| THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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Give a little bit of your love to me Give a little bit I'll give a little bit of my love to you There's so much that we need to share Send a smile and show you care (i love supertramp) |
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(no, really, i saw a company called acme soap when i was in san francisco once) |
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implicit |
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Given human nature, communism does not work as intended. |
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be anarchy. Which is certainly the goal we're striving for. I find the above definition of communism lacking. This could also be said for totalitarianism, any sort of aristocracy, fascism, a dictatorship of any sort. an Oligarchy. is that the word I'm looking for? "Claiming to make progress...," hell. I "CLAIM" to make such progress. am I a communist? Given human nature, communism does not work as intended. Yes, but how was it intended to work? You didn't really answer. Or would it be better to say that communism is the "higher" social order for which they strive? Anybody else want to explain communism? I still don't get it. |
communism might work if you knew all the people you were sharing with, and if you all stayed put in the same place. it would require an unheard-of level of social trust, which means it would either break down due to some folks preying on the trusting, not following the rules and getting away with it, or some pretty tough and crafty checks would have to be in place. but whenever people can skip town with the loot, watch out... |
of all property and a classless social structure, with economic production and distribution to be directed and regulated by means of an authoritative economic plan that supposedly embodies the interests of the community as a whole. Karl Marx is today the most famous early theoretician of communism, but he did not invent the term or the basic social ideals, which he mostly borrowed and adapted from the less systematic theories of earlier French utopian socialists -- grafting these onto a philosophical framework Marx derived from the German philosophers Hegel and Feuerbach, while adding in a number of economic theories derived from his reinterpretation of the writings of such early political economists such as Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo. In most versions of the communist utopia, everyone would be expected to co-operate enthusiastically in the process of production, but the individual citizen's equal rights of access to consumer goods would be completely unaffected by his/her own individual contribution to production -- hence Karl Marx's famous slogan "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need." The Marxian and other 19th century communist utopias also were expected to dispense with such "relics of the past" as trading, money, prices, wages, profits, interest, land-rent, calculations of profit and loss, contracts, banking, insurance, lawsuits, etc. It was expected that such a radical reordering of the economic sphere of life would also more or less rapidly lead to the elimination of all other major social problems such as class conflict, political oppression, racial discrimination, the inequality of the sexes, religious bigotry, and cultural backwardness -- as well as put an end to such more "psychological" forms of suffering as alienation, anomie, and feelings of powerlessness. 2. The specifically Marxist-Leninist variant of socialism which emphasizes that a truly communist society can be achieved only through the violent overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that is to prepare the way for the future idealized society of communism under the authoritarian guidance of a hierarchical and disciplined Communist Party. 3. A world-wide revolutionary political movement inspired by the October Revolution (Red Oktober) in Russia in 1917 and advocating the establishment everywhere of political, economic, and social institutions and policies modeled on those of the Soviet Union (or, in some later versions, China or Albania) as a means for eventually attaining a communist society. So the idea is that everyone will work according to their abilities and recieve what they need, and there will be no money, but no poverty, since everyone is equal. Like in Star Trek minus the Firrengi. It's a fantastical perfect world where everyone wants to work for the good of the whole and there is no greed nor want. It seems silly that anyone would actually try to use this model. The reasons for its immenent failure are left as an exercise to the reader. |
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i dont like idealism. |
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(Disclaimer: I was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. Alas, it was just a cheap stunt to annoy my parents into thinking I was an adult and not as a result of some lofty academically-sound belief) |
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boring brainless todder-in-an-industial-saw. nah. |
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"How would you like to suck my balls?" "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?" "I'm sorry, I'm sorry... What I said was; WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS... Mr. Garrison?" |
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God. She's never going to talk to me after this, is she? Antigone: wait one hundred years, and then what? Suddenly, humans will all start liking eachother? That's a pile of shit-on-a-stick. COMMUNism only works in COMMUNities. Small groups of people who all know and trust each other. It would take hundreds of years to re-condition the human race to trust people instinctively. |
Porn. |
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i'll talk about communism later. i'm too tired now. |
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Sex, Drugs, And Rock & Roll. |
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yes, my ears are virgins. so is my mouth, my belly button, my nose, and anything else that's penetratable. i really don't know if my fingernails are virgins or not. |
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(no spelling errors there. it's french for sorry) |
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(i used to have an online diary called the pez dispenser.) |
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Trivia: the above expression derives from opium dens,from lying on your "hip" and tripping. |
Its Hungarian, called Zwack Unicum ....its supposedly an opiate based liquor, though the ingredients of "over 40 herbs and spices" are a secret. |
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I think we all know what the "main ingredient" does. |
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"new york city?!?!" |
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its much more challenging when you can only use one word. pussies. |
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The snow is on the grass again; The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, The frost gleams where the flowers have been. But the heart throbs on as warmly now As when the summer days were nigh; Oh, the sun can never dip so low A-down affection's cloudless sky... Rev. H.D.L. Webster, melody by Joseph P. Webster, 1862. |
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krishna |
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tinker |
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Hey guys, we had a meeting yesterday, despite the effort during the double dip recession and other things regarding to the economy downturn, with a little relief. we are getting a raise for the first time in three years. However, the outlook on our workplace appears to be optimisic. |
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