eskimoquinn

I saw on xlnation.net that there is a discussion about other (free) tools that can be used and how to get started.

Wow, I really love it. especially the street textures on millionaire row. Awesome!

Some very interesting ideas brought up here. For one thing is the idea of organization, violence, terrorism, that Nonny Moose brought up and how to proceed if we agree that capitalism is holding society down. I think, since I'm a socialist, that what Nonny Moose mentioned about Stalin is important because far too many people are manipulated into thinking that the soviet union, red china, cuba and all the rest were legitimately socialist or communist. The USSR was perverted very quickly after its revolution, its poverty and total devastation from the war allowed the Stalin clique to gain control of the bureaucracy and re-introduce social inequality, this time based on the government's control of resource allocation. In Cuba and China, militant leaders like Mao or Castro used the banner of communism, which had earned a great legitimacy and popularity among many oppressed people, as a cover to attract people to their cause. But both leaders, and man other "communists" were fundamentally opposed to democracy, the working class, internationalism, and such values which real communists had based themselves on before the betrayal of their leadership. Instead, they used military power to establish themselves as the new overlords. A discussion of socialism gains nothing by drawing conclusions from their reactionary agenda. Above in my first post I mentioned economic, social, and political collapse, but another factor which we face very urgently in the 21st century is the environmental crisis. The BP spill, Katrina, the failed copenhagen conference, accelerated destruction of natural resources and many other examples demonstrate the total incapacity of capitalists, or capitalist states, to rationally deal with the monstrous situation they've created. And as much as the media has told us that the oil is "all gone" from the BP spill, that is in no way the case (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/scie-a18.shtml) In my views I am a marxist completely, I feel that the political systems and parties of every country offer no way to move beyond the existing social order and institutions. The working class, the most numerous class by far and the people who actually make everything run, need to create their own organizations of political and economic power. To marxists, though we acknowledge that we should be prepared for violence, the socialist revolution is about building the consciousness, strength, solidarity, and will of the working class. That site I linked to above is, I feel, the leader of that endeavor. And yes, of course people who talk like this are called terrorists and, depending on where you are, usually silenced in some form or another. But people are pretty intelligent, and they can sense when something is being hidden. Many people are becoming disaffected with capitalism these days and are looking for alternatives, this is very heartening for me.

No one has replied yet? Well then, I'll be the first. I absolutely agree with you on socialism, I don't think capitalism has any power left in it to be a progressive force in society, the unstoppable drive towards greed inevitably drives society towards political confrontation, huge economic divides, and social degradation. Obviously this is a sensitive topic for some people, but if we disagree I'm sure we can do so civilly.