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And the lack of democratic checks is the basic problem. Why I argue it's an inherent problem is because Marx has an agenda, communism, and an singular...

How are violent protests working out so far?

So how Wayfarer saying: Is equivalent to make the case for white supremacy? To go against BLM? What is the sophistry in saying that?

More like a vacuous assault on common sense and the political center from radicals from both sides, but in this case especially from the left. As if p...

But will the Democrats put the demonstrators in charge of every lever of power in the U.S. Government? Will the Democrats defund Police Departments al...

The Weinstein brothers are a refreshing alternative to the ordinary hyper partisan approach. "Unity 2020" is a bit far off, but still, great insights....

But there will be those, and they will be heard by Foxnews etc. And the mudslinging and modern day tribalism will continue.

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Let's do one reality check here before we continue. First, there are whole states that have seen NO riots in the last 20 years in the US including thi...

Alternate history can tell us something, when it's done right. Hence why the idea to protect the new world by keeping it separate? The best "defence" ...

When your strategy is to be divisive, to increase the antipathy between the left and right, sure, Trump will do so. And the current environment will h...

Good ending for your video, philosopher004: After sighing in relief, the actor takes the time machine back to his time and finds himself in gloomy bac...

And that's why there are risk groups for corona virus, the old and those with other conditions like heart disease etc. Still makes the pandemic a pand...

Yes. Or a very overblown threat estimate like with international terrorism, which is typical, as individual events always happen. Yet the part of gove...

Partly. But then again, many conservatives can argue for law and order and not be fascists. Of course Trump's argument is a non-sequitur, as Biden's s...

At least it was peaceful this sunday, but the crowds were not smaller. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/30/world/30belarus-protests2/merlin_176...

And it will work. How? That's another matter. But the strategy is clear. Trump going to Kenosha is directly btw. from the NRA playbook. Looked at Trum...

Let me put it this way. What communist revolution has ended up being a democracy? I am sure that Marx did want direct democracy, and as you said, was ...

Oh, things like having to do some work has gotten away with spending time here arguing with people. :wink: And that's too bad, because this forum is a...

Nope, that refers to my quote from the Bible. The quote was basically used as an argument why monarchies exist and why people going against a monarchy...

Tiff, it's very sorry to hear that because I have found you to be a positive person on the forum. I do notice also that even the Forum has become a bi...

Great answer, which tells just how open you are to open discussion. Oh, ad hominems! Great. And btw, it's Bakunin, not Bukunin.

Boethius, here is a long answer for a long comment. Thanks for the reply, anyway. Hopefully you will have the time and patience to read my response, b...

In this case, you are simply creating your own fantasy. In the Real World Soviet Union is considered socialist and leftist. Sorry. Right, Marx is on t...

The divide can be less inflammatory, but it still does continue: the whole political system depends on it.

No matter what happens in the elections, the house divided will stay divided, that's for sure. And the pleasant atmosphere will continue... :mask:

I'm saying that there weren't those checks, not even after Stalin, even if the totalitarian system became more "humane" by changing the labour camps t...

Indeed you don't. I guess we aren't. With utterly crazy statements from you like the one above it isn't surprising.

Comparing to the start of the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, the focus on events happening in Belarus seem quite little. Perhaps the reason is that t...

Seems like interest in the Corona-virus is disappearing in this forum.

??? If you start arguing that the Soviet Union was a Right-Wing-Fascist-Dictatorship, terms and definitions have no meaning for you. Contrasting how p...

Yes, and the typical issue is that if in our criticism of our own society we are harsh and objective, we then tend to not treat other societies in the...

That's what you have in the Nordic countries. There is a saying that the US is the richest Third World country in the World. You are the one living in...

Not in my country, basically. This country has truly eradicated large scale rural povetry that there was in the 19th Century. It doesn't have shanty t...

Well, technically many CEO's and managers are "workers". They might have some bonus-system, but usually they aren't "owners" of the corporations, but ...

Have had much work, so I haven't had the time to respond or follow the discussion. It's not at all curious what I'm talking about. It's one of the mos...

The basic problem is that Americans believe as if a God-like President would somehow descend into the White House and somehow create change with every...

Right. A clinical psychologist writes a self help life advise book through essays and in the end what's at stake, according to JerseyFlight, is civili...

You doing nothing else than making one day more miserable to some postal workers (who likely will get fired after the elections anyway) with sending t...

We have had a lot of experience of these "other democracies" and how democracy is killed by this method when there isn't actual representation of any ...

And Marx puts on a pedestal a very specific type of labor, not having much thought to farmers or the self-employed, who can be indeed poor, but, as wi...

Looking at the theories of Karl Marx, it's quite strange to say that the whole idea was to gain political power through democratic means.

The middle class, which isn't the favorite class divide of Marx. A lot of those nasty bourgeoisie in that category. (What rarely is mentioned is that ...

It's quite clear that the PR or Human Resources departments of large corporations aren't suddenly staffed by "cultural marxists" and the vast majority...

And neither did the Communists that took up arms and were eager to kill the class enemy.

Yet democracy was only a tool for the proletariat, to get power. Others classes have to fall under the lead of the proletariat. This shows clearly how...

And as I mentioned, his commentary on the Canadian bill was an obvious issue about "culture war", just smacked right into it. Yet what he made his tal...

When the "right" is represented by an narcissistic idiot like Trump, it's no wonder that a reasonable academic conservative like Peterson gets attenti...

There's a huge difference between quoting what someone has said or written and what one thinks a person is implying.

It's very easy to predict this outcome. It is as simple as when thinking to implement into reality Plato's ideal society, where people are divided int...