed electrical power lines to decay and fall starting fires destroying cattle ranches. All they do is grandstand about the bored day in and day out. They'd like to turn back the clock to when people had to become indentured servants or buy their way in like Musk and Ms Trump. .
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@jondhoe7023 Your ruling classes fought wars over land property and colonies. That's what your history is about.
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@tallaster-g7s They played a role by slowing trade and production. But of course the real cause was the stock market crash which crippled world trade and production much like the crisis of 2008. That can be traced back to investment moving back and forth between driving up the value of fictitious capital and expanding production and the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline. Only the destruction of the second world war and the traitorous labor leadership tied to Moscow allowed for a capitalist revival. US troops still occupy bases in Europe and Japan as part of the America Investors Empire and its allied Imperialist capitalist nations.
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@tallaster-g7s Other people will read the argument. I don't really care if you believe me or not. Karl Marx wrote about the why's of the cyclical nature of capitalism. The first communist revolution was the Paris commune. It doesn't take genius to understand that. "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." The ruling classes of the world are unable to regulate their insatiable greed without first trade war and then real war. The workers in all the advanced capitalist nations including China are already fighting back against this world crisis with strikes and protests. .Trump is already playing with the fire of trade war despite the warnings of the bougoies economist like Sowell and Friedman. Others in the US ruling class are already joining in and Europe and others are soon to follow.
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@wardraven8755 Agreed.
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@dpol4at When Burnie said, "Hello Democratic Party". We said, "Good Bye Burnie."
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@maximustrolleus9860 At the end of the day despite the promises Trump was just another capitalist politician unable to reverse the decline of American Imperialism following the 2008 crisis. His promise to "Make America Great Again" was an admission of the declining power of the most powerful Imperialist Empire in human history.
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@maximustrolleus9860 Biden has just declared defeat for the 20 year Imperialist war in Afghanistan.
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@kyrohowe3156 Can he make a good Rubin sandwich?
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A another result of the two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington.
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General Batista was the Dictator that canceled the 1952 elections. The dictator fled the revolution lead by Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement.
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This is nothing more than another "Big Lie" being told by the US CIA and the White house to defend the aggressive actions of the US Gov't and the US 60+ year blockade of the island. No different than the lies about "Sonic Weapons" and 20,000 Cuban Troops in Venezuela.
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Obama part of the ruling meritocracy. Those who believe their admission to ruling class elite universities gives them a right to rule over the rest of us.
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They did cut off the Head of King Charles and King Louis XVI because they knew how to use their head.
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@cmo8182 Why don't we send Putin Pompeo instead?
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@jamesfeldman4234 Sowell was a mouthpiece for Conservative Republican Big Business world free market ideology which was driven out of American politics by Donald Trump's 19th century mercantilism.
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Orwell died before Stalin did.
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@henrykstopikowski5379 You can end your 60 year criminal blockade of the Island.
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@isubtothebest6020 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@c2dvr Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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@jgalt308 The Militant is available for free on line and many Marxists classics are available at Marxist Internet Archive.
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@tuberific454 Look who do you think you are kidding AI just takes what has already been concluded by others to make its decisions. Marx looks at Economics and industry being all interconnected why wouldn't you use central planning? You don't think if GM wants to buy Steel it goes to Walmart and shops for the best price? Every Modern Industry is dependent on others. The contract with each other as their way of central planning. All we do is make the secret planing public. It doesn't mean mistakes can't be made and plans can't be skewed to the benefit of privilege or that everything is best planned centrally to the last detail. That's why workers control is so important. Planning prevents people like Henry Ford shutting down plants because he wants to take his partners the Dodge brothers stock in the Ford company for cheap so he played like he had become an imbecile. It means that workers can move to different jobs or industries without them having to put their livelihoods at risk. You can't have both democracy for the working masses and capitalism for the ruling class. The economic interests between the two classes are just the opposite. The Radical Republican era ended in 1877 with the Hayes Tilden compromise betraying Blacks and the Great Railway strike which was suppressed with Federal Troops.
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@tuberific454 Next thing your going to tell me is the Republicans are a Marxist Party. The Republicans represented the Northern Industrialist their progressive nature ended in 1877 the year of the Hayes Tilden compromise betraying the new Southern Republican Reconstruction governments to Democratic Party Terror and the Great Railway Strike which was put down with Federal Troops for fear that it was another Paris Commune in the making. .Stalin does NOT represent the continuation of Lenin's Party. Rather he came to represent a group of privileged and murderous bureaucrats who like the rightest leaders of the Second International who expelled the anti war elements expelled those who wanted to continue the communist course laid down by Marx and Lenin. Leon Trotsky the Organizer of the Red Army victory would lead the new Left Opposition. Stalin first forced Trotsky out of the Political committee than the Party than into internal exile and finial out of the Soviet Union itself. Stalin would go on to hold frame up trials of the old Bolsheviks and murder 1,000 of loyal communist in the Soviet Union and 100's in Spain. It was Stalin's idiotic theories and leadership that resulted in the NAZI victory in German. This is why he would become mockingly known as the Great Leader of Defeats.
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@tuberific454 Lincoln came to power with the support of capital and a movement against slavery with the problem of the slavocracy wanting to divide the nation and go its separate way. The Russian revolution was a workers revolution against Czarism which the Russian capitalist were collaborators with. The very first Soviet Power came into being in 1905. The Czar went back on his promise of Democracy and crushed the 1905 Soviet. Then in 1917 on international women's day female textile workers would go on strike beginning a strike wave that would create new Soviets across the country among workers, soldier and peasants and result in the CZAR abdicating. Un like Lincoln who would lead a party and nation of capitalists, free farmers and wage laborers in a civil war against slavery this was a revolution that began with the wage laborers battling capital themselves. . . .
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@pleiadesstarr453 Enforced by corrupt politicians who will use it against any and all rivals foreign or domestic.
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@pleiadesstarr453 These people have a right to protest without being accused of being agents of a foreign power.
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They personify the need for a socialist revolution.
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@adamserafini6945 The bosses have no choice but to bail themselves out because they can help but over produce and drive up the value of fictitious capital with record profits which then can only collapse. It a crisis ridden system that can not avoid going into depression and war.
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@user-te7wr8uz6c They certainly all had the opportunity with the Neoliberal Bush in the white house 2008. Instead Bush began intervention in the so called free market to saae the free market by defending the World capitalist banking and financial system.
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Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
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@TJT45808 Why do we need a CEO to sit in a chair, send emails and look at a computer screen? Whats he do that no one else can with a college education. The President of Cuba is an Engineer.
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@petunia9106 Capitalism can not maintain a stable economic system because of private property and the interactions of different industries in the battle to defend declining profit rates by replacing skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines.
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@CVPI222 He JoJo C is to busy talking scab talk and pretending he is a worker. If wants to be so thankful than he can go kiss King Saud's ring and thank him for selling oil and not cutting his head off.
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@marhawkman303 Like i said the law prevents your forced donation of body parts dead or alive. Why because its against some peoples religion. Otherwise you could be commanded to donate a kidney for the sake of those who would die without a transplant. How about we let you die at the side of the road after you get into an at fault car accident because you had a choice not to drive? Plenty of people use birth control to avoid abortions including birth control provided by planned parenthood. It's not you that dies giving birth either. Pregnancy is not without its risks and abortion is safer than childbirth.
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The problem is how do we convince Blacks that capitalism has something to offer them and how we train the next generation of the ruling class.
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@gustabeumer688 No the productive forces have grown as man using social labor to make a life for himself has changed the world. Nuclear war is not an option so never before in human history has war threatened the continuation of human life itself than in the modern era.
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Sowell advocates a do nothing approach for the magic of a non extant free market.
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@annsheridan12 I always though people who died of starvation died from not eating. I didn't realize ideas could kill. Maybe we should stop reading books and using our brains and pray to the money god and free market whatever that is.
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@annsheridan12 How many died because of Coleuses search for a shorter route to India? How many die in search for free market?
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@annsheridan12 Starvation is not a new problem and maybe no one has to starve but 1945 created a brand new problem much bigger and cataclysmic in possible magnitude. Nuclear winter. Now you have a problem that cant be solved by free competition in markets and with war. All you need to do is figure out how your going to solve problems without letting someone or some group set off a chain of events that take place that will extinguish the lives of billions if not life on earth itself. Telling a story with a bunch of propaganda isn't a good enough answer. Okay! because i heard all the propaganda. Money grows in bank, free market fixes everything and other such non sense. No one wants to hear fairy tales from politicians anymore. If anything you should want to know how Stalin and Mao came to have the power they did instead of proposing an exorcism like some intellectuals. China had a twenty year long civil war.
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Freedom to do what? To be part of a declining US Capitalist Imperial Empire? The population of Puerto Rico where the US Imperialist control the islands people is seeing a decline in actual population numbers. .
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@farzana6676 Do you see people being shot down by cops and soldiers in Cuba? In Cuba the government is the people which have the control of arms which is why US Marines don't just invade to bring so called freedom like everywhere else the investors class wants to grab.
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@G00GleIsACr33p Wages keep rising in Mexico and the third world also. The bosses can't move to Mars like Elon Musk wants to. Put the bosses in a spaceship and send them to Mars.
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@efi13efi Hamas is a Neo NAZI organization holding hostages from Israel and the people of Gaza as human shields for its Hilerite goal of a Jew Free World where the Islamic Califate rules all the land. Its leaders are Billionaires in Qatar who steal UN Humanitarian Aid.
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@scorch4299 Ms Trump comes in and gets a big check she gets stay while others get kicked out. When workers join unions they can make wages go up. Bosses want two tiered wage scales and since racial segragtion was overturned now the bosses seek to use immigrants as the new N*'.
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@Stoicsaiyan End the Blockade of Cuba.
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@capitandelnorte The whole problem in the Soviet Union was that the bureaucrats were bettering themselves. In fact they corrupted themselves right back into capitalism with Boris Yeltsin leading the way.
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@danielcreatd872 Democratic Institutions are capitalist institutions. The working class needs its own political party a labor party. We need to realize and place no confidence in Democratic Institutions founded by the bosses. Destroying all confidence in the bosses regulatory agencies is a necessary part of workers taking political power.
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@Lost-mb1gj Boss Desantis seeking sympathy from middle class fools who believe the lies told by capitalist politicians of both parties.
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@DriveInFreak The majority of the American people favor a women's right to an abortion. We need to organize demonstrations and protests for that right to make it clear that the anti women minority is a minority.
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You want a revolution that the Imperialists don't want. Thats why the have two parties that act as their two party imperialist dictatorship.
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@januszczapiewski7407 Capitalism only needs a few specialized people becase you don't need skill to operate machine. Medicene is an overhead cost on the bosses books for workers as is education. With socialism one of the first tasks of the revolution is to raise the educational level of the working people to work against labor privileges. Just like Fidel Castro turned the sons and daughters of sugar cane slaves into medical doctors. Tommorrow's Doctors and Engineer's are industrial workers. You are still thinking like a tradesman and not yet a class concience industrial worker. We do all and learn all the different jobs in the mill. We don't fight like tradesmen on construction job over who's job is to install pump electrician or plumber. .
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@sethshaw5680 Those are just more lies because one thing peasants know is how to farm just like the former Black Slaves in the US. One of the first acts of the revolution was to teach the peasants and workers how to read so they could not be fooled. The revolution passed the Agrarian reform act giving peasants land to work out of the old Cunan Plantations and US plantation system. Fidel did what General Sherman proposed giving the ex slaves 40 acres and a mule. The US Imperialist first act was and has always been to destroy the revolution. The Imperialist always need to attack, wage war and blockade if socialism would just die of its own accord you would need to attack and lose. Trotsky's Red Army defeated 14 Imperialist Amy's including the US/UK. The Democratic Imperialists lost the cold war because only the Stalinist's were defeated in popular revolutions. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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@sethshaw5680 Sure their opposition in Cuba it just isn't very popular given what the US Imperialist have done and continue doing to the Cuban people. You bomb them with repainted in Cuban colors with Alabama national guard B-26 and lie at the UN and have to eat your words. Your CIA kills their diplomats and blows up a Civilian airliner killing their Olympic fencing team and then you wonder why they don't believe the lies you tell them on you propaganda station Radio Marti. You tighten your trade blockade while talking how peaceful you are and call them terrorist when your the biggest terror operator and war monger in the world and every one knows it despite all the lies told by you Democratic Imperialist media. You tired to destroy the country of Vietnam and wonder why everyone hates your military. Same with Korea you ask why don't they love you because you've been so generous to Korea. Sure you only leveled the country to no more than a few two story houses with your bombers. Your dictators had to run away with CIA help from South Korea and your the only foreign power that keeps troops in Korea and Japan since the end of WW2. Soviet's and Chinese left Korea a long time ago and never entered Japan. For over 20 years you insisted that Taiwan was China and Taiwan sat on the UN security council. Now only one country in the world recognizes Taiwan. You and the the Democratic Imperialist Churchill invaded the new Soviet Republic in an effort to strangle Bolshevism in its cradle yet all you ever talked about during the cold war was about a Red invasion and nukes coming inbond at any day. People like me began to see throw all the lies and now you say I'm brainwashed. I remember the old Democratic Party leaders and the Segregation Now!!! Segregation Tomorrow!!! and Segregation Forever!!! How you send out the cops to beat people mercilessly because they wanted what was promised them with the end of slavery. I hare the US government I never vote for you rotten parties.
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@carolinaview7254 Who are these mythical taxpayers? Obviously not the 28 big companies who paid zero tax last year. I'm sure if you make a job, healthcare and abortion a right you won't have a problem with too many children. Someone has to replace us when we leave this world.
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@carolinaview7254 I too pay taxes and that is part of the problem in general. The wrong people are paying taxes. Progressive (mathematically not politically) income taxes should be placed on income. Not homes, sales, sin, lottery, state and local taxes. A maximum income should be established. When the next recession hits the workers should immediately take over companies declaring bankruptcy, those company plants should be seized and the books should be opened to see how and why the company went bankrupt.
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The companies prefer two parties because then the can pretend it makes a difference as to how you vote. When you have bought both it doesn't make much difference as to which one wins now does it.
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Are you part of the Lyndon LaRouche cultural marxism conspiracy movement?
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@adrianmorning.1555 Competition between the capitalist will destroy the WEF. The workers need to organize and take workers control of industry not worry about meetings of the elite bosses of world production and trade.
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He tells ruling and middle class conservatives what they want to hear capitalist and its outcome are just because it's true. The fact that is he spent he spent years as a self described "Marxist" in the 1950's who only saw the light after age 30 at the end of graduate school. He became an opponent of the Cuban revolution, any actions by Blacks after the passage of the 1965 civil rights act and Fidel Castro whom Sowell would later accuse of holding a Sword of Damocles over the heads of Elon Gonzales family.
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@moonovermiami9787 Fox does what Murdock wants. Like Musk and the Billionaire class they are beginning to fear the working class. The fear what Karl Marx said about the workers needing to win the battle of Democracy. They fear workers organizing into a class and making decisions based on human solidarity instead of profits.
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It's basically immoral to give the workers anything but a low wage while the Industrialists like GM and the Banks are to big to fail. Free money from the printing presses of the GPO via the Federal Reserve for junk bonds headed for the paper shredder. Obama needed a good name so it became Quantitative Easing.
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The are two different versions of capitalist reformism. One lead the labor movement into the blind alley of Imperialist war behind its own ruling class while the other became a counter revolutionary reaction with in the Soviet Union by a privileged bureaucracy arising out of the conditions of poverty create by the civil war and invasion by all the capitalist powers of Europe and the United States.
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Police serve the ruling class used to bust unions and breakup protests of ruling class policy they are not socialist. Military and CIA defend foreign investment are also not socialist. A certain number of thing can't be done directly by capitalism. The capitalist system needs roads to move goods in commerce but building toll roads only resulted in early toll road builders going bankrupt. Much like city transit systems. So it became a government function to build roads and subsidize transit. With schools you keep the workers children busy. You can't invest in schools and make a profit because you can't use machines to replace the teachers labor and lower the price of education.
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The way capitalism works is to privatize profit and to socialize costs. I don't need to spend money taking courses by bourgeois professors spewing nonsense in defense of capitalism. One can educate themselves on economic subjects by reading the writings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The Northern Industrialist took full control of the US government with the Lincoln Administration and smashed their former partners in crime the Southern Slavocracy. So why didn't the capitalists just build roads your way? In fact why doesn't a big Wall Street firm get New York to privatise at least Wall street and charge everyone to walk or drive down the street? Sounds like a good scam to me with the clearly capitalist Bloomberg administration what was preventing it? What you propose is a fascist like government much like the old Duvalier government in Haiti. There the police paid themselves by taking whatever they wanted. Or Private Police like the Pennsylvania Coal and Iron police and Pinkerton strikebreakers? "Smart Companies" you mean like those companies with artificial intelligence running the board of directors.
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Obviously economics 101 fails when it comes to roads. Early England and America had turnpikes with someone collecting money to use the road. You could at the least make every bridge a toll bridge but don't because unlike a factory the bridge combined with the toll collector doesn't produce anything. He collects a toll based upon the past cost to build the bridge which would be a rent. It was decided long ago that the best way to build roads and bridges was with government and experts making the decisions to build, private road companies doing the building and financing done with tax money mostly from motor fuel taxes and bonds predicated on the tax money paying off the bonds. The capitalist investors love bonds that come with government guarantees because the risk is very low.
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Like how capitalism is suppose to work until it doesn't.
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In 1928 Trotsky warned that the Soviet Union could be brought down by not just by war but also by cheap capitalist goods. That's why the whole idea of building Socialism in one country was utopian. Stalin betrayed the revolution and as Fidel Castro stated the Soviet Party never properly dealt with the injustices of the Stalin era.
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@michaelwarenycia7588 Stalin is the commander who refused the order to advance given at the time the Trotsky and Red army reached the gates of Warsaw. Had the revolution reached Germany than the Soviets would have had a contiguous economic area that included an advanced capitalist nation. Capitalism has the problem of greedy ruling classes using war to advance their competing economic interests. That was the whole reason the Russian revolution occurred. In the US Labor leader Eugene Debs was imprisoned for opposing the Imperialist war. The same thin happened to the American Trotskyist in 1940. The Stalinists applauded FDRs action at the end of the war instead of shaking the hands of the monopolists they were sent to prison for 5 year terms.
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Up the minimum wage.
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They keep wages down by firing people. They call it management rights. If you refuse to leave the property they call out the forces of law and order who take you to jail for trespassing. Simple isn't it. Unless you belong to a union. With a Union the bosses have to deal with all the workers or none of the workers.
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Lou G I don't understand what does raising the minimum wage have to do with the price of service calls? Maybe this is why people think of you as unable to understand economics? Don't go into business because you obvious don't understand how business works.
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Why not lock him up with the gold in Fort Knox then?
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Bosses take out loans based upon property value as collateral so they can avoid income taxes meanwhile central bank generated inflation makes the property value rise canceling out the interest payment on the loans. Profits are merely unpaid wages.
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@1alethiastjoan Henry Ford received the Order of the German Eagle and Joe Kennedy Sr. told FDR Hitler was someone you could do business with. Churchill had Canada build internment camps for Germans.
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Of course because rogue operators and thieves have to be stopped.
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@jeffsingleton88 A higher minimum wage will boost all wages and your insults about it being a slack ass gravy job show only your anti working bias. I'd like to see you spend a day stocking shelves and helping customers or spending all day behind a register. No you wouldn't do it. It would be to much work for you. I am sure a middle class intellectual like you thinks his fancy education makes him entitled to his privileges. You think you'd replace two or three people by doing what? Running at spriters speed when the skill needed is to last for a marathon. They'd be taking you away in the meat wagon after you tripped and fell over something that was left on the floor.
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@jeffsingleton88 Go for it bro! Probably form the UA number 14 shoe and number 2 hat.
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@jeffsingleton88 Look this is Wal-Mart's hiring time you can get a part time job on the weekends or nights and since your Union you can be part of an organizing drive. WalMart just lost two rulings one is they have to allow union buttons on uniforms and the second is cashiers in California have to be allowed to sit on stools.
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@jeffsingleton88 I wouldn't ask you to do something if I wasn't willing to do it also. I've also been out looking for a job today.
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@jeffsingleton88 What makes you think I don't pay union dues?
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@jeffsingleton88 I'm philosophically beyond just a trade unionist, Bernie Sanders Socialist, or Stalinist to a revolutionist. I've been a member of a number of different unions in my life. Our purpose is to patiently explain why the workers must go beyond just battling for wage increases but to get rid of the wage system altogether. That the capitalist system is maintained through a combination of lies and police violence. That the solution is to overthrow that system by establishing a workers and farmers government and then a workers state. So our goal isn't to be a trade union secretary but a tribune of the people who can advance and lead that struggle.
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The cops know that they can not bite the hand that feeds them.
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"That’s not what the working blue collared class wants dumbass." They majority of workers don't want socialism today. If the did we would be in a state of dual power. They do and have been more interested in discussing and entering politics since 2008. Our ideas get a hearing because they speak to the needs of the working class. Our party is overwhelming made of worker bolsheviks. Our paper themilitant.com covers the struggles of the working class. Trump's election doesn't mean they are going anti immigrant or rascist either.
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@davidshepherd8917 The struggle for women's rights is part of the overall class struggle of the proletariat to overthrow capitalist rule and build socialism.
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@GlynDwr-d4h Bosses seek to work us at the fastest rate, the longest hours at the lowest wages in a pay period to make the biggest profits. They only want to pay just enough to get you to come back to work for the next pay period. They spend billions on weapons for dictatorships to defend their world wide system of exploitation. Yet healthcare for the working class is too expensive. Over 5 trillion dollars was spent on the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq creating millions of refugees.
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@impulseelectrobrine1259 Why should the capitalist give anything up without a struggle against them. They are driven by greed not altruism. They require you to produce more for them in a pay period otherwise they would fire you and hire someone who could give them more output. As far as they are concerned just enough to get you come to work for another pay period is what they want to pay. They want out of us the longest hours at the fastest pace for the lowest wage the minimum needed to reproduce your labor. If you can't have a family well they've got more immigrants because of the failure of the system in other parts of the world.
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@Z3r0Sk83r Sowell is just a mouthpiece for the bosses.
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@Ekrindul The destruction of the developed world due to world war two along with the betrayal of the Stalinist and Social Democratic leaders in the world allowed the American capitalist to build a new Empire. The capitalist expansion allowed wages to rise with productivity until 1973. This was when the post war boom would end as the workers wages would stagnate and then decline with the crisis of 2008. The 1945 Breton Woods old standard agreement would be shelved for the central bank inflationary robbery of the working class to pay for profit hungry needs of capitalist investors. The Federal Reserve itself is the source of my statistics. The CPI is continually revised to make inflation appear to be lees than what it really is along with how the unemployed are counted.
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@Ekrindul You hobby is playing the guitar. I get pleasure from being part of the working class struggle to overthrow capitalist rule and replace it with the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Imperialist War museum.
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The US Imperialist bosses are obsessed with communism the are only interested in Democracy that produces the right outcomes for them. They in fact encourage and prolong civil wars to defend their Imperialist profit system. That is the whole purpose of the CIA to begin with.
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@Joshukend CCP is a Communist Party for the Capitalist. CCP can't train cadre so it educates students in the ideas of Western Imperialism. Says 996 is tenet of socialism not capitalist exploitation.
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@rip_conf6186 Do you see any political oppression? Her father ran a bus into an embassy. Go to Washington and run a bus into an embassy and see if you don't get put in prison.
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@ceu160193 And when every market is full what happens then? Trade war and then comes world war all brought to you by capitalism.
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@austin7037 A full market is when nothing more can be sold at a profit. Every capitalist wants to make a profit but because of the way capitalism works every capitalist looks for signs that a market has reached the point where continued production will not result in creating more commodities than can be sold at a profit. To continue further would result in losses. So production halts despite needs.
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@austin7037 Considering the unions in New England had fought to keep the blue laws in place that prohibited non essential Sunday work until at least the late 1960's and early 1970's I'd say religion failed to halt the introduction of retail work on Sundays in Arkansas and other parts of the country first while the unions fought it until bosses filed law suites and made arguments claiming religion was interfering with business profits in the New England states.
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@austin7037 Ford Motor company in the 1930's. The same happens to thousands of businesses during a recession. Suddenly their is no market for their product. You might want to listen what Titan Gilroy of Titan CNC has to say about how the 2008 crisis affected him and his company. I don't agree with either his conclusions or his solutions but it is a look into the mind of a businessman who suddenly finds no market for his product.
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@norobbery I wonder where the innovations are in selling groceries? Most likely the ability to hire workers a close to minimum wage? Since the civil war the Industrialist and then eventually the finance capitalists have been in control of the US government. When FDR passed the acts and reforms in the 1930's it was to save capitalism not to usher in socialism/communism. FDR was often quoted as being the friend of the businessman. By setting a minimum wage and outlawing child labor this prevents the furthering of a class of exploited peons. When it was first passed in 1938 its secondary reason was to slow the growth of unionization by the CIO industrial union movement. This blaming of the intellectuals for the problems of capitalism is just an exposure of capitalism not needing educated workers but workers who follow orders which is what the school system is suppose to create.
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@norobbery Capitalism destroyed agricultural slavery in favor of the wage labor, tenant farming, free farmers and industrial farms. Tenant farming in the US has all but been totally destroyed by mechanization and small farmers are driven off the land by government policies favoring the industrial large scale farming and imported food.
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What days a worker gets off depend on the industry. Construction workers seldom work overtime, nights or weekends.
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This is such a pack of lies one doesn't know where to begin. Stalin murdered almost all of Lenin's closest comrades in the 1936 Moscow Trials. All were accused of Trotskyism.
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@Lwilight Trotsky wrote the Permanent Revolution in 1905 which totally rejects the need for a capitalist stage in line with Lenin's April 1917 Thesis. It was Stalin who would return to the discredited two stage menshevik theory that would lead to defeats in the 1930's Popular Fronts Against Fascism. It was exactly theses fronts of discredited leaders of Social Democracy, Stalinists and Liberals who would refuse to halt the fascist threat with the mass mobilization of the workers and farmers to take state power like the bolsheviks did in Oct 1917.
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Laws favoring illegals? No one is illegal because of the presumption of innocence. If you believe in guilty till proven innocent than law would be turned on its head into a police state where you would need to first prove innocence rather than the state proving guilt. The US government has signed various international treaties that make it a party to due process plus the supreme court has ruled that with the exception of voting and jury service all rights (not privileges) are applicable to all persons under its jurisdiction.
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Should the government decide that 'illegals' don't have rights than foreign nations may apply the same standards to American's in their countries. Maybe it won't affect you directly but it could certainly apply to foreign trade.
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As for violence and drugs there is already enough laws to arrest and prosecute people for committing violent and drug crimes. Most people in jail are Christians so should we write special laws to go after Christians law breakers?
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You need to get rid of capitalism on a world scale. The whole paying out profits to private investors is what will eventually bring capitalism itself to an end as machines replace skilled with unskilled labor. The rate of profit must decline. Hiding the old fashion wage cut with inflation is just the newest trick of capitalist government.
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@JG-zt3cg You've only proved the inability to escape "Imperialism" as "the highest stage of capitalism." The American Imperialist had the chance to consolidate with the final betrayal of the Stalinist leadership in Russia and instead you just created new Imperial capitalist competition for yourselves. Now you are crying that the Chinese are becoming stronger than you in the world market and taking your place in the drive for profits from the neo colonial world. Instead of a New World Order you have nothing but a New World Disorder. If your economy was so good you would have inserections, Donald Trump and sleepy Joe Biden. Big shots like George Soros wouldn't be talking about the "End of Our Civilization" and Biden would be giving UN speeches where he says "Democracy is not Dead" and others capitalist figures wouldn't be talking about a "national debt crisis" and urging the buying of gold and silver as insurance against a coming collapse. The days of the true believer in God and markets are waning. The rise of the working class to state power began in 1917 and has not ended. Today Cuba leads an undefeated communist movement just 90 miles from the biggest Imperialist Empire in Human history.
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@cenecasful Trump is a traitor to the Democratic Party elitists. They can't stand that he exposed the hypocrisy of Queen Hilary the first.
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Most of the cities are under Democratic control so why would you build a large warehouse outside of a city area? Would in make sense to put it in the sand hills of Nebraska or Somewhere in the middle of Nevada? You'd need a whole infrastructure to build a company town in the middle of no where.
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He tells the middle class supports of American capitalism what they love hear about themselves and the capitalist system. He confirms their deepest beliefs in Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Superman.
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So your an unedcated boob who knows nothing about Marx.
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@HyBr1dRaNg3r Lenin methods of politics were not the same as those of Stalin. For Lenin what was required was patient explanation and discussion followed by a vote if needed. For Stalin it was the claim of infallibility of his leadership and the widespread use censorship. .It was Lenin who first called for the removal of Stalin from his post as General Secratary followed by Trotsky.
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@armintanzarian3924 We issue birth not conception certificates. All this is is bourgeois hypocrisy reborn. The majority of abortions are carried out by pill not surgery. So expect a new war on drugs waged from the pulpit.
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G Schulz Sure Trump would of held a parade of fools fo Imperialism.
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@AR-hj7sm Like the man said Trump was busy golfing. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant were Great Presidents. Trump was nothing but a capitalist hustler who spent most of his life ripping off people with gambling casinos and in business deals.
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@chanelnumba_5 Biden obviously was the candidate of the unholy alliance of liberals, anti Trump conservatives and progressive fools. He was everything to everyone and nothing to anybody. The advantage of centrism of anykind is the whole meaningless of it.
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The Supreme Court has already ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark. Trump doesn't know what he is talking about.
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@robtoyos76 Trump's policies are those of a ruling class no longer fit to rule.
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@mybrotherkeeper1484 Sure what they need to hear is more propaganda on what has never existed a "free market".
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Apparently Canada now see's the US Constitution as applying in Venezuela. US needs ten more states and three territories.
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@mikearchibald744 The problem is how do we convince Blacks Capitalism has something to offer them and how do we train the generation of the ruling class.
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I'd like to know where this free market that he talks so much about is?
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@117JamesRoss You mean like the stuff that Sowell says about the workers not be exploited by the capitalists.
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This shows that 70 years of capitalism and riches for the capitalist ruling class does nothing but create misery for the great majority.
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@investigate311comittee No their is no greedy ruling class in Cuba. The reason being they had a socialist revolution that put the working class and peasants in charge. Washington fears them just like they are starting to fear the working class majority here. All you are is a cynical bourgeois anyhow. Someone who thinks only greed motivates human beings and is himself so privileged he has to throw stones at anyone who doesn't think like him. Communism is a movement and we've already had success in making deep inroads on private property rights like legal trade unions and legal strikes, SS, Medicare, UI and Workmen's comp. All those are part of the workers social wage your class had to give up to us after bitter strikes and battles during the past. You say we can't have universal healthcare now and Cuba proves we can. You say educating workers is tooooo expensive and we need to pay though the nose and Cuba proves that wrong. The thing that's costing to much is wall street, Bill Gates, Trump, Soros and your do nothing investors. Stalin is dead and the movement he lead is dying as is the rotten Social Democrats. Long live the Cuban revolution!!! Long live the ideas of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Fidel Castro. The Imperialist days are numbered.
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@siduk2636 They're all part of the exploiting capitalist class.
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@ThomasSowellTV You promote the bald face lies told by Stalin about the Tartar and Volga Germans no doubt because Sowell most likely was a one time intelectual admirer of Marx who believed the lies about a communist takeover of the US Government being told by Joe McCarthy and hopped he could get in on the action at the US labor department.
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@wesleyc.4937 Today Democratic Party liberals will use this against Trump tomorrow the will use this against labor opposition. Exaggerating threats is a common theme among political scoundrels. Trump was never under Russian control and while the FBI maybe a welcome part of the Democratic Party and Never Trump Republicans. Trump didn't expect that he would be sharing power with the political police.
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@itsjob595 He says he wants back what is his now who knows if the FBI didn't drop stuff all over on the floor when the do the usual ransacking of a search and have who knows what in folders marked secret or top secret or whatever. when the picked it off the floor. The took passports and then had to return them. When the cops conduct a search they are known for creating a gigantic mess.
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@davemurray2880 The US Gov't is a dictatorship of capital. The big money donors of the Democrat and Republican Parties control government and create a fixed game.
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To drive profits his way the capitalist must always seek to cut the labor time needed to produce but since the market is limited then he finds that his invested capital has risen while the labor time which is the source of the profit has gone down as does the skill since he replaces higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first because the price sinks toward the cost of production than his rate of profit must also decline. This is how they become too big to fail and need bailouts. The capitalist created the central bank and then central bank generated inflation to try and solve this problem which as no solution other than the end of finance capitalism the most parasitic of all capitalisms. They can not help create all kinds of problems by placing bets on stock and all kinds of financial products which are nothing more than fictitious capital tha has the problem of collapse in value caused by the undeling crisis of overproduction of commodities for markets that have no additional buyers. In order to save themselves from competition they have developed the most horrible labor savings measure of war like the nuclear weapons, drone bombers and the guided missiles.
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It lost its internation border rights when it became a state though annexation. The constitution makes Congress and the federal government responsible for foreign policy and naturalization.
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@nickshowman1181 That falls under the regulation of trade. The Supreme Court has already ruled that way. Do you want to turn the Court into a legislature also? We aren't Canada where anything the monarchy, parliament, the courts do is the law.
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@blackprince4074 Politicians are bought and sold to do the bosses bidding just because capitalism goes into crisis doesn't mean the bosses were pursuing their profit maximization goals.
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@Brad_Jenkins Grow some uterus's bud1 And you need to adopt more children because there are already to many orphans and I'm sure you have adopted as many as possible. Plus all those right to life protesters need to adopt more.
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@Brad_Jenkins Right On!!!!
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Donald Bailey The Data: 35 million out of work. The evidence: No deep capitalist economic crisis has every recovered with out a world war.
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Donald Bailey No because i don't believe the rest of the passage about angels. Second the Chinese PLA ground forces numbers just under 1 million. No one has an army approaching 200,000,000. two hundred million.
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Donald Bailey First that's sour grapes speculation. Your the one who told me this was food for thought so now your unhappy with my food for thought. Yahoo Answers is hardly an authoritative source for anything. The entire population can't leave for a war. Someone has to supply and feed your 200,000.000 person army. Unless your in a civil war or facing an invasion having the whole population armed isn't worth the resources spent on doing so. By definition an army is an armed force not a civilian economic force which makes an army possible. If we use your definition than the US could also have the 200,000,000 member army. Considering the number of fire arms owned by US civilians we already have your 200,000,000 army. Everyone also has access to a knife in the US also which makes a better weapon in close combat than your pitchfork. It's just another so called bible prediction that means absolutely nothing.
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Donald Bailey "The entire population, if someone decides to tell them to pick up a gun (or pitchfork) and attack. That's the difference between them and us." Right you wouldn't pick up a gun because you a non violent Christian alter boy who marches around with a cross stopping every 10 minutes to cross himself and say the lords prayer.
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Donald Bailey You've gone off your rocker now. Seek professional help before the money changers at Bank of America cancel your credit card and repo your car.
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Donald Bailey Look you lost 'the food for thought' statement because you just assumed China had a 200,000,000 PLA and when it turned out you were wrong you went nuts. Then claiming that only China could have such an army. Then once again using your new criteria the US could also have such an army. Your problem is you can't shut people like me up not any choices you provide. I make the educated look like fools because I'm a reader and a communist without a degree. I have better things to do than waste my time with someone lacks any kind of knowledge besides propaganda insults.
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@JorgeDiaz-cf1go You've lived counter revolutionary crying for an Imperialist intervention in Cuba.
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If Venezuela was run by a brutal dictatorship then the USA would be their best friends like Saudi Arabia.
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@vincentnord5914 Where was Trumps 737?
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Tacitus Kilgore Did you get thew? because I usually have a hard time reaching her on the phone.
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@Dennis The Red Menace Just another smear.
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@fasteddie9055 As far as the rest of the ruling class is concerned Trump is a traitor to their policies of global finical domination. If anyone is moving towards the tactics of fascism its the liberal democrats. They deem themselves the product of a meritocracy and not a classed based system of oppression in return for privilege.
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@Sinnbad21 Public education of the young was made possible by ending child labor. Mass education was not important with capitalism where as it is essential to socialism. The trade union is the workers school for political economy.
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@Sinnbad21 Look obviously its a stupid saying. Then again a Democratic socialist is a somebody who's afraid of being called a commie.
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@Sinnbad21 Anybody who thinks the Kingdom of Sweeden is socialist needs their head examined.
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@JM-fo1te The important thing to do is to fight back for free speech and discussion for all. Those with confidence in their ideas have no reason to fear free and open debate. I makes no difference if you voted for or against Trump the liberals are attacking the constitutional rights of working people using "the insurrection" as an excuse. Today it's Trump supporters tomorrow it's you.
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@mayhemjr.803 Just what can someone with your screen name teach?
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@saradadhakal4748 Capitalist are greedy. Our protests and organization is what has ended child labor in the US and part of the world. When US companies go abroad they drop labor standards because capitalist are greedy. Class struggle ends child labor. Child labor in factories began with the industrial revolution. There were no factories before the industrial revolution. Capitalism stopped improving life for the working class with wage stagnation beginning in 1973. Our Union leaders have refused to organize a fight back.
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@super8mate Our union leaders and those of Black workers have refused to lead a united battle against these policies but instead corralling votes for Democrats as "Friend of Labor". With friends like them who needs enemies? .
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They can't export everything and we can organize foreign born workers into unions both here and abroad.
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When the cops pick up your ass you'll be the first to cry.
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@brianlevine249 Most of those foreign cars are made here.
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@brianlevine249 UAW obligation is to its members first. Nor am I fooled by the quality or progressive images of Japanese or German auto bosses. They are out to make themselves profits like any other group of capitalists. Auto bosses like you are the entitled ones who have a college degree and think they are part of a meritocracy.
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Approved by Chamber of Commerce Bosses.
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Maybe he should have advised Reagan not to fund terrorists ti begin with?
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@biruss Capitalism with it's system of wage labor has changed the traditional family breaking it up when the economy inevitably contracts.
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@biruss Corruption legal and illegal is just the way capitalism works. The world system goes into a regular crisis of trade and production every seven to ten years. Since 1914 when the Imperialist countries went to war the world capitalist system has been in a continuing political and economic crisis.
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@biruss Animal Farm was written by an ex Trotskyist George Orwell before Stalin's death and the 1953 workers rebellion in East Germany.
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@biruss Capitalism seeks to pay the lowest wages and require the longest hours. They seek to replace higher paid skilled labor first with machines and unskilled labor. This inevitable results in a declining rate of profit on investment because as investment rises then living labor exploited goes down. The capitalist can NOT arbitrate world trade disputes amongst themselves without Imperialist war.
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@biruss Why did the population of Ireland go into deep decline under British capitalist and absentee landlord rule. Capitalism entered its death agony and highest stage Imperialism in 1914 with the first World War for profits and redivision of the colonial world. In fact the "Democratic UK" treated the Irish the way the NAZI Germany did the Jews only for a much longer period of time.
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@biruss It was done for the profits of English landlords and capitalist who were taking food out of Ireland while the Irish starved at the side of the road. They used the same excuses that the American capitalist liberal and conservative use when talking about how lazy the American working class is.
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@scarletsletter4466 Correct.
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@JimmyMon666 We are living through the death agony of capitalism.
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Libraries not Landfills.
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Busy running more coverups of profit hungry bosses using two capitalist politicians and laws to increase the bosses profit take.
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I suppose than we will than need to take out eviction or foreclosure notices on fetuses. Who do we then send the 'notice to quit"? The Pope or The President or The Supreme Court?
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No he did not he never sent terrorists to attack the United States or tried to assassinate US Presidents like they did to him and Cuba.
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@aniinnrchoque1861 Right I read about how people complain about petty fees after leaving when they got a free education that would have cost anywhere from up to $200,000 in the US to get to "greener pastures". The USSR never had nuclear arms in Cuba either plans to deploy them secretly by Kruschev were scuttled by Kruschev. What is wrong with socialism? Should we keep a system where greedy capitalist use military force to maximize profits. I don't agree with many of the things Stalin and others did but I'm not so foolish as to condemn Fidel for doing what is necessary to advance the cause of justice and humanity. Cuban soldiers went to Africa to defeat Apartheid South Africa while Reagan sent arms to the racist regime and screamed about the Soviet Union. .
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@aniinnrchoque1861 The United State CIA and its agents carried out terrorist attacks against Cuba including the bombing of Cubana flight 455. The United States sent Alabama National guard bombers with U S pilots repainted in Cuban colors and bombed Cuba. The United State trained mercenaries to invade the island at Playa Giron. All of theses crimes have been confirmed by the criminals themselves in the US Congress and the US free press. .Kennedy also said privately that Soviet missiles could hit the United States from Soviet bases within the Soviet Union and only the United States has ever used those weapons quit needlessly on an already defeated Japan.
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@peabase You've got liberals in the UK running the so called British Labor "Imperialist" Party. Ever since Tony Blair said you run the Trade Unions and we will run the New Labor Party. Its like the Democrats just a bunch of middle class fools who talk socialism will supporting capitalism.
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@peabase Oh so you are anther one of those who has risen above the class struggle is so European in thinking no doubt. Such a culturally advanced human thinker. Aren't you going to tell us about your PHD and maybe how they promoted you into think tank material? Why are you keeping us all in suspense?.Everyone is waiting tio here the new political solution.
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Yes let's get rid of this evil central planning and let the railroads run when every they want to because we can make them like the internent and do switching so everyone arraves where they want when they want?
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The problem with education is bosses don't need educated workers they need order takers. UNION YES!
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@Stoicsaiyan No one is starving in Cuba. Stop repeating lies made up by the United States. .
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@johnsmith6974 Wa Wa Wa another boss crying over his right to exploit being interfered with by a union workforce.
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@DanielMartinez-nv5vo "Why do you have to decide how much a person pays to another?" That decision is made in the class struggle between the workers and the bosses. The bosses would like to able to control your life and command every economic decision you make unfortunately from them we aren't just machines made out of meat.
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@Philo Jones ."..to command a very healthy salary...." So we now have a boss admistion that low salaries are unhealthy.
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@Philo Jones ."..Try relocating to N. Korea or Venezuela if you find working in America so intolerable..." How many US heavy bomber missions in Korea were used to complete destroy all territory not under the puppet regimes control. What kind of democrat orders napalming, civilian massacres and destruction of his own people and country? Since the French revolution France has had five republics south Korea has had six. The CIA has to evacuate South Korean Presidential puppets to the safety of Hawaii beaches with plenty of Coca Cola after mass protests surround the Presidential Blue House.
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@Philo Jones "...Try relocating to N. Korea or Venezuela if you find working in America so intolerable..." Venezuela is rich in oil but naturally any attempt by the local people to gain control of the oil wealth must be stopped. Oil company executives know what is best for the people in the OPEC countries just as they know what the price of gasoline should be and how many pollution controls are needed in Jersey and the acceptable rate of refinery explosions.
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@Philo Jones "...Try relocating to N. Korea or Venezuela if you find working in America so intolerable..." To bad you can't deport me and my ideas so you could have a "commie free country"' as dreamed of by your two corrupt capitalist parties and FBI (American Gestapo) heads from J. Edgar Hoover, Mueller, Comey and the rest of the so called 'intelligence" (dumb cop) agencies.
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@Philo Jones You logic is that of boss who fears the working class. "...thousands of foreigners eager to take your place..." That's another boss admission that the low wage big profit system is enabled by competition for your jobs. Your Empire is based in the US so you have to more careful with the exploitation here since a militant labor movement will ignore greedy boss needs for profit like the sitdown strikers and citywide general strikes of the Great Depression.
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@Philo Jones You boss government of FDR cared nothing about the 1936 to 1938 purge trials in Stalin's Russian. Trotsky was Stalin's biggest critic and all the purge victim were charged with Trotskyism. Trotsky spent his last years in Mexico and initially the Congressional Dies committee was going to call Trotsky for testimony until they realized he wasn't going to provide a white wash of capitalist exploitation. After Trotsky was murdered by the NKVD even his dead body was considered a US national security risk that could not be imported dead or alive.
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If your ruling class had such care for the masses of people in China after the People republic was declared your General Macarthur wouldn't have openly called for the nuclear bombing of Chinese cities and creation of a radioactive barrier along the Yalu river boundary. FDR and Churchill had no problem with Stalin as long as he was battling your "world free market" competition of Fascist Italy, Germany and Japan. Once NAZI Germany was defeated then the cold war began because you couldn't be certain of winning a hot war with Stalin.
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Your Hero President Kennedy brought the world to the brink of nuclear war because Fidel Castro defeated a US greenlighted coup monster, the military dictator General Batista, then refused to reinergated his police torture monsters into the new Cuban state. Instead they went on trial for the war crimes they had committed in trials open to the world press. It cost twenty thousand lives to get rid of Batista but you shed croakadile tears for the Cuban brand of torture cops like Police Commander Jon Burge of Chicago.
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@Philo Jones They said Johnson was the "Peace candidate" because Barry Goldwater stated be would have no problem using Nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
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@tomzorba3752 Sure they love telling you how much more they'd like to pay you then the excuse is they're being limited by those above.
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@namenotfound8747 There was no "Greatest Generation" unless you call bruning up most of the industrail world in the second WW great. That is just propaganda regarding the second Imperialist war which made US capitalism the supreme Empire in the world. Germany lost the Thousand Year Reich while the US won the American century. I didn't get my full social security til age 66. The government takes in social security money and spends 2/3 while putting the other 1/3 into the General Receipts then issuing a trust fund bond at 8%.
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@namenotfound8747 "Capitalism had nothing to do with a generation that today has a house they own, a pension they are entitled to, and welfare safety blanket that keeps you off the streets." Only a complete fool would make such a statement. A half a million people are homeless in the US. Then again you see yourself as an entitled consumer not a worker. You may not be lazy but your lack of insight is astounding. I live in a camp trailer and own a truck. Technically I am homeless because I live in a vehicle but yes I could live in a shoebox housing for the elderly. When I pass my wife will have no choice other than to live in a nursing home because of the waiting list for shoe box apartments. She and I like our current way of life. Take a trip to the average nursing home not the ones built for the better off and then tell me what a wonderful life most of us have to look forward to. The let you keep $30 a month at the nursing home. Usually they force spend it on haircuts and hairdressing.
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@namenotfound8747 No I did not start the war in Vietnam and when I reached age 18 I did all I could to stop it. Come back when you can tell me something you actually did besides cry about me. I drove Black children past racist mobs. I helped organize the lettuce boycott You know nothing of the struggles I went through to stay out of homeless shelters and not burden my family. The entitled one is you and the rest of your meritocracy sitting behind big desks and comfy chairs on Wall Street. If US Imperialism is weaker because of me that is a honor i will gladly take to the grave. MR Posion Ivy League.
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@namenotfound8747 Your nothing more than part of a decedent ruling class whose days are numbered by a coming socialist revolution that will destroy the Empire's power.
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They just go around the wall and rush the boarder by the bridges.
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@Kenneth Hobbs How's your friend Alex Jones doing?
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The ruling class only cares about themselves. They have no problem getting and paying for monthly all manner of checkups. We are just cogs in the wheel that can be replaced.
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@VewySiwwyWabbit Free the Hostages of Hamas so they can testify!!!
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@yourallbrainwashed My slogan is Draft Beer Not Soldiers.
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Amnesty for all immigrants! Put Congress on trial!
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Time for Amnesty for Immigrants. I'm not interested in making deals. Congress should be on trail for being bought off by the rich.
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No I don't think so Fidel Castro knew what he was doing just like Che Guevara did. We are working to build a revolution movement in the United States itself. The goal is to get rid of capitalism.
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Great and before 2008 almost no one outside of the Black and Latino workers in the US were all that interested in Socialism either. Whole different ball game now. Even a halfway socialist like Bernie Sanders was seen as a real possible candidate for president.
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@Avenus112 As Trotsky stated had the Bolsheviks not take power when they did Fascism would be a Russian not an Italian word.
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@hydradragonantivirus No.
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 @PrincepratapsinghRawat-cw5em The British "Imperialist" Labor Party are the tankies now.
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@poempadgett4664 Love how the capitalist class blames their own executive committee (government) for all their problems.
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@tomdalton4293 Republicans like Sowell are nothing but Imperialist hypocrites who represent the Other Party. His lies are just examples of self serving Imperialist propaganda. Hamas billionaires like the American and rest of the middle east billionaires have no need to become librarians or furniture salesmen Sowell seems to think they do. Nor was the Atomic bombing of a defeated Japan by the Democrat Truman necessary or the propping up of Kennedy installed US Military dictatorship in a fictional state of south Vietnam. Israel has a right to defend itself from the Hamas NAZI's backed by the Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran. Sowell has never said a word about FDR's refusal to admit Jewish Refugees.
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@ianrotten4453 "What's Capitalism have to do with hunting and fishing?" Why do they raise fish in hatcheries to stock in rivers? Why the need for game wardens and hunting seasons? How about ocean going fisheries?
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@disoriented1 Capitalist competition for markets and colonies brought on two world wars. Do you want to wait for a third fought with nuclear weapons? The natural workings of capitalism work toward depression and world war.
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Criminalize Obesity You need to purchase a tin foil hat to keep out the bad electromagnetic radiation.
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@ianrotten4453 Half of all human beings on Earth live in cities supported by agriculture. You don't really believe in an advanced capitalist country like the United States that even 1/2 of the population can just return to hunting and fishing do you? Without outside help if suddenly their was no diesel and gas for those tractors and combines never mine rail and semi's you'd see a famine. They don't allow even a minority to hunt and fish at will because in almost no time their would be no large animals to hunt and rivers, streams and lakes would be fished out.
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@Gregarious3 Then why did the banking capitalists and GM take them?
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@ianrotten4453 Communism isn't a doctrine with its holy priests. It is a movement on its way to state power and world socialist revolution. The French revolution was fought in the name of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The Bolshevik was fought in then name of Bread, Land and Peace. Bread for the worker, Land for the Peasant and Peace for the soldier. So it was not Karl Marx who first dreamed of equality nor were we the first to fail at equality either.
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@ianrotten4453 You want a history the goes right on the first try but when you can have that you give up. You ask me what will I do in the face of a collapse so I will tell you this we are already preparing for a revolution that will defeat the system that would create such a collapse and should that not be possible than to take us out of such a collapse with a revolution. TheMilitant.com PathfinderPress.com
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@ianrotten4453 xyz
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@ianrotten4453 Okay have you read the online version of this weeks paper TheMilitant.com and set a protest letter to the Indiana Department of Corrections?
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@FreedomAndPeaceOnly I a small island just 90 miles from the Empire proves that statement false.
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@celsus7979 Sowell has a cult following who talk of him as a legend and a national treasure because he is one of the very few Black conservative intellectuals. Everything he says is seen as proof of the second coming of Christ as a business tycoon and confirmation of American exceptionalism.
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@celsus7979 He also fails to note that capitalism with its market ups and downs breaks up families because the bosses seek to pay the lowest wages which is just the wage needed to get you to return to work the next week. So why would a boss want to pay for a whole family if he could get a single worker to do the work?
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@Xbalanque84 You problem is that even Sowell can't ignore Karl Marx. The source of the capitalist profit is the exploitation of the working class. That fundamental truth is experienced by the workers along with the other shortsighted actions that the capitalist take to maximize the rate of profit. Capitalism is based in nation states and creates an ever bigger working class along with an ever wealthier and smaller national ruling class. Capitalism develops the world in an uneven and combined way. They ruling classes must wage economic competition for the world market and the can not avoid turning the nations competition into a military war for the advanced capitalist nations ruling class. That's why the Russian Bolsheviks said turn the guns around and fight your own ruling class. Establish a workers and farmers Republic without the capitalist class.
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@henryspragge The step in precisely because they failed in thore risk taking.
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@henryspragge What the do on Wall Street is the bet on the outcome of different companies and managements being able to increase shareholder value or payment of future dividends. Now they try and speculate on which will rise and which will fall and place their money in purchasing that stock or in some instances a hedge fund which is much like a hedge in gambling also called a side bet. You can also put up money that says this company will do poorly. That's called shorting. A lot of people were betting on stocks related to housing because the "wisdom" told them home real estate value always rises. Of course some began to bet against that and then the whole investment began to collapse when housing prices got way to high and people couldn't pay. The whole thing then also went against housing real estate and into the crisis of 2008. When you gamble at the casino you take a risk now at the casino you know the house always wins. In the case of the stock market its not so simple no one can really predict exactly what will happen. We can look back and say well this happened because of driving up value of something way beyond its underlying labor value. The Dutch Tulip bulb crisis was the first such crisis back in the 1600's. People kept bidding up the value of tulip bulbs until the price collapsed causing an economic crisis in the then Dutch Republic. .
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@firefly9838 See the problem is they need immigrants now because jobs don't provide enough money and time off to have a family. Of course having too many is also a problem because the money bags will have to pay out bigger social costs which cost them profits. After all you realize its all their money they are the ones who own and control the Federal Reserve bank your just a working customer of the bosses and bankers.
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@sabinogarcia6362 Fidel Castro kicked out a cruel US Military Dictator General General Batista. US Presidents have been unable to accept their loss even after 61 years. They continue the blockade of the country.
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A minority of workers in a workplace have to first decide they want to have a union. Then they will need to go about convincing the majority then need to have a union. The UAW CIO got it first one page contact with GM as a result of the great Flint sit down strikes. He is already creating a lords and peasants regime by making a few into millionaires with company stock. .
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Like Sowell at the Stanford Hoover Institute?
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@javlynblue2024 My opinion is his liberal professors played him when they got him a job at the US Labor Department and he discovered it wasn't a hot bed of communist revolutionaries. It was 1960 so how could you think you were a Marxist and not go to Cuba or talk with the Fair Play for Cuba committee in Chicago?
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@javlynblue2024 What makes you think we want to take over the US Dept of Labor?
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@javlynblue2024 Youtube banned me the day after Biden won the election. Its been an on again off again thing with them. Then never give a reason. What they do now is stop any debates that there censors don't like.
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I see your idea clearly a tariff on Kellogg's Corn Flakes from Battle Creek, MI will solve our problems.
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@Plague-Overlord Reagan signed the Mumfort Act a CA gun control Act directed against the Black Panthers. The FBI is America's dirty tricks and political burglary agencie.
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@djcoote76 The two parties in their fake fight against Stalinism in the 1950's though people in prison and had them fired from their jobs for being Communists. The target of the which hunt like the current one being waged against Trump is the working class and the trade unions.
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@genericscout5408 Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism.
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@shauncameron8390 Pol Pot was thug and ally of the American Imperialist's and British Imperialists at the UN. Armed by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter.
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@droyston3631 Are your worried about refugees or 600 lb Grizzlys who can outrun Usain Bolt?
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@droyston3631 Texas national Guard and DPS took no prisoners in the during the invasion of Froton Island.
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Paul Ronco The Roe v. Wade decision however is based NOT in a women's or family rights but a doctors ability to practice medicine and viability. That is why it has been under a successful series of attacks since it was decided.
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Exactly the wrong thing to do is to work with the company. That kind of class collaboration was the reasoning behind all the give back contracts. Bosses talking poverty in the midst of plenty.
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@mryhdy6266 No the real question that should be asked is how was it that these communist got the American capitalist help build Soviet socialism?
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@mryhdy6266 We see things in terms of class. The business class is divided by its own desire to profit which requires competition. The working class progresses and makes gains both political and economic though solidarity.
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@mryhdy6266 I've read most or parts of the Marxist classics by Marx, Engles, Lenin, and Trotsky. So yes I've adopted the idea that class struggle is the road to socialism and progress. We are the communist movement which is not a new doctrine of reform but one of historical materialism and revolutionary struggle between the two most important classes in the modern world the industrial proletariat and the capitalists.
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@mryhdy6266 The ups and downs of the economic system awakens the working people to their own self worth and desire for change. Then to advance the struggle we publish a newspaper, books and pamphlets like The Militant and Pathfinder Press. The goal of which Lenin said is so every cook can explain the workings of the state.
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Stossel is unhappy if some one is gaming the system without his university license that got him through the door for the big bucks. What I'd like to know is why he is always so surprised after doing one of his so called journalist videos? He always plays the dumby who is learning something new.
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@ny1t Instead of beggars at the market. Capitalism creates a market for beggars.
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@danielcuellar4909 Shapiro can't sell a mud pie and that proves how dumb he is.
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@colten53 What's the point of learning anything if your going to treated like a dummy anyhow?
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Derek B Sowell clams to have been a Marxist in his 20's but had no problem getting a Government job during the witch hunt.
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@mR-dc4oq The natural way capitalism works destroys families. If a boss can hire just single workers at a certain wage level then why should he pay for the workers whole family? Women create the next generation of young workers. Why not control the cost of reproduction of new workers with welfare and the ban on abortion for poor women to get a better cost benefit ratio? The capitalist look at the cost of replacing us like building roads. They all need roads so they have the government build them with tax money. They all need a source of new workers so they look towards immigration and welfare as the cheapest way to do that.
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Welfare does provide some protection from dog eat dog capitalist competition and for this reason alone the workers should fight to keep it. The real goal should be jobs for all that want work at union wages along with education, medical care and housing as human rights.
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You've been telling lies about Cuba and Fidel Castro for 60 years so what do you expect?
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@ozu2647 McCarthy's real enemy was Johnny Walker RED. He lost his battle at the Bethesda Naval hospital. As a super patriot he just took one to many of shots from the RED.
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@fatpotatoe6039 Capitalism was analizad by Marx and the source of the profit is the unpaid labor of the worker. Capitalism created the wage worker and the capitalist exploits us by keeping and using the profits against us creating class struggle. To drive profits in his direction the capitalist replaces labor with machines but this raises the capital value while lowering the labor necessary to produce from which the profit originates. That results in the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline. Would you like some more facts to digest? Like the capitalist tendency to move in the direction of monopoly? Or maybe the economic implications of Imperialism?
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Ryan Alex When we collect union dues we use the money to fight against the capitalists. We use everything the capitalist have invented against them when we can. We use the arm of criticism to criticize arms. We popularize our ideas using the printing press and free speech. We use all the rights in the US Constitution against the capitalists by fighting for the rights of labor everywhere.
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@Dennis-nc3vw Can't say that I have.
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@fatpotatoe6039 Yes and you libertarian Austrians have nice day living in your dream world that can explain nothing and accomplish even less.
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@fatpotatoe6039 I listened to them talk and you don't really believe that they can stabilize the free market by letting it run wild. That's the whole reason for implementing all kinds of regulations trying stabilize a system that can't possible be stabilized. The only reason it isn't already gone is the Stalinist collaborators and the restart of primitive accumulation after the destruction of WW2. The only thing that they got right is you don't need a dictatorship like Hitler's if you can restart primitive accumulation. Or if you can murder enough revolutionaries like in Spain or Chile than after a period of time you can return to Bourgeois democratic methods. Sure the problem for us is we have to put together a wining leadership and all you have to do is keep from making so many mistakes you make it easy for us.
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@fatpotatoe6039 Your paying me a social wage today because of the 1930's and Minneapolis communism. Class struggle is what we are all about. You've been restrained by the "Vietnam syndrome" anti Imperialism something I personally played a role in creating. Not to mention all the mileage we got out of Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General where we got a capitalist federal judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's AG in contempt of court by putting the FBI and CIA on trial. So much for capitalism bringing freedom and not police state methods.
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@fatpotatoe6039 Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with holy priest and a pre worked out belief system. It is the class struggle going on in front of our very eyes. It proceeds from the immediate needs of the working class and historical facts. Its one sides history of both victory and defeats in that struggle between the two most important classes in modern society the capitalist and working class.
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@fatpotatoe6039 But you do plead or at least your financial class pleads for government intervention when the free market fails to save the free market like Bush/Obama and FDR did. Isn't a business down turn a sign of excess profits and the inability of the workers to buy back all that can be produced? What about the decline in the rate of profit caused by replacing machines with labor? Also you bring up "monetary policy" was their such a thing before the federal reserve act and isn't that what the financiers wanted a central bank with government authority to establish a regulated capitalism. Your own accounting system shows the profits and surplus value originates from our unpaid labor. That is the basic argument that capitalism or wage labor is a class system like slavery just a new one in the disuse created by money and commodity fetishism.
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@fatpotatoe6039 The finance capitalist are essential to modern capitalism. The capital equipment machine tools ectra are produced by labor are they not. Al the capitalist countries have central banks with the US acting as the worlds reserve bank. You can't escape what the BIG capitalist do in the US just because your a little fish in a smaller country somewhere. I don't see how saving "setting aside" produces anything unless we are talking about a natural process like waiting for a tree to grow. In America we have a saying, "money doesn't grow on trees". We are thinking of building an artificial island for the American capitalist to try out new systems of exploitation after the revolution would you like to make a reservation or would you rather deal directly with your own working class in your country?
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@fatpotatoe6039 Saudi Arabia has had seventy years of capitalist oil revenue and riches. Where's the Democracy there? The whole middle East was under direct Imperialist control of the Western powers French and Brutish there is no freedom for the working class in those countries.
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@fatpotatoe6039 The days of classical liberalism ended when capitalism morphed into Imperialism its highest stage. You can't go backwards in history without some kind of calamity that throws back economic development. Thinking you can return to the days Voltaire or Adam Smith is completely ridiculous. Your not Milton Freedom? Well that's nice to know do you have a reason for Fat Potato? Like are you considering a retrun to the days of the British landlord and the Potato famine and explain how a bad British monetary policy was the real problem? Like maybe the Brits shouldn't have allowed Newton to set the value of the pound sterling?
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See you don't understand Marx his method like the scientific method is a guide to action not some predetermined dogma. We don't set up 'systems" like you propose to do. We start with facts and proceed from there. Our ideas are developed from the history of the class struggle itself and the needs of the working class and poor peasants. If we make mistakes and we do we learn from them and do our best not to repeat them. You however have predetermined this classical liberalism as being the best but haven't the slightest way back to it anymore than we can repeat the anarchist revolution in Spain or Tito or China or Cuba. The goal is to create a permanent revolution or a living revolution one that continually moves forward and adjusts as necessary. The American founding fathers though they could do it with a constitution and they talked of they need to have a revolution every so often.
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@PimpingAintEasy1 Capitalism is working the way it must by paying the lowest wages to make the biggest profits to keep raising the value of capital of the few while pushing the working class into poverty. Nixon disconnected the value of the dollar with gold to avoid transferring gold for dollars to the French. Who benefits from inflation but the owners of property while those who are paid wages see their income go into decline.
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@fatpotatoe6039 Only trade offs that's the theory of Thomas Sowell and the conservatives. For them the world can not grow out of capitalism providing them a free lunch. You are witnessing the decline of American Imperialism and its actions based upon the false premise that it had won the cold war. World capitalism is based in nation states and the capitalist of those nations are unable to settle trade disputes outside of Imperialist war. The US was the top dog Imperialist nation at the end of WW2. Now with its decline and increasing capitalist competition from Europe and China the American Imperialist are increasingly divided form their world partners in exploration.
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@fatpotatoe6039 The Austrians or what ever flavor of capitalist economics can not prevent crisis like 2008 because behind every crisis is capitalist greed driving up the value of fictitious capital just like the 1600's Dutch Republics Tulip bulb crisis only to see values collapse. The only real solution is to take things out of the market and to produce for human needs. Those colonial countries you demonize for socialism is due to the fact that they tried to develop using states subsidies which what fools like you call socialism. Sure bosses like you want a return to the gold old days of no social wages since it would be more money in your pockets. The only thing you fools are capable of is creating too big to fail corporations and soaring national debt. All because capitalism demands a free lunch for the bosses.
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@fatpotatoe6039 It's just a theory where the bosses blame all the problems on their own government. The problem is the natural workings of capitalism create an ever smaller greedy capitalist class which needs an ever bigger state apparatus to defend the profits of the ruling class. All kinds of regulations are put in place to defend private property and profits . Markets aren't free but places of conflict. A surveillance state comes into existence to make sure no one is engaging in theft of the employers time or property. This is the kind of dystopian freedom capitalism brings.
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Clinton like her husband would say anything to get elected. Those who voted for political correctness stayed home opened a can of bud and watched the election games on TV.
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She was going to prepare them for low wage jobs that don't exist. Everyone in Kentucky and all the states with snow and ice are going to put up photovoltaic arrays right? Who's going to go up on an icey roof to clear off the photovoltaic arrays in the winter?
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@kennyw871 I worked at Sparrows Point. The Mill used about one 1/3 of the electric power in Baltimore City. Think you can just put a few PV arrays and replace all the power needed to run basic industries and the rest of the power needed for manufacturing? I suppose you could put windshield wipers on PV using up energy or let everyone have paid snow days to stay home and keep the falling snow off your home PV. Remember PV peak power is at noontime corrected for the actual time the sun is directly overhead. You need to store the PV generated power to keep the lights on a at night. PV only works for middle class homeowners who haven't a clue about how much electricity needs to be generated to run industry.
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@anders damin Yang is playing the two class promise game. He is promising you "free money" while promising the rich lower overall social costs. The AI BS is just a scare tactic along with UBI promise designed to drive votes to his campaign.
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@Killinemkid AI is just another way to raise productivity. The bosses have trouble keeping a train on the tracks with a single engineer. What makes you think they can build a safe self driving truck?
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@neverstopgrowing728 That's been going on since the beginning of capitalism. Those firms or branches of Industry that can cut costs by cutting labor time out of cost of production will see profits flow in their direction until the price once again falls to the cost of production. You realize that for AI to work in trucking it requires a lot more than a just a software upgrade to the onboard computer. Is a robot going to get out of the cab every two hours to check the retreads on the nonstering axles?
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@Teekey90 Its been managed based upon profit maximization. As long as the capitalist maintain control of private property they will do everything possible to maximize profits for themselves. That is why they have established the property owners government.
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@filler7149 You what they say "Indecent Exposure" is a crime unless its a Kodak.
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@JoeThompson12345 Capitalism vs Corona Virus TENS OF MILLION OUT OF WORK WORLD WIDE.
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@distantraveller9876 Considering the price of Gold in 1900 was about $20. and it is approaching $2,000. A million here and a million there and pretty soon your talking real money. Its Musk himself who puts out the propaganda about sleeping in his factory and taking a dollar a year salary. All your doing is propping up the fraud of a hard working ruling class meritocracy. What your really describing is some nut case who thinks he is going to be the next Elon Musk.
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@bitman_agent67 They always thinking about the rate of profit when making investment decisions. Many things can effect that rate but because the profit comes from the surplus value our labor produces if a company profit rate suffers the workers are always the first who are blamed. Since the stock market bosses set up all these companies in competition those who can pay the lowest wages and work us the longest hours without a union contact are seen as the most profitable. That is becauses when the buy our labor they only seek to pay what is socially necessary to get us to return to work for the next pay period. When they sell in a market they seek to get back all the costs plus a profit and the best rate of profit considering the money value of the capital invested. They want to hold up market prices of the product or service provided for that reason.
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@xDDufiosy The British merchants sold Indian opium to the Chinese and when the Chinese Emperor said, "No." The British wage a War FOR Drugs. Big Pharma created the opioid crisis making billions off the backs of people with pain. Communism has 10,000 Doctors in the Cuban Latin American School of Medicine today. Capitalism is the gateway to drug addiction.
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@beautyandskincareenthusiast I here they've got a lot of empty buildings in New York.
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@beautyandskincareenthusiast They were on 60 minutes talking about a slow moving train wreck like 2008 caused by Commercial Real Estate and Trump wants zero or negative interest rates for the Club.
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@beautyandskincareenthusiast No you aren't your just out for yourself like Trump because your the type who needs a safe space like him. He's just another Real Estate shark who care only about what they can steal for themselves.
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Sounds like another Rail Boss slogan like Operation Lifesaver.
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Soros ran away with a cool 9 billion pounds Sterling after predicting (creating) a currency crisis and borrowed 1 billion pounds sterling to get 10 billion pounds Sterling. All the big capitalist fear he will take more of their money.
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Why don't you quit pretending to be someone famous?
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@davids11131113 Suicide is against the law. Lay low you may be arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit suicide.
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@Hold Your Breath Fidel Castro would say otherwise.
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@Hold Your Breath He speaks through his books now.
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Tell Warren Buffet greed doesn't pay!!!!
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@nengyang1895 Put you trust in another faker for the capitalist bosses and the system of exploitation war and destruction.
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@scottsrfun One hundred percent profits tax.
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@mikesgoodmann9349 Mikey did you eat your Life cereal today? Grow up big and strong and you might be able to get over the fear of changing a light bulb.
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@mikesgoodmann9349 Stop the lies!!! No lock down in Cuba. End the Blockade of Cuba and all US sanctions against foreign countries. Regime change at home in the United States. Close the US Guantanamo torture center in Cuba!!! Close all 800 US Imperialist Military bases in foreign countries.
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@motheroceant6682 Hamas is a NEO NAZI organization that controls Gaza. Hitler wanted a German third Reich ruling the world. Hamas wants a Muslim Caifate Both used playing the victim and war to get what they want. So telll me why do you want to call a ceasefire on a Neo Nazi military organization that has declared war? .Is it because you are a pacifist?
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Ya if they were so smart then how did these "Brites" like those at Brilliant not foresee and prevent the crisis of 2008? So what these clowns argue is the elites have benefited while everyone else has been bashed. Now we are expected that these same elites are going to do what's best for us.
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How is it illegal if they are crossing into the US at check points and are processed by immigration and Abbot is paying for them to come here?
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It's a witch hunt by the Democratic Party..
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Wages are set from the bottom up not the top down. The only possible increase in government programs involves sueing those who violate the minimum wage law and the cost of new posters in the break room. You say you want regulations to help the "middle class" but you don't want a minimum wage increase because its a government program. The reality is your are probably just another little boss looking for more crumbs from the big bosses table. You want to raise a pauperised middle class well how do you propose to do that? Do you want government regulations to set prices for foremen, engineers and accountants?
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First of all no one flips burgers they're made on an assembly line. Why should McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King get a pass? Do they need to be subsidized by a lower minimum wage? How about retail do you want to give them a pass also? Why? Just because McDonalds pretends their just an employer of the young who cannot find another job. At least the McDonalds workers have the courage to fight back which seems to be more than you want to do. The capitalist don't give anything out without a struggle. Instead of aiming your fire at the bosses you prefer to aim it at the McDonalds workers.
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They're not going to pass a law limiting management pay. The problem in the unions today is the leadership that refuse to organize an effective fight back. Companies don't want unions because they interfere with management rights and cost them money lost in overall profits. Tax breaks for companies that pay high wages? You mean like GE and other "small companies" that don't pay any taxes at all?
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Your ideas are utopian in nature. Their is no reason for congress to enact them. Not surprising since your a "middle class" white collar worker. I haven't the slightest idea what incentivising unions means. "Huge tax breaks" well that has already been done. Muhammad Ali paid the top rate of 94% at the beginning of his career since then Congress has been cutting taxes down to a top rate of 37%. Not to mention all the itemized deductions allowed. While new regressive taxes at the state and local level have gone through the roof.
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@jallison79 You don't understand how economics works. Otherwise you'd realize your ideas are just middle class utopianism. Why would raising the tax on high earning individuals raise earnings for those in the middle? Do you believe they'd be hit with a sense of pity? A CEO losing 10% is suddenly hit with a sense of morality? Oh GEE I lost 10% I'm going to raise earnings for those in the middle. If anything they will say we all need to pull together for bigger profits now or Gee I took a loss now you to should accept a decrease. Every CEO has clawed his way to the top over whoever stood in his way. They only respond to economic forces coming from below not pleas of mercy from middle managers.
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The workers also have the sick-to-it-ness among both skilled and unskilled that the white collar and middle managers don't have. They also realize that they are the producers which many white collar people don't because quite frankly many don't produce anything. Instead they are administrators, salesman, managers or engineers and drive their status from their position in the company rather than their actual job.
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@GrantM.-gx2kn This is called cultural cleansing like ethnic cleansing its directed at any minority view. Its not inclusion but exclusion. .
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@GrantM.-gx2kn I didn't use the word genocide since it implies a genetic difference also rather than just cultural.
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@jackwertz8301 Sure the FBI and ATF are reformed they wouldn't go back to the days of Cointelpro with police agents inciting violence for the benefit of mass arrests.
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@Brennus of Gaul I didn't deny anything except this stupid numbers game. Lenin wanted Stalin removed from his post as General secretary in 1924, he was sick and close to death at the time and his review of Political Committee members was never shown to anyone outside of the political committee until sometime after Stalin's death probably at the 20th Congress of the CPSU. Trotsky then took up the challenge against the newly forming bureaucracy being lead by Stalin but he was forced into exile and later assassinated in Mexico. The old bolsheviks (pre Oct 1917 party members) also took up the challenge. They were then charged with Trotskyism and being agents of Hitler. The most prominent were executed after show trials in the Great Purge others were sent to the camps murdered there and eventually the NKVD was given arrest quotas. So now It didn't matter who you were. They grabbed people off the street and Stalin's opposition was not just a few central committee members either. Demonstrations against the Stalinist Thermador continued not just outside the camps and in the streets but inside the camps also. Not only was Trotsky refused entry into the US from Mexico even his dead body was considered to dangerous to the FDR regime to have a funeral for the great revolutionist in New York.
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@Brennus of Gaul I don't like the Battle flag of Northern Virginia but I don't want government doing me any favors like banning NAZI or CSA flags. Amazon, WalMart other Retailers not selling CSA flags is a public relations maneuver designed to keep liberals buying from their stores in the competition for market share. .
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@Brennus of Gaul I live in a CT campground/trailer park right now. One person has a CSA flag on a pole. I just ignore him. Except for my avatar I don't fly flags or have bumper stickers because I don't want to draw unnecessary police attention.
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I think that government agencies should stick to fling their own officials flags except when official foreign dignitaries are involved. To the best of my knowledge no one has been cited or arrested for flying a flag recently. I oppose people burning flags as both counterproductive and insulting but recognize the right to do so. Mississippi has their flag but to me it still symbolizes hate. I think restoring voting rights to people convicted of a crime after finishing their jail or prison time is more important for the time being.
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@cubeman22 We need to rebulid the trade unions and create a labor party of our own without the liberals.
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@Oudplayer23 Moderates and Centrists are those who rather sit in the middle with no opinion at all. Liberal's have always been hypocrites making promises to labor and working people that they as capitalist have no intention of keeping. They all love Black and Brown folks just as long as they stay in their neighborhoods. They really got upset because Trump actually paid some attention to working people problems. See we are suppose to vote liberals just as long as we don't make a fuss about anything.
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@@apsoypike1956 Did world war two produce a "Net Profit?" Obviously it left American Imperialism as top dog but it also destroyed a large part of the Industrial world. Slavery as a system is inferior to wage labor. With slavery you own the slave and must keep him at work in addition to keeping him alive. With wage labor and capital the capitalist buy the labor power of the worker for a particular time. The capitalist pays the worker to reproduce his labor but the workers labor power creates more value then he consumes to reproduce his labor for the capitalist. If the worker becomes ill, misbehaves, is incompetent, or dies the capitalist hires another worker. The worker must sell his labor to survive. He is free to sell his labor to the capitalist and must spend his wage to survive. The slave owner must buy another slave from another slave owner. Slavery only works well in an agricultural society because then the slave works both the land for his survival and for his masters profit. Once you begin to develop large cities it becomes to easy for the slave to run away. That is why Africans exclusively became slaves because they could not run away from their skin color.
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@tomblaise The capitalist mode of production is superior to the feudal and slave societies. Capitalism has within it its own contradictions which Marx pointed to in Das Kapital and Lenin in Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. The problems that would bring about the end of Soviet Union began with the death of Lenin and the rise of Stalin. It would be until 1959 that another revolution would show the world that Stalin's methods and theories were completely wrong.
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@kommisar. go suck an egg you privileged brat
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On the contrary liberalism is not the fruit of capitalism but fascism is the ultimate fruit of a decaying capitalism. Its is not the success of global capitalism but rather its failure that drives the class struggle world wide. Capitalism was born in the nation state as so it can not escape that form in the struggle to dominate the world market. The leading Imperialist powers of Europe Britain and Germany destroyed each other in two world wars allowing the rise of the US Imperialist and China. Now they too are coming into conflict over trade and markets. The only freedom that capitalism shouts in its last defense is the freedom to trade. Liberal or Conservative the only direction a ruling class in crisis takes is that of dictatorship.
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You can't help anyone until you realise you need to help yourselves and not wait for the bosses to have pity on you.
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@tanzoniaflakes5068 What is revalvant is working people only advance when we organize and work together independently of the capitalist and their bought and paid for two capitalist party politicians. That we need to rebuild union power and organise a new labor party independent of the bosses.
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@truhoodbitch Trump attended and graduated from one of America's Ivy League elite universities, the University of Pennsylvania. Calling him an idiot an bashing the people who vote for him leaves one wondering what this says about the rest of the US meritocracy.
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Keep watching and you might actually learn something!!! Everybody knows what not to say and talk about when the boss is around.
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Mark Twain was also a member of the Anti-Imperialist league.
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@jackgreen5627 Shapiro is just letting everyone know that that first Doctor Bill for birth gives you the right to owe him and the rest of the capitalist class.
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Sowell can talk all he wants about the good the Imperialist did in Africa and about how they lost money and so on and so forth. But the facts remain that they conquered those people and in many places they had to be booted out using some kind of African political or military action. The colonialist also fought among each other over who got what colony. That the Imperialist feared communism in Africa just as the American Imperialist did in Latin America and elsewhere. Just because the capitalist make bad investments in wars doesn't prove that they weren't onboard to begin with. The American Imperialist spent 2.3 trillion destroying Afghanistan in a Nation building exercise. As far as Sowell is concerned George Bush was a patriot for his "nation building" war in Iraq. I'm sure Professor Sowell will now tell us how mistaken George Bush was. Not a peep from Sowell when it started though unlike us Reds.
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Have you read the transitional program for Socialist Revolution by L Trotsky or Che Guevara economics and politics in the transition to socialisms. Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution.
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None of this has anything to do with the title.
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@and no religion to Burnie, Penn and Moore only want to save capitalism. They aren't revolutionaries.
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@Trid3nt861 Burnie and Moore are Democratic Party. They aren't revolutionists. Their whole goal is to run the capitalist government. Our party is the revolutionary one and we wouldn't let Burnie or Moore in even if they begged. We want worker bolsheviks in our party. Those who can learn how to look at any political situation and tell the truth about it from any class viewpoint. A worker bolshevik is a tribune of the people first and a trade union secratary second.
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@jessealexander2695 The bolsheviks had the majority in all the Soviets by October. The Slogan All Power to the Soviets began in Petrograd and the Red Guards arrested the traitorous Kerensky who was communicating with the counter revolution Army General Kornilov who would have drowned the revolution in blood. The mensheviks walked out after the vote after which Trotsky told them to go walk into the dustbin of history.
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@itsallokay BS the reason the US doesn't send in the Marines is because they are afraid of the Cuban people and the militia.
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Congress can impeach him again. LOL
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@PickedOff100 CRT Is just another hymn sung to bourgeois democracy sung at Harvard Law school.
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The Minneapolis Teamsters kicked some butt called the Citizens Alliance in 1934.
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@AmberPremo Because sending someone to jail for a vote that was never counted is a travesty of Justice. You'd think you were reading Crime and Punishment or 1984.
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That's why we need a new party based on labor alone.
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The West Virginia school strike is sign that is being turned around. Plenty of workers are feed up with the politicians and this is an example of how organizing and properly preparing a strike can begun won despite it being illegal with no right to even bargain and a right to work state. Once it was clear that they would not back down they folded like a house of cards. It was a unanimous vote for a 5% raise when only a 1% was originally offered. Now some other states will face the exact same issue. Oklahoma is next. April 2nd is the deadline for the next strike.
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Who cares what stupid laws they pass. The enemy is the system not immigrants with or without proper papers. Down with the Republicrats! Down with Capitalism! Put a wall around Congress and lock it from the outside.
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Only some states prohibit felons from voting.
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@capt.jtspaulding7682 Communism is a movement that is based in facts and ones sides history in the modern class struggle of victory and defeats. The class struggle is the motor of history. Class struggle is what we are all about. Rebuild the unions and use the strike weapon for workers control of industry. Take on the bosses politically with a labor party independent of the Boss two party system.
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@ministryoftruth8090 In Cuba they have a certain number of professions you can work at independently. The Teamsters use to represent indepentents who owned thie own truck. They are categorized as workers who own their own tools.
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@ministryoftruth8090 The problem I see is people like you who have think of themselves as the Supreme Commissar Who elected you supreme commissar and supreme commissar of what may I ask?.
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@ministryoftruth8090 Right your People's Democratic Coop leads to a one member coop.
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No its Democrats claiming to be communists.
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@manlyadventures Your army or US CIA has intervened 56 times to topple governments or instal military dictators. You couldn't get a cheap price to build the Panama canal so you engineed the rebellion in the Panama province of Columbia. You had the "Canal Zone" occupied as a US military base under US military jurisdiction for years. Your corporations pillaged the whole continent. You refuse to leave Guantanamo Bay.Naval Base. Your the Imperialist Power in Latin America and have been so since 1890. Banana war about not being paid. That's what all your wars about when business deals go south you scream communism, invade and plunder a country. You military is the policeman enforcing the installment contract.
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Vowing to raise wages while cutting back hours. Another example of boss hypocrisy. "We are cutting back on your hours but we vow to raise wages." Raise them now not later. The bosses need you now this is the time for Target workers to strike back.
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People like you aren't doing anything about the homeless problems anyhow. The cause of unemployment is the way the capitalist system works. Jerks with poison ivy league educations aren't doing anything except collecting six figure checks. You concern rings hollow. The bottom line truth is the system is failing on a world wide scale.
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@joebloe7253 The only real solution proved by the working people during the great depression is the building of a militant industrial union movement. Reliance upon the bosses governments liberal or conservative will get nowhere. We need to rebuild the union movement to punch through the government lies that nothing can be done not getting into a debate between the liberals and conservatives who are arguing about open or closed borders. Either way is a distraction for what needs to be done which is organizing more unions and more protests like the Yellow Vest protest in France.
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@joebloe7253 As for honesty here's your proposal. "Prosecute employers who hire illegal aliens." So to determine who is an illegal alien you want to use the police state database "E Verify", a witch hunt to find 'illegal aliens' and you motivation? Your claim that you can't find a job that doesn't require you to speak Spanish in Los Angeles. .
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@joebloe7253 Now you have a job. "Mandatory E-VERIFY for all employees hired in the United States." Can you say POLICE STATE DATABASE CHECK.
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To raise wages we need a militant union movement which can organize strikes, protests ang get good signed contracts. To be the most effective movement we need to include all workers regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, immigration status and eye color. Witch hunting based on immigration status can only divided us and make us weaker when strength is needed most. The two party politicians and their immigration police serve the bosses just as the rest of the police agencies do. The goal of their witch hunt is not to deport every immigrant with questionable status but to create a pariah class of workers for super exploitation to further drive down all wages.
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@joebloe7253 You said before you didn't have a job because you didn't speak Spanish. My criticism remains the same. E Verify is a police state measure.
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@Idalych Wages will not rise with or without a wall. Its class struggle that pushes up wages. The whole effort to demonize immigrants as responsible is baloney. Money needs to be spent on infrastructure, schools, and medical needs. Those kind of expenditures will work to create jobs and more wealth across the economy. The wall will have the minimal effect of an effort to ID everybody. I know the are hiring to build more nuclear submarines but like the wall they are a waste. I also wonder why uniformed police greet job seekers at the Texas workforce commission. To me that implies that jobs are not plentiful. I was basically told here is a book with listings now go away. I don't call that help and I didn't go there to argue with an armed policeman or create trouble.
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@Idalych Our politics start with the world and how to advance the class struggle. The working class in the US has always had an immigrant component. The capitalist have always tried to play one group off against another. Native born vs Foreign born. German v. Irish Irish v. Polish Black v. White Skilled v Unskilled. We can not win by expecting the capitalist government to do the work we need to do. History shows you can only win on a basis of uniting all workers not going on a witch hunt against the foreign born to help the unskilled. Thinking that the bosses will deport enough of the foreign born such that wages rise (all wages are set from the bottom up) is utopianism. They want to cut wages nor raise them and what better way than to create a pariah class that faces super exploitation or deportation.
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@Idalych There are a lot of easier things to tackle than Das Kapital. The marxist internet archive has most of the classic pamphlets and TheMIlitant.com has a whole weekly newspaper archive back to 1928 with the founding of American Trotskyism. I am reading Che Guevara Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. You can find that at pathfinderpress.com I don't think we need to set up some special officialdom to get to socialism. I think it will be more about a transition in the way we think about each other and act as we organize throwing off the old ways and methods of capitalism. Much like the transition Black people went through when they threw off segregation and woke up to their own value as human beings.
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@derrickcox7761 The goal of both parties and Trump now is to control immigration not endlng it. I don't believe Congress is made up of a drug addicts who need to get a cheap fix and no cost sex from sex slaves either.
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@derrickcox7761 By its very nature of assigning everything a money value capitalism is a system of corruption legal and illegal. it can't be reformed it must be overthrown in a socialist revolution.
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@derrickcox7761 Too bad things aren't as simple as you make them out to be. Plus you have social systems mixed up with types of trade. You can trade though barter or with money. If you go someplace where people don't know what a US $100 dollar bill will buy they may not want to trade it for something as common as a dozen ears of corn. The might however trade those dozen ears for five potatoes. The advantage money has over barter is that it has a universally recognized value that can be conveniently divided. So instead of having to trade 5 potatoes for 12 ears of corn I can use 60 cents to buy either 5 potatoes or 12 ears of corn or a fixed price of 12 cents per potato or 5 cents per ear of corn. With rise of capitalism and the nation state most nation states have their own money. Merchants in one country are hesitant or may out rightly refuse to accept money from another country. Trade between the capitalist countries is carried out through use of banking trades of currency since companies and not countries do the actual trading. Trade in the Eastern bloc and Soviet Union was done by barter because barter is a much better way to keep track of agreed upon value traded between different countries enterprises.
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@derrickcox7761 Look it up where in the children's encyclopedia? Fine if its all that simple to you along with your limited set theory. Given A B & C if not A or B it must be C. How does voluntary labor fit in? Capitalism, Slavery, Feudalism, Socialism and Communism are five different social systems. So far putting two together doesn't work well. We haven't seen communism yet. It is assumed to rise peacefully out of socialism.
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@derrickcox7761 No I don't think my definitions of social systems are overly broad. Since you like things simply put: Slavery is where a master own slaves. The oldest form of class society it still exists in remote areas or secretly. Feudalism is a step above slavery since peasants work three days for a lord master, three days for themselves and a seventh day for rest and church. Capitalism A class system where capitalist own the property needed to produce while a property less class does the producing for money wages that pay the worker to survive to the next pay period. This has been the most recent and is the dominate class system today. Socialism will replace the current system by eliminating private property in the means of production.and wage payments as the sole way in which to provide for the necessities of life. Communism a further extension of socialism with out any wages paid and only voluntary work.
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Actually it is capitalism in the form of wealthy capitalist nation states ( The Imperailist nations: Those with the ability to export capital) that must compete which is the underlying economic reason behind 20th century wars. This was argued about by Karl Kautsky and Lenin. Kautsky predicted that the Imperialist nations seeing the utter futility of war would band together and implement an ultra Imperialism. Lenin said they would go to war with each other. The guns of August 1914 proved Lenin right.
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@derrickcox7761 You know I write my own opinions and reasoning. Granted I have probably had more experience than you maybe. Cut and paste as the majority part of a comment and not even enclosed in quotes and a author cited? I can not answer in a short space some one who has perfected all his anti marxism and boiled it down into a few paragraphs.
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In an effort to try and clear up confusion over the middle class and the bourgeois class. When King Louis XVI was king the bourgeois were the middle class. Once the King was eliminated the Bourgeois became the ruling class. The middle class today is made up of professionals (Engineers, Doctors, Professors, ect) and small businessmen. What Marx predicts is that this middle class sinks into the working class. That business size moves towards monopoly. That return on investment drops as machines replace labor. That the workers can not buy back what they produce. That capital replaces skilled labor first and labor become more simple yet more alienated.
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@derrickcox7761 Well I realized I was up against a professional author after the second page I just didn't realized one would be commenting and thought you implied what followed was written by someone else. You should read Samizdat :Voices of the Soviet Opposition or maybe The Revolution Betrayed, and In Defense of Marxism. James Grady River of Darkness is a novel ie made up story.
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I don't like psychology or psychologists because in the back of my mind they are looking for a way to take advantage of other people who don't have their knowledge. Like telling me to read a novel instead of an original source.
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@derrickcox7761 I have read a few pages of the larger volumes (Federalist Papers, Mein Kampf, and Das Kapital.) Read once through both Thomas Paine's Age of Reason and Common Sense. Everyone cites the Wealth of Nations for the invisible hand but seldom for the labor theory of value. A good explanation of revolutionary Marxism's in America is in the short pamphlet "Socialism on Trial". A number of free online texts are available at Marxists.org, weekly paper TheMilitant.com and for sale books at Pathfinderpress.com .
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@derrickcox7761 I think the Cuban revolution shows both a workers revolution is possibly and that a Stalinist dictatorship is neither necessary nor inevitable. I don't expect belief but only consideration. As Lenin said Those who accept only the word of another are complete idiots who can be dismissed with a wave of the hand. Lenin's brother was a member of an earlier terrorist organization and executed for an attempt on the Tsar's life. He like all the leaders of Bolshevik party in October 1917 had been arrested, and exiled internally. Lenin was in Switzerland and Trotsky in New York in February 1917. .
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@derrickcox7761 I guess you haven't heard that Ms Yoani Sanchez goes back and forth to Cuba writing as much negative information as she wants. She has even meet with the Cuban American National Foundation the main US organization for the gusanos. Name you political prisoners because their aren't any. The US is still holding political prisoners form the 1960's and 1970's. Black Panthers who J Edgar Hoover vowed to destroy with his Cointel program. You know the one where the FBI provided intel so the Chicago cops could murder Fred Hampton while he was sleeping in his bed drugged by an informant. The weekly FBI no guns and badges break ins of the Socialist Workers Party HQ in New York.
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@derrickcox7761 Your going to have do better than an old list the gusano's provided. How about the quilt of genocide which was withdrawn after it became know to have the names of people who died of natural causes or where still alive. The US also has both the largest number of prisoners both by number and percentage of the population. How about Ramsey Muniz. He was framed on drug charges and given life in federal prison. He is being held at the Federal Medical Center and they still won't let him go home on compassionate release.
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@derrickcox7761 "How did we get off the issue of economic philosophy?" Because unlike in American Universities Politics is not unconnected to Economics. The US is best at arresting the mentally ill, nonviolent drug users and then sending them to prisons. Economics, politics, race and class also play a role in who gets sent to prison. Given the choice of six months in jail for a plea deal or 30 yeas for a jury trail like the case of Aaron Schwartz which would you take?
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@derrickcox7761 I am not really sure what you mean by connected. I comment on videos that I consider interesting. No one tells me what to pick or what to say. I'm retired so I have lots of spare time. I like a civil discussion or debate. I tend to stay from the Alex Jones and conspiracy types. Its hard to discuss much with people who believe the wold runs in conspiracy. . Subversion is usually a charge used against Marxists where a government claims communists are planing for a coup. When really we corporate out in the open as a legal party. This was augured out in 'US Federal Court for the Southern District of New York in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General' where professors were called as expert witness to the history of the Russian revolution, the US Attorney General was held in contempt however a higher court overturned his contempt citation and the Federal Judge issued both damages and a permeate injunction baring FBI interference in the Party.
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@derrickcox7761 From an engineers view. Things don't have to be perfect. Just good enough. I think the same applies to people. We don't have to be perfect before we start down the road to creating a socialist movement for change. As we move down that road we will change in the process of making change.
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@derrickcox7761 The only thing actually socialized in Venezuela was the oil company and a US owned gold mine. They still have a stock market and have refused to go any farther as in nationalizing the countries businesses. They have already head a coup attempt organized from Washington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c Hugo Chavez was first elected in 2002.
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@derrickcox7761 "Take away freedoms in order to implement your socialism..." We are the ones who defend freedom of speech and the rest of the constitutional rights. We were the first come out against the bureaucratic degeneration of the Russian revolution starting 1928 before Stalin's Great Purge of the old Bolsheviks started in 1936. We were the first victims of the Smith 'gag' Act in 1940 used by FDR to advance what would become the US entry into the second Imperialist war. We fought against McCarthy and Truman's witch hunt and their Attorney Generals list.There was never a hearing held where any organization placed on the list was allowed to challenge Truman's Attorney Generals List. The real target of the second red scare was not the Communist Party but the unions and anyone who challenged the capitalist government policy like the rising Black rights movement.
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@johnyohann6946 I also reject Trumps demagogy that immigrants are coming here to murder and rape. His demagogy is meant to place the result of the 2008 crisis upon anyone bit those who like him profit from this rotten system. Cox talks a good line about freedom of speech but I'm the one who was arrested in the early 1970's for carrying newspapers down the street who was attacked by the police for handing out antiwar leaflets. Right now the ruling class has their police dogs on a short leach that is no reason to believe that they won't be let lose again.
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@Idalych I'm never sure what it is that people are talking about when they say the solution is less government? Ronald Reagan? Lower taxes? Fewer police? Cuts in Social Security? Fewer government workers? Fewer laws and regulations? Local government is the largest employer followed by state and then the federal government. Plus how do you count government employees? Lots work is contracted out like road building and military weapons contracts. The US military has 1.3 million active duty troops and 800 foreign military bases. The one group of government employees we all deal with every day is the US Post office. They have about 1/2 million workers.
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@1nsytegames42 The rules are written to defend the assets of the ruling class. The natural workings of capitalism tend towards monopoly and incumbency. The middle class is constantly being pushed into the working class while a few skyrocket into billionaires.
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They get their answers by telephone. You know what I'm saying. They use just a newer version of the old field telephone for electroshock to the genitalia.
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Scottish Makes sense along with Governor Abbott bringing in Kim Jong Un as a consultant for building a wall around the governor's mansion. .
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CRT is basically a liberal whitewash by bourgeois professors of American capitalism. Racism arose from the grafting on of Plantation slavery to American capitalism. The fist defeat came with the civil war when slavery became an obstacle to the new wage labor system of capitalism. The new revolutionary reconstruction governments in the South built the first public schools and hospitals in the south these were popular among working people of all colors. The big landowners were horrified by this and they destroyed them with red shirt and KKK political violence. capitalism seethes with racism because the division of wages based on colors divides and lowers the wages of all workers. The battle ending Jim Crow also delt great blows against racism. .
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@psycho.dad5252 So you got your promotion then, "What's the beef?" So your personal experience outweighs decades of evidence that blacks were denied access to better paying jobs based solely on color during segregation? Next you're going to be saying that once the civil rights act of 1965 was based America became color blind overnight? You realize that just wasn't true no matter how much conservatives argued otherwise. The middle class always attributes its success due to merit regardless of color anyway.
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@seniorskateboarder5958 What were you doing? Acting out like the proud flamer you probably are? Or maybe your the type who has to announce he's gay to everyone.
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So and it turns out exposure to "lucrative networks" like the rich kids at Harvard is important. Who would have guessed, "It's not what you know but who you know?"
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@solidtangent9953 The American Imperialist are trying to starve the Cuban people into submission just like the the British Imperialist did to the Irish people.
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@solidtangent9953 End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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@89guines The US refuses to process the twenty thousand a year visa's promised at its Embassy in Havana.
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@89guines No evidence that such attacks ever occurred. Hearings in Congress were held and every US scientist testified that building of such a weapon was not possible which lead Senator Marco Rubio to claim it was a secret weapon that had some how escaped the realm of US scientists, the Pentagon and US intelligence services. After all if such a weapon were possible certainly the masters of universe like US Government would have built one. Chalk it up to another fable told by US politicians like Putin electing Trump and Trump having his reelection stolen. the Sandy Hook "deep state" operation by Alex Jones. Obama's "fake" birth certificate and Pizzagate.
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@lucirob9474 Anyone caught crossing at other than a port of entry by border patrol will be taken into custody Anyone who shows up at a port of entry will be inspected by US Customs. Anyone who has been to the US Mexican border (like me) will tell you entry into Mexico is a formality. Anyone entering the US will be questioned by US Customs at a minimum.
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Those who can't fight for the rights of other will never be able to fight for their own. You don't get any more help by taking away abortion rights. What the working people need to do is take away the power of the bosses and their government to make all the important decisions in our lives.
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@luxuscarnage4828 Abortion is cheap because most are done with pills that are massed produced. The cost of carrying a pregnancy to term in the United States depends on your medical insurance. That is medical insurance that one must pay for or received as compensation as part of their job benefits. Along with medical insurance are co pays and deductibles. You can of course have your child third world style at home without a Doctor or Midwife present. With capitalism medical care is an overhead cost which the bosses seek to limit as it cuts into profits. When a worker dies the bosses need only hire another. The same is true with pregnant women. A women who dies in child birth doesn't cost the bosses or their government a dime unless she is eligible for Social Security which pays a $200+ death benefit.
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Of course the 5.3 trillion spent on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be something that Stossel talks about except to criticise exorbitant prices. The whole defense industry runs on a cost plus basis to make sure the bosses always make a profit being patriotic and going to war for profits made in foreign investment.
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No matter how idiotic Antifa is. Capitalism can't escape its problems with the creation of a ruling class and the fight for profits on a world market. Trump's crime exposing the liberal hypocrisy. The bosses always seek to pay the lowest wages work you the longest hours as production workers are the producers of the profit. Why pay more than the social cost to get you to come back to work for the next pay period.
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@davidfinch7407 Did you forget who started the Imperialist slaughter called world war one? Did you forget that the 14 Imperialist nations including the US/UK attacked the Soviet government? Make your argument about mass murder just don't forget how many lives were recently saved from Covid by Cuban communism. I think you need something better than the murderous ideology because obviously Hitler wanted to create what Britian and America already had an Empire. After all if ideology is murderous should we find out where the location of the order to murder is? Seems to me your just listening to Professor Petersen who really seems to be quite confused about everything. Lifting people out of poverty while starving and nmudering others? Is that not the history of world capitalism before it was purified by American intellectuals.
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@davidfinch7407 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@davidfinch7407 Globalism has done nothing but create bigger profits for the bosses and economic decline for the working class in the United States. The election of Donald Trump shows huge dissatisfaction for the institutions of American capitalism.
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The bosses aren't going to train anyone for new industries unless the new industry can get a bigger return on investment. Also while the bosses can make huge profits selling all kinds of things. They can't open even a small chain of schools without going bankrupt. You can find EXXON, AT&T, WalMart and other companies for sale on the stock exchanges but you won't find Harvard, Yale, or Princeton or another Ivy league University on the Stock exchange. That's because their profit system can't reap even small profits directly from education despite what a private college education costs.
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In Obama's first term the 111th Congress had a Democratic majority in Congress. Republicans maybe "giving away the farm" but with the Democrats the farm goes to the highest bidder. "Yes the steel industry is still relevant but it has changed. With automation and technology it takes far less people to produce what it once did. Obama wanted an emphasis on training for those high tech positions in steel or energy. This is the reason companies bring in immigrants to fill certain post." They've been talking that bullshit since the 1970's how steelworkers would all be airline pilots and work only 9 months a year like school teachers. They bring in immigrants for the same reason they move production elsewhere. HIGHER PROFIT RATES because of cheap labor. New industries always start with low wages because the workers must organize into unions before wages can be forced up. Solar energy is great it just won't keep the lights on or the 2nd and 3rd shift motors running. Solar panels are made in factories with machines just like any other item used in modern life. If it really did require a highly educated workforce to build solar panels they would be building them here instead of hiring Chinese peasant children just off the farm to build them in China.
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Democrats aren't a big business party? So how did a Rockefeller get elected to the US Senate from West Virginia as a Democrat? They don't need a quid pro quo they just need to know who is donating to the campaign chest. The Kennedy brothers made a name for themselves constantly hounding Jimmy Hoffa Sr by calling him up before their Congressional Committee. FDR had John L. Lewis office bugged.
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Depression recession is due to the natural workings of capitalism. Makes no difference which Party is in power.
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The idea that Americans should buy homes as investments went as far back as the end of WW2. As long as the prices kept climbing the banks were flush with cash and couldn't believe their good fortune. On average many working class people bought homes not just the middle class. With the average American moving every five years for the bankers this was a guaranteed market with prices rising. Naturally they sought more buyers and the subprime market was seen as a new way to get the most out of crumbling housing stock with low initial payments and hopes that the new owners (fixer uppers) would reinvest and the rising mortgage payments would move the housing stock back into the market worth more than what it started as. In the end capitalist greed brought the whole scheme crashing to the ground because the sale of repacked loans were overvalued in fact the whole hosung market was overvalued. Couple this with even a slight number of layoffs where unemployment insurance could not cover the monthly housing costs and a drop in savings you get a foreclosure banking crisis that begins to feed on itself driving more layoffs as demand drops.
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The basic problems with capitalism is that it can only work in a world with an unlimited market and new sources of cheap labor. Once the end of new markets and cheap labor happens then so does capitalist production for profit. You are now living through a crisis caused by the capitalists themselves. The workers can't buy back what the produce because that is where the profit comes from. The crisis is not one of scarcity but one of producing to much without markets to absorb it. Does it make sense that one group of workers has too much overtime while others are looking for work. Workers in China and India making too much steel but living under abysmal conditions? When an American Steel company gets tariff protection do the keep the same prices or do they raise them for increased profit? Do they thank their workers with raises or do they demand more overtime and maybe put on another turn at closed down mill and seek a lower wage structure for ' their new job creation efforts?'
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It's the natural workings of capitalist greed that produced the 2008 crisis. They only way forward for workers and farmers is the strike and protest which will logically lead to a socialist revolution within the United States itself.
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So who will stop the greedy capitalist CEO's? Not them obviously and neither will the corrupt two party politicians. I will tell truthfully that I alone can't do it either. Only a new and rebuilt militant labor movement can start the ball rolling in the right direction.
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It takes time to destroy enough capital so that an upturn can once again restart primitive capital accumulation.until once again a crisis and downturn occurs worse than the last can happen.
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Traditionally Americans credit the politician in office for a good or bad economy. Right now we are seeing an uptick for how long how big nobody knows. So Trump will get some credit in the upcoming election and the rich are happy with their tax cut.
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Steel is used in almost everything and when it isn't most likely it was used to produce that thing. Pipes, nails, wire, railroad tracks, cars, trucks, buses, cranes, bridges, buildings, cans, shipping containers, and screws. Without oil, steel, and electricity modern ways of life would be impossible. Iron and steel making were old and specially skilled arts. It has been less than 200 years since huge amounts of steel could be made by using the Bessemer process. The same goes for oil and electricity.
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First there is no such thing as a united American people. There are two basic classes of 'American' people in the US those who create everything but own nothing and those who own everything but create nothing. The fight over who can sell what where is strictly a fight amongst the capitalists. A new 25% tariff on steel means that US Steel companies can raise their US prices by 25% without so much as adding a single worker. The workers have no interests in giving the capitalist US or foreign another single dime in profits since more profits always means a greater ability to make even more though more and better ways to exploit us. The allies of workers in the US are other workers in all the other countries not our own exploiters or their counterparts elsewhere.
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The fact that less labor is needed to produce commodities should result in higher living standards and more development in the poor nations. instead it results in misery because industry is controlled by finance capital. An increase in productivity means fewer jobs and lower wages. Their only goal is to make profits not to meet the needs of humanity. Capitalism is why some are required to work 70 hour weeks while others have no job at all. The so called libertarians would have no problem allowing a disease like ebola to spread across the world because after all you must be able to buy insurance or be able to pay as an individual to protect yourself from disease. Fortunately the doctors trained as a result of the Cuban revolution don't think that way.
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@ralphrugan5985 Its the capitalist system which has been in a world wide crisis since 1914 and the first world war.
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Let's liberate the US from state police. Trooper 1139 get back into your patrol car don't hitch up your seat belt and run into a concrete abutment on the interstate at 90 mph.
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"The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to administration officials." From the Wall Street journal. It is as Maduro says a coup attempt by pro US Imperailist interests.
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@dannyhammock1696 The guy is just a flat foot who can't understand what Cruz is taking about.
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@rayr5950 "You're probably a pampered socialist who's never had to work long hours, that's beneath you I'm sure." I've worked in a number of Industrial jobs with overtime and turns where people like you would quit on the first day. Like climbing a utility pole 25 ft high, circling the pole and come down. Walking past red hot steel on a conveyor only for a coble to happen and see that steel become red ribbon candy in front of your eyes. Working on or with live wires at all kinds of voltages. Climbing ladders and scaffolding.
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@rayr5950 The NEW DEAL was a failure because you can't regulate greed out of capitalism. In order for world capitalism to escape its own demise it needed to destroy capital such that primitive accumulation could reappear. The capitalist though don't think that far ahead to realize that this is what must be done. The do understand competition for markets and resources. This is what drives them into trade pacts where they eventually line up into opposing groups that want what the others has and so world war is unleashed. So in essence it was FDR's WAR DEAL that saved most of world capitalism.
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@ektran4205 If only trade offs were possible than we would still be living like animals before we began agriculture.
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Not really we need those who are willing to bring the ideas of Marxism to the working class not more Professors talking about Marxism.
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@beauwalker9820 The Klan was a counter revolutionary group that organized terror after the civil war much modern day fascists' like the NAZI's and other labor, immigrant and Jew hater organizations.
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@ShinobiKush Klan were labor and Jew haters also. Policeman in night time uniform.
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@therealkakitron They are already raising the US military budget since confidence in the Empire is dwindling. The Saudis'will now take gold or China's money. Unlike post Vietnam the rest of the world man not accept more dollars. Steve Bannon says 180 banks are in the same shape as first republic.
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It's just a cover up like the covering up of the page three models. The is now where the hat it is supposed to be.
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The problem with the lumpen is they often resort to petti crimes against other proletarians when they lose a job.
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@geroldgrimel4811 He and you are both wrong he because he doesn't understand capitalism. She because she thinks capitalism is the only possible way to do things.
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@austindarrenor They were ordered to wait until they were endangered of being overrun by the white guards troops. After all they already knew what happened when the infant son of Charles the first was allowed to live.counter revolutionary restoration of the monarchy in England. Not mention that the CZAR troops had no mercy for the children of workers or peasants. Those who had signed the order for the execution of Charles the first had to run for their lives. The English revolution had been thrown back to monarchy. The English colonis would not make the mistake of compromising with monarchy. The blood of English soldiers and loyalists would water the new land of the United States along with a civil war to get rid of slavery. .
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@austindarrenor The idea to execute the royal family came from those who were keeping them captive. The first response from the central government was no. Only when the question of being over run by CZARist forces and the possible use of the Royal family for propaganda value did the central government agree to the Soldiers request. Why don't you criticise the US and UK for their intervention in the civil war after the Bolsheviks had taken Russia out of the war signed a peace treaty with Germany and then after the US/UK had signed the armistice. Fourteen Imperialist Armies entered the civil war on the side of the whites. The Bolsheviks exposed the secret treaties and plans by the Imperialist powers France and the UK to take the other sides colonies. The war was started by the forces of capitalist competition just like what you see today between the US and China. Nationalist ruling capitalist classes fighting over world markets and natural resources. .
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@austindarrenor Quit the fake sentimentality crimes committed by US soldiers and other Imperialist troops are just as bad. The Imperialist nations started the first world war showing that Karl Marx was correct in that unbridled capitalist competition would lead to its ultimate downfall. Lenin wrote "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism" in 1916. Since 1917 the working class and peasants have held state power somewhere in the world. The rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes is a mere temporary phenomena. Today it is revolutionary Cuba that holds up the spotless banner of Socialism. It is the criminals of the United States government that are exposed to the whole world as the real criminals fpr whom no crime is too repugnant in the defense of American Imperialism and is profit hungry Empire. They are the only ones to ever use nuclear weapons on people. Do your leaders take responsibility for crimes committed by their troops or do they try and sweep them under the rug and pretend they didn't happen? The hypocrisy of your leaders and human rights makes most normal people want to throw up.
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@austindarrenor NATO is an allaince of Western Imperialist nations who think they can control the world. It lost its war in Afghanistan and it bombed Yugoslavia and Libya. It members Turkey and Greece have been at war with each other. It was never used during the cold war. It was Bush with his "New World Order" who first invoked its charter for the war on Terror. .Periodic mass protests appear against the NATO allaince. The people of Europe have yet to learn they don't need NATO as much as NATO needs them. A defeat for Russia in Ukraine works AGAINST and not for capitalism. .
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@austindarrenor The Second Amendment like the first works in our favor since the great majority make revolutions not a minority conspiring with the state power. The Cuba revolution was made with All American arms over throwing a hated US Dictator Batista. They don't invade because they know they'd be facing an armed people who wouldn't just role over for uncle sam to have their belly rubbed.
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@austindarrenor The Republican Party is just as much in crisis as the Democrats. Like the Democrats its core leadership in Congress and the States are true believers in capitalism and the ability to reform the regulatory system. The world capitalist system works to create ever smaller ruling classes who can no longer keep the world system of trade and production operating to produce profit maximization for themselves. The whole International system set up at the end of World War two is coming apart at the seems. Your already seeing a demoralization in the police force as cops tire of enforcing the mostly senseless injustice of the system. The military has been in no shape to just blindly follow orders since Vietnam and is probably in even worse shape today since the defeat in Afghanistan for use in conflicts to advance the interests of American Imperialism.
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@kathleenking47 A smart phone isn't smart its merely the combination of three technologies the cell phone, the computer and the internet.
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@dannygreen7473 That's whole lot of bullshit. This is the Imperialst stage of capitalism it's highest stsge and a whole lot of people will die in the wars and revolutions necessary to get rid of it. Competition for markets and resourse by Imperialist capitalist nations drives modern world wars to save the profit system. All the most horrible weapons of war were devolved by the capitalist nations in the battle for their nations domination of the world market. Your the typical fool who thinks politics is all about name calling and not class struggle.
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@dannygreen7473 As I said your a fool focused on name calling and spelling errors because you fail to see or understand that what is going on is the class struggle between the two most important classes in the modern world the proletariat and the capitalist. Instead you focus in on single facts with no effort to make any kind of caparison. No one but a formalist cares if I transpose letters as long as they understand what word I intended to use was. You talk big and think small or think small and talk big. .
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@dannygreen7473 Your a clown. Five of your police brutes are going to prison now as protests break out. Your two parties stumble from crisis to crisis. The meeting of the worlds ruling classes in Davos was full of doom and gloom. Protests and strikes against capitalist governments are breaking out across the world. A crisis in your colonies as refugees stream into the United States and Europe.
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@margiecallahan3009 They put them on so they can mix facts with propaganda. Obviously the only ones to clearly gain from this is american gas and oil companies.
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@BrocNerd Its harder exactly because more people want to work at a better job which is the whole point of having a union in the first place. You can quit any job whenever you union or not union. So why say something dumb like I don't want to work at UPS because I don't want to stay there forever. Well go somewhere elses and stay forever or quit. Geeesh!!!
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Jack Shite How about you go move to a religious paradise like Saudi Arabia. Their they have religious police who do street executions and treat a women worse than a dog. Trump and the ruling class want to control immigrants with temporary work visa's. Bring 'em in for work. Kick 'em out when the job is done. That way they lower the social cost of immigrant labor and drive done the wages of all workers. The want to make us think that immigrants are a problem and not their rotten system. The want to role back abortion rights such that women can be forced out of the labor force periodically. Capitalism maintains itself by armed force. Millions would not be leaving their homes in a sea of refugees if your 2008 profit crisis had not impacted the whole world.
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Lamont Cranston INC. Hitler was one of yours. A monster supported by German big business. He wanted to tighten up on abortions because of his German racial superiority theory. He also wanted forced sterilization for those with 'bad genes'. This shows that behind fascism comes control of womens bodies. Which is your movements true goal.
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@sirloxleymendoza972 We have no need for the fake concern of a member of the English peerage or a wanabe member of the peerage to tell us what to do. You have no moral standing to even enter the debate since British Imperialism is and has one of the worst records of human rights violations on the planet. Your obvious contempt for women is expressed in your advice to carry a "ho bag' and a bottom line of "keeping ones pants on." Your idea of responsibility is to order a massacre of Irish or Indian people during "tea time".
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@juniorgod321 As I said the 2008 Crisis is not an accident or due to bad policy. It stems from greatly driving up paper values way over actual value. Within the nation state the capitalist settle their difference between each other with contract law. Colt Industries in Hartford, CT doesn't send an army up to take out Smith and Wesson in Springfield, MA.
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@juniorgod321 Outside of the nation state they use alliances, trade pacs, treaties and the UN. However competition between them and the ability to produce more than just for the home market, the ability to overproduce, leads them into trade war and then real war. The world is not an infinite market with an infinite supply of cheap labor.
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X @أفلاكالأفكار No it was due to capitalist greed. The Capitalist control the two party politicians not the other way around. This is why many of them are.against Trump even more so the workers who voted for him. No capitalist party politician is suppose to pay any attention to us. They do what wall street wants with some leeway.
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X @أفلاكالأفكار Workers have nothing in common with the Bosses. The workers should never sacrifice to keep the bosses in business. The unions should demand universal healthcare as a way to prevent the bosses healthcare promises from going south with the next round of bankruptcy.
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@jaundice_japlin The thing is did nothing that any other businessmen or billionaire hasn't done. It's a politically motivated witch hunt.
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@Royale_with_Cheeze The tax assessor sets the property value for the property tax and they always set it low so people don't challenge it in court. The politician's compensate for that when the set the tax rate.
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@jasonwilliams8016 And if the bank took them as collateral the limitations would have been lifted and the tax assessor would have a record of the limitations so no fraud occurred. If the property is transferred because of a loan default the tax assessor revalues the property after the sale. A property might be considered of more or less value in how it is currently being used and once again the'd all have records of this.
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@jasonwilliams8016 The past owner can't control how the new owner uses the property. The property gets revalued by the tax assessor since it was sold and now the property can be given a real value based upon the selling price. A vacant lot may be valued at one price if the owner agrees not to build on it and another price after it is sold and someone builds on it.
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@jasonwilliams8016 That's just the way the system works. Fraud only occurs when deliberate misrepresentation takes place. If you buy a car from a private owner at auction and don't look at it or mechanically inspect it and it turns out the transmission is bad you can't hold the seller responsible unless he swore on a stack of bibles that the transmission was A okay. If the bank makes a loan without checking for the properties tax value who's fault is that? This kind of thing goes on all the time and the only time it becomes a problem is when someone doesn't repay and deliberately misrepresented. You had the crisis of 2008 where all kinds of fictitious capital was way overvalued did they put anyone in jail for that? They kept driving up prices by selling things like credit default swaps back and forth to each other until the exchange value collapsed. They say Elon Musk is worth 250 Billion based upon Tesla stock value. How is it worth more than Toyota when Tesla builds few cars and has lower sales? He's no more crooked than the judge, Attorney General and the rest of the Democratic Party Billionaires.
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"Compete with the past." What you really mean is how can the US BOSSES compete with Chinese BOSSES in terms of profit? Strikes in China are already raising the price of Chinese labor sending BOSSES scurrying elsewhere for cheaper labor. The world is only so big so eventually the BOSSES run out of cheap labor and new markets. The workers can't buy back all they produce so the BOSSES begin cutting back on production throwing millions out of work. This then strains the social safety net. In order to keep up the profit rates the BOSSES demand tax and benefit cuts while screaming about how they are going broke because of their own BOSS regulations put in place to control their BOSS greed.
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We are already in a global economy. Going on a trade war will only make things worse. The only thing tariffs do is protect the profits of different national capitalist class industry.
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@Isaiah_45_7 WarGamer Sure you don't that's why you chose a bible verse as your screen name. I was a fetus? So what? You an anti women clown and probably have a lot of calcium form cow's milk in your body? Right? So we should make cows into things to worship like fetuses. LAMO
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@Isaiah_45_7 WarGamer Were you ever part of a cow?
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@jessicascrazylife3530 When it comes to abortion rights the unions need to step forward and help build protests demanding abortions rights and protecting clinics from rightest attacks. Abortion is a women's right and access for working class women needs protection because upper class and middle class women will have access by either hiring lawyers so they can get approval from an abortion "humiliation" board or through air travel to other jurisdiction.
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@jessicascrazylife3530 There is simply no need for every fetus to come to term. Medical advance ensue a much longer lifetime. If you want to have 11 pregnancies with 2 miscarriages like my grandmother that should be your right. Every women who gets pregnant rolls the dice as it is still more likely to die in childbirth than having a safe abortion. Subsistence agriculture favored having more children because every child helped with the planting and harvest. That may have been a logical and valid argument against abortion. We don't live in that kind of world today. Over have of the world's human beings now live in cities. It's the increase in agricultural productivity that allows half of us to live in cities. Most of us who live in cities can not afford to have the large number of children that women on farms could produce. As far as any moral argument is concerned for thousands of years we have had ways to justify murder in war. Now the moralists have decided that it is better to die of unplanned pregnancy then live. They plan to solve the abortion problem by denying access to the poor and working class while the upper class reserves the right though the old abortion "humiliation" boards and air flight to abortion permission jurisdictions.
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Ekaterina H You should have opted to stay in the womb instead of leaving.
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@ngif1736 A creationist now turned scientist.
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@ngif1736 Who's profession makes them a qualified scientist a Physician, a Politician, a Priest or a Policeman?
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@ngif1736 Your position is not the same as the hard core pro birthers. For them they want politicians, priests and policemen making all the decisions and writing laws for all situations ahead of time. As if one could write a book to handle all possible situations in a pregnancy. I have done a lot of thinking about this and I can come up with lots reasons as to why the decisions about pregnancy belong to a women and her doctor. I have yet to here a good one as to why they belong in a law book which the police must enforce. It's bad enough that some licensed physicians shouldn't be allowed to prescribe an aspirin. Why anyone would want people whose biggest skill is wining popularity contests to make those decisions by writing laws is beyond me. They same goes for Catholic Priests who's church has been rocked by the scandal of child abuse. Who's clergy are forbidden to a adopt a single orphan. Yet they are the most and best organized of the pro birth position.
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@ngif1736 Look you've already made exceptions with saving the life of the mother including psychological ones. A mediocre lawyer and doctor should be able to drive a Mac Truck through that exception.
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@IWashMyOwnBrain Sounds like you've done too much scrubbing.
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@johnnyrebel3340 Polygraphs can seldom be used in a courtroom because of their unreliable nature. The police like them for use in getting a confession with trickery.
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@ngif1736 Our stance is simple a doctor and a women can act in much more of a moral and ethical way then any corrupt capitalist politicians can ever do no matter how they write a law. They are corrupt and the only way to change that is with a socialist revolution. There are no needs for laws to impose bourgeois hypocrisy. There are already to many of those kind of laws to begin with. Their is nothing moral in forcing a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
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@johnnyrebel3340 Look at my avatar does it look like a Democratic Party donkey or an old Dixiecrat Alabama chicken? Google "The Clinton's anti working class record."
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@ngif1736 In fifty years after thousands of abortion have been preformed you have a total of one doctor convicted of a botched late term abortion escalated to murder. That has to be some kind of record. There's more doctors who've had their licenses pulled for drug abuse and operating a prescription drug racket. It likes the accusation of Che Guevara being a mass murderer. The problem for them is they can't produce the name of a single person unjustly executed but somehow because they say it happened then its true.
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@johnnyrebel3340 Eugenic was developed from Social Darwinism as an explanation for the great wealth of the Robber Barons. Today that's been altered such that great wealth is being produced by "Smart" and therefore deserving elite university graduates. Hitler transferred this into his Aryan superman theories. Those who were "eaters" were to be transferred to camps and sterilized to remove their genes from the gene pool. This was also previously practiced in the US with sterilization laws for the feeble minded. So no I am against such laws. You don't even know what sex the baby is unless you ask or are forced to look at an ultra sound by anti abortion laws. i oppose the state intervening in all such questions telling you that this or that is the right decision based on what a doctor says.
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@indiekudi Agreed.
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South park 45 Thank you Dr. South Park 45 for one of the most enlightening statements every made.
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@markhenley3097 A fetus is no more a person than a brain dead man on a ventilator. If it is not a women's body than whose body is it? The corrupt politicians, the sky pilots or the rotten apple cops? All you want is more bodies for the military to protect your foreign investments and workers for your sweatshop operations. The Catholic Church hierarchy pines all day for abortions yet not a single Priest, Monsenor, Bishop, or the Pope himself has adopted a single orphaned child. Not 1,000, Not 100, Not 10, Not just a single orphanned child.
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@fluxfn7087 All people will die sooner or later. Lets say your in a motor vehicle crash. You are on machines or maybe you are breathing but unconscious and you have no brain function. From a medical scientific view you are dead and not going to come back. Same thing with a fetus only human life hasn't begun until you are born. It makes no difference what kind of brain activity you have because no one ever remembers their time in the uterus or at the time of birth. Birth is the correct place to draw the line. Just as being brain dead is.
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carolina hernandez Prove what? Oh wait you can't?
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carolina hernandez A fetus and embryo can be human if they aren't the animal version. So exactly what does that prove? If anything science shows that there can be no virgin births as was commonly thought possible by all Christians until the evidence became so overwhelming that Jesus birth had to be declared a miracle. An abortion is just a women exercising her discretion in matters of reproductive health. What kind of morality says every pregnancy must be brought to term? Are you going to send out the cops to investigate miscarriages as possible abortions also? You trust cops, juduges, politicians and preachers because you have been brainwashed into a bunch of religious nonsense.
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@samuelmerkel2888 I hear you can get a good price on a used but "like new" brain at Amazon. Maybe you should look into buying one and going for a transplant.
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@oterosocram25 If you liked the womb so much why did you ever leave? Maybe you can find a dealer in shrunken heads and he can do a full body shrink so you can get back inside a women willing to take you back in for reeducation. Should be simple enough for someone who's faith can move mountains.
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@samuelmerkel2888 Your Probirther's don't want anyone using birth control so we aren't going to accept any phoney arguments that claim contraception is the real right and not abortion. Once you take away abortion than contraceptives are next on the agenda of the Pro Birth, Pro Capitalist, Pro War, and Pro Death movement. You want the maximum amount of children born to the poor because you need us for cheap labor and soldiers for the defense of the US Military Empire.
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@oterosocram25 Go suck another "Jesus Saves" egg. Religious control over people has been in decline since King Henry the 8th. People aren't all afraid of witches and hobgoblins such that they need protection from sky pilots who are only to happy to take your money for that promise of an afterlife. I don't need you insulting my family by playing the concerned pastor of sheep either. Your the one who has the problem not me.
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@samuelmerkel2888 It's an excessive and unnecessary to regulate abortion. With over 40 years of abortion rights only one doctor has been convicted of acting illegally. The right to an abortion is a backstop to contraception. The anti abortionists want the state involved in a personal decision claiming they as third parties know what is best. There is nothing moral about forcing someone to surrender there body to someone elses desires. If that was true than slavery and rape could be justified by the "Good Results" slavery and rape provided to the slave owner and rapists. Even the police can not be held accountable for law enforcement that would have saved a life. So where does the right to prevent an abortion reside? It is all based upon the assumption that a women should be obligated first to bring a pregnancy to term. Pregnancies don't always result in a live birth and it is still medically safer to have an abortion then bring a pregnancy to term. There is no reason to believe that will change. If we endow a fetus with legal rights, we give third parties rights to involve themselves in each and every pregnancy because there is absolutely no way a fetus can be consulted in any decision the mother makes other than to assume it wants to live. Give a fetus rights and you open the door to reviewing all the mothers actions during pregnancy.
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@samuelmerkel2888 The third party is the policeman or lawyer acting for the fetus. The fetus is not a separate being that's you first error. If it was somehow easily separable like a chicken and a chicken egg than you would have a case to demand fetal separation instead of abortion. People change their minds about things all the time. In your perfect world women should only have sex if they are willing to have children. If they are irresponsible you want to compound that error by demanding responsibility and making a new born child into a test for responsibility. We already have plenty of unwanted children but for you we just need more for some stupid moral quest of perfection that most likely involves your god. Let's say I've had an accident and I've lost a lot of blood it's a rare type and your the only one close by with that blood type. Can I demand you give me some of yours? You will probably never miss it. After all if I've lost too much there is good reason to believe I might die. There is no question that I'm a living Human being and I may even be conscious and desirous of life. No one will be able to question your right to refuse in a court of law even if I'm your son. Somehow a fetus has more rights to another's person's body? No analogy is going to be perfect but this one seems to be much more perfect a situation. No question that I'm a person. No question that as a son I'm a result of the sex you had. Of course if that got out you would probably be condemned even more so than a women having an abortion but what if you were a Jehovah's Witness?
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@samuelmerkel2888 'Choices have consequences and choosing forced pregnancy by police action is your idea of a moral choice.
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@samuelmerkel2888 For you it's a matter of moral and male superiority. I'm just wasting my time with someone who refuses to acknowledge reality.
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@etiennebreaux8623 You have no control over how tax dollars are spent.
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@sandygravel39 I don't like being insulted by people who claim a high moral ground but surround themselves with people who have none to stand on like Mike Pence, Donald Trump or slimy Democrats like Obama and the Clintons. My brother, sister and I were all wanted children. That is what we are for as long as you want them have as many children as you like. Children should be wanted not an accident, an inconvenience, a way to make some cash or a way to "learn responsibility.". There is plenty of misery in life no need to add more to it. Not a single Catholic priest has adopted a child. American law is generally understood to limit state power for individual rights. Not one where you need permission before you can do anything. Unfortunately today we have government that wants to require a license, ID check and permission for everything you might want to do. I'm 65 and being carded for a bottle of beer because of zero tolerance laws. There is no such thing as an absolute morality. I've already argued as to why a fetus is not an independent being and for that reason can not be assigned rights as if it was.
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@etiennebreaux8623 Immigration, taxes, abd social benefits are different issues from abortion. In general we want all foreign military bases closed and all military spending limited to what would be necessary for a workers militia. A new immigration policy that ends temporary work permits, legalises people in immigration limbo, restricts deportation to a punishment only when imposed at a time of trial. That deportion's should be for limited terms depending on the offense not a one size (30 years) fits all.
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@samuelmerkel2888 A fetus is NOT an independent being. That is where you deny reality. No human being has ever been born without being previously dependent on its mother's body. END OF STORY. It is only upon birth that we being our lives independently of a single person, our mother. All you moral arguments ignore that simple fact making the voluntary sex act and the rights of a fetus as the only moral considerations. The fetus has no rights because it has no natural way to make itself independent of its mother other than by being born.
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@samuelmerkel2888 You can get a treatment for leukemia where you blood DNA no longer matches your own. That is also true in transplants from other than an identical twin. I'm not impressed by stupid arguments like letting a baby die on a table. In a natural birth the baby comes out automatically regardless of the mother's wishes. The cord is cut and the baby takes a breath. The after birth has what was the placenta that connected the mother's body to the baby. The mother, another women that is lactating or baby formula can feed the newborn. Biology will no longer dictate to the newborn like it did to the fetus survival being incumbent on one specific individual.
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@Kane Freeman You can write all the definitions of a person you want call a fetus what ever you want but you can't escape one thing and that is a fetus is NOT an independent person. It is totally dependent on its mother's body only for life alone. A fetus can't switch mothers. It can't be temporarily disconnected from the mother. The father can't take care of the fetus while mom goes grocery shopping. If you took a course in sex education you might have learned that very important fact.
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@Kane Freeman Give a fetus rights than it can be evicted by abortion or I can come by and eat and drink at your dinner table free of charge for 9 months. Don't give a fetus rights and abortion can't be called a violation of fetal rights.
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@Kane Freeman People kill each other legally all the time. It's called war or self defense. Killing a fetus is no different than self defense. The rights of the mother come first. Any rights the fetus might have are inferior to those of the mother. The reason being is it is not an independent being. If you unhappy with that then you should take up the problem with nature. You want to give the fetus rights come up with a simple way to remove it from the uterus. Unfortunately we aren't like chickens because then we could do an egg hand off.
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@Kane Freeman We don't give equal rights to dead bodies and you have yet to come up with an argument other than sympathy for a fetus as to why it should have any legal rights. If it's just a matter of sympathy and opinion than you wouldn't be demanding the police enforce anti abortion laws calling abortion murder. If abortion is made illegal women will still seek to have them. Instead of legal and safe they will be illegal and unsafe. Rich and upper class women will get abortions okayed by abortion humiliation boards or get on an airplane to a jurisdiction where abortions are safe and legal. Catholic Priests will be rejoicing since this will mean a continual source of orphaned children for them to abuse.
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@Kane Freeman You keep insisting that the fetus is a person yet fail to show how it can easily become independent of the mother prior to birth.
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@Kane Freeman Your talking definition not an actual situation. Show me anywhere else in the law where a person can be entitled to and get nine months of continuous care from a single person. You mine as well announce the return of slavery since you would at best be able to get a short stay of a few days if a person's life was involved. If the fetus was an independent person it would be a simple matter of entrusting its care to someone else's. People such as yourself keep insisting that the sex act should be the only time a women has a choice. To bad we don't all live in that land of sugar plums and fairies.
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@nickfeness A fetus is not an independent being that is the basic reason you can assign it any rights. Either the mother has rights to her body or she doesn't. The fetus unlike an actual born person can not have its custody transferred. I tell you what can I come by to your house and eat at your table for 9 months straight? Because if that is the right you advocate all I need is a sob story and you need to feed me for 9 months straight.
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@nickfeness No you only contend there was an agreement between two people of an agreement to produce a child. In 99% of all cases no physical proof whatsoever exists that that is true. Not even a signed agreement between the parties involved. Your responsibility is shown by the limited liability corporation. Do the bankers and the bosses have the right to evict the tenant? That is all an abortion is under bourgeois law. I will be more than happy to bring plenty of homeless from the soup kitchens to live at your house and eat your food. I will tell them that you recognize a right to life and won't mind feeding, clothing and sheltering them at your expense.
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@jgehbinv Norma McCorvey paid to be anti abortion. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/us/norma-mccorvey-aka-jane-roe-documentary/index.html SEE AKA JANE ROE
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@guacamoleniqqapeniss7317 You are NOT human. The fetus is the exclusively the property of the woman. It has no separate rights because it is inseparable from the mother. It's part of her body not anyone else's. Women have been having abortions long before the bible was written and even the bible does not directly forbid abortion. How would you know the difference between an abortion and a miscarriage? Do you propose to have the police investigate every miscarriage? Require every pregnancy to be registered. Anti abortion laws are laws meant to punish women for getting pregnant period. The same people who are against abortion (The Christian moralists) want to end contraception next. It has been an attack on the poor first since they don't have any power in DC like the Billionaires whose wealth exempts them from laws everyone else must obey including any anti abortion law.
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@dragonbalzo4109 So the women needs only cry rape and then an abortion is okay? A simple vasectomy will then protect you from rape charges.
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@dragonbalzo4109 You want to write another law to enforce your morality. The Doctors will stop doing abortions and then illegal abortions will be done by medical students, nurses and charlatans. There is no reason to believe women will stop getting abortions anymore than people will stop using drugs from tobacco, alcohol, weed, and opiates because of laws, just as immigration laws aren't stopping immigration. Some a few will stop getting abortions and you will be responsible for another unwanted child as if there aren't enough already. How about you pay more taxes for orphans care? How about you get a vasectomy, adopt some unwanted children (Unlike Catholic Priests who have adopted EXACTLY ZERO.) and you take care of them instead of bringing any more into the world? Since you're so wise about sex education see how many Churches want you to come and talk birth control after Mass or Church Service? Sounds like a great Sunday School topic.
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@dragonbalzo4109 Since you're so wise about sex education see how many Churches want you to come and talk birth control after Mass or Church Service? Sounds like a great Sunday School topic.
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@phoebe6672 Have all the kids you want!!! Insisting other women they have to carry every pregnancy to term no matter what they want is what I'm against. Are you going to send out the cops to investigate every miscarriage? You get a birth certificate when your born. You don't take out a pregnancy certificate after having sex do you? The Bible has no problem with God doing murder including pregnant women and fetuses. Just read Hosea 13:16 KJV "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
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@phoebe6672 Do you see us picketing your Church Service's? Quit bothering people who don't believe your nonsense. The right to practice your religion doesn't give you the right to trample upon other peoples rights. We have the right to hold meetings and discus ideas. Christian's are the majority religion in the US and you talk like everyone is out to get you? What's the problem Church donations and attendance are hitting new lows again?
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@DEEJMASTER 333 A fetus has no right to life since it can't live independently of a women's body. If extraordinary measures are not taken a brain dead person will naturally die of dehydration.
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@DEEJMASTER 333 A women is not an farm animal that is to be used as an incubator for the capitalist bosses. The bosses always refuse to pay for the workers social expenses. Instead they wish to use misery and the orphans created as cannon fodder and disposable low wage workers. She has the right to terminate the pregnancy or use birth control at her convince to plan her life without capitalist compulsion.
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@DEEJMASTER 333 They don't build time machines BOSS. Tell me how great it was to live in fascist Germany a capitalist country in 1940.
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@DEEJMASTER 333 We have problems with both fascists and Stalinist for using political violence trying to shut people up that's the difference between us. Hitler came to power by appointment and by use of thuggery. His party lost seats in the last election before he was handed power by President General Hindenburg as Chancellor of Germany. He had to exclude the communist deputies and some of the Social Democrats to pass the enabling act giving him dictatorial power. The capitalist turned to Hitler to break the trade union's and the Social Democratic and Communist Parties.
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@kristelmaguysio8109 If that were true the fetus would be self sufficient and not need a mother's body. You could remove it and let dad take his turn at fetal care.
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@an_nie_dyc1386 Nope I'm not going to reargue the obvious.
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@melancholycollie1466 I have never claimed a fetus is "NOT human" that is a bogus made up claim by you. Since you begin by making a false statement to advance you ideas no addition answer is required.
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@melancholycollie1466 I am happy that the Doctor was able to help you and hope your able to have as many babies as you want and see all your babies grow up healthy and happy.
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@albertsaez6278 Hows the Food at the Hutcheson Correctional Center are the feeding "The Rodent" lots of tasty lime jello with wipped cream? Is he reading his bible and wearing short sleeve shirts because you realize he's got a constitional right to bare arms. Do you go visit him once a month? or more often.
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@albertsaez6278 Well than I just the guy Satin needs because I'm a trained HVAC controls technician. I know how to keep cool in the Summer and Hot in the winter. I'm sure the devil will find a place for me in his pit that your all powerful God let him out of.
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Mexican or not Mexican the bosses pay after you work not before. Plus there are plenty of Mexican coal miners in Utah.
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How about letting Cuba trade without the US blockade? Of course if a country don't adopt some stupid free trade agreement where billionaires can keep every dollar they can make Strossel would automatically be against it.
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@williamshafer3199 The Better Not Start a Family RailRoad.
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The write laws to exempt themselves from taxes while making the rest of us pay. They need to pay a 100% income tax on all profits while all other taxes should be abolished.
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2008 was what happened.
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@sanatan warrior The US is trying to starve them out just like the bosses do when workers go on strike. End the US Blockade!!!
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No it is different because he is running a business not looking for a job.
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Steve Crowder did not bring a case against a Muslim bakery because he believed in their right to refuse service. He also found that not all Muslim bakers refused service nor is a Muslim bakery on trial but why not listen to the actual video. Many of them were kind to serve us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWIhYAtan4 at about 2:25. Should a bakery be able to refuse an interracial couple a marriage cake as being a practice not a personal refusal? All this is in tune with the libertarian theory that free markets are best and solve every problem when the capitalist doesn't have to obey laws his own government passes.
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I have to side with the worker over the boss to do otherwise would violate my principles as a communist.
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David Martin Capitalism in Mexico/California will work towards wage equalization despite the border.
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@rickyarme7393 Canada has the Progressive Conservative Party.
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@Mscottonn The capitalist won't go for it because it would cost them too much in profits. What they want is cheap labor and soldiers. They want the poor to provide them. The have no intention of totally eliminating abortion certainly not for women with money. It doesn't cost them anything if a worker or poor person dies then can always hire another one of us. For women to control their lives that means the ability to control one's reproductive function. The world has to many orphans as it is now and the US just finished displacing millions and killing 100,000 in Afghanistan one of the poorest countries in the world. Politicians and sky pilots need to mind their own uterus. You talk all day about the right to life yet you spend more money on wars, weapons of war and the military than any country on earth. No one but an idiot believes the adult leaders of the Pro Life movement are anything but Pro Control. The hope to give the corrupt and rotten cops another reason to dish out violence and get involved in a new look good moral crusade besides the drug war.
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@thientuongnguyen2564 The American Imperialists also carpet bombed Korea.
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@JoeCopson Sowell is a neoliberal in the Milton Freedman tradition. For him capitalism and markets operate just fine and their is no such thing as class or exploitation. Of course the welfare recipient of a meager government hand out must be criticised but when the big bosses of capitalism demand a bailout the neo liberal Bush immediately saw the light and decided to intervene in "the free market to save the free market." Now what do think the alternative for the bosses was? To wait for the federal judiciary to straighten out the whole mess in bankruptcy court? They know quite well that their economic system goes into crisis and they always want us to pay for their crisis. They want to privatize profits and socialize the losses. Even when handing unemployment benefits workers are told to tighten their belts while bosses well they get the golden parachutes. They talk about taking risk when they operate to maximize profits and think E Palestine is only in the Middle East.
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@johncollins7062 Capitalism the waste of human potential. American capitalism Imperialist Empire is defended by a military budget that wastes the labor and creativity of millions in the bosses drive to defend their failing profit syatem.
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@dirtfarmer7472 We have a newspaper published since 1928 "The Militant" available online and books at Pathfinder Press.
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If Lenin thought he was gong to be turned into a cult hero by Stalin and his ruthless drive for power he would he left a will like Fidel Castro did. Fidel said he was not to have streets or squares named after him or statues built of him.
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The national debt should be easy to solve. Instead of borrowing from the rich by selling them bonds tax the rich to pay off the bonds. OOps that won't work because the rich control congress and they would never agree to such a simple solution.
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What none of the European politicians want to talk about is how Germany with an absolute majority of Social Democrats and Communists in the Reichstag lost power to a smaller party of thugs with Hitler made Chancellor of Germany by Bismark. If they did than the would have to explain their own political shortcomings. Hitlers Party (National Germany Workers Socialist Party) was built upon physical attacks upon trade unionists, Jews and anyone who wanted to hold a political meeting or rally. The German Capitalist chose him as the way to defeat the labor and socialist movement.
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If you ever read what Karl Marx said about capitalism he credits it with destroying the idiocy of rural life among other things.
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Actually he did. You can read what he said about all kinds of things at http://www.marxists.org .
