The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself - Richard D. Wolff
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The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that “returning to normal” no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism. What is necessary, instead, is transition toward a new economic system that works for all of us.
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This post has 59 comments with rating of 3.7/5
July 2nd, 2021
It is a good thing that all the socialist and communist countries TOTALLY avoided COVID.
July 2nd, 2021
Thank You for the upload!
July 2nd, 2021
@tesstbd Countries with strong social democratic systems, such as the likes of Bernie Sanders and the DSA want to implement in the US generally fared much better than more overtly capitalist countries. Even the more fee-market oriented ones such as Singapore have strong taxation and social safety nets that allowed them to weather the storm better.
https://time.com/5851633/best-global-responses-covid-19/
July 2nd, 2021
Down on the farm, people are saying 4 legs good, capitalism bad. Ingsoc is also maintaining that it’s time to transition toward a new economic system that works for all of us.
Additionally, they’re reporting that proles & animals are free; war is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength. And so on & so forth.
July 2nd, 2021
valkyrie_odinsdottir
Aww, bless your heart. Linking to the Time’s like that helps prove your point.
July 2nd, 2021
Reactionaries need to learn to cope. Seriously. I will throw in real money for a therapy pool to help you adjust to reality. Christ. Read a book before you form an opinion on it you ridiculous people.
July 2nd, 2021
Caesar, he wrote more than two books. Maybe you could read something about his actual politics.
July 2nd, 2021
(((Richard D. Wolf)))
July 2nd, 2021
@wheresmycannon
Unlike people who get their news from the right-wing echo chamber of Fox news, OAN and the like, I don’t just get my information from one or two sources. Just do a bit of googling and you’ll find literally hundreds of other news sources confirming the Time report. To get you started, here’s one from France:
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210128-study-ranks-new-zealand-covid-19-response-best-brazil-worst-us-in-bottom-five
But I guess if you can’t step out of that echo chamber and engage with the world critically, we’re both just wasting our time on this conversation. Have a good day.
July 2nd, 2021
And the news tells the truth. yeah right. do some real research and don’t quote propaganda outlets.
July 2nd, 2021
valkyrie_odinsdottir
Hey little Adolf we can tell that all you watch is MSBNC .. sad little freak
July 2nd, 2021
Cool it with the phucking anti-Semitism.
July 2nd, 2021
Don’t know why you’re surprised caesar. These are the people you get into bed with on the regular. You read the same books, you spout the same talking points, you beat the same horse. Cop it sweet.
July 2nd, 2021
ArgelTarl. And of course its a godmn a Warhammer nazi.
July 2nd, 2021
Rich, given that your received opinions chime with Nat Socialism, and you rush to defend ideological genocide (”But when we do it, it’s different!”). Oy…
July 2nd, 2021
daenigma100
Could you get this one for me please and thank you!
Mehrsa Baradaran
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
July 2nd, 2021
That awkward moment when a Nazi comes to the party and goes straight at your table and sits down like you’re old friends.
July 2nd, 2021
…you can always ask this Nazi toad 2 leave. Politely?
July 2nd, 2021
@eyeballs
You are of course aware that communists and social democrats were amongst the first people the Nazis put in concentration camps right? That the Nazi party was a Right Wing movement that named themselves socialist as a branding exercise because Socialism had been so popular in Germany after the effects of World War One? And that the Soviet Union fought the Nazis even more fiercely than the US did? That the Nazis killed around 7 million Russian civilians? Read a book. Please.
And no, I don’t watch MSNBC. I’m not even an American.
July 2nd, 2021
valkyrie_odinsdottir
So you are a Nazi… thanks for clarifying that
July 2nd, 2021
@valkyrie_odinsdottir
As somebody who has actually lived in Singapore, I have to ask what’s your definition of Strong taxation?
Because this capitalist could support Singapore-style taxation aka a top income tax rate of 22%, No Capital gains taxes at all, etc.
July 2nd, 2021
@valkyrie - A lot of what u say is accurate, but the relationship betw Nat Socialism & Socialism is a great deal more complex than a mere branding effort. In terms of their approaches to government, respective apparatus of repression, economic policies, weaponisation of nationalism, hatred of democracy, individual liberties, etc
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Stalin was obsessed with reaching an agreement with Hitler. He seriously thought that the pact signed in the summer of 1939 would prevent a German attack. Anthony Beevor describes how Stalin toasted Hitler and “a friendship consolidated in blood”.
