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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:25 AM Original message |
Long live socialism: The great right-wing swindle has hoodwinked too many |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. The invention of agriculture (domesticating animals and plants) 'invented' private property. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And corporate agribusiness has put an end to all that. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. What you call corporate agribusiness is the reason why the planet supports 7 billion people. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 08:25 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. And yet there are about 1 billion on the planet who don't get enough food. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 08:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. The smallest % ever in human history- the ones who don't have agribusiness. Funny that. |
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Blue Meany (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 08:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Modern agriculture does not land as efficiently some methods of small-scale |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 09:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. U.S. agriculture is not the leader in yields per acre, but is the leader in yields per ag worker. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 08:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Private property was invented when somebody got a little army together and... |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 09:02 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Bullshit. Read some science. Making shit up like that is ridiculous. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Most traditional societies don't have "private property" as we know it. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-27-11 08:15 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. That's a lie. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
3. thanks for this |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. The link doesn't open for me |
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Denninmi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. Jack Lessenberry is one of the most prominent political journalists in Michigan. |
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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. So, if capitalism doesn't work... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. all western capitalist systems exist within the framework of the welfare state. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
14. recommend |
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