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Destroying the idiocy of rural life not rural life itself. Capitalism comes into the world dripping in blood and dirt in every pore. (Another Quote from Marx) In the United States the Industrial (Capitalist) North found it necessary to destroy the southern slavocracy making themselves sole proprietors of the nation. The first public schools in the South for both black and white children came after the civil war. In order to unite the Country the West with the East in trade it was necessary to build the continental railroads. The Indian's with their nomadic way of life including the herds of Buffalo came into conflict with the railroads and the white settlers farming based on private property. They were forced through violence onto reservation and subsistence agriculture. Capitalism chases its tail around the world revolutionary changing the means of production. It's not capitalism success that will bring it down but its failures, its own internal contradictions not some sort of new Christian morality developed by a sect of Marx worshipers. (Although we do have the moral high ground.) Capitalism's most important product isn't the railroad, the telephone or computer it's us the working class people who make everything but own nothing. It is we who make history!! We are the revolutionary class!!! We will a march forward onto Washington and New York!!! We will make our needs and our ways of doing things law!! We will take the power of nuclear war from the war makers ending forever the possibility of the ultimate destruction!! We will add a new kind of liberty!!! The freedom and liberty of abundance not war. We will then take that around the world building schools and hospitals. We will make clean water and electricity available to all who want to read and drink.
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"The Europeans came to America to kill natives and kill natives alone." Anyone who believes such nonsense is obviously a fool. Can you actually trace that back to some liberal or is this just a rumor started by a conservative to attack liberals?
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@chingshih5727 The Progressives came from the Republicans Party the same Party that had won the civil war and established popular Republicans' Party Reconstruction governments in the South and abandoned them to the Democratic Party and Red Shirt terror despite victory in the civil war. The same group of hypocrites that sends us to die for Democracy every else wouldn't do so in its own territory.
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@jasneskis Become an opportunist like Sowell and grab everything you can.
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Bean counters are always giving advice on how to save 15 cents for a billion dollar company. Your problem is you don't understand that regulations are necessary to control greed to prevent it from getting out of hand and creating costly protests of ruling class policy.
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@DerekWitt Well i remember all he Pro Lifers trying to blockade clinics and anti abortion terrorist killing doctors.
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The elites can't make the profit system work because it is fundamentally flawed.
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That's correct the successful fight for the immediate needs of the working class brings hope and awakens the gravediggers of capitalism the industrial workers.
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@farpointgamingdirect Marx lived a modest life his ideas have influenced the thinking and lives of millions. The manifesto of the Communist Party has been one of the most translated and published works in world history written just 175 years ago.
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@Andres98394 Your nothing but a puput of US Imperialism. Sanctions do nothing but hurt ordinary people. The Wall street scum and their two parties need to go.
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Virginia Campodonico The big dough is in wars. That's why the support for bone saw and sulfuric acid contracts with Saudi Arabia along with plenty of bombs and war material to fight a US war in Yemen where the King of Saudi Arabia provide the all the bodies necessary. Its all marked MADE IN USA With the Microsoft Windows operating system or Apple designed in Cupertino, California USA.
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@Jimi_Lee How would Anarchism have prevented General Kornolov from marching into St Petersburg and drowning the revolution in blood? Anarchist in Spain ended up joining the popular front with the liberals. The problem with libertarians, liberals, anarchists, social democrats and stalinist thinkers is they're all concerned with forms of government instead of the class struggle and how it unfolds. None see the class struggle as the motor of history instead they think they themselves can solve every problem with pre constructed plans. So the set up little groups of ideological worshipers rather than traaing a cardre of worker bolsheviks who have absorbed the past lessons of the class struggle and can lead by example.
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@vancouver4sure They have chosen freedom and its doesn't include US big business.
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@kated3165 They chose freedom from Chase Manhattan banks US colonial dictatorships
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@extoxico277Desantis was telling them that the immigrants wouldn't leave and they'd still have them working illegally. That it was just for a political show.
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@DavidJohnson-hg1mz Its just your usual right wing rant about unions.
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Hay Hay Judge Jeanine how many plea bargains did you accept today?
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@bobsmith9705 Basiclly what amounts to a traffic ticket offense.
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Xenophobic fear mongering.
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O'Reilly, "Putin is a killer." Trump, "What you think our country is so innocent?"
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Screw you and your sheep dog theories. We'll send you to China for supper time. Dogs are a tasty treat.
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Crony less capitalism? When was capitalism not a system of corruption legal and illegal? We had a system of unregulated capitalism before the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash the working class paid with untold misery which finally resulted in WW2. Because of the destruction of industrial Europe capitalism had a rebirth allowing the restart of primate capital accumulation. Capitalism is such that unemployment is a natural feature. We don't see it directly today like after the great depression because of all the social programs first instituted by the Roosevelt Administration meant to save capitalism from itself. Food stamps replaced some of the soup kitchens. Welfare replaced some of the begging and Medicare/Medicaid boosted life expectancy. Rather than have massive numbers of the unemployed appear at government offices they send checks in the mail, EBT cards, or to debit cards. Taking them away will make the capitalist richer and the working class poorer.
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Their going to be on the lockout for Canadian Tires and aluminum tin foil hats so they can collect the tariffs on steel belts and aluminum foil
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Fidel "bad man" for leading revolution against US Bankers and profiteering ruling class.
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Socialism/Communism is the result of a revolution that takes power from the hands of the small capitalist minority and puts into the hands of the producers.
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Ever seen a map before? N Korea borders China. China doesn't want US troops on their border. The US has ignored plenty of UN resolutions before and so the rest of the world will ignore those sought or even passed by the UN for the US. Simple! What goes around comes around!
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@ДенисСоколов-п9ш People who emphasis the second implicitly show inability to understand democracy. They will be easily convinced to shot in the wrong political direction.
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@DAVIDMAINORD That's what the first Amendment is for.
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@ramoth777 Fascism as a movement that hides in the background it seeks to advance its aims to defend capitalism from the labor movement by organizing thug attacks upon those who seek to organize political meetings . When the bosses citizen's allaince invited the North Carolina fascist William Paley and his silver shirts to Minneapolis they were quickly driven back to North Carolina after an armed Union Defense Guard was drilled by a full blooded Indian in a public park.
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@beverlyfowler5420 The surest way to lose a right is to go about provocatively using it. The government is in no position where it can order a home to home search for firearms. It is much more likely to look for excuses like terrorism or crime to try clamp down on rights. .
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@Findiemies Just like Rome in times of crisis a ruling class looks for a dictator. With world capitalism in a crisis they look for allies among other nations ruling classes as the march towards War and Fascism.
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@@lexbrightraven8049 The problem is America is divded into two classes a wealthy capitalist ruling class that lives on profits and a working class that creates everything while owning nothing. The class interests of the capitalist come to directly oppose those of the working class after initial capitalist development. Capitalism develops into nation states who then enter the battle of the world market. Unlike the nation state where capitalist can arbitrate differences among themselves the world is not arbitral by exploiters anymore than war and revolution could be prevented by intermarriage among European Nobility. Like it or not capitalism produces its own grave diggers. Since the basic flaw it the profit system is the tendency of the long term profit rates to decline over time ending the capitalist mode of productions measure of success. What this means is the capitalist have no way of fixing capitalism within the confines of the private profit system.
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@FierceZs1 If men got pregnant abortions would be a drive through procedure.
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@FierceZs1 Who's going to care for 620,000 babies a year? The world has plenty of orphans for you to adopt as it is now. Or do you advocate making someone responsible for a child who can't be responsible? You don't care about the actual human being involved. No you care about being high and mighty talking about what a morally suprior moral being you are. How much smarter and better you are. If only everyone would recognize you big tallent at telling everyone how to live their lives we be in a utopia.
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@theglenlivet3372 Why? Like everything said in secret diplomacy its is worthless certainly as a promise of anything that's why its kept secret. He isn't telling the Chinese anything they don't already know. Chinese PLA, "Are you going to attack." Milley, "No we will let know first." Chinese PLA, "Thanks for letting us know that." How many promise do you believe coming form Washington anyway and this one is secret.
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@goodluckembweze2568 Trump lifted just part of the sheet covering liberal hypocrisy and look at what you saw! Trump had switched parties 5 times. He said nor did nothing worse than Bill Clinton but when he won an election while Hillary Clinton who was the big money candidate lost he was accused of being traitor. Being backed by Putin. Now Trump is no Lenin or Fidel Castro but his class of well to do New York Bankers and Bosses treated him as a personal traitor to them and their system.
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@jameswolf5425 The Capitalist Bosses decided to cut their Losses. Bad news for the capitalist elite.
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@wierdlygruesome All Stossel wants is a lower tax bill and bigger returns on his investments. The rich want more and bigger incentives to do less than nothing anyway.
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@SuperDachshund You are seeing the result of "embraced capitalism HARD." Doctors and nurses dying needlessly because capitalist seldom plan beyond the next quarter. Then you have Congress and the President waiting for those promised price signals from the invisible hand theory. Finally they realized the capitalist are waiting for promised profits before ramping up production so they go to the Defense Production act. Meanwhile they have created an unprecedented economic crisis for millions of workers and small businessmen telling everyone to stay home.
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@SuperDachshund I don't look at politics that way. Capitalism needs a strong centralized state. The US is the most powerful Empire in human history. It's no accident that it also has the largest GDP. As capitalism grows it needs a bigger state because of the irreconcilable class conflict going on.
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@SuperDachshund All those teachers going on strike in Red states and those GM workers on strike? Where you going for those Cigars and Scotch a special bar allowed to stay open for Bosses only?
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@SuperDachshund Ya it must be nice to own a home and dis everyone else for not discovering how be an asshole. Sure class struggled ended for you with that first puff of the cigar.
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@aliveandwell829 Actually no because socialism is workers control of industry so that means no outside corrupt OSHA or EPA. How necessary is spending 22 Billion on 9 Virginia class nuclear powered submarines, creating a military space force, bigger investments in Mars Space missions or Amazon automation? Did you get to vote on the dilly dallying around with the coronavirus. Why don't they just say the were waiting for the free market to solve the problem? The Congress and President are lucky to know what to do when a light turns green. No health care worker needed to die in this pandemic because of lack of safety equipment. That's okay though because no system is perfect right? Lets just let a small group of poison ivy league idiots lead us into a capitalist heaven. Nobody in Cuba is living in a palace like Batista, Trump or Obama either. The US Blockades Cuba because they fear the example the set. That socialism can work without abuse of individuals. That working people can take control of society and advance our interests worldwide. Keep following the Bezo's, Trump's, Obama's and Gate's because they only thing they can do is lead you off a cliff in the next crisis.
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@SuperDachshund I think the key word for Rockefeller is developed not invented. Which means he invested for dreams of future Profits. Its like worshiping Steve Jobs for inventing the iPhone. The internet, cell phone, and computer were already there it only took Moore's law to make it possible.
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@SuperDachshund Who the hell is Pedro anyway?
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@SuperDachshund Let raise a flag at the Washington Memorial for another Boss who wants to cure cancer after years of cigar smoking. He may just get his wish since a small island has developed a vaccine treatment for lung cancer now in US clinical trials.
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@SuperDachshund "it only took Moore's law to make it possible." Wow. That's like saying, "It only took a downward slope to make the wheel possible." Not much on intellectual property rights are you? Wait. You're communist. You're not into private property of any kind. So stealing intellectual property is A-Okay, right?" Get me an old working cell or portable phone, an acoustic coupler connected to a dial up modem and an old computer. I've just built you a large iPhone. Moore's law refers to the rate of increase in the number of transistors you on put on a chip. It's an estimate rather than like a physical algebraic law. Intellectual property usually refers to things on paper or computer code. Patents usually apply to objects. Seldom does the patent or code belong to the author but instead to the company they work for. Some companies will get everyone down to the assembler on the line to sign a patent/intellectual property agreement. If you have a society built on human solidarity why do you need extra pay money for either a patent or Intellectual property? A lot of people and companies make money on open source software. You need to breath and break out of the windows/OS X straitjackets. Build yourself a hackintosh, Try wearing Red Hat Linix or go Native America with the Apache Foundation, need some air in the home office try out Open Office, Go Google over chromebook and take the EDGE off with Firefox. Give Gates and his Business Software "Monopoly" Alliance the boot.
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@SuperDachshund We ran Peter Camejo for President before he became a green. We run candidates to discuss our politics. Not to win races by making the most promises and tell the biggest lies by your Democratic and Republican Party Bosses. Our basic program is for the working people to take control of industry and society. Not to elect Bernie Sanders so Billionaries can pay "fair taxs".
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@mrquasar2922 No I don't believe that at all. The problem is having a upper class committed to capitalism pricing working class students out of education. I don't believe 30% legacy students at Harvard has anything to do with a smarter ruling class.There taught all kinds of class propaganda. Like how markets solve everything like the coronavirus pandemic. With their theories everyone should have been able to sit back and let price signals and the invisible hand of the capitalism go into action. That's exactly what Congress and the President did. December 31st they knew the had a problem. It took three months to realized it wasn't working and Trump invokes the so called Defense production act.
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@mrquasar2922 Ten thousand foreign students are studying Medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba . All at no direct cost to the students. In Cuba they are building a society based in human solidarity. In the US we have a society where everyone can be a billionaire and run for President.
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@SuperDachshund Maybe you should end the Blockade of the island. After all you're not afraid that 11 million people might not want to become gambling thieves, pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers with a US Ambassador looking out for United Fruit banana plantations, US owned sugarcane plantations, US sugar mills, AT&T and a Texaco oil refinery? It was such a capitalist utopia when General Batista along with his Cuban friends of the US Ambassador were in charge. Why doesn't Trump offer Cuba statehood as a compromise to independence and wait for the gesture?
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@mrquasar2922 "Doctors in Cuba get 1% of what the doctors make in the USA." So they became Doctors because of Fidel's Forced Doctorization plan? Why do so many people flee Mexico? In fact Mexico had a one party state from about 1929 to 2000. I guess someone forgot to tell CBP that if Mexican's can swim the Rio Grande or cross the desert that they could get a Green card as long as they denounced the one party Mexican state.
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@aliveandwell829 No there won't always be Bezo's or Rothschilds. Their income is based on ownership of private property. The privileges of the Mao's, Stalin's are politically based in a stratification of the labor aristocracy. They may have appeared relatively stable from afar but those in the lower party positions were in a constant state of turmoil in and out of prison or being shot for nonsense reasons.
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@aliveandwell829 Term limits. So you want more rotation among the high level officadom. Congressman to Lobbyist. to CEO, to OSHA head, to Governor, to Professor to Postmaster. Did I forget anyone? Bernie is wrong we don't want to make Billionaires pay their fare share. We want the means of production and distribution under workers control. For Billionaires we are thinking of building an artificial island where they can work on their theories on how to best to exploit each other among themselves.
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@SuperDachshund Okay so stay in that big chair puffing on a cigar Sloan Kettering can always use a few more patients.
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@mrquasar2922 Capitalist don't work for their money it comes in dividend checks once every three months or through government bond ownership. You guys make welfare cheats look like shoplifters.
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@SuperDachshund They asked Jesse James why he roobed banks his reply, "That's where the money is."
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@SuperDachshund People in the advanced capitalist countries don't work anyway nearly as physically hard as in the past. The days of John Henry competing with the steam hammer are gone. Because agricultural labor is so cheap it is one of the last area where back breaking labor still exists. In the US harvesting cotton last picked by hand was in the 1960's. Wheat and Corn is harvested by machine even in many poor countries.
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@mrquasar2922 You've never been an assembly line worker. In an kind of assembly line you have to work collectively to get things done. If I don't do my job the next guy can do his. It is not like croche were you can sit and knit. It not like growing corn in the south like slaves. There a family of sharecroppers raises the food for their family and grows a crop to share with the land owner. The land owner just like during slavery doesn't do anything but now instead of taking the whole crop only took a part of the crop and sells it.
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@mrquasar2922 You've got 100 million from WW2 and WW1 alone then you can add in the Taiping rebellion for another estimated 20 to 80 million. The further back in time you go the greater percentage of the world's population died under capitalism, feudalism, or slavery. You like to talk about the touchy feely non aggression principle capitalism when the real history of capitalism is soaked in the blood from the Enfield rifle among other weapons of war.
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The capitalist are preparing for war by spending plans of $1.2 trillion for nuclear weapons and possibly more after the Trump administration does an nuclear posturing review. Your for peace by threatening the world with nuclear winter.
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@aliveandwell829 We ARE going to change YOUR country and we have all the weapons we need right in the US constitution. The Super hot dog will be sitting in a cloud of cigar smoke drunk on Scotch when it happen.
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@SuperDachshund The capitalist bosses will always be a minority which is why you need armies of conscripts and mercenaries. War is just a more concentrated version of politics which means weapons are never the decisive factor but just one of many. The mistake conservatives make is thinking you can pull out the second amendment and use it as a way to murder the first amendment.
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@aliveandwell829 "Peace through strength." You've been watching to many old The US Armies "Big Picture" TV "propaganda" shows. We use to watch those on Saturday morning TV most of them are in black and white. Most are posted on youtube . Basically "Peace through Strength" signs were probably posted outside of Military bases with nuclear weapons inside. It's part of what was called "New Speak". years ago.
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@SuperDachshund We aren't interested in organizing and pleasing bosses like the labor aristocrats theories of good and bad bosses. As far as we are concerned you are all bad. Different goal. Different tactics. The revolutionist have no goal other then the complete emancipation of the working class.
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@niklasd.123 Capitalism cannot be regulated out of greed and exploitation. Capitalism is based in the nation state as are the different capitalist classes. The fight for international markets can not be just regulated away. It can only take competition and lead it to trade war until it reaches real war. If you think capitalism is globalism then you are wrong because globalism is dead and competing trade block are arising.
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@aliveandwell829 The EU is beginning to break up with the UK leaving other countries are considering doing the same. The five eyes (UK, US, Canada, Aus, NZ) booting out Huawei and now considering adding other Chinese telcom. China's belt and road initiative. EU and US arguing over Iran.
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@aliveandwell829 You don't think anyone outside a few dummies thinks the US doesn't use threats to further its foreign policy initiatives. Its like everything else the do. A combination of threats and lollipops.
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@niklasd.123 How's that gulag your running Vahlok the Jailor? Do they keep portraits of Ebert, Karl Kautsky, and the cold warrior Willy Brant at SPD hall's? Ah so German exceptionalism means the Kapitalist are "Hard Workers". I guess the longer driveways mean harder work collecting those every 3 month dividend checks from the mailbox than their American cousins. I guess it was good that the American capitalist sold the deNazified German businessmen marshall plan shower heads so they could shower off the stink from the concentration camps. You realize the defense to Hitler's Nuremburg laws was the American southern state segregation laws. If you really had freedom of speech and thought you wouldn't have the need to outlaw Mein Kampf. Inside Mein Kampf you'd find that Hitler mentions Henry Ford favorable. In fact Hitler had Henry's rag (Newspaper) the Dearborn Independent series the "International Jew" translated and printed in German. Ole Henry got the NAZI Order of the German eagle presented to him by the German Ambassador just before WW2 officially started.
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@SuperDachshund Dad isn't at the keyboard "So What." Are we headed down the Dinesh D'Souza road where liberal Democrats, Hitlerite Fascists, Socialists and Communists are all the same and only the new Abe Lincoln Donald Trump can save the nation?
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@SuperDachshund You brought "Dad" in for anecdotal evidence. So are we or are we not going to create the classic liberal equation of the Stalin regime being equivalent to the that of Hitler? Or are we headed down the D'Sousa route and add in FDR to make it a triple equality?
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@SuperDachshund If there were no Hitler and Stalin there would be no statism theory. It began among those intellectuals within the Trotskyist movement seeking to exit to Democratic Imperialism with the coming of WW2. There was no question that the Hitler was heading up German Imperialism seeking world domination. with support of Big Business like Krupp and I. G. Farben. The German Bourgeois did complain about the cost of Hitlers state but the choice was Hitler or communism. For those leaving revolutionary Marxism the question of the Soviet state was is it a degenerated workers state or a state capitalist state.
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@SuperDachshund The problem with socialism being state capitalism is the Soviet Union was not organized to produce profits with private ownership which is why Milton Friedman had to come up with a plan to change the Soviet Union back into a capitalist country. This was accomplished by making the workers 'true owners" with sellable shares in their enterprises. Then an economic crisis (shock therapy) allowed the "true owners" to sell those shares to those corrupt politicians connected with Boris Yeslin. Now you have privatised industry and a stock market. The essence of what need for capitalism.
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@timothydeem7815 We have constitutional rights and buddy don't you ever forget that. We have the right to organize and petition the government for redress of grievances. We have the right to join a trade union and go on strike. We have all the rights needed to make a socialist revolution right in that constitution don't you ever think you can take them away.
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@novelnuts788 Bosses aren't working when they pay themselves a dividend. They aren't working when they manipulate stock prices and market values in buy and selling schemes like the GameStop swindle. Administration is a skill not something that any other human beings can't learn and not worth 40 to 100 times that of the lowest paid laborer. They aren't permitting free speech and discussion when BIG TECH CEO's ban people for political reasons from twitter and youtube and fire people for what they think. We have a right to join trade unions and strike if we don't like the terms of employment issued by monopoly BOSS DICTATORS.
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@SuperDachshund Youtube had me banned after Nov 4th for about 2 and a 1/2 months. Probably for calling Joe Bidden a loyal l*pd*g of American Imperialism.
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Michael C Many Doctors and Nurses died needlessly because the capitalist weren't prepared for the pandemic and sat around waiting while it progressed. They are always preparing and involved in Imperialist wars. The US is spending billions on new nuclear weapons to maintain "its posture."
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Cops not showing up? No loss. Cops shouldn't have been allowed in to begin with.
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Hamas leaders knew this would happen so they are the ones to blame because this is what they wanted. Hamas says it will just continue so why should Israel agree to a unilateral ceasefire so it can just regroup?
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Jack London Cops lost the Battle of Bulls Run due to the Chevy door hinge in the sit down strike of 1937 to 1938.
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@charlesarmeli1302 Seldom are they selfish minimum wage workers. If anything they are the small time bosses of minimum wage workers who were minimum wage workers that are sucking up to the bosses above or they've got some GM stock like a guy named Garcia who pretends to represent Mexican workers.
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Capitalism works until the expected return on investment in industrial production drops below the return on investment in making fictitious capital. This then results in economic crisis called recession or depression. The general tendency is for each to be worse than the last although that's not always true. The drive for profit is what's behind the pauperization of the working class which responds with strikes and protests. That's called the class struggle.
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There is no such a seperate thing as crony capitalism. Capitalism from its very birth was crony capitalism and as long as capitalism exists it will remain crony capitalism. A new market may start with many competitors but capitalism works in such a way to create monopoly. The mom and pop grocery gone! The independent auto parts store! Gone or franchised. The gas station with a mechanic. Gone! The personal computer store and repair all but gone. They implement regulation in efforts to control their greed. Any kind of insurance is a contract to pay for damages. If there were no regulations you would need to read through mounds of paper to find out what it covers and what it doesn't. That is why auto and health insurance is regulated. If there were no regulations on pollution manufacturers would all just dump waste in the cheapest ways possible into rivers, dumps, on the ground and into the ocean.
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What you are describing is a capitalist paradise. The Christian Church already has invented that. Want paradise and life after death head for the nearest Catholic Church.
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Typical boss response give more to the bosses as they know how to spend other people's money by making it grow in a bank. Any more fairy tales you want to tell us?
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@thistime1606 Both Parties spent 2.3 trillion in a 20 year war on Afghanistan killing 100,000 and creating millions of internally displaced refugees.
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"The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to administration officials." That's straight from the mouth piece of Big US Capitalism the Wall Street Journal. Reading further and one finds that Cuba is also an antagonist for more than 50 years.
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@user-tf4ho2uo1e Go look at Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General. For the time being the secret police dogs are on short leach.
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@ronaldlollis8895 I watched only a small sample. There they emphasized using long hours of interrogation and getting outrage over the interrogation meant innocence. In the US you are suppose to be mirandized. Which allows you to end any interrogation until a lawyer arrives. However the cops are known for coming up with ways around this such that many end up confessing after long hours of interrogation.
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How do you think such a list can be compiled? Did the Afghan government keep track of everyone entering and leaving the country? Most countries if they know anything only know who entered and when. So unless the NSA is keeping a big list no one knows for sure.
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@matthewstewart5113 The Czar with his secret police and his censors only created a thirst for Bolshevik literature.
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@WolfHeathen You realize that Sowell is talking about his neighbors and colleagues at the elite universities? That what he calls socialism just whatever liberal Democratic Party policy he doesn't like. He like many reactionaries and reformist alike believe in the theory of creeping socialism. This is where you go to sleep and wake up in a socialist world one day.
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Marx "Workers of the world Unite you have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to win" Hitler "Aryans Unite your a superior race and can rule the world." Hitler wanted an Empire like the British and American capitalists. That's why all three got along so well before 1939. The Soviet Union was invased by all the Imperialist powers upon its founding. .
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@dperry428 Democracy is only possible among people of the same social class.
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@MrSpiritchild What he ought to write about is the tyranny of the meritocracy.
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@MrSpiritchild Class society is the product of poverty. It is the wealth created by social labor of the working class and the surplus value accumulated by capitalism that makes socialism the next stage in human history possible. Production for the private profit of a ruling class must be replaced with the democratic production for human needs
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Capitalism isn't working and that's why interest in socialism is on the rise. The SJW's and PETA are your companions seeking to make capitalism "work" raising up progressive rights of animals. The closest the "Frankfurt School" gets to the working class is when they buy union made Oscar Mayer "hot dogs." for another conference on identity politics.
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The US doesn't invade because Cuba not only has an Army but a territorial militia. The revolution was made with all American arms most of them captured from the Batista regime.
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@Jesusismykin Dream on they couldn't defeat a bunch of reactionary terrorists after 20 year war in Afghanistan never mind a country with an army that defaeted South Africa and whole people armed as a territorial militia. Cuba is bone in the throat of the US Imperialists that prevents them from swallowing.
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Sure Mexico was going to pay to build a two lane interstate highway sideways for 2000 miles to halt the world capitalist crisis. Shows the thinking of the bosses give them a few million shots just stay away from our shut down factories.
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@rve420 Right their is a person on the court who looks Black and Female but can't give a definition of a women.
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@PunkShockRock What evidence do you have of Sowell being a Marxists?
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@PunkShockRock So we need to speak the King's English before we can debate you? Do I need a degree from Oxford also?
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@PunkShockRock If ideologies could wipe out the Human race than those bible stories would have done that long ago. Like Hosea 13:16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.” New International Version. Without British capitalism there would be no Enfield rifle. No Taiping rebellion without Jesus Christ. No atom bomb without American Imperialism's desire to rule the world.
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@PunkShockRock How do we know you aren't a secret supporter of Hitler? Hitler and the NAZI's are anti marxist he says so in Mein Kampf. In politics it's always best to say what and who you are rather than be a fake. Other than Sowell words where is the proof that he was a Marxist? According to Joe McCarthy army officers and protestant ministers were dupes of marxism. So did Sowell spend 10 years being a marxist dupe during the McCarthy era? The communist movement split in 1928 between Stalinist and Trotskyist. Trotsky was murdered by Stalin in 1940. Mao had Trotskyists jailed who then disappeared. Why should we and not you take responsibility for capitalism and its return via Stalinism. Gorbachev made his last betrayal. Then China went capitalist. Putin is former KGB and the CCP are the new Capitalist in China along with those in the ROC. Anyone can call themselves a communist or capitalist but a dog can't be a cat in any language.
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@PunkShockRock I have yet to hear of a book of ideas containing as effective a weapon for murder as a pistol made in a factory. Your the snob who says he's too good to debate. With little more than a push of a button a small group of human beings can wipe out all of us in nuclear war.
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@heatherrose3554 I had my YouTube account shut down on Nov 4th I recently got it back. You fight back with a battle to create space to discuss ideas. This is not Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany. They've taken the 2nd impeachment vote and they've lost. You want to fight for free speech print up a copies of the first amendment and go out and pass them out on open to the public public property. If you're afraid of camps are just going to sit back and wait to be picked up?
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@matthewbyrd398 Another Corp Republican Rino who belongs to the uniparty.
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@matthewbyrd398 You didn't see his interview where he favored Trump's election because he thought Trump would be easier to Impeach?
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@matthewbyrd398 So your a Corp uniparty supporter also?
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@sennaha His supporters prefer their own indoctrination into his own love of the capitalist system with its prices and markets seen in his 500 page diatribe Basic Economics.
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@richardcranium3579 Do we have a choice? If you don't understand how capitalism works and what is contradictions are and why it must be replaced and who will do that than you will never be able to understand the hows and whys of 19th and 20th Century history. Their are reasons the workers can't just take over capitalism and run it with the methods of profit and loss they way the capitalist have done. That's why the Chinese are having the same kind of problems that the United States does.
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@hectorabreu2502 Sure Chavez leads a movement that becomes a problem for the American Imperialist so they begin a propaganda campaign against him and then a failed coup attempt followed by sanctions. Then you talk about how socialism always fails as if the crisis of 2008 and the Great Depression were caused by Socialist or Communists not to even mention the two world wars in the twentieth century. .
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They needed the income tax so the could join the slaughter and meat grinder of First Imperialist World War.
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@alexanderb4846 Fascism is both a movemnet and a type of regime the capitalist class turn to when they see their power threatened by a Socialist revolution. The Soviet Union was never a capitalist country like Chile, Spain, Italy or Germany where fascist regimes came into power. Those who want to throw words around as political insults are always the first to cry fascism as the ideology of their political opposition. That's what Stalin accused all his opponents of and what the petty bourgeois left screams about Trump. You add nothing to the understanding the nature and eventual implosion of the Soviet Union no matter how good the insult makes you feel by beating your chest and crying Red Fasism.
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@Mr X Its really no different than Mao doing self criticism.
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@austensmith6857 The working people don't need another Mao or Stalin whose theories require alliances with lying bourgeois liberals or progressive capitalists. Only by relying on our own organizations and power can we achieve anything. That's been true in the past and it will remain true because world capitalism is essentially reationary to the core. It can't even produce at the level achieved in 2008 on a world scale and the ruling classes and strata are only interested in enriching themselves at everyone else's expense. Governments worldwide are corrupted by gamblers in stock markets seeking profit above all else. .
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@ericg4915 In the US you don't own the fridge and have to get into a big argument with the landlord to replace or fix a broken one.
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Right now n the US everyone is standing in line to buy out all the available groceries anticipating a Coronavirus pandemic.
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i can almost fart my ABCs Well I guess you are getting a good capitalist education. Did they forget to tell you that Adam Smith who coined the phrase "invisible hand" was older than Marx. That Adam Smith was the origin of the labor theory of labor. I would say capitalist ideology came before communism. Your ideas are older than ours.
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"..have no chance of moving up.." Well than you also have no chance of moving down either. I suppose the upper class likes taking the chance of moving down? Let me ask you this question is it easier to become destitute and homeless or a billionaire? If your in the upper class do you want more or fewer Horatio Algers? Certainly it keeps the caste and class structure more rigid to broadcast to the poor that you can become a Horatio Algers while at the same time blocking the road with educational requirements that poor don't have access too.
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sotojoe8 "Here you can own the fridge and the house its in if you want you can own several and then rent them out yourself but its going to take hard work and lots of effort." It takes little to no effort once you can move in the right social circles. In fact the effort lessens as the bigger your real estate business becomes otherwise it would deincentivise the reason for building a real estate empire like President Trump. You don't need to own a house or even a fridge. What need is housing and a fridge. There is no real reason to buy a home and a refrigerator and take on a mortgage except the system pushes you into it. You get to take on all the responsibilities while the bank has none. If you rent than you have to beware of what you are renting but moving is much easier. You may not realize it but the average family moves every five years.
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sotojoe8 Here a source although I read that years ago. https://www.mymovingreviews.com/move/how-often-and-why-americans-move/ If you live on a farm or ranch in Texas than you probably do move less often than people who live in big cities. I'm from New England and the The three Southern New England states are almost like city states. The price of land is higher with the demand for housing. Farm and orchids land is replaced with housing. Old factories in mill towns sit idle, are eventually torn down, or repurposed into apartments. If you can buy a piece of land you must live elsewhere until you home gets an occupancy permit. You wouldn't want to spoil your wealthy neighbors view of the town. Their are also zoning laws like how much land you need to build your home how many bedrooms are required and if a two car garage or carport is required.
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The biggest reason for moving is probably changing jobs or change in family size. The old cities of the east are built differently than the new cities of west. New York is probably the most different. I-10 and other Interstates through Houston 5 lanes each way with frontage roads. I-95 through New York squeezed into 3 lanes each way with pull off areas. The subway serves the city. NJ Transit , Long Island RR and Metro North trains are the commuter railroads. As far east as New Haven, CT as far south and west as Princeton Jct, NJ More often people live on top of each other rather than in urban sprawl. All roads tend to have curves no 75 mph secondary roads 45 usually the top secondary speeds. If you have to drive more than a 15 mile commute you probably unhappy about spending a half hour in traffic.
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sotojoe8 So you have a total of three apartments to rent and now you're a big real estate man like Trump. LOL. Going on strike and fighting for a higher wage is fighting It isn't begging like those who go hat in hand for middle class property tax cut like when you complain about property taxes to Governor Abbott in Austin. He's promising a no income tax amendment so he can raise the sales tax later on. You've got luxures like what? A new couch and sofa? A go to Church on Sunday suit? A new firearm made in the Connecticut river valley. My bet is when you get old you'll be going to Nuevo Progreso for dentures like everybody else who isn't part of the Bush family from Connecticut in Texas now.
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sotojoe8 Let's say I did have extra money to invest would I invest in real estate? No way? Why? Because all your doing is the banks job. Just as if you bought a home but now not only do you have to manage your own home now you have the responsible for the other homes you invested in. If the tenants do something stupid or lets say a fire happens your on the hook not the bank (you agreed to pay), not the insurance company (they never pay full value) and not the tenant (most are renting because the either don't want to own or can't buy). Would I buy stocks and bonds? Nope because now your giving other people the power to manage your money with no control unless you're the major shareholder. The best investment you can make is in yourself. Reading and learning which has never been easier since the development of the internet. Then maybe buying and making your own tools its almost always cheaper and more satisfying to make, do or fix something yourself.
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@user-John666 What do the "Professional Seat Warmers" from Eaton and Oxford propose now Capitalism in one Country?
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@philiphudgens4726 How Martin Luther King of you why not just move in with the upper class snobs of Oxford and Cambridge? Afterall King was a Black man for white folks because he promised not to hurt them no matter what they did. Maybe you can move into "a safe space" neighborhood like Sowell's and attend a "safe space" university?
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@ibmerlin2 Neither of the two capitalist parties defends free speech or women's rights.
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@daytimecoffee4139 The Nation State with fixed borders is a product of the capitalist era. Today capitalism is the method of production used in almost all of the world. This results in tiny ruling classes that fight with each other for profits in the world market dominated by the American Military Empire. A capitalist military Empire that has become unsustainable. .
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@colin1818 If you listen to the video maybe you'd learn something. Democrats called them selves Democratic but refused to accept the election of 1860 in the South.
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@colin1818 Hitler's party used socialist demagogy while being financed by big business. Hitler's Party served as a battering ram of non Jewish middle class thugs against the Socialist and Communist trade unions. His Party was based in mafia type small business, disillusioned war veterans and declassed criminal elements.
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@maeschder Left wing right wing refers to how parties sat in the French Assemble. It doesn't really apply in the US since with the exception of Sanders only two parties of the same capitalist class exist in Congress. Hitler's Party sat on the extreme Right with the Capitalist Conservatives in the Reichstag. They voted to make Hitler dictator with the enabling act. .
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@laughs150 Democrats like the Republicans are a capitalist party what is most important for them is the freedom to make a profit. The capitalist is the involuntary promoter of modern industry because of that. He also loves the power of money. The power to buy and sell. The ability to make a profit lies in the ability to capture markets and constantly revolutionize the means of production. In other words to cut the labor time needed to produce a commodity. By capturing markets the capitalist gains the ability to set prices higher than the cost of production and by revolutionizing the means of production he gains the ability to cut the labor time needed to produce. The capitalist government plays the role of arbiter of disputes and common interests of the capitalist as a whole.
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The Democrats want their immigrants and the Republicans theirs. If his women had not been successful Fox would want her kicked out. Came with a hundred dollars in her pocket and went straight to the nearest China Town for a job like every other immigrant group.
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@havu-oj4qh They had spent so much on the war in Vietnam that France demaded gold for dollars and so Nixon declared the Gold Standard temporarily ended.
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You have no control over how you taxes are spent anyway.
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How do they get that without Justice?
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James Brozik No because they would use that to further excuse to crack down on journalists in Saudi Arabia now. Nothing officially gets printed their without government approval and journalist who are minor critics get tossed into prison on terrorism charges.
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@dragonsnightmare6061 Like Stossel her solution is to give more power to the capitalist bosses.
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@darwel007 So now the rich will buy their children from the poor and the drug problem will be totally ignored. Sounds like a bosses wet dream!!!
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@darwel007 She supports selling the products of your body not just sex but children also and legalised drug use. Her idea is their is no limit on what can be put up for sale.
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@HollyDutton-wz8fe There is no such thing as a free or fair market. Profit seeking bosses seek to set all the prices to maximize profits.
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@HollyDutton-wz8fe Any reform won while the economy and government is under control of the capitalist private profiteers will be undermined as soon as its is implemented. Build a labor party and abolish private property.
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@boris2997 Ya your family had money to buy their citizenship.
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@williamroyer4669 The economy collapsed because of Capitalist greed Bush was no more responsible than Clinton or any other of the capitalist politicians. You can't fix a system that breeds war and depression with the cut back medicine prescribed by the two parties.
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@ProjectHyena The challenge is to build and extend the revolution anyone can sit around and wait.
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@glenncordova4027 Charity is the few pennies the rich put in the Church poor box on Sunday. The Cuban people have been waging a David and Goliath war against the American Imperialists Empire since 1953.
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@ChrisDeWine It says ."..No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..." So it requires Trump be given a hearing. Not unilateral action by a court or Government official.
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@ChrisDeWine The amendment was written against the Confederate who wanted to deny free Black men their rights. At the end of the amendment it clearly states "The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Congress took no action after Jan 6th besides an attempted impeachment which failed. It wrote no special legislation on inserection and in fact it considered such legislation months after on section 3 but took no action. The insurrection act clearly requires a declaration by the President of an insurrection. So no inserection took place to begin with much less one by the President. Its obviously election interference taken by the incumbent party seeking to interfere in an election since it says he can't hold office not be a candidate for office. The election will determine which delegates go to the Republican presidential convention not who will be an officer of the United States. State governments will now just rule people off the ballot based upon what they say. No conviction or Congressional action required just hear say and a sympathetic judge or official.
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@michaelbottjer3385 The insurrection Act requires the President to declare an insurrection. Congress considered Section 3 after Jan 6th and took no action despite its responsibility to enforce it.
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@michaelbottjer3385 A crime has too take place (An insurrection) before someone can be charged. Their wasn't an insurrection to begin with. The insurrection act defines an insurrection. They keep going over the same thing because the figure if they do it enough times something out to stick.
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@Cutiepies_videozandperks You need to mind your own uterus.
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@tomjscott People could also decide not to eat milk products thereby avoiding lactose intolerance. What makes a fetus or embryo an innocent child? Seems to me its just part of the reproductive process developing into an independent human being inside the mothers body. We issue birth certificates when your born not before hand. That is because we recognize birth as the beginning of independent human life. You religious nuts want to keep women under your control. You always have. Your GOD has no problem murdering pregnant women if the don't believe. Who's going to take of all the unwanted children in your religious utopia. In countries were abortion is illegal abortion rates are simular and the death rate higher.
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@tomjscott Because you get to live your life as you see fit. The so called unborn child has no rights because its unborn. We don't give rights to dead bodies, cancer tumors, male foreskins, body parts needing amputation, sperm, blood or menstrual products either. When you born your go from being dependent on a single individual to social dependence. When do we insist someone must take care of someone else for 9 months? We don't do we.
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@tomjscott Nothing stopping you from getting pregnant is there?
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@GodsUltimateWeapon Your a fake!!!
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Lots of hero worshippers in this comment thread.
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Typical. No one wants to invest in heavy industry like electricity because of the declining rate of return on investment. Capitalism working as expected.
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"Someone brought from Biden who murdered someone." I didn't realize Biden is now a country. I guess when you telling stories names don't matter.
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@bluesader8 IBEW journeymen electricians already average $36.83 an hour. Unlike the engineer the electrician often works outdoors in the cold and heat doing mechanical work. While the engineer tends to work at a desk and supervises others on the job. The IBEW apprentice electrician starts at 1/2 pay of the journeyman and usually spends one unpaid night a week in a classroom. He usually gets a raise every 6 months for four years until he becomes a journeyman by passing the state licensing exam.
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@bluesader8 You'll be much closer to the "recipe for disaster" while the US spends 1.2 trillion on new nuclear weapons. My father in law was a stationary engineer in a conventional plant. From what he told me he spent his time turning nob's to open and close steam valves and watching a for phase sync on startup. Do you need those four years of nuclear engineering to become an operator? Was it worth the debt? Aren't you going to be waiting a long time to be promoted to be a Professional Engineer or are you looking into management?
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@gamalalejandroabdulsalam904 Does that help?
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@bluesader8 I have the math talent to be an engineer but I'd never want to spend all day inside an office reading spec's, going over blue prints or calculating this or that every day. I've watched graduate engineers throw chairs across the room because they can't fix what we as technicians couldn't fix either.
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@allahbole Sure you are and if automation were taken to its logical conclusion you'd also be automated out of a job.
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@allahbole After watching the video I see that as just Karl Marx confirmed. Marx called it new machinery. He pointed out that skilled higher paid labor is the first to be replaced by lower cost labor and new machinery. That the jobs created making the new machines never replaced the jobs lost. Our solution is a sliding scale of wages and hours to spread work around. In other words no overtime while others have no job at all. That the workers should not sacrifice their wages if production time needed goes down in their branch of industry. There is a reason manufacturing buses and passengers trains is profitable and mass transit requires subsidies. You can continually cut labor time in bus and train manufacturing but you can't do the same with a train or bus route.
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Robert Slackware Why would a "living wage" bill lower the minimum wage? The capitalist no longer directly cut wages like they did in the earlier days of the 19th and 20th century.. Instead they use the central bank to inflate the money supply that then creates price inflation. Although the bosses claim inflation is created by the unions forcing them to raise prices. They do the actually price raising. The bosses will raise prices regardless as to whether you a union member or not. By having the central bank add money to the banking money supply inflation lowers wages while it makes property more valuable in terms of dollar value. As an added benefit they can point at workers saying we are causing inflation by trying to keep up with inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Even the CPI has been revised downward over time to reflect the general direction capitalism takes in creating more poverty. As for lies told by the two parties well my avatar screams "I am not a Democrat." and a section of the Republican Party has yet to decide creating a phone socialist label will help them in elections. The Democratic Socialist are basically Democrats afraid of being called communists. They and the Republican Party seek to "Save Capitalism" and its benefits for themselves. Not get rid of it once and for all time. Like the way capitalism got rid of the previous class systems of slavery and serfdom.
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@jonusjonus9271 Once none of us have a job then who is going to buy anything or are we all going to be on a stingy welfare check while the boss have swimming pools of cash? The number of highly skilled workers will always be small and their pay will have revolve around what it cost to create another highly skilled worker. Most likely they'll train lots of highly skilled workers on the workers dime with educational loans if they have their way.
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@jonusjonus9271 After thinking about it I'm not all that sure that worker is all that highly skilled because usually the engineers design something, technicians assemble it or direct the assemblers and operators use it. If it needs repair it goes back to the technicians and if they can't fix it back to the engineer.
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@jonusjonus9271 The problem with capitalism is it's based in nation states. These nation states produce first for a national market and then the world market if the world market was infinite than capitalism could keep going but the problem is the world market is finite and not every country can win the battle for market share and this leads to artificial ways to keep markets in the poorer countries the place for the more developed capitalist countries as a place that is their market. Thus contradiction can only lead to war over the markets because the capitalists who are based in nation states. You are seeing this breakup in the trade war developing between China and the US. When China dumped its somewhat socialist economy for capitalism the US capitalist rulers couldn't be more pleased. Now years later they are asking themselves why did they enable their own competition.
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@jonusjonus9271 They always go for the short term profits because that is the way their system works. They can't help themselves because for them profit is king. Sure they cry now but what did they say when the had lots of DEC plants in Massachusetts? They closed down with no concern for all those they threw on the UI line. It was all for the greater good of computer and electronics technology. Whenever I hear how they are crying about losses to China it gives me a sense of deep satisfaction that they are now taking a loss. They basically closed the whole US electronics industry except for defense, engineering and hard wired communications.
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@jonusjonus9271 Sure they are always talking about how they are going to automate everything but who will buy the products of the automated factories? Should they replace all the Taxi, Bus and Truck drivers with AI what are all of those of us who work as drivers going to do? They are building class hatred with all their automation and ever rising demands for productivity while we are told we are being overpaid. A ship of fools is running the system for their overarching need to be the first Trillionaire in history.
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@香料國境 No it hasn't been tried many times before. Failure well the capitalist ended WW2 with nuclear weapons. They've been threatening the whole world ever since. How long should we let the bosses blackmail us?
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@user_-_vse_kak_u_ludey_0011 Actually an American John Reed is buried at the Kremlin wall. His book "Ten Days that Shook the World" was published and endorsed by Lenin.
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Real communism works in Cuba.
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Because your experience is with corporate dictators called yes men and you just assume that a revolution is built out of socialist dictators like your yes men.
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Throw Abbott out of the governor's mansion so the space can be used for the sick. Give Abbott a trap so he can live on the Mansions grass like the homeless.
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@bmccarthy3333 The question isn't when the baby can feel pain a dog can feel pain. The question is viability and that is always uncertain that's why abortion is medical care best left to women and Doctors not professional morality gurus.
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@nobodysfool2232 The bosses want cheap labor and to cut the socail costs of thier crisis ridden capitalist protit system of wage labor.
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@joshfugate6018 This nothing but a lot of Democratic Party horseshit. They have no intention of touching their donors pockets.
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This is when bosses can raise prices to capture more value from our labor. Instead of taxing the rich the borrow from them and then pay them back with interest. It's a racket where they never talk about who the creditors of the national debt are.
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@myview5840 Best thing for workers to do is join unions and fight back with strikes for higher wages. That's the only thing the bosses and their government understands.
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@KopperNeoman I got the biggest raise of my lifetime after the 1976 Westinghouse Strike. Only the bosses wanted to work and they of course couldn't get anything done without us. When we went back to work it was with our heads held high.
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Capitalism is not the solution and their can be no common ground with the capitalists. When the do something in our interests than obviously it is done for ulterior motives. He predicted the housing bubble for years sure he did and so did Karl Marx. Everyone knows that capitalism produces bubbles of fictitious capital that then must deflate. What no one knows is when or where a deflation will start and how serious will it become.
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@TheAlison1456 Of course it doesn't work since the goal of public education under capitalism becomes creation and care for the next generation of order takers from the capitalist bosses.
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@tedmom3029 Its no more of a solution than everyone becoming an investment banker. Afterall if everyone could be a capitalist than who would be a worker?
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@tylerham5726 The Cuban revolution proves everything you just said wrong. Kennedy (D) is the Democratic Party Imperialist who tried to overthrow the revolution. His CIA trained forces were defeated in 72 hours. Segregation in Cuba ended with the victory of the revolution before the passage of the 1965 Civil rights act the Cuban Army had Black and Chinese Comandantes and later Generals long before the US. Cuba broadcast Radio Free Dixie from Havana hosted by US Black rights fighter and political exile Robert F. Williams.
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@tylerham5726 Cuba will not turn over Assata Shakur to the US FBI. She is a US Black rights political exile. See its that simple. In Cuba they have principles that they will not give in to US Imperialism. They have developed their own Covid vaccine and have 90% of the population with one shot all done by voluntarily convincing the Cuban people that the vaccine works to save lives not by mandate.
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@TheUniversalEyes CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper is an heir to the Vanderbilt railroad fortune. The number of Independents is on the rise and number of Democrats is falling. Lots of working people are disgusted with both parties.
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@orlandoescobar5174 Cops are the thugs being used to break the picket line.
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@bobhanson1037 Bosses hate unions because they lose out on profits.
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@Outrunninaround. Bosses want to work us the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace for the biggest profits. They only want to pay a total wage that is just enough to get you to come back to work for the next week.
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@youdontneedtoknowwhoiam9612 Communism is the materialist historical movement of the proletariat in struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist. It is has a history of victories and defeats. While the communist seek to point the way forward to the victory over the capitalist class.
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The absurdity of these fools will be seen as capitalism continues down its path of economic crisis and Imperialist War.
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Ya but this time they're stealing five years of her life. AT&T needs more cheap prison call center labor. If she got away with pulling a George Soros on the Federal Reserve she be moving in next to Bill Gates with a cool Billion or so.
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Have you considered creating a national stockpile of soybeans?
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@JayBee-se8ou Hillary Clinton. "Vote for me and I will help myself and you should do the same." Maybe she didn't say those exact words but that the Democratic Party in a nutshell.
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@ShangoHeruGinen1791 The injustice of the blockade will go with those Cuban's who leave and you will find that your hopes to destroy them by blockade will backfire on you after all many will end up in other Latin American countries where they will bring the ideas of the revolution.
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Socialism is what you have after you abolish private property and build a workers state. Its not a bunch of phonies like the Swedish Social Democrats who's big worry is keeping the Volvo bosses happy.
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@jonguyxx4531 US Imperialist forces with big guns and drones and the best mercenary forces money can but withdraw in defeat. Creating a massive disaster with carnage of workers and farmers in one of the poorest countries in the world Imperialist talk of Human Rights. Talk of loss of Capitalist prestige.
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@Sun•Yoga• Health Your conspiracy theory is no better than China's.
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@TheIndependentCuss They seek to hide the past of politicians who are neoliberals.
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Kennedy was an elite bankers son.
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@a.fitzpatrick4395 Actually it was Kennedy death that set off the modern liberal gun control movement. Lee Harvey Oswald had bought a rifle by mail order that he used it the assassination.
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@devinrussell493 Kennedy is talking about the US CIA which runs the endless war against all enemies real and imagined. This is shortly after the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion that was defeated in 72 hours by Fidel Castro and Cuba's revolutionary Army, Police and Militia. After which Fidel declared the revolution to be socialist. Che Guevara would thank the US Ambassador at the OAS for the invasion saying, "Now the Revolution is stronger than ever."
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The cops involved should all be fired at blacklisted from police employment.
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@Michael-fr9th They are scouring the books for those that the censors find politically unacceptable.
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@slukky South Vietnam was a Made In USA Military dictatorship created by Kennedy.
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@slukky Kennedy (D) gave the order to go forward with the 1963 Coup after US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (R) discussed it with Kennedy (D). Kennedy was assassinated about one month latter. ARVN Generals would run the brutal military dictatorship until the final defeat in 1975. The US was the big murder machine in Vietnam. One to Two million would be die as victims of the brutal US imposed military dictatorship described as a Democracy. A Military dictatorship that ordered the carpet bombing of its own people. Conservatives like Barry Goldwater wanted to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam. US massacres included Operation Speedy Express where the Brass claimed a major victor until they realized the number murdered was 10 to 100 times the number of weapons captured and My Lie where Lt Calley gave an order to massacre a whole village with no mercy to children still breast feeding. From that point forward the Americal Division would go by the nickname The AmeriCalley Division the shame of the US Army. The US news reports included the kill ratios and large number of deaths meant victory was close at hand. That was US Secretary of Defense McNamara's strategy kill ratios and computer simulations meant victory was just ahead.
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Juan Sandoval That's complete Bull Shit. The right invented cultural Marxism much later. Opposition to the war developed among young people because we would be asked to give our lives for a military dictatorship. You could be drafted at age 18 but couldn't vote until age 21. Black people were denied their rights at home but expected to fight for Democracy in Vietnam. It was war sold as fight against a world communist take over by deceit. Of course the real liars sat in the White House as Democrats or Republicans. It was a rich man's war fought mostly by the poor and working class. Both Parties were Pro War parties. If there were arguments over ideology it was over Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Che, Stalin, Trotsky and Mao. No one in the US took Herbert Marcuse or the so called Frankfurt School seriously. Their basically serve as bug a boo for the right.
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@sananbinh9260 The Military strategy was to send out patrols to bait out VC in the Jungle. Once the VC started firing then fighter bombers were called in to drop napalm. They would take a hill like "Hamburger Hill" and once it was captured it would be evacuated and go back to being jungle. That's why it was often referred to as war with no battle lines.
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@slukky Where does the US Empire gets its right to rule the earth. I seem to remember something called consent of the governed. You don't like it that the early Soviet Union had supported the rights of the colonial slaves to run their own affairs. Communism was not the issue as much as the national aspirations of the colonial people. Ruled by the Empires of world capitalism. The UK/US/France/Japan just to name the biggest. When a people choose a government the US doesn't like than the US engages in all kind of sabotage. Like this secret US State dept memo on Cuba. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499
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@slukky Hosea 13:16 KJV "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." There is the Christian God as a war criminal. The US gov't lacks any standing to insert itself into other countries affairs. As a Military Empire it is in decline. Why would we want your government? Our goal is to overthrow it in a socialist revolution not electing Bernie Sanders.
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@ronpapi9539 I wouldn't waste my time joining the Mensa snobs. The earth is spherical and the heliocentric model is correct along with the earth rotating on its axis and the proof is the ability to predict time and sun set sun and rise at any point on earth. It all possible because our theories of gravity and motion are correct to many orders of magnitude. I also guarantee that light from the moon is energy just like all light it is energy and that it is not projecting cold. Cold is not really a scientific term rather we experience cold as a lack or loss of heat.
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@ronpapi9539 Speculations are your theories. Like the moon being unable to reflect light and unproven gravity. You theories are all based upon men's writings in a holy book. We aren't arguing big bang theory but the shape of the earth. If you want to build some thing in the modern world then you look to the theories of the scientist and engineers who understand those theories not to a man in a pulpit waving a bible in the air.
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@ronpapi9539 No one has to carry a card to be an atheist since people are born without a specific religion. You are born as a natural atheist only culturally indoctrinated into a region.
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@ronpapi9539 People such as yourself are unable to build world wide tables of sunrise and set set with your theories. Nor can you see through the curvature of a 10 Km stretch of water. I qualify for Mensa by my virtue of my SAT scores.
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@ronpapi9539 Along with the British Empire. I'm not going to waste more time with someone who acts foolish. I've seen the the Sun rise on Massachusetts seacoast and set in Oregon. and no the sun doesn't just disappear. Choose any model you want but a flat earth model explains nothing with or without Mensa membership. .
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Profit to shareholders.
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There has always been a group among the American Imperialist military and government that favors a first strike mentality for use of nuclear weapons.
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@napkinhoarder21 Being able to drink is your last worry. Look into getting a job and apartment with friends than.
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@mr.vinegaroon3132 Any mechanical trade is good work until the body gets old. A lot of pipefitters and plumbers died young from asbestos exposure used as insulation on heating pipes. Plus if you regularly need a plumber in the home you don't know the simplest aspects of the plumbing trade. Any real economic crisis and every ham and egger while be doing those jobs license or no license.
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@gianpakasa Can't be very important if you've been waiting that long. Nobody is in a rush to do a 20 minute job just so you can complain about the price either, talk about how your going to call consumer protection and yada yada yada. .You want to have consumer protection so you want everyone to work 8 years of 40 hour weeks and pass a test on the plumbing code to get a license so they can come and turn off a shut off valve and then change the worn out parts in a faucet which any person with average mechanical aptitude should be able to do. A guy who learns how to read blueprints and can run a large commercial construction job with water, heating, fire protection and sewer pipes isn't the guy you want to fix your leaky faucet. But the system insists only a guy with 8 years in the trade who passes a code test can make a legally binding contract to fix a leaky faucet. .
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@gianpakasa If your a worker living in rental housing you'll probably have the landlord fix it or if your a worker that owns their own home either you'll do it yourself or find a family member or friend at work to help you. In doing repairs practice enables speed. Your just replacing what you've already got unless it wasn't done right to begin with. My guess is their is a youtube video that shows what you need to do. Plumber without a license can't legally advertise and he can be the victim of a consumer protection sting. Each state is a little different in how they enforce their laws. But what an inspector doesn't witness doesn't really count.
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But they can be run for the benefit of the workers unlike a company based upon ownership of capital.
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@eddyvideostar They are all members of the working class and their pay depends on the workers voting for the union in an election. When the bosses had to begin negotiating with unions then they began looking for ways to choose the leaders of the unions and to turn them into toothless organizations.
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@Middleground_Opinion That is the attitude that the bosses cultivate in the dog eat dog world of capitalism.
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@Middleground_Opinion The rich fix the system with the use of capitalist politicians to guarantee themselves profits and when the system goes into crisis the too big too fail are the ones to be bailed out..
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@Middleground_Opinion The capitalist can not be separated from their government and their world system of production and trade goes in and out of crisis. That is because in the fight for profits not all can be winners.
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@Attmay Capitalism is coming to an end.
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@jbak6892 Capitalism created nation states with ruling classes who fight over the world market. Workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to win.
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@jbak6892 Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war and died before Stalin did in 1953. Stalin hadn't been gone for more than a few months when strikes broke out in the Spviet Sector of Eastern Germany. .Khrushchev came to power in 1953 and revealed to the world that Stalin and the bureaucracy had engaged in crimes against socialist legality. Leon Trotsky Stalin most voracious critic explains how the bureaucracy came to power why it did and does the things it does. See The Militant and Marxist Internet Archive.
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@chrisheist652 Working women need the right to abortion and birth control to plan there lives. Abortion is a working class issue its part of the fight for unity against the bosses. Unity based upon rights and freedom for all. Equal pay and equal rights to jobs for all. The one thing the bosses can't afford is unity among the workers. That's how a strike is one. Unity among all and the fight for jobs for all who want to work at union wages and conditions.
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Should you be callin him General Sowell?
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@blueshirtman8875 None of that justifies Death Threats.
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@blueshirtman8875 My opinion is political violence is a bigger threat then politicians exaggerating or telling lies. Democrats also tell lies including the whopper about Russian interference in the election being the reason for Trump's election. Despite all the arm twisting done by the FBI they were never able to show that their was a connection between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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@blueshirtman8875 How is your conspiracy theory different in factual support than one by QANON?
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@blueshirtman8875 Well I guess I haven't caught up with the latest Q conspiracy theory.
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@blueshirtman8875 Political Violence is physically attacking people for their political opinion. Death Threats are just one step away from that.
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And you like the police to be able to do whatever they wanted with no consequences..
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@kayakMike1000 Sowell makes the earth shattering discover that Communist haven't taken over the US Dept of Labor like he was taught by Republican witch hunters.
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@brookemeisel5384 They've been talking about AI for at least fifty years now. Its not going to solve any of the basic problems built into the capitalist system.
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@duketruong9358 Then what? A few bankers sit around with lots of bitcoin money shown computer screens? They can't keep a train on the tracks as it is now what makes you think they can do better with a car. They have all kinds of problems with computer hacks and breakdowns as it is now.
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I agree the man is insane @joeldeleon6107
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@MyReviews_karkan Don't worry he will be good for himself and the rest of the billionaire class.
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We don't go with the albolsh ICE because all that means is changing the name. Instead we want to see an amnesty like the one that Reagan agreed and signed. Chomsky never uses the word capitalist because it might offend his middle class followers. He says that using such a word is unnecessary rhetoric.
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The social democrat is the political expression of the conservative trade union official with his belief in reformation of the capitalist state power into a state power that he can wield in both his privileged interests and those of the capitalists so as not to disturb or frighten the non existent 'progressive capitalist' who has signed a union contract.
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The thing he has no solutions only complaints. I would like read somewhere that other than ending something he actual says he is for something other than a very vague anarchism or in this case he seems to find the bourgeois state quite adequate for surrendering to in face of overwhelming force.
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in fact he seldom even uses the word capitalism or capitalist because for him it is unnecessary rhetoric. Instead he prefers elites. That way he doesn't disturb his middle class followers with such sharp words.
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Karl Marx relied upon words having a meaning. An elite could just as well mean the Roman Senate of Julius Cesar or the court of a European Monarchy. A capitalist is clearly a person who's livelihood relies on their business ownership of companies that manufacture commodities and the financing of those business'. Capitalist own and run business' usually through the ownership of joint stock companies. Their wealth comes in the form of profits made by exploiting wage labor. A slave owners wealth came from owning a slave and requiring him to work at his bidding.
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No doubt the DSA is social democratic. The are much like the Russian Mensheviks. While they talk socialism the reality is they are quite willing to accept a capitalism with a few reforms putting socialism off to a later day. The logical outcome of the class struggle for the working class and small farmers is socialism. What move the class struggle forward is independent political actions by the working class and small farmers not an alliance with Democratic Party liberals and progressive capitalists.
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@GM6.7 Profit is what they have after paying all expenses it comes from the unpaid labor of the production workers. Shareholders will have to expect less after all they don't do anything but own stock and vote for the board of directors. They aren't guaranteed a profit anymore than any other business. They have bankruptcy court for businesses that can't make a profit.
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@GM6.7 You pushed to the brink by the workings of your own profit system because as machines replace labor the capital value rises but the source of the profit our labor goes down for the same output as the prices slump towards the cost of production. So the rate of profit by which you judge all success naturally declines. Years ago you issued strike provoking wage cuts until Kenyes advised the British capitalist to use a central bank and government spending along with monetary policy to rob the working class with inflation instead of wage cuts. Now you "Keniysians" (We are all Kenysians R.M. Nixon) Want to be Libertarians where you cry about the oppression of your own government policys. Too bad you never read Das Kapital you might actually understand why you system has to come to an end. Capital ca only accumulate and demand a return because otherwise the building of a perpetual motion machine would be possible. All the theories about capital producing without labor are therefore wrong. Wall Street is nothing more than a giant gambling casino which serves absolutely little productive purpose at all.
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@GM6.7 You class has to be removed from power for the same reason King Charles was you become a greedy ruling class that stands in the way of human development going around the world destroying in the name of profit. Just as the king was destroying England in the name of taxes. The English made the mistake of letting the monarchy back in power. The American's didn't make that mistake. The Russians made the mistake of not getting rid of Stalin when Lenin wanted him out. Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement didn't make that mistake. That's why the Cuban revolution continues despite all the US slanders, prediction of failure and the US Blockade. In Cuba the workers and Farmer are in power with a state that represents our class interests. With its advances in healthcare and education it's example is admired worldwide. You can't help following the path of Milton Freedman into decline by chasing profits and shareholder value above all else.
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@GM6.7 Okay John Henry. Your going to old like everyone else does and then you won't be competitive. Doesn't matter if you like or don't like the collective. Your human and have no choice in the matter. Human's engage in social labor to make a life for ourselves. That's been true since the first people walked the earth 100,000 years ago. Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. Marx has advised us to cut the cost of labor privileged with education. Where as for capitalism education like healthcare is an overhead expense to be minimized. It's your choice to be short sighted and pig headed. See how happy that makes you. Unions defend our class from exploitation as does the state power in revolutionary Cuba. The price of labor with capitalism is always limited by its cost of reproduction. Wages stagnate because as I said earlier the natural workings of the system require industry to cut labor coasts to drive profits their way. So they replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines first. This is why whole trades have all but disappeared in construction. like painters and plasters. The same is true with the railroads, telephone and the steel industry. Millions thrown out of work and their homes because of overproduction. Too much produced for a market with no buyers.
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If people have nothing to eat they die on the side of the road like in Ireland during the great famine. Naturally those who talk about a Cuban dictatorship are suspect because this is what has come out of the mouths of the US Imperialist liars for 60 years. .The US is isolated with its blockade, demand for overthrow of the Cuban government and demands for capitalist restoration. Cuba has friends in the US who are sending material aid and protesting the blockade.
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You must have a world revolution that has become victorious in all the advanced capitalist countries before you can talk about communism. Social Democracy like Sweden with its capitalist class and king is not socialism. China is more like Sweden now with its stock market and is not socialist either. Cuba is socialist because it had a revolution and continues on a revolutionary path. It has a planned economy and a state monopoly on foreign trade and investment while maintaining an internationalist foreign policy. North Korea is the last of the Stalinist type bureaucratic governments of countries without a native capitalist class but without a revolutionary government either.
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@KKRCeb Well I guess a smart guy like you can explain what I don'r know.
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What is a species. The members of a species can all reproduce successfully with each other. Dogs are an example of humans breeding animals for specific traits. The idea of Darwin of natural selection is that the origin of the species come from nature doing the natural selection instead of us doing the breeding. So a crop like corn was grown by native American people and it is one which can't reproduce without human intervention in planting. It is theorized that ancient people bred it from a grain like plant. The idea of divergence of species is that groups of the same species get isolated from each other and the "magic" of natural selection occurs. This is theorised to play out in human skin color because a dark skin is less susceptible to skin cancer from the sun while a light skin can produce more vitamin D. The key thing that make the human different than the animals is we use fire to cook which helps digestion and allows for a more varied diet. We have a voice box to make sounds for communication. We are social animals who live in groups. Our hands our shaped by the need to labor. Our bodies are made from long periods of physical activity with sweat glands to cool allows us to cool off instead of overheating which we can use our advantage when a group of hunters chase a wild animal around until it becomes overheated.. What did a group of hunter gatherers do afterwards in their spare time? They created culture from which all science art math and even religion springs. Agriculture the deliberate raising of animals and plants for human use creates a suplus and the beginning of human civilization. It's not scarce resources that plague us because when have we not found more ways to use what we already have? Rather it's the uneven distribution and control over the productive forces.
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They already take the first step to get paid by halting the movement of coal they dug. They should get their wages first regardless of who is in the White House. By asking now government officials can't just ignore them and pretend they didn't know about this wage theft.
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Civilization began with slavery. Slave society was an advance over barbarism. Being a slave was better than being eaten by a cannibal. What is important is the life of the woman not that of the fetus. All that is nothing more than hypocritical sentimentality talking about saving a fetus when you can do nothing to save it besides deny medical. The life of the women must come first.
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Paul Ronco Abortion rights were won by a movement in the streets not be the good graces of seven out of nine justices some of the appointees of Richard Nixon. The ruling never made abortion a women's right coming from the 14 th amendment like other rulings that favor women's rights rather it was a muddled ruling about the rights of Doctors and viability which set it up to be constantly challenged. The Women's rights leaders decided like many others of movement the 1960's and 1970's to join the liberal Democratic Party for its promise of reform though vote catching and making the Republican's the enemy.. So along with labor and black rights fighters they decided that these politicians promises were what was needed. Those promises of course are empty because now you are electing a liberal capitalist politician whose goal is not women's rights but making the capitalist system work for business interests. As far as the capitalist are concerned healthcare is something to be bought and sold and abortion was never illegal for them anyway nor will it be if the court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision. Hillary Clinton's daughter will not be denied for Jane Roe's that's another story. Abortions are nit attainable from a provider in 95% of counties as it is now.
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@FrankAndrews We lock up people who are murders because we are afraid of them. We don't need to execute them because we can afford to lock them up. You capitalist system is failing, and you desire to make abortion equivalent to murder is just more idiotic nonsense. You could care lees about the child after birth or the life of the pregnant women. You of course are the guardian of the highest of all morals. Why do you go outside of US military bases and defense contractors and demonstrate saying war is murder? An 18 year old has his whole life ahead along with a significant investment just the same as a pregnant women does. But you are the highest of moral being an idiot who thinks if only we pass a new law and get some cops to crack heads we will have a solution.
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@wegfarir1963 Oh so we are not talking about geo politics but Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars. Well so far he hasn't done very well with getting his starship off the ground. His Starbase in South Texas looks like an industrial accident ready to happen.
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@wegfarir1963 Well Musk is a minority in terms of racial origin (White South African) and he wants to colonize Mars based upon past Moon exploration. You can drive right past his South Texas starbase in Texas on the way to Boca Chica Beach which is just North of the Mexican border. I am really at a loss as to what kind of answer you want.
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@cavelleardiel The height of colonial power though direct military colonial rule ended with World War two first with the defeat of Germany and Japan followed by the rest of the European Imperialist powers. Now you got basically a world where the United States is the chief colonial power though foreign investment and ability to make political/military bases and alliances with NATO and other capitalist powers some capitalist colonial and some capitalist foreign investment. While with a second competing group of foreign investors you have Russia and China with Russia exercising power with military alliance in most of the former Soviet Republics and the middle east. The fact that the US lost most of its actual military conflicts post world war two and especially to the Cuban revolution just off shore shows that the Imperialism still left can be defeated with a good leadership wiling to lead a socialist revolution.
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@richatlarge462 The capitalist seek to pay the lowest wage, work us the longest hours in a pay period and at the fastest rate. One one hand he wants to hire males because they have no traditional child rearing and child birth responsibility on the other without the two parent family how will the worker reproduce the next generation of his class? This is why capitalism has the natural tendency to destroy the workers family. To create male homelessness and single female welfare families.
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Fire all the cops including the Federal secret police agencies.
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@bengaryton3288 The Cuban Doctors are making history. Cuba has trained 1,000 of Doctors for the poor all on Cuba's dime. Cuba shows what working people can do when they control the government instead of the capitalists.
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@johncenasdad408 Own and Control do not have the same meaning. The politician's are steeped in capitalist ideology and their loyalty is bought for as long as needed through the two party system. This way the faces may change but the loyalty to the capitalist system stays the same. The unchanging part of government under two party control (deep state) is there to control greed and suppress any protests of capitalist policy.
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@davidboyd3998 You've never be told to come back with insurance though have you? How about the price of a procedure? In almost every other type of business or service you can get a price or a guaranteed estimate of the cost. In almost any type of medical assistance you can't get a price beforehand. It's we will send you a bill or we don't have that information. I asked a Dentist the price for a set of dentures and the response was 2 or 3 thousand dollars.
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@joshuacoleman8000 That's true also. A doctor who claims you as their patient can just refuse to do anything when ever they please even if you need emergency care.
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@joshuacoleman8000 How about when you need emergency eye surgery?
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@Airportris What's keeping you from moving into a capitalist paradise like a big Jersey mansion? After all Hillary Clinton know's how you want to get ahead right? Like they say, "It takes a staff to run a mansion." Lets make you King of healthcare and let you decide who lives and dies. Then it would be a matter of only you and all of the kings men (cops and military) getting healthcare. As far as everyone else goes well you can always hire another pool boy. Why waste the Kings gold on commoners who will die anyhow. Sure your for healthcare. In fact you favor free healthcare and insurance plans for those who don't need any healthcare. Just to show what a liberal civic leader you are the United Fund has decided to provide free cremation service for paupers who meet citizenship requirements other wise Mexico will pay.
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@Airportris I always thought saints were just an invention of the Catholic church. Now that I have meet someone like you, who never makes a mistake, I realize that I was wrong.
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@Airportris Sure I am because like I said earlier you want to play king with other peoples lives because as a defender of the capitalist utopia you believe in perfection, intelligence and infallibility of the capitalist class of wealthy owners. Bill Gates will be releasing another version of windows because of ruling class perfection.
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@Airportris From 1945 to 1973 productive rose along with wages. Since 1973 productivity has continued to rise while wages have remained flat. Its payback time just in case you don't understand.
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@Airportris You don't remember all the working people you hurt in the profit drive do you. The plants you closed to reopen in Mexico. The workers who were fired because of your company mismanagement and wall street schemes. The people who lost their homes because of your 2008 crisis. The older workers you fired because you wanted to save on wages. You needed more so you raised CEO pay through the roof. You handed out golden parachutes and bonuses. The workers you told that they didn't need to pay union dues because you would take care of them. The cry that you were going bankrupt and needed a wage freeze and higher insurance premiums. The destruction of all those private pension plans where you promised to pay. You see those yellow vests protests in France? Macron "President of the Rich." They're coming here. " Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country." Trump. That's what you fear. We have already won a series of teacher strikes. No one is believing the lies anymore. No matter who tells them. The Democratic Party is breaking up as workers withdraw from the Party of False Promises. Trump is a ball fumbler and now we are going to take that ball and run it the other way.
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A dictatorship of capital.
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@heavyd777 A Constitutional Republic is merely a government of rules or laws instead of a hereditary monarchy. Democracy means decision by the majority. There is no requirement for election by an absolute majority of eligible voters only by those who vote.
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@thesisLAx Yiou lieing SOB the US does everything it can to try and strve them out just like they do to strikers.
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@kayjagen4299 So you are another "naked capitalist."
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@abhinavvasudevan5540 No if your real Liberatarin you love risk except when your the one who has to take it.
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@beentrill8492 Don't worry because capitalism will bring the love of war to you.
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Because profits come first. You can't protect private property without violence or the threats of violence. In the US healthcare is a profitable business for Insurance companies. It is run the way you would run GM. They set up things such that everything is delivered on a just in time basis. A close count is kept concerning the number of hospital beds, medical equipment, trained workers like nurses and doctors. You could train extra medical workers and have them working elsewhere but that would upset the labor market. You could have Doctor Engineers but who's going to pay for the cross training. The same goes for nurses they could also be cross trained as school teachers. People could be rotated around so they don't forget their training. That won't work with capitalism because employment is controlled by the bosses and they see most of healthcare besides their own as nonessential they can always hire the unemployed at the factory gate if a worker dies for whatever reason.
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Sebastian Volland So your against the Cuban Communist "Forced Doctorization" policy. When you shoot yourself in the foot who are you going to call Captain Crunch?
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@apuuvah They could but don't do that because the ruling class thinks of government property and taxes as their property and tax money. They were not caught by surprise but the thinking of idiots like Rush Limbaugh Trump's medal of Freedom recipient. Limbaugh was still in the Protect Trump at all cost mode as late as March 13 when he was comparing the Covid 19 virus to a common cold CCP conspiracy with the Chinese supposedly laughing. The Democrats were just as culpable focusing on having this fake impeachment trial. Then there was this accusation of insider trading by Congressman back in January acting on the knowledge of this catastrophe in the making.
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@tomoxfford With the victory of the 1959 Cuban Revolution the war on ignorance and disease intensified with an all island literacy campaign and the building of the first clinics in the countryside. No longer would education and health be something only for those with the money to pay but the right of all. This is only possible because Fidel Castro lead a socialist revolution right under the nose of the most powerful military Empire in world history.
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@Dulcie Gray I think your more of a right wing "Virtue Signaler". Repeating the well known mantras that everyone who isn't a conservative is against you. That communist have taken over everything but the conservatives chat rooms. We lost an anti Stalinist Communist Intellectual James Burnham to Bill Buckley. We've lost other intellectuals also. Another capitulated for a professor job at MIT back in 1950 after rewriting his book on the 1929 Chinese revolution. The intellectuals can leave to become professors, engineers, accountants, lawyers and so on. Those of us who are workers can't leave our class. We are the class struggle material of the communist movement.
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@Dulcie Gray I'm 67 so I've had more time to read and think than you. So don't put yourself down. The Communist Manifesto was written in 1848 by Karl Marx for the International Workingmen's Association (First International). The European and American Socialist Parties of the Second International were founded around 1899. These parties were called all inclusive parties because they included anyone who claimed to be a socialist. So they would have Fabian socialist, Utopian Socialist, Reformists Socialist and Revolutionary Socialists. It was World War one (1914) that would definitely split all these Parties up between those for and those against the war although. After the success of the Russian revolution of Oct 1917. Other parties of revolutionist only would be founded as Communist Parties in the third or Communist International. In 1919 two Communist Parties were founded in the US the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party. The would merge into one party but then change the parties name to the Workers Party for a brief time due to the Communist Party being illegal for a short time. With the death of Lenin in 1924 the Russian Party would begin to split eventually into Stalinists and Trotskyists over questions of Party Bureaucracy, Democracy and Policy questions. It may not be all that easy but you can find original documents from the time period by doing google searches. The American Trotskyist began publishing TheMilitant.com in 1928 after being expelled from the Communist Party of America and then founding the Communist League of America (left opposition). You can find .pdf s of the paper back to 1928 on TheMilitant.com website.
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TheGreenMind David Icke is just the UK's version of Alex Jones. Just more conspiracy theories.
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@tammyjohnson8161 Bosses getting richer than every working just fine for them.
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@anti-ethniccleansing465 Sowell and the neo liberals found themselves with egg on their faces after the crisis of 2008 caused by capitalist greed and inflating the value of fictitious capital.
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@celiaflinn7737 The man is obviously a genius to discover that the US Labor Dept wasn't a target of a communist take over.
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@celiaflinn7737 The wisdom of the man ends when he forgets that the capitalist are driven by the need to profit. His never said but obvious conclusion that markets work magic. Most of his "thinking" isn't thinking at all but word play and special situations meant to prove generalizations wrong. Sowell will tell you that the law of gravity means that things fall to the ground and then tell you that throwing a ball upwards disproves gravity. For to believe Sowell you must believe in the theories of unlimited competition along with money and markets as they best way measuring and doing everything. He only hints at these along with the labor theory of value when he tells you in his book Basic Economics its not about running a business, complicated math and graphs or how to pick stocks. The book is little more than his explanations of news stories used to make you think he is teaching you something. The whole idea is to glorify capitalism as nothing but the best way of doing everything with trade and production while vilifying government as the enemy of the people.
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@SuperLomik And has neoliberalism saved us from the capitalist competition and greed that leads to war? Look at the war between Israel and Hamas and tell me that isn't wholly driven by the need of Hamas billionaires to steal UN Aid from Palestinian Refugees or Putin war to gain Ukrainian territory and keep its markets for his new capitalist oligarchy.
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@celiaflinn7737 What is shown to be correct besides hia accumulation of facts and their presentation to prove the contentions of the Good Bourgeois Professor defending the bosses system of private property and profits for the few at the expense of the many? To prove no exploitation with capitalism except when government gets involved instead of discussing how profits are made in industrial production he talks about professional baseball and its right to a monopoly with Babe Ruth not getting what he was really worth and while the janitors at Yankee Stadium could always find work at simular pay elsewhere. To show the required bourgeois contempt for the leaders of the labor movement he repeats his Professors Friedman's slander referring to John L Lewis as the world's best oil salesman.
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@alfonsoflores3619 Cesar Chavez was the President of the United Farm Workers Union. Hugo Chavez was President of Venezuela. Get your Chavez's straight before making stupid remarks.
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@bradknight2618 If you did than you'd find that Henry Ford published "The International Jew" that Hitler translated into German. That Ford was the recipient of the NAZI metal the German Eagle.
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@gsp49 The bosses have been all robbing us blind. Productivity up over 200 percent since 1973 while real wages only inched up a few percentage points.
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@thejoker9201 "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." Written by Karl Marx himself at the end of the Communist Manifesto.
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@legacyentertainment1001 Ir does matter how many times we deny that we are infiltrating the capitalist government you all still believe that's what we do. Someone like Thomas Sowell claims to be a Marxist after reading Marx gets a job at the US Dept of Labor and then is disappointed because it turns out not to be an organization we are interested in gaining the leadership of. You problem is anything that can cost you profits that and that doesn't give you a return for your money you attack as being the product of a communist conspiracy against you.
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"You've got a chance that's all your suppose to have in life." What a marvelous defense of capitalism!!! We let you play high roller at the casino what more do you want? Tired of a rigged game? Read Karl Marx.
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This video starts with lies told by some British Imperialist whitewashing Washington role in the missile crisis. The Democratic Imperialist Kennedy was the one threatening Nuclear war. Cuba has never possessed nuclear weapons or had them on their territory unlike the UK, Canada and The US. .
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@Cooliofamily Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. The world war marked the end of capitalist progress and the redivision of markets and resources among the capitalist nations.
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The American Imperialist are in no mood to share. Capitalism is about exploitation of land labor and resources.
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@highcouncil1302 (Respect Free Speech) How are the snobs of the "High Council" doing? Getting any members will to follow the headship of the "High Council". Why not just take over Industrial Light and Magic in a Wall Street coup d eta. Then make up a new superhero who is right handed but fights with his right hand tied behind his back due to his love of old star trek episodes making the world safe for Billionaires.
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@evazemek4231 Don't want jab don't get one funeral homes need business. Plenty of orphans in the world how many have you adopted?
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@BrassyBrunette Republicans want to save on the cost of low wage labor and soldiers. By raising orphans like cattle in orphanages and by cutting medical costs which is overhead. Since a dead worker needs no medical care and another can be hired. Sending bodies to either ovens or for meat product recycling. Women workers who get pregnant can be sent to shelters where they can be feed nutra loaf like what the provide prison inmates. Women who can't work can be sent to where the NAZI sent their excess labor to extermination camps or to build more weapons of war products to advance American Imperialism in foreign countries like Afghanistan. Saving the capitalist from the natural decline in profits rates and financial bubbles is what central banking and the capitalist government with a fiat currency is all about. Quanatative easing is the buying up of bad paper by the central bank for safe keeping in vaults that will never open until after the revolution. Despite all Milton Freedman's theories, Kenyes and all the engineers like Bill Gates and Elon Musk the 1 st and 2 nd law of thermodynamics prevent capital form creating wealth. Capital can only accumulate. Labor produces and social labor along with future labor saving tools produce even more. The more sucessful the industrialist becomes the more he invest in labor saving tools the higher his capital value rise but with less labor in his product the value or price must go down since labor is the sourse of profit than so to must the rate of profit go down by which capital measures success so the more successful be becomes the more and the further away his goal moves.
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@maryherrera7893 A mask a medical device which is not something you just use forever. A human body is yours for life. Abortion is medical care its a right and voluntary. A doctor or an abortion is preformed by a medical device or method. Mandates are bullshit. There is to much fraud going on in Capitalist medicine and no guarantee that the masks which are all different will achieve anything long term. The could very well provide a place for bacteria to breed. Nor should capitalist bosses be allowed to order whatever kind of medical care they think we need. They treat like cattle as it is. They aren't providing masks for free either.
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@maryherrera7893 No way go get your friends at the Right to Fart Browndation to Pay.
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@eddiewood7573 Don't you guys need to be reminded weekly not to eat dead human bodies? Why do you keep eating Body of Christ? Why does the Priest drink the Blood of the Savior?
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@alfawolf7125 Capitalism also replaces labor with machines and works to drive down the general standard of living standard to shore up the declining rate of profit and that is something you can not combat by changing jobs to find work with a better boss and less exploitation. The unemployed are also used to hold down and lower wages. This is why the struggle with the capitalist is not just one worker with one employer or one group of workers with an employer but a struggle between classes.
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End the US blockade!!
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If you wanted to get to the root of the problem you'd be "Revolutionary Socialist" instead of a "Democratic Socialist". Capital is invested to make profits not to make anyone's life better. What we really need is abolition of the wages system altogether. Your right about it being a PR stunt because Bezos has announced that ending other benefits will pay for the wage increase.
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The best action workers in sweatshops like Bezos warehouses can do is join unions, make better conditions and demand wage increases.
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@Eyes-of-Horus Education and Administration has been monopolized by the capitalist ruling classes in the West and in the East by the Stalinists. You should note that Cuba is the only country that had Doctors it could send to other countries during the pandemic. The revolution put emphasis on raising the whole educational level of the workers and farmers and made education free without tution through the university level. Matx's solution to the argument that the workers lacked the education to preform the administrative and educated positions skills was to advance the education and skill of the workers to drive against labor privilege. .
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@Freedomfred939 Who are you kidding idiots like Warren Buffet can't keep a train on the tracks and the bosses government is totally dumbfounded.
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@MichaTheLight The state arose due to the cleavage of society into classes. The purpose of the state is to frustrate any attempts by the oppressed classes from overcoming their oppression. The capitalist state the police, army, courts, legislature, executive and prisons are meant to defend the rule of the wealthy property owners. The working class must establish a new state to defend its rule and create an allaince with the small farmers and pettibougois over the old rule of the big capitalists. .
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@zipperpillow People like Sowell have no experience in the union, labor or communist movement but know everything wrong with it.
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Modern production for the market is carried out by the working class in all nations the bosse only make up a small minority who siphon off profits for themselves privately.
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Che wasn't like Stalin. He murdered no one. Stalin was a criminal and he murdered all the old Bolshevik's in the Moscow frame up trials and had Trotsky assassinated in Mexico.
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Dumber Jumber If Che was a murderer than so was George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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Dumber Jumber Nothing good came to the slave owners or the English King and peerage either.
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The vast majority of Jews in Israel are all refugees NOT colonial settlers. They were subjected to pogroms' in Europe and the Muslim nations.
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Wawa too bad. Bootlicker!!!
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@PunkShockRock Can Sowell show that he was a marxist in his thinking and not just a capitalist reformer? The US dept of labor is part of the capitalist government the fact that it is corrupt proves only that capitalism has corruption in its state apparatus. It it wasn't corrupt than you could argue capitalism is not inherently corrupt but since it is it proves if anything that corruption is endemic in capitalism both legal and illegal. Since you aren't guaranteed an income or job with capitalism why wouldn't you lean towards government corruption?
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@Si_Mondo The state is the product of the irreconcilable class conflict. Its whole purpose is the dictatorship of the ruling capitalist class over the exploited working class. To halt and frustrated all attempts by the exploited to liberate themselves from the exploitation of the minority capitalist class.
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@cstgraphpads2091 Look if capitalism could develop without a government than why did the founders of the United States who were either merchants, slave owners or bankers all men who owned property and set up a property owners government? If capitalism is just private individuals trading why did they need a government to regulate interstate commerce? Your problem isn't that words aren't being properly defined or understood but instead the way in which society breaks apart along the lines of two classes in conflict with each other. The inability to no longer hide the naked class rule of the capitalist parties and their government in the United States is the result of the world capitalist economic crisis. The capitalist declared victory in the cold war in 1989. Only to enter the worst crisis since the great depression. A crisis the did not escape without entering into a world.
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@Si_Mondo If capitalism could work without a government than why does one persist and become ever more powerful? Marx never claimed to be the originator of the labor theory of value. That would be John Locke who said Labor transforms nature. The post Marx bourgeois economists like Sowell ascribe to the subjective theory of value. This is why he does not mention labor as being the creator of value. Instead he goes out of his way to mystify the issue with statements like trade can be beneficial to both parties and taking big risks can result in big rewards. The whole book is a neoliberal diatribe to supply and demand setting prices along with government and monopoly ignoring workers and consumers. The only thing you will learn from the long winded account about economics is how much the author is in love with markets and money. The role of the labor movement and our leaders is mocked by repeating the words of his professor Friedman who was an advisor to FDR calling John L. Lewis the greatest oil salesman. If Lewis was just an oil salesman why did FDR have Lewis phone tapped?
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@robertlowe5697 Of course but you need money or something of value to exchange. When everything has a price and is up for sale why would you not expect corruption to be the supreme law of the land? That's why we want to abolish private property and finds ways to distribute needed products without markets.
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@deltaechoproductions if it was classified as a political organization it would have more freedom to operate independently from the government. Just like political parties and churches.
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@billmonroe8826 The IRS is a government agency. Its chief purpose is federal tax collection. It was set up by Congress and the courts have found the income tax constitutional if Congress wants to dismantle it than Congress can do that. The AFT is a private association it has as much right to exist as a church, a garden club, political party, the boy scouts or private corporation does.under law. So no there is no right by the government to dismantle it because Congress or another group doesn't like it. It wasn't set up by the government so government can't dismantle it without violating the first amendment. .
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@tubecontributor3206 Citizens United comes back and now bites you in the ass. Our Attorneys know how to take advantage of ever trick you think you have. That's why the government Attorneys in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General complained that we were using their own laws against them.
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Mr. Ubiboy It only works this way if we let it. I say STRIKE 'EM like at GM
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He whole thing political agenda amounts absolutely nothing but "free markets" a buzz word for more of the same, legalise drugs (so you can get high and escape) and legalize sex work. Do have a job well then sell you body to the highest bidder and open up brothels so some can be a success pimps. Most of time is spent saying socialism bad capitalism good because obviously people like her would never lift a finger to help anyone without being paid a big salary.
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Another supporter of American capitalist accounting book justice.
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KC JONES The only lives made better by capitalism is those of that tiny minority of capitalists. The have been dragged kicking and screaming for every reform which was temporarily won in the class struggle. Just like the Great Recession of 2008 they will want us to pay for their 2020 corona virus crisis.
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@mundotaku_org The only people with a bank roll of declining value are the American Imperialists.
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@michaelbullen4146 What does this have to do with the word that is never used or discussed in the video "Socialism."?
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Soar Alba The unions are the best anti poverty program ever conceived. However the bosses will immediately seek to take what's won on the picket line with new machinery and speed up. If that doesn't succeed they will move elsewhere or demand lower wages because some other company or industry is paying less for the same work elsewhere. The decision to deindustrialize cities like Detroit, Toledo, Gary, Pittsburg, and Baltimore was made at the highest levels of American capitalism in the boardrooms of GM, Ford and the big Wall Street Investment banks. The ultimate goal was the same Bigger Profits through lower wages and new labor saving machinery. As usual it was necessary to turn the victim into the criminal. Union workers were greedy and the bosses were living in poverty under toll bridges. If that wasn't enough then it was the hard working German engineers and Japanese slave labor that was pushing open the bankruptcy courts doors.
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@metroidmayhem8463 Small business aren't entitled to a profit anymore than anyone else. If the can't make it that's the price of doing business. Workers shouldn't sacrifice so a boss can go home and live in a big house with maids while you live in a downtown rat trap run by his neighbor the landlord just another parasite like the bankers.
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@HaHa-kl3hx Do you shop at small business or do shop for lower prices at Walmart and Amazon. They've been driven out by big business like Olive Garden, Red Lobster and if you aren't shopping at WalMart your shopping at another big supermarket or regional chain store. Other than bars and liquor stores there is hardly a small business left. I buy my medicine from WalGreens, food and clothes from Walmart, Hardware Home Depot, electronics from Amazon or New Egg, gas from chains of convenience stores, and auto parts autozone. The only thing I buy from a small business is my campspot.
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They all talk about how the care about small business because they don't want to pay a decent wage. They will replace you if they think it can save your wage but the always replace the skilled labor first in any business. They have to raise the capital investment if they use more machines. Amazon doesn't pay taxes because they don't have to taxes for the rich are voluntary.
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You completely out of touch if you think lower abolishing the minimum wage is going to accomplish anything except create more misery. The local family farmer is squeezed out by prices. The owner passes away and then it's gone.Dead apple orchards and greenhouses covered with brush. Small town business your lucky to find a barbershop. I saw a new business open. Know what it is? A self serve automated car wash probably employees four people part time at minimum wage. .
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@HaHa-kl3hx The guy in the video advocates that. This video was made four years ago things are much worse today. Going to need some kind of government jobs program and a new union movement. Just raising them minimum wage isn't going to put enough people back to work. I'm on the old man's dole so we can survive as long as we don't get sick. My sister (divorced) was a tour guide. Luckily she was 1040 all her friends were 1099 so they are screwed. The bus drivers took the buses and drove around DC in a protest.
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@DarkBraveStuff The cheapest way to launch is to use a no lunch system instead of a bag lunch or the more expensive hot lunch..
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zengadounga4141 When you are accused of a crime no matter how heinous it is you have the right to an attorney. The Alan Dershowitz's of the world are there to keep the prosecution honest and within Constitutional law.
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@qadeerakhabir5768 Dershowitz is an civil and criminal defense attorney his job is to represent people accused of the worst crimes. He is forbidden to suborn perjury by ethical standards. It's the jury or judge who make the final decisions not Dershowitz. Dershowitz does NOT testify in trials witnesses do. Each side gets to present witnesses and cross examine them. Dershowitz has defended Trump even though he has said he would not vote for him.
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@kathygrant39 We need to fight back against cop brutality and get them sent to prison. Only a socialist revolution like that lead by Fidel Castro 60 years ago can create permanent change.
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@1133saginaw Yes it requires due process of law which is the first of his rights to be violated since he didn't get a hearing.
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@1133saginaw "...No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..."
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You've been listening to Mr. Math guy Yang. He couldn't meet his prophecy for creating jobs. What make you think he can do better prediction with AI?
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@johnrwalker53 Unlikely since the MSM has the fist amendment to use in its defense not to mention a platoon of lawyers. Even if he got a million out of them that's like a bump in the road to them.
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LGBFJB Proud Well then you can lead the legal team and see how far you get.
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@lorietaylor4665 Lawyers don't work for nothing. If its a case of contingency fee than we should here something soon.
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@Billy Cole II Sandman settlement was made with a non disclosure agreement which means he could have agreed to as little as $1. CNN has deep pockets so most likely they paid him whatever the nuance value was. Look into the Mc Donald's hot coffee suit. They could have settled for a few thousand but decided to go to court and lost big time. Then they cried about how unfair the tort system is.
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How long before the "Socialist Coup"?
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@VincentJChang The divided isn't red vs blue White vs Black but class vs class. The world capitalist economic system is failing due to its own natural workings. The capitalist nations have been unfit to rule the world since the started world war one to redivided it among themselves. .
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Repeal the Anti free speech PATRIOT Act!!
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@mefit1 The capitalist and his government don't work for us. Amnesty and jobs for all at union wage scale. A united union fight back against the bosses is what we need to do.
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@mefit1 The only proven way to change that is with union power. They are always looking for cheap labor. A fighting labor movement can change that. Their government with their two parties and their police force is not going to raise wages without an independent political movement like the Yellow Vests in France. TheMilitant.com
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@mefit1 Won't work except to justify hiring more cops and additional police harassment of workers as a whole. Lawyers for Business' and corruption will create a way around such a law. It won't raise wages because business wants to hold down or lower wages not raise them. The overall result of such a law will be to create a pariah class of workers that impedes union organisation. The capitalist will pass an increased minimum wage and that will work because the workers enforce it. Strikes and protests will raise wages. The Yellow Vest protests in France show that that works.
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@mefit1 Capitalism has an unforeseen problem the world is only so big. They run out of cheap labor. A large portion of the surplus value of the American capitalists is created here. Strike and protests are raising wages in China now. Cynics such as yourself will just be bypassed and ignored. Why because capitalism creates a working class. Class struggle has got us this far and it will take us all the way to a socialist revolution in the US itself.
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@johnyohann6946 You thinking is obviously headed in the right direction since you see this as a global problem and not one of this or that country. I invite you to check out and subscribe to TheMilitant.com and the books at pathfinderpress.com
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@mefit1 Monarchy were it still exists in Europe is nothing more than a parade of clowns meant to enthrall the masses. In the Middle East the trend has been against monarchy not towards monarchy. The Saudi prince is convinced he must be content with less than absolute monarch if he like the English Monarchy he is to retain his wealth. He can't govern a 21st century economy with 17th century methods.
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Trump was going to build a "Great Big Beautiful Wall and get Mexico to pay for it." Instead you got mostly a repace of already ugly border fence with more ugly border fence paid for with US dollars. The State of Texas estimates the completion of a Border fence will cost $30 Billion and take 20 years. Mass deportations? Obama deported more people per year than Trump. A whole section of the boss class relies upon immigrant labor. No one is going to fill those jobs as he arrests masses of workers. Should he be so foolish as to carry out his threats you can expect food shortages as crops and animals are left to die. Mostly Trump is just a demagogic capitalist politicians playing for votes and applause as if he were running the country like a TV show. Don't worry though he's going to fix everything after all he promised to. You can expect mass protest if he starts carrying out mass deportations because they are fundamentally unjust despite all the talk about criminals and how laws need to be enforced. Trump can find himself in the same position as South Korea President who tried to proclaim martial law. Forced to retreat and impeached with votes from his own party.
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@morrnmanderson7376 That's the way capitalism operates the boss gives the orders and you do what they tell you. The Bosses know best. They''ll tell you that. You don't need to think. They're going to do that for you. When Bill Gates need an idea he pulls out a few bucks and he rents a brain by the hour.
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As capitalism advanced the role of the middleman was replaced with the giant corporation. Like Wal Mart and Amazon. The middleman is basically an anachronism of history. Only filling in the cracks in the capitalist market system.
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@YourLocalMemeAndAnimeDealer Don't join then!!!
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@YourLocalMemeAndAnimeDealer Then go get a job as a boss since it looks like your already one as a dealer and stop being a cry baby. Plenty of jobs for bosses that don't pay union dues or are you really that dumb? That way you can get the top boss to pay you whatever it is he thinks you deserve.
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@jimdandy7323 Do you remember the name of the guy who was cut in half?
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@josephjohnson701 You can argue about when the Communist Party of America - Communist Party USA leadership became a lifeless sect of Moscow cheerleaders but not was the party leadership a lifeless body of Moscow Cheerleaders. Was it when they kicked out Jim Cannon and anyone deemed a supporter of Trotsky in 1928, When the Germany Communist Parties (second it size only to the Soviet Party) leaders retreated to Moscow 1934 Instead of fighting Hitler to the death not even so much as throwing a punch at the NAZI's. When the American party hailed the 1936 Moscow trails of the old Bolsheviks. Lenin's closet comrades in the Russian party now framed up, tortured and executed. When Stalin dissolved the Communist International as a favor to his Democratic Imperialist Allies in the middle of World war two. At the end of WW2 when the party announced the permanent victory of the Soviet Union and the end of the class struggle. When in 1945 they though they would be shaking hands of the monopolists because the Stalin regime had won the war. When in a unanimous vote they dissolved the Communist Part of America into the Communist Political Association. Then in another unanimous vote about a year later became the Communist Party USA blaming a single man Earl Broader for everything. There were those in the American Party who sided with Trotsky as early as 1928 and began the task of first trying to convince the Party until 1934 and then began the task of building a new party. That new party is the Socialist Workers Party. The party press can be found at TheMilitant.com and pathfinderpress.com
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Angela Davis was not just a Communist party member but also a leader. She ran with Gus Hall as the Parties Vice Presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984. She can't as an American intellectual claim she didn't know of Stalin's crimes against the working class. That she didn't know what Trotsky had said about Stalin and the communist parties. That she didn't know about the Khrushchev revaluations in 1956 about how Stalin had framed and executed loyal communists. She didn't live in a country where the working class was kept muzzled by the lovers of dacha's. Where Marx and Lenin had their ideas and methods turn into a new religion with a set of priests, bishops, and a Moscow pope who could punish heretics with prison and death. No she lived in a country where the workers had fought against the methods of Stalin and his rotten clique. Where the revolutionary workers had long ago rejected such methods.
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@josephjohnson701 I read your couple of sentences did my best to explain why the CPUSA was not a revolutionary organization. You can believe whatever you want but you can't erase history. When Hitler set up his concentration camps he could care less if you were a Social Democrat, Communist (Stalinist or Trotskist) or Anarchist anyone speaking against dur fuhrer was headed to the camps. What makes you think the US ruling class is any different? How should you respond to attacks on the movement? Like the Communist Party of America did in 1940 hailing the arrest of the counterrevolution Trotskites under the Smith 'gag' Act law? Or should it be like the early Communist Party of America who defended the anarchists Saco and Vanzetti in 1928 where an injury to one is an injury to all? At that time period those not members of any particular socialist group called ourselves not 'activists' but radicals. Everyone knew she and the Black Panther Party were under attack for being radicals not because of what she thought about the Soviet Union. That's why you would here the slogan "Free Angela Davis and all Political prisoners." at anti war protests.
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It seems to me that you want to change topics. That your new goal is to prove the Soviet Union was not socialist by virtue of a collection of quotes. I don't think the name matters so long as we understand what the Soviet Union was, what it became, its class nature and why it broke up.
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@josephjohnson701 "I am not here playing a fucking word game." coulda fooled me. Now that you have. "... long sense graduated from Leninist and Trotskyist voluntarist vanguardism of Lenin and even individualist voluntarism of "permanent revolution" of Trotsky..." Hope you've enjoyed your graduation Bye Bye!!
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@josephjohnson701 Whatever you say Professor Booby hatch. At the end of the day though the CPUSA was always a cheering squad for the Democratic Party nominee.
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As to where the evidence is? The CPUSA doesn't keep records of its Party press because its just to embarrassing. The SWP has our press from 1928 forward.
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@josephjohnson701 Look you go around implying things and when I argue against your implications you say I am setting up straw man arguments. Now you imply I am a police agent.."""(nor any one of your or your handlers)""" Classical Stalinism on your part. Play dumb than play smart has been you whole approach to my original refusal to recognize Angela Davis as a "revolutionary communist". Sorry but "In Defense of Marxism" wasn't titled "In Defense of Stalinism" for a very good reason.
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@balabanasireti The Democratic Imperialist Kennedy brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. At no time have nuclear weapons ever been on Cuban territory unlike the US, UK and Canada. .
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@julieharrell2585 Julie want to meet for some love?
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@melissacruz8649 Look if haven't been getting any I know some drivers at the Teamsters hall.
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@franksu3420 That is the promise of capitalism to investors a free lunch based upon the workers labor.
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@rice5817 That's totally false we are nowhere near using up all the resources on Earth. Energy from the sun will continue for 100's of thousands of years. Plus we have always found new ways to use the resources we have. The problem with capitalism is the profit drive and the demand that every activity produce a profit for the bosses distorts everything. Fascism raises its ugly head as the vomit that a dying capitalism expels. As Trotsky said if the Bolsheviks had not taken power when they did Fascism would have been a Russian word.
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The idea that you can use secret evidence against a former President is completely repugnant to any kind Democracy. Its like saying that everyone who voted for Trump is somehow a threat to national security. The court needs to Quash the 11th Court's order at the very least.
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@Alahulapuuloakealahelenokaahu When Ben Shapiro begins hiring for mud pie manufacturing then you can talk that kind stupidity.
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Franco was a fascist dictator like Mussolini and Hitler.
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The middle class is not dependent on government like the poor are. Did the Atenean slaves get any help from the slave holders government? Of course for VDH we are all middle class except for the unemployed and people like the immigrants he despises. Two million people are scheduled to walk across the border without an ID or background check. That's how my ancestors came in the 1840's. Only they came on a ship with no record of where they landed from a country that faced starvation due to British imperialism. Imagine living in the early 1970's without a picture ID on you license and crossing the Canadian border with just a birth certificate. No computers to provide the cops with an instant criminal check. Should you ask VHD how he managed to survive in such a world? Horrors the person down the street might be an escaped shoplifter.
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The neo liberals cut them down as too costly now cheap government functions by using K St lobbyist who write all legislation for the company bosses.
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A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
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@skeeter2653 Biden is a loyal lapdog of the American capitalist class and true blue American Imperialist like Clinton.
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@CarloFerraro Ya we know your kind they sells Bone Saws and Sulfuric acid to the likes of the Saudi Prince. Lie upon Lie told by criminals. Orlando Boshe is you type once a Medical Doctor at the head of his class in The University of Havana who became a terrorist who planned and bragged about killing 73 people on Cubana flight 455. When Bush announced his NO STATE may harbor terrorist he should have overthrown himself since he gave Boshe sanctuary in Miami.
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@victorsamsung2921 Did you hear the "moral preening" of the Good Professor when he spoke of the US Imperialist assault on the Vietnamese people or the unnecessary nuclear bombing of a defeated Japan. This is where his morals end and ours begin. For Sowell his Republican American capitalist backers can do no wrong.
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Bosses seek to work us for the longest hours, at the fastest pace, at the lowest wages for the biggest profits. Bosses wasted 5.3 trillion dollars on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan destroying other countries in a "nation building" exercise. They create economic crisis by stock buybacks and other investments to drive up the value of stocks and bonds only to have the values collapse and then go for another bailout.
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@therealsapdad1942 How about a man who knows what he is fighting for instead of randomly lashing out. Sowell serves as an ideological defender of profits for the bosses.
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@bradleyhalfacre7992 Both Democrats and Republicans along with the NGO's are Boss organizations dedicated to profit maximization and world capitalism.
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Ya well that's at least about 500 years from now.
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What would be wrong with that?
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@YourMom-cu8yt Well the capitalist don't see it that way. Higher wages are a drag on profit rates. They want profits and we want higher wages. We produce the profit and the surplus value when we work. The unpaid labor is the source of the profit and surplus value and the bosses own accounting books prove that. That is what the class struggle is about a fight over who gets and controls the profit and surplus value. The rate of profit tends to decline as machines replace labor in production because the capital value increases while the labor in the product the source of profit declines.
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@born2bbald12 Karl Marx to the long view of human history and put political economy on a historical materialist foundation. What would you like me to try and explain? All the Great Marxist were both revolutionary leaders and thinkers like Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro and Che. It doesn't make them infallible but they all wrote on what they were doing and debated their opponents. Their is a rich literature they left behind after their deaths.
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Stormy Daniels. "She didn't do it for the money." Cohen was another one who "didn't do it for the money."
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@gaetanomaximus8650 They can't close it without cutting off all trade. Capitalism in one country? LMAO.
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@Proverbspsalms Where did you get your medical degree?
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@kenlompart9905 You have a mouth use it and ask if its a union job. Some times their is no other choice well sorry but the bosses are prohibited from even belonging so if they don't want to make you a boss hows that the unions fault?
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@@InspirationalGiraffe-eb8hx How come all theses big hero''s don't sign up to be border patrol? I guess running around in the hot desert isn't all that glamours.
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@ififif2022 You are what you call yourself a lie.
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BTIsaac Shapiro was offering a $10,000 bribe for a debate. Her refusal to accept can't be understood by those who are use to everyone having a price.
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US used the excuse of evacuating the defeated Imperialist Japanese war criminals in 1945 to enter Korea and set itself up in the camp of the defeated Japanese Imperialist war criminals. They have been their for 72 years now and need to go home.
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They are like the British Empire the will leave when forced out. They left Vietnam and they will leave other places also. They left their Subic Bay Base in the Philippines for while but managed to get themselves invited back in. You can kick them out but they will then try and return through a back door. The weakness in American capitalism is in they the way in which the system must operate. You can't defeat them through direct invasion because of all the nuclear bombs they possess but they can be defeated internally because of the weakness of the class system of capitalism itself. Karl Marx was the first to see the weakness and how the proletariat with its ability to organize and fight could take the means of production away from them and open up the prospects of a socialist world without classes.
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John Doe No one cares how greedy you are because the downfall of capitalism is in what greed drives the capitalists to do. In 1991 you thought you won the cold war when actually you lost. Because of the decline in rate of return on investment in industry the greedy capitalist invest in fictitious capital. The value is bid up and up until a realization sets in and then value in the bubble collapses. The 2008 collapse did more for the revival of interest in socialism in the United States than thousands of socialist newspapers could do. Everyone knows another collapse is on its way but no one knows how deep and when it will come but it is all but preordained to hit like a hurricane.
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Pinestead US gives foreign aid with strings attached so US corporations can sell and make profits. Like the national debt it is a giveaway to the ruling capitalist class.
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The British ruled Ireland for 700 years the Irish drove them out of 26 counties with guns.
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Pinstead You proof of the fact that the American Imperialist mindset is that we do no wrong or we were bad but everything is fixed now because a new stooge has entered the White House.
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Pinstead The US has more nuclear weapons than any other country on the planet. They are planning to make new ones to replace old ones. No more US building of new nuclear weapons. They are bring in the THAAD missiles to Korea. The US has withdrawn from the ABM treaty. Trump is toying with the idea of a revival of star wars satellite war capability. A's far as your rich friends that you meet while traveling the world we don't care how many friends imperialists, capitalists and middle class sellouts like you have. You and them are as worthless as tits on a bull.
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It's easy to be against the mass killing of Native Americans because the government has stopped doing it. Why not go into work and tell your coworkers and the bosses you against the mass killings of North Korean's and see what the response is? Karl Marx doesn't foretell anything he merely sees a way out of the predictable capitalist crisis' that will develop due to capitalism own internal workings. The only thing that the Chinese and Russians prove is that a corrupt group of socialist bureaucrats just like the Swedish Social Democrats and American case hardened labor officials can sell out for a few pieces of silver. In Cuba however you have a real revolutionary people and leaders that won't sell out. So far 10 US Presidents have failed to crush them. With number 11 once again promising victory over Cuba.
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"Kim O'Brien Communism has killed over 50 million people so don't BS. K thanks."Sure why not blame the communists in fact why stop at 50 million when you can claim a 100 million or 200 million. I'm sure the 'Black book of Communism needs an update. The Bolsheviks took Russia out of WW1 which enraged the young Churchill no doubt. So 14 countries invade the new Soviet Union including the United States. But go ahead and blame the Bolsheviks for having to pick up the pieces after 3 years of world war. In Cuba 20,000 died to get rid of the bloody dictator Batista but pine away for the 3000 of the dictators police who tortured and murdered their their victims and received their justice by firing squad. But three thousand isn't enough so just keep upping the numbers because the US government can do no wrong. Cuba has trained over 20,000 MD's at the Latin American school of medicine for other countries on Cuba's dime. How many has the US trained? Oh that's right the US gets immigrant Doctors to meet the population's need. How many die of treatable disease and don't have clean drinking water? How many dollars go into new and more efficient ways of death? Capitalism kills millions by default and US policy is not one of diplomacy but of endless war to back up decisions made by the New York banks whose profits are untouchable.
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Cuba is different and while 10 Presidents have failed to overturn the revolution number 11 has promised success. But he will have no more success than the preceding 10 because he faces a revolutionary people and their revolutionary internationalist government. We revolutionary's welcome the struggle ahead while the demoralized middle class looks back at MAGA even though many are you know Clinton supporters.
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Systems of war are not defensive but enable offense and THAAD is being sold by the US armaments manufactures to S. Korea with the required US gov't approval does S Korea really have a choice not to buy THAAD when the US military keeps 12 bases in Korea? The US realizes that if they put THAAD in Korea in their name there would be even more protests so why not get South Korea to agree to put it in. China is not selling N. Korea missiles or nukes and unlike the US China has not had nukes on the Korean Peninsula. The exact number of nuclear warheads the US and Russia have is about equal and way exceed any other nations with different sources having different numbers because most likely the exact numbers are secret. With a much larger Ohio class submarine force than Russia the US ability to deliver nuclear weapons any where in the world is much greater. The US has withdrawn from the ABM treaty, considering building more nukes and re launching the Star wars program. The current regimes in Russian and China no longer defend anything that would make them 'progressive.' The private ownership of industry is capitalism no matter how you slice it.
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Cuba's Revolutionary Armed forces with Soviet weapons coluded with Angola to defeat the Apartheid Army of South Africa. Who sat at the peace table with the hated and internationally condemned South African regime? The Reagan administration of United States. So you can now see that in fact there was a difference in cold war sides. Nelson Mandela's first international visit was to Cuba to thank Fidel for his help in defeating Apartheid. You call the rotation of two party stooges in and out of the White House democracy. I call it dictatorship of capital. Those two party stooges are bought and paid for by the wealth ruling class with campaign donations. They can not help but to represent their business interests. The only reason we have any freedom of speech and assembly in the United States is because of those who fight against and not for two party stooge democracy. They do not give the working class anything we take it away from them! The logical conclusion of the class struggle is to crush the wealthy ruling class and their governmental dictatorship and go forth on the socialist road of all mankind.
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The Imperialists in the US always want to pat themselves on the back for high wages, better conditions, and democratic rights. When in fact all those things in the modern era were fought for, defended and won in struggles against the capitalists and their two party stooges. Wages have been stagnant for 25 years or so. Revolving credit through credit cards replacing wages until the 2008 Great Recession hit. Working conditions have worsened and democratic rights were won in the fight against the second red scare carried out by the two party Congressional organizations called HUAC and the senate McCarran Committee often referred to as McCarthyism. Politicians of both parties have been attacking the first amendment the liberals with their Citizens United proposed amendment and Trump calling for the firing of sports players for 'taking a knee.' When you talk of boot licking stooges you are describing the two party American system. They are usually picked with campaign donations with many donations made by the ruling rich to both parties. This time the one who was suppose to win lost and the one who wasn't suppose to win won. Hillary Clinton was once a Republican and Trump once a Democrat. In fact the Clintons attended the Trump's last wedding. In many Congressional districts the winner is picked by the primary voters since the other party has little support.
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Fascist police and extra legal murderers will die in the hail of revolutionary bullets from firing squads after the revolution. For the fascist the greatest enemy is in the library. A book can easily knock them out like a secret weapon from outer space. Their idea of culture war is a war on all culture. The gestapo had the chief engineer for the V2 program Wernher von Braun arrested for two weeks without charges after information provided by dentist working as a spy. Hitler had to be personally convinced that von Braun was not a disloyal communist working against the V2 program.
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@ETube37 He answers to the bosses who live in the gated communities.
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@riakriak7270 The bosses have gotten fat with profits they need a to be slimed down and put on a diet like a type two diabetic.
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After 3 Trillion dollars buying the best mercenaries forces possible the American Imperialists having destroyed the lives of millions the US Imperialists withdraw to cut their losses.
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@lenwilkinson672 He is a loyal mouthpiece for the Us ruling class.
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@Nussbaum981 Hamas is Neo NAZI military organization. Its roots go to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who raised a Muslim Militia for Hitler!!
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@molliestanton2869 No he doesn't instead he gives a revisionist one of propaganda put out by Hamas supporters after the crime was committed. The initial reports are always the most accurate because no one has had time to analyze and sanitise them to their liking. Hamas is c;early the genocidal organization. Its constitution reveals its intentions Jihad Caliphate desire.. It has support from the holocaust denying Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran that seeks to acquire nuclear weapons. .
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The real elephant in the room is exactly what is the Democratic Party but not the other Party of the ruling class.
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When the bosses get together its not called a union but a corporation or an association. Naturally the bosses control the two parties and they don't want workers interfering in the political process.
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@WanderTheNomad The only thing you learn here is how by placing idiots in charge you produce idiocy. While America is known for having people from all over the world come here. China is known for having people emigrate all over the world. Talk of closing off China by the leadership is just so much rubbish much like Trump's idea of an America without China and Mexico.
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@briandeluca6908 Profits are just unpaid wages.
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@cageybee7221 None of that happened in revolutionary Cuba.
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@KJ4IQE Wasted tax dollars go to businesses. They'll probably go after a few cases of corruption to make it look like they are doing something. Musk is a big government contractor so naturally he doesn't want regulations that cost him profits. Musk also owns Tesla the electric car mfg. Musk doesn't want Trump interfering in that either.
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@nadogrl An iron dome is what the heads in Washington are made of hammering sense into Iron heads doesn't work.
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@bbbbbbb51 The conspiracy is coming ti get you so keep looking over your shoulder just don't trip on the object just ahead of you as you look backwards while walking forwards.
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As long as you have capitalism you will have corruption of a Democratic Republic.
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@septembersurprise5178 Sowell is an apologist for the crimes of American Imperialism. The US had no business carpet bombing either Vietnam or Korea. Neither country lauched an attack on the US. Nor was the US defending anyones freedom but instead dictatorships military and civilian it had installed. Nor was the Atomic bombing of a defeated Japan justified.
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@АлександрИванов-ч4б3с Next you will write a fantasy story about how newly found open archival documents prove a story about an unnamed man on a grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas in Nov 1963 and how a conspiracy caused the loss of Cuba to the Soviet Union by John Kennedy who was going to spell the beans because he was secretely sworn into a Masonic lodge. .
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@dontspeaktoelectrohead1491 German did NOT pay the train ticket. He and others were allowed to travel across German territory from Switzerland in a sealed (no customs inspection) railway car to cross from Denmark into Sweden than to Finland Station in St Petersburg. That was a lie invented by the security services that Germany paid Lenin.
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@nobonesaboutit7639 Black market abortion pills will be the first alternative. Abortion pills are already the most popular method. Women can go online now and get them.
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No it won't. The ruling capitalist classes will turn against democracy when they see their property threatened by a workers revolution. They will turn to fascist gangsters to defeat the trade unions.
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@jerroldrieger5345 First thing you need to do is stop thinking that either Trump, Biden or either capitalist party can do anything for you. The first is the most important amendment because without it the second becomes absolutely meaningless. Push back at Democratic Party hypocrisy in it's war on Trump. Protest the witch hunt and fame up methods of the Democratic Party prosecutors.
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@MP-in4or Nothing I do can stop people from crossing a border. It like taxes no one likes them but people cross borders one way or another and their is little that can be done Look at Israel supposedly the best border security in the world.
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Like the Justice system itself the Police work for the capitalists. Lawa are all skewed for the benefit of the ruling rich.
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@smithjason5887 The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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@christophercleofe9107 Overall the US capitalists don't need educated people, they need workers who will follow orders because if they did need educated people they would lower the cost of education instead increasing it.
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Imperailist battle for markets. CCP contains capitalist running dogs.
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@catnapper7509 I never vote Democrat. If I vote I vote Socialist Workers. CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper is an heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. So just like Fox's anchor Tucker Carlson he's one of the one percent. Marxism is not excess liberalism. We start with the immediate needs of the working class. Democratic rights including the right to speak freely and to self defense are always in the interests of the working class. The Stalinist and the Social Democrats are the ones who are for s popular front against fascism with liberal capitalist forces. I don't vote Trump because he switched parties about five times. Now he is siting back on his rear end waiting to be called back by the faithful. Racism came with capitalism and it will only be completely destroyed in a socialist revolution. Great strides have been made but you can't ignore things like Almud Aubrey being attacked by ex cops who exceeded their authority.
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@catnapper7509 I smart enough not to be taken by NIxon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden or their two party opponent. I got the biggest raise of my lifetime after the 1976 Westinghouse strike. $1 an hour. Its been over ten years since Congress raised the minimum wage. That in itself shows how worthless for working people voting for either party is compared to joining a union and fighting back against the bosses profiteering. The unions need to found an independent labor party to take on the two parties of the bosses politically.
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@frankpaya690 We don't put our faith in capitalist politicians of either party to halt violence. We have had past experience with groups starting as left going right as in NCLC back in the 1970's. Domestic terrorism is a little over the top. Its just like claiming that Jan 6 was an insurrection.
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@frankpaya690 We don't side with the employers agonist workers without papers. Nor do the big industrial unions have anything to do with extorting shopkeepers. As the workers go into struggles against the capitalist the conservative leaders will be replaced. Tony Boyle was an example of the worst kind of union leader yet he was ousted from leadership dispute his murdering his election rival.
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@frankpaya690 How many local unions have you been a member of? I've belonged to 6. Or are you just a someone who knows all. The workers can decertify the union if they don't want to pay dues and in states that have right to work laws dues are voluntary and not checked off from your paycheck. The union is not an organization for employers. Employer's recognize the unions because of past struggles like the three citywide general strikes and the sit down strikes of the 1930's. If GM wanted to build and sell cars they had to negotiate with the UAW. Unions are not the immigration police either. We have the right to strike and protest out side our employers business. Working for a living is not a crime and people like Ms Trump violate immigration law and face no consequences either. If you have money you can basically buy a green card and US citizenship.
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@Soc1alBK I'm not with Burnie Sanders who voted for the Afghanistan war and supports Biden who continues the Kennedy Blockade of Cuba. You want to call yourself left and join with capitalist liberals than leave me out of your left. Be part of the new popular front against Fascism which failed so miserably in Europe in the 1930's. Join in with the Democratic Imperialists and other rotten politicians like the Stalinist's and Social Democrats (Democratic Socialists). Sure the King of Sweden he's your type of "Socialists" along with the Volvo bosses who build your cars. The same Volvo bosses who threatened to run scabs in the Dublin, VA truck plant.
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@Volkbrecht This is the typical excuse for capitalism too much productive capacity because the workers can not buy back all that can be produced. Keep the plants going and make the bosses pay by cutting prices of cars or let the central bank do a bailout and peg wages to inflation. Bosses need to tighten their belts.
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@jorgeslani7413 German capitalism "sick man" of Europe.
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@davidanderson8469 Workers need to fight for shorter work week with no cut in pay and escalator clauses to keep up with inflation.
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@yo23df2ss66ddm Corruption is not due to a personal defect rather it is the natural way a government that defends capitalism must function.
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The Democrats want union votes and union leaders in their pockets but the Democratic Party is organized and paid for by the company bosses. The unions are organizations financed by the working class membership alone. The capitalist can help but fail in their pursuit of profits. That means they can help but provoke class struggle. Their system is failing world wide.
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@ThorDog81 Wages stopped rising with productivity in 1973.
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@graceandpanic9281 The biggest thing from the Frankfurt school was the hot dog.
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@someonefamous8671 This man is a spokesman for American Imperialism only.
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@sandythompson2973 Racism came with capitalism and it will be destroyed in the coming socialist revolution. A vote for either party is a vote for capitalism and racism.
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@vfigueroa3042 Ya and Johnson's two party idea totally failed. Today the KKK consists of just a bunch of overweight police officers. Neither Party nor Donald Trump wants the overt racists. They remain political prahias.
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In the customers papers to the court it says that one of their mothers was also present. Just because Jack doesn't say on the video that she was there doesn't make it false. Ask Lester Maddox about his cafeteria.
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Oyez is a summary not an original source.
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National Chauvinist Pig. End of discussion.
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Andrew Shepard good reasoning for a theory requiring government bailouts of mismanaged business. After all the biggest bankers in the world went to Washington and got the "No Banker Left Behind Act of 2008" (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008) rammed through Congress and signed by G.W.Bush. Why not a 'me too act' so everybody can start business' and never go bankrupt. You might also want to explain how public accommodation law costs business profits or drives them into the poorhouse?
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Fascism is the crushing of the trade unions and all political descent while maintaining private property of the ruling class. Also called corporatism because it sounds less well? Fascist. In Germany it went further by organizing big business for Imperialist war, marching across Europe and remaking the German Empire with the goal of destroying the Soviet Union and defeating Democratic Imperialism as represented by France, Britain and the United States. The United States government is the executive committee of the American ruling capitalist class. They buy the politicians they get to play the tune.
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The IRS and other federal agencies already have the right 'to pry in (to) private business' and the trade unions. In this instance the business proclaims what it is doing so little to no 'prying into' was necessary only the words of the owner were required. You still haven't explained how business loses money by complying with public accommodation law and why they now need government funding because of that.
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Haitian army was good enough to beat the French that's why their Haitian and not part of the French Antilles.
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Whats your evidence? At what cost?
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@cajungangster1654 I've read what are probably his most important work on Das Kapital and Basic Economics so I know where all the bodies are buried. The first is the assumption that his experience at the US Labor Dept proves Marx wrong. It's an easy mistake to make if you think like the Social Democrat Norman Thomas that you go to sleep one day and wake up in Socialism the next. or maybe he had been listening to Joe McCarthy who had been making charges about the US Government being infiltrated by communist. Either way he seemed to think that once he arrived at the US Labor Dept the he was in just the right spot for a Marxist to be. One of his professors helped him get hired so I wonder if they hadn't played a practical joke on him. If one needs to clear up what Marx and Engels thinking on revolution and the state was State and Revolution by Lenin takes that up including the last chapter on the vulgarization of Marx's ideas by the Social Democratic opportunists. In civil war in France Marx wrote on how the commune smashed the state that special body of armed men and the bureaucracy that represents the ruling classes power and reconstitute it as armed workers with officials paid nio more than skilled workers.
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@leviboswell9510 They lay people off and then who's going to do the work? The bosses need us a lot more than we need them.
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@leviboswell9510 Workers need to be clubbing together. You get together decide what you want and tell the boss hey this is what we want. Once we start getting together they have to listen. The more the merrier. In retail the bosses need us now more than ever. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.
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@leviboswell9510 No you're either a boss or just afraid of the bosses. We struck Westinghouse Electric in 1976 and went back with a $1 hour raise. In 1934 Coal Truck drivers in Minneapolis struck and won against the bosses open shop paradise. Minneapolis communism put food on the table. You go look at where automobiles and trucks are assembled. Most including VW and Toyota are made here.
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@leviboswell9510 China is run by a corrupt communist party and is no more socialist than Sweden or Burnie "Sellout" Sanders. Cuba is the example of a living Socialist Revolution. There working people have been in control for six decades.
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That China story is also wrong the US has a bigger GDP than China. All that nonsense is meant to pit US workers against Chinese workers for boss benefits and make them think they can't make the bosses pay out of their profit bonanza.
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@leviboswell9510 British Imperialism was killing people form its very beginning with the Irish potato famine in 1847. The countries population never recovered. It's still smaller than it was in 1841. The British only finished their last religious war in Ireland in 1998 and the last famine in British India was in 1944. The British Opium wars against China to make money on addiction. The Kings ownership of the Royal Africa slave trading company. All this talk about a kind and gentle capitalism is nothing more than unadulterated horse shit.
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@yeticusrex1661 Sure you'd be happy to take over mass transit if you could pay the Uber or Lyft average wages of $3.33 an hour or less with no health care or retirement costs especially if you can eliminate the drivers job. The bosses think government funds are their funds. They love buying local, state, and federal gov't bonds when they should be taxed because they get both government guaranteed payments and pay no taxes on the capital gains at maturity. This thinking of using government debt to make money goes back to Alexander Hamilton.
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@yeticusrex1661 The theory behind pensions is to make the workers think that they need to generate a pile of money while working such that the can draw off it when they retire. This of course favors the investment bosses who will make a chuck of change by gambling the money in the stock market. The only sensible way to pay retired workers is to pay out of a maximum income tax on people and a 100% capital gains tax on corporations. Since corporations aren't people then don't need a profit incentive. CEO's and others don't need the incentives they get today.
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@yeticusrex1661 You're the one who says Mass Transit can be made profitable again. You also claimed that the workers were pricing themselves out of the market. The skill needed to drive a car, bus or train are similar. What is your problem? Don't want to be grouped in with the sweatshop bosses over at Uber or Lyft? The also are talking about self driving cars. Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought that American money was printed at the US Gov't printing office and coined at the US Mint?
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@yeticusrex1661 Pay as you go like SS. Pension money can be lost in the Stock Market and then the claim of no available funds will be raised.
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The bosses always invest first in replacing higher cost labor with machines. If they add investment that reduces the labor left to exploit but increases the total capitalization that can end up with a lower rate of return on investment which how they judge where to invest. A second consideration is the cost of replacing whole fleets of buses, tractors and trains. Wall street will be crunching lots of numbers before any big go ahead for replacing drivers gets the green light.
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@yeticusrex1661 Your the product of decades of a class collaboration union leadership where the struggles of the guy behind the wheel or on the shop floor got forgotten as the needs of the bosses became those of the unions tops.
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@yeticusrex1661 Keep telling yourself that maybe even you will believe it. No your the product of American capitalism and all its justifications. You know nothing about my skill set. Unions are the beginning of the workers class struggle for state power and then crushing the capitalist state in a revolutionary change. Fidel Castro put together a small group of revolutionaries and managed to defeat US Imperialism's dictator General Batista. Then goes on to crush a US sponsored invasion at Giron in 72 hours. Holds off 11 US Presidents who declare him to be a risk to the National Security of the United States. Nevertheless the Cuban Army goes to Angola and defeats US Supported South African Apartheid Troops at Cuito Cuanavale. Hasting the end of Apartheid. Cuba opens the Latin America School of Medicine training 10,000 foreign students to be doctors at no direct cost to the students. Cuban Doctors have served in Medical missions all over the world. Having most recently sent a mission to Italy despite its status as NATO. The US is about 30 times the size of Cuba but can't even train enough Doctors for our population but is real good at creating jobs based in the military needs of real dictators like the Prince of Saudi Arabia.
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@yeticusrex1661 Guess what socialism isn't about creating more Bill Gates or little bitty Gates. Nor is about making billionaires pay their fare share like Bernie Sanders. It about a revolutionary change in the worlds system of production. Taking it from the war mongers and the capitalist class of international thieves. It about building a world based in international human solidarity not Chinese or French Bankers pretending to be socialists or communists.
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@yeticusrex1661 Got the names of anyone murdered in Cuba by Fidel? They gave the Batista torturers a trial equivalent to that of NAZI's war criminals. That's more than what Che Guevara got in Bolivia. You'd have an even huger Mexican population if you allowed in anyone who didn't like living in the one party Mexican state from about 1929 to 2000. How come they had to pull the "Quilt of Genocide" from public view? Why's the heroic graffiti artist "El Sexto" sitting in the Miami lockup waiting for trial on charges of stalking and making death threats. Didn't the Miami cops get the message that "El Sexto" can do no wrong? Those people in Miami are like you. They like the privileges that being a boss gets you. Your obviously better than the rest of us as you've already said and if you can pile on the number of letters after your name you'll even be be better. One day posibly making it to the level being a "Bourgeois Professor."
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@yeticusrex1661 So your not only an expert on Unions but an expert on Socialism also? Who would have thought you'd be such an expert. Can we expect to hear you on talk radio like Ben Shapiro and Rush Limbaugh?
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@yeticusrex1661 Cuba Archive with its board of director and advisory board is believable because former US Ambassadors and High level US State department officials don't lie. Otto Reich was Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs during the failed US sponsored coup against president Chavez. He was also an advocate for the murderous contras in Nicaragua. It's basically a who's who in successful US Big Business Cuban exiles along with a few intellectuals and a priest sprinked in. Reports form the US Ministry of Colonies the OAS are also not creditable. The US had Cuba expelled from the OAS after the US Defeat at Giron. Maybe I wrong but I don't remember the OAS criticizing any of the Latin American military dictatorships. All four of the "executed" victims were members of armed terror groups.
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@yeticusrex1661 "Why doesn't a worker's union start their own corporate business from scratch with equal shares between them and put their own investment into it equally?" Simple because workers can not raise the capital to go into competition with the Union Pacific railroad and the rest of the big industries. Even if they did it would merely create competition with capitalist industries squeezing the most out of their brothers in the capitalist industries. When you measure success in profits safety and pollution control are added costs. Big business likes to push its social costs onto the state and small business. Workers control of industry is the sensible solution. Most of the big industries don't belong to the founders but the heirs. Coal, Steel, Aluminum, Auto, Rubber, Oil, Copper and others were founded as far back as the 19th century. Now Wall Street has more say into how these industries are run divided up and consolidated not the original Entrepreneurs who are long dead.
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@yeticusrex1661 I'm probably twice you age because I lived through the Vietnam era. I remember when M.L. King was assassinated. I remember the Kent State killings by the National Guard.
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@yeticusrex1661 I remember the J. F. Kennedy assassination I was getting off the school bus when the lady driver (she had a radio) told me. I didn't believe her thinking she was joking until I got inside and my mom was watching it on TV. I'm not half you age either they only way that could be is we'd both have to be much younger. If I was born before you I'd never be 1/2 your age. I also remember the first great Northeast Blackout (New York and New England) we listened to Civil Defense radio. We wondered if it was caused by nuclear war.
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"You are making too many excuses for worker's not starting their own business." Who's going to run industry and why shouldn't we paid a livable wage? Telling workers you can open up a lemonade stand doesn't cut it. If that's your choice why should everyone else do it because you know as well as I do that society would not run without industrial workers. See how F'd up things are now. I'd hate to be one of those "non essential" business owners. This crisis is being caused by the capitalist anarchy of production. The way that capitalism works is to set production levels for just in time production and the bosses want to be guaranteed payment before ramping up production. Congress and Trump sat back assuming that everything would just automatically ramp up because that's the invisible hand of capitalism theory.
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Let me ask you this would you be happier living in Vietnam as a poor peasant or worker and had the government prepared for the possibility of the virus or having lots of cash but no available protection. The same with the AIDS crisis Cuba and New York City are about the same size lots more died in New York City than Cuba. Now the people infected didn't get all the freedom of New Yorkers but the difference in dead is also much worse for New York City and once treatment was found things went back to normal in Cuba.
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@rocco1267 Buffet brags about paying less taxes than his secretary risks paper cut from the in the office and has his two party lackeys force contracts down railroad workers throats who he does not want to have a sick day or adequate crew sizes since derailments are a planned cost of doing business. Sure leave Buffet and billionaries in charge so he can make a few more billion while the whole country becomes an East Palestine, Ohoi. .
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Walter White Your right about that. Which is why I have never and never will cast a vote for a Democrat or Republican. I don't care if Burnie claims he's a direct descendant of Lenin. He will not get a vote from me.
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No but you do want to extract a pound of flesh for doing something so blatant as saying "I don't do gay."
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My understanding is that a doctor can refuse to do anything he sees as something he does not want to do for any reason he wants. Anything a doctor does even prescribing an aspirin can be deadly so that's why they have such latitude. Unless the baker can claim to be a physician also that analogy doesn't apply. If he had started from the premise that I am a Christian baker rather than I don't make wedding cakes for same sex weddings he'd be in a better position to refuse. Also if there was no law at the time then the case would be thrown out as ex post facto law. His business was set up as a corporation so the idea that a corporation needs free speech beyond the political level and for core religious institutions like a church is dubious at best. There is an exemption for churches in the discrimination law already. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It does not say that religion trumps all anymore than elsewhere does it say free markets trump all. The law hasn't established a religion by requiring him to bake a custom cake nor does baking a cake require him to send a religious message.
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Well, I read that during the mediation process they asked him to assign another employee without his beliefs to make all same sex wedding cakes or have an outside contractor do it. He refused that compromise. Past cases where companies have sought an exemption based on religious belief as a way around public accommodation laws have failed. If you start passing out passes to businesses for exemption based on religious belief where does that end? They court rejected that in the Newman v. Piggy Park Enterprises. Prior to the civil rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's Black people often bought a book called the green book which listed which business's that would serve them when they were out of town. So should same sex couples have to hide when ever they seek a service or a custom made object? They man refused outright not waiting for a request that he could not full fill like say a plastic same sex couple instead he raised that issue later.
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Yes we communists are known for our gentleness just check out the video of Batista's former policeman who used the most heinous methods of torture getting a trial and a quick death by firing squad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogKBqxnaWhU
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You want ague how dumb I am instead of arguing the issues. Well Professor Steel Blank PHD of Harvard University is that the best you can do? Telling us how intelligent your bourgeois education makes you!!! LOL
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Telling me to shut up and proclaiming a free country is the usual crap that supporters of capitalism bring to the their fancy dinner tables and wine and cheese parties.
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See there you go again saying that I smoke crack instead of arguing the points raised. The idea of granting business the right to openly discriminate against those they dislike as customers will inevitably lead to the right to discriminate against those they dislike as workers. The American system of Apartheid, Jim Crow, was such a system. Using this type of system was good for breaking strikes. If a mostly white plant went on strike then the strikers would be replaced by blacks. It a mostly black plant went on strike than they were replaced with whites. Northern Ireland also maintained such a system. Catholics were kept out of jobs based on religion. You could tell who a Catholic was based upon name and accent. In the US wine and cheese parties are either bourgeois or a middle class parties while working class parties are usually based on budweiser.
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Hellfire LOL bring it on baby.
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Only the Saudi people themselves can solve the problem.
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@janeclark6342 True the US should close its Saudi bases and stop sales of military equipment to Saudi Arabia. However the punishment should be left to the Saudi people themselves. There should be no unilateral cuts of other trade to Saudi Arabia as that would punish only the Saudi people and not the true criminals.
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George Bushes "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle has turned into Bidens "New World Disorder." Where Biden needs to give speeches at the UN saying that Democracy is not dead and his segment of the American ruling class is throwing the rule of Bourgeois law and elections overboard as you read this.
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@jamesbarca7229 In the end it is just a promise like "Chamberlin's Peace in our time." Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. What you are seeing is the greed of the ruling classes driving forward their narrow national interests.
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@driesvanleeuwen-t7i YouTube is running its censorship algorithm against me again.
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@dragani2330 We've been building a movemnet and a legal party under the very nose of the American bosses since 1928. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney general put the FBI on trial.
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@stevem9766 If Stalin had not built nuclear weapons when he did the US would have used nuclear weapons on Chinese Cities. China has been growing at a spectacular rate creating a huge new working class and raising incomes. That doesn't mean they have no problems but neither is the US perfect. The beltway is concerned with profits only. No one should be fooled into fighting China over who gets to sell what in where. Taiwan (The Republic of China) is recognized by one country only which is not the US. The US won't recognize Taiwan because to do so would mean China would end its recognition of he US. If Taiwan has become a democracy its no thanks to the US because it became a refuge for General Chang's military dictatorship after he lost the civil war. For 20+ years the US refused to recognize the Peoples Republic of China instead recognizing The Republic of China (Taiwan) a small island that also held China's seat at the UN.
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@stevem9766 Racism is a product of capitalism and Imperialism. They don't have many immigrants and never had imported slaves with plantations. Their problems are with non Han Chinese nationalities. I haven't heard anything about paying different wage rates based on nationality though and since they don't have a lot of immigrants they can't serve as a source of cheap exploited labor either. You can't be much of a racist if no other races are in your area or if you don't have more for a reason related to race. Han Chinese saying they are one race only becomes important in the context of national minorities.
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@drstone1167 The reason for the suffering caused by the corona virus is the fact that healthcare is an overhead cost for capitalism. The Government of Biden is and Trump was just a bunch of bumbling fools. Trump and Congress were to busy with Impeachment and partisanship to do anything for 3 months.
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@FieryJuniper Look not only would China have suffered under nuclear weapons but most likely a nuclear winter would have spread across the world. If Mao had not won the civil war Western Imperialism would still be bleeding China dry after all General Chang was in the US/UK pocket. The capitalist are only interested in profits not service quality. Once they monopolize an industry they let it go into decline to maximize profits (return on investment). What they compete for is maximum profits and monopoly prices are the answer to that problem. Calling yourself a Communist party like the CCP doesn't mean you following in the footsteps of Marx and Lenin. The CCP is more interested in Milton Freedman than Marxism.
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@debbiephilbrick9872 Jimmy 'Human Rights" Carter sent aid to Pol Pot via the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand and with the UK kept Pol Pot seated at the UN.
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@MRatna Sowell makes another "New Discovery" that the US can't bring democracy on the end of a marines bayonet. It only took him about 50 years to realise that.
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Sowell is nothing but a supporter of capitalist accounting book justice.
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He's more of a square earth believer .
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@PGE613 Muslims forced the Jews out of their countries including the ones who were anti zionist.
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@valerianocuomo996 The United States government supported Batista until he became a liability. Then began a cruel blockade to try and destroy the revolution.
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@neilreynolds3858 Sowell is a Neoliberal who have been arguing with the Austrian, and Keynesian over state intervention and Central Bank monetary theory for capitalist economies.
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You can't take conspiracy theory seriously otherwise everything you don't like just becomes a conspiracy against you.
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Liberal Democrats were in bed with Southern Racists in the Democratic Party. The Republican Party Supreme Court raftied segregation laws after deserting Blacks and Republican Reconstruction governments in the South after the civil war. Racism grew out of capitalist development of the world which began in Western Europe. It became a justification for Black Plantation Slavery and colonialism.
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Except it doesn't just keep getting better and better but is interrupted by reversals. The business cycle and the world wars. It is Marx who put economy and human history on a materialist scientific basis. It is his analysis that reveals the origins of the reversals. The direction that capitalist development takes and why it will come to an end. Had Britain NOT experienced a banking crisis would it have gone to war with Germany and how wise was it to impose the Treaty of Versailles upon Germany?
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It shows how cowardly an act it was. It wasn't an act of power but of weakness. As far as they were concerned this was a man of great power. That is why the cut off his fingers first. He might of touched a magical keyboard. That is why his body is gone. Even a dead man like Khashoggi comes back from the grave to haunt them.
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An excuse for censorship by other means. The CIA is a secret spy and coup d'eta service dedicated to seeing that other nation democracy choses what serves the American capitalist bosses national interests. Theoretically based upon the neoliberal theories of Milton Friedman where capitalism roles magically in the direction of Democracy for all time. What the bosses fear most is a self determining and self confident working class.
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@wssltekliuk8119 Lenin saw what was wrong with the Social Democratic leadership and Trotsky saw what was wrong with the Stalinist leadership. Fidel Castro created a new communist movement that still holds state power in Cuba and continues its revolutionary internationalist course. Unlike the Soviets and Chinese the Cubans have NOT gone back to dog eat dog capitalism of the United States. In fact they are holding out against an Imperialist monster that seeks to destroy them only 90 miles away.