Poland was divided between the German and Russian joint-invaders, as planned. The occupation was truly brutal, with repeated crimes against humanity. The Soviet Union continued exporting grain, oil, manganese, rubber and minerals to Germany, right up to the well-telegraphed attack.
After the savage partition of Poland, which signalled the start of the second world war, the German Wehrmacht turned west.
As Anthony Beevor observes, after Stalin helped Nazis defeat France, Stalin blamed France for surrendering. Stalin’s military alliance with the Nazis was a direct cause of the 1940 defeat of France.
Some of the Nazi weaponry used against France had been developed and tested in the Soviet Union in order to evade the disarmament provisions of the World War I ending Treaty of Versailles.
The steel in the Nazis’ vehicles and weapons was manufactured with Soviet manganese.
The Nazi vehicles were fueled with Soviet oil.
The Nazis troops and draft animals which provided 90% of their transportation were fed with Soviet grain.
The Soviet Union ordered the French Communist Party to spread demoralizing antiwar and pacifist propaganda among the French troops & encouraged avoidance of combat and desertion.
Members of the French Communist Party on orders from the Soviet Union may have sabotaged French military vehicles or trains transporting troops & supplies.
With aid from their Soviet military ally, the Nat Socialists defeated France and all other anti-Nazi continental European military powers, and drove the British Army back across the English Channel.
That is why the Soviet Union was alone on the continent of Europe when their Nazi ally finally turned on them in June of 1941.
During the Cold War he Soviets and their allied Communist Parties around the world, including the American Communist Party, tried to disappear this WWII history down one of George Orwell’s 1984 memory holes.
July 2nd, 2021
Caesar. That was weak. You know i’m not a nazi. We’ve been over this. I’m not even close to a marxist leninist. You’re a verbose buffoon who lies down with dogs and complains of fleas. I’m glad Scrutons dead. You boomers are on the way out and you cannot stand it.
July 2nd, 2021
Reactionaries demonstrating their incredible capacity for good faith argument. Caesar. The third reich were fascists who drummed up right wing blood and soil militarist fervor. That is the domain of the right wing. Its a matter of public record. I still recommend a dirt nap on your part if you cannot actually engage with reality. You are literally a historical revisionist. Thats not the worst part though. The worst part is you can actually disprove your nonsense with a 15 minute google search. You’re literally running interference for nazis by ascribing it to the left wing by the thinnest tangent possible. It don’t work bud. It doesn’t wash. Which is why you’re doomed to lurk here doing your masturbatory op eds unprompted.
July 2nd, 2021
Awesome
July 2nd, 2021
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
If it weren’t for capitalism we would not have the vaccines we presently have …. we would still be waiting for them, especially with bureaucracy standing in the way like it always does!!!
The “socialist” countries, whether true socialists or not, would still have their thumbs up their asses waiting for US to give them the cure!
July 2nd, 2021
Just because Hitler and Stalin were both psychopaths is no basis for claiming any similarity between the ideologies which put them in power.Nobody can seriously claim either was a socialist. There have been plenty uploads on here dealing with Marxist philosophy. Anybody listened to them?
July 2nd, 2021
I Love you, daenigma100!!! LOVE YOU!! thnk you so much for this!!
July 2nd, 2021
Naaah, caesar963. I’m talking about you and your Nazi palls who throw around antisemitism you even recognize - YET you choose to have far more trouble with someone calling THEM out than with them personally.
You don’t mind THEM at your table.
Funny that.
Well, not funny-funny… sad funny.
Further, not being satisfied with being only on the receiving end of such bruderliche Liebe - you go full mask-off by spouting such far-right points that one can ONLY repeat in all seriousness if one is patently ignorant and/or illiterate backwater brute who gets his points from far-right conspiracy theory grifters…
OR if one actually believes that by the constant repeating of a big lie it will eventually become the truth - AKA if one is down with using Nazi ideology, AKA if one IS a Nazi.
Ideologies being funny like that… can’t use them without believing in them which makes you one with the ideology.
10 people sitting at a table with 1 Nazi makes for 11 Nazis.
And we can’t give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re ignorant.
This IS a place of books after all.
Granted there is a lot of garbage hosted here.
I’m yet to find a book rmoor uploaded that would be worth taking up the bandwidth.
For which I’m kinda grateful to him. His taste is impeccably terrible.
Saves me a LOT of time reading reviews of books which might, by the title or topic, come off as being worth the time.
You might like them though. A LOT of historic revisionism and gun/war masturbation.
We could go into fallacious arguments about economy and ideology… but why bother.
