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» 9/12/2007 9:44:47 PM PauLL, “Clearly the military analysis is beyond your understanding however the political .....
» 6/12/2007 6:56:26 PM ...cont This will not eventuate without the mobilisation of the US working class on a soc.....
» 6/12/2007 6:54:33 PM PauLL, “I didn’t claim that WSWS supported sanctions as you could see if you looked. I sa.....
» 4/12/2007 7:06:41 AM Oooooh, Vicious. A couple of points: 1. As to your comments: “And the socialists were t.....
» 2/12/2007 11:39:00 PM Also this habit you have of disputing figures – you don’t seem to care that they might act.....
» 2/12/2007 11:37:23 PM PauLL, As to your comment “What I was suggesting was that you might do better to find a m.....
» 1/12/2007 11:30:05 PM The very fact that there was “piss poor” planning merely demonstrates a callous disregard .....
» 1/12/2007 11:28:09 PM What I was pointing out to you, PauLL, is that the views you espouse quite obviously have .....
» 30/11/2007 11:10:52 PM As I and many others have said, there was no immanent threat. Regardless of the lack of in.....
» 30/11/2007 11:02:23 PM PauLL, I have no doubt that a socialist website has a particular bias. However, you seem .....
» 29/11/2007 8:46:07 PM With regard the exchange between PauLL and Kevin about deaths since the invasion of Iraq, .....
» 29/11/2007 8:39:00 PM PauLL, “Don’t send me links to socialist organizations and I won’t send you links to Fox .....
» 29/11/2007 7:29:26 PM You are a liar freediver. You said: “Then you should be campaigning to remove compulsory .....
» 29/11/2007 12:53:16 PM …cont I return to the question I asked earlier: In a truly democratic system, why would a.....
» 29/11/2007 12:51:32 PM Freediver, This is the full text of my question about validity: “I asked a question whi.....
» 28/11/2007 10:28:54 PM Ludwig, I agree with you that freediver's arguments are underwhelming. They are often cir.....
» 28/11/2007 10:11:28 PM freediver, Tao: Why can't I just vote 1 for the party or candidate I choose, and that be .....
» 28/11/2007 8:40:05 PM PauLL, “Where is your proof that most Australians are opposed to the war?” http://www.ro.....
» 28/11/2007 7:08:59 PM keith, The point I was making was that average people (in the working and middle classes).....
» 28/11/2007 6:25:12 PM Please freediver, don't patronisingly tell me I don't understand it. I understand it perfe.....
» 27/11/2007 10:23:07 PM Sorry, I forgot to say, that the increasing numbers of people choosing not to vote are als.....
» 27/11/2007 10:11:48 PM On the contrary, freediver. I don't want either of the major parties to run the country, y.....
» 27/11/2007 9:51:40 PM Although I don't believe Labor's win will solve any of the problems the working class is c.....
» 27/11/2007 9:18:22 PM The number of people not voting is not surprising, nor is the fact that there is an increa.....
» 27/11/2007 8:31:02 PM The war in Iraq was barely mentioned, and certainly not debated, because Labor fundamental.....
» 5/05/2007 2:07:11 PM DEMOS The Nuremberg Trials, to which the US made a major contribution, established the le.....
» 26/04/2007 10:26:38 PM ...cont As for your comments that we are not still fighting a war in Iraq, well you could.....
» 26/04/2007 10:24:31 PM Banjo, Actually the stated reason for the war in Iraq was that Saddam had WMDs, and Sadda.....
» 14/04/2007 1:05:13 AM As part of the “strategy”, they believe that the working class must build a mass internati.....
» 14/04/2007 1:04:19 AM What results from the coming convulsions will depend on what action is taken, and what act.....
» 14/04/2007 1:03:26 AM The war must be funded somehow, and the people who pay the price are ordinary workers, thr.....
» 14/04/2007 1:02:34 AM TurnRightTurnLeft, “if-you-can't-do-anything-about-it,-it's-utterly-and-completely-useles.....
» 9/04/2007 11:53:00 AM It is not that I don’t grant the possibility that there are some flaws in “my own theory”,.....
» 9/04/2007 11:50:17 AM I will be away for the next few days so will see if anyone is still on this thread when I .....
» 7/04/2007 6:03:57 PM Marx’s study led him to the conclusion that for workers (and humanity as a whole) the only.....
» 7/04/2007 6:03:09 PM Dialectical materialism says that in nature a “thing” is always in the process of becoming.....
» 7/04/2007 6:02:39 PM As an example of the way this works, consider pharmaceutical-companies which exist solely .....
» 7/04/2007 6:01:29 PM Shorbe, I will first repeat my statement previously made to Yabby – Give-me-one-rational-.....
» 6/04/2007 9:54:52 AM Ludwig, What is a “better brand of democracy”? How can “capitalism be kept under control.....
» 5/04/2007 11:59:31 PM Yabby, Yes...I was always told, in my relationship, and within my family that “The proble.....
» 5/04/2007 8:52:53 PM cont... And no-one could have “saved me” from it or myself, it was up to me to want to im.....
» 5/04/2007 8:51:58 PM Shorbe, “there's something quite condescending, and thus, ultimately misanthropic, about .....
» 4/04/2007 11:32:56 PM Yet you don’t appear to want to know whether or not there is a difference. To you it is, a.....
» 4/04/2007 11:32:18 PM Shorbe, “Now let's get out of theoretical caricatures and into the real world.” How abou.....
» 4/04/2007 8:49:30 AM Shorbe, No Marxist worth their salt would ever say that a socialist revolution was ".....
» 3/04/2007 11:03:28 PM So, for example, everyone has a need for a roof over their head – it is a social need. The.....
» 3/04/2007 11:02:59 PM Even “green” energy producers still need to make profit. Take electricity - we can elect t.....
» 3/04/2007 11:02:26 PM Ludwig, With regard to heaping you on the junkpile with the rest, it does look that way, .....
» 1/04/2007 11:47:44 AM Enlightenment thought was progressive in that it, among many things, broke humanity from t.....
» 1/04/2007 11:46:54 AM Apart from the basic survival drives and behavioural characteristics, much of our behaviou.....
» 1/04/2007 11:46:17 AM Ludwig, I will respond to your specific questions later, however my following comments to.....
» 1/04/2007 11:37:19 AM Good one Rob, Not only does Yabby’s logic come up short, we could also draw a conclusion .....
» 31/03/2007 10:08:28 AM Shorbe, Do you acknowledge that your causal claim that Stalinism is the “inevitable exces.....
