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29 Dec 2023, 5:18 am

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Interesting...listening in on a conversation between two people...both from former Communist countries...comparing notes about transitioning from Communism to capitalism. And using using Marxist language to discuss it.


I prefer a mixed economy with restricted capitalism but greater social welfare. Communism and Socialism are good for society but are not so good for the economy because of the greater supply and demand. Capitalism has been regarded as good for the economy but not good for society because corporations and individuals often seek to profit for their own interests rather than the interests of the general populace (war profit, bribery, corruption, milking).


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29 Dec 2023, 5:54 am

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...survival of the fittest, intuitive biological attraction, natural selection, winners & losers, the attractive and desirable vs those who don’t successfully procreate etc etc. This structured system of “fairness,” seems to want to completely throw away nature’s systems of evolution & procreation that have been keeping all species going for as long as they’ve existed.. suggesting one man’s self serving sci-fi fantasy is superior to all of evolutionary biology combined.. which is ridiculous and the primary reason nothing like this will ever exist outside of some sort of contained cult environment.


There are winners and losers in this game. Once everyone wins, no one will. Those who break their pact with MAROF with the intention of doing evil will be guaranteed to lose. After all, no one likes sexual abuse and domestic violence so it is a good thing that MAROF will have its own security network of forestalls around the country that will ensure law and order is needed in order for humans to have a healthy relationship.

Though it cannot be guaranteed to achieve perfection, a good and happy memory is what a man and a woman need in order to believe in themselves and move upwards the motivational hierarchy.


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29 Dec 2023, 5:59 am

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At first I just got incel vibes, and then autistic incel vibes when I got to the part about some government agency teaching youths the dos and Don’ts of relationships.

Also detect a smattering of arranged marriage vibes - much like those of certain religions in India. Pros and cons to those, but the Western view is mostly cons - even by descendants of that system.

The other thing this sci-fi fantasy is is entirely against nature and the natural order of things.. survival of the fittest, intuitive biological attraction, natural selection, winners & losers, the attractive and desirable vs those who don’t successfully procreate etc etc. This structured system of “fairness,” seems to want to completely throw away nature’s systems of evolution & procreation that have been keeping all species going for as long as they’ve existed.. suggesting one man’s self serving sci-fi fantasy is superior to all of evolutionary biology combined.. which is ridiculous and the primary reason nothing like this will ever exist outside of some sort of contained cult environment.


Maybe there is eugenics vibe too. He thinks that the state should breed champion breeds of humans. Its hard to plow through his post so...the reader cant help but to interpret it in all kinds of possible ways. Lol!


Breeding is universal among all people regardless of culture, religion, race, and ethnicity. I as a Croatian Yugoslav, can have a family with a Serbian wife. We can tolerate our values of culture and religion but we are humans so we should not barricade ourselves from others who have different skin color or practice a different set of cultural and religious beliefs.


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31 Dec 2023, 3:42 am

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...survival of the fittest, intuitive biological attraction, natural selection, winners & losers, the attractive and desirable vs those who don’t successfully procreate etc etc. This structured system of “fairness,” seems to want to completely throw away nature’s systems of evolution & procreation that have been keeping all species going for as long as they’ve existed.. suggesting one man’s self serving sci-fi fantasy is superior to all of evolutionary biology combined.. which is ridiculous and the primary reason nothing like this will ever exist outside of some sort of contained cult environment.


Speaking of this. From your point of view, you believe that this "natural selection" thing justifies racism, sexism, and general prejudice against others because it's "natural". Sure I was born and have my own bit of human nature but I was not born to be a bigot. Bigotry is not "natural" even if it still persists. We are evolving but we are evolving to become smart and hopefully stop a global catastrophe caused by us HUMANS! Oh, what did you say? We can't because it's "natural" for us to be evil...

Please elaborate on your "human nature".


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31 Dec 2023, 3:56 am

Man will eventually create a system that replaces the laws of nature. I don't mean to change now. Just saying that reliance on God or an invisible hand or theory of human nature is not necessary, although they are still at work now.

