Tag: neoliberalism
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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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Your Own History, Now at Bargain Price!
It is very understandable that especially with the products and technologies involved to preserve historical sites, especially within a capitalist context, maintaining a place such as this would cost quite a hefty amount of money. Being manned by the public sector, however, maintenance at the Hypogeum is government-funded and therefore paid by our taxes; asking…
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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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“Someone else’s problem…Not my responsibility.”
The quest for profit has normalized a lot of mentalities across the board. One of the most troubling, for me, is territoriality. The territory has not become something that is marked by a trail of urine unlike in nature but by a trail of cash. This is most evident in contractually binding responsibilities. Now let…
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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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Silence Expanded
Censorship is counterproductive We all know that learning is an encounter with the “other”. Knowledge is gained by an encounter with something other than one’s own self. By meeting differences. This is also on a behavioral level – how can one know what NOT to do when that thing that should not be done is…
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The (De)volution of Capitalism
The primary focus of capitalism is the generation of wealth with the least government regulation possible, with each private entity exerting complete governance over its means of production. As established before, this overlaps with socialism in a move from decentralization, but renders private the acquired means (hence, privatizations). Therefore, access to the means of production…
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