» 30/03/2007 10:27:16 PM TRTL, “In my view, some of the most crucial developments of the next century or so, will .....
» 30/03/2007 9:38:42 PM You seem to be concerned with environmental-problems - which can only be solved by humans .....
» 30/03/2007 9:27:21 PM Ludwig, ““Well-what-a-load-of-twaddle.” Now-that’s-nice-of-you-tao!-So-just-what-is-it-t.....
» 29/03/2007 12:47:51 AM UNICEF also presented a report in 2005 on the growth of child poverty in OECD countries. A.....
» 29/03/2007 12:46:44 AM Shorbe, Are you Col Rouge in disguise? I’m sure I’ve had this discussion before, and you .....
» 28/03/2007 11:38:38 PM Couldn't understand what they were getting at, and still don't really. Except the bit at.....
» 28/03/2007 8:09:02 PM Shorbe, Well la-de-da-daa. Must be a good view down your nose from up there on your mora.....
» 28/03/2007 4:58:18 PM Shorbe et al, Well what a load of twaddle. The only bright spot was Rob. You all admit .....
» 25/03/2007 10:50:10 PM Oh terrific Bugsy and Waterboy, The ultimate form of intelligent criticism - faecal abuse.....
» 25/03/2007 8:12:31 PM Bugsy, The one thing you apparently ignore is that humans have a fundamental difference w.....
» 25/03/2007 3:14:18 PM Early Christians were communists, just not in the Marxist sense. We can see in BOAZ’s hyp.....
» 25/03/2007 3:13:03 PM To return to the topic of the Apostles being communists, I don’t know if anyone bothered t.....
» 24/03/2007 12:09:11 PM So yes, there is a single-political-endpoint to socialism - that is workers in power. And .....
» 24/03/2007 12:07:59 PM There is irony in you using a peculiar religious sect which shuns the “excesses” of capita.....
» 24/03/2007 12:07:22 PM The French Revolution didn’t happen because a few people decided to get rid of feudalism, .....
» 24/03/2007 12:06:24 PM Aah Shorbe, Life is not explained by succinct little comments that are apparently incontr.....
» 22/03/2007 10:31:25 PM Sounds a bit like socialism Yabby!.....
» 22/03/2007 2:51:21 PM In fact the US-invasion of Bagdad had nothing to do with US-capitalism at all, only US-sty.....
» 22/03/2007 2:49:59 PM Falsifiability might be acceptable when you have an isolated-system in a laboratory in whi.....
» 22/03/2007 2:49:25 PM This all seems logically plausible, and possibly incontrovertible. However falsifying a th.....
» 22/03/2007 2:48:48 PM Shorbe With regard to your comments about falsifiability, I’m not quite sure what you mea.....
» 20/03/2007 10:06:17 PM Perhaps you both might attempt to use facts and reasoning to disprove what I’ve said about.....
» 20/03/2007 10:05:08 PM Oh TurnRightTurnLeft… sorry. Which part did you consider extreme? Was it that I called S.....
» 20/03/2007 8:48:04 PM Yvonne, Good to see you’re reading Marx and Engels! A lot of what they wrote is hard goi.....
» 19/03/2007 9:37:31 PM “Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostle.....
» 19/03/2007 9:36:17 PM As for your comment: “Ultimately though, there won't be a workers' revolution not because .....
» 19/03/2007 9:35:47 PM Let’s look at some of the opinionated judgements, sermons and directives you’ve given: “W.....
» 19/03/2007 9:34:11 PM HA! This must be a joke, right Shorbe? You tell me that I think I have a monopoly on tru.....
» 19/03/2007 6:48:54 AM The point though is that, in a technologically advanced society where everyone’s needs can.....
» 19/03/2007 6:48:18 AM Country Gal, I recognise that what I write does sound hard-line, particularly on these fo.....
» 18/03/2007 8:50:16 PM So to suggest that there is a straight line from Marxism to Stalinism, and that the horror.....
» 18/03/2007 8:47:26 PM To go back to my smoking study example, consider point (d) that rather than quitting smoki.....
» 18/03/2007 8:46:33 PM There were a number of problems with this causal claim such as: (a) we weren’t told how th.....
» 18/03/2007 8:45:43 PM Shorbe, “tao: Your base argument is disingenuous because you want to condemn any other id.....
» 17/03/2007 11:59:23 PM Don’t you think there is something inherently wrong with someone working 7 days a week for.....
» 17/03/2007 11:58:11 PM Aah Country Gal, “Tao,-you-seem-to-think-that-only-those-that-have-callused-hands-work-ha.....
» 16/03/2007 11:54:33 PM Shorbe, I’ve had the discussion with you before about the difference between socialism an.....
» 16/03/2007 10:05:42 PM Well Shorbe, Unfortunately we can't be all as cynical, all-knowing, all-dismissing, and a.....
» 16/03/2007 9:39:58 PM Yabby, I believe in a previous thread I decided to end discussions with you, and the qual.....
» 16/03/2007 8:37:39 PM Thanks again yvonne, Socialism, or communism, is really the only alternative to capitalis.....
» 16/03/2007 7:29:57 PM BOAZ, “You-say-capitalism-requires-a-working-class-to-'exploit'.-And-that-not-everyone-wa.....
» 15/03/2007 12:49:11 AM You ought not be so quick to call others silly, Country Gal. After trying to demonstrate t.....
» 15/03/2007 12:48:01 AM Country Gal, “in-many-business-machines-are-employed-to-aid-production---yes-workers-are-.....
» 14/03/2007 11:42:11 PM Boaz, Now who is imputing? Where did I say the international working class could never ge.....
» 14/03/2007 8:42:14 PM International working class is a precise term which describes something which exists, whet.....
» 14/03/2007 8:41:43 PM Boaz, I think you have a real conflict in your life. You are still trying to modify Jesus.....
» 13/03/2007 11:59:02 PM Thank you yvonne, Yes, there is already plenty to go around. But imagine if we stopped sp.....
» 13/03/2007 11:40:37 PM On what objective basis do you make the generalisation that “todays ‘working-man’ is tomor.....
» 13/03/2007 11:39:35 PM David… David … David, “Socialism seems to have the idea of looking after everyone, but........
» 13/03/2007 7:03:49 PM Sorry Country Gal, but you are wrong: “Johnnycee, yes the workers often produce the wealt.....
» 12/03/2007 10:55:19 PM By the way BOAZ, Maybe you should take Jesus' words literally. As well as "if your e.....
» 12/03/2007 10:37:48 PM Yes waterboy, I suspect Boaz is one of the many hypocritical Christians putting themselve.....
