[ExI] commies vs marxists was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[William Flynn Wallace]

It seems fairly clear that I do not understand just what Twitter is.  IM is
all I know about.bill w

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 9:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] commies vs marxists was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE:
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> >…I get my garden seeds from Johnny's Selected Seeds, a company
> started 40 years ago by a R. Johnston.  When he retired it became employee
> owned.  It is still a fine business. I think it would be instructive to
> check out employee-owned companies and see how they compare in wages etc.
> to regular companies.  bill w
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> Billw, you and I are old enough to know the story, me lad.
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> In communism, the workers own the factories and the government owns both.
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> But in capitalism, the workers have the option to own the factories with
> stock investment, and the press owns the government.
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> That explains why we are seeing such a bitter dispute over Twitter, for
> the outcome of that culture war determines who owns the press and by
> extension who owns the government.  May the good guys win.
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