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The very fact that we are talking about student loans, inflation, destroying the dollar and income (wage-labour) means that we are talking about capitalism; though other actors wit…

I'm posting right now on what is by and large a forum hostile to anti-capitalist thinking; this is the very opposite of me being in an echo chamber. Many "decent" jobs require at l…

I agree, this is what I was trying to get at.

>Don’t blame capitalism because capitalism would never support the artificial cost inflation caused by government intervention. What is capitalism other than the system of predomin…

I think it's possible to critique both systems; the American (capitalist) system in which you need to pay huge amounts for education in order to have the mere chance to get a job t…

I think your analysis is correct; regardless of one's personal sympathies it's important to get the terms correct when discussing these issues. I think the image of what Socialism …

Your definitions of Socialism and Communism are almost entirely false and lacking in any reference to the founders of the movement, their usage in the disciplines of philosophy, po…

This leaves me to think why it is considered best practice to separate work and friendships. It's certainly not frowned upon in most places to make friends with your coworkers, to …

Interesting, the concept of dialectic stretches all the way back to Plato, even though Hegel (and later Marx) are most known for it. The Socratic dialectic operates by the principl…

Quite often people don't get what they ask for; if they did then my point about politicians taking money would be completely moot; this is why direct democracy is gaining traction;…

I agree that "capitalist democracy" is an oxymoron, but I come from the exact opposite side from Thiel; I believe that a democracy cannot function within capitalism when politician…

In my judgement it's not worse at all; we live in a world in which the content that actually has an impact on people is hidden no longer behind publishers but online centralised pl…

How would you trigger a remote wipe?

> The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Very much this, though I must also recommend his Comments on it, for the reader who has a hard time penetrating the critique. I have a …

>The ideas were certainly interesting, but had no real provable basis, and just seemed to be the reasoned expression of one author's individual sense of alienation - more like arti…

That may blur the line between proletarian and bourgeois, but it does not invalidate the idea of class conflict within Marxism nor Marx's other critiques of capitalism such as comm…

Somewhat off topic, but I'm becoming to realise that reading product pages like this is sort of like reading only the advertising pages of a magazine, but in this case I have the c…

That's true, I have my parents if things go wrong; the thing is that before I started university last year my parents convinced me not to get a student maintenance loan (i.e what p…

You say that Deliveroo has shitty working conditions and I probably don't disagree (I know nothing of them), but I'm a second year university student and I'm being pressured to fin…

>Oh, you don't toe the PC line? You must be a rayciswhitemale. Apparently not being an anti-semite is being "PC"?

What exactly are the priors for the idea that there is a group of people you call "cultural Marxists", who have done this, and further that they have done it? The standard version …

>I think the lgbbq movement was a cultural Marxist conspiracy against the institution of the family unit If this isn't sarcasm/irony, what's your evidence for this conspiracy? (Edi…

On a similar note, Marcuse noted two things in his essay Repressive Tolerance : - If democracy is truly power to the people, then the people should have any power, including the po…

>Including, I believe, a rather massive body of drawings and animation films from Japan (I'm thinking of Hentai involving underage schoolgirls). This is not illegal at the country-…

>The problem with your logic is that you would need an extra $3,000,000,000,000 ON TOP of the value currently paid out to the workforce Why? Those already making sufficient (i.e mo…