Category: Zoulapia

Short and Sweet.

Quote of the Day: Typical Liberals

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A quote from Hal Draper (a socialist) on Liberalism

Quote Hal Draper

But the typical liberal, who cannot break with the ’system, has to settle for something else: protesting the best of intentions (sincerely) while being dragged along by the system he supports, or busying him­self with filing off the sharp corners or rough edges on the towing chain which drags him; and meanwhile congratulating himself on doing an indispensable smoothing job which the callous powers-that-be are too heartless to attend to.

I sincerely start to believe that Hal Draper was one of the best socialist thinkers of the last century. Read the whole thing, quite enlightening.

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Quote of the day: Rise to the Top

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A Quote from Julian Edney on greed.

Quoth Julian Edney

But the chances of a person born poor climbing all five classes into the top (“making it”)[…]are too small to constitute a real freedom.[…], one sociologist puts the upper class at roughly 3 percent of the population. About 7.7% of that has moved in from below – a minute, and historically persistent, figure.[…]But the trick of flaunting possibility to mask actual probability is not a casual device.

(h/t to the Barefoot Bum)

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Quote of the day: Knowledge before Expertise

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Quoth Isaac Puente

We are asked from the outset to come up with a flawless system, to guarantee that things will work this way and not that, without mishap or error. If learning to live had to be done this way, then our apprenticeship would never end. Nor would the child ever learn to walk, nor the youngster to ride a bicycle.

This is a classic gripe I have with people inquiring or criticizing communism with me. They ask me to provide a perfect answer for every question they have, and when they can think of holes in my replies, they ask more. If I refuse to keep playing this game, they point this out as proof of an obviously poor-thought system.

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Quote of the Day: Herd Instinct of the Markets

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Quoth the International Marxist Tendency

Just as the wildebeest can scent a lion, the markets can scent the imminence of a recession. The prospect of a recession is the real cause of the panic. Once this happens, nothing can stop it. All the speeches, all the interest rate cuts, and all the handouts to the banks, will have no effect on the financial markets. They will see that the governments and central banks are afraid, and they will draw the necessary conclusions.

The rest of the article is interesting to see the Marxist perspective albeit a bit too propagandistic for my tastes. Still this quote was quite insightful.

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Delays and Errors

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Server issues again. Gah!

Apologies for any delays and Internal server errors you might be experiencing lately. It seems my server has some random processes popping up and eating all the RAM. I’m trying to get to the bottom of this.