Or go back to the Articles of Confederation. Clearly the idea is that being taxed is "confiscation of property," an old idea. In an ideal world, we wo...
It's not a pejorative, it's a description of fact. Working for a wage is renting yourself -- your brains and muscles, time and effort -- for money. So...
It fluctuates in time. No one decides. It's cultural and historical. But I also sense that the female body has always been more alluring to males by t...
Can't argue with any of that. They bring their voters with them in their media, then when the voters get too insane, they're left with a dilemma: eith...
In fact we know it doesn't. The quickest way to destroy anything is to privatize it. We know that from our healthcare system. The pattern is always th...
I've seen no evidence of that whatsoever. I say it is. I guess that evens out. Declaring it isn't so isn't an argument. The relationship between maste...
There’s a bit of epistemic and deontic elements in both the state and in religions. I’d argue that capitalism is a religion, in many respects. Nationa...
Again, because you don’t listen — either consciously refusing or unconsciously. Given your age, it’s likely unconscious. But who knows. “Wage slavery”...
The problem is that those in power believe they are putting principles into action, but really serving themselves and their constituents. Corbyn was a...
Yes. In many ways. First and foremost: “I’m just following orders.” They’re doing what comes “naturally” within a capitalist system: make profits, rai...
Wage slavery. I’m not talking about chattel slavery. Selling yourself and renting yourself. That’s the difference. Because you’re a heavily indoctrina...
Yes -- check out Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson. Lays it o...
It's as if you don't realize you're describing CORPORATIONS, not "states." This is the structure of corporations. They're the great system of exploita...
There are far more people in government that act to serve the population than there are CEOs and board chairs that do. By far. Why? Because the state ...
The bourgeois, in Marx’s language. The 1% in ours. This is who the state represents. This is why when people choose business (corporations) I think th...
Perhaps try reading what you quoted. Apparently you missed the “in the sense of dogma” part. I’m not referring to the Catholic church or Christianity ...
No, they can’t. That’s like saying the Pope can choose not to be Catholic. It’s possible, I suppose — but the point is that he wouldn’t be Pope if tha...
Tough shit. Then you have the freedom to starve to death. That’s NOS’s ideal world, anyway. Government is the problem, free markets are the solution. ...
An important point. The void gets filled with varying sects of the church of nihilism: capitalism, scientism, etc. Nietzsche is good on this. Put anot...
You’re dealing with someone who voted for and continues to defend Donald Trump, and whose economic beliefs come straight out of Friedman and Ayn Rand....
Yes, but I’m using “church” as basically a synonym for ideology — or dogma, in any case. But even if we use religion (say represented by Catholicism),...
I don’t disagree, but given the parameters I established I offer two points in response. 1) I’m defining “church” as dogma/ideology/system of beliefs,...
Nietzsche has interesting things to say about this. Let us say: the overman is the meaning of the earth, and the highest goal. I personally like that....
If the choice was between destroying capitalism or destroying earth, given the time frame we’d have no shot. Capitalism — the form we have — will stay...
Right now there’s smoke all over New England, from the wildfires in the west and Canada. Never seen anything quite like this — maybe once when there w...
We hand $700 billion a year in discretionary spending to defense. It’s true that contributes to the deficit, but that’s a choice. No reason it has to ...
But it isn’t the world currency. There are many currencies in the world even today, but certainly in the 40s before the Euro. It’s true that with Mars...
The misunderstood genius with the magic (capitalist) solution to climate change, who goes around calling people "commies," is now leaving the discussi...
You're even too stupid to see that you leaving is a desirable outcome. Take your inflated ego, your magma pipe-dreams, your capitalism worship, and yo...
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no...
Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear. All excellent options, all getting easier and cheaper and more efficient as time goes on. Solar and wind are now cheaper ...
The only appropriate response to a deluded individual who listens to no one and has no ideas. You don't know what you're talking about. But it's nice ...
This is well said— and wasted on the utter buffoon you’re talking to. Still I applaud you. You’re forgetting a simple principle: capitalism is anythin...
No, it isn’t. Assert it a million times— doesn’t make it so. Science grew up with capitalism, and has been appropriated for profit, usually at the exp...
Capitalism is an ideology. It’s the religious belief in the free market and the primacy of profit— all else is externality. Capitalism doesn’t exclude...
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