Just when you think the Right can't sink any lower, it does!

[azulmagia]

Wendigo

Complex Systems

azulmagia

Well, different sorts of "libertarians" have endorsed different flavours of slavery-in-all-but-name, so why not a "libertarian" who endorses womb-slavery?

As a socialist, isn't any capitalist tacitly supporting slavery?

I believe we're talking about this kind:

http://cog.kent.edu/lib/Philmore1/Philmore1.htm

Not that it's not a reasonable question for azul.

Well, there's a "libertarian" case for guys like Pinochet, so one for outright slavery would be the next logical step.

And yeah, the contract between worker and the capitalist is only free and voluntary in form, not in content, because the contracting parties belong to unequal classes, as Marx pointed out.

Then there's the matter of alienation, which implies that everyone in such a society is reduced to being personifications of socio-economic relations, and hence all are in some sense unfree.

[The_Ky-Guy]

I say we beat Scott Terry's a** to a bloody pulp. If you support that crap, you're truly no Republican as they freed the slaves and backed the Civil Rights Movement.

[azulmagia]

The_Ky-Guy

I say we beat Scott Terry's a** to a bloody pulp. If you support that crap, you're truly no Republican as they freed the slaves and backed the Civil Rights Movement.

A group, like a person, can do a 180 degree turn on a position.

[Wendigo]

The_Ky-Guy

I say we beat Scott Terry's a** to a bloody pulp. If you support that crap, you're truly no Republican as they freed the slaves and backed the Civil Rights Movement.

Ain't been any slaves to free in a while, though. Not in that sense, anyway.

[King Shining Heaven]

I didn't think people like that actually existed. To think so many horrible things could be mixed up in one person

[Requiem ex Inferni]

Not that the guy isn't an idiot, because anyone trying to claim there was anything good about slavery is ten kinds of stupid, but I can't take you seriously at all, OP. You come off as being as much of a wingnut as the Republicans you constantly rail against, only in the opposite direction on the political spectrum.

Seriously, it's bad when your average San Franciscan seems moderate in comparison.

[The Herald of War]

Requiem ex Inferni

Not that the guy isn't an idiot, because anyone trying to claim there was anything good about slavery is ten kinds of stupid, but I can't take you seriously at all, OP. You come off as being as much of a wingnut as the Republicans you constantly rail against, only in the opposite direction on the political spectrum.

Seriously, it's bad when your average San Franciscan seems moderate in comparison.

Oh look it's the 'moderate' who has come in to say unverified crap about how all sides are equal and the OP is just as much of as a wingnut for daring to point this out. Get some reasoning skills instead of overused rhetoric about how something else is 'just as bad' or in this case, 'just as much of a wingnut'