Rhizome 3/28/16:
[Based on shared pic by Dan Rayburn (who called it terrible (with the statement:
Wouldn’t be great if all the socialists in America (shows American social democrats (went to live in socialist countries: shows some kind of line (a reference to breadlines apparently (in some third world latin country[
This is, yet again, an expression of the desperation of FreeMarketFundamentalism in the face of Capitalism’s daily failures to do as it promised, the usual misdirect propped up by complete ignorance of what Marx actually said.
Marx basically acknowledged that we would have to go through a Capitalist phase (he was, after all, heavily influenced by Adam Smith (in order to build the means of production and technology. Now let us note the language on the sign: Spanish. So we’re basically talking about a third world country that, not having gone through the same Capitalist phase as all western industrialized nations: that process of developing the means of production and technology, made the attempt to jump from a mainly agrarian society to a socialist one. I mean it was the same dynamic at work with both Russia and China. And it was a dynamic that was and is quite different than the dynamic those young Social Democrats in America and every other developed nation are dealing with. And America, by the very prescience that Marx showed, is a prime candidate for the experiment they are asking for, an experiment that will likely succeed much as it has in Scandinavian countries.
What the FreeMarketFundamentalists need to think about is the fascistic nature of what they are doing. And in order to understand this, we need only look at the almost Orwellian staged event of the failure of the Weimar Republic (social democrats (that got the Nazis in. No one, at the time, was looking at the fact that the Weimar Republic failed mainly because of sanctions being put on Germany at the time as a result of WWI. They just, out of theoretical laziness, engaged in the false causation of assuming that it was all the fault of those in power.
And we can see that same kind of goonish misdirect at work in the heavy-handed (and ineffective to anyone smart enough to know better (humor at work in the pic.
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And I would also note here one of the main concerns among Cubans as America opens up their relationship with them. Many of them are concerned that American healthcare corporations will sneak in and destroy their access to healthcare as they know it.
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“Now I hate to break this down, so soon, into the atomistic building blocks of the model, but it goes to the issue of the role “more” plays in it. It comes down to a formula I have devised:
Epot=R/e
Or to blue-collarize it: Efficiency potential =Resources/expectations. So let’s play with it. Let’s say you and I are working on a project (an instance of coexistence (and have a resource pool of 30. We divide that pool into 15 apiece. Now we have 2 instances of expectation/efficiency that look like Epot=15/e. Then we say we both have an expectation factor of 2: Epot=15/2 which means that both our Efficiency potentials comes up to 7.5. Now say I decide to become a self indulgent prick and decide I have higher expectations: say 3. Now what I have to do to maintain the same Epot is take more from the resource pool which would add up to about 24 which would leave you 6 and an Epot of 5.This threatens our instance of co-existence in that you have one of 2 choices in order to get back to the Epot you were at. You either have to take, by force, those resource factors I took from you or break away thereby stealing resource factors from the initial instance of co-existence (put mind here that your cooperation with me in the first place was a resource to me (in order to seek resources elsewhere.”
The point , Greg, is that “more” plays a role in it to the extent that it helps when it comes to resources. Our efficiency potential increases with the increase of our local resources. But it can also increase when we lower our expectations.
And the main reason I’m excited about it (why I consider it my golden egg (is because it stands in opposition to the expansionary model we can no longer sustain. It applies, as well, to environmental issues in that as we increase our population (our expectation factor (the earth we live on remains a static resource factor.