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Friday, August 07 2009
Workers vs consumers?


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(Please note that, in light of the high probability that this parent posting will be re-posted sometime during the early morning hours of Monday, August 10th (thereby inadvertently deleting any and all comment posts attached to it), any and all potential respondents are here…
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Tuesday, July 28 2009
Wal-Mart: An inevitable result of capitalism
During a recent conversation with an anti-Wal-Mart activist, I was told that “To fight Wal-Mart we need to pass new and tougher anti-monopoly laws”; and that “The problem is that Wal-Mart is just too big.”
From where I stand, however, those who stand so opposed to Wal-Mart – not to mention …
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Sunday, July 12 2009
Population and hunger


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The headline G-8 pledges $20 billion to fight world hunger after appeal from Obama (07/11/09) will surely serve to revive at least some amount of overpop…
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Sunday, January 04 2009
Socialists do not seek gun 'control'
Sovereignty Soldier (aka “CMGINAV”): “‘Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed. —Sarah Brady’” (Third comment post</…
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'Are socialists traditionally atheists?'
Today I was asked via a private message whether or not socialists are traditionally atheists.

Having chosen to respond herein, I will say that, anecdotally speaking, of the relatively few second-generation socialists that I know and know of, some are atheists and some are not. Of those w…
Posted at 11:40 PM (View Post) 9 Comments

Monday, November 10 2008
'Uncontainable capitalists' and industrial democracy
In response to my Social Security and inheritance (specifically, that portion dealing with my response to PKShaw’s "…[we] would then end all the someone’s back into the exact same system ‘we’ have…
Posted at 12:03 AM (View Post) 7 Comments

Saturday, November 01 2008
Social Security and inheritance
Larry Caird: “Redflag. Many people who would not call themselves ‘Socialists’ (capital S types) benefit from socialism. I get a kick out of retired people of means who take Social Security checks each month and have Medicare saying they are opposed to socialized medicine.” —
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Sunday, October 12 2008
'Blowback'
Written by yours truly the following is a reproduction of the final comment to bear’s parent posting Where were you on 9/11?" In view of bear having deleted said thread shortly after the posting of my comment, I should like to reproduce it “here” for your consideration. (Special thank…
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Tuesday, September 23 2008
Is socialist thought realistic? (and workers' motivation)
PKShaw: “To paraphrase: ‘What if we have a revolution but nobody shows up?’” (Eighteenth comment post.)

Then we would not have had a revolution in the first place. For a socialist revolution would be a direct …
Posted at 11:21 PM (View Post) 14 Comments

Tuesday, September 16 2008
Voting within an economic dictatorship
No Spin asked “So, Guy [aka Redflag], if you were to advise the American voter, what, exactly, should we all do in November?” [For contextual purposes, I would like to refer readers to Jeanne’s What If O…
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