Is the situation in Cuba really this dire?
Too bad Bookchin was such a terrible writer. I think his ideas were an important contribution to leftist theory.
Sure why not?
There are certain types of problems they are better at solving. Basically if we already have all of the needed information, but you need to synthesize a huge amount of it into the final answer, they'll be excellent at that kind of issue.
Maybe a bizarre suicide attempt by someone with some chemistry knowledge?
Honestly that hasn't been my experience but either way there's always room for improvement.
Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It's the internet so that's not always easy but I do think that's one of the things holding us back.
Well your labels are inaccurate in that case. And those axes are not particularly independent from one another.
While I personally agree that the traditional political compass is a flawed and subjective view of the diversity of political views, it does a fairly good job of quantifying some differences that exist within the left and right that often confuse people otherwise. And it does seem to adequately categorize the vast majority of people in the west, even if imperfectly. So I don't really get all the hate.
But you've got people who are normally in the auth-left quadrant in the lib-left one. This confuses me.
What happened to the other two quadrants?
The hierarchies present in the USSR didn't take the form of income inequality. You're taking a metric that is very useful for analyzing capitalist countries and using it in a context where it doesn't make much sense.
Anyway, the comparison with the west isn't really relevant to the comparison I would make in that case, which would be between the initial revolutionary movement and where it ended up.
It’s been a good year. It’s probably past time to pull out some of the summer stuff and plant some fall crops but I always have a hard time pulling out healthy plants. The tomatoes in particular look good but have very little fruit.
I was also defeated by this book lol.
I enjoyed listening to the summary by Champaign Anarchist on YouTube though. Not to say it's going to be the same as the original text but it's better than not reading it at all.