Could Communism ever be implemented in a society with scarcity? If so, how?
Is it only possible in a post-scarcity society, if such a thing is even plausible?
pic semi related, if Kal-Els ship had landed on Earth a few hours earlier on a collective farm in Ukrainian SSR instead of Smallville, Kansas
No, it doesn't work on humans. Like any system of government made by humans.
>>979480
>communism
>system of government
Communism is post-government.
>>979614
your face is post-government lmao
>>979290
>atheism is not a sect of Judaism.
>>979290
Neat chart. Christian Jew, I guess.
>>979290
>Armenian Orthodox
>Not Oriental Orthodox
>Presbyterian popping out of Lutheranism
>Nation of Islam being a thing
0/10
So, how would Macedonian soldiers fight when they stormed cities? They can't possibly have carried their sarissas with them up ladders or formed phalanxes on top of walls. While a dory seems more practical for that, he never had that many hypaspists and beyond that it still seems unwieldy. Those tiny-ass daggers don't really seem like they would cut it, so what did they use? Xiphos? Kopis? Would they use formations? What kinds? I'm genuinely curious, and I can't really find anything on it. Anyone here know anything?
>approach wall
>poke defenders with long stick
>use stick like a pole vault
>poke defenders inside wall
>control known world
>>979173
Awesome. Anyone who isn't retarded want to answer?
>>979163
Well how does it work in Rome:Total War?
In wars, how often do battles have news reporters and camera men on the scene? Are most of the news people also soldiers or at least equipped with weapons? Always thought this was one of the coolest jobs after seeing the news reporter in Lawrence of Arabia taking pictures of Lawrence's train sabotage. The reporter seemed pretty careless about how he wandered around the battlefield, as though he weren't going to be attacked because he wasn't a soldier.
>>979114
Civilian newsmen, the guys from BBC, New York Times, Le Monde or Al Jazeera... are civilians, no soldiers, they do not fight and have no weapons.
Armies may deploy their own info teams, to film or record stuff for news or promotional purposes, such men being part of the army may carry weapons and even fight if needed but they are not deployed with that purpose.
>>979165
>Civilian newsmen, the guys from BBC, New York Times, Le Monde or Al Jazeera
How often do they get captured / killed?
>>979167
Check some Journalist assoc, to see some figures:
>https://cpj.org/killed/
I know that various have died recently in Syria.
Redpill me on Assyria, /his/. Why is it important aside from muh ancient civilization? What's interesting about it?
>>978357
The fact that they're one of the few surviving distinct ethno-cultural group from the Bronze Age is pretty interesting. Oh and they're probably one of the most disturbingly brutal civilisations that have ever existed. In the British Museum there are massive relief sculptures depicting the sackings of cities and the kings would base their success based on how many enemies they had skinned, how many children they had penetrated with stakes rectally and how many men they had castrated.
Assyria finished the process that changed the Middle East from an area in which many different kingdoms and city-states (Babylonia, Urartu, Elam, etc.) vyed for regional supremacy, to a place ruled by a succession of massive multicultural, multinational empires. (Persia, the Arab Caliphates, the Ottomans.) Not to mention all of the forced and unforced population migration. Carthage may never have been as large or important a city if not for Phonecians fleeing the Assyrian terror, for instance.
>>978357
>Redpill me on
Fuck off
Why is Europe a continent?
>>980956
Why is North America and South America a continent? Why is Africa and Asia 2 different continents? Who cares.
>>980956
Cultural and historical reasons. But mainly because we use the european definition of continents
Because it's convenient.
Redpill me on Sikhism, /his/
>>973194
The Sikhs are a religious and ethnic group that are native it northern India. There are also significant Sikh populations outside of India in countries such as Canada and America. They also posses very elegant headwear often accompanied with fine beards and mustaches. They also may or may not be white and more closely related to the ancient Aryans who migrated to India thousands of years ago.
>>973382
>they also may or may not be white
This, just look at all the whites in the OP's picture
Based and glorious culture which is sadly often mistaken for suicide bomb squads (because they wear turbans and have long beards.)
How would the world look today if the West had enforced something like the prime directive towards Africa?
>>972592
Only towards Africa? They'd still be bone-in-the-nose savage niggaz fighting over goats and shiet. No Botswana, no Kenya, no Nigeria, not any nation in the area would exist. It would be shit huts and Arab slavers
We'd know a lot less about the history of the Kingdom of Kongo because Portuguese exploits there in the 15th century provided them with written language and so we know a lot more about them than most other pre-colonial Central African states.
Ethiopia would probably be in better shape after Tewodros II without any British interference.
Apart from that not a lot would change until the 19th century. Dahomey, Ashanti, Kongo and the Zulus would probably have emerged as the great powers in their regions though southern Africa would probably continue to be pretty isolated.
>>972592
What, the entire continent? Or I guess sub-saharan? I don't really see how that would be possible. Even if you got the rest of the world to agree not to set foot there, how are you going to prevent Africans from leaving? It was NEVER completely isolated, remember. Some tribe deep in the Congo might have no idea about Sweden, but they do know their neighbors. Who in turn know THEIR neighbors, and so on, until we're talking about Egypt...
>tfw Krauts and Naziboos actually believe Sealion could have ever worked
maybe if the British let them borrow some boats....
>it's an eternal Anglo gloating about yet another great power war they only survived because they were on an island episode
>>972599
This.
Britbongs shouldn't even be talking about warfare when all they can do is hide on their island until real military shows up to save their ass.
Let's play a game /his/
Vaguely describe a war in 5 greentexts or less and try to guess which war it is
I'll start with a relatively easy one:
>Democracy vs. Oligarchy
>Democratic state is very ambitious, forms an alliance
>Democratic state tries to get more allies
>Fails and allies turn against them
>Oligarchy wins
>>971400
peloponnesian war
>let's help this nearby town
>shit, those other guys are backing the other town
>b-but muh regional influence
>time to learn to play a whole other ballgame
>we naval hegemon now
>>971447
First Punic War
What did he mean by this?
They're vapid sluts
>>971205
>Voltaire
Is Voltaire calling himself a woman?
What does /his/ think of Noam Chomsky?
>>969656
He's a gommie. Therefore not worth talking about.
/thread
Meme leftist.
>Chomsky
The mere muttering of that name is enough to drive any rightcuck into a fit of spastic rage.
Good ol' Pete.
Should humanity plug itself into a pleasure machine? What are the arguments against it?
Try to focus less on how we would practically implement it, I'm just curious about why a virtual heaven everyone would be completely happy with is wrong.
Knowing there's a reality I'm neglecting could alter things, but 2 arguments against this: I could either forget about it, or not care due to being so happy
>>979890
What is The Matrix?
>>979896
I'm talking a virtual heaven, that was a simulation of life as we know it now
Focus on the present. There are more pressing matters that require your attention.
Transferring consciousness from your neurons to a machine would take probably thousands of years.
>Gavelkind Succession
Why not just burn your empire if your going to partition it?
Ebin CK2 meems.
UMAYYAD BORO????
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>>979313
>implying a socio cares what happens after they die
>>979313
>not making your children fight to the death to inherit the empire
Enjoy your decadence.