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What does your first sentence mean? I can not understand such language.

XTCs are actually dangerous. They are addicting and dangerous for your body. They are supposed to be used for scientific researches and medical treatment only.

Again, how do they 'dehumanize muslims by acting like they are terrorists'? By securing borders? 

I feel sorry for your experience (although, you may think I'm just pretending to sympathize). I admit that the personal firearms regulation is not being implemented that properly. But banning guns won't solve the problem, and it is violating the second amendment. Even if guns were banned, violent people could use anything for their crime (knives, cars, blunt objects, etc.).

Trump did not ban the trans in the US army because he is discriminatory to LGBTs. He did that because trans soldiers need to much military budget for their surgeries. If he really did that on the basis of discrimination, he would also ban gays, lesbians, and bisex people, muslims, and people of color. The fact that he didn't do any of that means that it is purely about military budget effectiveness. Besides, trans soldiers still serves in the US army despite the 'ban' that Trump made. 

Please be more open minded. There are LGBT right wingers and muslim conservatives as well. Even though we have different political views, it shouldn't divide us by race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. We are all one human species after all. Peace😊


Btw, I knew I shouldn't have started this debate. Because people will swarm and debate me at almost the same time. I was talking about capitalism, but look how far I end up.😄 From now on, I hope I can stop debating politics here. Except for Bing which I promised to. Not that I haven't had enough debates with other people from YouTube too😁

The first sentence means that wealth can be inherited

I agree XTC is very dangerous but if you make it illegal criminals will produce it and get the profit

I’m very sorry for creating the impression that I myself was victim of a shooting. I was just referring to the fact that it’s more common in the USA and could happen to every student.

Dehumanising Muslims by for example banning people in many countries in the Middle East from visiting the USA because they’re all terrorists according to trump but leaving out Saudi Arabia while osama bin laden was born there.

You’re right de trump administration didn’t take many anti LGBTQs measures but banning transgenders from the army because their operations cost a lot of money is bs, the USA spends so much money on the army that a few milion more or less is barely noticeable.

And off course there are Muslims and gays who support trump but fact is that there are many more extreme Cristians who support trump.



Edit: if you don’t want to continue I completely understand that, you’re most likely not going to change your opinion and I’m not either

I do, but I'm not one who should be consulted on it... not that very strong haha

This is because time change and heal our past and differences, and we humans create history together mate!

That's extremely basic and naive lol. Marxism is not just an immature concept that you can childishly throw around, thats so literal. What I am trying to say is that Marxism isnt just about reductive communism and socialism. I am trying to introduce it and capitalism in the literary lens; how it affects our society on a structural scale, and how literature (which you do not accept) seeks to address and expose them. 

As for an evidence, the illusion of meritocracy in a Capitalist system can be seen as an apt example. Meritocracy is the illusion of success, where ideological subjects, through various ideological state apparatuses, are made to believe that they will be able to attain more rewards (basically social/economic capital) in a Capitalist system, and that they all have the liberty to do so out of their own free will, and have equal opportunities to do so as well. Nothing too politically or economically dense for anyone to understand here, so my logic and critical theory is starkly in the open.

Such material life conditions, as Karl Marx explains, are forms of social existence that determines Man's consciousness. Conversely it is not Man who chooses reality, but it is that reality coerces mankind to believe that the way of seeing themselves and explaining the world is natural. Back to meritocracy, which is very apparent in many educational systems, students are made to believe that the more effort they put in, the more rewards they will reap in the future. That is why so much resources are spent into tutors, materials, pre-education classes, camps, workshops and so on. Then again, meritocracy disillusions subjects to believe that despite the inequality that they face in their access to capital (tuition, textbooks, internet access etc.), if they put in the same level, if not even more work and determination they are able to securely stay ahead in the rat-race. In reality, that is not the case. If you claim that I am wrong and atrociously ignorant, I can safely say that you are basing your assumptions not only on popular success stories (quote me 100 in detail, and they still peripheral among the world's population), which is very biased and reductive, but also based on a state of false consciousness. You do not realize the social exploitation that takes place, where people with pre-determined capital and placed at obviously a much better position then those who have not and are disenfranchised, but instead focus on the individual's agency and power (i.e. subscribing to meritocracy) and blame them for their situation. 