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@troythedeconstructionist1382 Because that is a BIG LIE being told by the United States Gov't. No one is in a Cuban jail or prison for simple political disagreement. If your in prison or Jail in Cuba you'd be in jail or prison in the United States for doing the same thing. The only exception being the US Torture and Military prison base at Guantanamo Bay.
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What you're worried about is paying the kid down the street more money to cut the lawn.
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Sure any excuse to pay a lower wage somewhere else.
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One problem is that the US has never been officially at war in Korea so they would have to admit to that before the could sign a peace treaty.
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Fox news is really bring out the scum opinions in this video.
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@wasntme3651 I think it has more to do with who can come here and then for those already here who can stay and if you can't what can be done about it without enacting police state measures. If you've got the money you can get a Green Card as an entrepreneur and easily become a citizen.
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@TheRealRusDaddy Because their is no such thing as a national communism or socialism in one country. You can't build socialism in only one country because their is no such thing as peaceful coexistence with Imperialism. The working class must first achieve and hold state power which has already happened. Then that power must be extended to defeat the capitalist counties state power. You were defeated in 1917 and have not been able to defeat the workers movement with any permince since. WW1 was a defeat for Imperialism as was WW2 and you achieved nothing significant since with the European Imperialist driven from their colonies and the US imperialists out of Cuba and Vietnam.
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First no one is illegal for the simple reason that illegality is a legal concept not a person. Most people who enter and overstay their visa do so by crossing an international border through a legal point of entry. Some already have family here and are waiting for the bureaucracy to catch up with their status. The government and agricultural interests turned a blind eye and still do because they want to hire cheap labor. If anyone should take the blame for this mess it should be the employers and their government. Now they wish to worsen conditions by creating people without legal status so they can even pay them less.
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Innocent to prove guilty unless you want turn that concept on its head and call it guilty until proven otherwise. Plus most immigration case the government uses civil law not criminal law to get a deportation order. It's much easier like the cops who grab your money through civil forfeiture. They call them highway pirates. They have a so called drug dog sit and then they take all your money on grounds that its the proceeds of drug crime. Or maybe like Aaron Swartz who they told he could go on trial and face a 30 year sentence or take a 6 month plea bargain.
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Xi 希 People with money cut their way to the head of the line as it is.
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Xi 希 Okay should I make a video or send out some spam Email?
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Musk is in the business of selling rockets going to Mars and establishing a colony is just an excuse for a failing capitalism at home. Space X facilities in Texas have seen more than one explosion already its an industrial accident waiting to happen.
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You get to socialism with the class struggle fighting back with union power on the job and independent Labor Party not the Capitalist Democrats or Republicans.
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Dave Wesley My bet is if we put 100 dead brains of different people in front of you couldn't tell which came out of a white person and which came from a colored person. Even more so I'd bet you could tell the difference between an engineers brain and a school janitors either.
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He was one of the biggest military spenders in history. His ally White Racist South Africa was defeated at Cuito Cuanavale by the Cuban Revolutionary Army of Fidel Castro. Driving a dagar into he myth of the invincible white man in Africa.
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@lorrainesparg4874 Of couse you are you'd like to bring back white minority rule which they supported. Why don't you see if Elon Musk will help you out?
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reree @thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484 Sure she has top credentials from an Elite University. All you Poison Ivy leaguers are just so smart right? In fact you get a head start form the day you are born. You bitch about a few Black and Brown kids getting into Harvard and Yale when 30% are the sons and daughters of former grads. The real inbreeding isn't going on in West Virginia its at Harvard and Yale. You print more or fewer Federal Reserve "monopoly money" notes depending upon the needs of the capitalist system. A 1907 US $20 gold coin in circulation had a half ounce of gold in it. Today it takes about $750 to buy a half ounce of gold. If anything the value of gold should have gone down because there is more known gold reserves in the world today than in 1907. France wanted gold for dollars at $35 dollars an ounce rate promised by the Bretton Woods agreement. Nixon said no and ended the promised $35 dollars an ounce trade rate. By your own standards you've been stealing from the working class ever since. If it looks like employment is rising along with wages you order a hike in federal reserve interest rates to cool things off. That seemed to work until 2008. When your greed got out of control and you nearly crashed the economy of the whole world.
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@rameychisum2891 A fertilized egg, embryo or fetus are NOT babies.
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@vickiezaccardo1711 Couldn't do any worse than Trump or Obama. She was a George Bush administration boob.
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@asnark7115 Don't you think your just a tad overblown. Melange preformed cruel experiments on human beings and Gorbachev was the last Stalinist idiot that headed the Soviet Union going down to defeat with little more than a wimper. You do realize that Bill Buckley's partner in founding the Conservative movement James Burnham was a one time Red and associate of Leon Trotsky who lead the Red Army to victory. All this women is is a former Stalinist stooge.
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@LibertarianGaIt "Who's John Galt" is a fantasy novel by a chain smoking hypocrite who was idolized by the Central banker Alan Greenspan. The crisis of 2008 showed that once again Capitalism was an unstable crisis ridden system of wars and depression. Too big to fail is the moto of the modern capitalist central bank and government.
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@bumblesbelle The fascist build upon the pauperized middle class and long term unemployed not the working class trade unions. The organize terror attacks upon workers and peasant famers. The trade unions are organizations of workers who use collective strike actions against the employers to struggle against capitalist crisis. The fascist build their movement by mounting physical attacks upon the workers unions and their leaders. The employers begin to look towards the fascist to save their profits from union workers.
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Of course all of the elite at the Universites love their neighbors at the school of business and economics. This is the philosophy of neoliberalism and Milton Freedman. Copied by Bill Clinton and sold to Gorbachev and Putin. . .
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@AW-zy1kw How about TheMilitant.com with workers control of industry. You can then get rid of OSHA and EPA. They only carry out orders for the ruling rich anyhow. How about we go back to jury trials and with equal funds for the defense instead of a drunken Real Estate lawyer appointed in Death Penalty cases because the bar is across from the courthouse. No more of this plea bargain nonsense where we can charge you with a crime with a 30 year penalty but will accept a guilty plea with 6 months at Club Fed.
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@markjohnson8824 Don't worry Healthcare Insurance companies will be backed up with a bailout.
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@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht By hammering away at Imperialist war we trap the capitalist in his nation where he can be easily defeated by the working class.
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We need a remake of McHale's Navy with Trump as Captain Binghamton.
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@B1g5t1nk That's part of the Trump thing though a return to the nostalgic past. Trump takes himself seriously as do others that's why I thought him playing Captain Binghamton would be a good role.
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@mybad9766 Don't Trump supporters recommend a through deworming of the body to fight the flu that was invented as a way to bring down Trump.
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@audimaster5000 You however are a loyal servant of US Imperialism.
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@twillison8824 Democratic Imperialist Biden uses military to protect Imperialist Profits nothing for workers and farmers in Afgan war. Party Boss Abbot using Military slaves to protecting vegetable growers profits from hungry refugees of Imperialists neglect in Haiti. National Guard does nothing to help victims of Hurricane disasters. Money only used to protect boss private property with Guard and Cops. Greedy bosses only care about themselves. Two Party Bosses say evacuate your on your own. No money to help victims billions for war contractors.
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Will Smith You censored me! Your scabby creature a military boss who is nothing but a body in pretty cloths. Capital can only accumulate since you can't build a perptual motion machine.
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@jsmith434w The Imperialist have already forgotten the lessons of two world wars and are once again are embarking upon trade war despite the advice of the neoliberals like Sowell and Friedman. Once again capitalism is moving in the direction of war to solve its problems. .
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That is the product of dog eat dog capitalism.
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The bosses needed bailouts because of the natural workings of capitalist greed. When the invests in fictitious capital its value goes up beyond what the law of value says it should be and then like a game of musical chairs it come crashing down. Those left without any chairs at all are the workers who made the big profits possible while the bosses bailed themselves out by cooking the books.
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@kjellg6532 Norway's government collapsed when Hitler invaded and Spain was under the Franco dictatorship. I suppose you also just "voted" out Hitler and Franco. LMAO.. America workers got healthcare in our union contracts while Europe was still in ashes from world war two.
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@M0UAW_IO83 So it came at the end of the war when the tories policy of Empire first were in taters. Afterall Churchill's secret plan was to use the defeated NAZI's troops to roll back the Soviet Union and Truman discovered his troops didn't want to invade China. The capitalist powers would pursue a policy of cold war abroad and few crumbs for the working class as capitalist primitive accumulation restarted the world economy in hopes a new hot war would bring the world back under control of some kind of "peaceful" Imperialist exploitation. Didn't work out that way though did it? Instead the people of a tiny island to the surprise of both the United States and the Soviet officialdom made a socialist revolution after overthrowing a "Made in America" dictatorship. Those people have been training more doctors beyond just those who are Cuban at a faster rate than any other national healthcare system.
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@JeffRobinson-z9g Of course not but the union officials at the time refused to wage a struggle for the working class as whole instead adopting the attitude let them come to us and healthcare will be another incentive as the benefit for joining a union along with other supplementary benefits to the already established social benefits. Part of the way the profit system works is to accumulate profits and property privately and pay as little socially. The capitalist look at healthcare like everything else what's the best way to buy and sell it not the cheapest but the most profitable. Many believe their own propaganda that they are the most productive members of a society because of merit and education.
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@pegjones7682 Your writing an answer to a question that wasn't asked. The ruling class makes concession after calculations of cost in both the short and long term.
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@4golfing That's true but the Canadian system has its faults also. Workers on both sides of the border belong mostly to the same unions since many of the companies are the same. Most union officials and NDP leaders look for ways to politically tie up unions with the bosses parties instead of organizing a fight back on wages and social issues.
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@sudsfour4553 Healthcare like everything else is a commodity to be bought and sold under capitalism. Its delivery comes under the capitalist system dominated by a small ruling class who make profits from the control of industrial production and sale of commodities on the market.
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@jeffgracey5397 Canadian Airline mechanics at Air Canada went on strike Bosses accused them of being an American union that wanted to spoil Canada Day. Rial Workers on both sides of the boarder belong to the Teamsters Parliament tired to break their strike just like Joe Biden. CN and CP operate on both sides of the boarder.
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@suedavis3525 NHS how's that working? I heard the Doctors are on strike and you have all the same problems of the rest of the advanced capitalist world. Didn't the English working class ever get tired of paying the military costs of Empire?
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@davidsanderson55 Ther working people wanted healthcare, security in old age along with other protections from the worst aspects of the capitalist system.
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@nightlightabcd "You can have whatever your big enough to take." Farrell Dobbs General Organizers Teamsters found member Socialist Workers Party.
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@TKOdarkshadow That's the reason to organize into unions and make the bosses cut hours with no cut in pay and to hire more workers who will then be paid simulating more production. Make every job a union job.
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@davidb2206 Jobs that do NOT produce anything worthwhile need to be eliminated. We don't need you slave labor jobs. If you can't make a profit in a capitalist system than you need to go out of business.
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@absolutezero523 That is what Trotsky called a political revolution.
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Why don't you call the hospital and offer your legal services? I'm sure you can explain just as much as the Governor and State Attorney General can. What's holding them back?
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@minkymott King was popular Black leader for white people because he promised to turn the other check no matter how violent they got with hm.
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Carol Howard You wouldn't be trimming it if you faced a militant union. BOSS.
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Companies don't want the union members to know what's going on because their thinking and willingness to fight can put a crimp in the bosses plans.
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@markantony3875 The sole purpose of mass education with capitalism becomes the indoctrination of the working class into a vast army of order takers for jobs with low wages and soldiers to defend the Imperialist bosses and bankers world system of exploitation.
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The universal medicine in the Nordic States isn't socialism. Okay can we have that in the US? No That's Socialism.
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The had to pull out Biden when the big donners realized he couldn't campaign from the back of an ambulance. Kamala has plan alright give the big donners everything they want.
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@Nexusfast123 The CCP is a Stalinist party that claims to be creating socialism with Chinese characteristics. That's just a lot of hooyee to confuse and make their new capitalism where they are the capitalist party sound like a revolutionary society. It is much more like the UK with Labour, France w/Macon (President of the Rich) or Sweden with its Social Democrats than revolutionary Cuba.
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@ranceoverton7027 I though you were part of the police 'No Lives Matter." movement.
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@ranceoverton7027 Sure that's the cops slogan "No Lives Matter". They are just so many blue gangsters.
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@edithnogueira7899 It's normal for the bourgeois to be frightened of Marxists. Now find yourself a corner in a roundhouse to go cry in. It will be Okay I promise.
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@FredDurst1 Such an intelligent response. Why don't you take your own advice?
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@FredDurst1 Not interested.
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@FredDurst1 Why should I care what a pot head thinks? You've got your chemical solution to all problems.
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@rschier1 You still can't forget the defeats inflicted on your Imperialist military by the Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese peoples. In Korea they said drive the Imperialists into the sea.
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@ennui9745 China and the Soviet Union were anti-Imperialist at the time since Imperialism is foreign investment by a nations capitalist class in a colony for extra profit. Fourteen Imperialist armies including the US/UK invaded the Soviet Union in support of counterrevolutionary CZARist forces. The US has been an Imperialist colonial power since the taking of Spain's colonies. With the end of World War 2 the US became the worlds leading Imperialist power. Today Capitalism with Chinese characteristics is ignoring US Imperialism "New World Order" for their own ambitions to become a new Imperialist military power. China's betrayal of revolutionary Vietnam began in earnest as a favor to Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter who wanted tp punish Vietnam by supporting the genocidal maniac Pol Pot. Next time you see Carter swinging a hammer at Habitat for Humanity think about a pile of skulls.
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@ennui9745 Your definitions always ignore the class struggle and classes since American liberals like to pretend capitalism is the one and only economic way of doing things. That's why they have developed all their own language to put capitalism in the best favorable light. Capitalism becomes a mixed economy and communism a command economy.Everything is turned on its head as capitalism becomes freedom and communism slavery. The Imperialist Powers began world war one. The Russian revolution was begun by striking female textile workers. When the posr World War one revolution in Germany failed the Bolsheviks turned to freeing the colonial slaves of the Imperialist Powers with the 1920 Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku. The Imperialist powers set up a "Gab Fest" called the league of nations that did absolutely nothing for the colonial people.
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@ennui9745 Orwell fought for the Republican Side of the Spanish civil war and with the coming war went over to the side of Democratic Imperialism. History has proved Ttotsky correct and Orwell wrong. Calling the Soviet Union Imperialist became fashionable explanation for the Soviet Bureaucracy measures designed to maintain bureaucratic rule. . People as far back as Adan Smith pointed at the peculiar relationship between colonies and the mother country. The English Economist Hobson is the origin of Lanin's ideas on Imperialism. My bet is most people in Vietnam and China see Mao of Ho as their liberators and NOT the US Imperialists.
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We had no time or ability to do anything but hope nuclear war didn't occur. Of course our leaders told us it was all this crazy Fidel Castro's fault for being a secret communist wanting to make everyone in Cuba and the world into communist slaves.
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Why not just come out and say we should all just become trailer trash? Move every few months when the bosses close up shop.
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@RenegadeRanga The bosses can't escape the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline or the fight for profits in the world market among the capitalist classes based in nation states. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@freshorganichandcuppedfart4935 Close all US foreign bases.
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@sandman1688 Hamas speaks for itself in both words and deeds. It wants a Jew free Muslim Caliphate for Palestine not a two state solution. Nor does it want like say the ANC a Democratic nonracial South Africa, or the Irish revolutionaries who wanted a Republic for both Catholic and Protestants. Instead of pursuing development with funds and material it gets for humanitarian needs it use them to build and buy rockets, explosives and tunnels. It cared out this pogrom and kidnapping knowing full well that Israel would fight back. Why should there be any ceasefire on Hamas?
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Now he has to go and work like everybody else.
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@jamesparson When the Supreme Court let the hyde amendment stand it basically said abortion is only for the rich and privileged like it was before Roe v. Wade. It only appeared to recognize a right to abortion. What it did is recognize abortion as an option for those who had the money. The court wanted to play arbiter until it decided to kick everything back to the states.
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@wb7606 Abortion was already unavailable in 90%+ counties. Now the court has kicked everything back to the states it opens up the possibility of having a discussion on the whole topics of women's rights, support to families with children and medical care for all. . .
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@jennapuhl596 To bad but voluntary manslaughter of a Russian forman at the loading dock isn't a crime either.
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@jennapuhl596 How do you think an idiot who thinks is getting a load backed up in a hurry acts you ever seen how a truck backs into a dock? We see out the sides of the mirrors only along with a noise maker? You can't look over your shoulder like in a car. You back in to you hit the dock.
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@jennapuhl596 How do you think an idiot who thinks is getting a load backed up in a hurry acts you ever seen how a truck backs into a dock? We see out the sides of the mirrors only along with a noise maker? You can't look over your shoulder like in a car. You back in too hit the dock. You ever see how some of these management numb skulls act. I had one out in the Walmart yard the other day. He even though he was driving a truck.
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@mikebison9838 Since the founders are dead I don't think anyone will change their thinking. Constitution can be changed by constitutional amendment or constitutional convention.
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As workers in Texas join unions the will of the profiteers will be curbed.
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@jacktribble5253 Capitalist can't escape the love of gold and money. They also can't escape the declining rate of profit as skilled labor is replaced with unskilled labor and machines. American Imperialism endless war policy is one of the results of the capitalist greed.
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@qwertyuiopasdfghj001 Capitalism can NOT escape the decline in profit rates and the competition that leads to war between nation states based upon the capitalist mode of production. The end of the 19th Century saw the hay day of the British Empire and the Rise of Germany with Social Democracy. Just like today with the American Capitalist Empire and China rising under Stalinism. Initially the revisionist of Marx said war was unthinkable look at how wonderful the world has become and the British Capitalist were not going to let the German's the number two power at the time rise. Just as Trotsky said you may not want war but war wants you. At the end of the cold war the American Imperialist talked of victory over communism and the Chineses talk of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics they talked of how it was glorious to get rich. Bush said It was a New World Order. Milton Friedman talked of Capitalism bringing Democracy and China becoming part of a happy capitalist family. Then you had the decisions of the American Imperialist to begin trade war with China and China's refusal to accept American demands. Once again you have a world capitalist economy but a split over who gets the resources and markets. Once again the tak of War and now nuclear war over capitalist trade is on the rise. How little changed capitalism has become in just one hundred years. Another battle over the world market by two different capitalist power centers is shaping up.
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@Krusty-kl5ej Capitalism creates the massive industry and the working class that operates capital. This is the age of Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. The world system of capitalist trade and production has been in decline since 2008. The economic problems of today can not be solved within any single nation. Only the working class of all nations is free enough of the selfish bourgeois nationalism to establish socialism one nation at a time the whole world over. The people of Cuba have already taken the socialist path the rest of us will emulate.
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@freethebirds3578 Socialism comes about to replace capitalism as an economic system. Marx advises us to place the abolition of private property on our banners. Private property is the first source of corruption. That huge wealth but also in the case of the Russian Revolution the backwardness and poverty of the portion of the former Russian Empire compared to Central Europe that became the Soviet Union. Education to both raise the cultural level of the working class and to abolish labor privilege is also a weapon against capitalist restoration and corruption. The Cuban revolution opened a door that was closed by Stalinism because it put a revolutionary leadership in power. That leadership also realizes it is not alone but neither can it remain isolated in the world for ever because pressures are constantly place upon it by the Imperialist powers. We are overdue for another successful revolution but that revolution like the Russian and Cuban Revolutions before it requires a leadership that can bring the working people to political power. Many revolutionary oportunities in the past were lost precisely because the lack of a true communist leadership not one basing itself on what Moscow ordered.
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@freethebirds3578 Does anyone make progress in capitalist society without making it happen? Why is it that its okay for the capitalist to use planning but not the workers? The obvious argument is its too expensive to educate the workers and use their plans. Then again capitalism works to replace skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor first. The real problem is that the ruling class is becoming "too expensive" for the rest of us.
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@freethebirds3578 No matter what the capitalist do they can NOT escape the tendency of profit rates to decline as capital replaces living labor in production and giant industties are left to decline from lack of reinvestment. The only reason balance sheets show profits today is the devaluation of the currency. The capitalist have created a world of profit chasers. Their problems began when they ran out of new markets and resoursces. That is when the ruling classes decided world war was the answer to their problems in 1914.
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@jacktribble5253 No situation is ever too hopeless for the capitalist bosses as when they feel threatened by the working class they will turn from bougois democracy to fascists gangsters to maintain their rule and systems power. They can't avoid either the tendency towards monopoly and state intervention or the declining rate of profit despite the releasing of fixed commodity value to fiat currency. The bosses nation states can not arbitrate disputes with each other on the world market without resorting to war on their so called free market competition.
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@dannysullivan3951 Marx never defined capitalism like you would using a dictionary outside of the rule of the Bourgeois class and Bourgeois class society. It's about the direction capitalism takes with its use money and profits as the involuntary promoter of modern industry.
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@dannysullivan3951 Not sure I understand the question? Read chapter one of the communist Manifesto.
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@dannysullivan3951 Usually the best way to understand someone or something is to go to the source rather than relying on third parties. It is one of the most translated and read works or world literature. I first read in the public library as a child about 60 years ago. It's a short pamphlet available online or you can hear it on Youtube.
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@dannysullivan3951 No what you do in college courses on economics or politics is read books and then the professors explain it to you like a biblical scholar explains the bible. If you can repeat back what they said then you get an A. The fact is that nothing much s said in the communist manifesto about economic planning and the only reason for calling the Soviet Economy a command economy and the US a free market is because of the propaganda value of the terms. Marxist don't seperate economics and politics to begin nor can you build socialism in one country. The problem every capitalist economic scholar has is explaining the origins of the profit as something other than the product of labor. They all have to spend lots of time mystifying it in order to justify it. Otherwise it becomes obvious that the Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk aren't the special people deserving of the rewards that these scholars claim they deserve based upon merit. .The other requirement is too make the labor movement look as something that was in the past and of little significance. That's why Sowell repeats Friedman's slander of John L. Lewis as one of the worlds best oil salesmen.
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@dannysullivan3951 Well than why did you ask if you and your Bourgeois Professors know so much? Didn't they teach you how you won the cold war and Bush was bringing forth a "New World Order" were the rule of law replaced the rule of the Jungle. In fact Bush was creating an ownership society until the whole thing blew up in their faces with the crisis of 2008. Yes your capitalism works alright. You created your own world market competition. Your bosses decided they could run the world from Wall Street Banks and the Pentagon in Washington, DC and now they aren't so sure are they?
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@dannysullivan3951 Oscar Meyer in the meat section at your local WalMart.
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Is the USA a command economy the bosses give the commands go to work go home come back at such and such a time. The bosses would like to control all the factors of production from the wage rate, the price at the market and the money printed for the FederaL Reserve banks. It what Donald Trump called a fixed game. If its too big to fail it should be placed under workers control with overall government supervision. All these bosses do is run everything into the ground and then hollar for a bailout.
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@gustavo042 Disaster capitalism longer freight trains with a sleeping boss somewhere monitoring the sensors that should have signalled the conductor and engineer to stop that freight train in East Palatine, Ohio. Why no tugs to escort that monster container ship that crashed in to Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore harbor. Penny wise dollar foolish is the motto of ever capitalist insurance company. It's an act of God Insurance does not have to pay and not the fault of bosses cutting jobs to boost naturally sagging profit rates. .
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@joshuasann9739 That's because both of those parties agree that the profits of the ruling capitalist class must come first. The big donner and cooperation's control them in every way. That is why the working class needs its own political party to fight the bosses on the political plane not just trade unions at the workplace.
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@peterbills4129 What's Mr Freedman take on the free Oxygen problem in a capitalist society?
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The only risk the bosses take is losing their bag o' money and when they do lose it it's usually to another boss eating them for dinner at bankruptcy court. LMAO
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Capitalism is based in the nation state and it also leads to monopoly. To keep up the profit rate the bosses must compete internationally but the market is not infinite since they are based in nation states this capitalist competition eventually leads to trade war and then real war. Capitalism was the true cause of World War one and World War two. The long period of capitalist globalization is ending, Now more trade pacts between different national groups is taking place just like in the 20th Century the ability to produce without market demand will lead to war over markets, colonies and resources.
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Now that I think about it your's is one of the best arguments for socialism. Since it removes the dumb wits throwing away money and time doing dumb things like opening mud pie factories.
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War Thunder They're in debt because of Libertarian jackasses like you and Strossel. If paid more taxes instead putting in the bank there wouldn't be a national debt. You don't create jobs. You hire in anticipation of making profits. If you wanted to create jobs you wouldn't have 35% of production capacity going unused. If the US Treasury doesn't collect enough tax money to spend they have US Treasury bonds printed up at the US Bureau of Printing and Engraving and sell them to people with extra money who should of paid taxes in the first place. If they don't get enough money that way than the sell the bonds to the US Federal Reserve Bank who then call up US Printing and Engraving and ask them to print up some more cash to buy the US Treasury bonds they printed on the last night shift.
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War Thunder The picture represents communist internationalism. I gave out no economic advice except to expose the idiocy of the ruling class with its fictitious capital.. You guys are always looking for the next big swindle anyway. Like George Soros got from those bankers over at The Bank of England. By the time Soros was done with them he had a cool Billion Pounds Sterling they didn't have. Now the rest of the ruling class is afraid of him. I wonder why?
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War Thunder Communism is a movement going on under your eyes. It's basically the truth as one class sees it in the history of the class struggle between Capital and Wage Labor. Let me introduce you to a concept called "Guns Don't Kill People. People Do." Now you can explain how an ideology or books kill? I think you going to have a hard time explaining why the Christian bible (That has passages where god or his followers killed infants, ripped women with child open and all other kinds actions for what would be called atrocities or crimes against humanity today) is seen as a source of moral values and Marxism isn't.
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War Thunder How about Cuba? But of course you want a communist state to meet some kind of criteria you choose. That way you can brag about how great and kind an Empire the United States is. Your going to tell me how I get a choice of two party with the same goal of keeping capitalist relations going in the world. That you not militaristic despite having a standing army, navy and air force armed to the teeth with 800 foreign military bases dividing the world into military commands.. How you operate under a non-aggression principle and fight with one hand tied behind your back and that free markets fix everything.
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War Thunder Twenty thousand died to overthrow the US Installed and armed Dictator General Batista. All you want to talk about is the criminals who hid behind police badges and army rank to torture and murder unarmed students, workers and any opposition to General Batista 's US supported corrupt anti communist dictatorship regime. Not a single person was ever unjustly executed in Cuba after the revolution. The world media had access to the revolutionary courts immediately after the revolution. The could only complain that these murders trials didn't meet US/UK justice standards. The standards of British Imperialism in India and US in the south where white policeman laughed at their murder trials as all white juries refused to convict. Youtube is not illegal in Cuba either but go ahead and believe all the lies cooked up at "Freedom House" A US govt funded non profit.
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If you knew how the internet works than you'd know secure encryption technology prevents any decoding of information sent without the consent of one party. That the only thing visible to a 3rd party on the internet is each parties internet address. That even that can be hidden using a virtual private networking provider than the only visible internet addresses are that of the user and the VPN which can be located anywhere in the world where they are set up.
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War Thunder Ya great I get to read corporate media lies in the US. We have freedom speech no thanks to the two parties that are the sworn enemies of free speech. Like cops getting violent enforcing littering laws on antiwar leafleters. The first casualty in US wars for profit and Imperialist domination are those who tell the truth. Like Eugene Debs, the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers party. Nixon was convinced the US antiwar movement was hatched in Moscow he wanted J Edgar Hoover to bring him the proof. The spies were sent out to investigate and disrupt the movement. Attorney General Palmer moved against self predicted 1920 May Day Insurrection.
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War Thunder Wealth production for the rich is all that capitalism is good for, In 1967 they began keeping records for use of Industrial capital. At the time it was about 90% today it's down to 65%. Each major drop came as a result of a recession/depression. Then the percentage never fully recovered. The relationship between wages and productivity starting after WW2 followed each other until 1973 since than real wages remain flat and while productive continued to rise.
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War Thunder In the US they pass laws that make no sense so you assume other countries do the same. Like the Texas law permitting you to cast a provisional ballot but if you don't read the legalses and don't realize you aren't permitted to vote and sign anyhow then you can be arrested and convicted of filing a false application for a provisional ballot that was never counted. Five years in prison said the ghoul wearing a black robe.
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War Thunder Sure you have the right NOT to have a jury trial but a plea bargain and the right to be searched by a secret federal court order some of which are so secret even the FBI won't get them. The theory of mining coal till you starved under naked capitalism is correct.
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War Thunder "Did your device you are writing on exist in 1976? "This one no. One like it yes." What does that have to do with any of the economic indicators I have cited? "...you seem to forget that people as in individual wages go up as they get older right?.." How does that relate to overall wage stagnation? Is there a reason to believe that a sudden difference in 1973 occurred in the age distribution of industrial workers by age? Just because raises aren't going up all at once doesn't mean that quality of life isn't improving. Sure you can buy and watch a 1970 $1,Its 000 color TV for less than $300 today. You could buy a McDonald's hamburger for 25 cents in the late 1960's It's $2.50 today. I never claimed that wages needed to go up all at once.
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War Thunder You work or die is the way Capitalism came into the world. There was no social security or unemployment insurance before the 1935 Social Security Act. Life expectancy has continued to rise in Cuba such that it rivals the US and Europe. No evidence of your work or die with Cuban communism. Instead evidences that US wanted to starve the Cuban People into submission from US State department. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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War Thunder As you can see in the previous post that the US schemed to cause hunger in Cuba to overthrow the popular government of Fidel Castro. Bosses (Capitalist) raise prices. Do I really have to explain that the sales associates don't get to decide what the price is but the Bosses do? The reason that inflation happens is the US dollar is a Fiat currency. They can print as much as they decide they want with control of the Central Bank (the Federal Reserve Bank). This results in inflation because the bosses raise prices to capture more value. Then you have idiots like Strossel talk about how unions are hurting us when the unions want to raise wages to at least keep wages from falling behind prices.
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War Thunder Inflation favors property owners since the value of their property rises as inflation does. Where as the value of what wages buys declines.
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@charlessands6933 You so called free market is enforced with men in blue and green uniforms. The only common human freedom recognized within capitalism is the freedom to buy and sell at prices determined in a fixed game where the employers pay us one price for a labor and sell it for another price after our work is done. If he gets a higher price than he calls that a profit that belongs only to him. If he sells for a lower price than he takes a loss which has to then be paid or he gets sent to bankruptcy court where the major creditors dice, slice and eat him up like hungry cannibals.
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@charlessands6933 Listening to capitalist ideologues like yourself one cam only conclude that everything on earth belongs to a boss with a piece of paper filed away in a cabinet somewhere that says so.
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War Thunder People being dependent on loan companies is capitalism at work turning everyone else into debt slaves to the capitalist creditors. When the inevitable capitalist economic crisis strike than the capitalist start talking about how "we all hurt". Their hurt is one of needing to buy more red ink and less black. While our hurt comes in the form of being drafted into the army of the unemployed with a pink slip.
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War Thunder Cuba failing next week is an endless tape recording that's been running in Miami, Washington and on Wall Street since 1959.
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@charlessands6933 The goal of communism can be summed up as abolish private property not micromanage everything with some kind of "fair" capitalism. The ideas of profit and ownership of tools is a human invention not a natural one. Native American and Polynesian people had very different social organizations form what we have in the advanced capitalist countries today.
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@charlessands6933 We say control of the factories and the rest of the economy should belong to the people work in them. Not some guy who sits on wall street giving orders based upon what kind of profit can be made in the next yearly quarter.
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War Thunder Were did you get that 100 million figure from? Plus the crimes of the British Empire and other European Empires go unaccounted for in the Black Book. In the case of Pol Pot his crimes belong at the feat of Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter not "International Communism" and the black book unable to find a number it liked for Cuba decided to create one by extrapolation. Such are the frame up methods of scoundrels. There were no innocent terrorist pirates, war criminals, gangster police, foreign mercenaries and armed counter revolutionaries executed in Cuba because we would all know their names. If there are innocent terrorists being held in Cuban jails they're over at the US Guantanamo Naval Base which the Cuban government demands be returned to them as the rightful owner.
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War Thunder So we should call the US drug war criminals doing forced labor in US prisons American Gulag Laborers? Over the course of 22 years (1930 to 1954)18 million went into or through the Gulag system. There's 2.1 million in the US Gulag system now. Doing the bidding of big US company profit makers. Who wiped out 1 million Japanese people in the blink of an eye with A bombs? As a matter of course you libertarians are not responsible for your own capitalist governments anyways.
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War Thunder The problem with your history is that FDR was really a Hitler lite. FDR's war deal was in many ways like Hitler's. Hitler thew many into concentration camps for being Jews. FDR did the same with Japanese American's. Hitler ordered the Bosses to make war materials and paid them handsome profits and crushed any labor opposition. FDR had our Party and Teamsters Local 455-CIO leaders framed and jailed under the Smith 'Gag" Act. For speaking against the coming world war II slaughter. Ford and GM and others were cranking out war material from depression era abandoned factories and FDR paid them to build new ones with Uncle Sams money. FDR issued war bonds and set up war production boards insisting on a no strike pledge to halt any working class advances along with ration books. Hitler burned library books while FDR confiscated our paper from the US mail and ordered it burned by the Post Office. Hitler's goal was a thousand year Reich. FDR's was an American century.
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War Thunder If Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren't enough you can add Tokyo and Dresden. The 1st and 2nd records for oradace dropped from above is healed by the US Air Force in Korea and Vietnam. In both those wars only one side used heavy bombers and that would be the US Air Force. The US Military prides itself on having the most advanced methods of murder usable anywhere in on the planet. Operation downfall became a propaganda effort to justify the A bombing of a defeated Japan with nothing left to fight with but light arms its navy being in ruins cutting them off of all its possible and extremely necessary foreign trade. Over time the number of lives saved by the Atomic bomb kept growing just like the number of deaths in the USSR and China keeps rising according to "Human Wrongs" organizations which pay nothing but lip service to Crimes committed in the service of the US Empire. One might note that the Chinese being blamed for holding up the truth of coronavirus was originally measured correctly in days has now become months. The same goes for Trump and his supporters. Originally, according to Trump Medal of Freedom winner Rush Limbaugh, the virus was case of the flu being used to bring down Trump. Now of course Trump is lionized for halting any foreigners from entering the country while feeding the airlines from the public trough with empty plane service.
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War Thunder You and your Imperialist allies can go F* yourself. No one in government carried about Democracy in WW1, WW2, Korea or Vietnam because if they did they would have been bombing Alabama and Mississippi not foreign countries. Ever heard of a book? If you teach people to read they can make life much better for themselves than what the US accomplished with its world wide right to bomb has ever accomplished. It's the same here lock 'em up and throw away the key here because we can always use the cheap prison labor but paying a union wage is just to expensive we need more incentives and tax breaks for the rich to get off their lazy asses. After All no one is smart as the rich when it comes to basic arithmetic.
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The purpose of affirmative action was to make up for past discrimination by Jim Crow laws and employer racism. To reverse the last hired first fired situation.
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@joseph1150 Sounds like a place where they want or have a high turnover for some reason.
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@andyman8630 In Cuba they trained the prostitutes for jobs and closed the brothels by doing that. Same with maids for the rich.
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@dittohead7425 The law was written after the witch hunt began. It was FDR who began the second red scare in 1940 with the Smith "Gag" Act trial of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters union. It was a bipartisan affair directed first at the Communist Left Opposition to Stalin while the Stalinist would cheer on FDR. After the War McCarthy made charges about Communist Party members being in the State Department He never could name or prove a single employee of the State Dept was a Communist Party member. The law has never been enforced yet is still on the books. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General exposed the 40 year government war on political rights.
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That's whole problem in a nut shelll money DOES NOT work. Capitalism has become a corrupt and rotten system hell bent on profit maximization tempered by greed regulations. Since the capitalist can't trust the production workers they need a bureaucracy to keep them form letting greed get out of control which is an impossibility. Since profit rates naturally decline the bosses will have no choice but to jettison the bureaucrats as too expensive except for top corporate officials.
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No the bosses run the educational system the same way they run everything else into the ground their goal is to maximize profits and cut costs. Why do you think teachers have to buy the school supplies?
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@ihl0700677525 Keep telling the workers that BS about how they need to sacrifice for he good of the company, the need for profits, incentives and endless wars. We communists will tell them exactly the opposite. That no human being on earth needs to starve, to die on the job or in a war. That we don't need a private space program so Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk can go to mars or put an automobile in space. The labor of millions of human beings is wasted by your idiotic profit system.
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Van Damage Simple because they have the capital and the services government provides overwhelmingly benefit them. You can't squeeze blood out of a stone either.
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@LS-kp6em This is the Imperialist Era the highest stage of world capitalism. Since 1914 the World has been racked both by Imperialist war and Socialist Revolution.
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Besides beating a drum for neoliberalism what's Sowells skill?
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@joemahony4198 The source of the profit is always the production workers which is why the bosses seek to have the production workers work the longest hours, at the lowest wages and the fastest pace..
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@joemahony4198 That not a reason that justifies unemployment. Capitalism has already shown it inability to advance the means of production but instead advance only the means of destruction to defend capitalist rule of the world market. The is the era of Imperialist war and revolution. The capitalist classes are divided by nation and the can not settle their world market competition for resources and labor without resorting to fascism (war on the trade unions at home) and Imperialist war among each other. History teaches that the workers will have a chance to overthrow capitalist rule before the next world war breaks out.
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The last of US CIA trained mercenary forces defeated by Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution are still licking their wounds in Miami as death approaches under the protection of the worlds last Imperialist Empire. Fidel Castro's place in history is secure as a military and political leader who defeated eleven Presidents of the most powerful Empire in Human history.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!
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Superman always wins on TV and in the movies shown on the Ticonderoga.
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@babytoshiro7014 I don't have the money to travel halfway around the world. They treat workers like slaves in the Arab middle east. They hire immigrants and then don't pay what they promise despite the money that the billionaire oil bosses have. In the US we belong to trade unions. In Gaza they fired teachers for going on strike for demanding back pay . In the US teachers belong to union and have tenure so they can't be fired without being convicted of a crime . They went on strike in a number of states for higher pay, In Iran workers are protesting oil bosses.
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They haven't raised the federal minimum wage BOZO.
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Keen R Small business failures are a regular occurrence driven out by the big business with its superior production methods and monopoly tactics. If your a boss who can't make a profit in a restaurant with the usually sub minimum wage requirements for wait staff then your what Ben Shapiro would call a mud pie manufacturer. WalMart not only gobbled and featested on small business market share but even large area retailers. The whole way capitalism works is to put the small businessman into a vice that is being closed from both ends on one side is the WalMarts and Amazons and on the other are the workers. Those workers in the restaurant business need to learn to fight for their money instead of groveling for tips. I have washed dishes and served Ice Cream and dishwashing is a much more respected occupation than doing kurtskys while waiting tables or serving Ice Cream to over educated college boys like you.
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@RipL1ama110 Trump had four years to deport his wife and family.
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GM builds Trucks in Mexico because they don't get any money back? LMAO
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Canada like the US is more than happy to admit people with money and let them buy property. Anyone with enough money who wants to come to the US and set up a business employing Americans can get a Green Card. In fact most countries will admit anyone with money who can pay for their stay.
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Trump screwed them all up by not playing the bipartisan rules game. See Trump is a guy with bad table manners who says the Emperor where's no cloths.
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@jonathantaylor6926 The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendment. Congress needs to back off.
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What CNN is advocating is a return to unlimited secret police spying. They had this during the civil rights era. The FBI spies that were in the KKK did nothing before the KKK let lose its murderous attacks. The hard core in the KKK was the white policeman. At the same time the Cointelpro program was opperted by the FBI to target those who were fighting for racial justice. They sent a letter to MLK saying he should kill himself and the FBI had a policy to prevent the rise of a Black Messiah.
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@Robert Escher I don't think you know what your talking about. Their were many police state measures taken at the end of the 1940's through the 1950's. Things were much harsher back then. There were the Hollywood blacklists, the Taft Hartley law, the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, the Smith (Gag) Act and Communist control act of 1954. Every where people wanted a job or government help people were required to sign or swear to government loyalty oaths. People were hauled before Congressional committees and were told that they must give the names of communists they knew. If you refused on 5th Amendment grounds you were given contempt of congress charges with a one year jail sentence. Most of these laws and the FBI's Cointelpro Programs were either found unconstitutional, unused or scraped by the early 1970's. A combination of the Cuban revolution, the Black rights fight, and the Anti war movement pushed back J Edgar Hoover's spies and their mission impossible tactics. Many of these tactics were exposed in Socialist Workers Party v Attorney General. after which a permanent Injunction was issued ending 40 years of FBI opened ended investigation and police state tactics. The reason they haven't returned to using these tactics is two fold. One is they are economically expensive with little to no return. The second is because they don't see themselves as needing them considering the political costs for those measures. if the class struggle heats up they may very well return to at least the secret parts of those measures because the real target of that kind of stuff is the trade unions.
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Oh and one more thing J Edgar Hoover was the FBI's head in both Democratic Party and Republican Party administions. Democratic Parties FDR started the Witch Hunt with both parties continuing it. The Smith (gag) Act was the first law to criminalize speech since the Alien and Sedition act of 1792. Smith was an anti labor senate Democrat from Virginia.
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@Robert Escher Like I said you don't know what your talking about. The Patriot Act measures were almost immediately challenged and pushed back. It took eight years to get Jimmy Kutcher's (the legless Veteran) job at the VA and VA benefits back. Did you have the FBI show up at your job asking questions? Did you have to sign a loyalty oath to get a student loan? Anne and Carl Braden were charged with sedition for selling a home to an African American couple. Carl Braden was hauled before Congress given a one years sentence upheld by 9 black robbed robbers of the Supreme Court.
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The Bradens were Journalist. Has Trump had any journalist arrested for sedition? Nixon was probably the biggest loser ever elected. He was the one who signed off on the end of the Attorney General's list. When he couldn't win in Vietnam militarily he tried to get diplomatic assistance from the sellouts in Moscow and Beijing while bombs rained on Vietnam.
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I do agree when the passage of such laws (Patriot Act) are a danger to free speech. The Smith (gag) Act was originally passed as a law meant to stop a NAZI 5th column before WW2.
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@DreadPirateRoberts121 Starting with Windows 95 you needed not just the CD but a Windows Key to activate. This prevented just using the CD to install a Windows operating system. The Key was printed on a holographic sticker attached to the PC. Later Editions of Windows required online activation in addition to the key to prevent installation on multiple computers with just a single key. New computers use the TPM chip to permanently store the Windows key.
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@RationalMinded More like 1:1 both parties and capitalism work by corruption legal and illegal.
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Broadsidejohn "This guy knows what China is doing and is unafraid to speak out." Sure as if the US Air Force has no ICBM's it can launch at China. His real courage is his ability to remain sober in face of reality. Are they going to build a space wifi? Not without a change that makes it possible to communicate at speeds over the speed of light. Otherwise the best you can do is satellite Internet service which no one uses if any other type of service is available. The latency problem can not be overcome because the distance up and down is the limiting factor. Can you get a significant amount of energy sent wirelessly? This idea comes from Tesla's claim and those who believe J.P. Morgan had the power to stop it with his claim as how could it be metered and therefore monetized. Here the problem is that any radiant energy released drops off at the square of the distance involved. So if you start off at one hundred watts per square meter at a distance of one meter from the source than at two meters the energy density drops to twenty five watts per square meter and at ten meters the power drops to one watt per square meter. Now the US land area alone is about 9.8 trillion square meters. The world's largest nuclear power plant produces 7.965 billion watts. So your talking about putting about a thousand of these plants in space just to get an energy density of one watt per square meter that might be enough to charge a cell phone. Large amounts of electricity are used in making metals like copper and aluminum and even more is used in industry so even if you could send energy from space to earth it would be highly wasteful since you will never be able to recover it from areas you need for other activities or forests and desert areas.
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I see your disappointed because upper class snobs don't get the respect they feel they desierve.
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@0007tad No I don't want reparations I want my class to take control of industry away from the capitalist class and organize production on the basis of human need instead of the profits for a do nothing boss class.
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@0007tad My class works for a living what does your do? Own stock in Ford and GM?
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@cagneybillingsley2165 Its a typical defense of capitalism based upon the past success of the cultures of the first petti bourgeois. When you consider how many Doctora the island nation of Cuba has trained you realize it has nothing to do with nationality but the system of production. .
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These are the workings of capitalism. Liberalism and conservatism are capitalist ideology.
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What needs to be done is organizing independently of the two parties getting the truckers help is going down the right road building protests in front of the county courthouse is one way to put the spotlight on this injustice system.
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@babyvaso3855 This guy wants a capitalist private property tyranny.
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@deirdremorris9234 The Catholic Church is behind this medieval nonsense and a long time opponent of women's having any rights. It's also lead by an all male hierarchy.
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@5rings16 It has everything to do with religion the Catholic Priests and Conservative Protestant Churches have been pounding away about abortion for years. The zealots among them have assassinated Doctors with guns claiming they are saving babies from murderers.
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@5rings16 You mean "Abortion is Murder" right boss because outside of that accusation no one including Senator Grassley knows what you are talking about. .
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@5rings16 Enlighten us because you made a claim that Pro Choicers have used murder as a political weapon against anti abortionists. I say YOU ARE A BOLD FACE LIAR. I want to know the name of the person murdered not this BS like the nonsense about Che being a Mass murder. Dr Tiller was murdered because Bill O'Reilly kept calling him Tiller the baby killer.
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@michaeloshea5505 The problem is we need a labor Party in the US that can fight against the rotten Democratic and Republican boss parties. Clinton said she was for abortion being rare but legal and that is exacly what it is rare for those without transportation since 95% of counties don't have a provider anyway and legal because if you have transportation you can travel to get one. That was before the latest court ruling that is opening a debate about what workers need for our families.
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@nighthero7 No because capitalism is about private profit and luxuries for a few the capitalist investing in expanding production only if he sees profits ahead and if he has capital that can't produce profits by expanding production he invest in driving up the values in speculation. This inevitable produces an economic crisis when markets become filled with the overproduction of commodities that can no longer be sold for a profit causing an economic collapse since the workers can not but back all that can be produced and the employers than layoff workers to to halt losses producing a self defeating economic crisis requiring a bailout.
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@nighthero7 The early twentieth century saw the World War producing the Russian Revolution and the beginning of the anti colonial revolution. The comes the era of fascism and the rise of NAZI Germany. The Soviet workers defeat NAZI Germany and the Chinese kick out the Imperial powers and follow the Soviet Union while in the western Hemisphere the Cuban revolution impacts the whole world with a defeat on the mightiest Empire in Human history by a small nation located just 90 miles away.
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@RESISTANCEISFUTILE2024 Maybe it was good for you but world economy has never fully recovered from the crisis of 2008. The pandemic just pushed forward another downturn which always follow booms. Presidents of both parties always like to take credit for booms and balem the other party for a bust. None of these monetary policies of tax cuts for the rich or tax increases on the rich will necessarily produce an outcome claimed. Sure if they cut taxes it frees money for investment while the borrowing from the same poeple you just gave a tax cut to increases investment in the national debt. If you raise taxes on the rich than just the opposite occurs.
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@nighthero7 Barter is just exchange without the use of money as an intervening value. Before capitalism and at the beginning of capitalism most people were engaged in agriculture and handicraft production. With the discovery of gold and sliver along with its mining in the New World gold and silver was minted into coins in Europe and the Americas for money. Hitler was handed power by the German ruling class. He build an organization orf illegal political thugs called the NAZI Party. Stalin told the leaders of the German Communist Party that the Social Democrats were Social Fascists and to wait for a mass uprising against the NAZI's instead of closing ranks with the Social Democrats and overthrowing capitalist rule.
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@lydiagonzales6841 The bosses always want to convince the workers that their system works for all when as I Marx showed it is a system that works for the owners of capital. That the system works to put the accumulation of capital into fewer hands. The workers can not save over a lifetime because the system enters into crisis every seven to ten years or so. Workers lose jobs and bosses seek to lower wages so savings if any get eaten up. This is when the big fish eat the small fries. Small business is forced to seek loans and with those loans comes a price. The banker can now drive a hard bargain. Yet at the same time crisis always originates in the most parasitic elements of the capitalist economy finance and insurance. Prices for fictitious capital are driven up by speculation in "sure things" only to collapse. The bosses demand profits and profits stop flowing when markets become saturated by the overpronation of commodities that can no longer be sold for a profit. So the bosses then initiated layoffs to save themselves and cut production in the hopes that profitability will return. The bosses now talk about how they've been paying the workers too much, how they need to cut back and lower costs so they can get back to profit making. This why the capitalist system of profit making for the few and misery for the majority must come to an end. That the workers must put the abolition of private property on their banners.
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@fubolibs4218 The productivity of labor has continually risen with new machinery and industrial methods reaching into every part of the economy. A historic shift from living on farms producing food to living in cites has taken place across the whole world. The majority of humanity lives in the cities today made possible by the huge increase in productivity of labor in agriculture. It is only the bourgeois who talk of limits because their system of profits and private property is coming to an end. Their place in history is ending as the need for markets to distribute scarce resources is also coming to an end because the markets with their need for regulations to control them is becoming an obstacle to production of more value.
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That's what I also think these shelter and soup kitchen bosses have no more compassion then the ones who run everything else and they get big bucks while they pay minimum wage and insult you. I gave $10 bucks to a guy at Walmart who had a bandage and said he had cancer at least he left with a smile on his face.
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@Matthew-Anthony The Soviet Union Yes!! Joe Stalin No!! Imperialism can only lead to trade war and then real war. It is the very underlying economics that will lead once again to trade war which is already developing and then real war. Capitalism was born in the nation state the very natural laws of capitalism lead from out of the nation state to the world market. In the world market the capitalist classes of all nations fight for market share. The organizations like the UN, World Bank and IMF can not stop the capitalist competition for markets and resources.This has lead to two world wars are you ready for another because the last cost 80 million lives in 6 years time?
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@Matthew-Anthony That's not true anyone who makes an honest study of the early years will see the difference between the pre Stalin era when Lenin was still living was not the same after Stalin started down the road to enrich himself and the bureaucrats that he enlisted. Evil Empire was just a slander term made up by Reagan another two party warmonger. Reagan wanted nuclear first strike capability. His Star Wars idea was turned down as impossible by US scientists. Reagan supported the South African racist in Africa war against Angola. As governor he ordered an unnecessary invasion of Berkley giving the cops a free hand who used shotguns against unarmed young people. Killing one, blinding one and injuring many. Once he had created a riot he then sent in the National Guard for Marshall law. He pretended to be an old man who was to stupid to be violating Congress 'orders in the Oliver North Iran Contra scandal. Over a million demonstrated against Nuclear Weapons in New York during this "War Presidents" reign.
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@Matthew-Anthony No Imperialism is just the last stage of capitalism.
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@Matthew-Anthony Free market capitalism has never worked like the libertarians claim. It is impossible for any kind of real capitalism to do without a state power and have a so called non aggression principle. Markets are a source of violence because unequal trade, profits, wages and property are what people fight over within the capitalist system.
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@Matthew-Anthony It also has lead to the industrialization of war. As long as you have capitalism you will have Imperialism and nation states willing to fight over markets, cheap labor and resources. Within national markets capitalist can settle their disputes with each other rather nonviolently. However outside in the world market who will decide the rules of the marketplace? Capitalism works towards monopoly both internally to the nation states and externally to the nation states in the world market. World War II lasted for six years with a death toll of 80 million. It ended with a two bombs carried by a two B-29's dropped on two Japanese cities killing 200,000 people. General Macarthur wanted to use nukes on Chinese cities during the Korean war. Truman had to relieve him of duty. Kennedy with his reckless acts came close to setting off Nuclear war over Cuban Sovereignty.
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@Matthew-Anthony As long as nations have these nuclear weapons than life on earth only remains possible assuming no one gets an itchy trigger finger and pushes the button.
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@Matthew-Anthony Once German Imperialism under control of Hitler invaded Eastern Poland Stalin had no further choice but to go to war. He became allied with US/UK Democratic Imperialism because they were worried he would halt the advance of the Red Army like Trotsky did during WW1. He may of been smiling during those pictures with FDR and Churchill at Yalta but he no doubt knew that Lenin did not trust Imperialist Politicians. FDR called himself the best friend of the capitalist. Churchill had called for strangling Bolshevism in the cradle. You can't read Stalin's mind but why would he pull back to the 1939 borders of the Soviet Union? That would give that area back to the US/UK democratic Imperialists? He decided to Sovietize the area that the Red Army controlled. .
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@Matthew-Anthony How long do you want to rely on mutual assured destruction? When a marxists is talking about Imperialism we are talking about the export of private capital to the colonial nations for the extractions of super profits enabled by military control. A planned economy doesn't produce profits but since wages are still paid it produces commodities for sale in a market. Stalin never received a dividend check nor did any of his associates. Stalinism is contradictory because while Stalin and the bureaucracy lead the Soviet Union after Lenin's death their course can be summed up as Socialism in one Country instead of the original course of world revolution chartered out by Lenin and Trotsky. The Stalinists did not have complete control in the Soviet Union until after the Moscow Trials of 1936 to 1938.
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@Matthew-Anthony The US has the biggest Empire in world history. It has 800 foreign military bases. The UK, French, and Russians have less than 50. The US has the world divided up into Military commands Southern Command, Northern Command, Africa Command, European Command, and others . If there was no Imperialism than it wouldn't need a name. Also why have colonies if there is no economic advantage? Collectivism is evil? Well what do you call a joint stock company? It's not evil for owners to have a collective ownership but if workers want to join a union that's evil? Capitalist can have political Parties? Workers can't have a party because it's evil? Anything we want is evil but capitalist their all just a bunch of nice guys right? Henry Ford received a medal from NAZI Germany just before WW2 began. He built some cars so he should get to do whatever he wants? For a market to be free it requires a policeman, a judge, lawyers, a prison and a court for contract law. Capitalism requires a centralized nation state without such a state power than the rule of a few wealthy families would collapse.
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@Matthew-Anthony We don't need to tell anyone that their boss is a sweatshop slavedriver 70% of the workers hate their jobs now. The US is an Empire if it wasn't an Empire why have an Empire State? Why have signs that saying welcome to the Empire State upon crossing into New York State?
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@Matthew-Anthony For you capitalism is a Happy Meal you eat on Happy Days.
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ec @Matthew-Anthony Unhappy with collectivism? Beat the original sin of collective labor by moving into a jungle swinging tree to tree eating low hanging fruit!!!
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@Matthew-Anthony You're an evil collectivist. Blahhhh.
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@Matthew-Anthony Communism is a movement not an ideology with it's holy priests.
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The line will be short and overwhelming caucasian.
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@joecombs7468 I'm sure there are plenty of bourgeois professors publishing books with theories about why Marx was wrong. I have read at least some of Marx's and Engel's work beyond just the communist manifesto and read a number of writings of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution including Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Bukharin that produced the USSR.
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@joecombs7468 I thought his would be a talk about the civil rights movement. Not the personal experiences of Larry Elder, his father and Obama's democratic party. Believe it or not the Civil Rights movement was overwhelming made up of Black people not caucasians singing, "We shall overcome."
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@joecombs7468 Wouldn't you expect a talk given in Wichita, KS a city being overwhelming caucasian to draw an overwhelmingly caucasian audience unless he was talking about something specifically concerning Black people like the history of the civil rights movement. Hillsdale, MI is in a Northern rural area far from any city and that's obviously why the audience is overwhelming caucasian. The idea that he is a caucasian choice for a Black civil rights leader is not necessarily born out because the area is 95% caucasian and he got so many insults from a Cleveland audience.
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@joecombs7468 "I do not judge people by the color of their skin but the content of their character." Should I also assume you are a supporter of the Ghandi and MLK non violent approach or do you want to come right out and say so.
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"Also I have been to Russia and spent a good part of my life on the line fighting the communist/Marxist/socialist system." And should I assume you did that by being an Lt in Vietnam or Korea?
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Assuming I assumed right from my two earlier assumptions you reserved violence for stamping out communism while having reserved a pledge of nonviolence for capitalist oppression.
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@joecombs7468 Obama and Trump are your capitalist politicians. We said goodbye to Bernie Sanders when he said, "Hello Democratic Party." What is exactly free about a market enforced by police and military violence. I might just as well say Christianity is about Peace before mounting a horse for service in the Crusades. Why are you low balling Hitler and not counting Soviet troops and citizens killed in his columb for WW2?
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@joecombs7468 Also before the end of the Vietnam war the more killed and the higher the kill ratio meant victory was to be had. If you were just fighting an ideology and not a possible a superior means of production. Wouldn't you be empaising your humanity with democratic propaganda and not your destruction of whole countries? Did the DRV or DPRK ever use heavy bomber during the wars? What kind of Democrat like Syngman Rhee orders the carpet bombing of all of his country that he doesn't control. Same in Vietnam "We had to destroy it in order to save it." and when Kennedy didn't get the Diem brothers to do what he wanted then the order for a military "Coup De Eta" came down. It isn't that communism never works its that the capitalists can't afford to allow it to work. Cuba is even a better example no dirty trick is to monstrous for use against their government. Everything from assassination plots to sending in Alabama national guard bombers with Cuban markings and blowing up a Cuba civilian airliner up by CIA agents given a free hand and then shelter in Miami.
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If Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson we so worried about democracy and war was the right way to proceed how come they didn't bomb and nuke Alabama and Misssissippi?
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@joecombs7468 Most or many of those deaths were not murders at all but death do to starvation. Since you can't rerun history who knows if different policies would have saved their lives. Some of my ancestors came during the great famine in the 1840 period in the coffin ships. How come British Capitalism could save them and their families? Or since you like Ghandi so much why did Churchill upon hearing of the Bengal famine in 1943 ask, "Why isn't Ghandi dead yet?" Plenty died in India while the British sat around drinking tea. The had food sitting on the docks in many of the British famines which makes them even worse that a bad collectivization policy or the killing the sparrows in China where there was no food to be had.
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That's SOCIALISM!!!
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We have to endure capitalist jurisdiction only as long as a majority agrees to endure their jurisdiction.
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Nothing get done for the majority by the electoral process because the bosses that Sowell loves so much control both parties. Workers families destroyed by the policies of big profits and low wages for the workers while a rent collecting meritocracy made up of Sowell and the rest of the anointed sit fat and happy. Sowell speaks for about one half of the rotten system while his friends and anointed neighbours do the rest of the talking.
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The support among Israeli Arabs to thei Israeli gov't has gone up from 40 percent to 70 percent since the Jew hating assault which killed Arab citizens also.
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Schiff is wrong because bosses always replaced skilled or high paying jobs first. That is because that is the place where profits can first be expanded. It is more costly to get rid of low paying jobs with higher cost machinery which Bezo's would have to buy built by higher priced skilled workers then requiring higher skilled workers to maintain them. Plus a general wage increase will push up all wages including those still working at Amazon despite their skill level.
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@davemalone4421 A government armed to the teeth with nuclear bombs missiles and air drones is scared of a few thousands unarmed right wingers. If it wasn't so serious it would be laughable.
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@KopperNeoman Its NOT a constitution but written documents like the Magna Carta, Parliamentary, and cultural traditions established over time.
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No one believes the BIG lie.
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@humanearthling4661 "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Can't think of a stupider statement. Obviously the wolves if hungry will eat the lamb. The whole reason for this stupidity is to make the capitalist appear as an innocent lamb and not a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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@ALIENDNA14 The only thing a capitalist creates is private profits and value for shareholders. Your expected to own nothing and like it.
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@alancrane9762 In fact Robert Morris financed the revolution and Alexander Hamilton learned about economics from him. Their idea was a large public debt and plenty of government subsidies to private business. Franklin sold Independence to the English merchants where trade would continue without their having to pay the costs of colonial expenses.
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@XZERYQA A stock market is the natural corrupter of a Democratic Republic.
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Just another Social Democrat who gave up on socialism a long time ago so he could sit with liberals like Trudeau. Instead of putting his faith in the Canadian workers he sides with one segment of the bosses as lessor evils.
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@annetteniebelski7513 I always though Red was the color associated with communism. Common Sense was written by the Revolutionary Author Thomas Paine. Now getting rid of the Shah of Iran might just lead to getting rid of British Petroleum and with Iran bordering the Soviet Union it could of ended up in the hands of the evil Empire so naturally the CIA had to secretly intervene to save Iranians from the evils of communism since the Shah's secret police despite all the efforts made never got to the bottom of the conspiracy. Just think off all those people tortured such that when the 1979 Iranian Revolution broke out the just didn't understand that Jimmy Cater was a big supporter of Human Rights and Pol Pot at the UN.
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Capitalism is a rigged game where the house always wins.
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@morrisbrown2043 Correct and the dissenters in Cuba today are organized out of the US Embassy and by those who hate the revolution and want back their power from Miami. People like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Robert Menendez weren't even born in Cuba. More people have "fled" Puerto Rico a nearby US Colony with a smaller population than Cuba.
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@maryfox7440 Why would we want a party made out of backstabbing lawyers and funded by greedy bosses like Warren Buffett owner of the BNSF? The Democrats Wilson and FDR have thrown our leaders in prison like Eugene Debs and James P. Cannon. We sued for the rights of all in Federal Court and convinced a capitalist Judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's Attorney General Griffin Bell in contempt of court.
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End the blockade and then we will see how well a socialist people can do without the Jeff Bezos and Elon Musks of the world.
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Its just another proposal meant to save on government expenditures at the working classes expense.
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@josephbeauleau420 Gravity is the same in all directions that why a large number of particles would naturally form themselves into a sphere.
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MLK never got to the promised land of Bedford, CA and its bi racial community like Professor Sowell.
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@paulg444 Neo liberalism is where the bosses are to be trusted not to become hypocrites and use their government to defend profits and monopoly power because it conflicts with the ideology of neoliberalism where capitalism and markets are solving every problem do to micro capitalist relations in ideal markets. It of has little to do with the reality of capitalism and the greed for profits. It is in fact the same kind of thinking as the Harvard Black Law scholars of fighting racism by searching out for microaggressions. Its nothing more than idealism to expect the capitalists to just give up the greed for profits because they are setting the stage for another World War and fascism. .
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@paulg444 Deal with facts like the Soviets putting the first object in orbit, on the moon and the tokamak. Deal with the invention of synthetic insulin in China during Mao's time in power. Deal with the invention of a vaccine to treat lung cancer in Cuba. Deal with the crisis of 2008. Deal with world capitalism in decline and class struggle on the rise.
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@freedomworks3976 What is a nation will change just as the state will change since capitalism developed with the nation state. The tasks of a workers state in the transitional period mean that the state will expand as the revolution proceeds across the world. Once the revolution takes hold in the United States I don't see how the rest of the ruling classes will be able to stop the march of history. The Cuban workers and Farmers have held state power for over 60 years now. The crisis in the Middle East and Ukraine shows how unstable the world capitalist system is.
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I'm surprised that Prager hasn't suggest a return to colonial status as an English colony?
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@johndorilag4129 You don't understand the American Imperialism national interests aren't your national interests.
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@indonesiaamerica7050 The US CIA initiated the killing of a few million people in Indonesia on claims that they were communists from 1965 to 1966.
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@indonesiaamerica7050 We aren't talking Asia but Indonesia. The world knows what happened there as it's been documented so don't try and pretend it didn't happen. .
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@samjordan8800 Cuba sent healthcare and construction workers to Venezuela and Venezuela aent oil to Cuba. So no the government of Cuba isn't getting rich. If training and selling Doctors labor abroad is such a profitable business why have the capitalist countries got in on the action? The US can't train enough Doctors to replace those who retire never mind for any other countries.
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Teacher wanting to get paid is such a crime. He can always make some donations to the school of his choice.
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@apatizinguense Rules always say one thing and then their always a few exceptions. Zero is only a concept in between -1 and 1 or nothing. Can't adopt fetus before birth except on paper. Most slaves in America freed without compensation to owners after civil war. Scientist took a monkey fetus put inside a male monkey next to intestine fetus grow to maturity. Identify man through DNA then take out fetus put in Man who get women pregnant save fetus from women who try and kill fetus. Just like Solomon cut child in half you think in terms of fairness not like materialist. Best to remove fetus from women who not want than let her do it herself otherwise best to put inside man like scientist do with monkey? Capitalist want to save money so they want all women to have baby raise like cattle on farm called orphanage use for wars and for cheap labor. Priest not allowed to marry or have children so Church not lose property. Women forced to have children so man can control wife by marriage law and male children inherit private property. Capitalism create proletariat people who work but don't own property for women to be free to work she must be able to plan her bodily functions otherwise capitalist take advantage pay lower wage to women say women not worth as much can't control body. Medicine is an overhead cost cheaper to hire another worker.
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@jennifercockfield3218 When it can do that (live) at birth. Because even if mother dies in childbirth someone else can take care of baby. Best to let mother, doctor and who ever mother chooses as family to deal with pregnancy not policeman or those who hate women to begin with and want to impose law of God on them. People get to choose their religion and if and what they want to believe about god. Let those who don't want abortion talk about alternatives instead of using force of law or methods of shaming to get their way. Dog is mammal and inside mostly the same as people that is what they call facts of life. Give right to chicken to live before it leaves the egg in that case you can move chicken egg to different hen or to incubator. You realize life is a gamble from beginning to end. Medicine can't save everyone. So far we all die. The 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics takes over. The sperm compete for the egg in what is basically a gamble only one will make it all the other sperm will die.
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@lindamorgan2678 Why would you do that?
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@Izziharassedbynycooficials Ruff Ruff Bow Wow.
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@tscheuer111in Why don't you just sign up for Big Pharma's next "break through" ant acid clinical trial Dr. Scheuerlein ?
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@1000kings1 Right as if you can prove the existence of Satan. Your problem is that the bible says god breathed life into Adam and the sperm has to pass through the womb on its way to the Fallopian tubes meaning if God knows you in the womb than he might just know you first as sperm. After all the sperm determine sex. The religious are always just so inconsistent which is why they have such a hard time agreeing on much of anything.
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@1000kings1 I don't need to twist logic the religious have been doing that ever since the Protestant reformation. How arrogant of you to say Satan would be proud of me. Who gave you the authority to put me in the devils camp when plenty of Christian's have no qualms about having abortions? Like most sectarians anyone who doesn't follow in lock step is the enemy. Stalin would love to have you over for lunch and make you head of the faithful.
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@1000kings1 We issue birth certificates at birth because that when you are recognized as an independent being. People like you want to stick their noses in to the most private of matters in human life because you've got a book for know it all's who want to use the police to control pregnancy. The one you can say about the bible is it is anti women. Plus God has no problem ripping open the bellies of pregnant non believers. I could use God's own words to get a jury conviction for war crimes.
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@1000kings1 What is noone? You can't 'give rights to the dead or the unborn anymore than you can give them to dogs or cats. All you need to do is explain how you can give the "unborn" rights in a manner than makes any logical sense. If we wanted to give the unborn rights we'd keep track of every time some one had sex and I doubt you want to register every time you have sex. Are you going to have the cops investigate every miscarriage and unusual weight loss? People like you know only how to go on and on about what a morally superior person you are because you believe in God and a book. The biggest group of Christians behind all this non sense is the Catholic Church which has been rocked by scandal after scandal in its treatment of orphans which its wants "to save" from abortion. The just finished discovering the bodies of hundreds of children secretly burred on Church run schools in Canada. Obviously they were burred secretly because they were guilty of criminal acts. Save the fetus so the Priests can have children for sexual and physical abuse and gratification.
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@1000kings1 A fetus has no rights to someone else's body. A six year old can be cared for socially. Why don't you become a new body for Christ and have unwanted fetuses implanted.
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@patricksenter249 Overall we have continually defeated the capitalists in the class struggle. You system is in decline as evidenced by Trump and the need to make America(n Imperialism) Great Again. The European Imperialist have all been driven out of direct colonial rule. You've been unable to take Cuba back into the Imperialist fold.
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@patricksenter249 " Imperialism The highest stage of Capitalism" by VI Lenin. Cuban American's are turning against the Imperialist blockade. Say hello to Carlos Lazos. Cuban American Iraq War Veteran leading "Bridges of Love" Demanding an end to the 60 year blockade. Lazos has also meet with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal.
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@patricksenter249 To go beyond the Imperialist stage in history the Imperialist nations, those who developed first and held colonies would have to be able to avoid war and arbitrate disputes amongst themselves much like the do in their home markets. With the end of WW2 the US was the leading Imperialist nation. it became the leader of the "free world." Now in order to win the cold war the US would have had to be able to integrate China and Russia into the Imperialist system with the ability to develop peacefully. Instead you quickly spent the peace dividend and China with a combination of State Enterprise planning, Chinese capitalism and foreign investment has developed a huge new working class along with becoming a power that can begin to challenge US Imperialism in the world market. The EU/Common Market Super state was never able to integrate the UK into the Euro Zone and now with Brexit has left the common market. Western Europe has decided to buy Russian Gas to the dismay of the US. The weaken of the Imperialist world is evidents in all the major events since the end of the cold war.
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@BerraRazuke1 I guess your nuts.
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@Steve Drago Jr About 1 million Cats and Dogs are executed in animal shelters every year.
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@Steve Drago Jr Why don't you ask the cats and dogs or executioner that queation before they get the needle?
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GM loses a billion! Workers lose 600 million! Sounds like GM is fat with cash. Go UAW!!!
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Why not asl the Pope to canonize him?
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Why do you think they gave him that endowed chair as the Milton Freedman senor fellow at the Hoover institute.
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@bockscar1 NATO is an Imperialist alliance run out of Afghanistan by few rag tag rebels. Capitalism can't escape its own problems including the tendence of profits to decline and the competition between Imperialist powers leads to Imperialist war and the march towards war on the trade unions, fascism at home.
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@bockscar1 I've never heard of a country answering a question.
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@bockscar1 Yoyr the one who asked the question.
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@bockscar1 So now your the Avon lady.
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@nasgoat2345 Don't waste my time.
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@johnwong5317 That's why they say in Cuba our Chineses friends give nothing away. The CCP is creating a Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. You can't just call yourself a socialist or communist and thereby escape all the problems that capitalism produces.
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@Carol-wo3jo First of all culture is not blindly copied. Culture is produced after our ancestors who were hunter gatherers ate, drank and had shelter. The culture of capitalism developed among the middle class traders of Europe. The creation of a surplus began with the change from hunter gatherers to agriculture. The deliberate raising and cultivating of animals and plants for food and clothing. Our ancestors were the first to create GMO's. Half the plants we eat today came from the Americas. Sowell Basic Economics is a bed time store of capitalism for the true believers. Its whole purpose is meant to mystify much like the author himself is mystified by trade and probability. Since he knows better than to try and show these activities are producing something in and of themselves he says trade can be beneficial to both parties and big risks can produce big rewards. A culture which advance the creation of the surplus is the culture that becomes the dominant culture. So capitalism is now the dominate culture. While the new culture of communism is beginning in the working class of the capitalist nations.
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@bockscar1 Have you even read anything written by the authors of the communist movement? Do you know anything about the controversies that arose? Or do you just take what you are told by the Bourgeois professors as good coin. You think NATO and their nuclear weapons are going to save you? It's a alliance of Imperialist nations with US Imperialism in the lead that was founded to prepare for a war with the Soviet Union. The plans for a third world war were eventually shelved once the Soviet Union successfully tested a nuclear weapon. When the Stalinist leaders made their final counterrevolutionary betrayal NATO's purpose became unclear. The had originally promised not one step beyond Germany. The American Imperialists decided the could do without the new Russian capitalist oligarchy which had seized power in a military coup with the approval of Bill Clinton. So they began taking in new member states. Russia would remain the enemy because after all what group of bosses wants to share his markets with the new kid on the block. Nevertheless the bosses are divided by nation state and the don't all have the same interest when competing on the world market. You can see how indecisive they are when it comes to the national sovereignty of Ukraine and Israel. They still believe they can somehow solve their world economic competition and military problems with a minimum of difficulty.
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@bockscar1 Nope because I don't waste my time with the theories of the petti bourgeois left in the Universities. My most important teachers are Marx, Engles, Trotsky, Fidel and Che because they actually lead successful revolutions while American University professor are considered radical for opposing the University Administration and creating a minor stink. Not only have I read many of the great marxist but I've also familiar with most of the political opposition and disputes. After all our movement played a role in the CIO industrial union movement, the fight to overturn Jim Crow segregation and the Anti Vietnam war movement. We publish a paper "The Militant" since 1928 and books. .
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@bockscar1 Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of the workers. This union is helped on by the improved means of communication that are created by modern industry, and that place the workers of different localities in contact with one another. It was just this contact that was needed to centralise the numerous local struggles, all of the same character, into one national struggle between classes. But every class struggle is a political struggle. And that union, to attain which the burghers of the Middle Ages, with their miserable highways, required centuries, the modern proletarian, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years.
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@bockscar1 Venezuela only got to the point where the ruling class panicked went to Miami and then the US organized a failed US CIA coup attempt. Chavez died of cancer. The US Imperialist then implemented a second coup attempt where Juan Guido was elected President by the the US ans EU. If you want to call being able to punish a Latin America country with sanctions on its oil sales for calling your ruling class Imperialist well I guess you've won yourself a big victory. Recently you've had to go back to using Venezuela oil to make up for sanctioning Putin. Your problem isn't socialism your problem is that Bushes "New World Order" has become a bad joke internationally. It's a world of capitalist instability which opens up the possibility for socialist revolution.
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@bockscar1 Sure migrants coming here is another one of your BIG victories. That's why your ruling class wants to send them back. You don't realise that one of Stalin's problems was his theory of building socialism in one country. Your ruling class is starting to believe it can save itself with capitalism in one country. The neoliberals like Sowell and Friedman warned you about that because its is another self defeating problem. Protectionism leads to world war. Each world war lead to communist victories. You were lucky to survive the second world war if not for the betrayal of the Stalinist and Social Democrats. Unfortunately for you both of those groups are heavily discredited among the working class.
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@bockscar1 The only effect immigration has on communism is to further the advance the world culture of the working class across national boundaries. It is the capitalist who set up centralized nation states. They are the ones who are hostile to each other because they want two things control of the home market and the ability to sell their overproduction on the world market. That's why the all the early capitalist empires adopted Imperialism where they each had colonial empires to take advantage of the colonial people. The first world war was a war to redivide the world among the Imperialist Empires. It was Lenin who vowed to tear Imperialism limb from limb. While the league of nations organized a talk shop that the American imperialist withdrew from the Bolsheviks organised the new Communist International and the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku.
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@bockscar1 The Paris Commune rose upon the destruction caused by the Franco Prussian War. The Russian revolution rose upon the destruction caused by the Imperialist war. Putin's war against Ukraine is once again opening the eyes of masses to danger of world war caused by the greed of the capitalist. The capitalist of Europe and Japan are rearming and preparing for war. NATO win its 20 year war in Afghanistan? Every Capitalist class consists of a small group of greedy bastards in competition with others in the drive to make profits. The worst of them set up armies to go around the world to make themselves rich by destruction of others. The English merchants executed King Charles for going about the country and destroying it for taxes. They fought another civil war but despite defeating the King sons forces put the King back on the throne where he still sits today. The American Merchants did not make the same mistakes and neither did Fidel Castro. If your so called victory in the cold war had been able to create some kind of lasting peace and a "New World Order" as Bush declared you cold say you've won. But instead you got the crisis of 2008 and increasing division among capitalist powers. In other words you've solved none of the problems that lead to two world wars and also the Russian and Cuban revolutions. The Paris Commune lasted 70 days. The Russian revolution 70 years. While the Cuban revolution continues. Capitalism doesn't return to Cuba because they realize these capitalist serve no real purpose anymore than an English King in the United States would. Monarchy worked until having a standing army to protect agriculture became a problem for the middle class of Europe who were involved in trade. Now Amies to protect trade threaten the productive forces of the working class itself? What do you think we should do about that? Go back to capitalism like Russia? Create a capitalism like China where you make some people capitalist so the party has someone like a King to blame if things go wrong. Or go down the revolutionary Cuban road?
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@Housee01 Trader Biden, Trader Pence, Trader Trump, Trader Obama, Trader Bush Imperialism fails every time.
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@bobm9509 Where was Trump's 737 when the Afghan route went down? Was in for a paint job?
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Sowell got left with egg on his face after the crisis of 2008.
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@fenyxra5060 LMAO we don't want positions in you capitalist judiciary.
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@ak-ci5ih We've all seen how much India farmers love their government.
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@cyberherbalist Nothing would stop any President from claiming DC as his residency.once he moved into the white house just as if he were to change his state of residency. Dick Chaney originally claimed Texas as his residency until a reading of the Constitution reveal a quirk that would lower his possible electoral vote total. Then he became a resident of a hunting cabin in Wyoming instead of Texas.
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@Ben_09_ Where do you think the all the Federal land in the western states came from?
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@guyharris8007 Does the federal government have the power to force Maryland to take land back without its legislative approval?
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@anonymike8280 So in your opinion an amendment would be needed to achieve the whole process.
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@roystonlodge The had to deal with the destruction caused by two world wars and Stalin's murder of Lenin's Party.
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@quercusalba6833 Make it rough on the bosses as a retired worker on Social Security.
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So basically Sowell says the the ruling classes and the working classes have different cultures. The dominate ideas of any culture are those of the ruling class. This is why the capitalist view themselves as successful men. They are blinded though by their own greed. They become an ever smaller group while the productive class the workers become ever larger. Because their methods of control involve exploitation and destruction of the productive forces it eventually becomes necessary to overthrow them and their system in a revolution and begin the construction of a socialist world where nations can live in peace. .
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@ScandinavianHeretic It is an explanation of how the capitalist think. They are greedy and their financial system is what they depend on. The financial system fails and production declines. Just before the outbreak of world war one the British had a banking crisis. The stock market crisis preceded world war 2. Now they gone though the crisis of 2008. The only reason we had "peace" for so long after world war 2 is the destruction of the rest of the industrial world outside of the United States. Now listen to the war of words coming from the US leaders about China? The US ruling class has given up on theory of capitalism in China and Russia promoting Democracy and "peace". They are talking about a massive 40% increase in Military Spending to deter China. US Senators are talking about invading Mexico. The system is failing and they are lashing out. The "neutral" ruling classes of Sweden and Finland are joining the NATO Imperialist allaince.
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@ScandinavianHeretic That's the way they act including the ones in Scandinavia. They pretend to be like the "socialist volvo bosses" but when they come here they tell the workers you work under our conditions and if you strike we will hire scabs.
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@ScandinavianHeretic Go and tell how wrong I am then? I sure you can come up with some Scandinavian Social Democratic bedtime story for children. All you need to do is understand their goals and what they do to achieve them. They're in competition to maximize profits and shareholder value. You don't need to be a genius to understand that they tell us what they want and where their goals are of maximizing profits and shareholder value lead. Nothing I like better than hearing a Social Democrat reformist wine about how misunderstood his boss is.
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@Anurania Rail Bosses are relying on Congressional Strikebreaking to avoid negotiation.
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Who ever heard a of a criminal attacking somebody that they liked? Other than domestic disturbances you ever heard of a love crime? I suppose you could have some yahoo having sex on a picnic table next to the road.
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The thing is passion can be love or hate or just overly excited. Most blue lives are the victims of Chevy and Ford. If they spent more time polishing silver and gold shields in protective custody they would be able to better protect themselves from automobiles that weren't made for idiots that can't drive to begin with.
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@timobrienwells "Man produces wealth by transforming nature." John Locke. Market exchange or exchange in general produces nothing no matter how beneficial to both parties. Tools in of themselves can not produce. Otherwise the 1 st and 2 nd laws of thermodynamics would be false. That leaves Adam Smith and his labor theory of value. True capital organizes vast collections of tools, uses coal, oil and nuclear for energy and it does so sole in the interest of competition for profit. It creates a class of people who work to survive without owning anything. The sole interest of the proletariat is to keep production running. As capital replaces labor with machines the profits of the industries slump as exchnge price slumps because the source of the profit is our labor and with less labor in the product but higher capital value then the industries rate of profit must decline. The goal of every capitalist moves away as he becomes more of a capitalist. Monopoly pricing and then monopoly pricing of banking capital the most parasitic of all capitals become necessary.
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@timobrienwells That is its exchange value. The use value is not the same as the exchange value. The customer want a use value higher than or equal exchange value. Like I said earlier trade can be valuable to both parties without trade producing anything. Sure the capitalist risks capital but over time risk works the like a casino the bank and insurance company accumulate capital in the most predatory way just like a casino. The gambler enters with full pockets only to usually leave with empty ones unless he is the card counter. Then the power of the state comes down on the card counter. Without class struggle made possible by solidarity the working class would have no standard of living. To drive down our standard of living the capitalist must ultimately defeat not just the reformist leadership but the industrial trade unions and the workers state power. The basic problem for the capitalist class is you must compete we only need to produce and by increasing our solidarity we defeated you. First we defeat you politically then economically.
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@timobrienwells You don't own you home until you die by which time you don't need it. You have credit card debit and auto debt. Most of you life you owe more than you own. We live pay check to paycheck and when the inevitable crisis comes the libertarian small business man gets a lesson on the facts of life from the banker who wants a collateralize contact. Put up what ever you own says the banker who has no sympathy for the efforts of the small boss. FDR and Nixon ended the Gold standard so they could rob the working class with inflation as Keynes advised the British capitalist to do.
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What is really going on is a capitalism in crisis. What is capitalist Democracy but a Democracy of the ruling capitalist class like that of ancient Athens that was a Democracy of slave holders.
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@anomicity3904 Petersen's says, "Karl Marx is a mass murder." also how am I supposed to respond to the ridiculous? The man writes rules for other to follow that he himself can't. He goes into long diatribes over Stalin and Mao but names his daughter after the last Stalinist leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev who rose to power by writing the most slavish praise of the Great Leader Joe Stalin. The man is part of a culture of finger pointers who ignore everything their own ruling capitalist classes have done. For him all problems both past and present can be laid at the doorstep of Karl Marx.
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@anomicity3904 Why choose Guy Fawkes as a symbol? A reactionary Catholic who fought for monarchist Spain? I'm sure he and the pope were greatly in favor of debate also but no I'm the privileged brat for ridiculing the Professor of clinical psychology who are the ones to claim to be the experts on how the human being behaves and how to fix the individual. I think you are the fool you claim to be and the one with all the privileges.
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Obama and Eric Holder had plenty of time to bring charges.
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@repentandturnfromsin Lets call them by their true name capitalist and lets oppose capitalists globalism with working class internationalism.
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Obama is NOT a communist we don't want Democratic capitalist Party reformers in our movemnet. You can keep him along wth George Bush and Trump.
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@steffenworldcitizensurf5926 Trump is just the other faction of the billionaire party now. Their moving towards trade war with China and that signals a change in ruling class policy it means more war and more misery for the working class. He's doing exactly what all these neoliberals like Soweell said they shouldn't enter into another trade war. Two world wars were fought in the 20th Century over control of the world market. The richest capitalist countries in the world Britain and German destroyed each other. Their idea is that if the earth is destroyed they'll occupy Mars. You'll be the collateral damage in the quest for bigger profits.
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@steffenworldcitizensurf5926 Trump can not reverse the decline of American Imperialism and its mach towards War and Fascism.
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Join a union and fight back against the bosses.
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@ColonelEmpire For the capitalists liberals and conservatives, "Education works the best. When teachers are paid less."
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@ColonelEmpire I love to hear about responsibility form capitalist liberals and conservatives. The whole purpose of a corporation is to avoid the responsibility of the owners. Milton Freedman even praised that aspect. We get the responsibility and you guys get the cash.
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@ColonelEmpire Some of us have real responsibilities and can't just become jet setters. The Cuba government has never denied giving General Batista's torture criminals a open to the press a war crimes trial and execution. They got trials which more than their victims got. When Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia did he get one of your bourgeois trials? No the order was "shoot from the neck down. We want to make it look like he died in battle."
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user-xk2zv4nm4d Nothing like getting a lap dance.
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@jforman4406 He has the problem that every two bit dictator has how to halt the flow of ideas he doesn't like. You don't like our ideas well too bad about you.
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supernovaaust A 100% profit tax.
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@Dr. Mark Williams End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@unclejim1528 Capitalism is about making profits for the greedy national capitalist ruling classes not international development. More workers means more competition for jobs and keeps wages low.
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@vladimirbudinski5379 South Vietnam was nothing more than a US supported Military Dictatorship.
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@vladimirbudinski5379 The fact that a Black man was elected to the Presidency of the most powerful Imperialist Empire in world history shows just how much of a beating racism has taken. Democrats can not be trusted they were responsible for WW1, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. Not to mention the attacks on Cuba beginning with the green lighted Batista coup and Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter support to Pol Pot. The Socialist Workers Party is the consistently anti Imperialist Party. TheMilitant.com
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What has Trump have to do with paying these workers their wages? Promising to pay the workers after they work and then not paying is theft. You can bet on bosses calling you a time thief and firing you for excessive bathroom breaks.
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@kcorbiekeli4816 We need a workers foreign policy. That's the only way to create a world without war and capitalist economic crisis.
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China is run by a Stalinist sect that turned Marxism Leninism into a new religion with Deng Xiaoping as the new holy priest.
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@Scroolewse Imperialist Social Democratic policies stop working as capitalism goes into crisis. They worked post ww2 because of the destruction of war and the expansion of American Imperialism.
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@elvirabary Its shows like Putin and the Russian oligarchy the American Capitalist are in it for themselves.
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@jeanneferguson7124 The so called experts cycle in and out of the industries they regulate. No possible corruption in that kind of system of course?
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@XZITT Voting Democrat is like buying a Chevy or a Ford their only difference form Republicans is in the appearance and the minor details.
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@christiangamer1752 Its done by both parties, Kennedy made his brother Robert Attorney General.
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@christiangamer1752 Both are the parties of American Imperialism. Which is why I have never voted for them in over 50 years. .
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And now you the clear benefactor from a system you claimed to dislike!!! Just how many employees do you have working the longest hours for the lowest pay?
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This is much like how the fight against America's attacks on Cuba and Imperialist war in Vietnam began. A few brave souls turned into first tens then hundred than thousands and finally we had over 100,000 in the streets of Washington, DC in peaceful legal protests. We started small and we were constantly harassed by the FBI and police. We had to constantly fight for our right to speak. We talked to the soldiers on the military base and set up antiwar coffee shops to meet with the Troops being sent to Vietnam.
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Capitalism can not avoid crisis and war only the working class can halt the war drive by the Imperialists nations.
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Sure they couldn't vote fast enough to approve the spending of trillions on the destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan by war.
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@lucrativelyrics8131 That's no reason to accept US Imperialism as unbeatable. Fidel Castro first leader of the Cuban revolution over-though the US Dictator Batista and opened the road to Socialism in the America's. The Barrons of Wall Street will be defeated by the America workers in a great struggle to over-though the Imperailist power of the New York banks and industrial corporations. Ending the Imperialist war threats for good.
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@lucrativelyrics8131 I don't agree US Imperialist power remains the same regardless of which party is in power. The Democrats Kennedy and Truman brought the world to the brink of nuclear war over Korea and Cuba. Liberals and Progressives want to save capitalism not over though it. The Imperialists produce their own gravediggers both abroad and internally.
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@lucrativelyrics8131 Progressive and Liberals are the same. Like Hilary Clinton who while pretending to be a life long child advocate was out of town and has never said anything about her husbands singing TANF into law as a replacement for AFDC. I don't see why we need liberal progressive hypocrisy? They're busy attacking Trump over things that Obama did while they sat back and said nothing.
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What free market? You got s gun pointed at everyones head demanding your price at Walmart there is no bargaining. You want to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hours and charge the highest prices and claim its because your the owner.
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@jasonm949 Gingrich is nothing more than another two party defender of American Imperialism in decline. No more sacrifices for the rich men's wars. The defeat for American Imperialism in Afghanistan shows that American Imperialism did not win the cold war as the best politicians money could buy ran for the lives along with the dollars the were carrying.
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@Sol Invictus The capitalist don't have to actually be the heads of government to have the government act in their class interest. The same is true for capitalist Imperialism. The foreign investors don't have to actually put a foreign nation under their governments control if they can get a foreign government to do what they demand. This is why the US has a CIA its whole purpose is to keep watch on foreign governments and to defend US foreign business interests.
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@j936-n6n No think of those who spend their time knocking on doors looking for work the capitalists refuse to provide. The capitalists use unemployment to hold down and drive down wages. Plus people such as yourself who believe wage labor prostitution fine for those who can pay need the reeducation a socialist society can provide you.
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@j936-n6n No capitalism is a fixed market like Black Jack only the card counters can beat the house.
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@livewire2759 Whar Sowell has shown is that people lived without private property, nation states, modern firearms and world trade.
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@fm-xv1mq And just what are those missing pieces? His pleas that he is not a bad guy? He knows what every single Black man without bail money knows. He going to be awaiting trial and a plea bargain. If you plead not guilty they just send you back to await another hearing and plea offer. Back and forth through a revolving door until you cop a plea or someone decides you've been pleading not guilty way too long for for the ordinary sentence. You can see how the cops treat him with disdain when the push him backwards into the wall.
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@jamesberlo4298 "New York City is under a capitalist dictatorship with 50,000 cops." Crime fighting is sending two party US Imperialist war mongers to prison for their funding of senseless wars. It's rejecting 2.1 Trillion to be spent on new nuclear weapons. Crime fighting is sending cops who engage in brutality and murder to prison. Crime fighting has to make an example of the top criminals of the United States Empire. People like Biden, Trump, Pelosi, Sanders, McConnell, Schumer, and others who knowing vote for mass murder by drone and airplane. Re Education camps are too good for them. A firing squad can provide them a well deserved but dignified death. Those who show remorse will be allowed to give the Firing Squad the signal to fire.
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Paul Gavin Don't you wish your name was Hitler or Stalin? Then you could murder me with impunity also.
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You are going to find out that he will have the same rights that Lester Maddox had when he closed down his cafeteria.
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The baker was offered a compromise of having an employee without his beliefs make the same sex wedding cakes or contracting them out. He refused preferring to appeal.
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Having a limited liability corporation is a privilege not a right. You pay taxes and have to follow the rules your bought and paid for professional politicians tell you to do. The state did not force him to close. He and his backers knew this was a long shoot from the beginning and a loss that could not be appealed would subject to him to large penalties for continued discrimination. Plus to keep up the facade of the victim and just a poor baker it helps to stop making all wedding cakes. What you want to bet he's making more money doing this than ever before with his backers paying him.
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Everyone knows that business requires capital risk unless you're to big to fail. If he wants to operate as a religious organization than he has that option including the right to be free from taxes. How can you do both? I quote Jack Phillips himself that Jesus said a man can not have two masters. So either he has to operate in the secular business world or operate in the tax free religious world. Corporations large and small are dictated to by decisions made by corrupt capitalist politicians everyday. Car companies can not ignore pollution laws. Manufacturing companies can not just through things like waste oil on the ground or into streams and rivers. Companies large and small must post minimum wage and EEO Act posters. Does that mean the company owners like those laws? You don't like Karl Marx and think he is responsible? The man has been dead for over a hundred years now with only his writings remaining. So he must be still making a big impression on people otherwise he wouldn't be so well known..
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"The issue is government overreach in the private sector," The "private sector" make its influence on government through the two corrupt capitalist parties. However money can't buy truth and that prevents total bourgeois control. A government with total Bourgeois class interest control is a dictatorship because the largest class the working class who's interests are diametrically opposed would be completely ignored. This would make the dictatorship of capital ripe and open for revolutionary change.
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This whole argument is about the greedy capitalist refusing out right to make any wedding cake for a same sex couple. Do it and we will stop complaining about it. Simple enough!!!
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Standard cakes without even Walmart customization like Happy Anniversary Jim and Joe. Tell us another lie. Look I'm sick of debating another libertarian who believes like a Catholic dogma free market capitalism solves every problem on the planet if only we had free market capitalism. Face it I'm not easily confused because I have an understanding of how capitalism works in both theory and with experience. There is a reason Marx wrote Das Kapital and not Das Socialista.
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First the longest living constitution is not the Federal Constitution but the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Build the trade unions and remember you can have anything your big enough to take.
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@urdbest3212 The American ruling class remains the center of world reaction and Empire. They would not hesitate to launch ICBM's to maintain their system of exploitation. Karl Kautsky and Vladimir Lenin argued about this before WW1 Lenin was right. They went to war rather than form an ultra Imperialism as predicted by Kautsky.
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Ya he's a real genius who says go back to the 19th Century and do things that way.
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@michaelafrazier3387 It won't because you can't just turn back the clock of history. The Roman Empire also worked for Rome in Roman times. The capitalism of the 19th century was a capitalism that only finished conquering the world just before the end of the century. It survived the 20th Century only because of the destruction of two world wars and the betrayals of the Social Democratic and Stalinist labor leaderships. The capitalist are divided by nation state where as the wage earing working class is not. We advance though solidarity. They advance by beating the competition.
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@bcgregory No once you have a Y chromosome the process to create a male always begins. No one has ever been born with a female reproductive system and a Y chromosome.
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@anthonyluu4122 Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@gsixuwlj No because more states will acquire them given that mentality, then their is also the risk of accidental detonation plus a minority faction in the US has always favored using them in a first strike or in limited nuclear warfare. They need to be eliminated from the earth. A peoples militia is the best guarantee of national sovereignty. A socialist economy has no need for Imperialist expansion either.
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@lsk7443 How many people thought small nations like Cuba and Vietnam could defeat the greatest Military Empire the world has ever seen? The great majority of humanity hates these weapons because they are even worse than firebombing of cities and carpet bombing. They threaten life on earth itself. Any regime using them would be an instant pariah. The American Imperialists are the only ones ever to use them and over a million protesters gathered in New York at the UN to demand a world without nuclear weapons.
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@flytink1 I live in south Texas and was born in the city of America's first armory Springfield, MA. Leon Trotsky was a Ukraine Jew who was the first Soviet Commissar of Military Affairs murdered by Stalin's NKVD in 1940 ashes lie just to the South of here in Mexico City. Putin is not even a member of the Communists Party of Russia. Rather his is the United Russia Party. NATO and Biden are just another group of Imperialist hypocrites. This is just more evidence of Imperialism being unable to bring peace and that the American Imperialists did not win the cold war.
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@Tim Polcyn When bosses control both the price and the wage that's tyranny. UNION YES!
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@funveeable Basically he's a stooge for Big Business and a libertarian apologist for capitalism.
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@amandavis2274 Until someone else? Who is someone else if not another human being? We don't work for marshains do we? It's not a win win when one side exercises all the monopoly economic power to decide both the wages and the prices like WalMart. Capitalism works for the benefit of making the capitalist bosses wealthy beyond belief pushing the workers down into a class of universal laborers with a minimum wage just enough to make it until the next payday. Even the once proud Doctor and Engineer feels himself slipping into the category of just another paid wage slave.
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@amandavis2274 You assume money provides the best way to organize labor and production. With the capitalist taking charge they got rid of slavery because the slave owners and feudalism interfered in the markets and with their wage labor system. Capitalism has outgrown its usefulness and now is little more than a casino game of betting on the rise and fall of corp stock values with self fulfilling prophecies. Instead of investing in expanding production they now invest in expanding paper values and fictitious capital. They create an ever rising bubble of fictitious capital that will have no result other than to deflate in a massive economic collapse of the financial system.
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@teonactalpizza The American Communist movement turned the Teamsters Union a small archaic craft union into the most powerful industrial union in the United States. We put hundreds into the streets to protest the American Imperialist War in Vietnam and put the FBI on trial in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@kreativekulturetv2488 He might have a future on the insanity show.
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No he didn't get that right since it lead to fighting between Communist and Social Democratic workers and the rise of Hitler's fascists.
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@redburban1394 Mexico will let you enter. No questions asked.
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@michaelalguire419 Schism will further divided the church so go ahead, kick out Como and you will see more divisions and sects created.
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@michaelalguire419 Go ahead, kick him out and all those Catholic women who take the pill will follow.
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Rasputin Since the Bolsheviks executed the Czar and his immediate family have you considered seeking a job with one of the other royal families like say King Saud. Who knows you could be put in charge of Bone Saws and Sulfuric acid.
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Hamas and its supporters in the Jew hating holocaust denying Islamic Republic of Iran are the clear opposition to both peace and freedom for the people of the region. Defeating them not the bourgeois democratic Israel is the priority. If Palestinians can live a good life together in Israel with Jews why should they need a seperate state?
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@stardustgirl2904 Become the wavers of the little Red Bible.
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@taroman7100 And what will the preacher educated in neoliberal thought at the University of Chicago say? You need to put on a coat and tie speak politely to the bosses and you will be accepted into my world of professional seat warmers?
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@IronskullGM How many Mexicans die trying to swim to the US and or cross the southern border only to die in the desert. Why not let everybody come in from all of Latin America so they can have a better life?
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Thats why the capitalist want to minimize and cut services tio the bone so they can have a bigger payday for Wall street gamblers.
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@kathystoneburner4947 Ya right your man Trump was going to build a wall? How long do your think it would take to build 2,000 miles of 1/2 of an interstate highway sideways?
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@@BOBBRADLY I bet your an illegal parker.
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@@BOBBRADLY Have you ever read or heard of the book "Three felonies a Day?" Its a book by a lawyer that says the average American unknowingly commits three felonies a day. Maybe you've never driven a car or parked it illegally or maybe you just haven't been caught yet. These people are coming here because capitalism is a world system and it is in a world economic crisis brought on by the greed of the ruling classes in Western Europe, Japan, China and US. .US policy of arming dictatorships in Central America along with demonizing and blockading Cuba are beading fruit. United Fruit wanted a banana monopoly and now you getting the refugees from the policy of arming military dictatorships.
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@XamuraiCoboy If Trump is the best how could we do worse? Forrest Gump may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but at least he's honest and loyal.
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@Joseph-ub5wh Find a nice, cool, large and big lake and make a personal choice to jump in!!! Why should I pay taxes so you can go on foreign military adventures? Shut down all 800 foreign military bases.
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@TheCannable1 I'm sorry that your buddy lost his life. We have democratic rights based upon an anti monarchical constitution which was the result of a revolutionary war of independence and a civil war that ended slavery. With the end of reconstruction in 1877 the military has been used almost exclusively to intervene in the affairs of foreign countries or in the two world wars to extend the power and influence of US big business. You can't secure or win rights by taking away the rights of others. The source of "Anti American hatred' comes from the actions taken by the US government to defend a neocolonial capitalist empire. The Chinese and Russian governments also play a negative role. They tell their people we are keeping you safe from an American invasion by pointing to the actions of the US in the middle east and elsewhere.
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@TheCannable1 "100% taxes on corp!? Who the hell would keep a business going after that!?!" A CEO who represents the real interests of the workers. Almost all of the original founders of US big business are dead. So those who inherited their wealth control most business. Anderson Cooper is one of the Vanderbilt heirs. Tucker Carlson a self admitted one of the 99 percenters. All the original big tech CEO's are reaching retirement age. The idea that these guys made great inventions is arguable since big companies hire engineers who sign patent agreements. The constitution says limited time protection for patents and copyrights. Do you think a 95 to 120 year copyright on Windows 95 is a limited time that is justified or twenty years on a retail priced 50 cent integrated circuit?
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@TheCannable1 You don't really think anyone can launch a halfway successful invasion of either Canada or the US? Canada has one land border. Most Canadians live within a hundred miles of the US anyway. Sure Russian's can cross the arctic circle, capture some Native American villages and destroy isolated hydroelectric plants in the middle of nowhere. Taiwan businessmen have investments in mainland China today. Marshall law under KMT rule was established in 1949 Taiwan. It was ended by street protests in 1987 not by US Marines or the US Navy.
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@TheCannable1 Profits defined as what remains after all expenses are paid including a reasonable salary for the administration if your actually good at administration. Why do you need to start a business to begin with? Do we need more gas station price wars or more home improvement contractors trying to undercut each other with immigrant labor?
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@TheCannable1 To protect Canada from who? The only country to ever invade Canada was the United States.
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@TheCannable1 Okay so your going into the fix phones business. Don't you want to pay yourself for the time you spend fixing the phones and performing all the tasks involved like ordering parts, paying your taxes, and keeping records of customers payments? Doing repairs is not a very good business to be in. First people will only pay for a repair that costs no more than about half the value of the item being repaired. Manufacturers who want warranty repair work done set the price with a take it or leave it attitude. As technologies advance products become more reliable and prices drop after taking inflation into account as the time needed to manufacture goes down. I remember putting water in the battery, changing spark plugs, the points, burned out headlights, the voltage regulator, setting the valve gap, a manual transmission and no power steering.
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@TheCannable1 The US invaded Canada in the war of 1812 and Irish America soldiers invaded Canada again after the American civil war. If China or Russia were to invade either Canada or the US they'd have to come by air or water. You'd need a giant armada with a logistics distance of thousands of miles. If you coming by sea you can't easily hide large troop transport ships. If you come by air you'd need to have lots of fighters on aircraft carriers to prevent your air troop transports form being shot down by fighter jets. Much easier for any combination of invaders to use ICBM's first and possible follow that up with an invasion. Except why invade if the war was over trade and if you were to totally destroy the enemy. An ICBM war is considered unwinnable because no one can guarantee that their ICBM's can hit the other side before they can launch a retaliatory strike with the othersiders missiles still in mid air.
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@TheCannable1 Invasions happen for a reason. Canada and the US are first world capitalist countries both tied together with trade, a common historical origin with British North America and the English language. Only recently were Canadian border services issued firearms. The US has decided to build a mostly new Interstate highway 69 the NAFTA Super highway from the South Texas border with Mexico to Port Huron, MI and Point Edward, ON Canada.
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@TheCannable1 Assuming you only employee yourself and your own your own tools your just a worker who owns his own tools like an independent trucker. You don't make a profit because you would have to own private property which is property used to exploit others since your not hiring anyone and can't exploit yourself than you can't make a profit. Nevertheless under current law you would be required to pay both parts of the Social Security and Medicare tax. Workmans comp insurance would be a required purchase but you would not be able to collect the insurance should you hurt yourself while working. Plus your income would be subject to federal income and possibly state income tax.
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@TheCannable1 Now let's try and put you in a socialist economy with cell phones. Do we need three (Sprint and T mobile have merged) different carriers and subcarriers? One carrier is all that's needed. You can buy phones that work on multiple carriers now. The cost of operating a phone or internet network is based on using the full capacity. It costs about the same to have the network carrying a full data load or no data at all. You can add towers or small 5G service in areas that are currently dead because you don't have to justify building out the network to make a required profit rate. Now when we build things we keep track of the labor time needed to make things. Should we charge you for the phone at more than the full cost of production or less than the full price? How about the cost of the data transferred? See the idea with socialism is taking things out of the market and making them available to everyone. Maybe we organize repair shops or maybe your phone goes into a machine that auto fixes it or maybe the phone is recycled somehow and you get another phone. What if the phone electronics and screen are all built in one process with non scratch and no break glass? Right now people drop phones and the glass in the screen breaks or the screen gets scratched and the battery eventually won't hold a charge. You can't fix micro electronic chips but only replace them. Good luck changing chips which are soldered to multi layer boards and getting everything to fit back inside.
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@TheCannable1 "Why cant i starts "any" busineind out down the line that ss with making money for me, and products for others, as the main goal?" I don't know? Have you tried doing that? Coming up with an idea is the easy part. Then you need to build a prototype for a proof of concept. Once you got that far you have to figure out the best way to manufacture it, determine the cost and finally sell and put it on the market. Your probable need access to machine tools at the very least. Than you might find down the line that your infringing on someone else's patient. You can easily spend thousands of dollars and then find out your idea is a dud.
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@TheCannable1 Depends on if the soldiers want to fight the war with Canadian's. No one ever holds all the cards in any war.
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If the capitalist wanted people inventing things they'd lower the cost of an engineers education and build common tool clubs like libraries where you could spend your free time learning how to use different tools and making things. That's not what they want though. They'd see that as just an added social cost that didn't directly create more profits for them.
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@TheCannable1 If a, would a, could a, what a, NO.
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@epic gangster Communism is a movement not a doctrine with its holy priests like Christianity. It starts with facts drawn form the class struggle and moves the struggle forward from there. We don't win every strike or revolution. We however hold the past battle records for the future leaders who will be the next leaders of the world socialist revolution.
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@TheCannable1 The first try at a Democratic Republic in England (1649 to 1660) also failed. King Charles I had his head cut off on the order of Parliament and the counterrevolution brought the restoration of King Charles II and the execution to those who signed King Charles I death warrant for high treason. Should Congress in 1789 have made someone King of the US because Democracy didn't work?
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To argue for a new confederacy is to argue for an American "Third Reich".
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No I don't see NAZI's everywhere. My uncle saw them in Europe though. I did sucessfully deal with two uniformed Amercian NAZI's. Once they heard the recreational equipment was on its way they ran away like scared dogs. The working class in the US is less racist and less anti immigrant than ever before. For a racist counter revolutionary movement to win it must reverse those gains. You can see that Blood of Patriots is like all recent capitalist Liberal and Conservative politicians who find sex and vaginas to be important in any political discussion.
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Anyone who has read the communist manifesto knows that the workers have no country. American nationalism in conflict with the British Empire of the 1770's is not the same as the nationalism of the Imperial Empire and world's policeman we have become. Given that Leon Trotsky was a Ukrainian Jew and many of the Russian revolutions early leaders were Jews along with Marx. I think the Jew hater label is going to be another hard label to stick on us. Fidel Castro said, "Jews were probably the most persecuted people in history." We recognize Jefferson for his democratic ideas and their expansion not for his being a slave owner. Despising Jeff Davis, General Lee and the rest of the confederate leaders as traitors is completely justified.
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Jefferson's democratic ideas are best understood in the First Amendment and his religious liberty bill to the Virginia legislature. Unless you've got more to say about the two wolves and a sheep idea if anything that points to the fact that you can't have democracy between unequals. It could be just as valid for two sheep and wolf. A republican form of government is a government without a king. England had some democracy with its parliament and limits on the kings power so democratic government might be a state with a king and parliament. However a republic is a government without a king.
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"Jefferson despised democracy. You know nothing of Jefferson, so shut up." Your words "And finally, that Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them:" Jeffersons words, Virginia statute for Religious liberty. All's you've done is engage in slander, misrepresentation of facts and the redefinition of words. Both Hitler, Stalin and other peddlers of political lies would love to have you on their team. Go join one of the two corrupt capitalist parties they need a new dog catcher who can bark.
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@-jammy4123 It historical FACT regardless of how good I can spell. Hitler put them in the concentration camps while big business flourished. Hitlers party was a party of strike breakers. That's why the capitalist loved Hitler. He cost them money where as a revolution would have cost them their property. Plus he was going to get back at the French and British capitalist after he created a German Empire to the East. Marx ends the communist manefesto with workers of the world unite not Germans build an Empire. Listen to the video instead of just commenting.
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@sonsvensson2652 Sure it flourished and the plan was to create a Great German Empire like the French and British had. Of course if you believe imperialism as the way things need to be done than you'll love Hitler and capitalism. Hitler lost to the Soviet Union and the Democratic Imperialists. Now the CCP is shepparding a new capitalism in China which is taking the first steps to be a new Imperialist power like the United States and the Democratic Imperialist United States capitalists insist they are better just as the British insisted their Imperialism was better than the German one.
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@Haku Yuki He is suppose the represent the bipartisan capitalist elite like all the Democratic and Republican Party leadership do.
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@a.r.8987 Falun Gong is a religious group that is fighting the Maoist Confucianists. Falun Gong claims to be curing cancer by doing yogi exercise. The CCP is full of overeaters who find exercise a threat to political stability.
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@Sun•Yoga• Health Is it an accident that the Epoch Times owners are connected to the Chinese religious group Falun Gong?
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@Mark-zk3gu Free Markets working without a government is what all these libertarians talk all day about. When does a market not require a police man and when do the capitalist not monopolize government? The libertarian is the true idealist who thinks that classes and class struggle is not involved in the market decisions. Like Marx said at the end of the day the last and final freedom capitalism protects is the freedom to trade.
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Say hello to your US Tax collectors at the federal Reserve bankers. Meet Janet Yellen and the collection team. She has a Dallas based printing company.
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Heard almost nothing about the 60's and everything about the Obama Democratic Party. Asked to choose between the MLK with nonviolence and Militants like Malcolm X "of course King was right" than on with equal opportunity vs. equal outcome along with more Obama bashing. Malcolm X pointed to the Democrats as being the Dixiecrats.
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Sure the fascists all had company unions where the boss was always present and capitalism was protected by their quote unions. Anybody have any complaints? "No sir bossman."
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The State of Illinois executed the haymarket Martyrs for their leadership in the fight for the 8 hour day. That's why May Day is celebrated all over the world.
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Even today we don't really don't have an 8 hour day what we have is a 40 hour week after which overtime pay kicks in. Which the bosses recently tried to turn into a 80 hour two weeks before overtime pay.
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It's hard for the people doing the speaking that day to be throwing bombs. I'm sure you and Alex Jones can find a conspiracy hidden behind everything political.
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@learninghowtodothis8062 History never repeats itself. Rather humanity has been on a course of acquiring a greater and greater surplus of production.
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@jb-2714 Well that was just another of Trump's no evidence lies about the vandalization of the Fredrick Douglas statue besides Fredrick Douglass was Black man not a white civil war soldier. As for the Elks what does that have to do with the civil war? You've gone from skating on thin ice to no ice at all.
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If they are criminals why do they need to be arrested by ICE? So the rest of the cops are just wasting time? Fire them all for eating donuts on patrol.
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@S-terNichols That's not possible because capitalism demands that profit be maximized. Since capital produces nothing its maximization results in mounds of nothing but huge numbers. Its creation of unlimited competition becomes an obstacle to development instead of a driver of development. The war of the market place is won by the number of discharges issued. The replacement of labor by machines results in a delinting rate of profit. The liberation of paper money form gold menas inflation is producing huger paper values and lower wage value. It produces more billions in profit while driving millions into the equality of poverty. It turns whole nations into refugees with wars to defend the right to own capitalist property. It demands equal rights to own private poverty and equal rights trade this is the some total of all the rights capital defends.
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@thomasrobert4654 The only thing behind Trump are bags of gold.
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@JackHaveman52 When you have a rotting system like capitalism you need to make it look fair to the masses of people.
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@imkluu Of course because the rich want to monopolize all the "good jobs" for themesleves and true believers like Sowell.
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@bannedbycommieyoutube5time920 That's right we should all sit in a chair like Sowell and do absolutely nothing waiting for an imaginary free market to create a utopia.
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@JackHaveman52 I know how the system works and the bosses greed drives them into doing things that don't make sense unless you worship the free market and the new god of money. It has nothing what so ever to do with fairness because their is nothing that is decided by fairness in the class struggle. Sowell sits in a chair created by big business and money at the Heritage foundation. Tell Sowell to give lectures to his bosses on free markets instead telling us that an imaginary free market solves all problems.
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@WELLbethere You don't understand anything if capital, money, could create than the building of a perpetual motion machine would be possible. You've been lying to people for years about how productive the Bill Gates and the Elon Musks of the world are. Its now coming back on you all it is just a bunch of self serving propaganda. You think you can escape the falling rate of return on industrial production with fairy tail stories about productive rich people stealing every bonus the get and pinching every penny minted. The system does work and it goes into decline for the same reasons it always has. Your problem isn't enough people working 80 hour weeks. Its the thinking and greed of the ruling class and all the lies it must tell ti defend its system. Your going to be facing the same kind of crisis that brought down Gorbachev and will bring down the new capitalism in China. You not doing anything significantly different than you were pre 1914. You can only fool yourselves and the world so long by printing money to make yourself rich.
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@mattdillon4398 Sowell job is to demoralize everyone struggling for justice with his theory's of perpetual shortages and nothing can ever be changed in the present to affect the future. If we are owed nothing from anyone we would have died out a long time ago as eggs that are laid randomly in nature. A human baby left in the woods will die in a very short time long before it is able to reproduce. Libertarians should follow the male orangutans into the jungle and swing from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn Do you have any evidence of limited rehouses? Which is the Sowell argument for markets. Marx points to the class struggle as the motor of human history Sowell knows better than to go out on a limb and discuss class struggle as promoting change What have we run out of that we haven't replaced with something else? Any evidence that you can very long outside of a group of human beings. Don't past generations leave something for the future? So don't the adults owe the children, education and a future? The male orangutan lives by himself most of the time swing from tree and eats long hanging fruit. The libertarians suggest falsely the people can just live by themselves.
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@mattdillon4398 Do you have any evidence of limited rehouses? Which is the Sowell argument for markets. What have we run out of that we haven't replaced with something else? Any evidence that you can last very long outside of a group of human beings. Don't past generations leave something for the future? So don't the adults owe the children, education and a future? The male orangutan lives by himself most of the time swing from tree and eats long hanging fruit. The libertarians suggest falsely the people can just live by themselves. Marx points to the class struggle as the motor of human history Sowell knows better than to go out on a limb and discuss class struggle as promoting change Instead he like to be the guy who can say that some how its not a fault of a fee market whatever that is and clam its government in the abstract as if government and markets exists outside of human interactions in society. Markets developed as places of trade and when they did they also required agreements and rules A tiny group wants everything done by their rules that require making them a profit and private ownership. They have become nothing more than the kings and queens of industrial property who took over from the kings and queens of the land.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn Malcolm X said down South was anywhere South of the Canadian border. Liberal Boston had as much of a problem with school desegregation as did Louisville ,Ky.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn Bill Clinton rushed back to Arkansas to execute a Black man who thought he could save his jello for later. Clinton did what Reagan couldn't, "End Welfare as we know it." Hilary Clinton was a one time Goldwater girl. Her biggest action was a protest action was at Wesley college parking lot where the had a protest about education. She spoke at her Graduation criticizing Senator Brooke for quotas.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn The Democrats proposed $15 and they wouldn't pass it so the Republicans proposed $12 and the Democrats wouldn't pass it. Don't tell that Democrats are doing anything better since both parties are financed by the same donors.
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 Jimmie Jay Bohorn Democrat John Kerry's wife said that poor children in Cuba need to know what it is like to go naked.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn Your post only show in my side panel not the thread. They are more white than Black and Mexican workers to begin with and capitalism doesn't work without a working class. The middle class layers are inevitable pushed down into the working class they don't rise up They are either eliminated all together or marginalized.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn Look we are only interested locking up people who we are afraid off. People who want to hurt others or actually hurt someone we aren't interested in putting everyone in jail who uses the N word or thinks blacks are no good. You don't get rid of hate by racializing everything.
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@sacred406 A brain surgeon tuned economist. He has to know something other wise he wouldn't be able bill for million dollar surgeries.
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The cynical leadership of the officialdom can be replaced by election not so for the power of the bosses based like the king in the divine rights of private property.
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The purpose of affirmative action was to allow preferential treatment to make up for past racial discrimination. Elite private schools have plenty of money but give preference to the legacy admissions. The elite like Bill Gates go to private schools from K to 12 also where they are pampered with 5 child classrooms and Gates even as a child had access to a computer when not even all the Ivys had them. Educational opportunity is based on class and race. Since those who can afford to live in the better neighborhoods have more local taxes for better funded schools.
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@alfredjohnson3642 A fetus is not a baby. If the state wants to stop killing fine get states like Texas and Louisiana get end the death penalty.
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The US wants to starve the Cuban people into submission. Just like the way Biden lined up with the RailRoad Bosses who don't want workers to have a family life. It's all about profits for the bosses. The US has empty office buildings and hotels but makes homeless people sleep on floor mats in shlefers. NBC news lies for the BIG capitalist bosses.
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@bricmason1059 People like Yanos like voting as long as only those who agree with them can vote.
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@brucegately831 Stocks aren't a benefit but are really a bribe to keep workers thinking about how long do I need to work for theses slave wages until i get a break.
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@deadheadwsp705 Ho colud spew more nonsense about how free markets are the solution to every problem .
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@dathird7803 I suppose you think the bosses of monopoly capitalism the big companies and banks in the Us do no central planning? That the bosses at GM and Bank of UnAmerica watch for price signals . That they let each dept set any price they like and then the have Indian scout watching for price signals. That groups of bosses never meet together at the banks to discuss business and decided who's in the in crowd and whose in the out crowd they all just sit in the office waiting for price signals to come over from the other guy? The Chinese were smart enough not tp take Milton Friedman's advice and put everything up for sale so the could create an economic crisis for themselves like Boris Yeltsin who had to push though market reforms with the self coup and rule by decree. You don't really think the are letting Biden run the show? Biden is obviously a puppet now. Its got to be run by the cabinet officers.
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@dathird7803 The Capitalist adopted Keynes ideas to create their version of planning. They of course are greedy so they've been destroying it with neoliberalism. Their philosophers are convinced that capital creates value without labor. This is the only way for them to explain the origin of the profit. The bosses must be doing something that the workers can't otherwise they lack a way in which to justify their profits. Afterall administration, engineering and science are all part of culture and culture is based upon having time for education. Instead of wasting resources and labor on the luxuries of the bosses and the creations of profits for them working people could create a world without greedy bosses who use war to advance the interest in profits for more extravagant luxuries for themselves. The capitalist nations destroyed their empires with world war one and and two do you want them to go for number three?
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Another victim of Wall St gamblers. Bosses driven by greed find themselves being eaten alive.
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@TheRivrPrncess We are tried of hear how pro life you are either pay for pregnant women's medical care or shut your trap. I'm tired of paying taxes for Capitalist war profiteers.
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The seeds of fascism are in both parties. The simple reason is fascism is a disease of capitalism the vomit being up chucked from both parties which serve the interests of the capitalist bosses.
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I am for abortion rights as a women's right but the constitution says "..no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States..." I wouldn't be happy with anyone proposed by either party but I'm even more unhappy with applying a religious test as a qualification.
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Obviously you've never been inside an auto assembly plant. Their filled with all kinds of robots and expensive machinery. It's nothing like moving a few CNC machines or baking Hostess twinkies.
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@phanders6236 This is why we need unions to battle the bosses on the job over wages and hours and a labor party based in the unions not the rotten Democrats.
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@christinedoyle9212 Wall street profits come first. You don't count. Bill gates is buying up all the farmland.
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Clinton had four times the campaign money than Trump. Obama spent 8 years in office and what did we get form that? Obamacare just a repackaged Republican Romneycare from Massachusetts.
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@FinnErns That's not going to happen abortion is already unavalble in 95% of counties.Most abortions are medical abortions with medications. That will go underground. Lots of people will need ulcer medication as it is used for abortions in Mexico.
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@rickmorty7284 In Cuba they do!!!
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Sowell spends his time with the liberals in their biracial community of wealthy investors.
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Impeach the 9 justices.
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@lavpreet5916 Seems to me the capitalist state needs to be disbanded in a revolution like the early Soviet Union and today's Cuba. You need to get rid of capital markets along with markets for healthcare and education than you can work on getting rid of other markets for human needs as production permits. In Cuba they told the government officials and private administrators that they were going to be able to use their positions to exploit others anymore. They never had a problem educating enough people despite the ability of those who wanted to leave for the United States being allowed to go. The industries need to be under workers control then you are going to have train wrecks like in East Palestine, Ohio. The railroads, auto companies and pubic roads are obvious cases of capitalist neglect and the use of education and healthcare to drain everyone dry who gets sick or wants to learn. When I went to school teachers didn't buy our paper, crayons or pencils. The were afraid of the Soviet Unions success in space and implemented the national defense education act. They built suburban high schools with labs that rivaled those of undergraduates at MIT. The idea that you need to limit government expense but not the role of government as something separate and standing as arbiter above is the problem.
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@secrets.295 It's not always cheaper to set up in a third world country besides they face the same problems from workers in those countries they do here. You set up elsewhere you may not have the infrastructure or shipping distance for finished product or raw materials problems or language problems without enough skilled workers. You build a factory in the desert what do you expect? Nor do I control what Biden or the US Gov't does.
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@HardenJID (Respect Free Speech) A much better question is who gets elected with whose campaign money?
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@HardenJID Sanders has done more to save capitalism by joining the capitalist Democratic Party then if he stayed out. His excuse last time was "Not enough time to build a new party." We he's had almost 4 years and his biggest leadership action when he lost to Clinton was to endorse her. His biggest supporters like AOC don't know their ass from their elbow.
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@HardenJID I know this. It is class struggle that produces results. Street protests. Not another George McGovern like campaign! Did he not put his vote for war lead by the most powerful Empire when he voted for the 2015.National Defense authorization act. He could have vote no or not present and it sill would have passed. So why did he dirty his name unless he really is for war? That vote included building F-35 fighter jets. Ya we run an independent Socialist campaign against war and Imperialism and I guess you like Sanders are happy to trade away your principles for empty promises. We fight to get on as many ballots as possible because we are building a real communist party to take power from the war makers. Our candidates will go out and talk with workers about the need to take control of production away from the capitalists. We are the party that goes to picket lines and those fighting racist police violence. We speak out on rising Jew hatred.
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@HardenJID Maybe you'd rather try world war three? Let us know why different national capitalist classes won't go to war over markets and resources like they did twice before?
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@HardenJID Laugh all you want but he who laughs best laughs last. Your seeing the results of the return of capitalism and capitalist methods in China right now. The corona virus would be under control if China put health first over profits like in Cuba where they have 9 Doctors for ever 1000 people instead of 1 like China or 2.3 like the US. Not only does Cuba have a numerical advantage but the international spirit. Their doctors halted Ebola in Africa not those sent by Obama. Right now the World Health Organization is talking about the window of opportunity closing to halt the spread of the virus. What's wall street worried about? Setting off another big economic crisis. So once again profit comes first and health last. You go ahead and keep laughing all the way to an early grave.
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@HardenJID (Respect Free Speech) Maybe you can tell me where "Bernie" is going to get all the new Doctors and healthcare professionals after his Medicare for all is implemented? US Capitalism left to its own devices will steal them from the underdeveloped countries at a higher rate that they are already doing. You don't think their going to train more doctors or nurses without extracting profits through educational loans. Loans which are not dischargable with bankruptcy. Sure take on an average debt of $100,000 before that fist billable patient walks through the door.
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@HardenJID (Respect Free Speech) People like you laugh because you have no real answers other than the Bill Gates answer "...that the market fixes everything..." A large sector of the voting population votes against the other candidate because they lack confidence in either party and both candidates.
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Ken Richard The British were capitalism really took off just kept trying Imperialism in India over and over and it kept creating famines right up to 1943. Millions died but they kept trying British Imperialism. Japanese Imperialism they tried out the European black plague on China. Over a million starved in 1945 in Vietnam under Japanese Imperialism. But for someone like you the chance to be a rich Imperialist collaborator is what's really important.
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Ken Richard ."..unfortunately, racism still exists in Cuba..." Cuban and Angolan Troops defeated racist South Africa at Cuito Cuanavale. Handing American Imperialism another military defeat and opening the road to non racial South Africa. Nelson Mandela on his first trip out of South Africa comes to visit Fidel Castro first and thank him not the American Movie Star President Ronald Reagan.
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Ken Richard So when we retire in the not so great America we should move to foreign countries and live great again lives?
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@sandrabayes7986 America's toughest Sheriff Joe Arpaio did such a good job at saving Maricopa County (Phoenix) money that liberal lawyers declared it to be new Gold Strike for lawsuits based on police brutality, racial profiling and excessive force. Where else could the cops turn a wheelchair bound bar drinker into a quadriplegic. Sheriff Joe fighting off tough wheelchair cowboys. Sheriff Joe with his "Tent City" concentration camp and air conditioned dog pound. Prisoners in chain gangs on public transit. Were you buying pink underwear sold by the Sheriff. Trump gave him a federal pardon from the federal pen to keep him from running a "Free Sheriff Joe" campaign. One hundred Forty million and counting possibly reaching $178 million.
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@sandrabayes7986 I hear Sheriff Joe is running as a Republican for Sheriff once again is he one of your guys? Is he an example of your kind of "Democratic Government." Will he be a new Hitler for Arizona Bosses?
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@christarpley6861 Nothing can be done about the border because the crisis was caused by years of two party capitalist hypocrisy. Support and arms for dictatorships so bosses could have cheap labor is the fruit that is being harvested at the border today. .
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@TheMyamicahVision What good is equal opportunity when there is no opportunity? Its union time.
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@alephii Right we don't need laws except of course we have laws and so the statement that we don't need laws or coercion is untrue because we have that now. Keep talking about the idealist libertarian vision of a no law society except for the right to own as much property as possible enforced by police and military violence. Why does the state need to intervene to prevent a contract requiring dues checkoff? It was just another way for the capitalist state to intervene in union business protecting boss rights and to prolong segregation in the south. Companies with national contracts could now try and drive the unions out of plants in the South. It was dreamed up as a way to try and bankrupt the union movement. Let me know when paying the tax to the capitalist government becomes voluntary in your libertarian utopian dream world.
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@alephii You have lack of historical knowledge. Racism is a new ideology that developed with capitalism and reached its height with Imperialism capitalism highest stage. It has been under assault from material and economic development as man makes his own history and the development of the world economy. The American Imperialists left their 20 year war in Afghanistan in defeat. Now Putin with the dreams of a Russia Czar has invaded Ukraine.
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@rogerjohnson2562 The real greedy one was Reagan ($200,000 yr.) the only "labor leader" (former President of SAG) ever elected President with the support of PATCO. Upon striking Reagan called up military controllers and gave them an ultimatum. Go back to work or be terminated, permanently replaced and blacklisted from future employment. This was just another way to reintroduce boss family destroying slavery. The controllers main issue was stress and hours not pay.
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@alephii Do you read anything in the bible or in ancient texts about people being inferior because of skin color? Capitalism is part is history. It's basic work is done. You living in capitalism's final stage Imperialism. A world market with national capitalist classes fighting among each other for markets and resources. You may not like or want war but war wants you.
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@alephii You first kill the economic motivation for war and you kill the root cause of war. One of the Charges brought against King Charles was he was going about the country fighting useless wars for taxes. The same can be said of the American capitalist fighting useless wars for Imperialist profits.
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@andynull8869 Your wrong they don't have a plan that's why things keep going wrong with economics and wars keep breaking out. The capitalist are driven by profit and they are divided into national ruling classes with most of them being American and the next largest group Chineses. The US Imperialist Empire has been losing its grip on the world and as it does other Imperialist powers are stepping in.
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@axelv7169 Capitalism caused the destruction of the Black family as Blacks went from working on farms as sharecroppers with the family as the economic unit to industrial workers where a boss need only hire a single worker. Bill Clinton "Ended Welfare as we Know it" and there are more broken families of all colors.
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@Dennis-nc3vw The worker need to break with the twin parties of capitalism and build their own party independent of the capitalists. A party that can take state power from the capitalists and embarque on the building of world socialism.
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@williambirnbaum1501 Right on Bro!!!
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Karl Marx was also for free trade because it hastens the conditions of the revolutionary transformation of society.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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@jadadsr.8351 Trump only does what the rest of the greedy bosses like Warren Buffet and others who are in the big donner class to the two parties.
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@marisamartin3664 The basic problem is greedy ruling capitalist classes based in nation states fighting for profits in a world market. Only the working classes in every nation can solve the problems that capitalism has created.
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@sethlinerode1047 You forgot the whole history of the cold war hysteria in the United States. How the American Imperialist cried about who "lost China" as if it was a prize to be used for American Imperialist aggrandizement. The Soviet Union never threatened Western Europe the way the US threaten them. Interfering in elections in France and Italy. Going around the world arming dictatorships to make the world safe for American investors. Talking about how many times over they could destroy the Soviet Union. Bring the world to the brink of nuclear war over the Cuban revolution and the Cuban people desires to be independent and develop their own nation. All they wanted to do is take over other countries resources for the cheapest price possible and use it for their own material aggrandizement. You were never in a position to take over with direct rule since that ended with world war two and the struggle of the colonial people against Western Imperialism. Every major foreign war you've entered since the end of World war two has been lost or a stalemate at best. You've had to rely on CIA dirty tricks, coup de etas and military dictatorships and even those policies are coming up empty. '
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@msimon6808 There are no miracles people looking for solutions to problems produces inventions. Many discovers are said to have been accidental. The turing machine was proceeded by the automated circuit switched telephone network. The lessons and solutions in one industry are brought to bear upon another.
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@daylightmoon7285 The US government has over one hundred years experience overthrowing governments that interfere with American investors.
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@noddirdam5381 Things were basically torn down during the Covid pandemic.
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The US has been using immigration against the revolution. They played a wet foot dry foot game for years. Those caught in the Miami Straits were sent back to Cuba. Those who made it to dry land were given green cards. Cuba's volunteer doctors continue to serve through out the world despite US hypocrisy. Despite the lies no one in Cuba has ever been executed except for a serious crime like hijacking, torture or terrorism after the revolution.
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@Derna1804 What liberty? The liberty to own property used for the purpose of exploiting others? That's not liberty but tyranny. The tyranny of ownership and inheritance. Which are the basis for capitalism and the capitalist nation state. Capitalism which could only morph into Imperialism and threaten life on Earth with Nuclear war. Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. The capitalist nation states show themselves as the source of modern war and fascism in a world market where a battle rages for profits and markets among the capitalist classes starting with WW1.
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@Derna1804 After the Cuban revolution no one was told they couldn't be an administrator. What they were told is the could not use their positions to exploit others. An individual doesn't need to own a bank or a factory or rental property. One of the first acts of the revolution was a land reform where large estates were broken up and land titles issued for small plots and to peasants who wanted to work the land.
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@Derna1804 Fidel and the 26th of July movement were the leaders of the Cuban Revolution. The Revolutionary Directorate and Cuban Popular Socialist Party joined in after and the new Cuban Communist Party wasn't formed out of the three organizations until 1965. Six years after the victory.
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@Derna1804 His father complained that he sent his son to law school to help with the family business not to write the Agrarian reform act. Plus the only requirement to become an educated person in Cuba is to study hard. Nepotism and corruption is much greater in any other country especially the United States. Communism is education of the working class and that's what will eventually bring down capitalism. Capitalism has no use for mass education since it only results in a declining rate of profit. Education and healthcare are overhead costs for capitalism. While with socialism they are essential to the advancement of human life and none of what you write can explain why the Cuban revolution continues and defeat of Stalinism was not a cold war victory for Imperialism. The crisis of 2008, the defeat in Afghanistan and the war between Russia and Ukraine all show the failure of capitalism and the decline of American Imperialism as a world power. Its shows that capitalism is not capable of leaving: Imperialism The Highest stage of capitalism. The title of a 1916 pamphlet by Lenin. The twin motors of revolution are once again turning National liberation of those countries dominated by foreign investments and class struggle.
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@Derna1804 Well are electricians intellectuals or workers? Think carefully because while most of the intellectuals came and come from the leisure classes. American capitalism sends the workers children to primary and secondary school. Plus workers get education in the process of running the factories, other means of production and transport. The workers are employed only as long as the capitalist are making a profit. Most of the middle class vacillates in its views between the two major classes in society the workers and the big capitalists. The capitalism system creates its own opposition in the form of revolutionary intellectuals like Malcolm X. Fidel is the historic leader of the Cuban revolution but many of his comrades and cadre came from poorer sections of the Cuban population. This is what people like you fail to understand. Their is no reason to believe human development is tied to capitalism. All the "new math" by economists like Milton Freedman and Paul Samuelson where capital produces without labor came crashing down in 2008.
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@Derna1804 Being part of the communist movement and reading The Militant newspaper I don't see what you claim. Planned dependence? You mean Social Security a victory registered by the working people over dog eat dog capitalism. You are nuts. Immigration is the result of capitalist development not a communist plan. The down turn in world capitalism and the wars that are created by the sicons of the profit system are the reason the earth has become a sea of human refugees. Just because intellectual's read Marx does make them Marxists. I suppose my Social Security check and Medicare now makes me into a member of the Janissary class. Your the biggest intellectual bullshitter I've ever meet on the internet.
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@Derna1804 The quote "private sector" is where production of value takes place under capitalism. Everything else like education, government. child, elder care and healthcare are overhead costs that the capitalist seek to push off onto others. As capital replaces labor the production costs go down initially and profit rises but the capital value also rises and without additional markets for more production than the rate of profit from which all capitalist measure success must decline as sale price slumps towards the cost of production. Sure capitalism produces lots of useless intellectuals like lawyers most who become nothing but a drain on society and the capitalist will seek to limit them as a cost. In fact the middle class and lumpen are the source of the fascist movement that arises in opposition to the labor movement when capitalism goes into crisis. History shows that the workers will always have the ability to prevent the victory of fascism by organizing a socialist revolution first. We want to prevent the development of a large lumpen class as they provide a source of fascist violence. The Stalinist's like social democrats who find common cause with capitalism are NOT communists.
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@Derna1804 Capital demands a private return on investment. That is what makes it essential exploitative its a free lunch for investors. To make sure they receive that return they corrupt everything they possible can. Too big to fail wither it be corporate or government capital is the result of capitalist development along with a fiat currency and not Karl Marx.
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@Derna1804 Ya right the supposed good small business bosses are the true saviors of mankind. Voucher schemes are merely an attack on the teachers unions and tenure. Their is no proof of them creating anything better. Lets get it right for the capitalists education is now best when teachers are paid less. The system doesn't need educated people just order takers. People who know how do what they are told by the bosses. For many schools now without books and oversize classes teachers play the role of professional babysitters. Why do you think he price of all education keeps rising? They wouldn't be raising the price of education if they needed engineers and scientists instead they'd go back to the way they did education during the cold war. Education will always be labor intensive and you don;t get much more educated despite all the money spent on computers. Putting people in jail for stupid things well that's just the natural workings of a system based upon greed. El Chappo the drug lord gets life in prison while the Scalar family legal opiate drug pushers get to argue about how many billions they will be allowed to keep.
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@Derna1804 You think your real smart and you think you've got us all figured out. Why wouldn't the government not want to use private contractors especially when both parties can get campaign contributions as kickbacks? Best to play the Ronald Reagan line where the capitalist government is the capitalists worst enemy total incompetence. That way you give away as much as possible to Wall Street. Don't worry until the whole system begins to once again tether on financial collapse. Then its back to the bail out of the too big to fail including the national debt to the rich who should be paying taxes.. Giving everyone a voucher (a piece of paper) for school means absolutely nothing since everyone can't all go to the so called good school. Nor does it mean that schools competing for vouchers won't look for ways to cut costs down the road to make more money for investors who want another way to suck up value..The parents already working long hours at low wages will have no more way to keep track of what goes on in school just because once a year we get a piece of paper. Its a bureaucratic solution to a social problem based on the idea that you can squeeze more out of teachers on a hamster wheel.
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@Derna1804 Do you think I'm a government accountant that gets access to the books? If this was a country without public schools than the revolutionary movement would put the creation of schools at the top of the list. Such that schools would be opened where every the movement had the power to do so. Now since capitalist state has already created an educational system it is more of a problem of running it correctly and expansion. That won't essentially change without a change in the class that holds state power or a militant labor movement that can assert political pressure. Since you've decided we aren't any good to begin with all I can say is vouchers won't change the essence of public school with capitalism. Education is not produced in factories were you can crank out more by introducing better time savings methods and cut costs by replacing skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. Its like healthcare an overhead cost and a drag on profits and just because healthcare costs are higher here and the care is more expensive doesn't mean that the capitalist can fix education anymore than the can fix expensive health care. Like i said I don't know where all the money goes but you can bet some goes to wealthy bond holders for public buildings and school transportation costs. You also have system now where top officials want to be compensated like CEO's of big corporations.
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@Derna1804 No Investors are people with money to invest in making money. Of course they won't directly invest in non profits since they aren't allowed to pay out dividends. Instead they'd lease out buildings, computers, furniture and maintenance contracts to the non profit charter schools. Private non Profit elite universities are another issue. I'm not going to argue about trade unions because like I've already said you've already got your mind made up about us. The unions are at one of the lowest level of membership since the 1920's. So I hardly think they make a great impact upon the capitalist Democrats vs the billionaires who run the country. In fact the Amazon workers just voted union in New York.
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@Derna1804 Laws forbid unions from using dues money for direct campaign contributions. Plus bosses can run de- certification campaigns if they don't like the union. So the unions must get voluntary COPE contributions to directly finance campaigns.
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@Derna1804 So no I don't subscribe to the theory of lets deliberately make things worse so we can hurry up and have the revolution. That is thinking of fools and political Charlatans. With that kind of thinking which is what you accuse us of then conspiracy theory is the next step. .
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@timpershing123 Cruz wants to make the issue as confusing as possible.
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What do you think the national guard does when it receives orders to deploy in an American city?
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Bosses have been robbing us blind by using central bank generated inflation to cut wages. Bosses use to have to increase wages with productivity until about 1973 when Nixon "temporarily" ended the gold standard. Since then they have been in a war on the unions closing down shops and moving out of state and out of the country for lower wages.
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@mandrews1245 Capital punishment? Do you mean the punishment of Capital?
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Keep that in mime next time you get the urge.
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The United States despite its military has NOT won a war since the end of WW2. So what makes you think it could win a war on Korean soil? The US should take its Troops out of Korea and let the Koreans solve their own problems. .
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That is the logic of capitalism build apartments and then kick people out of jobs and into homeless shelters so the rich can own property for speculation purposes.
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@AnAmericanGuitarist Capitalism A system where investors go to the mailbox for dividend check to put in the bank every three months.
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@americafirst1282 We'd throw them out for joining the American, Democratic or Republican Party.
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@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar First I would say some has to decide that is what they are politically. Communism is a movement not a a doctrine of universal reform. One usually comes in contact with the movements literature like the communist manifesto and then is affected by the on going class struggle in some way. I read the manifesto in high school and asked my history teacher about communism who was also a Vietnam Veteran. He said it would be the best system if only it worked. A lot of protest over the rights that Black people had been promised but denied after the civil war and the war in Vietnam was going on. A lot of questions about war and peace were being argued about. We lived near an air base where nuclear weapons were carried by bombers up and over Canada right up to the Arctic circle. So the question of nuclear war hung over our heads. I wondered why if communism was good why had it not gone over the whole world by then. The some student anti war protesters were shot by the national guard. This resulted in a nationwide student strike and cancellation of high school and college classes. It started to become clear we were being lied to and the whole goal of the cold war had nothing to do with democracy rather it was a cruel hoax being perpetrated by politicians who wanted to get elected. The war continued and I would attend college and learn more from people who actually claimed to be communists. I couldn't reconcile Democracy with Stalin and new nothing about Trotsky until some one came by and mention his book "The Revolution Betrayed" in front of some hard core Stalinists. They reacted angrily so that's when I knew I had to get ahold of that book. So unlike most of the world a small but modest movement can trace its history back to the Anarchist who were hung for the 8 hour May Day protest in Chicago the Second International before world war, the early communist movement and then the founding of the left opposition in 1928 when the first issue of "The Militant" appeared publish by American Communist Party members who read Trotsky's Draft Criticism of the Programme of the Communist International which they only got and translated by accident. They had been expelled and founded the Communist League of America and later the Socialist Workers Party.
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You love King because he promised to be nonviolent to white racists.
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@craigjames4258 No Congressional Strikebreaking.
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@carlosramos5256 Obviously that's a BS story since why do you need an old revolver and a pistol to enter an embassy to begin with especially if your just going to surrender them. In fact them entering after making threats with fire arms and holding the Ambassador hostage makes much more sense for one of your favorite criminal terrorist actions.
