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It simply cannot be done under capitalism.

The division most significant to Instagram is social class, not “discrimination.”

US officials have been playing very loose with the truth about these things. > U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams even told Americans in a late February tweet that they need to …

It’s really unfortunate that these authorities have already sacrificed their respectability by being dishonest with the American people in the mask debacle.

Would be nice to use for opening files if that could be configured to work in a suitable fashion.

You have got to be shitting me. Only on HN could you find such insufferably out of touch bourgeoise commentary as this.

The US health industry funded it

It’s a propaganda piece. The point is to instill poor people with a fear of inflation to promote sentiment against redistribution, which is done by relating it with their everyday …

Gas is up because of the recent pipeline shutdown. Grocery prices have been rising since the start of the pandemic. Far more people are now accustomed to cooking at home. Anecdotal…

Most of those trillions were delivered to the ruling/corporate class who has used it to secure assets instead of create value. That is the source of this inflation. For example: ht…

If they don’t like it they can just get another job.

“Researchers could have gotten infected during their collecting trips, or while working with the new viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The virus that escaped from the lab…

Your explanation doesn’t check out. First of all, construction hasn’t necessarily slowed down. Second, jobs were always in cities. That hasn’t changed. Third, new construction tren…

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Thanks for sharing! Beautiful pottery!!!

The U.S. almost certainly does this, but the U.S. would be able to wield its dominance to achieve a far more covert operation. The U.S. has grounded and delayed flights of foreign …

The core critique Marxists make have of liberal politics is that liberalism is not democratic enough. Specifically, Marxists argue for democracy in the workplace whereas liberals a…

There’s always a price.

That is simply not true. You are partially correct on Marx’s use of the term, but by Marx’s standards, nothing about the USSR could conceivably be considered communism. Marx was st…

That is the question! But it would be mistaken to presume Marxists believe they have all the answers. Marxists have only determined that the working class has no choice but to find…

I think you did a good job!

I am simply saying that personal property is out of the picture. And there is no such thing as “owning labor.” There is only laborers, which under wage labor are owned for a certai…

Yeah, he would probably be shocked to learn what Karl Marx actually thought about capitalism and the human spirit, and how comparable their analyses are. See: https://www.marxists.…

The line is drawn by relations between people in the extraction process. As anything, it can be complicated but the starting point is very simple: wage labor. In other words, all w…