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Plane

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #120 on: December 31, 2009, 12:24:45 AM »
I think "Luddite" is one of the most loaded descriptions in the English language.  For one thing, it makes a huge assumption in equating progress with novelty. 

The newest is NOT necessarily the best, and the fisher folk who opposed being relocated to the interior to make way for high-rise development are not necessarily against all forms of progress.  I'm sure they'd welcome the latest in navigational aids, school locators, fuel efficiency, etc.  It's ludicrous to label them as "Luddites" for wanting to preserve their livelihoods and traditional way of life.

I did not make that comparison, I don't think it apt.

I mean to compare Communists to Luddites.

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #121 on: December 31, 2009, 12:32:57 AM »
Sorry, I mistook your meaning.

You might have a point, but "Luddite"has acquired such a negative connotation, in order to apply it to Communists, we might have to explore first the actual ramifications of the Luddite movement.  I just associate it with smashing the machines, standing firmly in the way of progress.  Maybe in view of the experience of the less developed world with the destructive nature of global capitalism, the present-day "Luddites" might not be all that bad or all that wrong.

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #122 on: December 31, 2009, 09:53:27 AM »
>> That's how children are.<<

Actually PTSD, children act tough and then whine to mommy when they get put in their place.

Bitch.

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #123 on: December 31, 2009, 08:26:50 PM »
Sorry, I mistook your meaning.

You might have a point, but "Luddite"has acquired such a negative connotation, in order to apply it to Communists, we might have to explore first the actual ramifications of the Luddite movement.  I just associate it with smashing the machines, standing firmly in the way of progress.  Maybe in view of the experience of the less developed world with the destructive nature of global capitalism, the present-day "Luddites" might not be all that bad or all that wrong.


Hahahahaha!

I have to admit ,I have not established that being a Luddite is always a bad thing.

Michael Tee

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #124 on: January 01, 2010, 02:32:06 PM »
<<I have to admit ,I have not established that being a Luddite is always a bad thing.>>

Also not established is whether there are various shades of Luddite.

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #125 on: January 01, 2010, 03:05:55 PM »
>> That's how children are.<<

Actually PTSD, children act tough and then whine to mommy when they get put in their place.

Bitch.

he thinks he can stump you but he can't

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Re: Romania Marks 20th Year Since Kommie Kollapse
« Reply #126 on: January 01, 2010, 05:23:33 PM »
<<I have to admit ,I have not established that being a Luddite is always a bad thing.>>

Also not established is whether there are various shades of Luddite.

Are Communists a sort of Luddite lite?