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Vaush VALIANTLY BRAVES A Test Of His LEFTIST VALUES

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Published 25 Sep 2019

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@eelvis16745 years ago These tests can never reveal your true principles or position by nature of having very specific questions. I think the results that surprised you were . ...Expand 73
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@austinfernando84065 years ago I got:
83. 8% revolutionary
70. 6% scientific d="hidden2"
88. 3% decentralised
66. 1%
56. 2% union
61. 1% ecological
81. 2% progressive
" council(awesome but not exactly ' me'
i thought some questions were weird, there' s nuances that they didn' t address. ...Expand 44
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@Ireallywouldrathernot5 years ago Industrialised farming is super bad for the environment, and yes, that includes fields and livestock as they currently stand. 58
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@robertrulebirtannia5 years ago The test said i was 98. 8 left communist so went out and picked a fight with an armchair to prove otherwise. 260
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@0average_enjoyer0444 years ago This test just gives literally everybody council communism. 74
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@RadTrashed5 years ago Take these tests with a grain of salt. First time i took it i got told i was a council communist lmfao. 85
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@zacnieprawisz91715 years ago I took the test and got venezuela. 661
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@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V25 years ago I also prefer to just identify as ai' ll listen to anything from socdem leftward that isn' t tankie, nazbol, anprim, or the like.
edit: comments below add some nuance
edit 2: i' m anow, thanks to vaush exposing his own fundamental inadequacies when interacting with hakim and luna oi. If you want to continue your learning journey and not get stunted in the debilitating mud of the western compatible left i suggest you humor. ...Expand 119
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@JohnSutcliffe19885 years ago Apparently i' m an eco-marxist. Sounds gay. 167
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@adipsia61545 years ago I love that even on points we disagree on, which are few and far between) i can clearly see your line of thinking and good intentions. Keep up the good work! 81
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@eey-bee5 years ago " bring back the train"
hell yeah! 10
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@warrendriscoll3505 years ago Can i disagree with the wording of all those questions? They are horribly phrased.
also, like most of these tests, i feel they are asking the wrong questions. 451
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@hindigente5 years ago Authoritarianism is not intrinsic tosocialism, but is rather an unavoidable response to economic and actual warfare from economic and war superpowers. 23
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@a87275 years ago Just fyi. It gives a lot of people council communism if u are an anarchist. It pissed me off at 1st. 277
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@ignitionfrn22232 years ago - Reform>Revolution
- Revolution > Reform
- Revolution risk/benefits
- Liberal democracy
- Revolution impossible ?
- Workplace democracy > socialism
- The end justifies the means
- Redistribution through taxes
- Social Democracy
- Justification for revolution
- "Publicly owned"
- Materialism drives socioeconomic changes
- It can only happen in industrial societies
- "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
- Peaceful revolution
- Self destruction of capitalism
- Class conflict
- Gradual >Sharp implementation of Socialism
- Leaders & Ideas
- Economic & social equality is achievable
- Bottom-up>top-down
- Local > National planned economy
- Computers for planned economy
- Planned economy = rapid progress ?
- Workplace democracy & self management
- Don't trust the state
- Planned economy = state capitalism or socialism ?
- Bureaucracy & inefficiency are a part of planned economy
- Dictatorship of the proletariat
- Forced jobs
- World socialism
- Nationalism & patriotism are bad
- One party system
- Non interventionism
- Open borders
- Exporting the socialist message
- (Con)Federations
- Internationalism
- Self determination
- Needs of other countries >Needs of my country
- Socialism in liberal democracies
- Trade unions & workers council
- Socialism leads to authoritarianism
- Democratic centralism
- Mass worker's party
- Spontaneity > Planning
- Political parties are irrelevant
- Decentralization
- Trade unions have become corrupt
- Climate change
- Environmentalism
- Renewable =/= reliable ?
- Industrial Farming
- Environmentalism as a part of socialism
- Biological food
- Public transports
- Humans<Nature
- Food consumption
- Human growth
- Humans>Nature
- Back to the past
- Too late for the environment ?