A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


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31 Dec 2023, 4:05 am

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At first I just got incel vibes, and then autistic incel vibes when I got to the part about some government agency teaching youths the dos and Don’ts of relationships.


I don't believe in the idea of being a happy man from having sex. To have sex, you truly have to feel it. Men who claim that "sex makes joy" are often misogynist and actually don't even want sex. Elliot Rodger, an infamous person who has claimed the lives of several people claimed that he wanted sex but no woman gave it to him and so he began despising women and created the idea that sex should be abolished and children should be made by artificial intelligence.

The definition of an incel is "involuntary celibate", a person who desires sex but is denied pleasure. The incel community is often composed of white heterosexual males who complain about not having sex and blaming women for their loneliness which is ABSURD! As an autistic man, I do not believe in giving any mercy or hope for the incels because they don't ask for sex but just want women to be erased from this planet, therefore they deserve to be lonely for their toxicity and genuine desire to commit terrorism on innocent people.

But keep in mind that though the majority of incels are men, there are also female incels (femcels) who have the same mindset but instead blame men for all of their problems because they didn't have sex and want to erase men. The femcel issue has recently been on the rise with tens of thousands of women proclaiming themselves as "incels" in 2020. TikTok in 2022 reported that over 250 million views contained hashtags such as #femcel, #femcelcore, and #femcelrights.

In conclusion, MAROF is not an incel's dream. MAROF works as a system to bring opportunities for marriages, relationships, and friendships for those who couldn't do it for themselves because of toxic standards set by society. MAROF will deal with incels appropriately by simply arresting anyone who speaks against others because they "couldn't get laid" and MAROF reserves the right to infiltrate incel groups and liquidate them because these people are simply banding up to establish a miserable system that will deprive EVERYONE of their marriages, relationships, and friendships just because these "outcasts" didn't get a chance.


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31 Dec 2023, 4:23 am

A comparison of the proposed MAROF system with other systems.
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31 Dec 2023, 4:27 am

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A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.


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31 Dec 2023, 4:31 am

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31 Dec 2023, 4:31 am

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A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.

Special statement: I support everything that is progressive. I support 60% of MAROF, and I also admit that there are problems with it in the poster's description. I attribute it to the poster's insufficient theoretical level. Reform is good, but the specific system must be viewed dialectically.


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31 Dec 2023, 5:42 am

Here is a link to the article from the Left Voice website regarding family, love, and relationships.

Link -> https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-socialism/

I found a paragraph regarding Engels' thought on the family.

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Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State attempts to scientifically trace the development of the nuclear family unit leading up to the bourgeois family. He argues that prior to the emergence of private property, societies were not organized on the basis of family units, and that there was no strict division between one family and another; instead, groups collectively organized childcare and production. It is only with the emergence of private property that the family unit was created in order to pass down private property. Later, with the development of capitalism, there is the formation of the “bourgeois” family; the proletariat had no property to pass down, and thus has no use for family units divorced from the rest of the community.

Engels calls the end of matriarchal relations and establishment of the family unit the “historical defeat of the female sex.” The creation of the patriarchal family preceded capitalism and became the basis of the economic and social structure in capitalism. Ideologically, it is naturalized as the only way to express and organize loving relations.


This is then followed by a critique on the function of the family under capitalism and how it encourages competition and how it degrades women with unpaid labor.

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As most people can tell you, capitalism is all about competition and individualism. While that is true, it’s only part of the story. It’s not only the individual that one is meant to care about — it’s the individual family unit. As opposed to towns or tribes, the central building block of capitalist society is the nuclear family.

If the nuclear family is integral to maintaining a system of exploitation and private property, love in capitalism is a ruse for the economic functions of family units. Kollontai says, “Aware that the stability of the family — the economic unit on which the bourgeois system rests — required that its members be linked by more than economic ties alone, the revolutionary ideologies of the rising bourgeoisie propagated the new moral ideal of love that embraced both the flesh and the soul.” In other words, modern love as connected to marriage was invented by capitalism.

