glk

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[–] glk@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communist countries invested in people over capital. If a person fled west they took their investment with them so to speak.

Funnily enough, racism trumped anticommunism. Many potential migrants from VN & China were discouraged because westerners didnt recognise their degrees. (That probably changed in the past decade ).

[–] glk@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I haven't seen this in over a decade what are the top 5 episodes?

 

This music is great! It must be because of these capital intensive goods which I use to play the music not the human and social society which produced it.

[–] glk@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

1733: Russia’s Empress declares Roma to be slaves to the crown

Medieval kingdoms did similar things to Jews. Supposedly sometimes it was a stupid attempt to curb anti-semitism; because if the jews were crown property than a pogrom is an attack on the crown. Naturally the next king would ignore this context and expropriate Jewish property because it was 'his.'

[–] glk@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

The ideological gap between the various left wing ideologies is far wider than that within liberalism and between liberalism and the far right.

And that's without consider how much people here love telling each other to 'read theory.' A term which encompasses an ever larger number of books.