I am sorry if you are vexed by this, but in reality if you believe that Marxism is mere political extremism and that Capitalism is the pure and effective framework (well it is the MOST effective, but that doesnt dictate that it itself is EFFECTIVE as well. Catch is that neither you nor I nor any intellectual can come up with a better system), you are in reality deceived and captivated by the myth of success. By insisting on the very ideology that enslaves you and dominates your thoughts, beliefs on equality, justice, integrity, diligence etc, you fervently deny the "unseeable", things that defy your definitions and beliefs. Insidiously you think you CHOOSE these beliefs, but they are really pre-conditioned and influenced onto you the minute you appeared in this dominantly Capitalist society. Thus you are determined to defend your beliefs, and cannot imagine how the disadvantaged are at a much lower base than the ones in hold of capital. You, make up most of the world and their actions, and thus these individuals are overshadowed even more. It is the duty and means of Literature that reveals and exposes these naive notions that the world has, and elevates or conflates reality with the "unimaginable" plight of the voiceless sub-alterns, which are represented or done justice for (representation itself has problems, but back to +literary+ Capitalism and Marxism since no one can accept it as real)

The Capitalist ideology and myth of success and power are hidden from us by ideology itself. It is not that ideology is unreal and that Marx is a deranged lunatic. It is because ideology is in places you cannot access and see clearly, even though it pervades your entire life, and society. You can never act out of free will, or think out of personal choice, intuition or even genius that you think you have. It is all contained, more so by the material existence of ideology. 

What does Marxism argue? Basically the need for a classless society, free from capitalist exploitation for profit making by the ones with capital and power. Marxist critical theory argues, additionally, that the exploited (you and I, even the exploiters are exploited by the system they conform to) are alienated from themselves, identifying themselves as mere products to run the Capitalist system, cogs in the machine. You asked me once, what does materialism have to do with capitalism? Very simply put, capitalism creates the illusion of power, and subjects that want to ascend the social ladder and appear powerful obsess on the material goods (clothing, gadgets, property). On a deeper level, materialism ties in with Marxist Literature where the objectification of mankind, based on the indifferent, emotionless materialism that they indulge mindlessly in, is an effect of capitalism, again the self-suppression of identity. 

Perhaps when I talk about these literary concepts, you might recall some books that you have read that support the opposite, and use that as evidence to refute my points. There are many branches of literature, the first being Liberal Humanism (nothing to do with political spheres), where the literary canon believes that human autonomy triumphs over the system. This empowering idea is an illusionist reality that is common in many publications, as well as non-fiction discourses. A Marxist critical lens states that the capitalist system dominates and controls all subjects in it (unless you are in an extremist socialist state, that is an ideal state of Communism, which is impossible, in layman terms due to globalization, you can escape this and automatically throw shade on my argument). Althusser suggests that this is coerced, while Gramsci states that this is a form of spontaneous consent by society (Hegemony), caused by the prestige that the ones in power enjoy, and that individuals can choose to break free from hegemony, which again Foucault knocks down in his subversion-containment model. Critics and theorists aside, Capitalism is at the end of the day multiple things. Commonly, you guys have given it a literal definition, which is not wrong since it has been supported and argued by so many other systemic subjects that it now constitutes the new hyper-reality that we believe in. I am trying to reveal that on another literary level, it can mean a lot as a reflection on our current ideological society. Nothing is free from ideology, and whatever we do, no matter where in our daily lives, buying health products (where healthcare should be an intrinsic human right, but it is commodified as a marketable good) or in intellectual, economic or political discourse, if we do not realize our positions we are doubly oppressed by ideology and continue to be exploited by it, and it is even worse when we believe in its merits and ignore its faultlines (cultural materialism, but ill stop here)

You demanded an example, I gave you meritocracy. It does not have to be so apparent and specific, for even in this discussion you have proven to be a docile subject