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I don’t believe you.

> I feel like a lot of people just take “thoughts” and label that philosophy. Isn’t that just philosophy?

There is no ontological difference between: - a worker taking a few weeks of paid rest as a compensation for working several months, - and a worker taking a few years of paid rest …

Are you also counting workers on vacation? On a weekend? At home after their shift?

In socialism, you wouldn’t be paid. That’s the whole point.

Are you counting retired workers?

Rate of profit = Exploitation rate ÷ (1 + Organic composition of capital)

So by "working", the author really means "working for a wage"?

"The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital."

"The bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway…

> Some historians have argued that the ensuing radar arms race was more consequential to the war’s outcome than the Manhattan Project. No kidding?

> People are only allowed to vote on pre-defined options that are decided entirely in private That’s democracy in its purest form.

American presidents are notoriously not elected by the people.

Are you telling me the US don’t actually make anything, not even their guns?

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> In English, the word 'discrimination' can (and in this social context may) imply social prejudice or unfair treatment. In French as well. But it’s obviously not what’s meant here…

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> Not sure exactly what the point of quoting Marx at me was supposed to be... You’re 178 years too late. "Reshoring" was a pipe dream then, it is even more of a pipe dream now. > W…

> by shutting them down you free up resources (including human expertise) that can be used elsewhere. To buy coal?

> Every single nuclear watt is being subsidised and has been for decades. This is just plain false. In the 1990s and early 2000s, EDF was generating a whole lot of profit, which it…

> Mine is re-shore all industry "The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To …

> Then No.

> Am I secretly German? Probably.

Doesn’t mean they don’t. Odds are, they do.

He is Turkish?