You don't need marginalism to explain that making some money doing Uber given fixed costs for your car is better than making no money at all and incurring same or similar costs.
I agree, however the Communist form is merely a re-telling of the capitalist form, it results from the same contradictions, the same process, and has the same result. Under the states of the past the control is unhidden…
I don't deny that he or she may be correct about how Communism was practiced. In fact, Marcuse doesn't deny this either and describes the Soviet model as just as much of an issue in terms of rationality and consumption…
Upon second reading, that makes more sense, however it would be clearer if this were the case. "Chinese Communism" can refer either to the ideology which the CCP claim to adhere themselves to, or it can refer to the…
I'm not so sure what is meant by it. Adherents of Marxism-Leninism utilise the method of dialectical materialism to analyse the past and to provide a model for the structure of the future based on the resolution of…
I've heard about this too. A member of the IWW, also a Deliveroo rider, told us about how in his region fellow riders reported people for unionising. A manager fired them. After protests, Deliveroo fired the manager…
I think there's certainly an argument to be made for social health care, the restriction of that health care for certain illnesses, and limiting the ability or capacity of companies to knowingly and deliberately entrap…
I'm usually a strong proponent of regulation to protect people, but only where the harm can be studied and analysed. If games are not marketed to minors, I do not think it is reasonable to restrict the content of the…
There is similar problems with the software that runs pacemakers and other such devices, in which the source is not made available. The protection of users against themselves is an easy example of the intrusion of…
The most strange bugs have the strangest solutions. Just an hour ago I was trying to debug a queueConstructor (it returns a malloc'd pointer to a queue data structure), right after I finished implementing the operations…
>For a long time only banking websites and retail checkout pages were encrypted. For my experience, this still holds in Japan, and I've heard in Korea.
This is precisely where the criticism that the USSR was "state capitalist" came from; it operated as a corporation owning its own means of production, not a dictatorship of the proletariat. "All power to the soviets"…
>claiming that this time it will be different due to some vague, hand-wavy reason. Because I'm not an advocate of Marxism-Leninism nor Soviet state capitalism, or depriving people of life. >Yeah, millions being moved…
>Every single time, over dozens of times, it resulted in bloody dictatorships. It is very much worth studying why this has happened and what kind of methods can be used to avert it. Not only is Marxism-Leninism not the…
This kind of attitude from your parent commenter is extremely common, it is an artifact of ideology and the working of technological rationality into the consciousness. While the parent commenter probably believes he or…
This is precisely correct. I think the replies to you are missing a very central point (speaking as if the accusation of advocating Marxian Communism was a serious charge, too). Perhaps the important authors about the…
Isn't the only reason why they wouldn't block booting "other OSs" was because you can use their Boot Camp utility to dual boot Windows? Then someone figured out that the machine didn't care what you ran once you…
Here is the key contradiction: for the protection of democracy, we must limit certain behaviours, these behaviours including the right for certain people or organisations which have a certain power to use their power to…
It is entirely possible to be a skeptic of capitalism, its application and its effects while engaging in a market in which capitalists provide goods and services. It is also possible to do so and sell your own…
However I think the attitude is taken too far. In some countries (most notably the UK, Australia, New Zealand, especially Canada, and some US states) even possession of drawings or stories depicting completely fictional…
>Then there is the political criticism along the lines of George Orwell and some Luddites: technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists. I would not describe it like this.…
As for me, one of his successors, Marx.
Not only that, but popular stations have barriers which are erected between the platform and the track. Whether these are there to prevent suicide or merely stop someone from falling onto the track, I don't know.
This is precisely true. The ideological currents within bourgeois economy and politics do so much to promote false consciousness. On the other hand, most people do not view themselves as ideological, but is that not the…
> Marketing wins everywhere. Paintings, IT, open source projects, startups, everything. It seems to be responsible for 90%+ value in worryingly many cases. It may be getting worse. Although I agree with your message…
You don't need marginalism to explain that making some money doing Uber given fixed costs for your car is better than making no money at all and incurring same or similar costs.
