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The Stone Truth: Left-Wingers Are Boring

Caveat emptor Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 6:07 PM
"Yes, they are "deprived of use of the commons" because the land has become "owned" by individuals who have invested labor into it. Even under your scenario of socialist collective, force is used to prevent others from using the commons in ways the collective disagrees with. If the collective builds a factory to produce X, they can use force to prevent others from expropiating the factory for producing Y or Z." Do you even read? I'm not the brightest bulb on town hall, but even I read what other people are saying before I respond. That said. No one other than Conservatives has argued for a socialist collective. What has been argues for is something that exists today. Worker Owned, Controlled and Operated Corporations.
nawlins72 Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 6:12 PM
It's hard to read the garbled confused postings you make. Syndicalist collaborations can operate all they like. Their model will either succeed or fail. So long as their is no push to syndicalize ALL operations, then they are free to do as they wish.

When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring?

The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of slimy distortions about the evils of the United States (though that doesn't help). It's that it's boring.

Stone and co-author Peter Kuznick call their book "The Untold History of the United States," except, again, it isn't. This story has been told countless times before. As the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan notes in a devastating review, Stone...

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