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@carlosramos5256 Your a nut case who probably thinks Cheese Pizza means Child Porn worships Infowar Alex Jones and thinks going around waving fire arms and shooting off warning shots is a perfectly fine way act on Embassy row in DC. .
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@carlosramos5256 The US only interested in creating incidents in efforts to show its the worlds Imperialist boss. After boat lift they passed a law giving themselves the right to intervene in Cuba if anymore "humanitarian crisis" occurred. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter had Cuban asylum seekers locked up at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary where they rioted because they did like treatment given at US "Human Rights" Democracy Penitentiary. In America police shoot pig and take home for supper. American police don't play games shot first ask questions later. Catching greased pigs is a game played by farm children at the county fair. No one except middle c;lass idiots believes Cuban Police that stupid.
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@carlosramos5256 Only reason Cuban's wanted asylum in a Latin American country was to come to US for an automatic "political asylum" Green Card something the US offered to the people of no other nation including Canadians. Those countries don't want Cubans just poring in either and the US has closed the automatic "political asylum" for Cuban's door also. Plus Cuban's including so called dissidents can legally leave when ever they want .I can't get on a plane and fly for free either nor can I build a raft and get way with sailing it to Mexico.
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@carlosramos5256 Okay ivy league fool.
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@thevinceberry The big three are doing way better than all the other assemblers profit wise. If anyone closes their doors here it will be the others even those the each group has about half the market.
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@jerrysingleton4956 We don't need either party of the bosses and their political supervisors. Create a labor party and take political power away from them.
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@josiahallenswife6899 Basicly Prager says, "I live in big house, watch wood burn in a fireplace so this means capitalism is wonderful."
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That's the whole problem rich people like you who think you own everything.
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@Ifugiveubegin2live We have "Trump socialism" with no milk and bread on the shelves now!!!
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@aprilbeyer2504 I may be dumb but that was true for a week or so in South Texas. Still no toilet paper. I suggest using a washcloth and water if they don't have toilet paper in your area.
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So since muslims pray five times a day because they want to wash away sin we should watch them? Hamas leaders live in luxury in Qatar talking about how they are creating martyrs. Naturally the want martyrs so the can steal more UN aid from the sympathy the generate by the provokations like the Oct 7th Pogrom.
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@davidjacobs8558 Capitalism tends towards monopoly because of investment in machinery to replace skilled labor first and economies of scale. Henry Ford once had a vertical monopoly. He owned coal and iron mines ships for transport and made his own steel, cast his own engine blocks and made his own glass.
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@davidjacobs8558 In a mere four hundred years capitalism has created more wealth with the application of science to industry and you think we will just allow you to burn us all up in a nuclear war for the profit system? Capitalism's most important product isn't the auto, rocket or computer but us the industrial working class. Nothing can stop us and the course of history.
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@itsabouttthattime No slaves or political prisoners in Cuba. The US Gov't runs a prison where people are held without trial or charges and a torture facility at Guantanamo Bay
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Social Service problem for workers are rooted in the private profit and private property system itself and can not be magically fixed by tax hike on the rich. One reason being is the predictability of a capitalist economy for ten years is just not possible. Social security needs to be treated as a pay as you go program. The working class needs to forget about trying to save for retirement and instead how to best protect itself from the next economic crisis. Their is no such thing as equality or a fair share under the profit system.
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@Jim Ellis The basic problem was that Trump was never part of the executive of the capitalist ruling class. His independence was never accepted by the rest of the "Justice System."
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@Ira88881 Capitalism is the promise of a free lunch for the wealthy and that's why it will ultimately fail.
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@Ira88881 If they were doing well than you wouldn't have the defeat in Afghanistan, the crisis of 2008 , or the war in Ukraine. Bushes dream of a New World Order has become the New World Disorder.
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Lots of bosses here trying to figure out why capitalism has entered the worst crisis since 1929. The Long term tendence of profit rates to decline.
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@jeffnordquist9231 Hamsa origins come from the Muslim brotherhood a fascist organization originating supporting the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an ally of Hitler and along time Jew hater long before the establishment of the State of Israel.
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Its not victim mentality but the realization of the workers self worth that threatens the capitalist traders swindle operation.
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Sub if you are against Antifa and BLM We don't need another round of missile defense spending to make a bunch of big shot generals happy at the pentagon. How about negotiating to get rid of all nuclear arms instead? We don't need to play world policeman.
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@E4439Qv5 Well why don't you take your own advice than?
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@E4439Qv5 Sure but at least I'm not a middle class twit spreading the "Good News" about capitalism. Aren't you going to tell us how smart Bill Gates and Elon Musk are? How about how Joe Biden is saving Democracy and defending Human Rights?
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He go for it because your boss is going to have to rise what he pays you when he hires someone else.
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@evan4856 Your boss will make a decision as an individual. The only thing the rest of us can do is point out why he would raise, lower or leave your wage the same.
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Close it down! Fire Muller now! No more investigations of people instead of crime.
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@deadalkabob This guy only shows how dumb he actually is.
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@mattm7798 Cuba manufactured its own Covid vaccines. The first Tokamak was built in the Soviet Union and copied by MIT at the National Magnet Lab in Cambridge. Insulin was first synthesized by Chinese Scientist in the People's Republic.
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@mattm7798 Does the United States Government want unlimited immigration now that it claims to be the world leader? Cuba has never tried to seriously prevent anyone from leaving. The United States began serious political deportations and immigration limitations after the Russian revolution. The United States government launched two red scares against labor, socialist communist and anarchist leaders. May Day is celebrated world wide as a tribute to Anarchists martyrs of Haymarket Square and the fight for the 8 hour day. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act of 1954. The witch hunt was pushed back and political rights for all affirmed in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. If we were so flawed you wouldn't need to invade other countries to bring Democracy. You wouldn't have the largest prison population in the world. Your the one with the flawed ideas of capitalist markets and bosses and bankers solving the world's problems. The fact is humanity has constantly been in wars and revolutions good and bad aspects since the beginning of the Capitalist Era about 500 years ago. Before that the differing cultures new next to nothing about each other.
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@grimgrimey The problem for capitalism is the fools in charge of a system that produce wealth that goes only towards the top who only seek more numbers in the bank for private opulence so they can play the role of Savior like Bill Gates who spends 9 million on carbon neutral Jet Fuel going around the planet campaigning for Green Energy. These people are totally out of touch with reality.
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@henrymerrilees9066 YouTube liberals are censoring you. When you finance both parties from the coffers of American capitalism then then it makes no difference what is said as long as both are in the pockets of the rich.
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@mikeschnobrich1807 You haven't been paying attention have. Its 2000 miles of a shallow river and a line in desert sand. They is no door to shut.
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US CIA intervention in Cuba was defeated by the revolution multiple times by a real communist leadership and a people in arms. Fidel Castro showed it was possible to stand up to the United States and win the first free socialist territory in the Americas. .
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@Ignasimp Mike Lee another two party hypocrite they vote for wars and spending 5 trillion dollars in "nation building elsewhere" now the talk about the size of government when healthcare is concerned.
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@LastFirst-rr9cj Sowell is just another Republican fool who use to believe the Republican ultra right nonsense of Senator Joe McCarthy that US Dept of labor was under Communist control until he worked there. He sees communist under his bed when he is sleeping. .
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I don't see how its a rent reduction issue and not a breaking a lease issue. If you don't like it you move out. Apparently the courtyard is NOT a public place?
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Plessy v. Ferguson arise out of the defeat of the reconstruction governments in the south. It was overturned by the rising mass proletarian movement for the rights of Black Workers. A similar movement by women developed seeking rights that would allow women control of their lives. Abortion rights along with birth control are part of what is necessary for women to control their lives. This woman's movement was sidetracked by its leadership into the Democratic Party and the Court ruling which was more about Doctors rights and viability than a women's right to plan her life including when and how many children to have.
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Brandon Rittenhouse Birth control and safe abortion make sex for reasons of other than procreation possible. What is important is to protect the life of the women first for child bearing and since children are for the most part the women's responsible also. Most abortions for birth control purposes are done early on while those done for medical reason make up the majority of late term abortions. It makes no sense to write a law that will achieve nothing but give grandstanding politicians a win for the gipper. Abortions aren't avalible in 95% of counties already and those who do have them for the most party do it early and chose a medical rather than surgical abortion. So expect a of people needing ulcer medication for early do it yourself abortions and the return of the back alley butcher.
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@buffaloman9671 You can still read Trotsky since he is kept in print by the communist movement at Pathfinder Press.
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@WhiteManXRP Yes that's Capitalism works. Steall with one hand while making worthless promises form a big bosses mouth.
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@richardterrell1946 Rand was never imprisoned in Lenin's time despite having left St Petersburg with her father for the white side of the civil war.
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@eroccha DeSantis says its for use against the CCP. It will be used against legal immigrants and foriegn nationals on temporary visa's its another unconstitutional show me your papers law. DeSantis isn't president and doesn't get to make foriegn policy.
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@DAS-Videos It was eleven and they wanted make African plantation slavery a perpetual condition of life for the slaves and their offspring because at least 10 of the 33 total number of states at the time were refusing cooperation with the Federal fugitive slave act that required the return of runaway slaves. Abraham Lincoln's National Republican Party ran on a platform that was against admitting any new slave states. They feared the would lose the property value of the slaves if they were freed by either Congress or if the ran away to free states or British Canada that refused to send them back. .If more Western States were created as Free and others abolished it than they would lose the ability to block abolition of slavery by Constitutional Amendment. South Carolina was the first to leave and its Militia fired on a Federal fort in Charleston Harbor setting off the war with another ten states joining the Confederate States of America.
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@loanokaharbor8303 DeSantis says is directed at the CCP. Do you think the CCP gives him a list of members? As far as he is concerned anyone who looks Chinese and can't prove otherwise belongs to the CCP. Its just another new kind of McCarthyism where you have to prove loyalty and have your life turned upside down with investigations rather than government proving a real crime. Its a prior restraint on speech since anything you say can be used as a club to accuse you of being a member of the CCP. It the perfect law for a dictatorship because now anyone who oppose the dictators policy must be a foreign spy working secretly against the people. Hitler and Stalin loved to have Enemies of the German or Soviet People arrested. All you have to do is say something the dictators police don't like and your under arrest.
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@dewaynemizzell7009 No people seldom act irrationally and when they do it is seldom deliberate. If a women wants an abortion she has a reason. The medical profession is not full of angles either. The number of c sections for birth is high and this leads to the conclusion that many are being done not because they are medically necessary but for the assembly line convenience of the Doctors who like the work in the daytime. In this situation the women already has two children by c section and while she might not want a third I don't see why she would wait so long if all she wanted to do is terminate the pregnancy. Her Doctor has advised her it's medically necessary. Now I can tell you from experience its very difficult to seriously argue with one. Once they've got an opinion they seldom will change it and if it's just an opinion even then you are going to have a hard time finding one who directly contradict the opinion of another. It's possible because some of them are completely off their rocker. He has probable run some test on the amniotic fluid to draw this conclusion but I can tell that for certain. Nor can I tell you what the odds of survival are they might have a good idea of what they are and than again they might not. . .
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Nice meeting you ADOLF.
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Nice Guy Eddie Soros is your kind of Socialist. He would never get voted into our party (Socialist Workers Party). The moves toward nihilistic violence and justified looting by some in Atifa and BLM are counterrevolutionary. Just because someone was a Marxist doesn't mean they will always be a Marxist. Mussolini started as a Marxist and later became the head of the first Fascists state Italy. James Burnham a Trotskyist professor at NYU later joined Bill Buckley to found the modern America Conservative movement. Anyone can call themselves a Marxist the word isn't trademarked like "Make America Great Again" which belongs to Donald Trump. People such as you think liberals are Marxists because you subscribe to American number line politics where everything sits on a Left Right line.
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Paul Pugh patriot My guess you know even less. Our candidate for President is Alyson Kennedy not Joe Biden. TheMilitant.com At least one of the 1916 Easter Rebellion martyrs was socialist Commanding General James Michael Connelly. Your the type of traitor to the "old sod" who votes for Reagan and Clinton.
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@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf Nope because Trump can't do anything significantly different since it is not possible for him "to drain the swamp" single handedly or with a few heros.
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@TheAamax1 This we create jobs reason for subsidies and taxes breaks is just more BS. They don't hire anyone legal, illegal, marshine or earthling unless they think they can make a profit out of our sweat and toil. The unions need to fight back with strikes, protests and call for an unconditional amnesty for all immigrant workers regardless of papers or IDs.
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@ambassadorgonk4325 In US Federal Prisons inmate are required to work unless sick. Your job may be internal to the prison or you may work as contract labor for private enterprise. You are paid but you are not legally permitted to strike although strikes occur anyhow. The thirteenth amendment makes involuntary servitude illegal except as punishment for a crime. So with the end of reconstruction after the civil war the Southern States came up with increasing numbers of petty crimes like loitering and vagrancy which poor whites and blacks could be arrested and convicted of who would then be used as convict contract labor in chain gangs, coal mines and industry.
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@garlandremingtoniii1338 IRS have been know to show up at the homes or workplaces of people who often receive tips with their wages like Taxi drivers seeking higher earnings estimates.
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No Soviet means council.
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And now you employ the products of the public school. Others now do the rat race for you.
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@ongoingawakening4257 Your not an entrepreneur in the same sense as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Capitalism in the United States long ago stopped create more independent producers rather it works in just the opposite manner. To crush and lower income and independence of the middle class to the level of the working class. Only those with a niche or special skill can escape from the natural workings of capitalism in a late capitalist society.
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@nthperson The capitalist has the monopolization of private means of production and the bankers exercise the private control over the means of exchange.
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@barronweir123 The laziest of all are the big bosses of capitalism like the billionaires. Gates is doing his part for the planet he only spent $9,000,000.00 on Carbon neutral jet fuel. Musk is saving the planet from CO2 pollution by burning Kerosene in his Spacex rockets and using lithium batteries in his cars. Capitalist greed and hypocrisy. They seek to control all the prices from the money that is issued by the federal reserve the price at the store and our wages. That's why we need both unions and a labor party to take control away from them.
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@eddyvideostar Go suck on an egg!!!
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Actually you can NOT be required to pass a literacy test to vote.
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@danlam1526 LOL LOL LOL
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Liang Yuandong Good law arrest all US presidents and politicians nothing political North Korea just ask for extradition with fair trial being promised.
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@nicolatesla6406 Communism is a movement with socialism as one of its goals. It's the history of one class the industrial workers in our struggle in the modern world with the capitalist ruling classes.
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@nicolatesla6406 No the Imperialist Regime of FDR revived American capitalism with World War II and FDR put his socialist opposition in jail for it just like the Democrat Wilson did in WW1 to Eugene Debs. It resulted in the tables being turned against them with "Socialism on Trial" the publication of the first Smith 'Gag" Act trial testimony of James Cannon. The 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters local 544 were sent off to prison while the Stalinist giddy in their popular front with Democratic Imperialism applauded. They would find themselves packed off to prison after the war with the same Smith "gag" Act law used against the Trotskyist opposition.
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@Oliver Yukica Your a complete idiot there was no stock market regulated or unregulated at all in Russia after the first five year plan and the same in the rest of the deformed workers states.
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@MrLorbu Did they argue with Lenin before 1917 yes. Lenin, Trotsky, Luxembourg, and Liebknecht all opposed WW1 and they all had arguments. They were founding members of the new KPD of Germany. The were murdered by the Freikorps. while the SPD Ebert government was in power. Ebert was also a supporter of the war. If you want to bash someone it should be Ebert and Karl Kautsky. To say that somehow the Bolshevik government of Lenin and Trotsky gained something out of their deaths is nothing more than slander. To bad you don't understand what the dictatorship of the proletariat is and means.
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Just another case of double standards and new levels of hypocrisy by the US government which refuses to lift its cruel blockade. Those other countries which will lose their doctors will not be replaced by US doctors where healthcare is a political football where it can't treat all of its own people because medicine is a for profit big insurance business in the USA.
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Andievo4U2 When you interview a CEO for TV he can't talk enough about how the market produces the best the latest and the greatest. When he is sitting with the board of directors its all about making the biggest profits possible for the next quarter and damn the torpedo's full speed ahead kill off the completion and setting monopoly prices among those firms still in the game. The "Deep State" as a new governmental phenomenon is nothing new. It's not a conspiracy because its always been there beneath the elected President and his Senate approved cabinet. It has grown over time as the need to regulate greed grows.
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@shawnladue8986 Like the America law it will be used against those who disagree with government policy.
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@shannonwalker6944 The foreign Registration act was passed and signed into law to "stop a NAZI 4th columb" by FDR. Its first victims were the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. It was then used against the Stalinists and later the FBI used it against Russian nationals to get Trump in the Russian interference hoax. Its purpose is to criminalise speech and outlaw foreign ideas. Trotsky was murdered by an agent of the NKVD so you've got on hell of a nerve calling me a tankie when the America has been the only nation to use nuclear weapons' on people. Stalin is dead and so are his accomplices in crime Truman FDR and Churchill.
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@eddiekiii2968 It's theorized that oil and coal came from plants and animals. No life on the moon no oil or coal their.
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@eddiekiii2968 If there was lots oil below and water came from there also wouldn't we see big pools of oil at the earth's surface? Oil is lighter than water. Plus all crude is not the same. Some is lighter with shorter carbon chains and some is heavy with longer carbon chains. It's a mix and when they refine it they usual like to use a mix of light and heavy crude. That's one reason Alaskan crude is shipped elsewhere while we import other crude to mix in for the refinery's in the US. During WW2 the Germans developed a way to make gasoline from coal. I think that electricity produced by breeder reactor using thorium has lots of promise for meeting energy needs for the life of mankind on the planet. I oppose this Generals ideas because we need to wage peace in some way otherwise we will just end up destroying everything over stupid trade rivalries. Nor do I believe people like him have done anything for democracy since the civil war of 1860.
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@jimmayors2315 That contract was already rejected. The government has no right to impose a contract. They've worked three years without a contract as it is now. The Rail Roads aren't seriously bargaining instead they are calling on Congress to protect their record profits. Let Congress and the President drive trains at 70 miles an hour with over 100 cars with no sleep . Biden is lucky if he can find the bathroom door as it is now.
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Maybe its time for a socialist revolution in the United States.
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@scout360pyroz Maybe because I'm always being censored by Youtube algorithms and have attended both elite and non elite universities. Merit has nothing to do with advancement and privileges granted by capitalist society. Universities grant pieces of paper upon which the entrance into better paid careers are based. Advancement goes to those willing to do whatever the Bosses at corporate level demand to maximize profits.
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Close the US Imperialist Military bases in Korea.
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@rs7656 America is a Banana Republic because it is a Republic controlled by corporations just as the American Banana bosses controlled Central America.
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@hmnhntr He pointed at meritocracy and called it as a rigged game. He called liberals bad names. He asked why bosses created carnage at home while chasing profits in other countries. He began the exposure of the fraud of liberal democracy for this they can not have. It is tantamount to a declaration of treason against the bosses and their two party big profits low wages system.
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@Rothnacum1 Trump was educated like the rest of the Canadian and American ruling class at elite universities.
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@johnskip2694 The USSR put up Sputnik up that scared them into passing the National Defense Education Act. They poured money into schools especially for science and engineering. Ordinarily capitalism regards education as an overhead expense to be minimized. They had to get rid of segregation because of the anti colonial revolution. They talked endlessly about a communist invasion. They were constantly accusing liberals of being communists. Thousands marched and picket against segregation. Organizations like the Black Panther Party for Defense organized free breakfasts for young children. J, Edgar Hoover the top cop called them the greatest threat to national security. Stalin lead them back to capitalism and now you have Putin. The old non political water works Engineer committed suicide and the Red cell was punished because of what they had done to the Engineer that was in Lenin's and not Stain time. Stalin had the party purged of the Old Bolsheviks.
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Are your sure because I always he was Seven Day Home Baptist?
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Sooner or later you going to be hit with a road (gas) tax of some sort. Otherwise your not paying for those orange barrels. Fed gas tax is 18.4 a gallon for gas and the average state is probably around 40 cents a gallon. If your getting better mileage than you going to be expected to pay more like the diesel road tax because you will be able to pass more orange barrels using less fuel.
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@HeresMyView The advance of the productive forces and all the old notions that arose from the past are being put to a test in front of our very eyes. Every lie being told in defense of capitalism is being torn up and destroyed by the capitalist themselves by the very operation of the system and the people who make the profits possible the industrial working class. The truth must be told to advance the class struggle for the class struggle is the road to socialism. Out of the darkness into the light the capitalist way can not be right.
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@colinfarrell7457 Chicago elections are always rigged but do they get "International Observers"? US Marines bring Democracy by charging with fixed bayonets except in Chicago where a corrupt Democratic machine carries out the dirty work with help from the cops.
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@ursula.m8265 Put the cops where they belong behind a prison wall.
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@Idahoborn66 You sound like a Mashed Patato from Idaho.
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@Idahoborn66 I've been to Calfironia and everyone says 'you bet'. So I guess that's why your not a betting man or you've been sucked into placing bets with Californian's where you lost. I'm from New England and if I have a choice I buy Maine potatoes not Idaho potatoes. The are grown by Maniacs not people who are offer cheap tricks. 'I da ho'. You may be 'da ho' but I'm not interested.
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@Idahoborn66 Possible the grammar check threw that in (are) or I made a mistake. If you start with insults than why would you not expect more of them?
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@judy.mckillip Term limits will change nothing but the faces of the two Capitalist parties.
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@jacquelinesmith934 Can't understand the grammar in your sentence. "You are President until he dies?" Or Trump would be president until he died in office? Not making much eense since Trump could only be President for more than 8 years without a Constitutional amendment.
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@pattyrobin58 Does he taste good?
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@greggzillges7210 This is what another defeat for American Imperialism looks like.
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The use of capitalist methods like market mechanism to build socialism and the suppression of free thought is what brought down the Eastern Bloc governments. The Stalinist gave up the policy of revolution for the policy of socialism in one country.
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@sardinesinacan1968 It was Lenin who first called for Stalin's removal from his post as General Secretary. Then Trotsky tried to reverse the course the newly rising Stalinist bureaucracy would take. He was expelled from the party in 1928 and deported from the Soviet Union in 1929. Stalin would go on to murder the Party Lenin had built and his faction lead all the defeats for Socialist revolutions right up to the NAZI invasion.
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@pathutchison7688 Had the Bolsheviks not overthrown the provisional government with the Soviets than Kornilov would have drown the revolution in blood. The Tsar was held as a prisoner of the civil war as the whites wanted to restore him to the thrown only when that became a possibility where the CZAR was being held prisoner did the Bolshevik Central Government agree to the soldier demands that the CZAR and his family be executed rather than allow him to be used as a rallying symbol for the cause of the counter revolution. The Gov't of Oliver Cromwell did NOT execute the son of English King Charles and he was placed back on the thrown by the English counter revolution that defeated the Commonwealth. Cromwell's body and the other dead commissioners were dug up and executed posthumously by Charles II. Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs Leon Trotsky built the Red Army which would go on to defeat 14 Imperialist Armies who invaded including the Democratic Imperialist of the US/UK. In the US Eugene Debs had be sent to prison by Wilson who gave J Edgar Hoover and AG Palmer his marching orders in the first Red Scare. Debs received a million votes while in the Atlanta Pen as Presidential Candidate of the Socialist Party.
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@laurie-annlabrecque8580 We'd love to meet you girls out at the Truck Stop.
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@LastBastian Stop "forcing me" look at a stupid comment.
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@LastBastian Outside of actual incest or child rape I think what goes on behind close doors is up to each individual family. Women who want to breast feed in public should be allowed to do so and because of that women should not be regulated as far as exposing their breasts.
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Its just like the Drug war.
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LOL LOL
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@vancouver4sure You have yet to prove that two plus two equals four.
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As Ted Cruz Jets off to Mexico.
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@chetmyers7041 Basicly energy bosses can't make enough profits without subsidies but don't worry because another group of bosses want a free market where they don't take subsidies. Sure their going to save you tax money and save rate payers. Rate payer well what rate payers wholesale rate payers is probably what he means because when do bosses lower retail electric prices? The Energy Bosses like a free market? You got to be kidding. The monopoly was invented by Standard Oil.
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Exactly!!!
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@zaklex3165 Nothing guarantees a Doctor from Harvard is better than any other Doctor. What the decisions does is once again guarantee those with money can buy a legacy seat at the elite university of their choice like Harvard. .
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@Cyberfender1 Now Donald Trump wants to bring it back by "Making America Great Again."
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@gr5382 I think your full of it.
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@marcisaacs9407 Sure his position is no doubt is that just like sliced bread free market capitalism solves all of man kinds problems.
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@jb-vb8un A massive independent of the two parties movement By Black working people against Jim Crow racism broke done barriers of the bosses two party seperate but unequal government defended capitalist system. That fight changed the minds and attitudes of millions and the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed. This is when conservative Blacks like Thomas Sowell say Blscks should have went home and stopped fighting. Black workers well they had other ideas they kept fight for a redress of racial discrimination and access to jobs and educational opportunitoes previouslt denied them. They fought for and won a consent decree from the Steel bosses who had denied blacks access to the better paid work and won an afirmitve action consent decree that set targets and quotas for Blacks promotion into skilled trades and management. The first elected Black Senator, a Republican from Massachusetts, Ed Brooke spoke for quotas at Hillary Clinton's Wellesley colloge graduation where Hilary Clinton also spoke against quotas and bragged about her school parking lot education reform protest. Black Puerto Rican and Asian parents fought for community control of the schools in New York and desegregation of the schools in Boston and Louisville. All against the Democratic Party establishment. While Republican Goldwater a jew himself and denied access to the Country Club in his state voted against the 1965 civil rights act back when Hillary Clinton was calling herself a "Goldwater Girl."
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@jb-vb8un I have Sowell's own words and his status as a Neo liberal who sits in the Milton Freedman chair at the Stanford University Hoover Institution. Sowell does not think capitalism involves exploitation. That Blacks should have stopped marching and protesting with the passage of the 1965 Civil Rights bill. Sowell loves to tell his version of the fair tale of capitalism where even acts like the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and justified and supporting American Imperialist arrogance in Vietnam and condemning liberals for allowing the return of Elon Gonzalez to his father in Cuba.
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@jb-vb8un The Japanese had been defeated by the time Truman & company ordered the atomic bombing of Japan. It was just another unjustified Imperialist massacre directed at civilians by the racist American ruling class. A ruling class that had set up concentration camps for American's of Japanese ancestry. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was the bombing mostly of a US military base not anything like the fire bombing of Tokyo. It was a case of Imperialist revenge much like the destruction of Afghanistan based upon the 9/11 attacks. About 3,000 died in 9/11 while over 100,000 were killed in Afghanistan and millions turned into refugees in one of the poorest countries in the world. The US was already secretly at war with Japan when it sent it military officers to assist the British Imperialists. Like the first world war it was an Imperialist war amongst the capitalist power over control of colonial wealth and power. The world is only so big and once the greedy ruling classes in the capitalist nations had divided and conquered it amongst themselves they went to war with each other to take the competitions markets and resources. Exploitation of the colonial slaves and denial of their independence made Europe and Americas ruling classes rich. This is why the British Imperialist opposed national bourgeois revolutions in the colonial world like the 1850 Taiping rebellion and supported the feudal reactionaries like their King instead.
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With Carter being a supporter of Pol Pot at the UN and supporting him with aid via the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand the guilt must be enormous.
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@joycepino5346 How about free internet in Miami?
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@DZ-hh5dw Fidel Castro and the Cuban workers and farmers made a revolution that is still making world history. The have a leadership which is deserving of the title communist. They see themselves as Internationalist fighting for justice and something bigger than themselves.
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The basic problem is you can't create wealth by watering gold. You can't create wealth with numbers and you can't defeat the laws of capitalist economics as discovered and laid out in Das Kapital by changing he way you count wealth by upping the numbers and going on the paper standard. Your only doing what the Dutch did during the Tulip crisis in the 1600's. Creating fictitious capital because you can't beat the 1 st and 2 nd laws of thermodynamics's or defeat the tendency of profit rates to decline as capital replaces labor in industry. Everything points to nationalist bourgeois classes unable to avoid the competition that can not be resolved without greed driving the dogs of war. For we still live in the Imperialist era and the greed driving the ruling classes is insatiable. Bourgeois Democracy is unworkable in a national framework never mind an International one. All the international origination's of greed control, development and regulation are beginning to fail. Just as American Greed regulations in capitalist law having less and less effect due to the drive for profit above all else.
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@SmiIeyyXD Tell Teaxas Gov Abbot to go ahead and pass an armed fetus act and let those little guys fight there way out.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Churchill was the last Prime minister of the British Empire. The British idea of wealth creation was the starvation of Ireland. You starve others to make your Empire fat.
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@Klako-ls6yt The 1st and 14 th amendment protect the right to strike. Rail Bosses are making record profits. Rail Boss Warren Buffet is calling in favors for campaign financing. using federal judge rulings and Congress to keep his record profits rolling in. The right to strike is proteced by the 1st and 14 th Amendments.
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Whst the auther forges is the anti Vietnam war movement was world wide. Thar the loss of the Imperialist effort was political not because it didn't make the proper military decisions.
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@scrapwire1 It took Stalin almost 13 years before he could begin the Great Purge in 1936.
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@lucascoval828 Why don't grow up baby? Don't talk about my mom and dad since you no nothing about them or me. You will notice that for a guy accused of being a mass murderer they can't put a face and name to a single innocent victim of revolutionary justice. That's because there were none at all. The same can't be said for Texas Governor Rick Perry (R). He ignored the pleas of an innocent man convicted by Junk science. Cameron Todd Willingham.
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@RCmack Not so since long time Senator Rockefeller of West Virginia had a D after his name. Can you say Standard Oil or is that verboten?
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@a-l-e-x-p-a-g-e Hamas is a NAZI like thug group. It has nothing to do with justice for anyone.Its goal is the same as the NAZI's to clease the world of Jews.
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@justanothergmailaccount1353 I suppose editing and running a newspaper until the censor like those who police youtube shut it down doesn't count?
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 @rebeccagray986 Guns can't fix hurricane damage!! Party Boss Governor Abbott using Military Slaves to build walls No help for Victims of Last Years Power Outage.
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GM is getting a taste of Socialism right now. You want some too?
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@MrThartofwar Lenin recognized Ukrainian peoples right to an independent state. Putin wants are return to a reactionary Czarist prison house of nations,. NATO is an allaince of Imperialist powers lead by the American Imperialist who think they won the cold war because of the surrender of the traitors of the working class Gorbachev and company. You can now see that the greed of the Democratic Imperialists who refused Putin entry into NATO is what drives the rotting ruling classes of Europe and the America. That Lenin was right in 1916 when he wrote the pamphlet that marked Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism. The increased technological weaponry of the American Imperialist has not made them stronger but weaker it only took a few rag tag Islamist to drive them out of Afghanistan. the same goes for the rest of the NATO allaince which is scrambling to ream casing fear of war among the competing major Imperialist powers. The UK called a vasal state of Washington by the French now fears the German militarists.
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@naas699 Unlike the Communist party USA the Socialist Workers Party has a proud history of opposing the Democratic Imperialism of our own ruling class The same can not be said of any of the Soviet leadership starting with Stalin. Our comrades went to prison while Stalin's cheered for Democratic Imperialism during the second Imperialist slaughter. . .
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@NeiasaurusCreations No the problem is capitalist bosses like in China Sweden and the United States. American bosses usually kill one worker with ever big strike not counting their 60 year blockade and starvation plan for the Cuban workers and farmers. Capitalist bosses waged war against West Virgina Coal miners. Bosses care about profits only NOT human tights. That is nothing but US Boss government propaganda. If they cared about Human Rights in the US they wouldn't have more prisoners than Stalin or China.
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@NeiasaurusCreations You want to support your own "Progressive, Liberal or Conservative" ruling class and fight war for their profts leave me out. Abolish Private Property NOT railroad jobs.
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@NeiasaurusCreations You being such an morally upright business whats keeping you form joining the sisters of mercy and mother Theresa?
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@NeiasaurusCreations Lenin wanted Stalin out of his position as General Secretary. He died and then Trotsky tried to have him removed. He failed. Stalin lead revolutionary defeats in China 1928, Germany 1933, Spain 1939. Stalin was the murderer of Lenin's Party. World war two brought about the Defeat of the British Empire probably as great a victory for mankind as the Defeat of NAZI Germany in Europe. Since Tony Blair took over the Labour Party should he have changed the name to "Labor wants an Imperialist Empire Party"? Americans hate Hitler. Indians Hate Churchill.
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@NeiasaurusCreations The only thing the US did is takeover from the British Empire using capitalist instead of feudalism to control its Empire. The Cuba revolution shows what is possible when a real communist leadership is leading the revolutionary transformation of society by abolishing private property. They don't have the drug addiction, murders and brothels of Europe and America. They don't need a police state either. Everyone knows the NATO Imperialist are a bloody bunch of murderers who drop bombs and use drone strike to enforce the American Imperialist "allied" Empire. You and the rest of the British Labour "Imperialist" Party are a bad joke with their Stalin "like" cult around the Royal Family.
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@NeiasaurusCreations How many prisoners did you take in the Imperialist war on Afghanistan? You have people held without trial or charges at the US Guantanamo Torture faculty. Why don't you just open up another phoney NGO on human rights lead by the King. Wasn't the Royal Family pioneers in the posthumous hanging of Oliver Cromwell?
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@NeiasaurusCreations You aren't really serious are you? The crimes of Western Imperialism were so bad that the actual physical stature of the populations they conquered declined. The North American Native populations still haven't recovered. What Stalin and Mao did applied to a bigger population over a few years. You'd have to go back to Gingus Khan to out due the British. An estimate 1/3 of the earths population died in the Teiping rebellion alone. Ireland went down in population in 1840 and only in this 21st century has it exceeded the census of 1840. You guys wrote the book on genocide. If it wasn't for British self propaganda about charity of the Royal family you'd have to own up to your own crimes. The Royal family changed their names just so they wouldn't be accused of being German durring WW1. They wrote the book on hypocrisy also.
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@CausticSpace True enough when you talking about the CCP Stalinist's and Swedish Volvo Bosses. Cuba never went though a "Cultural revolution" forced collectivization nor did it return to a private property system.
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@marksman-ms Do you also pay $20 for a hot dog at DEVOS meeting?
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@kathleenking47 He had to go into hiding when the crisis of 2008 hit. Later on he came out and explained in typical Sowell and neo liberal fashion that the crisis would not of occurred if people paid their mortgages and private bankers had been left in charge. Those bankers arms were of course twisted when the were given promise of government guarantees. Just as when they were bailed out.
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@@axelclaudiusknappmeyer That was the name of the newspaper of the Bolshevik Party "Truth" in Russian is Pravda.
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@iamahater3078 Does money grow in a bank? Do investor actual earn their wealth? What do you think produced the crisis of 2008 or world war one? The logic of capitalism lead to world war one. Now if the capitalist can stay out of wars over markets and resources it has a chance to end peacefully when the logic of investing to cut labor time to drive profits to the capitalist results in the decling profit rates then the capitalist will industrialize to save money. So you tell me which way do you want it to end?
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@whiskeydrunk4205 Just part of the general decline of US Imperialism. LMAO. You can't Make America(n Imperialism) Great Again.
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@Sleeping_Insomiac The only purpose of the administrative state is to serve as glue for monopoly capitalism. The sole goal of the regulatory agencies is to protect the profits of the bosses industries they regulate who provide their next job and promotions based upon "merit" at the regulatory agency.
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@soniag4516 Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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That's complete false. Cuba wants them out of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Vietnam doesn't want them either. Ask the ordinary people in Latin America if they want anymore US Marine invasions? China doesn't want them and if you add the both Korea's a majority doesn't want them either.
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The sixth amendment protects the client attorney relationship so a search and seizure of a lawyers office is an extremely serious matter. The fourth amendment requires an oath or affirmation before a judge that a crime has been committed and the naming of things and papers to be seized. A judge cannot simply issue a warrant for a fishing expedition by the police.
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Actually reading laws and understanding them is considered the province of lawyers. So anyone who isn't sure about what a law means will seek the legal council of a lawyer. That is where the lawyer client privilege applies. It allows a client and attorney to discuss an action before embarking on it. Also sometimes an average person may think something is illegal when in fact it is not.
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@rschier1 The assumption made by the author of the video is that capitalism never comes to an end and that their is no class struggle going on.
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@nkarawan001 UN Troops are already in Southern Lebanon do they stop Hezbollah from launching Rocket attacks on Israel?
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End all arms sales to foreign countries.
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@oldrockr1557 Capitalist political hypocrisy. War was the result of the Imperialist profit system and two party capitalist dictatorship in Washington DC.
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You don't need their agreement just take like the do to us take it from them all of it they do need it anyway.
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@gkk2001 One of their biggest items is the Silverado/Sierra trucks many are sold as custom builds because last time I bought one you can't buy them built for trailering without a custom order. Plus they have fleet sales like those cars and trucks at Hertz and Avis. Dealers want to sell what's on the lot and as fewer cars and trucks are available customers will start to look elsewhere if they are not already doing so. Dealers with multiple brands will shift customers to their other brands.
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Great close it down!!!
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You can thank Thatcher, Reagan and the neoliberals for de indutralizing capitalist policies seeking profits elsewhere. What do the bosses propose now? Capitalism in one country?
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Let'em move out and see if the Longshoreman let em back in again!!!
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@WBKimmons "National Security" Frame Job promoted by "Democracy Now" in the "Get Trump" by the "Never Trumpers" any way you can.
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@WBKimmons They ought to change the name to Dictatorship Now!!
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@littlebox4328 Why would they? You can't fix greed. The top wants maximum profits and each sub level and sub area of management is incentivised to do just that.
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@frausilver2741 She looks like she has absorbed Chairman Mao's "..Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun..." theory
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The is the result of Imperialist greed.
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@RealMTBAddict Its the natural workings of the capitalist class system. The bosses do nothing but own everything while the workers do everything and own nothing.
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Sanctions by the US are in the interests of the US Imperialist investors only.
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What proof does Sowell have that he was ever a Marxist?
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@onamattapeeya You didn't win the cold war instead you created greater instability for the world capitalist market system. Your world finical Empire is built on a paper dollars and numbers in computers. America is the last capitalist investors Empire. Your ruling class is beginning once again to fear the working class. Sanders was easy to defeat because he played by your rules. Trump called is a fixed game, promised to drain the swamp and slaughtered you neoliberal world view in front of millions. In the mean time we explain to workers that they can only rely upon themselves acting together against the bosses. That on the job union power must be used to defend themselves and a labor party based in the unions to take political power out of the hands of the capitalist bosses.
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@ronaldelkins6108 Yes using Big brother to watch everyone and everything is the way to ensure safety for bosses who know right from wrong and protect private property from those who work for a living. The freedom of the boss to lie though his teeth must be protected at all cost.
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@onamattapeeya Make sure to get the Lime Jello with the whip cream its absolutely yummy.
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@ronaldelkins6108 You've got them everywhere in watching every cashier, the truck driver, the amazon packer, the store customers, every rail yard, every buildings entrance and exit, license plate readers on the freeways, looking for red light violations on street corners. All to make sure the most petty of rules are not broken and the most severe punishments can be handed out without question. Its about maintaining a dictatorship of bosses and big capital. Then you have the get out of jail free cards that the police give out or sell for a price like the Nexus border crossing cards. Buy the card and you breeze though no questions asked in a special lane. Don't have one expect to be questioned like the usual suspect.
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@ronaldelkins6108 As I said before being censored again you've got cameras everywhere watching everyone and everything.
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@ronaldelkins6108 YouTube censorship is active.
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@DontBeeLion Cameras are being placed everywhere such that those who break the pettiest of rules can be severely punished. Those at the top are naturally exempt because they write the rules and profit is the goal such that the ruling class may go unmolested. This is also the age of photoshop and the creation of the deep fake.
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@scotttyson607 He like Milton Friedman are being forgotten because they are nothing but ideological preachers for the capitalist class of bosses who have entered a world economic crisis from which they can not escape without war and the destruction of war. We are in the midst of a change in human history leaving the capitalist era behind.
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@garrypeek897 A 100% profits tax.
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@geraldpritchard5046 It's not a question of money. It's a question of organization. Society is organized to make profits for a tiny ruling capitalist class not to meet human needs.
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@geraldpritchard5046 "...there is nothing wrong with Laissez-Faire capitalism..." Nothing wrong with the tooth fairy for extra cash under the pillow either. "Thank capitalism for this YouTube your socialist self enjoys." Should I also "Thank Capitalism" for two world was and 6,185 nuclear weapons held by the US. Should the victims of War in Yemen send you 'Thank You Capitalism' cards?" "Last, nobody is owed somebody else's good or service just because they are born." Ah! So we should end any welfare benefits to children because the capitalists need a better profit rate on bombs for more wars such that you can send out more "Thank You Capitalism" cards to capitalism. Do you want all the "Thank You Capitalism" cards because Ayn Rand approved of selfishness or do you want to share? Shouldn't we address some to John Gault, Dead Letter Box , Anywhere, USA
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@geraldpritchard5046 Unlike the Social Democrats and Stalinist we see no difference between whatever the capitalists decides to calls himself liberal, conservative, fascist, or anti fascists. The workers need to organize and take big business out of the hands of a tiny profiteering class and run the world on a socialist basis.
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@geraldpritchard5046 Why should I go along with Ayn Rand and her moral crusade against Social Security when she cashed her old age retirement checks? Che Guevara sets a much better example he was willing to die for his beliefs and did so. Ayn Rand gave in for a few measly retirement checks.
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@geraldpritchard5046 "I'm more anti-war than you ." You can't be for private property and against war. Violence and the threats of violence are necessary to retain the market relations of capitalist class inequality. The libertarian non aggression principle is one of the most ridiculous statements ever made. Any capitalist abiding by such a principle will be quickly hauled into bankruptcy court where upon the cannibals called major creditors will be let loose by a judge to feast on whatever meat is left on the bones.
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@abramhepp6379 Because private property is defined in the communist manifesto as property used to exploit others and personal property loses its social character. A bank owning your home with a mortgage contract, rent collected by a landlord owning your home, or a boss owning your workplace are examples of private property. Examples of personal property would be you christmas tree and your TV. A personal computer owned by you is personal property if the same computer is own by you boss for work purposes that its private property.
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@TedSmith-yy8yc Its doing exactly what Karl Marx predicted centralising everything into the hands of a tiny ruling class of owners protected by the state. The fact that it has all theses problems goes back to the basics that labor produces wealth not capital or trade or taking risks, ect. That wealth is produced socially and capital is accumulated privately. With capitalism you can't help but overproduce for markets investing into expanding production until workers can't buy back all that can be produced at a profit. Than you then take your profits drive up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses creating a self defeating economic crisis. You see the profits stop flowing so you halt production and then the workers can pay for what they produce and a downward spiral takes place until you can bail yourselves out with either credit, destruction of commodities or war to start the process all over again.
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Only Trump can do that since Trump trademarked that slogan. Anyone else will need to pay Trump a royalty.
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People who can't remember their name are probably unable to vote.
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A better question is how much longer will the NATO Imperialist allaince last. Will the French and German ruling classes want to invest in anymore NATO enterprises like the US war in Afghanistan? War fever in Europe can only lead to more and not less division among the current NATO partners.
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Jaxon B. So did the NATO Imperialist just a few months ago for twenty years in Afghanistan killing over 100,000 and creating over a million refugees in one of the poorest countries on earth. .
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How many plea bargains did she accept?
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@dpersonal4187 Overall politics does have a left right yardstick. There are those things and polices that advance the working peoples interests and those that don't. It was a Republican Supreme Court that voted for Abortion rights in Roe v. Wade. It was the Democratic Party that failed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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@peanutbanjo It's just part of the decline of the middle class. The capitalists need fewer middle class paper pushers. First they were speed up with computer processing, then PC's with networking and now replaced with online self service. Ordinarily any kind of degree made them qualified to read and write was all that was needed to work in government positions to hold the power to hand out food stamps, do DMV work, work in child services and hand out unemployment Insurance. At one time food stamps were torn out of a ration book now their on a credit/debit type card. Edit: I hope I clarified my comment.
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@peanutbanjo Any reply becomes highlighted as far as I'm able to determine. I hope i made it more understandable.
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Most students are entering college on advice of adults. After arriving the see how capitalism "...where life will hit them like a train..." works when the seniors are looking for job placement. Those are the material forces that are driving the SJW craze not a conspiracy theory where teachers, professors, and college administrators have suddenly become communists.
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US Bosses want more money to build bigger mansions. "It takes a staff to run a mansion."
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@dragonore2009 Capitalism also gives the world great economic crisis and two world wars. The ability to create great means of wealth also means the ability to create great destructive capacity.
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@lemonadelemon1960 Probably want to scour the library for any books with bad words and phases.
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@dothedishes3427 Obviously Wall Street and Washington had gotten all the concession they could and than just dumbed Yellow into the bankruptcy court.
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@acestarone Cops can't prevent the decline and alienation of capitalist society.
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@JohnSmith-iu3ui Cops can't fix a a system of exploitation that is rotting from the inside out. This is the end result of a world system of profit maximization above all else.
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@MichaelMiller-xj1ti Ah yes these are the ex Marxists like Sowell his friends and neighbors. This is the sytem of private property and capitalism he voluntary chooses to defend at every twist and turn of policy. He decided to close his eyes and head up the ladder of success. Now he hangs out with those who are the bosses of American capitalism. He provides them with the best advice that money can buy. A Black working class intellectual who has surrendered himself for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. .
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@Kjd42987 Sure just name one you do remember the boat lift. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter locked up all his Cuban political prisoners who then rioted.
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Every capitalist country has a ruling class that controls its government to act in its interests. Private Property means private property for a country's ruling class. The idea that Western capitalism is transnational and China can join in for part of the spoils and profits is an illusion. The greed of the ruling classes and the tendency of profits to decline means that ruling class must come out to defend their national interests against both those living under the yoke of its foreign capital and the working class in their nations.
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@johngoldbunny3206 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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What's the purpose of passing a redundant law? We have too many laws at it stands now. That's why a competent attorney will shut down any police interrogation of a client immediately.
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@michaelhorn6029 McCarthy lied he claimed to have 200 names of State Dept employees but was unable to produce a single name or prove that a single person in the state dept was a communist. He took campaign contributions from the UE a union that would later be claimed to be under communist influence.
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@digitalnomad9985 McCarthy enemy was indeed Red. Johnny Walker Red took its toll on the wichunter catching up with him at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He died as a descrased Senator having been censured. One of only 8 in Senate history to be condemned by a vote of 67-22.
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@googleisskynet7312 McCarthy never proved anything he claimed about Communists in the State Dept. His whole which hunt campaign was based upon changes the victim must know something and confession was the only way to prove oneself innocent of the changes he leveled against his victims. It was the US Congress that would eventually repudiate him in a vote to condemn his conduct for abuse of the Senate Committee to Study Censure 67 to 22. He died in Bethesda Naval Hospital at government expense unlike many ordinary Americans whose lives he and the witch hunters destroyed.
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@googleisskynet7312 What's so good about reading about some one as dishonest and a modern day scoundrel and liar like Joe McCarthy.
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@FactCheckerGuy The FBI had spies in every union local. A list of political enemies was drawn up to be arrested should a national Emergency occur.
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@googleisskynet7312 Really this thing about McCarthy is conspiracy theory. The hammer and sickle represents the Government of Lenin and Trotsky. Trotsky the Communist leaders exiled by the criminal Stalin. Who was murdered in Mexico City. FDR began the which hunt with the 1940 Smith Act prosecution of the Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters union leaders. Chronicled in Socialism on Trial. The actual trial testimony of James P. Cannon. Who rose in Federal Court to say, "We say the workers have a right to defend themselves and if that's treason so be it."
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@mirochka485 US isn't interested in doing anything that doesn't advance the interests of it capitalist class of bankers and bosses.
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@mirochka485 For some reason rivers flow into oceans also and rain keeps falling. If you've been paying attention than you would understand migration into cities and centers of trade has been going on for centuries. That it doesn't mean everyone should live in a city or trading center either. All the biggest and fastest growing cites are in Asia or Africa not North America. .China and India are both 4 times larger than the US in population. One statistic doesn't in of itself prove anything. So why go around implying that it does? The US also relies on immigration to fill one out of three positions of retiring medical Doctors. The US only wants the more educated population from the rest of the world and with money one can buy US citizenship.
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@mirochka485 The fact that the US now has to limit immigration shows that capitalism is failing both at home and abroad. Prior to the first World War the US encouraged immigration except from China. That war marked the end of Capitalist era of progressive world growth. Since 1917 their has been a world wide class struggle between the two most important classes each with each holding state power, If American capitalism were what the libertarians portray it than their would be no need of 800 foreign military bases from which to defend American foreign investment.
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Ya like no one in the Soviet Union doesn't want it back?
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Capitalism is a system of exploitation and that is what creates the problems. It can't help but go into decline for a number of reasons from business secrets to a declining rate of return on investment. All of capitalism's worst aspects have come to the for in the Imperialist era.
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@crawkn Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution did not degenerate into a corrupt Stalinist dictatorship. If anything just the opposite occurred. That does make them perfect but only intellectuals pine away about perfection and how imperfect human beings are. Getting rid of private property in the mass production industries is a great advance over capitalism the only ones who think and say otherwise are those who apologies for capitalism, neoliberals and the ignorant. The only thing that neoliberalism has produced is Putin who wants to be a new CZAR with a prison house of nations. Cuba does not keep business secrets nor do they or their citizens invest in foreign countries in anticipation of a profit backed by military force. Nor did they or the Soviet Union stop or slow production based upon profits or because of a declining return on investment You only get the problems of capitalism when you start using only the methods of capitalism. In the Soviet Union and China under Mao and Stalin that started with giving themselves privileges lying about it an then justifying it as necessary. Fidel Castro never had to stop dissatisfied intellectuals from deserting. The revolution just trained more Doctors and Engineers.
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@crawkn The usual Cuba isn't relevant because its poor. Cuba is extremely relevant precisely because Cuba started very poor as a colony of the United States and almost single handedly extract itself from the US Empire and put itself on the Socialist road. Cuba is a thorn in the Empires side and for over sixty years the US has been unable to crush them despite a cruel multinational blockade condemned by the rest of the world. While Gorbachev was doing perestroika and glasnost. Fidel started rectification and announced that Cuba would never adopt capitalist methods. Cuba has 10,000 foreign students studying medicine at no direct cost to the student. It set an example of solidarity with the rest of the world unmatched by any other country. Nor do I accept the theory that "human nature" is somehow fixed and unchangeable. Capitalism did not start in the big and successful feudal states either.
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@crawkn At the beginning of Capitalism Spain was the world power both militarily and economically. Ships full of sailed to Spain not England. England was relatively poor. The US was a mere colony of England. Ho Chi Minh, Tito and Mao were all classic Stalinists as were all the rest of the Eastern Europe leadership. The Cuban Stalinist Party didn't even initially support Fidel and the 26th of July movement. Congress held hearings because they just couldn't believe a revolution had occurred just 90 miles away made by people who came from nowhere. Than again people like myself study revolutions. You of course need to educate me on things like corruption and human nature because I've never heard of such things before.
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@crawkn After rereading your whole original post I realize that at least your honest enough to admit the Fed is their to serve the banking interests first and foremost. As to stabilizing the economy using capitalist methods I just do not believe that to be possible. Between the Banks, Government debt and Corporations they have become too big to fail and too small minded to succeed. How much of that national debt is debt incurred to pay debt and is their a real danger that the bonds issued for the debt will go unsold?
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@crawkn I don't see any reason to vilify small business but I also so no reason to glorify it because while it may be a solution for a few people its never going to be a solution for the majority. Plenty of Industrial union workers have small business (side hustles) the problem is you don't get the independence you thought you would and than you end up in a position where the first rule of business is despite the trade meetings you have no real friends. You still need to retire and all the promise of IRA and private pension plans just evaporate.
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@crawkn I just finished listening to a documentary on Sweden. It ended with "Beware the simple narrative." I have first a background in math and science so I like looking at economics and politics in motion rather than in a static view. The've been teaching in business and economics that you just need the right incentives the proper regulations and legal property framework and all will work out like magic. Well it doesn't and that is because men are not donkeys you temp with carrots and occasionally hit with a switch. They talk about teamwork but they always want to be the one who choose the team leaders. Some places you no longer have a boss but a coach as if were are playing a game for trophies. Your convinced that somehow if the profit is created correctly than its a good profit vs the other guys who are creating bad profits. Some industries turn out to be more profitable because profits are spread across industries all compete with each other not only within an industry. My contention is that you allow highly capitalized industries to decline in favor of lower capital to labor industries simple because of the better profits to be made in the less capitalized ones. You value Elon Musk owner of Tesla and Space X which produce nearly nothing compared to GM and Toyota but his companies are worth over a trillion dollars on paper. At the end of the day you can't cheat you way out of productive work and call it a well earned profit.
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@crawkn This is an unavoidable period in the history of mankind as war and revolution decide questions that are frustrated by a peaceful process. I've been here 70 years so I've seen tremendous change just in my lifetime.
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@crawkn Bye and may life be good for you.
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@randyellis9460 The developed capitalist world has entered a crisis caused by the natural workings of the capitalist system first pointed to by Marx in Das Capital and later Lenin in Imperialism the Highest stage of Capitalism. The utter bankruptcy of Social Democracy and collapse of Stalinism has left the working class virtual leaderless. As Fidel Castro stated the building of Leninist Parties is the most powerful weapon that can be wielded against injustice and the empire just 90 miles away.
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I'm wonder if this means Professor Wolff and some of the intellectuals are willing to abandon the Democratic Party?
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You guys are the biggest liars and crybabies. All you do is yell for intervention because Fidel kicked out the US Imperialist and took Cuba down the socialist road without a private ownership class. No one in Cuba wants a return to the exploitation under American rule.
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@xx5zi Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests. It's a movement it starts with facts and its the history of the modern class struggle both victories and defeats of the proletariat in its struggle with the other important class in the modern world the capitalists class. The road to socialism is paved by the class struggle. Capitalism reached its highest stage Imperialism with the investment in the colonial counties. It began the reactionary first world war to redivide the colonies among the Imperialist masters. Since then the capitalist classes have played a destructive and reactionary role in the world. American Imperialism declaring itself the lead of the free world has just finished a 3 trillion dollar 20 year war on terror in Afghanistan. This war created a disaster for the people of one of the poorest countries in the world. After thousands were killed and millions displaced by war and turned into refugees the Imperialist talk of how the are human rights leaders who care for women's rights and girls while moving to deny women and girls the right to their own bathrooms. No lie is too big to be told and nothing is so sacred to escape the Imperialist drive to prop up declining profit rates and a system based in exploitation, war and racism.
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@jojosewist8921 "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the GENERAL WELFARE, ...." So the founders did like welfare.
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@fabianhoffmann7931 When you can't argue with a mans ideas then launch personal attacks. You Germans tried to economically planning capitalism with Hitler sand failed miserable.
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Turns out spelling is hardly worth learning with the ability to use a spell check you only need to sound out and come up with a half way decent approximation.
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That would be government interference in Profit making in other words that would be communism and we can't allow that.
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When your executive committee (the government) won't let you spend them because of sanctions whose fault is that?
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@larsulrich2761 Ferd Koche went over and came back with enough money to sue the oil barons over a patent dispute and set up Koch industries, They had gold mines in Russia. Outside of the United States and Canada most of the industrial world was destroyed in two world wars. Only the US came out as a creditor nation. It occupied the position of top dog in the Imperialist world and now like the British Empire before it is in decline. Is IH still in business or did it get eaten up in some wall street scheme?
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@larsulrich2761 The US stopped "temporarily" its promised $32 an ounce exchange rate for gold in 1973.
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There are no manned borders inside the European Union. So with a multitude of languages spoken no one would be stopped just because they were speaking any of a multitude of languages.
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For those not from the US. Immigration is a federal responsibility and Border Patrol is a federal police agency so it actions are suppose to be the same in every state. Border Patrol is not suppose to get involved in enforcing state laws. Conflicts between state and federal governments do occur and Montana has opposed making their drivers licenses into a national ID. They are the last state holding out against that. Traffic laws are enforced by state and local police. There is no reason to believe foreign visitors will be treated differently depending upon the state you visit. The most likely reason for the American Police to stop someone is for exceeding the speed limit and driving while intoxicated. .
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Seems to me she did comply since the agent didn't need to restrain her nor did she run away. Border Patrol belongs at the border not the supermarket or gas station. This is just another example of government overreach based upon immigration hysteria. They were originally speaking Spanish not English with a thick accent.
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That's right he had no reason to believe they had crossed the Canadian border into the US as immigrants nor did he accuse them of smuggling. If anything her accent shows her not to be a Canadian English speaker since they have a distinctly different way of speaking English nor does her accent sound like that of Canadian French speaker using English.
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The US government will not allow you to build a gas station on the border. it would obviously be set back from the border and if for some reason it was built before this border and immigration hysteria it would be taken by eminent domain and demolished. Was this border patrol agent even in hot pursuit? According to the hysterical rightist conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones and even Trump Obama was born in Kenya not Hawaii. Is a Brooklyn accent really American? Couldn't it indicate your being Eastern European or some other nationality? How about a Boston accent? In fact you only need to be born on US soil to be a natural born American citizen and you can have or choose any accent or language you want.
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The purpose of mass education under capitalism is indoctrination of the next generation of low wage workers and soldiers.
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@sc6210 The vote was never counted and since the paper was confession she should have been mirandized first. Plus any kind of literacy test is illegal.
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Put ICE in the freezer where it belongs.
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@vnchreturningdestroychinaa2586 Down with Imperialist war mongers.
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@danmoen755 By the time it would be finished the starting end would have rusted away already. Not to mention the need for cost overrun subsidies and leaks from cheap substandard welding.
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@jojojojojojojojojojojojob Right now that there are 33.5 million unemployed there are lots of job opportunities.
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@dudefrombelgium The NAZI Grand Mufti was NEVER PLO chairman. The PLO was founded in 1964 its first Chairman resigned after the loss in the 6 day war in 1967. After failing to throw the Jews into the sea and leave none alive.
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We have a small party the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. Themilitant.com and Pathfinderpress.com We've gotten into a few fights like the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster's General Strike, The Case of the Legless Veteran, Fair Play for Cuba, National Peace Action Coalition, Political Rights Defense Fund. Since 1948 we've ran a candidate for President in every election.
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@MegaToonzNetwork Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl!!!
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@obijuan3004 We don't already have socialism. The capitalist police are the enemy of the working class. Just look at how the capitalist state treated the workers behind bars at 'The ICE BOX' MDC Brooklyn, NY. While announcing any one who leaves a dog out doors in the cold will be jailed. The water supply: Flint, MI. politicians ignore the contamination of the water caused by saving a few dollars. College: Available available only to the upper class and those willing to take on big debt. Elderly healthcare: Where after a hurricane nursing home patients die of heat stroke just across the street from the hospital with air conditioning.
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Most of the liberals attacks on Trump are really aimed at those who voted against Clinton. Trumps recognition of the pain being inflicted upon working people by the elites and meritocracy are the reason he got elected. Not because we are ignorant dumb shits. The elites and meritocracy believe their poison ivy league educations make them destined to rule. Should we vote for someone without their approval than the way voting is conducted must be changed and first amendment rights must be certalied.
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Ivan Adams How come he is still here? If capitalism is so great shouldn't he be headed back to Russia to get in on the latest corruption? CNN is a mouthpiece of US liberal democratic capitalist Imperialism.. Anderson Cooper is an heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. We have no need for them. Democratic Imperialism, the US and British Empire needed the Soviet Union during WW2 to defeat their market competition NAZI Germany.
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@Tommy9834 You can work for a lifetime under capitalism and get nothing. With capitalism the people who work get a wage which is just enough to get them to return to work the next day. While the capitalist are not required to do anything but cash their dividend checks. They make a welfare cheat look like a shoplifter. As the old Mafia don said, "The only difference between them and us is they have a licence to steal."
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@Tommy9834 If you interested in economic theory post revolution. One of the first acts of the Cuban government was to issue land titles to peasants who wanted to work the land after breaking up the old hacienda's. Thousands of different wage rates were analyzed and six were eventually agreed to. Another act was to teach the rural peasants to read. Thousands of young people went to the countryside as teachers. In order for a capitalist to 'thrive' he must make millions miserable. That is the truth about Amazon and WalMart. Learning how to beat the other guy with market manipulations, legal tactics and other anti social methods is a completely useless skill. With socialism you have not just the old tools of competition and incentives but the new tools of human solidarity and an increasing level of general cultural and educational level.
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@bobmcglone6676 Trump IS part of the elites. Notice also that Bloomberg and Steyer are also Billionaries.
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@ranterredhead5005 Keep making meaningless and senseless rants. When Trump says "America First" that means American "Bosses" First. Trump's solution to every problem is to open the drawbridge and put alligators in the moat.
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Reagan and Bush could never succeed without Democrats like Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter and Bill "End Welfare as we Know it" Clinton.
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@taylorstanwood8949 Trump was a casino owner. Why the hell would he ban gaming? You what one of us who are like Fidel Castro will get rid of all those one arm bandits just like the revolution in Cuba did. They kicked the Mafia Out and Kennedy tried to get them to assassinate Fidel.
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Unlikely Ukraine was written off by Biden early on. Only the fight by the Ukrainian people for national existence convinced the US to extend support. Afghanistan was an assault conducted by the US on a poor nation. Israel is fighting for its right to national existance against Hamas and the Jew hating Islamic Republic. of Iran. .
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We don't need 800 foreign military bases, a big standing federal army and to be fighting other people's wars. Peace and negotiations are much cheaper all around. Trump should be getting us out of wars. I'm sick of hearing about illegal immigrants being the cause of all our problems.
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I see the problem now AK, MT, WY, ND, SD, VT, DE with one one Congressmen will be joining Canada. All those states will be able to have either a common land border with Canada or in Delaware's case an ocean with which they could reach Canada in motorized row boats.
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@dmannevada5981 I thought Washington wanted to make Cuba the 51st state? I guess Alberta will do in a pinch.
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@TAPriceCTR The last time getting rid of the electoral college was talked about is after the 1968 election where three candidates got electoral votes. If no one gets an absolute majority than each state through decisions made by its congressional representatives gets one vote.
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@dmannevada5981 Clinton did what Reagan couldn't replace AFDC with TANF. Bush told everyone he wanted Medicare Part D to pass. Carter was the first advocate of trickle down economics. Reagan signed the first immigration amnesty bill. It makes absolutely no difference which party is in power you are going to pay more taxes than Amazon and GE. The biggest thing that goes on with "entitlements' is rearrangement in how they are dished out and rearrangements in how things are paid for.
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@TAPriceCTR "What does "the last time" something happened got to do with anything?" Typical political amnesia. Third parties always develop during political crisis in the US. Clinton Democrats accused the Green party of stealing her votes. The Republican's being out of the White House last time had ten candidates for the nomination. The Democrats have ten now and more are talking about entering even as some drop out. I'd call that a crisis for the ruling parties unless I was a political amnesiac wearing blinders. If a third party were to develop quicker in one or more states faster than the others it could very well though a Presidential election into the House of Representatives where each state would have one vote.
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@TAPriceCTR No. I just explained something that has made you upset. I support a third party the Socialist Workers Party. I oppose the duopoly. I don't see how "abolishing parties" would create any real change except to make third parties challenging capitalist power illegal. There is a difference between abolishing parties and nonpartisan elections with equal ballot access.
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@TAPriceCTR You seem to quick to jump to conclusions. I associate that with getting upset.
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@jeromeschmidt7805 "Ideological enforcement" otherwise known as capitalist law is carried out by the two parties at all levels and branches of the capitalist state power local, state, federal, legislative, executive and judicial. The whole purpose of Bourgeois Democracy is to enforce Bourgeois Dictatorship.
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They just got Congress to vote them a sweet heart contract where bosses get to run two member crews on trains over 2 miles long.
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Don't worry plenty of states have cases pending that they can craft a ruling from.
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Diane Davenport Simple American Bankers wanted the cash.
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@mazitovaliliya1408 Any government in a capitalist country is quickly corrupted by a stock exchange.
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War in Afghanistan was the result of the two capitalist dictatorship in DC.
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@busterbeagle2167 Laws are written such that their is one law for those with money and power and another one for the rest of us. Trump's wife engaged in for profit activity while in New York on a tourist visa and got an Einstein special talent Visa because she had a sexy nude body for pictures.
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@MemeLord-fx5pd George Soros walked out of the Bank of England with an extra billion pounds. They are sending him to jail are they?
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@turnne Capitalism works to replace higher paid jobs with machines and lower pay first. Additionally education can't produce a profit by cutting labor time the same way capitalist industry can. The same with healthcare since another workers can be hired if you get sick. So healthcare and education become overhead costs that the capitalist seeks to minimize in the interest of shoring up the natural decline in the rate of profit.
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@moonchild2.0 Don't bother with the politics of resentment. Wages are always set from the bottom up not the top down. You can always apply for other jobs on your day off just to see what others companies will offer you. It will give you a chance to practice selling yourself to the bosses and see what it is they want. You want to emphasize you value as an older worker like showing up everyday, cheerfully following directions and getting the job done without needing to be told every move to make.
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@dm-jf5uu No matter what they say or what they do their decisions are based upon making profits and more of them along with saving their system of exploitation. So when you here them talk about saving the planet what they are really talking about is saving themselves.
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They aren't going to fold up and go away.
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WrathMachine Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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With 161 million voters spending 5 min. to check ID thats 12 per hour. now divide 161 million by 12 should only take about 13.4 million hours to check the ID's. at twenty dollars an hour it should only cost 268 million dollars to check ID's.
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@DonaldBrown-b6r Hold protests outside the Post Office then.
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@GQ-jv9uw World capitalism is in a game of wack a mole where it can not win in the game because of the rules the bosses have chosen for themselves.
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@hennagaijin7856 My father ran a small contracting business, I told him to put my mom on the payrole for Social Security purposes. Instead they invested in an IRA. The IRA was gone in no time because the business had to be shut down for because my dad could no longer make contracts. Then my dad passed away and my mom spent the rest of her life in postage stamp housing for the elderly. Had they put her on the pay role They'd of paid more tax up front but come out way ahead of any investing scheme.
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@hennagaijin7856 If you going to invest in anything it should be your own business and not something you buy in the market. You second best investment is social security tax. All those company pension plans and IRA schemes aren't worth a hill of beans. Lets say i set up a laundromat. The very next thing is to learn how to repair the machines instead of hiring a company contractor. To run a successful small business it needs to be in a niche market its best if its something that requires a skill most people don't have and can't easily learn. Something that won't easily be replaced with new technology. .
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@hennagaijin7856 Investing is gambling. Its the promise of something for nothing. How long do you think banks can keep lending and expecting back more than they lent out? They have no choice but to keep the printing presses running. Inflation favors the owners of property. Keep those presses running becuase your getting rich. Capitalism demands a free lunch for the capitalist who wants back more than he invested. Government debt is never canceled as bad debt like that wasted on war production and destruction. So we are going to pat back that 2.3 trillion invested in the Afghan war. You see even the thoery of the capitalist losing on bad investments doesn't apply when your government debt or a bank or company to big to fail.
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@hennagaijin7856 It is gambling and like gambling those who can count cards have an edge in black jack. Not surprising at all because most small businesses fail. My brother didn't want the business and I was in no position to take it over so it just closed. Big companies wanted to drive my father out but only a secret source of products made his business possible. When your in business the first thing you learn is you have no real friends. Everyone is out to screw each other. He use to have to stop work on jobs to get other contractors to pay him.
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@hennagaijin7856 I can tell you now you'll understand a lot more about economics if you read Das Kapital than taking economics in college.The joks is that when an MBA starts at a big company they have to retrain them becuase everything the teach in business school is just so much propaganda. On Wall Street they call pension funds dumb money because they real money is all made by inside traders that don't get caught. So like Isaid how is it not gambling unless you have inside information. You have all theses firms who have this or that strategy or system. In the end its like playing musical chairs where someone doesn't get a chair when the bear market hits.
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@hennagaijin7856 Putin has decided he's Peter the Great and has attacked Ukraine. Now tell me how well capitalism is working in Eastern Europe and Russia. This is shaping up to be a full scale war not a few tanks rolling in for a change of bureaucrats. Same with the US just a few months ago they withdrew after 20 years of NATO imperialist "nation building" only to leave behind billions in arms having spent 2.3 trillion, killed 100,000 and created millions of refugees in one of the poorest countries in the world. Now Germany has decided to invest in a bigger military. You can't have peace among nations when each country has a greedy capitalist exploiting class. So right now Putin's actions give Biden a chance to grandstand and lets not forget Putin is Yeltsin man who took Bill Clinton's advice. Trotsky once said of Stalin "..he was unable to think abstractly..." Since Fidel Castro and Che Guevara lead a new communist movement that developed out of the 26 th of July movement and not the old Stalinist PSP. Cuba has avoided the Stalinist counterrevolution. Much like the American revolution was able to avoid what came after the English revolution which was the restoration of the monarchy and the posthumous executions.
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@Argonhubert Capitalist starts in nation states and develops the world market in both combined and an uneven way. This is what produced the European Empires who went to war to redivide the capitalist world amongst themselves. The socialist revolution must advance across the world before any talk about creating communism can be made. The world war signaled the end of capitalisms productive and progressive phase. The world's labor movement needed to be cleansed of the stalinist cancer before we can advance. At first the neo liberals ideologies of American Imperialism thought the Chinese Stalinist would be part of their alliance of Western European capitalist thieves. Today it is clear that the CCP is just advancing it own version of capitalism in an effort to take at least some of the world market away from the American Imperialists. In China have come to see China has created a brand new working class and the Chinese capitalist want their share of the world market. With capitalism unable to maintain living standards in the United States the ruling class is begining to fear the working class at home and enter into trade war against its world market competition.
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@alexmukets6769 Overcentralization is a neoliberal myth. The true problems were carried over from the Stalin era and never properly dealt with by the party leaders. Lenin was the first to realize their was something wrong with him. He wanted him out of his post as General Secretary saying he was too rude had too much power and wasn't sure he would always use it wisely. Lenin died before he could open a fight to have him removed and then Trotsky tried and he would also fail.
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The only way for a cultural renew the country is to defeat the two parties of the billionaire class that run the declining Empire. Rebuild the trade unions and create a labor party.
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@davereynolds6145 Voice of America is getting out the word and now your unhappy about the results of your propaganda.
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I don't think they will fully implement 5g at the pole. Instead it will be for highly congested cell phone usage areas. Besides Verizon's FIOS no other Telco has tried to roll out Fibber To The Premise in full on its network. AT&T still uses copper in almost all of its areas. Fiber To The Premise is not necessary for AT&T UVERSE. The investment for a private company is too large and the return will be minimal. You might also see it implemented in small areas where a tower can't reach because of obstacles and 5G implementation is cheaper than putting up a tower.
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@theseeingeye454 That is just a bald face lie and slander.
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@gingy30 A 100% profits tax.
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@michaelhill8441 The problem with capitalism is overproduction drives down capital value. Since capital is only paper and elections not a limited by a Gold supply anymore. Then we just need to drive down profits by being paid in absolute value while the profit goes plus and minus around zero and after total capital value goes to nothing since capital produces nothing. This way you gain a clearer accounting system. In case of trades like MD's where you have to much price for labor time because of shortage of educated people you drive down the price with education of more Doctor's and raise the general educational level of the working class as a whole. This way you can easily move workers around when you need more of something in a different industry.
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@Bugginout79 No because their wealth is on paper or represented by electrons. Its all most all in US Banks represented by federal reserve notes the world's reserve currency. Will they exchange it for China's People's Money or EU Euros? Because they can't escape into space on Blue Virgin or with Jeff Bezo's new Shepard. Bosses move overseas just like they moved South because racial and ethnic division is mores profitable. By fighting US Imperialism you help push up wages in the poor countries making BOSS Capital exit less profitable.
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@Bugginout79 The successful take chances do they? They are merely successful gambles. Gambling is actual nothing more than statistical probability worked out as a mathematical science. I know how to play those games also. You see they call those guys actuary's. This are how insurance works. What does the modern capitalist risk? Does he risk his life when the refinery blow sky high? Does he risk his neighborhood when the oil train derails and erupts in a fire ball? No you say he risks his capital. But is that even true anymore? Because he centralized risk with a Central Bank. He worried about what Marx had said about Gold being a store of value. So he worried so much about losing it that at the end of WW2 the centralize Gold in the biggest cache in the world the at the New York US Federal Reserve cellars because they didn't want to lose any to the commies. Then after 1959 Minister of Finance Che Guevara flanked with Party lawyers walk out with Cubas gold being transfer to Havana after a legal battle in a New York US Federal Court. Gold left New York for Havana. France want Gold for Dollars and so you decided that Kenyes who had advised the British capitalist to rob the workers with inflation by the creation of Fiat currency was correct and that now makes the US dollars nothing but abstract numbers with no fixed relation to values. So the capitalist who creates nothing risks nothing and now has nothing but armed guards protecting Gold stored away in US federal reserve bank cellars.
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@Bugginout79 What you see depends on frame of reference so If I sit on a train it appears as if the world is moving and if I'm on the ground than the train is moving. This is why people who have different ways of making a living see things differently. This is why the workers see and think differently then the bosses because we have different class interests and live different lives and get paid differently.
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@Bugginout79 People like me could do the math but could not learn to spell and write. They let me have a college scholarship to MIT despite an extremely low score on the English ACT probably because the thought English was my second language. I decided it would be best to change the system. Since all you've done is become another part of it.
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@merlinnwolffe8534 Need to teach facts and what was said about the problems how the different groups compromised and what their needs and wants were. What all could agree on and what all could not agree on and why they could not agree on everything. Why there were different states with different ways of governing. How the new government reflected England's with a King, a house of lords (landowners) a house of commons (people), the courts. How and why King Charles was ordered to be executed by parliament. Why the King was restored and what happened afterwords.
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@mikes3827 Problem's are the result of the capitalist way of thinking and doing things. The capitalist parties can not fix capitalism because it essential nature is to be competitive and become predatory. Keynesian economics does not work because capital produces nothing. You can't expect to violate the 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics with theories that require capital produce without labor. Now we are seeing how numbers have everyone scared in the capitalist government of defaulting on the national debt and how their are no clear lines drawn between government, finance and monopoly capitalism. That they all work together in the interests of capital. The socialization of capital is the socialization of parasitism. Only the socialization of labor into a vast organization of the producers can move us past this stage in history.
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@jimmyzhao2673 Like Peterson who gives out 12 rules that he himself can't follow.Still pumping out that cold war trope where everything is a communist conspiracy.
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@jimmyzhao2673 Only problem is that Marxist are liberals except in the minds of Professor Petersen and Joe McCarthy.
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@shauncameron8390 Petersen is a bourgeois professor who makes himself the center of political debate with his idiotic statements.
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@bbsamazon It use to be go back to Russia now its move to North Korea.
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@lobomedina6312 Its not a serious political argument since communism is an international movement against capitalism whose goal is world socialist revolution not socialism in one country or social democracy in a capitalist state. .
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What business is that of yours? I don't hear you calling for a cut in Mary the CEO's pay which is in the millions.
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@thegoodkelly He wants to buy votes with his phoney UBI.
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Just like the defeat for US Troops in Afghanistan and Vietnam. The defeat for Russian Troops in Ukraine will be a victory for working people.
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@yashpatel261 The bosses only want you as long as the can squeeze the most out of you. The old, the sick, the infirm they just want to throw on a scrap pile The greed of the bosses and their system of private profits for them is whats causing most of the problems in the world today. The other is the delay in taking the industrial system of production away from their greedy hands and the workers taking control of production and distribution. .
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@josephgriffin2388 What is wrong with people like you who think a gun solves all problems? Are we going to read about you in the paper next week after another mass shooting?
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That's right end the FISA court!
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@JoeyCentral I've had to fight being banned by you tube more than once. Now go ahead and put up a swastika as your fascist symbol. Do you think we are afraid of swastikas and Mein Kampf? We read what the fascists write because you are the deadly enemy of the proletariat. We need to understand you and prepare the workers for self defense against the fascist threat.
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@JoeyCentral "..am I allowed to vote im China if I’m not a Chinese citizen?.." I don't know but China is a sovereign nation that writes its own rules and laws. I bet if a foreign national owns stock in General Motors or any other US Corp. that their vote counts at stockholders meetings.
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@eldnah2 We don't require property ownership to vote in government elections anymore do we? Anyone with money can buy a green card and citizenship.
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If Shapiro is such a wise man why hasn't he been elected dog catcher? The only thing he does is make self look like an ass. Talking about how abortion is murder. How rapists should be castrated. Why social security is immoral. How the FDA should be shut down and we should just be ware of snake oil sales men because after enough people die than the snake oil salesmen will go out of business. The man is a joke.
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@acxezknightnite1377 He talks sense for a capitalist class of exploiters only. Marxist start with facts and the material needs of the working class not some abstract morality built upon superstition and notions. The logic of capitalism leads into crisis and decline. The capitalist own methods and accounting books show that. Increasing wealth for the few and more misery for everyone else. Capitalism left to its own devices can only lead to world war and fascism. That's what it did twice already are you ready for WW3?
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@acxezknightnite1377 Marxism the movement is guided by the methods of historical materialism. Human beings use social labor to transform nature and use tools to save future labor time. The size of that organization of cooperation has reached world proportions. So all comparisons to the animal kingdom can only be seen as a subset of human behavior because no other animal on the planet has the power to transform the planet the way mankind has. Marxism isn't based in sets of principles rather it is science derived from material reality just as all science is. For mankind to create culture he must first feed shelter and cloth himself. That is what economic organization is all about. The production of a surplus is what made the city state and then the nation state possible. Where do the ideas of the capitalist lead? To greater profits and the maximization of all profits at the expense of all other considerations. To the creation of an ever smaller and ever richer class of capitalist while everyone else is pushed into an ever larger and poorer working class with less and less skill. This is the logic of capitalism to more and more competition among the laborers of less and less skill while a few sit at the top owning, controlling, and eating everything as voracious tigers and hyenas. The Marxist say turn the tables on the capitalist work in your and your comrade workers interest against the capitalists. They say longer hour and lower wages we say shorter hours and higher wages,. They say health care for less we say healthcare for all. They say more incentives we say fewer incentives. They say no taxes on them and more on us we say more on them taxes and no taxes on us.
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@acxezknightnite1377 Why shouldn't you go to the US Guantanamo Bay prison torture center?
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@acxezknightnite1377 "Hierarchies are innate." A mere notion presented as an argument. Not so hierarchy is not innate since labor is social and no one person is key in any human social organization nor do team efforts require a certain individual or type of individual determined by birth with the exception of those determined by sex. Capitalism is merely a form of social organization not preordained and the capitalist is not a special type determined by birth except for his inheritance of wealth which is once again determined not by the individual but socially. So all you have done is present a notion as an argument. Hip Hip Hooray for the notion that Marx is wrong.
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@acxezknightnite1377 Being fine with capitalism doesn't prove anything about it. You don't want to travel to Guantanamo Bay? Certainly you want to know why these terrorist don't deserve one of your culturally superior trials where justice is determined by facts presented and a jury not simple notions like those of witches and goblins being responsible. Why is it necessary for your capitalist government to deny them their right to a trial? Is it because you are afraid of Bushes axis of evil North Korea, Iraq and Iran. Why did you subject the Korean people to a merciless bombing campaign and a war of aggression? Do you not know anything about Korean history? You decided to divide Korea with Stalin when you had no right or reason to invade and set yourself up as the new Imperialist power in Korea taking over from the hated Japanese Imperialists. Why do you always choose war as the solution. Are you unable to defend your system of exploitation except by notions and pointing at others? You mercilessly bombed North Korea and when did North Korea bomb the US? You want to come with me and visit N Korea we can see if that's possible. Why not call your Congressman and ask why no trial of any kind for those accused of terrorism, ask if we can go visit together and why do you always need demons to battle in wars of aggression. I'm living in one of many "communist places" in the USA right now its a camp trailer I own it by capitalist law and you can't just force me to leave or drop bombs on me. You are afraid of communism because you've been trained by the American ruling class with its educational system a system that is merely a product of the capitalist system of production and trade. It claims to be superior and presents false notions as proof like "It brings democracy." "Capital creates wealth." "I'm fine with it." "dystopian Marxism." Marxism is based not in principles but facts and Marx's general discovery that motor of human history is the class struggle. Capitalism is a mere stage in history of social organization which itself changes as the productive forces do. The essence of capitalism is the profit system and an ever smaller capitalist class governing by the law of profit alone. They system goes into decline as the problem of a naturally declining rate of profit provokes the class struggle against it.
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@acxezknightnite1377 People aren't ants and we don't reproduce by using drones and queens. Nor do gorillas all follow the orders of one certain gorilla. None carve a live from nature the way human beings do so none of what you say is really relevant. It's a matter of you personal feelings about biology. Biology is driven by the struggle to survive the same as man not hierarchy. Possible you missed Darwin's Origin of the species. Man survives by social labor, creation of a surplus and the creation of tools to save future labor time. If man's social organization stands in the way of mans development and survival man has no choice but to change it or die. If all man needed was hierarchy than the catholic church would be all that was needed man or men would be searching for the best hierarchical structure to survive which you believe like a dogma to be capitalism. It doesn't matter wither I like or don't like it capitalism the laws of nature and human development itself condemn it to death just like the previous systems of feudalism and slavery. At the end of the day even if capitalism were to avoid the disconnect between production and exchange value, the crisis of overproduction caused by the inability to buy back all that can be produced, the declining rate of return on investment would cause it to end. Capitalism can only make profit from industrial production and those activity that defy industrial methods are deemed unnecessary. Higher paid skilled labor is the first to be replaced with unskilled labor and machines. Education becomes less necessary as capitalism needs more order takers abd fewer thinkers. Workers are replaceable parts and medical care is unnecessary when another worker can be hired and healthcare is just an overhead cost of industry and government. Yet profit maximization is the cry of the capitalist and his loyal servants in government, university and industry. Anyone with a brain realizes a strict command structure of economics will not work since their are no infallible human beings nor can all information and administration be centralized, calculations made and then orders issued. Such a system would require continuous repair if even possible to construct meaning that it would be impossible for all unknowns to be known at the exact same time and the calculations would therefore always be incomplete. Hierarchy may have its value but so does decentralization. Economics defies exact computations. Each man's and woman's exact needs change as time goes forward as do the ability produce and general education and cultural level. It make no difference that you are not American and aren't educated in the American educational system you are educated in the ideas of wage labor and capital, of profit and loss, of supply and demand, of rate of return on investment. You live in the world of capitalism and its ideological justification. The American capitalist lead a world of globalization of capitalism at the end of WW2 and now its starting to fail in the very centers of global capitalism itself. The EU is breaking apart with Brexit. The French are refusing to vote. Trade wars are in the order of the day. Capitalism is in its death agony and the only question is how many workers will the system take to the grave with it. It is quite possible that the ruling class will set the clock way back with nuclear war. Then we can start all over just like after WW1 and WW2 assuming nuclear winter doesn't intervene. There is no reason to believe capitalism won't result in world war like world war one. Because the seeds of war are in the system itself with each man and each nation state out for themselves with its own class of rich capitalist at the helm. You say I'm resentful of your wealth but why should I accept your claims to wealth? Do you believe you deserve more than others? On what basis should you be wealthy. Did you put in more hours or more sweat then others? How much more do you feel entitled to any way and why? Because you daddy left it to you in his will? Because you had the good luck to be born on top of a mineral reserve? You scored higher on educational exams? You a capitalist who buys labor time and sells products made by others? You country escaped the wars of the 20th century? Your an administrator who can do the math required to keep a ledger of profit and loss? The Americans couldn't buy themselves an Army to protect themselves with 2 trillion dollars in Afghanistan. Instead they left with their tails between there legs after creating a disaster for millions and killing 100,000 all in revenge for the 9/11 attacks. What makes you think your capitalist class can do better? The America Capitalist don't like to share anymore than your ruling class does. They like profit and more of it and the won't hesitate to use military force to get and defend it anymore than NAZI Germany or British Imperialists in the second world war or the French, German, US, Turkey, Russia and UK empires in the first world war.
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Tik Socialism the evidence is overwhelming111
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@theosey Communism is not a new doctrine with its holy priests but a historical movement of victory and defeats by the proletariat in struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalist.
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Capitalism gave up nothing without the class struggle. Class struggle is the road to socialism. Once the capitalist Empires had divided the world among themselves they began fighting with each other in world war. In the Russian Empire things got so bad that cannibalism returned. Women textile workers lead the February revolution.
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@Aimless6 The capitalist are not yet ready to throw 200 years of Constitutional government and rights in the trash barrel over a few million refugees.
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Communist like Lenin and Trotsky are revolutionaries. You can red bait all that you want but they did what the bougoies was unable to do in the countries were they lead revolutions. One third of the world entered into the industrial age without a capitalist class in the leadership Both Russian and Chinese capitalist were unable to carry out a land reform and take control away from the relics of feudalism. .
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@Paul B Has nothing to do ith teachers unions and everything to do with the natural workings of the profit system which has education and healthcare at the bottom of the list for state expenditures along with replace skilled labor with machines and lower priced unskilled labor. Capitalism produces down the road that only the road of class exploitation can take. Taking more for themselves and leaving you with less than what takes to reproduce your labor
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@everythingandmore5537 The problem is the two parties represent the capitalist class and its ideas. All they are concerned with is the cost which for them is a government overhead cost that they seek to minimize. Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines they need more order takers and machine watchers not thinkers.
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@AlienPsyTing1 Cops had their guns drawn on the basis that it was a dark black and brown neighborhood. Not the one a Thomas Sowell of Bedford CA lives in.
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@Ratlins9 Right when you have the wealth of a Barack Obama or Thomas Sowell you move to places us mere mortals can only visit.
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@Ratlins9 What does that have to do with anything I said? He's no different than the labor dept workers who he said wanted to save their jobs. Sowelll is a highly paid fellow at the Hover Institution Stamford University. He knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him.
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@WeighedWilson Stop big tech monopolist how are you going to do that without abolishing private property or at the very least intellectual property? The facts are the cops had their guns drawn for no other reason that a man was standing in his building doorway and then entered his building. He took out his wallet a cop yelled gun they began firing a cop fell backwards so they fired even more. He was hit with 17 of 44 bullets because cops just assume Black men in front of doorways are suspicious. Why did he take out his wallet? Well cops are always saying let me see some ID. Are you suppose to go around with a bar code on your head so the cops can run the bar code to see who you are all the time? Cops had no reason to have their guns drawn or even bother him to begin with. This is exactly why the get the bad reputation they do they are always jumping to conclusions without facts.
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@WeighedWilson Your the one who didn't bother to check the facts or use their brain since the cops had no reason to stop him, nor a reason to have their weapons out, and no reason to shout gun since clearly he didn't have one. One or more cops to have fired first resulting all of them firing like an execution squad. Cops are suppose to be alerted by bad behavior not behaving badly. If anyone is trolling its you as is Mr; Sowell since he is using the actions of Clinton and Al Sharpton to excuse the cops as having made a simple series of mistakes along with the no evidence claim that witnesses are set up in open court for harassment since witness are routinely required to give their names and addresses since otherwise we would be allowing secret evidence to be used in a trial. So who is trolling now if it is not you? The root cause of crime and anti social behavior lies in the capitalist social system that gives power to those who can accumulate capital over all others.
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@Phantom S.L "Can't we could all get along." Aren't those the words of Rodney King who was beaten like a dog by the Los Angeles police?
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@Phantom S.L Okay so lets abolish the criminal for life destination of convicted felon.
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@Phantom S.L What makes you think someones personal qualities are connected to race?
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@Phantom S.L That won't work because the bible is much to inconsistent to begin with. First you say turn the other check and then you say no so your already inconsistant. I say we have a right to self defense and a right to take collective action against those who violate our human rights.
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@Phantom S.L Why not read the Communist manifesto?
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@Phantom S.L Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria must bear their guilt because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword their little ones will be dashed to the ground their pregnant women ripped open.”[a]
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@deborahdean8867 Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria must bear their guilt because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword their little ones will be dashed to the ground their pregnant women ripped open.”[a]
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@deborahdean8867 Basically its a book of stories taught by people who say do as I say and not as I do and believe in God and Jesus and you'll eat pie in the sky when you die. .
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@deborahdean8867 Sure I have as kid I was sent to Sunday school and later confirmed in a Protestant church. I even had a bible with my name on it. The authors and leaders of the communist movement write on history, the class struggle and modern revolutions. They speak to me for me in ways the bible can't. Nothing in the bible explains what makes man different than all the other animals except the story of Geminis. Which requires you to believe the story because if you accept the theory of evolution that directly contradicts the bible.
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@deborahdean8867 Well you can start by explaining why Solzhenitsyn characters received justice in Lenin's time. The US/UK invaded the Soviet Union. "Bolshevik Jew communists" well I guess that says it all your just anther supporter of Adolf Hitler. His biggest enemy was the "Bolshevik Jewish communist". What do you care about China? You government cried that they had lost China. Mac Auther talked about using nuclear weapons on Chinese cities. The Rosenberg's should receive Congressional medals for their sacrifice on the alter of American Imperialism. All your clowns talked about winning the cold war though kill ratios and murder. You brought the world to the brink of nuclear war because the Cuban revolution freed your colony.
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@deborahdean8867 The bible was written by people who were tribal and roamed the middle East. The New Testament by Greeks who wrote down stories about Jesus and the Roman Empire in the Middle East. They knew almost nothing about the world beyond Egypt, Persia, Rome, Greece, Carthage the Mediterranean and middle East. They could not know much if anything about China, India, Australia and the Americas. The human being is social animal and our hands make labor with tools and tool making possible along with a larynx with which to make sounds for communications. We began as hunter gatherers and created culture when we had time not needed to hunt and gather. Then agriculture with the domestication of animals . We used fire to cook our food and to make digestion easier.
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The real difference in the modern world is us the industrial working class. We are the people who make modern life possible not "Woke" company bosses or bourgeois professors. The so called left is the propertied classes trying to save private property from the workers and farmers who the system oppresses. This is why they talk endlessly about Democracy and inclusion while excluding the vast majority from their Disneyland Dream world.
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@wrongthinker843 The Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran is probably one of the most reactionary capitalist powers on earth. What makes it one of the worst is its support and organization for Islamic terrorist organizations not to mention its quest for nuclear weapons. The Islamic terror organizations that the Islamic Republic of Iran supports are fascist gangsters seeking to add more territory into a Muslim Caliphate.
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@Cheapers-Vac Comrade Kim says, "Let men give birth to all the children they want."
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@danielhutchinson6604 Its the logic of capitalism that produces its own decline. They had ended up in another crisis of overproduction in 1973 and with the value of the dollar in decline due to the war spending The French wanted gold for dollars. The greedy American capitalists were not going to give to the French what they had promised in 1944 so the closed the gold window and made the dollar the worlds reserve currency into a fiat currency to create more inflation as a way to boost profit rates without cutting wages directly. This is why wages remained flat while profits soared. Like all good things created out of nothing but a slight of hand and the ordinary crooked accounting books it came crashing down in 2008. See the capitalist no matter what they do can not escape the truth that capital produces nothing but increased competition and that increasing competition in itself produces nothing but increasing conflict and the history of mankind is one of social labor producing all wealth upon which all culture is based. Man must have food, clothing and shelter so he can labor before he can create culture science art and even religion. Our tools are merely constructed to save future labor time. This is why wealth in itself can produces nothing for no machine can operate in perpetual motion and no machine no matter how cleverly constructed has ever been built that can reproduce itself and increase its numbers all while serving any of mans basic human needs.
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@danielhutchinson6604 Look if you think I'm wrong somewhere say so because yes I make my statements are short and tidy as possible so please proceed and elaborate on what I have missed..What the difference between the best friend of the Capitalist FDR and Trump the capitalist because if your his best friend your going to do what he wants.
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@danielhutchinson6604 Since capital produces nothing its hard to preform a magic act like FDR promised now isn't it? So if Trump had more experience at board of directors meetings playing on Team "Liberal Capitalism" he could of done a better job for you?
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@danielhutchinson6604 Lenin called the Social Democrats who voted for the Imperialist War Socialist in name only and traitors to the working class. Only one Democratic Congresswomen voted against the coming Imperialist slaughter in Afghanistan. Burnie Sanders voted Yes. Sanders became a traitor to the working class when he voted for the Imperialist War in Afghanistan. Traitor Sanders and the Democrats are your saviors and the saviors of capitalism. Go Vote for Jesus at the next election at least he can't sit in the White house since he's already dead.
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@danielhutchinson6604 We aren't "playing our cards" and that's the problem. We need to be organizing to confront the social crisis caused by the system and begin organizing actions against it. Like the Oct 2nd Protests to Defend Abortion Rights.
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@danielhutchinson6604 We have to create that system much like replacing an old bridge in New York. You can't just stop all traffic take down the bridge, put up a new one and then let the traffic go. The facts always change the ideas not the other way around the advance of the productive forces reveal new facts which change old ideas revealing them to be just notions or incomplete. Like a flat earth and earth centric universe. Those ideas a fine for people who live in cultures that only travel short distances with maps and use sundials to tell time. The telescope finally killed those notions off as incomplete (a area on a globe can be approximated as a flat surface) and the globe turns in front of the sun instead of a sun circling around a flat surface. The whole history of money reveals its fetishism already. The telescope allow careful observations at long distances and sailing ships made travel across long distances in less time possible.
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@RaymondHng United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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They should send border patrol to McDonalds to check on illegal french fries snuck in with Irish Potatoes.
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@arriuscalpurniuspiso It's clear that Trump's real crime is creating rising expectations among those the professional class looks down their nose at the deplorable workers and small farmers in the midst of an economic crisis of the bosses own making.
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@flyrobin133 And the Democrats like Hunter Biden haven't grown rich by doing the bidding of the two party donors? Democrats they didn't create the Russia hoax either I suppose. The thing is your system is rotten to the core and it can not solve its fundamental problems without unloading the world crisis of capitalism on our backs. .
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@RolandtheThompsonGunner Bullshit conspiracy theory.
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@RolandtheThompsonGunner Capitalism is system of exploitation. The Federal Reserve was the first attempt to create a regulated system of exploitation that could avoid financial crisis. Its the natural workings of capitalist greed that send the system into crisis. The Stalinist's are a counter revolutionary tendency within the labor movement corrupted by privileges into a huge murderous bureaucracy that eventually lead back to capitalism.
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@pandabearoceanpark In a bourgeois democratic country like the US it is possible to build a legal revolutionary movement that can change the system but it can't be done within the capitalist two party system. The workers need to organize into mass unions to fight for workers control on the job and set up their own independent labor party to take on the capitalist politically in the capitalist government itself. However we are under no illusions that the capitalist will accept the peaceful transfer of power. History shows that no ruling class will leave the stage of history peacefully just look at how King George refused to accept American colonial independence and the slaveholders the coming to the end of chattel slavery in the South. The mechanism in the US Constitution are there for peaceful and legal change through Constitutional Amendment or Convention but will they accept that? Instead will they try and install a dictator which is what they accused Trump of wanting to be. Just because right now the liberal Democrats say they are for Democracy doesn't mean they won't change their mind. Look how they treated Trump after he was elected and he was one of their own.
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@pandabearoceanpark "When can't our democracy turn the ship around?" Because the essential problem is the capitalist system itself. It has reached a point of crisis and it can't be fixed using methods that capitalism requires. Destruction of foreign capital. They would need to destroy a large part of the world in order to restart primitive capital accumulation like after WW2. Are you will to risk nuclear Holocaust so that capitalist ruling classes can continue on ruling the worlds people and selling a bunch of junk?
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@Battleschnodder The capitalist state protects the capitalist bosses. Yesterday and today. Only the reformist think the capitalist state can be an organ of workers power. The libertarians see the protection of private property as the only right that needs protection. The protection of the right to own property to exploit others, business secrets and to make only money exchanges is what they are all about.
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@anubis8680 Obviously they are not answering because they know that excessive force can not be justified.
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@eds7406 All of the industry was in the hands of the state directed by a central five year plans. It was not capitalism since no big owners of private property existed directing production for private profit. Instead a privileged bureaucracy arrose that both consumed and wasted much of the surplus value created. Trotsky wrote "In Defense of Marxism" to ague why the Soviet Union was not state capitalist as the minority group in the SWP came to believe.
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The whole thing about it is that the vote was never counted. Shouldn't the poll workers have given her a miranda warning before she signed a confession?
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If anything is destroying the traditional marriage it is capitalism. When people lived on farms then the economic unit was the family. Men, women and children all shared in the work necessary to bring in a crop what the family didn't consume was sold in a market. Now with most people being wage workers the economic unit is the individual worker who receives a weekly wage. He or she is now dependent on the success or failure of his employer and the ups and downs of the capitalist system. The capitalist themselves seek to pay the lowest wage a worker will accept which is the minimum wage upon which all skilled wages are then dependent. They layoffs that come with the natural workings of the capitalist market are what destroys the workers families along with the low wages that frustrate family formation.
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@SuperSkrrrt The capitalist government controls the issuing of the currency which allows inflation to eat up our wages.
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@mab7175 He is the pied piper of Neoliberalism. The man whose "independent study" of Karl Marx found his flaws. See the working class under capitalism is not exploited one of Sowell's first major discoveries. Then of course the love of the free market making decisions for limited resources. Exactly where this limit is to be found is not explained. Next we have the discovery that only trade offs are possible and no solutions are not to be found. So are trade offs solutions or are solutions trade offs?
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@JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth You go eat that plastic Jesus of yours knucklehead. No one is gullible as those who vote Demorat.
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@Whoknows285 The capitalist build giant industries only to let them go into decline as the rate of profit falls over time because the source of the profits is our labor and the capitalist replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Its called the falling rate of profit and it means that capitalism comes to an end when markets can no longer absob the overproduction of capitalism.
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Wall street couldn't be happier. This is just the natural way that capitalism works. As far as the bosses are concerned their only concern is losing market share to China.
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@tigergold5990 No rights are ever safe under the capitalist system of class rule.
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I am waiting for the Libertarians to go into the jungles and follow the orangutans swinging from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit. That way you can all avoid the original sin of collectivism based in the division of labor.
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This kind of injustice never happened in Cuba. Nor was this policy when Lenin and Trotsky were the leaders of the revolution. Just ask Ayn Rand who received her university education in the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution despite being a self described bourgeois student.
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@Racko. MacAuthur was an Imperialist General who wanted to use nuclear weapons on Chinese cities. World War two was a worldwide defeat for the Western Imperialist powers with only the US left untouched by war.
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@DENVEROUTDOORMAN US Imperialists need to close their military bases in Korea and Japan.
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Sowell on;y interested in history he can try and twist to prove Karl Marx wrong. He has a whole history of vulgarization of Marx's ideas from the time when he thought that Communist were naturally just taking over the US Labor department as part of a grand conspiracy.
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@julie.1081 Marx and Lenin both understood how the combination of competition, greed and economic crisis of the ever smaller Imperialist investor ruling class drives them not just to trade war but real war in the drive to maximize profits. Both the two world wars and the intervening era of fascism were the results of capitalism in decay. Only the traitorous actions of the Social Democrats and Stalinist leaders gave capitalism a new lease on life that it squandered with the crisis of 2008 which marked the end of the World War two era of capitalist victory if one can call the destruction of two world wars a victory which finally brought the era of fascism to an end with the Soviet Victory over NAZI Germany and the Democratic Imperialist Victory over the Japanese Military dictatorship. This is still the era of Socialist Revolution as the Cuban workers and Peasants still hold State Power despite capitalist encirclement and the military might of the American Imperialists. .
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@D-Fens_1632 Not enough concrvative boss propaganda being taught in the schools with some half truths and unnecessary broad oversimplifications.
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@bob388 Both parties are classed based and set agenda's that they think will advance capitalism. Something that becomes impossible in the capitalist framework of private property and the profit drive.
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We should have a national and international campaign against these diseases like Cuba did with malaria and what was done to smallpox and almost completed with polio.
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@OmegaTou Capitalist produce nothing they are just big bags of money.
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@gsheac Let's have a maximum income tax and a special tax on libertarians for being stupid.
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@OmegaTou Capitalists produce nothing. They are no more than a bag of money. Every machine and every building in a factory was made by human labor. As far as engineering and administration go you don't need to be a capitalist to do those jobs either. What is essential is human labor even the money itself and the "bag" itself in are manufactured products. Small bosses being eaten alive at the bankruptcy court proves nothing but the capitalist system direction towards monopoly. If you have the money and controlling stock interests than you play the tune at both the government elections, board of directors meetings and all that the government controls. The money bag incumbents get laws written to protect and make those bags larger. Capitalism requires a strong centralized state. The size and power of the state grows as the irreconcilable class conflict does.
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@OmegaTou Do the capitalist risk their money? Yes and much like blackjack players at the casino. If he is the house then the game is fixed in his favor. If he can put together a team of card counters he can beat the odds but only until he gets caught and banned from the casino. If he is lucky by that time he can open his own casino and be another example of the house opperting the fixed game.
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@OmegaTou You live in the most powerful military empire in human history are you are telling me capitalism doesn't need a strong centralized state? All you top 10% do everything you can to keep up at that level because if you sink than you lose all those privileges. You all understand economics which is why Obama spent $1.2 Trillion creating new Nuclear Weapons. We can't afford people like you. Your just to expensive.
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Daniel von Strangle You already over tax the working class with they way you tax us. Sin taxes (tobacco, alcohol, and lottery), property taxes on workers homes (you get a waiver by claiming you are the fairy godmother who provides jobs), sales taxes (the billionaires pay the same tax rate on toilet paper and other necessities of life as we do) the state and national debt bonds (here you lend money you should of paid in taxes to get a guaranteed return on investment when the bond matures.) You have the money to pay the taxes which is why you should pay them. We should not be paying any tax to your government because you only find new ways to use it for our continued exploitation. Theoretically we can be elected to power and write any new constitutional amendments necessary. We will go along that road and make a try at that but history shows ruling classes seeing their own end will cancel elections and/or unleash fascist terror and civil war if you can't win.
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@dezznutz3743 Term limits means only face changes. It changes neither party nor can you make a capitalist party into a labor party. They still will be the ruling parties. Your just going to change the time it takes to be a corporate lobbyist, corporate lawyer and those with executive department appointments. The Party regulars like trained politicians not the Donald Trumps. It makes control easier. Put in a bunch of no experience youngsters and they will see that as nuts. Imagen a first term Nancy Pelosi or Paul Ryan.
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@OmegaTou At the end of WW2 the US became the most powerful capitalist centralized Empire in Human history replacing the European Capitalist Empires of both France and England. The state grows as the irreconcilable class conflict arises. The US has 800 foreign military bases compared to a total of about 30 for the UK, France and Russian federation. The US made itself the world's policeman starting with the Korean war. The US also has the largest prison population. Most of what the federal government regulates comes from the commerce clause regulating commerce among the states, foreign commerce and with Indian Tribes. That seems Congressionally centralized to me.
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@OmegaTou So now what another fantasy world where capitalism is just nice guys trading with their non aggression principle. Do you think the 1967 Detroit rebellion require National Guard and Federal Troops and the 1992 Rodney King Rebellion requiring National Guard and the First Marine Division have nothing to do with class struggle? Racial discrimination is tied into capitalism and plantation slavery from its very beginning with the British Royal Africa Company. I've listened to plenty of idiots who think capitalism automatically fills markets. Well why the need for Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act. Certainly they had their necessary price signals. They knew enough in Congress to take advantge of the coming crisis.
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@OmegaTou You are like the economist who only thinks a strike over pay is class struggle if even that. Those rebellions where over mistreatment connected with being black and the legacy of slavery. For and the Rich white ruling class racial problems ended with victory of the north over the southern slavocracy in 1865. Suddenly the past was completely overcome. The proof being was the ability of Lyndon Johnson to say "We shall Overcome." If I ask a White South African how's your tribe doing how do you think he will react?
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@OmegaTou And how many bosses threaten to move production where labor is cheaper since they can make more profits somewhere else. Like when you closed down factories or threaned to if the workers didn't accept giveback contracts. How come when you move production to the third world you always pay less and have wore conditions but charge the same prices here? How many times do you seek to blame Chinese or Mexican workers when it's you who are paying them less. Ya capitalism always needs a subsidy or a handout.
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@OmegaTou Sure Trump didn't need to invoke the defense production act instead once enough had died you could raise the prices for all who wanted ventilators like Pharma Bro and make bigger profits. Those who die because they could not pay would get cremation as the cheapest solution unless you could get an EPA wavier to dump bodies in rivers or an USDA emergence rule change allowing the use of corpses as chicken feed.
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@OmegaTou Communism hasn't killed anyone for the simple reason is that books, speeches and printed matter don't even make it to the level of guns. Stalin and Mao are labor aristocrats just more powerful than then American Tony Boyle's. Their loss is our win not yours. You count death the same way you count dollars. You create an accounting ledger and then claim the numbers mean you are making a well deserved profit. If the numbers don't favor you than you just move them into different columns and use a different company name. You do the same thing with death.
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@OmegaTou You are the worshipers of gold extolling greed as the highest of human virtue. That is were your weakness is. See I don't need to get ahead that is what you need. You need a luxurious mansion with gardens and garages maids to do the laundry, make your bed, vacuum the rugs, a nanny to feed the children and get them off to school. A large pool and a pool boy, a limo driver, a gardener, a pilot and business jet. Have I forgotten anything Plutocrat? Bill Gates likes sweaters.
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@OmegaTou Discipline equals Freedom? You need to be head of the US Bureau of Prisons. That sounds like a great slogan above the sally port entrances.
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@OmegaTou I didn't turn into an MIT Cyborg. No I conflate capitalism and fascism. Over the entrance of Auschwitz it says "Arbeit macht frei" "Work will make you free." which is what capitalism has in store for those who don't overthrow it when the time comes. You just an idiot who learned to use an abacus. Nothing more nothing less.
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@OmegaTou You see I already knew you, being the crooked capitalist accountant you are, would try to move the capitalist warrior Hitler into our columb. No one in his right mind would think Hitler was a marxist in the 1930's. He was constantly screaming about Jewish Bolshevism. Rightly so since 4 of the 7 people on the political committee of the RSDLP (Bolshevik) at the vote to arrest Kerensky's government were ethnic Jews.
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@OmegaTou Hitler gave you a strike free Germany. That's why Krupp and I.G. Farben became big supporters. Capitalism can't go to the level of world war without merging business with government just like Wilson and FDR did in the US. The NAZI's were like Southern Democrats. Hitler had the SA. The Dixiecrats had the KKK. At Nuremberg the NAZI's argued their racial laws were based on American segregation laws. There is nothing like war to bring out Imperialist patriotism. For those who opposed Wilson's, FDR's and Hitler's Imperialist wars there was the prison and the concentration camp.
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@OmegaTou Wilson promised to stay out of war and also had the KKK riding in on his Inauguration. Wilson's AG Palmer not only had Socialist Eugene Debs thrown in prison for ten years. AG Palmer launched a nationwide roundup and deportation of labor leaders, anarchists, socialist, and communist. He predicted a revolutionary uprising on May 1, 1920.
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@OmegaTou Under the orders of FDR J Edgar Hoover launched investigations into communist and fascist foreign ideologies. A chain store operation of finks in every union local and purchases of books in communist bookstores was undertaken. After reading page one of the communist manifesto FDR's AG Bittle decided a prosecution of Trotskyist for violation of the Smith "gag" Act was inorder. To much fan fair 18 leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party were indicted tried and convicted by a jury that recommended leniency. Defendants served a maximum of 18 months. Two issues of TheMilitant.com newspapers were removed from the mail as subversive to the Imperialist war effort. The trial transcript of James Cannon's testimony remains in publication as "Socialism on Trial". at PathfinderPress.com . .
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@OmegaTou Simply put Wilson started and FDR made possible the rise of American Imperialism as the dominant power and policeman for World capitalism. LBJ lost to much sleep because of Blacks demanding federal protection and anti war chants from outside the white house of "Hey Hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today." LBJ, "I will not seek nor accept the nomination to be your next President."
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@OmegaTou For someone who only a few post earlier was saying that NAZI's were socialist what is it now? I don't see a reason to go further into the roles paid by the SPD and KPD if you still want to maintain that the NAZI party was marxist.
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The power of the state is wielded by the class that controls it. The state does not act independently or above classes. Those who have given no serious thought to the workings of the state will be easily convinced that the state stands above classes or that it is a hopelessly insolvable problem for human beings since the changing faces within the bourgeois state lead only to a bigger and more costly state.
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@OmegaTou There are also those with a material interest in developing the theory of the classless state. Obviously the direct defenders of capitalism like this idea because it relieves them of all responsibility for state actions. They need only raise the banner of a smaller state and go home to a good steak supper. Someone will solve the problem of ever rising state expenditures at a latter date and meeting of the chamber of commerce.
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@OmegaTou The most insidious defenders of the classless state come from the labor aristocracy of all kinds. The Karl Kautsky of the German Social Democracy who finds the Bourgeois state of well washed gentlemen to be preferable to that of dirty handed industrial workers of the Russian revolution. The workers who according to heir Kautsky have not yet comprehended the need for these fine Bourgeois gentleman. With Kautsky you will find the American Gompers who are still afraid the bosses will call them communities like in the era of the witch hunt 1950's. These galant fighters of the working class have yet to do more than raise a white flag of truce since 1954. Still afraid of the red label on a whisky bottle a hew and cry is being raised for middle class membership demands to keep us out of the working class.
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@ReviewsAndMore9 A better title would have been Black Republicans can become wealth like me or you don't need to be a Democrat to have the tired old ideas of Clinton and Reagan bootstrap pulling.
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@madcatter1 Hamas is a Neo NAZI organization with support from the Reactionary Iranian Holocaust denying Islamic Repblic thats seeks to build a nuclear weapon.
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McVeigh was animated by the Actions of the Bill Clinton's Attorney General Janet Reno's and ATF/FBI attack and needless killing of the Branch Dravidian's in WACCO Texas.
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@generaltech512 CRT is anti materialist and that is what makes it anti Marxist. Libertarian's say the are the victims of their own government. Racism is just the ideology of the ruling class in America who economic system was based in capitalism and Slavery grafted on to the new free wage labor system. The first big blow against racism came with the civil war. The next came with the fight against segregation imposed after the overthrow of the Southern State Reconstruction governments by the plantation land owners and the acquiescence of the Northern capitalists. Capitalism needs a divided working class to keep up the rate of profit so when capitalism is overthrown the economic foundations of racism are cuts off at the knees.
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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@Amir As long as Peterson doesn't have to deal with Trotsky or even the 1930's Dewey commission than he can make a big discovery of Stalinist and fellow travelers hypocrisy. Given Peterson's Stalin-a-Phobia why did he seek medical treatment in Putin's Russia? Was he afraid of Canadian and US liberal doctors? Maybe the good professor and Stalin have a similar problem fear of Doctors. Stalin's last purge was directed against Top Soviet Jewish Doctors.
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Conan Carter Nordic countries are welfare states with capitalism. They can't escape the worldwide decline of finance capitalism. The bosses will be cutting socail costs to boost profits and the Social Democrats will go along because they are weak kneed reformists afraid of their own shadow. The Maduro leadership in Venezuela also refuses to lead which makes the country vulnerable to US Intervention and becoming another Dictatorship like Chile under General Pinochet.
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@Maxj3 Not contradictions but truths in my post. Peterson knows to much of Russian history not have come across Trotsky. Yet I've never once heard him mention Trotsky once by name. Trotsky's analysis of Stalin would make too much sense and leave Peterson without the easy answers he provides.
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@ashokafulcrum4795 Russia is Democratic (on paper)? Does that speak to your character? Putin had his opponent locked up despite protests. Given that Congress wants to Impeach Donald Trump for a speech that would pass any current Supreme court test for free speech I guess the standards for "democracy" have gone down. Peterson plays a game of being a former "socialist" with the Canadian New Democratic Party. He is far game for criticism especially since he has launched so many tirades against Socialism using Solzhenitsyn as his source of truth. Peterson destorts the historical record when he says that Western Intellectuals went along with Stalin and the Moscow Trials. That is patently false as American philosopher Thomas Dewey headed the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials".
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@ashokafulcrum4795 Who are the new capitalist in Russia today? The most corrupt former members of the Stalinist Communist Party. Putin is a former KGB Colonel. Plus Russian Orthodox church was legal before the end of the Soviet Union and Patriarch Alexander Kalinin is an ally of Putin. You ought to be concerned with the truth instead of this snow job for a "Democratic Russia."
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@ashokafulcrum4795 You might have a point with regards to practicality had there not been a Cuban revolution.
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@ashokafulcrum4795 With the exception of outright dictatorships like when Hitler ruled by decree after the enabling act and kingdoms most countries are officially democracies including the Soviet Union with the Stalin Constitution. I think the questions you should be asking is do you have the democratic rights to disagree with government policies and is the majority happy with the way things are headed. Obviously if you're to have a democracy you need to have the right to disagree and debate. The majority has to be able to assert its rights and policy without crushing disagreement which is necessary to correct policy.
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@maxisussex Hitler's goal was to save German capitalism and create a thousand year Reich just as Roosevelt wanted to create an American Century. Finance Capitalism specifically Imperialism was responsible for WW1. Most of the parties of the Second Socialist International voted for war credits. In Russia the Bolsheviks opposed the war as did Eugene Debs in the US. Debs was jailed by the liberal democrat Wilson (D). Debs ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket gaining 1 million votes while in the Atlanta Penitentiary.
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@maxisussex The underlying economics of state planning and no capitalist class is what made the Soviet Union, China and Cuba all the same. However the way the revolutions made policy was different. In Cuba and the early Soviet Union before Stalin took complete control decisions were made and much more democratically arrived at while after Lenin's death and in China from the beginning decisions were made by a privileged bureaucracy that put it's needs ahead of the world revolution.
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@stansman5461 When I was a student at MIT i worked on a thing called the "Topamak". It was invented in the Soviet Union. They invented a treatment for lung cancer in Cuba. It's being tested in clinical trials in Buffalo, NY right now. Man is not an animal who works only because you hang a carrot in front of his head. This libertarian nonsense that no one will invent anything without a big payday on the horizon is self serving and just not true. For every Edison who came away with big bucks there is a lot more Nikola Tesla's who died in poverty.
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@stansman5461 The biggest waste of engineering and scientific talent and labor goes into military garbage used to protect profiteers like Gates, Bezo's and Musk. Who the hell is going to buy the trinkets when nobody can afford to buy them anymore because you automated all the work? Sure let's have a third world war with China so bosses like Gates and Bezos can be great again.
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@foodconnoisseur9321 Peterson is a professional dancer he dances around Trotsky without ever mentioning him by name. Basically Peterson is a Stalin-a-phob. He does everything possible to convince you how bad Stalin and Mao were while completely ignoring all the crimes of capitalism. Not a word about things like the Taiping rebellion, the crimes of the British Empire or MacArthur's plan to nuke China or set up a necklace of radioactive cobalt at the Yalu river during the Korean war.
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@davidkottman3440 Trotsky didn't just die. He was assassinated on the orders of Stalin after the Moscow Trials.
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@fuck Sweden has about 80% Union membership v. 10% in the US so workers in Sweden get more benefits through a union contract rather than like in US with a social contract It amounts to about the same thing though since in both countries Social Democrats as the union tops seek to curry favor with the bosses rather than fight back.
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@davidkottman3440 The communist movement lead by Trotsky continues while the Stalinists continue to decline. Trotsky predicted that without a political revolution lead by a new party in the Soviet Union the bureaucracy would lead it back to capitalism. He also spoke of Stalin having to lead a Sovietization of areas (Finland) Stalin took by war. That the second world war would shift the center of class struggle from Europe to America. Trotsky argued that the undeling planned economy in the Soviet Union was worth defending despite the Stalinist murder machine. Without a Soviet Union the Cuban revolution would have been much more difficult and so would the anti colonial revolution post WW2. The Cuban revolution and its new communist leadership show both that revolution is possible and necessary. That a socialist revolution need not pass through a period of murderous dictatorship like that of Stalin and Mao.
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@davidkottman3440 Nobody has been executed that was innocent like Cameron Todd Willingham, victim of Texas capitalist justice, in Cuba. If that was true we would know their name because it would played to the hilt in the US Bourgeois Press. Instead all you ever here about is all these so called victims who have no names because they are actually terrorists, murders, and pirates. At the victory of the revolution some of the worst criminals of the Batista era were given a voice at a US Congress hearing. Big demonstrations in Cuba demanded extraditions of these torturing murdering cop criminals much like the protests over the killing of George Floyd and Briana Taylor. The capitalist rely on these thugs for their state power and want to convince you no other type of police force is possible. You tell me how a cop can lie to get a warrant then they break into a home and murder a person in the commission of a felony (the burglary) and a State AG can't get an indictment? They don't seem to have a problem indicting people for crimes and getting convictions which latter turn out to be frame jobs. They don't tell you the true history of the Cuban revolution because it was one of the greatest stories of a successful fight for human freedom of the 20th century. They don't tell you about all the terrorists they shielded from justice in Miami. One of the biggest hypocrisy of 20th century policy was Bush announcing, "No country had the right to harbor terrorists." except his CIA buddies in Miami. Then to hold captured terrorists on Cuban soil against the Cuban peoples wishes at Guantanamo bay. It's just incredible hypocrisy.
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@davidkottman3440 Fidel and Che managed to create the next real socialist revolution after the Oct 1917 revolution but for bourgeois critics like you a utopia must be created that allows you to sit on your fat ass and be able to make you satisfied that a proper bourgeois government is in power. .
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@Shepardofman The rubber gun squad is your organization.
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@innerviews897 This talk really brings out the anti semitic fascist brain.
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NATO is an Imperialist capitalist allaince that will break up over national differences along with the European Union.
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@alant2465 Bosses cut their losses. Withdraw for better investment opportunities elsewhere. Trump explains how he and Pompeo could do a better job at Rape using a slow technique.
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Anyone who has actually read Marx is already way ahead of you.
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@springbloom5940 Sowell has read Marx so he should already know that Marx never argued for abstract exact equality. He argued that people including workers have different needs some have more children some less, men and women are different. Marx analyzed capitalism as a whole how it would develop and the directions it would take. Trotsky the organizer of the Red Army victory had broken with Stalin in 1928 with The draft program of the Communist International : a criticism of fundamentals.
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@jamesparson In many situations it is a crime to be poor.
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@goolsen5630 His plan bust teachers unions, require testing for ideological purity and create a voucher system that will only cover part of the cost of education.
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The documents are almost at least two years old l think the court should open the documents so we can see whats inside.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba! Close the US Guantanamo Naval base and Prison torture center!
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@VMan29397 I don't need to read dictionaries. Kennedy didn't want to call it a blockade so he called it a quarantine as if the Cuban people came down with some kind of illness. Its a blockade so stop trying to make it sound like something its not. The US has designated Cuba as an enemy under the 1917 "Trading with the Enemy Act" and a sponsor of state terror despite be the victim of US sponsored CIA terror against Cuban civilian targets. Cuba doesn't lessons in liberal Democracy from a country that refuse to return national territory it seized with military force over 100 years ago and use as a prison and torture center for it endless wars where persons are held without trail or charges. Cuba has no political prisoners and Jimmy Carter is the one who accused Cuba of sending him mental patients and criminals. Fidel offered Cuban help to the governor of Florida who was having a migration crisis and Carter immediately sent out the Coast Guard to enforce the blockade.
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The Ukrainians are fighting for their right to exist as an independent nation not to become a prize for the American NATO Imperialists or Russian bankers oligarchy. This is what all sides of the American capitalist debating parties fail to understand or comprehend. The see limited war as a requirement of their policy of world capitalist investors domination. At home the workers are the first to question this endless limited war policy. This is the Vietnam syndrome that questions bombs over butter.
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Jay James Bezmenov was a Stalinist trained idiot. His nonsense was proved to be nonsense after the end of the Soviet Union.
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@dannyknightblade4592 The are no jobs for those who finish their "ghetto" education. Its like everything else the bosses see record profits and say everything is working as it should.
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Bush was the one who began the war for big business and only one Black Congresswomen voted "NO." Both capitalist parties are responsible for the carnage. Trump and the conservatives are just as responsible as the liberals and Social Democratic Traitor's like Sanders who voted "Yes". The workers and farmers have no common national interest with the Boss class. The sons and daughter of workers are used as cannon fodder for the Imperialist profits.
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Anyone not a corporate shill for the bosses is dangerous.
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I tend to doubt that a Islamic Jihadist walks into Walmart than goes to the firearms counter and says, " Hi I'm an Islamic Jihadist planning a massacre. I need to kill as many people as possible. What do you have for firearms on rollback today?" Even more unlikely is the NRA bringing a second amendment lawsuit in his name after he is arrested or the guy behind the counter letting him hold a rifle in his hands to begin with.
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Its not going to happen as its a utopia idea much the Soviets talking about building Socialism in "One Country."
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@bogthing1 They thought he'd be another FDR. Except no one is as stupid as that anymore.
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@bryanlongshore6198 Professor Longshore He calls himself a :"Community Organizer".. so basicily he is a communist. If you call yourself a Republican or Democrat than basicily your a supporter of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea by the same logic. Boy you are a smart one did you get your dog treat today. Are you sure you did not become a communist after reading Rules for Radicals? I be careful if I were you don't get caught reading all the books and pamphlets at the Marxist Internet Archive. Next thing you know someone might think your a communist for reading books and talking about Trade Unions.
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@philcollins2546 The decision has nothing to do with creating equality rather its a decision by the ruling class to mask its own affirmative action by pretending to institute a system which can fairly access a college applicant. The decisions says not a word about those who buy their way into elite universities and education in general.
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@rfw19721972 The Chinese and American big capitalist think they are the important ones. The capitalist create their own gave diggers.
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@ME.5 It is the creation of a new huge Chinese working class out of poor peasant that will chase out the capitalist running dogs and capitalist roaders for a rebirth of a new world socialism welcome to my Chinese brothers and sisters we seek to join you in a new world free of hunger, want and war.
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@ME.5 It means a return to the early days of the Soviet Union like Cuba where internationalism was and is what the socialist revolution is about.
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@ME.5 If the shoe fits than wear it.
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@ME.5 Ask a stupid question. Get a stupid answer.
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Racism developed with Capitalism and it will be destroyed in the coming socialist revolution.
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Deng was going to war with Vietnam as a favor to Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter who was supporting Pol Pot as way to punish Vietnam. In China a new working class has already shown its ability to fight against the CCP's capitalist regime. In America lhe liberal labor allaince has all but been destroyed as Trump was elected despite a campiagn of lies by the FBI and Clinton the he was a tool of Moscow and Putin.
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The elite already rule. The object of the communists is to end that rule. As the workers struggle against capitalism's failure they become more conscious of their historical mision and the ultimate goal of the class struggle to end capitalism by abolishing the capitalist state and make the needs and rights of the great majority the ultimate international goal.
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Any country that moves in the direction of real socialism will quickly come under attack by all the Imperialist powers. That means taking private property away from the countries owner class and abolishing the private property of foreign owners. They've spent 70 years trying to strangle the Cuban revolution in every way possible. The still maintain an international blockade and prohibit US citizens from going there.
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If you are actually making someting that working people will use you will feel good about yourself regardless of what corp is doing.
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@413TomaccoRoad No to Congressional Strike breaking.
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Tucsoncoyote 2019 They have a rising investment value until another 2008 happens. If you rent an apartment out then that means costs begin accumulating, you have to manage it, do repairs, show it to tenants. You can no doubt use it for a tax write off since its unoccupied or under occupied, maybe you get its tax value underestimated or use it for special purposes as a private hotel room for friends, family or business associates. Homelessness can make landlords money with susubdies. Emphasising government inefficiency helps channelized money into their efficient pockets such that they actually want a failure of government policy. As long as you have capitalism you will have poverty next to unheard of wealth
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@saran.4001 Plenty of people have been to Cuba and anticommunist blogger Yoani Sanchez has no pictures of people in Havana living in tents like in LA. The people in Cuba aren't part of the US middle classes greatest sucess stories on earth like you and John who brag about America as the best and greatest while the life expectancy continues to decline. You of course are headed to become billionaires like Gates, Soros, and Koch The meritocracy believes their education makes them destined to be the world's rulers. The claim that brilliance is found in capitalism going back to the early ideas of the European enlightenment. This is why Obama and you Sara say you need to read a book. These wise ones believe that they can build more private jails to lock up the systems social problems at a lower cost. The fact is that capitalism in the US is reaching towards all kinds of sustainability problems with no real solution. More wars mean more maimed for life. The prisons and jails are filled with the mentally ill and with non violent drug abusers. The workers are beginning to reject both ruling parties. This is beginning to strike fear into the minds of the rulers and their hangers on.
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@vantaplat7411 National Security is a bull shit excuse used when ever the ruling class wants to launch a war.
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@Ryan Robichaud Not true since it will shift production to things working people need and put more workers to work instead of having both workers and capital idle. Somewhere around 40% of industrial capacity in the United States sits idle because the capitalist can't make a profit with it. Arms production is another waste of resources under capitalism.
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@timcombs2730 Deputy Andy Griffin Your a policeman? So you wouldn't be interested anyhow because your part of the establishment. Drivers don't like cops because you guys hand out all kinds of expensive tickets for stuff like cracked marker lights just so you can earn your pay. You pull a guy over and hes lucky if he can drive away for less than $100.00.
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@timcombs2730 I think it was some kind of police or FBI setup. You realize Ted Cruz has been asking about FBI informer involvement in Jan. 6th for a reason.
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@timcombs2730 I'll plead guilty to reading lots of books on history, math, science, and politics. L'm not going to tell you where I live. Why don't you go and read Karl Marx online and then you can fool all those rich "communists" like George Soros. LMAO. Then you can start your own NGO and talk all day about the open society or whatever baloney you want. All you want is personal information so you can write insults. Why should I waste my time refuting your personal insults. Your also wasting your time with the guilt baiting campaign. I'm sure the teach you that in investigators school everyone feels guilty about some mistake or error play upon that to get information or a confession to something or other. I'm not a priest who is hear to give you absolution for your sins either. You have to live with yourself and those around you. Personally I don't know whither to feel angry or sorry for you. You think KarlMarx is the devil incarnate. Well what else is new. If he had nothing to say than he would be unknown.
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@timcombs2730 Except I'm not a posturing rich kid that just a fantasy of yours. The problem of course it doesn't explain why American Imperialism has been pissing its pants over Cuba and Fidel Castro for the last 60 years. Workers aren't privileged the source of all profits is the unpaid labor of the production workers. A plumber making 30k doesn't have a license and probably can't thread a pipe. Fidel Castro never had a problem educating Doctors unlike the US which need an immigrant to replace ever third Medical Prince who retires.
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@endcaps1917 The effect of a strike in industry is to shit off the source of profits. Since the profit coms from the workers labor the capitalist can than be put in the position of granting a wage increase and taking a lower rate of profit.
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@franciss8507 Well the vote was never counted so if being Black wasn't the real crime than what was it? This is something you would read about in the Gulag Archipelago or 1984.
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The only state that has used nuclear weapons on people is the United States. The USA is a credible threat. They could have gone down a road where they denuclearize the Peninsula but instead they chose a path of increasing threats and saying no to pulling out US nuclear arms from the South. It appears that tensions are declining after the South has rejected the installation of THADD missiles. One can also not that the so-called librarian peacefulness is just not true instead the video maker sees more and more nations arming themselves for what? Ah continuing the rule of finance capitalism's various ruling nation states with the beginning of trade wars.
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@bad2dabone414 Bosses care only about making a Yankee dollar. Naturally the seek to blame someone else like Chinese communists after all no one likes them and they aren't around to defend themselves anyway. The Bosses always blame anyone besides themselves. Then the have a big lecture about how their market system would have worked if they weren't giving themselves subsidies. At the end of the day the will be crying for public bailouts more subsidies and the need for fewer regulations.
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@bad2dabone414 The capitalist of all countries have loyalty to one thing only money, gold, oil and Texas Tea. You don't believe for a second that they want to save you money on your electric bill? The oil and gas barons want a free market? Hell Standard Oil invented the monopoly corporation. One group of bosses wants the subsidies another group of bosses is getting and no your not going to get a lower tax bill. This is the same free markets sovle everything bull shit of the Reagan era. The only time a boss wants a free market is when he is buying something otherwise he wants a monopoly market all to himself. The truth is that its more cost effective to let everything go to hell in a hand basket and invest in hedge fund market manipulations like GameStock.
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@EyeSeeThruYou The goal of the liberals has always been to save capitalism with some "new idea" another way to mask the exploitation of the working class by the capitalists. Its always amounts to nothing but lip service to Democracy. The bourgeois professor is the ultimate creation of capitalist liberalism. Once the workers move into class struggle they completely leave the bourgeois professor and capitalist liberals in the dust.
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@EyeSeeThruYou I did but YouTube censored me.
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@SA-xj8po Its an unholy alliance of petti bourgeois leftist, old time Stalinist and Liberals working against the right to read and think for oneself.
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@jmcginty96 Democrats like Republicans are capitalist parties.
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The Second Red Scare began with FDR and the first Smith "gag" Act trial of the 18 leaders of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters. This trials testimony is still printed as "Socialism on Trial." "The Case of the Legless Veteran" was the first big defeat for the wichunters. The Socialist Workers Party would further take on the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell would be held in contempt of court. and a federal judge would rule that FBI spying and disrpution tactcs were illegal and the open ended FBI investigation was ordered ended with a permanent injunction.
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@acamiln8354 End the blockade of Cuba!
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@CARLOS GOMEZ Are you related to Gomez on the Addams family?
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@thismodernmonkiedelection1647 Are you another organizer for Marcus Garvey?
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@come_on_now Is Hunter a new Dope Brand Romney smokes while in Michigan or Massachusetts?
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Warren Buffet owns the BNSF he sits in a chair and say he needs a bigger profit longer trains and no conductor.
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@TJT45808 You don't no what is going to happen in China. First why should they just accept low wages and second China needs to buy as well as sell like any other country in the world market.
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@TJT45808 No capitalist tax, immigration, tariff or monetary policy can save jobs. Since the bosses and their executive committee, the government, make decisions based upon profits. Trump sole role is to be a grandstander making promises he has no way to full fill. The bosses use their capital and not their government to build new factories decide where to build them. .Since the fear Chinese competition in the world market they are in no mood to just let China have the US auto production market despite Milton Friedman's advice on tariffs. They can threaten to move production to China one day and promise to bring jobs back the next. Their decisions are always based upon profits for themselves and not on what workers need in the US or China.
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@minermike61 He makes the same arguments made by the capitalist power structure in general. Work hard pull yourself up by the bootstraps and we'll give you a cookie.
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@MCMAHON1250 Capitalism always works to replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines first. So the skill of any trade goes down and the price of labor moves towards the minimum needed to get the workers to socially reproduce their labor for the longest hours at the fastest pace. The capital value rises but the source of the profit the living labor goes down so too must the rate of profit fall. Of course to prevent the rate of profit from falling the capitalist seek to increase the exploitation of labor. Then of course they need to be bail themselves out everytime they halt production when the profits stop flowing. It's a crisis ridden system caused by them putting different branches of industry into competition with each other for the biggest private profits which are they are unable to maintain. They have to either issue wage cuts, inflate the currency or go to war to defeat the world market competition. No situation is too hopeless for the bosses so they have been able to recover after two world wars because of the traitorous leadership of the Stalinists and Social Democrats in the labor movement. .
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Hillary Clinton and Al Gore were both election denyers. Democrats want a rigged game. They don't want anyone ever again challenging establishment billionaire power.
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@shafslam4785 Hamas is a NAZI like organization supported by the Jew hating Islamic Republic of Iran. Islamic fascism has a long history going back to world war one and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem appointed by the British who became an ally of Hitler and raised a Muslim Milta for the final solution. After one election Hamas murdered its corrupt opposition in Gaza in a civil war. It can be simply described as Martyrs for the Profit spelled with an F. Its leaders are billionaires living in Qatar luxury. The seal UN and other humanitarian aiso to launch attacks on Israel.
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In a liberal state like Massachusetts you can be home schooled and then sue the state for failure to provide an education.
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Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter is atoning for his knowing support to Pol Pot at the UN along with sending him supplies via the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand.
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@Magdalenkaization Its true the liberal Carter supported and armed Pol Pot in his hatred of Vietnam's socialist revolution. It was Socialist Vietnam that finally liberated Cambodia from the hated dictatorship of Pol Pot.
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@bornstellarnova1991 Go ahead and abolish the two term limit. A capitalist dictator can still be driven from office. Trump can't reverse the decline of American capitalism without going to war with China. China's Capitalism with Chinese characteristics can not avoid the problems that the capitalist system of trade and production creates. You want to die in a nuclear war for American boss profits then be my guest
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@ondolite3789 Sowell is just a neoliberal where profit and shareholder value maximization are the core values. When the market inevitably goes into crisis he trots out the theory that the capitalist government should have taken the opposite course and the wrong greed control and incentive structure was used. The idea that their is a disconnect between what is seen in the capitalists ledger books and what human beings need to advance never occurs to him. He sees nothing but unending glory for capitalism.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson Limited freedoms? Like when YouTube banned me on Biden's election day? What other countries need is Cuban revolutions not everyone moving to Cuba.
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What history teaches is that the failure of socialist revolutions means war and fascism. Regulation is only necessary with a liberal capitalism to prevent greed from taking over and literally destroying everything. The workers don't need more regulations to observe we need to control production itself.
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Wrong the left was NOT united.
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Much like the neoliberals were like Sowell singing the praises of George Bush until the "Ownership Society" and the "New World Order" became empty rhetoric with crisis of 2008 and the 5 trillion spent on the wars in Afaganastan and Iraq.
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Absolutely no doubt that insurance bosses and hospital bosse are colluding on this one. i would try another hospital because you would want to go to that slaughterhouse.
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@Roffin Those who take only the word of another are complete fools who can be dismissed with the wave of the hand. V.I. Lenin.
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@muxion Just like Sowell they are either liberals or ex Marxist who he lives and pals around with ar the University or the country Club. No one forced him to become what he has become an apologist for America's wars and capitalist exploitation. He said he would do his own study of Marx and draw his own conclusions. No one forced him to conclude its a system without exploitation. None of us told him he had to believe in limited resources and only trade offs are possible. He finds himself having to defend colonialism and slavery since those practices have long been recognized as sins of the past. I will grant you that slavery was better than human sacrifice and being eaten alive and without colonialism many would still be in the dark but none of that or the past justifies what the capitalist have been doing in the present. Even Sowell has had to dismount his horse when it comes to "nation building" but only after Obama defeated the neoliberal Bush. He has nothing but praise for Bush as a patriot. He's been hiding out with the Rhino's until recently deciding to back Trump but who knows how long that will last. Like the rest of the consevative neo liberals they are in a crisis of their own making.
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This guy knowing violates the law but he gets a pass and immigrants don't.
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Its a priceless indictment of capitalist government and regulatory state. It has absolutely nothing to do with Marxism. The American capitalist couldn't trust the working class so it found it necessary to do its own greed regulation. The problem is that a tiger will not cut it own claws others must do the trimming.
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@foxymetroid All that the working people have achieved has been a product of the ongoing class struggle. The reason you don't live in a socialist world today is the failures of the Social Democratic and Stalinist leaderships when revolutionary situations have developed in both the advanced capitalist countries and the colonial world.
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@shadehoward2681 Muller is executing a typical FBI frame job. Like the German Gestapo they start with a victim and then investigate. If they can get the victim then the start investigating associates looking for someone who's words they can twist and then go for a charge of perjury. Now the have a lemon to squeeze who can give up the goods on the victim. If that doesn't work then look for the women scorned. Sex is always a good way to squeeze any victim because true or not it defames the victim giving another way apply a tourniquet to an associate which can be released at just the right time.
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@ArchyBeatz Conspiracy is a very nebulous and vague charge. It was invented by the British when the Crown needed to go after someone who they couldn't bring a charge against. You can be convicted of conspiracy with no one even being convicted of the underlying charge. So what was the underlying crime that came about due to the conspiracy? I am sure people like Alex Jones can help you with that. Obstruction of Justice is also a vage charge. You bought something from a pawn store. You get home and it stop working so you throw it away. Turns out it was stolen and your throwing it away obstructs the ability of the police to prosecute the original crime. You might want to check out the new book "Three Felonies a Day." That is one lawyers estimate of the number of crimes the average American commits in a day.
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@MrSpiritmonger Would you like to be the subject of an open ended FBI investigation without evidence of you having committed a crime first? Those are police state tactics. Where it is decided who to investigate for a crime when no crime has been committed first. It turns justice on its head making the victim prove he is not guilty rather then the police being required to start with a crime that has been committed or is about to be committed and then making an arrest. The whole idea is to look for associates and then see if they can be charged and then squeezed for information that can be used against the target. That was the way the 1950's Red Scare worked. You weren't allowed to take the 5th Amendment during Congressional hearings. They key question was are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party. Say yes and go away for 5 years after a Smith (Gag) Act trial. Say no and you were then asked about who you knew in the Communist Party (The FBI had pictures and stool pigeons) why did you sign a petition for communist causes, why were seen reading a communist book that you checked out from the library and what were doing joining a communist controlled union. They only way to escape was to accuse others who would then be brought in for another round of questions. That's why it was called a witch hunt. If Trump has violated tax law then the IRS already has his return so he has no need to disclose it. Do you put you tax return up for public review? He is not required by law to release his tax return so if he didn't well you didn't have to vote for him either.
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The police have certain catch all charges they can arrest you on. Number one is disorderly conduct. That's the spitting on a sidewalk charge. Unless you have video evidence it's most impossible to beat. Obstruction of Justice. That one is good for you throwing away anything that might be somehow be connected to a crime. Anyone who thinks crimes are well defined should read "Three Felonies a DaY" a number that was come up by a lawyer for what the average American does in a day. .
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@FluffyHarmlessKitten Everyone knows if a District attorney can't get a ham sandwich indicted he suffers from alzheimer's. He can indict all the Russian's and Russian companies he wants non will appear at trial without a direct decree from Vladimir Putin. The rest consists of either ordinary corruption like tax cheating, a lying to the FBI a charge for those too stupid to plead the fifth and refuse to answer and laws like registering as an agent of a foreign power. A law originally passed as witch hunt measure directed at the Communist Party USA. After all someone might actually believe that 20th Century Communism is Americanism as they usually parioted under the Kremlin's orders.
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We were required to sign loyalty oaths to get Nation Defense Education Act college loans. The Communist Control Act of 1954 made the Communist Party illegal.
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Maybe if I see you in women's cloths I will call you a she but I am not going to call you a they or give you some special status because you want to be the opposite sex. Nor will I recognize someone with male sex parts right to call himself a women and use women's only facilities.
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@arttulindroos6686 Your community? Just what community is that? Where is it the gays and people who think they are the opposite sex live in their own community? Maybe you should all move into San Francisco and declare the nation of Gay Francisco? Wouldn't you need a continuous immigration to avoid population decline? They use to be a religious sect called the shakers who believed all sex was sinful they ended up dying out but you can still find New England roads named after them. The problem is basically this I have no way to tell if your gay or straight or whatever unless you either where a sign or communicate it in some other way like wearing cloth's of the opposite gender. Why should we change the English language to make a small minority happy? You want to take over San Francisco and march bare ass in the streets in your community that's fine with me but don't expect everyone else's to cowtow to your culture of lunacy. .
