I read parts of the Communist Manifesto and it seems to be all about the haves and the have nots. That there will be conflict until there is global economic justice. So, don’t get too happy about living high off the hog. Because the wave of caring will even things out.
I take this calmly because I think it can be done without violence.
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If I had been born in the nineteenth century I probably would have been a passionate Communist. The inequities of wealth and the brutal effrontery of the class system would have set me off. But I think it was the advance of technology, and not any social engineering, that improved life for so much of humanity in the twentieth century. And Communism took a drastic wrong turn under Lenin and Stalin, and the “Workers’ Paradise” turned into a nightmare.
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Never seriously read Marx.
Yes, but the raw inequalities are still present.
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This will take humans who knows how many generations centuries to understand equality and if humans are able to live in a world where no one stands out.
Humans seem to thrive on the pyramid structure of class, wealth, differentiation for now.
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True, when we can’t even display the equality of men and women.
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Heard on the news the other day that lgbtqia+ treatment seems to have improved over the last several years. Maybe baby steps is the best our species can do.
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Neither have I. Most of my information is second hand. Most of what I’m saying comes from the public domain. I used to follow William Buckley. I read a little of Noam Chomsky, though I didn’t agree with many of his conclusions. Thomas Lowel has tickled my fancy, but I don’t know if I agree with everything he says. I’m sending ten dollars a month to this guy who is an avowed Communist, even though I still believe in the capitalist system. I do like some of this guy’s insights. I got snatches of knowledge here and there, and I think I have enough knowledge to form a cogent conclusion about many matters. A person could have read every page of Encyclopedia Britannica and still reach mistaken conclusions. If that assertion fails, I can always fall back on the assertion that I am just a poor schizophrenic. I’m not supposed to know everything.
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I’m a Communist.
Don’t believe the propaganda about stalin.
Khrushchev said lies about Stalin.
Stalin was a great leader who smashed
the head of the nazi serpent
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I am pro equality and which ever system brings us closer to that.
We all started out in Africa -
Split into different groups along the way as the tectonic plates shifted.
Only recently did we discover others existed on different continents.
Maybe there is hope once we remember we all were once from one place.
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We are on the bottom of the totem pole especially those of us that are supported by government benefits.
I do not venture to guess what system of government would be the proper one where equality reigned.
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100% The bottom.
In the US in San Francisco - $40,000 is the average cost per year to support a homeless person as of today.
I get $28,000 from SSDI - If I go homeless, “off the system”. It will cost the system more.
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The whole notion of equality is more slippery than you might think, and it can appear in many different guises. Maybe, in the eyes of God, there is some kind of spiritual equality. There is the issue of equality of wealth. There is the question of equal physical ability. I saw on tv this pro football player who could bench press 225 lbs. forty-five times. He probably needed that muscle to protect him from some of the impacts he would receive on the football field. We use a lot of words that we don’t fully understand what they mean.
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Totally agree with this statement about the majority of schizophrenics.
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Never in human history has there ever been such a thing of equality of wealth. Kingdoms of past were ruled by Kings. Empires were rules by emperors.
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Modern human history is only less than 10,000 years old at most @yinyang
Think we are still on training wheels as far as understanding human society
Sure, lets bring back the emperors and royals. Oh yeah we got the billionaires!
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That’s where I am, on the bottom, but I am perfectly happy to accept my trickles of economic wealth from the movers and the shakers of this world. But if I didn’t get that I would have to get off the med’s so my body could handle the weather, and go out and dig ditches for a living. That is so much easier for me than fast food.
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Humans live a fraction of your 10,000 years. Hereditary inheritance was common amongst medieval Europe & medieval Asia.
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I have been at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid as well. One has to pick themselves up to slowly climb up the stairs again.
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Countries ruled by a single political party revives your so called, “emperors and royals”.