After all, the family unit ensures child care, food, and laundry services at no cost to the state or the capitalists, the majority of which is intended to be rendered by women; the family ensures competition externally, as well as selflessness internally, particularly in the form of women’s unpaid labor. As Kollontai argues, “The entire morality of the bourgeoisie was directed towards the concentration of capital. The ideal was the married couple working together to improve their welfare and to increase the wealth of their particular family unit, divorced as it was from society.”


And finally, the paragraph about the Bolsheviks' view on the family and love. There is also Trotsky talking about the family and love.

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To the Bolsheviks, free love and women’s liberation was a central component of a socialist revolution. They wrote and debated extensively on the topic, as well as bringing about the most advanced women’s rights legislation that the world had ever seen.

These were only the first steps towards the Bolshevik idea of the end of the family, which was deemed both capitalist and patriarchal. It was only the first steps towards the abolition of compulsory domestic labor, socializing reproductive work and including it in the planned economy. Trotsky writes, “The revolution made a heroic effort to destroy the so-called ‘family hearth’ – that archaic, stuffy and stagnant institution in which the woman of the toiling classes performs galley labor from childhood to death. The place of the family as a shut-in petty enterprise was to be occupied, according to the plans, by a finished system of social care and accommodation: maternity houses, creches, kindergartens, schools, social dining rooms, social laundries, first-aid stations, hospitals, sanatoria, athletic organizations, moving-picture theaters, etc. The complete absorption of the housekeeping functions of the family by institutions of the socialist society, uniting all generations in solidarity and mutual aid, was to bring to woman, and thereby to the loving couple, a real liberation from the thousand-year-old fetters” (Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed).


In my perspective, the "abolishment of family" meant that they were seeking to eradicate the shut-in, private families that only tended to earn for their gains rather than the true collective benefit. MAROF as a system is meant to encourage comradeship and love but also a reminder that this "free love" is for the collective good and that people must work together and help one another.

MAROF is meritocratic since it is to be run by people with expertise in human relationships. MAROF rewards those who take good care of their friends, partners, families, and spouses while it punishes those who are entitled to abuse their loved ones whether physically or sexually. This is because MAROF must be a fair system as well because to get free love, one must prove oneself capable of a healthy relationship. MAROF will assist the lonely individuals who feel isolated from society via special therapy programs and set them basic goals such as building self-confidence which is the first step towards a healthy relationship with others.

And when it comes to MAROF, they are serious. MAROF will reward the lonely men and women who accomplish their primary objective of building self-confidence. Their reward will be that they will be eligible for social interactions and establishing relationships. With that, comes the second step, and finally, the third step which is to pursue a healthy and a responsible family that will mostly rely on their own children but they will also rely on contributing to the community as a whole (as a type of repayment without harsh and unjust labor) by introducing the children to the significance of friendships and relationships.

All of this is to ensure that the working class maintains productivity and achieves a level of self-management by being content that they have support from others and their families.


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31 Dec 2023, 6:02 am

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A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.

What makes you think that people would accept or want such a system to replace their own free will to let the chips fall where they may?


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31 Dec 2023, 6:07 am

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Yugoslav1945 wrote:
belijojo wrote:
A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.

What makes you think that people would accept or want such a system to replace their own free will to let the chips fall where they may?

So there’s some room for negotiation here: Name the parts of the system that you think don’t embody free will.
A good system benefits everyone, and only the former oppressors will oppose it.
State your concerns: Worried about someone losing his sex slave?
It solves many problems that arise in nuclear families based on economic ties: domestic violence, abortion, bullying, and of course,It's obviously too rough, I hope you can correct it


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31 Dec 2023, 6:22 am

goldfish21 wrote:
Yugoslav1945 wrote:
belijojo wrote:
A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.

What makes you think that people would accept or want such a system to replace their own free will to let the chips fall where they may?