- LGBTQ
- Gender roles
- Marriage
- Ab0rtion
- Religions
- Ethnic minorities
- State/Church separation
- Prisons
- Foreign immigration
- Social progress
- Results .. ...Expand 7
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@MarkArandjus4 years ago
Ohhh. As someone from former Yugoslavia I thought this question was more like 'hey we're all southern Slavs or whateverthefuck, let's unite and make a cool socialist country'
It has its charms but ultimately it ends badly because uniting on the basis of a nation didn't make us abandon our national identity and merge into one glorious pile of Slavs, it made Yugoslavs focus on individual nationality harder. Super hard. To the point of ethnic cleansing.
So yeah either way: don't. .. ...Expand 6
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@squidexorcist75645 years ago Bro industrialized farmingit is so insanely bad for the environment. 129
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@edivimo5 years ago The " nationalquestion is aboutlike vietnam: liberation from european empires. So, that must be an " strongly agree" 8
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@PzOwNeD5 years ago " industrialised farming practices must beplease look up the sheer amount of toxic pollution that like, industrial scale pig farming causes. That' s the reason why. 86
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@Hyewot4 years ago Dude you can grind up bugs into like protein powder and put it into shakes and nutrient bars and stuff. You don' t gotta eat crisped crickets to support eating bugs. 7
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@alexiscanfield34735 years ago Vaush, bottom up! Markets. It could be argued, but direct democracy, rather than representative democracy in a decentralized system would be bottom up . ...Expand 9
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@TheCirclekeeper5 years ago I got council communist but i' m demsoc anyway so i don' t mind. 44
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@Holobrine5 years ago Plans dont have to be centralized. Cooperatives could and arguably should cooperate on plans rather than compete to ensure the greatest outcome for t id="hidden13" class="buttons">heir constituent workers. This would qualify as a planned economy instead of a market.
Who enforces environmental protections, ideally?
Immigration is people coming in. People going out is called emigration. .. ...Expand 7
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@childishhylian60345 years ago Innovation must be applied to the methodology of farming aseven in non-animal agriculture is still a capitalist mode of resource and thereby puts profits over naturalthe revitalization of soil and ecosystems includes minimizing such endeavors. For a historical example the american colonies expanded westward in part because their industrial farming depleted the eastern soil tables. ...Expand 4
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@Nathan-ej3bk3 years ago Man, i thought i was making progress. I spent a long time being politically oblivious.
only recently i began to learn what terms mean and looking . ...Expand 4
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@SD-tp8cs5 years ago Bottom-up economical organisation doesn' t necessarily mean. 10
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@javaPhysician4 years ago I got " greenway too many environment questions in that test. However it mentionsas a sibling to green anarchy which i generally agree with. 3
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@snekdood5 years ago I too got council communism first, but i also didnt understand some of the terms, so i read up on shit and got eco anarchist instead: 0 i agree w/ you on the union stuff and the test was kinda tricky w/ that? 16
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@felicityc2 years ago I got market anarchism which is pretty much where i' m at yep
69. 1% reform (nice)
56. 3% scientific
76. 7% decentralized 57. 1% international
65. 4% union
59. 7% production
94. 1% progressive. ...Expand 2
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@Dsanzvillamil5 years ago Bugs are actually quite nice when cooked properly. 7
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@MrCmon1134 years ago " transitionary state" huh?
turns out vaush is a tankie. 11
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@abigailburns43914 years ago My dude, i am creeped out by how much your answers are matching my own. 3
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@xoxonaotchan_79025 years ago Just wanted to say that factoryof farming has caused issues. I' m a vegan so theres that element of it (just my opinion) but theres also all the carbon emissions put in the air by it. Also not saying that' s we shouldn' t use genetically modified food at all but we must do more research on it' s long lasting effects. Also go vegan vaush plzness. ...Expand 19
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@Kamots5 years ago I don' t get why people kept saying that market socialism is capitalism, that' s physically impossible. How do markets turn socialism into capitalism? 4
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@CorpsmanUP875 years ago Some of those questions weren' t nuanced enough.
for example, the questionneed to replace fossil fuelsdoesn' t include the promotion of nuclear power. 3
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@atm19475 years ago You mentioned rojava at the end, you should look into the stuff relating to religious and ethnic minorities in rojava that aren' t kurdish or arab like assyrians, yazidis, etc. 5
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@underplague63445 months ago Youtube brought back search by oldest so i clicked on a random old vaush video and holy shit this man is a shapeshifter i swear he looks so different now. Sounds different too. 1
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@Dragonite435 years ago I took the test, and it says that i' m a democratic socialism. 48
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@Arbaaltheundefeated3 years ago I got liberal marxist as my closest match, with eco-marxist as the close second, which i feel does a pretty good job of describing my values. Getting id="hidden24" as my third closest was more of a surprise. P
probably ties in with the eco aspect, i would assume.
