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The Woke Right wants to destroy capitalism and replace it with a socialistic model called "distributism."
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) October 7, 2024
ShoeOnHead (mommy)'s husband responds:
Is this novel to you? Are you just finding out what distributism is? Are you just finding out what Catholics believe?
— 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 (@EudaimoniaEsq) October 7, 2024
Why do you congratulate yourself as some learned man, some oracle or public intellectual, when it’s so apparent that you’re in over your head?
You keep trying to make "woke right" a thing 😅
— Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 (@bitcloud) October 7, 2024
You keep trying to make "woke right" a thing 😅
He's spot on. Brazil's last right wing administration was mostly hijacked by the woke right. Not a single government job was cut, Christian evangelics dominated congress, paramilitary groups (ex-cops) had free reign in cities.
Based. We also want to destroy communism and socialism as well.
— Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) October 7, 2024
Woke Right is now part of the Democrats and close to the woke left. Communists dislike both parties.
— MarreAinne🇺🇸 (@knittingspinner) October 7, 2024
seriously wtf is the woke right????? 
Distributism is such a marginal econ philosophy that is only taken seriously by a handful of traditional Catholics. Are you figuring this stuff out as you go along? Thats what it feels like. Im an r-slur but you gave zero thought to the parameters of this "woke right" moniker
— Wolfgang Hutter (@WolfgangHutter2) October 7, 2024
He still doesn’t know what it means, but as the only party with distributist principles in its platform, we welcome more people finding out for themselves! https://t.co/7noxq4es9i
— American Solidarity Party 🧡 (@AmSolidarity) October 7, 2024
For context on distributism
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: Why do you like the DPRK?
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Earlier this year Kim Jong Un participated personally in flood rescue operations in a massive flood near the border with China
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 3, 2024
He then ordered dozens of officials executed who failed to prepare for the disaster pic.twitter.com/U0C2gohyX4
I am beginning to think he and Putin aren't the evil one's...
— Dyanna 🔔 Starr🌟 ✝️🙏☮️❤️MAGA❤️ (@DyannaStarr777) October 4, 2024
They are BOTH AGAINGST THE NWO GLOBAL AGENDA, WHICH SADLY MAKES THEM KINDA GOOD GUYS!
— B Strick (@JustBeGood11) October 4, 2024
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Three of the most beautiful women who ever lived and they're shooting guns at you.
One of them, she died for reasons we understand.
One is Michelle Yeoh. I talked to somebody who worked with her on a film shoot once. Said she she was great.
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Brad DeLong offers a scathing and accurate critique of Marxism. He then asks for five valid points in Marxist doctrine. Who better to have a go at this than I?
I am translating all arguments into a modern context and modern analytical terms. Marx as we know him did not write as such. And yes, I do know that you can find many of these ideas in Smith and others.
1. Capitalist systems, especially before reaching contemporary times, can produce less autonomy than small scale production. Standards of living do rise from industrialization. But I look at many of my rural Mexican friends. They could earn somewhat higher wages in factories, but they prefer to paint ceramics at home. It is more fun and they control their time to a large degree. At some point industrialization can undercut the cultures and networks of suppliers that makes such a choice possible. Marx directs our attention to a certain indivisibility of systems.
2. Marxism promotes an alternative idea of freedom, namely freedom from the market. Anyone who has chosen life as a tenured university professor should not claim that such an idea is complete nonsense. Smith thought in terms of marginal tradeoffs. Marx, above all, focused on inframarginal and systematic effects.
3. The benefits of industrialization take a long time to kick in. Reforming postcommunist economies took fifteen years or more. Poland did most things right and people there are still unhappy. So how long should it take to reform feudalism or other preindustrial structures? Forty years? I take seriously the idea that the industrial revolution did not make people better off right away, so did Marx.
4. Being happy at work is one of the most important things in life. Marx saw the importance of this more clearly than did many of the classical economists. And he saw the importance of inframarginal systemic factors.
5. A growing division of labor can make some people unhappier at their jobs.
To sum up, we all know that capitalism brings a "creative destruction," to use the phrase of Schumpeter. This is all for the better, but Marx saw how strong both the positive and negative sides of this process would be. And he knew that the relevant problems went deeper than just looking at whether people make rational tradeoffs at the margin. That being said, he overestimated the negative side of the market and underestimated how well capitalism could solve its problems concerning the distribution of income.
Of course marxism, as a political program, remains dangerous nonsense. Marx's blind spots were enormous, and I still cannot understand how generations of the intelligentsia were taken in by the whole thing.
Addendum: The link to Brad´s post has been corrected.
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“Socialism sounds good in theory, but never works in practice.” pic.twitter.com/Igw3MhLm3P
— James Rehwald (@JamesRehwald) August 26, 2024
Guys does anyone know whether internet content creators are included in the proletariat? Guys please tell me
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Mikhaila Peterson had a baby with a pro-Stalin swordsman who believes he has a demon named Igor living inside him. pic.twitter.com/022NoWnm0W
— Underlord (@da_underlord) July 7, 2024
!commies would y'all date him?
- hop : libertarianphile
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