I agree, however the Communist form is merely a re-telling of the capitalist form, it results from the same contradictions, the same process, and has the same result. Under the states of the past the control is unhidden…
I don't deny that he or she may be correct about how Communism was practiced. In fact, Marcuse doesn't deny this either and describes the Soviet model as just as much of an issue in terms of rationality and consumption…
Upon second reading, that makes more sense, however it would be clearer if this were the case. "Chinese Communism" can refer either to the ideology which the CCP claim to adhere themselves to, or it can refer to the…
I'm not so sure what is meant by it. Adherents of Marxism-Leninism utilise the method of dialectical materialism to analyse the past and to provide a model for the structure of the future based on the resolution of…
I've heard about this too. A member of the IWW, also a Deliveroo rider, told us about how in his region fellow riders reported people for unionising. A manager fired them. After protests, Deliveroo fired the manager…
I think there's certainly an argument to be made for social health care, the restriction of that health care for certain illnesses, and limiting the ability or capacity of companies to knowingly and deliberately entrap…
I'm usually a strong proponent of regulation to protect people, but only where the harm can be studied and analysed. If games are not marketed to minors, I do not think it is reasonable to restrict the content of the…
There is similar problems with the software that runs pacemakers and other such devices, in which the source is not made available. The protection of users against themselves is an easy example of the intrusion of…
The most strange bugs have the strangest solutions. Just an hour ago I was trying to debug a queueConstructor (it returns a malloc'd pointer to a queue data structure), right after I finished implementing the operations…
>For a long time only banking websites and retail checkout pages were encrypted. For my experience, this still holds in Japan, and I've heard in Korea.
This is precisely where the criticism that the USSR was "state capitalist" came from; it operated as a corporation owning its own means of production, not a dictatorship of the proletariat. "All power to the soviets"…
>claiming that this time it will be different due to some vague, hand-wavy reason. Because I'm not an advocate of Marxism-Leninism nor Soviet state capitalism, or depriving people of life. >Yeah, millions being moved…
>Every single time, over dozens of times, it resulted in bloody dictatorships. It is very much worth studying why this has happened and what kind of methods can be used to avert it. Not only is Marxism-Leninism not the…
This kind of attitude from your parent commenter is extremely common, it is an artifact of ideology and the working of technological rationality into the consciousness. While the parent commenter probably believes he or…
This is precisely correct. I think the replies to you are missing a very central point (speaking as if the accusation of advocating Marxian Communism was a serious charge, too). Perhaps the important authors about the…
Isn't the only reason why they wouldn't block booting "other OSs" was because you can use their Boot Camp utility to dual boot Windows? Then someone figured out that the machine didn't care what you ran once you…
Here is the key contradiction: for the protection of democracy, we must limit certain behaviours, these behaviours including the right for certain people or organisations which have a certain power to use their power to…
It is entirely possible to be a skeptic of capitalism, its application and its effects while engaging in a market in which capitalists provide goods and services. It is also possible to do so and sell your own…
However I think the attitude is taken too far. In some countries (most notably the UK, Australia, New Zealand, especially Canada, and some US states) even possession of drawings or stories depicting completely fictional…
>Then there is the political criticism along the lines of George Orwell and some Luddites: technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists. I would not describe it like this.…
As for me, one of his successors, Marx.
Not only that, but popular stations have barriers which are erected between the platform and the track. Whether these are there to prevent suicide or merely stop someone from falling onto the track, I don't know.
This is precisely true. The ideological currents within bourgeois economy and politics do so much to promote false consciousness. On the other hand, most people do not view themselves as ideological, but is that not the…
> Marketing wins everywhere. Paintings, IT, open source projects, startups, everything. It seems to be responsible for 90%+ value in worryingly many cases. It may be getting worse. Although I agree with your message…