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> Anybody wrote a book on trickle-up economy yet? Yep it's called 'The Communist Manifesto' by Karl Marx. [1] Further: 'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific' by Friedrich Engels [2] and 'Wage Labour and Capital' by Karl Marx [3] [1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m... [2] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/in...…
on “Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes” ↗That's entirely unnecessary and silly. Instead I'm going by the word of the very people that were instrumental in creating and spreading Socialism and its intellectual foundations to begin with: Marx, Engels, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Trotsky, etc. No need to rely on arbitrary speculation. To argue that Socialism means something other than a command…
on “My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land” ↗…isn't used for profit at all, it is used simply to reduce working hours via ceasing commodity production and instead only the manufacture of use-values. In my opinion this second option (frequently called Socialism, endorsed by the likes of George Orwell, Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Marx and Engels) leads the way to an even greater emancipation and heightened productive capacity of society, given that there would no…
on “Basic income is just the beginning as Finland looks to citizen-driven governance” ↗That's redistributive taxation, not socialism. Socialism is ownership of all property and business by the government. Per Marx/Engels: "The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise…
on “The new age of Ayn Rand” ↗As much as I would like to achieve Socialism via democratic reform within the system, various figures (Emma Goldman, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, even Engels himself) have noted that working within the existing system ("bourgeois democracy") would not…
on “Venezuela Tries Protesters in Military Court ‘Like We Are in a War’” ↗I am not redefining the term. The common understanding of "Socialism" is far divorced from what Marx and Engels were talking about, or even their predecessors such as Owen or Ricardo. The confusion over the term is evident, especially in the United States, in which several…
on “Venezuela just defaulted, moving deeper into crisis” ↗I've read Marx, Engels and other marxists. Socialism is the phase 1 that any goverment must implement in order to achieve the proletary ditactorship and after that, achieve communism utopia. Once people is molded into one single line of thoughs, objectives…
on “Capitalism Made This Mess, and This Mess Will Ruin Capitalism” ↗…already democratic, Western style societies. Russia and China were not developed countries prior to communism. They didn't have what we would consider the rule of unarbitrary law. Marx and Engels saw socialism as the next step a society would move into after capitalism. They predicted this had to rest on the foundation of a society which had already experienced it's 'bourgeois revolution', meaning power had…
on “Overcoming Bias: ‘The Profit’ Socialism Challenge” ↗"It's continually amazing to me that more than 100 years after Marx and Engels wrote their papers on Socialism and Capitalism, people can't see past much more than those choices. Which seems to be very much a false dichotomy. " It seems a very US habit to think only two extremes can exist on any issue. There…
on ““Why Socialism?” By Albert Einstein, 1949” ↗> the very people that were instrumental in creating and spreading Socialism and its intellectual foundations to begin with: Marx, Engels, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Trotsky, etc. Its worth noting that your examples include: (1) two members of the same early subset of socialism…
on “My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land” ↗It's unclear where you got the impression that collective ownership of the means of production is a definition of socialism invented by the American Left. The idea originates with Marx and Engels, the latter elaborating that it is both necessary and sufficient for the elimination of social classes: "...said Marx, what we…
on “How basic income could fail in America” ↗It's continually amazing to me that more than 100 years after Marx and Engels wrote their papers on Socialism and Capitalism, people can't see past much more than those choices. Which seems to be very much a false dichotomy. We have so much more, significantly more data and analytical and modeling capability,…
on ““Why Socialism?” By Albert Einstein, 1949” ↗