» 12/03/2007 10:16:20 PM Shonga, The problem is not that “we-have-not-seen-a-fair-dinkum-Labor-Government” but tha.....
» 12/03/2007 3:46:49 PM Interesting thread Rob513264 Rosa Luxembourg, a Polish socialist eventually murdered by t.....
» 12/03/2007 2:15:34 PM Chris C & Shonga “The-other-remarkable-aspect-of-modern-Australia-is-the-decline-in-union.....
» 28/01/2007 11:05:01 PM Similarly, when you say “Marxist-Communism-demands-fealty-to-unwavering-single-ideas,-with.....
» 28/01/2007 11:03:21 PM Marxism, being a materialist-philosophy, considers that our ideas about our society arise .....
» 28/01/2007 11:02:44 PM The study of history is also a necessary component, because without it, we are unable to s.....
» 28/01/2007 11:02:10 PM Col, Sometimes I wonder if you actually consider the meaning of what you say. “Marxist-C.....
» 23/01/2007 12:05:19 AM ”Then, of course, how many were dying under Stalin and Mao when their whims held sway? A l.....
» 23/01/2007 12:03:34 AM So, $20 billion will be required this year, and Forbes recently reported that the richest .....
» 23/01/2007 12:02:48 AM The UN-Development-Program report includes what it calls a “human-poverty-index” for the 2.....
» 23/01/2007 12:01:58 AM Col, “Lets ignore the crap and focus on two phrases among the dross of your multi-part po.....
» 21/01/2007 4:05:23 PM A difference between the two theories is whether we think that humanity can and should do .....
» 21/01/2007 4:04:48 PM Secondly, because we don’t know what the lead into gold theory is, and it hasn’t been docu.....
» 21/01/2007 4:04:18 PM Secondly, as theories (real or not), there are many relevant differences in the actual sub.....
» 21/01/2007 4:03:29 PM As you are so insistent on your little analogy, my comments follow: Col’s lead into gold .....
» 20/01/2007 3:13:45 PM LOL Col You wrote: “I will respond to your "Commands" only after you have answe.....
» 20/01/2007 12:52:27 PM Unless of course Pinochet was being generous and compassionate when he had his opponents “.....
» 20/01/2007 12:51:24 PM Col, You wrote: “Tao “You - Col Rouge - support fascist-military-dictatorships.” So you c.....
» 18/01/2007 10:37:58 PM Col, To my comment: “It doesn’t matter what you accuse me of Col, or what excuses you ma.....
» 16/01/2007 11:43:40 PM Col, I am not going to continue this conversation with you as you have still not been hon.....
» 15/01/2007 10:05:18 PM Col, Do you actually read what you write before you post? As usual the contradictions in .....
» 13/01/2007 10:48:58 AM Logical, I will respond to your comments on greed etc later, I will be out for the large .....
» 13/01/2007 7:13:44 AM WWI, WW2? Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, US-backed Saddam Hussein? How about the dep.....
» 13/01/2007 7:12:14 AM Logical I was not going to continue this discussion but will answer your despicable word-.....
» 11/01/2007 10:20:36 PM You pluck socialism out of context, and imply that everything bad that happened was inhere.....
» 11/01/2007 10:19:13 PM On your own absolute-criteria, Capitalist-Democracy, your preferred-option, fails. In the .....
» 11/01/2007 10:18:11 PM Throughout the discussion I have showed you that: 1. Capitalist-Democracy, including Soci.....
» 11/01/2007 10:17:25 PM Logical, UNBELIEVABLE! “You-have-not-explained-why-your-initial-proletariat-will-be-beni.....
» 10/01/2007 8:19:19 PM We will rationally plan the use of our resources to ensure that there is no starvation, la.....
» 10/01/2007 8:18:45 PM There is little that can be added to dialectical-materialism except the wisdom and knowled.....
» 10/01/2007 8:18:14 PM But we don’t. Our-“leaders”, the 1% of people who own 40% of the worlds’ wealth, use it to.....
» 10/01/2007 8:16:42 PM Logical, Tao,-do-I-understand-you-correctly? “It-is-insufficient-to-simply-claim-"-M.....
» 7/01/2007 11:54:00 PM They then declared two independent-“democratic”-republics, first of Trans-Causacas, then o.....
» 7/01/2007 11:41:44 PM In all bourgeois-revolutions, the capitalist-class requires the assistance of the worker a.....
» 7/01/2007 11:40:52 PM It uses “democracy” to cloak its dictatorship in concepts like the guarantee of “universal.....
» 7/01/2007 11:40:24 PM Logical, “Answer-to-2)-and-3) My-position-has-been-that-democracy-has-a-higher-probabilit.....
» 6/01/2007 11:06:16 PM He also told a parliamentary-forum in Canberra that the federal-government was seeking ext.....
» 6/01/2007 11:05:44 PM Federal and State police have unilateral-powers to lock us up for 48 hours. A hand-picked .....
» 6/01/2007 11:04:05 PM The most obvious explanation for this is that by repudiating “democracy” in the bourgeois-.....
» 6/01/2007 11:03:13 PM Logical, I can see that I am going to have to go back to basics. I hope you have the pati.....
» 5/01/2007 10:47:49 PM …cont… “we have never and nowhere denied that our regime is one class of revolutionary di.....
» 5/01/2007 10:47:18 PM … cont… They would prefer to do it non-violently, but if it comes to a choice between vio.....
» 5/01/2007 10:46:29 PM …cont… The erosion of our civil liberties is being done in the name of protecting our dem.....
» 5/01/2007 10:45:57 PM Hello Logical, Welcome back. I explained to you that no-one can guarantee anything in th.....
» 4/01/2007 1:29:08 AM Sorry, I didn’t mean to repeat the last post. I am on holidays and the computer I am usin.....
» 4/01/2007 1:09:16 AM ...cont... Bourgeois “democracy” is merely the disguise of the dictatorship of the capita.....
» 4/01/2007 1:05:35 AM ... cont... Bourgeois “democracy” is merely the disguise of the dictatorship of the capit.....
» 4/01/2007 12:46:58 AM So predictable Col, I knew as I posted the link which quote you would cherry pick. And I .....
» 2/01/2007 9:11:35 PM Col, “Tao “You are using a different definition to the Marxist conception.” I believe yo.....
» 1/01/2007 1:44:45 PM ..cont... For example (a little simplistically), the Russian Revolution was a socialist r.....
» 1/01/2007 1:41:36 PM Col, I see little point in continuing any discussion with you because, at some point in a.....
» 1/01/2007 12:52:35 AM Given that I have had to spend much of my word limit refuting the most basic errors in you.....
