[OT] Extraordinary Popular Delusions
The biggest myth in the US in the 20th century was that Russian Bolshevism was a form of "Marxism". Absolutely beyond my comprehension how any rational person could have believed this, but it suited the powers that be well in the time of cold war. They could always point to Russia as a strawman when attacking what a "Marxist" society would be like in practice. But in Russia there was, of course, no control by the proletariat over anything. Much closer to fascism in which you have a small ruling elite who makes all the decisions.
The biggest myth in the US in the 21st century so far seems to be that it was "QE" that was primarily responsible for how mild the recession following the 2008 market crash was. In truth, QE only helped for a bit and only so much. What really helped the economy bounce back was the wave of new technology and shortening of the product cycle. QE turned into a hindrance after a while. What was needed was higher rates so that banks would have incentive to lend beyond people who didn't need loans. Which is why you saw the big market rally after Trump won.
So just remember what is the real driver of the market rally next SJG or RickyBoy or stevie-girl come out with one of their "the sky is fall because the S&P was down more than 1% today" posts.
The biggest myth in the US in the 21st century so far seems to be that it was "QE" that was primarily responsible for how mild the recession following the 2008 market crash was. In truth, QE only helped for a bit and only so much. What really helped the economy bounce back was the wave of new technology and shortening of the product cycle. QE turned into a hindrance after a while. What was needed was higher rates so that banks would have incentive to lend beyond people who didn't need loans. Which is why you saw the big market rally after Trump won.
So just remember what is the real driver of the market rally next SJG or RickyBoy or stevie-girl come out with one of their "the sky is fall because the S&P was down more than 1% today" posts.
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The examples to look to are the Social Democracies of Europe. There you will see both the good and the bad.
Marx was wrong about the workers rising up and taking over. They are too beaten down already. Look to Western Europe and see how it went to the Left, as the US had been before Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy.
You will hear from lots of quarters this idea that Socialism depends upon a great deal of altruism. This is wrong. There is nothing altruistic in wanting everyone to have their basic needs taken care of, and to be able to get an education, and to be able to pursue value producing and suitable employment.
The only way someone could see this as altruism is if they think that some people are somehow defective or undeserving.
But what Socialism does depend upon is having a populace which believes that everyone is worthy, and that we can make our society work for everyone.
SJG
Yanis Varoufakis Explains Greece's Financial Crisis (Pt. 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOlJsmv…
Yanis Varoufakis and Dave Rubin Talk Greece's Financial Crisis (Full Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DP_v8f8…
Counts himself as a Libertarian Marxist.
One of the last chapters of this talks about such:
https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Its-Disco…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Gru…
http://csul.iii.com/search~S0?/agrubacic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertaria…
TJ Street
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SJG
SJG
Shailynn's Homeless - Beggars thread
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=4…
Robert Reich explains Authoritarianism, Trump's threat to Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgYsrfM…
Yanis Varoufakis Explains Greece's Financial Crisis (Pt. 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOlJsmv…
Yanis Varoufakis and Dave Rubin Talk Greece's Financial Crisis (Full Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DP_v8f8…
Counts himself as a Libertarian Marxist.
One of the last chapters of this talks about such:
https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Its-Disco…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Gru…
http://csul.iii.com/search~S0?/agrubacic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertaria…
TJ Street
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www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/zona_no…
www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/zona_no…
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/96200…
Just forget all this revolution crap and go back to reading physics is my advice.
I understand now why you are so put off by any talk of violence. So many activists make the same mistake that Martin Luther King made, turning non-violence into a way of life.
Doing this reinforces the bogus sciences of Eugenics and Social Darwinim, because it reduces the marginalized into pity seekers and validates those who use them as scapegoats.
Lots of people are completely locked out of the labor market. And this is only going to be increasing.
Welfare money is intended to regulate the poor, not to provide for their needs. But we need to have it. So Citizenship Pay would seem to be the only answer.
And like I've been trying to say, if someone has been treated with dignity and respect and allowed to develop and apply their abilities, then the chances that they will be one of those shut out are much lower. So if you see people who's lives have fallen apart, look to their parents and hold the parents financially accountable. The US is just about the only industrialized country which allows one to disinherit their child. We must change this, because it legitimates child abuse.
Capitalism has always depended upon having scapegoats. We used to get these in the immigrants and racial minorities who did low wage labor and slave labor.
