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The entire world was communist from the time cave paintings were drawn in France tens of thousands of years ago, to about 10000 years ago. Whereas capitalism has only existed as th…

People have been saying the CCP is on its last legs for over 70 years. In those seventy years it has led a country which grew to have the second largest GDP in the world. -- writin…

> While of course we should try to prevent it, we should also try to mitigate the consequences in the even a war does occur! I used to have an old Stanford Research Institute repor…

999 times out of 1000 if I ask a working class American to explain Marx's concept of surplus labor time, they would have no idea of what I was talking about. That is false consciou…

> inflation protection and avoiding capital controls are arguably the most impactful innovation since the internet Inflation protection? Bitcoin lost one third of its value in the …

> There was a whole probably 4 years (at least) to register to vote up to this day. For the prepared... I moved from one state to another in June. I did not have four years to prep…

The smallest measure of blacks as a percentage of US population would be 12%, and at Yale blacks are half of that.

The southern states had laws, somewhat compliant to federal law, that you could vote if your grandfather could vote. A way to keep those of African descent out. Yale has policies t…

Also, if anti-colonial feelings in Africa are a black American export, I guess that means the 1879 victory of the Zulus over two British columns in the battle of Isandlwana were a …

> Africans in Africa share little of the fervent anti-colonial attitude prominent in the American Black community here. Like who, Umkhonto we Sizwe? Patrice Lumumba? The MPLA? > Af…

> A sane response would challenge the claim that lockdowns are the answer with a simple question: where is the proof that the last one worked? New Zealand has two large islands, an…

> Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. Cice…

If saying "now" is "terribly misleading" - the Federal Reserve says black unemployment was higher from 2010 to 2012 then it is now.

> Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time. The black unemployment rate - 13% according to the Federal Reserve - is higher than it was a h…

Much of the reason for it is to pump money into the economy via Raytheon, Lockheed Martin etc. It all ultimately boils down to money.

The US backed the jihadists (mujahidden) against the secular Saur government in the 1970s and 1980s, so that blew back from that too. Along with the US military opening foreign bas…

From the time of the cave paintings and Venus figurines tens of thousands of years ago, to about 10000 years ago, there is no evidence of government, a working class and a heredita…

> little or no growth in working-class wages, lower social mobility Murray, and the AEI he works for, have fought against higher wages for workers and social mobility for decades. …

> [Putin] consolidated all the political and judicial power. Destroyed, physically, politically or judicially all the opponents. You are writing in English, and thus aimed at a US/…

Rod Holt helped Woz build the Apple ][, and was then responsible for its design and manufacture, he was one of three VPs when Apple incorporated (Jobs and Woz were the other two) a…

You mean the quackery of Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Ricardo and so on? Someone should tell the record companies who say when you pirate a song, you're stealing from the artist …

Wealth is not zero sum, but whether the wealth a worker creates is kept by him or sent to an heir in a dividend check is zero sum.

The idea that the problem is that some own more than others is itself an idea promoted by those who "own more than others". They set that as the thing to be argued about. The actua…

> horrors of the Japanese war machine, and maybe actually more the non-horrific but relentless robotic support for the war (or obedience towards the emperor, government, etc) among…

> A supermajority of people in every western country believe in god or higher power: https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/beliefs-about-god/pf_05-... Your link belies what you said.…