Re: This is Not America

On 25/09/2024 5:21 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:38:57 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 9/23/2024 7:34 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:51:28 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
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Tom Del Rosso <fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:

Cursitor Doom wrote:

28% of "Democrats" are fine about murdering a political opponent if it
furthers their "progressive" cause. Just think about *that* for a
second.

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Luckily, 99.8% of Democrats are too wussy to ever murder anyone, even
if they want to. *Real* marxists have no limits in that regard.

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Republicans do seem to keep taking pops at Trump they should try to
knock that off.
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The "real Marxists" I'm familiar with tend to like coffee shops and
Sartre more than the gun range but there are some (nut cases) who
believe every cat lady with a "Coexist" sticker on her Yaris is just
waiting to pop out guns blazing and initiate the Cultural Revolution at
a moment's notice.
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And another second for that other poll that says 65% of people with
master's degrees would cheat in an election.
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Democrats love to brag that most people with master's degrees are
Democrats, so they must be smarter.
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Nah, in my world that means they flunked their Ph.D. quals. ;)
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Cheers
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Phil Hobbs

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We just fired a PhD. Great theorist, no common sense.
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Unclear to me why the US university system is considered some hotbed of
Marxsim when it tends to be one of the most stodgy top-down
organizations there are, with procedures and websites that tend to date
to the technological Neolithic.
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I'm familiar with a young person with a disability who's in a STEM
program at a relatively prestigious university and it's apparently
difficult to get many STEM profs to even just fahkin' face forwards and
not mumble most of the time, for the benefit of video lectures/
transcriptions for the hard-of-hearing, much less embrace a
dictatorshiop of the proletariat.

 The real gulag megadeath and starvation Marxists were Lenin, Stalin,
Mao, and Castro, not the college-campus party tent crowd.

Lenin and Castro were actually pretty sane. Lenin pre-dates the gulags - or at least the lethal form that was developed under Stalin. When Lenin died there were only about 200,000 people in labour camps so no mega-deaths.

Sri Lanka just elected a Marxist president.

He's a left-wing economist - he shares some economic ideas with Karl Marx, but not his view on the "leading role of the party".

Cubans are scrounging in the garbage for food.

Not at the moment. Their economy took a hit when the world sugar price collapsed back in 1985 and 1999, but the Cuban government did insulate the population from the worst of the consequences.

Nobody can manage an economy, especially a Marxist.

As if John Larkin knew anything about economics, or Marxist economics.

Karl Marx was a nasty lunatic. Google that phrase.

He wasn't an attractive character, but he certainly wasn't a lunatic. He even corresponded with Abraham Lincoln - Karl Marx wrote some 500 articles for the New York Tribune, so he was well known in the US.
Of course he's been re-invented by the American right-wing as the founder of totalitarian communism, which is to say as a cartoon villain.
John Larkin is susceptible to this sort of over-simplification.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney