I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

rickyb

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jeremy corbin head of the opposition party in UK has proposed a maximum income...apparently he got the idea from FDR who proposed a 100% top marginal income tax rate on $400,000 / year adjusted for inflation
 

rickyb

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i was listening to richard wolff's monthly economic update which is pushing 100,000 views when a few years ago it was only getting 2000...anyways i think he said 6 years from now they will automate trucking jobs, which is the most common job in most states and provides some kind of middle class lifestyle for little education.

capitalism is ending.

another sign of this is most of the jobs created since obama's been president have been precarious. this is not just because obama was a bad president.
 

rickyb

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wkmac

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Alejandro Jodorowsky is a really neat individual. As a film director, he was first given the chance to take Frank Hubert's Dune to film but his idea became so eccentric and esoteric that it got shot down and it came to David Lynch who in the end was not happy with the finished product. The meme quote kinda reminds me of Plato's cave allegory.
 

wkmac

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The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin

And to achieve that goal requires capitalism is its "State" form. As per Lenin himself:

"State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months’ time state capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold and will have become invincible in this country."

Taken from published work, May 1921' under the title "A Tax in Kind"

and

"The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Our state capitalism differs essentially from the state capitalism in countries that have bourgeois governments in that the state with us is represented not by the bourgeoisie, but by the proletariat, who has succeeded in winning the full confidence of the peasantry."

Taken from published work, January 10, 1923' newspaper Russky Golos #2046 New York under the title "To the Russian Colony in North America"

Mikhail Bakunin tried to warn Marx himself of the dangers of using the State to achieve communist ends and how that would end in disaster and then Lenin and Stalin both prove Bakunin correct. Bakunin feared that using the State would just recreate the same dangers and to quote the infamous song by The Who, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!"
 

rickyb

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Alejandro Jodorowsky is a really neat individual. As a film director, he was first given the chance to take Frank Hubert's Dune to film but his idea became so eccentric and esoteric that it got shot down and it came to David Lynch who in the end was not happy with the finished product. The meme quote kinda reminds me of Plato's cave allegory.
yea i got it from max keiser who was directing it at keith olberman lol.

i have a bunch of movies on my comp so i was going down the list that they appear and santa sangre was one of them that i went past first but skipped.

ive seen blue velvet and muholland drive, eraserhead, and elephant man. david lynch is hilarious.

yea to me the quote is about having context
 

rickyb

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Alejandro Jodorowsky is a really neat individual. As a film director, he was first given the chance to take Frank Hubert's Dune to film but his idea became so eccentric and esoteric that it got shot down and it came to David Lynch who in the end was not happy with the finished product. The meme quote kinda reminds me of Plato's cave allegory.
by coincidence i kept going past his movie santa sangre on my computer but the file is missing so i have to get it again.
 

rickyb

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a new milestone for capitalism. every year recently it has been getting worse:

"New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the poorest – suffers. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this extreme, unsustainable and unjust point. Our economy must stop excessively rewarding those at the top and start working for all people" - oxfam uk
 

wkmac

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the problem with capitalism and state socialism is they both centralize power.
ricky bobby

Very true and more often than not, capitalism in its vulgar state functions best under a State Socialism environment. With all the social democratic governments and their soft forms of State Socialism around the world and that world is dominated by globalist, crony capitalism of the worst sort. Even the democrat party has become its lackey and water carrier right along side the republicans who've always been so.
 

Babagounj

Strength through joy
rickyb, why were Canadian Women marching in Washington DC today ?
Is there something up north you are not telling us about ?
 
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