quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
You sure know how to use google |
i wasted my youth with a double major + honours in the topic you're trying to lecture me about. my dissertation's opening quote came from the good karl himself. i've spent far, far more time reading socialist theory than you have. i don't need to google the basics of radical leftist politics as they've hardly changed since i was born and not at all since i finished school.
(courtesy of an education system funded by capitalist tax dollars i might add.)
quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
We get it that bothers you, already, but can you actually point out what's wrong about that statement? |
my irritation doesn't stem from "state capitalism" being an erroneous term; i enjoy amusement that the brazilian commies today sound no different to the australian socialists 20 years ago. the annoyance comes from the 'no true scotsman' fallacy and the fact that radicals are unable to accept that all the tyrants who murdered so many people espoused the same rhetoric aussie socialists and brazilian commies are regurgitating years later. further, their attempts to argue that the dictatorship of the proletariat didn't have to result in murderous disasters is, so far, not supported by the evidence.
quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
Besides your obvious caricature of it, it seems you don't actually have any solid critiques of communism as an economic theory. Isn' t that what you came here to do? Let's get to it. All of these google facts you posted have me dying of boredom. |
you've already shown in the AGW and GFC threads you really struggle following a proper conversation. this thread is another example; i keep responding to your posts but you give little in return. you ask me lame, boring questions about stuff i forgot before you were 10, and then accuse me of using google and being boring, lol.
quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
Gave up, "grew out of", lost your edge. We are just arguing semantics. I think you know what I mean when I call you broken. Capitalism beat you over the head so many times you just regurgitate whatever. It seems like you're upset. |
it's your choice of words. it's not my fault if you're using them poorly.
quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
Yep, this is pretty much when I thought you'd start back tracking. I predict in another two post you'll finally fall on your sword. |
really? that's your response? i was criticising your "inevitability" claim while saying you'll be here when it happens to "see who was right". prediction of the future: check. thinking they'll be here when it happens: check. "magical thinking" is an unfair description though
please, tell us more about what society will be like in 10,000 years.
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