But I've already demonstrated that the contraband possession rates don't reflect what you purport. There is a racial disparity when it comes to criminal activity tilting in the favour of blacks, not whites.
Yield hits in terms of contraband possession? Demonstrably untrue, the entire study the WP links to has already been dismissed: there is no racial bias in policing, the evidence for the conspiracy doesn't exist. Pointing to a correlation and calling it a causation doesn't count.
It's because there is a racial disparity in criminal activity: blacks commit more criminal activity. Here's some more info on criminal activity in Missouri: mshp.dps.missouri.gov/MSHPWeb/SAC/CIM/CrimeInMissouri.html. Check the drug survey I linked above. Blacks use drugs at slightly higher rates than whites do (12 or older, 2002-2013, figure 2.12/page 27 from samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHresultsPDFWHTML2013/Web/NSDUHresults2013.pdf). It isn't "whites are a greater hit" as you claim. Again, the assumption that whites are walking free because cops don't care about white drug use relies on unfalsifiable claims: you don't know the crimes that aren't committed and reported yet, it's pure speculation. And claiming that there is a bias is not really a tenable position, it's already been debunked.
Ian Edwards
Is there any titoist theory book? All of this stuff im reading about Yugoslavia seems pretty nice
Jayden Flores
Well, I tried communism once back in college…
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
So yes. Communism is an inherent reaction to, and therefore a part of, the material conditions of capitalism.
Mostly it was the bad weather, and the silly Kulaks. Stalin´s policies of collectivization didn´t help though.
I don know, I wasn´t there.
Never been, but from what I´ve heard and read, there is a lot of poverty. The education and healthcare systems are both superb, especially considering the level of poverty. Far from ideal, but it is much better for the working class then it was before the revolution.
Jonathan Evans
There are as many different ideologies on the left as there are people, so it's not like anarchism and M-L are the only options. You can make up your own mind about each group and go from there, but in general we all agree that any left wing ideology except Nazbol is better than Capitalism. Anything we fling at each other is just bantz.
Jackson Baker
Isn't Communism stateless?
Carson Gonzalez
A comparison is not an equivalence, btw.
Robert Cox
It is, which is why USSR wasn't communism. It wasn't even socialism because the workers had no control over their workplaces.
Luke Reed
It's true though. It's kind of sad I guess but it is true.
Joseph Carter
I'm not suggesting that whites use drugs at higher rates, I'm saying that when whites are searched, these searches are more likely to yield positive results. Blacks however are more likely to be searched overall. What this suggests is that cops are quicker to search blacks even when they aren't carrying, ie cops are making assumptions about them based on race. Whites on the other hand only get searched when there is probable cause or reasonable suspicion, which is why searches of whites yield better hit rates.
Dismissed by who? Based on what?
That's not what I'm doing, I'm pointing out that blacks are more likely to be searched when they are doing nothing wrong.
So you are basically admitting that black people get searched more because they as a group are more likely to commit crimes, but this is racial profiling. Searching somebody because they come from a particular group at a higher risk of crime is a racial bias. No different than assuming an Asian is good at math because China scores high in math testing.
Wyatt Russell
Slightly dishonest. It means that the most infamous example of Communist application wasn't Communistic because it failed to converge upon the actual definition. It's a self-defeating concept, anyways: how can you have a singular revolution while currency and markets exist globally? Everyone takes part, or nobody does. It also means that there is a lack of historical accounts of successful implementations of Communism that didn't devolve into whatever you want to call the USSR: all that's left is idealism.
