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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

Well, Winstanley was very bionically inspired. I am glad you liked it, and I hope some of what he wrote 400 years ago still speaks to you today.
If you are interested in more of his writings, try here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/winstanley/1652/law-freedom/law-freedom.pdf

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400 years ago, think how different the world would be, if society had followed that path.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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400 years ago, think how different the world would be, if society had followed that path.

I do just that, rather often.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

That would be powerful stuff even today, if you translated it into modern English and stood in a town/city square, or appeared on TV and began expounding it to the masses................or maybe printed it as the centrefold of a newspaper ( I guess you would have to serialise it but it grips you from the very start). We have disagreed a little in the past Dizzy but that really is powerful stuff. Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

It sure as hell beats 'Das Kapital" and "Mein Kampf" and yes I have read Das Kapital a couple of times and thrown Mein Kampf out of the window innumerable times.
I wonder what would happen to anybody who DID have the courage to expound these views in a public forum ? Would the masses follow ? What would the military do ? Because I am pretty sure you that if they listened to you with both ears, you would need the backing and aid of one or the other ( or both)

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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•Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
•Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

Etc.

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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•Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
•Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

Etc.

You could have saved a lot of time and just pointed out that anyone with a 32" TV screen/monitor has it better that J. D. Rockefeller or Julius Caesar.

It's obvious that any notion of relevancy is beyond either you or bozo, as would be any understanding of evolution at all.

News flash; openly advocating that the poor of today should exist as did the poor of 5,000 years ago is not most peoples' idea of evolution.

Nor is it any thinking person's idea of evolution that we still have political parties today that promote policies which advocate inducement to the private sector which sustain a level poverty far beyond what evolution would otherwise have it.

As I have said numerous times before: If you don't like poor people, then quit voting for the assholes who are hell-bent on creating more of them.

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

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ORIGINAL: Marini

you are a man on here drunk/and or high, talking trash on a regular basis, with no reality.

Yes, he truly has found his people. If there's a place in the world where he belongs, it's here with the other fucktards who talk trash on a regular basis with "no reality".

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

LOL
Yes dear, whatever you say.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

LOL
Yes dear, whatever you say.

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Crony government intervention is often a hallmark of Dear Leader socialists, and opposed by fiscal conservatives

Think Obama, and Solyndra for example

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No, I do not think that the tipping point has been reached, far too many still cling to the idea that they too might be able to somehow worm their way into the exploitative class, however, it is approaching with increasing rapidity. The wealth inequality crisis will be the trigger, it is the inevitable downfall of every exploitative system.
and as for why the system matters, well not all systems are equally amenable to an exploitative class. Capitalism requires it, it is based on the existence of an exploiting minority and an exploited majority. Socialism makes it more difficult for a single interrelated exploitative class to arise, rather it is prone to the danger of multiple exploitative groups, but they will share less of a class consciousness. Communism, makes it even more difficult, and the exploitative elements to which it is prone would be very diverse, and thus less inimical to the health of the whole body politic.

I read the link you sent, Marxist.org
It was almost biblical in nature, "Make the Earth a common treasury".
Fascinating read, thank you.

Very few people these days would be able to accept these ideals, and embrace that way of life.