Re: Digital leftism in a globalised world?

2017-01-27 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 03:34:05PM +0100, Alexander Bard wrote: >Excuse me, but what kind of world do you live in? >A world where all property is owned by nation-state governments as if >they were all North Korean dictatorships? And the globe is a >competetion for most evil

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

2017-01-27 Thread Ian Alan Paul
"Is you 10th thesis calling for a revolution without using the word. If so why not? Why avoid the word? Has it become tarnished by carrying too much historical baggage ? Or does te word simply not cover what it is you are trying to say?" Thank you for this question David ~ I

Re: January 23, Trump Question

2017-01-27 Thread Molly Hankwitz
This is fascinating to me having just attended the March here in SF all day Saturday and having watched, rapt -- the anarchist black bloc on the streets of D.C. remotely and been a regular, choosy news hound for months. A couple of points - while I'm not convinced that the Republicans have

Digital leftism in a globalised world?

2017-01-27 Thread Alexander Bard
Excuse me, but what kind of world do you live in? A world where all property is owned by nation-state governments as if they were all North Korean dictatorships? And the globe is a competetion for most evil between these states and nothing else? Have you even heard of transnational

Russia? China? It's bored kids you should fear, and Minecraft!

2017-01-27 Thread sebastian
TL;DR: If this is already too long, forget it. But here's the bottom line: If you want to continue debating "foreign cyber-warfare targeting Western democracies" without looking like an utter clown, you should read the articles linked below. Specifically (3), which is the most illuminating

Re: A Third Way Between Protectionism & Globalization

2017-01-27 Thread Keith Hart
Sir James Steuart was a Jacobite exile who brought the term 'political economy' from Continental Europe to Britain. Almost a decade before 'The Wealth of Nations' he published 'Principles of political economy' in 1767. For advocating a free Scottish home market with initial protection from