On youtube you can even find it as an audio book

It sounds like you think the local elites in Africa have some kind of real say in such contracts. What do you think happens to a democratically elected president of such a country if he does not agree to the contract?

Example: Operation Ajax

It's weird that "patriots" want the plegde to be said in schools yet they resemble the 'evil communists we must defend against'.

They do not resemble communists they resemble fascists, big difference.

I think that is not the important point here. It's about experiencing as a culture and society the endless horror and futility of war. Americans have a history of bringing war, destruction and misery to other countries, but have never experienced it on their own soil (and no, neither the War of Independence nor the Civil War count here). This results in a cultural inability of most Americans to understand the true nature of war.

The Pledge of Allegiance in schools is one of the scariest things about American "culture", in my opinion.

Here to further refine your views on obama:

That's part of what makes us special as Americans. Unlike the empires of old, we did so not for territory or for resources. We do it because it's right. -- Barack Obama

Source: President Obama and the First Lady Speak to Troops at Fort Bragg

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

(The book is free on marxists.org)

This is described very well in the video here: Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism

There is a strange idea that under socialism or communism, any incentive system would be eliminated. This in turn results in the idea that no one is motivated to work anymore. This is of course nonsense, even a money loose society still has incentive systems these are then simply no longer money based.

Is there a list of Marxist or Communist potcasts somewhere?

It just occurred to me how the assessment of the story would change if the child is black and the story is set in Africa. I wonder how racism suddenly turns the whole thing into a bad story about poverty?

It's really impressive how you can sell this to Americans as an inspirational feel-good story. How can society be so broken and prioritize its values so wrongly? That is just sick.

To me, this kind of images always give the feeling of endless to malice mendacious marketing. It's a perverted kind of white-washing advertising, the most horrible thing about it is that this works for I think about 90% of the people and has the desired propaganda effect.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew.

Martin Niemöller

Communists are not mentioned first in this poem without reason, because it is always communists and socialists who are the first to fall victim to fascism. In short, the claim that the Nazis were socialists can hardly be surpassed in absurdity.

Recht schnell hat das politische Talent aus Aachen es mit druckreifen Sätzen zu Bekanntheit gebracht.

Ich war mir nicht bewusst das die Welt auch Gebrauch von Sarkasmus und Spott machen kann wenn sie über CDU Politiker schreibt.

It's always nice when the self-proclaimed greatest country in the world surprises you "positively".

In this context, I think Emmy Noether is an extremely important person who must be mentioned. Her story is just so interesting for feminism.

Which nation contributed most to defeating Germany in 1945? French polls from 1945, 1994, 2004

What surprises me is that if so many young people are anti-capitalist, why does this sub still only have 653k members? That's actually incredibly few people by current standards, isn't it?

I really wonder what percentage of US Americans would know that this would not be legally possible in any other developed country?

The extent to which US Americans live in an illusion of their own society is always frightening. Why are people still surprised that I consider the US to be the most effectively brainwashed country in the world?

Serious question: what is the answer to prevent these problems? My uncle is all for capitalism and I don’t know how to respond to some of his comments.

As a socialist it is always very strange to read something like this. We have literally entire libraries filled with good arguments against capitalism, plus the vast amount of very accurate analysis of the nature of capitalism. Why do so few of my generation with anti-capitalist views (I'm a Millennial) access this wealth of knowledge?

Is it the capitalist propaganda you are taught in school? So socialism = evil and communism = evil.

Most of it can be found freely on the Internet:

- The Principles of Communism

• r/LateStageCapitalism wiki
• The Communist Manifesto (Audiobook)
• r/Socialism_101: wiki
• r/communism: Basic Marxism–Leninism Study Plan

You don't have to agree with everything (on the contrary critical thinking and questioning is always good) but for some reason most people don't even try to deal with this material.

But now that I'm a socialist, I feel almost liberated from capitalist brainwashing but also struggle with my newfound realization that the US will likely never become what I hope it will in my lifetime

Capitalism is far more unstable than capitalist propaganda would have us believe. At the moment there is no sign in the U.S. that the capitalist class will not increase the pressure on the U.S. workers to revolutionary levels. The question is rather will this pressure be discharged in a fascist or socialist revolution. However, current developments suggest that US Americans will opt for fascism.

What I mean to say is that the future is more uncertain than ever before, and this uncertainty brings with it as many opportunities for us socialists as it does dangers.

The free electrons in metals (which also makes them good eletrical conductors) are good at transferring energy around.

This is the reason why there is the Wiedemann-Franz law an empirical law describing the relationship between thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity in a metal.