Re:The Age of Cretinism
by ben_w on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:12AM
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I’m not saying I agree with it, but you should read the Communist Manifesto some time (it’s short and free on Kindle).
Things it called for include stuff now totally non-controversial: free school education for everyone; women not being the personal property of their husbands; that sort of thing.
Yes, there’s also stuff I can’t even comprehend well enough to either agree or disagree (it might have made sense to someone in 1848 but not to me), yet it is surprising how much of it is now “just the way things are” — even in nations which hate communism so much that mandatory private insurance is demonised as “socialist”.
Things it called for include stuff now totally non-controversial: free school education for everyone; women not being the personal property of their husbands; that sort of thing.
Yes, there’s also stuff I can’t even comprehend well enough to either agree or disagree (it might have made sense to someone in 1848 but not to me), yet it is surprising how much of it is now “just the way things are” — even in nations which hate communism so much that mandatory private insurance is demonised as “socialist”.