This is clearly NOT an occasion for sensible conversation and factual arguments.
Your side chose to turn it into a Nazi unmasking party. Showing one’s power level as kids might put it these days.
As brilliant a strategy now as it was back in 1930s-1940s.
July 2nd, 2021
@caesar963
Thanks for engaging in a real discussion. All too rare these days.
Don’t get me wrong. Stalin was a monster and Soviet communism is arguably as dark a stain on humanity as Nazi Fascism was, but the Nazis cooperating with the Soviets doesn’t mean the Nazis were communists. Keep in mind that most of Europe was actively appeasing the Germans right up until the war, with active support from much of the upper classes and business in the UK and the mainland - the most recent season of Peaky Blinders even had Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, as the main antagonist. (excellent show if you’re not watching it, btw) The US also had a strong Fascist movement led first by the “Friends of New Germany” organization and later the German American Bund. Many politicians expressed their support of fascism openly, describing it as “tougher on communism than democracy is”. I would argue that had a lot to do with how popular eugenics was in America at the time as much as with America’s isolationism after WWI, but that’s just an opinion. And yet America wasn’t a Fascist country. FDR strongly opposed the Nazis and wanted to get into the war, and one of the German American Bund’s main goals was to defeat him at the polls, but he had to wait until Germany declared war against America and Pearl Harbour was bombed before he could act, because of public sentiment.
What I am getting at is that the situation during the Interstitial was complex. There was a lot of support for the Nazis from powerful interests on both sides of the Atlantic, and everybody was still recovering from World War One. Nobody had an appetite for war except the Germans themselves, because of how brutal the Treaty of Versailles had been on them.
Point being that Fascism and Soviet Communism are not the same thing. The former is authoritarian nationalist autarky falling on the far right of the political spectrum, while the latter was authoritarian nationalist socialism, a far left ideology. Contrast that to the socialism implemented to varying degrees throughout Europe, that consistently sees European countries ranked among the best places in the world to live. Perhaps it’s not the capitalism or socialism that is the problem, but the authoritarian nationalism.
The Soviets traded with the Nazis because of mutual interest, even as the Nazis were banning the Communist Party of Germany the day after they won the election in 1933. The same is true of every other nation who was appeasing or cooperating with Germany, right up until the war.
Anyways, off to bed since it is quite late here. Thanks for engaging as opposed to just hurling insults like so many other commentors do.
July 2nd, 2021
@bosk
Nope. The foundational research for the vaccines was done by universities and publicly funded research bodies, and the pharma companies commercialized the vaccines only after massive public investment (read socialism) in the form of the covid grants the US and other countries gave them, because up till now vaccine research just hasn’t been as profitable as other drugs. In fact, the AstraZeneca vaccine was entirely developed by Oxford university, and they were thinking of open-sourcing it before they were convinced that pharma companies could scale better. This has since been proven false as the pharma companies can’t keep up with production, while production facilities in India, South Africa and other stand idle.
July 2nd, 2021
@granular - Utterly incoherent. It’s as if you’ve received a severe head injury, and then decided to share your “thoughts” - inadvisable. Lie down, for pity’s sake.
The sources I referred to (inter alia) The Second World War (2012) by Antony Beevor, and Ian Kershaw’s Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis. Such great works of history shared by the incomparable rmoor. Another of his - “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann, which lays bare the true horrors of toxic, genocidal ideology.
Superb works of history, or as granular & toad would refer to them “Fake Nooze” & “historical revisionism” as they don’t support their sleazy ideological biases. But neither factual history nor reality are ever going to do that. Very inconvenient.
Please do try to refute what anything I said, toad. That u can’t is evidenced by the argument-free insults. Well done. Explain exactly how outlining historical fact is “historical revisionism” - give examples, if you can. That you’re “not a nazi” - I remember the exchange you referred to; you don’t seemingly. You denied that the ideological genocides of the 20th c occurred. As I explained, these included the Holodomor, the Holocaust, the Chinese genocides, the Cambodian Killing Fields, etc. “Not a Nazi” then.
Your incurious & ill-informed distinction between Nat Socialist/Marxist genocides, with the chillingly insipid defence offered “but they’re not the same” - is about as banal & stupid as evil gets. What have you really said? It’s more like self-sabotage than anything else. Read real books, not mindless bumf/tracts. I rarely write people off, but on the evidence you’ve given, you’re toxic waste, bud.
The one thing u got right, gran: this is a book site. Which clearly raises the question - what are you phucking eejits doing here?!
