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Can Infinium Compete In The Game Console Market?
Joe Barr writes "IT Manager's Journal is running a story this morning by Robin Miller and Matt Moen on Infinium Labs, the controversial game console maker. The long promised console finally appears to be a reality, but there are serious questions about Infinium's longterm viability in the game console market. ITMJ, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG."
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com is a part of OSTG! What has that to do with the news?
It's called Steam. Made by VALVe. It seems to work for the most popular online game in the world.
This is fully off-topic certainly, but I can not simply let the astounding pile of assumptions and fallacious reasoning that impersonates a post remain without even attempting to correct its more blatant errors. First off, Socialism is in practice and theory very different from Communism, even though to Marx and Engels it was the goal for the Socialist state.
This was quickly written in response to a poorly thought out post. The general idea is that the Russian system was a failed communist state used as an empire by Stalin, and that none of the present "communist" states other than China have even managed to maintain the potential of the social revolution necessary to establish a communist state. The success of China seems to refute your idea of success solely through capitalism. I may later respond to your assertions regarding the supposed necessity of capitalism as supported by the needs of the physiology, but other users seem to be progressing to the proper point on that subject.
The primary assumption is that the Russian systems represented in more than an ersatz manner the ideology developed by Marx and Engels. This is false. The Russian system failed to complete the revolution. Lenin attempted to continue the revolution and complete the necessary reforms but died too soon and the one person he wished to to take the command of the party took it by force of influence. Stalin then used the failed revolution as basis for an Empire hiding under the name of a Communist state. So great was the desire of Stalin to eliminate the actual Marxist ideology present that Leon Trotsky, the organizer of the Red Army which defeated the White Army and began the political revolution, was exiled and later assassinated for attempting to oppose Stalin and complete the social revolution to establish a Communist state. If it is not obvious, Marx proposed both political and social revolutions as necessary for the Communist state to succeed, and set a minimum requirement of industrialized workforce oppressed by the bourgeoisie. The subjugated industrial workforces were present but in such low density that popular sentiment for revolution was not present, rather opposite the force name of Bolshevik, majority, but more in line with its true nature of Menshevik, minority.
In fact had the Mensheviks gained power over the Bolsheviks the gradual development of the Communist state would have allowed for greater concentration of technological production into the nation and made it more of an immediate equal to the other major powers of Europe, given that they were recovering form the Great War also. A bit of history you perhaps may not be aware of now. The fool Stalin refused to provide party permission for cooperation between the disparate Communists and Socialist parties of Europe, and this fracture allowed the Corporatism, as actually named by Mussolini, of Fascist Italy and the Military police state of Nazi Germany.
Appropriate to mention is that Cuba also lacked the necessary subjugated industrial workforce to achieve actual revolution in political and social fields. China is the single relatively successful Communist state, though it did not have the subjugated workforce assumed necessary by Marx and Engels its vast populace of primarily subjugated agricultural workers served as equivalent. What is the present situation? With actions similar to the austerity policies required by many European nation-states to avoid collapse at varied times, China has delayed health and work reforms for increased productivity to expand national prestige and sits on an equal if not superior economic footing with even the most militarily powerful nations, the United States, Britain, and Israel. Effectively it has succeeded in the modern necessity of economic revolution in addition to its political revolution and defeat of the nationalists. What remains is the social revolution, if this is ever completed a Communist state will have finally developed and have global supremacy in manufacturing of the essential items of the modern mar
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