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Assuming we're talking about the other 99.99% of human beings, the victory of the capitalist mode of production is socialized production, ie, we ALL rely on each other to survive. But you just want to be left alone. How is that possible if you are relying on others to survive?
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I, too, want to be left alone, but that's not possible when we all are suffering under a social system that is not a system of solidarity. You want to be left alone? How about trying to do away with the conditions that necessitate a state and thus a government? That's what i am working towards, and that's why i'm a member of a revolutionary socialist organisation. What are you working towards?
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Secondly, just like there are countless examples of collective action around the world, there are also countless examples of coercion going on, the capitalist mode of production couldn't function without it. Usually you guys have no beef with capitalism just coercive governments... rather hypocritical don't you think?
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Renaming IE shortcuts from 'Launch Internet Explorer' to 'Launch Internet Advertising Companion' since 1999.
You might call it a "ripoff" but it's a ripoff that customers *voluntarily* enter into.
Yes, you could describe it that way but that assumes there's nothing wrong with exploiting the ownership relationship. Most people don't have access to highly developed technology, and they certainly can't just "do it themselves", so they have to pay whatever is asked of them, as you so helpfully point out. But there is NOTHING voluntary about it. Of the group of people that would like to send text messages, there are some who are rich enough to consider the cost completely negligible and so can see no reason NOT to "voluntarily" pay the amount asked, and there's the rest of us.
Your comment appears completely valid if you cannot see, like i do, that capitalism is a system of exploitation and oppression, full of contradictions like we are seeing big time right now.
What should we be focusing on? Maximizing profit or maximizing game development? or in other words - producing games to live, or living to produce games? I know which future i want
The enlightenment put paid to that didn't it?
We need another one it seems, an enlightenment from out of the darkness of the deluge of economic dogma we all live under
And for your edification it's revolutionary socialist, not anarchist -- we believe in the State as something transitionary as we rid the world of the vestiges of Class, but in EVERY case, it is still an oppressive institution. We're talking about the STATE, ie, an armed body of men, which is decidedly NOT neutral as opposed to the concept of LAW which could be, depending on whether its based upon a society DIVIDED against itself, ie a class society.
Ooops, sorry for all that argument and information, i forgot for a moment there that i was an idiot and wasn't in fact replying to one! Silly me.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood