Serious topic - ask the expert: Marxism
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Re: Serious topic - ask the expert: Marxism
So is this just about asking questions, FnF? Or are others also allowed to venture their opinions in here?
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Where is the expert I was promised?
This is a swindel!!!
The other thread didn't have one either, but at least it kept its promise with the penguins.
This is a swindel!!!
The other thread didn't have one either, but at least it kept its promise with the penguins.
Re: Serious topic - ask the expert: Marxism
Ok, I have some socialism questions.
Number 1.
Under Socialism Pro (not to be confused with the European style Socialism Lite), everything would be allocated by need, correct?
So for a couple living in a small flat, the only way to upgrade their home would be to pump out a few children. Would this not encourage a surge in birth rates on an already overpopulated planet?
Number 1.
Under Socialism Pro (not to be confused with the European style Socialism Lite), everything would be allocated by need, correct?
So for a couple living in a small flat, the only way to upgrade their home would be to pump out a few children. Would this not encourage a surge in birth rates on an already overpopulated planet?
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Question number 2: What if I desperately need 2kg of heroin, or a black-market dealer is gonna fuck me up?
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Marx was a really revolutionary (no pun intended) scientist in the social sciences. He uncovered structures in society that were not obvious at the time. His Kapital, should be considered as important as Darwins "On the origin if species" or Newtons "Principia Mathematica".
To bad he also had to write the Communist Manifesto, which is not scientifically founded and nothing more than a political program (whith a lot of side effects he did not account for)
To bad he also had to write the Communist Manifesto, which is not scientifically founded and nothing more than a political program (whith a lot of side effects he did not account for)
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Re: Serious topic - ask the expert: Marxism
"Too bad"...TomViolenz wrote:Marx was a really revolutionary (no pun intended) scientist in the social sciences. He uncovered structures in society that were not obvious at the time. His Kapital, should be considered as important as Darwins "On the origin if species" or Newtons "Principia Mathematica".
To bad he also had to write the Communist Manifesto, which is not scientifically founded and nothing more than a political program (whith a lot of side effects he did not account for)
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Yes it did in East Germany (I grew up there), but to frame it in the overpopulation debate is not meaningful because.andydes wrote:Ok, I have some socialism questions.
Number 1.
Under Socialism Pro (not to be confused with the European style Socialism Lite), everything would be allocated by need, correct?
So for a couple living in a small flat, the only way to upgrade their home would be to pump out a few children. Would this not encourage a surge in birth rates on an already overpopulated planet?
1: East Germany had replacement dynamics in demographics,
2: overpopulation is mainly a poverty, education and womens rights thing.
On all those things the "real existing socialist" countries had a very good track record.
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There were no drugs in East Germany (I'm not kidding)Galt wrote:Question number 2: What if I desperately need 2kg of heroin, or a black-market dealer is gonna fuck me up?
It was partly a result of the ever present surveilance state (Let's hope the US is not taking advice here ) and partly because in a country where drugs don't really grow well, they would have to be imported. Which in a locked country like the GDR was hard, and the currency was not strong enough for anyone with access to bother.
There was a lot of alcoholism and (medical)drug misuse though.
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That's a term people here (east germany) use to seperate the existing sytem of the past from real socialism. I'm pretty sure you would aprove of this distinction.Funk N. Furter wrote:What "real socialist countries"?TomViolenz wrote:Yes it did in East Germany (I grew up there), but to frame it in the overpopulation debate is not meaningful because.andydes wrote:Ok, I have some socialism questions.
Number 1.
Under Socialism Pro (not to be confused with the European style Socialism Lite), everything would be allocated by need, correct?
So for a couple living in a small flat, the only way to upgrade their home would be to pump out a few children. Would this not encourage a surge in birth rates on an already overpopulated planet?
1: East Germany had replacement dynamics in demographics,
2: overpopulation is mainly a poverty, education and womens rights thing.
On all those things the "real existing socialist" countries had a very good track record.
Yes 'overpopulation' (high birth rate) is a poverty phenomenon, i.e. a capitalist one.
I do admit it does not translate well.
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And then you wonder why I hate socialismTomViolenz wrote:There were no drugs in East Germany (I'm not kidding)
Seriously though, you coulda had done grown weed. And all the cool kids know that weed is cool...
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DUDE! This is getting really annoying! You guys should decide if you want to have discussions with people from all over the world (who went through the trouble to learn your language) or want to make this a pure American/English forum just as myrnova complained!docprosper wrote: "Too bad"...
(On the board of a German company no less )
You have no idea how jingoist this makes you look...
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I'm sure some was around, but not much at all! don't forget the surveilance state! And the punishments were severe!Galt wrote:And then you wonder why I hate socialismTomViolenz wrote:There were no drugs in East Germany (I'm not kidding)
Seriously though, you coulda had done grown weed. And all the cool kids know that weed is cool...
But in a way I did not give you a good answer. Funken would (rightly) insist, that these countries were not really socialist and even if they were, this policy is not immanent to the sytem.