[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of words but not many sources here. So here's a few:

Marx defined socialism as: "...Socialized man, the associated producers, regulate their interchange with nature rationally, bring it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by some blind power; they accomplish their task with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most adequate to their human nature and most worthy of it. But it always remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human power, which is its own end, the true realm of freedom, which, however, can flourish only upon that realm of necessity as its basis."

— Capital III, translated by Ernest Untermann, Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago 1909, p. 954

To understand Marx's definitions you have to realise he was writing mostly in response to the Paris Commune uprising and therefore saw 'communism' as the practical application of a theory of socialism. However, the terms and their meaning were radically reshaped by Lenin, Mao and Stalin.

— The Paris Commune: First Proletarian Dictatorship, Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 6, March 1978.

In March 1918 the Bolshevik Party was renamed the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in order to distinguish it from Social Democratic parties in Russia and Europe and to separate the followers of Lenin from those affiliated with the nonrevolutionary Socialist International.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/Lenin-and-the-Bolsheviks

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 5 points 1 year ago

The issue was later found to be from sunlight streaming into the spacecraft through a tiny gap.

This would be so frustrating. The problem solving process would be a nightmare.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's inevitable that a technology that has an advantage to business is destined to succeed. We've been able to ban a number of technologies that are ultimately more harmful in the long run, CFCs, engineered stone, asbestos and even recently the EU banned facial recognition AI. We just need to help people recognise the harmfulness of a technology.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone from Australia knows we already fucked the shit out that country. It's now mostly just a big hole where a pyramid scheme used to be.

Corruption, incompetence and a musical - The Guardian

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 3 points 1 year ago

We all know NZ is planning something

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. It's tough to feel like you're directionless and lacking purpose. I get it. I felt this way about my job. Personally I found solace in volunteering and doing things that helped people.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 7 points 1 year ago

Superhuman patience.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 8 points 1 year ago

Great show of solidarity.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 5 points 1 year ago

... can I pick MacArthur to wail on the Nazis?

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 4 points 1 year ago

Does WinRAR count?

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