and at leastof thesounds vaguely better than ' tyranny of the masses' d. ...Expand 1
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@ravedubin46555 years ago That same test told me that i' m a libertarian socialist. 3
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@odiram5 years ago Imo the main problem with industrialized farming in its current form is soil depletion. Ironically we may end up with a food in the near future if due . ...Expand
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@eeveegaming47984 years ago I got council communist, but as a young leftist i am not knowledgable in everything there is, alot of things are currently beyond my brain. I also sometimes misundertood the question. 1
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@hindigente5 years ago Centralized planning is often necessary to diminish regional disparities with respect to development. More resourceful regions should support the development . ...Expand 21
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@alexwynters6004 years ago I' m a council communist, with the next 3 closest matches being democratic socialist, eco-marxist, and centrist marxist. 1
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@kk84904 years ago Closest match: centrist marxism
orthodox marxism: 92, 7%
eco-marxism: 90, 5%
how do i even interpret these results? Im an orthodox centrist who would destroy humanity to save the trees? Lmao. 6
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@alledzebu19755 years ago " in underdeveloped societies, a centrally planned economy is the best way to make rapid
could anyone please explain me what is this and why? Please? 3
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@2wyzegaming975 years ago I see you & yer dnd tee vaush. Looking forward to the campaign!
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@thatoneguyinthecomments26335 years ago Whoever brought up napoleon as a successful example of exile, you do realize he escaped the island and came back to fuck shit up, twice. 1
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@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot5 years ago You forgot to change the state punishing religion question after orwell' s nightmare pointed it out. So that might f shit up a bit. As well as the other whoops!. ...Expand 2
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@eelvis16745 years ago Abolishing prisons doesn' t need to mean not having places where people are imprisoned, but these places i wouldn' t call prisons because they are . ...Expand 1
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@SemiIocon5 years ago I got council communism. I didn' t even know what that was, lol. 3
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@demosthenes9955 years ago We dont need nuclear, which is fission, or renewable energy. Those have some good qualities to them, and can produce some good energy, but our really best . ...Expand 1
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@samus5985 years ago I feel like there will come a day when computers can be used to distribute resources in a more efficient way, in a way that meets the needs of people and . ...Expand 2
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@RGCDTB4 years ago vegans would like to have a word with vaush 7
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@frozenblade19545 years ago Could you make a video on anarchist purity testing? I had a conversation with some anarchist friends and they claimed that communism is inherently uncompatable . ...Expand
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@gretep4 years ago I got council communism, with eco-anarchism andas my second and third. 1
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@slavyanych2315 years ago 60. 3% revolutionary
75% scientific
91. 7% decentrilized hidden35"
95. 8% union
52. 4%nature
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@cezariusus75954 years ago
(at least vaush acknowledged that revolutions are a "mixed bag")
(violence good)
(this happened in so many communist countries)
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@eeveegaming47984 years ago On the exporting idelogy, i beleive it will be hard for socialism to survive without exporting their ideolgy, not like were doing right now, but basically . ...Expand
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@pantasaron92533 years ago it depends on the country tho. It's possible in most countries but densely populated places like some european countries would need huge reservoires that aren't developed yet .. ...Expand
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@Hayden_Cat5 years ago
My bf bro went to prison for rape he gets out in 6 months. He pleaded guilty but my bf says he didnt do it. 1
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@SD-tp8cs5 years ago Democratic centralism is freedom of discussion and unity of action. Imho it is democratic. Lenin emphasizes that democratic debate is an absolute requirement . ...Expand
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@gupyb41653 years ago Well, i too consider leftvalues asbiased.
got something like 60/30 when i would be more 50/50. 1
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@demosthenes9955 years ago I' m confused. What the hell did red oceainia do to get banned? 3
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@lovaloo763last year It would be interesting to see vaush retake this test, i' d like to see the extent to which his takes have softened, if at all.
