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It would have been a worse deal for the politicians who brokered it.
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Who? Who is supposed to do these things and why?
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·3 years ago·discuss
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·3 years ago·discuss
Utter nonsense. Kings and the like could not exist until agricultural societies needed armies to protect them from invasion. Only from within such material circumstances and relations could divine right be wrought on a public imagination, whether it be monarchic kings or founders of PayPal.

And this is why materialism, Marxism or possibly otherwise, is worth defending.
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This is exactly right, and Marx opposed revolutionary efforts in pre-industrial Russia (e.g. the Russian Revolution). He did advocate Russian support of revolution in Germany, but saw no use in revolution in pre-capitalist society.
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·3 years ago·discuss
Labor theory of value is literally just an argument that labor is the historical source of wealth. The terminology here is specific and intentional.

Next, Marxists recognize 2 central forms of value:

Use value is abstract, but not subjective.

Exchange value is contextual.

That's it. That's what you need to argue with, instead of your ridiculous straw men above.

Additionally, it can hardly be stressed enough how unimportant labor theory of value is for Marxism as a whole.
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> Marx believed that making functioning plans was useless since progress was inevitable once unleashed.

Excuse me? The overwhelming majority of Marx's published work was literally advocacy of concrete plans.

See his work with the International Workingmen's Association for some of the most well-known letters and articles arguing for explicit political positions and concrete labor actions: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/iwma/index....
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Capitalism is a system in which those who control capital wield the most power, but without cheap enough labor to work the capital for a profit, capitalism will by definition give way to something else.

Realize capital has no market value without labor to work it. This goes for real estate too, which workers require to rest themselves just in time to return to work to turn a profit for those that control capital.
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·3 years ago·discuss
Tech companies in the US have significantly more lobbying power now. Microsoft will be fine. HN is amazingly ignorant and about political economy.
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·3 years ago·discuss
Yessir
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·3 years ago·discuss
> View Transitions are an entirely new API supported only by Chrome currently. (And Edge, which is a flavor of Chrome.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...