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27-10-2020, 01:57 PM | #51 | |||
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27-10-2020, 02:10 PM | #52 | |||
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Some are just bad, no matter how or who dresses them up. It would be noble to just admit that some political and economical theories followed by successive government's were just plain wrong rather than arguing that it's wrong to even debate the issue. What good, growth or progress can come of that approach for the future?
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27-10-2020, 03:35 PM | #53 | ||
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27-10-2020, 04:47 PM | #54 | |||
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27-10-2020, 05:10 PM | #55 | |||
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He was correct about entrefemdung, about insecurity for workers, wealth disparity. As an example, Jeff Bezos has just under 900,000 employees, and if he gave them all a $100,000 bonus tomorrow, he'd have as much money left over as he had at the start of the pandemic, whilst workers are being abused on zero hour contracts, and he was on the money when it came to taxing corporate wealth to benefit society. He was absolutely bang on when he wrote about capitalism lurching from crisis to crisis and I could go on. I would also argue that class consciousness is still an on-going endeavour, especially when highlighted by the fact that working class people who have achieved upward mobility, are equally liable to look down their noses at the remaining working class. A glance at the Rashford thread will highlight what I mean.
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27-10-2020, 05:56 PM | #56 | |||
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Some of that is fair though, but I think Marx underestimated capitalisms ability to adapt and the ability of technology to completely change the circumstances, I mean the working class has never been a homogenous group but is much less so now than when the majority of the population worked in manual industries. Marx should always be studied but I think the world today is totally different to how he expected it to be |
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27-10-2020, 06:29 PM | #57 | |||
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Capitalism has made great contributions to combatting poverty, but if you want to go back to a golden age. then you're looking at tax rates of 70/80 and even 90 percent on the wealthiest individuals/corporations, which then provided the things that society needed. I think communism and the cold war were the most damaging things to happen to Marxism (a different debate), but I'd actually suggest that socialism/Marxism is probably more on the rise at the moment than at any time post WW2.
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28-10-2020, 10:54 AM | #58 | |||
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28-10-2020, 11:09 AM | #59 | ||
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I'm aware of the standard IQ test being culturally biased, but unless you take an IQ test because you fancy taking an IQ test... there's no reason or scenario I can think of where someone would be asked to take one at all. The bias of the test also has nothing to do with biological race bias by the way - it is entirely cultural/location bias (i.e. which country you were educated in). |
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29-10-2020, 02:03 AM | #60 | ||
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Its the hardliners on the left and other radicals who are making it difficult to discuss these issues as they automatically accuse any critics as racist when theyre not
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29-10-2020, 02:49 AM | #61 | ||
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If right wingers feel silenced by accusations of racism then perhaps they should better learn how to argue their points and defend themselves better. Or, they could just try to be at least less racist. |
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29-10-2020, 06:16 AM | #62 | |||
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She did not say that, she said if a teacher made statements like the police should be defined and presented theory as fact it would break the law. I do think she herself could do with learning a thing or two on the subject before complaining about imaginary scenarios. Contrary to some of the depictions on Twitter, on talk-shows and even in parliament CRT does*not*view all White people as evil and racist.CRT does*not*peddle a view of Black people as powerless victims.CRT does*not*imagine that racism is the only social problem and thereby erase issues of class, gender, disability and other forms of discrimination.* https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/researc...ory/index.aspx
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29-10-2020, 10:18 PM | #63 | |||
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01-01-2021, 05:43 PM | #64 | |||
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01-01-2021, 05:53 PM | #65 | |||
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01-01-2021, 06:51 PM | #66 | |||
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[Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch made a speech during a debate on Black
History Month, in which she said any British schools teaching critical race theory are “breaking the law” and criticised the “anti-capitalist” Black Lives Matter group.] Good on Kemi |
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01-01-2021, 06:52 PM | #67 | |||
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