“Brothers, sisters, dear social poets…”
Random posts from an undisciplined polymath.
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[Header image: French/Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard being arrested during the May 1968 Paris protests.]
@Valbrandur @where_am_i
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@perishthethought @ren I saw them in concert for their Green tour. Absolutely amazing show.
@StrayCatFrump @ray @socialism benign dictator is an oxymoron
@cyclohexane @quicksand A worker’s co-op, such as a worker-owned restaurant, is like a half-way point of sorts, a kind of highly-localized Socialist enclave/experiment in a Capitalist sea. There are numerous examples of successful worker-own enterprises, and it’s totally fair to call them Socialist, at least in their local/internal functions and spirit. But their customers will still function like typical Capitalist consumers buying goods/services because that’s still the larger economic system.
@cyclohexane @quicksand
Capitalism is an economic system under which private individuals own and control businesses, property, and capital—the “means of production.”
Socialism describes a variety of economic systems under which the means of production (capital) are owned equally by everyone in society. It doesn’t abolish capital, it abolishes the private ownership of capital, thus abolishing Capitalism.
@jon@vivaldi.net I have and like Firefox and have used it off and on for years. It also comes standard with Ubuntu, which is the OS I’m currently using. However, I’ve had some issues with it playing streaming content, so I installed Chromuim (open source browser based on Chrome), and that’s what I use most and like a lot. I also have used all the others listed and a few more as well. They’re all basically functional. The main issue is privacy, but I haven’t been that concerned about it as much as I should.