Helen Keller, feminist, radical socialist, anti-racist activist and civil libertarian

@nojaboja has already engaged you on that challenge.

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They get tax revenues of currencies which they implemented themselves anyway? If they have enough wealth to represent in their currency, doesn’t this imply they can already afford it? Besides, since money is a human technology, it seems more likely that having humans to use it is a prerequisite - whereas if people put capital first, it can’t do anything on its own.

Seems like a topic derailment to me, since it ceases to have anything to do with Helen Keller. FWIW I think countries are a goofy idea.

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Please point to a purely capitalist nation that has done well.

Or is nuance hard for your manichean little worldview to accommodate?

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Admittedly, I don’t know the specifics of Helen Keller’s politics, but that article doesn’t make her out to be particularly radical. I guess, those were different times.

This strikes me as pretty disingenuous. I wouldn’t say that capitalist nations (read: the United States) have treated “their disabled and their impoverished” particularly well either. In fact, Helen Keller’s activism (see article) was in reaction to numerous examples of such mistreatment.

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& there is this also: Cuba led the fight against ebola, sending more medics to West Africa than the US. This by the way is the internationalist side of socialism.

I am fed up with simplistic neo-liberal politics viciously destroying the hard fought progress achieved by 19th & 20th century socialists.

Free Education, clean water, safe roads, cleanish air the bits that make the First World the First Word as opposed to places where you pay for education, there is no public infrastructure all of these things were fought for and argued for by socialists…get your history right.

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First, state capitalism is still capitalism.

Second, Helen Keller’s support for the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World, not to mention the American Civil Liberties Union, are hardly compatible with totalitarianism.

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Don’t forget she was a Swedenborgian too!

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That’s not what they said on Fox News.

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Like Johnny Appleseed!

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You are acting more Socialism always makes things worse whereas it could be true that the US needs more, (and maybe even Sweden needs less according to the curve below)

The takeaway being: The US needs more Socialism

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Maybe so, but the real issue here is that her very valid politcal opinions are entirely relevant to her personal achievements. And, sadly, those opinions have been erased, thanks to the very kinds of politics you apparently hold so dear.

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I came in here looking for Helen Keller jokes. All of you have disappointed me greatly.

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“How do you make Hellen Keller mad?”

“Ooh, this’ll be good… I don’t know, how?”

“Social injustice.”

“…That’s not very funny.”

“No, it isn’t, is it?”

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Very well put. The idea of divorcing a great person from their political views is really strange, when you think about it. Almost as if political views were like rooting for a ball team, and we may as well pick a side at random because they’re all the same. A great many powerful people work very hard to distract us from the reality that policy has consequences, and policy can kill.

I’ve always been baffled by people who can openly advocate laws that hurt others, but it’s this team mentality. As long as my team scores, that’s all that matters. But political convictions are not mere matters of opinion, they are matters of life and death.

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Since I am have anarcho-communist beliefs rather than state communist ones, and the capitalist LibDem-Conservative coalition here in the UK have treated the disabled and impoverished appallingly (with strong evidence it will get worse if either get back into government after next months election, especially if Falange and his kippers are in the coalition), I think I will take the risk.

I have long term chronic PTSD and have never really recovered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, so I know how bad it gets even if I have been lucky so far.

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It’s patronizing to hold the disabled above criticism.

And what about when the criticism is wrong? And why isn’t there something like Godwin’s Law for false comparisons between Stalin/Mao/Pol Pot and socialists who are opposed to authoritarians?

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If the criticism not valid, just say so.

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