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You don't need marginalism to explain that making some money doing Uber given fixed costs for your car is better than making no money at all and incurring same or similar costs.

I agree, however the Communist form is merely a re-telling of the capitalist form, it results from the same contradictions, the same process, and has the same result. Under the sta…

I don't deny that he or she may be correct about how Communism was practiced. In fact, Marcuse doesn't deny this either and describes the Soviet model as just as much of an issue i…

Communism is not a 'utopia' in the sense that everyone is happy all the time. It aims simply to do away with certain problems, just as public health services don't do away with eve…

Upon second reading, that makes more sense, however it would be clearer if this were the case. "Chinese Communism" can refer either to the ideology which the CCP claim to adhere th…

I'm not so sure what is meant by it. Adherents of Marxism-Leninism utilise the method of dialectical materialism to analyse the past and to provide a model for the structure of the…

I've heard about this too. A member of the IWW, also a Deliveroo rider, told us about how in his region fellow riders reported people for unionising. A manager fired them. After pr…

I think there's certainly an argument to be made for social health care, the restriction of that health care for certain illnesses, and limiting the ability or capacity of companie…

I'm usually a strong proponent of regulation to protect people, but only where the harm can be studied and analysed. If games are not marketed to minors, I do not think it is reaso…

There is similar problems with the software that runs pacemakers and other such devices, in which the source is not made available. The protection of users against themselves is an…

The most strange bugs have the strangest solutions. Just an hour ago I was trying to debug a queueConstructor (it returns a malloc'd pointer to a queue data structure), right after…

>For a long time only banking websites and retail checkout pages were encrypted. For my experience, this still holds in Japan, and I've heard in Korea.

>I'm sure the people in Eastern Europe who were conquered and enslaved by the Soviets wished that the Allies had kept rolling east. Do you have a citation that this was the general…

This is precisely where the criticism that the USSR was "state capitalist" came from; it operated as a corporation owning its own means of production, not a dictatorship of the pro…

>claiming that this time it will be different due to some vague, hand-wavy reason. Because I'm not an advocate of Marxism-Leninism nor Soviet state capitalism, or depriving people …

>but no, This Time It Will Be Different®. Why do you think strawman thought-terminating cliches are an acceptable level of discourse? At best they serve to be distracting and needl…

>Every single time, over dozens of times, it resulted in bloody dictatorships. It is very much worth studying why this has happened and what kind of methods can be used to avert it…

This kind of attitude from your parent commenter is extremely common, it is an artifact of ideology and the working of technological rationality into the consciousness. While the p…

This is precisely correct. I think the replies to you are missing a very central point (speaking as if the accusation of advocating Marxian Communism was a serious charge, too). Pe…

Isn't the only reason why they wouldn't block booting "other OSs" was because you can use their Boot Camp utility to dual boot Windows? Then someone figured out that the machine di…

Here is the key contradiction: for the protection of democracy, we must limit certain behaviours, these behaviours including the right for certain people or organisations which hav…

It is entirely possible to be a skeptic of capitalism, its application and its effects while engaging in a market in which capitalists provide goods and services. It is also possib…

However I think the attitude is taken too far. In some countries (most notably the UK, Australia, New Zealand, especially Canada, and some US states) even possession of drawings or…

>Then there is the political criticism along the lines of George Orwell and some Luddites: technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists…

As for me, one of his successors, Marx.