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@energeticstunts993 There is no movement to nationalise housing thats why whatever you wrote was most likely non convincing. Their is no material evidence for more than two sexes. If gender is what you want to call yourself than you can call yourself what ever you want but you can't change you sex since that is assigned at conception before birth.
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@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 Clinton has what she promised abortion legal but rare. Legal for wealthy people like her and rare for everyone else.
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The capitalist south has to be defended by the American Imperialists military.
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Notice how quickly Stossel supports the right of liberal bosses to fire their employees for not being WOKE. Naturally cancel culture is directed against the working classes right to talk and discuss ideas amongst ourselves. The fact that the liberals claim that they are doing it in the name of the left makes no difference.
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@Lloyd Christmas Cost of labor would go up but the value of labor would remain the same and the profits would decrease. That is basically because labor produces the value and that value is divided between the workers and the bosses. It's called the labor theory of value first proposed by Adam Smith. If the bosses could pick any price than why don't they? The problem for them is they can't just raise prices when ever they want to otherwise they would not object to wage increases.
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@coopsnz1 If your going to side with big business politically what do you expect? Corporations don't have business owners? OK so do they have a different name down under?
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@coopsnz1 Sure they are but what is important is who has controlling interests not the small stock holder. You also have holding companies who can expand the control of the market in different ways. Each share gets a vote and so you can have absolute control with 50% plus one shares although in many cases you need only about 35 percent if the other shareholders split 50 50 in a contested election. Controlling interests gets you the election of the board of directors. As an example Thor and Forest River own most of the RV' mfg companies in the US. I don't know how they actually own them but if you have big money buying up small companies allows you to expand your reach in the marketplace because you need only to buy controlling interest.
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@jasonmuller7551 Actually she proves what defenders of the revolution have always said that it was a great liberating experience.Without the revolution she would not have had a seat at the University that was closed to women and had the whites trumped she may have died in the terrorist jew hating pogroms of the Black Hundreds. Her followers personal attacks on me as a collectivist only served to get me more interested in Marx's ideas.
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You don't need an enhanced license to drive a car. I specifically renewed my CT license without using my passport because I oppose the Yellow Star. Montana is the last holdout against the national passport that Nancy Pelosi wants.
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@gordoncheswick4169 This is why the rich buy lawyers to hide behind.
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@putjesusfirst9217 You have a capitalist system what do you expect?
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@billywilliams5995 No its a case of being ruled by idiots with Harvard and Yale Law degrees. Their big talent is telling you what to do after looking at a business ledger book.
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@FindTheTRUTH337 Voluntary federation pf revolution socialist states with free national self determination.
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@kudzy11 The problem is the capitalist system and the government that defends it. The capitalist neglect public health because it is an overhead cost and considered nonessential unlike the war machine and the cops who protect profits foreignT and domestic Corruption legal and illegal is how the system keeps going. The pandemic completely overwhelmed the for profit medical system world wide.
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@fleshpitdm Man is part of nature just because nobody has seen something happen in nature doesn't mean it can't happen in nature. It was once thought fission reactions could not occur in nature also until a Uranium deposit was found to be lacking the expected proportions of isotopes.
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@Demon Slayer !!! Stop trying to convince people that demons are behind ever human action taken. We don't need witch hunts for demons. Your no bodies hero.
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China gives nothing away to poor countries and demands world market prices. Why does China not lead fight to get rid of nuclear weapons instead of building more nuclear weapons and offensive air craft carriers? Why CCP not lead by example instead of relying on market mechanisms and capitalist bandits?
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@berylanjous6932 Bushes "New World Order" has become capitalism's "New World Disorder". As the Break up of the Stalinist East was no victory for American Imperialism. After twenty years of Imperialist war in Afghanistan with the best politicians money could buy American Imperialism retreated with a total bill of 2.3 trillion dollars after killing 100,000 Afghans and creating millions of displaced refugees. All for the American Capitalist Glory and Revenge for 9/11. This is the bitter fruit of capitalist exploitation and the decline of the real profit rate by which all capitalist measure success. The capitalist demand the workers then pay for it all since they are too fat to fail.
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@bigtobacco1098 If the founders wanted Kings and a Peerage as judges they would not have driven out English Feudalism and set up a democratic republic. Judges, police and politicians don't get any special rights that ordinary citizens don't have. The fact that politicians of both parties are inaccessible and lead lives of privilege compared to the rest of us is the root cause of political discontent. That was not always the case. At one time an ordinary citizen might meet with the President. Today you need a yellow star on a drivers license to enter a federal building that isn't an ordinary Post Office. No one greeted those who Trump sent to the capital Jan 6th not even Trump who promised to be with them.
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Usual conservative clap trap it begins with an attack on Social Security, then next comes Clean Air. Well why not write constitutional amendments so we can have social security and clean air? Daaaaa? Then on to various cases where stupid regulations are enforced. If you weren't always starting with attacks on workers rights or the environment maybe people would take you seriously.
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@jonathantaylor6926 Tell Congress to back off from protecting Rail boss profits. No Congressional Strikebreaking.
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@jonathantaylor6926 Ya 'll be donating to their strike fund just like I've done for other strikers.
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End the plea bargain system replace it with the right to a jury trial.
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No doubt your for capital punishment! How about the punishment of capital instead?
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@jerrygmarchantmarchant141 Only the defeat of world Imperialism can put and end to war. The economic roots of war lie in the worlds capitalist system of exploitation.
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@Ksch Koff The US Constitution prohibits Georgia from making its own foreign policy. Article 1 Section 10 "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation..."
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@Ksch Koff Obviously the cop either cheated on the maximum IQ test or was hired before implementation.
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@Ksch Koff Their wouldn't be "identity theft" if the government hadn't decided to use Social Security numbers for ID. If you have an old card it says, "to be used for social security and tax purpose only" on the back. It has been so much of a problem that everyone who has medicare had to be issued a new number.
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@eheheh3263 Capitalism can't use all the labor available because it would cut into profits.
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@mattg7952 GM Will still will build you a custom truck with all the options you want and don't want.
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Kay Human centered capitalism. Anyone saying something like that has to be a fraud. Capitalism and the ruling class self centered to the very core.
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@Erikpdx Actually if 25% unemployment becomes the reality Yang predicts a $1,000 a month is going to be a meatless bone being thrown to the unemployed. It is less than what you can make at $7.50 40 hour a week job. When technology replaces labor with capitalism that investment always goes to replace the skilled and union labor first. He claims his ideas can bringing 100,000 jobs to the Cites but the reality is Venture for America created less than 4000. He is big on bragging on the TED talks clown circuit and he should be rejected for overestimating the Math not doing it. You want to defeat mass unemployment than the first step is a cut in hours with no cut in pay that way what work that is left is spread around instead of mass unemployment which will drive everyones wage down to the minimum wage of $1,000 a month.
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@Erikpdx Trust me we don't need Yang. He needs you for his so called Human Capitalism. You think he's going to fool the top 10% because he calls it a Dividend for America. The people who need help are those who need our solidarity now like the Miners fighting for their pay in Harlan county from the Black Jewel bosses who are trying to steal their wages with the phoney bankruptcy claims. TheMilitant.com We can't afford to be divided into Democrats and Republicans. The have one common threat SAVE CAPITALISM AT ALL COSTS!!! Make no mistake they want us to pay for their crisis, wars and general stupidity.
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Clifton Young Malcolm X would never tell you to vote for a Democrat because they are the Dixiecrat Party. Both North and South. The Boston Democrats lead the anti Bussing attacks in the late 1970's.
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Clifton Young Look I have no idea who you are. My whole family not Black. Maybe your just a whole Black family, Maybe your a professor Black family who can walk the walk and talk the talk, maybe your an Amiri Baraka family, Angela Davis family or Whitney Young family or just a whole black go to church family. Of the posters here you recognize straight off that this guy is just trying to buy votes with an obvious promise scam. I want your vote for my Party The Socialist Workers Party. If Brother Malcolm is to Black for you with his calls to internationalize the Struggle than maybe a Marxist Revolutionary Ukraine Jew Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism or The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx.
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Clifton Young Bye.
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@maverick9036 The Yang plan is to replace current Federal Reserve Bank BLS stats with new ones. This doesn't do anything in itself except tell us more about what we already know or change names so they sound like a cool 21st century capitalism. An interview with Ben Shapiro blows the Yang UBI out of the water. He plans to replace all current welfare programs with his $1,000 a month except Social Security which he will lash by $1,000 month. Once your UI benefits run out in his 25% unemployed economy you get permanently switched to Yangs $1,000 a month meatless dog bone assuming you haven't already accepted his meatless dog bone offer. Let's do the math for UI benefit. At $15 an hour for 50 hours that $825 a week. or $3300 a month You UI is $412 a week just below New York's $420 a week max or about $1650 a month plus possible food stamps. If you accepted Yangs $1,000 a month meatless dog bone before or after you can never again receive UI or Food stamps. UI normally lasts for 26 weeks. During the Great Recession it lasted for 99 weeks in some states. So I think it would be safe to say Yang's meatless dog bone saves the capitalist government from responsibility should a 25% unemployment rate hit us.
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@kylehereygers83 Don't feel bad but organize!!! The more who join and fight back the better life we will all have. One of my great uncles was a founding member the IBEW. Support the autoworkers any way you can. Labor is the one force that can turn this whole country and world around. No more having to keep your head down and be treated like a slave to the company town. The UAW and the Rubber workers said sit down and pushed the bosses out the door. Took over the plant and threw the Chevy door hinge at those rotten apple cops trying to evict us so the scabs could take our jobs.
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It will be an even more powerful oligarchy afterwords.
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@farrahupson The problem is private property the property used to exploit others. Once you close the wall street gambling casinos and make corporate stock and bonds into confederate money then you can have a life. But to do that you need to lauch a socialist revolution like what Fidel Castro did in Cuba 60 years ago. Instead of a business government we need a workers and farmers governmnet that controls business instead of business government that controls workers and farmers.
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@eddyvideostar Ya all you clean office bosses such a bunch of lovely *****.
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End the pillow talk investigation. Muller is probably already down into Stormy Daniels pants.
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@mnmz8393 (patriarchy) and freedom, You realize that you can't have both by definition.
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@mnmz8393 (patriarchy) and freedom, You realize that you can't have both by definition. Lenin said If men want more children the were free to have them.
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@callmeishmael7452 What would I expect from the rarefied air of the professional careerist. Of course you support capitalism. That's your source of power and privilege.
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@callmeishmael7452 Capitalism creates plenty of victims only those who are awakened to fight back and wage a socialist revolution are the valuable 'victims' as a cadre of the communist movement.
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@Uriel-Septim. Profit is what's left after the difference between the cost of production and the price at sale is accounted for. Most of bourgeois economics consists in justifying the profit and its maximization as the rightful earnings of the business owners investment. The workers who are paid in wages are always in conflict over the maximization of the profit and where the profit goes. The rise of the state is due to this irreconcilable class conflict over the profits of business owners and the interests of the wage workers.
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@Uriel-Septim. Your justification of profit is an ideological one. The workers in many business risk their bodies in trade offs between safety and speed. Plus the workers also risk losing their job for a variety of reasons and then have to find a new one. The state is a product of the irreconcilable conflict between classes the greater that becomes the bigger the state gets. Go watch 'Shark Tank" that's the way the world works.
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Why don't we all by bibles and sing Jesus loves me while we are at it.
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@patriciademekpe5522 This is the fruit of the Imperialist exploitation of Haiti. An earthquake hits and the Imperialist have been to busy buying a military force and corrupt politicians so their was no money for middle class relief from the horrible conditions so Biden had the airports closed. Now they flew to Latin America and crossed the border seeking help for junior partners of Imperialism and see how they get treated. This is how the conditions teach and whole nations learn about Imperialism without ever reading a book by Lenin. US Imperialism and Batista taught Fidel and Che then they read books and found the revolutionary course first laid out by Marx and latter Lenin. The US Imperialist have been crying about Cuba ever since.
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@ArtisanVibe United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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@GSpotter63 Trumps wife worked as an immigrant using a tourist visa.
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@thomasphj8766 United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) His parents were Chinese and he was born in the US his parents went back to China and he left to visit them and later returned. The Gov't to prevent him from returning and he sued. Trump wants to issue an executive order overriding it.
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@thomasphj8766 You can be born in Canada of US parents and serve in the Army but still be considered a non citizen and have your drivers license revoked by Tennessee.
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@thomasphj8766 he should be a citizen because his parents were but he's 77 years old. Plus Mexicans' have served in the military without proper papers only to be deported later. I guess taking an oath to defend the US Constitution and then taking up arms as cannon fodder isn't enough for the American ruling class.
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@youreright3802 Fort Knox is US Gold only whereas the cellars of the NYC Federal Reserve Bank contain many of Capitalist Europe's Gold in addition to US gold since they were afraid of losing it to the Soviets post World War 2.
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@TrevForPresident Possession as they say is 9/10's of the law and the NY Federal Reserve bank is sitting on the worlds biggest cache. Who in technicality actually owns it is another question. The Federal Reserve is a creature of the US Congress what Congress creates it can also dissolve since Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act creating the Federal Reserve bank. . . in 1913.
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@RCmack The only ones Warren and McGrath want to help is themselves and their rotten capitalist party.
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@davidgill3356 In general with capitalism every increase in productivity is a curse upon the workers. Ford's River Rouge plant where on one side Ford Ships docked with Coal, Iron Ore and limestone docked employed 100,000 men and on the others side out came Ford vehicles. Today the Rouge employees 7,500 workers.
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@davidgill3356 As Union Steelworkers we got incentive pay based on the number of tons rolled. I doubt this guy increases pay in retails big season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Instead they put on more bosses for speed up, hire part timers and micromanage everything. What he really should be saying is increases in productivity shift profits to that firm or industry. Pay is determined in the class struggle.
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@davidgill3356 In Retail it has to do with getting things off the truck and onto the sales floor. You can't buy that which isn't on the floor. Managers work in nonunion stores and their year end bonus is tied to total sales for the year. So its always push push push. In a rolling mill it depends on the type of steel your rolling. Steel destined for the pipe mill will go through the mill with seldom a problem. Any other kind of steel which has a different destination can have problems to much or not enough time in the furnace, coming out faster than it can be picked up by cranes afterwords or cobbles where steel goes up in the air like red hot ribbon candy. With a cobble they declare an emergency so foremen normally sleeping in offices somewhere can come out and clear it.
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@davidgill3356 Of course its about politics. This guy is a CEO and you think what? That he has no class bias? Sure like Walmart where everyone from the CEO to the guy working on the floor is an associate. One of the basic ideas of socialism is to spread any increases in productivity equally among all the workers. The capitalist pay more to union workers because a strike stops the flow of profits. The biggest profits flow through the industrial monopolies. Not someone running a lemonade stand.
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Fairness? There is absolutely nothing fair about capitalism what so ever.
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@Dutchbrother07 The nation state is the organization of modern capitalist society. Each group of capitalist within its borders is in competition with others for the worlds resources and markets. This competition and the class struggle is what leads to modern wars and revolutions. .
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@Dutchbrother07 Battles between the rising capitalist class with the feudal landlords and slave owners. Who were standing in the way of creating a working class of wage laborers. The feudal Emperors kings and Lords also fought wars, intermarried and made military alliances to extend thier rule.
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@Dutchbrother07 First of all its not a moral judgement but one based upon the actions of most of the capitalist. He and Engles pay tribute to capitalism in chapter 1 of the manefesto "We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange." See there is your whole problem judging everything in terms of money which plays the role of the medium of exchange. Even your Bourgeois economists like Milton Friedman understand how the banks conjure up more money on their books than is in circulation. It's done by fractional reserve banking and lending money back and forth between banks. Now if you don't believe me you can play a little game on paper where you keep a running to total of what's in multiple banks which then loan money back and forth to each other and to customers who provide the initial capital and also take out loans without every exceeding the fractional reserve when making a loan. You'll see how the total of all the banks on the books assets grow beyond the orginal money that you started with. Still think bankers are rich because they are hard working?
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To bad for you and the rest of the bosses who think of themselves as benefactors and rulers of the world.
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@DeathSithe92 The problem is the too big to fail bankers and bosses. The national state and local debt is owned by the bosses who want to be paid for doing nothing but being rich. They should be paying all the taxes and the working people zero.
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@zarach9459 When the crisis of 2008 hit was was Sowell? Hiding out from the whole problem. Later on making the usually statements on how the bosses don't know how to run their own government. Quite true Professor Sowell but what makes you think a different set of bosses could do anything different. They were driven by greed which you defend as the negative emotion the produces wealth for all or does it just produce wealth for the ruling boss class and chaos for everyone elses?
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@burleybater Bill Clinton "Ended Welfare as We Know it." because Reagan couldn't. Reagan signed an Immigration Amnesty Bill which Republicans say was absolutely wrong and they will not repeat without a secure border. ( Will a wall stop 2/3s and I wonder how they plan to stop the 1/3 who overstay tourist visas?) It's easy to say do the opposite of what the other party says. The economic problems of capitalism are not limited to a single country although capitalism is based in nation states with ruling classes. Malcolm X was beginning to take a world view of the Black problem. Once you start taking a world view of the problems of Black working people in the United States you see capitalism is an international problem that the people who run this country are all caught up in making themselves the masters of the universe.
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@edwardlafreniere3641 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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"Conservative" voices. The actual conservatives are like Mitt Romney and other RINO'S. Trump just stole their party away from them. Its not Trump they want to shut up as much as those who follow him having broke away from the Democrats.
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@fazole The Pope promises heaven after life on Earth.
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John Hurley NWO is a conspiracy theory. No one needs a conspiracy theory to explain how capitalism works. The capitalists own almost everything. The workers create the social wealth a portion which they receive in wages based upon what is needed to come back and return the next day or week. The rest goes to the capitalist in terms of a profit. The capitalist judges his sucess based upon his profits as a return on investment. This is what drives the capitalist competition to drive down wages and replace labor with machines. However continued increases in investment with less labor to exploit drives down the rate of return on investment. The capitalist then begin looking for sure things to invest their profits. This is where they drive up paper values like mortgages, stock, bonds, futures contracts and derivatives. Once it is realized these investments are way overvalued they come crashing down and provoke a recession or depression where business activity comes almost to a complete halt.
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John Hurley You can't debate because you lack the ability to argue against the historical truth. Now that Russia and China have returned to capitalism where's the benefits promised by clowns like Regan, Thatcher, and Milton Friedman? In fact the only benefits went to the most corrupt of the stalinist bureaucracy after they excused themselves from abandonly any kind of socialism altogether. In fact during the Vietnam war body counts represented coming victory. Only with their defeat in Vietnam did they become Human Rights leaders supporting monsters like Pol Pot as a way to punish Vietnam.
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@More-Rago People were voting long before photo ID was available. Voting was originally limited to property owners. The reason you think you need voter ID is you don't trust the voters and politicians to begin with. Can't be much of a Democracy where you don't trust the voting process and fear an invasion of foreign nationals into the political process. Any foreign country serious about influencing another could easily issue counterfeit ID.
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@numbers7n Mexico and Canada have their own laws that don't apply here either. What matters in the Constitution is what its says not what other countries do or what you think it should mean. The census counts all persons for purpose of representation not just those eligible to vote or citizens. The federal power was always said to be limited to those powers enumerated in the Constitution. Congress can and has written a law prohibiting aliens from voting in Federal elections. Who states choice to allow to vote in their elections is under their control and has nothing to do with Japan. If Congress wants to allow non citizens to vote nothing in the constitution would prohib that nor does Japan get a say in the process either.
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@samloo8529 Why doesn't China take over Taiwan that way then?
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@numbers7n If Trump and Biden cared so much about Human Rights why keep the Guantanamo Bay Indefinite Detention Torture without Trial center open? Why more prisoners than China in US forced prison labor centers. US two party politicians talk of "Human Rights" is no more than American Imperialist propaganda. When did Taiwan become a state?
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@numbers7n "Those in Guantanamo aren't innocent." Guilty until proven innocent is your law then. The government on Taiwan has called itself the "Republic of China" for the last 70+ years claiming to be the legitimate government of China. I think the Chinese need to sort that out without US interference. Then again maybe if your politicians weren't so corrupt they wouldn't be collecting taxes from people they don't want voting while screaming "No taxation without representation." You never return the taxes you collect from the people you deport do you. Some might call that a racket. Wink at immigrants coming in, collect taxes from them and kick them out if they protest.
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@numbers7n You already played that card of using our own laws against us in. Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. The US can not official recognize "The Republic of China" without breaking relations with the Real China the "People's Republic of China." They get about zero official recognition worldwide. Your laws don't get any respect because your corrupt politicians don't deserve respect. They say one thing in public while doing the opposite in private. General Chang was a butcher given refuge by the US military. I was born here jackass communism is a movement not a nationality. This is where the final battle between labor and capital will take place to just pick up and leave would be tantamount to desertion.
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@numbers7n Most of the prisoners in Guantanamo were collected in the usual manner. FBI and CIA paid finks were asked to point fingers after which tortue provided the needed confessions.
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@numbers7n Ya like your giving me some kind of freedom you aren't obligated to do. What makes Jack Ma life more important than someone your government kills? You don't like me criticizing what goes on here because then you can't ignore me like if I was living in China. I didn't tell the schools to print that famous slogan in the history books, "No taxation without representation." Nor did I write the Constitution and its amendments. The schools and the politicians make a big deal about them but I'm suppose to remain silent for the good of your pocketbook. I don't see where it says in the Constitution where you get a right to a profit or tell me what to think or say. You don't like what I say to bad about you. I've never even been to China. Why should I believe anything people who are know are lying about somewhere I've never been.
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@numbers7n "Guantanamo is a necessary evil if we're ever going to able to win the war on terror." You lost that war the day you started it. If you need more proof I suggest the 20 years Afghan war and the outcome of zero achievements at a cost of 2.3 Trillion dollars, 100,000 war dead and millions of refugees in already one of the poorest countries on earth. Not to mention another Congressional budgeted 13 Billion for 69,000 new Afghan Immigrants.
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@numbers7n I have no control over who breaks a law. Most people who drive a motor vehicle engage in a technical law violations after a short time behind the wheel that will allow any police officer to pull them over and write a ticket. Your unhappy because its hard to justify doing what you accuse other of. Even MLK was smart enough to understand injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere. I should leave because I don't trust you? Your right I don't trust you but I don't need to trust everyone to get along in the world. I should take responsibility? I should? For what? Why? Because I woke up a few days later from the latest police assault? I have nothing to loses. Come and take it if you can.
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@numbers7n What law did the victim of the last Afgan drone attack break? Just collateral damage right? Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk just innocent businessmen. No one dies because of their greed do they? The rich take responsibility when they toss us a few coins. That makes them accountable right?
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@numbers7n The US idea of Democracy is finding the most pliable and corrupt puppets money can buy. The popular overthrow of US puppets is always a threat to Imperialist system of profits for US foreign investors.
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@numbers7n I have to use bosses currency and had to accept my wage payments from the bosses currency though don't I. Must be nice to own the federal reserve bank and print money like water to make our wages worth less. Anytime someone criticises the bosses system than you want us to move away. Trump is just another grandstanding capitalist politician who could do nothing about the system he wanted to save. Plays to the crowd just like all the rest of those no good two party capitalist politicians.
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@numbers7n You can't fix your system because you bosses are too greedy. Only the greedy win in business and the greedest rise to the top. They all want more than they put in and that's a problem because there is no such thing as a free lunch. They also report Jack Ma was seen on a golf course. LOL He was an advocate for the hatted illegal 996 so they probably are keeping him out of the spotlight.
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General Lee was a traitor who resigned his commission after President Lincoln offer him command of the Union army. He is an absolute disgrace to the uniform of any soldier, sailor, marine, airmen, or coast guardsmen of the United States. If he is studied at the service academe's its for his tactics and leadership in battle not for his national leadership for which he will forever be nothing more than a national disgrace.
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Gates lose a few bucks on Windows not being licensed
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When he dies you can do like Stalin did with Lenin and put his body on permanent display for those who worship the dollar, the ledger book and the labor saving machine.
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This guy is a capitalist ideologue who writes apologies for capitalism. He is a Monday morning quarterback and little more.
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You should be wasting a vote for Yang or any other two party politician to begin with.
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@aps-c1766 Definitely a problem the pool boy doesn't have good manners.
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Japan is so screwed up they can't reproduce their population. That is were their capitalist miracle lead the same with South Korea. .
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Sowell would have nothing to talk about without Karl Marx.
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@godknightomega Okay Mr Thou What did you do run away from home in Asia because you were a supporter of Western Imperialism and afraid of communism?
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@MathewPaul-g4x Since World War One Liberals have always been anti working class just like the Republicans the only reason people believe otherwise is the policy of the Stalinist and Social Democratic labor leadership.
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War only befits the tiny capitalist ruling classes. Oppose your own Imperialist ruling classes drive towards war. Say no to sanctions as they only hurt other working people.
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The Communists oppose any restrictions on the working classes right to have and own firearms.
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Hay Hay Judge Jeanine! How many plea bargains did you accept today?
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@willstout5988 MGTOW is just a group of guys who pretend not to be gay and drink soy milk at lunch time.
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@Shinerfolk60 The Socialist Feminist want an end to the marriage contract, an end to the current child support laws, and an end of using the nuclear family as the support structure for capitalism. Children should not be objects to be fought over in a court of law. 24/7 child care should be free and available to all parents. Child support should be a social support not something depending on the income of the individual parents.
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@Dennis-nc3vw No we are providing options. Capitalism breaks up families because the bosses realize they only need to pay for the costs of a single worker not a family. It's the bosses who treat us like replaceable parts needed to operate the means of production based upon profits. The bosses seek to make the nuclear family responsible for all the social costs as a way to cut social costs and keep more profits for themselves. If you want to be part of a gay mens club well who am i to tell you no.
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@DIY_Miracle Seems to me training 10,000 foreign students to be Physicians in the Latin American School of Medicine can't be done by monopolizing thoughts. Plus here is what the US State Department secretly said about Fidel Castro. Majority of Cubans Support Castro says the US State department. US Plans to bring about hunger and desperation. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 Who's the liar now? Free childcare is what it is. Has nothing to do with custodians. Custodians can't do every job either.
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@masteryoda5150 CHAZ was a big nothing. Venezuela still has a stock market. Which country has the highest crime rate and where is your data saying that?
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@amihere383 Who's going to buy all the trinkets you meatheads dream up when nobody has any money wages to buy them? How fast can you type on a keyboard?
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@Dennis-nc3vw Your only looking at one part of capitalism not how the system works in an overall manner. Capitalism has developed into a system of money making by investment. If profits aren't reinvested in expanding production than the system as a whole enters into crisis. This is what produces the business cycle of a crisis in every decade. The rate of profit tends to fall as new machinery (more investment) replaces labor. The capital value of the firms rise but the labor (origin of value and profit) used declines for the same production. So without more markets for increased production than profitability (profits divided capital value) declines. Unemployment becomes part of the crisis and it works to drive down the price of labor such the price of labor is only that that is needed for the workers survival come the next pay period. Without Trade Unions big business controls both sides of the prices and wages equation. The Central banks keep loaning out money in an effort to spur investment and allow the capture of more value by the capitalists. If the world was infinite than capitalism could keep going constantly opening new markets and exploiting more labor. The fact that the world is finite is what stops capitalism from continuing endlessly. It's also divided the world into nation states. Capitalist competition within the nation state can be arbitrated by the capitalist state but in the world market increasing capitalist national competition leads to war. The workers can not buy back all we can produce and the capitalist won't invest in production that won't create a profit on paper.
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@pollypurree1834 Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism. The standard of living in Russia has not dramatically increased except for a few oligarchs. World Socialist revolution is on the agenda now more than ever before.
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@Charles The communist movement split in 1928 with Trotsky leading the left opposition. You lost the cold war since the American Imperialist were unable to bring the Moscow and Peking into the big tent of a single Imperialism. Your still in the situation of an unstable capitalist world racked by economic crisis and war. Imperialism is foreign investment backed up by military force. The national ruling classes are to greedy to share the world market among themselves. You want to read books how about from Lenin to Stalin by Victor Serge. We publish pathfinder press.
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@Charles Libertarians love to define capitalism out of its own crimes. USMC Major General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a racket." In that short pamphlet he describes himself as a "gangster for Capitalism." What he describes is American Imperialism. Butler says Al Capone operated in three counties while he operated on three continents.
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@Dennis-nc3vw The US never has a problem with trading with and recognizing fascist governments. Capitalism creates unemployment as it replace labor with machines. The capitalist only produce what can be sold in a market. Revolutionary Cuba has never had a problem with educating people including Doctors. That's because they don't look at healthcare and education as overhead expenses to be minimized. One of the first acts of the Cuban revolution was to send the young students into the countryside to teach the peasants to read, Plus I've broken the US blockade to Cuba by donations to send syringes to vaccinate people with the Cuban covid vaccine. I was also a striker at Westinghouse. Labor produces all wealth since if capital could produce than it would be possible to build a perpetual motion machine. The capitalist seeks to pay the lowest wages and charge the highest prices. As machines replace labor than the rate of profit must also fall. So the capitalist then must issue strike provoking wage cuts. However to get around this modern capitalism has a central bank which can print fiat currency to inflate the money supply and use inflation to replace the wage cut.
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@PyroSax The Militant Newspaper published since 1928 and online. Then there is Pathfinder Press. Also online.
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@PyroSax Communism is not a new doctrine of universal reform with its holy priests. Rather it is the history of one classes movement the proletariat of both victory and defeats in struggle in struggle with the other most important class in the modern world the capitalists. Its is the lesson drawn from that struggle that the proletariat uses in its ongoing battle with the Capitalist on a daily basis. The goal of the communist can be summed up as abolish private property the property used to exploit others. Only then will personal property lose it social character.
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Why do so many think money grows in a bank? See Capital produces nothing. Labor does Capital doesn't.
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@tannersnyder7473 Who needs foreign enemies when bankers own a printing company with a government monopoly.
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@basskick666 The US had no business intervening in the national civil wars in Korea, Vietnam or China nor was the atomic bombing of Japan necessary. Nor were the US wars in Iraq or Afghanistan justified. Israel is fighting a war against the Hamas regime in Gaza which directly attacked ther civilians and is holding hostages. The majority of 9/11 bombers came from Saudi Arabia. No evidence ever surfaced of them being sent by either the Taliban or Saddam Hussein.
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@deutschesvaterlandfankanal The Imperialist investors nations Empire capitalists decided it would be a good idea to go to war and redivide the worlds markets and resources.
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Obviously the government of financial capital will not find a capitalist guilty of any crime especially a financial one.
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VOA is Washington propaganda station just like Radio Marti. The new head of the national assembly is not Juan Guido. So Guido supporters quit the national assemble and declare themselves to be the national assemble. Guido was nominated by US VP Pence as the new head of a Venezuelan colonial government elected by Trump, the UK and EU along with other colonial puppet regimes. US is NOT sending food or medicine it is sanctioning the country trying to stave the people into regime change with Juan Guido as the new colonial governor.
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They have sent out 28,000 medical students to visit all so no one is left behind like in the US.
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The ruling class has no need for fascism right now and like the Weimar Republic will put any new Hitler in prison.
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@RandyBeretta-db5bg Workers need to organize a Labor party independent of the two parties of the capitalist bosses.
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@MasterofScrutiny Well we've had leaders who are military geniuses compared to the Generals and Armies they've defeated. Leon Trotsky as Commissar for Soviet Military and Naval Affairs defeated 14 Imperialist armies including the US/UK and Fidel Castro defeated your dictator Batista with either captured American Small Arms or ones purchased in the US. Then he defeated your CIA invasion force in 72 hours and maneuvered the conservative USSR into providing nuclear missile defense against a second US invasion plan.
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@rickdiaz4559 As long as you have capitalism in America you'll have Imperialist war to protect foreign investors. Only a socialist revolution can change that.
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@MasterofScrutiny I'm sixty nine years young. My cousin also prays for me. So far it hasn't done much good. America is where the final battle between labor and capital will take place. This is where the communist movement survived both Hitler and Stalin. We have a small organization but our power is in our ideas. We've published a paper The Militant since 1928 and play a role in the class struggle. We lead the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike and the Central States Teamsters Over the Road campaign. Our leaders went to see the Cuban revolution at the beginning and have been part of the movement to defend the revolution in the US ever since. Trotsky advised us on Black Nationalism when he was in Mexico. We had Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell held in contempt of court in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General.
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@donde2k "... pick up a non-compliant history... " You mean a book of lies written by wealthy collaborators of Batista and the CIA invaders? How about we consult the declassified US state dept paper. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499 So the US decided to threaten nuclear war because it wanted to overthrow Fidel Castro's popular revolution.
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@outtolunch2834 Your out to lunch alright. We don't want you government but to overthrow it.
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@MasterofScrutiny How do you know who is and who isn't a communist besides people like me who clearly claim to be communists? Besides we have a court ruling that forbids any interference with our political rights. That was the result of Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General.
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No one except Christians and Muslims care about what Jesus said or didn't say. But my bet is that nowhere in the bible is the word homophobe used and given that both words homo and phobic have latin and greek origin one could argue that Jesus wasn't homophobic at all.
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@Nylon_riot Because for Sowell only the bosses are born with superior intelligence.
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@benjaGarbers NO
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Why not tax people who don't work and pay the people who do work?
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@jasonm1827 You live in a capitalist society it is corrupted by definition. In any dispute with a boss he always gets the legal benefit of employment at will. We sued the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG was held in contempt by a federal Judge for refusing to turn over FBI "fink" informant files. Using secret evidence against a defendant is repugnant to any concept of a fair trial.
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@darnfrick3354 Democratic Party liberal elite are becoming a threat to the rights the anti federalist insisted be included in the Constitution. FDR was the first to use the Smith "gag" Act not Eisenhower. FDR along with Truman started the witch that became Republican McCarthyism. The irony of history is that the Stalinist CP went along with it during the war because it was an attack on Trotskyist the Stalinist main enemy. After the war the CPUSA was talking about the end of the class struggle and shaking hands with the monopolists only to end up doing 5 year stretches in federal prison.
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@taefravis I don't agree with Trump but using him as a reason to clamp down on rights is not on the interest of defending the Bill of Rights. The Democratic Party elite don't like that he was elected as part of the general demise of the New Deal coalition of Blacks, Labor and capitalist Liberals. We need the rights guaranteed in the Constitution not capitalism or Democratic Party liberals. Trump asked a question they didn't want to talk about "Where have all the jobs gone?" People like Steve Bannon promoted Trump as a revenge on the liberal elite. That of course is just as bankrupt as the American Imperialist agenda of the liberal elite.
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@_warsp1te760 I can watch Russian TV when ever I want its called Russia Today or Sputnik. With so many different news sources it becomes hard for any one group to hide whats true. Yeltsin and Putin took advice from Bill Clinton. I can show you pictures of Stalin siting next to FDR and Churchill. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and you can not escape that essential truth. Capitalism ha nothing to offer the world but war and fascism. The US Empire is in decline.
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@Meow Mix Man Been playing with the catnip again?
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@MichaelMiller-xj1ti The progressives believe in the reform of capitalism. They have not yet drawn the conclusion that only a working class revolution can change the system. When money is the measure of everything than money will be the god that is worshiped.
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@danielhutchinson6604 The only freedom capitalism protects is free trade. The only thing capital does is accumulate. It can not produce. Build me a machine that operates in perpetual motion before you tell me capital produces. Trade or exchange no matter how beneficial to both parties produces nothing. Only labor by transforming nature produces wealth. Money merely facilitates exchange for exchange itself even if based in labor time and not the current fiction of fiat currency can never be exactly equal since people are not exactly equal in laboring ability either. The maximization of profit merely maximizes competition. The goal of every capitalist is maximization of profit but his goal by which he measures success moves away instead of getting closer. As he replaces higher paid skilled labor with machines in industry his capital value rises but his labor needed for production falls meaning so to must his rate of profit the very way he measures success. So at best he needs more and more unskilled labor not more skilled labor. He seeks to place and judge all activities by profit and loss alone and so to raise profits he needs to cut not just labor time but overhead costs. For the capitalist the education of the masses, the environment and healthcare for the masses is an unnecessary overhead cost to be born by his government or private charities which is where he places failed business and all activities that can't produce a profit for him at any given time.
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This is just the natural workings of capitalism and capitalist culture. Profits always come first and the profit system itself is failing.
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@streetcop157 The profit system is based upon private property the property used to exploit others and the rate of profit by which capitalist measure all success goes into natural decline because as machines replace labor which is the source of profit the rate of profit must also decline. The capitalist wins the battle of the market by the number of discharges he issues. The system creates the long term unemployed who are the source of petty crime. They system can not work because the workers can not buy back all that can be produced.
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@streetcop157 And the liberal capitalist look at the criminal justice system and ask if they are getting their money's worth from a system that has the largest number of prisoners in the world by the numbers and percentage. Investments in walls and prisons do not make profits instead they go down as a government cost which the capitalist consider an unfortunate overhead cost but a necessity that drains profits also.
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@gblargg Capitalism need a strong centralized national state power.
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@theburners32141 Today's big capitalists like hiding behind free market theories so they can get another state sanctioned rate hike on your electric or gas bill. Big Business wants your small business and they'll do anything to get it. Regulations are written to protect big business and incumbents. Not small shopkeepers or workers.
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@gblargg The division of labor, machinery powered by energy, a money economy, private ownership by capitalists of the machinery and wage labor characterize the capitalist system. So no ancient trading people making handicrafts and sailing ships or even the Roman aqueducts were not made by capitalism. I don't know where you are but I bet that not including food that 99% of what surrounds you was made in factory or out of things that passed through a factory. It's no accident that the most powerful Empire in Human history also had the greatest GDP. It's the underlying class conflict that requires an every larger state apparatus. Talking about returning to a day and time that never existed is foolish.
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@futbolanalysis7250 The capitalist system works in such a way that profits flow to those companies and industries that can continually cut the cost of production by replacing labor with new machinery. That's not possible in some areas that are nevertheless necessary to the system being able to function.
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@rodsr9906 Freedman was smart enough tool fool the Soviet workers into believing he was making them into the true owners of workplaces by issuing them salebly shares. Then he and the corrupt Yesin engineered shock therapy such that the workers needed to sell them to the new capitalists. Of course you can only pull off a scam like that once.
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@rodsr9906 The problem with Freedmans solution is big capitalist and corrupt politicians reject it.
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@rodsr9906 Our solution is for the working people to take control of industry with the right to strike when nessasary. Then the trade unions can decide safety questions because those who work should decide what's safe rather than a corrupt company bought off OSHA inspector and questions regarding pollution because you wouldn't shit in your backyard like a bought off Wall Street EPA inspector will.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@sabejreid2072 No we need leaders who will pursue a policy of peace instead of an military Imperialist investors Empire.
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@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Those are called ex post facto laws. In other words laws that make a past action illegal The constitution doesn't permit them.
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@nonyadamnbusiness9887 How do you propose write laws to arrest and prosecute Congressmen for writing bad laws that lead to bad policies carried out by the Executive power? After all if Congress passed the law there had to be a majority in both houses. You'd be basicly giving the President the right to have Congressmen arrested for voting for laws he doesn't like and the courts the ability to find them guilty of being a Congressmen who in a majority voted for a law the President didn't like.
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@nonyadamnbusiness9887 American English is my first language and I don't under stand how you can prosecute Senators and Congressmen for using bad judgement writing laws you don't like? Sowell is the classic Monday morning quarterback. He can always tell what was wrong after the fact. He can tell you it is government writing the wrong laws but he can't tell you what the right ones are. If capitalism was could function without a state you wouldn't need a commerce clause in the Constition or to post private property no trespassing signs.
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@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Your the one who though a stupid idea was a good one. The Conservative and Liberal politicians can always tell you whats wrong after they do it. That's why we call them Monday morning quarterbacks. You'd have to put Bush and the almost the whole Congress in prison for the 20 year Afghan war. My Party opposed the war from the very beginning. Of course you have to be nuts for opposing capitalist rule in the United States. After all these politicians got the best education monet can buy. how could those who went to school with Bill Gates possibly be wrong? All the top leadership educated at Harvard and Yale. At the end of the day we all scratch under our arms.
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@frerotsaintjour9405 He will be another leader of MIAMI's Little Caracas just down the street from Little Havana.
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Liberal state like CA, OR WA. Want their asses pulled out of the fire caused by high prices high taxes, no jobs and low wages.
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@vonkruel These cops are enabled by the highest level of government Congress which writes the laws that DEA uses.
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@jonathanlane2579 Every past system of exploitation has come to an end no matter how cleverly organized. This happens because of the way the system is organized against the producers of wealth. Capitalism is just a new system of exploitation. Where the owners rent instead of owning the slave. The role the CCP plays as a facilitator of capitalist exploitation means its doomed just as the capitalist system itself is. The capitalist, seeking to profit against rivals, replaces labor with machines. This raises the capital value but since the origin of the profit is our labor with less labor in the product the aggregate profit goes down so these two tendencies result in a declining rate of industrial profit by which the capitalists measure success. They then launch assaults on labor to recover their profit rate. This is what drives the class struggle against them. The continuing business cycle crisis caused by the inability of the workers to buy back all that can be produced and the declining profit rate show that the system can only go into decline and fail. Once the workers understand this and organize a fight back then with a communist leadership that has absorbed all the lesson of the past class struggle capitalism is finished in the next revolution lead by proletarian internationalists. Its a matter of having a leadership like 1,000's of Lenin's, Fidel's and Trotsky's who can continually point a path for the class struggle forward. Creating this kind of leadership is what the communist movement is all about. TheMilitant.com
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0 0 No the problem is using the accounting methods of capitalism that demand the creation of profit not the technology. What you really want to know in any economic activity in general is the labor time required. You also want to raise the whole cultural level of the working class since this will help in all the decision processes necessary. We workers need to be the makers of our own destiny. Its a matter of creating a whole new society based in human solidarity instead of the values of dog eat dog capitalism.
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@Idontwannahandl Too bad you got deleted for making such Great Comment form an obvious thinking mind Professor T. I'm sure they got a place for you as a visiting Professor of Economics. at the local Sunday School. There you can spout gems like "Capitalism brings Democracy" "Greed is Good" "Capitalism is Self Regulating" "Capitalism Works" When your done you can make a compilation of quotes and call them the Quotes from the Chair of Professor T.
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@Idontwannahandl You could be right Professor T since your such a well educated Professor of highest caliber. How many books a year do you send out titled "Thoughts of Professor T" the guide for Imperialist victory in Afghanistan.
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Sure every boss believes in free markets because he gets to own something he never even built and require others to work or starve. However when the bosses find themselves facing a big strike the first thing they want is government intervention. Suddenly police, the national guard and federal troops are all so necessary. Things like free speech and assemble go out the window as far as the bosses are concerned.
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Capitalism replaces skilled with unskilled labor and machines first. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump can buy all the education they and their families need. Why would they want to waste any on us?
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He does does he? Government and police were caught in lies which is what drove Black Lives Matter Protests. The only thing he does is look for evidence to support the status quo, neoliberalism and American capitalism. Like all neo liberals the only freedom they protect in the long run is the freedom to trade. At the end you see the typical fascination with military power and fear of books like Mein Kampf and a charge that Germans, Italian and Japaneses ae lacking in any native political culture. This of course just reinforces American capitalist political and cultural tropes.
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@kelvinm.3640 Socialism is evil because "It takes a staff to run a mansion." The rich would have to clean their own homes and soon realize that it would make more sense to rent out rooms or do a remodel for condos.
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@kamalramdass1429 What a joke Nixon (R) was the one to recognize the China.
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@shawnpa Please let Nixon speak for himself. He came on TV to let the American people know that "...their president wasn't a crook..." The US had lost in Vietnam. Nixon sought to win what was lost on the battlefield from the Stalinist leadership in Moscow and Peking. The computer giants moved production to China now Gates and Co are crying about the loss of profits. I don't own Microsoft stock and I could care less about his losses. He is nothing but a bully who wears glasses and a sweater as a fellow tech CEO describes him. They lost Intelectual property they didn't even think up. They just rent the brains and then monetized the ideas. Gates and the rest of big tech bankrupted thousands of small businesses with monopoly tactics. They shifted the whole comercial electronics industry first to Mexico than to China for bigger profits now I'm suppose to fell sorry for them? Gates and the rest of the boss class care only about themselves and their bank accounts. Supporting your own boss class in a battle for profits would be a big mistake for any worker. The bosses say they like free market competition well than what are they complaining about? China went capitalist and they cheered so to bad about them losing markets. They can explain it to their stockholders why should we care about Wall Street losses?
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@shawnpa China's influencing US politics. That's the Republican Party line just as the Democrats claim Russia is influencing US politics. The real problem isn't Russia or China its the failure of US Imperialism with its profit motive. The two pro Imperialist parties are left without a way out of the failure of the world capitalist system.They seek to blame foreign enemies for their Imperialist systems failure.
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@shawnpa You've got your middle class privileges to loose in any class struggle between us and the capitalists. Those us who realize we have nothing to lose but our chains could careless about the bosses financial statements. They treat us like slaves who's only purpose in life is to make them rich. When ever their system fails and goes into a self made crisis they blame us but its their own greed that drives their stupid decisions. One hundred years from now people will ask why we put up with such bunch of idiots running the worlds economy. The only answer will be that it took a revolution in education and thought by the working class before it could unite and change both the system and ourselves in the process. Just as Black Americans through off the shackles of Jim Crow racism. So too the American workers with though off the chains of capitalist oppression and in doing so they will change both themselves and the whole world.
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@andrewcanady6644 You can't have both a Stock Market and a Democratic Republic without corruption legal and illegal. All capital does is accumulate and demand a return. Creation of a huge national debt and too big to fail financial institutions become the consumers of all value. As productivity rises than so must profits fall but every capitalist goes for the short time rise in profits only to then find he needs to demand more from us keep up the rate of profit.They were able to fool themselves and everyone else by printing dollars with no fixed value. A temporary ending of the Gold Standard as Nixon put it. Inflation replaced the wage cut and property valius rise while wages are held down. The bosses raise the price while telling you how expensive things are and how a rise in wages is just too much.
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Like individual states that wanted segregation and passed anti labor laws.
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@MorteWulfe Hamas is a fascist minded organization for billionaires stealing UN Aid..
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land. Trump is NOT a King. He would need a Constitutional Amendment to change the law.
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@gabrielaj2066 It means these books must be excluded because you can't possible think for yourself. You need a liberal Bourgeois Professor to instruct you on how to have good manners and eat with a fork and spoon.
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When bosses control both the wage and price that's BOSS TYRANNY UNION YES!
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The cops are the force used to defend the capitalist system.
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@rapier1954 Sentences were given out to criminals who destroyed property as paid agents of the US government. Why don't you invent them into your neighborhood?
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@terryoquinn8199 Unelected experts who cycle in and out the industries they regulate No corruption can possible occur in that kind of system.
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@platinum2905 Its not nearly that simple. A short term victory for American Imperialism can easily become another defeat. NATO is a rotten allaince of Imperialist powers and Putin is acting like a new CZAR who wants to rebuild a prison house of nations. The CZAR was driven from power by Bolshevik slogans that called for defeat of your own ruling class, to turn the guns around, an immediate armistice, no annexations and self determination for colonial and semi colonial nations. The American workers unlike the capitalist have no class interest in fighting Washington's Imperialist wars of aggression.
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@Lisa-cn2uu Can we send you a homeless person to live and eat at your home for 9 months?
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@lynnbetts4332 Texas just finished bring a women up on murder charges for having an abortion in Starr County after a grand jury indictment.
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Yes this is what the schools do teach the superiority of American capitalist culture where even a Black man can become a neo liberal consevative defender of your ruling class.
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@jeffforsythe9514 No the more import thing to learn is their is more where that came from.
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@OrojinMusic One problem is that politicians are not Doctors. If a fetus was just a little human being all that would be necessary is when a women came in who didn't want to have a baby we'd induce labor right then and there and call it a day. Of course that would be an illegal abortion.
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Socialist in name only capitalist in every other way.
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There are a lot of people pro and con who think they know something about socialism who actually know nothing at all. Instead they just repeat what they've been told. Can you name a socialist who wants socialism because they'd be exempt? Probably not unless there playing a game of pretend but it does make good conspiracy theory. Socialist reds hiding under beds causing the loss of a good night's sleep. Protestant ministers talking about charity to the poor. How dare they criticize the wealthy! Jesus and the money changers at the temple. They're coming for the bankers! How about capitalists who like capitalism because they are rich or want to be?
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@dukebanerjee4710 NATO was set up as an Imperialist allaince against communism. For most of its existence it did nothing but play war games and serve as a way for the American Imperialists to threaten war with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. It played no role in the end of the Stalinist regimes what so ever. However now it became an Alliance to serve US interests and bombing campaigns based on the false theory that the American Imperialist had won the cold war. Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan all became the new victims of the NATO Imperialist military allaince.
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@dukebanerjee4710 The Warsaw Pact was set up after NATO. The US uses bombing, technology and mercenaries because it can not rely on its troops to prosecute its Imperialist wars of aggression. A large portion of the US population is tired of endless wars. A West Point Grad and Afghan Vet sported a Che Guevara shirt at his graduation. Anyone who thinks the US will defend their sovereignty is in for a rude surprise. In fact the US didn't even think Zalenskyy would stay in Ukraine. For the US this is a time to try and advance their interests at Moscow's expense. They want higher prices for Middle East Gas and Oil which the American Imperialist control at Europe's expense. The election of Donald Trump revealed deep disputes among the American ruling class on many fronts.
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@dukebanerjee4710 Putin does not have the power of a Stalin and his regime is not immune to defeat at home by antiwar forces either. The US has used carpet bombing since WW2 as means of destroying infrastructure. Putin has dreams of grandeur as a new Russian CZAR. NATO like the EU serves no purpose but to advance Imperialist interests.
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@dukebanerjee4710 Of course the US wants a regulated capitalist exploitation at home and abroad to proceed smoothly. That however is not possible. Since world capitalism has entered a deep crisis of its own making. You can't just shut down the worlds economy and not expect push back.
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@dukebanerjee4710 NATO is under stress with Turkey and Greece not to mention NATO members Hungary and Romania. France recently called the UK a Vassal State of the US. The UK left the EU and like I said Germany will pay more for Gas and Oil if it buys from the US Middle East companies instead of Russia. The US was keen on getting the Nord stream two pipeline project killed.
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@dukebanerjee4710 Social Democracy is failing as can bee seen in the latest crisis. They will go down just like before WW2. It's socialism in name only and Imperialism in reality. Volvo Trucks had no problem threatening to run scabs in the USA. Sanctions do nothing but breed warfare and misery for the populations which is why the US Imperialist have to talk about how it is hurting the rich. Of course as soon as war is over than the rich will have their property returned. Economic warfare proceeds real war. You don't halt war by supporting your own ruling class. The ruling capitalist class doesn't give a shit about Democracy when its interests are threatened. The American Stalinist found that out the hard way at the end of WW2. All the strike breaking they'd done for the Imperialist war effort was quickly forgotten as the were sent away for five years in prison.
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@dukebanerjee4710 Ukraine is doing the fighting for its national independence not NATO. A wider war would only serve Imperialists interests. The road to victory over Putin is to expose his lies among the Russian people and the soldiers doing the fighting. To build solidarity with the people of Ukraine and to call for the defeat of Russia not to seek Imperialist intervention or demand economic sanctions on Russia. To demand that the Ukrainian government halt the attack on opposition political parties and Russian language rights. Only solidarity among working people across national borders and the defeat of Great Russian chauvinism can insure peace.
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@dukebanerjee4710 Ukrainian people are not a puppet of NATO but Zelensjyy is looking more like a puppet of the Biden Administration begging for a No Fly zone. Part of the reason the US ended its war in Vietnam was the massive protests of over 100,000 in Washington, DC. Nixon was eventually driven from office the only President to ever resign after the self made Watergate scandal. My senior year in High School was ended early after National Guard troops fired on protesters at Kent State University killing four closing colleges and high schools across the USA. It was only after this event that I began to realize how corrupt and rotten capitalism and the two parties are.
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@AntonGudenus The US leads the NATO Imperialist alliance and since Trump's election the US is no longer willing to pay all the bills for European Imperialism. They may be presenting a united front at Brussels but behind the scenes lots of squabbling is going on. The US didn't want that Russian pipeline taking their natural gas business. They want this war because of that. You think the French and German's are happy about that? The Ukrainians already had fighting in their Eastern Provinces and then they just provoked more in 2019 by passing a law indirectly outlawing Russian language and culture but not English or EU languages and laws outlawing Communist and NAZI symbols like West Germany in the 1950's.
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@AntonGudenus There in is you problem choice evil to begin with.
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@bentonrp He, Milton Freeman and George Bush were able to create the crisis of 2008 with their free market theories. Nobel made his money with his manufacture of dynamite patent thses guys came close to blowing up the whole worlds economy with their greed is good theories. Why not just issue them a patent for that and see how it sells.
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@bentonrp You worry about problems that haven't yet developed. Why should the capitalist politicians return to the gold standard? Its against the class interests of the capitalist to have a fixed monetary standard this late in history that's why they got rid of it. Better to inflate the money supply to prop up profit rates than to issue wage cuts. The poor should stop using fiat currency. Why should they do that? why don't they just stop being poor while their at or become Bill Gates and Elon Musk instead?
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@bentonrp Feudalism allowed the slow development of trade and the middles class of small manufactures and economy judged by free competition. When the Aristocracy got in the way of development they were overthrown by a most revolutionary bourgeois. Then they created a world of international trade fashioned after themselves. Free trade and free competition they scream. They create massive industries only to allow them to decline as machines replace labor to drive profit their way. They create us a working class with nothing to lose but our chains. We are now the makers of everything while capital sits back and accumulates. The middle and upper class are tied to the capitalist system with privileges. Its is the fact that our class interests and position as the class that is the productive one that makes us revolutionary with opposite interest to the bourgeois and not the middle class or upper class tied to the bourgeois who merely sing the praise of the capitalist system and its bosses to the revolutionary proletariat. You can't do anything for us since you can't do anything for yourselves.
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@bentonrp No Problem.
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The US Blockade will be defeated.
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@jessicamarie8299 Look you can write all the laws you want but if you can't enforce them then what? Your still waging a war on marijuana because it was seen as a good way to frame people and send them to prison over something stupid. Borders were set up at the beginning of the capitalist era to control the movement of trade. The control of people only became an issue first over slavery and then when the Chinese began coming to the West Coast after the civil war. After world war one the first Red Scare began and deportation of labor, communist, socialist and anarchist became a priority. New laws were passed limiting immigration from countries with people deemed culturally backward. Jews seeking to escape Hitler's Europe were denied entry both before, durring and after the war by the Democratic Imperialist nations. Mexicans were recruited for labor durring the war but those getting out of line were deported.
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@kopph8tr693 Ya people like you need those homes you bought up for investment purposes to drive up the price of housing for a big payday.
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@TheMsvo Its just another aspect of the world crisis of capitalism brought upon by the actions of the bosses own greed.
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@jaymay7957 Wall Street and Washington built a military and financial empire that is crumbling under its own weight. Why don't you end your cruel blockade of Cuba and give them back Guantanamo that you stole from them in the Spanish American Imperialist war.
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Washington may be the US Government but it a government of the two party capitalist bosses. You don't own the United States either they do,
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@jaymay7957 Why don't you just explain how your going to close the border without choking off tourism and trade? Your realize any plan will cost resources. What makes you think it will be anymore successful than the war on drugs. Don't kid yourself neither party wants to send everyone back and they have no solution other than to make a big deal about it.
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@reaper411b The US can't protect something it doesn't practice. Democracy. Its an Imperialist Power that fights in the interest of its capitalist foreign investors.
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@zmiller1840 Right Republicans want to lower profits for Texas Oil companies. You only do what Bush did interfere in the free market to save the free market. Prices don't go up automatically bosses raise the price. That's what happens.
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@zmiller1840 The Bolshevik government of Lenin and Trotsky was the first to made abortion legal and granted women's suffrage before the United States did either. Today Cuba is an example where the working people hold political power after a socialist revolution. In Cuba medical care is free and available to all Cuban people. Cuba shares what it has with the rest of the world in medicine without preconditions. No one in Cuba will die of an illegal botched abortion nor will anyone be charged with murder for having an abortion. .
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@zmiller1840 Reading history I've been educated in American bourgeois history and I reject the conclusions that US Imperialism will solve the world's problems Besides leaded gasoline claimed just as many victims as the Black book ascribes to communism. So should we demonize gasoline, cars and motor oil? Of course the US hasn't dome everything possible to try and starve or overthrow every attempt at socialism or independence from the capitalist Imperialist masters in Washington. Stalin's idea that a socialism can be constructed without a successful world revolution was wrong, counter revolutionary and anti marxist from the beginning. There can be no peace in the world as long as their is a major Imperialist power. Peaceful co existence with Imperialism is impossible. Only with national liberation and socialism can humanity progress. .
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No to Imperialist war!!!
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@ILoveCiciShan He's buying up farmland because he knows we need to eat more than we need his next operating system.
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@rexona1178 He's good at playing the real life game of monopoly grabbing everything that comes his way.
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Sowell ever give credit to a liberal socialist or communist for anything positive? Or is t just his tribe of conservatives politicians that are responsible doing everything good?
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@rolandosantaana8200 The US Army trains in counterinsurgency gun control. You don't think they gave rural farmers guns in Vietnam? They took them away with the ARVN military dictatorship running the country. Kennedy had his own puppet Diem overthrown in a Military coup and murder. All they do is repeat the same lies about Cuba they have been telling for the last 50 years. A million people celebrate May Day in La Plaza de Revolution because everyone has a gun they are not suppose to have pointed at their back. Completely ludicrous. Anyone who isn't under the spell of the lying two party politicians can see all that 99% of what comes from Washington about Cuba is lies. The one percent truth which is now and again admitted openly is that US policy has been a total failure with regards to Cuba.
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@rolandosantaana8200 Nope he can declare a police action. Like in Korea with an executive order same with Vietnam. Both wars were never voted on just the military appropriations. They did write the war powers act after Vietnam. You can be like Bush and go to war for thirty days. Raul heads the Party not the State besides its a collective leadership something you can't understand because capitalism is all about fighting over everything. There is nothing in the US constitution that prevents us from being elected and amending the constitution. It takes only simple majorities to elect the people who can vote to change it. Of course history teaches that a dying ruling class will lash out at its own demise just like the southern slaveholders. They'll try to overturn election results much like the Democrats have tried to do with Trump or maybe a military coup like the one exposed by US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler.
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@morganwright224 Cuba doesn't have a homeless population in Havana or on the island like the US and other third world countries. The US has had a sixty year long blockade on Cuba and it was tightened with the end of the cold war and by Trump because the US seeks to punish the Cuban people for making a socialist revolution that put the needs of the workers and farmers first over the profits of US bankers and bosses. It's basically the same thing the bosses try to do to strikers to starve them out from a decent contract.
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@willybones3890 Open up the documents so we can see what Biden lost for over a year and needed back so urgently.
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The problem is the Professors should have caught her plagiarism when she was a student.
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@shittyopinions I've been through Mississippi multiple times and I've never seen a lot of state flags or flags of the Army of Northern Virginia. My guess is Mississippi is like the rest of the states where state flags are seen mostly at state office buildings.
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@shittyopinions I've been through all of the eleven southern states of the old south. Virginia seems to be the state most concerned with the civil war, monuments and including its welcome to Virginia literature.
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TheMilitant.com Pathfinderpress.com are the printers of the communist/socialist movement in the US. Unlike the Stalinist we aren't a murder machine dedicated to the preservation of bureaucratic privilege in the Soviet Union. Our goal is to build a party of Tribunes of the People such that they can explain every case of class oppression and how the capitalist system is held together with police and military violence. We seek to analyze and explain not just the victories won in the the class struggle but also the defeats. This to prepare the way for the final battle between capital and labor in the USA.
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@shittyopinions "...your account is only second-hand. Dumb broad...." The proper word is anecdotal not second-hand dumb prick.
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@shittyopinions We spend a lot of time fighting for the rights of working people to read write and think for themselves. A few of the most well know cases are The 1940 Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party Smith Act trial carried out by the FDR regime. Among other things we were accused of planning protests against bad food in the Army. If the food is bad in the Army then the soldiers will protest it was Comrade Cannon's reply. The real reason was that they did like us saying that is this was a war to make the US Capitalist masters of the world vs the German Fascist ones. That the civilian soldiers don't give up their constitutional rights just because they were wearing a uniform. We said that the soldiers should be able to elect at least their noncoms if not the officer corps as a whole. That making the Nurses officers was a ploy so only the officers could have female companionship. The jury did convict but urged leniency. The Case of the Legless Veteran where Jimmy Kutcher refused to quit the SWP just so he could keep his job at the VA this battle against the McCarthyite which hunt was successful Jimmy got his job and back pay. The case of the Blooming three where three members of the Young Socialist Alliance were charged with attempting to overthrow the state of Indiana. Charges dismissed. zSocialist Workers Campaign Committee vs FEC a fight to keep the names of Party contributors out of government hands. The exposure of Cointelpro in SWP v. Attorney General officially ending open ended FBI investigations with a permanent injunction and a 1/4 million in damages. I'm sure that President Trump would also like to get such a ruling against the Muller witch hunt. We are currently battling the State of Florida corrections department for confiscating our newspaper form subscribers behind bars. If your a defender of free speech then you will want to send a letter also. TheMilitant.com
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@shittyopinions The whole bathroom issue could easily be solved with unisex bathrooms and redesigned no peeking stalls at WalMart. It's the conservatives starting with Phyllis Schlafly who created the bathroom issue by attacking the Equal Rights Amendment as requiring women and men to use the same bathroom. Sex is always a major issue for two Party politician and Christian Firebrands.
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Don't want me speaking for you fine. You said you were for free speech but I guess you either afraid of the Florida DOC, too busy to care or are only certain ideas worthy of your exalted highness protection. I wouldn't want to put words in your mouth so maybe you can explain your thinking. Like how and when we commies plan to secretly and suddenly end free speech?
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@shittyopinions "Sex is easily determined." DA?
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@shittyopinions Have you considered purchasing some aluminum foil to prevent anymore US Embassy in Cuba type attacks by secret squirrels?
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@shittyopinions "What are your marketable skills?" What's your point? Are you trolling for employment services?
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@shittyopinions I have plenty of skills and abilities. What I don't have is the proper licenses. Yes though part of communism is raising the cultural and overall education of not just a select few but everyone. Instead of education ending at 18 or 22 it becomes a lifelong activity.
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@shittyopinions No much more broad than any single collection of ideas. Maybe you want to learn an instrument, study music theory or play a sport. Maybe we create more of theses maker centers in public libraries where you can go and learn by doing how to make or fix things with machine tools, electronics and hand tools.
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@shittyopinions Education is always social even if you are sitting in a library reading a book. Your interacting in only one direction with the book but someone took the time to write that book. Discovery is more individualistic and requires observation.
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@shittyopinions I'm wondering what you are quibbling about now. Knowledge is not the same as education to begin with. Careful observation with the Michelson Morley experiment showed that the speed of light was the same for all observers. This fact goes against what seems intuitive that things gain or lose speed depending on the observer's frame of reference.
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Everybody who doesn't listen and belong to your brand of Christian frire brand is a Satanist. Gotcha!!
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End all taxes on workers wages let the bosses pay the taxes with their profits.
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@wadeobryan4175 Usual right wing reasoning where a cockroach capitalist is equivalent to companies with billions in profits. Does the cockroach actually do anything or does he just show up once a week for payroll and to cry and yell about being in the poorhouse? One of the first things we are going to do is teach economics to the masses of workers so they can't be fooled by capitalist politicians, cockroach capitalists, bourgeois professors and bosses in general. We can also retool defense plants putting people to work making things working people need. A small businessman who actually is doing something productive has nothing to worry about. Those with attitude problems can go on an unpaid vacation since they won't be able to find anyone to work for them in a society which values work and works to see to it that everyone who wants a job has one.
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Class warfare may seem cruel but we workers have little choice but to fight. The Supreme court is asking for class warfare and many of us will be happy to oblige. When those trash cans don't get emptied in those gated communities are going to bring that trash down to the recycling center in your nice Mercedes- Benz?
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@islandtime5643 Trump did NOT get a due process hearing.
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Rich white folks need someone who can make themselves feel good.
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@robincoble4620 Bosses like Trump and Biden can not fix the capitalist crisis ridden system. No new capitalist government policy can fix the crisis ridden private profit system.
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@Barskor1 Libertarian nonsense.
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@Barskor1 How about the 100,000,000 who died early deaths due to leaded gasoline? The 20,000 who died to get rid of your capitalist dictator General Batista The number of lives saved by Cuban medical solidarity? Hitler wanted to build a German capitalist Empire like the British. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN. The US/UK gave the Green light to the Indonesian military dictatorships murder of 1 million Communist suspects. All the libertarians want to do is delink capitalism from the capitalist government and its crimes.
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@Barskor1 The libertarians also talk about how capitalism could work instead of how it actual does like Karl Marx in Das Kapital. The sing hymns of romantic praise to he industrialist as the greatest of ever human beings. Their problem is the have no way to their dream world without crushing the industrial trade unions by use of fascist methods. .
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@Barskor1 No capitalism produces what will make a profit. Riles and nuclear weapons in addition to sliced bread and instant pudding and the capitalist government defends their profit system though the democratic dictatorship of capital. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism because capitalism is based in nation states which fight over the world market leading to the first Imperialist world war. The Russian revolution began by the strike action of women textile workers growing into a General strike and the creation of Soviets Russian for councils. The Bolsheviks proposed an armistice with no annexations which 14 Imperialist armies answered by invasion of the new workers Russian Soviet Republic. The class struggle is the road to socialism because the workers have no interest in these Imperialist wars for capitalist foreign investors profits or the making of a tiny ruling class super wealthy. Capitalism dead ends as machines replace labor the rate of profit must decline by which all capitalist measure success. To get around the need to issue wage cuts the capitalist created a central bank and fiat currency from which to use inflation to rob the working class of its wages value. . .
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@Barskor1 Capitalism is a social system where most production takes place in factories that are owned by capitalist. The stock market quickly corrupts any Democratic Republic. Cuban medical solitary is not only for Cubans but other people who live in third world nations who revive medical brigades of Cuban Doctors. 10,000 foreign medical students are studying in Havana at no direct cost to the student. The Cuban medical system is based on healthcare in the neighborhoods and towns where a Doctor is responsible for healthcare delivery to everyone in the neighborhood. Like the free educational system the US seeks to destroy it. The US has been calling Cuba a Dictatorship despite the fact that it has always know that to be untrue. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary
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The French and English have neclear weapons and other nearby countries have US bases with Nukes on them. China is next to Russia also. So whats the logical answer?
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Getting rid of the nuclear threat as a whole and not just preventing other nations from going nuclear can only begin when the two biggest nuclear powers the US and Russia start first. Why should two big school yard bullies with baseball bats get to decide that the little kids can't use a stick to defend themselves.
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@jimwerther We have the names of the innocent victims of Stalin's 1938 Moscow Trials. They were Lenin's closest comrades in Oct 1917 all members of the Oct 1917 Politburo. Bubnov, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Sokolnikov, and Trotsky. All accused of being agents of Hitler. There were no innocent victims of revolutionary justice in Cuba this is why they have no names.
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@fkcavs I'm sure NAZI Germany had a huge GDP that doesn't mean the concentration camp victims were well feed.
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@fkcavs Sure there were a aome anti Batista middle class people who were against the 26th of July movement. They were like the difference between Democrats and Republicans. They wanted to take Batista's place without a revolution that would bring the workers and farmers to power in Cuba. They spent their time in Miami exile first with Batista in power and then after the revolution. Like many in the middle class they were afraid of both sides. Afraid of losing privileges and afraid of US bombs and an invasion. They are like trees blown back and forth in the wind.
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@fartexplosion4480 The labor history of Europe is different than the US. The American workers never had a mass Social Democratic or Stalinist CP nor were they ever defeated by German, Italian, and Spanish fascism across Western and Central Europe.
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Workers need to fight back with union power and a new Labor Party.
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@1vigorousdragon Ya like the teachers union. Who went on strike in 2018 to 2019 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona.
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popdavid-dd4lx It does nothing to end legacy admissions. Those with wealth and power have unlimited direct access.
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@johncash4671 Racist such as yourself will no longer be claiming that Sasha and Malia aren't qualified. That is one of the things that agavated Justice Thomas that despite all his education he wasn't accepted into the high paying legal club like his classmates Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Strike is independent of the two boss parties.
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@the-LeoKnightus Naturally with a screen name like Knight us no one expects a seeker of knighthood to understand anything but to bend before and kiss the ring of a monarch and the cold hard steel of a sword. I hear King Saud has a few openings on his religious police. The recruitment poster say in bilingual Arabic and English 'Join the RP and make a few heads fall."
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That's the natural way capitalism works. The bosses make the biggest profits by replacing higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Bosses compete to see who can issue the greatest number of discharges when they overproduce for a market that has become saturated. The productivity of the system undercuts the wage labor needed to produce creating a mass of unemployed who compete for jobs. To keep a stable system it becomes necessary to hand out alms to keep the peasants home and out of the streets.
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@lisakvieira9201 Thirty percent of the world is hungry and what has the Pope and the imperials powers doing but what they have always done? Nothing!!! Where was God and the Pope when the Irish peasant was dying the side of the road.in the Great Hunger? God has always been kind to the British Landlord and the English. The IRA sent Lord Mountbatten to his God and Kingdom Come. This is where the English Royals belong with an early meeting in a Imperial Royal Crown heaven along with their Yankee Imperialist cousins. .Like English King Charles they have the fever of tyrannts and the only cure is death. 59 Commissioners of the House of Commons after a trial vote to execute the King. The biggest mistake the English merchants made was to compomise with the landlords and now history is demanding the English and American Imperialist pay for their war fevor for when the King came back all were pardoned except the commisioners. The living had to flee for he lives to New England the Dutch Republic and Switzerland. The dead commissioners were dug up executed posthumously and the bodies were left hanging. This is the real Legacy of the Royal Charity not a generous Queen. But Brutish Army terrorism form Ireland onto an Empire that the sun never set on.
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@lisakvieira9201 The world is full of orphans as it is now. Birth control doesn't always work and is not always available. Too bad no one has made you Queen and then everyone could come before your court for such wise advice on how to solve all our problems and live in your heaven on earth.
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@wenkrogg7224 No one gets a conception certificate, cancer tumors are alive and have DNA. Is removing a tumor heart breaking? You know adoptees. No doubt you live in an upper class neighborhood where women don't want to get pregnant so they secretly get abortions and want to buy babies instead. No listening to the educated like you makes me want to throw up.
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@romankvapil9184 It takes struggle to win!
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@romankvapil9184 Look if you want to get a raise in the minimum wage you need a campaign of visible protests for that starting with what we have which is the labor movement. it has to start to become a visible demand. If you just sit back and wait for the next election that will not produce any actual results.
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@romankvapil9184 Obviously there has been some action but the labor movement needs to make it one of their priorities. Many cities and town have Central labor councils get together chose a Saturday and make that a protest day organize a march and rally outside of city hall or county courthouse of get the State central labor council to bring out all the local labor councils. Make it a Saturday so you can bring in those not belonging to a union yet. Pass out leaflets for these protests to people on their way to work at both union and nonunion shops and jobsites.
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@sanders555 I'm for a revolution to overturn capitalism in the class struggle. The workers struggle against the bosses will produce the leadership needed to put capitalism into the ash heap of history along with feudalism and slavery.
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@007kingifrit The origin of the capitalists profit is the unpaid labor of the worker. Capitalism creates class struggle as the workers and bosses fight over the size of the profits. Some capitalists do nothing but walk to the mail box every 3 months for their dividend check. There is nothing special about a capitalist since lots of other people can do the work they do. Others do the administration seeking to maximize the profits at the expense of all other considerations like the environment, safety and the lives of the workers. For the capitalist profits come first and the capitalist government works to protect his profits from the workers class struggle.
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@007kingifrit The boss pays one price for our labor in anticipation of selling it at a higher price to the customer.The profit and surplus value come from the difference between the value we create from our labor and the price of labor paid to us and the price the boss charges for our labor. The bosses own record books prove that.
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@007kingifrit The boss seeks to maximize profits (shareholder value) above all else. In order to drive profits in their direction the bosses also replace labor with machines. This has the effect of raising the capital value yet lowering the the amount of labor needed to produce which leads to a declining rate of return on investment since our labor is the source of the profit. So the very way in which the bosses measure success has the unintended effect of producing decline. The bosses only produce for a market in which they can make a profit. When they can't make a profit they cut production despite the needs for the products produced. Once again the bosses own record books prove this as one can see from the federal reserve economic stats that the bosses can no longer us all the productive capacity they have. Instead of using about 90% back in 1968 its down to somewhere around 70 %.
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@007kingifrit No you want to argue about the surplus value. I'll answer it this way no one in Cuba was told they couldn't be an administrator. What they were told is the could not use their position to exploit others. With capitalism the administrators are paid for their loyalty to the owners as the goal is to maximize profits not to produce to meet human needs. With capitalism the best the workers can hope for is that the capitalist will reinvest to expand production and hire more workers but when the market becomes saturated because the workers can not buy back all that can be produced the capitalist halts production and throws the workers out of our jobs. This is caused by the excess profits not being reinvested into expanding production but instead being used to drive up the value of paper values. In other words fictitious capital these values then collapse resulting in the business cycle or recession/depression every 7 to 10 years.
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@TrentsPolitical And just how will Republicans solve any problems with more magic trickle down economics or maybe another tax cut of course eventually you can only cut taxes on the rich so much and cut back on state expenses until the whole system falls apart. You can't fix a capitalism that has become too big to fail by feeding it more free dollars.
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Middle class liberals and conservatives don't drive with windows down in my neighborhood never mind walk through it. They walk over to the local kids lemonade stand and try to get a discount instead.
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@ColonelEmpire I'm sure you would have liked living next door to General Batista's torturers. To bad they got trials that found them guilt and faced a firing squad. That was more of a trial than any of their victims got. Do you want some more "Scar Faces" form Cuban jails? Just accuse the Cuban government of holding political prisoners and they send all who want to go. You don't like having to hear the truth from someone Trump can't deport. That's the real reason you want me to leave.
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@MeFareLaugh Hitler made abortion by the master race a crime punishable by death.
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@ji8044 Capitalism only has use only for those who can produce a profit for the bosses. Capitalism is a self undermining system because to make profits rise you must increase investment but by doing so you decrease the living labor in the product produced there by resulting in the tendency of long term profit rates to fall. The very way in which the capitalist judge sucess.
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@ji8044 It has created a world of nation states of differing levels of economic and military power. The capitalist have always had and needed a government first to arbitrate disputes among each other than to pose as a "government of the people" to settle class antagonisms that develop.
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Obama is just another bought and sold two capitalist party politician.
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Now that your convinced Britain is a capitalist utopia you can retire for the night.
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@Curlygirly84 Capitalism is based in nation states that are too small as organizations to control world trade and production.
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@kriyoo Conservatives did themselves in for a long time because Barry Goldwater the Republican Presidential Candidate in 1964 voted with the Dixiecrats against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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This strike isn't finished yet and my friends say it's more like that West Virginia Teachers Strike. The company was caught of guard and lots of sympathizers are going to the picket lines. The Strikers expectations are rising instead of falling.
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Bobby Brady Of course they are because they interfere with the All American bosses big profits low wages policy.
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Bobby Brady Do you work in an auto plant or are you just the run of the mill neo liberal. Sure the bosses always want more. Give us back Sunday double time. Give us back Saturday at time and a quarter. Lets us run 10 hour days and 4 day weeks without a premium pay. Let us hire temps for six months. Let us run holidays with no premium. We need more time to settle grievances. Give us two tiered pay for new hires. Give us a wage freeze. Bye Bye we decided to close because the profits are projected to bigger elsewhere. "Your On Your Own Now!!!"
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@dansdoves3650 The Minneapolis Teamsters General Strike in 1934 was lead by the Communist League of America. It punched through the bosses Citizen's Alliance making Minneapolis a union town.
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Bobby Brady We are for unions and for workers control of on the job safety with the right to shut down any unsafe job site.
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Bobby Brady Thank you for the compliment.
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@chechnya Its a small country it may be an island but economically no country is an island. All rely on world trade.
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@MalibuBarbie-kk5gc Rail Bosses are counting on their two party stooges in government now more than ever.
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@ScottyKaayy The problem isn't a brake system it the greedy rail boss and two party governmnet stooges who have cut back on safety to boost profits. and shoved a contract down their throats.
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@geopoli3735 The goal of the fascist is to smash the labor movement for the capitalist in crisis.
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@geopoli3735 Stalinism is counterrevolutionary movement that arose out of the poverty of the second socialist revolution.. Fascism is a counterrevolutionary movement that arises out of the vomit a dying capitalism throws up. Its supernationalistic anti communist, anti semitic, anti trade union and religious. Its goal is to save capitalism.
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@geopoli3735 YouTube is censoring you. The use of anti capitalist rhetoric is meant to appeal to the middle class which is set into a frenzy by the crisis of capitalism. Big business financed the NAZI party which was on the verge of bankruptcy. They are a club to be used against the trade unions. The goal is to set up a fascist state and murder all political opposition. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President General Paul Hindenburg. The fascist movement always begins with the use of political violence against the trade unions, national minorities, jews, and political meetings as a way to win recruits. They don't replace capitalism but organize it to defeat the trade unions and in the case of Hitler to launch an Imperialist war of genocide against those considered sub human by the NAZI's the Jews and the Slavs to build a Greater German in the East all the way to India. Big business invested in the dream of a thousand year Reich and in the US Roosevelt invested in an American century. Roosevelt couldn't take on the trade unions directly so he limited himself to co opting the opportunistic leadership and Stalin's cheering squad. The revolutionary anti Imperialist leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters were sent to federal prison for violating the Smith 'gag' Act.
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@edwardmcmanus Then again one of the founders of modern American conservatism was the ex Trotskyist Professor James Burnham. The rightest danger comes not from their ideas but their actions like those of the fascist mentality who want to shut down all discussion and speech. The same goes for the Stalinist who claim to be on the "left." Overtime ideas that are false or only half truths have the tendency to die a natural and well deserved death.
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@theveryworstluck1894 I was wondering why they never used the word Socialism or Socialist?
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Notice how the maker of the video attacks Noam Chomsky the one intellectual to consistantly attack US Imperialism's bipartisan war policies. No question something Sowell has ALWAYS supported.
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The influence of religion is down besides it the middle class that finds itself so enamored with God and the church.
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The problem for world capitalism is that it goes into crisis of its own making after it achieves primitive accumulation. Once this happens the capitalist can not get out of their self made crisis without resorting to Imperialist War to redefine ownership of world resources and markets amongst the thieves of the ruling classes and fascism the drive against the trade unions who are fighting back against capitalist austerity measures. Only the victory of world socialism in a final victory over the ruling classes can achieve peace among the different nations of the world. That is because the world is one economic unit and the ruling capitalist have no interest in anything but exploiting labor ad resources for the growth of private profits. This is why Marx said the workers must raise upon their banners abolish private property.
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Leslie thats me If the election were held last January I think Trump would have won especially because he beat the impeachment. If it was held today I could not see how he wins with the coronavirus pandemic. If nothing changes in the coronavirus pandemic I don't see him winning. He will be blamed for the pandemic regardless of what he does. .
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Leslie thats me Trump supporters going to camps is complete idiotic. You have about 50+ Republican Senators. No reason to believe anything that crazy will happen.
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@koolkitties8552 Their are 100 US Senators. Two US Senators from each of 50 States. The vice President can also cast a vote in the Senate.
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@strictnonconformist7369 Sure when you have a dictator like Batista to be overthrown it cost 20,000 lives to force him out. It cost over a million lives to kick Uncle Sam out of Vietnam.
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@markbass354 Why don't you stop censoring me.
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@iam1smiley1 The only way to raise wages is to organize into unions and the amnesty for those without proper papers.
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@natec9420 So what are you going to be rich and lonely?
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@natec9420 I expect Bill Gates to walk by the trailer park ant day now. Donald Trump has had three wives how many do you plan to have?
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They don't China is Capitalism with Chinese characteristics while Bosses try and Strangle Cuba with sanctions.
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@zeke5491 Railroad operates 24/7 and Rail bosses have fired thousands and thousands have quit because of the working conditions. They want to drive down the conditions of life and BNSF stands for Better Not Start a Family because the bosses don't want to let you have anytime off at home.
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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
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We need to wage union struggles for higher wages and escalator clauses to protect against inflation. Workers control of industry is socialism.
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@louman.2 No the problem is the capitalist government and banks create inflation by money printing to make our wages worthless. The ultimate goal is to take that control away from them with workers control of industry and get rid of capitalism all together.
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@michaelfern4079 Some will probably never have a child no matter what. The problem today is the bosses only want to pay only the lowest wages and work us the longest hours for the biggest profits.
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And just everything your told about American Imperialism being the friend of mankind will go down as a bunch of lies. Like this whole idea that investors are producing something when they make a profit. Instead the realization is setting in that the ruling class is just robbing the whole world blind with their worthless fiat currency.
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@gregb6469 Then the Us should end the 60 year Blockade of the island and return the US Guantanamo naval base it occupies.
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@gregb6469 Its a blockade the US Coast Guard once again turned back vessels headed to Cuba from the US.. Guantanamo is not yours give it back you've been given an eviction notice. .
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@gregb6469 Ypu love excuses to play the victim so you can though you weight around like the bully on the playground. You don't invade because you know you'd be facing another Vietnam along with rebellion in your Latin American colonies. You can't even guarantee constitutional rights to Trump supporters. You have no business talking about freedom or human rights when you run a torture facility and hold prisoners without charge or trial at the Guantanamo Bay Torture Prison.
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@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531 If Trump wanted to do a coup he should have first consulted the head of the CIA. The US CIA are experts at Coups.
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@joshuaDstarks It is the underlying class based grievances that drives the political divide not ideology or race. Trump's real crime was to betray his liberal elite capitalist class by questioning the results of world liberal economic policy on the American working class. The liberals are just as racist and anti immigrant in their polices as the conservatives. .
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@mikeym.1461 Typical Canadian who thinks Trudea is a Communist. LMAO.
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@MultiCaro2011 Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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It gets even worse because the vote was never counted.
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@johndoe-ss9bz The unions need to organize a labor party with its own foreign policy. Profits are unpaid wages.
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@evangiles4403 Workers need to rebuild the unions and a labor party for a workers foreign policy.
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@daviddobson6716 A railroad isn't the same as a guy with a hammer and saw. The big issue is how the companies treat workers. After 2008 they put in a point system where I worked it was just a way to get rid of people to save on promised insurance benefits. Warren Buffet wants to be a greedy dictator get rid of the conductor run one engineer trains and cut service to small shippers. Once the rail compromise get done driving everything into the ground for profit maximization they be coming to Congress for a bailout blaming the unions. Like thy have always done. in the past. The talk about pass-anger rail being unprofitable but Rail Bosses ride up and down the mainline in Custom coaches.
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@daviddobson6716 Building workers power and taking contol of industry are the road to socialism not looking to the capitalist government or expecting handouts.
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@parnpichate I'm NOT a Maoist. Maybe that's what you need a yellow brick road and a wizard behind the scenes. Trump wants negative interest rates like Germany and Japan. All in favor of more giveaways to Wall street bend over now.
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@TechReviewTom I'd be surprised if you don't end up under arrest for violating Coulomb's law.
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@marilynwillett804 Why what?
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@Hippy2021 They don't show the whole speech otherwise you see have is just a bit more cognizant then sleepy Joe.
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@JimmyGarcia-hh2og What being American means is two different things depending on which class you belong to. For the bosses it means that their corporate profits come first. They use their government and its foreign policy to advance their class interests at home and in the world market.
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@a.t.pickle85 The slave owners were in no mood for negotiation they saw that their way of doing things was under attack and they did not want to lose the property value they held in human beings. They are the ones responsible for the most violence and death by war in American history. Not just during the civil war but the counter revolution that followed that was organized gangster violence to deny the newly freed slaves the rights they fought and died for in the civil war that continued after the military defeat of General Lee. The Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest a slave trader who ordered the slaughter of US Colored Troops who surrendered at the battle of Fort Pillow was the founding leader of the first Klan.
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@alfredjohnson3642 The more and better available birth control methods there are the less need for abortions. These moral hypocrites have no intention of doing that though. I'd like to know how many want a homeless person dumped on them for 9 months at will. The male members of the Supreme Court should recuse themselves.
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Prayer is not medical care abortion is.
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@theyoungkulaks3381 Those economic areas can't produce profits the way other capitalist industries can. Next year send your Christmas cards UPS/FedEX. Capitalist industry and the lives of millions are subjected to the gambling in the stock market something not used in a planned economy. No capitalist gambling with you life when there is no private property. No need for a bloated military and police budget to defend private property and foreign investment. Plus Cuba proves no need for a murderous bureaucracy to enforce socialist law.
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Let them search your house and tear it apart. You want cops call 911.
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Investors not wage earners should take the losses since they have money they don't need. You'll just run hat in hand to the government for another bailout anyway.
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Just more US propaganda. The US is an Empire hence the Empire State New York. It has over 800 foreign military bases.
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@l.a.studios8212 The Church should spend their money coming up with ways for men to take over pregnancies. The first trial for male pregnancy should be the honor of the Pope.
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@l.a.studios8212 The Church has said that ectopic pregnancies should be transplanted. Like most of what they say it is deeply steeped in hypocrisy. The pope should prepare for his right and honor to be the first ectopic pregnancy transplant from a church volunteer. Priests have been getting away with child abuse since the year zero and yet they can not adopt a single child. Instead they opened orphan laundries in Ireland for the use of child slave labor by wayward boys and girls. Why anyone should see them as moral leaders is beyond me. Trump and Pence are responsible for war and famine in Yemen. Yet they got big play at the last Pro Birth rally.
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@l.a.studios8212 That bible cult of yous blindly follows an evil god who would be tired and convicted of the war crimes with the standards used after WW2. EvilBible.com is the place where anyone can read what the evilbible says and then you can check it with your own translation for accuracy. Your faith can't move mountains either otherwise their would be no need for the coal companies in West Virginia to remove them with explosives. Trump is not a polished capitalist politician which is the reason he ends up walking into all these liberal mindfields. He is presiding over the worst economic disaster since the stock market crash of 1929. If he gets reelected without reversing this cornea virus catastrophe it will be a real miracle. Presidents from either party lose reelections in bad economies.
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I hate smug little eletests from Harvard, Yale and the rest of the poison Ivy League. Amnesty for Immigrant workers which Trump like Reagan should sign into law. Then it will be easier for us to rebuild the unions and make the bosses pay for their profit crisis.
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It is a strange law because you must somehow or other prove you are a citizen instead of government having to prove you aren't. You aren't really free to leave and come back without the ability to prove you are a citizen and demand your right to return. Normally government must prove a crime or infraction occurred rather than someone having to prove it didn't. So without some evidence that you entered illegally or are remaining beyond what the law allows in some way what kind of case does the government have?
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@bankrollguwop8593 Guido received forty votes from foreign countries. I guess its like Trump winning the Electoral college vote where Venezuelan Presidents are elected by the votes of US lackeys. I can see it now Nancy Pelosi will hold a rally and claim to be the last democratically elected Speaker of the House and therefore US President after another government shutdown.
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Sowell a "marxist"? When did Sowell ever participate in a single protest action? When did Sowell ever carry a picket sign? Sowell was a young person who lived though the end of Segregation and never did anything but sit in a professors chair and criticise others.
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@kurarisusa As Trotsky said the Fascist exact a high price for their counter revolutionary service to big business and private property. If capitalism wasn't in a crisis to begin with it would not face a workers revolution.
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@cassildaandcarcosa294 Capitalism is privately owned means of production. Worker Control begins with the trade unions in Capitalist society. Then the struggle between the trade unions and the capitalist enters the field of politics. Here the workers have once again take up the labor party to defend themselves politically. Then the question of state power is posed which class will have a state and control its power.
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@cassildaandcarcosa294 The workers have to a leadership capable of defeating the old state in insurrection or revolution and that builds a workers state. That's how both the Cuban and Russian revolution proceeded. The rise of Stalinism was just a temporary problem when you consider how long it took in human history to get this far. Without the Soviet Union the Cuban revolution would have been defeated. Cuba has a state and a communist leadership like that of Lenin and Trotsky that looks to the working people both internally and externally in the struggle against capitalism.and the capitalist classes. For to be a capitalist is to occupy a special social place in the system of production. You get to communism by taking things out of the market beginning with heavy industry and workers control of the industry. But if the leadership forgets that it fighting a bigger struggle than that of the problems of one country it ends up being self defeating like the Stalinist leaderships that squandered and lost so many revolutions 1928 China, 1933 Germany, 1939 Spain and France. Stalin and his gangsters had defeat the opposition internally while at the same time defend the the gains of the revolution from the inevitable clash with Imperialism in the second world war. If any of those revolutions in Europe or China at that time had one it could have reinvigorated the Soviet masses and swept capitalism from the globe back then. The Stalinists didn't do that well since instead of looking towards the working class internationally the looked to the Democratic Imperialist regimes. So you had an American Communist Party becoming the best strike breakers for FDR durring the war. Communism is a historical movemnet of the working class in its struggle with the other most important class in the world the capitalist class. Its NOT about making the correct definition so a bourgeois professor can teach a class..
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@cassildaandcarcosa294 People like yourself know everything yet know nothing. You've gone to some university somewhere and listened to the echo chamber of leafiest intellectuals who have no more connection to the working class than the Stalinist they criticise. They think one needs to just erase the blackboard of history and start over with "new theories" that have already shown themselves to be false.
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@cassildaandcarcosa294 The biggest difference is that Soviet nationalization was carried out by the working class in power where as Hitler lead a movemnet intent on smashing the trade unions, comments and socialist parties. His nationalization was meant to save the empling class. To crush the workers revolution before it could get started.
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@cassildaandcarcosa294 Most of those who insisted on the Soviet Union being state capitalist ended up supporting Democratic Imperialism in the second world war. See "In Defense of Marxism" by Trotsky and The Struggle for a Proletarian Party" by James Cannon. The commune only lasted 70 days. See also "The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals" by Trotsky in 1928.
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@Sun•Yoga• Health Harris belongs in a cell with the rest of the cops.
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The Socialist Workers Party will be running workers as candidates for President, VP and Senate. Our party will have to petition to get ballot status.
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@adamwsaxe Hamas is a Islamic terrorist NAZI like thug group that is attacking Jews. History has seen the Jews blamed for every economic crisis. Israel must be defended as a homeland for the Jews given past history and the rising of Jew hatred in the world today.
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Go and obey your own laws then. Don't complain if the cops decide that its time for you to pay with civil forfeiture.
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@tpap6827 The first artificial satellite was put in orbit by the Soviet Union. I don't think either Stalin or Mao advanced Marxist theory but the did lead the fist successful socialist states.One hundred million died because of lead in gasoline. So do we put oil companies in the category of simpletons? Democracy in the US? Yes you get to vote for the best politicians money can buy. The President of Cuba Miguel Diaz Canel is an electrical engineer. With capitalism education and healthcare are overhead costs.
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@skeptic1124 What price did Sowell pay for supporting those wars?
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@scottsweeney6903 Money is not a limited resource its just numbers in a bank or accounting book and paper. They never run out of money because it must circulate for the economy to work. Instead the use of money and capitalist accounting methods create a capitalism that goes into crisis as the ruling class becomes smaller less able to keep it under control. Healthcare and Education gop down as overhead costs to be minimized in the capitalist books and way of thinking. While creation of industrial profits by industry are what the capitalist seek to maximize though the use of cartels, monopoly or government intervention. They've already hoarded all the real money into bank vaults and fort Knox. Wjat you use for money today is based upon social convention and nothong more than numbers in computers and record books. The paper money is gradually disappearing as inflaton makes $100 worthless. tommorrow than it was yesterday.
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The highly classified documents thing is much ado about nothing. Leakers have been part of the way the system works for a long time now. Congress will not take down a President over a simple leaking issue.
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Your right I'm not the patriotic right winger you are. I am for transparency in government not just for one party but also the other party. Daniel Ellsberg did not do a day in jail. They threatened Chelsea Manning with the death penalty and then she was convicted and given life in prison under the Obama regime. She spent only a few months in prison. The first victim of the so called 1917 espionage act was Eugene Debs he was convicted while a Democrat and KKK leader Woodrow Wilson sat in the White House. You can take you band of liberals and place them where the sun doesn't shine. The Socialist Debs received a million votes for president while in federal prison.
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They also don't get to just grab whatever. The warrant is suppose to be limited to the papers and things to be seized. in the past the FBI seized books on sale to the public in the government's efforts to prove a violation of the Smith 'gag' act. Trump has turned over all kinds of documents so Robert Muller can go on a fishing expedition into a Trump-Russia connection. So far all he has is conjecture, chargers of lying and obstruction of justice but no real evidence of collisions between Trump and Putin. This latest thing concerns a payoff for silence in the Stormy Daniels affair. She previously set up an exploratory committee for a senate seat in which her campaign managers automobile blew up. It would more interesting in knowing why and how her campaign managers automobile blew up. Had she not been previously involved in politics her credibility would be higher than it is now. Trump having affairs is no different than Bill Clinton. Nor can Trump be held accountable for things his campaigners do of questionable ethics or legality. Muller should be forced to end his open ended investigation. A limit should be set to either produce or hault. This kind of thing went on for years by the FBI against government opponents despite changes of administrations. It smacks of secret police conduct.
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Muller is former head of the FBI the premier US federal secret police agency. People like him are experts in the frame up methods carried out by J Edgar Hoover in the past. The create fire out of smoke. They operate under the idea that if we search far and wide enough you must be guilty of something. Obstruction of Justice is a charge they can throw at anyone for not cooperating with the cops. The computer fraud abuse act? Tim Wu a Columbia law professor and Democrat called it the worst law in technology. A teenager watching porn on a school or library network or a sailor doing the same shipboard could possibly be convicted. Campaign finance law? You mean the laws which supposedly take big money out of politics after the Nixon regime fell? I don't think it stopped a dime from reaching Hillary Clinton. If these laws do anything it is to expose the small campaign contributor to possible harassment especially by his employer. Conspiracy needs to have an underlying crime and an agreement to commit the crime even if the crime is never carried out. It's a great law because a guilty party need not do much more than finger conspirators and it can come very close if not actually to entrapment.
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The FBI did not exist until after WW1. The previous federal police force was very small consisting mostly of Federal Marshals, Secret Service and Postal Inspectors. The FBI has been a political police organization since its founding. At one time they had a spy in every union local in the country. They are a threat to political rights and freedoms as set down in the US Bill of Rights. They have even bypassed the ultra secret FISA court of special federal judges. Their showing up at public libraries with orders not to even tell an attorney about them having been there after the Patriot Act was clearly an attack on the first amendment and the fourth amendment. Like all cops they do as they are ordered. Propaganda about taking on organized crime and the 'mob' is just that it provides them a reason to exist.
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Why you are lead by the defenders of big business and profit maximization above all else what do you expect?
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@kirkradich4641 They should have caught the plagiarism when it happened not years later. When they write a thesis they are supervised by a Professor of the subject.
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@freedahlogic8368 I don't care if Harvard award degrees or doesn't but to award one and try and take it back based on plagiarism is a poor argument when being raised against a former student since the student no doubt was required to defend her thesis before her professors. Once a graduate student has provided the University with enough cheap teaching and research labor an advanced PHD degree is awarded. This then allows your entry into a lifetime career in academia.
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As long as there are people receiving no work dividend checks and rising stocks prices than no one should have to go without the basics of life. They rich enjoy all kinds of luxuries yet they are always the first to cry poverty and go on this we need lower taxes routine.
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Erich Weiler The 'tried like hell to save her life". I'd have to disagree they did nothing of the sort. Four CBP agents were keeping 163 people in a garage designed for vehicles. They should have sent a medic and additional staff with the first bus trip as a precaution since they had paid CBP Medics at CBP in Lordsburg, NM and Lordburg, NM had its own hospital and medics. After all the liberals at CBP talk about the dehydration dangers in crossing the border. While the conservatives are still trying to understand how dehydration is linked to being out in the desert heat? They should have sent a medic and additional staff on the 2nd bus trip. Now she was obviously sick. Instead of calling for an ambulance or seeking medical advice they stuck her and her dad on the CBP prison bus for about a 2 hour trip to Lordsburg. They could of called for an ambulance and medics and meet them 1/2 way in a CBP car. They could have sent a CBP helicopter. No they adopted the cheapest strategy possible. In other words SOP where the only thing that matters is keeping the aliens under control in the cheapest way possible. .
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Erich Weiler Can you imagine being forced aboard a prison bus with you daughter vomiting everything up? Of course you can't. You live in the nice world of the rich Europeans who are so cultured and avaunt guard. Where if you still smoke its politically incorrect and is done with a cigarette holder only.
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@urdbest3212 Trump is not setting up a Space force for nothing. In a few years they may be headed back to a Star Wars defense system. The Imperialist can not be trusted for a second.
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Amnesty now!!!
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@amraceway Marx was forced to close hus newspaper and first leave German and then Europe. Leon Trotsky was elected as the last Chairman of the 1905 Soviet. The Czar reneged on his promise of legality he was sent to a Siberian prison camp after which he escaped and came to Europe before eventually being deported from Spain to the US then after the 1917 February Revolution he left for St Petersburg. The British in Canada bordered the ship and sent him to a concentration camp in Canada. The British decided to let him go on petition of Kerensky.
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@rellikskuppin7417 So China doesn't invade because it not in debt like the United States? So the United States ability to go to war is based upon how much it can go into debt. So United States military power is based upon be able to get some one else to pay for it. Gocha!!!
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@rellikskuppin7417 How are they any different than the American ruling class?
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@rellikskuppin7417 After world war two the ruling parties that brought back capitalism in the Western Europe were the old Social Democratic Parties. After the end of the Cold War the Stalinist Parties and stalinist brought back capitalism. Fidel Castro and Cuba did not adopt dog eat dog capitalism like the Stalinists Parties. Now you have China and Russia wanting to be new Imperialist Powers like the USA.
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@jillybelphegor4819 Of course because all the brave talk of bourgeois rights and bourgeois freedoms is nothing more a religious cover for the rain of free competition in the marketplace. A place where capital accumulates at the expense of the laborer while the laborers must drive against capital to put the accumulation of past labor in the service of expanding the life of the laborer. This what the class struggle is about. .
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@hadriansdog Stop the steal!!! Stop borrowing money from the rich and make them pay all the taxes for things working people need. Capital produces nothing. It deserves nothing. It just accumulates and we need to stop paying the rich for wealth the don't need or use.
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@hadriansdog I chose to make an honest living not work at a big company or bank using the workings of capitalism to rip people off so I could live in luxury and beat my chest about how successful a card cheat I'd become. Because that's all an insurance man or banker or big capitalist is. A man who works to take advantage of others. Then after cutting costs to the bone and taking every cent he can he becomes a lover of art and the people becoming a philanthropists dispite all the misery he has caused others. He's turned over a new leaf Bill Gates loves us all. Just because he ruined the lives of millions its not his fault he was just living the American dream of his banker granddad. Who let him a million dollar trust fund. Then of course their's the few Horatio Algiers who made it to the top after mentering like the Black capitalist Tim Scott. Black people will all become rich and no one will have to work anymore because Bill Gates, Jeff Bezo's and Elon Musk their going to break the 1 st and 2 nd laws of Thermodynamics someday.
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@hadriansdog Have you ever heard of a Jubilee. It was a tradition of the Jews in the bible where they forgave all debts and started fresh. Well we don't need to keep the system where we keeping paying interest on debts from loans made by dead people hundreds of years ago. At some point well need to change the whole way we do accounting so everything is more transparent. We'll do away with all business secrets. We will be more organized though human solidarity than only competition and ownership of private property used to exploit others. We will be doing things that make sense instead of listening to trained idiots from bourgeois universities only successful only in order giving like you bosses are.
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@hadriansdog The poorest Empire with the worlds richest man the Russian Empire adopted socialism first. Lenin wrote Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism in 1916. World Socialism and national self determination are the only solution to Imperialism. No accountability with the two party dictatorship of Capital is their? Trotsky's Red Army defeated 14 Imperialist invaders including the US/UK. Despite the betrayals by Stalin and the murder of Lenin's party in the Soviet Union and the murder of hundreds of loyal communist in Spain The Germany Imperialist were defeated by the Soviet Union, the British Imperialist at the Yugoslavia border and the Japanese Imperialist and Americans Imperialist driven out of China. The whole Imperialist world went into Korea only to be driven back to a line of division Stalin has no right to agree to. A new communist leadership with Fidel Castro and the 26 th of July movement developed in Cuba that drove out a US dictator with all US made weapons. if communism would just fall of it own accord you wouldn't have to use your economic power to engage in a sixty year blockade of Cuba. Defeated in Vietnam you looked to Stalinist in China and Moscow to help you stay in control only to lose them in popular revolts against them. The illegality of Trotskyism defeated in the East. After 20 years of war and 'nation building you cut your losses and left without consulting the junior partners in the Imperialist capitals. You signed contracts to build nuclear subs with Aus and France lost its contract prompting a rebuke by the French withdrawing their ambassador and calling the UK a vassal state of the US. The EU built out of a common market is cracking up under capitalist national development differences. German Imperialist will buy Russian Gas to the dismay of the US Imperialist.
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@hadriansdog In other words you think communism is a new religion and with its holy priests and you suggest I choose your religion instead. We are like Galileo who's ideas revolutionized science and who the pope placed under life time house arrest. See we are Historical Materialist and we say to you your going to have to prove us wrong mystical arguments like belief in a higher power or God won't cut it. Capitalism has reached its highest stage Imperialism as Lenin theorized in 1916. We call China Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. Fools Gold is what you look out at from your towers at One World Trade Center at the US Federal Reserve banks cellars. We say capital produces nothing so prove us wrong. The 1 st and 2 nd law of thermodynamics tell you that machine can't create without labor. Liberty and freedom for the banker and the owner of the too big to fail corporation is the only freedom capitalism recognizes.Sorry but you can't print your way out of Das Kapital and the national ruling capitalist classes can't both compete and govern the world. You must fight each other for markets which is what Imperialism is all about. You were defeated in 1917 and haven't recovered any territory since. You lost the cold war because the Stalinist Leaders were overthrown in popular revolutions that only weaken the Imperialist world capitalist system instead of stabilizing it. You leadership of a free world is becoming more illusive by the day. As desertion of the other Imperialist powers continues with squabbling reaching new heights. .France withdraws it ambassador and calls the UK a vassal state of the US. China and Taiwan want into the Trans pacific partnership that Trump withdrew from. China calls Taiwan a breakaway province and only has one countries diplomatic recognition. Kim Jong Un put his finger in you eye. Cuba has almost every country in the wold voting against your cruel 60 year blockade. Cuban Doctors the sons and daughter of the Sugarcane slaves travel the world treating the poor and rich a like people you discount as too stupid to chase your golden chains of capital investment. Crisis on the southern border as the victims of 200 years of US Imperialist racist policy towards Haiti come for aid and you deport them. Your not afraid of a Cuba becoming a China are you?
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@hadriansdog Not really see we base our thinking and writing in facts and how to advance the class struggle with solidarity. So we can look at and explain things form different frames of reference so we can look at questions from all sides and then make our points. No you see that's where your wrong we train to teach others because we know we won't all necessarily make it. But I am a worker and and have been an industrial worker in big factories and smaller ones. I've work with electricity and my dad was a diesel electrician and a steward on the railroad and taught the apprenticeship class. He was just a unionist though not a Bolshevik like me. So i can explain ohms law and the difference between real and reflective power and how to use complex numbers to imagine the three basic properties of inductance, capacitance and resistance. How to solve for the currents in a bridge circuit. He climb poles also and so did one of his uncles so we are all pole monkeys I climbed for at&t and charter. See we can do any job if we need to all it takes is education. That's what the Cuban revolution taught many of the middle class got scared so they had to educate lots of people for the more technical and science jobs. See by mass education than people can't be fooled like when you can't read. That was one of the first things the did was to tech the peasants and workers how to read. And one of the ways you could earn more was to also learn more it was coupled with your wage in Cuba. Instead of waiting for disasters they plan ahead and are ready to go with resources before hurricanes hit instead of saying well its coming and now you need to evacuate and your on your own. See it works something like a big factory were we all work together and know how to do each others job. I worked at the old Sparrows Point mill. Was probable one of the last actual company towns all though they paid us with checks not company script. Had a town that they tore down basic steel , coke ovens, rolling mills, railroad and narrow guage rail, Giant trucks and ship yard, company police, company fire dept, company medical and meat wagon.
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@DavidxWebb The problem is quite simple you can't stop the flow of ideas across cultures. Truth breaks down all barriers. Capitalism is just a stage in human history that is coming to an end. Capitalism was the first really world system. The capitalist opened the door to socialism by the use of modern industry and the creation of us the modern wage working class.
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You have him pegged right as a big talker of little to no action.
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@RealMTBAddict Why would the bosses just give you that money you never see in your check? All you need to do is look at the homeless population to see the workings of BOSS charity.
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@ConstantineSad Across the hall from Professor "boob" you'll find the office of Professor "(Un) Sound logic".
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@MatthewGrowden Its not your money to begin with it's just a paper receipt that can't be counterfeited or numbers locked up in a computer.
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@alk3078 Women were denied equal access to sports which is why they passed title 9 to begin with.
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@@apsoypike1956 Your talking nonsense. You want to be compensated for the collective cost of other people's property??? When slavery was abolished it meant you could no longer own people. Before it was abolished in sme instances slaves bought or had their freedom bought but overall the practice itself was abolished without compensation to the slave holder. When private property is abolished it means you can no longer use the ownership of property to exploit others nor can you pass private property to others. The creation of wealth by capitalism made the slave system obsolete. The private property wage labor system is already being replaced as social wages for those unable to work has been established. Its a matter of taking the power of the capitalist ability to wage war and doing other stupid things to advance the profit system which has entered into world wide decline. There is a tremendous amount of waste within the capitalist system and as that becomes apparent then you will see an end to private property one way or another. .
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@NewWorld-fu4qw That's not a solution becauses its has no way of coming about. What happens before a majority joins? We go around doing nothing but trying convince people to join a discriminatory movement that says its against discrimination and overconsumption. .I'm sure the capitalist will be more than willing to promote an anti consumption movement where they consume and the rest of us don't. Why do I need a stupid passport that says I'm from planet earth? Isn't it obvious who is human and who is an ape?
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@paksta You call societies where women don't want to reproduce "wealthy" giving excuses for a result no different than infanticide practiced during times of war or food shortages? I call them capitalist hell holes where the working population doesn't see a future for themselves. The capitalist refuse to pay for the reproduction of the working class preferring instead to use up the current labor power with the longest hours and lowest wages for the biggest profits for a few wealthy bosses and replace it with immigration. You talk about "poverty reduction" when what you are really seeing is creation of a tiny super wealthy minority and a totally miserable majority. It's a totally false wealth because it can't even pay for the reproduction of the producers.
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@paksta As I said the decline in population exposes the "success of capitalism" as fake. All you do is repeat propaganda about central planning and women making a choice. ( Ah how Democratic of the Bourgeois!!! In permitting the working class to choose another way to escape exploitation by not having an expensive family and permitting the middle class to invest more in education of fewer children.) The success of capitalism relies upon exploitation of labor and resources to produce profits for a few ruling class families based in nation states. This competitions leads to Imperialist war to redevided the world among the exploiting classes. Next you will be telling me about how humans are a cancer destroying the planet with climate change and fossil fuels. Yours is the doom and gloom of a ruling class in decline losing its grip on reality.
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@MaJieMao If its a country and not a cold war relic than it should stop calling itself "The Republic of China." USA should stay out.
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@jarrettowens6073 The US has its national interests as in Afghanistan it makes its decisions without consulting its weaker Imperialists allies.
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@jasonfung9516 CCP knows enough history to understand that it can't just take over the world by force others have tried and failed most recently Germany and the US/UK. More likely for Taiwan to become part of China like Hong Kong as US power declines. Culture makes Taiwan Chineses not American.
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Hitler did quite frankly believe he could make NAZI Germany into a thousand year Reich as an Empire like the British American one. Part of his racial theory was that Britain and America were Germanic. But nevertheless his theory told him that the best Germans had left for America so he was unsure how he could defeat America and still believe in his racial theories. Maybe if he hadn't condemned Relativity as "Jewish Science" and the British surrendered after the atom bombing of London he could have reversed the Soviet offensive or turned them into a radioactive wasteland.
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@genaroprieto57 The US a country where the elderly have trouble finding a Doctor.
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@eddydominguez1568 Imperialism is what is failing. Starting in 1914 with the first world war. The US needs to keep Troops in South Korea to maintain its Empire. Its initial dictator Syngman Rhee had to be rescued by a specially chartered CIA flight. The American Imperialist are weakening and the post war Imperialist allaince with Western Europe and Japan is also understrain as competition for markets and resources with China and Russia continues. The American Imperialist unilaterally restarted the the old cold war arms race with Russia and China by withdrawing from the nuclear forces treaty. The only thing Imperialism has for the working people of the world is war and fascism.
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@eddydominguez1568 Why Nations Fail is just another hymn to Imperialist relations between nations and a complete rejection of the class struggle as the motive force in history. Written after 2008 but before 2016 and Donald Trump it completely missed the degeneration and decline of US Bourgeois political institutions. Don't worry I'm sure some other US Bourgeois Professor has come up with a new explanation of why capitalism is the best thing since sliced bread. His mathematical models are about as useless as those who wrote the economic theory of diravatives thar created the 2008 crisis, Wall st banks had hired all the MIT Physics and Math grads it could find.
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@eddydominguez1568 Society doesn't slowly die Cuba is a mere 20 million out of 9 billion so naturally world trade plays a big role. Capitalism and the greed of the national ruling classes that drives it can not solve the crisis of the world market out side of war and even if it could capitalism would have to come to an end as machines replace labor and the rate of profit declines. That is the ultimate judgement every capitalist uses to measure success. Imperialism is the highest stage as it is impossible for the imperialist capitalist competition to peacefully arbitrate disputes in the world market. Their can be no such thing as capitalism or socialism in one country. The working class today is even bigger today than ever before in world history. As Fidel said, "There will be a revolution in the US before a counter revolution in Cuba." The blockade is increasing the politicization of Cuba. The opposition lacks a just cause to defend. The Cuban revolution abolished private property and never went though a Stalinist counterrevolution like that of the Soviet Union. Nor was it hamstrung by a bureaucratic CP from the beginning like in China Yugoslavia or Korea. It is one thing to make mistakes another to launch a witch hunt of all opposition like Stalin or Mao's cultural revolution. That kind of blood purge never occurred in post revolution Cuban history. Cuba also has a reputation for International solidarity that no other country in the world can match. Cuba sends and educates Doctors for and to many other countries while the US Imperialist send drones and missiles. So while the Cuban governement earns friends the US Imperialist only earn more hatred.
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@whitneymacdonald4396 Must be absolutely horrifying for those from the Western middle class.
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@martinemjt Abolition of private property the property that is used to exploit others.
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@timmygunter4370 It's a women's right to control her body not corrupt capitalist politicians, religious quacks and rotten apple cops.
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@timmygunter4370 Thank You!!!
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@tigerbalm6465 US needs to end it cruel blockade of Cuba and the media needs to report on the migrant population that is fleeing the US colony of Puerto Rico.
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 The leaders believe that they can make gains by getting votes for Democrats instead of using labors power to shut off the flow of profits.
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@jpcdelorme9970 Islam is an arabic religion. You can't be a Muslim cleric without speaking Arabic. It's full of leaders who seek Martyrs for the Profit spelled with a F.
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@tevinramon5763 Down with Putin, NATO and Democratic Imperialism. Workers control of industry. A world nuclear disarmament conference to abolish nuclear weapons. No US F-35's for Germany. No trade sanctions on any nation.
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@Tangarisu Solidarity with Ukraine against Great Russian chauvinism. Down with capitalist Imperialism. Like comrade Trotsky said back to Lenin not forward with Stalin.
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@pjd6977 Nope. .
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@pharaohfilipe You think traveling in South America on a used and cheap motorbike and camping in a rainforest as one of the original Rebel Army Guerillas in the Sierra Maestra was a cakewalk? What's the correct way? Give to the rich and hope for God's intervention.
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@305jakec Executing a military traitor within a guerrilla group and those who committed verifiable war crimes or terrorists as a promised punishment isn't assassination in the political sense of the word. Those who overthrow democratically elected governments and people like Lee Harven Oswald or the anarchists who shot Lenin, Henry Frick or President McKinney are assassins or would be assassins.
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@pascalcs Debts are nothing more than pencil scratches on paper. Money is nothing but cool looking paper.
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What you propose is Utopianism. The British Imperial ruling class has been getting just the right mixture of democracy and monarchism for 400 years now.
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@nthperson You can't reform capitalism any more than reforming feudalism not that the Britts haven't tried both to a certain extent. (Cutting of the head of Charles 1st and the General Strike)
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@SergioKoolhaas If only Peterson with his 12 rules nonsense about cleaning your room applied his own advice to himself.
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@Kalimdor199Menegroth Petersen has turn towards God. Let him waste whatever time he has left wrestling with his God.
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@wdd3141 Nothing new Joe Kennedy Sr was an inside Banker Trader when it was legal. FDR made him a Trump as the first head of SEC. The Kennedy Boys John and Robert made a name for themselves continually baiting Jimmy Hoffa Sr. at Senate hearings on labor.
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@joseafmacal1144 Some are corrupted directly others just succumb to the natural workings of capitalism. When you live in a rat race hard not to be affected by it. That is why building solidarity is so necessary to standing up against it. People tend to see things from where they sit not where others do. You see man pushing broom as idiot. Man pushing broom sees CEO as dummy. Each see thing's differently. No one sees everything everyone can only look at the past because the speed of light is not infinite. Look up from the ground to the sky and you are looking at the past. You have to dream about the future before you can make it. .
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@edwardgensheimer6640 I don't vote for either party of capitalist politicians. That is popular frontism of 1930's by Stalinist's and Social Democrats. No allaince with capitalist politician's mobilize working people to take political power. Popular Front Against Fascism failed to stop fascist victory in Spain and France. Stalin ordered murder of loyal communists in Soviet Union and Spain. Ordered the murder of Trotsky in Mexico by NKVD Agent from Spain Ramon Mercader. Fidel Castro and Che of 26th of July movement lead Cuban revolution Stalinist PSP only joined in later. New Cuban Communist Party founded after 1959 revolution in 1965. At least one leader of old PSP goes into exile in Czechoslovakia after revolution. No censorship in Cuba like old Soviet Union after Stalin and Eastern Europe and China.
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@extremeresponsibility They should be taxing the people who are buying the treasury bonds instead of paying them out of taxes. FDR and Nixon took us off the gold standard to inflate the dollar instead of issuing wage cuts. Index wages and Soc Sec with inflation. These bankers and big business are siphoning off value. Property value rises faster than wages.
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@kevinkay7965 B.K. Burglar King Whopper?
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@TheRivrPrncess That is completely ridiculous. Every day that she carries an nonviable pregnancy is a continued unnecessary addition risk to her overall health. You need to get down from that high up horse of superior morality you're ridding.
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He isn't bowing to anything he is worshiping a golden calf and acting as a pharaoh would.
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He had a choice. Compromise, Close the secular and profitable section of the business or Close the religious section of the business. He chose to keep the secular part open and close the religious section.
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You now they're losing when they have to resort to insults and generalizations that are meaningless.
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Actually one need only read the book of Genesis to see that the bible and religion is on the losing side But go ahead and convince yourself other wise because after the first split between Eastern Orthodox, and then Roman Catholicism and then the Protestant reformation plenty has changed and more has been disagreed about.
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@Denise_2262 Sowell like the ruling class itself is a short sighted intellectual fool. A cherry picker for the capitalist ruling class.
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@chriswhite5846 Open the secret files!!!
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@michaelwallder6437 He can appeal to whatever Justice he wants it is up to the judge or justice to recuse himself for reasons of a conflict of interests. Nothing says that a Judge or Justice can't contribute to a political campaign either. If every appearance of conflict of interests were taken into account capitalism would be unable to function. If we had a labor party we could vote for people who were not directly beholden to corporate interests like the two parties politicians are now. Otherwise its always going to be he who pays the piper gets to choose the tune. Democrats do the same thing and campaign finance reform is a fraud from day zero. It makes some forms of corruption illegal while leaving all others intact and makes third parties more difficult to function.
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@debanydoombringer1385 This is what happens when you use the methods of capitalist real estate swindle. This the same thing they told the workers to do before the crisis of 2008. Buy home on the down payment plan because its an investment in your future. The prices of homes rose till they were unaffordable and then the prices collapsed. A capitalist economy can't help but enter into crisis. The drive for profits is such that only when they invest in expanding production are more workers drawn into the production process. However as markets can no longer sell ar a profit what can be produced. The profits get redirected into drying up the value of fictitious capital until that value collapses creating an economic crisis. The bosses cut production to save on labor costs and now the workers can buy even less.
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@ulHD Who does the work now? They want to spend a lot of resources on AI so they can put more people out of work in production jobs because that's the fastest way to generate profits. Of course when they put people out of work they are making anything or getting paid so it creates a crisis, But they don't give shit because more money is going into their pockets. They just bail themselves out when things go south and hope for the best.
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So growing weed is the natural solution?
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I'm going to guess that at the beginning of this crisis that the first thing President Trump asked his advisors was "How did they get nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles." His advisors then had to ask someone in the military who explained that the US and the rest of the five permanent members of the UN security council no longer have a monopoly on the necessary industry, science and engineering talent to build such weapons.
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@joshuanishimura1131 I don't know if you've looked at your money lately but it says Federal Reserve on it which is a privately owned bank run by ruling class experts appointed by the president and confirmed by the Congress for 14 year terms. They never run out of money when it comes to what they want to spend it on.
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@dandeaton6511 Actually it a rigged system and even the bourgeois economist like Milton Friedman will admit it if you listen closely that banks create capital by lending it back and forth to each other such that it gets counted on the books of more than one bank and that they only keep a faction on deposit despite the total of the currency in circulation.
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Bosses claiming a billion and a half in losses. Well I guess they just haven't lost enough yet.
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@usafvet100 Kennedy's reckless actions came close to setting off nuclear war when a US navy ship enforcing his blockade began dropping depth charges on a Soviet nuclear armed sub. Guevara told the Soviets if the hit us with missiles don't wait for them to launch missiles at you.
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I suppose there is no monopolization and centralization in the capitalist world. Capitalism in the advanced capitalist countries prepares the economy for workers central planning by monopolization of industry and banking. In 2008 the American capitalist found it necessary to buy up junk bonds and lock them away in the vaults of the federal reserve bank never to be seen or used again. They did that to reduce capitalist speculation. That showed the bourgeois theory where capital produces value without labor and that anything can be magically turned into value is nothing but so much nonsense. All the mathematicians and physics graduates hired by the biggest banks in the world couldn't make the credit default swap work according to plan. In the end they need rescue from the Federal Reserve central bank. In other words capital had to be further centralized in the hands of the state.
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@danieldickson8591 US intervened in Cuba more than once. It gave itself the Guantanamo Naval base and American citizens and companies bought up Cuban land.
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Why waste you time reading about them? When you can read what they wrote at the Marxist internet archive.
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@mR-dc4oq Bill Gates doesn't get his share of Windows revenue from the Chinese. They build the world's computers in China and when it comes to windows they tell Bill Gates to take a hike. No 20 dollar bill going into Gates pocket for every computer manufactured and then sold in China.
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@francis87589 The US/UK became supporters of the Khmer Rogue at the UN as a bulwark against Socialist Vietnam along with the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand providing safety and comfort.
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@19battlehill No fascism starts only when capitalism begins to enter a crisis. They seek recruits among the middle class layers that have been ruined by capitalism. They build their movement by attacking union meetings, political meetings in general, strikes, jews and any other minority groups. The also seek recruits from war veterans and criminal gangsters. William Dudley Paley with his silver shirts was a wanna be Hitler during the great depression. The most well known fascist thinker in the recent past was William Luther Pierce.
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McCarthy claimed to have a list of over 200 people in the State Dept that were Communists. He was never able to prove that single member or provide a single name of a US State Dept employee that was a Communist.
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That is a myth told by Wall street crooks who planned the deidustiralazion of the US economy for bigger profits in an exploitable third world.
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He is just a mouthpiece for big business and the dictatorship of capital.
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@tcalip2968 The crisis of 2008 showed how capitalism works. Golden parachutes for the bosses along with bailouts. While workers lost their homes and had the wages cut. DEI is just another HR whose job it is to keep the deplorables of all races under control.
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@GeorgeMorgan-w9y He just plays on the Conservative Republican team for corporate America.defending big CEO's as worth their pay saying he like more money also wouldn't everyone? Sowell sees profits as a reward for doing the lord's work via invisible hands. He promotes notions and lies in his book basic economics. From economics being defined as not enough to go around to no solutions only trade offs. Sowell must have recently discovered the earth isn't flat otherwise he be defending that notion also.
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@areyousur3 How about you move to Saudi Arabia where the religious police make the law.
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@joeblogs6598 Should states also have the right to decide on hair styles and skirt colors. .
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@joeblogs6598 Pro lifers "believe" which is the whole problem in a nutshell. Obviously life is cyclical. Medicine is not the same as law. Lawyers and politicians need to stick to what they know which is very little when it comes to science and medicine. There is never a good reason to force a women to carry a pregnancy to term that she doesn't want. There are plenty of good medical reason to terminate a pregnancy and no we don't see women coming in 8 months and 29 days pregnant wanting an abortion for birth control purposes. The people who can best make the decision to continue or terminate are the Doctor, the Women and her family. Not some bureaucrat sitting in an office somewhere with a rubber stamp.
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@joeblogs6598 The problem is that is just a made up reasoning by those who like policeman with a gun beside them all the times. People who need a solution to a non existent problem. It gives these politicians a chance to grandstand for votes with puffed out chests of moral pride. After all money keeps them form having to accept the consequences of their laws.
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@tonispets6446 You need to understand how capitalism works and the best person to teach you is Karl Marx starting with wage labor and capital and then value price and profit. Once you done that your ready for Das Kapital.
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@sherisse10 You may not realize it but you statement proves homeschooling during lock down to be a colossal failure despite you own experience being extremely positive. If homeschooling was a true solution than the lockdown period should have resulted in a massive educational improvement.
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What price will Sowell pay for his support of George Bush and the 5 trillion spent in nation building wars?
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@lobisomemfacanha4817 The road to socialism is though the class struggle. Saudi Arabia show capitalism does not bring freedom at all. After they've been receiving oil revenues for over 70 years now and the murdered an American journalist in their own Embassy.
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@lobisomemfacanha4817 There was way more freedom in Russia after the revolution. Even Ayn Rand got a University Education and advanced study despite being physically on the white side of the civil war and a self described bourgeois student. She left legally at the time of Lenin's death for the US a country that had no diplomatic relations at the time and had invaded the Soviet Republic. Not only did the Cuban revolution overthrow Batista it ended legal race segregation before the US passed the 1964 civil rights act. There has never been censorship in Cuba since the revolution.
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@lobisomemfacanha4817 We just saw large groups of Cuban's marching in the streets against the criminal US blockade and simular demonstrations in the US. They discuss polices all the time. US Big Tech censors critics like me for hate speech. I was censored from You Tube on Nov 4th and was just recently allowed back on. Ms Yoni Sanchez doesn't get enough attention anymore so she now writes about what it would be like to be tortured because she hasn't been and despite speaking to the Miami crowd no one cares anymore. To bad all you can do is repeat lies and propaganda and lack any facts to support your contentions.
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@lobisomemfacanha4817 Must be nice to be a rich Democrat or Republican Boss talking about how great things are for the BOSS class.
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@lobisomemfacanha4817 That's why we need to rebuilt union power and a new labor party based in the unions independent of the bosses.
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@thezonemtb Your seeing the results of "Capitalist Victory" in the cold war. Bipartisan Neoliberalism of the American Bosses coming home to roost. Instead of George Bushes "New World Order: you have capitalisms "New World Disorder" Instead of an "Ownership Society" you have an "Owners Society." The rules of capitalism create economic and political crisis. The wack a mole approach is your only way of solving problems.
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@gaylefasano9550 You just another Bourgeois nutcase.
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@ingolfleiblle6661 Ya like you have something other people want.
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@goldygoldstein1461 Burnie also went over to the capitalist Democratic party. He clearly a leader of American Menshevism now. A revisionist traitor like Karl Kautsky.
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@Preston Stevens Burnie wants a "fair economy" we want to abolish private property. Burnie wants medicare for all we want healthcare for all who need it and education for all who want to learn. .
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@gordonbgraham Japan like south Korea is a country where the working class is not reproducing itself. Hardly an indication of quality of life. Like the rest of the capitalist world its in decline.
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Sowell said, "Reagan should break the NEA like the air traffic controllers union".
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@enterpassword3313 Reagan couldn't get away with everything he or Sowell want because they are limited by the results of the past class struggle and the workings of capitalism and its government. The president may make the final decision but he doesn't do so without advice and in some cases it requires the Senate or new legislation or the courts. They are both capitalist parties so it's more like factional differences. .
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They are as stupid as Gorbachev who turned the Soviet Union over to the stupidity of Milton Freedman, Pepsi and Bill Clinton.
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@eddydominguez1568 What do the need these cardboard stand up billionaire models like Oprah Winfrey for?
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@rtorres4132 Rubio is a nut case He wants free internet for Cubans from balloons and talks about sonic weapons being deployed in Cuba. His family left Cuba in 1956 before the victory of the revolution and he was born in Miami and has never been to Cuba.
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@spacepiloter Such a Tribunal would have to idict itself as an instrument of propaganda.
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@Tier1Norseman What dives war and economic crisis is the capitalist competition for profits and the exploitable resources of land, mineral, water and labor.
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Timothy Somerville The message from Rush Limbaugh was that Coronavirus was just a cold virus being used to bring down Trump.
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You need carbon to smelt iron from ore for steel. Coal is the usually source.
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@ConsciencepartyUSA The reason it's called Warrior Met is because its metallurgical grade coal sold to China to make steel. You also need a source of heat to make portland cement for concrete to drive off the CO2 in the limestone.
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He's been a mistake since he began his carreer. He was a globalist neoliberal for free trade and free markets.
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@Evettecord No most women don't want the responsibility of having the children needed to replace the current generation. This speaks volumes about capitalist society since this is happening in every advanced capitalist country despite the wealth. In fact without immigration those countries would be seeing population decline. The fact that half the population doesn't want to have children shows the alienation that comes with modern capitalism.
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@bigbad9583 We know what your profit motive goal is and that is to keep us fighting among each other so the rate of return on investment goes up. You want better control over women workers lives and what better way to keep up the number of employment terminations than to deny working women abortions.
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The Soviet Union was never intended to be one nation like the United States. Russia is called the Russian federation because it too is not intended to be one nation. What Sowell fails to mention is Lenin's ideas on the national independence for nations subjected to Imperialist oppression.
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@kommisar. Why don't you go give orders to your liberal friends instead of bothering everyone else with your ideas of capitalist reformism.
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Trump can do nothing to reverse the decline and crisis of world capitalism.
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@TheAneewAony Nope Hitler came to power as the choice of the capitalist class to prevent another socialist revolution in Germany. Stalin came to power as a privileged bureaucrat who's success was enabled by all the destruction caused by the civil war and 14 Imperialist Armies invading. Lenin was the first to call for Stalin's removal. Hitler lead the German counter revolution. Stalin lead a counter revolution after the initial revolutionary success of the Russian Bolsheviks in defeating the Russian and world capitalism. Stalin had Lenin's party destroyed with the Moscow trials and the murder of 1,000's of loyal Party members. Hitlers Party was anti communist, anti marxist, anti semetic and wanted to make Germany an Empire like the UK/US. He was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President General von Hindenburg and had a coalition with the capitalist parties to pass the enabling act which gave him dictatorial powers. No Social Democrat voted for it and the Communists were denied their seats. .
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@TheAneewAony Hitler's party was the National Socialist German Workers Party. In the Communist manifesto Marx covers the different kinds of Socialism' in Socialist and Communist literature. Hitler's "socialism" is obviously reactionary. Someone like you is too intellectually lazy to read Mein Kampf and Marx so he just babels about things being equivalent because the same word is used. A pair of glasses can refer to glasses you drink out of and those used for vision correction but the are obviously different. .
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@TheAneewAony You like to lump things together because it suits your American neo liberal narrative. Where American and British Democratic Imperialism saved humanity from the evil Stalin and Hitler. To look beyond the great man theory of history is just to much trouble because then you have to deal with ideas where they originated and the hows and whys. The problem is that Hitlers ideas of racial superiority came from England and America not Karl Marx or Lenin. Hitler liked Henry Ford and republished his antisemitic rant "The International Jew" in German. Ford received a NAZI medal just before war broke out. Hitler had his Gestapo Stalin his NKVD and FDR his FBI as secret police to quash all political opposition. Democratic Imperialism was a whites only Democracy in Britain, America, and South Africa. The idea of national independence for the colonial world came from Russia and the Russian Bolsheviks. The league of nations was nothing more than a post war gab fest of the Imperialist powers. The post world war two period saw defeats for all the colonial powers. Defeats that continue even today as the US-NATO forces were driven out of Afghanistan.
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@TheAneewAony You like to go arrounf triggering people not because something is true but because you know its false and want to be provocative. John Stossel likes to play the game od the know nothing reporter making new discoveries as if no one knew what Hitler was about when he arrived on the stage of history. Are you triggered by the name of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada? . How about George Wallace's American Party. Do you "Vote American". for Segregation Today! Segregation Tomorra!! Segregation Foreva!!! Like George Wallace? May you and Stossel should just grow up and stop playing dumb?
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@wanaraz I'm sure we can find plenty of lies told by politicians seeking election to the school board.
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@lethalmustang Zimmerman was a self appointed watchman in a gated community. He call the cops to report a suspicious person. Cops told him to stay put in his car. Zimmerman gets out (he claimed he didn't know where he was and needed to look for a street sign.) and ends up in a fight killing Marin with his pistol. Cops arrive take Zimmerman's story and call it a day. Now if it had been anyone else do you think the cops would not have detained him and had the detectives questioning him?
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@Arciniega5k5 Everyone knows how the cops act. We will here some excuse like we didn't have any water.
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@richardsmart5532 That's because capitalism can't afford to lose in the countries it developed first. Capitalist reforms are never meant to be permanent but only for a time until they decided they need them back. When the US decides it doesn't like a country's government it calls for regime change with sanctions, trade embargoes, CIA plans for coups and war. No thought is given to the people who live in those countries as everything is included in their pre wars includes both food and medicine. If things were bad in Venezuela then the US with its regime change doctrine means making things worse.
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@L1LP0E Workers control of industry.
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@Rambo4526 Liar. He commuted their sentence to life in prison.
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They need to write this stuff because he influenced to many working class leaders. Like Eugene Debs whom the leaders of the AFL -CIO give themselves a Debs award. Sowell even needs to pose as a one time Marxist to make himself look like someone who saw the light. In fact his sole connection to Marxist by his own admission is through books and writings only despite his professor suggesting he do so for his theise. Instead he told his professors he did want to be influenced by others ideas on Marx. Its as if all the debates after Marx are totally irrelevant to Sowell. If Marx had not written what he did and people had not followed him then Sowell would have had no career making Marx into the origins of everything he finds wrong. When Sowell was a so called Marxist both Sowell and ultra right Republican Senator Joe McCarthy both claimed and believed that the US government was coming under Communist Control.
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@itinerantpatriot1196 Sowell was nothing more than one of the intellectual children he complains about so betterly until his professors played a real life practical joke on him by getting him a job at the US Dept of Labor. Nor is their any reason to believe more people would be alive if General Kornilov and the 14 Imperialism armies had won the Russian civil war or If Kennedy had successfully invaded Cuba and defeated Fidel Castro. Capitalism brought on the first world war all by itself. Britain and America made themselves into world capitalist powers by fighting wars and killing millions. Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and ossining dirt from every pore. The AFL CIO represented 1/3 of all workers in the United States in 1954 at its founding. Look at the deaths caused by religious wars and don't forget the Taiping Rebellion. All the weapons of Mass and Industrial slaughter were developed and first used by the Capitalist world Everything from the rifle to the explosive, the machine gun, poison gas and the Nuclear weapon. Ya capitalism is really just a bunch of people who own a few friendly family neighborhood grocery and hardware stores.
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@danielkokal8819 So your now a lover of the coal and energy bosses like Sowell.
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Instead of throwing away waste water in a river going to the ocean that has to meet the clean water act standards to begin with just send it back out into the fresh water system. As for energy how about building molten salt thorium reactors. Plenty of ocean water for cooling nukes especially when you can build safe plants that do not go china syndrome. If we do have to many workers that we can reduce the work week. No need to require 70 hour weeks like AT&T does.
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Here is a question why do you want to leave the people of GAZA under the NAZI like regime of Hamas? Shouldn't we believe Hamas when they say that they seek to wage a Muslim world war against the Jews to create a Muslim Caliphate? They Hamas billionaires live lives of luxury in Qatar and talk of creating martyrs for their cause. Which is what exactly? Conducting Jew hating pogroms and living it up in Qatar while the people of Gaza suffer because they need more martyrs for sympathy and UN aid?
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@somidris8339 Al Jazeera yep they are a good source especial since the are funded by Qatar where Hamas leaders live in luxury. A lot of people enjoyed the live hospital interview in Gaza where the injured Gazan siad ,"Hamas can go to Hell" of course it was cut short being politically incorrect. Tell us does the Emir of Qatar also deny the Holocaust or is that just the Iranian Mulllahs and government.
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@678crazydave Larry Elder, "We've got a country CLUB to save."
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@diyside The capitalist always demand a return on investment in countries like the US they shut down rail lines as unprofitable or get the government to bail the investors and privatize for the profit needs of the capitalist bosses. China since the market reforms has become no different.
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@tuckernance Waking up to what? The neo liberals promise to pay the lowest wages work us the longest hours at the fastest pace for the biggest profits.
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@kurtsakslsvideosaks9185 Make childcare and family life paid like old and disabled people who get social security.
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Reagan CIA armed the Islamic terrorist in Afghanistan and Oliver North sold missiles to the Islamic Republic of Iran out of the white house basement.
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West is just another professor who thinks he's leading the revolution. Now a days they want you to swear allegiance to the "Anti Trump' forces before they can engage in talking with you. In this case West was leading another 'arrest protest'. Where the police arrest him and other 'progressive forces' after which he will denounce the system. In this situation he couldn't get the police to arrest him and now he had to face the fascist forces without any preparation whatsoever. Good job Cornell!! With your kind of leadership where loss is victory we are sure to lose under your leadership.
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In times of little class struggle the police force may seem to be there for preventing crime. However the real role of police is to enforce ruling class policy. Ruling class policy since the end of the radical reconstruction has always been one of attempting to contain class struggle within the boundaries of the two parties through voting. The last election saw both parties breaking apart under the impact of the great recession and do nothing policy of Obama. The Democratic machine was able to hold off the Burniecrats but the Republicans were unable to stop former New York Democrat Trump turned conservative Republican. Trump made appeals to the working class while Clinton assumed she had their votes through union officialdom support. Nevertheless she felt it necessary to attack coal miners and call us irredeemable deplorables just for listening to Trump. The same workers who elected Obama now voted for Trump. Trump has given some voice to those the system despises and this is what has gotten the rest of the ruling class so angry with him. The rulers demand that a president listen only to them and their needs while paying only enough attention to the working class that will keep us in line and out of sight.
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Phil Esh you are doing nothing more than a supporting a new and revitalized version of eugenics. This time a middle class university education makes you the smart one by virtue of genetics. You'll have no problem bring up the next generation of American Hitler Youth and joining one of the new coming versions of American fascism that has yet to appear.
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Stalin lost the German revolution to Hitler. Largest Communist Party outside of the Soviet Union loses to Hitler. Stalin and his gang of corrupt bureaucrats represent unstoppable defeat.
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Last time the Klan, NAZI and undercover Federal ATF attacked an anti racist march was in Greensboro, NC killing 8 people on film with no State or Federal convictions by all white juries. In this case also uniformed cops mysteriously disappeared unlike at previous demonstrations.
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Victoria Cornel West went there to have himself arrested. He admitted that in the video himself. If your against all that claimed why surrender yourself to the enemy? After all the fascists always have ties if not outright dual membership in the police agencies. You might as well surrender to the KKK or NAZI's when you give yourself up to the police.
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Stalin what didn't you like about all the rest of the original October 1917 Politburo that made you declare them all fascists and organize all their frame up trials and murders? Why go after Trotskyists? What didn't really like about us?
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If he wanted to point that out by getting arrested than he could just go to any prison or jail and get himself arrested. I'm sure the'd be happy to take him prisoner. Then again the police stopped arresting people and filling the jails during the civil rights movement throwing a monkey wrench into Doctor Martin Luther King's nonviolent strategy. King also held an undefended meeting and when the racists showed up he had to call Bobby Kennedy to get protection. Kennedy had to hurriedly deputize mailmen as federal officers to prevent those inside from being killed. At no time did he say that he was protesting the prison system. In the first part of the interview he complains about the police not being their to protect the church service and in the second part he says we were they were their to get arrested but the police pulled back. The police follow orders. That's the first skill they expect from the police. Now if the police arrest Professor Cornell West and they know who he is you don't think they will treat him the same way they treated Freddy Gray do you? They'll have him in the squad car and they'll ask him, "Professor West is it comfortable back there?"and he'll say, "Oh yes my brother I am very comfortable." Then they'll ask him, "Are the handcuffs too tight Proffessor West?" and he'll respond, "Oh no my brother there just right." Eventual he will wind up in front of a judge or a bail commissioner. They'll set bail and he'll ask, "Do you take American Express or Discover Card?" A completely different experience from what a black teenager can expect when being arrested.
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Victoria I saw the last antifa action in Berkley. A truck pulling up handing out clubs and shields saying, "NO HATE" and then attacking unarmed people just wanting to have political conversations is clearly a sign that those people were actual fascist themselves. Since they are hidden by masks and the police made no arrests it points to the possibility of the whole thing being organized by the police themselves and police involvement in things like that is almost always assured through informers and provocateurs to begin with. Now once again if you listen to Professor Cornell West himself in the video he thanks antifa and anarchists for saving him and others from being crushed. Were theses antifa the same as in Berkley? I'm not really sure but this whole strategy is wrong because it relies on only a few people willing to be arrested and a only a few armed saviors if the arrest strategy fails. It completely ignores the masses of people who can be brought out to protest against these kind of fascist actions. We want to always keep any type of violence that occurs clearly the responsibility of the police or fascists groups. The police and the fascist don't care about free speech because all they want is to beat everyone into submission. Now I was a young person around in the 1970's and we made similar mistakes but Professor Cornell West and Amy Goodman should know better. Give this some thought and go from there.
