Tag: capitalism
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If it walks like a duck…
I wonder why do people keep believing the lie that Joseph Muscat, the ex-Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader was ever the socialist he made himself appear to be. Because he started some social programs that weren’t there before? Sure, well done. But were they made in a way that were not self-serving? His battle…
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Who needs who?
It is both satisfying and horrifying that the people at Bolt have taken to striking; unlike a certain chef of a certain wannabe renown implied, this of course reflects on our co-nationals as NOT being lazy, but unwilling to be exploited. It is great to see these foreign nationals as being just as unwilling and…
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The Embryo Obsession
I must admit that I am rather…puzzled…by this motion. On the one hand, I know for a fact on a human level, especially given a few recent experiences, that I would not rest easy knowing that somewhere on this island – or wherever, I have no idea how this works – someone is poking around…
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For Sale!
Are you for sale? Your knee-jerk answer from a perfectly sane person would be a resounding “no.” After all, we are people with integrity, that have a fixed identity, or so we say; we would not compromise or what have you to no force on heaven or hell and anything in between. But the truth…
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I Do Not Understand…
Some of the best debates can be found online nowadays; anything on the Big Conversation, Slavoj Zizek vs Jordan Peterson, Sri Ravishankar vs Dr. Zakir Naik… I love following these. It allows me to gain a deeper understanding of the world and the varied perspectives that inhabit it as they relate to the other denizens.…
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Keeping more in the larder…
A person recently said that for the system to work, a person has to be subjected to some sort of exploitation. There is no profit without exploitation. It is in the best interest of the Capitalist to keep what profits are generated by the labor of the employee away from these in order to maximize…
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Tal-Linja and the concept of Private Property
One of the greatest dismissals of socialism here in the west is the misconception that socialism abolishes all personal property. This is a myth. In socialism, there is a difference between private property and personal property. In what is probably an intentioned denigration of the idea, people sadly conflate the two here in the west.…
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Who Watches the Watchmen?
The nature of the Maltese language is wonderful. It says a lot of what is at the roots of being Maltese. It has one foot divided between gothic and romance languages, roots from an imperialist way of life that translates into language by having the subject exert its nature over the object(“my heart”), and semitic…
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