Left Wing Discussion Thread IV: Oh Hai Marx

[Valgora]

You definitely do not want to do that. I do not want to imagine either scenario, bertrand russell as a funny sounding actor and russell brand as rambling old dude denying that smoking gives cancer

I know the actual difference
I just get them mixed up some times
Like Ayn Rand and Rand Paul and Paul Ryan

I've never gotten Ayn Rand mixed with either of the other two.
However, I constantly get Rand Paul and Paul Ryan mixed up.

[Geneviev]

You definitely do not want to do that. I do not want to imagine either scenario, bertrand russell as a funny sounding actor and russell brand as rambling old dude denying that smoking gives cancer

I know the actual difference
I just get them mixed up some times
Like Ayn Rand and Rand Paul and Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan was my friend's dad's name.

[New Emeline]

I know the actual difference
I just get them mixed up some times
Like Ayn Rand and Rand Paul and Paul Ryan

I've never gotten Ayn Rand mixed with either of the other two.
However, I constantly get Rand Paul and Paul Ryan mixed up.

It's just the names make almost a circle. All we need is someone named Ryan Ayn and we can complete it.

[Albrenia]

Is this like how Elton John wrote "Candle in the Wind" to honour Princess Diana and Diana Prince?

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Which ignores the fact Slavery played very little in developing the majority of the nation. Also, for a Communist to equate economics with culture is odd.

Culture is just a term for the total way of life in a society, including the economy. My point was that slavery represented the beginning of the exploitation of workers in what became the U.S., not that slavery was practiced universally.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

That is terribly reductionist. Especially considering the colonies, at least some of them, existed before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began.

It is not reductionist at all, just a simple definition. I date the de facto beginning of the U.S. to the American slave trade.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Still, reducing American culture to "lol slavery", is ridiculous.

Except that is not what I wrote.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

I'm gonna be completely honest and admit I haven't the slightest clue as to what post-modernism or post-structuralism even are.

They are very different and yet frequently confused with one another. Postmodernism is the questioning of Enlightenment rationalism. Poststructuralism is a critique of structural linguistics. Now, it would take a long time to explain structural linguistics, and I am getting ready for bed.

[The Liberated Territories]

I've never gotten Ayn Rand mixed with either of the other two.
However, I constantly get Rand Paul and Paul Ryan mixed up.

It's just the names make almost a circle. All we need is someone named Ryan Ayn and we can complete it.

Andrew Ryan!

[Dumb Ideologies]

It's just the names make almost a circle. All we need is someone named Ryan Ayn and we can complete it.

Andrew Ryan!

Bad news: the one who completes the ritual circle becomes the sacrifice.

[Mosleyite Britannia]

That is terribly reductionist. Especially considering the colonies, at least some of them, existed before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began.

It is not reductionist at all, just a simple definition. I date the de facto beginning of the U.S. to the American slave trade.

A ridiculous personal definition with no basis in history.

[Valgora]

It is not reductionist at all, just a simple definition. I date the de facto beginning of the U.S. to the American slave trade.

A ridiculous personal definition with no basis in history.

The American slave trade started when large scale farming became viable. Then an extremely cheap labor force was needed.
And I don't think it would have taken that long for large scale farms to start up in the southern colonies.
In fact, small amounts of slaves were brought to the colonies very early on.

It may not be a good definition for the beginning of the US; however, time-wise, it checks out.

[Asherahan]

The Koreas are not gonna reunify.

Like ever.

But what if North Korea opens up for the world? That would be interesting

They are never gonna do that.

[Painisia]

Happy 1. May comrades. And according to the political compass and 8values, I am on the left-side and a social democrat

[Dumb Ideologies]

Happy 1. May comrades. And according to the political compass and 8values, I am on the left-side and a social democrat

run while u still can, commies will eat u

[Painisia]

Happy 1. May comrades. And according to the political compass and 8values, I am on the left-side and a social democrat

run while u still can, commies will eat u

I think I have Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong and Enver Hoxha under my bed right now

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

Happy 1. May comrades. And according to the political compass and 8values, I am on the left-side and a social democrat

8values has a bit of a left-wing bias. Try taking spekr which has a right-wing bias and finding the average between your 8values economic result and your spekr economic result.

[Painisia]

Happy 1. May comrades. And according to the political compass and 8values, I am on the left-side and a social democrat

8values has a bit of a left-wing bias. Try taking spekr which has a right-wing bias and finding the average between your 8values economic result and your spekr economic result.

Political ideology tests are not actually easy to make. I trust more on The Political Compass

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

8values has a bit of a left-wing bias. Try taking spekr which has a right-wing bias and finding the average between your 8values economic result and your spekr economic result.

Political ideology tests are not actually easy to make. I trust more on The Political Compass

I'm not a fan of the political compass. It's really biased (just look at the election plots, they move every party 3 points northeast) and a lot of its questions are weird and misleading. I think that 8values is the best of them. Spekr is quite biased, but its bias is mainly in the phrasing of the question like, "people should be prosecuted for excercising their right to self-defense," and in the blurb on the results like "You're so and so, support not enough property rights and not enough civil liberties," rather than in the scoring.

[Gim]

run while u still can, commies will eat u

I think I have Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong and Enver Hoxha under my bed right now

Only Marx is truly a Communist.

[Painisia]

Political ideology tests are not actually easy to make. I trust more on The Political Compass

I'm not a fan of the political compass. It's really biased (just look at the election plots, they move every party 3 points northeast) and a lot of its questions are weird and misleading. I think that 8values is the best of them. Spekr is quite biased, but its bias is mainly in the phrasing of the question like, "people should be prosecuted for excercising their right to self-defense," and in the blurb on the results like "You're so and so, support not enough property rights and not enough civil liberties," rather than in the scoring.

According to certain political tests, I have both been centre-right and centre-left, but sometimes I have been incredibly close to the center of the compass. I must say I am a strong supporter of social democracy, but I think we need the market to prove the individual`s dreams and skills

[Thermodolia]

Political ideology tests are not actually easy to make. I trust more on The Political Compass

I'm not a fan of the political compass. It's really biased (just look at the election plots, they move every party 3 points northeast) and a lot of its questions are weird and misleading. I think that 8values is the best of them. Spekr is quite biased, but its bias is mainly in the phrasing of the question like, "people should be prosecuted for excercising their right to self-defense," and in the blurb on the results like "You're so and so, support not enough property rights and not enough civil liberties," rather than in the scoring.

I hate 8values.

[Cekoviu]

i am far too dumb for this

the greek is a brand name of a yogurt.

lol

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

I'm not a fan of the political compass. It's really biased (just look at the election plots, they move every party 3 points northeast) and a lot of its questions are weird and misleading. I think that 8values is the best of them. Spekr is quite biased, but its bias is mainly in the phrasing of the question like, "people should be prosecuted for excercising their right to self-defense," and in the blurb on the results like "You're so and so, support not enough property rights and not enough civil liberties," rather than in the scoring.

I hate 8values.

Why?

[Cekoviu]

I've never gotten Ayn Rand mixed with either of the other two.
However, I constantly get Rand Paul and Paul Ryan mixed up.

It's just the names make almost a circle. All we need is someone named Ryan Ayn and we can complete it.

https://xkcd.com/1277/ (title-text)