I've read Marx but I'm still confused by the communist rejection of capitalism. Can someone explain it to me?
If capitalism (the system of the exchange of goods/services for money and vice versa) is unjust, then one of three things must be true. Either I am not entitled to that which I produce (for example, a meal I've cooked), I am not entitled to exchange what I've produced for what others have produced (for example, giving some of my food to a friend who has helped me fix a window), or it's unjust to represent the value of goods/services in any indirect form (that's all currency is).
If I am entitled to produce and exchange, capitalism MUST be just, because that's all capitalism is. If what I produce has any value worth exchanging for, what is the problem with writing it down on a piece of green paper?
>>2373795
I've read Marx. I disagree with the notion that there is a difference between private and personal property from both a metaphysical and linguistic stance. Don't presume I haven't read Marx. I'm asking about overall communist ideals among modern groups which stand against capitalism. I doubt most of them have picked up Das Capital.
Are you aware that there's a thing called "surplus value"?
>>2373838
Surplus value? You mean labor time?
My father's a plumber. He charges for parts and labor. There is no surplus value.
When there is surplus value, it's not capitalism's fault. It's your fault for misusing capitalism and allowing others to get away with it. You don't have to go to McDonalds and pay $1 for a $0.10 burger. You choose to do that. Stop going and they go out of business or lower their prices, it's as simple as that.
What is the history of EU and why do people seem to not like it?
Messy haphazard stumbling towards some vague vision of Europe that nobody can agree on.
>>2372986
"Refugees"
Cuz the elite of europe are trying to make the eu into a legitimate nation state to better compete with the us, china, russia, and probably the african continent in the near future; many common people of europe dont like this idea because they want to retain their existing national sovereingty. Hate to sound like a marxtard but it is quite literally a major class struggle going on in europe over the fate of the eu and tensions are running high.
>tfw no free kaliningrad
>>2372960
It'd be a Russian shithole regardless
>>2373000
t. 300 lb American angry that someone else stole clay after WWII
>>2373008
It'd be nice to have another Baltic nation
Why didn't France get to dictate the terms of the treaty of versailles on their own?
WHY?
>>2372767
coz politics, fag
>>2372767
Because America practically carried the whole war on its back
>>2372775
France is the most based country on earth, and krautland is the polar opposite
Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité!
>established the epa
>pulled our troops out of Vietnam
>ended the draft
>initiated détente and the anti-ballistic missile treaty with the soviet union
Why do we hate him again?
Because he looks like an Arab.
because he was a corrupt drunk. whether or not any of his hate is justified when compared to his good deeds, that's up to debate.
>Catholics aren't God's chosen peo-
EXPLAIN THIS HERETICS
>>2372208
>medieval sources for statistics
wowza
>simon de montfort
Just the eternal anglo angloing it up slaying a king that was one of the greatest defenders of Christendom.
>>2372208
If you look the same battle in other languages the forces change a lot, and there are only 2 featured articles.
Why didn't Protestants just become Orthodox?
>>2372103
Because they're a Muslim plot to destabilise Europe.
Because Orthodoxy is just Catholicism lite.
It's the same shit except without a Pope.
>>2372103
A better question is what would eastern Protestantism have looked like. Probably iconoclastic and less refined philosophically but liturgy would probably be more dank.
>Be Franco
>Be Spanish nationalist, monarchist, ultra-Catholic who loves to wank over the reconquista
>Use African Muslims to conquer Spain and encourage them to rape civilians
What was he thinking?
>>2372062
Everyone seems pretty shit in the Spanish Civil War. Republicans and anarchists killed Catholics and Franco's boys were fascists or mercenaries.
>>2372062
>>Use African Muslims to conquer Spain and encourage them to rape civilians
Talk abut false information
>>2372069
This is true. But at least hardline atheist communists killing Catholics makes some sense within their ideology.
But why did Franco want Africans to rape Spaniards? That isn't bad, it's really weird.
*Blocks your path*
*Pushes over*
m-muh yooman nachu
So God forbade polygamy and homosexuality to avoid STD's. Got it.
Why did God let STD's happen in the first place?
To punish sodomy and adultery.
>>2369169
When did god forbid polygamy?
>>2369173
Why?
Was there ever a war where a poor country (economically speaking) was able to beat a more wealthy, technologically "advanced" nation?
Nam
>>2368361
Afghanistan (the graveyard of empires)
Vietnam
Russo-Japanese War
just off the top of my head
>>2368381
First two weren't conventional conflicts and Japan was in no way inferior to Russia technologically. Plus they enjoyed enormous advantage, because, well, theater of war was right next to Japan and Russian core was like 5000km away overland.
Why didn't paganism survive? What made Christianity so much more appealing or effective than Hellenic paganism, Germanic paganism, druidism, etc.?
>>2368144
luck
Christianity isn't compatible with other religions
>>2368146
Yeah, this, it basically boils down to them getting very lucky. Three points where they specifically lucked out were: 1. Roman authorities never engaged in anything more then sporadic persecution until the third century and 2.Constantine won at milvian bridge and 3. Julian forgot to wear his armor like a dumdum.
Change any of those three things and christianity would either not exist or be something more like judaism.
>Napoleon sold this for less than three cents per acre
>the USA didn't even back his war effort in return
Was this a horrible, tremendous mistake?
US composed of traitors, its not that suprising.
>I'm probably going to lose something in the next twenty years regardless
>Someone offers to pay me for it
>>2367197
It's a terrible deal. The French aren't giving us their best land. Napoleon is so much smarter than Jefferson it's crazy. I mean cmon people, it looks like a lot but it's all swampy and covered with pocahontases.However, we can't go back so we're gonna have to drain the swamp.
I've asked this before and no one has given me a straight answer. Is it pain receptors. Is it a certain level of complexity in their brain. Or is it something else.
>>2366373
Sentience has nothing to do with anything.
dolphins, chimps and elephants
>>2366380
Then what does
You have 1 minute to conceive a profound statement and post it. Two sentences or less.
It doesn't matter how poorly founded it is, just post it and let us contemplate it.
>>2365706
There is nothing more manly than beating an intruder to death with your penis after sodomizing him.
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
Living is suffering, but It's worth it imo