Tag: socialism
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A View of History Tinted in Black
People trying to justify their racism by misquoting Mintoff CLEARLY fail to understand a single word the man ever said AND THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM, ESPECIALLY HIS FAMILY. The obvious: 1. His BROTHER Dionysius administers the Peace Lab which is itself a SHELTER FOR REFUGESS AND MIGRANTS along with the NGO AWAS which first began…
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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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“Children these days…”
Among the many silly platitudes you hear from the average Maltese Joe is the endless tirade against the “children these days” (“It-tfal tal-llum”). How spoilt they are, and how they know no suffering, and so on and so forth. I often wonder if the people spouting such nonsense are aware that children do not spout…
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Spot the Difference
Yesterday I had an enlightening conversation with a friend of mine whose wife comes from Vietnam, a notoriously communist country. It is very evident that unlike capitalism, which is intrinsically exploitative and slips into neoliberalism no matter who is at the top manning the wheels, socialism and communism are political systems that are only as…
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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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Representation Done Right…?
I am a HUGE comic book geek as well as, well, everything you read here so far; including an ally to the struggles suffered by the LGBTIQ community in order to be included. However, I find that inclusion as a whole has been something mainstream media has a strange, strange relationship with that has been…
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Inclusion Is…
Inclusion is not a trophy for participating. Inclusion is not just representation. Inclusion is not hand-waving your presence that you are there. Inclusion is not having pity Inclusion is not putting other identities down in order to promote yours. Inclusion is not an unfair advantage over the others. Inclusion is not dumbing down everything so…
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