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Comment #15457505
How is a state which allows and encourages wage labour and trade 'communist'? Totalitarian everyone agrees on, as to whether it is Communist or Socialist other than in name is heav…
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Comment #15443864
>Here it is again 'CP isn't wrong'. Yes it is, I don't see how you can think it's not. You haven't defined any criteria for 'wrong'; the person you are replying to is taking issue …
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Comment #15428175
The PROTECT Act specifically had provisions against even drawings of any kind, however those parts to my knowledge were ruled unconstitutional. On the other hand, there are various…
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Comment #15428153
>But what if it's artificial child porn that looks like your child? I don't understand the problem. Let's assume that no real images are used as input to the artificial child image…
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Comment #15428113
Out of interest, in what way is harm increased? Does the same harm occur in cases in which the image is only being viewed?
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Comment #15423012
I know you're being facetious, but under a Communist society it's likely that there would be several popular hobby projects, similar to open source community's efforts. Things like…
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Comment #15377439
This was not a problem with Socialism, it was a problem with the form of economic planning used. We must also bear in mind that there are forms such as market Socialism. Neither th…
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Comment #15375277
Automation certainly can benefit society (the majority of whom are workers), but in the way in which it is used at the moment does not benefit them in the fullest sense; they can t…
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Comment #15367460
>You're attempting to redefine the meaning of words to create a strawman Isn't this exactly what post-Marxian authors did? By the time Marx was writing, it was clear what capitalis…
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Comment #15367341
>Capitalism is inseparable from a free market system. No, it's not; there exists market Socialism, for example. There also exists mutualism. I don't know where you're getting this …
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Comment #15367100
>The US isn't even remotely close to being a free market system and hasn't been for decades. Where exactly did GP claim that it is? And why is regulation incompatible with a capita…
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Comment #15367080
>American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. This distinction is made on the fallacious idea that "capitalism" is equal to a totally free market. This is a common c…
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Comment #15302532
>When Venezuela's economic ministers say things like "the law of supply and demand is a lie" to justify price controls They can't be very good Socialists then; Marx was a supporter…
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Comment #15302519
But nevertheless in intrudes on the public sphere, to simply deny its effect on the culture surrounding it and the society which uses it is naive. The idea that businesses exist ap…
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Comment #15302506
>So, I'm not sure if that's really xenophobic. A little nitpick, but "-phobia" suffix does not strictly mean fear, though that is its origin. It can also mean hatred. >Should a Mex…
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Comment #15272937
>We're primates, not pure energy beings that we can reprogram at will. Nobody doubts this; my point is that our current mode of production has a very strong effect on how we go abo…
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Comment #15272657
That said, there are modern Communist projects which rely not at all on agrarian population; they believe that education should be tailored to fit the current mode of production; f…
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Comment #15272634
>It's because utopian projects are at odds with human nature This asks the question - what isn't at odds with human nature? Why do you think that utopian projects are necessarily a…
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Comment #15272617
>did you ever stop to wonder why every communist state ends up the same? Communists have. Anarchists have. I know you're using the question rhetorically, it deserves an answer. Som…
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Comment #15267441
Marginal economics seems to be rather popular, but I'm still a stickler for classical ideas of value personally.
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Comment #15266047
>I mean, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now, and if you read the law you'd see that. Wrong about what, exactly? Images of children in sexual situations, or rather, as is des…
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Comment #15264577
Would someone mind explaining why my comment was downvoted, and how I can improve my comments in future please?
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Comment #15264575
As for drawings, the CAJA 2009 section 62 onwards deals with it.[0] As for publishing text online, there was a case of a man who wrote stories and was convicted I believe under the…
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Comment #15264095
No. Canadian too, Canada has frankly draconian laws when it comes to free expression and possession of pornographic fiction.
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Comment #15263998
How do I chain VPNs together where I'm not giving my Tor requests to any of the computers between mine and the Tor network? I use a server at the moment to tunnel but French law re…