the methods used by the Bolsheviks in order to take power and to retain power during the Civil War of 1918–21, materially contributed to the formation of the Stalinist system as it took shape during the 1930s (Callinicos)
Chloe
My grand-daughter is hopelessly doing tele-interviews with robots in the vanishingly small chance that she might get a job Which set me thinking. With all this unemployment, furloughs, shut downs and restrictions, there is very little that we actually need that we can’t get. The people who are in the supply chains through which we get what we need are employed; everyone else is unemployed, ergo, mostly we can perfectly well do without what they would be employed to carry out. What they do - their outputs - are not necessary to our survival, it is that their wages are necessary - necessary to generate the purchasing power to buy for all the things that we don’t actually need, that in turn provides employment and wages to those producing even more stuff we don’t actually need. And of course generating the profit that float the enterprise for who they work, and provide the government with the taxes they need to run the country. In short we have the most part of the population spending th
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