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George Floyd was famously a movement for Black Lives Matter, and there was no suggestion of general strike

Reflecting on past mistakes isn't necessarily demoralizing, realizing that this isnt a new thing is good for future analysis. Hopefully everyone will come out too when the following George Floyd gets inevitably murdered

I commend your appreciation of the field as a science, but you should also acknowledge that 80% of what's currently taught in the academia about economics is just wrong. Supply and demand (unfalsifiable and shitty predictive capabilities compared to the falsifiable and empirically proven labour theory of value) is just one example in the long list of econ-101 bullshit.

Regardless, as an appreciator of economics, have you checked out econophysics? The study of economics as a thermodynamical system. It's wonderful, with predictive capabilities on for example salary distributions in capitalist economies, Paul Cockshott has a book and a few introductory videos on his YouTube channel

Economics as a field in theory is great. The problem is that it's been hijacked by capitalism, and 90% of the stuff taught in faculties is antiscientific. The founding grounds of neoliberal economics lay in the Austrian school, which prides itself in being non-falsifiable by evidence. Anything stemming from there is a pile of dogshit. Marxian economics and Modern Monetary Theory, on the other hand, have wonderful predictive capabilities and are proper science

He was the economist

I was a dick because you flipped me a finger, but sure, thanks for taking it back

Arguably Jesus is the most well-known ancient figure in the western world (assuming he actually did exist) and pretty much all he did during his life was being nice to people

Devil's advocate: Plato is probably well-known for being Aristotle's master, and Aristotle is probably well-known because he was the mentor of fucking Alexander the Great. So one could argue that the basis of western philosophy was set by a murderous emperor

Yes, non-tankies famously defeated fascism over and over again, like

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Wait...

frantically searching in the book

Oh no... Oh no no no...

For reference: I'm a Spaniard, and the Soviet Union was the only country in the world that stepped up to arm the antifascists during our civil war with rifles, tanks and planes. The vast majority of weapons used by the CNT-FAI were of Soviet manufacture. I can only wish that the Soviets had liberated my country from fascism after WW2, unfortunately the USA prevented that and we were left with 30 extra years of fascism

Also, the meme can be rewritten as "how I stopped caring about actual fascism because the western-manufactured atrocity propaganda made me focus on the ones who actually defeated Nazism and Japanese Imperialism"

No, it's not real because there's no evidence for it other than "some anticommunist made up some numbers based on hearsay". With employment being guaranteed and housing costing 3% of monthly income, there is essentially no way people could be homeless other than serious mental illness. But sure, go ahead and trust the "Christian Science Monitor" you linked lmfao

Communism defeated nazism and saved tens of millions of lives from Nazi extermination in Europe. Again, open a book for once in your life

That's actually disgusting, talking like that about a fucking socialist activist who spent his life making the lives of others better. The guy was fucking beat up by cops for organizing protests against the Vietnam war, and forbidden from teaching in universities afterwards. Have some fucking respect

Here's something to think about: Are most people incapable of living in capitalism and would fare better in socialism, or would most people feel like their growth has stagnated in socialism

Judging by the surveys In Eastern Europe, people prefer socialism having lived through both. You can make up all imaginary dilemmas you want, but reality has given you the answer.

I say I choose something a majority would choose too

The majority can't choose that in capitalism, the biggest predictor for success in studying is family income, and capitalism is hugely unequal. You believe you're superior to the rest because you "made the choice to study hard", most people don't have that choice in the first place.