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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communist countries invested in people over capital. If a person fled west they took their investment with them so to speak.

Funnily enough, racism trumped anticommunism. Many potential migrants from VN & China were discouraged because westerners didnt recognise their degrees. (That probably changed in the past decade ).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Danaeres story was so orientalist that her 'turn' made me think that there was a deconstruction hidden there that got lost in adaptation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I haven't seen this in over a decade what are the top 5 episodes?

 

This music is great! It must be because of these capital intensive goods which I use to play the music not the human and social society which produced it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

When social life is organised for the production of commodities people will start identifying with their their commodities. Once they tie their personal value to that of their commodity, such as a house, an assault on the value of their property is seen as equal to an assault on their person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

1733: Russia’s Empress declares Roma to be slaves to the crown

Medieval kingdoms did similar things to Jews. Supposedly sometimes it was a stupid attempt to curb anti-semitism; because if the jews were crown property than a pogrom is an attack on the crown. Naturally the next king would ignore this context and expropriate Jewish property because it was 'his.'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

According to his wife, he died on Oct. 31, 2020. A cause of death was not revealed.

That's very doom-like to keep it out of the press for over two months softens the blow of hearing this a bit