» 1/01/2007 12:47:06 AM Logical, Of course, you are free to leave this thread. Free to end “reasoned argument” in.....
» 31/12/2006 1:09:35 PM You, in your “committed” civil libertarianism, could probably see that the only way a man .....
» 31/12/2006 1:04:44 PM Logical, Do you think capitalism came into being non-violently? Do you think the million.....
» 30/12/2006 11:17:57 PM Note here, the SPD didn’t just disagree with revolution, it actively recruited for a count.....
» 30/12/2006 7:08:18 PM Logical, You ask how a future socialist revolution has a better chance of succeeding than.....
» 30/12/2006 11:19:23 AM The authors noted that within the general income distribution trend from 1980 on, “there i.....
» 30/12/2006 11:17:06 AM Logical ”-I-am-not-obliged-to-do-the-study-for-you-and-to-find-the-solution-to-why-past-r.....
» 29/12/2006 11:01:02 PM Col, Your line of argument can be summed up thus: The Russian Revolution, the only revol.....
» 29/12/2006 12:20:11 PM Logical, WayneSmith, Col Rouge said: “And don’t get seduced by anything tao says, you are.....
» 29/12/2006 11:08:29 AM Sorry Pericles, Sometimes I can't help myself - particularly when responding to simplisti.....
» 28/12/2006 11:28:47 PM Logical, But the additional evidence didn’t come to the hand of the prosecution. They pr.....
» 28/12/2006 9:09:28 PM …cont… Hence your comments “How can someone bring you back to reality and away from anger.....
» 28/12/2006 9:08:34 PM It is only by asking the questions with an open-mind that we can learn the lessons we need.....
» 28/12/2006 9:07:24 PM Logical, “You-still-fail-to-offer-any-reasons-why-a-future-revolution-would-not-go-the-sa.....
» 28/12/2006 7:57:46 PM ...cont... Why, after having his rights violated by the State, does that same State have .....
» 28/12/2006 7:57:09 PM Logical, Returning to the original topic. As a committed civil libertarian, what do you .....
» 28/12/2006 6:11:33 PM “The rest of your rant, based on your inability to read and interpret English, is a comple.....
» 27/12/2006 7:42:58 PM ...cont... “As-Lenin-said-“The-goal-of-socialism-is-communism.”-And-we-have-seen-the-rise.....
» 27/12/2006 7:40:37 PM ...cont... The truth behind the fairy tale is one of conquest, enslavement, robbery and f.....
» 27/12/2006 7:38:51 PM As usual Col, idyllic little fairy stories. “Those-who-risk-their-“capital”-in-ventures-o.....
» 27/12/2006 7:34:32 PM Logical, “My-apologies-for-adopting-a-definition-of-communism-that-coincides-with-the-rea.....
» 27/12/2006 4:21:06 PM ...cont... A bit similar to the forgeries from Africa regarding yellowcake and the “sexed.....
» 27/12/2006 4:19:40 PM Col, “At-the-time-it-was-made-it-was-secret.-After-its-occurance-it-became-common-knowled.....
» 26/12/2006 4:35:34 PM Horus, “As-politically-INcorrect-&-insensitive-as-it-will-be-portrayed, if-you-can-only-a.....
» 26/12/2006 4:32:07 PM Col, Col, Col, “that-those-5%-contribute-a-significantly-greater-portion-of-their-income-.....
» 26/12/2006 4:21:37 PM cont... “The-experiment-with-Communism-resulted-in-wealthy-ruling-elites,-abject-poverty-.....
» 26/12/2006 4:20:25 PM Logical: “May-I-remind-them-that-socialism-via-revolution-is-by-definition-Communism.-Plea.....
» 24/12/2006 10:08:54 PM And Horus, To be one of the top 5% of people with “initiative or perseverance to make it”.....
» 24/12/2006 9:52:59 PM Horus, Why is it that someone who can barely feed their family on a week’s wages but thin.....
» 24/12/2006 9:06:37 PM Well I was disgusted with Leigh and his outright racist venom. But Citizen's pretend ackn.....
» 24/12/2006 4:06:48 PM YEBIGA “They-always-require-certain-pre-conditions:-widespread-poverty-and-corruption,-de.....
» 24/12/2006 9:37:17 AM Oh and by the way Col, Dear old Margaret has outdone herself recently in her public mourn.....
» 23/12/2006 10:42:08 PM Col, If Lenin made a secret deal with Germany, how do you know about it? What evidence do.....
» 20/12/2006 11:25:36 PM So it is no accident that, as the capitalist system lurches from one crisis to the next, t.....
» 20/12/2006 11:25:07 PM The question Col, is, what is wrong with monopolies? Monopolies do not only occur because .....
» 19/12/2006 10:34:31 PM Col, “Why does a government need to ENSURE free movement of participants” because monop.....
» 19/12/2006 10:30:52 PM Oliver, It is refreshing to come across someone who at least thinks about such issues. Y.....
» 18/12/2006 7:32:13 AM BD, “{Why should someone else, who employs workers, be able to appropriate for themselves.....
» 16/12/2006 11:40:14 PM Yabby, your comments are simplistic, impressionistic opinion with little basis in objectiv.....
» 16/12/2006 11:37:59 PM “That is capitalism to me” Again the criteria by which we measure these things is your sub.....
» 15/12/2006 11:14:24 PM So, while the cry of capitalists is that “anyone” can take the initiative, start their own.....
» 15/12/2006 11:13:51 PM Yabby “To me” - so the criteria we are using is your opinion “slavery-happens-when-you-h.....
» 14/12/2006 9:51:59 PM Yabby, what would happen if everyone started their own business at the same time? Col ”Q.....
» 14/12/2006 6:36:30 PM Yabby, "Harakiri-is-part-of-Japanese-culture.-Losing-face-is-a-major-issue-in-their-.....
» 13/12/2006 9:33:06 PM Yabby, “Why-do-you-have-a-problem-with-capital-moving-to-the-third-world?” I didn’t say .....
» 12/12/2006 8:20:49 PM ...cont From the article quoted in my last post – “China Labor Watch executive director.....
» 12/12/2006 8:19:56 PM Col, I will take the challenge (or is that the bait?) “1-Are-the-Chinese-factory-workers-.....
» 11/12/2006 8:00:32 PM Yabby, “pushed your emotional buttons and your sense of justice”. I often find that people.....
» 10/12/2006 10:33:57 PM So Yabby, you will be volunteering to work 19 hours a day, 7 days a week for virtually not.....
