Läs min senast krönika hos Mårtensson:Hur stor kan staten egentligen bli? »"Det vore intressant att få veta hur stor Socialdemokraterna anser att staten kan bli. Finns det över huvud taget någon gräns? Har de ens tänkt tanken? Det verkar inte så."
A claim to righteousness in international affairs is fundamental to Canadian exceptionalism, the idea that this country is morally superior to other nations.
— Yves Engler1
Stealing Life with the Big Bad Retail King — One-third of All Buying Transactions
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
— Iago, Shakespeare’s Othello
“Commune or Nothing – Free Men and Free Land,” mural in El Maizal. (Photo: Ricardo Vaz)
In this article we examine the productive activities of El Maizal Commune, based on our visit in May. We also look at the relation between the commune and state companies, and explore the contradictions that emerge as the communal project moves forward.
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The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was ostensibly a conflict between two ideologies, two socio-economic systems.
The white race – and I mean Israeli, Iberian, Slovak, Anglo-Saxon, Caucasian, and the lot of us – is crazy. We do not need Susan Sontag to declare the white race as cancer on the world to ramify the point, since it’s been more than 50 years since she declared:
Liz Wheeler gives three reasons, complete with examples, why socialism does not work. She concludes that, under socialism, after the state takes all the money from the rich and the middle class, eventually it runs out of people to tax, and everyone becomes equally poor. [...]
