Re: EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
Property is just an opinion, programmed into certain number of human brains. It's soft, and can be modified or erased. There is no brain area dedicated for private property (witness human societies without it.) Using this ephemeral phenomenon to understand underlying dynamics is unproductive. O

Re: EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-28 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:05:16 PM CET, Morlock Elloi wrote: EU is really another attempt at communism. Go home grandpa, you're drunk. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultur

Re: EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-28 Thread Felix Stalder
On 27.03.19 22:05, Morlock Elloi wrote: > EU is really another attempt at communism. As I just wrote in another post, I think the US (and the UK and the EU) far facing a similar structural crisis as the USSR faced in the 1970s. Whether these countries turns out to be like the USSR, depends on t

Re: EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-28 Thread Geoffrey Goodell
How is the EU seizing control of the means of production? How is the EU delegitimising the ownership of private property by private citizens? When last I checked, it was still possible to establish for-profit businesses in the EU, and it was still possible for individual EU citizens to purchase g

EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-27 Thread Morlock Elloi
The arguments and narratives on EU don't really make much sense. Not that deeply entrenched sides do not have self-coherent dogmas, they do. But it all just doesn't make sense. There is a total disconnect between them and between them and reality, it seems. Immigration, sovereignty, neoliberali