» 10/12/2006 10:10:36 PM Col, “I-know-my-business-success-is,-in-part,-reliant-on-their-effort,-just-as-their-succ.....
» 10/12/2006 1:54:08 PM “So-your-talk-of-"slave-labour"-is-ridiculous.-Life-is-relative and-Chinese-fact.....
» 10/12/2006 1:16:25 PM tapp, Is your party socialist? Does it have an analysis of capitalism? The main problem .....
» 9/12/2006 5:05:40 PM “I choose to cut my path through life without the fetters of an employer and with less gov.....
» 9/12/2006 5:05:07 PM Col, “I could not care less about other peoples negative emotions”. Why then, do you con.....
» 9/12/2006 10:04:14 AM I too voted informally. There was no-one in my electorate who represented my views. Holys.....
» 8/12/2006 9:49:34 PM Col, You flatter yourself if you think that anyone envies you. You said: “They do not im.....
» 29/11/2006 5:26:33 PM Rainier, Yes, as I said, the working class needs to build a new party based on an interna.....
» 29/11/2006 5:25:59 PM Belly, It is not ‘policies like mine’ that make a vote for the ALP meaningless, but their.....
» 28/11/2006 10:53:33 PM Ranier, The unions are complicit and also cannot be revived. They simply function as part.....
» 28/11/2006 8:19:27 PM Ranier Sorry, but you need to understand that Bracks didn’t make such promises because he.....
» 28/11/2006 6:59:52 AM The reason the ALP seems so pathetic is that, essentially, they are no different to the Li.....
» 27/11/2006 9:45:39 PM What the recent US mid-term elections show is that the overwhelming majority of Americans .....
» 8/11/2006 10:16:45 PM You are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine. You believe you are entit.....
» 8/11/2006 10:14:16 PM Oooh Gadget, you ARE angry, and quite rightly so, if indeed you are an “underclass peasant.....
» 7/11/2006 1:40:14 PM Gadget, Are you blind? Is it not a contradiction that 400 rich people in the US (0.00013.....
» 7/11/2006 1:36:55 PM Relda, Yes, I wish a revolution. But wishing is not enough. No, I don’t discount the Rus.....
» 2/11/2006 5:45:40 PM Gadget, Yes, the truth is overwhelming at times. You attempt to dismiss what I have broug.....
» 31/10/2006 10:24:33 PM continued from above. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/unic-a01.shtml is an arti.....
» 31/10/2006 9:37:55 PM Gadget, Was your last post serious? “have-you-been-out-into-the-world-and-seen-evil-capi.....
» 30/10/2006 10:23:37 PM Relda, Relda, Relda, Would you expect something different from a political party? Do you .....
» 30/10/2006 6:19:19 AM Gadget With regard to your ‘enlightenment Marxology’, I doubt there is any serious Marxis.....
» 28/10/2006 11:49:32 PM Relda, You still have not explained the something “eternal” from within human nature that.....
» 28/10/2006 11:42:28 PM JamesH-“Beliefs-and-values-were-used-to-explain-the-material-world”. Yes, I agree. Which .....
» 27/10/2006 11:34:16 PM Relda, There I was thinking you might be interested in some sort of rational reasoned dis.....
» 27/10/2006 11:30:22 PM JamesH, I think you’ll find that economic production produces social values and cultural .....
» 26/10/2006 10:17:36 PM Relda, “how to motivate workers” , “eternal truths”, “despoiling of culture”, “community .....
» 25/10/2006 11:13:00 PM Relda, I have no problem with you suggesting that I am in awe of Marx and Marxist theory......
» 23/10/2006 11:18:47 PM …cont The majority of the world still lives in abject poverty, while the living condition.....
» 23/10/2006 11:18:14 PM Relda, Your “response” has not offered any support for your comments about Marx consideri.....
» 22/10/2006 10:17:40 PM … cont. It is the mode of production a society uses to produce its sustenance which determ.....
» 22/10/2006 10:17:07 PM Relda, I take issue with much of what you have said however, due to word and post limitati.....
» 20/10/2006 9:22:22 PM HRS, Thank you for your considered response. With regard to your first point about viole.....
» 20/10/2006 9:04:18 PM Gadget, I believe you suffer from what Marxists, or dialectical materialists, call “vulgar.....
» 19/10/2006 8:38:11 PM The Soviet Union under Stalin, China under Mao, Cuba under Castro, are/were not “Marxist” .....
» 19/10/2006 8:37:39 PM HRS Just because leaders of a state call themselves Marxists, and use pseudo-Marxist term.....
» 18/10/2006 10:18:57 PM The ABC is not 'left' enough in my opinion. Any more "balance" and I will be dow.....
» 18/10/2006 7:38:07 PM I would agree that Universities are dominated by post-modernist, identity politics, howeve.....
» 15/10/2006 11:41:11 PM So while you categorically state that THERE IS NO REASON to believe that the profit motive.....
» 15/10/2006 11:31:47 PM You say: “It's true that there are companies that have put profit before the public intere.....
» 15/10/2006 11:31:13 PM Sylvia, I have not sought to attack your argument on the basis of misrepresentation, my u.....
» 12/10/2006 7:45:47 PM It is a pity Christina hasn’t replied with a reference, however (supposing it is true) I w.....
» 12/10/2006 7:43:48 PM Sylvia, “Many industries operate under a set of strict rules designed to ensure that they.....
» 11/10/2006 11:31:49 PM It is a pity Christina hasn’t replied with a reference, however (supposing it is true) I w.....
» 11/10/2006 11:30:42 PM “Many industries operate under a set of strict rules designed to ensure that they are safe.....
» 11/10/2006 12:34:45 AM Sylvia, Do you mean to say you haven't factored in all possible costs in your DCF? A bit .....
» 9/10/2006 8:55:17 PM Oh Sylvia, don't you get it? "There is not a single on-topic response. OK, maybe tha.....
» 7/10/2006 4:39:56 PM By the way, I recently heard a quote: The meaning of life is planting a tree, in whose s.....
» 7/10/2006 11:12:39 AM Hear hear Ena, The hypocrisy of our political leaders preaching to us and to hardworking .....
» 7/10/2006 9:16:58 AM I correct my correction, she was Polish. I should hesitate before I run off at the finger.....
» 7/10/2006 9:06:22 AM I should correct what I said, Rosa Luxembourg was a German socialist killed by the Nazis......
» 7/10/2006 9:05:23 AM Well Boaz, I believe usury was frowned upon in the bible. Jesus did throw out the money .....
» 7/10/2006 1:26:41 AM Nationalise banks and all major industry in the hands of the workers without compensation......
