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Bias is a given. The question still needs asking since history shows how popular movements are easily subverted by powerful idealogical interests.Feck wrote:That was a nice unbiased piece of reporting .
But Seth will love it! He will immediately start cleaning his rifles in an orgasmic frenzy!Feck wrote:Trying to terrify dumb Merkins by invoking the fear of Godless Communists hiding in our midst .......
Obviously they'll hide and use every imaginable deception to achieve power. Many left-leaning intellectuals are closet communists only afraid of the outcry but fully embracing the idealogy, at least here in the UK....I would imagine it is the same in the US?Feck wrote:Trying to terrify dumb Merkins by invoking the fear of Godless Communists hiding in our midst .......
Depends on the intended market. If Boris Johnson admitted to being a communist his life would be ruined for instance.Feck wrote:Nope you can say you are a communist or very far left in the UK and they won't ban the sale of your books or drive you out of the entertainment industry .
Mainly because it would contadict his entire past history...Crumple wrote:Depends on the intended market. If Boris Johnson admitted to being a communist his life would be ruined for instance.Feck wrote:Nope you can say you are a communist or very far left in the UK and they won't ban the sale of your books or drive you out of the entertainment industry .
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Cormac wrote: One thing of which I am certain. The world is a better place with you in it. Stick around please. The universe will eventually get around to offing all of us. No need to help it in its efforts...
Said it all in the words of a true dialectical marxist there, far more succint than my waffle.Zombie Rum wrote:It is by its nature linked to communism irrespective of the loaded language (or otherwise) used. Communism simply described the power relationships between large groups/classes of people. The bourgeoisie, versus the proletariat in terms that made sense in early to mid 20th century. The proletariat, in this model have only one thing to sell and therefore to live off - their labour, whereas the bourgeoisie either own the means of production or are heavily invested in it.
The only thing that has really changed over recent decades is that the owners own more, are fewer in number and the proletariat's labour is increasingly irrelevant to the owners.
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