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Actually, it was implemented, and it was implemented before to much success: The nature of early human groups was communist. At the dawn of human civilization, early human tribal units used their resources in a communal fashion, everyone was running and making use of the resources available – from water resources to food – communally. Even … Read more
Fascism actually starts with violence. Mussolini’s black shirts has their roots in strike-breaking. Meaning, beating up workers during strikes, then growing into an organized group to oppose unions, socialists. Blackshirts Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are out) The Blackshirts were established as … Read more
And it comes all the way from the Puritans’ religious beliefs when they were immigrating to the colonies. Puritans Puritan was a group of extreme-leaning Christians in England, taking Protestant beliefs to extreme. Protestant ideology had the ingredient of hard work, and Puritans took hard work and discipline to the extreme. Join My Mailing List … Read more
Spectacular question. And it is possibly for the same reason why so many conservatives are silent on Capitalist genocides. King Leopold II was a capitalist, for example, when killing ~10 million congolese during his colonial enterprise. Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are … Read more
A recurring question. Mostly voiced by his or his ideology’s opponents, but a question nonetheless. It is also a question which is easily addressed by looking at through various incidents in his lifetime and his choices: Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are … Read more
People consider Monsanto as evil for a very simple reason: If Military-Industry complex, which pushes overseas wars for profit, irreverent of the immense cost of life and suffering abroad and bankruptcy of their own society, is evil, Monsanto is far worse. Monsanto seeks to push a ‘business model’ which involves proliferating GMO seeds which are … Read more
A lot of people debate about the potential dangers o GMOs in respect to public health, the environment and the economy. However they miss a much bigger potential threat GMOs pose to the very existence of human civilization: GMOs can be easily weaponized, and once something gets out of the box, there is no taking … Read more
(originally published at Via Populi on February 27, 2015) Net Neutrality aka Network Neutrality, is the principle that bans ISPs from discriminating against any website, persona, traffic or content based on any reason. This means that your ISP, say Comcast, cannot favor Website A over Website B and let you access Website A faster while … Read more
(originally published at Via Populi on December 7, 2015) Again we have Venezuela elections, again we have another case of US state and corporate media already trying to smear elections in Venezuela with hatchet jobs claiming many things ranging from fraud to being anti democratic, just because it may have ended up with a result … Read more
(originally published at Via Populi on December 20, 2015) According to the counted ~70% votes, Podemos, a new political party comprised of left and center left segments, is going to win ~70 of the chairs in Spanish parliament. Podemos’ success makes them a major player Spanish parliament has 350 seats. Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur … Read more