http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/the-mechanics-of-socialism-35973-8.html unrealist42 wrote: Until one of the political parties takes up this cause...
side with a person? I do that in bed but not in discussing an argument. Specifically what is the argument, and what do you see as strength or deficiency in...
"Socialists have to begin thinking much more in global terms to confront these problems. We have to stop behaving as if it were the 1840s. The world is a...
"thinking globally" is a really nice sounding phrase - but the idea that socialists "have to begin thinking in more global terms" implies that socialists...
David, The market is open to rich and poor alike. The advantage of selling to the poor is that there are a lot of them and they spend all the money they get....
... So what I'll do with my apartments is to rent them to people who cannot afford them family at a time, but because there are so many poor people looking for...
Here is a contribution to the swt forum that bears on a question I debated here a few weeks ago with Dave. The benefits of shorter working time are so ...
The previous question to Ken was for him to show just how reducing the number of hours an worker worked in a week would increase the hourly value of labor...
NY Times column +++++++++++++++++++ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/why-not-a-wpa/ November 6, 2009, 10:44 am Why not a WPA? By Paul Krugman A...
neither can you show Ken how such a scheme would do anything but temporarily and I would say only slightly do anything to reduce the glut of supply of labor...
... What's similar is the same old Ken Ellis broken record trying to justify his own lame ideas by the "it's better than Petersen" tired old song. I rarely...
USA: Looming Default on Debt, Inflationary Chaos, and Anarchy;- Causes Devaluation of Money in Competative World Marketplace. Bud Collectivist, Red Patrol. Red...
Marketplace "devaluation" of the currency is one way that workers wages go down. Every price rise in every commodity a work has to but is just that much less...
I haven't been able to find where Marx ever used the term capitalism. But then again there could be a rhinoceros in my bedroom and I wouldn't be able to find...
... Theoretically we could search everything Marx wrote to locate the word "capitalism" by typing this at google: capitalism site:marxists.org/archive/marx/ ...
Thank you Mike. Could you please respond with your information to my last post in the philosophy forum in the Communist Manifesto thread where I said that I...
Mike: I wonder what the first recorded usage of the word is. Did Adam Smith use it? And since Marx used the word so rarely, but it apears in material that he...
... The word "capitalism" doesn't appear in Smith's "Wealth of Nations." ... I would guess that German has roughly the same noun and adjective forms that...
It was Robert Owen who introduced the word "socialism" to the english speaking world. He borrowed it from the French equivalent I think. I suggest you study...
I see that there is a relatively recent edition of the entire works of robert owen. The wouldn't be a library around here with it. Too bad it's not available...
rewrite: I see that there is a relatively new edition of the complete works of Robt. Owen but it would not be in a library to which I would have acccess to...
rewrite continued: Why shouldn't there be a lend-lease for labor? e.g.: Govternment can put workers into collective control of means of production and the...
Wash Post article - h2o on moon in much higher quantity than predicted. Big time discovery. the implications for Earth bound humanity are right up there with...