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Traders "snubbed risks," one headline read on Wednesday, as equities looked for more gains. The S&am
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To be fair, there’s also little need for such deep analysis.
Banning social criticism is authoritarianism 101, not particularly Marxist, though communist dictatorships will use the language of the masses and their social consciousness etc. just like religious theocracies will refer to purity, spirituality etc. but, in practice, the aim is the same : silence all opposition.
Banning games and social networks etc. is even more pathetic. It’s down to café bar philosophy. You’ve likely seen it: drunken assho*e telling everyone “I’ll tell you what’s wrong with society these days, yessir, burp. It’s those damn kids and their phones” (or the immigrants ; or the Jews – in less funny versions). Basically, screw all those complicated sociological studies and stuff, let’s go back to gut feels.
Communists (if not Marxists) always had bourgeois envy. Which is why the Soviet ideal kid was always working hard at school, learning the violin and playing previously elite sports (gymnastics, ballet dancing) at a high level… while banning porn, TV soap operas and now social media and basically everything everyday people actually want.