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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:This. Everybody wants to dump on Horatio Alger rags-to-riches thinking because it's unsustainable and self-destructive, which are totally valid points, but they fail to address the key benefit on the other side which is drat what a sexy premise!. Do whatever I want and get rich!?!? Yes please!!!! this is more based on propaganda than any basis in reality. soviet society had abundant and highly creative/innovative/beautiful art, especially music and cinema. Catgirl Al Capone fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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enki42 posted:Even if you assume that lower-paid workers are always going to outnumber the workers who are currently highly paid (which probably makes sense for every business I can think of), couldn't demand for labour create inequalities that companies (in the worker-owned, democratic sense) are forced into? Generally under a controlled/centralized economy initiatives can be undertaken to provide education in widget creation and incentives for entering the field. "Wouldn't almost everyone want to be a widget creator then?" Yes, but socialism can accommodate that to a better degree than capitalism because the work model is different - instead of being trapped in one job working almost the entire day, people would spend comparatively tiny chunks of their time productively on a combination of projects they are assigned and do voluntarily. So in the end you would have people working together in different shifts creating widgets, a high volume of workers dedicating a tiny portion of their time each and moving on to rest or the next project when they're done. Catgirl Al Capone fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Unless I'm mistaken the most obvious example would be the Bolsheviks participating in the Provisional Government. As Lenin explained in "An Infantile Disease", even if you don't set out to actually win any legalistic victories via your participation in bourgeois democracy, at the very minimum, their sandbagging of the efforts of the communists will serve as an example to the people that the bourgeois democracy needs to be overthrown, because LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, THIS ISN'T GOING TO WORK. IIRC Lenin was adamant though that it should be with their own party and their own platforms
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praxis is the application of theory in the material world, it's synonymous with practice but is typically used when you want to explicitly communicate that your actions stem from a theoretical basis. theory becomes praxis and the results of this praxis are analyzed and it informs more theory, repeating indefinitely as contradictions are found and resolved.
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Nov 19, 2020 17:14
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Are the Amish an example of a successful anarchist or possibly communist community? I don't know enough about anarchism, communism, or the Amish to know for sure whish one it would be. amish no but some quakers practice a form of loose anarcho-pacifism
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Sucrose posted:Anarchists are against the state and any form of hierarchy though, no? Is there any form of pro-democracy, explicitly anti-authoritarian Marxism that isn't anarchist? anarchists will almost always apply pressure to a marxist state to "keep it honest" but that doesn't mean they wouldn't be overall content to live under it, there's very varying opinions on that.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm not suggesting that online political speech in China isn't heavily regulated, or isn't regulated at all, or that the firewall itself isn't used for that among other things. I've heard that the "firewall" is mostly in place so that the local environment is the default and chinese apps have room to breathe there without being squashed by the western monopolies, how accurate is that?
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