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Only Marxists understand the subjective factor in history. Actually, I'm quite sure that you would exaggerate the importance of the subjective factor most of the time. Yet at the same time you cling to 'absolutes' such as 'human nature' and the 'naturalness' of capitalism. If you tried to analyse h...

I know. But I don't accept the status quo, and I think about the long term. Somebody has to. A fundamental of Marxist philosophy is that everything is constantly changing. Well, in nature things don't necessarily evolve for the better. Neither do they in human society. The 'subjective factor' is th...

Are you upset that you can't drive without insurance too? But surely the law requiring car insurance is a limitation on our freedom, based on a hoax (see RTAs - Do they really happen) designed to satisfy governments' insatiable lust for power? I would argue that we should abolish driver's licenses,...

Anklebiters gonna anklebite.

Couldn't disagree more. I've been to the emergency room many times over the last decade, with kids it's at least a once a year trip, and tons of people without insurance use emergency room trips as essentially subsidized health care. By tons i mean at least one every time i'm there. Show up, get th...

Funk N. Furter wrote:I'm off to find something more interesting to do, I have some paint I want to watch dry.

What would Trotsky do.

I have explained to you what caused the crash in my own words, and in the pastes you can see what Marxists were saying in 2007. The pastes talked about excess liquidity, which was described in detail by Marx, who called it fictitious capital. Marxism explains economic crises as 'crises of overprodu...

There are reasons I'm not that engaged in conversations with you. Mostly it's because you offer only jibs and ad hominem attacks in place of any real debate, and because you off zero solutions to any real problems with your ideological 'agenda'. Funken may be a fanatic, but you offer less in the wa...

Mentioned, but didn't explain. Thank you for confirming what I said. There was no exchange. This is your post.I assume it's referring to Marx's use of the word 'mention'. However I don't see why you can't just answer a straightforward question. I like posts to be self explanatory when I quote them ...

Funk N. Furter wrote:

The Finn wrote:
My prediction? That things just keep on lurching on, and on and on, without any decisive resolution.

For how long? Nothing stays the same. Capitalism has only been going 350 years.

Before then, property didn't exist.

I'm not gonna play your childish mind reading games. Post properly. Otherwise people might think you are some kind of idiot, and we wouldn't want that would we? I have no idea what you are referring to. Make you posts more self explanatory. You can't understand a few brief exchanges, yet we're supp...

Funk N. Furter wrote:

Steve Ballmer wrote:Mentioned, but didn't explain. Thank you for confirming what I said.

Didn't explain what?

Anything.

Mentioned, but didn't explain. Thank you for confirming what I said.

The current central banks are there to smooth out the turbulences of the capitalist economy. In a socialist economy they would have a different role, and they would be operated by a different class, in a different way, in a different economic system. To suggest that having central banks in capitali...

Ok, sorry about pasting so much, but it's time to get serious. I can't have you posting garbage one liners with quotes from Marx every five minutes like you have a clue. The central banks are tools of capitalism. Their mandate is to try to smooth things out. But there are other factors at work too....