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Oh, let's hope so. Could this be the catalyst to bring down the crass socialism-for-the-rich, capitalism-fo-the-poor torture?Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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Originally posted by threaded View PostOh, let's hope so. Could this be the catalyst to bring down the crass socialism-for-the-rich, capitalism-fo-the-poor torture?And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Where did the idea come from that its the governments job to extract as much money from the workers as is possible without causing a revolution(\__/)
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostWhere did the idea come from that its the governments job to extract as much money from the workers as is possible without causing a revolutionAnd what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostAge old idea mate. Before the development of the nation state, Landlords extracted rent and taxes from the peasants, ‘for the upkeep of the estate’. Some enlightened landlords appreciated the value of good relations with the peasantry and recognized the interdependence of owner and worker; that’s why many peasants in the middle ages paid little more than 10% of their total production and were required to send not more than one son for military duties. At the end of their working lives many were allowed to continue living on the estate and received food and assistance from other residents.Comment
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Originally posted by threaded View PostOh, let's hope so. Could this be the catalyst to bring down the crass socialism-for-the-rich, capitalism-fo-the-poor torture?
It was a good day out for old-guard radicals. After years of being told that they are on the wrong side of history, the Trotskyites, anarchists, Marxists, situationists and the other -ists feel that the tide has turned in their favour. SUD, an anarchist union, is on the verge of taking over the railways and Olivier Besancenot, a popular revolutionary postman and star of the Paris march is on a roll with his Nouveau Parti Anti-Capitaliste. Libération, the lefty newspaper born in May '68, hauled in Alain Badiou, a philosopher, to set the revolutionary tone. “My dream is that Sarkozy will be chased out of power by the street,” he said
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostAge old idea mate....
It investigates the collapse of major civilizations from Rome on.
Apparently every civilization collapses due to the state / despot / king becoming more and more over-bearing, taxing, expensive.
They say that by the end of the Roman empire, citizens would sell themselves into slavery to escape the onerous charges of he state (taxes, tithes, supplying children to be soldiers,etc.) . As slaves they had none of these responsibilities.
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Yes, late on in the Roman Empire it got to the case where slaves were more expensive to employ than free-men.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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