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So what nations have in fact practiced Marxian communism?
Now the discussion is over my head. LOL
I've never studied the subject. Hence I never use the term or participate in said threads.
Ok... first off... fuck you. You do not understand human nature... which is leaps and bounds more important than which economic system is undertaken. How do I reach Conclusions? Look around you, you pompous dickwad. The Global economy damned near collapsed because of the greed and the lack of accountability of our wealthiest class. But You'd rather discuss a book instead of looking and observing. You'd rather have someone else spoon feed your opinions to you.
Cold War Communism died a horrible death in the Soviet Union and it's annexes, and is being forced out of China by our companies throwing huge sums of money into their economy. Cuba is still being punished for Castro, even though they aren't even close to the same country as during the Cold War.
So yeah... neither seems to all that fucking wonderful in my book. They are two sides of the same damned coin. Just because YOU think your viewpoints and those of people who agree with you are the only valid ones, doesn't mean you are correct.
Well, anyway... I'll just put you down on the side of more Casino Wall Street tactics, Big Conglomerates running the country, and people who have to bust their humps to make ends meet being more and more marginalized and their quality of life increasingly downgraded.
Hanky?
You and Marx share a lot in common. Both of you think capitalism is evil.
Well, that's not really true. Marx didn't think capitalism was evil per se. He thought it was a phase that would eventually and inevitably pass through towards communism.
So congrats. You hate capitalism more than Marx did.
Oh yeah, and you're a Republican.
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I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
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I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
You are not any kind of Republican and you never were. Stop with this pathetically transparent lie already, you fucking douche.
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I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
You are not any kind of Republican and you never were. Stop with this pathetically transparent lie already, you fucking douche.
ooooh, COrky, you are soooo cute when you are angry....
You and Marx share a lot in common. Both of you think capitalism is evil.
Well, that's not really true. Marx didn't think capitalism was evil per se. He thought it was a phase that would eventually and inevitably pass through towards communism.
So congrats. You hate capitalism more than Marx did.
Oh yeah, and you're a Republican.
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Guy, if you get up in the morning and think, "How can I cheat and bully people with less money to make myself richer, even though I already have plenty" - YOU ARE EVIL.
Jesus said so.
The Bible Says so.
Not a religious man, but I always find it amusing that the GOP is this bizarre alliance between working schlubs who call themselves "CHristians" and greedy douchebags who laugh at the Homeless when they pass them in their limos.
I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
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I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
You are not any kind of Republican and you never were. Stop with this pathetically transparent lie already, you fucking douche.
I know lots of rich people and know no one who thinks like this. But it's the ridiculous stereotype of the hardcore, anti-capitalist Left.
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I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
You are not any kind of Republican and you never were. Stop with this pathetically transparent lie already, you fucking douche.
This is why I LEFT the Republican Party. Because of assholes like you...which seem to be ever-increasing in number. The type that feel if you aren't as far right as you can possibly get, you aren't "worthy" of being a Republican. I was a Republican from the age of 18(1983) until 2008, when I became a Democrat.
The GOP message has been corrupted into Corporatism and one money grab after another. In truth? The Dems aren't much better, but at least they pretend to care about average Americans and occasionally pass legislation that is helpful to us. Which is something that the current mold of the GOP never even considers. It's all about Class Warfare with Conservatives... Class warfare in which the most powerful get the most help and the least powerful get nothing(in their ideological world, anyway).
The GOP has lost all compassion and almost all of it's credibility with the Average Middle of the Road American. They only embrace the far right and their Ideology.
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I'm a Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who put Americans above profits.
You are not any kind of Republican and you never were. Stop with this pathetically transparent lie already, you fucking douche.
This is why I LEFT the Republican Party. .
You are not any kind of Republican and you never were. Stop with this pathetically transparent lie already, you fucking douche.
This is why I LEFT the Republican Party. .
You never "left" the Republican party, you fucking fraud. Do you girls really think anyone believes such obvious lies?
So what nations have in fact practiced Marxian communism?
The difference is between Marx saying that in a capitalist society the worker wages always remain at its minimum, and Krugman and other Keynesians who acknowledge that the worker wages do rise, often faster than GDP growth.
What you need to understand that Keynes actually showed that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with capitalism ("magneto problem") at the time when many people were losing their faith in it.
They don't choose anything, they just look at the data -- like the stagnating middle class incomes.
His phrase could be interpreted as "most likely compared to other developed countries". In any case, he is just reporting the facts in that statement.
Good for him -- and I'm pretty sure Marx sad some reasonable things. Agreeing with them does not make you (or even Obama) a Marxist.
They differ from Marx in very fundamental (to Marx) things.
Oh boy... Now you really want proving to everyone that YOU are an idiot?
And the supply-side economics are simply wrong by postulating that less taxes and regulation always lead to a better life for everyone. Becuase that is all that the supply-side economics is about.
It is useful to point out -- again -- that those who you are accusing of being Marxists are in fact supporters of managed markets. You know, those are quite different approaches -- abolishing capitalism, and using it for everyone's benefit.
The notion that the greedy capitalist pigs will eventually start competing for the workers (which are the source of their profits) is not that complicated. The fact that it never came to his mind makes him quite dim and shortsighted.
Yeah, there are a lot of people trying to take on Krugman.
Usually by taking his writing out of context. the article above ignores the main point Krugman makes:
"What Texas shows is that a state offering cheap labor and, less important, weak regulation can attract jobs from other states. I believe that the appropriate response to this insight is Well, duh. The point is that arguing from this experience that depressing wages and dismantling regulation in America as a whole would create more jobs which is, whatever Mr. Perry may say, what Perrynomics amounts to in practice involves a fallacy of composition: every state cant lure jobs away from every other state.
In fact, at a national level lower wages would almost certainly lead to fewer jobs because they would leave working Americans even less able to cope with the overhang of debt left behind by the housing bubble, an overhang that is at the heart of our economic problem."
Also:
PolitiFact Texas | Texas has the highest proportion of workers earning minimum wage or less
Ahh... the typical response of someone who has no answers, only complaints... Congratulations... your just another pussy who thinks in AM Radio-ese.
ooooh, COrky, you are soooo cute when you are angry....