July 2nd, 2021
@valkyrie - Insults is all they’re capable of, I fear. True enough, Nat Socialism was regarded, in Germany & without, as a potential buffer against Marxism & the Soviets. Something that could possibly be “leveraged” and then marginalised. A great deal of Hitler’s evil programme was laid bare in his book, but people will believe what is expedient. Disturbingly, eugenics remained active in many Western countries, decades after 1945.
That’s just my point, drawing distinctions betw the two is notoriously difficult. As you say, regarding fascism & Soviet Communism, the “former is authoritarian nationalist autarky falling on the far right of the political spectrum, while the latter was authoritarian nationalist socialism, a far left ideology” - one can appreciate the continuities there. In terms of political aims, the joint, planned invasion of Poland & subsequent human rights abuses reveals the devastating historical reality.
Nat Socialism & Socialism both weaponised nationalism (the Soviets did this; the Nazis, Maoists, the Kims, etc.). Both are authoritarian; both implemented social programmes; both opposed democracy, rights-based individualism, liberty, the rule of law, economic freedom, free trade, limited govt, human rights, freedom of expression, etc.
They do belong in the dustbin of history. As to the situation here in Europe, it certainly is a comparatively good place to live, partic when we look at the rest of the world. However, there is a popular misconception which holds that European countries are socialist. We practice market economics & trade. Incentivising market activity in the most optimum fashion releases funds for necessary programmes which can assist people; but an ideologically socialist state is a very different beast (control model). More in accord with the failed experiments of the last century.
July 2nd, 2021
Big mess of a conversation here…
The important factors in pandemic response were not really anything at all to do with “capitalism” or “socialism” or whatever. Countries that fared well had some combination of:
- proactive authoritarian government
- historic mask-wearing culture
- a relative lack of self-obsessed contrarians
Authoritarian governments are generally very bad for human rights, but they also have the potential to handle crises much better than places with competing powers. Only if the people in charge aren’t stupid, though.
July 2nd, 2021
However, by their very nature, they also create a great deal of those devastating crises, h. Famine, wars, nuclear disasters, among them.
July 2nd, 2021
Of course, yes. The larger a “state” becomes the more ineffectual will a representative government be. At millions-of-people scale (or really anything past small city-state) only consolidated authoritarian governments can act at all, and they of course tend to be run by people who want to be / are unsuited to being in charge.
July 3rd, 2021
Influence of the latter two cultural elements shouldn’t be underestimated, though. Japan had the same sort of nothing-response from its government as did e.g. the UK and US, and it has the added handicaps of a very aging population all using public transit together in one of the world’s most dense megacities, but people wearing masks from the start and the relative lack of contrarians have still made for a much lower rate of spread.
July 3rd, 2021
Don’t get me wrong. Stalin was a monster and Soviet communism is arguably as dark a stain on humanity as Nazi Fascism was, but the Nazis cooperating with the Soviets doesn’t mean the Nazis were communists. Keep in mind that most of Europe was actively appeasing the Germans right up until the war, with active support from much of the upper classes and business in the UK and the mainland - the most recent season of Peaky Blinders even had Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, as the main antagonist. (excellent show if you’re not watching it, btw) The US also had a strong Fascist movement led first by the “Friends of New Germany” organization and later the German American Bund. Many politicians expressed their support of fascism openly, describing it as “tougher on communism than democracy is”. I would argue that had a lot to do with how popular eugenics was in America at the time as much as with America’s isolationism after WWI, but that’s just an opinion. And yet America wasn’t a Fascist country. FDR strongly opposed the Nazis and wanted to get into the war, and one of the German American Bund’s main goals was to defeat him at the polls, but he had to wait until Germany declared war against America and Pearl Harbour was bombed before he could act, because of public sentiment.
What I am getting at is that the situation during the Interstitial was complex. There was a lot of support for the Nazis from powerful interests on both sides of the Atlantic, and everybody was still recovering from World War One. Nobody had an appetite for war except the Germans themselves, because of how brutal the Treaty of Versailles had been on them.
Point being that Fascism and Soviet Communism are not the same thing. The former is authoritarian nationalist autarky falling on the far right of the political spectrum, while the latter was authoritarian nationalist socialism, a far left ideology. Contrast that to the socialism implemented to varying degrees throughout Europe, that consistently sees European countries ranked among the best places in the world to live. Perhaps it’s not the capitalism or socialism that is the problem, but the authoritarian nationalism.
