Cowbee [he/they]

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Marxist-Leninist ☭

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  • Cowbee [he/they]toComicsExplaining capitalism to aliens
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    16 hours ago

    You never spell anything out, it’s all semantics for you. Legitimately, your only work so far has been to change the nature of a thing by changing its name. I’m unsurprised that you don’t agree with Politzer if this is how you genuinely view concepts.


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    17 hours ago

    I am applying them correctly, and it’s important, your shift in definition of them is more semantical than functional. You think the name of a concept is the driving factor in what it is, functionally. I can point you to Georges Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy if you don’t trust my knowledge of philosophy.

    When it comes to your argument, “Ownership” is just an authority position recognized by the state as falling under that term. There’s no functional requirements or powers. This is an absurd definition that adds confusion, rather than clarity. A society where “owners” have no actual ability to buy or sell what they “own” and who are selected by society to “own” rather than by virtue of posession aren’t owners at all. They are administrators and managers that society has chosen to refer to as “owners” despite not being such in any traditional capacity, and by “traditional” I mean in all of history.

    This form of “ownership” is so far divorced from the common meaning of the term that its only purpose is for the semantical game you’ve decided to play.


  • Cowbee [he/they]toAsklemmyWhat are some good ad-free podcasts?
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    20 hours ago

    Blowback is incredible, and has ads only at the beginning and end, so very skippable. I can’t recommend Blowback enough. Each season covers the “behind the scenes” of different US atrocities, from the Iraq War, to Cuba, to Korea, to the Afghan War, to Cambodia. Any USian needs to listen to it especially to truly understand how and why US foreign policy acts in the manner it does.








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    21 hours ago

    What comes with this ownership? What “rights/obligations” do I have?

    In my opinion, you are defining ownership as “any authority position that is called ownership.” I don’t think this is useful, at this point you are attempting to define the nature of a concept by the name we call it. This is idealism, not materialism, ie this believes ideas create reality, rather than the inverse.



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    21 hours ago

    Please explain why and how your “owners” actually own if they have no actual ownership, and purely serve as administrators and managers. Can they, or can’t they, sell or buy more Capital? What are these “rights” they have that are sufficient for ownership?