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Pls post woke videos/articles on why capitalism....bad? Why nothing matters. Why im gay, so what The more digestible the better. Sadly not everyone has time to watch hour-long Richard Wolff videos. I'm tailoring this thread specifically to people who need simple primers on the true nature of the way things are, and the historical origins of modern social relations.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 22:13 |
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# ? May 5, 2024 06:33 |
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http://peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/10/03/video-the-problem-of-capital-income/ pretty ok as an intro
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 22:15 |
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 02:38 |
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i posted something! this is good too: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/socialism-cold-war-tyranny-democracy-authoritarianism
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 07:27 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9x-b8V-PSE
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 10:08 |
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I suspect the easiest way to appeal to people for socialism is to point out the anti-democratic nature of the modern american workplace. You have a small group of chief executives, appointed by a small group of a board of directors, who themselves are appointed by a tiny minority of shareholders. These tiny groups of people make all the important economic decisions for the vast majority of American workers. Where to work. Who does the work. What to make. How to make it. What to do with the revenues. Et cetera. It should surprise no one that this tiny minority typically makes decisions that benefit primarily themselves. The impacts on society and the employees themselves are not a primary consideration to this tiny minority. Capitalism is defined as the economic relationship between employer and employee. This relationship is a tyrannically anti-democratic institution. Why embrace democracy in politics but turn off this embrace for the important economic decisions of society and cede control to a tiny minority of people? Richard Wolff likes to say the solution to this problem kind of jumps out at you. Why not make the workplace a democracy? Let the employees also be the employers. Let the employees democratically make the important economic decisions. This solves many problems. You would not have had the mass exodus of manufacturing jobs from the United States. You would not have the obscene economic inequalities between people. You would not have such imbalances in political representation resulting from the vast economic inequalities. Et cetera.
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 13:00 |
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here's a short richard wolff vid of the above idea where he gives the important spiel in the first 2 minutes then spends the rest of the vid elaborating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDiDt74Fyss
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 13:18 |
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short vid of chomsky describing the tyrannical structure of capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-diLmj5wJdE
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 14:59 |
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The Great Money Trick https://libcom.org/library/great-money-trick-robert-tressell
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# ? Nov 11, 2017 17:44 |
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# ? May 5, 2024 06:33 |
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/are-bosses-dictators this review of elizabeth anderson's book is a good primer on the tyranny of private government
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