What I Learned Today

Sounds like fascism. Which, really, isn't too far off the mark.

That's a required text? Are you using that book for political science study or is that a reading for an English class?

It's quite interesting.
"But even more significant is the disappearanceof the line between "public" and "private." In the Corporate State, most of the "public" functions of the government are actually performed by the "private" sector of the economy. And most of the "government" functions are services performed for the private sector."

This was written almost 45 years ago, but it certainly rings true today.

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Originally Posted by Nick

That's a required text? Are you using that book for political science study or is that a reading for an English class?

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English. I have to write a comparative analysis of three texts using a materialist frame.
I've learned SO MUCH about Marx the last few weeks. It's a shame how he's been cast a villain. He was on the money about a lot of things.

It may "ring" true, but it is inaccurate. I'm not going to argue that we aren't headed in that direction, but it is just not descriptive of the way the United States is now or was forty-five years ago.

Unless there are some heavy qualifiers after that excerpt, you're probably reading a bunch of shameless and oversimplified propaganda that is not too far off from promoting the same agenda it appears to be criticizing.

I'd write more if I were at home because I hate just saying something or someone is wrong without going in depth.

Ah, sounds like a good assignment. It's fine to read propaganda in English class. I thought that might have been a main text for political science.

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It may "ring" true, but it is inaccurate. I'm not going to argue that we aren't headed in that direction, but it is just not descriptive of the way the United States is now or was forty-five years ago.

Unless there are some heavy qualifiers after that excerpt, you're probably reading a bunch of shameless and oversimplified propaganda that is not too far off from promoting the same agenda it appears to be criticizing.

I'd write more if I were at home because I hate just saying something or someone is wrong without going in depth.

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It's far far more true than it was 45 years ago.

The Chinese had the capability to sail to Europe before Europeans sailed to China. They just chose not to for a variety of complicated reasons.

That is what I learned.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

English. I have to write a comparative analysis of three texts using a materialist frame.
I've learned SO MUCH about Marx the last few weeks. It's a shame how he's been cast a villain. He was on the money about a lot of things.

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This is the truth. If you were to take Marx's words and beliefs and transfer them to a made up character, say, Jefferson P. McEagle (the P stands for Patriot) it'd poll highly.

I think much of the common man's prejudice is against Marxists and not Marx. Marx was a researcher, scholar, and philosopher, and he is usually portrayed as such. Compare that with the mainstream portrayal of his adherents as insufferable, self-righteous leeches who, as above, greatly oversimplify the world to promote their own ends.