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Re:No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient ... by smcl on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:22AM (#31693044)
You're right that things can get downvoted and flagged according to personal tastes (mention a figure like Marx or Tito without explicitly condemning them and watch the downvotes roll in for an idea of what the prevailing personal tastes here are) but my point is that overall politics is not at all off the table here, even when it's not totally civil.
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Re:No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient ... by ClumsyPilot on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:59AM (#31693443)
Which is a shame because there is no real understanding of Marx as an economist as a scholar.

It's jusy mob mentality of Marz=Communism=(evil or usefull idiot)

Very few people know that Marx himself was puzzled as to why his book became so popular in Russia, and how little his writing has in common with ideology thay followed

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Re:No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient ... by smcl on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:07AM (#31694423)
Yep it's a bit silly and it comes from some a place of ignorance. To be honest I'm not in danger of being booted off the site any time soon, so a couple of downvotes here and there aren't going to cause too much harm :)
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