What, exactly, is socialism? Again this discussion seems necessary.

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  1. crank

    crank Well-Known Member

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    He said Asian Americans are privileged. I asked what these privileges were. He said 'oil' (or some other BS).

    Meantime, I pointed out that not only are they not privileged (most originating in non-First World nations, and few being from the aristocracy of those nations), but that they're actively discriminated against.

    That is a single track, and I've stayed on it.
     
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    Asian Americans?
     
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    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    He's given no economics and you've celebrated in it. Its all very pathetic. This thread deserves better than your cretinous right wing grunt.
     
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    hahaha .. bless you Reivs :D
     
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    You forgot to put it right? Why can't you actually refer to any socialist political economy? Why are you so reliant on ramble and rant at another fellow that can't be left wing?
     
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    :boo:I quoted clear and definite evidence in the post you just responded to that you are the one that got confused. Your unwillingness/inability to realize/admit what could in isolation merely be a minor slip up does help paint a nice picture of your modus operandi in these conversations. Thank you.
     
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    Lost the power of speech? That made very little sense.
     
  8. crank

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    Lord have mercy.
     
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    It wasnt difficult. You pretend to be left wing, but spend all your efforts pandering to right wing knuckle dragging. I was just wondering why you aren't able to refer to any heterodox economics in your pretense?
     
  10. bringiton

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    No, that's just you makin' $#!+ up again. I provide economic critique when it is pertinent, and you know it.
    No. As you know, I have explained many times exactly why they are wrong. I just don't give the same explanation in every post.
    All Marxist garbage is based on the same absurdities, so the same critique applies.
    Again, that is just you makin' $#!+ up. I am most interested in ending institutionalized injustices because the sort of random, idiosyncratic, and/or trivial injustices you are trying to divert readers' attention to are nothing but a distraction to help you sustain the massive, systematic, institutionalized injustices you prefer to justice.
    No, that is just you makin' $#+ up again. Lots of things that ruin lives are nevertheless trivialities: high school athletics, unsafe commercial food handling, medical blunders, etc., etc.
    There are few actions more futile than offering you genuine economic comment.
     
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    Thank you for having that much patience with crank. I didn't have it in me to reconstruct her confusion.
     
  12. Reiver

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    Zero comment, again! I've not seen one genuine critique of Marxism from you. And here, given you can't adapt your land rant, you've simply dodged any economic comment on discrimination. Your bile and your lack of content is, mind you, consistent with that hypocrisy over justice.
     
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    You're actually very similar. Neither of you actually refer to any economics.
     
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    No, you did not. Gottzilla was kind enough to reconstruct your confusion, and prove that you asked me what injustices were visited upon Asian Americans, not what injustices they were visiting upon others. But the answer is the same -- privilege -- and the privileges are also the same: land titles, IP monopolies, bank licenses, broadcast spectrum allocations, oil and mineral rights, etc. Moreover, owning shares in the companies that own those things means participating in those privileges, too.
     
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    Yes, of course you have: Marxism took the giant backward step of conflating land with production goods as "the means of production," reversing the progress classical economics had achieved by separating land from production goods. As a result, Marxism idiotically and dishonestly blames the factory owner for what the landowner does to the worker. That false accusation is the foundation of Marxism, and all of Marxism is invalidated by it.
     
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    False. It made perfect sense. You have simply become confused.
    ?? Who on earth do you incorrectly imagine my "ideologically preferred people" are??
     
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    That's not a genuine critique of Marxism. That is you trying to justify your backward Georgism. We know that Marxism is needed to understand capitalism, from understanding labour markets to explaining macroeconomic crisis. That reality must annoy you somewhat, given it makes your Georgism spectacular in its relative irrelevance.
     
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    Yes, it is. It flat-out refutes Marxism.
    Nope. That is just you being snotty but offering no facts or logic, as usual.
    Nope. We know it guarantees misunderstanding of capitalism.
    Nope. Marxism offers nothing whatever in understanding any aspect of economics. It can't even offer an empirically valid account of money.
    It's not reality, and every passing day confirms the truth of Henry George's estimate of Marx: "the prince of muddle-heads."
     
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    Ramble, nothing more. I had a sneak look at Science Direct to see if I could get any idea over why you cannot support your opinion with any credible economic evidence. I searched for Georgist and Marxist. Results? 28 hits for Georgist; 13,441 for Marxist. Tad a clue over the relative importance!
     
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    Yes, well, if you consult the "Muslim" and "atheist" hits, you'll find that Islam has a big lead....
     
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    Not in Science Direct. They're both in the thousands. Why do you think Georgism has failed so abysmally?
     
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    But the point remains: truth is not a popularity contest.
    Oh, that one is easy: the relentless lying about it by both capitalists and socialists.
     
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    This isn't about popularity. It is about illustrating the nature of the available academic research. Crikey, even New Institutionalist economics- in trying to understand the boundaries of the firm- has similarities with Marx's views over property rights. It just neatly advertises the immaturity in your anti-Marxist grunt.

    And the idea that academics ignore Georgism because of "capitalists and socialists" is also cretinous.
     
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    Thank you for answering my question - again!

    Now, where are these oil wells etc? The backyards of Asian Americans?
     
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    Because you keep demonising those who aren't them. Literally, calling all landowners 'evil'.
     

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