But today there is far less need for any kind of labor. So today Capitalism gets its scapegoats directly from the middle-class family. And most middle-class child abuse involves doctors of one type or another. So the scapegoating involves the fallacies of mental illness, or things like Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, or Eating Disorders. What this is, is the resurgence of the bogus sciences of Social Darwinism and Eugenics.
We must put these doctors out of action. Crimes Against Humanity prosecution would be best. Other counties have the laws which will facilitate such prosecution. And then we must hold the parents financially accountable, as this is the only language they will ever understand.
And people who are willing to engage in principled and necessary violence, are respected. Whereas pity seekers are not.
And you Dougster, and all the others pushing for increasing financialization, intuitively know this. You know that your plans for a two tier society will never work unless you can portray the scapegoats as pity seekers, supposedly "unfit to live".
Of course, a small number of leftist radicals, perhaps inspired by John Brown, are not going to be able to hold off the US DHS. But look closer at the effect John Brown had. Before his raid on Harpers Ferry, those free blacks who knew of his plans were mortified when they learned. But after, they all wanted to be John Brown. They changed from pity seeking Uncle Toms, into a well respected oppressed people, willing to fight for justice. And 180 thousand trained with rifles and bayonets and served.
You Dougster know that once even a small contingent of the oppressed start standing up for themselves, that the scapegoating will not work any more, and your plans for a two-tier society will be derailed. Just look today at how many continue to be inspired by the Black Panthers and their mostly only symbolic brandishing of fire arms, and by Malcolm X's call for Any Means Necessary.
SJG
Brian Eno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLTPyRX…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a76E5Kc-…
TJ School Girls
http://www.losangelespress.org/wp-conten…
I like the looks of them, but I would prefer them in higher heels and overall a more slutty look.
All it is, is just a way to exonerate parents and school administrators for abuse. Basically, the child accepts a fiction, placing the blame upon themselves, and this makes peace by exonerating the parents. And then corporate scientists try to find genetic evidence.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/02/08/that…
The "Refrigerator Mother" concept was overly simplistic, and also it makes it look like it is accidental. But all the early researchers were certain that the parents were doing it.
In his Toxic Psychiatry, 1991, Peter Breggin explains that the Refrigerator Mother concept never has been disproven. Rather, it was just too politically explosive. And all the Autism organizations are simply defensive formations of the parents. They started non-profits to defend themselves against the abuse allegation.
Those who are claimed to have it, even look like the monkeys which Harry Harlow used in his Maternal Deprivation Experiments in the 1960's.
It is highly tied to social class, and the concept tied to the English speaking world, and in the UK to their national health system, and to the Tony Blair neo-liberal government, and it is a kind of psychiatric policing being imposed as there come to be less and less hands on physical jobs.
It is another version of what they used to call Munchausen's By Proxy, that is just using the child and supposed medical conditions to give an identity to the parents, usually the mother. Today they are just calling such abuse, Medical Child Abuse. The Autism/ Aspergers, or ASD concept is just a form of Medical Child Abuse.
This Jayne Lytel is a frightening woman, and her hatred for her second son Leo, is very palpable. She and the husband are dot com yuppie elitists.
https://www.amazon.com/Act-Early-Against…
And also, this is good, as it shows the link between advancing the bogus concept of Autism and Neo-Liberal Capitalism, and the re-emergence of Eugenics:
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Autism-Medic…
Timimi and his coauthors stand together emphatically stating, "There is no such thing as Autism."
Also, as the diagnosis rates keep climbing, it gets more and more gender skewed. Now up to 1 in 40 for boys, whereas originally it was more like 1 in 10000.
Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, and Stuttering are the counter points inflicted upon boys, for the bogus concept of Eating Disorders inflicted upon girls.
And yes, these are conspiracies in that they are about the denial of child abuse, and denial of the fact that the middle-class family exists to abuse children, and that most of this involves active assistance from doctors.
And this in turn props up our completely unworkable and insane Capitalist economic system, because that is based on convincing people that they are born into this world with some outstanding debt or obligation, Original Sin.
Most of these people who go along with the idea that they suffer from ASD, also are strongly attached to the idea of this debt or obligation and the self-reliance ethic, and to the idea that they should not fault their parents.
SJG
Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon (61 Minute Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLTPyRX…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/j…
SJG
Resist!
Letitia James
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/26/t…