» 6/10/2006 6:33:44 PM But the truth, Sylvia, is that such things cannot be reduced to purely monetary considerat.....
» 6/10/2006 5:41:32 PM Sylvia, People don’t have to see things according to your rules and parameters. If you wa.....
» 6/10/2006 1:59:40 PM “No - we simply have different philosophical viewpoints. There seems little purpose in dis.....
» 6/10/2006 8:52:14 AM What? No response? Hopefully you have gone away to reassess some of your erroneous beliefs.....
» 4/10/2006 10:56:04 PM cont You can object to the perceived ad hominem attack all you like, but I for one, apart.....
» 4/10/2006 10:55:31 PM Sylvia, You said “without-profit,-few-people-would-bother-to-do-anything-that-didn't-prov.....
» 4/10/2006 8:12:41 AM Boaz, The real motive was gas and oil which they are effectively stealing. That makes the.....
» 3/10/2006 10:37:53 PM You also say “For all the supposed public angst, few are willing to dip into their purses .....
» 3/10/2006 10:37:22 PM Sylvia, Do you only do things because of the profit incentive? Perhaps you wouldn’t get o.....
» 3/10/2006 8:30:55 PM Interesting thread Sylvia, I agree with others that there are other things that should be.....
» 27/09/2006 10:54:21 PM I agree with Ranier and GrahamY here. I don't know what is more disgusting, the media expl.....
» 27/09/2006 10:40:24 PM Well said West......
» 25/09/2006 12:08:55 AM Nice cop out trade215.....
» 23/09/2006 4:29:48 PM Mickijo, I watched that program and I think you are taking what was said out of context, .....
» 23/09/2006 2:55:08 PM gracealOne, Where do you get your figures of 96% non-atheist and 4% atheist? What about .....
» 23/09/2006 11:53:32 AM For once I actually agree with you Boaz, I gave up listening to such radio stations long .....
» 23/09/2006 10:12:12 AM Here are some of my “values”: Universal high quality public health care. Universal high .....
» 22/09/2006 11:28:03 PM trade215, I thought your comments were interesting, but I'm not quite sure what it is tha.....
» 21/09/2006 1:51:28 PM sneekeepete, I think you have me confused with OZGIRL who is studying sociology and refer.....
» 20/09/2006 11:28:09 PM Seriuosly?.....
» 20/09/2006 11:14:29 PM to strength.....
» 20/09/2006 9:56:51 PM Well I can see this thread is going from strength to strength!.....
» 19/09/2006 11:49:22 PM How charming OZGIRL.....
» 19/09/2006 6:15:48 PM Oh poor Deborah58, There was nothing in your posts that said they were directed to anyone.....
» 19/09/2006 1:56:25 PM Deborah58 Since when did posting on a public forum become a private conversation? If you.....
» 19/09/2006 12:16:30 AM Actually, I agree that the feminist movement has a lot to answer for in that it subverted.....
» 18/09/2006 11:29:09 PM Well Deborah58 and OZGIRL, I don't profess to know everything about Germaine Greer (nor d.....
» 18/09/2006 7:14:04 PM Shorbe, No-one has said anything about legislation or official censorship but you. Conde.....
» 16/09/2006 11:28:36 AM Yes gracealOne, I too found your post different from most of the Christian posters and a .....
» 14/09/2006 11:27:11 PM Shorbe, I still don’t see how fleurette is calling for censorship. You say you’re not ru.....
» 14/09/2006 7:42:54 PM Deborah58, I'd be interested to know where you got this information. I read on The Age w.....
» 14/09/2006 7:22:20 PM Shorbe, I didn’t see fleurette calling for censorship, however nothing excuses the newspa.....
» 13/09/2006 10:47:44 PM Sells Who sees the narratives of Israel and of Jesus as accurately describing the human d.....
» 13/09/2006 10:23:21 PM obozo, just as I suspected, you can't come up with an intelligent argument.....
» 13/09/2006 12:10:59 AM obozo, So what if Marilyn feels safer among Afghani men than Australian men? It doesn’t m.....
» 12/09/2006 9:03:56 PM And I suppose you want your voice and "values" in the public square before all o.....
» 12/09/2006 8:36:47 AM And for those of you suggesting Marilyn should go live somewhere else if she doesn’t like .....
» 12/09/2006 12:02:37 AM “Much of mankind’s history is a story of bitter and violent warfare, civil unrest and dest.....
» 7/09/2006 1:34:44 PM Here is a little joke on the topic of heaven: On their way to get married, a young Cathol.....
» 7/09/2006 8:10:56 AM Boxgum, “JW: So you "understand that heaven is a phenomenon of the mind". Under.....
» 30/08/2006 11:57:42 PM Boxgum, What actually is it that has no matter? If it has no matter, how do you know that.....
» 30/08/2006 8:44:05 AM R0bert, Do you seriously believe that a sensible debate can be had with this man? When a.....
» 27/08/2006 1:58:16 AM Sells, The more I have thought about this, the more annoyed I have become. Here you are, .....
» 26/08/2006 3:24:50 PM Sells, Is this http://petersellick.nationalforum.com.au/articles45.html a serious example.....
» 26/08/2006 12:15:42 AM Well Sells, I see you have made no attempt to justify your causal claim, nor to explain t.....
» 23/08/2006 8:01:08 PM Good one Strewth :).....
» 22/08/2006 8:00:58 PM Sells, Again you proffer the simplistic and unsubstantiated implication that Marx’s ideas.....
» 21/08/2006 9:36:58 PM Aaah ……Excuse Me Sells, “Thus heaven is real in that with its intersection with earth in .....
» 20/08/2006 10:38:59 PM Philo, What "reality" of heaven? Whether someone believes it or not, it is stil.....
» 20/08/2006 9:08:45 PM I don't know much about disability services etc, because so far in my life I haven't had t.....
» 20/08/2006 8:33:26 PM I can’t believe that the nature of heaven, a primitive fairy tale, is being “seriously” de.....
» 20/08/2006 3:47:47 PM The problem for all of us – Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists, Austral.....
» 19/08/2006 9:54:08 AM Oh Co-ol Here http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=2848#867 you said “Pe.....
» 18/08/2006 8:33:29 AM Given that my degrees in macrame and basketweaving allow me to see the glaring contradicti.....
» 17/08/2006 1:42:35 PM Are you pulling our legs Col, or are you just kidding yourself? According to you (and of .....
» 17/08/2006 12:11:28 AM Yuyutsu, I would be quite willing go give up our calendar – what is so important about wh.....