The Soviets traded with the Nazis because of mutual interest, even as the Nazis were banning the Communist Party of Germany the day after they won the election in 1933. The same is true of every other nation who was appeasing or cooperating with Germany, right up until the war.
Anyways, off to bed since it is quite late here. Thanks for engaging as opposed to just hurling insults like so many other commentors do.
July 3rd, 2021
Lol. Sorry, Went back to reread last night’s comments and accidentally reposted. Actual response below:
July 3rd, 2021
For some reason my final comment doesn’t want to post so I’m gonna peace-out at this point. Have a good weekend all.
July 3rd, 2021
This is Caesars hobby horse though. Its his favourite blanket. He truly believes Nazism arose from the left wing. There is no reasoning with him. He’s blinkered as all hell. A man sitting on sand bar as the tide rises, denying the ocean exists.
July 3rd, 2021
‘Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we’re nearing collapse’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse
When an abstract ideology based on infinite growth hits physical reality the true believers lose their Sh*t & spend all their time & efforts on the scapegoat warpath. Look in the mirror. Party’s over girls. All the low hanging fruit has been plucked & only the dregs remain. Those who can accept this reality will have greater peace of mind for the time that remains to them. The others will live hysterically & sign up for the crisis cult dejour & blame & whine like spoiled brats. It’s all downhill for the rest of your lives regardless of how long they are. At least the last 30 years were a debt fuelled can-kick - reached into the future & grabbed the next generations resources, greedily consumed them & left them the biggest (existential) environmental mess in history. We got away with printing money for awhile, but you can’t print energy, specifically oil, the master resource that has no equal. No matter who is in charge or whatever system is in place it’ll makes no difference now - Humpty Dumpty can not be put back together again. We were granted a once in a planet endowment of cheap & abundant energy - 10 million years worth stored sunlight & we’ve burned through most of it in under 300 years. What’s left is expensive to extract & does not leave us with much surplus & the printing machine is about out of ink & we’re at 8 billion hungry souls who all want the middle class dream. Do the math. The humans are exactly like the beaker full of replicating yeast with most of the glucose already consumed. Buckle Up.
July 3rd, 2021
> Point being that Fascism and Soviet Communism are not the same thing. The former is authoritarian nationalist autarky falling on the far right of the political spectrum, while the latter was authoritarian nationalist socialism, a far left ideology.
The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe. Nazis, Bolsheviks, the Ku Klux Klan, Maoists, radical Islam and Fascists — all are on the Left, something that should be increasingly apparent to decent, honorable people in our times. The Big Lie which places Nazis on some mythical Far Right was created specifically so that there would be a bogeyman manacled on the wrists of those who wish us to move “too far” in the direction of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/11/the_nazis_were_maxists.html
July 3rd, 2021
@valkyrie - I appreciate your broader point & efforts at contributing. The point (as I patiently explained before to the mindlessly obtuse toady) is not that Nat Socialism & Socialism were identical, it’s rather that they are notoriously difficult to distinguish in practice, and have a truly remarkable spectrum of continuities. The same apparatus of oppression, authoritarianism, and state control was contrived; with the Soviets first out of the traps.
The best we can conclude is that they were rival power blocs, and limited each other’s expansion & toxic influence.
July 3rd, 2021
Since I come from a country where social bonds are actually important, and class conscientiousness is in the mind of many people, I consider myself a socialist. Just because you think capitalism works in your country, it doesn’t mean it will work in someone else’s. Each country, and people should search their own way. Remember that different people have different values, so the needs are different from yours. To impose a capitalism systems down some countries throat is the same as imposing your religion onto others. It’s morally wrong.
July 3rd, 2021
Strong social bonds are important & beneficial. You are a socialist, but do you actually live in an ideologically-structured soc state? Does market capit not function already in your country, rather than it being an alien economic system which is threatened as an imposition? Do you believe, with the evidence of history, that ideologically-structured soc states can function successfully & thrive? Historically, socialism was imposed upon people, with truly awful consequences, as we know.
Many of the people I knew in university (& several relatives) still self-identify as “socialist” - but when this is probed, they are not truly ideologically socialist, and would not vote for such a state. We believe that necessary social programmes are potentially beneficial. However, we also regard state structures & institutions - which devise & deliver social programmes - as being inefficient, incompetent, ruinously wasteful with taxation, and often corrupt. As you may appreciate, there is a powerful, intrinsic contradiction here.
July 3rd, 2021
@caesar963 I see your point, but we can also say the same about any economic system, that feudalism or capitalism were imposed upon people, with truly awful consequences, as we know.
