Beru's Communism Omnibus Thread

[Geo]

What's the social appeal of New Year's Day?

[Lorizael]

The list nullifies the influence of religion on the holidays...

Looks like the Gregorian calendar to me.

[E_T]

Banana!!

[Bearu]

What's the social appeal of New Year's Day?

The New Year's Day represents a new year on the basis of scientific analysis of the Earth's revolution based on the works of a man under the influence of religion.

Looks like the Gregorian calendar to me.

While the Gregorian calendar appears in the dates, the application of a new calendar will represent a product of the decisions from the people's democratic government. An alternate format of dates appears in the French Revolutionary Calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Another calendar appears in the Soviet model of dividing the days into a new work week system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

[Lorizael]

The New Year's Day represents a new year on the basis of scientific analysis of the Earth's revolution...

No. New Year's is scientifically meaningless. If you want a scientifically meaningful new year, it should be based around equinoxes/solstices. But those are all heavily religiously tinged, because we've been studying them for millennia.

[Elok]

January 1st is Saint Basil's Day AND the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.

[Bearu]

Sorry...

The new belt and road initiative reveals the importance of better infrastructure and technology in the advancement of a society; China embodies the influence of new technology on the development of a strong transportation system.

[Bearu]

No. New Year's is scientifically meaningless. If you want a scientifically meaningful new year, it should be based around equinoxes/solstices. But those are all heavily religiously tinged, because we've been studying them for millennia.

I will concede the point on the scientific basis for the New Year's Day.

[Bearu]

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An old woman raped and killed by the Japanese.

More women killed around Nanking.
The Rape of Nanking starts on 13th of December 1937, and the event extends for six weeks with the minimum number of deaths resulting from the Japanese military's mutilation of the Chinese population at 300,000 people. The Japanese commit a myriad variety of atrocities including the selling of women and girls into the sexual trade as "Pleasure Girls" and "Comfort Women." The actions extend into a number of various areas as stated in the Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

[Geo]

The "gripping hand" is that Beijing takes custody of infrastructure it built in countries which are unable to pay back loans.

[Bearu]

The industrial actions involve the struggle for human rights against the incessant greed and exploitation of corporate capitalism. The thread's purpose consists of illustrating the inhumane elements of modern capitalism with the hope for a worker's revolution. Each post will illustrate a single topic.

[Bearu]

The article discusses the potential issues behind the incessant exploitative actions of the Ross corporation towards the garment workers and finishers inside the U.S.A. The worker action reveals the rampant abuse of multiple layers of corporate management and distribution to conceal the underpayment of finishing workers in the U.S.A.
https://www.liberationnews.org/dress-for-less-but-at-what-cost-garment-workers-protest-ross-stores/

[Bearu]

The article discusses the rampant and brutal exploitation of the workers inside the prisons of the U.S.A. The American prisons still allow the enslavement of people under the 14th amendment principles as a form of punishment, yet the constitution bases the principle on the concept of prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
https://www.workers.org/2018/12/20/inmates-expose-systematic-abuse-in-georgia-jail/

[Unorthodox]

Didn't I read CRISPR had a serious flaw they just discovered? 

I thought the Chinese scientist that did this was in some hot water in China as well? 

Too busy to look it up. 

[Elok]

He did some dodgy stuff; he didn't inform the parents of what he was doing, and it's arguable that the risk of the children developing AIDS didn't justify the risk he was taking with the therapy.  I think all in all there were like a dozen ethical objections.