Tag: socialism
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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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One for All
A friend of mine, a teacher, brought up a valid point recently. For context, we were discussing the chef’s comments earlier this month as regards the state of the catering industry; my friend was ambivalent about the comments. On the one hand, he agreed that what was being proposed left room for plenty of exploitative…
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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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Woke Awoke
Time to roll your eyes, people. So many words are being thrown around willynilly like they mean something to divide people hither and thither. Titles, flags, oh Lord, make it stop. Sure it helps to identify people. But if only we stopped at that. I define myself as a socialist, among many other things. But…
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The Wheels on the Bus…
Of all countries in the Mediterranean, had it not been due to our lack of size I would think that looking at our history, we have the least reason not to empathize with foreign nationals or at least not to be welcoming. At least with those not trying to actively colonize us, but I digress.…
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The Powerless Educator, part 2
A powerless educator is an unhappy and unhealthy educator. This is not to say that an educator should enjoy absolute freedom; that is a privilege that nobody in reality has or should have. There is freedom for, and freedom to, and a delicate balance in between that cannot realistically be broken without unfortunate consequences. But…
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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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