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You saying all politicians, even the aweful ones, should get participation awards, while us plebs should just know our place and shut up?

Underfunding and neoliberal management. There's a fair chance the government is hollowing it out to undermine public perception of the institution so they cang et away with doing a…

While I agree, there are plenty of poor sources getting too much uncritical attention in the press, even by China's own accounts there are a large network of education facilities, …

I'm disappointed (though not surprised) to see Marx so marginalised. In particular, Schumpeter was in massive debt to Marx, as is quite clear from reading Capitalism, Socialism and…

The socialist getting the most attention in this article is actually William Morris, who tended towards more libertarian ideas of socialism, though not as anti-statist as Goldman. …

> ultra left wing ads That might be pushing it a bit. We're talking Jeremy Corbyn here, not Amadeo Bordiga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-leftism

Important to remember that, despite jokes like these, Oscar Wilde remained a committed (if ideosyncratic) libertarian socialist.

I guess schumpeters point with creative destruction was the rupture required to replace one paradigm with another (Incidentally, he got this straight from marx). Technology, and ma…

Jeremy Corbyn (current leader of the labour party) released a very interesting 'digital democracy manifesto' during his leadership campaign, though it isn't officially labour party…

I really dislike this term 'virtue signaling'. Although I do not deny the phenomenon, I think that it often functions to shut down debate (kind of like an anti-PC device) To add mo…

Yeah, I guess 'cut the crap' was maybe considered a bit crude. Thanks for the response.

TFW you're voted down immediately for calling out sexism which, though very explicit, has so far gone uncommented upon [edit] - could someone please explain why they're voting me d…

> They do not ask for the cleverness which shows itself in continual lying. They want especially, if they are artists, freshness, elegance, humanity, the capacity for motherhood ug…

The source code (data sets, license, etc) is one thing, but the actual physical robot is something else.

If 'the 99%' owned the robots it could help

10/10 would back this

You're right that it is tricky. Many social anarchists and communists use the phrase 'voluntary cooperation' to describe the social order in a communist society (in the sense of a …

it may be 'true' within the set of axioms on which it rests, but 'wrong' in that those axioms (rational self-seeking behaviour, etc) don't hold in reality. More, those axioms thems…

I think that this is a really interesting concept, but dislike the name. All social anarchists (anarchist-communists, anarchist-syndicalists, even mutualists etc) would see anarchy…