» 16/08/2006 8:30:44 AM Yuyutsu – “I admit that my views are un-communist, but see nothing progressive about a ble.....
» 16/08/2006 12:03:00 AM Yuyutsu, You are deluded if you believe that Israel is an independent nation. Its very ex.....
» 13/08/2006 7:02:10 PM Horus, “But I guess there are lots of brownie points to be gained from going with the flo.....
» 12/08/2006 3:51:23 PM Ah Col - the contradictions in your thinking abound! “what Palestinians might claim as th.....
» 10/08/2006 8:32:07 AM Scout, You say that all ME political leaders should be forced to the negotiating table. .....
» 7/08/2006 11:20:12 PM Hi Col, tao here (make that Tristan if you like) I was wondering how you reconcile your b.....
» 7/08/2006 6:18:12 PM Leo, I'm not quite sure what you are talking about with regard to "Jewanderthals&quo.....
» 4/08/2006 6:35:57 PM Dee “I hesitate to wish ill on anyone” – you could have fooled me. “but for your own edu.....
» 3/08/2006 11:25:09 PM Has anybody noticed that figures of Israeli (sorry - make that US) rockets, shells, bombs,.....
» 2/08/2006 11:13:35 PM Some facts for you dee: Hitler was elected “democratically”. Al-queda moved into Iraq AF.....
» 1/08/2006 11:12:20 PM BTW dee, I'm sure I've told you before that I have always found a dictionary a useful too.....
» 1/08/2006 11:03:08 PM Actually dee, Strewth quoted you correctly. This is what you said here http://forum.online.....
» 1/08/2006 10:02:31 PM continued from above And of course there is the mandatory recourse to the “despot” Saddam.....
» 1/08/2006 10:00:02 PM dee “Iraqi-democracy-in-the-ME-would-not-be-a-bad-thing-per-se” No, probably not. Howeve.....
» 31/07/2006 12:08:08 AM “The scenario is the same situation that Israel is in right now. Any Australian who totall.....
» 31/07/2006 12:07:18 AM Dee, “My opinion: the invasion was intended to change the variables in the ME and place U.....
» 30/07/2006 11:09:17 AM Strewth, You will be pleased to know there have been a few protests: http://www.wsws.org.....
» 29/07/2006 11:58:06 PM And what does it mean that Democrats were involved in the push for the US to launch a war?.....
» 29/07/2006 11:57:02 PM dee “Tao-–-judging-by-your-use-of-such-hackneyed-cliches-as-'dispossessed-and-brutalized.....
» 29/07/2006 9:20:55 PM 2bob - you wrote: "This is funny: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=10.....
» 28/07/2006 11:37:24 PM continued from above But the crux of the matter dee, is that although you haven’t said it.....
» 28/07/2006 11:33:39 PM “Oh don’t do anything to make them hate us!’ Classic appeasement.” Where do you get “clas.....
» 26/07/2006 7:58:39 PM I was thinking the same thing Lev. For those who are concerned with biased reporting, per.....
» 25/07/2006 11:51:07 PM Dee, “it would-be-hard-to-beat-the-Palestinians-for-sheer-virulent-hatred” Yes, let’s pla.....
» 25/07/2006 8:13:19 PM Leo, I just wanted to thank you. I have read the entire submission and will do so again. .....
» 23/07/2006 1:20:58 PM Leo, I too thought dee’s apology was a little half-hearted to say the least. In fact, th.....
» 23/07/2006 1:09:14 PM Dee, “Tao-–-When-people-mention-‘imperialism’-and-‘colonialism’-in-the-sole-context-of-th.....
» 22/07/2006 11:05:34 AM .....continued from above If someone you knew joined a cult, you would ask “why?” If some.....
» 22/07/2006 11:01:47 AM Dee “'Imperialist~crusades';~'colonised~by~Western~Imperialsim'~ When~a~person~uses~this.....
» 20/07/2006 10:16:35 PM continued from above At~the~risk~of~repetition,~go~to~Europe~and~see~for~yourself~the~dis.....
» 20/07/2006 10:14:15 PM dee, I have not dodged any issues, I just don’t have a one-sided, blinkered view as you d.....
» 19/07/2006 10:09:05 PM Thanks for your clarification Leo. But I am still having difficulty understanding you. We.....
» 17/07/2006 9:05:12 PM Dee At the risk of giving you an excuse to carry on – I personally haven’t said much ab.....
» 16/07/2006 12:38:28 AM coach, You said "You cannot seriously believe that two or more ‘faiths’ can all equa.....
» 12/07/2006 10:51:39 PM By the way dee, here is a list of terrorist organisations (including various religious ter.....
» 12/07/2006 8:51:34 PM Dear, Dear, dee, Did I ever say you didn’t have the right to express yourself? Although I.....
» 11/07/2006 10:43:09 PM Horus, 1. What do you suggest we do Horus? Annihilate them? Exclude them? Drive them into.....
» 11/07/2006 7:18:17 PM Dee, You said “Fortunately,-we-live-in-a-free-country-where-we-can-express-our-opinions,-.....
» 10/07/2006 11:16:55 PM Yes Mark Richardson, religion is not testable by scientific means. Which is why it is just.....
» 10/07/2006 6:53:59 PM Drooge, well said. Dee, it should be said that if you choose to get your hysterical opini.....
» 10/07/2006 6:51:51 PM Coach, You completely contradict yourself: first you say there is plenty of evidence that.....
» 8/07/2006 12:49:42 AM But Philo, you haven’t put forward a positive case for your own position (i.e. that there .....
» 7/07/2006 1:49:57 PM I agree with most of this article but would suggest that the state of affairs is more an i.....
» 7/07/2006 1:16:02 AM Coach, Good to see you recognise Christianity as a religious dogma. Perhaps there is hope.....
» 6/07/2006 10:36:11 PM Philo, as I said, I don’t necessarily agree with everything the alchemist writes. No doubt.....
» 5/07/2006 8:14:36 PM Coach, Funny you should talk about Islam being the enemy of freedom of speech, separation.....
» 5/07/2006 12:03:10 AM Philo I don’t necessarily agree with everything the alchemist writes, however I must poin.....
» 4/07/2006 12:19:17 AM coach, I am not disputing Christ as an historical figure, or even that he was a charismat.....
» 3/07/2006 12:11:55 AM Marilyn BOAZ_David will not provide rational responses because as a Christian he believes.....
» 15/06/2006 12:20:48 AM When was the last time a politician was accountable for their actions? There's no point v.....
» 14/06/2006 10:48:17 PM With regard to the rest of your post which is equally as ridiculous as what I have exposed.....
