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emt02

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    Comment #14115025

    1. Have you actually read my comment? I explicitly said that I think that Marxist's view of dictatorship of proletariat as a means to reach communism is fundamentally flawed and wr…

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    Comment #14114714

    > Yes, studied and defined by those who later created a big slavesystem. And I read them, but don't like or agree to their definitions, nor alternatives. This is just plain mislead…

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    Comment #14114468

    I'm just a random person on the internet that read some books on the topic, but a very quick google search would get you to a lot of information about the definition of capital and…

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    Comment #14114377

    As I said in my previous comment, it is easy to twist a definition as you just did, to claim that the penny stock owned by the average Joe is even comparable to the stock controlle…

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    Comment #14114358

    > even if pushed by money pressure That's the whole point. People do not voluntarily work for shitty wages at shitty jobs, they are forced by the need of money. Workers in western …

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    Comment #14114219

    I think you made some good points, but what I would like to point out is that, even if hierarchy was completely inevitable in some context, we should still struggle to get a just k…

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    Comment #14114200

    Giving a precise definition is hard, since it is easy to twist it and point out that pretty much everyone owns at least a bit of capital and could thus be considered part of the cl…

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    Comment #14114142

    Even if it were true (and personally I'm not sure of that) that humans naturally tend to form hierarchical structures of power, that's not a good reason not to try to overcome this…

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    Comment #14114116

    > Where to begin ... Well first of, capitalism and global markets are made by people. Rather, they are made by the capitalist class. > Then there are very tiny individual nations, …

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    Comment #14114069

    I guess you're talking about the oldest of those ideas, namely anarchism and communism. Regarding anarchism, it's known that the reason it didn't work out in the attempts so far ha…

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    Comment #14113785

    > Yes, it does. Who/what else is going to prevent people from trading for a profit? There are several social and economical theories that consider a central government, and thus th…

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    Comment #14113713

    > Are you sure that government operations produce less pollution? No, I'm not sure. But we're talking about private companies now, not governments. Governments and companies in the…

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    Comment #14113614

    Personally I don't think we can accept Capitalism and global markets to be more powerful than any individual nation. Especially given the current trend in automation, the risk that…

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    Comment #13994893

    According to the communist manifesto, the point you mention should be put into effect during the transitory phase from capitalism to communism, where the State gathers the power in…

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    Comment #13993884

    > that's communism. I think you're confused about communism. What you're talking about seems more about soviet russia and other countries that run/ran an authoritarian state-capita…