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@eelvis16745 years ago I also got neutral on party vs union which allows for the council communist. 1
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@emmettchan55455 years ago Personally i think it depends on what you mean underyou' d always need a way to quarantine people who will harm society, and you can call that place prison, but i think that some factors that make prisonmostly the way it treats its inmates, should not be present and thus using the word would not be entirely applicable. It' s quarantine, not punishment. It' s humane, not a form of torture. Plus it' d have a much smaller population, as 1) poverty based crime would be basically non-existent and 2) rehabilitation centers would take in anyone who can be rehabilitated. ...Expand
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@FurikoMaru3 years ago - wait, are the issues with topsoil depletion not known to our distinguished host? Like I'm not an expert but I was under the impression we gotta ease off on a couple of output-maximization strategies before we fuck up our ability to grow food at all. .. ...Expand
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@sreyerbri74694 years ago I looked up left test and it auto-corrected to left testicle pain, so, that' s on my search history now i guess.
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@FlashmanJW5 years ago It gave me neutral on certain ones even though it was above 55% for example, i got 40% central and 60% decentral on economy but it said i was neutral. / I got centrist marxism followed by orthodox.
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@Speederzzz5 years ago Marxist centralism. Whoo i' m a leftist fence sitter. 2
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@fl00fydragon5 years ago I think the " similar cultures" thing was about the eu.
if that' s the case i' d say yes.
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@notsayingimbetterthanyoubu31874 years ago I got eco marxism not that i am really worried about climate change, but probably had a lot to do with my answers on power structures and economy. I am . ...Expand
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@dietrichbraun98455 years ago Somehow i got market anarchism, even though i consider myself pretty demsoc. 2
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@lalitthapa1013 years ago I got left wing nationalism.
but in the overall 8 values one i got socialism liberalism. 1
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@chrishampton25652 years ago Well i' m, a eco-anarchist. That' s pretty darn accurate to my beliefs. 1
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@nateblack86695 years ago I took a similar test and my results where libertarian socialist, which is what i identify as, so no complaints here i want to try this leftvalues test next.
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@bozotheinfernoclown26265 years ago I' m surprised by the open arm welcome from vaushs audience,
i thought everyone would report me and call me a nazi. 12
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@n16r494 years ago Vanguardism is only necessary as long as education is trash, most people are inherrently capable of rational thought as such they can make the right decision . ...Expand
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@CK-jd1kf5 years ago Wtf do markets have to do with organizing society bottom-up rather than top-down? 2
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@presidenttogekiss6354 years ago Oh, poor vaush. You are gonna eat bugs. Just accept it. It hurts less that way. 1
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@RayLRhodes3 years ago I thinkindividuals torefers to national jobs programme. At least that' s how i interpreted.
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@hatchethead33555 years ago Fuck yeah! I took the test right before watching this and i came out counsel communist as well! Come now comrade vaush! Let us seize the means of production . ...Expand
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@tomasroque33385 years ago How is marriage patriarchal?
this is an honest question. I would get it if you were talking about the traditional gender roles within marriage, please explain this to me, i had never considered this possibility before. ...Expand
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@tatzblazinzky35125 years ago I got centrist marxist (i just wanna grill some dang bourgeoisie) but probably because i answered neutral a lot due to weird wording of questions. Next . ...Expand
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@patrickcarney61715 years ago Vaush you should listen to the workers song by dropkick murphy' s it was released in 2003 but it sounds like it could' ve come out yesterday, some things never change.
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@darthutah66495 years ago Then why did China's economy grow faster when Deng Xiaoping made free market reforms? 1
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@owenbelezos83694 months ago some political parties should engage in liberal democracy, with other parties not engaging in liberal which can regulate and make sure that those parties do not become watered down from trying to appeal to as many people as possible. .. ...Expand
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@Kavukamari4 years ago I suppose we would want to abolish industrialized farming because it' s really bad for the environment?
but i don' t think that necessarily . ...Expand
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@paintedhorse68802 years ago " i think capitalism is useful"
-vaush 2020. 2
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@thomasbuchovecky22055 years ago I am a " centrist marxist" followed by eco-marxist and orthodox marxist. Everything else was 75% or lower with my only 0 in utopian socialism. The more you know.
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@benkim69694 years ago .. 1