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Subject: Re: telnetvision video to
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Sat Nov 07, 2026 14:51

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  Re: Re: telnetvision video to
  By: Dumas Walker to Boraxman on Fri Nov 06 2026 09:04 pm

 >
 > That is because many "intellectuals" have no common sense or real-world
 > experience.
 >
 > They don't want to admit that all true socialist (and communist)
 > governments/countries over the years had to force a good portion of the
 > population to go along with the idea, and that force often included killing
 > large portion of their populations, while enslaving others in work camps.  T
 > USSR and China murdered many more of their own people than Hitler managed to
 > something they either don't like to hear or admit to.
 >
 > The examples they will point to as "they didn't do that" will be countries t
 > are not socialist, but rather have social programs that are propped up by
 > capitalism as those countries are capitalist.  Those programs work so long a
 > there is enough money to go around... from what I can tell, that doesn't
 > last... and the quality of what those programs produce often isn't what the
 > socialist would expect.

Intellectuals do indeed seem to be somewhat ignorant of the mechanics of the
world.  The view the world as one being subject to ideas, rather than laws of
nature.  This is why people who are engineers tend to be well grounded, they
actually udnerstand how systems work.

There is another reason why intellectuals love Marxism.  Marxism is a system
which speficially puts THEM in charge.  Intellectuals will advocate a system
where they, not the "common man" or "worker" or "engineer" or "scientist" rule.

So yeah, of course they would hate Capitalism.  Capitalism has no need nor use
for them.  Marxism/Communism puts them in charge.

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