[ExI] Be nice to leftists

[Eugenio Martínez]

>
> ### For a humanist you seem to be quite scornful of honest humans working
> their way up from earning 250$ per year in 1980, to $10,000 per year now
> (see China GDP history on Wikipedia).
>

So, if I eat two chickens and you don´t eat anything, we both have had a
chicken.

Eugenio, if we weren’t heavily armed, we would be in war times.  Weakness
> is provocation.
>
What?  Your government is heavily armed. You have maybe a couple of
weapons. Your neighbours have nothing. In Europe, nobody has weapons, still
we are less violents. Weakness is provocation as long as short skirts are
provocations for rape. I mean: If we both met, as I can see in your photo,
I am way younger and bigger than you. If it happens that you don´t have
your weapons with you, are you provoking me? As far as I think, you are
just next to me.

Question please: why do you suppose every time a Marxist state forms
> anywhere, it needs to build walls around itself, not just to keep
> freeloading outsiders out but to keep the productive prisoners in?
> Communism converts its own citizens to slaves.
>
In Allende´s years, truck drivers from Chile were payed by the US
government just for do nothing. They payed more that the salary that they
had if they had worked. That is just an example between one thousand:
Capitalism is stronger and win the wars. But the war doesn´t determine who
is right. (just who is left)


> If you want to argue that capitalism exports its slavery elsewhere, the
> solution seems clear enough to me in our modern times.  We now have the
> control system technology to have most slave labor done by robots.  Problem
> solved.


It would be solved if it were economically worthwhile.

With adequate weapons, your neighbor will not attack.  Form a business
> together, makes something valuable, become rich.  Teach your children to do
> likewise.  All get rich together.
>

So, if we are not going to attack ourselves, what are the weapons for?
Couldn´t we form a business and make something valuable without weapons? I
think you are very ingenious: If your neighbour want to kill you he can
throw you a simple knife or hit you with a simple bat. Or burn your house
while you are sleeping. Having a weapon is provoking. If you walk in
dangerous neighbourhoods of Sudamerica, you can be robbed. If you show your
weapon, you are going to be shooted, because the robber doesn´t want to
risk his life.

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There were here elections in Europe. And there were a lot of ultraright and
ultrawing parties that made their way to the European parlament. We are
going to see 4 interesting years.
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