Lohrenswald
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It's more that the human is capable of thought and being aware of its surrounding, while the universe is a non-sentient impersonal thing. The nobility lies in the knowing.
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It's more that the human is capable of thought and being aware of its surrounding, while the universe is a non-sentient impersonal thing. The nobility lies in the knowing.
Terxpahseyton
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I don't see it, sorry.
Borachio
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I don't see much nobility.
But being aware of one's inevitable demise can make one realize what's truly important, and what isn't. There is some utility there, I feel. It can cut through an awful lot of crap.
And if truth is defined as that which enobles, I suppose, stretching the point, knowing the truth of one's death could be said to be enobling too. But I don't know so much.
"Nobility" is a bit vague.
But being aware of one's inevitable demise can make one realize what's truly important, and what isn't. There is some utility there, I feel. It can cut through an awful lot of crap.
And if truth is defined as that which enobles, I suppose, stretching the point, knowing the truth of one's death could be said to be enobling too. But I don't know so much.
"Nobility" is a bit vague.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
"I am a man. I could say this has nothing to do with me. Except I have two daughters and I have a mother who was forced to illegally have an abortion in her state where abortion was illegal when she was a very young woman. It cost $600 cash. It was a traumatizing thing for her. It was shameful and sleazy and demeaning. When I heard the story I was aghast by the lowliness of a society that would make a woman do that. I could not understand its lack of humanity; today is no different.
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice. I don’t want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room just south of the state line. Where a transaction of $600 cash becomes the worth of a young woman’s life. So that is why I am lending my voice to you and your movement today. Because I actually trust the women I know. I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies and I trust them with their children."
Mark Ruffalo, in a public letter to an abortion rights rally in Mississippi.
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice. I don’t want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room just south of the state line. Where a transaction of $600 cash becomes the worth of a young woman’s life. So that is why I am lending my voice to you and your movement today. Because I actually trust the women I know. I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies and I trust them with their children."
Mark Ruffalo, in a public letter to an abortion rights rally in Mississippi.
Radio is still better when you don't know who is out there, and want to hear from someone in your area.
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
But... but that would imply that everyone has an equitable standard of living such that security of the person is assured and equality of opportunity is objectively feasible! What are you, some kinda commie?
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
Speaking of commies:
'Advancing this definition of imperialism brings us into complete contradiction to K. Kautsky, who refuses to regard imperialism as a "phase of capitalism" and defines it as a policy "preferred" by finance capital, a tendency of "industrial" countries to annex "agrarian" countries. Kautsky's definition is thoroughly false from the theoretical standpoint. What distinguishes imperialism is the rule not of industrial capital, but of finance capital, the striving to annex not agrarian countries, particularly, but every kind of country. Kautsky divorces imperialist politics from imperialist economics, he divorces monopoly in politics from monopoly in economics in order to pave the way for his vulgar bourgeois reformism, such as "disarmament", "ultra-imperialism" and similar nonsense. . .'
- Vladimir Lenin, "Imperialism and the Split in Socialism" (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966), p.5 (bolding mine).
'We have foreshadowed the possibility of even a larger alliance of Western states, a European federation of Great Powers which, so far from forwarding the cause of world civilisation, might introduce the gigantic peril of a Western parasitism, a group of advanced industrial nations, whose upper classes drew vast tribute from Asia and Africa, with which they supported great tame masses of retainers, no longer engaged in the staple industries of agriculture and manufacture, but kept in the performance of personal or minor industrial services under the control of a new financial aristocracy.'
- J.A. Hobson, Imperialism; quoted by Lenin in ibid., p.7 (bolding mine).
'Advancing this definition of imperialism brings us into complete contradiction to K. Kautsky, who refuses to regard imperialism as a "phase of capitalism" and defines it as a policy "preferred" by finance capital, a tendency of "industrial" countries to annex "agrarian" countries. Kautsky's definition is thoroughly false from the theoretical standpoint. What distinguishes imperialism is the rule not of industrial capital, but of finance capital, the striving to annex not agrarian countries, particularly, but every kind of country. Kautsky divorces imperialist politics from imperialist economics, he divorces monopoly in politics from monopoly in economics in order to pave the way for his vulgar bourgeois reformism, such as "disarmament", "ultra-imperialism" and similar nonsense. . .'
- Vladimir Lenin, "Imperialism and the Split in Socialism" (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966), p.5 (bolding mine).
'We have foreshadowed the possibility of even a larger alliance of Western states, a European federation of Great Powers which, so far from forwarding the cause of world civilisation, might introduce the gigantic peril of a Western parasitism, a group of advanced industrial nations, whose upper classes drew vast tribute from Asia and Africa, with which they supported great tame masses of retainers, no longer engaged in the staple industries of agriculture and manufacture, but kept in the performance of personal or minor industrial services under the control of a new financial aristocracy.'
- J.A. Hobson, Imperialism; quoted by Lenin in ibid., p.7 (bolding mine).
madviking
north american scum
"This marks the beginning of that very happy time when politics will recede into the background, when politics will be discussed less often and at shorter length, and engineers and agronomists will do most of the talking."
V. I. Lenin
V. I. Lenin
brennan
Argumentative Brit
Mother Teresa was more interested in making the destitute and dying poor of Calcutta live in the way she wished. Not actually receiving medical treatments in her 'homes' for example.
Paul in Saudi
Emperor
Did anyone else even do that much for them?
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
All I see are combat operations though.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
The trick with the Naxalites is that despite their professions of Maoism, they're not really a revolutionary movement, in the sense that they don't really have an over-arching program. They're more like a resistance movement than anything else, comprised mostly of peasant and hill-people under threat of expropriation; they don't have any big programs of land reform, for example, because they already have the land. A success, for them, is keeping the state and capital at bay for another year, and that's not the sort of thing which is easily quantified.
(I don't think that a coherent program is impossible for people in their situation: the Zapatistas have one, and they're similarly comprised of hill-peoples motivated most fundamentally by the threat of expropriation, and as a result we could attempt to attribute to their movement a list of positive achievements. The problem is perhaps that while the EZLN is comprised entirely of Maya living in a specific part of Southern Mexico, the Naxalites are drawn from dozens of ethnic groups over huge areas of India, so it would be hard to see how unifying program could realistically be more than a pretence on the part of the leadership.)
(I don't think that a coherent program is impossible for people in their situation: the Zapatistas have one, and they're similarly comprised of hill-peoples motivated most fundamentally by the threat of expropriation, and as a result we could attempt to attribute to their movement a list of positive achievements. The problem is perhaps that while the EZLN is comprised entirely of Maya living in a specific part of Southern Mexico, the Naxalites are drawn from dozens of ethnic groups over huge areas of India, so it would be hard to see how unifying program could realistically be more than a pretence on the part of the leadership.)
Yeah, millions of
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