Communism
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Of course the real crime of the Socialist regimes was to offer an alternative to the Capitalist mode of production, but the people living in the regimes of Late Capitalism are assured of how horrific it was generally: the unfreedom extended to the choice available in the marketplace: under Socialism you wouldn’t be able to…
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Everyone knows of the dangers of speaking freely in, say, the Soviet Union, at least during certain periods and on certain matters. Now Macdara is in favour of free speech, especially when it comes to pointing out corruption, or otherwise critiquing the State for failure to deliver against its ideals. He is less concerned with…
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In the course of his regular reflections on Communism while walking, working out, commuting et cetera, the present writer has identified one aspect of what has bothered him for so long about the attitude of those living in Late Capitalism towards the countries of Existing Socialism of the last century. While he is by no…
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This site takes its name from Edmund Spenser’s genocidal tract of 1596, A View of the Present State of Irelande. In his country of origin—the country he returned to when he was forced out of Ireland, the castle he had seized having been burnt down—Spenser is remembered as a poet. In Ireland he may best…