There are those who can't find love and friends because they have been shunned by others. The lonely people want to be recognized and MAROF will offer them a free and fair system. Free will doesn't mean, ousting an autistic individual just because they have a social impairment caused by their mental disability. Also, you had the nerves to call an autistic person an "incel" which for me feels like you are supportive of a caste system whose eugenics have been practiced by most notably the Nazis and yet you dare accuse me of "eugenics" when it is you who has an issue with people who do not have the same "neurotypical" mindset that matches yours.

Please do tell me, what do you want in your life to be content with and I'm sure I can tolerate it and let you be unless you wish nothing but harm.


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31 Dec 2023, 6:28 am

belijojo wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Yugoslav1945 wrote:
belijojo wrote:
A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.

What makes you think that people would accept or want such a system to replace their own free will to let the chips fall where they may?

So there’s some room for negotiation here: Name the parts of the system that you think don’t embody free will.
Basic Principle: Free will is not a reason to occupy other people’s space

Some government weenie being given a month to observe me in a new friendship/relationship to determine fitness of the relationship yada yada.. lol F that; I can determine for myself in moments if I'm interested in befriending someone or having a sexual relationship with them. Government weenies can F off with their weird forced socializing, observations, determinations etc etc. None of it sounds like free will or anything remotely resembling a natural relationship.

It also doesn't sound too far off from dating websites like eharmony, which I Also think is a bit weird. At least with those people decide themselves if they want to be a part of that system and they opt in and pay for it if they want to try letting someone else pick a date or partner for them and see how that works out. No f*****g way would some forced national system be something I'd want any part of. Even IF I remain as single as I've been my whole life; forcing someone else to give me a month's opportunity this and that blah blah blah is just weird. I'd rather be single than have some government weenie pair me up with someone else and try to force a relationship to happen. Much more satisfying being single on my own terms than in a fake relationship someone settled for because some weenie told them to.


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31 Dec 2023, 6:36 am

goldfish21 wrote:
belijojo wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Yugoslav1945 wrote:
belijojo wrote:
A 400-year-old internal combustion engine, created by technicians and workers, has defeated a 6,000-year-old or even longer horse. People should have the confidence to replace old things in every field.


And so MAROF will one day put a stop to the insidious patriarchies and matriarchies and establish a free and happy society where men and women are content with their marriages, relationships, and friendships.

What makes you think that people would accept or want such a system to replace their own free will to let the chips fall where they may?

So there’s some room for negotiation here: Name the parts of the system that you think don’t embody free will.
Basic Principle: Free will is not a reason to occupy other people’s space

Some government weenie being given a month to observe me in a new friendship/relationship to determine fitness of the relationship yada yada.. lol F that; I can determine for myself in moments if I'm interested in befriending someone or having a sexual relationship with them. Government weenies can F off with their weird forced socializing, observations, determinations etc etc. None of it sounds like free will or anything remotely resembling a natural relationship.

It also doesn't sound too far off from dating websites like eharmony, which I Also think is a bit weird. At least with those people decide themselves if they want to be a part of that system and they opt in and pay for it if they want to try letting someone else pick a date or partner for them and see how that works out. No f*****g way would some forced national system be something I'd want any part of. Even IF I remain as single as I've been my whole life; forcing someone else to give me a month's opportunity this and that blah blah blah is just weird. I'd rather be single than have some government weenie pair me up with someone else and try to force a relationship to happen. Much more satisfying being single on my own terms than in a fake relationship someone settled for because some weenie told them to.


You will certainly have the free will since these relationships will not be "forced" but instead "encouraged". You will still have the will to decide if it YOU who wants it because I understand that the state may not always be on the right but at the same time, YOUR will is valued by MAROF and they will do their best to find you a high match not just for a romantic relationship but in general to let you have someone to talk to.

You can be alone but there must be an acceptable and suitable level of your loneliness because "hermiting" is not the lifestyle that MAROF would approve of. You can be single and still have friends with like-minded interests. What I am saying is that MAROF does not force people to love another but instead praises them for showing faith and kindness to others in friendships, relationships, and marriages. Also, MAROF will and must make sure that these relationships lead to high levels of motivation and productivity so that the community as a whole can prosper under correct guidance.


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