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Why Not Utopia?

Started by Sheilbh, April 24, 2015, 07:19:03 PM

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Razgovory

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 25, 2015, 02:01:35 PM
At any point you have a point you feel like making Raz, you should go ahead an make it.

IT was my understanding he added quite a bit to the field of economics, things that were useful beyond the idea of communism.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi


Razgovory

Historical materialism.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

None of my professors have ever mentioned that term, nor have any of my texts, nor any of the articles assigned in class.

Nor would that mean, even if they had, that "Karl Marx's analysis was largely correct."

Neither would it mean, even if his analysis were largely correct, that the way you tried to raise your point was well mannered or pleasant.

grumbler

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 25, 2015, 02:01:35 PM
At any point you have a point you feel like making Raz, you should go ahead an make it.

Obviously, the capitalist society was followed by the communist society.  :lol:

To be fair, I think Marx was essentially correct that humans don't get as much satisfaction out of work directed by others as they do from work they direct themselves, but that seems pretty self-evident.

I wonder what conclusions Marx would have reached had he just been born 50 years later, and seen the dawn of the Second industrial Revolution.  Like Malthus and Ricardo before him, he was projecting from a temporary state of affairs.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Razgovory

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 25, 2015, 06:57:59 PM
None of my professors have ever mentioned that term, nor have any of my texts, nor any of the articles assigned in class.

Nor would that mean, even if they had, that "Karl Marx's analysis was largely correct."

Neither would it mean, even if his analysis were largely correct, that the way you tried to raise your point was well mannered or pleasant.

Whatever you say Yi.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi


Sheilbh

Let's bomb Russia!

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi


Neil

I wonder whose aggression is more passive?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Neil on April 25, 2015, 08:35:09 PM
I wonder whose aggression is more passive?
I know. It's like a family event. Say, the funeral of an uncontroversially elderly and distantly loved relative.
Let's bomb Russia!

Admiral Yi

Perhaps you could suggest a preferable way to respond to Raz's comment Shelf.

jimmy olsen

Assuming automation renders a large fraction of the population unemployable, then it seems inevitable that there will be some kind of revolution in the economic basis of society. How it occurs, and whether it more closely resembles a utopia rather than a dystopia is yet to be seen.
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Valmy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 25, 2015, 08:19:40 PM
Did you ever start?

Well he did say two words.

QuoteAnd why not? We need equally big thinkers now, and dreamers, and we need to be acting with them.

Sounds like we already have them. They are building machines.

QuoteIf there is going to be a global market that will further enrich capitalists, there must be guarantees that the rest of the population can at least afford housing and food. And things can be even better than that: We'll have the robots work for us.

Bah Ide and I came up with the socialism via robots plan way back in 2003.

Humans are weird creatures though. There may be a society where everybody gets everything they need without having to do any work but I wonder just how Utopian it will really be.
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