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@ajedrezpolitico8370 US out of Guantanamo Bay!!
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@TRDiscordian All children should be wanted children not accidents or sent to orphanages to be raised like cattle.
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@t3RRX3 US politicians need to point the finger elsewhere. Sure China did and does lots of bad stuff. Congress was able to get an early warning so they dumped stocks in now what is becoming a scandal over insider trading. They knew! They did nothing! Insead the country was being treated to the non impeachment no crisis. Everyone including Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi knew Trump would not be convicted. Congress, Trump and CDC sitting on their hands early on. China was doing what all good Capitalist countries do. Restricting healthcare to a chosen few. This didn't have to happen but did any other country step up to the plate to help China? Certainly the US couldn't because American Healthcare is about making insurance companies and Big Pharma profits. The US system relies on immigration to fill a stingy system that only covers some.
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@pawel5280 Shouldn't you be with Alex Jones and infowars?
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@genxchas US uses food as a weapon. Starve first so they can then invade next.
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@danwells7691 The US Department of Agriculture like the US Department of Labor serves the rich and their corporations not the family farmer or the worker. In current US policy the farmer is used as a pawn in the trade battle between Chinese and American capitalists. The promises of aid to the farmers was put off while Democrats, Republicans and the President closed the government as a political punishment blame game over how to deal with the 'immigration refugee crisis'.
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The US claims the right to determine who they accept and don't accept as legitimate governments and use all kinds of methods to see to it that their choice is accepted. Yet these same Imperailist Lords and Ladies scream about Russian interference. The US President calms to be "The leader" of the so called "Free World" while campaigning against immigrants and denying immigrates the right to vote in US elections.
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@danwells7691 Small farmers are debt slave being able to get loans is necessary. Different crops are planted in different parts of the country. No doubt corporations are involved in various subsidy schemes but making them the issue is like making a single mother on welfare the object of blame for taxes working people pay.
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Farms that require lots of labor are run by wealthy growers.' Like industry some crops require lots of machinery now. Others involve planting only and harvesting done by the customers or by companies that do the harvesting.
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@danwells7691 US companies use that ability to punish those countries with sanctions when the ruling class decides it wants regime change. A country like Venezuela comes under attack for wanting to use its oil wealth to benefit the poor. This of course has to be wrong because a countries natural wealth must be able to be exploited by US companies for the benefit of wealth investors. Is Madero's government kidnapping journalists in Venezuelan Embassy's and deposing of the bodies with sulfuric acid?
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Obviously there is one standard for an unelected ally like Prince Mohamed bin Salmon who doesn't know anything about his war making machine and his policy of starving Yemeni children and an entirely different standard for an elected President Maduro who isn't in a war with any other country.
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Capital creates nothing which is why it can not go on paying endless profits and dividends. Its why financial crisis always the result of capitalist greed caused by the overproduction for markets that don't have enough buyers.
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@covercalls88 Sowell was solely a book Marxist he read books and refused to even talk with an actual Marxist wanting to only develop his ideas supposedly from books. Yet when he was a book Marxist he believed the same lies that ultra Right Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy spread about Communists taking over the US Govt. His professors played him like a fiddle getting him a job in the US Labor dept. Once their his dreams of become the next Stalin were dashed by the cynicism of high officials and clerks alike.
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@sanders555 Das Kapital is Marx's attempt to strip the workings of capitalism bare naked. It's the theory of economic crisis and the nature of the capitalist state that the Social Democrats first rejected. Then war broke out and most of the Social Democrats especially the German's supported their own ruling classes. This is why Lenin wrote Imperialism is the highest stage of Capitalism based upon Hobbs work in 1916. Then State and Revolution in 1917. The Bolsheviks come to power in Oct 1917 shortly afterword civil war breaks out and Leon Trotsky's leads the Red Army to victory over 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK. The civil wars ends in 1921. Lenin dies in 1924 and the Party begins to develop political differences. Lenin sees a split coming between Stalin and Trotsky. He wants Stalin out of his post as General Secretary saying he is too rude and has too much power which he may not always use wisely. The political committee fails to head Lenin's warning and the Trotsky tries and fails to have Stalin removed. Stalin becomes the leader of a privileged bureaucracy and ends up murdering and destroying not only Lenin's Party but the New Communist International. Trotsky is exiled and Stalin's NKVD murders the Spanish revolution opening the way for World War 2 and NAZI Germany's quest for a thousand year Reich. . .
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Of course they like tax cuts for both reason less tax on them and more treasure bonds for them to buy. Why pay a tax when you can lend rhe money!
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Why would anyone believe that corrupt politicians of either party care. The best anti poverty program is a trade union.
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Look I'm the communist on this thread and I worked at Sparrows Point with its coke ovens. I know what's like to get out of your car and smell sulfur on your way to the clockhouse. The last turn never bothered to turn off the lights in the Hot Mill. Now the place where thousands made steel for cars and refrigerators is empty except for night watchmen. We've been treated like Indians across the board. Promised the world while wall street robbed us blind.
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Because coal is mostly used in industrial processes like making electricity and steel we can capture the CO2 released much easier than capturing the CO2 from natural gas or oil burned in homes for heat and cooking. Once captured the problem has been what to do with it. Some have advocated pumping it back down into the empty natural gas wells while others think it can be mixed with water to feed algae which could be used in some other way. The big elephant in the room is that this like other recycling is not profit friendly.
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We should reconsider nuclear energy. We have better monitoring technology that we didn't have at 3 mile island. A single design of a medium size plant could be replicated as a factory item assembled on site with multiple plants for more energy. During the recent Hueston hurricane the nuclear plant never went offline. Another design that was halted by Nixon because nuclear was safe is the molten salt design. This design is walkaway safe unlike the solid fuel nuclear plants. It still needs development which a number of countries and companies are doing.
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You sound like a Feudalist that wants to return back to the days when people used firewood because you can go out in the woods and collect firewood. We are not anti-technology. We're anti-capitalists. The old are dependent because they can't work the way the young can. The companies want strong backs and weak minds. Private property, mineral rights and the sheriffs keep you from digging coal where ever you want but do you want your grandma going out with pickaxe digging coal? Or do want your grandma to be exempt? The companies control the government with campaign donations and ivy league education not the other way around. We need to replace that government not reform it. There was a big push for nuclear power in the 1950's because otherwise the government would need an excuse for building reactors for the plutonium needed in nuclear weapons. Reforms and regulations like EPA and MSHA are window dressing. Which are meant to control but can not stop capitalist greed. Right now their talking about need to regulate windmills. See if the windmills go up and they are hit with an ice storm when the ice melts it could damage the mill in a number of ways putting it off line. To fix the problem requires additional investment cost into every windmill with no corresponding return on investment. So the argument now is what to do. Add a regulation requiring ice safety or take the chance that an ice storm will knock out a large number of windmills and power across the northern midwest? For us the problem is not should we build it this way or that way but that the wealthy get to make the decision about something that could threaten the lives of millions of people yet all the numbers and facts are hidden due to private property and business secret laws.
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@Korn1holio The Hindu throws a hungry Muslim in prison for eating a cow.
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@ejakaegypt Now Musk can join Hillary Clinton who called voters for Trump deplorables. The bosses just can't keep their mouths shut revealing their contempt for workers.
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@daa5249 Ruling class liberals fear a thinking working class in time of capitalist decline and crisis.
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Trump did not get a due process hearing before they took this arbitrary action.
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@tomjohnson3010 Take medicine out of the hands of grandstanding politicians. If they were pro life they'd be paying for all pregnancy medical expense and guaranteeing families than have a home. .
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@AlejandroMartinez-it4qq Not only would the Imperialist face the Cuban Army but the whole Cuban nation as Cuba has its territorial militia and the whole of Latin America would rally against such an unprovoked Imperialist assault. Thousands would die needlessly for Wall Street greed. Protests within the United States would be massive making Vietnam wars protests look like a Sunday afternoon picnic.
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@Vale65ntin Dd you stop what the American Imperialist did in Iraq and Afghanistan? You need to start with your own ruling class before you go accuse other capitalist regimes of crimes. You end up looking like a hypocrite otherwise. The American Imperialist increasing look at China as a competitor for markets and cheap labor in other countries so naturally the look for ways to turn opinion away from their crimes to others. The United States has more people in prison than China a large portion of them are African American.
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@everythingandmore5537 That is why Lenin wrote in 1916 that Imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism.
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@3jacen The Imperialist nations went to war to redivide the world among the colonial powers. Algeria remained a colony of France despite France incorporating it.
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@3jacen The Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the war and even Milk cows were taken from the German people. It was an Imperialist victors peace.
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@adriellightvale8140 Thats was the slogan of the American Imperialist durring the cold war. Its is not peace that they sought but the rollback of communism and defense of the American Empire.
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Right send in the tanks, armored personal carriers and the airborne to take 6 city blocks.and show them some real American Justice as Seattle becomes America's Tienanmen square.
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@wstavis3135 He loves to do cherry picking and battling the evil Karl Marx and "Socialism" he sees behind every bad Capitalist Democratic Party Liberal policy.
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The same one who had Eugene Debs thrown in Prison. The first Democratic Party President since the civil war taking the reins of Imperial power from Republicans who had established America as a new Imperialist Power in the world following the 1898 Spanish American War.
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If your born into a poor family the doctor bill means you already owe the rich am I right Ben?
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Goldie O Reagan earned his "success story" When as governor he sent in 800 riot police to empty People's Park" for the building of a new parking lot at UC Berkeley. Reagan ordered the CHP and Berkeley police to "use whatever method they choose against the protesters". These were his own words. Shotguns were used on unarmed protesters. One student dead and 128 people sent to the hospital. Reagan declares a state of emergency. Calls out the national guard for two weeks in the City of Berkeley. Groups of more than four come under arrest.
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@Muzzleblast-1911 They are always writing a new law or having a new investigation to stop capitalist corruption which is how the system naturally works.
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@Muzzleblast-1911 The law isn't written or meant for us. We can only use the democratic rights in capitalist law to our advantage. Organizations like the liberal common cause wrote campaign laws that were suppose to get big money out of politics back after Watergate. They just found ways around them and make it harder to build a workers party independent of the capitalist parties because now we have to file all kinds of paperwork with the government. It's just like the unions they didn't give a damn about corruption in the unions until the unions became a big enough threat then first they favored the corrupt like Dan Tobin and then latter they went after corruption to attack the unions as a whole. They are attacking Trump not because he is corrupt but because they fear the attention he has paid to workers and the fear us more than him. That's why the keep talking about MAGA extremism. They fear a politicized working class.
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@Muzzleblast-1911 The biggest way the get away without paying taxes is by taking out collateralized loans such that as the property value rises with inflation the loan just rolls over and they never have to pay the loan back this way they are going into debt and don't have income tax from capital gains or dividend payments. They know no one is ever going to pass a law taxing debts or taking out loans.
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Read about the English 10 hours law.
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Cost of education doesn't go down relative to manufactured commodities because overall there is no way to replace living labor of teachers and professors with machinery at schools and universities. There have been great changes in access to knowledge and culture consisting of lower costs in book manufacturing, more public libraries, movies, TV, Radio and the internet.
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The Fair Labor Standards act was passed in 1938. It ended child labor, set a minimum wage, set a 40 hour week with time and a half for an additional 4 hours. The 4 hour extra hour limit was set aside which is why companies can require 70 hour workweeks. One might note that this was a time of massive class struggle by the working class organizing into the Industrial Unions of the CIO labor movement in basic industries like Steel, Rubber, and Elecitral. One might also note that if an hourly limit was passed this would open up jobs in companies that require 70 hour work weeks like AT&T. Did minimum wage prevent companies from hiring during the war years of 1941 to 1945, a time of almost full employment, government wage and price controls and government insistence of on no strike pledges. How much better would the working class be doing if we were paid in US government gold coins or US gold certificates instead of inflatable US Federal Reserve Notes? The had to take the copper out of pennies because of how inflated those overvalued paper Federal Reserve notes have become. It costs $.33 to print a single dollar bill. Yes government prints the US Federal Reserve Notes but the privately owned Federal Reserve Banks accountable only to their private owners, the US Federal Reserve Bank board of governors, that decides how much money to print. For the time being neither you nor I nor Congress have any say in that.
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@Frawls42 I'd start by attacking his vulaga definition of economics in his book Basic Economics. What economics is about is how human beings go about organizing themselves as social animals to make a life for ourselves with social labor using culture. What's been going on since neolithic era change in life from groups of wandering hunter gatherers to more stationary agriculture is the creation of surplus value. Capitalism most important product is us the working class who will abolish private property.
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@donswearingen9805 He came out and openly said that if he was secretary of education the first thing he would do is break the teachers union like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers union. Capitalism isn't possible without the sale of wage labor. To make the biggest profits the capitalist seeks to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hours in a pay period and at the fastest rate with the fewest mistakes. In return he seeks to pay just enough wages so that we can reproduce our labor socially. In other words come back to work for another pay period.
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@railcity True they had no capitalist in the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc but what they did have is a privileged bureaucracy that was using capitalist methods. The problem with capitalism is that it is based in nation states that compete in a world market. The bourgeois as a class control their nation states and use their nations military power to defend their economic power in the world market. Because they are in competition they can't avoid breaking up into shifting military and trading alliances that use war to defend their nations profit making. The Socialist states never had total power over the workers because of the trade unions. What limits the power of the capitalists is the workers power in the trade unions not markets or ability to become a capitalist. The monopoly power of the capitalist is not just expressed in the market but in the government and banking monopoly that enables the creation of money. You see the capitalist began ditching gold as a backing of currency with with the British banking crisis at the beginning of World War one. Keynes advised them to use government expenditure to prevent economic downturns. So with this method they are able to avoid handing out strike provoking wage cuts by using inflation to cut wages since they have control of the central bank. At the end of world war two the capitalist nations meet at Breton Woods to set up fixed exchange rates. That system prevailed until 1973. This is when Nixon told France we are NOT going to give you gold for dollars. Fifty years of wage stagnation followed along with the advanced capitalist nations moving production to China and the colonial nations. Now Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics is in the position of pre world war one German, the US as the UK and the EU as France. The biggest difference is on a world scale the size of the working class in every nation is much bigger.
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@railcity The workers have power only though their use of class struggle now and then they are successful but capitalism inevitable puts them back in competition with each other since the profits are based upon exploitation and the long term tendency of profit rates to decline signals the end of capitalism as currently organized. They can't escape this problem because as they are the promoters of modern industry the replacement of skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor leads to less living labor to exploit with greater capital that undermines the rate of profit by which capital judges success. You will notice that before 2008 in those countries in asia where capitalism was said to work miracles all of them can not reproduce the population needed to even replace those now living and that since 2008 that has become a problem in the rest of the capitalist world that without immigration countries like the US and Canada would have declining populations. The reason being that the capitalist don't want to pay for a new generation of workers when imports will do. So first you exported our jobs so you could make bigger profits elsewhere and now that you want to import workers because we've become to expensive. In fact its the capitalist who've become too expensive for everyone else with their stupid money saving plans for themselves.
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Ronald Reagan was the popularizer of trickle down economics. A 1980 Chevy 1500 Pickup had a MSRP base price of $5,505 in 1980. The 2020 Chevy 1500 Pickup has a MSRP base price of $28,300 and the smaller Colorado Pickup a MSRP base price of $21,300. I picked the base model pickup since they don't change into as many model names and sizes over time.
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@clarestucki5151 When a capitalist moves production to places with lower labor cost they do not necessarily take the old factory to the new place of production. Instead it is usually built with the newest labor saving machinery and methods available. That is what lowers the sales price compared to other commodities not the lower wages paid. The lower wages paid increases the profits while the trading price revolves around the labor time as traded. They don't move for the sake of lowering their prices. They move to increase profits.
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Bosses are making record profits and living in gated communities. Why would they see anything wrong?
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They are bring in brain dead judges and a jury that failed sex education.
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The right is winning because NARL is focused on legislation by the court instead of the street. Roe v. Wade was decided by a majority republican appointed court.
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Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter supported Pol Pot at the UN and with arms though the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand.
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Actualy just like the 1776 revolution the civil war delt blows to racism especially in the New Reconstruction governments. Black men served in Congress and as governors in the South. The first public schools for all races were built in the South. Andrew Johnson had been a Democrat who was put on the ticket ax a compromise to get Lincoln reelected.
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@zipzonker1576 Typical bourgeois thinking where workers are criminals, drug addicts and the cause of a cushing tax burden on bosses.
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@Cdub1717 Anytime you can pay lower wages and bigger profits are the result. Inflation is caused by the central bank increasing the money supply so bosses can raise prices and blame workers for inflation. Bosses seek to pay the lowest wage to make the biggest profits they seek to pay only the social cost of you reproducing your labor power for a pay period. After you have created enough value to pay for your social cost the rest of the value goes into profits for the bosses. Both Parties are for the bosses. Income taxes is a bogus issue since the bosses set the tax rates and borrow money from those who should be paying taxes in the first place as the capitalist fund government though a combination of debt and taxes. They prefer debt because they believe they can get a guaranteed return with no possibility of default. Now even some Senators fear what will happen if they default on the debt.
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@alanboggs2315 As I've said the bosses only want to pay the social cost to reproduce our labor. They don't want to pay for a new generation of workers. You can look at any of these so called capitalist miracle countries and they all have this problem of not paying for a new generation of workers. Its gotten worse in Canada and the United States since 2008. You can also look ar record of use of industrial capacity and see that the bosses are using less of the total industrial capacity over time.
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@alanboggs2315 Thats not going to happen because its just some scheme invented to save or reform capitalism.
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@alanboggs2315 You culture is capitalism do we intend to get rid of your culture yes we do. Your culture of private property, with profits and losses where everything has a price tag and is judged using secret accounting books.
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@richardcranium3579 Capitalist Immigration laws are just another way to create more rules for those with college participation degrees to enforce while sitting at a desk wasting time on the Government payroll.
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@andrewlinn7863 By increasing the amount of money in circulation the value of the money goes down because bosses can now raise prices and the value of property rises faster than wages. It's a way for the bosses to try and issue wage cuts without provoking strikes.
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@panchonelson3573 Labor has no nation instead its something human beings do to satisfy our needs. Labor transforms nature. John Locke.
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@TheMidwesternViking A Viking invasion of Canada?
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@user-tz6to3hc3k Capitalism the natural ability to rise and fall as investors shift investment back and forth between expanding production for bigger profits or driving up the value of fictitious capital in speculation for higher shareholder value. This shifting back and forth is what causes economic crisis. It's never really clear what will happen because economic crisis or a war in one part of the world can effect how things are produced and traded on the other side of the globe. What did people do before agriculture? We lived in groups who did hunting and gathering as social animals who communicate with a voice box and labored with out hands after which we create culture from which all science art and even religion comes. About ten thousands years ago our ancestors began agriculture the delberted planting and raising of animals and plants for food and clothing. This increase in productivity resulted in surpluses that allowed for bigger groups, a division of labor and the creation of a ruling class. The creation of agriculture also brought an end to cannibalism people no longer ate their dead or killed each other in times of food shortages. These agricultural people had to defend their surplus form barbarians as the Greeks called them. Money was originated by the ancient sumerians as coins later the Roman's paid the soldiers in salt.
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@gothic7821 That's why they made you a boss so you create red tape no doubt.
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@andrewlinn7863 The key is to raise prices and then blame the increasing prices on rising wages. Even if wages were to follow prices all the new productivity from new machinery from industry would go to the bosses. Those pushed into new industries would be paid lower wages since union power to raise wages was halted by a hard line from the bosses following the end of the world gold standard. They long term problem for capitalism is the tendency of real value profit rates to decline.
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@andrewlinn7863 No because the bosses only need to pay the cost to socially reproduvce our labor for the next pay period. Only the workers ability to club together and struggle for higher wages can affect that price which decline during times of the business cycle when production declines and only rises when the bosses can't pay that social minimum. (not necessarily the minimum wage). All of the basic industry is basically under monopoly control. The bosses meet at the federal reserve banks to decide how to manage production in their area.
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@donovanattano3898 Figured as much.
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@andrewlinn7863 The social cost of a commodity is the social cost of the social labor power to produce it so what is the cost of that social labor power but the social cost to reproduce it. The special property of social labor is the ability to socially produce more than its social cost. Since the beginning of agriculture we've been able to produce a social surplus of production with culture from which comes art science engineering and religion. What we do socially after meeting the basic needs of food water and clothing of small groups of hunter gatherers. Capitalism and nationalism are just steps on the road of a natural process that gave birth to humanity.
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@DMGrass-gb9kg Capitalist government policy is based upon advancing the needs of a nation state of capitalist private profit accumulation and NOT necessarily the total social surplus.
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@DMGrass-gb9kg Capitalism created the nation state with borders to control the movement of trade and defend its nation against others. Competition combined with monopoly tactics is how the capitalist win the battle of the marketplace and so those who became rich first went to the rest of the world and claimed it for themselves. This is the Imperialist stage of Capitalism its highest stage marked by war and revolution and battles between different groups of capitalist for the world market and sales of the overproduction of their nation. This is why the workers must develop not an immigration policy but a foreign policy. Just as we don't need an abortion policy but an overall pregnancy policy so workers can afford to have children. All the capitalist nation have declining birth rates are caused by the workings of capitalism only paying what is just enough to reproduce our labor for another pay period.
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@hectorrgee Without a workers foreign policy the capitalist will use their state and borders to advance their class interests in world trade and immigration.
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She was Judging a county fair pie eating contest when someone with power and money though she was hot and decided she would look great in black robe as a Judge.
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@johnwattdotca Ya and she admitted she became anti abortion for the cash money.
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@johnwattdotca Actually no I don't. I'm retired now and so I've got plenty of time to make political comments.
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@laurencraigels Because it represents the early years of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union in Lenin's and Trotsky's time before the Stalin led bureaucratic counterrevolution.
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@aurelio-reymilaorcabal9669 The Cuban revolution is still advancing while the America Imperialist are in a political and social crisis of their own making.
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@robertagabor3736 You have water to drink in the Rio Grande not in the other 3 border states.
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"We're all treated equally under the law." Micheal O'Brien. Sure you are mate!! It just that some of you like the Governor General and the Queen who you swear allegiance to are a little bit more equal. Any Irishman in any country should be able to understand that.
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Bosses canceling one of their own. Let's all shed a tear for the golden parachutist who will make a soft landing.
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@ManiacRedBird I could put Ayn Rand on the stand and ask her to testify about the Soviet Union in Lenin's time and what would she say? She was a self described Bourgeois Student who was educated in a University opened to women after the Bolshevik revolution. She was physically and political on the white side of the civil war and she left legally for the US a country without diplomatic relations that had invaded the country during the civil war.
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@MoCsomeone The Stalinist's became a consevative bureaucratic murder machine ruling over the Soviet Workers State. Cuba never had the purges or forced collectivization. If the working class doesn't develop a leadership before a revolution breaks out than the revolutionary tide will decline and capitalism or even worse fascism will win the day. The stakes are high as Capitalism's decline drives the class struggle and the ruling class will discard Bourgeois Democracy for fascism.
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As an Englishman after about 400 years you are still trying to find just the right mix of the commons, the peerage and the Monarchy. "The King need not speak when an act of Parliament will do." Thomas Paine. Westminster rabble is of course the house of commons. They still take an oath to the Queen. So much for English democracy. The Royals put Stain and Mao to shame as far as cults of personality go.
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Kyle Castloo The reason bourgeois liberals and "socialist in name only" friends want better gun control is they fear the coming battles with the working class. The union miners Battle of Blair mountain, the Minneapolis workers defense guards and Robert F. Williams who had an NRA charter effective defended his community from KKK violence.
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Kyle Castloo The ruling class could care less who you vote for as long it's one of their two party stooges. Nor are immigrants taking jobs because all the jobs belong to either the capitalist bosses or the capitalists bosses government. The want immigrants in the most defenseless position possible to better exploit natural born and immigrant workers.
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Kyle Castloo To counter this problem we say amnesty for all Immigrant workers and rebuild the unions into militant fighting force. The bosses use the unemployed waiting at the gate to drive down wages. This is why the unions should demand jobs for all at union wages. The economic pie is not fixed except by capitalists who shut down production when the workers can not buy back what we produce. Profits sink when sales price sinks to the cost of production without wage cuts or increased productivity to shore up that natural process the capitalist ends up in bankruptcy court. Here the major creditors eat him like hungry cannibals.
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@philm9593 The capitalist have no need for democratic rights as can be seen by their actions. The US Gov't, their government, can't make enough excuses for the dictatorships they support. NATO didn't defeat the Eastern European and Soviet bureaucratic dictatorships. The workers in those countries did. The whole red scare of the from 1945 to 1975 was lead by the two capitalist parties. If McCarthy was still in charge you'd be hauled in just for debating me. If you knew me than you must know other reds and if you didn't than you would be labeled as a red sympathizer and fired from you job.
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@philm9593 Its only the working people who have a consistent interest in freedom of speech, religion, assembly and press, due process, right to counsel, right to a jury trial and the rest of the rights in the US Constitution. Without those rights written in the blood of a revolution and civil war we would have a much more difficult time with raising any political issue that the powers in Washington didn't like. The most elementary unit of the class struggle is the Trade Union. Being able to legally hold meetings and wage legal strikes is much more advantageous than having to wage illegal ones. The middle class is inconsistent since they may side with the workers on one issue and with the capitalists on another. They have no separate ideology from either capitalism or communism. They may view a strike as an unnecessary inconvenience and legal advice indispensable even if the don't like paying the lawyers bill.
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@philm9593 "Tyrannical governments live in fear of all men and women of good character," Actually they don't which is why they get away with being Tyrannical.
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Liar!
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@fckstreetshitters4294 Canada can dismiss the the extradition request with a decision that as a sovereign nation or as part of the British Empire it is not responsible for enforcing third party foreign trade laws enacted by the US government or the RCMP can hand her over to US Border patrol at a port of entry as gesture of subservience to Washington's role of International policeman.
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@Jdmitchell308 She was first tapped for help by George Bush. A bipartisan nominee.
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@Mor MacFey Just what do you know about the communist movement anyhow? Have you read anything written by Marx or Lenin? Or do you rely on what some one else tells you. Like some college professor and what the write in the MSM. I bet you don't even know that the US/UK along with 12 other Imperialist Armies were defeated by the Red Army when Leon Trotsky was the first Soviet Commissar of Military and Naval affairs.
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@Mor MacFey The only ones defeated in 1989 were the Stalinist leadership much like the old racist leaders of American Democratic Party were defeated by the working class Black Rights fighters. Since 2008 Capitalism has been a world crisis of trade and production. Babylonian disappeared after going into decline. That's not what happened in the old Soviet Union. The workers remain undefeated in trade unions in all the advanced capitalist countries.
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@mistrcrvr Can you tell me what a socialist looks like?
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@Jdmitchell308 Now your coming along to my way of thinking.
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@Mor MacFey Workers usual find out that they are communists when we go on strike despite their knowledge of the subject or when you tell the boss to call a committee man in the Basic Steel industry.
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@Mor MacFey I'm not interested in telling you what to do. Capitalism requires greed regulation. Socialism is workers control of industry with a state that defends the workers rights. The natural workings of capitalism are such that it can not avoid crisis. The selfishness of the worlds nations capitalist classes prevents solutions to the problems of the world market. You can see how they have failed miserable to halt the corona virus epidemic. Big pharma is more worried about patents and getting a return on investment than the health of the worlds people. From Trump to Biden to whole vaccine roll out has been on disaster after another.
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What the constraint?
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ALL THEY ARE SAYING IS GIVE BIRTH OR DIE!!!
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Not so when Congress was debating the 14th Amendment they decided it was a good idea to promise citizenship to new immigrants children. Plus the idea of citizenship by birth on soil comes from English law. The king wanted everyone born on English soil to be English subjects. So Canada also makes children born on Canadian soil citizens. Anyone who can legally or otherwise cross onto US soil and is not a diplomat can have their child born here and their child is a natural born citizen and can be President of The United States. Everyday at the border towns American children leave their Mexican homes cross the border with their American passports and go to American schools.
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The Supreme court serves the purpose of judicial review and settling disputes between two or more states. It doesn't like being accused of making new law (which it did many times in the 1960's and 1970's) because that is Congresses job. People who cross at other than at a port of entry either have already been deported and can't re-enter, are unaware of the law and think they must enter that way, have been taken prisoners by drug smugglers or use a port of entry and cross with fake documents. Also you have the problem of making children born here responsible for their parents actions. They call that corruption of blood and the constitution also outlaws that. So your back to getting a Constitutional Amendment. It takes 2/3rd of each house of Congress and 3/4 of the states to sign on to that.
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The really important people work on the outside.
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@js5072 The vote was never counted. This is like something you read about in 1984 or Crime and Punishment or the Gulag Archipelago.
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This is becaused by the worst capitalist economic crisis since the great depression. Like in every capitalist economic crisis in world history Jews are being blamed. Hamas is a fascist type of group. It calls for the destruction of the Jews and a middle east Islamic caliphate. It has nothing to do with national liberation of palestinian arabs or anyone else. Israel must defended as place for the Jews since past history shows that the promises of the capitalist Democratic Imperialist politicians are worthless. Only the advancing world socialist revolution and contol bt the working class over societies can halt the drive towards Imperialist war and fascism.
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@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr One third of people here without "proper authorization" came on tourist only visas. The problem is that you want people to come to the United States as tourist but not as workers. You say to them come spend your money and enjoy our illustrious freedom and then go home when the tourist, student or work visa expires. Then when the don't go home you say oh that's bad your not obeying our laws. Ms Trump herself came on a tourist visa and illegally "worked" as a model in New York before getting an Einstein Visa which allowed her to go to the head of the line for a Green Card. .
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Well then the US certainly came down with that problem in 1973 according to the statistics of the federal reserve bank.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@RoyalSap US hippocracy is on full display. The say nothing about Saudi Arabia which has never held a national election in its history while sanctioning Cuba and Venezuela.
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@kjinteredthechat3183 The capitalist along with their politicians are beginning to fear the unions and the workers who belong to them.
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You don't have a clue.
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@Barskor1 Don't waste my time.
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@PhillipParr The power radiated drops of at the square of the distance. Such that an antenna power density of one watt per square meter at a distance of one meter then becomes at a distance of two meters 1/4 watt per square meter. If your going to be afraid of 5G be afraid of the phones transmitter not the towers transmitter.
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@dustintacohands1107 Bans any opposition? They're on the streets protesting not in jail. This is the second US sponsored coup attempt. Prince Mohamed bin Solman kills a journalist in his embassy and well he didn't really know about it? Just like Reagan didn't know about Colonel Oliver North in the Whitehouse basement? MBS's opposition is sitting in jail or exiled. When the Prince decides to allow 'women drivers' its described as a great step by a wise Prince. If a group of Democrats marched through Washington and Nancy Pelosi declared herself President that would be OK?
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@dustintacohands1107 I write my comments to expose your idiocy. As far as trolling goes. I've had a little fish (you) on the hook who I've reeled in and landed into the boat of critical thought.
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This guy is a complete idiot hardly a word about communism. Did he ever here of Leon Trotsky and the fight of the left opposition against Stalin? Did he really take a course on communism? Just a bunch of stupidity about Gays and Lesbians. Little more than rambling about his own personal problems.
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@josephozturk3288 The rifgt to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amandments. No Congressional Strikebreaking.
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@duster0066 Should have been listening to Radio Havana Cuba broadcasting from free territory in the America's
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Slarti Bartfast Johnny Walker Red is a US brand of Whiskey. McCarthy died of alcoholism. McCarthy was the best known witch hunter in the second "Red Scare" at the very beginning of the cold war. (fear of a communist take over). Privately even US President Truman referred to J Edgar Hoover's FBI as an American Gestapo. The unraveling of the FBI came with the WaterGate scandal and files released by the Citizens' Committee to Investigate the FBI.
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@Sa S With McCarthyism you'd be called in for a hearing questioning your loyalty for responding to me. Since you said. "There were Reds everywhere." You'd be asked to name the names of the Reds you knew. An answer of no or of just publicly know reds would not be unacceptable.
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@Sa S The Stalinist CPUSA was easy pickens at the end of WW2 because they played the role of strikebreakers for Stalin. Stalin was an ally of Democratic Imperialism (US/UK) in its war with Germany and Japan . The end of the war saw the biggest strike wave in US history. The capitalist were afraid, instead of the returning veterans becoming strike breakers the were joining the new unions.
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@Sa S The witch hunt went so far as taking away Robert Oppenheimer security clearance and McCarthy accusing the Army Brass of being underground communists. Although not as intense it is just like the liberals crusade against Trump. According to them Trump has to be under foreign control because 14 spy agencies say so.
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@Sa S Stalin became an ally because the US/UK would probably be unable to defeat Hitler on their own. There are plenty of pictures of the Big Three with FDR, Stalin and Churchill sitting together. With months of the defeat of Germany and Japan the cold war began. Had Hitler keep his promise in the Stalin Hitler pact and conquered England first than took on the Soviet Union his goal of the Thousand Reich would have been much more probably.
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@Sa S Oh I did forget to say the millionaire and Billionaires were like you got auto exemptions for the witch hunt. Soy Boys? Those Chinese eat lots of soy and the whipped McArthurs ass all the way down to the 38th parallel. Keep up with the "Hairy Armpit" criticism. Next thing you know we will see signs No Shoes, No shirts No Hairy Armpits, No Service. Conservatives are for smaller government except when they need to check for and pass the smell test for hairy armpits at the border .
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@vgordonw We don't have a "play book".
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@janiceduncan7908 In the 1960's to 1970's it was said anyone OVER 30 could not be trusted now its anyone UNDER thirty can not be trusted. In general the young are always the first to recognize injustice and want to do something about it. The old in general have more experience but are also tried out from the past.
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@janiceduncan7908 If you want to challenge any of the facts I have pointed to or my opinions you should say so instead of making insinuations that I have playbooks with dangerous ideas inside. We are more than happy to let you look at an archive of our newspaper and sell you hard copy subscriptions and books in multiple languages. TheMilitant.com
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Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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If capitalist could solve the long term trends of profits to decline they wouldn't need to go to war or use up the working population by increasing the rate of exploitation.
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@WanderingExistence Apple products are luxury goods they add little to no real value you might as well argue how well capitalism is doing because nuclears arms mfgs are guaranteed a profit by government purchase. After all isn't that your theory that value is subjective and all in the mind. That capitalism is the best way to organize production because central planning is inherently bad unless a boss can legally extract a profit is some manner or they are planning to rob us with central bank policy with inflation or by raising interest rates to create unemployment to boost profits. .
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@WanderingExistence I think it is a test of the ability to play games.
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We seeing how capitalist healthcare works with the Coronavirus pandemic. According to capitalist market theories Trump should be sitting on his ass allowing price signals and the invisible hand of capitalism do its job.
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@Alexander03312 Right we had a 1946 to 1991 Cold war waged by the US Government that had nothing to do with capitalism?
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@Alexander03312 "Democratic Socialist" are just capitalist liberals who see the advantage of calling themselves Socialists but include the name Democrat for fear of a ruling class calling them commies.
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@InspectorSplatter Like the rest of Latin America Venezuela had its corrupt governments and US backed Military dictatorships. Like many other countries dominated by US Big Business Venezuela was and still is a one commodity country. In the case of Venezuela it is oil. Oil prices tanked and so did the Venezuelan economy. When your talking richest country BS your talking about the national oligarchies. Chavez's 21st century socialism was based in the retribution of oil wealth not a socialist revolution like that in Cuba. Chavez's biggest sin as far as US Imperialism is concerned is the sale of Venezuelan oil on favorable terms to Cuba. The US Backed military coup to overthrow Chavez failed along with the latest coup attempt against the Maduro government. The rate of gun ownership in Venezuela is to high for US capitalist liberals where there is the highest percentage of the population having gun ownership in the world.
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@oscartang4587u3 Capitalism and the capitalist system is based in nation states. Marx makes clear that the proletariat has no nation unlike the capitalist. So Hitler and Mussolini belong with those who seek to form a superior nation state not with Marxist internationalist. Much of this confusion arises out of Bukaran's and Stalin's retreat from Marxism and the Theory of Socialism in one country adopted by the Comintern at its 6th conference in 1928. This was countered by Trotsky's draft criticism of that program.
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"Those who take only the word of another are complete idiots who can be dismissed with the wave of the hand." V.I. Lenin.
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@romanmir01 Gov't needs to stay out of union business as in the right to strike. No to Congressional Strike breaking and the Railway "Slave Labor" Act.
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@romanmir01 You can tell the government to stop protecting scabs with police and national guard troops then or we will do it ourselves. Once the workers begin to realize they are a class we will teach them they can have anything they are big enough to take. The teamster were born out of the Minneapolis citywide General Strike. Solidarity forever and no to strike breaking laws like Taft Hartley..
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@mongomoonbladder8023 Naturally neoliberalism can only survive with massive propaganda.
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At the end of the day Trump will not be able to do anything different because it's the capitalist system that needs to go not a changing of the guard from Democratic to Republican or electing a self proclaimed savior riding on a white horse like Trump or Sanders.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@normanwells2755 Unfortunately the only political opposition to socialism in Cuba comes from the United States. No one in Cuba wants to be the slaves to make Cuban George Soros and Elon Musk types rich. No one but a very tiny minority wants a return to the American Boss system of private property. The American Imperialist know that which is why the treat Cuba like any other group of strikers. Contempt from the boss class always comes first. Their are no other mass parties in Cuba because their is no bases for any other parties. The problem for the Imperialist in Cuba has always been the lack of a just cause to rally opposition to the Cuban government. So instead a campaign of lies is what comes from Washington. .
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@normanwells2755 They have endured 60+ years of blockade and the overwhelming votes at the UN against the blockade indicate it can not remain a part of US foreign policy forever. Every fourth Sunday in the month International protests tske place against the blockade around the world including inside the United States itself.
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@normanwells2755 Its a 60+ year blockade! That was begun by Kennedy and has only been tightened with hypocrisy like the Cuban Democracy Act and the state sponsors of terror label. .
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Daniel von Strangle Tankie going to bust down the gate on the gated community communities. No we want workers control of industry not a half dozen food coops.
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Daniel von Strangle Is "von Strangle" your police nickname?
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@hanamlchl A coop is not socialism. plus don't they pay something like 8x the lowest paid to the CEO. It's attempt to run another New Lanark by Robert Owen. It's not abolishing private property. It ends up competing in a capitalist market both within and without Spain for capital, customers and suppliers. At best its a mini Yugoslavia worker owned enterprise. It doesn't even control a whole geographic area which would necessarily include social costs. No reason to do voluntary labor with a 8:1 highest to lowest wage ratio. If anything it was set up as a sop to the defeated Spanish Republic which the Church had opposed.
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@keshhan6412 The working class can't achieve success under capitalism. As capitalism reproduces itself.
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How would a capitalist government make the right decisions for the bosses were they not well paid and given the privileges of the supervisors.
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Sure sell you body to the highest bidder and let the drug dealers become the richest people in the world. That's her plan a bosses wet dream.
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@marcrankin1707 It will be no more successful than the drive to halt the opioid crisis by police war on drugs. Its basicly a grandstanding move by capitalist politicians. You going to do what? Send someone to prison for life in one state for what is perfectly legal in another? You going to do nothing but make utter fools out of yourselves.
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@AJHart-eg1ys Sowell bats consevative right wing for the Republican Party. One of his major discoveries was that the US Labor Dept. was not infiltrated by communists.
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Actually you wrong about Sandy Hook the shooter used his moms firearms and never set foot in a store. The workers rights like owning a firearm should no be given away. Need I remind you what it took so a coal miner could belong to a union and negotiate with the bosses in West Virginia. The workers should never give up their right to own arms.
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You don't really believe a shrink or doctor will sing a paper so you can purchase a firearm? I tend to think it will be like CDL's as long as they don't have to take legal responsibly they would sign a waiver for a blind man who had a heart surgery yesterday. Now that they do they wont sign unless your in tip top shape ready to play in the major leagues.
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I was confused by your writing style.
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Capitalism needs a strong centralized state. It's not a coincidence that the most powerful Empire in human history is also has the highest GDP. The state become more and a bigger arbitrator for capitalism because of the underlying irreconcilable class conflict between the workers and the capitalist.
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@lv4077 Not really Hamas can't keep people from heading South and many Arabs in Israel have changed their mind about support for the government according to polls taken before Oct 7th and later. Hamas does nothing but steal UN Aid and rule with an Iron fist. Many talk about how their lives were better working in Israel then surviving under Hamas. The Arab medic who stayed to help bandage the wounded instead of evacuating who was killed by Hamas terrorist at the music festival is being hailed as a national hero.
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@AwwwwReally Netanyahu didn't create Hamas. Nor is he responsible for what Hamas did on Oct 7th. Netanyahu is just one of many capitalist politicians who engage in maneuvers to protect the capitalist class in their nation state. In Gaza and the West Bank the leaders of Hamas are billionaires who got rich by stealing UN aid and live in luxury in Qatar. They get their foreign support from the other Jew haters like the Ayatollah is the Islamic Republic of Iran who seek a nuclear weapon and vow the destruction of Israel based upon the verses of the Prophet Muhammad in the Quran. .
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@eliedecastro5716 That is true in a certain sense just as there are NO Texans and Canadians like to say they too are Americans. The countries name on my Passport says United States of America. I don't call myself a Unifier or a Statesmen though.
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@jv-lk7bc He just repeats the drivel the bourgeois socialists have been saying since Marx's time. How the Bourgeois is a Bourgeois for the working class.
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The French would still be your masters if the Japanese didn't take Vietnam from them. If the US didn't defeat Japan than the French would have never returned. The French lost so the US wanted at least 1/2 of Vietnam. Now you get to be grown ups and no a US military dictatorship is not a democracy either.
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For a vote on Tuesday. I will give gladly give you a $1,000 on Wednesday.
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The rich steal their money to begin with.
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Sowell spent his time betraying Blacks by doing nothing but collecting a professors pay check and telling Blacks to go home and wait for the magic of free market capitalism with all its false promises.
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@merrittmontgomery7695 he took the bosses gold and sold his soul to the company store.
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@merrittmontgomery7695 Sowell spent his life being an intellectual tool for the bosses of big business and capitalism. Joining the Party of Republican money bags who withdrew support from the Southern Republican Reconstruction governments allowing the rise of Jim Crown and anti -Black terror from the Democratic Party.
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Drago Musevini Sounds like the stock market. Capitalism works like a casino the house always wins.
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What would solve the problem would be for politicians and churches to mind their own uterus.
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@yermanoh What they want is federal action against criminal gangs who clean out stores of high priced items not some kid taking a soda bottle.
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@yermanoh Sure and what do you propose federal prosecution for a $2 soda. The Cops aren't even required to arrest a shoplifter if its under $20 in CT.
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@loanokaharbor8303 So you want people to give Cruz the testimony that Cruz wants to hear. What would the point of doing that be? The majority party always wants to questions sympathetic witnesses for its agenda while the minority wants to question bumbling idiots to prove their point. Cruz played this flat foot like a fiddle.
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Mine as well open up those empty hotels and apts. They've already been built.
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@HYSXA2 What about those of us who intellectual "trailer trash?"
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@amoe8199 Social Democracy as the welfare state is not on the agenda because capitalism "can't afford it". The foreign investors in the "Nordic Countries" rely on the Imperialist NATO alliance to protect their profits. One of the first things a real socialist government in the "Nordic countries" would do is confiscate the property of the monarchy and other feudal relics like the English Peerage. We don't need the billionaire elite and their meritocracy.
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@ramina6568 I've been a wage worker most of my life. Now I'm a soc sec retiree. Why should I love capitalism? All the system has ever done for me is make promises it never had any intention of keeping. I've belonged to six different local unions. I had a scholarship to study at MIT. I hold an Amatuer radio lisences KC1OKL .
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@ramina6568 So how do you make money? Aren't you going to lecture me on how great a system it is and how ungratefully I am to my betters?
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@RightTurnClyde You will never find an orangutan who will live the life of a male libertarian swinging from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit instead of engaging in collective labor.
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chris smith Did calling me a moron make you feel real good inside? You think your part of a meritocracy that is real and not a class based system where those who own wealth get all the advantages in life. The US has spent over sixty years trying to drive communism out of Cuba and has lost every confrontation with revolutionary Cuba. You think you won the cold war because a McDonald's was opened in Moscow.
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@silentmajority8365 Bush was head of the US CIA the biggest state sponsor of terror in the world.
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So the should be anti social?
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@pes8245 All the BIG Tech platforms publicly advertised themselves as a place for independent creators. They wanted Federal Exception from Community Obscenity Standards and liable laws claiming it was out of their control. They wanted their cake and to eat it eat to like all capitalist hypocrisy about equality and freedom for all.
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Maybe you'd be interested in the case of the legless Veteran Jimmy Kutcher and how the Democratic and Republican witch hunters at the VA treated a man who lost his legs in Italy during the second world war.
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Close down all 800 foreign military bases. Abolish the CIA.
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@snownukitro-A Socialism will come when the workers take control away from the capitalist and not until that happens. We have to make the revolution not realize it.
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ERCOT can not import electricity into Texas because the grid is not synced with either the Western or Eastern interconnect. Austin Republicans are the ones who wanted to keep Texas "Energy Independent." Power in EL Paso was off for no more than a few homes and a few hours because it is connected to the Western Interconnected. The few interconnects are DC not AC because the theory is that they are for export only.
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@susanchan250 American capitalist and politicians want to blame someone else besides themselves for problems they create.
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@susanchan250 Bosses didn't want to invest in either extra generating equipment, a grid that is synced for AC power exchange with either the Western or Eastern Interconnect and they were not prepared for cold weather problems in the oil and gas fields. Plus every automobile is a potential source of emergency power. For a few extra dollars you could easily have 2400 watts from you automobile. It's cheaper not to plan and deal with the insurance and political costs later. This is just the natural way capitalism deals with disaster. They are prepared for nuclear war and Trump created a space force though. You come second to Wall Street gambling on stock prices like Gamestock. Sure blame the CCP as if they control Washington, Austin, Wall Street, oil and gas fields or wind mills. After all when Trump was in office he was controlled by Putin right?
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@coopsnz1 Chesterfield how are living on that million dollar loan you took out?
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@psongman9536 Trump is entitled to a hearing under the due process clause of the 14th amendment.
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@psongman9536 It is gross abuse of the legal process. Using a law that was meant to be used against the slave owners rebellion which produced the civil war which did not just end in 1865 but continued with the new Reconstruction governments in the Southern States. Slavery was ended in 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment. The 14th was passed to clarify who was a citizen, make the bill of rights apply to the states and put a stop to violence and intimidation being promoted by the slave owners who were organizing racist gangsters. .
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@psongman9536 It's in the 14th Amendment itself. When the Supreme Court makes a decision on the meaning of the Constitution and Amendments it goes back and looks at the Congressional Debates around them also. Intentions for passing the Amendment and how it is or was used after also matter. Here is the exact wording. Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Section 2 Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Section 3 No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Section 4 The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Section 5 The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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@psongman9536 The due Process clause is also in the 5th Amendment and when discussing the 14th the intention was that the states must at a minimum protect whatever the Bill of Rights protects (the first 10 amendments.) That's called the doctrine of incorporation. Fifth Amendment No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
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@psongman9536 my post got censored. Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state. Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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@nonnobissolum I don't know but somehow its hard to believe they lost everything although I did meet a homeless guy who claimed to be a Wall St stock broker.
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@bradchristy8429 The capitalist only invest in new production when they see profits ahead. To drive profits their way they replace skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Voluntary exchange does NOT create wealth only labor does. This is why capitalist have a crisis when they drive up exchange value way above the social labor value and markets collapse. The capitalist can not avoid overproduction for markets which causes them to halt production when profits stop flowing despite human needs. As machine replace labor the value of capital rises while the source of the profits in the commodities that living labor produces goes down and this results in the long term tendency of profits to deline. This is why the capitalist produce giant industries only to let them decline as does the rate of profit by which capitalist judge success goes down.
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@bradchristy8429 They only invest in expanding production when they anticipate making a profit. This is the best the workers can hope for otherwise they invest in driving up the value of fictitious capital creating bubbles which then collapse. Wages followed productivity until 1973 since then all the new productivity has gone to the bosses. When was the last time you were in a high school? Notice that they don't bother with shop classes anymore because they have fewer skilled labor jobs. Capital is a social force that is owned privately as machines are used to replace living labor the overall long term rate of profit by which capital judges success must decline because the source of the profit is our living labor in production. So by cutting labor cost to drive profits their way they undercut their ability to make profits. The capitalist overproduction causes a profit crisis which is why they shut down production and try to unload their crisis on us. In order to restart production they must either destroy capital, cut wages or create increasing debt. This why in every crisis they must either go to war, cut wages or bail themselves out with central bank created government debt and inflation. Sure your fools think you can ignore the law of value first proposed by Adam Smith. So instead you say value is subjective and you can create as much as you please with the wave of a magic wand. Of course all those supposed credit default swaps where profits could be made out of the value of the transaction turned into worthless paper and junk bonds. Just like the recent crash of the crypto currency and tokens is another example of fools thinking the can create value out of nothing but trade.. We don't have to talk about your financial instability your class of wealthy bosses and investors does plenty of talking about it and issuing new warnings and schemes meant to save the "intelligent investor."
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@BoilingDietCoke Troll elsewhere.
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@danielson4962 The capitalist need a state power to enforce their position in the market place. They want to control both the price they pay for labor and the price at the market. Their system goes into natural crisis caused by overproduction of too many commodities for the market and not enough buyers for the demanded rate of profit which goes into natural decline as machines replace living labor.
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And just why do we need 5G to begin with? Since lots of rural areas in the United States still have no cell service and no internet service as it stands now.
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@penguinsfan251 As long as capitalism persists than you will have greedy ruling classes that change alliances to better their own national position. This is why the EU and NATO are headed for multiple divorces. The UK left the EU and now Scotland and Northern Ireland may leave the UK.
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The Senator is just another dumb lawyer the witness is an actual doctor. The Boss politician gives a speech and than cuts off any response.
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Capitalism is about rewarding people who do nothing but own everything by people who own nothing but produce everything.
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Obviously she was never talking about printing as much money as necessary like her and other capitalist governments do. "Let's lend our money to government to create a national debt. Then we can demand working class pay it off. We can then lower the taxes on ourselves and talk about how much more productive we can become." The problem is you produce nothing to begin with.
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The way capitalism works is firms make agreements ahead of production so that things proceed from raw material to the end user. Capitalist engage in economic sabotage to disrupt the economy much like what is suggested in Ayn Rand novels. In socialism you don't need water meters you just need to supply water. You take things out of the market starting with essentialis. You plan what to produce ahead of time. Does it necessarily always work? No Is it better than letting fools seeking to maximize expected return on investment create bubbles that deflate because of the decline of return on investment of industrial production with more profitable schemes to create fictitious capital?
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The sad thing is the employer's now put up signs advertising for employees when they have no positions available except for the people they plan to fire tomorrow for spending too much time in the toilet stall. If the guy outside the door asked to work in the store. They would ask that he fill out an application (probably online so he would need to go to the library) and he would probably never hear from them again. You spend time filling out applications online that then go into black holes. You see if your out of work to long that always works against you and if you were previously fired that works against you also. If the decide they don't want you then you can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. Its called employment at will also called fire at will.
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If you want more people buying things than you need to raise the minimum wage. After paying for rent, truck, gas, telephone, medical bills and groceries. I don't have much else to spend. With the exception of milk and rent most of it goes to companies that I have no idea where they're located. Buy local is like buy American it is meaningless. Of sure I should go down and buy groceries at the food coop or during the summer at the Farmer's Market on Saturdays. Only small thinkers like you think that government interference is a good idea.
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Businesses can't just raise prices otherwise they would easily agree to an increase in minimum wage. They fight so hard against a raise because they know it will cut into profits. Mismanaged and cockroach operations will be forced out of business. CEO pay and dividends would take a hit. Business has been taking all the increased wealth created by increased productivity and keeping it for themselves. Time to put business on a diet. Put a 100% tax on all incomes derived from interest, dividends and stock market capital gains.
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Right and I propose a 100% tax on the payments of dividends, bonds, and commercial paper. Since those people do nothing but own them in no work profit schemes alone. Let's deport all the foreign bankers and company managers who enter and go as they please. Unless you want to stipulate that they do no work at all in which case let's take an area in Nevada and make it into a capitalist country by sending all those non working crooks there and let them exploit each other.
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You only want to deport aliens because you seek to force down wages as a way to increase profits. We know you only want to deport enough to scare the others that's why we propose amnesty as way to begin a struggle for higher wages for all. We understand economics the way a coal miner does. What's good for the company is bad for the workers. What's bad for the company is good for the workers.
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Companies practice cold bloody capitalism if they could make more money by raising wages they would do it in a heart beat instead of fighting against it. They have no problem with telling bold face lies like a tax cut will give them incentives to hire more workers and raise tax revenue. When instead tax cuts enable the rich to increase the national debt and make money by lending money with taxes then providing payment on debts. Its quite a shell game they play and that is why they need to be removed from the equation all together.
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There are plenty of immigrants working in industries like meat, textiles, retail and warehousing. Many belong to unions and the bosses are on a campaign to lower wages and increase the speed up the line because of their crisis caused by their greed in 2008. Indrid Cold take you insults and middle class propaganda elsewhere.
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@TruztNoI People who actually do a job should be paid. What do the MTA bosses get paid?
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@TruztNoI Public transit in New York not including Amtrak goes as far East as New Haven, CT and as far West as Princeton Jct, NJ That's over 100 miles.
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@leonardbreau8928 Hungry people are a political threat. The American capitalists understand this which is why they sanction other countries which don't follow Washington's dictates. It's also why they subsidize low wage employers by issuing food stamps and by setting up food banks as private charities.
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@Kiricen77 Close all those foreign military bases.
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@alex0424619 It's lies being told that rivals those told by Adolf Hitler. Starting with the charge of being a Dictator who ruled with an iron fist. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct
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@Oldkekistani That's nice! Now what happens when you run into someone who doesn't share your beliefs? Because free association implies forced association and voluntary exchange also implies some exchanges are involuntary. See you wouldn't need to put in the modifier if you just believed in association and exchange. That's why things are said to be at least dialectical having two sides. Lets say you sitting on a bench and someone comes by and sits next to you. Is that not free association? but was it a voluntary exchange? Does it now make a difference who owns the bench? You the other person or an unknown third party? What if you get up and leave who's bench is it then? In fact the benches location and your relationship to the other person play a big role in a simple act of sitting on a bench in whether it is considered socially acceptable for the person to sit next to you on the bench in the first place.
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@5haNe5eb_71 First because no one has really been able prove it's not possible. I can tell you that John Galt's free energy machine is impossible according to the current knowledge but does what does that say about the rest of the thinkers ideas or will some prove the first and second laws of thermodynamics wrong?? They talk about it being a failure but then when they have to come up with a reason why well they don't really come up with a valid one because they are often doing the same things only in a different manner. So they talk about the failure of central planning until even their scholars realize they are doing the same thing with central bank controls on all these so called independent banks. Or the talk about over regulation until someone asks about how which you prevent insurance fraud without government or some kind of oversight on private insurance companies. They talk about censorship by state media being bad until they start doing it themselves. They talked about victory in the cold war and now they are talking about having a new cold war against China and Russia. If the rich western capitalist nations had not gone to war in 1914 the would not have had the Soviet Union and 70 years of communism as one of the results. The capitalist of all nations have to deal with trade unions, Cuba and communists. So they still face class struggle and because they are in the worst economic crisis since the great depression along with wars raging between Ukraine and Russia and between the Jews and Islamic terrorism its not "a peaceful" capitalist world.
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@5haNe5eb_71 Because the capitalism of the pre World War One is gone. The ability of the Imperialist Investors Capitalist Empires to make war on the small nations is much more limited. Industrial workers in the advanced capitalist countries in the west belong to trade unions. The Era of Fascism that followed the Russian Revolution was defeated. The class struggle keeps breaking out. Modrn industry only creates more workers on a world wide basis while the numbers of all other class keeps going down in proportion.
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@ad3198 That's not true since the workers are never allowed to see the accounting books. Even Republican Senator Ron Paul complains about never being able to audit the Federal Reserve that the banking industry circles the wagons to prevent that from happening. The workings of capitalist exploitation have to be kept secret from the population to prevent the questioning of all the waste and privilege going to those at the top. You obviously don't understand how money is created by the banks with capitalism. Because the only way for capitalist to justify their profits you have to believe value is disconnected from labor and labor time. That's tiks problem in the end they can't explain how it can be disconnected. That's why they need to mystify the source of the profit. Anything to convince you that money just falls from the sky in a just manor in their favor.
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@curiousmind111 That is exactly why the capitalist farm those things out with government, nonprofit's and foundations to limit expenses and maximize profits to shift cost to the working class, farmers and small businessmen. Investments that can't produce quick profits need to by shouldered by the investor and borrower of last result the US Gov't. This way the losses can be socialised and the profits privatised. When the big company and financial system ends up a reversal of value caused by using profits to bid up fictitious values in contracts way over value then a financial crisis inevitable occurs. They all come from the problem of trying to pay for the past with present. Prices for industrial production would inevitable decline as technology cuts labor time without inflating the money supply.
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This guy, Bad Empanada is a hard core Stalinist. Trotsky wrote, "The Stalinist School of Falsification."
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As long as you have capitalism and billionaires they will find a way to corrupt a Democratic Republic. Working people taking basic industry out of the hands and control of billionaires is the only way to solve the corruption problem. They all rely on government to make their market and profit system work for them.
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@walterCronkitesleftshoe6684 The Brits and America have plenty of their own crimes including the Opium wars. Wars fought to sell opium in China. Leaded gasoline, DDT, PCB's, nuclear weapons and Agent Orange.
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@penmaster003 "My only suggestion is that if it is legal, it will happen. And that is what is unacceptable. " Real murder is also illegal and it still happens very often in all states. Incomplete statics? Well how about just one 8 month 29 day elective unjustified abortion in Colorado? Just like you religious Catholic Priest friends with exactly zero adoptions. Not to mention the Trump Pence speeches at the last "Pro Birth" rally. You hang with hypo's (hypocrites)and wonder why someone would give you a well deserved verbal bashing. The goal of you 'Pro Birthers' is to create as much misery as possible for women who don't want another child or aren't ready for their first with your fake upper class morality. Its more than easy for an upper class man to support a huge family if so desired. It will always be easy for the upper class women to get abortions because money talks and bullshit walks. Just like your rotten apple cops and corrupt politicians the true wrath of the antiabortionist and legal system is aimed at the working class and the poor.
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@magnus08f250 McCarthy was a liar. He claimed without ever having any evidence that Communist had taken over the State Department. That the country was under threat for secret infiltration of the government by Communists. His whole campaign of lies was based upon his victims proving innocence and FBI spys collecting lists of political enemies. It went beyond just the Stalinists to trade unons, labor leaders, liberals, Amy offices and Protestant ministers.
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Sowell is just another Republican liar out for themselves.
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@Demosophist I don't know about the guy making the video but I am a Marxist. Distributionism is a reactionary theory where the clock of history is rolled back to idyllic feudal times. What this amounts to is little house on the prairie without the sawmill, mercantile, the bank or doctor. The factory and modern industry are to be replaced by handicrafts in a farming village where the priest will praise the lord.
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@Demosophist "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" Chapter One Line One of the Communist Manifesto." Outside of a socialist revolution like the early Russian revolution or the Cuban revolution of 1959 maybe you can explain how we get to your "New Jerusalem"? Have you ever read the writings or speeches of Leon Trotsky Lenin or Fidel Castro? I am quite familiar with electricity want to explain how it invalidates Marx? The Cuban revolution is still advancing on the world stage while American Imperialism is in decline. .
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@Demosophist No tyranny in Cuba outside of the lies told by the US Gov't. We see the lies told by the two parties in Washington. Lies about a Jan 6th insurrection. Lies about how money grows in a bank. Lies about how investors earn their money. They can't keep from telling lies and the truth will come back and bite them in the ass. .
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@Demosophist Capitalism is coming to an end as Imperialism is its highest stage and the ruling nations capitalist classes can't avoid the competition that comes with the world market. Only socialism with national liberation for the semi colonial and colonlial nations under the leadership of the working class allied with the poor farmers can prevent the coming world war and catstrope capitalism is marching towards. Imperialist war abroad and fascism or war on the trade unions at home. Your ideas consist of turning back the clock of history to the precapitalist ear is nothing more then the cry of the petti bougois as they are crushed between the two contending classes the prolitariat and the capitalist The petti bourgeois and artisan were driven out by the productivity of modern industry .
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@Demosophist That year marks the founding of the communist movement (publishing of the communist manifesto) both Marx and others have written a lot more since than. There is a fundamental difference in our thinking Marx bases his ideas on the material conditions of life and our history as a species. You base yours on idealistic notions like ideas about the Sun being a giant light bulb instead of a nuclear fusion furnace driven by gravity. .If it was a giant light-bulb then how was it constructed and how is it powered? Electric lights on earth take three different forms a hot filament type, an arc in air or a gas and Light emitting diodes. We don't find light bulbs naturally occurring on earth we have to manufacture then and then continually replace them.
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@Demosophist Idealism is the opposite of materialism where ideas originate for material reality. Instead the idealist believes he can use any ideas that suit his fancy. It's like this latest idea that a man can be a women if he thinks he is. While the reality is your either born with one or more Y chromosomes which make you male or your born without the male Y chromosome making your female. You can spend all day thinking your the opposite sex and get treatments but you can't change your essential sex which hard coded in every cell as a biological truth. This why Marx said, Communism is a historical movement of one class in the modern world in struggle with the other most important class the proletariat not the doctrine of a universal reform with its holy priests. Our role is to point to the road of victory in the class struggle and to learn from the defeats.
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@Demosophist That is just another slander like how Lenin was an Agent of the Germans and Trotsky of a wealthy American Jew. Those who belong to the WEF are actual capitalist or politicians. Their system is coming apart for the reasons Marxists have pointed to as the underlying causes. Just in the last week they've had a big scare with 4 big bank failures needing bailouts.
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Just the Republican version of Noam Chomsky whose language does not permit the use of the word Capitalist. So they always have to talk about the others as these mysterious elites. Both are voters for the uniparty.
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It's just another case of bosses wanting to save money. They will blame anything and anybody for the failure of capitalism.
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Yes Wall Street's days are numbered.
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@biblebadcopycatofcuneiform8210 We aren't interested in becoming capitalist judges. We put the capitalist governments secret police on trial in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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On the question of the civil war in America Marx wrote Lincoln urging him to make death to slavery the center of his reelection campaign. As Marx had written labor in a white skin could not be free as long as labor in a Black skin was not. Nathaniel Weyl is the typical one time American Stalinist whose professorship required he become a cold warrior writing an assortment of anticommunist rubbish. Like "Red Star over Cuba" "Russian assault on the Western Hemisphere." The Soviets were take by surprise when the Cuban revolution occurred. The "anti racist" Weyl supported White minority rule in South Africa along with Ronald Reagan over "Marxist terrorist" like Nelson Mandela. Professor Sowell is another one time Marxist who saw the light at the end of the tunnel to a think tank position at Stanford University.
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@beastmode8203 Your welcome.
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@jamesbosworth4191 Excuse me?
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@cftpafan Democratic Socialism is capitalism with social democratic traitors in charge.
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@cftpafan Chomsky worships the Spanish CNT but the closest he gets to being a revolutionary is the 'sit down' strikes waged by the American Association of University Professors from bourgois university chairs.
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@cftpafan Antifa does more harm than good because they are ultra left numbskulls who believe, "..only they can prevent fascism..." Instead of mass mobilization against fascists they play much the same role as anarchist trash barrel revolutionaires. The are the saviors and protectors of nonviolent liberals like Harvard Professor Cornel West. The good Professor West becomes alarmed when the police stop providing protection. The only thing these people are capable of is braying like goats as they lead the sheep to the slaughter hose.
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@cftpafan Everybody advocates for a revolution included Bourgois Professors of Management who talk endess about a management revolution. I was a student at MIT during the antiwar years to the best of my knowledge Chomsky never left his office unless he was invited to speak at a rally. I lived with his most influenced admirer and probably most well know radical at MIT did he ever come to see him at our living space? I certainly don't remember him doing that. To meet with the Great Chomsky one needed an appointment. We got more attention from MIT administrators than him.
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@IcemanJuice The problem with 'Democratic Socialism" is that they woory about how much power can or should they share with the capitalists. They are usually utopian in outlook and fail miserably when it comes to a real strategy to implement socialism they look to radical capitalist for help and privileged professors for guidance instead of the workers and the writings and experiences in the past class struggle. That's what reflects their joy in being accepted into the bosses Democratic Party.
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@MrKnowdatruth Trump is a class dictator in the same way Obama was. His government dictates to the working class how capitalism is to be organized and run. That's why it makes little difference between which party controls Congress or the Presidency.
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Texas was admitted to the Union by a treaty between the Republic of Texas and the United States.
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Sowell doesn't publish this website, Nor is can he be relied upon as a supporter of Isreal's right to exist. His real concern is American capitalist investors interests just like the Brittish. .
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Well he could have compromised anytime before losing all appeals so far.
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The man's a criminal.
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@ladyjade6446 Marx was forced out of his native German and later Europe to London as a political refugee.
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@saftsuse866 It has always been the policies of the Imperailist nations especially the US to support one or another group when its interests coincide against whoever they are fighting. However if a situation changes they will not hesitate to leave you high and dry.
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@saftsuse866 This weeks TheMilitant.com has an article the Turkish rulers threats to attack the Kurds in Syria. And past articles on the Republic of Mahabad. https://www.themilitant.com/2003/6712/671254.html http://www.themilitant.com/2003/6713/671360.html The Kurds have friends they just don't have them in the halls of Imperialist power.
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They love playing the victim even more than their liberal friends.
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Sowell is one of the brightest one you got. He is hauled as a Genius for Discovering that the US Dept of labor wasn't run by the Communist Party.
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@KMN-bg3yu When they finished did they head for a bath together like the citizens of Rome.
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Has the order come down from "Great Sowell" on what to do next? Whats that? Keep doing he same thing? Okay Sowell gotcha!!! Keep following bosses orders everyone.
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@TerminalConstipation I think you been sitting at an old key punch terminal too long. Isn't that Sowell's party line sit back and do nothing but follow the bosses orders?
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@aaronciviris Hamas billionaires are using sympathy for Palestinians to steal and wage endless war against the Jews.
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@a-s-greig A defeat for the ruling class always opens political space to discuss ideas. The defeat itself comes through class struggle. All the ruling classes done is to drag the working people into their wars over profits. Their is no reason to assume the rise of a Stalin or Mao is inevitable. Because their is no reason to believe that markets and capitalism is the end stage of history. By advancing the education of the working people you block the road against dictatorship.. This is why the Cuban revolution is still advancing today the road to dictatorship by a few is blocked by the conciseness of the Cuban people.
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Social Democracy is capitalism. Your all arming yourselves against Putin now.
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@harrylen1688 Sure free markets fix everything. That's why Bush had to intervene in the free market to save the free market. When capitalist can't make a profit then they turn to government for a bailout. The bonus checks went out as the pink slips rolled out.
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Trump did NOT get a hearing before exclusion which is the very first violation of his due process rights.
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@Richard-mt4zi Did you ever see the Barbra Walters interview with Fidel? He drove her around Cuba in a jeep insisting he be paid for the interview finally they agreed to pay him as driver. Ever since Kennedy they don't even ride in a top down open limousines in the US. All the old mansions in Havana are used for foreign diplomats.
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@gordonmurray3153 During the whole talk the words Socialism or Socialist is never used. Apparently the talk concerns the definition of oppression and Rubin clams that a $50 dollar cell phone in the back pocket ends oppression. Now we know what that the way to end the problem of oppression is with $50 cell phones in the back pocket. Too bad Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Fidel Castro didn't realize the value of $50 cell phones in back pockets. We now know the key tp ending all problems is with $50 cell phones in the back pocket.
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@gordonmurray3153 We aren't catering to the "general public". Since the crisis of 2008 our paper sales reach workers beyond just the national minority communities.
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@gordonmurray3153 You've had plenty of attempts to go past capitalism in Europe and so far all you've produced long term is Social Democracy and Stalinism. All that prosperity of Social Democracy is based on Imperialism which is capitalism's highest stage. The ruling classes of Europe are rearming and squabbling just as they did before the two previous world wars. The America workers have never suffered the historical defeats created and brought on by the Social Democracy or Stalinism either. We've had one small and modest Socialist Revolution in the America's and so far it's out dene anything anyone has done outside of the actual early years of the 1917 Russian revolution in terms of revolutionary internationalism and anti Imperialism. Once you can breakout of the thinking of the Scottish clan system and realize you live in a world economy with problems that no single country can solve than maybe you will understand why socialism is the necessary solution to Imperialism and not Social Democracy.
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@soulcapitalist6204 Foreign investment backed by military force is Imperialism. American Imperialism is the most powerful capitalist empire in world history but it is in decline. Capitalist only produce for a market and the workers can't buy back all that can be produced causing periodic crisis of overproduction. To drive profits their way capitalist replace more higher paid skilled labor with less lower paid unskilled labor and machines. Because commodity prices tend towards the cost of production so too the rate of profit by which the capitalist judge success must also fall because the amount of labor needed for exploitation goes down. Capital tends towards monopoly and profits go towards the most parasitic of capital's finance capital which demands a guaranteed return on investment. All of society is enlisted in the drive to halt the declining profit rates. The capitalist have themselves convinced they are creating value out of capital alone and so a giant fiction becomes foisted upon society until the value of capital collapses like a house of cards built in a gambling casino called the stock market. To defend their world wide investors Empire they must invest in more and more military spending and destruction of other nations to keep their crisis ridden system going. Because the capitalist who are nation state based compete must compete in the world market they are driven to the ultimate competition Imperialist World War.
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@GardaOrban Petersen doesn't know what he is talking about most of the time. He is easily confused and sees communism as reincarnation of the devil.
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@MrSmegfish Those two things are highly unlikely.
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@castlev1986 That assumes the workers do nothing which isn't true. They will first take up the trade unions to fight against attempts to destroy our living standard in favor of the profit system. That can only lead towards workers control of industry and overthrow of the power of the capitalist class and its state power. That's how socialism will come about not by voting Democrat. Why because both parties are parties of the capitalists. You can't regulate greed out of the system only change the system.
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The Progressives Party was founded by Republicans.
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@matthewrousseau2982 The problem you have as Professor Sowell loves to say is, "No Evidence." Instead you look for some minor point on which to build your mountain. A trick Sowell loves to play. Boasting about how Mator Daily gave an order to his cops of shoot to kill during a riot and no one was killed but Daily was condemned. A fellow Republican took the wind out of his sails when he pointed out that Lester Maddox gave a similar order to his National Guard in Augusta, Georgia killing 5 people. Advocating for birth control when it was illegal to do so was a triumph for free speech. Eugenics like Racism is dying because it is one of many false theories that the American capitalist ruling class has used to justify its wealth. Racism was given blows during the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Black Rights movement, the defeat of NAZI Germany and the following defeats of European and American Imperialism in what was the colonial world. .
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Why doesn't Trump put a tariff on illegal drugs?
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Another product of the greedy bosses two Imperialist party system of exploration. Profit for the bosses misery for the working class.
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@hiccups55 It was a two capitalist party dictatorship war only one Congress woman voted no on the Bush war of revenge killings and his preposterous "nation" building act of Imperialist arrogance. It was based in the lie of leading a coalition force against terror and not another coalition for of NATO now "WOKE" Imperialist nations.
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@jamesrecknor6752 The only Sewell proves here is that people lived without money, capitalism and modern firearms.
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According to Hilary Clinton so was Donald Trump.
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Mom's for Liberty? Sounds like women's lib probably don't like staying home taking care of kids, washing clothes and wearing bras.
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Get rid of the point system!!!
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Obviously it must be a number that the workers consider winnable. Of course no one will object if you want to up your minimum wage employees to $50.00. My guess though is you just want to be a smart guy.
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@albertclarke2826 On might also collect the sayings of Chairmen Mao and put them next to Sowells and Jesus for moral fortitude.
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They don't need US Wall street running the country from New York.
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The capitalit have been robbing us blind and now they say a man who worked fifteen years isn't eligible. They have been taking and taking while our wages have been stagnant for years now. Today its this man tomorrow they will have an excuse to take from you. http://www.thestand.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ss-productivity-earnings.jpg
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Don't piss off the Irish either.
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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
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Maybe she do better under the no hospital system in the rural areas before the United Mine Workers Union Contacts.
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Give him the boot. Send him over to Jimmy Carters Habitat for Humanity have him work on some real frames instead the usual FBI professional Frame Jobs.
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Karl Marx calls for the abolition of private property the property used to exploit others. So that is why there was no stock market in the Soviet Union and other workers states. A trade union is one man one vote. A company is one share of ownership one vote.
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So if Tucker is the only true American First that makes you second?
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@aslyswine End the US Blockade of Cuba!!
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@karlagarcia1851 If you have money and connections you can become a citizen like Ms Trump.
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The richest capitalist nations in the world began world war one the biggest unnecessary slaughters in human history. Lenin and the Bolsheviks called for peace without annexations. They were fighting to redivide the colonial world among themselves. Capitalism also came into the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore.
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Of course the ruling class has the money to monopolizes education for itself just like everything else.
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And how many of those who left Cuba have decided the advantages of going back are too great to be wasted in the United States waiting for a US invasion that never came?
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@seanmamedov1151 Capital produces nothing so the correct tax on profits would be 100%. Since you can't water gold to make it grow in a bank like economist Keynes and Freedman postulate.
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@Andrea-re9np So many lies are told about economics looking up tariffs would mean next to nothing. A capitalist ruling class will enact tariffs and sanctions if it serves their purposes. A country with the most productive industry will oppose tariffs while those that are behind will enact them.
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@marilynmanchester I don't waste votes on lying two party capitalist politicians. Which ever Party gets elected will try and solve the problems of a capitalism on the backs of the working class. Its a capitalism that is in decline due to the natural workings of capitalist exploitation and the American Capitalist Investors Empire.
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Seven-FingersThree-Toes-nw9hu It helps to be able to either inherit or sell contraband like Steve Jobs and get away with it.
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@Xplora213 When Bill Gates talks about how he spent $9 million on carbon neutral jet fuel last year he was living the life of an ordinary retiree.
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Socialism/communism is the march of the working class to state power. No one owns the refinery the workers at the refinery control the refinery. The refinery participates in the overall plan. The first step is organizing a union and the union taking control of safety with a safety committee to shut down any unsafe operations. If you had control would you allow pollution, unsafe conditions and shut downs to raise market prices? Would you be working overtime , doubles and short weeks while others had no work at all? Would you not want to learn how the whole refinery works and not just your single job? How about the economics of the refinery would you want to learn about the costs and where the money trail goes? If the refinery shuts down for a time period you get to go to school and learn or study something. Instead of hay were are closing now so here's your pink slip , your on your own now or we will call you again when we need you again.
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Still the discovery of America by Europe and the development of world trade was a great advance for humanity.
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@fla-bushcraftprepper941 The two parties and Senator Sanders said they will give Trump border security just not a wall. Trump promised a wall and congress has said No You'll get a high tech Virtual wall. Considering the number of troops sanding around during the recent border concertina wall exercise I don't think he can finish a wall before he comes up for reelection and he may have to withdraw everyone from the 800 bases around the world to get what he needs in Navy CBs cost.
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@fla-bushcraftprepper941 A wall itself is no better than a lock on a door.
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@fla-bushcraftprepper941 Low IQ? Coming from a profession where the supreme court ruled police chiefs may reject applicants for excessive IQ. LOL. Any agents die of heatstroke or only seven year old girls in CBP custody? I guess you've never seen much of the border otherwise you'd realize a 30 ft fence will only stop skilled rock climbers and trapeze artists in some areas. Do you want to cross twenty miles of desert sand that looks more like uneven ten foot swells off the Jersey shore? Let's be clear the 30 ft fence will be ugly. Someone will climb it and get impaled on it. That will then make a good picture for the NY Post. Stopping drugs? Has the war on drugs been a success or any other policy halted drug abuse? The cartels already have tunnel engineers and machines. I sleep fine at night because I don't have a house in the Hamptons to worry about. Five Billion ten Billion sooner or later your talking big money. Overall the wall is your problem not mine.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!
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@paul-wq2rd Rail Bosses are counting on a Strike breaking Congress. Repeal the Railway "Slave" Labor Act!!!
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So as a Dummycrat you think that is somehow funny?
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What kind of job was Clinton going to train everyone in? If you absolutely have to vote then Vote Socialist Workers Party. Otherwise the best anti poverty program ever devised is a union. Clinton knows jobs and that is exactly what you will get from them no job.
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Listen to all the warmongers like Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC and the liberals who are on some kind of new cold war posture against Russia. Do you think that is a good reason to Vote Democrat? I have no confidence in Trump but a reduction of tensions and a possible peace treaty is much better than a continued cold war with the DPRK. Obama could have gotten the same deal that Trump has accepted: no more practice invasions, nuclear bombing practice drills and we stop our testing. How is that bad? Obama got a peace prize and outside of exchanging diplomats with Cuba what did he do?
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You liberals are no better. You'd rather keep up the threats of war in Korea. Obama could of had the same deal Trump got. Johnson (D) was the one who escalated Vietnam (Hay Hay LBJ How many kids did you kill today!)
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@dienomo They are the big donors to the two parties to make sure their business interests are represented. They usually finance both parties such that no matter won wins they are in their pocket.
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@michael Dinneweth I became a Marxist because I saw the injustice of the Vietnam war. Capitalism can only lead to economic crisis, trade war and real war. Capitalism is based in the Nation State. Globalism in ending and being replaced by competitive groups of capitalist bosses. Their fights for profits are not our fight. The capitalist will always try and make us pay for their crisis. The Corona virus is just the latest example. They sat on their hands waiting for the so called price signals and invisible hand theory to take over.
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@Trid3nt861 Sounds like the US Supported Latin American Military Dictatorships of the late 20th Century. They were called the dirty wars because people disapeared into police and military custody by cops who were masks.
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@lil__boi3027 Bezmenov was just another Stalinist hack. You can listen to his rubbish conspiracy theories if you like but since they were developed before the end of the cold war that don't explain the end of the cold war. The Windsor Star reported him dieing of a massive heart attack. The point of any external state sanctioned political murder is to show others what you are capable of. If the US secretly murdered Osama bin Laden or General Salimani it would not have the same impact as when you can claim you did it and got away with it.
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@lil__boi3027 Bezmenov was trained in the ideas and methods of the Stalinists because Stalin's purges killed off any opposition. He was to young to learn anything else in the Soviet Union. The height of Stalin's power and prestige was in WW2 when the Democratic Imperialists need him to defeat their Fascists Counterpoints. This was when he sat with Roosevelt and Churchill as one of the "Big Three" and he couldn't get enough praise in the Democratic Imperialism media and by top US Military officers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo94Q_vGi6k
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@michaelbarclay1327 The real problem for capitalism is that it is based in Nation States but operates in a world market. The capitalist have a strong central government in those nations states but outside them is a world market. The competition for that world market only increases as the ability to produce does. This intensifies the problem of overproduction. The ability to produce more than can be sold for a profit. It will result in the break up of all those world organizations set up with the end of WW2 to regulate trade because the power relationships have changed. This has already begun the turn to trade war and new bilateral organizations to control competition as it increases. Capitalism can't escape the nation state or solve the problem of overproduction the only solution for the capitalist ruling classes is world war. The only solution for the rest of humanity is world socialist revolution as first tried and promoted in Soviet Russia, the Soviet Union and as Cuba's revolutionary working people are continuing today.
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@Steven Andrade I want the names of anyone of the 105 who were not just political rivals but who didn't plan, get involved in or already start an armed counterrevolution. Someone who denied doing what he was charged with.
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@natejennings5884 None of them have any proposals except to trust them as being some how different because they are backing culture war issues.
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@amyfeng4311 Oh i'm feeling so sorry for those who live in palaces with HOA's and have your problems. Why not just put up a fence and work from home behind a computer.
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@bunnyluver2176 Unlike the US Cuba does not allow its territory to be used for recruitment of mercenaries.
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@oldsenpai4337 Blackwater is a USA corp and mercenary component of the American Imperialist military along with the magazine Soldier of Fortune Magazine and published in the USA. The mercenary is business of war and money is his sole motivation.
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@dsnodgrass4843 Communism is a movement not a new doctrine with its holy priests. Its the living class struggle going on under our very eyes.
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@davidlloyd-jones8519 We will do much better negotiating with a militant trade union movement that takes up workers control of industry and a new labor party based in the unions independent of the two boss parties to take on the capitalist politically.
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@vojtasks Teachers can win a strike because of the political impact. Any strike of a private corp can win by shutting off the profit stream. If you weren't productive you wouldn't have a job to begin with the bosses don't hire workers because they like paying out wages. An individual trying to negotiate on the basis of productivity in other words producing above average is only going to work himself to death. The bosses will throw him an extra dime while making an extra dollar. Then the'll demand everyone else work like a fool gone crazy.
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@vojtasks All the wealth has been going to the bosses and their hangers on. People who serve the bosses like professors and engineers. In 1970 the minimum wage was $1.60 an ounce of gold was $32 gallon of gas about $.30 Today the minimum wage isn't even $16.00, gas is $3.00 gallon, the price of gold is $1806.00 over 50 times what is was in 1970. The price of gold was set at $32.00 at Breton Woods in 1944. For most of the previous history it was about $23.00. Issac Newton set the price of gold in English pounds back in the 1600's it remained about the same until about 1914. Nixon shut the $32 gold window because the Vietnam war had caused the decline of the dollar such that France wanted gold for dollars. The capitalist have been robbing us blind with the central bank created inflation which cuts wages while raising the value of property. Since capitalism created the 2008 crisis the world has not recovered in production and trade to the 2008 levels. In France the government and politician's are so hated less the 40% turned out to vote. The Yellow vests called Macron "President of the Rich." The true rate of unemployment in the US is somewhere around 18% that's because the elderly are even bothering with part time work and the gov doesn't count those who don't show up as looking after a week or two and those who work one hour are counted as employed.
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@vojtasks If productivity raises wages why are they so much lower for autoworkers in Mexico making Chevy Trucks sold at the same price as those made in Ft Wayne, IN. They use the same production capital equipment in both. Obviously the bosses only pay what is needed to get you to come back to work for the next pay period. Only class struggle can change that relationship.
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@vojtasks The capital investment for a software company is low as is the capital investment for small electrical contractor wages are higher due to the skill level not the capital value. A software company is nothing but a few computers in an office. A bigger capital to labor ratio is in the trucking industry. For get about caveman we are talking about capitalism not the pre history period. A unless a trucker is union he has a hard time paying his bills. One Truck is about $100,000 compared to maybe $10,000 per worker for a software engineer. Under your theory the trucker should be making 10 times the software engineer. Yet he makes way less. Switzerland is rich because banker live there not because of high tech Swiss watches.
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@vojtasks Man creates wealth though social labor. Man's mind and hands interacting with nature. Tools and machines are wealth that man creates that save future labor time. No machine can run in perpetual motion and despite man's cleverness we have never built a machine that can reproduce itself without man's giving it direction. So machines can not produce wealth they merely enable man to produce more wealth with less labor time being used in the future. The fact that capitalism developed first in Europe is an accident of history and their is nothing special about a factory except that it is the result of previous development and far better social organization of labor. The capitalist measures success in profits but his profits or wealth come from labor not machines and so as he replaces labor with new machines to drive profits his way. He diminishes his source of profit while increasing his capital investment resulting in a declining rate of profit the very measure by which every capitalist uses to measure his success. This drives the idiot called a capitalist to attack his laborers for producing less wealth for him instead of more with his new machines since to sell more he needs to win the battle of the market place but the workers can not buy back all that they can produce, plus the world is a finite market not infinite and the capitalist refuses to sell at a loss so he halts production and creates a crisis along with attacking his workers the source of all wealth. This is why the capitalist class becomes reactionary and must be removed form its past historical place in the production of wealth. Capitalism is nothing more than a historical stage that man pases though on his quest to meet his needs and better his social organization.
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@vojtasks What about all the time spent looking for a precious stone and not finding one? Tell my why your stone has value? Just who is it precious to and why? If you start eating stones things will most likely not work out well for you. Their is no paradox since labor wasted obviously produces nothing but scrap value. For something to have value it must first be found. A green pasture has no value to a group of herdsman if they don't know of its existence. Same with mineral deposits. Build me a machine that can produce without a man setting it in motion and I will entertain your idea of machines producing wealth without labor. Obviously it also takes a social agreement to decide the value of wealth. A 1st Century man may have no use for an electric light bulb other than as a curiosity. The US Army does not pay it troops in salt as the Roman legions did either.
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@vojtasks Interest on capital is just another way for the capitalist to rob each other it produces nothing and as can be seen with fiat currency being used by central bankers it produces inflation as a way to rob the working class without having to institute wage cuts. No Marxist has ever claimed that you can assign an exact monetary or labor value to every transaction taking place in an economy much less a capitalist one where each actor keeping business secrets works in his own way to rob the others.
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@vojtasks Well than we should all be able to become capitalist renting everything to each other thereby avoiding all work if renting and interest is really producing wealth. You will note that vast sums of wealth seemingly disappeared in the 2008 crisis. Interest rates are close to zero or negative in some countries. How could such vast sums just disappear if they weren't a fiction to begin with? Why are interest rates so low if interest it is such a productive activity? If capital accumulation in itself produces growth why do the more developed countries grow slower than the less developed. You problem is you refuse to face facts. Instead of looking at things from a materialist view you have to bring in just so many cob webs to confuse the situation. The problem for you and others is the bosses own accounting books confirm all of what Marx has layed bare in the workings of capitalism. The Dutch Tulip crisis was the first case of bidding up value beyond its real value. The resulting collapse of tulip value effected the whole Dutch economy for years after.
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@vojtasks The vast sums of wealth in the modern world are produced in the mines, mills and factories of modern capitalist industry not by a few petti bourgeois social democratic fools of the Nordic Imperialist countries renting out cars.
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@vojtasks Issac Newton set the value of Gold in English pound it kept that value with few exceptions right up to 1914 the great war and the British banking crisis. Obviously the capitalist who built the defective air bags ended up taking a loss. Now what ever firm is making the new good airbags is making a profit. If you don't see how labor can create value than you probably have never built anything of value either. Instead of siting around contemplating your navel maybe try fixing that car of yours. The bosses don't pay people like me for having Good Looks like Ms. Trump. We know how to get things dome and make things work. Our ability to labor is what makes us valuable. Bill Gates ownership of a baseball glove made him money by renting it to his sister. Like I said before exchange produces nothing. The exchange can seldom be exactly equal anyway so that's why money as a universal medium of exchange has value. Now each side can try and benefit from a trade and many times the do but the trade in it self produces nothing otherwise man would only need to trade and not labor. Capitalism shouts free trade as the solution to all problems natural when he means free trade he means free to also own everything that can be used in the trade. You trade him your labor time and he pays you just enough of the wealth to maintain yourself for the next pay period. So he seeks from you the longest hours at the lowest wages in that pay period. Before the capitalist the peasant surf worked three days for the land Barron and three days for his families upkeep. The seventh day he rested and the priest told him how he would enter the kingdom of heaven after death.
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@vojtasks At the end of the day the class struggle will be decisive not how many truly believe in the second coming of Christ.
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@muhammadnizamuddin2084 Gold and Silver coin as money were heavy and inconvenient to carry around so banks would take them as deposits and then issue paper certificates of deposits. From 1945 until 1973 the dollar in world trade was pegged at $32 an ounce.
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@muhammadnizamuddin2084 How do you figure that its tied to the price of oil? The OPEC countries prefer dollars for oil because of the US status as the worlds largest economy and its military power the dollar is NOT pegged to oil like Gold was.
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Close the border and you won't have any trade at all.
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@edsherwook5196 Tesla sells auto's it does not sell them at a lower cost than conventional fueled ones so he is only taking market away from another manufacture. Space X is questionable as a waste of resources. About 70 % of the earth's surface is water so internet service where their is little to no human activity seems to be a waste of resources money which would be better spent building out land based wired and wireless communications. That's not even taking up the issue of national sovereignty above other nations land. These satellites are projected to last 5 years do you want them falling in your backyard should his company go bankrupt? These actions were all taken with no real public discussion about them. Money is printed by the government's bureau of engraving and printing at Fort Worth, Texas. How much is printed and who gets it is determined by the US Federal Reserve board of governors. It is a fiat currency which means it has no fixed exchange rate with any other commodity its sole backing is its use in the world's economy and by the American capitalists who use it to pay wages in the United States and as a medium of exchange value in the world market. .
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@mikebane2866 Well the majority of English speaking intellectuals are pro capitalist. For them the solution is always "free markets" because they are mostly privileged middle class westerners. The Cuban workers and farmers know what they have and what the have acomolpished has been with the help of their friends despite their enemies desires to destroy them. They aren't interested in having a Putin, Yeltsin or Gorbachev and American neoliberalism destroy everything with so called "free market capitalism" and shock therapy so an oligarchy can be created. .
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@andreiotraskin475 Same type of fraud that was perpetrated just before WW1 by the Teddy Roosevelt trust busters. Anti monopoly laws don't work for two reasons one you can not reverse the products of economic history two the capitalist parties will not abolish the profit system which is at the core of the problems that result in wars and economic crisis. Abolishing private property and replacing capitalist management with workers control and economic planning. By private enterprise you mean the ability enable private profits achieved though the use of capitalist methods. Hiring the labor of others and then keeping the accumulation of exchange value made possible by the workers creation of surplus value. All these profits are is unpaid labor.
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@urgdaddy Big Boss Trump talks about how he would have been a better loser in war. Explains how he would have bombed them after leaving in a last gesture of Imperialist vengeance.
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@Vengess1 The 2008 crisis is still with us because the system can't recover from its built in contradictions. It doesn't matter how low or negative interest rates go. They can't generate demand for good and services by just giving themselves free money to drive up profit rates.
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@ralphtrynor9719 Eisenstein revolutionized the thinking about time and space. The Michelson-Morley is the most famously failed experiment in science. It was designed to detect differences in the speed of light caused by the ether fluid flow thought necessary to transmit light like air for sound. Instead the experiment revealed that the speed of light was the same in all directions dispite the earths orbit. One of the things that comes out of this is that the magnetic field is due to the motion of charges is the relativistic component of the electric field. This then squares with dot product of the magnetic field being zero. So because of this we don't see any magnetic monopoles only electric charge. If we had magnetic monoples that the dot product of B would have a value for magnetic charge like the dot product of E giving a value of electric charge. You can get Eimstien's ideas about special relativity by thinking about clocks and how the would look for different observers using light to see traveling at speeds close to the speed of light. E=MC2 is the product of revolutionized thinking about the equivalence of momentum due to masses speed and energy when it adds the relativistic comment for speeds close to that of light.
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They are a middle group of people however they become the scapegoats for the economic crisis that routinely occur in capitalism because the rulers need a distraction and the middle class is shrinking so a minoirty group serves this purpose. .
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@nubfunx7880 "...Those who take only the word of another are complete idiots who can be dismissed with the wave of the hand..." V. I. Lenin
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@robertsmith-gp6lc In a change in the way things are done and which class rules not a new set of laws written by lawyers. Communism is a movement of a new class on its way to conquering state power.
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@tomasvlasek746 His due process rights were violated when the decision was taken without a hearing along with interfering in the rights of a political party to choose its candidates whatever way the see fit. .
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@tomasvlasek746 Nothing Trump did compares to the what the slave owners did during and after the civil. This was passed to defeat the real inserection of slave owners who refused to accept defeat. These 3 civil war amendments were passed as a result of the struggle to defeat the slave owners inserection. The former slaves fought against being forced back into gang labor on the plantations. They fought for land, property, political power and rights. The new Reconstruction governments were part of that and the formers slaves owners were still attacking them with racists gangsters. Both parties betrayed them by pulling out federal troops and passing an amnesty bill allowing a counter revolutionary defeat that became segregation imposed by racist political gangsters. All this is is an attempt to throw political rights into the toilet by one of the two capitalist parties.
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They shouldn't because we need new party without these professional sellouts bought through big money campaign resources. Workers need their own party based in the unions.That takes up the cause of all workers.
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@zer0nix The only accountability the administrative state has is to the bosses who hold the keys to that new office in the industry they regulate which means another promotion along with an atta boy.
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@diegoyanesholtz212 Their idea of responsibility like their Democratic collages is setting up a foundations run by social justice warriors who are saving the world with charity banquets and micro investment banks. Billionaires like Bill Gates are doing their part to fight climate change by paying a premium for bio jet fuel now costing him 9 million a year.
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@RichardMiller-tq6ut Exaggeration and vilifications sevres the interest of the bourgeois who seeks to mystify political policies to advance the interests of private profit that lie behind all the decisions made by the government of the bourgeois. The bourgeois has erected borders to regulate trade within them. Infanticide was a practiced during the stone age. Promotion of the General Welfare is cited as one of the reason for setting up the US Government how that relates to being lazy is unclear.
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@RichardMiller-tq6ut Well than certainly Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are some of the richest Americans are they not? Does their money not originate from the US Federal Reserve Bank? Certainly government welfare policy is working well for them is it not?
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@RichardMiller-tq6ut Money must being going to the wrong people if its promoting laziness among those who have it.
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@RichardMiller-tq6ut How is it that the Elite don't control government to incentivise themselves? Warren Buffet owns the BNSF yet he gets streaking breaking protection from Biden and Congress. He gets to impose slave like conditions because he can run to a federal judge for strike breaking protection. They get to do what they please to drive down wages and conditions.
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@donnaeturner Stalin kept the bomb from being used.
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I'm included and my property like many others consists of only motor vehicles. About 30% of the population rents their home and many of those who own don't actually own it out right but instead pay a mortgage. Healthcare costs for the elderly guarantees that even the so called middle class will die in poverty on medicaid or in housing for the elderly. Most small farmers also have job to make ends meet.
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@stuckinthemud4352 That because capitalist produces a working class which begins to struggle as a class developing trade union conscious as a first step From the manifesto. "The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement." Just as capitalism replaced the rule of the landowners with the rule of capital creating modern nation nation states the working class comes to power as a result of the inability of capital to solve the problems the ruling class divided into nation states in competition for the world market creates for the workers and farmers who are the true producers of all the needs of human life on earth. The capitalist are the involuntary promoters of modern industry at the same time their quest for profits leads to them organize society first by nation state for competition in a world market where trade war proceeds real war not to mention the long term tendency of the rate of profit to decline. The capitalist and their defenders are only fooling themselves with the belief that their problems have a solution within a system of private property, money creation and financial control by small groups of profiteers.
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@commenterthe3rd If your actually serious than you should get a subscription to The Militant newspaper and consider moving to a city where you can get a union job and collaborate with the Party.
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@stuckinthemud4352 Yes and now you also see why an employer would favor hiring one worker over another. One might produce more in one way and less in another. One might want more pay and another willing to accept less. Maybe you are paid according to when you punch in to when you punch out to the minute or maybe the punch card is only used to keep track of you and your expected to be at your workstation in time for the bell ringing like high school and paid according to the the ringing of bells. Same with an employer trying to figure out how long it takes to do a job and how much supervision of the workers is required. Some jobs are easy and repetitive until something unexpected happens. A breakdown stops a whole assembly line or continuous process. How long will it take for maintenance workers to make a repair. Do the production crew get sent home or the next crew phone calls saying don't come in today?
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Its called rule of law and it cuts both ways.
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@anthony_de_paz Jimmy Human Rights Carter armed Pol Pots murder gangsters and Reagan funded the Taliban. The Republican Party ended any concern for human rights when they withdrew federal troops from the South before the Slave owners bloody rebellion was fully crushed with the compromise of 1877.
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@williamfranz9872 "...No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability... The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." So right their it clearly states these provisions are Congress's responsibility not the states. It was written to apply to those who had served in the Army and government of the Confederate States and the same Amendment requires due process by the states while the 5th Amendment requires due process by the federal Government. So without any additional legislation it only means that such a person can not be sworn in as an officer of the United States or State. You don't get to call someone an enemy without an Act of Congress or Conviction of Treason. Nor did an insurrection take place on Oct 6 since the insurrection act requires the President to declare one.
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@johnbrown1851 The Colorado Judges were all Democrats and even they were not unanimous. Its just another attack by Democratic Party liberals who say they are defending Democracy while throwing the Constitution and Democratic rights into the trash barrel of their parties partisan politics. .
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I wonder why CBC hasn't blocked the comments section on this video?
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark A Supreme Court ruling has already made birthright citizenship the law of the land.
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@davidbarton2788 That still leaves 8 hours for prayer and you also have the right to send your children to a religious school where children can pray every 15 minutes or more if that is what your religion demands. This is just typical conservative dogma being advanced by Prager despite it being settled law that organized public school prayer is unconstitutional.
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@davidbarton2788 Communists are NOT Democrats. The first amendment to the US constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;.." Having a forced prayer like Prager wants is establishing a religion in the public schools by indoctrination. Conservatives and Liberals see nothing wrong with establishing a police state that does what they want. Conservatives also which to station a policeman outside of every women's uterus.
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@davidbarton2788 I don't vote Demopublican. Conservatives want to make abortion illegal. Republicans and Democrats are two factions of one capitalist party. Both agree that saving American Imperialism and capitalism comes first.
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@davidbarton2788 World capitalism has been in crisis since the world war of 1914. Geography made American Imperialism the winner of the two world wars as it became the leading Imperialist Power. The end of the cold war in 1989 was not a win for the American Imperialist as they have said. It only increased Imperialist competition for markets and influence. The American Imperialist decision to leave Afghanistan was taken without discussion with its NATO Imperialist partners. Putin's wannbee capitalist Regime war in Ukraine is adding to the instability that capitalist exploitation creates This crisis is world wide and not a short term problem that can be resolved by change of party in Washington.
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The only thing increasing market competition brings is layoffs, consolidation, bailouts and the next war for bigger profits. The profit drive of the bosses runs up against the tendency of the long term profit rates to decline. While the bosses may be making record aggregate profits they can't escape the long term tendency of the rate of profit by which they judge success to decline. They are in a world crisis of their own making.
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@wayneyoung9061 No such thing. A market is a place of conflict. It always requires a eith a second pr third pasty to act as a regulator or controller. A market requires a policeman to contain conflict.
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@wayneyoung9061 Some things don't belong in markets. By abolishing private property you cloes down the stock and bond markets.
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@wayneyoung9061 No you don't because the production workers will decide to abolish it in the class struggle by creating a labor party. The capitalist are the ones who need an oppressive government to defend their crisis ridden profit system which can only lead to war and depression.
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@Visigoth_ You haven't realized its not our government yet?
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Love how the bosses blame their own government for problems that are the product of capitalist greed.
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Right start another war so Wall street and the current two party administration can shift attention away from real issues.
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@jgstargazer I suppose your little fable proves that Bill Gates was a hard worker and genius and not born with a silver spoon in his mouth or that Elon Musk and the rest of the Billionaire class are "hard workers?" Their accumulation of massive wealth was made possible by both a bougoies educational head start and the willingness to do whatever it took to grab market share and profits. To create a whole persona of being entrepreneurial genius and to be dog eat dog bosses at all times.
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@HyenaEmpyema His daughter went to college and became "quite liberal". Oh wow another Hillary Clinton the Goldwater Girl who becomes a Democrat. LMAO.
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@gormenfreeman499 What does the "owner" do for his profit and how is he able to make one? The system itself de incentivises work by creating Elon Musk's, George Soros', Bill Gates, Donald Trump and other Billionaires. None of them are worth anywhere near what they have accumulated and control privately. Most of us go to work out of habit. Capitalism with the bosses thirst for profits and greed create us who are the polar opposite the industrial workers. Your system is constantly in and out of economic crisis Because capitalism was created out of poverty and the necessary features of a system created in poverty don't necessarily meet the needs of a system that begins rising above abject poverty. The ruling class itself along with its state and institutions have become a break upon the productive forces. King Charles was behead in the English Revolution for a number of economic reasons including "going about the country and making war for taxes." Now why should we permit a small groups of profiteering nations to go around the world making "war for profits"? The ruling classes need someone to exploit if not the workers at home than those in foreign countries.
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@MustangsTrainsMowers Which means that bosses now need to pay the full minimum wage and can't count tips?
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@MustangsTrainsMowers Good. Now they should join a union for higher wages and better working conditions.
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@MustangsTrainsMowers The unions belong to the workers who are the members. They are the ones who ultimately decide union policy. A capitalism in crisis with decline conditions for the workers produces a change in attitude and begins a process of pushing out the case hardened bureaucrats replacing them with those willing to lead fights.
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@Buttermybun This is really nothing more than another "lemonade stand" being a shining example of capitalism. Notice she is working in a "High End" restaurant. Obviously this is a place where the bosses go to hang out.
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@Shepardofman If one were to ask Trotsky my guess is he would say that the workers have to learn to fight for their wage and not beg. I worked at union motel complex at one time and we had pooled tips in our paycheck since most bills were paid by credit or travel card at the time.
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@robertadams6606 Sowell's struggles ended when he was accepted for an internship at the department of labor. He was finished with the hard work of being a graduate student resident. He was all but formally accepted into the ranks of the American bourgeois professors. From that point forward he would be able to preach at the universities about the wonders of American capitalism and to advocate for the best polices for capitalist accumulation. For he had discovered that there was no exploitation inherit in the capitalist system. Capitalism was working almost like the best of "table talk" pies. Only a few teaks of wrong headed government policies and it would be off to the races. He had also found his first political ally Milton Friedman. After all he had reject talking with any actual Marxist back at Harvard wanting to make a study of his own so he could not be accused of repeating others ideas I guess.
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Hamas has nothing but disdain for the refugees it creates. Sure the people of Gaza will suffer but defeating Hamas can only be done by military force, in Gaza. It leaders are billionaries who steal UN aid live lives of luxury in Qatar. Twenty percent of the Isreali population is Arab and among them support for the Isreali government since Oct 6 has gone from 40 percent to 70 percent.
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@gamingwithmatt3598 If I give you the benefit of the doubt and your not just out right lying and repeating propaganda this is what I would say. Most likely all you only know how to think metaphysically and not dialectically. You don't understand what's going on because you can't think outside of the box as the popular saying goes. You don't realize we live in a world economy that is based in finance capitalism and Imperialism and that period of history is coming to an end because of the contradictions contained within that system of production. Instead you look about and say well I live a good life and I certainly wouldn't like to live their life but and you think you have lots of choices like the cereal brands in the grocery store when you don't. You don't yet understand why the Cuban worker and farmer have taken the path they have so you assume that they must all have a gun pointed in their back or that they are too stupid to realize what capitalism and its markets have created. You forget that people have to create things and that your just as much a part of the nature as es the rest of nature. You don't understand economics at all so instead you rely on the typical nonsense and propaganda that plays in the media the same way you are sold a commodity.
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@Vintagecoilylocks Billionaires don't create wealth the steal it from the creators of all wealth the working class.
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He was NOT a member of the Popular Socialist Party. The Cuban Communist Party wasn't founded until 1965. The communist movement had split in 1928 and it had again split with Tito and Stalin feuding. This whole are you a communist thing was part of the 1950's Red Scare which hunt that began with FDR throwing 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party in Prison for violation of the Smith "gag" Act.
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@ablewindsor1459 Lots of made up bullshit. They are being starved by the US Bankers.
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@mkm1206 McCarthys problem was he made claims of a list of 200 State Dept employees that were communists but could produce a single name or prove a single employee to be a member.
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@googleisskynet7312 McCarthy should have investigated himself for corruption after reading the titles of all those communist publications.
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@kafon6368 Class mobility and meritocracy is a fraud in the capitalist world. One class works. The other owns for a living. a Dictatorship of Capital. Capitalism breaks up the workers families with the boom bust business cycle and the drive to pay the lowest wages and work us the longest hours for he biggest profits. Warren Buffet's Railroad is know as the Better Not Start a Family Railroad.
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Reports of Police and Military officials are almost always reported as the unvarnished truth until shown otherwise.
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Fidel Castro never had a problem creating enough educated people.
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That's is nothing more than neoliberal propaganda where everyone's education is a micro capital generating profits for the educated. No different than the so call Black Scholars at Harvard theories on racism being white microaggressions. Same idea as that of individuals are all acting out of micro marginal economic calculations such that capitalism is generated a heaven on earth with a meritocracy and the United States Elite Universities leading the way with the wise men of capitalism like Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell.
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@markbunce3405 Capitalism in crisis finds democracy to be unavoidable.
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Well we will see about that won't we. Karl Marx said a capitalist who can't make a profit deserves to go out of business.
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NPC #45095367 The US electronic and computer manufacturing bosses walked out of the US and into Mexico and China for bigger profits with lower wages. The same companies that claim they are loyal to you and looking out for you are looking down the hallway for bigger profits with lower wages elsewhere. You can't trust them anymore than you can trust Obama and Trump to save your job. Doesn't matter who's in office if real wages start rising then the gates for immigration legal or illegal will open. If the social cost begin to rise than the gates will start to close with a greater number of deportation to follow. Even if both were in complete equilibrium they' be deporting workers just to scare others of their kind of police court injustice system. The capitalist are motivated by profits only they could care less about who came from which country, which state, which county, which town, or which neighborhood. All they care about is who will work for the lowest wage and at the fastest pace. Once you understand that you will understand that any kind of unity with the bosses is completely impossible and only unity among workers can change things. What they fear most is any kind of work stoppage and any kind of multiple numbers of workers making requests of management.
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@firehawk20 The bosses regardless of nationality want to pay the lowest wages for the most working time. Mexican bosses want the same thing as US bosses PROFITS!!!
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It failed to point the finger at the real cause which was the rise of Stalin and the murder of Lenin's party. As Trotsky had written years ago it was impossible for the bureaucracy to self reform. It could only be overthrown. Gorbachev himself was promoted because of the praise he wrote for the Greatest Leader of Mankind Joeshp Stalin. Stalin whom Lenin had been the first to call for the removal.of him from his post as General Secretary.
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The way to fight back is to organize picketing and protest demonstrations in front of county government offices. Start bringing in others who are being ignored by county government getting the truckers help is a start and what about getting the unions involved? How many lost or lack county services and other people who the county hasn't got the time of day for protest the waste of 'police and sheriff services" and demand that they be cut back instead.
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@stephj9378 Sowell who finds an excuse for every act of aggression by the American Imperialists no matter how out of proposition the excuse is for the crime.
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@stephj9378 He has gone along with the atomic bombing of Japan being necessary to save lives despite Japan's navy being destroyed and having already suffered from fire bombing raids. He went along with the war in Vietnam as winnable. You here him go on and on about government waste and incompetence but never a peep about the military budget. We just finished 20 years by four presidents spending 2.3 trillion dollars in Afghanistan yet once again do you here so much as a peep from this intellectual? Vietnam spending precluded the end of Bretton Woods and Gold Standard. Wouldn't you expect an economist to link the two?
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@stephj9378 He is a disciple of Milton Friedman and his pseudo scientific economics of marginal utility. This is where everything quantifiable is based solely on supply and demand, perfect competition exists and class struggle is fruitless. When capitalism inevitable enters into crisis the best course of action according to the neo liberals like Sowell and Friedman is to sit back and do nothing because free markets and strong private property laws fix everything.
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@bennymachado2201 Japan's is an island nation and its Navy had already been defeated, they were already seek surrender term and the American Imperialists wanted to Impress Stalin with the bomb since its next moves would be plans to make war on the Soviet Union and take back China. US Troops in the East wanted to go home putting a kink in the Imperialist plans hatched in Washington. Churchill lost the election in London throwing a monkey wrench into his plans to use the defeated NAZI's along with British Troops for war with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Red Army had brought the era of imperialist Fascism to an end and the Mao's Chinese Red army had driven all the Imperialist powers from China ending a century of humiliation. The American Imperialist became the top dog but their economic and political power has been declining vs their rivals ever since. The Western Imperialist along with the Japanese were forced out of direct colonial rule in nearly every nation following the end of world war two.
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@bennymachado2201 I will not get into arguments about the lies told by the US Politicians ranging from Republican Joe McCarthy to Democrat Truman about "Communist Expansionism" This is nothing more than the criminal blaming the victim . The US/UK invaded the Soviet Republic in 1917. The fact the Lenin and the Bolsheviks declared their intention to tear Imperialism limb by limb is the reason the US and Western Imperialist became afraid of Communism. Freedom for the colonial peoples would interfere with the bigger profit rates of the foreign investors. This what US Imperialist war policy was all about after the Spanish American war. USMC Major General Smedley Butler spilled the beans in "War is a Racket" Where he admitted he had been a gangster for capitalism who operated on three Continents. They second Imperialist war weakened the Western Imperialist powers including the US so much they were forced to withdraw from direct military rule. Truman offered to divide Korea with Stalin which he had no right to accept. This gave the Imperialist General MacArthur the reason to invade Korea after the Japanese had surrendered in Tokyo bay.
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@joebobjenkins7837 How long before you declare the lithium battery a threat to American life?
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@joebobjenkins7837 I have to agree with Senator Paul on the vaccine we need to encourage people to get vaccinated not insult them and twist their arms. Once Tesla motors stock value evaporates I would be surprised if lithium batteries and China are blamed. I've also noticed a lot more windmills erected in South Texas but most seem to be stationary.
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@indonesiaamerica7050 Your just an apologist for mass murder carried out by the Indonesian military at the urging of the Western Imperialists. Why should I waste my time with someone like you? Most of these private companies get their mineral wealth in a deal with the government of the land area. Just becasue you own the land above doesn't mean you own what's down below.
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The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th amendments. Congress needs to back off.
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She will vote for the next drone strike.
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Hitler was anti Marx remember Marx was a Jew by birth. Hitler's 'National Socialism' was a fascist state run in the interests of the rich German capitalist firms like Bayer, Krupt, Siemens and Boshe
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@DerekMaullin Trump has accomplished what no other president has 40 million unemployed.
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@henrymartin8997 Was it at Trump Tower?
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Well it's mostly an opinion with some facts to bustress it. Forty percent of the eligible voters didn't vote. Plus The Clintons are hated because he and she are obviously corrupt. Even if it legal corruption. The main industry in West Virginia is coal. For years the had a US Senator Rockefeller as a Democrat. It's not like Boston or San Francisco where plenty of intellectuals and students swoon over professors and liberals. So Clinton saying she was going to get rid of coal miners may have played well with her liberal elite but nobody else.
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A lesson in lies about the "good bosses" of the rotting Democratic Party.
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@DennisTheInternationalMenace The replacement turned out to be no better.
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@williamkis6307 The is the result of US Imperialism.
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Sanctions, divestment, and boycott do little to hurt politicians and more to hurt the ordinary person. The American Imperialist and Wall Street are the biggest users of boycott and sections for their foreign policy.
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@rosaliethomson4655 Your two party capitalist dictatorship voted for the Afghan war.
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While the Stalinist have been discredited in the eyes of many the still have followers.
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@jamesdemaio4938 The American workers hail the 1949 Victory over Imperialism in China. You victory over the running dogs of Imperialism is our victory too. We too will overthrow our Imperailist masters in Washington and raise the revolutionary banner of World Socialism as you throw out the capitalist roaders who want war and crush the new KMT running dogs. Peace amongst the workers and peasants of all countries. Down with war, down with the greedy capitalists and death to world Imperialism!!! Workers of the World Unite We have a World to Gain and nothing to lose except our chains!!
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Just more American Imperialist propaganda. The ruling class is losing its marbles as can be seen in the issues that the two capitalist parties fight about. If it thinks it can win another world war by using technology that shows how foolish it has become. McNamara ran computer simulations for Vietnam that showed victory just around the corner as predicted by kill ratios and body counts .
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Sowelll loves a free market like a Catholic Priest loves Jesus.
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@ncon5179 Bosses seek to pay the lowest wages to make the biggest profits. When an industry goes bankrupt it has to do with the way profits shift do to changes in the economy as a whole is not the faut of workers who seek to maintain their standard of living and who should rightly expect an increase as overall productivity of labor always rises despite the natural tendency of profit rates to decline. Bosses will always try and move production from higher wage areas tio lower wage ones. This is why the unions need to establish a labor party with a workers foriegn policy to see to it that wages go up in other countries and checkmate the greedy bosses.
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@teresacroft7409 Crossing the border isn't a crime to begin with its a civil offense. If Congress makes it a crime then all kinds of extra Constitutional protections kick in. In Other Words you can't have your cake and eat it to.
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@ca8944 Your right its a civil infraction like red light camera catching speeders. High priority that's why the set up Border Patrol. They made it a civil infraction for a number of reasons including obligations to international treaties. It they act in an unjustified manner the risk the same thing happening to American citizens in foreign countries.
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@teresacroft7409 You don't get to decide what other people do. Political decisions are made by the capitalist ruling class in the interests of profits. Illegal immigration is a source of extra profits for the bosses because they can bring them in when they need them and deport them later on.
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@mrpoopoohead7668 You don't want people using birth control either so who do you think your kidding. Lots of people reject you God and your male based church teachings. We have freedom of religion and that includes the right not to believe. You need to mind your own uterus.
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@derkleinemaulwurf07 "The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement." From the Communist manifesto.
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@popweaselcrunch The right to strike is protected by the 1st and 14th Amendment. No Congressional strike breaking.
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You did complain individually for better pay by quitting. I'm surprised no one offered you more to stay with them. I noticed you said 55k instead of $26.50 which would be your 40/hr week rate. So is the 55k actually more overtime pay. Your still young so you haven't yet had to deal much with healthcare in terms of babies or some kind of unforeseen illness or disability? Plus there is nothing wrong with being a good worker either. Bosses like to hire young people because they have a better chance of molding you into what they want. Today there are no more permanent jobs either. A small company can easily go bankrupt and a large one can outsource or downsize.
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@TheSupersayin2 You must have developed a skill besides being a good worker by this time unless you live in a high cost of living area. The advantage of a skill is more money. The disadvantage is if you lose your job you get pigeonholed into a certain job skill and sub skill. Strossel makes big bucks and lives in an exclusive NYC neighborhood which is why he is so upset. If the doorman gets a raise he'll have to give out a bigger Christmas tip or if decides to "slum it" at McDonalds he might have to pay a few cents more for a hamburger. I like his video's because he always gets upset over things that make him look almost as dumb as whatever he is getting upset over.
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@ricardocantoral7672 Bosses will always seek to maximize profits. Jobs don't just move by themselves bosses use control of governments to advance the interests of the profit seeking bosses in the capitalist countries. Nor can they build a new factory cost free or not have transportation costs. They create a working class where ever they set up shop.
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@rhondaclark716 End the Blockade!!!
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Vote RED Vote Socialist Workers Party.
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@Dennis-nc3vw When we take power in a socialist revolution we will end the ability of the banks to get paid back a single wooden nickel from foreign investment. We are going to confiscate all you ill gotten gains on paper and in hard drives. All those stock certificates will be recycled for free toilet paper. The workers will be organized in their workplace into trade unions and councils (Soviets). We will cut CEO pay back to the level of a skilled worker. If they don't like that then I'm sure we can find some janitorial work for the CEO's. That way they can prove how hard working they are.
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@Dennis-nc3vw No need to pay CEO's what they get except for the fact that their loyalty is to making the biggest profits possible for the board of directors who choose them and the major stockholders who reap the profits through their stock ownership. A socialist economy works based on meeting human needs not maximizing profits. This corona virus pandemic was totally unprepared for because the bosses can buy all the healthcare they need while 1.2 trillion dollars for more Nuclear weapons is approved because capitalists are preparing for another world war over markets and resources.
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@Dennis-nc3vw We can build an artificial island for formers CEO's and all the John Galts who want to work on new methods of exploitation in trials among themselves.
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@Dennis-nc3vw So why did public transport become unprofitable and then need state subsidies? You have the welfare state mixed up with socialism. We aren't Democratic Party reformists. Capitalism is based in making profits for a tiny minority. This idea that the capitalist state can be directly transformed into a socialist state is wrong. With capitalism you have 3 letter agencies regulating every aspect of your life. With socialism the workers with our trade unions take on the tasks formerly done by capitalist government regulatory agencies. The means an end to OSHA, MSHA replaced with trade union control of on the job safety and production. The same goes with EPA. Workers control is 1,000 times more democratic than having a Washington bureaucracy whose loyalty is to Wall Street that pays to elect their bosses. .
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@Dennis-nc3vw If capitalism is voluntary why the need for a standing US Army with 800 foreign bases. Do the people of the rest of the world get to elect the so called leader of the free world? This so called leader of the free world gets to intravine into any other country based on the needs of American Capitalists political power to control the world markets through military force.
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@Dennis-nc3vw So phama bro was just acting responsibly when he jacked up the price of life saving medicine? That isn't giving people what they want instead its outright extortion based on a needed medicine.
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@Dennis-nc3vw If capitalism is based in human need why do they move production to other countries to pay lower wages along with 19th century conditions? Capitalism is based in Nation States and requires the world market because of overproduction. The fight over trade because of overproduction will eventually lead to world war. This has already happened twice in the 20th century. This time nuclear war will settle the question for all time. Either socialism works or capitalism produces nuclear winter.
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Norway is an imperialist nation with a King and banks who suck up the wealth and has permission to do so from Washington. Venezuela is considered part of the America Empire not a partner like Norway. Norway is part of the EU and not subjected to the same rules as the European Union countries.
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Congress needs to cancel all income taxes on workers and we need to cancel the nation debt payments to rich bond holders who should have been paying the taxes in the first place. We need an escalator clause in Social Security. We need to cancel the Space X program. Cancel Billionaire Rocket Science. Escalator clause on all wage contracts. Cancel all Military contracts and no standing Army and go back to State Militia only. Cancel aircraft carriers and let them sink. Coast Guard defense only. Cut all officer pensions to any with other income on corp boards, "Dumbie" stink tanks and other waste programs like corporate charity foundations. Cancel the Ford Foundation and Cancel The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Cancel the price of Windows from $139 a copy in the US to what the Chinese pay Gates when Big Tech builds Computers in China $0.00
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@thememaster7 Ayn Rand is a nut case who writes dystopian novels which are fictional. Any time she was interviewed she comes off as a crack pot.
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Now that you have Putin's capitalism in Russia are you still happy with your "Peaceful Imperialism" of German Social Democracy?
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@Alberto-te5fj In the capitalist world each ruling class has its own self interests. They can't help come into conflict because capitalism develops the world in combined and uneven ways. Capitalism goes into decline as profit rates naturally go into decline in giant industries. The bosses waged world war twice to redivided the spoils of capitalism among the hyenas. Can you afford a third world war over who get to be the king of the profit makers.
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Its a rigged game.
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Mike Vick You problem is that Einstein was a socialist like Bernie Sanders. The Communist Control Act of 1954 has never been enforced. Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General ended a long standing Secret Police investigation by the FBI. The fact that the Council of Europe is bablering about the past shows nothing but ignorance. What did the councils nations do when Franco was dictator in Spain, the Portugal dictatorship or the crimes of British and French Empires? The crimes of the Belgians in the Congo? When the councils states condemn their own national crimes then just maybe some will take them seriously.
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@robertroselle5073 Like Korea it was a war to retain colonial control of Vietnam. The French had been defeated and the US Imperialist couldn't accept the loss. If it was a war against an ideology it would have been fought first with books and education. Instead victory was to be measured by kill ratios and total kills. The idea was if you could kill enough fighters than you could deplete the enemy's ability to train new fighters. Every night we saw the reported Kill ratio and number of dead enemies on network news TV. The end of the Vietnam war has also ended any unquestioning of latter wars launched by Washington including Iraq and Afghanistan..
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Cops don't count as workers. As far as anti American goes if the Two Capitalist Parties won't lead strikes than we communist and socialist will be happy to help in the battle for Socialism and a Soviet America.
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@iddqd339 The problem is the market system of capitalism concentrates wealth and power into those who seek to increase their wealth and power. It creates a private property tyranny. This is why 28 people own the same amount of wealth as the other 50 % of the world.
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@Andrew-fq7pu They are secured the way most of the intellectuals and government officials are by their position of privilege over the rest of the working people.
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@dylaninnes8541 Science proceeds from a materialist conception of the natural world and careful observations made of the world. Science and math were first advanced by ancient people who began the agricultural revolution about 10 thousand years ago in different parts of the world at about the same time.
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@markpeirson7832 Trump should consider checking himself in.
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@sysabian8332 Why not make the rich pay for their own borders arround their gated communities. They cam stay insided they don't anything worth while anyway.
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@seanji The way forward is class struggle. Electing Trump or Sanders is a waste of time. The Roman Empire worked better than any system for its time. Capitalism worked better than any other for its time. Big Deal.
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@ajaxbeta8278 No! The only thing the Billionaires do is get themselves inserted into the economy such that they can grab as much value as it passes by. The major stockholder provide nothing except a general order to the CEO's make us richer!!! George Soros made his billions through a financial scheme that took the Bank of England for a few billion pounds sterling.
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@ajaxbeta8278 The stockholders are nothing more than a bag of money in the form of a human being.
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@ajaxbeta8278 Soro's pulled off a legal robbery of his fellow thieves and got away with it.
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The Communist never sought to reinvent the wheel. When America was behind Europe it took British and German technology.
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Me Alexander Then explain why Saudi Arabia and other oil rich states are the most repressive regimes in the world? The only pay why we forced them with union contracts backed up by strike action. Its not good bosses but class struggle that guarantees democracy. Class struggle won the Vote for Blacks in the South and class struggle made social security possible. Class struggle put food on the table during the great depression. Class struggle is the road to socialism not voting Demopublican. Class struggle won the Cuban revolution.
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Me Alexander No collaboration was always the Social Democrats and Stalin's Idea after the defeat in Germany. It brought nothing but fascist victories in Spain and France. The New Deal didn't end the depression the FDR War Deal did. Eighty million dead and a revival of capitalism with the victory of Democratic Imperialism. We all heve seen how US Democratic Imperialism supported the most vicious dictator's post WW2. Now with capitalism failing in the US the workers wiil beguin to struggle and the bosses will resort to extra legal thugs and cops to keep there factories going. "Socailist" Volvo Bosses already said we will run scabs if you don't take the final offer.
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Me Alexander Sure it is Trump all but directly admitted it talking about American carnage and how he was going to Make America Great Again. In Europe they say, "Macron President of the Rich." We are all going to become bankers and big businessmen because of capitalist opportunity . Everyone will be a Bill Gates just as rich and the computers will do everything right? Capitalism has brought 70 years of oil revenues to the middle east and the most repressive Regimes in the world. You buy a few Bourgeois Professors like this guy plans to do and you think you can fool us with a bunch of hand waving idiots.
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Me Alexander The bosses profit comes from our unpaid labor and the bosses own accounting books prove that. He takes profit and then he buys politicians and invests in new machinery to drive profits his way so he uses the profit against us making himself richer and us poorer. His system goes into decline as machines replace labor because the profit originates from our labor and with less labor but more capital profit rates must go down. So his success heralds decline. Always talks about how anyone can become rich like him because just like him his system works by probability and you might become a billionaire if you can steal enough unpaid labor but more than likely you will end up with nothing because the rich play a game of musical chairs the business cycle strikes bankrupting the weak so the can be eaten up by the strong. This is why capitalism tends to monopoly and not more opportunity.The middle class becomes smaller not larger. The only class increasing in both size and percentage is the wage earning class on a world scale. .
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@77Creation Why call for a ceasefire on the elected Hamas NAZI like terror organization?
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Democratic Party hypocrisy. The Democrats are just part of the uniparty for the rich.
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Trump's idea is to increase tariffs which will raise the prices of imports and profits for those goods made here.
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Miss Creant Soros is a Liberal Jewish Billionaire that the Billionaire Fascist gentleman love to hate. He can afford a super dream team of lawyers which is why Trump or anyone else for that matter isn't going to be arresting him anytime soon. The fact that he escaped the NAZI's is what drives them crazy.
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@donsims1941 Its just part of the fraud of capitalism itself where its neoliberal defenders say that value can be anything a market decides it to be. To get around the limits that gold and sliver played in early capitalist value they created the central bank with unlimited power to create money out of paper and use inflation to cut wages instead of issuing the old fashion strike provoking wage cut.
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@loubieloujones5698 You've had 30 years of capitalism in Eastern Europe and what do you have now but a Putin who thinks he's Peter the Great invading Ukraine. Bill Clinton did all the advising to Yeltsin and Gorbachev. Those guys were the product of Stalinism. Trotsky said of Stalin that .".the man was incapable of abstract thought..."
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LOL
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@steefv0000 She is just a nut case with no sensable solution.
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@josephcoon5809 Our Money? I didn't realize we had one of the owners of the Federal Reserve bank on Youtube. She was a consultant for George Bush.
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@xltek1 That's because both parties are capitalist parties. Their disagreements are over how best to continue capitalist exploitation at home and defend Imperialist foreign investment abroad. If this women is rejected its just a show put on for effect as the basic problem is any small business that wants a loan to restart after the pandemic is going to have trouble from the big capitalist bankers who want some type of guarantee that they won't take huge losses further down the hoped for road to recovery.
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Looks to me like they are dressed in their Sunday go to Church cloths. It's sure good to know you can tell how much some has in their bank account from the cloths they wear. Hey should everyone just send their abortion travel bills to your bank account?
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@BillGockeler They are waiting for government investment and a decisions by the rest of the ruling class like the Energy Barons
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Sowel presents the crimes of American Imperialism as both just and way to fight for the rights of Israel and the Jewish people for existence. For Sowell everything is a matter of accounting book justice. .
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This guy is promoting his tell all book.
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Actually the boss class is still not ready for a major confrontation with the unions. If the bosses got their way their be only private schools for the bosses and their minions.
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@paulgodden4974 I'm an electrician/electronics/telecom tech by trade.
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@ssiipp7848 No you don't need such a government and I can use Ayn Rand's own words about her experience before she left the Soviet Union in 1926 to show that. I can also in a similar fashion do the same for the Cuban revolution. There was never a murder purge of dissidents in Cuba and all such talk is just so much US propaganda. They had to withdraw the quit of the genocide because it was a hoax and the Nuevo Herald in Miami had to admit that people on the quilt died of natural causes or were still living.
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@TheControlBlue "To Big to Fail" is not "true capitalism."
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@ssiipp7848 Fidel had brought a case the Cuban Supreme court against the dictator Batista when the court could not remove him he than planned and carried out the attack on the Moncada Barracks on July 26,1953. "The Cuban revolution was bloody and far from peaceful.." "The American Revolution was bloody and far from peaceful." "The American Civil War was bloody and far from peaceful." Is there a reason you don't call the US government bloody and authoritarian? Is it because you are afraid of FBI coming after you like they are doing to your President Trump.
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@ssiipp7848 I don't know a lot about the labor movements history in Sweden. We had a comrade from Sweden Carl Skoglund who had arrived in 1911 had fled a blacklist in Sweden and the US government couldn't find any valid immigration papers or birth certificate for Skogy as he was known. He died here still under threat of Deportation in I think 1960. https://themilitant.com/2018/08/04/the-fight-to-stop-deportation-of-the-man-who-has-no-papers/
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@faktafakta316 Yes because the reality is that the Mensheviks became the Socialist "in name only" Party. Lenin was right when he called Karl Kautsky a renegade. Like all Social Democrats Sanders will have no problem upholding the rights of the capitalists military and police power at home and abroad. If elected another war president like Obama who received the Nobel Peace Prize along with such "peacemakers" as the likes of Henry Kissinger.
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@tulw2728 i've had the free training scam before. I passed the exit test before the training and it didn't get me a job. They only have the state provided free training to keep down the price of labor.
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@JayBee-se8ou I know that all that English Professor Jay Bee does is to read two party propaganda written by his fellow capitalist scholars in the Yale history department.
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@JayBee-se8ou All you do is read is a few slanders and then call it history. "Those who take only the word of another can be dismissed with a wave of the hand." N. Lenin.
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@JayBee-se8ou English Professors such as yourself are unable to realize that Any Rands self testimony shows that the early Soviet Union was not like that of Stalin's in 1936.
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@tulw2728 I got free training for the electronics/computer industry where I had already been an electronics technician. They gave me a test for soldering based on time and accuracy. I scored 100% but was told I needed to train as an assembler first before being retrained as a technician. Digital Equipment had two plants close by now there are none. All that work went first to Mexico and then China. At least with hospitality they have yet to open a US motel and get it cleaned by workers using a remote control located in China.
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@JayBee-se8ou The English Professor finally brings the call of racism into the discussion. I'm the one who stood up and denounced the high school football team for racism after MLK was assassinated. I'm the one who drove a big yellow school bus past banana peel waving racist during the Boston Court ordered bussing for desegregation of the Boston Schools. The racist had threaten to blow up the tunnels and attacked a Black Lawyer outside of City Hall after a cowards rally. I laugh in the face of racists. I find their ignorance to be comical.
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@tulw2728 The supervisors talk about paying your dues just as long as you don't want a union that collects dues.
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@salcanales4114 Down with NATO, US/UK/EU Democratic Imperialism and Putin's war. Defeat for Russian Imperialist troops in Ukraine. Socialism and National self determination. Like Comrade Trotsky said, "Back to Lenin! Not forward with Stalin."
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@jonothandoeser Czar Nicolas II and Kerensky thought they could look up bolshevik opposition to Imperialist war aims also.
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@jonothandoeser Putin's nukes don't protect him from the internal antiwar forces of working class revolt and popular democratic revolution. He faces the same problems Washington does. The Imperialist stage of capitalism is its last. The fight for Socialism begins with the fight for national self determination against Imperialist domination. To build new parties of worker Bolshevik Marxist Leninist leadership.
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@toomanyhobbies2011 Maybe BOSS Sowell should start a club called Capitalist Bosses Know Best.
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@echochamber1234 Bosses want indentured servants and to our source education costs to foreign countries. Amnesty for all foreign born workers.
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Turns out that the promises of American neoliberal capitalism by Milton Freedman and Bill Clinton weren't all that good after all.
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@xiiir838 Yes it say workers and farmers allaince is the future with the star above.
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@bryanspanjer3213 They all become just like Sowell once they find out they can''r be a Stalin in a Government Job the'll become Conservatives like Sowell and get paid a big salary for sitting in a chair all day.
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@Mooxieclang Then he colud have founded the Roman Empire according to legend.
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@BradRaiche Someone like yourself no doubt who lives his life like Charles Engles in "Little House on Prairie."
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@rogersthat95 That's all bullshit propaganda. The bosses don't just hand out wage increases. Capital accumulation leads to unemployment and a reduction of skill that lowers wages even lower. Profits shift to industries that are replacing labor with machines. The capitalist don't just count their billions but also their pennies. Black workers are over represented in basic industry. They are also more class conscious then their Caucasian brothers. Wage increases always lead to a cut in profits. If you invested in buggy whip production and can't find a market that's not our problem but yours.
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Oh and the Communist Control Act of 1954 it is still in effect having never been repealed or tested in court.
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@Slav_Stiibun Prices also rose about 3% this year. Now that you received a reward you will be working harder for him.
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@Matt Olivier Did you go to public school? I did. When I went to school the school or your family paid for school supplies not the teachers. How are roads or schools going to be built and paid for?
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Taxation is theft so who will pay to build roads? Libertarians live in a dream world that never existed and never will. The federal government paid for about 90% of the cost to build the Interstate highway system out of motor fuel taxes. If you never drive a car or truck than you never pay for most of the roads as it is because the states also pay for roads out of state motor fuel taxes. You do receive the economic benefits of the road system.
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@azmike3572 That's Henry Ford great depression economics. Ford raised his wage to $5 dollars a day because you couldn't simultaneously eat, work and sleep at Ford motor company.
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If everything is just supply and demand why doesn't CEO pay drop instead of rise.
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@toottoot3410 The last meeting of the Libertarian Party had a big fat guy James Weeks strip and dance in his underwear. I guess that's one way to get votes. LOL LOL
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Trump is running the government without pay. Isn't that the way libertarians want to do things? Why bother paying people working for your government? Think of how many happy campers your bringing over to the libertarian cause.
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@toottoot3410 That's a government promise. Are all the loyal libertarian bankers going to front the workers mortgage and rent payments at zero interest? How about those working for contractors who now have to report for stingee UI claims. You guys keep saying taxation is theft. How are you going to pay anyone working for the government? Shouldn't you be out with red buckets collecting donations in Fairfield County Connecticut?
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@wade5941 You wouldn't be hiring us if you didn't need our labor. You bitchy bosses want to live like Kings always talking about gettin' ahead and growin' your business into some great monopoly.
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@toottoot3410 Lower prices? No they work together to fix prices and divide markets among each other. You've been reading to many propaganda books for bourgeois economics class. The replace labor with machinery to lower production costs to boost profits but overtime they end up with a declining rate of profit because the profit comes from the labor used to create the commodity but the capital invested keeps increasing. This drives them to seek a better rate of return on fictitious capital (paper values) of course eventually this produces a bubble which deflates taking down the economy in a recession.
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Baking gay wedding cakes is a threat to who? i guess if he bakes really good cakes everyone will be going gay!!!
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You're all for heterosexuality until your neighbor comes over and screws you wife.
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@kimjameson7979 Now that the corona virus created a panic we are in the worst economic crisis worse than 2008 bordering on the great depression with a just around the corner promise of a magical recovery.
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@kimjameson7979 Your right about it being people. Follow whose money? The bosses are hoping they can let you down gently without any fight back. First they said it was only temporary, then it could not be just turned back on, now they are saying well maybe by this fall.
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@waldirhenriquez765 He basically has made a living attacking every political opponent as a Marxist Liberal Socialist Communist from a professor's chair. He finds facts to support his defense of Capitalism and Imperialism. Like his mentor Milton Friedman the must always reach into the past to defend the capitalism of today. Anyone who has read Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto will see that is not the point but instead that capitalism did NOT do away with slavery anymore than feudalism did. Rather it just changed how the social relations of class were expressed. That capitalism contains both the economic problems that will bring capitalist rule it to an end and the modern proletariat who will dig capitalisms grave.
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@KwatuistM He plays ball with American capitalist Republican party. They keep at the Hoover Institute because he tells them what they want to hear.
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@KwatuistM He picks and chooses his facts to prove that the status quo is the best of all possible worlds and capitalism with it markets and buy and selling of everything is doing the lords work. Clowns like him are unable to see beyond the end of their noses. They fail to realize they aren't fooling everyone with their talk about how trade isn't a zero sum transaction and big risks produce big rewards. You have money circulation between banks such that always seems that you have more than what you really have. You lend money you can't invest right away to other banks and before you know it you've been lending the same money in a circular fashion and your ledger books show you have all theses extra investment that were created though circulation of money between banks alone.
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@mattdouglas1050 The second witch hunt began in 1940 with the prosecution of 18 leaders of he Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters.
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How many adopted children have Catholic clergy adopted? EXACTLY ZERO. Savita Halappanavar in the Republic of Ireland had to die so women can now have safe abortions in Ireland.
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@s.m-k4692 Use union power to make the bosses pay.
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Like no one ever starved or died to make America or the British Empires rich and capitalist. The World Wars closed the path of capitalist development in Russia and China. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism because the capitalist are much to greedy to let the rest of the world share in their markets if that was even considered possible. .
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@Delacruz.j The reason we have free speech is because it has been fought for over and over again by the workers movement. Your government thew Eugene Debs in prison for speaking out against the Imperialist war and he got over a million votes from a jail cell. Go bad mouth people anywhere and your asking for trouble, No one wants to hear trash talk from Pro American Cubans. You go to jail when you start planing bombing or other pro CIA actions.
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@henrykstopikowski5379 Poland is not immune to problems of capitalist world market. Poland is part of American Imperialist NATO military allaince. Imperialist nationalist are always out for themselves will gladly sit back while other nations take the punishment. Imperialist world more than happy to have Marshal Pilsudski. Putin wants to reestablish CZAR's Russian Empire which Poland was a rat of. American imperialism in decline vs the other Imperialist powers. German Imperialists already reaming due to Russian Imperialism. British and Americans willing to fight until last dead Ukrainian like British have always done with Poland. Go ahead and fight for the Imperialists they'll be glad to make you into cannon fodder.
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@a3jm The same old sabre rattling of the cold war.
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Capitalist liberals are just capitalist conservatives in a different costume.
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What do three strikes in a baseball game have to do with justice or gang activity?
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THe blockade will fall because its a failed policy and becoming a political liability for the US Imperialist national interests.. It's an example of capitalist injustice.
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@roberthardesty6507 He towing the Trump line. Everything will be great again as long as you don't open your eyes.
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What they are really saying is they're not getting a lot support for another war from the American people so they bring in this 'expert' to ramp up the rhetoric. If you don't want the bear to bite don't provoke him. Simple enough. Stop all the practice invitations and readiness drills. If Mexico was a Chinese ally would Trump like a lot of practice invasions every year in the Sonoran desert. Let hear the whole truth Fox News not just the US administration's side.
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@thegrizzlyoldtiger This politician spends all the time talking. She says about two sentences total.
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@markh2355 Then you do realize that in the Gulag the During Lenin's time the Red Cell get punished for the harassment of the non political water works engineer who kills himself and the man to be executed gets a new trial by the soldiers and is released. That I could put Ayn Rand on the stand and she would have to testify she received her education and advanced study in post Oct 1917 Universities because the Bolsheviks opened the universities to women. That she was a self described Bourgeois Student who left Petrograd at the begining of the revolution and was both a white politically and geographically that she was not harmed and left the Soviet Union at about the time of Lenin's death. Now I'm sure you and Solzenitsyn can wax and wain and olny go back and return to the concussions made by the Stalinist Social Democrats and Bourgeois theorists that it was all for nothing and everyone should just let the bosses, bankers and churches run the world because the least productive are the smartest.
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Right have a capitalist family where you charge everyone for eating supper so Dad can make a profit.
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@NoNameNoWhere You know that tankie slur came back to bite on the British Social Democracy when Tony "the big mouth" Blair's "New Labour Party" was released from its trade union cointrol. Blair joined the Imperialist Bush in the NATO tank wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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@NoNameNoWhere Henry Ford accepted a NAZI medal before the outbreak of war and Hitler translated and reprinted "The International Jew" from Ford's Dearborn Independent disrupted at Ford dealerships. Malcolm X gave old Adolf credit for providing the necessary target practice for Black Americans seeking freedom.
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@NoNameNoWhere You lick the arse of Social Democracy. The Culturally Superior Brits began the "Tankie" thing applying it to anyone who opposed Imperialism's attacks upon the Soviet bloc countries after the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. The Soviet Union imploded in 1989 and since than the Brits "New Labour" became the "new tankie". The Stalinist carried out the final betrayal of the Soviet Union when in 1993 Yeltsin's elite troops blasted a hole in the Supreme Soviet building. Yeltsin quickly called Bill Clinton to get Western Democracy's seal of approval.
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The neo liberals don't realize the declining rate of profit condoms them.
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@peterjanssen5901 He is a long time supporter of a private property tyranny. Unlimited buying and selling with protection for private property.
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@legendarynuub786 Socialism and national self determination back to Lenin not forward with Stalin as Comrade Trotsky said. Fight against all Imperialist wars and alliances.
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Imperialist system is failing.
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@jamesbarta4405 Turning against rotten capitalist crooks of both parties.