Maybe because I lived in a cooperative in Brazil during most of my life, where a “social” way of life was the norm, so I can see how that could actually work in a larger scale.
I’m a nurse, and when you have to work with people from all walks of life and see the disastrous effects that the economic norm of capitalism put on their lives you have to think that a better way of doing things.
I’m not saying I’m right and you are wrong, but my main point is: What we have now it’s nor working for everybody.
We’re a really inventive species, full of ideas, and if capitalism is the best we can come up with, I can only see that will be the end of us.
What do you think? Is there something better in the future beyond capitalism and socialism?
July 3rd, 2021
Agree with you, market capitalism has to be tempered & regulated. Trade & markets are a more natural fit for people, communities, and societies. And we’re only civilised insofar as we safeguard the most vulnerable. This must be voluntary, and not coercive, of course. Viva Brasil! Greetings from Irlanda!
July 3rd, 2021
We may think differently in approaches, but we think for sure the same in wanting the best for our planet and the people who live in it. Greetings my friend!
July 3rd, 2021
Seem Sketchy how Marxists conveniently use the Marxist-coined term “Capitalism” pejoratively to contrast it with “Socialism” or “Marxism”, thus emphasizing the credo or ideological slant!. The antidote to Marxism, which truly is an IDEOLOGY (for “ideology” read “false consciousness”) is a FREE MARKET ECONOMY - which is as primeval as Homo sapiens, and is not an ideology but an experiential way of life. Unfortunately, free market advocates fall in with the misrepresentation and use the same contrasted labels!
July 3rd, 2021
Hi @marcodiluce, Why do you think Socialism is an ideology and Capitalism is not?
July 3rd, 2021
@Anna, He might be saying ordinary people in Capitalist countries really only believe that a builder who builds a house that doesn’t blow down in the wind should be able to barter/charge for more than a lousy fly by night. Problems can and do develop further down the line to do with demand and leveraging against working folk etc. Necessary evils to be dealt with to degrees which haven’t been finalized sadly (e.g. Nestle saying you aren’t entitled to water etc). The label Capitalism then encompasses the difficulties part which ideologically nobody would believe in as a good to be kept. @marcodiluce please correct me if you return and I am wrong; didn’t mean to put words in your mouth.
July 4th, 2021
In ya come, Rosco, with your size whatevers, facetiously framing like a Foxy anchor. I know your light-fingered ludo. It’s past tempus that your lot were “cancelled” in sanguinary prep for the impending dystopia - all hail our new ideological overlords, the nonpareil Philosopher Despots!
The Nazi toady I was telling u about, his bruised prostate can also scry the golden future time (multipurpose P-spot), & he assures the serried multy-toods - yearning 2 b enslaved - that his fascistic nocturnal emission is heart-stoppingly near! You’ve seen his pummelled pulsating prostate in action, and know in your cardiac muscle that this is truthiness.
July 4th, 2021
I try in vein to elicit an exculpatory moshi moshi from their shrinking panel of non secret nine tailed Liberals, but the experts at Sky tell me (when I’m shouting at them), “TV’s aren’t two way contraptions sir” :’( Worse yet, I suspect they could be, proving their all commies?
July 4th, 2021
The nazis were marxists huh. Why they buddying up with you guys then?
July 4th, 2021
The Holocaust “sceptic” is back! It’s all “historical revisionism” says the sleazy stormtrooper with the reading comprehension of a mindless death-camp guard. The last bleary-eyed Nazi at the rally, full of Schnapps, and convinced the hated Israelis are beaming messages past his beloved SS tinfoil hat. (”The Jews are the real apartheidt, mein guter kameraden! It’s so simple when you “think” about it!” sobs the Hitler toady.)
Listen to this, and weep for your fuhrer-fetish: https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/kl-a-history-of-the-nazi-concentration-camps-nikolaus-wachsmann-4/
July 6th, 2021
“you Nazi!” “No! You Nazi” “But you are Nazier than me!” “You are Nazi to infinity!”
July 7th, 2021
@oskey-dokey - That sounds kind of…Nazi. Nazi-lite, p’haps. With a small “n” if u please.
We should all draw the reasonable line @ genocide “scepticism” and deluded Jew-hatred. Down with all sleazy, obsequious Nazi toadies - so say we all.
As to folks trying to top each other, in a mature, escalating fashion, infinity cubed should settle the competitive dynamic.
Nothing ought to exceed ∞³.
July 20th, 2021
Thank you for sharing. I encourage people to buy the book.
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