SEPTEMBER 2021 $2+ PATRON UPDATE AND Q&A
Added 2021-09-10 18:10:56 +0000 UTCEnjoy! Leave questions for next month BELOW IN THE COMMENTS ON PATREON PLEASE!
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Thanks for the response, at least the best bits are on the second channel
Dr 69
2021-09-29 19:38:30 +0000 UTCI can't, I stream when Im able
BadEmpanada
2021-09-29 18:59:16 +0000 UTCI live in a timezone where your streams are difficult to watch but if I knew in advance I could do so more often. Is there any coherent streaming schedule or is it just as you feel?
Dr 69
2021-09-29 17:46:05 +0000 UTCHow do you feel (if at all) about Amadeo Bordiga and the line of Marxist thought associated with him eg the International Communist Party?
Dr 69
2021-09-28 13:10:30 +0000 UTCHey Jill, if I were to try and take a stab at your question: owning slaves is expensive and requires being responsible for the slave. Aside from the initial cost of purchasing a slave (which was compounded when the supply of slaves became limited to only those born in the US), a slave requires food, shelter, supervisors, training, rewards for runaway slaves, etc... During the original colonization of the Americas, it was far more cost effective to have indentured servitude because the casualties rates were so high (resulting in indentured servants not being able to survive long enough to claim lands). It was only when there was enough infrastructure and disease had dropped that bringing in slaves to the US became cost effective. The Caribbean had similar issues, but due to their more valuable cash crops and cheaper importation costs, slaves were considered more 'disposable' and the return on investment was higher. After many societal changes and technological advancements, slavery itself became less and less cost effective, which may explain why it went out of fashion without the need for violent civil wars in most countries. There's countless books about this topic, that can probably go into better detail and I feel a bit disgusted typing about human beings like they're commodities, but I think you can get the gist. Slavery itself has inherent costs, and for a while it was the most viable form of labor (especially when it was industrialized and the owners were removed from the day to day conditions of their slaves); but that was not always the case and the rise of industrialized labor jobs, the shift from rural to urban populations and the ability to offshore labor to cheaper markets all contributed in one way or another. Hope I got that right BE :D
The American Shaman
2021-09-23 12:17:09 +0000 UTCThis is specifically a question pursuing the statement in your Prager U Slavery video at timestamp 2:35; Why did the ruling class want to transition from slavery to wage labor? What was to be gained by switching to a system where the lower classes participated in a market economy, rather than relying on more traditional methods of coercion? If these methods were just becoming obsolete, then why were they becoming obsolete?
Jillian
2021-09-17 21:51:41 +0000 UTCdo you find the concepts of deep politics or power structure analysis useful for political and historical analysis?
Watermane
2021-09-12 05:26:51 +0000 UTCWho are your favorite Marxist historians?
Jason Wess
2021-09-11 17:56:51 +0000 UTCWhat's the funnest part of streaming to you? What's the worst part?
aismallard
2021-09-11 02:07:48 +0000 UTCThanks for the update! Good luck with everything.
Claudia
2021-09-11 00:06:08 +0000 UTCNo questions just hope your immigration stuff goes well!
Naomi Starlight
2021-09-10 19:41:11 +0000 UTC