» 14/06/2006 10:43:02 PM G T You wrote: I¨don't¨disagree¨with¨you¨about¨that,¨but¨what¨happened¨200¨years¨ago¨is¨i.....
» 14/06/2006 8:20:26 PM hedgehog, As I said, I'll be on holidays - planned a long time ago. In fact I'm leaving t.....
» 13/06/2006 9:53:30 PM Col, You are becoming hysterical. I’m sure the veins must be popping out of the side of y.....
» 13/06/2006 9:19:40 PM I've noticed Col, throughout your posts, that you have a tendency to confuse there with th.....
» 13/06/2006 9:11:20 PM hedgehog, It is no wonder unions are on the decline if you are an example of the vicious .....
» 13/06/2006 8:40:51 PM Good post Scout! Ah Col, Again, no attempt to explain your mythical “opportunity for equ.....
» 12/06/2006 7:17:19 PM Shonga, I prefer the following: "In short, the Communists everywhere support every .....
» 12/06/2006 5:31:18 PM ...Cont You wrote “Neither you nor I nor any government or bureaucrat in government is su.....
» 12/06/2006 5:30:01 PM Dearest Col, You wrote: “Re ” what will happen if we all take the “opportunity for equali.....
» 9/06/2006 11:00:32 PM Now Col, On the one hand you say that narcissi proclaim that people produce “nothing of w.....
» 9/06/2006 10:19:02 PM Actually Yabby and Seeker, I don't agree with Tristan much at all. Tristan believes capi.....
» 9/06/2006 9:44:28 PM SHONGA you wrote: “Trouble-with-tao's-outlook-is-change-cannot-be-achieved-in-isolation,-.....
» 8/06/2006 8:45:00 AM Of course we shouldn’t discourage sportspeople to do their best, but we don’t need to pay .....
» 8/06/2006 8:44:03 AM Sorry Col, Perhaps I should have clarified it for you – by inequality I meant “social or .....
» 7/06/2006 8:37:42 AM You wrote: “Redistribution-of-wealth-is-completely-unethical-as-it-requires-great-coercion.....
» 7/06/2006 8:36:44 AM GT My point initially, was that no-one is able to sustain their life without relying upon.....
» 5/06/2006 7:54:52 PM Col Yes, attempting to successfully and coherently explain your (patently unoriginal) the.....
» 5/06/2006 6:36:25 PM hedgehog, your true colours are showing now. I suppose you don’t have holidays. And no, I.....
» 5/06/2006 12:22:06 AM And lets shine some light on a few other holes in your theory of “self-reliance”. Those p.....
» 4/06/2006 11:30:49 PM Good idea Scout, Here are some policies that would really benefit us all: *Working week .....
» 4/06/2006 5:45:39 PM Nice try Col In your earlier posts your concept of “self-reliance” was that of relying co.....
» 4/06/2006 4:16:09 PM On the contrary hedgehog, I can certainly criticize the ALP and the unions if I disagree w.....
» 3/06/2006 11:17:36 PM Yes, self reliance does seem to be beyond the grasp of some people who post here. Some pe.....
» 3/06/2006 2:57:52 PM And SHONGA, Now the truth comes out – today’s “weak and subservient employees”. How do yo.....
» 3/06/2006 2:19:41 PM hedgehog, I’ll ask the question again. Which part of what I have said is not true? Do you.....
» 2/06/2006 1:58:40 PM ...cont * Capital (or those who own it), constantly seeking higher profits, will inevitab.....
» 2/06/2006 1:57:37 PM hedgehog and shonga, Why would I join an organisation whose platform and policies (what l.....
» 31/05/2006 6:40:47 PM hedgehog, I'll ask it again. Which part of what I said was not true? Did your union call .....
» 30/05/2006 8:00:48 PM hedgehog, Which part of what I said is not true? You yourself have criticised the unions .....
» 29/05/2006 7:30:17 PM Sly, I agree with you completely that the government is no good. What I disagree with you.....
» 29/05/2006 7:21:53 PM Shorbe, That’s entirely my point, demonstrations, “democracy”, unions, will not change an.....
» 29/05/2006 8:34:09 AM Shorbe, In answer to your questions – I do, I do, I do, I do. I agree that there appears.....
» 28/05/2006 6:01:56 PM Belly the unions make laws with the bosses against solidarity action. The ALP sent in the .....
» 28/05/2006 1:28:51 PM Belly, there I was thinking I was on my own trying to knock some sense into you over there.....
» 27/05/2006 6:16:59 PM continued Moving on to the rest of your post: I agree with what you said about the method.....
» 27/05/2006 6:15:23 PM Daggett, Good to see you back. Good post. You have touched on a number of important issu.....
» 25/05/2006 10:27:18 PM continued from above And just take a look at what is happening in Latin America – a rejec.....
» 25/05/2006 10:25:50 PM Belly: I suggest you re-post your answer. I’m beginning to think you are being evasive. S.....
» 24/05/2006 10:22:11 PM Dunart, You talk about supply and demand, yet capitalists can’t stand it when the shoe is.....
» 24/05/2006 9:01:39 PM Shorbe, As much as you’d like for us all to hole ourselves up somewhere and leave each ot.....
» 23/05/2006 9:49:08 PM Actually Shorbe, mowing a lawn for a haircut is called “barter” and they can be privately .....
» 23/05/2006 7:55:26 AM Belly, Instead of giving us incomprehensible analogies and convenient Union slogans, plea.....
» 22/05/2006 8:55:32 PM Shorbe: If you don’t believe dog-eat-dog capitalism is a political or economic endpoint, .....
» 22/05/2006 7:42:37 AM Shorbe, believing that dog-eat-dog capitalism is the highest and most intelligent form of .....
» 21/05/2006 7:59:51 PM Belly – “Nore should they, a better way exists take away the need for effort and no progre.....
» 20/05/2006 7:05:13 PM (continued from above) I agree with you that there are many groups claiming to be sociali.....
» 20/05/2006 7:04:22 PM Daggett (sorry for misspelling your name earlier) – I have now read some of your numerous .....
» 18/05/2006 12:49:18 AM sly – Labor have not screwed us for 10 years (which is debatable) because they haven’t bee.....
» 17/05/2006 8:10:43 AM Belly - "While workers lost it proved workers understood unions had a part to play wi.....
» 16/05/2006 8:00:20 PM Belly and Sly, I think you misunderstand me. I am definitely not a Howard/Liberal support.....
» 15/05/2006 9:58:09 PM To all of you who think the Labor Party and the unions can be revived, think again. The u.....

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