Message from @versterven

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2018-04-12 23:23:09 UTC  

especially as you could provide strong counterexamples

2018-04-12 23:23:28 UTC  

like with Japan growing rapidly under heavy state intervention and experiencing anemic growth after liberalization

2018-04-12 23:24:29 UTC  

or how in Chile poverty skyrocketed and growth was stagnant during Pinochet's administration and after his laissez faire policies were scaled back by the succession of center left governments that came after Chile started growing and poverty started dropping

2018-04-12 23:25:03 UTC  

or how most Russians are poorer today than they were 20 years ago under socialism

but I'm not Japanese or Chilean

2018-04-12 23:25:38 UTC  

how is "dot or feather?" even remotely offensive?

2018-04-12 23:25:48 UTC  

the specific reasons why India has grown is because of a change in trade policy and loosening of burdensome private sector regulations in an economy reliant on the private sector

I'm Anglo Celtic Roman

2018-04-12 23:26:10 UTC  

they still pursue dirigiste policies to a degree

2018-04-12 23:26:15 UTC  

@obrallaghan It's not, it's very funny

I do not want your Commie bullshit

2018-04-12 23:26:36 UTC  
2018-04-12 23:30:18 UTC  

wow big league now boys

2018-04-12 23:30:57 UTC  

I complain about my history teacher alot

2018-04-12 23:31:04 UTC  

but she put robot chicken on as a history video

2018-04-12 23:31:11 UTC  

so I can't complain *THAT* much

2018-04-12 23:32:17 UTC  

@Werlf 🀣

2018-04-12 23:36:34 UTC  

jordan peterson is so desperate to paint post-modernism and modern progressivism as being marxist

2018-04-12 23:37:02 UTC  

um, that's because it is

2018-04-12 23:37:16 UTC  

why do you think that

2018-04-12 23:37:20 UTC  

It is quite literally an application of Marxist theory to social structure

2018-04-12 23:37:23 UTC  

is it because of oppressor/oppressed memes

2018-04-12 23:37:37 UTC  

No, it's because of my experience dealing with progressives

2018-04-12 23:38:15 UTC  

what does "application of Marxist theory to social structure" mean

2018-04-12 23:38:51 UTC  

Replace economics with social structure, replace bourgeoisie with white men, replace proletariat with minorities.

2018-04-12 23:40:17 UTC  

you could do the same thing with early liberals who were an influence on marx's class theory

2018-04-12 23:40:34 UTC  

the core of what you're getting at is that an anlysis of power dynamics = marxism

2018-04-12 23:41:25 UTC  

which is silly, the core of marxism has to do with a materialist interpretation of historical development and the role class struggle plays in this development

2018-04-12 23:41:29 UTC  

no, progressive "manifestos" and other similar writings are eerily similar to "down with the bourgeoisie" type stuff.

2018-04-12 23:42:11 UTC  

i don't think superificial similarities between polemics constitutes these ideologies being the same

2018-04-12 23:42:17 UTC  

I think this gives an accurate description of Liberalism, https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/293022642230001676/434084687103787019/image.jpg

2018-04-12 23:42:31 UTC  

I'm not saying their the same, but they are eerily similar

2018-04-12 23:42:49 UTC  

literally can be used in a loose manner of meaning

2018-04-12 23:43:09 UTC  

Which is what I was doing when using the word "literally"

2018-04-12 23:43:30 UTC  

Meaning they are very similar and are against several of the same tenants of liberalism.

2018-04-12 23:44:19 UTC  

so when oldschool liberals like adolphe blanqui were writing about how there are two "classes", those who live by their own labor and oppressors who live on the labor of others

2018-04-12 23:44:33 UTC  

could you not just use the same example you have used with marxism and progressivism here

2018-04-12 23:44:45 UTC  

just replace the parasites with white men and those who live by their own labor with minorities