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  • We cannot accept capitalism’s conception of economic relations as “free and private,” because contracts are not made among economic equals and because they give rise to social structures which undemocratically confer power upon some over others. Such relationships are undemocratic in that the citizens involved have not freely deliberated upon the structure of those institutions and how social roles should be distributed within them (e.g., the relationship between capital and labor in the workplace or men and women in child rearing). We do not imagine that all institutional relations would wither away under socialism, but we do believe that the basic contours of society must be democratically constructed by the free deliberation of its members.




  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerican Activism
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    5 months ago

    Nonsense.

    It was a wake up call for execs to quit their bullshit. It was a wake up call for the working class to band together.

    And there is still a very slim chance he gets acquitted/a not guilty verdict.

    The conditions that caused this event haven’t gone away. And all of the school shooter types have just been taught that you will be widely regarded as a folk hero for shooting an exec, so they may opt to change their targets for the better. We will probably see more exec shooters.









  • Would aliens actually be weirded out by this quality of humans?

    I feel like any sufficiently intelligent species living on a planet will have some degree of biodiversity on said planet. And the chances of something being made to be a poison/deterrent for creatures other than the intelligent species is probably a large one, because it’s pretty hard for plants and animals to make a poison/deterrent that kills everything without also killing itself. So if there is a gap for itself, there is a gap for other life to coexist with the toxin. And that’s before accounting for the fact that something can be safe at low levels, provide benefits/stimulation/good feels at low levels, and toxic at high levels.

    So I’d think it would be pretty natural for intelligent life to consume things that are harmful to huge swaths of other creatures.







  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzCan relate.
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    7 months ago

    The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels’ and Himmler’s rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit?

    What’s even more infuriating is that when you try to point this out to others, they act like you’re insane/exaggerating.