I just think it is so funny how corporations have stolen so much from people and it is ironic that, in stealing from the public, the public has chosen to steal from them in return. It really is great that Ahold Delhaize's CEOs are begging people to stop shoplifting. Like, you slashed benefits and wages by 75%, karma hits and when it does, it hits hard.

Got discussion and debate with Westerner online on death penalty. And one case of "Father speaks out after baby allegedly killed by 10-year-old girl" appear and they agree on death penalty. With reason like "she knows what she is doing", "she is a murderer". But girl has mental health problem, left with baby with no adult and no help from adult.

Marx say "It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expediency of capital punishment could be founded, in a society glorying in its civilisation. Punishment in general has been defended as a means either of ameliorating or of intimidating. Now what right have you to punish me for the amelioration or intimidation of others?"

So Marxist no defend death penalty but no Marxist can defend death penalty. What should I say to reponse back on why death penalty is wrong? My country has death penalty and over here seen as normal.

I wrote this for fun. Feel free to read it, but I would really appreciate any feedback, as this is my first attempt at writing anything related to Marxism. The main idea is very common, I know, but I guess it's a start for me. Remove if not allowed please.

Cheers!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KBQr2Vd5jC52H032CGE5otoY1h5gJh5GZv2Ni_eQjvw/edit?tab=t.0

There is a quote attributed to Ernst Bloch: “The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”

It is supposed to be from Vol. 1 of The Principle of Hope (MIT Press, 1995), but I wan't able to locate it in the book as it is, or praphrased. I am alsmost sure now it is either misattributed, fabricated, or a paraphrase of his ideas.

What do you think? Has anyone read the book?

Thanks!

I firmly believe that every worker is entitled to the value that they create through their labor. I also think it is both completely fair - as well as beneficial for a society - for the people that invent, design, and engineer new things to be rewarded for their innovation. In previous communist states, inventors could only find success if the government found their technology useful and worth investing in, which often hampered innovation.

There are parts of the free market that I think can work well in terms of supporting good ideas, but obviously with the current distribution of capital we have the same problem of ideas only getting support if you can network and convince the right people on board.

I'm wondering if there's a Marxist solution to this problem where both inventors are both invested in and rewarded for their labor and the value it brings.