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If only trade offs were possible and we were not creating a surplus starting with agriculture than we would still be living like hunter gatherers. That is just one of the professors attempts at mystifying economics by waving his hands and inserting popular but untrue notions. Like the accuracy and assurance of price signals.when bosses see sales declining with profits falling the begin halting investment in expanding production realizing they have overproduced for markets that can sell more goods at a profit they go to driving up the price of speculation in contracts and fictitious capital until the market gets so out of wack with the law of value it collapses causing an ever widening economic crisis as workers get fired and can no long buy back the goods and pay the housing costs for the products they produced to buy back from the market.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba.
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@WicksWrecks The is a chamber of commerce boss approved bill. Designed to Make the Bosses Rich Again. To be paid on the backs of the working class through more inflation.
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@mick7557 My question was directed to the original poster.
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@donaldhill854 Karl Marx is the workers best teacher on the subject of money in wage labor and capital along with value price and profit. then Das Kapital.
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Cuba has denied this as another lie being told as justification for the US measures take to tighten the 60 year old US blockade. When will the US return its Guantanamo Bay military base taken at the end of the 19th Century when Cuba became independent.
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@MegaELECTRICEYE Ya and if the Democrats marched in Washington and declared Pelosi President they what? After all Clinton got the popular vote?
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@UnexpectedPigeon You realize I'm a former Bus Driver. The problem with Maduro and Chavez is they are social democrats like you. The refuse to lead like Fidel Castro. Instead like you they think capitalism can be reformed. The call it 21st Century Socialism. We need a clean break form the Democratic Party with a new labor party.
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@MegaELECTRICEYE We have history of consistently fighting for the freedom's of working people that the two parties don't. TheMilitant.com
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So basically big media companies can go to court and publish an approved lie between the parties while getting a secret settlement because of the legal ethics of our court system. No one was suppose to speak with the press because otherwise a lie would have been exposed by the very so called watchdog of Democracy the so called free press. Next time you hear about how lawyers are not suppose to suborn perjury just remember this. Naturally they want some like her on the FCC when she votes the "wrong way" she can always say she was advised to by council. Putty in the hands of big business and fully vetted.
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@tonytaskforce3465 The bosses love competition when buying and hate competition when selling. They become ruling classes divied by nation state who fight for markets and resources with each other on a world scale until the competition drives them first to trade war and then real war.
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@jamesbosworth4191 No the Japanese had newer machinery and better production methods their no way to compete in the world market by a nation subsidizing its companies. Companies can sell their products on the world market at a price lower than the cost of production by changing a higher price inside their market but they can only do that with trade protectionist policies. Which is what the steel and auto bosses wanted. A capitalist government uses protectionist measures to protect its own company owners profits. The bosses always want to protect their market form unfair competition because any and all competition is unfair according to them unless it the competition between workers in the labor market that produces what they call a free market price. The bosses want us working the longest hours at the fastest pace and the lowest wages to make he biggest profits. They seek to pay only the cost of reproducing our labor power for the next pay period. Where the profit comes from is the unpaid labor in the pay period.
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@meminustherandomgooglenumbers Regan breaking the air traffic controllers strike was a signal to the union officials that the bosses were no longer going to give in to any simple strike demands that would make life better for the working class.
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John Grit What evidence do you have that Sowell was ever a Marxists?
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John Grit I see so you need a BIG TECH nanny to keep you safe. He says he was a marxist in his 20's but provides no evidence. Did he belong to a Marxist group or was he just an independent marxists. Plus he seems to imply that because the DOL is a bureaucratic organization that makes Marx wrong? Marx said the capitalist state can't be readily used by the working class. Why does bureaucratism in the capitalist state mean a workers state must function in the same way? Capitalism has required state greed control agencies which are subject to corruption. We would replace OSHA and EPA with workers control of industry with scientific advice. DOL keeps records so if they can't provide him records what does that prove besides corruption or laziness in the capitalist governments system.
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@sesomnoslen5729 They worry that Sowell is to openly pro capitalism. The liberals like to hide their elitism and big profit policies.
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John Grit You accuse me of what liberals do. You knew Sowell personally? I just found out elsewhere he actually read Das Kapital at Harvard and defended it in his undergrad thesis.
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@martinleifnymark7432 Reading Marx and being a Marxist are two different things. Marx participated in the German revolution and published a newspaper founded the Communist Party and was a member of the First International Workingmen's association. Sowell lived though the end of Jim Crow but apparently spent those years on the sidelines not so much as carrying a picket sign.
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@kenny4128 He isn't interested in truth and data but just giving a conservative spin on everything. It doesn't matter how many times capitalism enters a crisis he will always come up with the same story about how the bosses government is responsible for creating the crisis and not the natural workings of the capitalism system itself. He will always defend the bosses from charges of exploitation of labor and resources. He will always insist that resources are scare despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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@kenny4128 The purpose of the capitalist government is to defend the capitalist system as cheaply as possible and to carry out tasks that are necessary for the profit system that can'r create a return on investment in a normal manner and to arbitrate disputes between property owners. It is the executive committee of the ruling capitalist class.
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@canaanthedj Bosses always want to drive down wages for bigger profits. Collective action helps change a bosses attitude about the need for a higher wages and better working conditions.
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@ilsa_xo The Imperialist have no solution besides more nukes and more military spending.
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@GIZIRI What they really need is do is recycle all the orange barrels on the highways and put them at the border.
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@Azarothh107 Dictatorship is what you have in Washington DC a capitalist dictatorship where only those who can buy the politicians voices count.
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@muchoed5119 The US needs to withdraw it Troops from Korea and sign a peace treaty.
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@muchoed5119 No they aren't fine with it. Only the Korean bosses are fine with it. If Korean capitalism is so wonderful than it can stand on its own two feat. The idea that it is being threatened by the North is ridiculous since all you ever talk about is how economically weak the North is along with trying to starve them out from international trade. it is not a different nation it was forcibly separated by an agreement pf the victors of WW2 Joe Stalin and Harry Truman victors who had no right to divide the country like a prize to be fought over.. Who entered on the excuse of needing to evacuate the defeated and hated Japaneses Troops after the Japaneses had already surrendered in Tokyo Bay. The US needs to leave along with closing it bases in Japan and the Philippines. They've had since 1945 to fix their problems. We don't need to play referee for people who can't settle their own problems. The only thing US Troops are protecting is dictatorships and capitalist investors bad investments. You want to defend Korean capitalism then get on a plan go there and volunteer to be part of their army. .
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@muchoed5119 He is no worse than the dictators the US supported in the South starting with Syngman Rhee who celebrated his election by murdering his electoral opponent. The US needs to stand down from its world military position. You want to die in the next war for Bushes "New World Order" than you go volunteer. Why should we pay 2.3 trillion for wars liike Afghanistan. The had the best politicians money could buy just like the US Congress. The US has done nothing to eliminate the threat of nuclear war since it is the only power to have used nuclear weapons on people. The end of the cold wae did not end the greed of the capitalist ruling classes or the need for the bosses to wage wars. The return of capitalism in Russia and China only created market competition for capitalist bosses who want us to die for their Imperialist profit systems. Capitalist democracy is for the rich only. They have two parties for the bosses because they need to keep you thinking a new policy by a different boss will solve the countries problems.
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@miniflem1 The Militant is still published Today.
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@brandonly27 She no threat let her talk all she wants. Her BS will catch up with her.
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@basilsage1313 Do you believe in "capitalism" like a priest who believes in God? Capitalism can not escape the greed of the ruling class that drives the system of labor exploitation. Capital can not produce no matter how many Engineers are made into CEO's because you can't defeat the laws of nature making paper and numbers into a junk science. The 1 st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics will always defeat you.
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The are pacifists with misplaced sympathy. The don't realize the threat posed by allowing a mass of organized seriously deranged, and avowed criminals to go not just unpunished but free. Hamas has stated the attacks like Al Aqsa Flood will continue.
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The boss risks his money. The worker risks his life.
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We'll if he actually is an artist than he deserves an exemption. But the fact that he points to having lost 40 % of his business and has let go half of his employees indicates that if anything his employees are the artists and not him. If all that happens is going through a book of previous designs and he offers a mixture of pre made art with the only change being to replace Jane with Jim on the cake than that is not an artistic change but merely a simple change of custom content that any cake buyer would request. If they asked for him to create something new and special like two men holding hands than there he may have a case.
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Ya like the Taiwan wants to be a colony of the United States.
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@hggryrdchgc She is an American citizen. Actually she's a bipartisan nominee. George Bush was the first to give her a job at Treasury.
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@vknight7497 You started the Imperialist World War one from the ashes of which rose the Russian Revolution. The economist of 1871 who said capitalism would just continue forever solving its own crisis were absolutely proved wrong. Milton Freedman and the whole neoliberal ideas of American capitalism died on the cross of 2008.
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@TangAaronkk And where have the ideas of Yankee Imperialism lead? To China becoming a new Imperialist power doing everything for profit maximization.
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@vknight7497 Lost of bullshit coming out from someone who can not tell the truth or who has the slightest understanding of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Castro or Che Guevara. Instead your an idealist who has developed a religion centered around anarchism. The Anarchist leadership in Spain joined the popular front against fascism an unholy allaince of bourgeois liberals, Social Democrats and Stalinist. The Stalinist's played the main counter revolutionary role on the Republican side with their murder machinery directed first at August Nim and the POUM. The Russian Anarchists attempted to assassinate Lenin. The ultra left anarchist are counter revolutionary in their ideas of the propaganda of the deed which is nothing more than assassination of political opponents. The Anarchist Bakunin was the one who originally proposed that idea.
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@birdfriday Another brilliant mind who forgets that bees are species that reproduces different than human beings and do not require or use tools to survive. Only human beings have gained the advantage of using the tool to produce unlike any other species. It's the creation of tools that make our species different for in combination with tools we save future labor time and generate a surplus upon which each new generation builds even mightier forces of production. This is the ultimate direction of humanity to build and create life for all human beings for we are also a social animal who labors together in the struggle to survive.
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@redfeather1450 The big ticket items at CVS are in the Pharmacy which can not be shop lifted. My bet is nightime breakins and theft of OXy and other drugs is what they are concerned about at the federal level not somebody stealing a lipstick. .
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!
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Next thing you can expect is automatic BO detectors and kids sent home for to much body odder and creating a stinky classroom.
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Cops should arrest more of themselves that way we could get a reduction in the prison population and save some money on food stamps.
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Ever read Huck Finn? Should the politically correct be able to remove it from the library? Doe's reading Mark Twain's writing indicate he was 'not terrible bright?' Look I was not considered a good writer in High School. In fact I had writers cramp when I left. I write better today then at any other time in my life. Am I rascist? I'll write down some of the things I've done and let history decide. 14 years old I buy "Why we can't wait". by MLK and read it. 16 years old MLK murdered. Black kids come to my 99% white HS. I denounce Football team racism ment to get off sides penalties and others who study karate and Spanish so they can provoke fights with Puerto Ricans durring History class while black students sit on unit ventlators. Oh and I do take Gym class. 1973 I join Boston boycott staff of Cesar Chavez's UFWA to help organize boycott of wine and lettuce. 1975 I drive a Bus with Black students past jerring White Mobs held back by scores of mostly Irish cops in full riot gear in Boston to South Boston High. Racists threaten to blow up tunnels to East Boston and in Louisville they burn Scores of Busses. We only had broken windows from rocks thrown and one driver injured by broken glass. Now I could go on about a lot of other stuff but I think the jury will aquit me with just this evendence. What do you think do I need more stuff? Did you know that the first SWAT cops were used against non-violent UFWA pickets in the California?
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I can write a longer theory about food stamps but you won't accept it. Anyway making abortion available (which for most women it is available in theory only.) free childcare for workers and jobs for all who want to work at union scale will cut down on family break ups and single mothers heading families.
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Capitalism is more productive and raised more people out of misery than any other previous social and political system. However just like feudalism, the American slavocracy and the Roman empire slave system it is a class divide system and has its own internal contradictions that spell its doom. That contradiction lies in private property in the means of production and the inability of the producers to buy everything they produce with the surplus going to the capitalist owners. As long as there are new markets to sell the overproduction and more labor from the countryside that can be brought into the system it seems not only the best thing since sliced bread but it also made the sliced bread possible. However as more skilled labor is replaced with more general labor and since the world is only so big a number of things begin to happen. The rate of return on investment begins to decline as capital not only replaces skilled labor but labor in general and the various capital business divided by nation begin to fight over markets. At the same time financial investment in new machinery declines when the realizations set in that capital market manipulation can produce fictitious capital. That is bigger profits on paper than represented by new machinery. All this is happening before our eyes today. These predictions of Karl Marx are being cursed by monied interests throughout the world. A large section if not a majority right now of both the American and European financial interests (Globalists) don't want to go down the road of nationalism and another World war. However the Nationalists want to defend their capital and bring the working classes of each country along with their nation promising jobs via higher tariffs or threats of them. Karl Marx said the solution to all these problems lies in the working classes of all countries overthrowing capitalism abolishing private property in the means of production and establishing socialism on a world scale. So now you know if you haven't figured it out yet I am a communist. Modern racism is based in the need to drive down and hold down wages by dividing the working class along some cultural line. The police as professional enforcers of the rights of private property can not but help to fall into the category of racial discrimination enforcers. As you can see by Trump's nationalism and his war on immigrants who are culturally different that is the way the system is heading.
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Rather than prattle on about a libertarian utopia name a single nation where capitalism develpoped without contract law, a parliamentary way to make law, a police and judicial way to enforce law and a military to define its borders. No large industrial corporate employer can be founded and grow without an infusion of capital from other capitalists. Their called joint stock companies. Yes anyone can become a cockroach in a niche business or one with a small capital to labor ratio. Look up from your screen how many things are produced by a single factory from a single raw material where you walked over and bought it? A few backyard tomatoes that you bought packaged seeds for after driving a car made from parts and raw materials from mines and factories the world over? If socialism were to fail because of human laziness than the Bourgeois society would have died with its owners a long time ago. They are not compelled to lift so much as a finger with servants to dress them, chiefs to feed them, chaffers to drive them, maids to clean house and a bank account with money than can't spend fast enough. If Bill Gates worked it was estimated he would lose more money by picking up a dropped $100 than continuing on with his 'work'. He started with a million dollar trust fund and through favorable court decisions, cronyism (all capitalism works through cronyism), market manipulations and monopoly practices created Microsoft. Capitalism with it built in flaws produced WW1, WW2 and the current 2008 crisis which is behind the problems faced by both capitalism and its political system in the US today. It's not the successes of capitalism its but it failures that bring about a revolutionary situation and the ability to change it. It's major flaw is its periodic crises of overproduction caused by the inability of the workers to buy back what they produce, a decline in rate of return in investment which leads not to investment into new means of production but the creation of fictions capital through market manipulations and the limited size of the world and therefore the world market. They 'globalist' are sections of the capitalist classes that don't want nationalism and competition between national capital to get out of hand and result in another world war. The 'Nationalists' whether they are the Trumpsters, Brexit or others in national capitalist ruling classes want to use the working class against itself by promising jobs via tariffs or threats of them. Neither the globalists nor the nationalists can solve the world crisis set off by the 2008 mortgage crisis. All capitalist forces will begin squabbling with each other and blame the working class for their profit crisis. It's approaching the ten years it usually takes for another crisis to occur and many working people in the US have not been able to recover from the last one. The choice humanity faces is Nuclear war or world socialist revolution. The key country where the working class must take power is the United States. No invasion can successfully disarm the nuclear bombs Washington has posed to destroy anyone who gets in its way. A mass Marxist Leninist party must be built in time before a revolutionary situation develops in the United States that can lead a socialist revolution here.
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Crony less has capitalism never existed. In the United States the rising capitalist class defeated the slavocracy in 1865. The debt and cronyism was so great that they wrote into the 14th amendment of the constitution that the public debt could not be questioned. The Union Pacific Railroad charter made corruption an open secret. Microsoft would not exist if the Supreme court had ruled that computer code was a mathematical means for solving problems and not intellectual property. We have no interest in retaining private property in the means of production. After the Cuban revolution no one was told that they couldn't be an administrator what they were told is they could no longer use their position as a way to exploit others. A planned economy has no need for stocks, bonds, mortgage contracts and other commercial paper. We will replace EPA, OSHA and MSHA with workers control of production, safety and environmental protection we will need scientific experts as advisers not lawyers. We are against efforts to block free speech and discussion by working people such as ' the amendments to overturn Citizens United'. We are interested in what other workers want to do about problems not SJW's, 401c executives and Bourgeois feminists. As working people come into struggle they will change how the see each other and develop a true internationalism like the Cuban People who gave their lives as volunteers to defeat South African Troops and took nothing home but their dead. Thousands of Cuban Medical personnel volunteered to go and defeat Ebola. Thousand serve in internationalist missions overseas as medical personnel and construction workers from Cuba. When Hurricane Katrina hit Cuba offered to send medical personnel without preconditions President Bush said No. His explanation was that the poor didn't understand the need to refuse help. Cuba trains more doctor than it needs including some from underserved districts in the US without a charge for room and board or tuition. While in the United States the costs of education for a physician is such that many don't even try for the spots open. Doctors are constantly recruited from the poorer nations. Unlike other nations with underdevelopment Cuban children do not go to bed hungry and they all attend school. Everyone has a home no one goes without shelter or lives in a car.
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@blaynestaleypro Blame the Bourgeois Universities because the bourgois haven't picked the correct intellectuals? LMAO If only more propagandist like Joe McCarthy and Jordan Petersen were chosen? Too bad ole Joe lost his battle with the bottle at Betheda Naval.His biggest enemy was Johnny Walker "Red".
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Have you considered letting go all the pot smokers you gave long sentences to show you could win a war on drugs? So Trump is going to do what? Release the pot smoker and put in the immigrants in jail or is he going to build more jails? So the 'jobs' that are coming streaming back from China are what? More prison jobs?
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Bosses lying about things like tobacco, DDT, Leaded Gasoline and PCB's never did a day in jail.
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That is how the middle class gets paid. Regular handouts called an allowance are just like the salary Sowell gets paid for being a bump on a log.
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@ThatBlueSkull They give their kids monetray handouts without any work required. The same goes for the middle class intellectuals, white collar and supervisors who receive salaries and year end profitability bonuses.
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@markrobertdevison1227 That's why George Bush hired her for a position at Treasury. See Bush was really an undercover commie working as head of the CIA.
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@Tarredandfeatherable Greed is what drives capitalism and greed will bring about its demise. Libertarianism is nothing but ideological justification for capitalist exploitation. When have the libertarian's done anything but talk about the ideal and real capitalism.
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@Tarredandfeatherable Capitalist do planning and they call it just in time manufacturing and logistics. What failed in the Soviet Union was a privileged bureaucracy returning the Soviet Union back to capitalism. Capitalism does nothing for the working class everything the workers have has been won in the class struggle. The road to world socialism is through the class struggle. Any economic crisis in the last years of the Soviet Union was caused by Milton Freedman's shock therapy. Too bad Freedman died before the 2008 crisis from which the world capitalist crisis of trade and production has not recovered. If capitalism was so successful than Trump would never had to run as a candidate to make America(n Imperialism) Great Again. Stalinist like Omarova no longer capable of selling out revolutions and whole countries have to settle for jobs working for the US Imperialist government. Meanwhile Cuba keeps moving forward despite the lies and provocations from Washington. The Imperialist can neither forget or forgive the Cuban people for rejecting US Imperialism and setting out on the socialist road no matter the difficulties and Imperialist threats of war, invasion and 60 years of a cruel blockade. Even NATO allies vote against their leader US Imperialism when condemning the blockade at the UN.
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@yodaguy6956 Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Just look at the way jobs were done years ago in the construction industry. Before Drywall Plasterers use to plaster walls and painters used brushes instead of rollers and spray. Nail were struck with a hammer not with a nail gun.. A welder had to learn how raise and lower his mask constantly. PVC has replaced lots of electrical and plumbing pipe.
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@aaaaaauyt Typical neo liberal propaganda where the best education for the working class is the cheapest like home schooling, Charter Schools or none at all.
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@CyberneticOrganism01 That's why they have a communist governmnet.
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The oil belongs to Venezuela not the US, China or Russia.
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Yeltsin and others were party members. Stalin and his followers destroyed Lenin's party.
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@keithsavagelives Sowell is a defender of US Imperialism and capitalism which why he can't explain Jew hatred because it comes up whenever capitalism goes into crisis. Jews are always blaimed for the crisis that are the natural results of capitalism.
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@Jm-wt1fs Just like the American version it will be used against government critics in frame up trials.
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More Israeli Arabs support the Israeli government since the pogrom launched by the Jew hating Hamas. They want a ceasefire so they can regroup and continue their Jew hating policy of their Iranian supporters and its drive to get a nuclear weapon.
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@nilslarson7532 How about we offer to take in any Russian Troops that surrender instead of having to take in millions of refugees down the road?
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@nilslarson7532 Lenin declared war on Great Russian chauvinism. Putin wants to rebuild a Stalinist prison house of nations like what the Czar had. The fight by the colonial and semi colonial nations is revolutionary nationalism and under the best leadership like in Cuba can grow over into socialism. Solidarity with Ukraine and saying No to NATO expansionism the best course of action. Ukraine is already leafleting Russian troops telling them they are being used as cannon fodder and antiwar demonstrations are occurring in Europe. Pryor to the Russian revolution an antiwar movement swept Czarist Russia the proceeded the revolution that brought down the Czar in February and the Bolsheviks to power in October. The roots of the first world war lie in the Imperialists goals of re division of the worlds colonies among the European Empires. To this the Bolshevik government proposed peace with no annexations.
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@imadeyoureadthis1500 Sowell is the supporter of every Imperialist war ever fought because capitalism is based in nation states and those capitalist classes can not avoid going to war for profits and markets with each other. This is why Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. .
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@imadeyoureadthis1500 The defeat of the Putin dictatorship is now upon the working class agenda as Ukraine fights for national independence.
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A lawyer is speaking that's what you call a thief talking.
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Trump making work for more private prison bosses, cops, lawyers and judges.
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How much did George Soros do to make his billions? A shorting swindle where he came out 9 billion Pounds Sterling richer and the Bank of England well? I guess it was a legal swindle. So are the rest of the billionaire class afraid of his liberal causes or are they afraid if pull that kind of fast one on the Bank of England no pot of gold can be safe.
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@3600soulbro The point is that the world capitalist system is no longer even working in the Imperialist countries of Europe. Instead of life getting better its getting worse.
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@3600soulbro Revolutionary Cuba has never had a Stalinist counterrevolution or forced collectivization or restrictions on libraries or books one could read. The American Imperialists are already beginning to turn towards secret police methods to control information. Censorship of social media and the former President are just the beginning. The NATO Imperialist just finished a 20 year war of destruction in Afghanistan. Putin and his neo capitalist oligarchs want Ukraine. The capitalist ruling class are much to greedy not to go to war over world trade like the did twice in the 29th Century. That 70 years of peace in Europe included UK military occupation of Northern Ireland, workers rebellions in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the Yugoslavian war. Regardless of who blew up Nord stream one and two the American Imperialist are elated about it. You may not want war but war wants you.
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Paul Ronco Does a right to life extend to the 18 year old soldier?
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Ritter is a puppet of the American Billionaire capitalist bosses and their foreign investments!!
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@ALEX HUANG Capitalism succeeding without government? Are you really that naive? The US has the biggest prison population and the world's biggest military armed to the teeth. Without a Supreme Court ruling and laws written by Congress Bill Gates would have never been able to call software intellectual property. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" From the US Constitution. Do you call 95 or 120 years a limited time?
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@unfiltered_ramblings Gates never had an original idea he couldn't steal. His whole goal was to make Microsoft into an untouchable monopoly. For Gates the goal was marketshare where he shared nothing. He had people sent to prison for copying the Microsoft trademark on CD's that contained free to copy software. Gates is now buying up farm land because he knows you need to eat and not another Microsoft operating system.
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@joycechuah6398 Fidel Castro lead the Cuban Revolution and showed that none of the crimes Stalin committed were necessary. Alexander Solzhenitsyn condemn the FBI as a smarter KGB. It is apparent to all that the last so called socialist leaders of the Soviet Union and China would take them back to capitalist misery. The center of world capitalism moved from Europe to America while the center of the world revolution moved to Havana Cuba. Just 90 miles away a whole people rose in rebellion against American Imperialism.
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@michaelmayo-vb5fl You can't "save" for retirement because a working economy is about production for current needs and a surplus used to advance productivity. The idea that the working class needs to act like the capitalist class and "save for retirement" is totally bogus. Our labor produces more in value than we need to reproduce our labor for the next pay period. The reason the elderly and disabled can have an income is because the rest of us are working not because we need someone to put money in a bank account. The elderly and disabled will spend their Social Security money on necessities not luxuries, building up BiG bank accounts, stock buybacks, profits or increasing shareholder value. They waste tax dollars on things debt paybacks to the rich who lend money to the government instead of paying taxes, tax cuts to companies that boost profits and the military budget.
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@michaelmayo-vb5fl Great kid now how long before you save enough to retire on? It will be hard but not impossible to calculate. Of course you'll need ti make a lot of assumptions about different things like not getting fired, the store not closing or burning down, not getting sick, the length of your lifespan, inflation ect. How about getting married and having kids think you can you figure out what that will cost also? Think you'll still have the same job next year or ten years from now? You realize that your Boss puts in an equivalent about of money into (FICA) Social Security Tax. If he didn't have to pay the tax. Do you think he would give you that extra money? Social Security has more in common with car insurance than a bank account. You pay in because you can't predict your individual future.
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@michaelmayo-vb5fl The Social Security Tax began being collected in 1936 in 1940 the first retirement benefits were paid. Today almost everyone is covered by the retirement, disability and medicare for the elderly and disabled. Workers pay half the tax rate, employers the other half, and the self employed pay the full tax rate. The disability program also pays dependents and survivors.
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@bobburger9152 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@ItalianOrlando Over at the police academy they're giving out "No Lives Matter" badges.
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The minimum wage helps to set all wages. Wages are set from the bottom up not the top down.
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This is what an Imperialist defeat looks like.
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@XOguitargurlOX The profit system is in decline because as machines replace labor the rate of profit goes down. Then to prop the system up the begin investing in factious capital until the over valued market collapses. All this does is awaken the class who will abolish private property. Us. The modern industrial working class.
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This is like the US foreign agents registration act. A law used against those who disagree with Washington's war aims. Passed durring the great depression supposedly against NAZI"s. Its first victims were the American Trotskyist 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters Union.
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@calebgarrett214 The cops are part of the capitalist state apparatus for violence. Their whole purpose is to defend capitalism and the ruling class from any political protests of ruling class policy. When they aren't busy clubbing the heads of protestors they are upholding law and order for the bosses at the plant with management rights and the stores from hungry unemployed shoplifters. They will be called up for strike breaking duty. Public school teachers provide the general cultural level needed for survival in capitalist society. Education in capitalist society is education in the ideas of the ruling capitalist class. That ranges from glorification of the big capitalist as smart and thrifty like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to the cynical view of how stupid working class people are for not becoming the new capitalist. Even many unskilled jobs require some basic math, reading and writing skills. If you could bring in people from say the 8th century they world find the modern world in the advanced capitalist countries extremely strange because of the vast cultural gap.
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@polygondeath0 If you talking the old Soviet Union after Stalin then the cops were there for the defense of bureaucratic privilege. if Stalin had what he thought was someone who was a disloyal NKVD officer he might not just have had him shot but all those in that officers command for not telling him earlier. Obviously the Stalinist state apparatus was a counterrevolutionary one. When a people do actually go through a socialist revolution like in Cuba then the police are their to defend the revolutions victory. They don't operate in the adversarial way the police in a capitalist system country do. They still need to deal with a certain amount of violence and theft. In Cuba they also have the mass organizations to defend the revolution like the Committees to Defend the Revolution. They can't just let their guard down so an Oral Roberts can come and organize against the revolution with pro capitalism propaganda disguised as religious free speech. The don't have the drug abuse problems like the US which is a source of many arrests and violence in the US. There are no George Floyds in Cuba because they didn't keep the old Batista Police and Army officers who engaged in torture and repression. .
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@polygondeath0 Well if the Chinese aren't protecting Chinese capitalism then what are they doing? It's like saying that the Saudi Arabian state isn't protecting capitalism in Saudi Arabia because they are the one well know remaining absolute monarchy. Some countries saw very radical revolutions that placed the owners of bourgeois property in charge like in the US and France. England also had a revolution and the English Republic lead by Oliver Cromwell. They however returned to monarchy with a bourgeois democratic system. Most people in the US think this keeping of a King and House of Lords is just some kind of meaningless tradition. Yet still the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand keep this archaic system where they pledge to the English Queen or King. Why do they do this if they aren't afraid of democracy? Or as Thomas Paine said, "The King need not speak when an act of parliament will do." Why the juggling of Monarchy and Democracy for about 400 years trying to get just the right mix of Monarchy and Democracy?
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@polygondeath0 China is also not a totally Chinese country either. The Han nationality is the majority with Tibetans and Mongols also within the borders of China. The Chinese all use the same writing systems old and new with phonetics but they also speak 52 different dialects and can not all necessarily understand each other.
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@polygondeath0 Yes but Hong Kong is where many of the independent Chinese labor strike leaders have gone for political refugee. Along with the Chinese return to capitalism came the development of unions independent of the Communist Party lead official unions. It was no big surprise that the Chinese stalinist would return to capitalism. You need only be familiar with Mao's theory of New Democracy and the Bloc of Four classes to see that. What purpose would a National Bourgeois serve in a country claiming to be communists?
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@polygondeath0 Sure the working classes of all countries have different national custom's languages and traditions. Capitalism is not at its beginning like at the beginning of the industrial revolution when large areas of the world people still lived in either tribal or feudal societies. Today half of the human population lives in cities. We all have to be feed by people who live in the rural areas raising food. The product of social labor and factory production is what makes modern life possible. To allow a selfish ruling class in any of the advanced countries to wage a war for themselves and their profits would be the height of folly.
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@Scornfull What are you anyhow a 10th grade hall monitor with a blue hat from a middle class family and the assistant principals pet.
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@jarrodschuck6021 At the beginning of capitalism small business was important today it is dominated especially in the United States by big business in every sector of the economy. WalMart and Amazon exercise a choke hold over retail. Finance capital the most parasitic of capital is in the drivers seat. Capitalist government isn't suppose to be efficient its suppose to do what can't be done for an industrial profit. Capital could care less about state or national boundaries nor does it care about fairness but maximizing profits. All the theories of an ever magnanimous capitalism require capital or money to actually be producing something without labor. Well all the capitalists need to do then is build a perpetual motion machine. As machines replace labor the rate of profit must also fall resulting in the need for a wage cut. But since Keynes advised the British capitalist to rob the workers with inflation cause by money printing that is how the wage cuts are issued today. To keep the system going they must keep printing more money to lend out and then demand more back than what has already been printed. This is how the national debt owned by the capitalist is used to rob the tax paying working class.
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@jarrodschuck6021 If capitalism isn't destined for monopoly you should tell that to that to the wall street bosses. Electrical, Transportation, Communication, Manufacturing, Insurance Retail and Banking all dominated by giant corporate firms. Just because somebody opens a small shop in a garage doesn't mean that is the dominate form of business organization. Tomorrow morning the guys next door neighbor can open a similar business to take his customers with a lower price and pay a lower wage. Capitalism is all about beating the other guy in the marketplace for a bigger profit. The first rule they teach in business school is you have no friends only competitors and subordinates.
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@DefundtheIRS1776 With workers control of industry we fire the bosses instead of them firing us. A boss who is paid more than a skilled worker is a boss who is overpaid. When a boss becomes too expensive he must go. Send the boss down the road with union pay for the worker and table scraps for the bosses.
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@DefundtheIRS1776 You don't need to pay the administrators a big pay only when you have private property do you need to do that. Cuba proves that you don't need murder purges and forced collectivization either. Fidel Castro never had a problem creating enough educated people either. That's why the have four times the population compared to 1959 and can say good bye to those who want to leave. While next door in Puerto Rico the population is declining.
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@DefundtheIRS1776 What are you some kind of oddball who doesn't like a girl friend in a pair of jeans anyway?
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@charleskimbrough2315 The unions are working class organizations.The unpaid labor of the production workers is the source of all profits. The capitalist produce nothing with money it only serves as a medium of exchange and capital only accumulates and demands a return on investment. As machines replace skilled and higher paid labor with unskilled labor the labor which is the source of the profit in the production goes down while the capital value rises mean the rate of return on investment by which all capital judges success must fall. This is why the capitalist world economic system can never be reformed because even it it could operate without a greedy ruling classes going to war to defend their profits it would have stop all production when as the total capital value reached such a level that profit for re investment approached zero.
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@charleskimbrough2315 The fundamental flaw in finance capitalism is the belief that capital itself produces something. Rather it produces nothing it only accumulates and demands a return on investment. For if capital could produce without labor than the construction of a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Rather the development of a world economy, an industrial working class, tools big and small that can cut labor production time along with new techniques is what now drives human society forward. The crisis that capitalism experiences are caused NOT by a shortage of anything but rather by over production. The creation of more than can be sold in the market at a profit. Over production causes the capitalist to shut down production and wait for a rise in profits. .
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@jfangm What do you call Amazon and Walmarts sucessthen? Every boss loves a monopoly for sales and government contracts and loves a "free market" when he has to buy and hates paying taxes but loves buying government debt contracts. Wall St and the bosses like to break up companies if different rates of profit are involved in the the oppertions. The set up regulations to protect profits of incumbents all the time. All done under fake consumer protection promises. Just like it gets harder and harder to repair things because the bosses want to sell new products not parts that would allow small business to fix what breaks. The patent laws are used to prevent innovation by black mailing inventors with lawyers who search for similar items to protect big companies. Bill Gates who talks innovation util his face turns blue does everything to prevent the loss of market share such that other big tech CEO's call him a bully who wears a sweater and glasses. When he could win an infringement case on free software he finally had the maker jailed for copying the microsoft logo.
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We haven't heard the whole thing yet but wages are down because of bosses successfully breaking up our unions and keeping the minimum wage low. A larger labor pool will lower wages but wages are always set from the bottom up not the top down. If the bosses want to raise wages they can go ahead and do that but they will always choose profits over wages except after successful strike action. The immigrant who is under a constant threat of deportation and turned into a pariah is a real threat to wages even creating a sub minimum wage not immigrants who are legal. So by granting amnesty to all immigrant workers our wages will rise. Sending out cops to terrorise immigrant communities will drive wages down because it only creates and maintains a pariah class of workers. Just like retail and fast food was only for children and therefore only worth minimum wages new occupations will become secret but well known sub minimum wage jobs. Sheetrocking, roofing and other construction jobs that have become minimum wage or close to minimum wage meccas will now become sub minimum wage meccas along with the already sub minimum wage carwashes. They want to bring in middle class immigrants because they can then save on University costs while convincing the current middle class that this is good for America and therefore good for you. For the current middle class more of their children will be sent down into the ranks of the working class something every middle class family views with horror.
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Brendan Bolton you should seek a speech writer job with the DNC or RNC. You function at their level of insult politics.
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Does the FBI write speeding or parking tickets? No. The reason being is their jurisdiction doesn't extend to what are state jurisdictions. Border patrol gets exceptions from the 4th Amendment so they can perform customs and immigration inspections at the border. That's why their jurisdiction should not extend past the border. There was no reason to suspect these people crossed at other than a port of entry as citizens or non citizens.
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Ridges your afraid of words aren't you. To bad about you. Now go home and cry to your ma ma.
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@brucemoon1393 Cuba fought against another planned US Imperialist invasion. The asked the Soviets for assistance wanting only a statement by them that they would put missiles in Cuba if the US didn't back down. When Khrushchev promised a secret installation they had no choice but to agree. Kennedy knew that Soviet missiles in Cuba were no more dangerous than Soviet missiles in Ukraine, Russia or the Soviet far east. NATO is an American lead Imperialist alliance it does what the American Imperialists want like waging wars in Libya, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a reactionary force. The US Imperialist don't look at Putin the same way they feared communism. Putin is just capitalist competition not the representative of a different social system. Their hopes for a stable Democratic Imperialist Russia are fading along with two party stability at home.
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@AllRequired Trump was fighting while negotiating an end to the Afghan war not wishing to end it in his first term fearing criticism for not being tough on "terror". This is just further confirmation that US Imperialism did not win the cold war. World capitalism is in crisis both economically and politically. .
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KLAVALIER BRIGADE Nope
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@DukeLM Putin and his neo capitalist oligarchies have dreams of grandeur.
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@thethirdcell That's an excellent point made about Reagan.
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@justinianoveraz7323 The problem with simple number line politics is that the world is not that simple. Putin's actions are those of a Great Russian chauvinist. His circle of new capitalist oligarchs is no more progressive than the Democratic Imperialists of the NATO Imperialist alliance. Ukraine right to self determination is the same as Cuba and Mexico's rights to be free from attacks by American imperialism.
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@annewalden3795 Biden is a tool of the American capitalists him, his party and the NATO Imperialist are responsible for wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, bombing of Yemen by Saudi Arabia, and Yugoslavia just to name the most recent. These Democratic Imperialist gentleman always talk about how they are bringing Democracy and human rights on the bayonets of US Marines.
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@georgesmith4509 The hate the Democratic Imperialist Churchill more than Hitler in India.
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@annewalden3795 Wild generalization? Not really just ask USMC Major General Smedley Butler in "War is a Racket." The US invaded every Latin American country at least once during the 20th Century. I don't have a scheme. Working people can not trust NATO or American Imperialism any more than the Kurd's could during the Gulf Wars.
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@annewalden3795 No you can't trust Putin because he's just leading another group of capitalists seek profit from the plunder of other nations resources. When your being stalked by a murderer do you call on Murder Inc to defend you?
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@elochkaelochka4661 For me it represents the best of the early Soviet Union not the later Stalinist degeneration. That first heavy blow struck by the workers and farmers of Soviet Russia, under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, still frightens every capitalist ruling class over a one hundred years latter. Just as the American ruling class both hates and fears the Cuban Revolution only 90 miles away. A revolution that is still in motion today and making history as it continues. Just as 10 Presidents have all failed at defeating a people on a small island.
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@nickfisher427 If that were true you'd see demonstrations in Miami demanding statehood for Cuba and the Cuban American National Foundation would be called the Cuban American Statehood Foundation. Trump would be signing a Treaty in Miami to make Cuba a State just like Texas which became a state by a treaty. Sorry I just don't believe the majority of Cubans want to become US citizens by a 51st statehood treaty which would be the easiest way for them to live in the USA.
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@elochkaelochka4661 Does O'Brien sound like a Russian name?
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@nickfisher427 "..most Cubans given the choice would live in the USA!" Most means more than half. Check the dictionary for the meaning of half. So now when I make it clear that the easiest way for "most Cubans" to live in the USA is for them to petition for statehood you call that a daft argument? Your the fool who made the statement. "..most Cubans given the choice would live in the USA!" Just because you think your propaganda rings true I guess you'll have to eat your words now. My advice is to think before retyping the same old propaganda.
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@sortathesame8701 You, the bosses and the cops are daytime only criminals?
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@sortathesame8701 "The truth is that most Cubans WOULD love to live in the USA! " That is not supported by a single verifiable fact. Its just right wing nonsense supported by those who believe in American exceptionalism. That the US capitalist government can do no wrong with Trump and Obama being masters of the universe. They could easily become US citizens and not even leave Cuba by petitioning for statehood like Texas did. The right wing Cuban American National Foundation would be called the Cuban American Statehood Foundation. It's just as stupid to say a tiny minority capitalist ruling class is needed because no one else is born with brains.
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@sortathesame8701 Last time I checked the constitution it says. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Since the civil war whatever Congress can not crush with a federal boot then neither can the states. It says nothing about an exception for marshall law or daytime only laws. The Supreme court has said a permit can be required but not refused. The government can not demand insurance or payment for the expense of cops. We know from past history that FBI agents informers and provators have encouraged violence to make entrapment cases and discredit others engaged in peaceful protest.
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Bull-Dog Trump is completely powerless to do anything without Congress. Congress can't do anything either since it needs to get reelected just like Trump.
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@dgjFOURlife Despite Sowells age he played absolutely no role in the civil rights movement whatsoever until after becoming a bourgeois professor. Hence his conclusion that after the passage of the 1965 civil rights act Blacks should stop marching something he NEVER did in the first place. His advice can be summed up as follow my mentir Milton Friedman and by the magic of invisible hands capitalism will do the lord's work.
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@theguybehindyou4762 You right he's a moralist who preaches for the profits of big businessman. His whole goal is to learn you to do as your told. Accept the boss as your Savior. Fight the rich mans wars and become a beggar when you lose your job because rthe rich mans greed has created a crisis where the workers can't buy everything in the market with the wages they are paid. , .
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@peterharris4386 Gee what did we do before the cops had photo ID and computer criminal databases?
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@peterharris4386 Like most conservatives he starts with fear mongering of criminal others in this case immigrants arriving "on schedule" and breaking immigration law. Many of the things he says are untrue. No one bothered to check immigration status in most states for anything before the immigration scare of the 1970's . I never heard of anyone needing to be a citizen to join the military or leave the country. Passports were denied to American communists at one time. Before the 20th century becoming a US citizen was much easier and no centralized records were kept of naturalized citizens since any state of federal court could make you a citizen. The coming and goings of immigrants by ships were not kept either. Nor was voting limited by state laws to citizens before the late 19th and early 20th century. As far as I know we were never required to check out before leaving the country either. Airlines and ships may not want to return passengers without proper passports or visa's but unlike Canada in the 1960's you never stopped at US immigration before leaving.
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@jabrokneetoeknee6448 Unions never lost their power the officials lost their willingness to fiigt. The bosses government is for them no matter which party is elected.
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New York has whole commercial office skyscrapers that are empty.
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@mrnice4434 We need our own party not some corrupt Democrat. Vote Socialist Workers.
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When can we expect a comment on the 2008 "No Banker Left Behind Act".
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Just explain when we have had scarse resources? Because in fact all of the whole history of human civilization has been marked by discovering more and new ways to use what we already have.
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@marianabarbosa9262 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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@marianabarbosa9262 The United States government will be forced to end it because it is fundamentally unjust and the whole world recognizes that.
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You care only for the fetus and forget the women involved.
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@samlaw9938 Anyone can grandstand when they aren't directly involved.
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@grifm.5224 The capitalist are always preparing for war. By hammering away against Imperialist war we trap the capitalist within national borders.
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@wonderwoman7929 A half a million dead says otherwise. Those people died for a reason and it wasn't because they wore a mask. Republicans like Reagan are just another MLK. "To see those... monkeys from those African countries - damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!" Reagan to Richard Nixon. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49177034 Both parties are rotten to the core with capitalist corruption.
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They can't just raise prices to cancel out wage increases. It they could than they would not fight so hard against wage increases.
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Ohay I see you're going the Alex Jones route "Sanders is profiting somehow". Two can play that game. Maybe you will take a loss somehow?
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Giving workers a stock bonus is just a way to try and make us believe the relationship between us and the capitalist is something other than exploitive. It's just another form of a bribe.
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It's been nine years since the minimum wage was raised. in that time those who earn minimum wage have seen their buying power cut by inflation. The minimum wage should be raised across the board and tied to inflation and increases in productivity. Small business fail with or without a minimum wage. If you open a winter coat store in Miami you don't get an automatic right to a profit if you think you can sell as many as in a cold New York City.
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@dalriada842 Liberal Professors made Sowell into a practical joke as a graduate student so he has had a chip on his shoulder ever since.
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@thecommenter9678 No we don't agree111
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We will be happy sell the schools plenty of communist literature that way everyone can be prepared for the "true communism". By the way does anyone the name of someone Che Guevara the Mass murderer murdered?
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@joseph_bunnyman318 I'm against hypocrisy now if you want to call Che and Fidel mass murderers than you need to say the same about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. You can also call American loyalists and American slaveholders freedom fighters.
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@shauncameron8390 The Soviet Union did not have private property or foreign investments returning profits.
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@shauncameron8390 The Ottoman Empire was a capitalist one just like the Russian by the time of the first world war. The French and British wanted the middle eastern oil. The Soviet Union was founded as a federation of Socialist states not a country like what it became under Stalin.
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@shauncameron8390 The US is an Imperialist Empire because its government defends US private investors foreign investments for profit maximization. Without friendly dictatorships this would not be possible.
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Sheriff ran a dungeon called Milwaukee jail. A prisoner there died of dehydration under his watch. He can only do stuff as a former Sheriff because any appointment or run for office will bring up how his guards let a man die and all he did afterwards was talk about how the dead man was a criminal. Not a single guard was held accountable in any way.
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@StumblingThroughItAll This is exactly what's wrong with liberal bourgeois intellectuals. They see themselves and the rich as "smart" and that you need to be ordered around just like they do to us at work for your own good and then they have the nerve to call that democracy. It is them who are the authoritarians and the threat to democracy. The owners of "Big Tech" are NOT rich because they are smart but because they got court rulings that allowed them to make what are essentially practical mathematical ideas ideas into property. They are rich because they can buy the time to use a human head and than claim the ideas contained within are their property that along with monopoly business tactics not because they are smart.
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@StumblingThroughItAll Its the functioning of capitalist liberals they have become proponents of conspiracy theory as much as the rightest like Alex Jones. Starting with the Trump being a puppet of Russia. They see you and your rights as an obstacle to their right to run the world for big business. Just as Blacks had made use of Black Churches to fight segregation they fear that political opposition could come from churches attended by the deplorable workers, middle class people and farmers.
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@challengingoldhollywoodmyt2934 A seat belt is an extremely minor inconvenience. I drove cars that weren't even equipped with them. The auto Barron's resisted them and originally a national voluntary campaign to get people to wear them occurred before they became mandatory. Gov't launching a scare campaign against churches based upon questionable scientific evidence is unprecedented. They say their are no atheists in foxholes for hundreds if not thousands of years people have looked to religion in times of sickness. So some clown on TV now tells everyone you can't attend church for your own good? If anything this revealed total incompetence of all authorities across the board.
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@StumblingThroughItAll Science is based in careful observation, repeatability . As far as the capitalist are concerned the only science they are interested in is that which can be used to make a profit.
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@StumblingThroughItAll In the US people don't trust the medicine because they know the system is based only in making profits for big hospital bosses and Big Pharma. Medical care under capitalism is an overhead expense along with education. The capitalist figure they can buy all they need. And since the profits are made using industrial methods the look at public health the same way using industrial methods with out any need to actually care for the patient. In Cuba because healthcare and education are recognized as basic rights the Doctors are all assigned to neighborhoods and they all know their patents a voluntary vaccination campaign was carried out with 90% of the population vaccinated with vaccines developed in Cuba.
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@StumblingThroughItAll Every capitalist is in the business of maximizing profits above all else and so any Democratic republic is quickly corrupted by them. The capitalist era is marked by the creation of nation states and creation of national capitalist classes. As capitalism develops in both combined and uneven ways theses nations competition for profits on a world scale lead to war to settle trade disputes because they can't be settled within the frame work of the nation state and the nations capitalist are too greedy to settle them with an international government. Internally capitalism declines as machines replace higher paid and skilled labor with less and lower paid unskilled labor. This results in a decking profit rates by which capital measures success. This is why the capitalist seek state intervention to save themselves and private property from the anger of the workers that wage cuts now done though a central bank and government spending generated inflation. Without an unlimited market and investment in expanding production capitalism inevitably fails on a world scale because capital can only accumulate and demand a return on investment because labor is the actual productive force and not capital. Machines and industrial methods are merely accumulated knowledge and tools to save future labor time.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@szczypior1784 Actually the last word has not been written at "American Factory." The price of labor is rising in China because of strikes in China which is why the Chinese company built a factory here.
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@szczypior1784 So everyone should just sit back and allow themselves to be blackmailed? If they move to China they have to follow Chinese laws. Silicon Valley gave the world's computer assembly and most of the manufacturing to China. Now they're complaining about the Chinese "stealing" their technology because China doesn't recognize Intellectual property. I am glad the Chinese are "stealing" their technology because I lost a job when General Instrument decided to move production first to Mexico and later China despite the fact that they were profitable here. If China is such a great place for manufacturing cars why did Elon Musk choose to manufacture both Tesla cars and batteries here? They can't just open, move and close factories at will. At some point you have to call their bluff.
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@jaijaiskye Free Gaza from the Neo NAZI Hamas!! And stop the censorship.
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@olefella7561 It is another lie being told to justify the 60 year US blockade of the Island
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Japan is a success if you consider it is a society that can not replace the old with a new generation a success. Yes Sowell like you is preparing a "winning team" of capitalist bosses for disaster.
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@Jhfrbcf LMAO!!!
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Seven-FingersThree-Toes-nw9hu Sowell makes this kind of video because he can't actually change Marx's idea without coming out as an idiot like Jordan Peterson.
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@mikitz We are further along than the 1848 Manifesto. Socialism on Trial by James Cannon is the actual 1940 Smith "gag" act testimony of James P. Cannon. Not to mention convincing a capitalist Federal Judge to hold Jimmy "Human Rights" Carters AG Griffin Bell in contempt of court in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. A ground breaking law suite that exposed the FBI as a secret police agency in a 40 year war on political rights.
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@mikitz I'm being censored again but it makes no difference to us how many capitalist don't understand the manifesto or any thing else we write what makes a difference is how many workers we reach with our ideas or propaganda as it used to be called before the word gained a negative connotation.
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@jenni0278 If the US put all arms dealers in Jail who would bail out Lockeed Martin Raytheon Boeing ect?
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@julielopez7475 Demand Freedom Marine Color Guard Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller!!
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@Tiger Tan Bear I can see it now Vote Trump he will build more casinos. "Make Gambling Great Again."
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Massive aid to Central America means jobs for us.
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@wolfheartstarrella7883 As of two minutes ago. @KimSOBrien1
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@peekpeek9545 The Year is 2008. New York bankers go to Washington. The 2008 the "No banker left behind acts." are passed. Cost. $14.2 Trillion dollars. Who did you say was getting government help at the highest rate? Those who pay the piper play the tune. That certainly true in Washington.
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@victorvolobuev507 You mean envying his social position as a capitalist. No I don't. I don't like people like him because most of them act like jerks. If I were to meet George Westinghouse I would probably like him but people like Edison and Bill Gates I have little respect for. They for the most part never had an original idea they didn't buy then cynically cheat their way to the top. Like Musk they made a big noise as self promoters. If anyone envies him it's probably you and Petersen. Petersen the clinical psychologist who supposedly fixes people with problems by talking things out with them. Like they aren't capable of fixing themselves?
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Tell the bosses come to the table NO strike breaking by Congress or the President. Repeal the Railway "Slave" Labor act.
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Morality fade well that what capitalism is all about. Morality has completely faded out of the US Gov't replaced with total ownership of the corporate elite with their demands for unlimited profits. Warren Buffet the Billionare brags about paying less taxes than his secretary wants to run longer trains until the derail with a one man crew with no sick time.
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@BroJiden Neither Party can do anything about the border because they have created the crisis of world capitalism in the first place.
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The libertarians have a cookie for you as an incentive to be a good boy for your boss.
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@whitehavencpu6813 For the capitalist he believes only in motivation by incentive or the stick. He can't conceive of human beings as having moral motivations of collective survival.
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@whitehavencpu6813 Industrial capitalism gave way to finance capitalism and Imperialism. Finance capitalism is nothing more than gambling with the lives of million who work for the underlying industrial companies bought and sold on the stock market. This inevitably leads to economic crisis. Profitability of capitalist industry declines as new machinery which is necessary to drive profitability replace labor. As capital value increases the labor exploited declines without more markets than labor the origin of value and profits declines resulting in declining profitability. For capitalism to work best it must continually reinvest in exploiting more labor otherwise the workers can't buy back all that we produce driving unemployment and wages down to the level of just what is needed to come back to work next week. If the world were infinite than capitalism could continually develop however since it is finite capitalism eventually runs into a wall of economic decline. Capitalist don't work harder instead they become more parasitic. Finance capitalism is little more than den of gambling thieves.
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No mistake this is the result of capitalist greed and two party dictatorship in DC.
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@Rahatlakhoom Alex Jones lives on.
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One way to kill an alternator with a jump start is to reverse polarity. That can cause one or more of the six diodes in the bridge to short out or burn out. Also he didn't mention what the alternator manufacture said and set for its maximum current output.
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@lieshtmeiser5542 Ya everyone should just accept the superiority of the White American Protestant capitalist culture and bow before them and the bosses that Sowell loves so much. We should all believe in Henry Ford the "wealth creator" who published "The International Jew" an anti semitic rant in Fords "Dearborn Independent" that was translated and published in German by Hitler.
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@jackie-sh5of That's because social democracy is one where social democratic traitors run the capitalist state for mere tabe crumbs. They can not solve the problems of capitalism anymore then voting for Imperailist war credits as the did in 1914.
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@jakejake7289 The way to socialism is through the class struggle. Equality isn't achieved by a welfare system but by uniting the workers in a fight for state power. Communism is not a doctrine with its high priests. Instead it's a movement which has absorbed the continuity of the class struggle on its way to power. Its goal is to take control of the world market out of the hands of the national exploiting classes. Instead putting it firmly in the hands of the world proletariat.
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@johnnywesley7695 We don't have unlimited immigration to begin with. We have immigrants without proper working papers. We need an amnesty program for all current immigrants along with a fight to rebuild union power and a labor party independent of the two parties to battle the capitalist in the political venue. The system we have now can't even educate enough doctors. Military spending includes educating engineers and scientists for the war machine. These same engineers and scientists could be educated as doctors with better health that increases your ability to work. Almost every dollar spent on defense is money thrown down a rat hole. When Trump announces record unemployment figures he fails to tell you how many people have left the workforce. When you hear a claim of it costing $9,400 per person the real question is who is paying and what services are being provided.
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@johnnywesley7695 I would think that conservative 'limited government' supporters would like family (chain) migration because the family takes most of the responsibility not the government for the new immigrants sucess. Like sex and bathroom politics conservatives want not limited government but more government control of personal lives. For the conservative immigration should be better controlled through temporary rubber stamp work visas. That way you can bring 'em in for cheap labor and through them out to save on social costs.
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@johnnywesley7695 Cuba is a small island country. They have 10,000 foreign medical students including some from the US all studying at no direct cost to the student. In the US medicine is rationed. Bureaucratism corruption and incompetence are all part of the high cost of US for profit medicine.
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@johnnywesley7695 That's an admission that American capitalism profit system is dysfunctional. The system can not absorb all the available labor here so it must send immigrant workers back to the conditions imposed by the Capitalist Empire outside of the US capitalist homeland.
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@MENDLER1 Stalin began what Yeltsin and Gorbachev would complete. A return to capitalism first by murder of the old Bolsheviks in the 1936 to 1938 frame up purge trials and finished with "shock therapy".
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danielgarrison91 A welfare state is a capitalist state. Capitalist States defend capitalism.
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Smoke Tree The problem isn't socialism. Its capitalism. There would have been no WW1 if capitalism wasn't in crisis. The bolsheviks would have remained a small group of theorists if the CZAR wasn't doing what the rich do best (absolutely nothing worth while). The Russian Czar was the wealthiest man in the world while those in his empire suffered the privations of war and backwardness. You thought you had won after 1991. You didn't because you can not escape the crisis's created by capitalism. The crisis of 2000, 2008, and 2020 show that capitalism has nothing but continued economic crisis for the masses of working people. You also are seeing the rivalry developing among the different national capitalist classes. The UK v.the EU. The US v. China. All of this rivalry will lead to trade war because the of the crisis of overproduction. World capitalism can produce more that can be sold for a profit. Trade war can only lead to real war. World socialism is the only solution to the ever greater crisis of world capitalism.
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@uchibauki2515 There is nothing more difficult in life than loss of loved ones. It is pain until you think of their life.
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Nine bad apples if you ask me.
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@schizoid7734 Basic they are all thugs organized to defend capitalism.
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@MikeTidman You can start by closing 800 foreign military bases. Reagan was a supporter of Apartheid South Africa and a big military spender so much so that the military budget was exaggerated. Trump was a supporter of the Saudi Prince after he murdered a US journalist green card holder in the Turkish Saudi Embassy. Defeat for Russia in Ukraine like defeat for the US in Afghanistan shows that the US lost the cold war and US Imperialism is in crisis. End the US sanctions war against Cuba.
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Target is now a small business? What planet did Elon Musk get you from?
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You probably vote for Kennedy because Nixon had 5 o'clock shadow.
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@apeman9238 Kennedy came close to setting off nuclear war because the US Imperialist had lost their Cuban colony. Fidel Castro's 26th of July movement had defeated the US supported tyranny with all American made arms either bought in the US or taken from the dictators troops. After Kennedy announced his "quarantine of that "imprisoned island" one of his naval vessels started dropping depth charges on a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear torpedoes. Instead of engaging the submarine commanders unable to contact Moscow surfaced assuming that the American ship only wanted to force them to surface and not sink them. Some of the US Generals at the time advised him to go to nuclear war and Che told the Soviets if they hit us don't wait for them to hit you.
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@apeman9238 Kennedy idea of open mindedness was to authorize Agent Orange as a herbicide for use in Vietnam despite the Geneva convention on biological warfare. The decided it was Okay though since the British Imperialist had also used destruction of crops to starve its foreign subjects into submission.
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Sowell is nothing more than another apologist for capitalist exploitation.
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@Housee01 Trumps due process rights are the first ones being violated.
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@MrEkzotic There should be a worker's government. Like in Revolutionary Cuba.
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@jamespetry3337 Conservatives shot themselves in the foot long ago when Barry Goldwater voted with the Dixiecrats in 1964 against the 1964 Civil Rights act. Goldwater was the Republican candidate for President. Chief Justice Earl Warren the former Republican Governor of California who vote for so many of the court decisions ending segregation was the object of abuse from conservatives like Nixon, Reagan and Dixiecrats who demanded his impeachment.
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@politicalfoolishness7491 Name five of those lessons or is that just political foolishness?
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@politicalfoolishness7491 The basic lessons I get are these A. We are lazy and uneducated which is why we are labeled failures B. Obama and the Democrats the devil incarnate. C. We have no real solutions but trust us anyway. Now did I miss anything? The most important of all. MLK and nonviolence is obviously right and Militants like Malcolm X are wrong because everyone can become "nonviolently" rich like us though God s word even though the division of labor precludes such a capitalist paradise.
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@politicalfoolishness7491 I went through school asking those who claimed to be teachers questions. Since you a student I suspect you don't understand the material but don't want to admit it.
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@politicalfoolishness7491 Really or are you just so use to sucking up to the professor tit you don't realize that the title (The Civil Rights Movement) has almost nothing to do with the talk?
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End the Blockade of Cuba!!!
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The Militant published two articles about the frame up of Slansky in the Dec 8th 1952 edition on line.
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@katelopez6419 Two Party Capitalist Dictatorship.
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What people are missing is this way of doing healthcare is best because of how profitable it is. Take a mental health emergency as an example where else can you get an emergency team of doctors in blue scrubs to show up in minutes after a 911 call. Projectile technology has advanced to the point that treatment can be done at long distances. While controversial electroshock therapy is giving a new lease on life. For those needing additional treatment individualized services using advanced cellular technology is available for up to a lifetime. For those found eligible an early trip to the afterlife by new medications is possible.
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@garymcsullea7330 Affirmative action was never going to do what capitalism can not deliver: Justice to the poor and working class. The system of exploitation that Sowell turns a blind eye to can not change on its own. A tiger will not trim its claws voultarily.
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@thatiswhotheyare The neoliberals were riding high in the saddle until the crisis of 2008 struck.
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When has capitalism failed 1929 to 1939. How did they win? FDR's War Deal. Has capitalism failed again? 2008 2020?
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@user-oh5gz4ue6r Capitalism really took to its own after Oliver Cromwell had King Charles executed. Capitalism with its machinery, water and coal power only came into the world about four hundred years ago. Prior to that the landowners were the ruling classes. Capitalism also came into the world dripping with blood and dirt from every pore. To create a propertyless working class required laws forcing peasants off commonly owned land, establishing a police force, workhouses, jails and prisons.
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Don't forget the Judge is another attorney and the legislature along with their advisors. Naturally they don't have a conflict of interest their all attorneys and you can trust them right?
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@discombobulatedfishbowl7548 The bosses seek to pay the lowest wages to make the biggest profits. The seek to pay on average only the part of surplus value we produce just enough to reproduce our labor for the next pay period. Anything more than that they use for a combination of continuing expenses, taxes and profits to the investors. Stock buybacks are just another way to pass out profits as is whatever the government spend its taxes on.When the government borrows money it promise to pay back more than it borrows to the investors from the taxes it collects. Its always a class struggle over who gets the profits and what the taxes are used for.
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@Almighty_Hebers Ya otherwise we be paying a nickle for a prescription pill instead of a dollar. The bosses have all kinds of price fixing and then they pretend its a free market price. They always end up overproducing for markets that can't pay their prices and then they shut down production because of losses and cause economic crisis. They create theses problems and then want us to pay for them.
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@TwinFalls88 Nope we need a socialist revolution like the one Fidel Castro lead in Cuba. Not another scheme to save world capitalism which is centered in the United States, Europe and China. The capitalist powers are in decline and their crisis ridden system can only lead to war and fascism. War on the world market competition and fascism war on the trade unions at home.
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@millieann2367 People held with due process and trials in an Cuba at the US Guantanamo Bay Naval base.
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@Anders927 Capitalism always developed in nation states. In the United State the capitalism created a nation state out of white Anglo Saxon protestants first with former Black Slaves, immigrants and former Mexican added later in history. Past discrimination and segregation gave rise to these separate organizations for defense of the different sub cultures. . .
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What are they suppose to do surrender to a US Marine invasion? The US made agreements durring the Obama administration which they abrogated when Trump came into office Biden promised durring the campaign to full fill them. Cuba is still waiting.
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"The baby can be born alive and then terminated." That's not abortion its infancided. No US jurisdiction permits that not now nor will any abortion or medical ethics law either. But why bother with the truth when exaggeration will do. Dolan is a complete idiot.
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@mdmofij8966 The US has spy in the sky satellites so if anyone knows something besides the guilty party its the US.
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Scabs like you I suppose.
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Send ICE to Antarctica their they can check the penguins for their papers.
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@bonanzatime The problem is that capital doesn't produce anything. If it did than building a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Investors demand a free lunch for doing nothing.
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This is exactly what you can expect form capitalist liberals and their leftist allies. Only a fighting union movement and a labor party can change this vote Socialist Workers Party.
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Congress is hard at work building a new two way immigration pipeline to be placed under company control. Once its up and running the'll be able to make immigration go one way when they need cheap labor and the other way to prevent pitchfork rebellion. The nations top engineers (Pelosi and Ryan) working in swampland conditions still can't agree on what part to build next. They aren't sure if they want take ICE out of the freezer in the winter time or keeping it inside. Both did agree to achieve results temporary campground closure was necessary despite creating unhappy campers.
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@andrewshore262 Tony Blair was the "New Labour" Imperialist. He made the Labour Party into another capitalist imperialist Party like the American Democrats.
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Like we had a real choice in the last election. Maybe voting for the worst or not voting at all was the best choice. History will answer that question.
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Those who act only on belief and not truth will find that history leaves them behind in a pleasant grave but a grave nonetheless.
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Democrat or Republican They all tell two stories one for the public and the other for their rich donors. Part of every election depends on who can avoid the most leaked and worst scandalous behavior.
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Sure Trump is as much of a Statesman as any other United States resident. A resident of Canada is a Canadian, a resident of Cuba is a Cuban, a rendent of Italy is an Italian and a resident of the United States is a Statesmen. The only thing rare about Trump is the mountain of wealth he has been able to accumulate compared to the rest of us Statesman.
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@toriesdontgettazered7464 She reads something by Karl Marx and likes what he said and it immediately shocks a capitalist politician. Karl Marx wrote to Lincoln and urged him to make Death to Slavery the slogan of his second campaign. Does that make Republicans Marxists?
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@virtualreality512 Mine as well open up all he hotels and apts and then have Congress pass another bosses profit protection plan.
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@katkassidy6983 You don't understand they don't want a French revolution at the border by hungry people. They aren't ready to set off a civil war to save themselves yet.
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Lil Queerdoe I smell a Frame Job.
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@JoriMikke78 A capitalist state protects private property. This is why it can not be reformed but instead must be crushed in a socialist revolution. This is why Fidel Castro rejected the Miami pact that would reintegrate Batista's police torturers into a compromised state before the actual revolutions victory. All talk of statism is meaningless drivel without understanding what kind of property the state defends.
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@septembersurprise5178 Solzhenitsyn says Man forgot God while forgetting how many died in religious wars.
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Union business and expenditures belongs to the members not the Governments BOSS class.
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@robbenvanpersie1562 Its the natural workings of capitalism. Seeking the biggest profits with the lowest wages and the longest hours in a pay period.
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Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Hosea 13:16 KJV Samaria will be severely punished because she has rebelled against her God. Her people will fall by the sword; her little ones will be dashed to pieces, and her pregnant women will be ripped open New Catholic Bible Hosea 14:1 Seems like God did more than just a few abortions.
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@DeathsSON213 The "Pro Birth" movement has the support of the senior members of the US Government. Trump and his lackey Pence are all for supporting the US war on Yemen. Its fought by Saudi Bomber pilots using F-16's with gas and go by US KC-135 Tankers and cluster bombs marked MADE IN USA. Cluster bombs target young children who think they are toys. That's the why the "Pro Birthers" have no moral standing to be calling anyone else murders. Trump and Saudi ideas about healthcare are bone saw and sulfuric acid exports.
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Let me know where that Free Market is?
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@lolwtnick4362 You tell me where a market with no government regulation has ever existed? All kinds of agreements are made between firms in the same market, some secret, some public, some by government and some by trade associations. I can't just decide to do what ever I please with communication equipment. Big business wants to control all aspects of industrial production and drive out all competition in the repair and maintenance of products. They want to lay claim to everything post production with terms of use agreements.
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@HumbertoHacked Rubio's working on bill to send out recycled cans and string to cut the cost of telecommunication subsides to AT&T and Verizon.
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@spadeysay6846 Democratic Socialist like Sanders are Socialist who are afraid of being called commies by the capitalists.
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@TropicoDreams End the Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@TropicoDreams Equal rights to what? They have plenty of empty hotel and apartment rooms in NYC so why are some expected to sleep on the floor of homeless shelters? I suppose they should allow Wall street to buy up everything so can operate efficiently and than later they can demand a bailout when capitalism fails over and over again. The problem is their "communist leaders" actual listen to what the workers and farmers want and people like Marco Rubio only talk about what the capitalist businessmen want. They talk about how the bosses are all doing us favors by selling us things and pushing us into debt. How we need to become indecently wealthy like them. How Bill Gates needs a million dollar incentive to get out of bed in the morning.
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@TropicoDreams All you do is repeat a slogan from a license plate which has become a libertarian mantra for middle class supporters of capitalism. Most of you are attention seekers who get themselves in trouble so the can give lectures to judges on why the government isn't doing what you as the supreme theorist of private property want. You have these junk theories about a bosses capitalist paridice where the workers can rely upon boss charity and how capitalism could work instead of how it does work. Sure they give out noble prizes in economics for people who can explain where Karl Marx went wrong. All those junk theories died in the crisis of 2008.
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@maryfuentes5110 That's because the Government is like the cops in fact that is most of what government does.
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j j 2021 Obvious you make less because overall you just another dummy that believes that big business is out to make you rich and happy but not a small bunch of thieves trying to capture every last wooden nickel to give to worthless major stockholders who make a trip to the mailbox every three months for a big check they don't call welfare but a dividend.
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Because Milley murder efforts are up for a big debate in which Imperialism or US Investors capital comes first. Bankers need an Empire and an Empire needs soldiers.
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@granduck1 Of course my party was opposed to the entry to begin with. It is printed in our newspaper when the vote was taken. USMC Major General Smedley Butler called himself a gangster for capitalism in a book called "War is a Racket." See 2.3 billion would have trained a lot of Doctors the like the way Fidel Castro does but capitalist know better don't they. They have big bank accounts and that means they are productive right? Wrong Capital produces nothing.
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That's the whole problem Sowell bases everything on simplistic notions. Look around you don't you see a flat earth? He starts with these false notions about economics and then passes them off as true.
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Yep the betrayal of Grenada revolution with the murder of Maurice Bishop opened the door for the invasion. It's documented in the Second Assassination of Marcie Bishop.
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@asherdog9248 You say the poor are stealing from you. Well your system can not help but march towards war and fascism. War because you can not sell at that we produce because we cant buy it all back. You need foreign markets to sell your overproduction but their you find completion with other groups of capitalist. You start fighting over who can sell what where who gets control of this or that market. That leads first to trade war and then world war because you have no world government except the US Empire's Military. More workers in the US are tried of your wars for plunder and for the protection of your foreign investment.
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@asherdog9248 When we take power will have a maximum income tax and cancel all other taxes.. Anyone with income above say $100,000 will pay a one hundred percent tax. Their is no need for 800:1 incentives. Nor do we need to go to Mars either. So you can forget about buying a seat on that Space X rocket unless you promise not to return. If you and others still think capitalism is viable we will built an artificial island where you and others can work out the rules for exploiting each other.
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Why because he tells you profit maximizations is the best way to do things?
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@KittySnicker The worlds economy relies upon modern industry. The internet requires pole monkeys to make and maintain the system. It requires constant repair and expansion of data capacity. The cell towers all require a backhaul wired network. If anything the computer reduced the number of white collar and skilled jobs. All kinds of clerks, tabulators and draftsmen lobs were eliminated. If work at home was a more productive way of ding things we would still be living in feudal times on isolated farms and making handicrafts. Its estimated that the assembly of the resources to build your computer passed through one hundred countries.
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@shefinmm This is the result of US Imperialist two capitalist parties who attacked the Afghan people in a show of Imperialist arrogance.
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@captainphilips5469 Capitalist greed for profits drives the Imperialist war machine. Only revolution by the working class can drive the US two party capitalist dictatorship from power.
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This is Sowell gushing with pride in the capitalist future.
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History repeating itself is clearly an Anglo Saxon idea. History can't repeat anymore than evolution can. Fascism as a movement appeals to the pauperized middle class much like these liberals who are whipped into a frenzy over conservatives ideas. A football coach saying a prayer to himself has become the latest threat to middle class values. How dare this man pray on a football field when we liberals have sent so much money on nice churches where we can control religious thinking.
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@americanpatriot3746 You want to own everything and put a price on everything. Capital produces nothing. Money can not grow.
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@americanpatriot3746 China is Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. They have a stock market and do everything using capitalist methods of private accumulation much under state control which is not the same as the old Soviet methods. North Korea and China call themselves Democracy based on the false noition's about power sharing among classes. How democratic or dictatorial a government of any class is depends on the needs of that class. When capitalism needs dictatorship as in war it moves towards dictatorship. A class can lead other classes only if the interests appear to be the same. In other words only if the ruling class can advance the forces of production. A class that fails that test will be defeated by others or destroy the forces of production by its own methods of organization. The Capitalist organized into nation states of Rich and poor dominated by foreign investment called Imperialism began fighting each other in 1914. That continue today since different national capitals can not abarate competition among themselves. Trans national capitalist organizations are failing ex Trump, Brexit, France and China all beginning to squabble like thieves over markets.
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@jamesbrowning9210 Her mother left at age 14 before the victory of the revolution. She was born in the US her mother couldn't possible tell her from first hand experience anything about elections in Cuba.
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@loosebruce6637 They made him a boss where he waved a baton directing transportation. Like all bosses his goal is the get the job done for the lowest cost. The only promise a charter schools can keep is the that the teachers will be paid less. Nothing else will be important. Those who can afford private schools also don't have jobs that place the kind of time requirements that production jobs do. The bosses get paid salaries and time off as needed where as we get docked pay, points, and fired for not working.
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@nathanfstinson9754 Workers need to take control of industry and all US foreign military bases need to be shut down.
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@gregrodriguez714 End the Blockade and it won't be an issue!!! 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?
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@dayanmederos6564 The one by the US Coast Guard that turned back boats from Miami with food and supplies just 15 miles from Cuba from relatives in the US last year is just one example.
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@johnmurphy9550 Lets not forget what Trump said about George Bush. Sowell is just another establishment clown.
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What did American soldiers use to light peasant homes in Vietnam? Answer: Zippo lighters.
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"..Trading outside the boundaries of socialism..." What you really mean is hoarding or capturing a market and then raising prices for yourself like Pharma Bro did.
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The natural workings of capitalism work to end competition for the sale of commodities. Law's themselves are passed to end competition or control competition. You can purchase a tax break or other help by the use of campaign contributions. That's the natural way capitalism works by changing all human relationships into commodity relationships. Legal or illegal everything available is for sale.
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All's you have to do is stop all regulation of the automobile and healthcare insurance companies to see the rise of a huge number of frauds. Everyone will be selling policies and going bankrupt next week. Why not get rid of all government road building contracts to see how long it takes before we become the United States of Potholes. Free market? No such thing never was never will be. Government regulation is brought in to control greed by the rich and those wishing to become rich. Without government regulation coming in capitalists would have to deal with 'greedy workers' who are the real majority.
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Neighboring property owners taking care of roads? That's fine for dirt roads and horse traffic. Maybe you should consider living in an underdeveloped country and buying yams and rice at the market. Without those tractor trailers rolling across the Interstates you would be waiting for the arrival of railroad traffic being switch through multiple yards and carried on wagons drawn by horses to the mercantile in Walnut grove. Who will pay for Interstates? Most of the toll roads preceding the Interstates were paid for with bonds guaranteed by state governments. Obviously Congress decided that more roads were needed and building more toll roads was not the answer. Plus their are two types of toll roads. Those with closed ticket systems. These are fully maintained by the road owners. Those with toll barriers are only toll roads between the nearest entrance and exits. The rest of those roads are considered federal Interstates and eligible for federal funds. Texas built a toll road that went bankrupt. It was put up for sale on the courthouse steps without any suitable buyers John Hancock Insurance bought its investment back. Now consider a system of multiply toll roads and owners across the country going boom and bust.
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Without any regulation of Insurance anyone can become an insurance company. Set up your company write you contracts and then after a bit of time of selling enough contracts and paying out some claims announce bankruptcy. Oh and don't forget to pay yourself handsomely for writing those contracts until it's time to declare bankruptcy. You are some starry eyed individual who has never had a problem of trying to cash his check only to find out it bounces like a rubber ball or been told sorry payday has been changed to Monday.
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Reesel4D "Due to the limitations of physics, there is really nothing that can be done if it turns out that a company doesn't have the assets to satisfy agreements. They call that "bankrupt"." Unless you are AIG then you can go to Washington and get yourself bailed out. Physics covers everything to begin with so how about leaving that out. You and I both know the state insurance regulators aren't going to allow an undercapitalized firm into the insurance market. In fact the risk in flood insurance is such that capitalist abandoned the market in favor of the government taking on the claims and capital reserves while the insurance companies do the management and risk assessment only. So in essence flood insurance is single payer already something that 'wouldn't work' in health insurance.
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"I can have an expensive drug habit and lose millions every day to casinos, but as long as I own a giant gold mine, then my lifestyle is economically sustainable.' actually you sound like Howard Hughes. Actually building highways and airports with public money has always a complaint by the railroads. Then again the government issued charter for the Union Pacific Railroad with its land deal was quite lucrative. Also Georgia complained about government subsidies for lighthouses and other money for the subsiding of commerce for Northern Industrial and commercial interests as a secondary reason for succession from the Union. So I guess you would find good company in the slavocracy for you dream world of libertarianism. It's just to bad that you, Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand weren't living back in during 1860's because than you could have made sure everything that was done by capitalism was done without massive corruption. Ah wouldn't be nice to be smelling that fresh horse manure on that private street in Manhattan called Wall Street because public road building was immoral.
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It is definitely problematic to have a nationalized oil industry providing social benefits while letting other oligarchy owners of capitalist firms continue operations and even more so with a mass movement that wants socialism. We've already seen one failed coup attempt and a decline in world oil prices is also creating problems. If the masses go back quietly to their shanty towns the oligarchy may let them live if not than a collision course lies ahead one class will win and the other will lose.
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You use the straw man argument of libertarianism when argue that the state is independent of class. This is the quote, 'statist' theory. It is little more than an argument that free market (an obvious misnomer) good and state operations bad. However without a state the owners of capital could not enforce their labor market and ownership relations on the proletariat. When you rail against statism you forget that your state acts to both enforce those relations and maintain the 'free market' system. A's George W Bush said, "I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." The state must consciously intervene in big and small ways to prevent your greedy capitalist system from getting out of control and devouring itself. You propose no way to get to your fairytale world except by utopian idealism and moral imperative. Even then most of you realize it's a utopian dream because obviously the class interests of the majority are not served by either your state or free market principles. You will then go and say well Atlas Shrugged and so will I but let's not let the communists take over because then I would be losing not just my principles but my shirt, my wealth and my power.
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If a libertarian argues they're no classes than obviously the state is independent of them. But he has no problem with classifying anything done by the state other than enforcing his own set of rules as statist and therefore morally wrong. After listening to this kind of stuff one might wonder if in according to the libertarian mind man should end social labor and live better as a the male orangutans do by individually seeking the fruit produced in the jungle instead of laboring together.
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Their is nothing preventing the election of a communist party to power in the United States. As for a change in property relationships only the fifth amendment constrains the government from taking private property and passage of a constitutional amendment could solve that problem. So the only real constraint lies in the capitalist canceling or refusing to accept the election results. Something many were thinking about after the election of Donald Trump and when the eleven states of the slavocracy left provoking the civil war.
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The real communists propose a change from government bureaucracy control to trade union control with scientific advisors. This is a type of direct democracy where issues of safety, the environment and other social needs are solved at the local level instead before numerous court and legal tribunals played out by lawyers were the needs of capital come first.
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I suppose those murder video's on cellphones were just imagined oppression. Batista being anointed dictator of Cuba by the American Ambassador and murdering 20,000 was just a feeling. Once Batista was overthrown everyone should have looked to Kennedy I suppose. Because he was the new and great two stooge party President. Outside of actually pushing the nuclear button which some of the US generals wanted to do. Every way possible and every imaginable measure was taken to defeat the Cuban Revolution. Sorry you lost capitalist loser. The Cuban's have dignity today because the didn't back down. As one Cuban General said we started with throwing rocks at the police. It is better to stand as a man and let the cops murder you than to "get on the ground" like a dog.
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After every socialist revolution every measure possible is taken by the capitalist countries to defeat the revolution because as Churchill said, "Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle."
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@szililolabu I'm not impressed by so called even handed intellectuals who condemn both sides. I'm sure you've got you sights on an up and coming bourgeois professorship.
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@xboxstudent Look I knew as far back as the 1970's that the Stalinist's were deserters. So the breakup of the Soviet Union was not that big of a surprise. The biggest change is now no one gives the Stalinist theories as much weight and the former countries of the eastern block China and Vietnam are open to real socialist and communist ideas.
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@xboxstudent No only a big crisis of capitalism is needed. Capitalism was already winning the battle with feudalism in Marx's time. The first big crisis, the British banking crisis, was followed by WW1 with the Russian Revolution. The second was caused by the US stock market crash and great depression resulting in WW2. This war was fought out between the Soviet Union and Germany in Europe and between the US and Japan in Asia. After that crisis it was so deep that even the Stalinist partisans in China, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Korea were able to lead revolutions and come to power. The next victory was in Cuba where the first revolution since the October revolution of 1917 was lead by a leadership that didn't originate form a Stalinist Party. The crisis of 2008 is the biggest crisis in living memory will it lead to a world socialist revolution? It certainly has opened many previously closed doors in the centers of world capitalism.
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@xboxstudent How many defeats did the Stalinist's lead? Germany in 1934, France and Spain both before WW2 and after the war Stalin kept his word with Democratic English and American Imperialism refusing aid to Greece and Yugoslavia. He and Mao forced Ho Chi Minh to accept the division of Vietnam at the first Paris peace accords. It was Stalin who agreed to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel. What right did he have to agreeing to something that was his to begin with? Our Party called for the unconditional withdrawal of US troops from both Vietnam and Korea. Did your friends the French Stalinist bastards do the same?
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Even today our party says US Troops out of Korea and Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
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@xboxstudent When we have the majority we will take power just as the Bolsheviks did. Stalin played a minor role in the October revolution which can be confirmed by John Reeds, "Ten Days that Shook the World." You confirm that the French bastards bent to the will of the French Imperailist just as Stalin himself and all of his followers did. Why not just admit that you and them are just to afraid of capitalist justice to open your mouths? Sure Stalin was not the only one to blame all those little Stalin's in the west who said nothing and wrote nothing. One of Stalin's closest associate Nikita Khrushchev only discovered the crimes of Stalin after the paranoid gangster was dead. Only the Stalinist used violence to get their way in Spain. The murdered the revolution there just as the had done to the old Bolsheviks in the Moscow Trials. There whole idea of leadership is if they can't be the leaders than the will take any action necessary to destroy that movement. What they have in common with the Imperialist is they lack even the slightest revolutionary morality.
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The American Imperialist's executed two communist for being communists. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg all the time knowing that the charges of stealing the atom bomb secrets were completely false.
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Why on earth would the head of American Imperialism (Truman) want an alliance with Ho Chi Minh over the French Imperailists? That's the type of thinking that one could expect from Stalin in Moscow. Sure Stalin was always going to help revolutions AFTER they were lost you just need to follow his orders. You needed to get on his antifascists bandwagon where they tie the workers hands and feet to the 'progressive' capitalists. All the capitalist benefit from unemployment and strike breaking. That's why the progressives have no problem with getting in bed with the fascists.
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@xboxstudent Why don't you just move into a castle built for Kings in Fairfield County, CT. You can drop all your pretend knowledge of Marxism based in Stalinist theory of 'socialism in one country' and move in next to liberals. They have the 'real theory' of American Imperialist wars they are all a mistake unless 'we' win. Go ahead you'll love living next to the defeated cold warriors. All of Stalinist theory was based on Socialism in one country. So naturally it became a problem when more countries like China, Vietnam and Yugoslavia went socialist without Stalin's permission. The world revolution would weaken Stalin's and his heirs like Khrushchev's position in the worlds labor movement. Today's Stalinist is just another weak kneed Social Democrat.
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@erenerdemir7923 Money is NO longer made out of silver or gold nor are can you be guaranteed a payment in silver or gold. Instead it just printed on paper or coined or numbers in computers. No boss works hard for anying and the money must circulate not accumulate for capitalism to work.
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@Lost-mb1gj It's merely a grandstanding move by the Republicans attacking workers for the benefit of the bosses.
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@Deborahtunes What's the problem? Not enough Boss propaganda being taught?
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Of course all of Marx and Engles anticommunist opponents need something to smear him with because they can't actually argue with the communist manifesto itself. So these fools like Sowell come along and write about their personal life as if they are all models of virtue not seen since the second coming of Christ. This is a the man who presents him self as a Marxist after reading just an article in the encyclopedia britannica and having rejected Marx after getting a privileged position at the US Dept of Labor where he decided labor dept employees were out to save their own skins first.That is when this demoralise intelectual began his crusade against not marxism so much as capitalist liberalism equating the two. A new convert to the holy tenants of American Capitalist Conservatism. A defender of the Imperialist governments of Regan and Bush. . .
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@alantse7464 Only a few weeks ago Trump's chosen Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh was saying the Corona virus was just an attempt to Bash Trump for a common cold virus. The Congress was making a fake impeachment crisis. Now it has come out that Congressmen were making investments based of the virus back in January.
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Abolish private property the property used to exploit others. Instead of a businessman's government controlling workers and framers we need a workers and farmers government that controls business.
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@thegoodguyalwayswins Why don't you Europeans set an example and go vegan if its such a good way to live? The thing is you Social Democrats and Greens are just a bunch of NATO Imperialist hypocrites. Talking all this crap about how safe your making everything when your Volvo bosses come over here and threaten to run scans to get a pro company contract. You NATO membership makes just as bad as our ruling class. Most Americans who came from Europe came because Europe sucks.
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@eddarby469 Warren Buffetis the master of Boss Greed on the BNSF.
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@dealhunter4536 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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Organize into unions and take the bosses on with strikes that cut off the flow of profits.
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@jankucera8180 Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. VI Lenin. Their is no progressive capitalism or Imperialism. Solidarity with Ukraine No to Sanctions by the NATO Imperialism alliance. The hypocrisy of the NATO Imperialist is on full display who just finished a twenty year war of destruction on Afghanistan. No to the NEW CZAR Putin of Russia.
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Trump speaks for the Billionaire class who believe that money buys them the best. Same way that Canadian billionaires think. Many own property on both sides of the border their loyalty is to the bottom line.
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@robbie4084 As the guy says the wealthy get better healthcare and Canada doesn't cover those from other countries. They want money first in Canada even if you have international health insurance. As capitalism continues in crisis healthcare will be cut from the budget of the so called social democracies than your coverage will be no better than that in the US. After all you can bet Trump will open the border for Canadian trained Doctors and Dentists. You can bet many will exit for the better money that the Insurance racketeers pay. These borders were erected to defend the capitalist classes of different nations. Canada is what's left of British North America after the treaty of Paris. Parliament voted to execute King Charles for destroying the country to collect taxes. We defeated the British Empire not once but twice once in 1783 and again in 1814 after the naval battles in Baltimore harbor and New Orleans.
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@robbie4084 When there is no well known working class party that is willing to fight. Watch how quickly a few promise get votes for tax cuts and consevative promises. Liberals and their labor partners the NDP are going to take a shellacking and the next thing to go will be that healthcare in exchange for a few tax cuts. Your going to get your own version of Trump. He'll tell lies and make promises just like Trump. You've already got "MAID" and an opiate crisis that's the kind of healthcare you should be expecting from your capitalist politicians. i'm just the messenger. You want to see real change than you need to start thinking about a socialist revolution. That's the Canadian problem thinking everything is just handed to us by the ruling class. I have yet to read how you Canadians got universal healthcare.
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Is he going to post a list of things we can't be? You get a discount for bringing in a gun. Should it be loaded or unloaded? Do BB guns or real looking fake or toy guns count? How about a discount for cherry bombs, smoke bombs or stink bombs or maybe those who just smell bad?
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@oku12 Conservatives want a return to the days when everyone could return to the farm when the got sick or old in the cities.
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@chadasonmcgraw So Ayn Rand is not a conservative who constantly called Social Security immoral until it came time to get her own old age check. Quit the Pro Birth sob stories. You want government intervention into the personal lives of women because you can't trust them. Instead you trust the rotten apple cops and the sky pilots.
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@jamesmiller5331 They obviously do have a clue to what they are talking about instead the read all the anti communist propaganda and then make it their source of truth.
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@jamesmiller5331 No I prefer to mound my shoe on the breakfast table but my wife would wonder why i was doing that.
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@jamesmiller5331 What do you know about communism? If we are such dummies why did the US build a tokamak copied from the USSR? Why was America afraid of Trotsky's dead body? After all he lived in New York before the 1917 Oct Revolution.
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Daniels wasn't motivated by money? She went to Trump room because the food at the homeless shelter sucks.
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@dallisb1047 All the bosses want is the longest hours at the lowest wages to make the biggest profits. They use the capitalist property owners governments defense of the right to private property to enforce their low wages big profits corporate government policy. The first Amendment protects the right to strike and picket boss operations.
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Is it now? The Republicans won the civil war. They are the National Party that abandoned Popular Republican Party Reconstruction governments to Democratic Party lynch mob terror. They held the Presidency and appointed the majority of Supreme Court Justices who rubber stamped segregation as legal. Before Lenin the Socialist had no special position for Blacks or the colonial peoples. It was Lenin and later Trotsky who taught us about how the national aspirations of the colonial people lead in a socialist direction in the era of Imperialism
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@sgshumblecrumb6046 The liberal Regime of FDR would not let Trotsky's dead body in for a funeral in New York. Instead he launched the second "Red Scare" with the frame up and imprisonment of 18 leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party.
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@karlrovey A successful strike at anyone terminal quickly spreads as trains are prevented from moving into that terminal such that the end up blocking movement throughout the whole system of railroads. This is what the government and rail bosses fear. They have awoken a sleeping giant in rail with their policy's of capitalist greed and declining profit rates in basic industries.
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@theresak.7475 Why not set the beginning of human life at say the marriage date? Or after having sex you go down and register? All life is sacred do you also belong to PETA? The bible says god made Adam and then blew life into his nostrils. He didn't say at the time of conception because he knew you would be squeamish to do in public what every other form of life does.
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The bourgeois worships the false moral god of money. With a no abortion law they seek to keep all women of all classes under control. However it was a bourgeois women who paid for the development of the birth control pill. Now with that genie out of the bottle it is hard to force women back into the status of incubators for the next generation. The capitalist want to force women back so that they can get maximum value for wages paid and welfare money spent. They're hoping to birth a new generation of non immigrants for cheap labor and as the Empires loyal soldiers. Like all of capitalist law the harshest punishment falls on working class women and poor women overall. They will be forced to cut corners on food and shelter. They will be asked to sacrifice for the good of children. For the rich upper class gal like Hillary Clinton who calls for abortion to be legal and rare she can either get on a plane for anther district or use her money which explains everything an abortion permission board needs to hear.
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@theresak.7475 After reading Psalms 139 in both The Catholic and King James Version. It says your were wrought in secret in the depths of the earth. Not in the womb because your either covered or kitted together there. From there it proceeds with the usual slay the wicked, hate them and don't hate them or do whatever double talk. Only the Catholic version uses the word embryo. Why? Embyo comes from Middle English so as a word it was available for use when the King James version was translated but instead the word substance is used. I'd say the Catholics cheated on that one given their most commonly used translations were done in the 20th or 21st century. Every English Protestant version I could find used the word substance with only one using the word body. Its seems to me substance is much more vague. The original writers in Hebrew guessed at what they saw insides a woman's uterus based upon the practice of ripping open your enemies pregnant women during all the wars chronicled in the bible. Still it seems to me the person or soul originates in the depths of the earth and not inside a woman body according to scripture. Maybe you should go o a campaign against digging tunnels or underground mining?
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Like your to dumb to cheat in taxes.
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@ecurewitz The bosses want cut education and labor costs by outsourcing education costs to the third world.
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@autotechandspecs You liberals show your true anti working class credentials. We and the militant trade unions will be more than happy to lead the class struggle of those workers who are just entering politics. Say good by to your corrupt boss controlled two party system.
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Nothing about Cuba soldiers under the command of Fidel Castro who came to defend Angola from Racist White South Africa and defeated them a Cuto Cunavale. Of course then Sowell friend Ron Reagan would be exposed as supporting the Racist Regime. Nor will your hear Sowell talk about the defeat of America's colonial Dictator in Cuba General Batista because it doesn't fit in with the Sowell and US Propaganda about Fidel the Communist dictator. .
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@willnitschke I never said end fossel fuels tomorrow. The dangers of lead were know when the use of the additive was begun. Both the scientist and the oil companies lied about it see "The man who accidentally killed the greatest number of people in history." Tobacco companies lied about the safety of their product for years also. Lieing for short term profits done constatly by capitalist companies. Capitalism creates a ruling class just like past societies. These people demand profit. Their most important product isn't their spoiled brats at elite liberal universities or PragerU but us the industrial workers.
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@roofkorean2067 Is it? I suppose PragurU doesn't exaggerate or cover up the crimes of Western Imperialism. Fourteen Imperialist Armies invaded the Soviet Union including the US/UK. The capitalist nations destroyed themselves in two world wars.
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Unless you are Jeff Bezo's who's company Amazon that doesn't pay any federal taxes you have absolutely no say in how your tax money is spent.
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@cleopatra7377 Muslims are nuts who want to refight the crusades abd take back Spain next.
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@davidmilton5887 Arabs are white.
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@kenoliver8913 When you revise Marxist theory into one of building "Socialism in One Country", destroy the Parties Revolutionary Cadre and proceed to more and more reliance on incentives eventually you end up seeking advice from Bill Clinton and Milton Freedman on how to solve your economic problems. Naturally they will tell you sell off state industry for a song and a dance close your factories as unprofitable and Buy American!!!
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@barahng If they didn't have all the secret privileges and a bureaucratic leadership there would not be political rivalry like that you find in the capitalist world. I doubt that the US ever had more than a half dozen manufactures of vacuum tubes with some brands just names printed on them for brand recognition.
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Nothing we haven't heard from nutcase before.
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@MAGA COUNTRY Every capitalist likes and dislike competition the real capitalists that is not the true ones. When he is selling he likes no competition in the market. When he is buying he likes plenty of competition. You know what I think? In the marketplace of Ideas that the both the True and Real capitalist are afraid of the communist competition and that's why you want me to leave the county. You are afraid you will lose those profits to the workers when we band together, halt production and demand a higher wage.
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Unlike Trump the FBI is afraid of messing with us. We have an injunction by the federal court for the southern district of New York ending the open ended FBI investigation. We know how to hand them their ass on a platter showing everyone that they are a Gestapo operating a national network of snitches.
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@MAGA COUNTRY In fact we oppose the witch hunt against Trump not because we believe he is more or less capable than Clinton but because of the witch hunt tactics used against him. Allowing these kind of secret police tactics is a danger for all democratic rights.
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The only people who don't know that Russia Today and Sputnik are Russian government controlled are Robert Mueller, James Comey, Hillary Clinton and democratic Congressmen. LMAO
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@MAGA COUNTRY Mueller decided to arrest some lawyer early on. Now to effect the arrest would take maybe two agents. Instead Mueller sends out an FBI SWAT team and has a whole bunch of agents milling around to insinuate the guy would try and escape to Russia. The Media comes in and puts the whole deal on TV.
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@MAGA COUNTRY Am I supposed to be scared now? LOL.
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@kaytrudell6631 Why do we need to "..be compelling someone else to provide those jobs..." You seem to think that we need an owner of industry to provide jobs. With workers control of industry we decide how many workers we need, what to produce, how much to produce, when to produce and solve our own problems without Wall Street bosses. A mass education program prevents a return to capitalist profit induced marketing shortages and stalinist parasitic bureaucratism.
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Matthew Feldvari Either MAGA COUNTRY was censored or he withdrew his comments. So I appear to be arguing with a ghost.
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@kaytrudell6631 "Let people help themselves instead of standing around waiting for a handout." Ya you can be mayor of New York before the next hurricane and tell everyone, "Evacuate your on your own." That's the kind of help we don't need. We don't stand around waiting for handouts from the United Fund either. We are about taking control away from idiots who want to commodify everything, let basic industry go into decline to maximize return on investment and create shortages to boost profit rates.
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Capitalism obviously doesn't need everyone or educated workers. Then need more order takers.
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The long retreat by labor is over. Make the bosses pay!!!
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You can see how well the capitalist government has been managing the crisis. Thirty Three million unemployed and counting. They knew as early as January that a problem was developing. They were following the libertarian way of waiting for the demand to rise for all the material need to fight the virus. After three months it was apparent that private industry wasn't up to the task so the dug out a law to force steel companies to up production for the Imperialist war in Korea. They then odrered the profit seekers off the bench with contracts.
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@kated3165 Your full of Sh+t!!! The President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canal comes out in his shirt selves to meet with his people something America Presidents since Kennedy have been afraid to do. Dictators always need to hide behind bullet proof glass and ride in luxury with heavily armed motorcades.
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It is compelled speech just like they use to require a loyalty oath for National Defense Education loans. MIT is a publicly supported by government research funding. The Governor, Chief Justice and Secretary of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts all sit on the MIT corp board.
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@stahleis Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and break up the NATO Imperialist allaince.
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@ДмитрийГарин-с8р You like Putin are a Czarist acting in the interest of Russian capitalism. All communists must oppose their own ruling class in any Imperialist war. We say break up the NATO Imperialist alliance and defeat for Russia in Ukraine. End all US Sanctions. As comrade Trotsky said back to Lenin not forward with Stalin. We all risked our lives to oppose the US war in Vietnam you can do the same. Defeat for the NATO Imperialist.
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@dougm659 Bosses cry poor all the time all they want is more form fewer workers. That is the way their crisis ridden system works. Take all that they can and demand a bailout.
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The unions need to fight for amnesty as the Mexican and Chinese workers are our brothers not the American capitalists.
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@aminormaximum2446 Each new generation stands on the shoulders of the past. It looks at the past to create the future in the present. To further survival it must advance the productive forces of man otherwise its culture is destined to decline in favor of others more productive ones. .
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@aminormaximum2446 Capitalism is based in the nation state it developed the world until the competition for world markets became so great Imperialist war broke out. The is Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism with two world wars and a third on the way despite what you may think or want. Only the worlds working class have the interest in halting the greed driven ruling classes drive to dominate the world market. Capitalism only works to advance the accumulation of capital while a decline rate of return on investment guarantees class struggle as the bosses seek to prop up profit rates with fiat currency used to raise the value of property while holding down the value of wages. Keynes advice to the British capitalist class on how to rob the working class without issuing the old fashion wage cut. The long period of labor retreat in the Imperialist contries under Social Democratic and Stalinist leadership is over.
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@aminormaximum2446 The use of capitalist methods and seeking short term wealth is behind the destruction of rain forests and desertification. Agricultural production for unstable markets is the way capitalism functions in the third world. When the Cuban revolution came to power the made land to the peasants who wanted to work it a proroity along with voluntary collectivization. With an economic plan the peasants can be guaranteed they will get what is needed and paid for their production.
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@aminormaximum2446 The Cuban workers and farmers have already abolished private property. They have already shown what free healthcare and education can accomplish unlike the 'US where tuition and doctors fees are charged. What reason do the capitalist parties have to reverse the natural workings of the capitalist system? There donors are getting what they want as Bernie Sanders is a majority of one.
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Where do you think bourgeois ideology came from if it wasn't first developed among the royal courts of the feudal lords and universities of Kings and Czars?
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@denisl2760 The middle class is powerless to reconstitute itself as small capitalist entrepreneurs. Its place in history has passed. This is why Marx saw the industrial workers as the new masters of production who would abolish both private property and their own temporary position as a ruling class.
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@Catherine.Dorian. The whole problem for Sowells theories is that Democratic India which became independent in 1947 and China in 1949 with an extra 20 years of capitalism and trade with the US should be way ahead of China which was denied trade with the United States from 1950 to 1972 and had no capitalist business on the mainland during those years.
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@danduv774 The investments don't pay off like magic and you assume that the people who own property have some kind of mystical ability that no one else has. You are a social darwinist where the bosses make profits like a magician pulls a cat out of a hat. Capitalism grew fastest at the beginning of the industrial revolution and has slowed down ever since. The only reason it grew after the war was the Stalinist and Social Democrats betrayals and the American Imperialist reviving capitalist production with the old ruling class in Europe and Japan after all the wars destruction. The post war boom ended in 1973. All the new wealth now goes only to the bosses as wages stagnated and investors sought bigger profits in the colonial world. American military might made those investments safe. With the end of the cold war the bosses rejoiced because they thought they had won until they no realized the just created more world market competition for markets and trade. With the exception of Cuba every nation now has its own greedy ruling class that seek to make profits but not all can be winners in the market so trade war is the first option of every ruling class and this only leads to real war and destruction. Capitalism dead ends because the ruling class becomes to small and divorced from reality. The rate of profit goes down as the value and amount of fixed capital rises and circulating capital goes down from which the profits come. Thats is because only labor has that special quality of socially producing more than it socially costs. If that were untrue we still be living as small groups of hunter gathering animals. Instead our ancestors invented culture which we produce after satisfying our basic animal needs. Capitalism is just another system in that long history of development. From hunter gatherer to farmer to industrial worker.
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@danduv774 India became independent of Britain with the Congress Party in charge. iI was no more socialist then Britain under the Labor Party or Sweden under the Social Democratic Party. China unlike India went for over 20 years without any US trade. China also experienced years of civil war, warlordism along with the bombing and destruction caused by the Japanese Imperialist who had also adopted the capitalist system. Chinese Communist Troop also defeated the American Imperialist invaders in Korea keeping them fr reaching the Yalu river. After the war China left Korea the US still maintains its Imperialist Army in Korea to defend its Imperialist investors trade interests. When has the US not screamed communism as an excuse to launch an invasion unless the charge has been totally ridiculous like in the case of Islamic Terrorism. Reactionary landowners and capitalist whom the US sought as an ally against the Soviet Union. The mad men in the Pentagon along with the greedy Wall Street Bankers use a combination of trade war and military invasions for those with little to no faith in the capitalist system. That's not even mentioning the FBI with its war on political dissent at home starting with FDR.
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@daviru02 The whole history of the United States Government beginning with the Spanish American war has been to launch military invasions to defend its investors property and any attempt at a revolution that might unleash forces hostile to its investors class.
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Pass an Truth about US Imperialism Act.
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@rockstarofredondo The problem is the return on investment naturally declines as machines are used to replace skilled labor with unskilled labor.
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We know that the Saudi war against the Yemeni people is one of murder and great injustice. We know that it is really a US war since all the military hardware is supplied by Washington. We here are against all US foreign wars, for the closing of all US foreign military bases and ending the sales of military equipment to foreign nations. Every nation and their people have only two choices one is to continue on with capitalism, national humiliation and oligarchy. They other is to break threw all the lies and promises made to save the rotten encks of the oligarchy and emulate Revolutionary Cuba on the way to a revolutionary change. To become a workers republic rejecting all forms of oppression and injustice. There can be no third road, no middle path, no compromise, no road for humanity other than the revolutionary socialist road.
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@rocsvt1 That's because the class struggle underlies economics and politics.
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Do you? Its people like the wall street billionaires, from Bloomberg to Gates and Bezos and capitalist class. When both parties are under their control they can say may the best man win because both are in theor pockets.
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Capitalism creates economic crisis where you seek to blame us when the profits stop flowing.
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No he doesn't as these are just made up paste up Youtube videos.
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Wall Street crooks doing an other legal robbery.
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@Br3akthrough33 Sowell is just a highly paid ideological mouthpiece of wall street gamblers and the system of maximizing private profit and rights of private property.
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Trump is busy playing golf.
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@davereid-daly2205 Petersen is just an old Cold war academic. While Musk is a huckster engineer with a cult following much like Thomas Edison.
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@turkishmaid Musk has shown hid true colors as a greedy capitalist firing 14,000 at Tesla and taking a $4.7 billion dollar payday. Petersen is just another cold war liberal who fears the ghost of Joseph Stalin.
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@charles_preston Petersen is just another pseudo scientific bourgeois professor making a name for himself by either criticizing other intellectual lightweights like himself or talking about subjects he knows next to nothing about. Petersen buys into neoliberalism as the breakfast of champions.
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@davereid-daly2205 Petersen is a cold warrior and a Stalinaphobe. While Musk is in the business of self promotion as a modern day Christ who is saving the planet and going to Mars.
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Give us a call when you want to declare a truce.
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@tearl5676 Why don't you just move to Canada then.
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@alexbailie225 The revolution of 1776 was made by merchants and slaveholders. The English king was making laws that interfered with colonial development like prohibiting the importation of money. The English already had the Experience of the Commonwealth and I'm sure what happened to the commissioners who voted for King Charles execution after the restoration of monarchy weighed heavily on their plans when setting up the republic. Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" criticism of monarchy and the peerage was read in public though out the colonies and remains the biggest seller of all time in America. It's truely American to say to someone don't you have "common sense".
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@alexbailie225 Unlike the English American's don't like to admit we live in a class society and ancestry plays a role in our social status. On paper we have more civil rights than our Canadian cousins in reality you much more likely to be convicted of a crime in the US and serve prison time. We can take pictures any government facilities that can be viewed from a public place in Canada you can't. Same with the legality of protests in America if a protest is declared illegal they will quickly go to the riot police dressed like soldiers in Canada they seem to go with riots sticks and no helmets despite property damage. I could be wrong but that's the impression I get.
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@neilreynolds3858 His basic economics is basic propaganda for the myth of free market capitalism that was described by Adam Smith 1n 1776 as if it was still applicable. It's all about a justification of capitalism with the rise of neoliberalism which came to replace Keynes theories of capitalist reformism being accomplished by state intervention with a central bank. Every kind of economic problem is blamed upon government intervention and unions driving up the cost of labor for the bosses who are able to set prices correctly because their profits are incentives to do the lords work. Of course when Smith wrote capitalism did not need central banks the exchange value of a british pound in gold had been set by Isaac Newton and except for war times was stable right up until world war one the same was true of the US dollar.
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@kellyprice1024 Unions are ultimately controlled by the workers who are members. If you don't join you don't get a say in the election of union officers or union policy.
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@Idontmatter1234 Ya big fat mall cops at the border. LMAO
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@jeremycrisp4488 We need to stop Billionaires from using government to make make and keep themselves rich.,
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@cherynenglish6561 They don't need more laws like this. What we need is to get rid of the two party capitalist system. Abolish private property organize society for jobs and human needs instead of provits for a bunch of greedy bosses..
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@Struieboy Never believe anything from an unnamed intelligence official. Its almost always what they call a trial balloon. Like Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
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@Struieboy I have no confidence in whatever the Democrats or Republicans are doing. Correct the US doesn't go to war on media reports it goes to war using false intelligence reports. Like the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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Sowell has made a career based upon lies and half truths about Marx, Communist, Socialists and others. Starting with the claim to have been a Marxist based upon the lies told by the ultra Right Republican Joe McCarty that Communist were taking over the US government. He knows that a dead man can't defend himself so who quotes unnamed scholars and dwells on his personal life because he lacks the ability to attack his ideas directly.
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@c.galindo9639 Sowell claims to be a one time Marxist my guess is he thought he was going to be another big shot like Stalin until he got the US Labor Dept and found out it wasn't full of Communist like Republican Joe McCarthy claimed. He became disappointed and decided he could make a career out of being a Republican like McCarthy blaming Karl Marx, Communist, Liberals and Socialist for all the world's problems. This is how he was able to make a career out of blaming everything on Communists.
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@c.galindo9639 One third of the world developed without the need for a class of rich capitalist business owners in their nations. .Writing all these childish slanders shows only how ignorant you are. If Marx was who you claim he is than he would not have been unusual and since he would just be another one of your spoiled brats that attend elite universities now.
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@latinhero1818 This is just a click bait channel to sell merchandise with Sowell's face on it.
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@mikitz Because any true book about capitalism would have to included the bankers factional resave swindle. Where banks are allowed to create contractual money out of thin air...
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National Security has always been used as a reason to cancel free speech in the United States. .
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Donald Trump Don't you need to make some fake news announcements? Or excuses for selling the Royal Dictatorship of Saudi Arabia some more bone saws and sulfuric acid contracts. Maybe invite Bill and Hillary Clinton for you next anniversary party.
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@bobmorane2082 Another result of the two party Capitalist dictatorship in Washington. DC
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All Petersen shows is what an ignorant person he is.
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Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter who support Pol Pot the Genocidal maniac in Cambodia with arms and votes at the UN.
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@bradleyp3655 The ruling class has no need for fascism right now because it is not facing a militant working class in motion.
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Job finding techniques? I suppose there is a special skill needed to getting a boss like you to hire someone?
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@TY_Tianyou They need low wage labor for capitalism to make profits because of the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline.
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@TY_Tianyou This guy isn't talking about India but the United States. First they aren't replacing anyone because with capitalism no one is guaranteed work to begin with. Just as capital investment moves from high wage areas to low wage areas labor moves in the opposite direction from low wage areas to higher wage areas. AS long as the capitalist control the state and therefore the border they will always use the control of immigration for profit maximization.
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@jasondashney He grew up in the Black ghetto. So from what I read he never particpated in the movement to end segregation or the labor movement never mind a party despite his claims to be a "Marxist" As Marx explained communism is a movement not a new doctrine of universal reform with its holy priests. Its the historical record of victories and defeats in the class struggle by one class the proletratit in the class struggle with the other most important class the proletariat. Philosophers solve the world the point is to change it Karl Marx. His role is solely to defend the Milton Friedman's idealism of the free market which is something that never existed nor will it ever come into being. Markets are a source of conflict alwsys have been and always will be. The point is to take things out of the market all together not worship money and markets as if that were the only possible way to measure things. Capitalism itself works to create a ruling class of society that is ever shrinking while the working class grows ever larger. A government is a Democracy for the ruling class that exercises Dictatorship over society. The fact that someone would cite the operation of the capitalist government as a reason to dismiss Marx shows he knew very little about Marxist theory. .
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The Esquire of Sports ® So he knows capitalism doesn't work no matter what you do? What else is new? I guess he must of come to the same conclusion as Marx that capitalism fails no matter what they do and needs to be replaced.
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@isayusayweallcansay So what does that prove? Why here we go again? Isn't that what the US Ambassador says everytime a vote on the US Cuban Blockade takes place? Here we go again? Where is it that we go?
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@isayusayweallcansay China dies give anything away for free. Why don't you just end your Blockade!!! The US Auto Bosses don't set up auto plants in Mexico and pay the same wages they do here do they bit the bring things back across the border and sell for higher profits. How does that fit with your theory about bosses paying people what the are worth in some so called free market and not just naked exploitation for extra profits? Here you gio again DA DA DA!!!!
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@isayusayweallcansay Tats a lot of horseshit and you know it.
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@wrongfullyaccused7139 Sowell is just another one of them who thinks a "free market" is the best thing since sliced bread. What I want to know is when anything is free in a market?
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@wrongfullyaccused7139 At the end of the only freedom capitalism defends is the freedom to trade. That's correct their is no such thing as a free or money growing in a bank. For if vaule were to be self replicating than a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Capital can only accumulate into ever fewer hands and demand a return on investment.
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@wrongfullyaccused7139 Given a fair chance at what? Neither of my grandfathers left me $1 million dollar trust funds. I didn't get to go to a private country day school. The thing I got a fair chance at is being as rotten and corrupt as all those who manage hedges funds and people who talk all day about how clean their hands are.People who pinch every penny they ever made and hold on to every dollar for dear life. Their people like you. Yes people like you make me want to throw up!!! The system was one for me only if I became a deserter like you. Someone who needs desert after every meal. Bosses who act like children blaming everyone but themselves for the systems natural entry into decline as the rate of industrial profits slump.
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@wrongfullyaccused7139 A free market id=s a figment of your imagination. Speculators like George Soros. need to pay ro play. Just like the lottery.
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@Jopie496 Those are the problems with an interconnected capitalist world industrial economy which can easily get out of control when rogues decide they want engage in wars, punish each other with sanctions, a bank run or company bankruptsy occurs.
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@themyrtlewoodshomestead9371 The bosses face crisis of their own making driven by greed and organized into nation states fighting for world markets and profits they have entered a long term decline caused by the natural tendency of profits to decline as machines replace living labor. The are once again beginning to fear the working class and to toy with the idea of Imperialist war to assert market domination over rivals.
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The Capitalist government is merely the executive committee of the ruling class. Government needs to grow to defend the tiny minority of super wealth bosses property rights. Reagan didn't cur governent he privatised it. Just like the neo liberals desired. A private government of the bosses not subject to any kind of review as the ultimate in human freedom.
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@ScandinavianHeretic What they all deny is the labor theory of value.
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@ScandinavianHeretic That's why you all think that capital must be producing value. The labor theory is correct which is why you are in a declining rate of profit crisis and the low point of labor resistance in the USA has been passed.
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@ScandinavianHeretic America is run by the two capitalist parties. The upper class is educated in the elite universities in the theories of capitalism being the only viable system of production and trade. Just like Europe the capitalist have to have some things paid for out of taxes because they do not yield profits with industrial methods. The American capitalist saved European capitalism with marshal plan loans. The Social Democrats like their friends the Stalinists were traitors to the world revolution. In countries like Sweden, Germany and the UK the Social Democrats manage the capitalist state power for the monarchy and the capitalist bosses.
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@abcdef-ms9mb The labor theory of value says labor produces value not that all labor is exactly the same or all labor produces something valuable. The idea that you get something for nothing by investing is wrong. Buying and selling in other words trade produces nothing in itself. All the bourgeois economist like to obscure this basic fact with things like how money grows in a bank. Inflation is caused by constantly adding money, creating debt, to prevent prices from falling towards the cost of production. You don't just wave a magic wand to make products. Of course they'd like to prove capital is producing something to justify their massive profits and consumption. Like Bill Gates spending 9 million a year on carbon neutral jet fuel for his personal jet.
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@andymurdoch2776 We shovel shit because you don't want to leave it around wherever it drops otherwise people like you would be shiting where ever you feel like it. Labor goes into finding the diamond and it has value because its a cultural fetish. People like Elon Musk don't provide value mostly they waste it. Like this foolish spending for a colony on Mars when the real goal is to beat the market competition with the Chinese, prepare for World War three with the Chinese, Russian oligarchy and whatever other ruling class wants to back them against the decline of the American capitalist Empire. Those rockets are being prepared for world war three. The mineral in the earth and farm land don't take on value until humans have a use for them. The original people of Australia lived on some of the richest iron ore deposits in the world yet they had no even reached the iron age when the Europeans arrived. If Karl Marx was a joke the ruling class would not be so afraid of communism. People like you who've had everything handed to them on a silver platter can't understand what we are talking about anyhow.
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@pixelpusher1393 Hitler organised thugs for attacks on trade unions, Jews and political opposition. The fact that he called it national socialism was demagoguery.
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@andymurdoch2776 You aren't even worth answering since you begin with money representing value. The easiest way to answer such a ridiculous contention of your is to point out the the known laws of physics prevent the construction of a perpetual motion machine. It's only subjective in value to the bourgeois who sees nothing but riches in his wet dreams.
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@@mister_midnight189 Trotsky remained true to the Communist course of Lenin and it was Stalin who would ultimately betray the revolution. It wouldn't be until Fidel Castro and Che Guevara made the revolution in Cuba that would prove Stalin and those who followed him wrong both in theory and in the practice of communism. Trotsky was read by Castro while in prison and he writings were never outlawed in Cuba like in the other Stalinist States.
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@pewpewTN Of course the well dressed CZAR and the Bourgeois of the all the capitalist nations who sent the young workers and farmers to die in a world war to redivide the world among the Imperialist powers they were your "Good People."
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@chrisenglish4380 His mistake was to continue the Vietnam war when the US had been clearly defeated. His exposed himself and party as bullies out for themselves no different than the hypocritical Johnson administration. Nixon began his 1968 campaign as the peace candidate. He left office in disgrace when Senator Rockefeller R(of Standard Oil) told him he did not have the votes in the Senate to avoid impeachment. His removal was basically a bipartisan two party decision. Ford who had been Speaker of the House became VP when Agnew was forced out with corruption charges. Now Ford would become the first unelected President since Washington.
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@baccala49 He is just another Imperialist ideologue.
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@even1313 You see if you elected people locally and you didn't have greedy people you wouldn't need voter ID's. Its because you have lieing greedy politicians that you think you need to have control over who's voting. You think of yourselves as dirty and cheap as the politicians you vote for.
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@coreyfulify No national ID bosses have too many ID for blacklisting a it is. The only reason you need ID is politicians are corrupt and you think of yourselves as corrupt and dirty like them like them.
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@concernedcitizen8870 Capitalism created the nation state. Then capitalism of the first capitalist countries became Imperialism domination of foreign capital of the smaller weaker nations that came late to the game. Competition bread war between the imperialist states resulting in WW1. The solution to Imperialism the highest stage of world capitalism is socialism with national self determination for the colonial people. The fight of the Imperialist nations to redivided the world is a reactionary anti working class fight for capitalism. While the fight for national independence of the weaker and dominated nations is revolutionary nationalism. This revolutionary nationalism grows over into socialism when lead by leaders in a consistent effort to free their nations from Imperialist domination. That's called Leninism. This how the Russian Party was able to archive what no other party did with the crisis caused by the war. Building solidarity by the recognition's of the rights of oppressed nations. Lenin wanted to lead a fight against Great Russian chauvinism not sink back into Russification of the Stalinist. Or the old idea social democratic idea of the two stage revolution which has a national bourgeois as progressively developing nations over long periods of time in harmony with each other. Imperialism is the highest stage of world capitalism and it can go no further.
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@grendeldog01ify I don't have a college degree (Not even an AS) although thanks for the complement. Sure if you've got a STEM degree or an MD you can live like a prince in the US you''ll go to the head of the immigration line otherwise wait for years or come undocumented and risk deportation. Born in Spfld ,MA my dad was USN 1st class MMFE who was responsible for a squadron of "tin cans" PB4Y-2 during a conflict called WW2. I come from an Irish American family who's fighters may at times be misguided but do not go down for the count.
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@grendeldog01ify Communism ia a movement not a system. You theories of human nature are just so much baloney. We prioritize the most basic of human rights the right to eat, to be clothed, to have shelter, to have medical care upon which all culture is based including religion. Stalinism is a counterfeit communism. We aren't idealist who open communes and food coops as a way to solve the problems working people in the US and around the world face. Communism and Fascism being the same thing returning taking away individual rights and going back to feudalism and a royal structure . Been listening to hopelessness of the Austrian school where Democratic Imperialism is a good as it gets. Where owing a few hand tools is private property the same as the Union Pacific Railroad company. Like most of the learned middle class you see the coming clash of class forces ahead and are terrified After all it may disturb your backyard ice tea and pool parties or winter sky trip to Vale, Colorado.
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@professorphotographer5313 "I grew up with a card, voter Id card," Did your mom keep it pinned to your diaper when you were little?
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@hubertusvenator5838 Well you can have all royalist from America who want to move to Portugal along with the gold in the Federal Reserve bank of New York City. I'm sure its only a matter of time when you can relive the glory days of Portuguese Empire of Ferdinand Magellan exploiting colonies and gong to war with the other monarchical restorations in Europe. Maybe you can convince you friends to symbolically round the horn of Africa on a replica of a Portuguese Man of War and sail around Terra del Fuego sipping the sea to test for fresh water. .
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@hubertusvenator5838 I tend to think the American capitalist like their mansions and universities here in America. They have places in New Jersey where they have flower gardens at the entry to private roads where ordinary people are forbidden to drive cars down the roads. If you don't like GE jets we have P&W jets. Of all the car Mfg. GM will sell you the most customizable built small truck or trucks.
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@kylecasey7890 Tke American capitalists with all their "superior weapons" were clearly defeated in Vietnam by a people's militia. Think we shake in our boots because someone owns a rifle and ammunition or belongs to the NRA. Your leaving the Democratic Party is actually a good sign. Telling others helps us. We want workers and farmers to desert those rotten parties. Conservatives are no threat to us as long as they keep talking which is what they are best at doing.
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@elongatedmanforever1252 The creation of a ruling class is a product of the poverty and division of labor required of early agricultural societies.
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The 20th Century was marked by the end of any hope for an International Capitalism with the defeat of NAZI Germany. The two most important revolutions where the 1917 Russian and the still continuing 1959 Cuban.
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Hitler's mass support came from the pauperized small businessman and the educated professional.
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@danielpye7738 Yes those academics who were not Jewish were also big supporters.
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@Si_Mondo Communism is movement not an ideology. Fascism is the vomit expelled by a dying capitalism. Free market in other words "Freedom to trade!" shouts the bourgeois is the last and only freedom that capitalism defends. Trotsky wrote "Fascism: What it is and how to fight it". The German conservatives turned to the NAZI's to save themselves and their property from a socialist revolution. They voted with the NAZI's to give Hitler Dictatorial power with the enabling act. Not a single Social Democrat voted for it. The Communist Deputies were denied their seats.
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@Si_Mondo Does matter what the NAZI's called themselves or what they promised it was just another lie like the rest of your capitalist politicians tell. The banker Joe Kennedy told FDR Hitler was someone you could do business with. The bosses don't want competition the want to use state power to keep their markets for themselves.
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@Si_Mondo The problems are material NOT rhetorical. That your ruling class can't solve the problems your system creates for the ruling capitalist investor classes based in nation states while competing in a world market. War is your solution because trade war always precedes real war. While ours is socialist revolution.
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@preasail The man makes promise he can not keep. He can not reverse the decline of American Imperialism in the world today. Global capitalism is in crisis and capitalism in one country is completely idiotic. Like it or not world capitalism based in nation states is in a crisis of world dimensions that only world socialism can solve. Socialist revolution is on the agenda in every country with Cuba leading the way. The only country where the working people take to the streets to demonstrate for their revolutionary government.
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@dalton7145 The Catholic Church is losing its authority so why not blame Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Adolf Hitler and Joe Stalin for a Church in decline because it lacks relevance in modern life and culture.
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@jeffreyfuka2594 Trump was going to "Make America Great Again" he failed at that so now he's promising to "Save America." So how is he going to do that if he failed the first time around?
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@jeffreyfuka2594 Also promised to "Make America Great Again." now if you settle for "Saving America". Since Trump failed at "Making America Great Again" now he's promising to be a Savior. Look I can go to Church if I want to be saved. Let me know when you get tired of winning elections?
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@vyktorehon5995 That was the slogan of the 26th of July movement. This is what the fought for in the mountains liberty for Cuba from the US Empire. Liberty from Imperialist domination.
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@vyktorehon5995 You must have been educated in a capitalist country because most of us can spell idiots by 5th grade.
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@spearfisherman308 Stossel is just anther actor called a news personality. .
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@spearfisherman308 Because you don't just win an election and suddenly the country becomes socialist. Now you must now lead a mobilization of the workers to tale power into their hands by advancing their interests and creating productive jobs for the unemployed. The landless peasants must get land to work and you must be careful not to needlessly interfere with small scale farming and business. Government officials will probably see their salier's cut and administrators told the can not use their positions to exploit and abuse those who work for them. Rebels and those who get out of dodge will have themselves expropriated.
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@artyomarty391 I suppose Dylan Roof is Black in your mind. Anymore all of some people kind of argument you want to make? How about the one where your a 14 year old who already knows everything.
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@artyomarty391 You love don't you? In fact you get off on it.
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What it is going to produce is class struggle something both parties fear.
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England had its own earlier revolution lead by merchants who came in conflict with King Charles I. The king was executed after a meeting of 59 commissioner. A war broke out the ended with restoration of the King and Amnesty for all except the 59 commissioners. Those still living were forced to run for their lives to New England, the Dutch republic and Switzerland. The dead were dug up and hung in post mortum execution.
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@garyrentschler6082 Border Patrol use to ask, "Are you a natural born United States citizen?" at the checkpoints.
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@joea9608 You made the claim now you can't back it up.
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@joea9608 New York is a state or city and google is a search engine. A search shows a law to allow non citizens to vote in local elections violates New York States constitution by a state appeals court concerning local voting. Which proves absolutely nothing about non citizen voting being a serious problem. All smoke and no fire. Just more anti immigrant propaganda.
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@joea9608 I being censored by Youtube again.
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@joea9608 As I said your have proven nothing. Not a single even a single illegal vote in a federal election. All I not you have shown is that an effort to pass a law to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections failed. Like Trumps claims of election fraud without evidence or explanation they are wishful thinking by Republican voters.
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@joea9608 i found no t a single story about a single vote being cast by an non immigrant. Keep up the nonsense. It makes you look so smart.
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@joea9608 Common Sense was a pamphlet that was written about the idiocy of the English Monarchy. Two kinds of justice are in America one for the rich and the other for the working class. Rich immigrants qualify by making an investment. While the poor have beg for political status or amnesty like when Reagan granted immigrants amnesty. The bosses use immigrants to cut costa and deport them when they don't need them and use the division between immigrants and native born to make bigger profits the same way they used segregation between white and Black to divide us before the Black Rights movement.
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@joea9608 Get back to the original subject you have yet to show a single instance of a non citizen voting illegally.
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@stpaulimdog The American Imperialists need to take their troops out of the Korean homeland. US out of Korea.
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Did you notice the crossed arms of US UN Ambassador Nikki Haley? She didn't look all that comfortable.
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@mandarinandthetenrings2201 Hamas is a NAZI like organization. No ceasefire on Hamas!!!
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@cottymargeson6702 The ANC called for a non racial Democratic State not the expulsions of whites.
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@GintaPPE1000 You take our jobs so you can sit back and be lazy profit takers. The rail roads issue layoffs and have closed hundreds of depots and decommission hundreds of miles of track. Any legal strike called by railroad or airline workers requires permission from a capitalist federal judge because any tie up of an airline or rail terminal quickly cascades across the whole system. Since 1973 all the increases in productivity have been going to the capitalist bosses as reported by the bosses own federal reeves bank.
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@GintaPPE1000 By using central bank generate inflation you can hold down wages while profits and property values rise. Its the secret of how capitalism avoids the old fashion wage cut when the currency was connected to the value of gold and silver. The natural tendency of profit rates to fall as machines replace labor is counteracted by taking the advice of Keynes to rob the working class with a central bank generated inflation.
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Demoralize police should quit and get real jobs. Nor am I scared of somebody pretending to be a black pussy cat.
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I didn't say they were a cat only pretending to be one. To the educated mind there is a difference.
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Repeal the Railway "Slave"Labor Act force the bosses to come to the table.
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@sheriffofnothingbutham8528 Ask your this if Trump loses in November will he leave office in January?
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@retsrow2899 Yes ordinarily I'm fluent in Pig Latin.
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@millville444 Hard work, as in becoming a lawyer, didn't close down segregated facilities. Mass protest and refusal to accept the indignanties of dejure and defacto segregation is what brought about the cultural changes necessary to defeat segregation. Accept the fact the Lawyer Larry Elder JD did no more than the Lawyer Barack Obama JD. Both did the 'Hard Work' of becoming a lawyer. Barack Obama JD did participate in a few cases involving civil rights law while in a big corporate law firm. Did Larry Elder JD take any civil rights cases or was he to busy making big money like Barack Obama JD in corporate law. After others had already broken the color line both Barack Obama JD and Larry Elder JD were the benefactors.
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@afringedweller Okay Professor Know It All maybe you can show me the errors of my ways? Or are you still working on figuring it all out?
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Hamas is a NAZI like organization with ties to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who organized a Muslim Croate Militia for Adolf Hitler.
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The bosses may put his face on a new circulating bill if infantion continues the way it has.
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Only his ally the South African racists were defeated by Cuban Revolutionary Army of Fidel Castro at Cuito Cuanavale Angola. .
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@Pebo62 I tried reading Hayek and realised the man writes dictionaries for a living.
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@Pebo62 That's the one where condoms government but like in his debate with Keynes he stated he isn't for no government so Keynes asked him where you draw the line. Supposedly "The Constitution of Liberty" is the supposed answer. Turns out to be over 500 pages with the beginning spending all his time just trying to define the word. The Cuba revolution has already shown what Trotsky theorized that a workers state need not be a Stalinist monstrosity. Nor am I of the opinion that NAZI Germany and the Soviet Union were the same thing.
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@ottererg587 Like the defeat if ERA this is the result of women's rights leaders who decided that electing do nothing liberal Democrats was a winning strategy. .
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@ottererg587 It is also another moral hypocrisy crusade. Abortion is already unavailable in 95% of al counties due to the terrorist intimidation campaign and laws which place all kinds of restrictions on the procedure. It will continue to be safe and available for the rich. Its the poor who will be entering emergency rooms from botched abortions and using underground abortion drugs.
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Yes and he will tell you how great the past was and if only we all went back in time to when men were men and women were women all our problems would be solved. The problems reside in the way the ruling capitalist does things for profits. It's a complete falasey to think that private property and markets solve all problems. Listen to Sowell and he will tell you a fair tale about free market capitalism as if you could have a market to distribute his "scarce resources" without government protection.
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@johnwest6199 Sowell favored a victory for the US in Vietnam. He says that capitalism doesn't involve the exploitation of the working class. He teacher was Milton Freedman the neoliberal whose polices replaced New Dealism with the end of the War in Vietnam whose cost came due with a crisis in 1973 requiring Nixon to end the Bretton Woods agreements. From 1945 to 1973 as World capitalism restarted primitive accumulation real wages in the US followed productivity only to stagnate with the end of the gold standard. Now the bosses could raise prices and simultaneously inflate the money supply to avoid the old fashion wage cuts that had provoked strikes in the past. As prices and property values rise workers seeking to catch up could be blamed for inflation. That long retreat by labor is over as workers are demanding dignity and respect on the job in addition to higher wages. The crisis of 2008 left the neo liberals with egg on their face and now Sowell had to repeat truism like if they only paid their mortgages and of course a capitalist government not doing what the bosses should have seen as wrong giving themselves government profit protections in an effort to create an ownership society. If only the greedy bosses were smart enough not use government in the pursuit of profit Sowell laments. You call this man a genius only because he knows when to stop talking and avoid spilling the beans.
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When capitalism is properly managed then the worker is sent to the poorhouse.
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rehabfathi4190 The the Jew Hating Islamic Republic of Iran can end its military support and attacks on Israelis right to exist as a people.
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@tarci2994 Relgions problems always arise when they want the state to enforce its particular practices.
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@Larry_Sycamore Did you move out of your bedroom into the basement?
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@narcosniper78 Why should I listen or answer someone who uses your screen name?
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@narcosniper78 Do you fancy yourself as some kind of "action cop hero" killing bad "narcos" with a single shot to the head?
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@narcosniper78 Well than I wouldn't use it as a screen name then because it certainly gives the impression you are police sniper who shoots first and asks questions later.
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@narcosniper78 Solzhenitsyn was born after the revolution. So he can not give a first hand account of the early days. He was a mere teenager at the time of Stalin's 1936 to 1938 Moscow trials. He became a major in the Red Army during the war and got into trouble for questioning orders to halt just twenty miles away from Warsaw despite the uprise of the Jews in Ghetto. Opposition to Stalin began with Lenin who wanted him removed from his post as General Secretary saying he was too rude had too much power and he wasn't sure he would always use it wisely. Little did Lenin know that Stalin was already operating a secret Troka in the political committee. Lenin died in 1924 when Solzhenitsyn was just 6 years old. Ayn Rand who has always claimed to be an opponent of Bolshevism received an University education and advanced study at state expense and was never subjected to political repression in Lenin's time leaving for the US shortly after his death despite the US having no diplomatic relations at that time.
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@youtuber6185 Hosea 13:16 KJV Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. So if a tribe commits an ideological crime against god than God commits genocide.
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Stalin murdered Lenin's Party he also destroyed the Communist International. He officially dissolved it in 1943 as a favor to the Democratic Imperialists.
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@hwoodist The basic reasons for all these problems is the greed of the capitalist class and the failure of its economic system. All the theories of an everlasting capitalism ignore the basic fact that labor is the producer of wealth and not trade or investment. The only way to justify the profit is to mystify its origin outside of human labor. The capitalist are the involuntary promoters of modern industry but they can not keep it under control with their managerial methods of profit and loss. Their system tends to monopoly and control by greedy ruling class based in nation states competing in a world market for bigger profits. These greedy ruling classes of capitalist can no more get along than the greedy Kings and Queens of feudalism. At certain point war and conquest for tax revenue became the goal of the landowners who held serfs and slaves. This posed a problem for the middle class of traders and small producers in the cities resulting in revolutions to bring this new class into power who would revolutionize production with the use of market competition. Now since 1914 what you see is a world where the capitalist nations seek to take each others markers, go to war to make profits and defeat the revolutionary workers who have risen up in mighty trade unions and revolutionary states. The Russian workers were the first to venture down the socialist road beyond the trade union defense of labor in the workplace. The set up a revolutionary workers and farmers republic and defended it with an Army that defeated 14 Imperial armies from 13 other nations including the US/UK.
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@THELAW360 You live in the fantasy world of computer games because you have a desire to escape the real world.
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@THELAW360 I once worked in the Beth Steel rolling mill at Sparrows Point, MD. You can find youtube videos where they never bothered to turn the lights off. The whole mill and shipyard complex was demolished and destroyed and replaced with an Amazon warehouse. I bet you've never seen a coble from a slab rolled down to sheet metal thickness go up in the air like hot ribbon candy. The steel is a thick slab reheated in a furnace. The hot steel goes threw rollers like gigantic rolling pins and because its squeezed thin it comes out faster than it enters. It goes along a series of rollers before entering a coiler to coil it up like a giant roll of toilet paper. On the other side of the mill they made raw steel and pig iron from iron ore, coke (from coal in coke ovens) and limestone. The promise the companies make aren't worth the paper they are written on. You'll find that out when the inevitable market for the product goes down and the bosses say adios partner.
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@THELAW360 The social cost of labor is determined by the social cost to reproduce you labor for another pay period. What you have in a total wage in a pay period must be exchangeable for food shelter and medical care. Your skill enables you to produce more in a pay period than others without that skill which would require training. The bosses save the cost of training by hiring the skilled worker. Your wage however is set first at that minimum which is necessary to keep you coming back. You cost to reproduce your labor is small if you are willing to live in a small room and not engage in a social life. That is usually what makes your costs go up when you get your girlfriend pregnant and now you have all the costs of having a family.
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@hwoodist Of course you look at your portfolio and believe you are getting rich without working. None of what we say interests people like you until you realize the class struggle threatens the portfolio. .
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@hwoodist Sure you worry about Trump because he pays attention to workers in Red hats. He recognizes the pain your system has caused us even if he has no solution. That is his real sin not going along with all your bourgeois global empires class interests. Calling out liberals and Rhinos as just so many clowns.
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@THELAW360 You understanding of capitalism is only based upon personal experience. The conclusions of all the Marxist starting with Marx and Engels are based upon careful observation of the workings of the capitalist system. and human history. The fact that your a worker means you can't help but act like one. You doing exactly what people like Thomas Sowell advised before the crisis of 2008. You're to young to remember how $10.2 trillion dollars in capital value just disapperated. Much like what happened in 1929. This is what happens when they invest in driving up the value of factious capital until that value collapses triggering an economic crisis. When these crisis hit it has nothing to do with bad individual business decisions but is the result of Wall street gambling with profits. This is when you find out what class you belong to if you have doubts. One class gets bailed out with quantitative easing and golden parachutes while the other gets a kick in the rear as homes become to expensive and jobs become an activity you now have to compete for at minimum wage. Of course there will be always a few who beat the odds just like playing the lottery. If you want to gamble on you future than capitalism is your game.
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@THELAW360 So suddenly you've become a politician. The capitalist have spent most of the twentieth century using central banks to flood their system with paper money which far exceeds the deposit value of the gold reserves. Capitalism can not be reformed because capitalism can not avoid ever greater crisis due to the shifting between investment in expanding production and driving up the value of fictitious capital. The long term tendency of the rate of profit to decline is also a problem. This happens because as capital replaces living labor in production it results in a less labor in the product which is the source of the profit while the capital book value rises. But since every capitalist judges success by his rate of profit they let giant industries go into decline because they don't see a way to make profits with more investment. Things like the railroad crashes are directly the results of capital greed the cutting back on the size of train crews and the lengthening of trains by using locomotives in the middle and at that the rear. Capitalism produced two world war in the twenty century and both the Russian and Cuban revolution. Marx had his newspaper closed down by censors. His revolutionary activity resulted in his being forced off the Containment of Europe.
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@THELAW360 I guess you've never looked at a dollar bill what does it say? Federal Reserve note. who signs it but the Treasure of the United States and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Your money already is government money. In fact the United States government was set up by property owners to protect their property. It is a dictatorship of property owners. Any rights workers have were taken in the struggle against the British Empire and the Slave owners. Since then the property owners government only responds when class struggle of the workers and small farmers demands it. Now maybe you can get yourself a small piece of the pie and maybe you can't but to delude yourself into thinking that your the one, the Horatio Alger, who is going to beat the system by yourself is laughable. You need to be born into the club or make it into the elite universities where they educate the new ruling class and its intellectual defenders. The value of the elite education isn't in what you know or learn but who you meet. They give the orders and your duty is to follow to be the horse with the carrot mounted on a stick just out of reach from the head. Our power isn't in money but solidarity. It's not in who we work for but who we work with.
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Big Tech censorship in the US is just another example of how Democracy is becoming less affordable in the "Western Democracies."
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@vancouver4sure Ypu don't like their Constitution that received overwhelming approval and their elections. Well, to bad go fix your capitalist government Trump wants a new election why don't give him another bite at the apple. Your normal Democratic system says it was almost overthrown in an insurrection according to your Congress. .
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@enterchannelname5953 Youtube began its US political policing operation the day after Biden's election.
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@hanschristianrodriguez Obviously people in Cuba understand that capitalism only works for a minority. Why would they want to hear a lot of false promises and nonsense from capitalist advertising and politicians. You can only get away with telling lies for so long before the majority picks up on it.
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The government isn't interested in transparency but shutting down debate. Any who question government policy will be subjected to frame up trials as foreign agents. Just like the FBI or KGB.
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The US should live up to the promises it made at the Peace Table.
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breathingsunshine A free market is Amazon and Walmart fight for every last penny of profit.
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@phillipweissburg7871 My question is would they're be an anybody but Clinton group?
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@joemahony4198 Sowell is the true believer in the non existant. A man who worships at the alter of the "free market". Now you can explain to me when a market has ever been free and not subjected to the forces of human behavior in groups like government, classes, cartels, unions and nations? He stands on high and lectures all on his free marker demanding all players follow him like a pied piper. In fact in the real world what is taking place is a class struggle between labor and capital.
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@joemahony4198 Yes their was class struggle before capitalism between slaves and slave master for example. Did Socialism end class struggle in the USSR or China? No because the class struggle takes place worldwide as long as capitalism is the dominate system of world trade and production. The workers don't win every strike and protest against the capitalist. So the question of leadership and tactics always enters into the struggle. Why is Venezuela socialist? An even better question is if Socialism fails why do the capitalist nations always send their armies to invade? You went into a world war in 1914 and then the Russian revolution occurred and 14 Imperialist armies invaded including the US/UK? Churchill said Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle. Eugene Debs was tossed in prison. Maybe you should lecture the capitalist bosses on free markets instead of us? You get rich and then you buy politicians to stay in power you corrupt everything with your love of money and your right to trade. You think you can stay in power by power of propaganda telling everyone how your for Democracy and choice. When you a minority and love a monopoly over everything. How your a meritocracy and we never had it so good under capitalism point at poor countries and beating you chests about how rich your making everyone. You point at the free market and say it a free invetion you come up with and when we point at the problems you say its not my fault the free market fixes everything.
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@joemahony4198 Perhaps it has problems that those in power ignore and can't deal with and people won't accept all the the theories of capitalism being the best thing since sliced bread. That you engage in massive fraud and corruption because you try and put a price n everything including human thoughts. That we need people like Bill Gates and others to take care of us. That capitalism produces a wise meritocracy. That your government stands above class and is not class based.Maybe everyone is tired about hearing how the ruling class is doing everyone a favor and how its learned from its mistakes. Maybe we don't like being thrown away like an old shoe and given all kinds of excuse about why we have to be pushed out of job and housing. Some of us are now traveling gypsies. We don't give a flying F about the system.
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@joemahony4198 My solidarity keeping put American Imperialism and its CIA out is what I can do best. Let them decide for themselves instead of advocating for the theft of a Cuban Child from his father for Sowell's free market.
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@joemahony4198 Why not stop the US Blockade of Cuba.
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@joemahony4198 Sowell works as a translator for the bosses explaining everything in such way to put them in the best possible lite.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn Accord to records a Thomas Sowell lives in Bedford, CA and he spends his time with the upper class. Did he get rich legaly? The country was founded by people who were the rising class of business and the constitution and its laws were written to protect business from a land owning monarchy. Just because capital accumulates legally doesn't mean it somehow is just. Those who write laws are all trained in Universities fuded by the capitalist and their governmnet. The institution of slavery was an advance in human history because before slavery we use to eat each other. They pay him to advance the interests of Business at the Heritage foundation so he has an interst in keeping his position just as do the people st the department of labor he likes to talk about. As workers we defend ourselves with organizations that collect dues and donations. We have built mass trade unions that are a counterweight to the power of the capitalist bosses. We have build workers parties and a communist movement to fight for our class against the capitalist.
