I promised my wife a patio. She has been showing me pictures of 'outdoor rooms' for a year now. She says, "buy pavers and this will be easier". (read, "faster")I said, I... Read More
Posted by: stillkickin on 2008-05-02 14:51:05
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Capital exists in two fundamental aspects: (1) Physical capital (2) Finance capital The capitalist cannot acquire wealth beyond the physical capital the capitalist begins... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-04-19 20:35:16
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There is mental and manual labor, intellectual and physical labor. The desire of marxist socialists is that these dual labors be united in every human being as responsible and rational... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-04-19 20:14:52
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If the propertyless producers end up having all they started with -- which is little or no personal property -- then how can rational producers ever come to believe in a system... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-24 18:51:06
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When I say that the "needy" ought to have a larger share of what they need, I mean a larger utility share, a larger consumption share, relative to the quantity of value, or the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-21 11:58:23
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An anarchist can believe that the modern liberal state is necessary for really-existing capitalism to be established and perpetuated. An anarchist can believe that the modern liberal state is... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-18 13:08:05
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Anarchism is not the abolition of community; it is the abolition of the state. Well-supplied consumption depends upon abundant production. If we produce all that we need, then we... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-16 17:36:33
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Labor alone -- both mental labor and manual labor -- creates useful/usable wealth.  There is mental labor, and there is manual labor; there is intellectual labor, and there is physical... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-16 12:04:26
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On the bus I am transported to work. The speed has been warped. A construction zone re-routes the bus. I gaze out the window and fill in the blanks. I mentally jot down notes as I... Read More
Posted by: lydiaworkman on 2008-03-10 10:37:43
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Most of us know what labor means.  Employers may engage in labor; but employers, as employers -- in the rôle and function of employer -- are not engaged as laborers in active/actual... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-09 21:29:25
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I was working hard, but it was not in service. There was no higher goal or aspiration. The wet blanket of authority had dampened my dreams. My effectiveness was cut off. Cast aside.... Read More
Posted by: lydiaworkman on 2008-03-09 15:49:12
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I suppose that every system founded upon liberty will suffer the risk of free-rider problems, but a capitalism that justifies the free-riders at the top cannot hope to do away with... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-09 14:38:36
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I worked for the enemy. I wore the boots and slaved away. What became of my sense of freedom? Freedom came in 10 minute increments. I silenced myself and went into hiding. I let the... Read More
Posted by: lydiaworkman on 2008-03-07 09:08:31
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The product of associated labor is not just the material goods produced, but also the affluent society workers live and work in. General prosperity is a direct product of everyone doing their... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-23 22:06:00
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When socialists and communists talk about the withering away of the state, or about the destruction of the state, they are not talking about the withering away of government, or about the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-22 22:13:25
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There are those who believe that to have judicial assemblies and legislative assemblies is necessarily to have an authoritarian state. But, if an anarcho-capitalist system can have judicial... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 17:35:41
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If, by his or her own solitary labor, one individual can construct a factory, and equip it with machinery, then this product of one's own solitary labor ought to be the property of the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 10:31:14
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Under capitalism, the idle rich take what the workers produce, while the industrious wage-workers supply the rich with what they (i.e., the idle rich) possess. I do not see... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-17 10:51:13
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It seems that the only way to achieve full employment in a capitalist regimen is to engineer a lot of underemployment, or a lot of part-time employment. Past human failures do not... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-21 15:52:38
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The administration of the Liberal Party (vic) has decided not to contest the seats of Wiliamstown and Albert Park in a bi-election created by the resignation of the Victorian Premier. Labor... Read More
Posted by: darrynspedding on 2007-08-03 03:54:12
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DID YOU KNOW? 8,366 more Rhode Island workers have become unemployed since bush took office. 5,000 Of Rhode Island workers have lost their unemployment benefits since January 2004. 13,100... Read More
Posted by: busybrucie999 on 2007-07-05 14:34:15
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