Forum: Theory
9th December 2011, 03:22
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,192
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Forum: Learning
9th December 2011, 01:18
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Replies: 60
Views: 2,207
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Forum: Theory
9th December 2011, 01:09
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,192
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 23:23
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Replies: 15
Views: 452
Also: in a Comparative Politics class you're...
Also: in a Comparative Politics class you're getting assigned an essay exam question on whether you would prefer to live under "Russian" and "Chinese" "Communism"?
They are not just screwing you...
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 21:11
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,078
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 21:09
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Replies: 15
Views: 452
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 21:06
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Replies: 8
Views: 500
Good thing economies and the reproduction of...
Good thing economies and the reproduction of social life consists only of procurement of consumer goods in advanced economies with sophisticated real-time information technology which tracks all...
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 21:03
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Replies: 16
Views: 398
If its due to "culture", than the "cause" is...
If its due to "culture", than the "cause" is omnipresent and thus cannot be used as evidence for any sort of change. Why does Chilean crime not stay the same over the 20th c.? There's been no mass...
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 19:02
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Replies: 23
Views: 962
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Forum: Learning
8th December 2011, 18:54
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,332
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Forum: Politics
8th December 2011, 18:49
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,566
What does this have to do with the fact that we...
What does this have to do with the fact that we will have to tally-up how many (willing) man-hours at whatever mixes of skill and other factors, together with the natural resources available, can be...
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Forum: Politics
8th December 2011, 05:18
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,566
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Forum: Politics
6th December 2011, 16:01
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Replies: 54
Views: 1,789
Lol. "These sectarians do not understand spoilt...
Lol. "These sectarians do not understand spoilt ballots"? It is you who is the sectarian here, who is throwing up this shibboleth that separates the existing left, and the real working-class, from...
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Forum: Learning
5th December 2011, 23:40
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,750
I guess I don't choose to use this community to...
I guess I don't choose to use this community to debate things we all agree upon, more or less. I think we should emphatically take this tack with any attempts at red-baiting and Cold War propaganda...
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Forum: Learning
5th December 2011, 23:09
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,750
Uh, the USSR's development did not require...
Uh, the USSR's development did not require conquest and impoverishment of lands within their own nation? Central Asia was more or less obliged to follow the urban regime in European Russia by...
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Forum: Learning
5th December 2011, 20:24
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,750
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Forum: Learning
5th December 2011, 19:01
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,750
Income measures are misleading. Firstly, there...
Income measures are misleading. Firstly, there most definitely was economic incentives, inegalitarian wage distributions, and the like, even if it was much better than the West. Secondly, in the USSR...
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Forum: Learning
4th December 2011, 17:50
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,750
God, this knee-jerk Brezhnevite apologia is...
God, this knee-jerk Brezhnevite apologia is idiotic. The economies of these states were failing and "hold on to 'ur butts" and full-steam ahead was not an option. Yes, in many cases the Soviet sphere...
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Forum: History
4th December 2011, 17:22
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Replies: 286
Views: 10,318
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Forum: Learning
4th December 2011, 08:02
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,750
Because the Stalinist economy is a failed...
Because the Stalinist economy is a failed development model, and because nearly all Stalinisms formed in states that had been very impoverished, undeveloped, and unfavorably integrated into the world...
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Forum: Learning
4th December 2011, 06:04
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Replies: 20
Views: 960
His point is that the Soviet "planning" was...
His point is that the Soviet "planning" was "really no more than bargaining process at best, and a police process at worst."
Believe it or not, but not everyone needs to be a corporate accountant...
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Forum: History
4th December 2011, 02:33
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Replies: 286
Views: 10,318
The idea you can characterize the violent...
The idea you can characterize the violent military suppression of the free Kronstadt soviet (and its concomitant suppression of the workers' strike movements in Petrograd and Moscow, the non-CP...
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Forum: Learning
4th December 2011, 01:42
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Replies: 46
Views: 2,695
How come neither Stalin nor Mao thought that...
How come neither Stalin nor Mao thought that socialism was equivalent to the DOTP? As noted before, no one disputes the DOTP in Oct 1917, but 'socialism', is said to be constructed in the 1930s. But...
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Forum: History
2nd December 2011, 23:34
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Replies: 286
Views: 10,318
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Forum: Learning
2nd December 2011, 16:01
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Replies: 46
Views: 2,695
Who cares? No power or political current in...
Who cares? No power or political current in history, practically speaking, identified "socialism" with the "dictatorship of the proletariat", to say nothing of the fact, as shown earlier, that even...
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