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José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

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Re: José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

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Zardoz84 wrote: post #23
capableweb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We shouldn't celebrate any particular ideologies but we should celebrate the fact that José Epita had peoples best interest at heart and tried to change it for the better. Please note that nowhere in the article communism is actually celebrated, not even in the snippet you posted. So not sure why you got that takeaway.

He didn't had the effort to read the article. If not, he will found this : > "In 1968, Epita tore up his communist membership card while watching Soviet tanks crush the Prague Spring on TV." Every body should remember that one thing it's communism and other authoritarian communism regimes. I'm pro-communist, but I'm against any kind of authoritarian government (and so, I see Stalin as a hideous dictator like was Hitl…

There are only two ways to coordinate human societies at scale: free markets and physical power.

Any ideology rejecting free markets is just advocating for power.

Re: José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

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Post by enriquto »

eyko wrote: post #39
iagovar wrote: post #27

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I see, thanks. I'm sorry for the amount of questions, but I'm very curious! Do you see the ruling elite technically qualified for such leap? And if they are not themselves, are they hiring adequate decision makers, engineers and such? Also, is there an education system in place (or in advanced planning) that allows to grow local technical talent?

I'd say it's complicated. Corruption and nepotism is a fact of life in E. Guinea. It's a society with many layers, all in service of the Nguema "dynasty", if I may describe it as such. The elite tend to send their children and relatives to study abroad, sometimes in prestigious schools, so there are many who are well educated and probably capable of leading and successfully carrying out large scale projects (and they…

thank you very much for your first hand accounts. They are extremely interesting!

Re: José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #36
capableweb wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Communism necessarily implies authoritarian government What? Since when and in what way? The common definition of Communism is where all participants are sharing the ownership of production and trying to remove things like money and financial class. Many ideas in Communism in fact assumes the absence of any kind of central government. Then that the states that have tried "Communism" in modern haven't actually aimed…

The OP's claim that communism implies authoritarian government is likely based on the concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in Marxism, and this is a quite common view [0]: "In The Road to Serfdom (1944), the Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek wrote that the dictatorship of the proletariat likely would destroy personal freedom as completely as does an autocracy. The European Commission of Human Righ…

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Re: José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

offby37years wrote: post #41
Zardoz84 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He didn't had the effort to read the article. If not, he will found this : > "In 1968, Epita tore up his communist membership card while watching Soviet tanks crush the Prague Spring on TV." Every body should remember that one thing it's communism and other authoritarian communism regimes. I'm pro-communist, but I'm against any kind of authoritarian government (and so, I see Stalin as a hideous dictator like was Hitl…

There are only two ways to coordinate human societies at scale: free markets and physical power. Any ideology rejecting free markets is just advocating for power.

Naval! Not sure if HN has really gone down the drain, or if this would always have been downvoted.

Hypothesis: nerds are bad at politics because they lack intuition for game theory.

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