MisesInstitutenah.. Austrian supremacy!
https://mises.org/
Austrian superiority?
Sounds familiar. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
VA was the closest thing to socialism before trumps reforms.Without the black market, capitalism will always disappoint.
with regard to democratic socialist of Europe, they're mostly socialist, but they are not true socialist as they have a market economy that greases the wheels of socialism. take free market out of the equation, socialism fails. it fails because it doesn't have a benchmark to work from.
look at the failed socialist states.
North Korea
Cuba
Vietnam (before 1982)
China (before 1992)
USSR (NRIP)
Venezuela
I believe Mexico dabbled in it before they ditched after the socialist president died. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
I read Atlas Shrugged a long time ago in highschool. It was quite a slog to be honest as the plot was redundant and implausible. However the focus on individualism and personal responsibility outside of religion and governmental control was inspiring. So was the idea that technical innovation was really at the heart of human prosperity. Still it was just too damn long and too poorly written.
Later I was surprised to learn people took Ayn Rand that seriously or that she had a philosophical following. This letter surprises me too. I guess Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged impressed a lot of people and still does. Glad I read the book so I know where people are coming from at least. Originally Posted by Big Ed
https://nypost.com/2021/10/02/grimes...man-elon-musk/ Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
AUGUST 18, 2021
What accounts for the increasing extremism of the Republican Party, and the polarization that has resulted from it? It at least partly stems from what many may view as an unlikely source: a decline in leadership by large American corporations, a group Mark Mizruchi refers to as the American corporate elite. Here, Mizruchi joins Geoff Kabaservice to provide a detailed history of the role of the corporate elite in stabilizing American politics, and how elites have gradually abdicated that role.
Professor Mizruchi's research focuses on the economic and political behavior of large American corporations as well as the methods of social network analysis. His primary current project is a study of the changing nature of the American corporate elite, from the period immediately after World War II to the present. He is also involved in a study of the globalization of American banking and a study of methods for measuring the effects of social network ties. He teaches courses on economic sociology, sociological theory, social networks, and statistical methods.
The punchline remains: the share of income based on increased production is being funneled into the pockets of the top decile of income earners and even more so the top 1% across almost all developed countries since the neoliberal project began. The conclusion is obvious: the economic conditions of the working class have increased very modestly, but much less in comparison to that of the wealthy sectors of society, who have absorbed most of the gains from the rise in overall productivity. Marx’s thesis is true on a global scale.
Neoliberalism kicks ass. It's taken hundreds of millions from from penury to prosperity -- over a billion if you count China after Deng Xiaoping. Classical liberalism kicks ass too. Communism sucks. Marxism sucks.
The Role of the Corporate Elite in Politics, with Mark Mizruchi
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-r...mark-mizruchi/
https://the-vital-center.simplecast....-mark-mizruchi
Mark S. Mizruchi
https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/mizruchi.html
The Actuality of Marx’s Immiseration Thesis in the 21st Century
https://regenerationmag.org/the-actu...-21st-century/
Still on ignore. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
While this finding already implies that the U.S. working class is in worse economic shape than that of their fellow OECD workers, it still does not prove that that the former’s relative immiseration is occurring. To do this we must show that the wealthy sectors of society, namely the top 10% and top 1% have seen their incomes increase at a rate higher than that of the average worker. Unfortunately, this will prove exceedingly easy.
The top 1% of earners in the U.S. have seen their wealth increase faster than that of any other OECD country since 1981, so that their income is now around 20% of the nation’s annual total.
Bourgeois social scientists have long asserted that Marx’s immiseration thesis is an antiquated and fallacious theory. In actuality, it is one of the most well-backed theories of Marx based on modern, empirical data. The inherent drive toward the absolute impoverishment of labor in an effort to increase profit is one of the guiding principles of capital accumulation. An increase in the productivity of an enterprise therefore does not necessarily translate into an increase in average real wages, as those who preside over the means of production, can accumulate as much surplus value as they please, so long as their workers are maintained at subsistence levels. This underlying characteristic of capitalism has remained unchanged for the last 150 years.
EccieUser, I really enjoyed your March of History video. And I want to bang the blonde. I don't care if she is a Communist. Originally Posted by Tiny
The nature of Marie-Antionette and Fersen’s special relationship has been debated for more than two centuries and was a topic of conversation at the court. In historian Evelyn Farr’s book on their correspondence, I Love You Madly, she uncovered a letter written from Fersen friend Quintin Craufurd to British Prime Minister William Pitt. “This gentleman was Colonel of the Royal Suédois; was Her Most Christian Majesty's prime favourite; and is generally supposed to be the father of the present Dauphin,” Craufurd wrote.
Some have construed such comments as proof that the pair had a physical relationship, while others dismiss it as court gossip or even political slander. No smoking gun exists in the redacted comments; but there is definitely further evidence illustrating just how close the two star-crossed aristocrats really were.
If you think he's intriguing you might want to look up Friedrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard. Originally Posted by TinyMight as well throw Antonio Gramsci in for good measure.
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was an Italian Marxist theorist, one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party, and founder of the official party newspaper, l’Unita. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Gramsci’s thirty-three prison notebooks, which contain brilliant reflections on a vast range of subjects, are foundational for an array of disciplines and schools of thought.
Gracias amigo. I'm packing because tomorrow I'm going on vacation! Looks like I'll have some reading material, if the airline's wifi lets me log onto eccie.net
The blonde I was referring to was Elon Musk's ex girlfriend. Hot! I always had a thing for the women of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade back in the day though. They tended to have hair under their arms but they could fuck like banshees. Meaning they screamed a lot when they wanted you to think they were orgasming. Originally Posted by Tiny
In recent years, his ideas have been particularly studied and appreciated by the Latin American left, as they look to the political legacy of this Sardinian revolutionary. Even in Italy today, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), the figure of Gramsci is making a comeback.
As Marxists, we too must look to this great revolutionary, whose ideas can still teach us a lot. It is certainly necessary to free the figure of Antonio Gramsci from all the falsifications of Stalinism and the bourgeoisie, which have created an image of Gramsci which is devoid of any revolutionary meaning.