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Jimmie Jay Bohorn For what ever reason he followed a path that only became open to him because of education at Howard University and the general breakdown of racism. The ruling class itself knows that some originate from humble origins and wants them to advance for a number of reasons. Capitalism and its politics is not so much of a conspiracy but the logical results of the system of capitalism and private property itself. He took the path he did and believes what he does because that is who he is. I chose the path I did because I my experience have taught me that intellectual argument alone will not change or prevent what those who hold the power of capital in their hands do or will do.
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@melonseedskiff1522 I'm sure we need plenty of nothing. Which is what most of space is made of.
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@dannyrivers3922 Its just another way the US imperialist to seek military and economic domination. We will be expected to pay for this as working people are pushed into poverty so the ruling class dreams of going on trips to the moon and mars can come true.
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@dannyrivers3922 You not much of an Engineer or Scientist are you? Power anywhere in the world without power lines? Got a way around the inverse square law? Lasers you say? Okay. Do you want to set up an air traffic control system to avoid lasers going up and back from space. To the best of our knowledge all the local space is filled with nothing. Of course if you believe in the second coming of Christ its possible. We already have water either on the earth or nearby without pipes or spacecraft why do we need to go out in space to move water on the ground and how are we going to do that? Lets put in another call to Jesus Christ after all he made water into wine maybe he can help out.
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@csfischer007 Capitalism correcting itself? Wages in the US became stagnant in 1973. Crisis of 2008 worst since the great depression. War in Central Europe and increasing capitalist competition between the American Imperialists and Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. The end of the retreat by labor in the US. The neo liberal theories were thrown into the trash barrel with the crisis of 2008 with the end of the Bush Administration and the earlier proclamation of a "New World Order" defeat of Nation building in Afghanistan at a cost of 2.3 trillion. Instead of the "End of Communism" and the quote "end of history." The revolution in Cuba continues despite every attempt by the American Imperialists to crush them.
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@csfischer007 Yes those "bad capitalis" becoming corporatist and not following Ayn Rand into the new John Galt dystopia. No capitalism didn't make it happen. Instead the Imperialist weakened themselves in the second world war with each other. They could no longer maintain the military garrisons to put down revolts. It became the job of the American Imperialist to try and maintain capitalism worldwide chosening the most reactionary and murderous forces as allies in a cold war against communism and revolutionary change. The American Business elite never met a third world dictatorship the couldn't do business with. Much like Joe Kennedy reporting Hitler to FDR as someone you could do business with. .
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@csfischer007 China specifically rejected Milton Freedman's neoliberal recipe where you put everything up for sale in order to create private capital. All his theories of capitalism creating democracy have crashed against the facts professor Sowell his disciple likes to cite.
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@Individual_Lives_Matter Money is printed by the US Gov't printing office under the authority of the US Dept of Treasure. If what we have isn't capitalism how do you propose to get to the true capitalism? Why is it the capitalist don't do what the neoliberal theorist tell them to? It wouldn't be because of the neoliberals telling them everything the do with money be it gambling or taking trips into space is fine? If you tell them its okay to own as much private property as possible and then go ahead and protect it with military and police force what could possible go wrong? The capitalist do most of the tax collection for the government. They collect the sales tax and the payroll tax.
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@csfischer007 I really never heard of cosmic justice before this. I guess this goes along with Al Gore and the environmentalism of the time. Sowell and Frideman are neoliberals a far as they are concerned capitalism was doing a fine job up until World War one. The are both reformist whose economic theories are based in the marginal value, and pricablity obtainable in so called ideal free markets. If one listens to these fakers you would have to believe that the ruling class is motivated by the idealism of Horatio Alger and not profitability of the individual or group of owners. Friedman talks about how the bosses must not be hypocrites in foreign trade as if they could avoid competition in the world market and among nation states. One can see that the same kind of split and scramble for allies is taking place that proceeded world war one only this time instead of Britain and German its the US and Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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@DarkAngel2512 Rand said Social Security was the fruit of an immoral system of taxation on business. No big deal but the real fraud is the private pension system 401 k and individual retirement account because first you needed longevity at a company for the private pension. Only some companies offered them and going back to the great depression when AT&T promised its non union workforce private pensions one of the first things they did was to fire older workers to save on the pension promises. Later on companies would sign union contracts for private pensions and then go into bankruptcy court to get some judge to rule that a new organization didn't need to pay the pensions. My grandmother is the only one I know who ever collected anything on a private pension. 401 k is some kind of company wage cut and pay plan you can enter into as an investment scheme to avoid taxes as is the IRA where you can put money aside into an account and have it invested for you. You can bet on your money being lost because Wall St calls private pension money of any kind dumb money to be invested into whatever so that brokers take their cut when it gets invested and when a recessions hits well that when you get the bad news if your lucky you get bailed out otherwise you lost.
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@Simboiss Ya we have mass produced justice for the working class and cosmic justice for the capitalist class. The masses of people are arrested and sent though a justice system that has no time for them or their problems while the boss can have ever whim delivered by uber/ups. You want a higher education you got to be one of the anointed to begin with or win at the public educational lottery. Sowell had recommendations from the powers to be to get where he is in academia. Replacing private property in production with workers control of industry and getting rid of all tuition based education and educating more Medical Doctors is the place to start but it will take a revolution made by the working people to do that.
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To bad he couldn't self indict.
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@Smoothoperator65 He's just another idiot who claims he read and understands Marx like Jordan Peterson.
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You can't regulate the greed out of capitalism you can only abolish it in the class struggle with the trade union and the labor party. The workers must prepare to defend the trade unions from the inevitable release of the fascist bandits.
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Ya India the country with the Bhopal Union Carbide chemical plant disaster. An estimate 8,000 deaths and a 500,000 exposed to toxic gas. They sure have tough labor laws.
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@fasthowto Source of profit is labor. "Output" doe not appear without labor. You can NOT build a perpetual motion machine that delivers "output" without labor. What is the source of value "Labor transform nature." John Locke. Only the modern Bourgeois Economist try's to deny the role of labor because it leaves the bosses mountains of profits exposed as the unjustified product of exploitation. So he invents a bunch of terminology to hide relationships and draws a bunch of supply and demand curve to look smart as he waves his hands in the air. You go to Walmart at different times of day or the week see if the prices fluctuate based upon the number of items on the shelf going up or down. Ask the auto repair bosses how they come up with your bill. Ask if they have someone in the background drawing up supply and demand curves and calculating output. .
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@aMiFiii What did Sowell do during the greatest struggle against racism in America besides go to college and tell everyone to go home after passage of the civil rights act? JIm Crow racism was destroyed by mass protest of black working people. Picket Lines, boycotts, protest marches, strikes, rifle clubs and sit ins. Malcom X said Hitler did more to end racism than liberals because America needed Black men to shoot white Germans.
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@conormcmenemie5126 If you want to have a job and get to work a car comes in handy. Doesn't mean you can't do it without one but it much easier to take a car to work than ride a bicycle, walk or take public transit. How good the public transit is depends on the city. Some places its all but nonresistant.
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@5rings16 The price of labor has risen in China so bosses aren't just investing in new plants their. Some jobs can't be moved their either. We should stop putting up with boss blackmail. If the Chinese workers see us fighting back then so will they. We need to internationalize the labor struggle.
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@5rings16 Wages stopped following productivity in 1973 according to Federal Reserve stats. Strikes and protest for higher wages and union shop conditions are examples of class struggle. Capitalism lost the cold war as Bushes New World Order has become Bidens "New World Disorder." The long retreat by labor is over.
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@lindaanderson1660 Capitalism is obviously in crisis otherwise no one would be even thinking about socialism.
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@eoin4172 Yes the US Federal and State gulags are setting records for the numbers locked away and under cop supervision beating those of Stalin. Obviously capitalism is winning the battle of the gulag.
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David Francisco Participating in capitalism is not the same as owning private property (the property used to exploit others). The Marxists goal can be summed up as abolish private property. The same way the US civil war can be summed up as abolishing human property. Property itself is a concept invented by people much the same as religion is also an invention of people. The plains indians had no concept of land as property because their way of life needed no such concept.
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@mikearchibald744 American capitalism sees healthcare and education for the working class an unnecessary drain on the profits of the capitalist bosses. Investors would have to go to work instead of going to the bank for a tax free loan based upon property ownership.
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John Lester Liberals like Jeff Bezos are driven by greed and pay sweatshop wages.
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@456myer Since the birth rate is in decline someone will need to take care of you.
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@albal156 Communism is a movement of the working class on its way to state power. Socialism is the first stage of a Communist revolution that will replace the world capitalist system of production and trade.
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@acornsucks2111 Oliver North sold weapon to Iran and the Saudi Dictatorship kills an American Journalist.
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@Itsaboutthewaterlife Thank American capitalism and the two corrupt parties.
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@richardthompson6366 Putin's defeat will open the way for the socialist political revolution in the East.
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Fire the lazy? For what so you can pay taxes for welfare, out on the streets as criminals or to have them locked up in profit making hell holes. You talk about firing the lazy as if Bill Gates doesn't understand that you need to eat much more than another operating system. If laziness was a human problem then Bourgeois Society would have collapsed a long time ago. .
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Ernest Khalimov Anyone who has read Das Kapital knows that capitalism has its own internal contradictions that drive it into crisis. The capitalist can't escape their own greed and the drive for profits at everyone else's expense. The popular revolutions in the East were a defeat for Stalinism not socialism. The US lost the cold war and its positions as top dog in the Imperialist world is in decline. The defeat in Afghanistan shows how weak the war technological wizard has become. Beaten after 20 years of war by small arms and IEDs. Causing untold misery for millions and having left with virtually nothing not even its puppet regime to show for its 2.3 trillion dollar cost.
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@sirscooter3 Leon Trotsky lead the Red Army to victory over 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK and Fidel Castro defeated a US Invasion in 72 hours.
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@sirscooter3 Being a soldier, sailor, marine, or airman doesn't make you a servant. If the officers want to call themselves servants of big business that's their prerogative.
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@sirscooter3 Asked and answered.
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Sowell is the discredited neoliberal follower of Milton Friedman the pied piper of American Imperialism Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the George Bushes. Neoliberal all but disappeared with the Rise of Donald Trump calling Bush and Obama idiots. How quickly the ruling class has forgotten the lessons of the world wars and once again is head down the road of trade war in preparation for real war against it world market competition. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and history teaches the workers will have a chance at the revolutionary change and open the raod to a socialist world. The era of fascism came to and end in 1945 and the Stalinist conterfiet communism was defeated with popular revolutions in 1989.
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@clearblue3079 A massive Public works program is what is needed. Raising taxes on the rich
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Like the old slave owners of the South it is time to sweep the capitalist owners into the dustbin of history. We can no longer afford the wars and economic crisis their system of profit creates.
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@iatsd Might as well had a live fire exercise and had men stand up to see if the fire is at the right height.
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American Imperialism is in decline and the bosses are afraid of China.
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Right now they need us to drive truck, fill the retail shelves and work in the wherehouse time to stand up, fight and use the strike weapon.
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Chavez should of had them all arrested after the failed coup instead of announcing that the coup plotters constitutional rights would be protected. You can't have a country that is half capitalist and half communist. You either move forward like Fidel Castro or you get overthrown like Allende.
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@subliminal2244 You problem is you are propping up the corrupt and sold out Democratic Party through your attacks on Trump.
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@anthonywilliams7052 If she actually told the whole truth and history of China instead of just demonizing Mao it would be worth it. Seldom do people like her want to do anything but provide propaganda cover for US Imperialism. General Chang was butcher of China's working class in Shanghai.
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@shazzadhasan3970 Think what China was before the revolution before you just go blindly down the anti communist river. General Chang was a butcher of the Shanghai workers. The British fought a war to sell China opium. Millions died in the Taipei rebellion. .US General MacArthur want to drop nukes on Chineses cities.
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@shazzadhasan3970 No such thing as freedom in the abstract. Plus Marx and Lenin were obscure philosophers before the capitalist Imperialist nations decided to go to war with each other to redivide the world among themselves. So all you need to do to avoid revolution is for capitalism to not go to war for profits but you can't avoid that because your much too greedy and that will be your downfall just like it was King Charles of England. One of the charges brought against the King was he was going about the country and destroying it just so he could collect taxes. Now the American Imperialists have been going about the world destroying it for profits. You face the same fate as King Charles. The mistake the English merchants made was to compromise and allow the King back to power after having Established a commonwealth (republic). The American merchants would not make the same mistake since they made it impossible for king to rule since they knew the fate of the living commissioners after the English civil war was to go into exile for the rest of their lives while the dead commissioners bodies were posthumously executed and the monarchy restored. .
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@shazzadhasan3970 Can I blame my own ruling class for war and the military industrial complex? Yes I can. USMC Major General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket." In the short pamphlet he admitted to being a "gangster for capitalism." You have a pseudo capitalism in Russia and Eastern Europe and the Chinese have adopted the methods of Imperialism when dealing with foreign countries. They don't yet have the blue water Navy of the US or the British Empire of the past but the obviously aspire to that. Capitalism is all about making a profit no matter if it is medical supplies or armaments. Which country proportionally out does all other in training Doctors Revolutionary Cuba. Which contry requires immigrants to replace one in every three Doctors who retire? The US. Why because education and healthcare are overhead costs of industrial production they can't make a profit like using machines with unskilled labor can.
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@shazzadhasan3970 Am I? Also as machines replace labor capital investment rises and living labor per commodity declines. What that means is that as capitalism advances the rate of return on investment declines. So inorder to make more at a lower cost of production the capitalist defeats his goal when the price drops towards the new cost of production and the measure of sucess rate of return on investment (rate of profit) declines.
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@shazzadhasan3970 The capitalist invests in machines to cut labor time and skill to lower his cost yet by doing so he cuts the source of profit the labor going into the product. He now needs a bigger market if he is to use the same amount of labor and because the fixed capital value is now larger his overall rate of profit by which the general success of capital is measured goes into decline as the price of the commodity tends to drop towards the new cost of production.
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@shazzadhasan3970 World socialist revolution. The workers need to take charge of production and run it in the interests of human needs not profits.
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First considering most abortions are medical abortions by pill it will be difficult to put that gene back into the bottle the same goes for any other kind of birth control. Instead the worst case is a war on drugs against the abortion pills. IVF along with surrogacy are medically ethical questionable procedures available only to those with monetary resources. The same is true for abortions they've always been available to the rich and well connected and will continue to be. The capitalist see the problem as workers not producing enough children whereas the workers see it as bosses to cheap to make family life for workers possible.
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The capitalist don't need educated workers they need order takers.
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@spec24 Capitalism is a distinct social system compared to feudalism. It is based in nation states with strong central governments. The whole reason for the US achieving military superpower status as the world's most mighty Empire in human history is to protect the export of capital form the United States to the rest of the world with a guarantee of return on investment from those foreign investments.
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@spec24 The say that American capitalist don't rely on police and military power shows you are either an out right liar or ignorant. Without the band-aids of government greed regulations place upon capitalist exploitation of labor, land, and mineral capitalism would have been overthrown long ago.
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To bad capital can't grow in a bank and investment can't produce real wealth as only labor can. After all if capital could produce than the building of a perpetual motion machine would be possible. Class struggle is what advance the human society not free markets. A market is nothing but a somewhere that people began using as a place to trade it has always been a place of conflict and required protection and regulation by a government. Capitalism with private property and wage labor produces two classes with opposite interests. Ever capitalist class develops in a nation state and seek to win the battle of the world market. The ruling capitalist classes become to greedy to get along not to mention how they monoplize everything the possibly can to advance their profit system. All the libertarians do is talk about how a free market could work because obviously such a thing is a complete pipe dream.
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@fraybart The capitalist doesn't build machinery or equipment. Rather he provides the money and administration only while his state arbitrates disputes between buyers and sellers of commodities. Capital is both a social force that controls production while being privately owned Capital doesn't produce anything rather it accumulates the surplus value produced by the exploration of labor. He pays the lowest wages and demands the longest hours from the production workers. Not only does the capitalist seek to monopolize the market but they become a class that takes control of all aspects of government and society. Capitalism created the centralized nation state and the world market. It is the completion for markets among the ruling capitalist class the drives Imperialist wars and fascism. To defeat the trade unions the capitalist must resort to the methods of fascism and to win the battle of the world market they entered World War. This is the epoch of Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism of war and revolution against the capitalist system of production. The capitalist only risks his money where as the worker risks his life in the factory or on the battlefield as the capitalist fight for their nations markets.
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@mariabarnard4484 Assholes like Cox and 1low64 are probably shopping in special or black market stores which are starting to appear. I'm in Texas a well known Red state and the stores are empty of milk and bread. People were going to Mexico to shop until Trump closed the border.
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@1996freddie I'd like to believe that but I don't. I don't think you realize how interconnected the world is with foreign trade. Large shutdowns of production in different countries is going to reverberate around the world. We should all hope that manufacturing processes like basic steel making were shut down properly because otherwise you're going to have blast furnaces with cold solid steel inside.
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Chicago protests demand freedom for Gerald Reed. He was convicted by using a torture based confession obtained by one of Chicago Police John Burge's Midnight Crew. https://themilitant.com/2020/03/14/chicago-protests-demand-freedom-for-gerald-reed/
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This is just Sowel trying to score more brownie points for Republican American Imperialist foreign policy by justifying Democratic Imperialist policy in Vietnam and Japan..
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@Jessie Life began long before you as a human being were first conceived. So you can throw that idea out the door. Their is no Right to Life period. You can't legislate life into or out of existence short of nuclear war. We send people to jail for unlawful taking of human life. Tell me when its okay to take part of your body to save mine without your permission because I know of no law that would permit me to do that. Somehow though a part of a women's internal organs gets a special right that no one else has? I can't even demand you give me a DNA swab without a court order or fingerprint without just cause to arrest.
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@frankvandorp2059 I don't think its easy to assess a persons intellectual capacity and even if possible what would that mean?
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@frankvandorp2059 Just because a right is not directly mentioned does not mean you don't have it. Also if you go by originalism than women have no rights except to vote and you would only be allowed to own a powder and ball loaded musket. Obviously the Catholic and Conservative Churches are the ones behind the anti abortion movement with their belief that a soul is created at conception. They are the hard core who have waged terror attacks and blockaid clinics.
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@frankvandorp2059 "A women and a Doctor should not interpret the Constitution." Sure what we need is professional lawyers overseeing even act of healthcare such that every medical decision is Constitutional. Lawyers like Supreme Court Justices are experts at providing healthcare. We need lawyers and judges on call at every emergency room.
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@frankvandorp2059 Sorry I confused you the post was meant to mock a previous poster who said a Doctor and women were not qualified to interpret the constitution. The supreme court said it found "NO right to abortion in the constitution." In fact Roe only first appeared to give women a right to abortion as the court quickly found the hyde amendment constitutional. The court set itself up to be part of the POLITICAL struggle over abortion fo the next 50 years. Now is the time to discus how to enshrine abortion rights into law. In states were the tactics used to restrict abortions by passing confusing laws then judges and state officials should be called at all hours and time of day to the bedside by the attending physicians. .
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TheGreenMind So you've got a moldy green mind?
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Plenty of blame to go around for both parties. .
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@christopherellis2663 Playing with Tax policy to solve a problem tens years out is BS. Reich is lucky if he can give an economic prediction for one year out. The man is as much a fraud as Milton Friedman.
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@Bobjtx The super rich avoid taxes by taking out loans from bankeers using their property as collateral instead. This way the pay no capital gains and no income tax. The property goes up in value with inflation so the loans just get rolled over.
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@ridingwilding760 That was when all conditions of early monopoly capitalism existed with no social security.
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@clos397 They tighten up on that such that you need proof from actual bosses that you worked the hours you claim. A boss can easily deny you that.
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They have their noses in balance sheets. As far as the ruling class is concerned you don't understand the need for super profits from manufacturing in the third world creating capital formation and the need for friendly dictatorships like the Saudi's who don't know what the word election means.
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@kristian Bill Gates is nothing but a ruthless business tycoon.
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@doggoneit8341 Support Trump buy a jock strap.
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Trotsky's work starting with the draft criticism of the program of the Communist International.
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@Hlnzote No he has lived in the United States when he worked at Harvard University. Do you think we want Hamas to come to the United States to liberate us by use of murder rape and toture of civilians along with talking histages. They are the scum like the NAZI and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem one of Hitlers allies who began pogroms against Jews long before the State of Israel was organized.
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Yes he tells conservative what they want to hear. He tell you all your problems can be traced back to the corrupt politicians that you pay for.That if the only did what you want after they did what you wanted. Its like the boss who wants his cake and to eat it also,
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Scottish They saving money by using AI Judges developed at UT Austin. The AI bot sent her to jail for casting a vote that was never counted. To many Judges have been sidelined at nursing homes other wise justice would be swift.
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@zpclosangelesgraffiticafe Efforts like how to raise price and drive down wages.
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@jacobr5627 They can't have a free and open market without massive fraud If the bosses make no effort to rein in renegades they will be quickly overthrown in a revolution. .
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Sarge Rattlesnake Your correct Capitalism with Chinese characteristics wants those minerals. The French are throwing a hissy fit because they lost the Australian submarine contract. Canceling a Black Tie Party in DC. Imperialism is the Highest stage of Capitalism where different national groups of capitalists fight over markets and resources.
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@ZephyrFate Basicly Jan 6th was a case where the Sheep became afraid of the cry's of the Lambs.
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Sarge Rattlesnake Capital produces nothing it is merely wealth accumulation created by the exploitation of labor and the bosses own accounting books prove it.. China will invest in a mine and hire workers to get the minerals they don't just jump over the border into China. In West Virgina the miners have a slogan "bayonets don't dig coal."
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Sarge Rattlesnake Sorry sarge capital can't produce only accumulate. To prove me wrong you must first build a machine that operantes in perpetual motion at the very least. Coomon sense says the earth is flat and common sense says the sun revolves around the earth. Careful observation proved those notions wrong but only after building the tools to make them. Capitalism both built the tools to make the observations and created the people who will change it.
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@1ocean515 Is baby going to take all the money and throw a tantrum if we don't play the monopoly game by his rules?
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Jeannie Seibert Heather MacDonald assembles the facts for a capitalist class snow job. The Democrats assemble facts for a meltdown. Combine the two and ICE melts before your very eyes.
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Jeannie Seibert Thank you for the complement but we have plenty of clever people you may not even realize are here already. We've had two military genius in the 20th Century. Leon Trotsky who took a broken and defeated CZARist Army and created a Red Army that defeated 14 Imperialists countries arnies and white counter revolutionary armies. Fidel Casto who stood on a small Island 90 miles from US mainland including a US Naval base at Guantanamo bay Cuba Inflicting humiliating defeat after defeat on every US President since Kennedy.
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@The_Savage_Wombat Free market capitalism ends when financial monopoly capitalism takes over. Then all capital does is accumulate and demand a return on investment.
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@The_Savage_Wombat Your theory is the role back the clock theory to a world without modern industry, the idealic world of medieval Europe with handicraft production and dirt farmers. The days when horse drew carts and oxen drawn plows. A middle class struggle to save itself from proletarianization is a reactionary theory. A historical impossibility. The struggle of the working class to abolish private property is the direction that the class struggle in history must take. To make the working class the ruling class. A working class that understands it role as the maker of history can not be deceived bu charlatans. For even if it were possible to recreate free market capitalism it would only lead back to the tyranny of market capitalism. Communism is the historical movement of the prolietariat in struggle with the other most important class the capitalist of victory and defeats unlike the thoeries of middle class do gooders and universal reformers. Our movement and actions are rooted in historical materialism not middle class idealism
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@LoreEclectic The Bosses have created theses problems with the 2008 crisis when the unions should have never agreed to give anything back. Capitalism's profits crisis problems should fall upon the bosses and their profits not the workers because we are the producers they just manage and if they can do that they deserve to go out of business or we should just take them over from boss mismanagement and run them for human needs.
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@MaxNitro100 No it's about the rich eating us. They do nothing but demand more based upon past capital invested. By replacing labor with capital they cut the source of the profits our labor while raising the capital value of the company. This has the effect of lowering the rate of profit from which they measure success. To boost profit rates they use to give out unpopular wage cuts. To avoid this today the capitalist use the central bank to deflate the value of the dollar
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@MaxNitro100 The strike is about the workers pay, benefits and conditions of work. A capitalist that can't make a profit deserves what he gets which is bankruptcy. Where does it say that a boss is guaranteed a profit. If they want to cry poverty then open the books so we can see how the all the money is spent. Get rid of business secrets.
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@davidechegoyen2318 Only Strom Thurmond switched parties. All the other Southern segregationist Democrats died as long term Democrats.
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The Governor is sending the State Troopers to protect the company.
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@cherryfressh6188 The union is their to represent the teachers.
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@thandasibisi7534 Okay let's go with your theory of the no time to relax capitalist billionaire. He makes his decisions based in profit. He fights out his battles with fellow billionaire over markets with rules set up by fellow capitalist in his government. However he has to sell in and invest in foreign markets otherwise capitalist from other countries will beat him in profit making sending him into bankruptcy. Who sets the rules in the world market? What keeps him out of trade war and then real war like WW1 and WW2?
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@plastifiedmetal5682 I understand the free market very well. First to make a profit you must sell at price over the cost of production. Those who can cut costs can make the biggest profits. Originally it didn't matter how you cut costs fire workers just to set an example for the rest that's always done if a union doesn't stand in the way. Workmans comp? No such thing until after protests demanding it. Same with social security, unemployment insurance, and throwing pollutants into the water, air and ground. Capitalism also has its own built in contradions. For profits and capital to flow to your firm and industry replacing labor with machinery is a must. The problem here though is the capital invested rises and the cost of production falls because the living labor needed is less pre unit produced. The profit comes from our unpaid labor but now there is less of that but the higher value of machinery means a drop in the return on investment. For areas where you can continually do this profits can be made at the expense of areas where it can not be done. So building cars, trucks, buses and trains can be very profitable but public transportation needs subsidies.
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@plastifiedmetal5682 Sound money? Like when a $10 dollar gold piece was worth $10 dollars between 1849 and 1934? The advantage of a central bank is by inflating the money supply you can cut wages while pretending labor demands are greedy and the cause of inflation. Much better strategy than issuing strike inducing unpopular wage cuts. Plus the value of all kinds of property in dollars rises.
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@plastifiedmetal5682 The Eastern bloc and the Soviet Union ended in 1991 so that's just beating a dead horse that can't defend itself. So what's the excuse for the continued inflation of the US Dollar? Are now going to trot out the old it's the Democrats excuse. Nixon (R) ended the International Gold standard and FDR (D) made gold ownership illegal. It's a deliberate economic policy to rob the working class and make the bosses property more valuable by the central bank controlling the prime rate and the national banks reserves requirements. The five year plans did work from 1928 to 1991 otherwise the capitalists wouldn't have been so afraid of the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union that did the heavy lifting in defeating the Capitalist Germany Nazi regime not the US/UK.
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@Generalinane Police attack workers on command of the bosses. Worker have a right to defend our picket lines from boss police attacks, scabs and fascist gangsters.
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@yourmajestyy9674 I'm surprised you don't propose a take rover by London and membership in the Commonwealth of Nations as a colony of Great Britain.
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@yourmajestyy9674 Don't you want to play knights of the oval table?
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Any taxes Bezos pays to the government are between him and the government. That's not our problem. Corporate taxes are voluntary anyway. Why else would GE get a zero tax bill.
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@LarryFleetwood8675 The overall purpose of the capitalist state is to protect the profits of the ruling class at home and abroad. Just as the goal of the bosses is to make profits not charity donations. Protection of profits comes first protection from crime second.
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@scatton61 Some things yes but usually he paints us with the broad brush of Republicans who are the opponents of the Democrats. We aren't part of the Democratic Party. Nor are we interested in reforming the capitalist state apparatus or expanding the administrative state. Nor are we conspiratorial as he seems to think..We seek to change the government with completely Constitutionally legal means. We've only really scratched the surface if your talking about minerals. Do we know whats beneath the ocean? The deepest hole is only about eight miles down in Siberia. We have lots of Gold doing nothing but sitting in vaults. We can probably replace U 238 with thorium which is much more plentiful. Platinum is somewhat rare and has industrial use as a catalyst but I'm not sure what the rest of the heavy metals are useful for. Anything with an atomic number less than iron we are going to have lots of because only stars like our sun were necessary to create iron. I have an agenda? Yes I do to set the record straight. We put the FBI on trial for all the things they accused us of doing in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. They couldn't prove a thing they claimed about the Russian revolution. They did break ins, Black bag jobs, wiretaps and used informants as agent provocateurs encourage marijuana use for possible arrest and disruption along with whatever minor reason they could use for harrassment like liquor laws at social gatherings and missed payments of spousal or child support. Gambling is no different than risk taking. Both are governed by the laws of probability now just because you might not be able to calculate it correctly or down to the penny doesn't change what you are doing. It has nothing to do with the morality of it but no you don't create anything by doing it anymore than trade does. It may only appear that it does because of the way the capitalist system works but that is a false appearance. Big risk can produce big rewards says Sowell. What a discovery!!! Is it any different than with gambling? Both parties might be happy or unhappy with a trade also but that doesn't mean the trade produced or lost something. It he case of Professor Sowell he seems to think it does and that may explain his believe that the subjective view answers the supposed paradox of the diamond and water.along with his and others anti materialist view of value in economics. Nor does he say anything about the accumulation of a surplus. He also talks about alternatives rather than uses. A use value for gold in microelectronics certainly trumps it use value in bank vaults or as jewelry. But saying alternatives masks the difference as if it makes no difference how something is going to be used in economics.
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@RandoTark The origins of slavery arose with agriculture and class society. People were captured during wars were used as slaves. Before that war captives were used for dinner when food was scarce.
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They are realizing that the lies told in defense of capitalism just aren't true. The real factual nonsense are things like money growing in a bank and capitalism producing value without labor. They idea that investors do anything for their profit besides demand more than they put in is simply ridiculous. They create a national debt because they would rather lend the government money than pay taxes.
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Before a fascist state can be consolidated from Bourgeois Democracy they first must defeat the trade union movement.
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@darrenjones2933 No you only think your different. Even if you only go to Canada you will realise your American in Culture. The constitution was a compromise between state and federal power. To entice the smaller states they got a little more say in choosing the president. The electoral college limited ballot stuffing and electoral theft to individual states and by voting in their states prevented Washington arm twisting should they vote in Washington. Like everything else Congress wrote the constitution and gave themselves the final say and ultimate power in deciding if the votes are valid. Congress can impeach Justices, Judges and the President. As long as they're in office they are untouchable by either the Judiciary or the President. A person in Virginia (Washington DC) has power over national forests in Oregon.
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@underarock9447 Go back under the rock.
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@underarock9447 Your needed in the Hampton's as the supervision of pet rocks.
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@mooael3796 Capitalism working well with endless war and seas of refugees moving across the world. Life span dropping in the US. Biggest Gulga's now in the US beating out Stalin's previous records. Wages stagnate since 1973. A Federal Reserve bank just as Federal as FedEx. Makes money by calling the Government printing Office and ordering more to be printed with pretty pictures.
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@mooael3796 Your problem is you think history is made by non violence. That people like Ghandi who serves as a goat leading the sheep to the slaughterhouse accomplish something. Your like the English and Canadians who can't even celebrate the beheading of Charles the first because it would insult the monarch. American's are different we celebrate bloody revolution every 4th of July and Memorial day. The Canadians didn't even have a Charter of rights and freedoms until about one hundred years after our civil war and one hundred ninety years after our first revolution. They and the English still have their cult of personality and are still searching for just the right mix of monarchy and parliamentary democracy.
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@mooael3796 Why do English MP's swear allegiance to the Queen and not a Constitution like American politicians? Come on now couldn't they at least swear to uphold the Magna Carta? Everytime they vote on that they turn it down. The reason is monarchism and the restoration serve to hide the reactionary role of the English merchant who hides behind a Queen with an act of Parliament. No monarchism in the UK? (UNITED KINGDOM) You've got to be kidding? All these state ceremonies for every royal birth and wedding. The use of Lords as Judges? Gandhi got a lot heads bashed in and he himself was assassinated by a Hindu reactionary. Gandi also opposed self determination for Muslims. Instead of industrialization he proposed a return to village life making home spun cloth and garments. He served as loyal dog for the English Imperialists during both world wars.
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@mooael3796 The King or Queen of Canada appoints the Governor General who then appoints property owners for life terms as Senators. Now I believe they cut back on Senators for life since the don't want anymore alzheimer's patients as Senators and someone had to donate property such that a Catholic nun could be a Senator.
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@mooael3796 England was one of the first countries where capitalism really got its start. Why not criticise the crown? Wouldn't a bust of King Charles serve the same purpose as the monarchy and peerage? Afterall their just figureheads? Peaceful Protest is one thing but marching up to the police for a head bashing is just stupid. Plus you need to plan to defend yourself if need be without relying on the authorities. MLK came close to getting a whole group of his followers killed in a Church. They had not so much as a stick form a picket sign when the church was surrounded with racists. He called Bobby Kennedy in DC and asked for help. Kennedy had to call out and deputise mailmen (federal workers) to prevent a catastrophe.
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@mooael3796 The British never have or had an intention of leaving anywhere until just before they're about to be kicked out. That's why they called themselves an Empire. You don't get anything by making sacrifices to you oppressor? Sure there's plenty of people who may believe that but its leaders like Gandhi who should know better.
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Its the same with what the workers are taught in school. You get into a minor fist fight and you end up at the principal's office. You get balled out for not getting help from the teachers instead of fighting back. I tell my dad that and he said, "I did the right thing by fighting back." I don't just accept what some authority tells me and that makes me different than a lot of other people.
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@mooael3796 Would the have bolsheviks have needed or be able to take power and embark on socialism if the Czar and the rest of the "Democratic Imperialists" weren't destroying "everything that democratic societies have built" with a world war over colonial possessions? Would Stalin have needed to go to war with Hitler if he had not attacked and threatened the world with his "Thousand Year Reich". In fact the only reason the "Democratic Imperialists" in the UK/US went to war with Hitler and Japan was they were threatening their "Democratic Imperailist" control of the world.
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@mementomori1749 Stalin created a murderous bureaucracy that reversed the policies of Lenin and Trotsky ultimately leading back to capitalism. Yet the American Imperialist did not win the cold war. To do so they would have needed to turn the war hot and destroy huge amounts of capital so the could restart primitive accumulation like at the end of WW2 with Marshall plan loans. They simply stood by and watched as the worlds largest aristocracy of labor executed its final betrayal of the world revolution with the most corrupt leading the way back to a new capitalism of their making. One needs only look at the last few years of history to see the failure of the world capitalist system and the most Militarily Powerful Empire in World History, The American Empire defeated by bands of reactionary Islamist guerrillas in Afghanistan.
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@mementomori1749 "I don't give a dent about Stalin's ideas." Well than obviously you chose one of the stupidest screen names possible. Since you don't give a dent about "Stalin's ideas" then its not worth my time discussing anything with you. The socialist revolution is ultimately a battle of ideas. A battle about how a new society can be constructed from the old. You don't get to socialism by police suppression of the "wrong ideas". You have to get there though calm and patient debate as that is the only way forward. You don't put a socialist bureaucrat in charge and say do everything for us Mr. Bureaucrat we will pay you a few pennies extra. The object of socialism is to make the affairs of state so transparent that even a cook can understand them. Raising the cultural and educational level of the masses has to be one of the first goals since a cultured and educated working class can not be easily deceived. This is why one of the first tasks of the Cuban Revolution was a mass literacy drive to teach the workers and peasants all how to read.
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Under Lenin and Trotskies leadership the Soviet Union was a voluntary association of independent socialist republics. Each with full and equal national rights to leave or stay. Lenin had declared war on Great Russian chauvinism a policy that Stalin with his Russification polices reversed. Than again you don't give a dent about Stalin's ideas now do you? How about his idea of assassinating Tito? You do remember Tito sending the "Great Leader" a note saying you send anymore assassins and I'll send one to Moscow who won't fail? Stalin's use of frame up trials and murder against any and all political opposition. Then again you don't give a dent about Stalin's idea's because like you he had very few to begin with. Instead he had to brag about himself much like you brag about being an unofficial Nueroscientist and Philosopher.
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@mementomori1749 Under Lenin and Trotskies leadership the Soviet Union was a voluntary association of independent socialist republics. Each with full and equal national rights to leave or stay. Lenin had declared war on Great Russian chauvinism a policy that Stalin with his Russification polices reversed. Than again you don't give a dent about Stalin's ideas now do you? How about his idea of assassinating Tito? You do remember Tito sending the "Great Leader" a note saying you send anymore assassins and I'll send one to Moscow who won't fail? Stalin's use of frame up trials and murder against any and all political opposition. Then again you don't give a dent about Stalin's idea's because like you he had very few to begin with. Instead he had to brag about himself much like you brag about being an unofficial Nueroscientist and Philosopher.
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@twilightprince4833 Proud boys like antifa are just out their looking for a chance to throw a punch and not much else. The emphasis the second amendment over the first because they seek to intimidate rather than convince.
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@twilightprince4833 Antifa and Democrats promoting riots only serve to provide ammunition to the state for the use of violence. The recent actions by middle class radicals in Atlanta confirm that. They occupied tree houses in a park and sabotaged construction equipment with the claim that they would stop the building of a cop training center. They forces of law and order sat back and gave them all the rope they needed to hang themselves in the media and community. So when the cops moved in and killed one of the tree house sitter they could then use counter terrorism changes against them. Meanwhile the build of the cop training center goes forward as another plan to "reform the cops". An impossibility just like the middle class demand to defund the police. .
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@twilightprince4833 And you get your news from the liberal press which does nothing but cry crocodile tears. The facts are clear middle class radicals made a promise they had no possible way of keeping by usinging "hero tactics." (Stopping the building of a police training center) and it cost one life and others are now facing excessive punishment with frame up terrorism charges. The same kind of charges liberals cheer when applied to anyone who wont buy Democratic Party hypocrisy. Democrat Party politicains began both Red Scares. Democrats were the Party of Jim Crow racism. Like the cops they keep their klan robes in the closet.
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Another victim of capitalist boss justice.
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@coachhannah2403 The source of racism is capitalist culture and both political parties.
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@user-hp6ls8qy6d Trump will be unable to change anything.
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Rick Perry the Texas governor who executed an innocent man.
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@cheikhoudiallo1560 Typical Bourgeois theory where everything can be defined by monetary costs. Hamas is a state/terrorist type of grouping. Hamas controls the strip it is responsible for the conditions there and the spending of money on rockets.
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@ShaharHarshuv Fascist have functioned as capitalist governments before and will whenever socialist revolutions fail. It is a basic law of history. .
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@user-mk4zu8wq4x No question Hamas did it. They released two hostages. Hamas is NAZI like organization in GAZA. It's goal is the extermination of the Jews. It is NOT a national liberation group. It is waging Holy Jihad against the Jews. Anyone who wants peace is the enemy and a traitor to Islam according to Hamas.
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@darwel007 Libertarianism is nothing but capitalist idealism.
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@darwel007 She wants to make drugs and prostitution respectable again. I'd say that's pretty extreme.
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@maalikserebryakov Its available online along lots of other books now.
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This is complete BS no way can capitalism be fixed though a change in tax policy. Only class struggle produces real results for working people. The real lessons of history are to be found in the movements and class struggle organizations built by workers. The trade unions and struggle to overthrow Jim Crow racism and the fights against Imperialist Wars of plunder.
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@pedrofernandez8729 Reagan signed the Mumford Act.
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@eratorKnight Sure it is. So what caused the crisis of 2008? Was anyones arm twisted to set those prices? I hear the faint cry of the neoliberal Sowell that if only people paid their mortgage contacts and government had not underwritten such bad risks. Well when you've got both sides of the equation in your favor what could possible go wrong? Bush was on a campaign to create an ownership society. So the neoliberals were totally in charge. They were riding high in the saddle and could believe the profits they were making until suddenly everything went in the opposite direction. This whole problem was supposedly solved with the derivative allowing profits to be made regardless of the direction the market took. They had hired the best math and physics genius money could teach at he elite universities to solve the banking problem. . .At the end the the day they passed the "No Banker Left Behind Act." under Obama who swooped just in time to save the bosses. That's is really what destroyed the Republican Party allowing Trump to enter the fray. Originally Sowell hoped Trump would get elected because he be easier to Impeach. Trump is anything but a neoliberal ideologue nor is he a fasicts.
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@TheImperatorKnight Maybe that what the salesman and retail workers think because they see no direct connection between what the do and the prices on the shelve. But you go ask a tradermen or a production worker they know that time at work is connected to pay. Everything tells us what we do is important in some way.
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@TheImperatorKnight If that was true than economic crisis would not occur nor would the bosses make such a stink over labor time.
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@RCmack The Democrats have exactly zero constructive ideas on anything whatsoever. They are the party of empty promises and liberal billionaires.
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@CorvusCorax. Nice to hear from a McCarthyite witch hunter! How long before we are going to have to say the pledge of allegiance before we can eat lunch at work?
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Manchin is your kind of Boss who knows how to pillage and steal with singing the rosary.
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Racism came with the new capitalist system and it will die in a socialist revolution.
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@mikedelvesco9553 Racism came with the new capitalist system in America when slavery got in the way of the new wage labor and capitalist system it was destroyed in a bloody civil war. Segregation was then imposed on Black working people. The entry of Blacks into the industrial unions began the process that would lead to the overthrow of Jim Crow racism by Black working people. Fidel Castro would lead his rebel Army of the sons and daughter of Sugarcane slaves to defeat the invincible white man of South Africa at Cuito Cuanavale, Angola.
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@mab7175 Sowell was a Marxist until his professors played a practical joke on him by sending him to the US Dept of labor as a young Marxist. Here the wise Sowell discovered that the US Gov'r agency wasn't run by fellow communists.
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@mikedelvesco9553 Sowell was a neoliberal like his old professor Friedman riding high in the saddle until the Crisis of 2008 destroyed the neoliberal conservatives in the Republican Party. He has now seen the light and is following Trump who flies by the seat of his pants rather than any real ideological base.
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@jesantonihevileon8611 Capital produces nothing so what can you expect from people who expect to male a profit by doing nothing.
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@richardneubauer3365 Texas Republican Oil Billionaires sending in Military slaves to do work cheap for Party Boss Biden's Democratic Imperialist government.
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@koywong5059 The problem with nukes is the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima is being forgotten. What kept nuclear states from going to war in the past is not the path to peace. What must be destroyed is Imperialism as that is the true cause of war and that can only be done with revolutionary nationalism and socialism. Defeat for Russia, NATO and the US.
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@flytink1 Cuba never went through a Stalinist counter revolution. The US has done nothing but try and destroy the revolution since 1959 with its blockade. Putin is not a socialist. His is the United Russia Party. He and his friends are capitalists. Sanders voted for the war in Afghanistan he has gone over to the capitalist Democrats who are traitors to the working class and like AOC are socialist in name only. Reagan financed the terrorists in Afghanistan only to have them bite the hand that feeds terror in 9/11. Bush launched his Imperialist war in Afghanistan only to be defeated and have the best politicians dollars could buy run for their lives. Putin faces an antiwar opposition just like LBJ and the Russian CZAR. We the Socialist Workers Party are the antiwar party. We beat the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@TheLAGopher The US ruling class does not keep any long term promises in the class struggle. Ruling class foreign policy is bi partisan voters in Florida or any other state have no say in that policy. The Cuban revolution was made without Moscow or Beijing's aid. Revolutions will continue because capitalism in decline lays the basis for revolution not Stalinist bureaucrats. How successful they become depends upon the leadership of those revolutions. The Imperialist continue their 60 year attempt to strangle the Cuban revolution. Invasion would exact a steep cost from the Imperialists since victory would not be guaranteed and the masses of people in Latin America would see it as another Imperialist assault upon them. The American Imperialist won nothing with the end of the cold war except more instability for their Empire. After 20 years of war in Afghanistan with their NATO partners they withdrew in disgrace along with the best corrupt "nation building" politicians money could buy. The Imperialist didn't even consult their closest NATO Imperialist partners before withdrawal. .
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@LucasFernandez-fk8se We don't need or have a right to be the world's policeman and we need to enter negotiations to stop building more nuclear weapons which is what the US Imperialist are doing. It's nuclear arsenal has stopped no one else from building nuclear weapons. If you want others to act responsibly than that is the way you have to act. The US Imperialist in Washington DC are incapable of doing that. Instead they would like a free hand be able to throw their weight around, overthrow governments at will and be the biggest bully on the block. Those days are over as the military budget becomes more unsustainable as we speak. Instead of doing anything for our workers and farmer at home the Imperialist in Washington want to choose up sides pick winners and losers and promote more wars for their bankers and bosses national profiteering interests. You can't be both a Democracy and an Imperialist power which is what the US is .It can start by ending its sixty year blockade of Socialist Cuba. Why should I care if some boss loses his shirt in a bad foriegn investment?
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Well what do you say about Saudi Arabia? Its not real capitalism? I've heard Peterson get up on his high horse with all the indication he can must and say if only I ran the damn revolution I would have ushered in the damn utopia. This of course is the cold warrior Peterson's reply to Trotsky. Trotsky having been murdered in Mexico on Stain's orders along with 1,000's of the Left opposition framed and murdered in the Soviet Union is not here to defend himself so I will. First the October revolution was the only choice for the workers and peasants. As Trotsky said Fascism would have been a Russian instead of an Italian word. Lenin would die in 1924 but not before wanting Stalin out of his position as General Secretary. Had Lenin lived or had Trotsky acted then instead of later would that of prevented all the damage Stalin would have done? That's only a possibility and no doubt a better one. We are optimistic and we will plead guilty on that charge alone.
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@sonofkabisch Cops for the nonaggression principle what an F and joke.
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@benjaminchartier6458 Stalin didn't purposely starve people to eliminate opposition it was his disastrous policies that brought about starvation. His murder purge of the 1936 to 1938 Moscow frame up trials came after the disaster not before to then eliminate criticism of his policies. Human nature is best when everyone has a full belly and a warm bed. No so good otherwise.
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@marikeschmidt7602 With the end of the NEP no one owned the means of production meaning private property had been abolished. Yeltsin/Freedman recreated private property by making the workers "real owners" and issuing salable stock certificates to them. That along with shock therapy to forced their sale to a new and even more corrupt capitalist class.
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What Congress needs to do is repeal the RailRoad Slave Labor Act take the Federal Courts and the President out of the right to strike profit hungry Rail Bosses.
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Customers will go and buy from WalMart.
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The guy was probably inspector cluso before going to work at CVS.
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@Krusty-kl5ej Its doesn't which Party you vote for they are both capitalist parties and they run the government inthe interests of capitalism and big business. Reagan was a strikebreaker ans he financed the Taliban and had sold misses to Iran. Capitalist greed caused 2008 because they wanted to sell house and thought the market had no limit. I lived in a rental apt. but the landlord was foreclosed upon. Trump got them all stirred up but he can't save capitalism either. In runs on the logic of greed.
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@veganath Workers control of industry.
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@cjay2 The bosse do care about compantacy they want order takers not thinkers. We live in a dictatorship of capital. They want to tell how to do everything how to act how much you they will pay and how much they will charge. Where profits and shareholder value always comes first. You want a raise sorry maybe next quarter. You don't own your car or home your a slave to a bank.
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@bobinthewest8559 I had everything that should have put me into the meritocracy of America right up to a scholarship for MIT. All those countries you mock developed to be economic powerhouses to challenge the United States. Do you hear anyone making a big deal about India today? But China is the number 2 economy in the world today. India with an extra 40 years of capitalism is still behind China in every metric. Sure America has the most Billionaires in the world. Wages followed productivity from 1945 to 1973 since then wages have stagnated. CEO pay has gone through the roof. Has Wall Street changed since 2008? Nope their still gambling as can be seen with hedge funds betting against "GameStop" by "shorting" their stock. So much for the Mr. nice guy investors just wanting to help each other make a buck and not engage in highway robbery of each other. Who do you think pays when they push a GameStop into bankruptcy? The stockowners lose their money to other stockholder but the workers who put their time and effort in they get a trip to the unemployment line.
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@bobinthewest8559 You see the US lost the cold war because it never turned hot. Unlike the end of WW2 the US can't float Marshall Plan loans. World capitalism has instead run itself headlong into a crisis is can't escape. They are at a complete loss as to what to do. They have lowered central bank interest rates to almost zero or negative hoping free money given to themselves will get the world economy rolling again. Obviously the shipping and tourist bosses don't see shipping or cruse lines as coming back anytime soon or they wouldn't be selling ships for scape to build bridges in China. Economist are wondering why we don't have hyperinflation yet since 4 dollars for every 10 already out there were added in the last year.
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@patrickfetherolf1627 Since the end of the civil War and the building of the Union Pacific RailRoad. The Rail Bosses can count on their stooges called Senator and Congressman.
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@ThatBernie LGBT people never faced the same problems as blacks and women since they could hide in the closet. No one really knows who is guy or not gay by simple looking at their sex or race. Males invading womens bathrooms is exactly the reason the right gave for opposing the ERA. You have your bare ass naked pride day marches and bicycle rides and the rest of the country thinks you've lost your marbles. In many instances all gays want to do is show off and make themselves the center of attention. You demand everyone accept your life as normal because you yourself don't accept it as normal and like I could give a shit what you do in the bedroom. You don't here people going around and bragging that they are straight and proud.
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Typical racist remark DeGrasse couldn't possible be worthy. But not a word would ever be said about all those who are admitted to elite universities because they are legacies.
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@Cdub1717 I'm only repeating what Trump says he wants. Maybe he has a way to twist arms at the Federal Reserve.
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@quitterlabime If anyone wants to be a dictator its Biden and Democrats. They want to save Democracy with a one party system.
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Hamas leaders are Billionaries living in luxury in Qatar! That are a NAZI like organization that mudered all their opposition after one election.
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You want to raise wages join a union. Allowing a drive against immigrant workers will only work to lower wages of all workers.
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So what your saying is DeSantis should ignore the judge?
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@whothen9146 So then he should do a Stalin/Hitler Purge of enemies in Florida leaving only the pure.
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@jamesyoung187 Should he than announce he is the dictator of Florida and everyone should obey him.
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svetozar milosevic Plan on seeing protests because that is the only way any right is won under capitalism. No rights the working class has won under capitalism are ever safe. The right to abortion was won first in the streets by young women and that is the only way it will be reconquered. Safe abortion was and will always be available for those who can afford it. This is nothing more than another attack upon the working classes right to have a family and live in dignity. .
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That is because the so called powerless the workers and farmers are the real economic power and not a few bosses who live in luxury giving orders. Fidel encourage those who left with Che some of the most selfless leaders of the revolution. "Fertile Ground:" Che Guevara and Bolivia, A First-Hand Account by Rodolfo Saldaña The US was accusing everyone who opposed it bosses of communism at the time. It was the McCarthy era. where even the US Army officers were accused of communism.
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@saricubra2867 Nothing can keep the fascist out of either Party. Since they are the vomit thrown up by a capitalism in crisis.
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@saricubra2867 I always thought that the capitalist mode of productions, the joint stock corporation, was a collectivist organization of the wealth capitalist class. Orwell himself was an on again off again communist are you sure you want to bring him into the discussion? You realize he fought for the Spanish Republic in the 1930's.
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@saricubra2867 The best way for you to avoid the original sin of collective labor is to move to the jungle and join the male orangutan swinging from tree to tree eating the low hanging fruit.
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@saricubra2867 Edison was not a great inventor he was a great employer of inventors including Nicola Tesla. Had Edison not promised Tesla a large sum of money to solve a particular problem and then refused to pay. Edison might have been later hailed for Tesla's invention the transformer, alternator, synchronous motor and induction motor. An angry Tesla feeling cheated set out on his own.
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@saricubra2867 The people who live in Boca Chica, Texas aren't particularly fond of Space X or Musk. Basically like all bosses he has no respect for others including their property rights. After all the US Supreme court see's nothing wrong with using the emanate domain clause for worthless promises of jobs made by big companies. You home can be taken if the bosses and their government decide its in the public good like the worthless promise of jobs by Pfizer in New London. CT. Musk is open to ideas that will make him more profits period. Wasting money so he can make a profit building a Mars colony and giving the rich a rocket ride to the Space Station is criminal. Tesla died a pauper.
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@saricubra2867 World capitalism is facing a crisis unprecedented since the Great Depression. A few campus SJW's is the least of your problems. People coming out angry all over the country about police brutality and torture isn't a sign of a healthy capitalism. Same with the days of angry protests in Hong Kong. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is creating its own angry opposition to bureaucratic privileged. You think those Chinese protesters are going to buy into a Eastern Europe new capitalism solution?
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@saricubra2867 Fascism is capitalism with a whole organization of extra legal thugs used as a repressive force against the working class. Benito Mussolini had his black shirts, Adolf Hitler his Brown Shirts, and American Hitler wanabe William Dudley Paley had his Silver Shirts.
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@saricubra2867 The tear gas smells the same regardless of the cops skin color. Its like a black or female CEO their goal of profit maximization remains the same. Nor does capitalism require bourgeois democracy.
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@saricubra2867 The capitalist police do what they are ordered to much like the National Guard at Kent State. If ordered they will attack a campus anti war demonstration without receiving an authorization for the University to attack the protest. They'll use tear gas and they go on a campus police riot cubing anyone the see and can get to. Even at Kent State they killed an ROTC student who had nothing to do with the protest.
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@saricubra2867 Show me a CEO who isn't engaged in Profit maximization and I show you a company headed for bankruptcy court cannibalization. By creating inflation with a central bank the bosses can avoid unpopular wage cuts and the value of their property increases in money value. While the workers lose the buying power of their money wage.
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@saricubra2867 Kent State May 4th, 1970 Ohio National Guard Opened fire on unarmed student protesters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX95QSKBODo
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@saricubra2867 Nixon was a well know red baiting anti communist that's how won his first election as a Congressmen. Keynes was a British capitalist economist theorist. Since 1948 The Socialist Workers Party has ran Presidential Candidates AGAINST the two ruling capitalist parties.
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@zarach9459 Now if you want to practice a trade in the capitalist USA you need a state or city permit requiring an exam with proof that you worked as a slave for some boss with a permit to work in the trade. The only change is now the bosses have the government issue the permit.
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Break up the NATO allaince!! End the US Blockade of Cuba!! Solidarity with the Ukrainian people!! Retool the war factories for civilian needs!!! Build a new labor party to replace the Democrats and Republicans.
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@AlexanderGeorge Problem with poor people is you have no choice but to be poor at their time of poverty. There is no need for a landlord class of parasites sucking up value anymore than there is a need for a better bed bug.
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Reagan was going to build a star wars defense for first strike capability. He was such a reckless military spender that he signed a spending bill that had a wong total that was actually way over budget. They never changed it because it was used as a threat to the Soviets.
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Why would you want to keep people who don't want to stay?
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@keyboarddancers7751 They never had a problem educating people in Cuba. Those who want to leave were never forced to stay. The US promised to process 20,000 visas but refuses to do so preferring a migration crisis at its border.
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@keyboarddancers7751 The idea that you need to keep people locked in to build socialism along with the idea that you can build socialism in one country is anti Marxist. This is just part of the counter revolutionary theories developed by Joe Stalin.
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@jonlittle5032 I don't argue with children who play games. If you don't think the source of profits is labor than you can explain how they are made. Money doesn't grow on trees nor does it grow in a bank vault either. Second big companies have much bigger labor costs and make much more profit than your dads garage sweatshop.
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@jonlittle5032 The last time world capitalism found itself in this big a crisis was after the 1929 stock market crisis. At the end of the day Thomas Sowell credits the World War with ending the great depression. Today you have the economic elements of capitalist market competition breeding war again. Russia wants Ukraine. The US is trying to halt the rise of China starting with Trump's trade war which Biden continues although some elements want greater efforts made. In a certain way we are back to the pre World War one era. On the one hand the defenders of capitalism say war is unthinkable (even more so with nuclear weapons) on the other hand ruling classes are once again fighting over the world markets. There is no solution to the problems of the world market within the borders of any one capitalist state.
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@jonlittle5032 I don't have a scripted narrative for you or anyone else. Freedman died before he could see his neoliberal project go down the drain with the crisis of 2008. No doubt like his follower Thomas Soewll he'd blame the whole thing on government intervention. As if capitalist profit rates and incumbents could be protected without periodic government intervention. .
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@yeldam8394 This was another disaster for working people like the whole war created by the US capitalist two party system of exploration for the rich capitalist bankers and bosses in America.
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@francisdavis1271 This was another war by he US two party capitalist dictatorships driven by bankers and bosses greed.
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No this is the result of capitalist greed. The massive ship was NOT being escorted by TUGS and so when it lost power it just drifted into the bridge. They were able to get out a warning that allowed for the bride to be closed to traffic. Those ships go close to 48 ft deep the harbor is only safe at 50 ft. They been using bigger ships since the widening of the Panama canal. Two dead, four missing and two alive construction workers on the bridge. Forget the Ukraine angle. It's stupid. A pilot operates the ship in the harbor not the ships master. When the bridge was first in service it was accessed by a super two hwy not a 2x2 Interstate.
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@bec6384 End the blockade!!!
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Anthony Kelley Your a bald face liar. Cuba is a sovereign nation and has the right to defend itself from any US Imperialist military Invasion force. The US CIA is n organization of state terrorism. Kennedy launched a failed US CIA planned invasion of the island first
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This is a lot of BullShit by Democrats who want votes.
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Martin I read those articles so why couldn't this women be punished for simple or felonious assault? I suppose if she was the child's mother she could clam parental rights to beat a child. I would not agree to that though either. Plenty of hate usually involved in assault or murder except when its claimed to be domestic violence. Dirty Sanchez wants an exception for aliens basically he is either a cop or cop lover who wants a military dictatorship where the cops can do no wrong as a matter of law.
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@jashuasmith9361 Cuba freed itself from the hated corrupt Batista Dictatorship in 1959.
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spot light The first goal of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution was to teach the army and the peasants to read. Unlike the capitalist who only want to save money our goal is to raise the general cultural level of the working class.
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spot light Any progressive role played by US capitalism began to end with the Hayes Tilden compromise of 1877 ending reconstruction in the South another turning point was the Imperailist war with Spain in 1898. Certainly since the first world war it has been the task of the labor movement alone to defend the democratic rights fought for and won in two bloody revolutions the first in 1776 and the next being the civil war.
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spot light The belief in three co equal branches is wrong. Congress wrote the constitution and made itself the most powerful branch. Presidents, Justices, and Judges can be impeached only each house of Congress can take any disciplinary measures against their respective members. Presidents and Justices play no role in calling for a constitutional convention or adding constitutional amendments. The Senate looks over the shoulder of many things the President does and legally only Congress can declare war.
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spot light A socialist revolution is not the same as electing a Labour government in the UK. We do expect to elect Congressmen and Senators but we also expect the probability of a slaveholders revolt like that of Jeff Davis only to be done by the capitalist class in an effort to nullify electoral results and retain private property the property used to exploit others.
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spot light Nazi Germany was a capitalist country organized for war. No more socialist than any other fascist country like Italy or Spain. Hitler was brought in by President General von Hindenburg to save the German capitalism with the approval of businessmen who formed a committee to advise Hitler. .
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spot light Socialism began in the poor nations first instead of the rich. No way am I joining the capitalist Democratic party. I'm 67 and I've never cast a vote for them and have no intention or reason to do that now. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are talking about going to Mars and I saw the SpaceX thing in the local paper and it looks like I said it did. If all I wanted was a life of comfort I'd of stayed or returned to MIT and statistically be a rich engineer by now or at the very least be middle class in comfort level. The SWP ( TheMilitant.com) has no intention of becoming progressive and joining the Democratic (war) Party. Since the 2008 more and not fewer workers are interested in what our movement has to say. If socialism was irrelevant than Trump wouldn't have to run against, the Capitalist Democratic Party wouldn't need or allow Bernie Sanders join it and the New York Times which usually ignores our Party wouldn't have printed an op ed urging anyone who considered voting for us to vote for Clinton instead. To me it seems like you need to convince yourself that socialism is a 'big loser' since you can't convince me of that. You wanted me to leave the country so you can more easily keep those eyes closed to the injustice that surrounds a capitalist world in crisis.
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spot light One election I believe. We don't expect to win any elections right now. We play a role outside of our size when any mass anti capitalist movement develops. Like the 1934 Teamsters General Strike in Minneapolis and the over the road campaign to build the Teamsters Union. Malcolm X use to speak at our Militant Labor Forums and we publish many of his speeches. Leon Trotsky in Mexico was consulted by our parties founders. We played a major role in the anti Vietnam war movement NPAC and SMC. We are the defenders of the Cuban revolution on this side of the Florida straits. We have a weekly paper TheMilitant.com and a book publisher PathfinderPress.com.
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spot light Will do!!!
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Like the British the American government puts the interests of its ruling class first. It closed its doors to the Jews despite the rise of Hitler before and after the second Imperialist war. Like the British Empire the American Empire which took its place is in decline and those who are its allies are involved in ever shifting alliances between the US, China and Russia.
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@johneggmuldoon3176 Keep talking the crazy BS. It only enhances your isolation. The problem for the bosses is capitalism naturally breaks up workers families and causes a decline in the population. These all stems from the drive to maximize the profits of the bosses by paying the lowest wages and working us the longest hours.
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What the hell do you want the keeper of the two holy mosques remaining in power? That's who the Saudi Prince is. Stop selling him weapons and pull out all US troops and he will be lucky if they let him live for a week.
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@neptasur It certainly is no one has ever been born without a sperm in the egg. Plus for the religious it has to travel through the womb on its way to fertilize the egg. The fact is though we have never given someone the right to another's body. Let me know when conservatives find a right to life for the homeless to nine months of care at their house.
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@neptasur That is nothing more than religious hypocrisy that completely ignores the life of the women and men involved. People enjoy sexual relations and just because they do doesn't mean every pregnancy created needs to come to term. In fact avoiding unwanted pregnancy should be a social goal not bringing every pregnancy to term. The use of modern methods of birth control reduces the need for abortions and we have never given any rights to a fetus. A human life has always been recognized with a birth certificate in the modern world. In fact the only reason abortion became illegal was because it became a safe alternative to pregnancy.
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@neptasur Like i bet your really responsible for every mistake you make. Do you rush down to make a confession for blushing in front of the mirror? That you were born perfect because your mother told you so. I'm not interested playing your word games. Scrabble was not my favorite thing. No one has any absolute right to life or anything else for that matter.
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@neptasur Right make those who don't want to be responsible for a child responsible to give them a chance to learn responsibility on a play thing called a child because Catholic Priest are big on being Pro Life and while good at child abuse have yet to adopt a single orphan. .
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@boris2997 The birth rate no longer is high enough for replacement.
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@boris2997 Without immigration the US population would no longer increase.
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Its a general trend in all the advanced capitalist countries. Capitalist "miracle country" like Japan and South Korea have declining and aging populations because the bosses no longer on a a social average pay and create enough stability for the workers to form families to socially reproduce themselves.
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Well Tik now you've got the problem of De Lorenzo from the Misses Institute giving a talk on inflation where he talks about the FED opperting like a Soviet Central Planner. My only question is this if you get rid of all the central planners how many Indians do you want to hire to watch for those price signals.
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It starts with an alternative reality like the US being an anti Imperialist power and not the leading Imperialist power post world war two.
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Didn't Stalin adopt the appeasement of Hitler following the Democratic Imperialist Chamberlin with the Stalin Hitler Pact and the Spheres of influence agreement?
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Those who take the biggest risk and pay the biggest price for capitalism are the poor and working class. The bosses and bankers are protected by the capitalist state power. .
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@WhyteVintageWine Like Thomas Sowell.
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@WhyteVintageWine Ya he doesn't speak for your class of billionaire bosses and bankers at the World Economic Forum,.
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@DavidLopez-rk6em The opened the mini mill with labor at half the price too boost profits.
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So probably a large number of his supporters would like to have a thing with Stormy Daniels. However no one wants to look at Trump's Johnson.
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n Vietnam the US set up strategic hamlets. The moved the peasant farmers out of their homes which they burned down and into camps surrounded by barbed wire with armed soldiers then the sent a soldier with every peasant who wanted to leave to work in his field. They were constantly in search of weapons because anyone against the South's military dictatorship was an enemy. They were afraid if the farmers had guns they could defend themselves against the US backed military dictatorship.
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Yang revealed on the Ben Shapiro show that his "Freedom Dividend' is meant to save tax money Social Security benefits to be cut by $1,000 and all other Federal Benefits are to be ended. No more UI or Food Stamps. It a Good Friday diet plan.
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@davidlafleche1142 The BIG LIE told by the ultra right where all critics are part of a conspiracy launched by the Communist Party against Capitalist Boss policy. Anyone not receiving endorsement from the John Birch Society News media obviously can't engage in the direct truth about how the bosses maximizing profits come first before all other considerations including rail safety so they have to talk about how the workers refusing boss demands will cause economic disruption. Boss greed is behind the disaster at East Palestine, Ohio. .Wall Street Bosses run the big media companies and they sing the praise of the boss system when ever possible and talk about how reform is possible though greed regulation by those paid to do the bidding of the bosses the capitalist two party stooges. . .
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@chichiboypumpi He died on the front lines in the battle against Imperialism.
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@chichiboypumpi What's you point smarty pants? Slavery is gone already been replaced by capitalism.
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@chichiboypumpi Communism isn't a new religion with its holy priests. It is based in facts and the history of modern class struggle between the two most important class the working class and the capitalist class. I hope I haven't disturbed your pray services Will you be following in the shoes of the 12 apostles?
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@Kyle-sr6jm Nope it still a misdemeanor. Meaning punishable by up to a year in jail. The old limit was $400.
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@@Oost129 It is necessary for a minority to control the surplus value as long as the surplus is small. The larger the surpus becomes the greater the need for scientifically better and more democratic control of the surplus. It's the rise of the productive forces of man that makes the liberation of labor from the animal state possible.
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Don't you want more babies? Where do you think they come from?
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@KulaGGin Sowell is the one who proclaims himself smarter than Karl Marx.
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@masada2828 Communism is not a doctrine with its holy priests. It is a movement and It proceeds from facts and the generalizations drawn from them good or bad.
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@danielameyer3598 The first victims of Stalin were the communist left opposition to Stalin not 'wrong thinking capitalists'. The days when the Stalinist with their many counterfeit "Socialism in One Country" countries which became "Socialism in NO Country" are all but gone. Today the Cuban revolution continues because it never became or was started as a hated Stalinist police state. Only 90 miles away they are still a bone in the throat of US Imperialism. The people of a small Island standing off from the greatest Empire ever know in human history. A people who's internationalism is saving the lives of the poor and humble across the world. Today 10,000 foreign medical students are training in Havana to be doctors at no direct cost to the student. In the US only those with either money or willing to take out $100,000 loans can be doctors in the US unless they migrate from other countries where special rules for immigration to the US apply.
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@randyweaver6543 Go watch the movie "Scar Face". That's why sitting US Presidents keep their months shut about political prisoners in Cuba. The last major victory for the US in Cuba was canceling elections and making General Batista dictator. Just like other supporters of the US Imperialism you show your contempt for any people who don't want a US puppet in power. Regime change is the atomic bomb heard around the world.
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@randyweaver6543 Che Guevara told the Soviets, "If they hit us don't wait for them to hit you. Fire your missiles immediately." Kennedy's reckless actions came close to setting off WW3. Go watch more cable TV propaganda it wasn't called "a vast wasteland" by an FCC chairman for nothing. The rest of your insults show such promise and great ability in politics that you should pick one of the two ruling parties and run for dog catcher to qualify for a presidential run if your not already a qualified billionaire.
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@eu en Sure we have in the early years of the October Revolution and in Cuba today.
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@dawid12301d How's all that capitalism working out now? Have you been good little boys raising your NATO contributions?
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@dawid12301d Congratulations on your independence. However after looking at World Bank Figures Poland hasn't recovered from its highest GDP in 2008. That was of course the time of the capitalist meltdown. Plus it is measured with consumption and private investment. Those can be shifted back and forth between consumer spending (wages) and private capital investment (profit). Meaning wages can remain flat while investment continues to rise.
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That really means absolutely nothing. Government has to perform functions that can't produce profits by constantly cutting manufacturing labor time for sale in a market. Henry Ford wanted government to build public roads because he realized waiting for the construction of turnpikes with private capital like the roads in early England and American would be waiting for a long time and impractical. He wanted to sell cars then not 100 years in the future.
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@russellgay5337 Millions died under feudal rule in Russia and China due to famine and war before the revolutions. Same in western Europe when all kinds of wars were waged before nation states and capitalist production could begin. No where in the world did capitalism not bring brutality and barbarism along with it. The British brought the loom to Europe and then cut off the thumbs of those who used their own in Bengal. The British waged a war to sell Indian opium in China. America developed the nuclear weapon and was the only nation to use one unessasaily on people. Twenty million Soviet citizens diced to defeat Hitler Twenty thousand died to defeat Batata in Cuba and nowhere near that number have died since because communism saves lives also when the errors of Stalin aren't repeated. The US in fact secretly claimed it victory in Vietnam was assured by projected death toll. So don't lecture me on with your hypocrisy on the number of deaths.
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@russellgay5337 Sowell ads nothing to the debate since he can't even define an economy other than to say it is not the garden of eden. Sowell will tell the law of gravity means that apples fall from trees and then tell that when he throws up an apple into the air he has just broken the law of garity. He himself deals primarily in ideas and in fact the trouble the working class movemnet has had almost always originates first form those who primarily deal in ideas. It was in fact Marx himself who said the task of the liberation of the working class is a task of the working class itself. As far as exporting food goes the British merchants staved Ireland while the bags of grain for export sat on Irish docks. Sowell is a neoliberal who denies even the existence of a class struggle. His whole work is little more than religious diatribes to so called free markets and the demonization of governments.
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@russellgay5337 Most are economic refugees and the decline of american capitalism has nothing to do with "socialism". Neither Venezuela nor Nicaragua had a social transformation of property relationship. Nevertheless the US uses trade war and real war against any country that defies its investor class. The workers in the poorest nations along with the weakest Imperialist one Russia have been the most successful in moving ahead with socialist revolutions. As capitalism declines it will create a revolutionary situation in the United States itself just like Western Europe before and after world wars one and two.
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@russellgay5337 First of all Marx and those who have followed him have never laid out a final blueprint like an engineer building a bridge. Rather they have pointed at the class struggle as the historical process that leads inevitably towards communism. Nor did they ever say the working class wins every battle or that the struggle and historical process can't go in reverse. Just as they said capitalism will sweep across the world replacing other out moded social systems so would socialism. The fact that the working class hasn't meet your timetable doesn't mean we have failed. Quit the contrary. Did capitalism survive world war one and two sure it did by destroying other nations capital and restarting privative accumulation. Did the communist movemnet fail only if you call Stalin and his gangsters communist who found themselves having to murder revolutionaries to gain control of the first workers state after the Paris commune which was defeated by an invasion of bourgeois forces. Nevertheless after the second world war the territory of the first workers state expended not just under protection of the Red Army but with new revolutions with Stalinist leaders who bickered with Stalin himself. Then along came Fidel Castro and once again an almost brand new leadership arose in addition to the followers of Leon Trotsky in the United States. Now you have a world of independent nations which was also one of Lenin goals if he could not get another revolution in the advanced courtiers off the ground.
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@keithmarcum4523 That's been part if the official conservative agenda along with expanding the false promises of worthless private pensions If they can't do it then the Democrats will try to.
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Their are no pro workers ruling class judges.
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@eric_a_ The rule based upon what is best for the bosses as a class in both the short and long term. The courts are not a legislature or Congress. The big donners control both parties which lets them say may the best man win because both are in my pocket. The courts only interpret the Constitution, the laws Congress and the legislatures write. You stay out of court unless they are using the laws against you. No worker goes to a court when the bosses give us trouble. Its the bosses who are constantly going to court against us and the unions.
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@eric_a_ Judges who want to close down regulator agencies that do nothing but play the role of protecting the industries the regulate should be abolished along with the others like the FEC that do nothing but engage in election interference. Capitalist politicians aren't going to end corruption, create level playing fields or drain swamps.
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Too bad you can't be charged with having a snotty nose like Ralph Nader.
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@aequoria2949 Why don't you go bring a bible to Saudi Arabia and enjoy a close shave with a nice sharp steel blade complements of Obama's and Trump's good friend the Prince and his loyal religious police. While you there maybe you can get some bone saw and sulfuric acid contracts assuming you don't get so excited that you lose your head while getting a really close shave.
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@flinch622 All that does is end parole boards who don't release a whole lot of people to begin with since they are usually made up of retired law enforcement to begin with. Its just another money buy you way out reform. If you turn out to be the unusually wealth criminal you''ll find a way to make the parole board see the light. If your poor why would the parole board take a chance? Parole boards aren't made up of bleeding heart liberals.
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@TexasHoosier3118 Well do you want to put the fetus on trial and put it in a jail instead?
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@aequoria2949 Why are you afraid of a revolution?
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@flinch622 So then the State will have to pay for the malpractice insurance unless you've got a bunch of people who want the prestige and have the money to be public servants..People like yourself with plenty of money to throw around solving problems like Bill Gates does. Ya that's another real good idea. Give the insurance leeches some more money in profits. They are getting enough from health care as it is right?.
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@svenm7264 The Smith "gag" Act named after anti labor Southern Democrat Smith was used by the new deal liberals to put 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers party and Minneapolis Teamsters in prison. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) was Kennedy's (D) ambassador to Vietnam. Republican Earl Warren presided over the end of segregation at the Supreme court for which Southern Democrats wanted him impeached. FDR turned back a ship of Jews refusing to grant asylum form NAZI Germany. Gramsci and the Frankfurt school had some popularity among the New Left back in the 1970's. The only people entranced with them today is right wingers. Gramsci was a victim of Italian fascism and died in prison. The Frankfurt school had more appeal during the cold war conservatism of the working class in Western Europe and the US. During the Great Depression the Stalinist had much greater influence in the labor movement world wide and they had the Popular Front Against Fascism strategy of an alance between them, the Social Democrats and bourgeois liberals. That straggly failed miserably but those groups still maintain that strategy. That's why Sanders wanted the Democratic Party nomination and his backsliding into support for Imperialist war starting with Afghanistan. Trunp's election shows discontent with the liberal democrats among the working class of all colors.
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@aequoria2949 The second amendment is meaningless without the first. Your not ready for a revolution because you don't have any real grievances with capitalist America.You like things the way they are or at least you think you do and that's why you think owning a firearm makes you a revolutionary. A real revolutionary studies revolutions. The civil war was America's second revolution and it had a problem simular to the Russian when the Hays Tilden compromise was made. Segregation was America's Stalinism.
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@svenm7264 People who actual make revolutions tend to be more popular then people who die in prison and Professors who write books. If you want to learn about Marxism you read Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Castro and Che. You can read theses other people also but Stalin never wrote that much and was not a major figure in the 1917 Revolution. Mao and Tito were both from the Stalinist faction. Fidel and Che came to the Marxist road as the revolution progressed. They were familiar with the writings of Marx and Lenin but were not from the Stalinist faction which delayed entry and support of the Cuban revolution. The Cuban revolution is still progressing and it avoided the Stalinist political prisoners and murder machine that were part of the Soviet Union after Stalin took power and crippled the Chinese and other revolutions from the beginning.
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@svenm7264 Right now all that stuff along with the woke liberals, CRT, and anti materialist ideas like sex being determined by choice seem to be a big deal but when the working class goes into motion against the economic crisis and the employers that will point a new road forward. There are a number of strikes going on against two tier wage rates right now.
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@dionysius1b870 Lots of big talk but at the end of the day the right must defeat the labor movement before you can dream of anything but terrorist actions against us. The KKK was America's biggest rightest fascist type organization and its down to a few fools and overweight policeman. Unite the Right was defeated by mass protest in Boston. You back to hiding under rocks like a bunch of lizards hoping to create an underground organization you can mobile when the need arises.
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Joey Joe You idiocy shows what you know about communism since a line of blood separates Stalin from Trotsky.
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Joey Joe "WE are all DEMONS and racists." If that's what you think of yourself who am I to argue with you.
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Joey Joe She obviously pays her malpractice insurance out of her income unless she is employed by the government. Parole board employees are paid by the state. So if they needed insurance it would have to be paid for out of their state income. Unless they are like you who want to work for prestige.
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Joey Joe I'm not a liberal idiot and I don't vote for Democrats. If your not a racist I'll take your word for it until you prove otherwise. Now understand why you hate Marxism. You a numbers juggler for the bosses. Chain of command with the top idiots like Elon Musk and Bill Gates in charge. We don't need your government which is why we need a socialist revolution. Your an accountant but you don't understand that their is more than on kind of insurance? Social Security is technically the Federal Insurance Contract Act. A company might pay for fire and flood insurance. If you own a car you probably have at least the minimum liability insurance and maybe more. Insurance is regulated so the insurance companies can control how its marketed. All an insurance company cares about is risk and who they have in the risk pool. If they know those variables than they can set a price and know how much capital they need to keep on hand for payouts.
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Joey Joe Money is printed and coined by the US Treasury on the orders of the Federal Reserve Bank who's board of governors are appointed by the President for ten year terms although its a privately owned bank. The government also taxes and borrows the same money the federal reserve banks lend to the national banks who then lend it out at a higher rate of interest. The national debt is a way for the rich to avoid taxes by lending money they should be paying in taxes.
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@CAsnowman People in the poorest nation in Europe with the world's richest man choose the revolutionary road of socialism and national self determination first. The fact that that became perverted is no different that what happened in the American South when the Northern Industrialist betrayed the newly freed slaves and working people to Democratic party, red shirt and KKK violence. You would want to back to slavery to avoid the civil war would you?
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@CAsnowman The saying they have in the Eastern Bloc countries is everything they taught us about capitalism was true but everything they taught us about socialism was a lie. The right has been accusing Democrats of being Reds since the McCarthy era. Some things just never change. The main reason is the FDR allaince with Stalin during the war years. The Stalinist thoght they had a permeate allaince with American capitalism. At the end of the War the Daily Worker trumped the end of the class struggle and the leaders of the American CP talked of shaking the monopolists hands only to find themselves doing 5 year stretches in Federal Prison under Truman and Eisenhower. Their war years strike breaking for the war effort left them with few friends in the working class outside of their closest circle.
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@svenm7264 All you need to do is explain how the MSM has never been able to name a single person unjustly executed in Cuba. Someone who didn't commit a serious crime like murder, piracy or terrorism. While you at it you can explain why the US CIA downed a Cuban civilian airliner. Flight 455. Bush said no nation has the right to harbor terrorists except the US of course. Then its okay except when the commit their crimes on US soil. Then they get some jail time.
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@jenniferj5324 How many died under capitalism? How many died of Opium sold by the British to China? Or the English religious wars. How many died in the US civil war. Ever heard of the Taiping rebellion? Irish peasants died on the side of the road while the English had grain exports on the Docks during the great famine. Many of those who got on the ghost ships died when the defective ships sunk for the insurance money. Churchill allowed a famine in Bengal durring WW2. Ships with Grain from Australia sailed by and Churchill asked why isn't Ghandi dead yet? How come the US counted bodies in Vietnam as a sign of a coming victory. Why did the US drop nuclear bombs on Japan when they were already defeated? Eighty million died in WW2 in just 6 years. If Stalin hadn't built nuclear weapons when he did than the US would have probably used nukes in Korea on Chinese cities. Then if humanity survived a nuclear winter you would be living in a world that was 1/2 dead already. Lenin and Trotsky didn't tell the capitalist countries to start a world war over colonial possessions. The problem is the capitalist nations can't avoid fighting over the world market.
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@ClockworkWyrm The capitalist get their money as a return on investment. They don't "earn it" they way people who actually labor do. They should pay all the taxes not just a percentage. The government than borrows money from the rich as the national debt so they can make even more. The central bank has to keep lending money otherwise the money would al come back to the bank and the economy would stop. How long do you think they can just keep lending money and expect to get back more than they lent out?
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@jenniferj5324 I 'm not a CCP troll but even if I was as I pointed out the capitalist countries entered the Imperialist era and the only solution they have for their economic problems has been world war. I'm 69 so I don't have many years left. Its your world you think capitalism can solve its problems first pointed out in Das Kapital the I'd like to know how. Its an unstable system and its only become more unstable in my lifetime. You can't afford another world war with nuclear weapons and you can't expect America to control the world market militarily. Afghanistan shows what a folly that was. All that stuff about free markets and American exceptionalism is hogwash.
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@jenniferj5324 I never said it was right to do that. Pol Pot was supported by Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter as a way to punish Vietnam. Stalin didn't murder people who wanted capitalism in the Soviet Union he murdered 1000's of his opposition in the communist Party itself and he also had 100's of supporters of Trotsky murdered in Spain. He was the one leading the Soviet Union back to capitalism and it took another 36 years until Gorbachev could complete what he started. You find me a single person who didn't commit the crime they were accused of in Cuba. You can search all MSM you want and all you'll find is complaints about how someone wasn't treated right because they don't murder the political opposition. People like Marco Rubio say the Castro brother are killing people yet he can't name a single innocent person. If your going to murder your political opposition its doesn't do any good if nobody knows who they are. They rely on what Stalin and Mao did as proof. Would you like to be accused of crimes when no one can name a victim? You want to start a free Enterprise be my guest see how easy that is when you find yourself needing a loan from the bank. I don't need to read stories because we've printed the truth about what went on in the Soviet Union since 1928 in The Militant newspaper.
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@johnnyjohansson16 You think when capitalism came into the world ut didn't come in by bloody revolution with dirt and sweat dripping from every pore? You really don't know much about history if you think the American, French and English revolutions weren't bloody along with the American civil war. I suppose no one starved before the Russian and Chinese revolutions either. The British were harvesting grain and it sat on Irish docks while Irish peasants starved to death on the side of the road during the great famine. If the capitalist world powers could avoid fighting over the world market the Marx would just be an obscure philosopher with meaningless theories about capitalism. The capitalists can't escape their own greed, their system can't avoid crisis, and they are divided into nation states fighting over a world market. To gain any stability for the system they need to destroy those who can't afford to pay their prices and their rivals in the market. That was the driving economic force behind the two world wars. I'm 69 years young I'll be gone in a few years do you think you can afford WW3 with nuclear weapons or that the US can continue in its role a world market policeman? Afghanistan shows the literal bankruptcy of US foreign policy. Capitalism isn't Junior Achievement. It's massive basic industry like that of metals, coal, oil and electricity the production of modern life all depends on owned by a few capitalist families in the rich nations. They demand a return on investment and to make a profit on everything produced no matter what happens to it later on. They are too big to fail corporations, banks and are the creditors for national debt.
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@jenniferj5324 Afghanistan was ordered by Bush and received almost unanimous Congressional support. The past losses by the Stalinist and Social Democratic Leaderships hasn't taught the capitalist nation states how to solve the problems of capitalism. Unlike the pre WW1 and WW2 era the trade unions in none of the capitalist or old Socialist bloc countries have been decisively defeated. The industrial workers in the Eact defeated the Stalinists not Ron Reagan with his saber rattling, star wars first strike plan and demagogy. Instead his administration had to sign the death warrant for South African apartheid's defeat in Angola with Revolutionary Cuba in the New York accords.
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@svenm7264 I don't take people who believe in communist conspiracy theories seriously.
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@svenm7264 Only in the minds of conspiracy theorists. Where everything in history is a conspiracy by important men working behind the scenes like the Wizard of OZ.
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@svenm7264 Markets aren't free or voluntary a police force is needed to oversee the rights of sellers in the markets. Markets are necessary for distribution of items that their is a shortage of. Markets are a source of violence among human beings Years ago a restaurant always served you a free glass of ice water. Today they ask you what you want to drink and charge you for water from a plastic bottle. A total waste of resource but a source of market profits. The stats kept by the Federal Reserve show wages stagnating since 1973. The Imperialist investors need military force to protect their foreign investments form the poor who might decided not to pay the agreed upon return. The US plans to spend billions updating its nuclear weapons. Weapons most of the worlds people hate. But the US Imperialist are moving ahead with these plans with no debate in Congress. The independent middle class shrinks with capitalist development. Most of us spend our money at places and stores where we have no knowledge of who the owners is. The US can't even educate enough Doctors for the medical system instead it must rely on immigrants trained at the cost of poor countries to fill about 1/3 of the positions. I'm at the age where you actually need to see a doctor and I usually never see the same one twice anymore. Yet all the do is talk about how a Doctors needs to "follow you". The doctors follow the dollars and people on medicare come last. The all specialize, just had out pills, and give the latest spew they learned from big pharma. I'm sure it a great system for the rich but your living in a dream world if you think hatred of your politicians and the rich isn't on the rise.
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@svenm7264 You just proved my point it doesn't matter what else police do or that the USSR had markets. An illegal market involves even more violence. "Communist China" You mean Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. Where they all read Milton Freedman and the top leaders of the CCP say to get rich is glorious. Everything they build and sell outside of China is sold a market prices. Anyone and any party can all themselves communist or socialist. That's been true since Marx's time doesn't make them a Marxist. Marx once famously said of a relative If he is a Marxists I am not. Soviet Imperialism. The Soviet Union never got a return on investment nor were they like the Hitler regime with an excess of labor that they couldn't use and therefore starved to death in camps or worked to death in military production. The prisoners they didn't shoot had food to eat and worked only 8 hours. Many were Militant's who marched to work each day in coal mines. Of course you going to deny all this so I'm not go to repeat myself.
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@svenm7264 Coal miners in West Virginia were so happy they fought the coal wars of the 1920's and the American workers took over a GM factory and fought of the cops with Chevy door hinges. You can'r escape your own greed and you demand to be paid more that what an investment cost. You have to keep spending more and more paper dollars and raise prices faster than wages to satisfy the drive to keep up the rate of profit. You drive up the capital value artificially when you can't find a way to expand production setting the stage for financial collapse. Your NATO allies are leaving the sinking ship to buy Russian gas and Chinese products. The American capitalist Empire is in its death throws its just a matter of how many people it will take down and when will another successful revolution like the Cuban revolution somewhere in the world will point a new way forward.
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@johnnyjohansson16 Creating a socialist model country on which to prove superiority was one of Stalin's ideas and reasons for putting the needs of the Soviet bureaucrats over that of the world revolution. What capitalist nations have shown since 1914 is the inability to stay out of Imperialist wars for profit including two world wars of mass destruction. Our power lies in our ideas and experience in driving the class struggle forward. Hundreds of years passed before any culture was able to put together enough resources to even explore the world. The communist movement has only been around for about 173 years Christianity for 2100. Yet we rival Christianity in terms of people and cultures who know something of us. To defeat us you have to win the class struggle so far all you've been able to do is defeat the capitalist reformist leaders of Social Democracy and the Stalinist's who said they could build socialism in one country. The power once held by the Stalinist's was once a much bigger obstacle to revolution than the American Imperialist or Imperialist unity which was last seen when Trotsky defeated 14 Imperialist Armies. The fact that the US Imperialist Empire needs to constantly act as the worlds policeman and crush every effort made at socialist revolution isn't a sign of strength but weakness. What capitalism showed by the law of economic competition is the superiority of customizing the tools for production over customizing the workers skill and the creation of a world division of labor and resources. Like previous ruling classes the capitalist methods from which they started become an obstacle to future production. They can't avoid war and most of all they can't avoid world war for they have the "fever of tyrants" no different than that for which the Commissioners appointed by the House of Commons charged Charles the first. King Charles went about the country collecting taxes from merchants to fight useless wars much like what the American Imperialist have been doing since they became the top dog of capitalism and foreign investment. Every past try at Empire in human history has failed because the war's necessary to sustain its ruling class became economically unsustainable. Rather than demanding we prove socialism works in one country you should be asking yourself how much longer American Capitalism can sustain its world Imperialist Empire with its drones, bombs and nuclear weapons at the ready. The lesson you took from Vietnam was that you needed even more war technology. What lesson will you draw from the Imperialist defeat in Afghanistan? That you need to forsake the NATO allaince to become more independent with even greater dreams of grandeur like the Southern slaveholders talking of an All American system of African slavery from South America to the Arctic Ocean?
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@johnnyjohansson16 Gee and to think I only got to know the American comrades of Leon Trotsky who spent his last years in Mexico city advising the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party, the Minneapolis Teamsters and on the role of Black nationalism would play in American politics. The US is where the communist movement survived both Stalin and Hitler above ground. So your European? Trotsky did spend a few years in Norway. He was in New York City when the revolution broke out. We still publish the Militant newspaper that you can see Trotsky reading in pictures of him before he was murdered on the orders of Stalin's NKVD. Trotsky credits Jim Cannon for building the second Bolshevik party in America. I've bragged to much already
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@happydee6950 That's the banner of the Soviet Union who's Red Army inflicted the first great defeat for 14 Imperialist Armies including the US/UK.
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@happydee6950 Don't the Republicans say guns don't kill people people do? So how does philosophy kill anyone? You problem is you can't argue with what we say so you need to try and censor us. Your Imperialist politicians need to lie about the Cuban revolution. They need to do everything in their power to try and strangle the Cuban people for kicking out Washington's dictator General Batista.
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@Ivan.A.Churlyuski You will know he lost only when he is forced from office like other Imperialist politicians. When the US lost in Vietnam it had the repercussion's of Watergate that forced Nixon to resign and exposed the use of the FBI and CIA as domestic political police forces.
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@georgegeorge6887 It's a case of capitalist bumbling.
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@georgegeorge6887 I can't afford the trip to China or afford to buy property here never mind China. What makes you think Wall streeters in Jersey or Connecticut care? Ted Cruz got caught leaving for a vacation in CanCun, Mexico. Did you see the night sky lite up in downtown Houston while the rest of the city was dark. We lost power for 3 days, its warm but I got one of the last milk cartons at noon time at the HEB today.
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The real problem is not technical or which group of thieves owns the land or electrical power system but it's the way the profit system functions. More money can be piled up by doing market manipulations like the Gamestop swindle or filling bank vaults with cheap fiat currency then reinvesting in what working people need and planning. Instead market chaos is held up as an advantage along with business secrets and private insurance. Once a disaster is declared the private insurance parasites are off the hook and the loss is socialised. Mean while the rich and wealthy are going to Cancun for the week or up north for the snow and skiing. Plenty of planning and investments for trips to Mars and the next nuclear war with a Space Force.
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@MrBobberino01 An appeal to patriotic feelings is always a good way to secure votes and gain bigger sales figures.
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Its all about a big giveaway so Capitalist Politicians can appear to be saviors of the working class and big business can make big profits. There is no win win situations for the working class either we win or we lose.
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If their is law that says the can't unless you can put up a big protest they'll just do whatever they want anyway. Judges from the local level to highest court in the land will find an excuse to rule against you.
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Healthcare and education are seen as overhead expenses for either the private employer or the government to fund with capitalism. The industries where labor time can be cut with new machinery to which replace higher paid/skilled labor are where the profits in an overall economy flow. So capitalism as it moves forward needs less skilled workers and the rate of return on investment falls since the overall value of capital grows but the need for skilled labor falls. The average wage becomes the minimum wage to keep the laborer alive while the value of capital grows since every capitalist is driven to maximize profits and the workers are driven to the longest hours at the lowest wages since the profit is created by our unpaid labor,
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@cheongwenpa Why the hell does the CCP allow 996? Capital provides nothing it takes. If anyone in the CCP actually read Karl Marx they would understand that. Instead they rely on an unfailing GOD called Deng Xiaoping who's thinking can't be wrong. Capitalism is just a new system of slavery wher labor is rented by the hour instead of owned. and developed as a way to organize the productive forces.
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@cheongwenpa CCP is afraid of working class that's why they had to change law. Did the CCP send out cadre to take down signs saying 996 is a tenant of socialism yet or have the workers already ripped them down?
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@Zazzaro703 How could they be ruling through fear at the beginning of the revolution in 1959? These people were murders and tortures of the Batista dictatorship. The United States had already organized on invasion of Cuba. So why shouldn't the accept help when offered by the Soviet Union. Who else was going to defy the United States Canada? People like you don't know how to use the brains you were born with. Most Cubans live in Cuba NOT Miami DF.
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@ShelleyLevyMusic Where in Cuba do you live?
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@tommyrosati9326 Once capitalism archives primitive accumulation it enters into decline. Giant Industries and firms become dominate in the economy of nations and they begin the fight over the world market. How can they win this battle of the world market which is the limit of capitalism but though Imperialist war abroad and a fascist dictatorship over the workers at home? The Giant industry enters into decline because of its very success of replacing skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines it becomes so over capitalised and the living labor used which is always the source of capitalist profits so small that its rate of return on investment makes it no longer worth investing in. This is how they become too big to fail. The capitalist doesn't want to sell into a market that doesn't return a profit. So instead they begin a crusade of gambling and creating new forms of innovative fictitious capital because their economist have told them what they want to hear that they the capitalist are the real producers of wealth and not the workers.
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@tommyrosati9326 So your theory is that value comes from God and the labor theory of value is wrong because capitalist can't rob each other or drive prices up and down with cartels and monopoly control and government intervention. When the capitalists can build Ayn Rand's perpetual electrical motion machine and defy the known laws of the Universe let us know.
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@gunboom Tell Congress Rail Bosses need to negotiator not buy them a seat in Congress like Warren Buffet of the BNSF. does for both parties.
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@Yashuryabetcha So you say the problem is not enough are voting to save the capitalist system for the rich and privileged educated fools of the ruling class.
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@Yashuryabetcha Your just another Hillary Clinton who insults the working class. Your public schools are meant to indoctrinate not educate.
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@Yashuryabetcha What good is all you education if your just going to join the chorus of smug Democrats like Biden, Clinton and Obama? I've read the Constitution multiple times so what? There right about one thing they used the interstate commerce clause to expand the capitalist governments power. That's how it became a regulated system of capitalist exploitation. Congress has also abdicated its obligation to debate and the declare war. Preferring to maintain a standing Army and allow a president to intervene when ever Imperialist military power is needed. The CIA and NSA are organizations without constitutional authority and the FBI was founded for use in systematic violations of constitutional rights.
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@Yashuryabetcha I see said the blind man when liberals lose they call you a troll and tell you to stfu.
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My guess is you looking for a job at the you tube volunteer censorship squad.
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@ronaldelkins6108 Yep once you've got to the office or courthouse for your 9-3 bankers hours job you'll find some time out of your busy schedule to read over the daily lesson plans and send a text to the principle noting your approval or disapproval.
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No you just believe the blacklist to enforce your "free speech rights".
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@onamattapeeya Which do you like better milk and chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip ice cream?
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@onamattapeeya I though you were a deserter? I can see know that your into the main course maybe hot dogs in a bun or meat and potatoes with lima beans. You do eat your vegetables. How about soup and crackers?
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@onamattapeeya What do you call a person who likes to eat desert after his supper?
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Capitalism is the NEW slavery our ancestors will wonder why we put up with the bosses big profits low wages system for so long.
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@ashleygriffith6001 When the start by putting on a women claiming Fidel Castro murdered thousands. You should realized you about to be bullshitted because of these thousands of so called murders none seem to have names. The reason being is because if they told you who they were then they'd end up having to admit these were people who tortured and murdered and terrorised people. The worst scum of the earth. So instead the just rely on you assuming Fidel Castro was just another Stalin.
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@lisetsantos6250 A ruling class only remains in power as long as its system can grow. The natural economic workings of capitalism lead it into decline. It is a world economic system but the worlds capitalist classes are divided by nation state. While they may be able to settle grievances between one another by use of a legal system within a nation state they have had to resort to war to settle disputes in the world market. The capitalist also need a state to defend their property from the working class otherwise work stoppages would easily defeat capitalist greed. No one needs envy Elon Musk to understand his wealth is set up to collapse like a house of cards. He and all theses climate change fools who think "free markets" can solve CO2 production with lithium batteries and carbon taxes have driven his companies stock way beyond its real value. Along with aggressive marketing of ways to get rich quick be prepared for an even bigger 2008 headed our way.
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@lisetsantos6250 Well if capitalism is so good why does the US need to embargo or militarily attack ever socialist country starting with the invasion of Soviet Union after the 1917 revolution? You don't really think I care if you put your extra dollars into stocks. Some people have to learn the hard way and even then I've heard homeless people defend the stock market swindle. Supposedly the "smart" (middle class) money knows when to leave stocks for safer commodities and when to leave commodities for the higher yield of stocks. No one knows exactly when the next crisis will hit or how bad it will be but its coming and you don' t need to listen to communinist to realize that. Congress will create inflation because they won't tax the rich and the middle class will begin to liquefy its stock holdings. Of course maybe not. Once the realization sets in that Tesla Motors isn't worth 1 trillion dollars it can only go one way down. The Democrats are only aiding the Tesla fraud by building charging stations. So maybe it will even reach 2 or 3 trillion dollars.
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@lisetsantos6250 "Weak people prefer safety instead of freedom." If any group is overly concerned with safety it the middle and upper class. This is why the want more cops. jails and live in gated communities. I don't even lock my door at night but I bet you do. All you have to do is listen to American two party politicians to realize that some of the smallest countries in the world pose the biggest threat. "Saddam Hussein" was the new Hitler. Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Iraq made up an axis of evil. The US idea of freedom is to work hard and get rich. Of course the real symbol of American freedom is the gambling casino. The house always empties more pockets than it fills. The owners laugh all the way to the bank and if your get the idea of card counting well they have the legal (cops) and illegal (thugs) leg breakers.
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@lisetsantos6250 Look if i care about you its about your having your basic needs your extras not so much. By defining them as extras you are admitting you don''t need them. No one needs money in the US until something bad happens. I have extra things I'd just as soon exchange or give away but our society is not organized in such a way to do that. Instead we are all conditioned to use money to buy and throw things away. For all the talk about free markets just go to a public park and try selling something. See how quickly the police arrive to explain oradnce X that prohibits peddling in a public park. .
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@lisetsantos6250 The worker in the US is tied to the fate of his employer. His employers fate is tied to the market of his product. The business man's success is tied to his ability to access capital and the group who controls capital is the banks and insurance companies. They all demand to get back more than they put in. Now the only way to get back more dollars than what you put in is for the Federal Reserve bank to keep printing and lending out dollars regardless of any real economic growth. When the economy is not producing more than the money value of capital grows beyond its exchange value setting up a speculation crisis where capital is overvalued and collapses in value. The owners of billions in stock value aren't affected in the same way the owners of a few thousand are. If 10 billion becomes 1 Billion well that's still a lot of money. But if $10,000 becomes $1,000 than your screwed.
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@lisetsantos6250 I live in a camp trailer and no one bothers us at night. I lock it only when we are not there and even then it only keeps out the honest people. Any thief could easily break in but outside of underage minors looking for beer who would bother? On hot nights the door is open and with only a screen door closed unless I'm in serious bear country.
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@lisetsantos6250 Like I said some people need to learn the hard way. Your chances of accumulating any significant amount of money are small. Why do you think the one percent keeps getting richer? The system works for them just like a gambling casino. They want you to invest and believe in capitalism just like the casino wants the gambler to come and place bets. The national debt is owned by the rich and they are the ones who get a guaranteed profit that way. They want people to "buy" homes with mortgages because they know that they now have something the can threaten you with. Go on strike and hey we will take your home. Obviously the rich bosses are the ones who need to be taken care of with their pool boys, gardeners, special police, lawyers, and private doctors. I don't give a rats ass about you we worked for our social security and no one is giving it up no matter how many insults Ben Shapiro and you repeat like a parrot. Your the fool who wanted an adventure instead of getting an education with nothing but work required and your still looking for the easy way out.
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@lisetsantos6250 I'm a racist? I go shopping in all Black Walmart's without batting an eyelash and right now I'm in South Texas only 6 miles from Mexico. When we go shopping almost everyone is Hispanic. I've had people ask me if I speak Spanish. I don't have the time or a reason to worry about what language or color a person is. Ben Shapiro is a 37 year old fool who debates middle class college students because his childish arguments quickly fall apart under any serious examination.
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@lisetsantos6250 I don't think we are communicating very well. You English and grammar seems to make sense but you also seem to keep contradicting yourself. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499 I was 10 years old in 1962 and the missle crisis. At the time we were told it was all Fidel Castro and Communism's fault. In 1970 my high school graduation was ruined by the killing of four students at Kent State. We were lied to about that and the Vietnam war also.
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@lisetsantos6250 July 11 LOL and Nov 15 fizzled. Capital produces nothing only labor does. The laws of thermodynamics prevent it from doing so. You only kidding yourself if you think your countrymen are just going to turn themselves over to "freedom". Carlos Lazo is the future thinking of all the Cuban immigrants not you and the old Mami contra crowd. .
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@lisetsantos6250 You've got your thirty pieces of silver enjoy them while they last.
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@lisetsantos6250 You don't really think I believe anything Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz has to say about Cuba. You just repeat the same old tired lies. See we have all kinds of speeches and books translated from Spanish not just by Che and Fidel but other leaders and generals of the revolution. Plus we get to go over what US politicians like Kennedy said. You have to get up early in the morning to fool me. I know that if the US Gov't and the American capitalist had just causes and crusades they would have to lie about the reasons for their actions. Plus we get to see video's on Cuba form all points of view. Same with the old Soviet Union we got to read all about the leaders of the revolution the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, Trotsky. Lenin, Stalin, Bukharian, Kerensky and others. Ben Shapiro is busy arguing about who's a racist since that seems to be the middle classes biggest worry along with thinking everyone in the working class is jealous of their landscaped homes.
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@gatbos This whole thing is just another lie being told by Washington to justify its aggression and cruel blockade against Cuba.
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It did NOT guarantee a right to an abortion as a medical procedure rather it found a right for Doctors to practice medicine and viability as the marker for state regulation. .Then arguments began over when viability was reached. Finally the court kicked the decision back to the states and the people. In the mean time clinics were forced to close as Doctors were demonized and Democratic Politicians sat on their assws.
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The increase in wages results in more economic activity by workers since they now have more to spend on things workers need. As for profits they will be impacted such that the bosses will have to settle for less and have to put off stock buybacks, speculation purchases like ar work and luxury goods like gucci bags. The pool boy may need to find a job doing something productive instead of working as a personal servant.
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@1958PonyBoy What makes you think they can just raise prices either? Obvious the corrupt capitalist government needs to be taken away from them then if the want to cry poverty they can open their books to inspection by workers and farmers committees. Let see all the ways they hide their profits in speculation on things like art work and precious metals.
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@1958PonyBoy Why don't you go and invest your money and see how many trustworthy "business" friends you make?
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@1958PonyBoy We are tired of taking your inflation driven wage cuts since Nixon "temporarily" ended the gold standard. You wasted 2.3 trillion dollars on destroying Afghanistan and all you do is talk about bosses fairness in the marketplace. If we don't than our children will abolish private property.
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@1958PonyBoy What's different about capitalism from about 100 years ago? Capitalism entered its highest stage Imperialism. The capitalist nations went to war with each other to redivide world markets and resources amongst themselves. The suffered a bitter defeat in Russia at the hands of Trotsky's Red Army and the rights of private property were severely curtailed in the capitalist countries. They would have to pay into government guaranteed social insurance plans, for the elderly, disabled, those hurt on the job, those who lost their job, and some healthcare. The would be required to pay a premium for over 40 hours at work per week, a minimum wage for most occupations and recognize trade union in the mass production industries. Many kinds of discriminatory and unequal practices in hiring, pay and advancement would become illegal either due to law or union contract.
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@1958PonyBoy I don't start a business for a number of reasons. One is that the business men's world is full of cheats and scoundrels. The workings of capitalism are such that just as it has crisis that throw workers out of their job with periodic crisis caused by overproduction it also destroys small businesses. The solution to the problems of capitalism isn't becoming a small businessman but Socialism: workers control of industry. Now if you'd don't know what the word industry means I suggest you look it up before you start with more suggestions about me becoming personally generous by becoming the next Wal Mart Amazon or UPS. Big business today gets to be big and stay that way by ruthless business tactics against all enemies along with various monopoly market practices where markets are divided up so that Wall St investors can place bets on what group is better at profit making. Modern capitalism is a rigged game and neither voting for the Democratic Party "Progressives" or Donald Trump will advance the struggle against the brutality of the world capitalist system.
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@1958PonyBoy First of all you don't know what your talking about. Second the Communist movement split in 1928 with Trotsky leading those who wanted to continue the course of Lenin as the left opposition. Second Hitler's Regime was the complete counter revolutionary opposite of Socialism despite its name from the very beginning. Lastly Fidel Castro came along and lead the Cuban revolution proving that all the abuses by Stalin and Mao were completely unnecessary. Socialism will replace capitalism for the similar reasons that capitalism ended up replaced feudalism. Capitalism is just a stage of development in human history. Slavery and Agriculture were the first advance over hunter gathering because now their was a surplus being produced and it was no longer necessary to practice cannibalism. With agriculture came the domestication of plants and animals, the creation of more tools and the six simple machines. Warfare and the creation of vast Empires along with trade and commerce. Eventually trade, manufacture and commerce became more important than military alliances and the merchants took over from the feudal societies. Then the industrial revolution began creating a new kind of person who was a universal wage laborer. The people who own nothing but whose work creates everything. Capitalism takes the middle class with its professional men and reduces them to the level of the wage laborer. The drive for profit and the payment of wages means the family structure of the past is destroyed as the wage inevitable sinks to that of just the minimum need by the laborer to reproduce his ability to labor for the next pay period. All that which is neesasry for the production of modern life is jealously horded by small greedy ruling classes who like the King and Queens seek to take now from each other in war what they can no longer do produce and expand into new markets and commodity production. The capitalist classes have become a threat to life on earth itself with their production of nuclear weapons to defend their national systems of International trade. The capitalist societies which they proclaim as the wealthiest and most advanced in human history can no longer create a growing populations. Japan and South Korea are already seeing population decline in absolute numbers. Trends in the rest of the world show projected population decline in all but a few counties in Africa. In fact the only reason Western Europe and the United States are still growing is immigration. Everywhere the ruling classes show themselves as no longer fit to rule.
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@1958PonyBoy I seriously doubt you'd be telling to reject Christianity based upon the Spanish Inquisition. You problem is you can't argue against my ideas as stated so you raise this phantom of past history. To quote Marx" Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore. It would be nice if human history didn't move forward with the charges of drunken calvarymen but for centuries it did just that.
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@1958PonyBoy Like I said unable to make any kind of serious argument so now it's a comparison to the theory of Marijuana as a gateway drug. Eventually the German Capitalist ended up supporting the NAZI's in an effort to save themselves from revolution. Stalin ended up having to murder Lenin's Party and his followers did what they accused Trotsky of doing returning to capitalism. Fidel Castro lead a revolution that has had the American Imperialists wetting their pants ever since. The whole world including your closet allies votes against the Cuban blockade at the UN. They educate people faster than you can corrupt and buy them off. Your ruling class is moving further and further away from the Democratic Republic and towards a corporate state of professional Washington lobbyists writing all the legislation passed by a Congress beholden to the donors of the two parties. Since Congress can't agree on anything but more spending with less oversight The Supreme Court has been acting as a legislature trying to arbitrate everything.
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@allenkranawetter9482 As capitalism progresses the rate of profit naturally declines. The bosses use inflation to cut wages by ending the gold standard. The profits are just unpaid wages that go to the shareholders.
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The bosses want us to work the longest hours at the lowest wages to make the biggest profits as prices naturally fall towards the cost of production. The bosses use the central bank to inflate the currency as a way to hold down wages and raise prices to boost falling rates of profit.
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@Spark-Hole Greed for profit is what drives the capitalist investor.
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Your full of it. The government works to keep wages low not raise them both parties are committed to that.
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@TimTheMusicMan Sure Trump told some of the truth and the Democrats crucified him for it. But he can't act as a Jesus Christ and be a savior. As far as we are concerned the conservatives can talk all they want and talk and talk, Because at the end of the day its the capitalist system itself that is in crisis and Trump just exposed a tiny bit of the whole problem. Its the goal of every owner of private property not personal property to maximize the profit and rate of return on investment. The problem is capital can only accumualte into ever fewer hands and ever create an ever smaller ruling class of capitalists.
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@bovnycccoperalover3579 He cares about the Wall Streeters in New York just like the rest of you.
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@melbourne-heat.69-71 Bosses collect the taxes workers have no say in how taxes are spent nor can they get away without paying them since they are collected by the bosses out of our paycheck and at the store. Government just gives money to contractors who belong to the bosses parties that's why waste is always affordable. .
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jerry tom Fidel offered the help of Cuban Doctors during the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. Bush refused When asked why he said something to the effect that the poor wouldn't understand the need to punish communist Cuba. The Bush family can keep on a private Doctor just like the necessary maids, drivers, gardeners, pool boys and butlers for the ruling capitalist families. For them they can buy all the necessary healthcare while 50,000 homeless people live on the streets of LA under living in cars, tents and tarps.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s What kind of hope is the ruling class giving us? Invest like us so you can rob people with speculation? If your too big to fail we will give ourselves all the cash we need? You need to give up living so we can go green? We are fight wars to defend Democracy and you need to shut up?
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@brendanzhukov466 Poverty is the fruit of capitalist production for the working class. It's the bosses who assemble industrial armies for competition in production where the winner takes all by issuing the greatest number of discharges from the industrial army.
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@philiphudgens4726 The grand myth is that capitalist England was a paradise until recently. If that were true you never would have had the disappearance of the Liberal Party and the rise of the labor party after the general strike. You have a class divided society. One of the products of class division and capitalism is the long term unemployed who become alienated. As long as you have capitalism and private property you will have class society. The neoliberal capitalists decided that bigger profits could be made elsewhere so that along with the replacement of skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines has created long term unemployment in the advanced capitalist countries.
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@djape1977 I don't know what to believe about numbers of deaths but Putin is no better than the US's Biden. He's ex KGB policeman. Who served idiots groomed by a man who lacked the ability to think abstractly Joe Stalin. The executionary of Lenin's closest comrades and betrayer of the revolution.
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From rebel who read about Marx in the encyclopedia britannica to bourgeois professor and mouthpiece for capitalist big business.
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@John Hanley What you are describing is the natural workings of the capitalist system. Between the tiny rich class of capitalist are a whole privileged layer of Professors, Military men, supervisors and university graduates steeped in the lies of capitalism as the ultimate system of justice and all things great. Those who sing the praise of the new system of slavery of renting instead of owning the slave are those who will receive the promotions to the better paying and easy positions among an unchanging bureaucratic Juggernaut.
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The German capitalists turned to the NAZI's as a way to save themeselves from a workers revolution where the workers took control of Industry unlike the NAZI who were handed control of the capitalist state by the big capitalist bosses and President General Hindenburg. .
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@soulcapitalist6204 The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite! From the end of the Communist Manifesto. Nothing about a superior Germanic Race like Hitler. In fact Marx mocks the True "German" Socialism. "While this “True” Socialism thus served the government as a weapon for fighting the German bourgeoisie, it, at the same time, directly represented a reactionary interest, the interest of German Philistines. In Germany, the petty-bourgeois class, a relic of the sixteenth century, and since then constantly cropping up again under the various forms, is the real social basis of the existing state of things. " From the Communist Manifesto. It was in fact not the working class but the German middle class who were Hitler's base. A class being driven into a frenzy by the economic crisis of German capitalism caused in part by the Treaty of Versailles imposed upon them. It is common knowledge that "Henry Ford was an anti semite who published "The International Jew" and that the only American mentioned favorable in Mein Kampf is Henry Ford who also received a NAZI medal just before war broke out.
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@RS-xx5md Why don't just become a worker yourself if its such a good racket? The only risk Warren Buffett takes is paper cuts from reading the Wall Street journal while rail workers and the communities risk their lives in disasters like East Palestine, Ohio that are the result of maximization of boss profit above all else. Why don't you just take all your knowledge and blast off in an Elon Musk rocket for an asteroid and don't come beck.
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@js290 It is capitalism with its demands for profits from wage labor that has destroyed the meaning of work for the human being. Because Fukuoka's ideas pose no real threat to the bosses profit system his theories were well received by the middle class fools at the New York Review who long for a heroic revolutionary who could both save their middle class privileges provided by capitalism without waging a serious class struggle. He and his ideas are being forgotten as I write. One half of the human population lives in cities not on farms of any size. Modern agriculture makes that possible along with the creation of the working class from which all human culture springs..
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@Jack-xy4fy That is nothing but unadulterated horseshit. First because Marxists are materialists and second Marx has already taken on "German" or "True Socialism" in the Manifesto as reactionary socialism. Hitler wasn't thinking up anything philosophically new except to those who are ignorant to the history of the class struggle and ideas. Opposition to the workers class struggle in favor of a bourgeois nation's racial struggle is exactly what makes Hitlerism the exact opposite of Marxism. You make as much sense as telling someone to stop using salt because it contains chlorine which is a poisonous gas.
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@soulcapitalist6204 In the manifesto Marx specifically groups feudal socialism and German socialism under the heading of Reactionary Socialism. Look up the definition of reactionary if you don't understand the word.
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@AdamantLightLP The scarcity on this planet is a totally bogus idea since it also implies plentiful. So for you to say our planet is dominated by scarcity you would have to know something about the other planets. In fact life is abundant on our planet unlike the other planets we have knowledge of. We have continually found new and better ways of using what we have on the planet. Scarcity is just an excuse for the capitalist exploitation of both nature and man.
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@soulcapitalist6204 Capitalism got some of its original capital from the slave trade so therefore capitalism is African slavery because the King of England owned shares in the Royal Africa company. Does that make for Soul Capitalism? That is exactly the same kind of word game "frame job" being played by the Anglo Saxon maker of the video. If you take the time to actually read the Communist Manifesto which is a only a few pages. Under the heading chapter 3 Communist and Socialist literature you find 1 Reactionary Socialism A.Feudal Socialism , B Petty Bourgeois Socialism C. German or True Socialism 2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism 3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism. "Marx never confronted nor was heard of by actual economists, ever." LMAO Das Kapital Volume one was written by Marx. Volume two and three were assembled by Engles. Obviously you haven't read that at all. Most of Marx and Engels writings are available on line to read free of charge at Marxist Internet Archive. Two other works on economics are: Wage Labor and Capital and Value, Price and Profit.
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@coonhound_pharaoh Obviously your just repeating insults. Marx is available reading at Marxist Internet Archive.
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@Jack-xy4fy Marx's works were bsnned by the NAZI's and burned in fires. His writings and views on Jews are for the most part confined to "On the Jewish Question" concerning religion, human emancipation and the secular state. The communist Manifesto does not even mention Jews. Hitler's ranting against Jews reflects the over representation of Ethnic Jews in the Communist Leadership of the Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Party. Trotsky was a Jew and only second to Lenin being the Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. The Counter revolution pictured him as a Devil with horns and a Star of David on his chest.
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@bonnie7898 By civilized you mean Social Democratic Imperialist countries.
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What the Democrats fail to realize is by putting Trump on trial for corruption they put the whole system on trial since what is capitalism if it is not legal and illegal corruption.
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Wolf Among Sheep They can also fight back by using the strike weapon.
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@davidgaughan5414 Sure let's just stop using electronic hardware made in China and build Chinese abacus's for all our calculations.
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@davidgaughan5414 I don't think your going to have to worry about boycotting them. It's more likely that the rest of the world is going to have to worry about Chinese factories being unable to restart. Sure we can build anything in the US but we don't. A lot of manufacturing relies on robots built to perform tasks that would be done by human hands in the past. None of those machines is cheap nor are they an off the shelf item and whose going to invest in something built just to punish China for a few years.
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@davidgaughan5414 Taken in account how? Capitalist (People with lots of money) are not going to invest in new factories on a wim no matter what language they speak or where they live. Boycotts are also just a feel good measure since everybody buys at some intersection of quality and price.
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@davidgaughan5414 They don't always tell you where a product is made and when they do it is usually where the final assembly or packaging took place. When Germany placed tariffs on Chinese bicycles than the bicycles were sold from a third country until it was discovered they were still being made in China so again they were tariffed again and again they were being sold from a 4th country. A boycott is even less likely to succeed.
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@davidgaughan5414 You don't really think that the heads of the CCP are going to be affected do you? They're just going to intensify the propaganda that the West is punishing them and the Chinese people need to unite against Western attacks and humiliation. People have longer memories than you think. The Chinese are telling their children that Mao ended hundreds of years of humiliation by the Western Powers and Japan and that's right. Things like the Great Leap forward and the Cultural Revolution will be swept under the rug as minor successes in some sort of way, or errors corrected later on. No one on this side of the Canadian border talks about the number of Loyalists wrongfully executed after the Treaty of Paris. On this side of the border its drilled into every school child's head that you have your rights because of Revolutionary War with King George III and Civil War with the Slaveholders after that. In Canada they talk about gradual reform granting them rights. Most Canadians are the ancestors of Loyalists who left for what was left of British North America after The Treaty of Paris. The British granted them land rights in what is now Canada.
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@davidgaughan5414 If you don't expect to change anything but want reform to start with people on the ground. To me that sounds contradictory. I think we should be dealing with our own governments errors first. This crisis isn't over with yet either. US Congressmen knew as early as January since they're now caught up in a insider trading scandal. Trump supporter Rush Limbaugh (Trumps Medal of Freedom winner) was saying the whole thing was created by Democrats wanting to bash Trump over what was no more than a common cold as late as a few weeks ago. We pay big money to have a CDC so how is it South Korea acted quickly with test kits while our government sat on its hands with the media reporting it was getting less and less contained. The Cuban government acted quickly to take the temps of anyone coming in by sea or air. of course that was easier for them but they also have a system of neighborhood Doctors to check on people so no one gets lost in the shuffle.
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@davidgaughan5414 Trump announced that incoming flights would have people screened. My sister is a tour guide visiting her son in Italy. She left Italy with Italian stamps in her passport had to go through London because of the EU being closed. Got sick because of bad coffee and went through US Customs at Charlotte, NC with no one batting an eye.
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@swewunna China could have one doctor for every 150 people like Cuba but their leaders ideas were based in Stalin's idea of capitalist development methods being rebranded as socialist. The use of incentives, privileges, and bureaucratic control which can only lead back to capitalism. That is where the four stars on the Chinese flag come from. Mao's block of four classes. The National Bourgeois, The Petti Bourgeois, the Workers and the Farmers. No one could convince General Chang, the rep of the National Bougoois, to enter a coalition government with Mao so Mao ended up declaring the Peoples Republic in 1949 without the National Bourgeois.
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The two Imperialist parties of Biden, Bush, Obama and Trunp devastated a country in the name of a "War on Terror" creating a disaster for workers and farmers with 20 years of war. Spending 2 trillion dollars after cutting their losses the cry about their loss of Imperialist pestige and leadership. Like all their hypocritical claims of fighting wars for democracy and democratic rights at home the are the sworn enemy of Democracy everywhere and a lover of big money profits only. There true slogan is war is for profit and business is good.
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@KUMAR D NATO is a reactionary alliance of Imperialist powers like the UK, France, Germany and the US.
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@janiecleland7539 Abortion is health care not something that the government or church has a right to interfere in.
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@janiecleland7539 You had abortions because you couldn't afford two more children that's not being selfish. Selfish is people telling you you had to have them and have no concern as to what happens to unwanted children afterwords. No priest has ever adopted a child and the Church has been rocked with scandals abusing orphans and children under their care.You've let these hypocrites guilt bait you.
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She just a shill for big business and capitalism.
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You are born to a single mother who dies in childbirth. The doctor sell your bill to the local bank as debt. They sell it to a regional bank. They sell it to a New York Investment bank who are buying up birth debts to offset bad life insurance from bad drinking water in Flint. The put on the world capital market. Someone realises you can pay before age 18 and the shorts the investment bank everything collapses and when you reach age 18 you are permanently banned from credit cards, car loans, student loans and home mortgages. Ben Shapiro now tells you the world doesn't owe you anything.
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@pmacksmith2167 Racism came with capitalism and it will be destroyed with the coming socialist revolution.
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@tuttuts560 The Capitalist media isn't interested in truth its interested in presenting a narrative where it can put capitalism and all its wars and rottenness in the best light possible. When deemed necessary outright lies and censorship is imposed. Censorship is done in the name of protection from disinformation. Where as fake news is where truth is stretched to its breaking point. Outright lies are Donald Trump being installed by Putin and Donald Trump losing the 2016 election and winning the 2020 election.
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@tuttuts560 The New York Times can run "All the lies fit to print." it just doesn't make them true. The US Imperialist lost the cold war as evidenced by the New World Disorder. You can not be both a Capitalist Military Empire of foreign investors and a Republican Democracy at the same time. Imperialism is in worse shape today than it was in 1914. Biden can talk all he wants about how Democracy is not dead and America is leading the free world but the laughter coming from the rest of the world is deafening.
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@fred5399 Non Jewish educated people supported Adolf Hitler in Germany.
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@gardenjoy5223 The bosses see tax money as profits which could be in their pockets. The Democrats are no different they only seek votes for phony promises. Obama's and Clinton's children also went to private school.
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@bianca-sg8zq The bosses don't need educated workers they need order takers.
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@christoforos4126 The ruling class including Trump all receive their education in politics and economics from the elite universities. Its a small club of wealthy bosses which only a few can belong too.
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Timothy Somerville Churchill who said, "Bolshevism needs to be strangled in its Cradle." Needed to convince Stalin to keep fighting Hitler for the sake of the British Empire.
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@brendandubalos2149 Right we don't play "fair" with the Democratic Imperialists like Stalin did.
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@Ariannaishun Christians are also socialist by your definition since Christianity is based on Judaism which is the mother of all Abrahamic religions.
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@brendandubalos2149 Cuban Doctors are saving lives that the Imperialists like the US gov't could care less about. Capitalism kills because everything is measured by the profit motive. No profits can be made off the poor so their healthcare is to expensive for the profit driven insurance company healthcare in the US. They die quicker because they are left out of the profit driven insurance company healthcare and are rejected by private hospitals for lack of insurance.
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@radam871110d Why not equate FDR, Truman and Churchill and their flags with Hitler and the swastika also? The US/UK had no problem with Stalin as long as he was doing what the US/UK wanted and he defeated Hitler for them. In fact US/UK were afraid Stalin might sign a peace treaty with Hitler before taking Berlin. This is why the US released official US propaganda films called "Why We Fight." Especially "Why We Fight: the Battle of Russia" Made by a Republican, Frank Capra,. Available for free on Youtube. There you will learn about the freedom loving Soviet people. Along with plenty of praise for their military victories from the US Secretary of War and top US military brass.
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@radam871110d I don't look for answers developed by paid propaganda producers in elite US Bourgeois Universities.
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Legal parasites.
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@rickmorty7284 Well why don't you tell the two party bosses in the United States that need free and fair elections? .
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@cpgone Lenin died in 1924 so you'd have to go back to the Taiping Rebellion 20 million dead as the biggest mass murder before that date. Plus 80 million dead in the 6 years of WW2 1939 to 1945 is probably the record for rate of homicide. Most Historians lay the blame for that on Hitler declaring war and invading Poland. That's the reason France and England gave for declaring war on Germany.
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@santafeschehl Look CVS has high priced pharmaceuticals that criminal gangs want. That is why this guy came about not to demand federal protection of lipstick at the cosmetic counter.
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@BerraRazuke1 Every baby born should be a wanted child not a mistake or a way to learn responsibility. You can bet she has no problem voting for more drone strike that create orphans.
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Using the just cause of Israel's defense the hypocritcal liar Sowell trys to puts a pretty face on the record of American Imperialism's crimes.
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@@MonolithicGigaChad You would NOT have won which is why the US backed off.
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End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@travismiller758 It's my fault that I'm a worker. I suppose I should work hard and get ahead like Hillary Clinton? Clinton knows how people like you want to get ahead. That's what you are aren't you a get-a-header. Whose fault will it be when big business clowns can't pile on the profits based upon ownership of private property? Aren't you to tell me how you earned every penny you pinch. How Bill Gates is a genus for cornering the market on operating systems so he could make a fortune and buy up farmland because he now sees that the future is in food and not computers in your "New World Order" distopia. .
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@travismiller758 Perhaps I don't like assholes.
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@travismiller758 Didn't they teach you to stay away from people who live in trailers and drive trucks in the boss school? If you come looking for trouble we know how to dish it out.
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@Attmay Like I said I'm not going down the emotional road of crazy making or answering ridiculous charges. Marx's, Lenin's, Trotsky's, Stalin's, Hitler's, the bible and writings are all available for people to read. The Marxists at Marxist Internet Archive and Hitlers elsewhere. Make the most out of your ridiculous charges because you aren't getting some kind of confession from me.
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@Attmay You've already outed yourself as a nut case so like I said the literature is available on line at at The Militant Newspaper website.
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@photofinish8607 That's exactly why their is no need for Private Property and why Cuba has abolished it. Private Property is the property used to exploit others.
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The capitalist bosses are defining the terms from behind the scene. Decisions made today will determine who gets a seat in the privileged positions of the fake meritocracy.
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@pangorbalm8086 Your God is a genocidal maniac Hosea 13:16 KJV "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
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Epic Times is a conspiracy theory paper published by the Falun Gong religious sect The stories are just one step above Alex Jones. If you believe the Chinese Communist Party is planning a takeover through fortune cookies at Chinese restaurants then their the paper for you.
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@jon782 And the US has condemned thousands to death in Imperialist wars of conquest starting with the 1898 war to take Spain's colonies. The Chinese government is a government which is like the fake socialists of Europe who are now the fake Communists of China. There are 10,000 foreign students training to be Doctors like you in Cuba instead of engineers to build more weapons like in the US. This is the Internationalist example to follow. Not that of the remains and leftovers of the multinational "Socialism in One County" which became "Socialism in No Country".
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@TheJarric My bet is a most of them are like Che Guevara and go where they are needed most rather than a fifth avenue apartment in NYC. See you wouldn't understand that because its outside your realm of thought or imagination. You live around legal and illegal corruption day in and day out and can't conceive of anything else. For you a bourgeois servant must be an idiot otherwise he would not wipe your ass day in and day out.
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@TheJarric You don't understand the difference between liberalism, communism, social democracy and stalinism. Your experience is with liberals like Ted Kennedy and social democrats like Sanders and AOC. Mao is your idea of a communist because the Cinese party obviously defends Chinese capitalism. Mao and his bloc of four classes theory is obviously a "power sharing" plan with the national bourgeois. Unfortunately for Mao the "National Bourgeois" in the form of General Chang didn't want to share power with him. Chang's fear or guilt prevented another bloodbath of the Chinese workers like twenty years earlier as in 1929. Unlike so many "stalinist anti fascist victories" elsewhere when a so called 'Patriotic National Bourgeois" turned around and drowned socialist revolutions in the workers blood.
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Yup and did Steven Crowder then complain to the appropriate authority? NO! Why? Because if he did it would be against his beliefs. So in the end he proved nothing except that a certain number of muslim bakers like Jack Phillips the Christian baker can rot in hell together with 72 virgins.
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@jeffforsythe9514 Nice of your thinking of my dad but he passed away a while ago. Did you meet him during one of your trips back from the dead? Can you take a message in case you get back to heaven before me?
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Democratic Party hacks are capitalist politicians not socialists.
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It's just another example of BOSS Greed.
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How come idiots like yourself don't have certificates of conception.
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Already done in "Socialism on Trial" the actual courtroom testimony of James Cannon in the 1940 Smith "gag" Act trial.
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@RCXDerp I can't afford a 'Vet anyway so no real lose to me.
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@commenter5469 He is always half wrong because he attributes everything beneficial to capitalism.
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@lukesterification The capitalists want their own share of government handouts in terms of what they want like police and military expenditures. The capitalist may lose his capital if his product doesn't sell. The worker may lose his life if a machine malfunctions. Losing an arm or a leg is a much bigger risk because the worker may no longer be able to work.. A capitalist can always become another worker that he already claims to be if he loses all his capital.
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@lukesterification Guess you've never worked anywhere at a job outside of the office. Your just another college boy know it all. How much is an arm worth these days for workmans comp purposes? Would you like to sell your arm for insurance money?
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@lukesterification The capitalist risks his money. The worker risks his body.
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@lukesterification The workers may not be socialists today but the capitalist systems crises will push them into our arms. The only way for the workers to win is though class struggle. Class struggle is the road to socialism. The workers will learn through struggle that only a revolution getting rid of the wage system all together will solve our problems.
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legalblond Let's look at Venezuela 80% of the economy still in private hands. A functioning stock market. Now to Sowell. He claims to be a marxist until after being hired by the US government as an economist during the witch hunt. I have yet to hear anything from him as to how he answered his loyalty form concerning subversive organizations and what happened after words? They were still asking that question right up to the mid 1970's on student loans, at ice cream plants and defense contractors. I wonder what he would say about the case of the Legless Veteran Jimmy Kutcher? Oh and wikipedia has him graduating from Columbia and the University of Chicago. We get it though. He graduated form an elite 'Poison' Ivy League university. The same type that produced Trump, the Clinton's and the Bushes.
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@Drifter18903 Trump himself said he was going to be a "dictator" on day one.
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@coltthemac962 Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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You paid for the software when you bought the tractor. You should be able to get the source code for that tractors software when you buy the tractor. That leaves only hardware and software tools, That seems to be more like buying a special tool. I've never heard of a company that sells a special tool for fixing its product like a car or truck worrying about you making a copy. After all they made their money selling you the product. You probably can't do this because Bill Gates wanted to make it so costly and legally difficult to transfer operating system software from an old to a new computer because he wanted to keep selling you new versions of windows. You'll hear them screaming about China not respecting their IP rights. I don't feel the least sympathy. They moved almost all their computer manufacturing to China and now they're crying crocodile tears.
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@aoeu256 Germany is not a permanent member with veto power.
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No retail business wants a strike on Black Friday.
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The US and China are class divided capitalist societies. The interests of the American capitalist who are just as profit hungry as the fake Socialism with Chinese characteristics are not the same. Trade war or real war with China only benefits the capitalists.
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@mrmelmba How about putting the Palestinian Arabs in London instead? Oh that's right we can't hurt the feelings of those who follow the Prophet Muhammad by talking about the Satanic verses in the holy Koran. It would mean that the Prophet wasn't infallible and that certainly can't be true?
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@amayachan6177 It isn't like Apartheid South Africa Arabs and Jews go on strike together and Arabs died trying to save Jews from Hamas.
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Best time to show how greedy the Amazon Boss are!
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Ayn Rand received her university education and advanced study despite being a self described bourgois student in Lenin's time leaving at the time of his death legally for a country which had been at war with the Soviet Republic and had no diplomatic relations. How does a government preform a self check? It was the struggle of black working people against segregation, the anti colonial revolution and the Cuban revolution that reversed the second Red scare.
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Why don't you just hire armed guards wherever you go?
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End the blockade!
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That's basically because Congress can not replace what a militant union movement can do. Government should take over payment of all medical costs and make all companies pay an hourly flat tax on each and every worker they hire to pay for all medical needs. Then those over a certain size based upon the number of employees including companies used as fronts for holding companies should pay a premium tax because they like small business so much. They should also raise the minimum wage so that families don't need to go on food stamps in the first place. Then tie the minimum wage to inflation and productivity. Once again if government and big companies like small business so much the can give them a tax credit or a kickback on their tax bill providing it's not just a for tax purpose company being held by another holding company.
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Not really. I under no obligation to help the government to pursue unjust laws. Amentsy and Legalization.
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And now you're making a scene!!
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Union Strong!!!
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World Capitalism destroyed itself with two world wars in the 20 th Century leaving only the United States untouched by the destruction of war.
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@thebull3206 Pass a Constitional Amendment if nessasary to defend the right to abortion.
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Bob Barker Just another example of Bourgeois hypocrisy as a safe abortion will always be available to the Hilary Clinton's and Donald Trump's conquests.
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@justaguy6100 It will just go back to being a right for the rich since they will always have the right travel or go before an old fashion abortion humiliation board with a lawyer. The Democrats are big on promises and not much else's. Like minimum wage which hasn't changed for over 13 years and universal healthcare anything the working class wants you can forget about the Democrats with their worthless promises.
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@JayPlateFaceVideos Texas women are crossing the border to Mexican Pharmacies for Misoprostol a drug used for ulcers.
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marlomma i hope to be a Teamster driving a big recycling truck pulling up to the Big Wall Street firms. Getting out of the cab with a union button on my lapel and a Smith and Wesson on my hip. I will then read a revolutionary decree of the new Revolutionary United States Government confiscating all Stocks, Bonds, Mortgages, Commercial paper and any associated hard drives. Into the recycling truck will go all the records of Finance Capitalism and like Humpty Dumpty no one will ever be able to put it back together again.
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@flipgunderson1946 I think you are a pathetic joke with your 5th Avenue (advertisements) .Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter.brought to you by capitalism". Like all of the Biggest Liars in history Carter along with the UK was a supporter of Pol Pot in the UN and supplying him through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand.
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@flipgunderson1946 It hurts when someone tells the truth about US Imperialism doesn't it? Next time you see Carter with his work on Habitat for Humanity your going to remember the real truth about him.
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Donald Trump Our purpose isn't to see capitalism fail but to convince the workers that they must take control of industry and society before even worse crisis develop. The capitalist can't help producing these crisis because they are connected to their way of doing things based on profit. We are internationalist which means that our politics start with the world. Neither Chinese capitalism or Russia capitalism can escape the same problems as American capitalism because as I said earlier its connected to doing things based on profits for a tiny ruling class. We already publish a newspaper in three languages and some books in eleven. We are still a small and modest movement. Your welcome to browse our Newspaper TheMilitant.com and book publisher PathfinderPress.com
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Should be raised to 100% as a maximum income tax. All the other taxes should be abolished. No sales tax. No taxes on workers homes. No separate state income tax. No tax on gas. No property and sales taxes on automobiles.
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@Daosguard If General Motors and Walmart shareholders are making a profit of a penny that is a penny to much.
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@Jon Luci Making this video is not illegal nor should anyone believe that Stoussel needed to get paid off because he has some set of morals that would ordinarily prevent him from making such a video. He no doubt was merely paid whatever his usual going rate for propaganda videos is.
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Suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes? It's a sin tax because everyone knows cigarettes are bad for you. New York state tax is $4.35 and add the city tax of $1.50. Add them up and you get $5.85. Now he could have bought his cigarettes in Jersey and paid a $2.35 tax or maybe he bought them online from a company in Missouri and paid only S0.17. Anyway he paid at least some tax but they arrested him because he was selling individual cigarettes without a tax stamp. How many people buy from Amazon and don't pay the state sales tax? Yet do they send out the cops to spy on you and arrest you for not paying your tax because most state laws state you must pay the sales tax even if Amazon doesn't collect it. The city settled for 5.9 million not including the cities legal costs. That means the city will have to sell about a million packs of cigarettes to break even.
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@fritzforsthoefel8031 Go ahead and desert for lower wages and bigger profits elsewhere like that isn't your national industrial policy now.. Just remember you can run but you can't hide and you can't take it with you when you die.
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@fritzforsthoefel8031 Government does what the bosses want and no policy can exacerbate it from crisis. Its due the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline.
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@Tricia_K Hamas are the genocidal maniacs who must be defeated. If not Israel than who? Hamas murdered all political opposition in a civil war after winning just one election in 2006?
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@Messiisthebest724 The revolution brought peace for the soldier, land for the peasant and bread for the workers. The Red Army organized to defend the new Soviet Republic defeated 14 Imperialist Armies and was at the Gates of Warsaw. Had Stalin followed his orders they might have taken Warsaw and marched all the way to Berlin.
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@HontounoShiramizu Sure the UK and US weren't Imperialist invaders and the Czechoslovak Legion was just out for a Sunday stroll in the park. Lenin would vow to tear Imperialism limb for limb after the defeat of the German Revolution. Unlike Japan and the West the Soviets never had foreign investments that produced profits for a capitalist ruling class neither did the Chinese until after the CCP's creation of Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
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@HontounoShiramizu Ya your idea of an Army is no doubt a small group of terrorists. The loss of a bosses foreign capital? Boo hoo hoo cry me a river boss.
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@sixgunsymphony7408 Overthrowing the landlord and capitalist Regimes as they moved forward. For the first time in history the workers and farmers had a mighty revolutionary army of their own.
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In the rich countries no one except a few intellectuals and self taught workers are interested in socialism until capitalism develops problems. The collapse of 2008 has revived the interest in socialism and politics in general among the masses of people in the United States.
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That's the best you can do is hit us with a few quotes you can't even trace back to the original person who said them? How about, "What's the matter are you afraid of a few Chinese Laundrymen?" General MacArthur during the Korean War. How about Richard Nixon coming on TV and saying "..I'm not a crook..." Fiat currency? Nixon closed the window for foreign gold exchange because France wanted gold for dollars. They've had 40 years to go back to the gold standard. It's the natural greed of the capitalists and the way their system works that guarantees financial collapse not any one particular policy. Capitalism without cronyism? Impossible because that's always been the way capitalism has always worked going back to the Union Pacific railroad charter. Clinton took away welfare AFDC and created TANF in the first attack on the Social Security Act of 1935. The guarantee of public housing is gone replaced with a complicated system that makes sense only to those with investment money. You broke our unions so instead of 30% of workers belonging to unions it's now about 6%. The promise of private pensions to the more skilled and unionized workers is in the trash. Wages have been stagnate while productivity and profits have sorred. You let us borrow with easy money saying we didn't need higher wages just good credit before 2008 now we are lucky to get a loan for anything. We paid for Social Security and medicare for our old age and the disabled and you want that back also. If anyone got a free lunch its was from the 'No Bankers Left Behind' policy of Obama.
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Capitalist government is dangerous. It becomes larger and larger in its attempts to regulate greed and keep the ruling class in power. You can see how upset they were when the Clinton lost despite her raising 4 times the money Trump did. You saw how quickly they had themselves bailed out in 2008 despite their usual propaganda about how bankruptcy is good because it eliminates bad and inefficient businesses.
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Actually I would say this. Those countries and groups of countries suffering the most severe crisis' coupled with a massive movement along with a competent and selfless leadership will go over to socialist revolution first. Capitalism by its very nature is 'unfair'. Unfairness in itself provides no means for change. Unfairness provokes class struggle but without a socialist leadership for that struggle that struggle will die down until the next crisis develops or a huge sections of the world are destroyed in world war allowing for another instance of primitive capital accumulation.
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@crippleddepression1142 I ain't afraid of any FBI cun...'
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@360Hyp3rDunk "....but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States...." Article VI Clause 3 US Constitution.
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@360Hyp3rDunk What do the Chineses or BLM have to do with the no religious test clause? She's a lawyer and a Judge if they ask about her religion why doesn't she just remind them about article 6 clause 3? Same with Tucker Carlson how come he doesn't bring that up?
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That's a quote from the anti marxist Thomas Sowell. Professors like him are for the bosses because they are intellectual servants paid to sit in a chair and sing the praise of their masters the ruling capitalist bosses. Unions would not exist if workers didn't want them just as Sowell would not have a career as a bourgeois professor of economics if he came to the wrong conclusions on Fidel Castro. .
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